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[Whence Jesus came, I cannot tell]
Appears in 12 hymnals Matching Instances: 12 Composer and/or Arranger: Mrs. Joseph F. Knapp Incipit: 13451 46555 64535 Used With Text: Blind Bartimeus
[Whence Jesus came, I cannot tell]
Blind Bartimeus
Author: Mrs. J. F. K. Appears in 16 hymnals Matching Instances: 9 First Line: Whence Jesus came, I cannot tell Refrain First Line: I once was blind but now I see Lyrics: 1 Whence Jesus came, I cannot tell,
Nor why He came to me;
One thing I know, and know it well:
Tho’ I was blind, I see!
I once was blind but now I see!
And that is news enough for me,
And that is news enough for me.
2 When all was dark, Once touch’d my eyes,
And that is all I know;
For light came down from paradise,
And set my soul aglow.
I once was blind but now I see!
And that is light enough for me,
And that is light enough for me.
3 How it was done, I cannot say,
Nor even think nor dream;
Nor why a touch of moistened clay
Should make things what they seem.
I once was blind but now I see!
And that is truth enough for me,
And that is truth enough for me.
4 It is the Son of God! His grace
Makes trembling weakness strong;
Wipes tears away from sorrow’s face,
And teaches grief a song.
I once was blind but now I see!
And that is joy enough for me,
And that is joy enough for me. Used With Tune: [Whence Jesus came, I cannot tell]
Blind Bartimeus
Einst was ich blind
Author: Mrs. J. F. K.; Elias Roser Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 First Line: Was meines Gedanken sind Refrain First Line: Einst war ich blind Used With Tune: [Was meines Gedanken sind]
Einst was ich blind
Die Heilung des Blinden
Author: F. Krüger Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 First Line: Wer Jesus ist, das weiß ich nicht Refrain First Line: Er ist so treu, er ist so gut! Used With Tune: [Wer Jesus ist, das weiß ich nicht]
Die Heilung des Blinden
Blind Bartimeus
Author: Mrs. J. F. K. Hymnal: Celestial Songs #522 (1921) First Line: Whence Jesus came, I cannot tell Refrain First Line: I once was blind, but now I see! Languages: English Tune Title: [Whence Jesus came, I cannot tell]
Blind Bartimeus
I once was blind but now I see
Author: Mrs. J. F. K. Hymnal: Life-Time Hymns #202 (1896) First Line: Whence Jesus came, I cannot tell Languages: English Tune Title: BLIND BARTIMEUS
I once was blind but now I see
Die Heilung des Blinden
Author: F. Krüger Hymnal: Silberklänge #201 (1899) First Line: Wer Jesus ist, das weiß ich nicht Refrain First Line: Er ist so treu, er ist so gut! Languages: German Tune Title: [Wer Jesus ist, das weiß ich nicht]
Die Heilung des Blinden
Phoebe Palmer Knapp
1839 - 1908 Person Name: Mrs. J. F. K. Author of "Blind Bartimeus" in The Finest of the Wheat No. 2 As a young girl Phoebe Palmer Knapp (b. New York, NY, 1839; d. Poland Springs, ME, 1908) displayed great musical talent; she composed and sang children’s song at an early age. The daughter of the Methodist evangelist Walter C. Palmer, she was married to John Fairfield Knapp at the age of sixteen. Her husband was a founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and after his death, she shared her considerable inherited wealth with various charitable organizations. She composed over five hundred gospel songs, of which the tunes for “Blessed Assurance” and “Open the Gates of the Temple” are still popular today.
Bert Polman
Phoebe Palmer Knapp
Alexander Clark
1835 - 1879 Person Name: Alexander Clark, D.D. Author of "Blind Bartimeus" in Truth in Song Clark, Alexander, D.D., born March 10, 1835, died July 6, 1879. Dr. Clark was for many years a Minister of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, and the editor of the Methodist Recorder, published at Pittsburgh. Two of his hymns:—
1. Heavenly Father, bless me now. Lent.
2. Make room for Jesus. Lent.
are given in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Clark, Alexander, D.D. (March 10, 1835--July 6, 1879). Of Scottish descent, he was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, and received his education in the common schools, guided by a very competent father. After teaching in the public schools of Ohio for some years, he founded and edited Schoolday Visitor, a young people's journal which he published by himself in Knoxville, Ohio. It reached a circulation of more than 30,000 and eventually was merged with St. Nicholas, a well-known magazine for youth.
Originally a Presbyterian, he joined the Methodist Protestant Church and received his preaching license in 1862. For four years, from 1866, he served the First Methodist Protestant Church, Pittsburgh, and then became editor of the Methodist Recorder and the Sunday School papers of his church, retaining that position until his death. Chairman of the Committee which compiled the Voice of Praise, 1872, he was largely responsible for including in it much new hymnic material. He was the author of five hymns which were included in the book. His "Heavenly Father, bless me now," originally in six four-line stanzas, continued in the series of Methodist Protestant hymnals through that of 1901. Stanzas 1, 2, 5, 6, are in 0/1935. [note: up to 1966 Methodist Hymnal.]
He was the recipient of honorary degrees from Mt. Union College, Otterbein University, and Ohio Wesleyan University. While on a lecture tour in Georgia, he became ill at Atlanta and was taken to the Executive Mansion by the then Governor Colquitt, where he died after three weeks' severe suffering. The following glowing tribute to Dr. Clark by Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, nationally known atheist writer and lecturer of the late nineteenth century was published in the Methodist Recorder, July 26, 1879:
"Upon the grave of Rev. Alexander Clark I wish to place one flower. Utterly destitute of cold dogmatic pride that often passes for the love of God, without the arrogance of the 'elect'--simple, free, and kind--this earnest man made me his friend by being mine. I forgot that he was a Christian, and he seemed to forget that I was not, while each remembered that the other was a man.
Frank, candid and sincere, he practiced what he preached, and looked with the holy eyes of charity upon the failings and mistakes of men. He believed in the power of kindness, and spurned with divine sympathy the hideous gulf that separates the fallen from the pure. Giving freely to others the rights that he claimed for himself, it never occurred to him that his God hated a brave and honest unbeliever. He remembered that even an infidel has rights that love respects; that hatred has no saving power, and that in order to be a Christian it is not necessary to become less of a man. He knew that no one can be maligned into kindness; that epithets cannot convince; that curses are not arguments, and the finger of scorn never points toward heaven. With the generosity of an honest man, he accorded to all the fullest liberty of thought, knowing, as he did, that in the realm of mind a chain is but a curse.
He sympathies were not confined within the prison of a creed, but ran out and over the walls like vines, hiding the cruel rocks and rusted bars with leaf and flower. He could not echo with his heart the fiendish sentence of eternal fire. In spite of book and creed, he read 'between the lines' the words of tenderness and love, with promises for all the world. Above, beyond the dogmas of his church--humane even to the verge of heresy--causing none to doubt the love of God because he failed to hate his unbelieving fellow-men--he labored for the welfare of mankind, and to his work gave up his life with all his heart."
An intimate friend of William Cullen Bryant and other well-known authors, he was considered an exceptionally fine lecturer and his work as editor and author was highly regarded. Among his published works are:
The Old Log Schoolhouse, 1864
Working Christianity, or, the Gospel in the Trades, 1878.
--Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives
Alexander Clark
