The Outstretched Hand

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Far above the fierce tumult of life

Author: Julia H. Johnston
Tune: [Far above the fierce tumult of life]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Far above the fierce tumult of life
Title:	The Outstretched Hand
Author:	Julia H. Johnston
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	'Tis the Hand that was nailed to the cross
Publication Date:	1901
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.