Rescue the Sinner

Rescue the sinner, go and rescue the lost

Author: R. Kelso Carter
Tune: [Rescue the sinner, go and rescue the lost]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: R. Kelso Carter

Russel Kelso Carter was a professor in the Pennsylvania Military College of Chester. While there he was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became very active in leading camp meetings and revivals. After failing health forced him to abandon this work, he studied and became a medical doctor as well as a writer. He wrote novels as well as hymns. 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: Rescue the sinner, go and rescue the lost
Title: Rescue the Sinner
Author: R. Kelso Carter
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Stand by to rescue! stand by to save!
Publication Date: 1890
Copyright: Public Domain

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Hymns of the Christian Life #164

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Rescue Songs #90

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