Tune: OAKLAND (Hunnewell)

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OAKLAND (Hunnewell)

Composer: Frank S. Hunnewell (1910)
Published in 2 hymnals

Composer: Frank S. Hunnewell

Hunnewell, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in White Plains, New York, was living in 1918, when his 23-year old son Donald was killed in World War I. Sources New York Times, November 24, 1918, p. 23 Music-- OAKLAND PARTING HYMN SALVATOR WOODBRIDGE --www.hymntime.com/tch Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	OAKLAND (Hunnewell)
Composer:	Frank S. Hunnewell (1910)
Incipit:	55117 65312 35432
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Take Me, O My Father, Take Me

Take me, O my Father, take me;
Take me, save me, through Thy Son;
That which Thou wouldst have me, make me,
Let Thy will in me be done.
Long from Thee my footsteps straying,
Thorny proved the way I trod;
Weary come I now, and praying,
Take me to Thy love, my God.

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