Hark, the voice of Jesus crying
Hark, the voice of Jesus crying. Daniel March* (1816-1909).
This hymn dates from an occasion in 1868. Commentators, beginning with Nutter (1884, p. 214) quote March himself as saying that this hymn was written ‘in great haste’ to follow a sermon he was to preach in Clinton Street Church to the Philadelphian Christian Association on the text Isaiah 6: 8: ‘And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.’ It was printed in Bright Jewels for the Sunday School (New York, 1869, edited by Robert Lowry*, William Howard Doane* and others), and subsequently in many books, including The Methodist Hymnal, Methodist Episcopal Church...
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