I will follow thee, my Savior

I will follow thee, my Savior. James Lawson* (1847-1926). This hymn is dated 1866 in Songs of Pilgrimage: a hymnal for the Churches of Christ (Boston, 1886), edited by Horace Lorenzo Hastings (1831-1889) and attributed to James Lawson (in some later books ‘Rev. James Lawson’). There has been confusion about the authorship, because in some books it was attributed to ‘Jas. L., Elginburg’, and in The Revivalist (1872), edited by Joseph Hillman, the words and music are said to be by ‘Jas. L., Elginburg, C.W.’. However, the comma after ‘L.’ suggests that the hymn was by James L. (for Lawson) of Elginburg, Ontario (in Frontenac County, near Kingston, Ontario), whose name was mistakenly...