Tell me the stories of Jesus

Tell me the stories of Jesus. William Henry Parker* (1845-1929). According to JJ (p. 1686) this was written ca. 1885, and it is sometimes stated that it was first published in leaflet form for a Sunday School Anniversary at Chelsea Street Baptist Church, Basford, Nottingham (Companion to Hymns & Psalms, 1988, p. 118). However, when it was printed in the Sunday School Hymnary (1905), it was signed ‘W.H. Parker, 1904’ (see Gordon Taylor, Companion to the Song Book of the Salvation Army, 1989, p. 177; this may, of course, have been a revision of an earlier text). It was set to a tune by F.A. Challinor, STORIES OF JESUS; an alternative tune is KILGETTY, a folk melody arranged by George...