Where cross the crowded ways of life
Where cross the crowded ways of life. Frank Mason North* (1850-1935).
Written in 1903, during North’s time as secretary of the New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society. It is said to have been written at the request of Caleb T. Winchester, one of the compilers of the Methodist Hymnal (New York, 1905) on the specified topic of city missions. Before publication in the hymnbook, North published it in the Extension and Missionary Society’s magazine, The Christian City, of which he was the editor (June 1903), giving it the title ‘A Prayer for the Multitudes’, and in Zion’s Herald (22 July 1903) as ‘A Prayer for the City’. It was included in the Hymnal (New York, 1916) of the...
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