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Überall will ich's erzählen

Author: Julia H. Johnston

Julia Harriet Johnston, who was born on Jan. 21, 1849, at Salineville, OH, in Columbiana County. Her father was a minister and he mother was a poet. She began writing when she was nine years old but really started writing verse in high school. She lived in Peoria, Ill. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

Translator: J. J. F.

(no biographical information available about J. J. F..) Go to person page >

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First Line: Einst ging ich auf sünd'gem Pfade
Title: Überall will ich's erzählen
English Title: Day By Day I'll Tell the Story (Once I sought forbidden pathways)
Translator: J. J. F. (1914)
Author: Julia H. Johnston (1910)
Language: German
Publication Date: 1914
Copyright: Public Domain

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Zions-Klänge #26

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