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- ↑ "The Bright Forever", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/b/r/i/g/brightfo.htm
- ↑ "Close to Thee", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/c/l/o/s/closthee.htm
- ↑ "Eye Hath Not Seen", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/e/y/e/h/eyehatns.htm
- ↑ The Finest of Wheat, No. 1 (Chicago, IL: R. R. McCabe, 1890); "He Hideth My Soul", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/h/e/h/i/hehideth.htm
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- ↑ "My Savior First of All", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/m/y/s/a/mysavior.htm
- ↑ William B. Bradbury, Bright Jewels (New York: Biglow & Main, 1869); "Near the Cross", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/n/e/r/c/nercross.htm
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- ↑ John R. Sweney, C. C. McCabe, Tullius O’Kane, and William Kirkpatrick, Songs of Redeeming Love, (Philadelphia, PA: 1882); "Redeemed, How I Love to Proclaim It!", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/r/e/d/e/redeemed.htm
- ↑ Songs of Devotion (New York: Biglow & Main, 1870); "Rescue the Perishing", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/r/e/s/c/rescuetp.htm
- ↑ "Safe in the Arms of Jesus", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/s/a/f/e/safearms.htm
- ↑ "Saved by Grace", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/s/a/v/e/d/savedbyg.htm
- ↑ Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs, 1875; "Savior, More Than Life to Me", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/s/a/v/i/o/saviormo.htm
- ↑ "Take the World, But Give Me Jesus", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/t/t/w/b/ttwbgmej.htm
- ↑ "Tell Me the Story of Jesus", in William Kirkpatrick & John Sweney, The Quiver of Sacred Song (Philadelphia, PA: John J. Hood, 1880); "Tell Me the Story of Jesus", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/t/e/l/l/tellmsoj.htm
- ↑ "To God Be the Glory", in W. H. Doane and Robert Lowry, Brightest and Best, by (Chicago, IL: Biglow & Main, 1875), #118; "To God Be the Glory", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/t/o/g/o/togodbe.htm
- ↑ "Unsearchable Riches", http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/u/n/s/e/unsearch.htm