Английская Википедия:Emma F. R. Campbell

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Emma Frances Riggs Campbell (Шаблон:DateШаблон:Fdate) was an American hymnwriter and author. She is best known for her hymn "Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By".[1]

Emma F. R. Campbell was born on Шаблон:Date in Newark, New Jersey, one of eleven children of Abner Campbell, owner of a looking-glass and picture-framing business, and Deborah Conger. Her sister Catherine Smith Campbell married future Florida governor Ossian Bingley Hart.[1][2]

Campbell graduated from the Packer Institute for Girls in Brooklyn, New York in 1959. She and a sister opened a school in Morristown, New Jersey in the 1860s. Campbell also taught Sunday school for 37 years at the First Presbyterian Church in Morristown.[1]

"Jesus of Nazareth Passeth By" was inspired by an 1864 religious revival in Newark held by the Rev. Edward Payson Hammond, specifically a sermon mentioning Luke 18:37 and the story of Jesus healing the blind Bartimaeus. Campbell's hymn was first published using the Greek letter Eta as a pseudonym, which has led to Campbell being misidentified as Eta or Etta Campbell. The hymn was anthologized numerous times and was frequently performed by the gospel singer Ira D. Sankey.[1][3]

Campbell published several other hymns, a collection of verse, several children's novels, and a short biography of her brother-in-law Ossian Hart.[1][2]

Emma F. R. Campbell died on 25 February 1919 in Morristown.[4]

Bibliography

  • Paul Preston; or, Who is the Hero? (1864)
  • Green Pastures (1866)
  • Better than Rubies; or, Mabel's Treasure (1869)
  • Toward the Mark (1875)
  • Biographical Sketch of Honorable Ossian B. Hart, Late Governor of Florida, 1873 (1901)
  • The Hymn "Jesus of Nazareth passeth by" and Its History, and Other Verses (1909)

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