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I Think When I Read Words by Jemima Thompson Luke I Children for several generations Jhave been singing Jemima Thompson Luke’s beautiful song: “I think when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How He called little children as lambs to His fold—I should like to have been with Him then.” Jemima Thompson was born in London, August 19, 1813; and married Samuel Luke, a Congre gational minister, when she was 30. She began writing poetry for religious journals at the age of 13. Later she published books of verse and edited a juvenile mis sionary periodical. In early life she intended going to India as a missionary, but ill health pre vented. She died February 2, 1906. While visiting a neighboring school one day (in 1841) she heard the children singing a marching song to the tune of an old Greek melody known as Sa- lamis. The. melody intrigued her and she decided to adapt sacred words for it. She “searched Watts and Jane Taylor and several Sun day school hymn books for words to suit the melody, but in vain.” Finally she was inspired to write the poem “I Think When I Read” while riding a stagecoach. At least three tunes have been used with her poem, besides the original Salamis melody for which it was intended. I ’ ve Found A Friend Words by J. G. Small Music by George C. Stebbins “I’ve found a friend, Oh such a friend, He loved me e’er I knew Him. . . These words were written by a Scotch preach er in 1863, and received musical embodiment 15 years later while Stebbins was engaged in evan gelistic work in Providence, R.I. James Grindlay Small (1817- 1888) was a brilliant graduate of the University of Edinburgh. He aspired to become a minister of the Free Church of Scotland, but was handicapped by peculiarities of speech and manner. However, he won distinction as a writer — several of his volumes were widely published.
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