Thomas chisholm — hymnology archive

Thomas O. Chisholm, in Great Is Thy Faithfulness His boyhood up to the age of twenty-one was spent on a farm and in teaching district schools. He was for five years editor of the local paper at Franklin, was converted at 26, and soon afterward was business manager and office editor of the Pentecostal Herald of Louisville, KY. In , he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Prior to conversion, he had done versifying, contributing to the Louisville Courier-Journal , and was chosen poet for the Kentucky Press Association.

Thomas chisholm great is thy faithfulness

His first hymns were sent to Fanny Crosby for criticism, who returned them with kindly suggestions and such words of commendation as to encourage him in the work. Ocean Grove, N. When he was twenty-one, he became the associate editor of his hometown weekly newspaper, the Franklin Favorite. Six years later he was converted during a revival meeting conducted in Franklin by Dr.

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