1925–2016

Introduction

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Born: De­cem­ber 30, 1925, Se­at­tle, Wash­ing­ton.

Died: De­cem­ber 28, 2016, Cres­ap­town, Ma­ry­land.

Buried: Rest­lawn Me­mo­ri­al Gar­dens, La Vale, Ma­ry­land.

Biography

Theron was the son of Le­on Amos Bab­cock and Al­ice Ol­ive Fletch­er.

He re­ceived an hon­or­ary doc­tor­ate in mu­sic from Elk­ton Bi­ble Col­lege and gra­du­at­ed from Prac­ti­cal Bi­ble Train­ing School in Bing­ham­ton, New York, in 1950.

Ordained in­to the min­is­try in 1951, he tra­veled with the Hal Webb Evan­gel­is­tic As­so­cia­tion for 46 years as its mu­sic min­is­ter. He wrote over 7,000 songs along with radio, re­cord­ing, camp and mis­sion­ary ac­ti­vi­ties over his four de­cade ca­reer.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Do I Love Je­sus, I Sure­ly Do
  2. He Un­der­stands When No One Else
  3. Heaven I’m Go­ing There
  4. Help Me to Serve Thee, Lord
  5. Here on This Earth We Wan­der and Roam
  6. I Hear My Sav­ior’s Voice
  7. I Love the Lord Who Died
  8. Jesus Died on Cal­va­ry’s Cross
  9. Jesus, My Sav­ior, Has Shown Me
  10. Lost, and Wan­der­ing, Blind as Can Be
  11. Master’s Hand Reached Down, The
  12. My Lord and I Will Al­ways Be To­geth­er
  13. Now I Was a Sinn­er, as Lost
  14. Out of the Depths of Deep Des­pair
  15. Price of My Sal­va­tion, The
  16. Promise of Sal­va­tion Is Free, The
  17. Rest for the Wea­ry Is Wait­ing
  18. There’s a Place of Joy Ev­er­last­ing
  19. Upon the Cross of Cal­va­ry
  20. We Will Stand for the Faith
  21. Were You to the Cross to See the Savior
  22. What Though the Way Be Dark
  23. Whenever Life’s Bur­dens Are Hard
  24. Where’er I Go Be­low
  25. Wonderful Sto­ry, Je­sus from Glory
  26. Wounded, My Sav­ior Hung