1880–1971

Introduction

Born: Ju­ly 29, 1880, Boyd­ton, Vir­gin­ia.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 5, 1971, Al­ex­an­dria, Vir­gin­ia.

Buried: Ce­dar Hill Ce­me­tery, Ma­di­son, Vir­gin­ia.

Biography

Nancy was the daugh­ter of Byrd Thorn­ton Tur­ner and Nan­cy Ad­di­son Har­ris­on.

Composed her first verse at three. First pub­lished verse at age of 8—a ro­man­tic ball­ad, “Ruth in the Den­tist’s Chair” (he fell in love).

Her fa­ther was an Epis­co­pal min­is­ter; they lived in about a doz­en small towns or rur­al com­mu­ni­ties dur­ing her child­hood.

In 1916, she went to Bos­ton [Mas­sa­chu­setts] and joined the staff of Youth’s Com­pan­ion. She wrote un­der ma­ny pen names, and pub­lished in se­ver­al ma­ga­zines.

She won nu­mer­ous awards, in­clud­ing the “Gold­en Rose“ of the New Eng­land Po­et­ry So­ci­ety and the Ly­ric As­so­ci­ates award of 1951.

Letter from Turn­er Rose to Jean Wood­ward Steele, quot­ed in the Hym­na­ry.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All the World is God’s World
  2. Always Earth Is Ve­ry Fair
  3. Baby Jesus, Fast As­leep
  4. Children Who Walk in Je­sus’ Way
  5. Children’s Thanks­giv­ing Hymn, The
  6. Church of God Is Ev­ery­where, The
  7. Comes the Won­drous Hour
  8. Day Has Come, and Birds Are Sing­ing
  9. Deep Un­der Plain and Moun­tain Lie
  10. Every Chris­tian Night There Comes
  11. Every Year at East­er Time
  12. Fairest Time, The
  13. Faithful and Stea­dy, Wait­ing
  14. First Child­ren’s Day, The
  15. Flag Song
  16. Friends All ov­er the World
  17. Friends of Je­sus Must Be Kind
  18. Friends with All the World
  19. Glad Au­tumn Time Has Come
  20. Go, Ye Who Bear the Word!
  21. God Is My Help­er, This I Know
  22. God Made Us a Beau­ti­ful World
  23. God’s Child­ren Live in Ma­ny Lands
  24. He Is Rea­dy to Aid, When We Pray
  25. I Will Be Faith­ful
  26. I Will Be True the Live­long Day
  27. It Is Ve­ry Good to Be
  28. Just Be­fore I Sleep To­night
  29. Learn Well One Love­ly Rule
  30. Let Us Be Loy­al
  31. Little King of the World Came Down, The
  32. Lord Is Great, and Great His End­less Glo­ry, The
  33. Moved by the Gos­pel, Let Us Move
  34. Nobody Is Too Young, No­bo­dy Is Too Small
  35. Not Too Far for Lov­ing
  36. Now the Year Is Turn­ing
  37. O Son of Man, Who Walked Each Day
  38. Old Gar­den, The
  39. Once There Was a Gar­den Fair
  40. Once There Was a Lit­tle Town up­on a Qui­et Hill
  41. Our Hea­ven­ly Fa­ther’s Watch­ful Love
  42. Playmates
  43. Pledge to a Land
  44. Sing, World, Sing
  45. Song of God’s House, A
  46. Speak to Thy Child, O God
  47. Stars Were Gleam­ing, Shep­herds Dream­ing
  48. There Were Three Lights That Night
  49. We Sing Our Praise
  50. We’re Child­ren of One Fa­ther
  51. When Ab­ra­ham Went Out from Ur
  52. When Je­sus Walked in Old Ju­dea
  53. When Je­sus Was a Lit­tle Lad
  54. When Morn­ing Light Is on the Hill
  55. When the Week Has End­ed
  56. Winter Song
  57. Word of God Shall Guide, The

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