GHS 83 - Thy Word Have I Hid In My Heart

The author and composer of this hymn, Earnest Orlando Sellers, was born on October 29,1869, in Hastings, Michigan. After finishing high school, he was appointed city engineer and superintendent of public works in Lansing, Michigan. After his conversion Ernest enrolled as a student at the Moody Bible institute in 1895. After his graduation he served at the Lansing Y.M.C.A as secretary throughout the country. From 1908 to 1919, Sellers once again became associated with the Moody Bible Institute as an assistant to Daniel B. Towner, the first director of the school’s music department. Sellers was also very active evangelizing during this time and also was song director for such well-known evangelists as Reuben A. Torrey, Gypsy Smith, A. C. Dixon, and J. Wilbur Chapman. During the early years of World War I, Sellers served with the armed forces overseas as a special Y.M.C.A. Representative. In 1919, Ernest Sellers accepted the position of director of the Music Department of the Baptist Bible Institute of New Orleans, now known as the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Here he remained faithful until his retirement in 1945. He was a highly respected teacher, song director, the author of numerous articles and poems, and the composer of a number of hymn tunes, including the still popular hymn “Wonderful, Wonderful Jesus!”
Ernest wrote and composed “Thy Word Have I Hid in My Heart” in 1908. Its first publication was in the Ideal Song and Hymn Book, compiled by Daniel B. Towner in 1909. It is still one of the hymns most frequently sung by young and old alike concerning the believer’s relationship to the Scriptures. #joy_hymns #joy_songs #madenn10 #joy_hymns #joy_songs #madenn10

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