Mudcat Café message #1573051

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Thread #46680 Message #1573051
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
30-Sep-05 - 08:48 PM
Thread Name: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (Spiritual)
Subject: RE: Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (Spiritual)

Guest, it would have to be choice 2, because Sankey would have been only 10 years old. I would not doubt that there could be other hymns with similar themes.

"African-Americans obviously knew" - no evidence.
("Lamps Trimmed..." music written 1891 by Crist)