M. E. Abbey, whose full name is Mason Ellis Abbey, was an American Baptist pastor born in 1812 in Pennsylvania. He is best known for writing the hymn Life Is Like a Mountain Railroad, which uses the ...
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing is a Christian hymn written by Robert Robinson in 1758 when he was just 22 years old. The hymn is a prayer asking God to guide the heart and keep it faithful. It ...
In 1983, Esther Burroughs penned some lyrics about keeping a Christian home and entered them in a Southern Baptist hymn-writing contest. Some time later, her husband, Bob — who had made a name for ...