1841 JEMIMA LUKE. Manuscript of Classic Hymn, "I think when I read the sweet story of old." Evangelical but must do so through

but must do so through pen only because of the prohibitions against females communicating "sermons" through other modes

rising in a line direct

handsomely printed by William Pickering

Being a Sermon Preached before the Newfoundland and British North America School Society

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1841 JEMIMA LUKE. Manuscript of Classic Hymn, "I think when I read the sweet story of old." Evangelical but must do so throughAn absolutely superb authorial holograph of one of the most influential devotional hymns of the 19th century, i. e. "I think when I hear the sweet story of old." It's authoress, Jemima Thompson, was the daughter of wealthy investor and Christian philanthropist, Thomas Thompson. He had been an early prominent member of the London Missionary Society, the British and Foreign Bible Society, one of the founders in 1818 of the British and Foreign Sailors