1915–2008

Introduction

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Born: June 8, 1915, Mel­ville, Sas­kat­che­wan, Ca­na­da.

Died: March 17, 2008, Shep­herd Lodge, To­ron­to, Ca­na­da.

Buried: Park Lawn Ce­me­te­ry, Eto­bi­coke, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da.

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Biography

Clarkson grew up in To­ron­to, and was edu­cat­ed at the Ri­ver­dale Col­le­giate In­sti­tute, To­ro­nto Teach­ers’ Col­lege, and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toronto.

She taught ele­men­ta­ry school in On­tar­io for 38 years.

A gift­ed na­tur­al writ­er, she pub­lished hund­reds of po­ems, ar­ti­cles, songs and sketch­es, and 17 books in 7 lang­uag­es.

Hymn writ­ing was her first love, and sprang from a life­time of Bi­ble stu­dy, per­son­al Chris­tian ex­pe­ri­ence, and a dis­ci­plined ly­ric­al exp­res­sion.

Her hymns were pub­lished in A Sing­ing Heart (Ca­rol Stream, Il­li­nois: Hope Pub­lish­ing, 1987). At its 1992 na­tion­al con­ven­tion, The Hymn So­cie­ty in the Unit­ed States and Ca­na­da named Clark­son a Fel­low of the So­cie­ty in re­cog­ni­tion of her con­tri­bu­tion to hym­no­dy.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Amid the Fears That Op­press Our Day
  2. Battle Is the Lord’s, The
  3. Burn in Me, Fire of God
  4. By Christ Re­deemed, in Christ Re­stored
  5. Child’s Pray­er, A
  6. Chosen and Sent by the Fa­ther
  7. Christ Is Ris­en! Tell the Sto­ry
  8. Church of God Is Debt­or
  9. Come to Je­sus While You May
  10. Debt of Love I Owe to Je­sus, A
  11. For All the World
  12. For Your Gift of God the Spi­rit
  13. Gathered Round Your Ta­ble on This Ho­ly Eve
  14. Go Bring in the Child­ren
  15. God of Cre­ation, All-Pow­er­ful
  16. God of the Ag­es, His­to­ry’s Mak­er
  17. God’s Clock
  18. He Lives Tri­um­phant­ly
  19. How Great Thy Lov­ing Kind­ness Is
  20. I Do Not Know To­mor­row’s Way
  21. Jesus Is the On­ly Name
  22. Jesus, Je­sus, Je­sus
  23. Jesus, Life of All the World
  24. Let Us Build a House of Wor­ship
  25. Let Us Draw Near! The Blood Is Spilt
  26. Let Your Spi­rit Teach Me, Lord
  27. Lord Je­sus, We Must Know You
  28. Lord of the Uni­verse
  29. Lord, We Hear Your Word with Glad­ness
  30. My Debt of Love
  31. My Song Shall Be of Je­sus
  32. Now Know We Not the Mean­ing of Life’s Sor­row
  33. O Fa­ther, You Are So­ve­reign
  34. O Liv­ing Word of God
  35. Once More the Sha­dows Length­en
  36. One Race, One Gos­pel, One Task
  37. Our Ci­ties Cry to You, O God
  38. Our God Is Migh­ty, Wor­thy of All Prais­ing
  39. Praise the Lord, Sing Hal­le­lu­jah!
  40. Prayer at the Cross
  41. Priest and Vic­tim, Je­sus Dies
  42. Remembered No More
  43. Retirement
  44. Sing Praise to the Fa­ther
  45. So Send I You, by Grace Made Strong to Tri­umph
  46. So Send I You, to La­bor Un­re­ward­ed
  47. Song I Sing, The
  48. That’s the Name I Love
  49. We Come, O Christ, to You
  50. We Ga­ther Here to Bid Fare­well