485. Take the name of Jesus with you
Lydia Baxter, 1809-74
A popular gospel song widely used in the Moody and Sankey revivals.
Lydia Baxter, born in Petersburg, New York, was converted under the preaching of a Baptist missionary, the Rev. Eben Tucker, and, with her sister, became a leader in the organization of a Baptist Church in her native town. After her marriage she moved to New York City. Though an invalid for many years, she was known for her astonishing cheerfulness and to her home came many a Christian worker for inspiration and advice. A volume of her poems, Gems by the Wayside, was published in 1855.
MUSIC. PRECIOUS NAME was written for this hymn. It is inseparably associated with these words and has done much to give the hymn the widespread popularity which it enjoys.
For comments on the composer, W. H. Doane, also a Baptist, see [Hymn 313].