This great evangelistic hymn was written by B.B. McKinney to the tune, "TRAVIS AVENUE" (he was Music Pastor at Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Ft. Worth) and is published in 11 hymnals. I've set it to the sound of church organ for effect.
Here's biographical info on B.B. McKinney:
Short Name: B. B. McKinney
Full Name: McKinney, B. B., 1886-1952
Birth Year: 1886
Death Year: 1952
Pseudonyms--
Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin)
Otto Nellen
Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh)
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Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942.

McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Worth, where Isham E. Reynolds asked him to join the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He taught at the seminary until 1932, then pastored in at the Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth (1931–35). In 1935, McKinney became music editor for the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee.
McKinney wrote words and music for about 150 songs, and music for 115 more. --© Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

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