Guy p duffield biography for kids
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Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus Hymn
Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus is one of the popular Christian hymn.
Guy p duffield biography for kids
The text of the hymn was inspired by spiritual message of a noble young clergyman, Rev. Dudley Atkins Tyng, on his dying bed.
The writer of the hymn, Dr. George Duffield caught its inspiration from the dying words of Rev.
Dudley Atkins Tyng, rector of the Epiphany Church, Philadelphia, who died in 1858.
Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus Hymn Writer
George Duffield was born on 12th of September, 1818 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
He attended Yale College where he graduated in 1837. Afterward, he further at Union Theological Seminary, New York and graduated in 1840.
He served as a Pastor at Presbyterian Brooklyn from 1840 to 1847; and also at the same church in Bloomfield, New Jersey from 1847 to 1852.
George Duffield, was also a priest from 1852 to 1861 at Presbyterian church in Philadelphia and later at Adrian, Michigan from 1861 to 1865 and so on.