Hymnary.org's dedicated text page for "A Missionary Cry" (first line "A hundred thousand souls a day"), giving Albert B. Simpson as author, first publication year 1890, and noting Simpson as founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance; the hymn remains catalogued in the 1992 edition of Hymns of the Christian Life.
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Citation
AuthorHymnary.org contributors
PublisherHymnary.org
URLhttps://hymnary.org/text/a_hundred_thousand_souls_a_day
Source Typereference-database
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Reliability Tier3
Tier three: a specialist hymnody reference database, independent of the Alliance's own institutions, used to cross check the hymn's authorship and publication year against the Ambrose University reading, which it does not fully agree with on the year. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Christian and Missionary Alliance directly: "and noting Simpson as founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance; the hymn remains catalogued in the 1992 edition of Hymns of the Christian Life."
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- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Musical Works, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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