Born: No­vem­ber 26, 1822, Sun­der­land, Dur­ham, Eng­land.

Died: Ap­ril 2, 1894, Cam­bridge Ter­race, Sun­der­land, Dur­ham, Eng­land.

Longstaff was trea­sur­er of the Be­thes­da Free Cha­pel in Sun­der­land. He was friends with Sal­va­tion Ar­my foun­der Will­iam Booth, and evan­gel­ists Dwight Moo­dy and Ira Sank­ey. A number of his hymns were ap­par­ent­ly pub­lished in the Sal­va­tion Ar­my’s War Cry in the 1880’s.

Sources

Hymns

  1. Take Time to Be Ho­ly

Wanted