Born: No­vem­ber 28, 1870, Is­ling­ton, Mid­dle­sex, Eng­land.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 17, 1960, Tun­bridge Wells, Kent, Eng­land.

Daughter of Ply­mouth Breth­ren mem­bers, Ruth be­gan at­tend­ing Sal­va­tion Ar­my (SA) meet­ings in 1888 in Dork­ing, Sur­rey, and in Holl­o­way and Wood Green. She lat­er be­gan work­ing at the SA In­ter­na­tion­al Head­quar­ters, in the Home Of­fice’s Ap­point­ments De­part­ment. She be­came an SA of­fi­cer in 1891, serv­ing in Al­ces­ter, Feck­en­ham, Sto­ny Strat­ford, and Birm­ing­ham. She joined the SA Ed­i­tor­i­al De­part­ment in 1894, and worked on The War Cry, The So­cial Ga­zette, The Young Sol­dier, and The De­liv­er­er. She re­tired as a brig­a­dier in 1931. She wrote over 100 songs, which ap­peared in The Mu­si­cal Sal­va­tion­ist and other pub­li­ca­tions.

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Hymns

1. At Harvest Time Our Eyes Be­hold
2. I’ve a Friend, of Friends the Fair­est
3. I’ve Found the Se­cret of Suc­cess
4. Lord, I Come to Thee Beseeching
5. Lord, I Pray That I May Know Thee
6. Lord, Thou Art Questioning: Lovest Thou Me
7. Send Out Thy Light and Thy Truth, Lord
8. Where Are Now Those Doubts That Hin­dered