Joseph m scrivener biography obituary

He graduated with a degree from Trinity College Dublin in He left his country feeling a spiritual calling to serve the Lord in his Plymouth Brethren faith. He only remained in Canada briefly after becoming ill, but returned for good in For two or three years he conducted a private school at Brantford. He wrote a poem to comfort his mother called "Pray Without Ceasing".

In Scriven published a collection of Hymns and other verses which did not include "What a friend". Scriven drowned in at age It was a very hot night, and he may have possibly gone outside to cool down, or to get a drink of cold water from the spring. His friend reported, "We left him about midnight. I withdrew to an adjoining room to watch and pray.

You may imagine my surprise and dismay when upon visiting his room I found it empty.

Joseph M Scrivener was born on August 24, He died on July 17, at 89 years old.

All search failed to find a trace of the missing man, until a little after noon his body was discovered in the nearby river, lifeless and cold in death. A tall obelisk was built upon his grave with the words from the song and the following inscription:. This monument was erected to the memory of Joseph M. Scriven, B.