James Edwin Orr

Born:  January 12, 1912, Belfast, Ireland.

    Orr was ordained an American Baptist minister in 1940, attended Northwestern University (MA 1941) and Northern Baptist Seminary (ThD 1943), and served as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force in the Pacific in World War II. After the war, he continued his schooling, attending Oxford University (PhD 1948) and the University of California at Los Angeles (EdD 1971); he also received honorary degrees from an Indian seminary and the University of South Africa. In 1967 he became a professor in the School of World Missions at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. He wrote at least six hymns, and a number of books, including:

• Can God?, 1934
• This Promise Is to You, 1935
• Times of Refreshing, 1936
• Prove Me Now, 1936
• This Is the Victory, 1936
• All Your Need, 1936
• If Ye Abide, 1936
• Such Things Happen, 1937
• The Church Must First Repent, 1937
• Telling Australia, 1939
• Through Blood and Fire in China, 1939
• Always Abounding, circa 1942
• I Saw No Tears, 1948
• The Second Evangelical Awakening in Britain, 1949
• The Second Great Awakening in America, 1952

Hymns

1. Cleanse Me
2. Search Me, O God