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Name: GRIMES, Emily May
Nee: Sister of Mabel Sophia Grimes
Birth Date: 10 May 1864, Lambeth, London
Death Date: 9 July 1927 Folkestone
First Date: 1904
Last Date: 1914
Profession: Missionary and hymn writer
Area: CMS Weithaga Mission, Embu
Married: In Wimbledon 9 Feb 1904 Dr. Thomas William Walter Crawford (1861-1947)
Author: Emily May Grimes, By the Equator's Snowy Peak: A Record of Medical Missionary Work and Travel in British East Africa, 1913, reprinted 2018
General Information:
https://www.praise.org.uk/authors/crawford-emily-may Crawford, Emily May (née Grimes), b Lambeth, Surrey (S London) 1864, d Folkestone, Kent 1927. From 1893 until her marriage in 1904 she was a missionary in Pondoland with the S Africa General Mission. She was a writer in the Keswick tradition; her best-known hymn features, with some variation in the number of stanzas, in several evangelical collections including Golden Bells (1925 edn), The Christian Hymnary (from the Churches of Christ, 1938) and Christian Praise (1957)—credited to E May Grimes in all three but with her married surname used in the list of copyright permissions. Another hymn, The Master comes! He calls for thee, is her sole entry in the 1899 Church Missionary Hymn Book, but was in great demand at missionary gatherings of that time and appears in 3 major mid-20th-c books. Her husband Dr TWW Crawford had served with CMS in Kenya, then British East Africa. She was one of those contributing briefly to the 1905 biography of Albert Head.
https://hymnary.org/person/Crawford_Emily:
A little Sanctuary" art Thou to me Emily Crawford (Author) English
Bendita é sempre a hora da prece Emily Crawford (Author) Portuguese
"Consider Him," let Christ thy pattern be Emily Crawford(Author) English
Der Meister ruft, Er rufet ditch Emily May Crawford (Author) German
In the Advent light, O Savior Emily May Crawford (Author) English
Rede, Herr, ich hare Emily Crawford (Author) German
Speak, Lord, in the stillness E. May Crawford (Author) English
The Master comes, He calls for theeEmily May Crawford(Author)English
Thy mighty love, O God, constraineth me E.May Grimes (Author) English
Tu és minha Rocha meuLibertador EmilyMayGrimes(Author) Portuguese
Upheld by hope - a glorious hope Emily M Crawford (Author) English
What wilt thou have me to do, dear Lord E.May Grimes (Author) English
Yào sixiang yesu, yi ta zuò móxíng Emily M. Grimes (Author) Chinese
Emily May Grimes, By the Equator's Snowy Peak: A Record of Medical Missionary Work and Travel in British East Africa, 1913, reprinted 2018: September 21, 1904, found Dr. Crawford and myself travelling up towards the highlands of British East Africa by the Uganda Railway. As agents of the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada, working in connexion with the Church Missionary Society, we had been designated to labour amongst the almost untouched Kikuyu tribe, where, in the heart of Kenia Province, Mr. A.W. McGregor had been living in great isolation for over a year."