Born: Sep­tem­ber 4, 1886, Maid­stone, Kent, Eng­land.

Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 4, 1967, Bos­combe, Hamp­shire, Eng­land.

The son of Sal­va­tion Ar­my (SA) officers, Ors­born worked at the SA In­ter­na­tion­al Head­quar­ters (1899-1905), then at SA posts in Chelms­ford, Lowe­stoft South, and Ip­swich Citadel. He went on to serve as Bri­gade Of­fi­cer at the SA train­ing coll­ege; as Di­vi­sion­al Young Peo­ple's Sec­re­ta­ry, East Lon­don Di­vi­sion, dur­ing World War I; Di­vi­sion­al Com­mand­er, Nor­wich (1919-22), and in South Lon­don (1922-25); Chief Side Of­fi­cer for Men at the In­ter­na­tion­al Train­ing Coll­ege; Chief Sec­re­ta­ry in New Zea­land (1933-6); Ter­ri­tor­i­al Com­mand­er for Scot­land and Ire­land (1936-40); Bri­tish Com­mis­sion­er (1940-46); and Gen­er­al (1946-54). His works inc­lude:

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Hymns

  1. Army Flag! Thy Threefold Glory
  2. Believe Him! Believe Him!
  3. Earnestly Seeking to Save and to Heal
  4. Have We Not Known It
  5. I Have No Claim on Grace
  6. I Know Thee Who Thou Art
  7. In the Secret of Thy Presence
  8. In the Shadow of the Cross
  9. In Their Appointed Days
  10. Life Is a Journey
  11. Many Thoughts Stir My Heart
  12. My Life Must Be Christ’s Broken Bread
  13. Not unto us, O Lord
  14. O God, if Still the Holy Place
  15. O Lord, How Often Should We Be
  16. O Lord, Regard Thy People
  17. O Love upon a Cross Impaled
  18. On Every Hill Our Savior Dies
  19. Once, on a Day, Was Christ Led Forth to Die
  20. Others He Saved, Himself He Cannot Save
  21. Savior, if My Feet Have Faltered
  22. Say But the Word
  23. Silent and Still I Stand
  24. Since the Lord Redeemed Us from the Power of Sin
  25. Son of God! Thy Cross Beholding
  26. Spirit of Eternal Love
  27. The Savior of Men Came to Seek and to Save
  28. Though Thy Wave and Billows
  29. Unto Thee Will I Cry
  30. We Worship Thee, O Crucified
  31. What a Work the Lord Has Done
  32. When Shall I Come unto the Healing Waters
  33. When Wondrous Words My Lord Would Say
  34. Where Lowly Spirits Meet
  35. Who the Child of God Shall Sever
  36. Yet Once Again, by God’s Abundant Mercy

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