Daniel Webster Whittle Biography

Daniel Webster Whittle (1840–1901) was an American poet, hymn writer, evangelist, and Bible teacher. Influenced by Dwight L. Moody, he entered full-time evangelism and worked with P. P. Bliss and James McGranahan. He wrote (mostly under pseudonym, El Nathan) the words for about two hundred hymns, including "Moment by Moment", "I Know Whom I Have Believed", and "Banner of the Cross". Whit­tle reached the rank of ma­jor in the Amer­i­can Ci­vil War,and for the rest of his life was known as "Ma­jor" Whit­tle.

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