I love to research the History of the older Hymnals, the old red back hymnals & hymnals alike are almost a thing of the past the song I Am Determined To Hold Out To The End was written by Leander Lycurgus Pickett & copyrighted in 1909
from: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/p/i/c/pickett_ll.htm
Pickett was a Methodist evangelist who conducted meetings in a number of states and at Holiness campgrounds. He and his wife Ludie served in northeast Texas, Columbia, South Carolina and possibly elsewhere, before settling in Wilmore, Kentucky. The two of them were prominent local players in the founding of Asbury College in Wilmore in 1890, and Leander served as the financial agent of the board of trustees for many years. The Picketts also helped by boarding young ministry students from Asbury, among whom was missionary E. Stanley Jones. In 1905, a prayer meeting among the students at the Pickett home spilled out to the Asbury campus in a revival that spread around the town of Wilmore. Perhaps the Picketts’ greatest gift to the world was their son, J. Waskom Pickett, who attended Asbury College and become a missionary to India, rising as high as Bishop of the Methodist Church in India.
read more about his wife here http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/p/i/c/pickett_ld.htm as you read you will come across a link on their son & the ministry he’s in, this is the first song I’ve come across that is packed with so much History
