John H. Sammis

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John H. Sammis was the writer of the Christian hymn Trust and Obey. Sammis was born in 1846, in Brooklyn, New York and died in 1919 in Los Angeles, California. A businessman who became an ordained minister, John Sammis also wrote the hymn He's a Friend of Mine. He taught at the Bi­ble In­sti­tute of Los An­ge­les.