The Musical and Visual Arts in Worship
O WORSHIP THE KING
Robert Grant was born in India in 1785. His father was a leading officer of the East India Company. He graduated from Cambridge in 1804 and was admitted to the bar in 1807. He later was appointed Governor of Bombay in 1824. He died in India in 1838.
GIVE TO THE WINDS THY FEARS
Paul Gerhardt, a distinguished Lutheran minister, and, next to Luther, the most popular hymn-writer of Germany, was born in Saxony in 1607. He studied at the University of Wittenberg and later became a tutor in the family of his sponsor Andreas Barthold; whose daughter he later married in 1655.
GREAT KING OF GLORY, COME
Benjamin Francis, an English Baptist minister, was born in Wales in 1734. He joined the Baptist Church at 15 and began preaching when only 19. He accepted a call to the Baptist Church at Shortwood in 1757 and remained there until his death in 1799.
FAITH OF OUR FATHERS
Frederick William Faber was born in Yorkshire, England in 1814. He was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford, which he entered in 1832. At Oxford he came under the influence of Catholic scholar John Henry Newman, then vicar of St. Mary’s.
THE LORD BE WITH US
John Ellerton, a clergyman of the Church of England, was born in London in 1826. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1849. From 1850 until his death in 1893 he filled various positions in the Church of England as vicar and rector, being appointed Canon of St. Albans in 1892.