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Short Name: Robert P. Kerr
Full Name: Kerr, Robert P. (Robert Pollok), 1850-1923
Birth Year: 1850
Death Year: 1923

Born: 1850, Greensboro, Alabama.
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery , Nashville, Tennessee.

Kerr, Robert P., D.D., b. at Greensborough, Alabama, graduated at Union Theological Seminary, Va., 1873, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Lafayette, 1874. His Hymns of the Ages, a collection on conservative Evangelical lines which hardly justified its title, was published in N.Y., 1891. In it appeared his hymn,"Blessed country, home of Jesus," 1891, A later hymn, "Galilean King and Prophet," is dated 1901. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)


TextsTunesHymnals
Texts by Robert P. Kerr (16)AsAuthority LanguagesInstancessort ascending
The silver trumpets call The gladsome jubileeRobert P. Kerr (Author)English8
Hosanna to Jesus, Our Savior and King, No theme can so please us, and cause us to singRev. Robert Kerr (Author)English5
Galilean King and ProphetRobert P. Kerr (Author)English4
How sweetly Christ, the morning StarRev. Rob't Kerr (Author)English4
Remember Him in youthful daysRev. Robt. Kerr (Author)English4
Blessed country, home of JesusRev. Robert P. Kerr, D.D. (Author)English3
A small affair the bows we wearRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
In glory now, where angels bowRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
Like snow in the sunshineRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
O Lamb of God, my sacrificeRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
O Watchman, tell what of the night?Rev. Robert Kerr (Author)English2
Of all the names of those we loveRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
Our fatherland for temperanceRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
The world for Christ, let angelsRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
Upon the Rock of agesRev. Rob't Kerr (Author)2
We have a good and gentleRev. Rob't Kerr (Author)2

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