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Wreck and Rescue

Author: Edward Hopper Appears in 3 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Wrecked and struggling in mid ocean

[Wreck'd and struggling in mid ocean]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: H. L. Gilmour Hymnal Title: Winning Songs Incipit: 55111 21771 22217 Used With Text: Wreck and Rescue

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Wreck'd and struggling in mid ocean

Author: Rev. E. Hopper, D.D. Hymnal: Book of Praise for the Sunday School #134 (1875) Hymnal Title: Book of Praise for the Sunday School Languages: English

Wrecked and struggling in mid-ocean

Author: Rev. Edward Hopper, 1818- Hymnal: Hymns and Songs of Praise for Public and Social Worship #1148 (1874) Hymnal Title: Hymns and Songs of Praise for Public and Social Worship Languages: English

Wreck and Rescue

Author: Rev. E. Hopper, D.D. Hymnal: Winning Songs #118 (1892) Hymnal Title: Winning Songs First Line: Wreck'd and struggling in mid ocean Languages: English Tune Title: [Wreck'd and struggling in mid ocean]

People

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Edward Hopper

1816 - 1888 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "Wreck and Rescue" Rv Edward Hopper DD USA 1816-1888. Born at New York City, the son of a merchant, he graduated from Union Theological Seminary, New York. He married Margaretta Wheeler. He was an author and poet and wrote several books. He pastored the Greenville Presbyterian Church, Sag Harbor Presbyterian Church on Long Island, and the Church of Sea and Land, NYC, a church for sailors, where he remained the rest of his life (for years the church building was shared with the First Chinese Presbyterian Church). Once he was asked to compose a hymn verse for the anniversary of the Seamen’s Friend’s Society meeting. Instead, he brought the verse for a hymn he had written eight years before (noted below). John Edgar Gould saw Hopper’s poem (6 stanzas) and composed a tune for it. Hopper died of a heart attack while writing a poem about heaven at his desk. John Perry =============== Hopper, Edward, D.D., was born in 1818, and graduated at Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1842. He is pastor of the Church of Sea and Land, N. Y. He is the author of 1. Jesus, Saviour, pilot me [us]. Jesus the Pilot. 2. They pray the best who pray and watch. Watching & Prayer. 3. Wrecked and struggling in mid-ocean. Wreck & Rescue. Of these No. 1 appeared in the Baptist Praise Book, 1871, and 2 & 3 in Hymns & Songs of Praise, N. Y., 1874. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology ======================= See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

H. L. Gilmour

1836 - 1920 Hymnal Title: Winning Songs Composer of "[Wreck'd and struggling in mid ocean]" in Winning Songs Henry Lake Gilmour United Kingdom 1836-1920. Born at Londonderry, Ireland, he emigrated to America as a teenager, thinking he wanted to learn navigation. When he reached the U.S., he arrived in Philadelphia and decided to seek his fortune in America. He started working as a painter, then served in the American Civil War, where he was captured and spent several months in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He married Letitia Pauline Howard in 1858. After the war he trained as a dentist and did that for many years. In 1869 he moved to Wenonah, NJ, and helped found the Methodist church there in 1885. He served as Sunday school superintendent and, for four decades, directed the choir at the Pittman Grove Camp Meeting, also working as song leader at camp meetings in Mountain Lake Park, MD, and Ridgeview Park, PA. He was an editor, author, and composer. He edited and/or published 25 gospel song books, along with John Sweney, J Lincoln Hall, John J Hood, Howard Entwistle, Joshua Gill, E L Hyde, Milton S Rees and William J Kirkpatrick. He died in Delair, NJ, after a buggy accident. John Perry