Author (stanza 1): Anonymous
In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Go to person page >Author (stanza 3): Benjamin Francis
Francis, Benjamin , M.A., was born in Wales in 1734. He was baptized at the age of 15, and began to preach at 19. He studied at the Bristol Baptist College, and commenced his ministry at Sodbury. In 1757 he removed to Horsley (afterwards called Shortwood), in Gloucestershire. There he remained, through a happy and very successful ministry of 42 years, until his death in 1799. He was the author of many poetical compositions :—
(1) Conflagration, a Poem in Four Parts, (1770); (2) Elegies on the Deaths of the Revs. George Whitefield , Caleb Evans, Robert Day, and Joshua Thomas; (3) The Association, a Poem (1790); (4) a Poetical Address to the Stockbridge Indians (5) two satirical pieces on the Baptismal controversy; The Salopian Zealo…
Go to person page >Author (stanza 2): David Lewis
Arthur David Lewis was born in Liverpool, England in 1916. He became a minister in the Presbyterian Church of England in 1948. He worked as a translator at the World Council of Churches in Geneva from 1970 until he retired, when he continued to work as a freelance translator. He returned to live in England in 1994 and died in 1995.
Mary Swale (daughter)
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