ELTON (Johnson)

Composer: Elias Henry Johnson

Johnson, Elias Henry, D.D., has been since 1882 Professor of Systematic Theology in Croser Baptist Theo. Seminary, Chester, Pa. He was born at Troy, N.Y., Oct. 15, 1841, and graduated at Rochester. After acting for two years as assistant paymaster in the U.S. Navy he was ordained to the Baptist Ministry, and served in several pastorates. He edited Songs of Praise for Sunday Schools, 1882; was assistant editor of the Baptist Hymnal, 1883; and also editor of Our Sunday School Songs, 1885, and Sursum Corda, 1898. He is also the author of several prose works. His hymn, "Father almighty, trembling I bow to Thee" (Holy Trinity), in Sursum Corda, 1898, No. 314, is dated 1867. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnolo… Go to person page >

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Title: ELTON (Johnson)
Composer: Elias Henry Johnson (1896)
Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6
Incipit: 54354 34324 24432

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Songs of the Christian Life #186b

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