1814–1898

Introduction

Born: Feb­ru­ary 11, 1814, Cam­bridge, New York.

Died: De­cem­ber 22, 1898, Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Buried: Ivy Hill Ce­me­te­ry, Penn­syl­van­ia, Penn­syl­van­ia.

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Biography

Sidney was the son of John Ste­vens and Eu­nice Hurd Dy­er; fa­ther of Mat­tie Dy­er Britts; grand­son of Will­iam Dyer; and a des­cend­ant of Will­iam Dyre, an ear­ly set­tler of Mas­sa­chu­setts.

He stu­died in class­ic­al schools in New York Ci­ty; at In­di­ana State Uni­ver­si­ty (AM); and Buck­nell Uni­ver­si­ty, Lew­is­burg, Penn­syl­van­ia (PhD).

He served in the Black Hawk War (1832–33); and re­turned to New York to stu­dy theo­lo­gy.

Ordained in 1842, he be­came a mis­sion­ary among the Choc­taw In­di­ans, and sub­se­quent­ly Sec­re­ta­ry of the In­dian Mis­sion Board in Lou­is­ville, Ken­tuc­ky.

In 1852, Dy­er be­came pas­tor of the First Baptist Church in In­di­an­apo­lis, In­di­ana.

In 1859, he be­came Dis­trict Sec­re­ta­ry of the Am­er­ican Bap­tist Pub­li­ca­tion So­cie­ty, a po­si­tion he held 27 years.

After re­tir­ing, he set­tled in De­Land, Flo­ri­da, and lat­er moved to Ger­man­town, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Dyer made nu­mer­ous con­tri­bu­tions to pe­ri­od­i­cals, and wrote ma­ny songs.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Behold a Host
  2. Beneath the Jor­dan’s Lim­pid Wave
  3. Come, Heart-Brok­en Sin­ner
  4. Dying Is Bliss
  5. Enter, Je­sus Bids Thee Wel­come
  6. Ever to Je­sus Go
  7. Farewell to My Home
  8. Freeman’s Ga­ther­ing
  9. Go in the Strength of Je­sus
  10. Go, Preach the Blest Sal­va­tion
  11. Go Pro­claim the Won­drous Sto­ry
  12. Grant Us Wis­dom, Gra­cious Lord
  13. Great Cause of All Things
  14. Great Fram­er of Un­num­bered Worlds
  15. Greatest of Be­ings, Source of Life
  16. How Blest Are We
  17. How Pre­cious the Dy­ing of Saints
  18. How Sad to Re­turn to the Home
  19. I Hear the Voice of Sing­ing
  20. I Would Not Have Life’s Path­way Smooth
  21. Immanuel’s Band
  22. Lo, Zi­on’s Ban­ners Stream­ing
  23. Mighty Rock
  24. My Bark Is on the Deep
  25. Never Look Back
  26. No More with Hor­rors Veil the Tomb
  27. O Lord, We Come Be­fore Thee Now
  28. O’er Dark and Stor­my Wa­ters
  29. Our Life Is Like an Idle Dream
  30. Repent, Be­lieve, and Be Bap­tized
  31. Rest with Je­sus
  32. Resting By and By
  33. Rouse Thee, Child of Hea­ven!
  34. Should Storms Arise and Dark­ness Reign
  35. Soft and Light O’er the Soul Now Are Glid­ing
  36. That Thou Art Love, O God, I See
  37. Though They May Lie Be­neath the Ground
  38. Time Is Ear­nest
  39. Unto Thy Tem­ple, Lord, We Come
  40. We Come to His Courts
  41. When at the Mar­gin of the Stream
  42. When Faint and Wea­ry Toil­ing
  43. When Mourning o’er My Sense of Guilt
  44. Year Has Flown and We Again, The

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Dy­er (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),