1819–1906

Introduction

Born: Feb­ru­ary 10, 1819, Bris­tol Road, Birm­ing­ham, Eng­land.

Died: March 4, 1906, Grove Park, Lewis­ham, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Biography

Gill’s par­ents be­longed to Eng­lish Pres­by­ter­ian fa­mi­lies which had be­come Uni­ta­ri­an in their doc­trine.

He was edu­cat­ed at King Ed­ward VI Gram­mar School un­der Dr. Jeune (later Bi­shop of Pe­ter­bo­rough).

He left the school in 1838, and would have gone to Ox­ford, but was pre­vent­ed by his he­re­di­ta­ry Uni­ta­ri­an­ism (long since giv­en up), which for­bade sub­scrip­tion to the Ar­ti­cles of the Church of Eng­land then re­quired for en­trance to the Uni­ver­si­ty.

This con­strained him to lead the life of an iso­lat­ed stu­dent, in which he gave him­self chief­ly to his­tor­ic­al and theo­lo­gic­al sub­jects. He wrote over 200 hymns to­tal.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Ah, Trem­blers, Faint­ing and For­lorn
  2. Ah! Where­fore Fall My Tears So Fast!
  3. Alas the Out­er Emp­ti­ness
  4. Alas These Pil­grims, Faint and Worn
  5. Alone with Thee, with Thee Alone
  6. And Didst Thou, Lord, Our Sor­rows Take?
  7. Behold the Ev­er­last­ing Son
  8. Break, New­born Year
  9. Bright Pre­sence! May My Soul Have Part
  10. Bright Thy Pre­sence When It Break­eth
  11. Day Di­vine! When Sud­den Stream­ing
  12. Dear Lord and Mas­ter Mine
  13. Dear Lord, Thou Art Not Sor­ry
  14. Dear Lord, Thou Bring­est Back the Morn
  15. Dear Lord, Thy Light Thou Dost Not Hide
  16. Do We On­ly Give Thee Heed
  17. Embrace Your Full Sal­va­tion
  18. Farewell, De­ligh­tful Day
  19. Father, Glo­ri­ous with All Splen­dor
  20. Father, Thou Hast Not on Me
  21. Full Ma­ny a Smile, Full Ma­ny a Song
  22. Glory of the Spring How Sweet, The
  23. Happy Fields, the Hea­ven­ly Host, The
  24. He Who Suns and Worlds Up­hold­eth
  25. How Can I, Lord, Abide with Thee?
  26. How, Lord, Shall Vows of Ours Be Sweet?
  27. I Think of Thee, My God, by Night
  28. Is Earth Too Fair, Is Youth Too Bright?
  29. Is Not My Spir­it Filled with Thine?
  30. Let Bold­er Hearts the Strife Re­quire
  31. Lift Thy Song Among the Na­tions
  32. Lord, Am I Pre­cious in Thy Sight?
  33. Lord, Comes This Bid­ding Strange to Us?
  34. Lord, Dost Thou Ne’er Thy Ser­vants Bless?
  35. Lord, from Thee, What Grace and Glo­ry
  36. Lord, from These Trem­bling Souls of Ours
  37. Lord God, by Whom All Change Is Wrought
  38. Lord God of Old, Who Went­est
  39. Lord, if Our Dwell­ing Place Thou Art
  40. Lord, in This Aw­ful Fight with Sin
  41. Lord, in Thy Peo­ple Thou Dost Dwell
  42. Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Dwell­ing Place
  43. Lord, Thou Wouldst Have Us Like to Thee
  44. Lord, Thy Gra­cious Voice Hath Spok­en
  45. Lord, When I All Things Would Pos­sess
  46. Lord, When We Come at Thy Dear Call
  47. May We Not, Fa­ther, Meet­ly Mourn?
  48. Methought My Soul Had Learned to Love
  49. My God, I Do Not Flee from Thee
  50. My God, My Ma­jes­ty Di­vine
  51. Not, Lord, Thy An­cient Works Alone
  52. Not Yet I Love My Lord
  53. Not Yet, Ye Peo­ple of His Grace
  54. O Dread­ful Glo­ry That Doth Make
  55. O Height That Doth All Height Ex­cel
  56. O Ho­ly Ghost, Who Down Dost Come
  57. O Mean May Seem This House of Clay
  58. O Mys­te­ry of Love Di­vine
  59. O Not Alone in Sad­dest Plight
  60. O Not to Fill the Mouth of Fame
  61. O Not up­on Our Wait­ing Eyes
  62. O Saints of Old, Not Yours Alone
  63. O Smit­ten Soul That Cares and Con­flicts Wring
  64. O Spir­it, Sweet and Pure
  65. O Time, Ne’er Rest­eth Thy Swift Wing
  66. O Where­fore Hath My Spir­it Leave?
  67. O’er Full­ness of Grace, Blest Bri­tain Re­joice
  68. Our God, Our God, Thou Shin­est Here
  69. Savior, Needs the World No Long­er?
  70. Savior, Who from Death Didst Take
  71. Sweet Spir­it, Would Thy Breath Di­vine
  72. Thy Hap­py Ones a Strain Be­gin
  73. Too Dear­ly, Lord, Hast Thou Re­deemed
  74. Unto Thy Rest Re­turn
  75. Walk with the Lord Along the Road
  76. We Come un­to Our Fa­thers’ God
  77. We Tri­umph in the Glo­ri­ous Grace
  78. We Would Not Dare Their Bliss to Mourn
  79. What Sweet­ness on Thine Earth Doth Dwell
  80. When Shall I, Lord, a Jour­ney Take?
  81. Whence This Flam­ing Joy That Mak­eth?
  82. Wherefore Faint and Fear­ful Ev­er
  83. With Sin I Would Not Make Abode
  84. Would the Spir­it More Com­plete­ly?
  85. Ye Child­ren of the Fa­ther
  86. Ye of the Fa­ther Loved
  87. Ye Peo­ple of the Lord, Draw Near
  88. Ye Souls for Whom the Sav­ior Died
  89. Ye Souls, the Fa­ther’s Ve­ry Own

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