1783-1826
Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

Ap­ril 21, 1783, Ma­lpas, Che­shire, Eng­land.

Ap­ril 3, 1826, Tri­chin­o­po­ly (Tir­u­chir­ap­pal­li), Ta­mil Na­du, In­dia, of a ce­reb­ral hem­or­rhage while bath­ing.

St. John’s Church, Tri­chin­o­po­ly, Tam­il Na­du, In­dia (north side of the al­tar).

Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

Heber at­tend­ed Brase­nose Coll­ege, Ox­ford, where he won a num­ber of awards in Eng­lish and La­tin. He re­ceived a fel­low­ship to All Souls Coll­ege, and lat­er be­came Rec­tor at Hod­net, Shrop­shire, Eng­land. In 1823, he be­came, some­what re­luct­ant­ly, Bi­shop of Cal­cut­ta (Kol­ka­ta), In­dia. Most of his hymns were not pub­lished un­til af­ter his death; 57 of them ap­peared in Hymns Writ­ten and Adapt­ed to the Week­ly Church Ser­vice of the Year (Lon­don: J. Mur­ray, 1827).

  1. Beneath Our Feet, and o’er Our Head
  2. Bread of the World, in Mer­cy Brok­en
  3. Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morn­ing
  4. By Cool Si­lo­am’s Sha­dy Rill
  5. Creator of the Roll­ing Flood
  6. Feeble Pulse, the Gasp­ing Breath, The
  7. Forth from the Dark and Stormy Sky
  8. From Foes That Would the Land De­vour
  9. From Green­land’s Icy Moun­tains
  10. God Is Gone Up with a Mer­ry Noise
  11. God of Glo­ry Walks His Round, The
  12. God, That Mad­est Earth and Hea­ven
  13. Ho­ly, Ho­ly, Ho­ly
  14. Hosanna to the Liv­ing Lord
  15. Lo, the Lil­ies of the Field
  16. Lord of Mer­cy and Might
  17. Lord of Might from Si­nai’s Brow, The
  18. Lord Will Come! The Earth Shall Quake, The
  19. O Cap­tain of God’s Host
  20. O God, by Whom the Seed Is Giv­en
  21. O God, My Sins Are Man­i­fold
  22. O Hand of Boun­ty, Large­ly Spread
  23. O King of Earth, and Air, and Sea
  24. O More Than Mer­ci­ful, Whose Boun­ty Gave
  25. O Most Mer­ci­ful! O Most Boun­ti­ful
  26. O Sav­ior, Whom This Ho­ly Morn
  27. O Thou, Who Gav’st Thy Serv­ant Grace
  28. O Thou, Whom Nei­ther Time Nor Space
  29. O Weep Not o’er Thy Child­ren’s Tomb
  30. Oh, Sav­ior, Is Thy Prom­ise Fled
  31. Room for the Proud! Ye Sons of Clay
  32. Sit Thou on My Right Hand
  33. Son of God Goes Forth to War, The
  34. Sound of War in Earth and Air, The
  35. Spirit of Truth, on This Thy Day
  36. There Was Joy in Hea­ven
  37. Thou Art Gone to the Grave
  38. Though Sor­rows Rise and Dan­gers Roll
  39. To Con­quer and Save, the Son of God
  40. Virgin-Born, We Bow Be­fore Thee
  41. Wake Not, O Mo­ther, Sounds of La­men­ta­tion
  42. When on Her Mak­er’s Bo­som
  43. When Spring Un­locks the Flow­ers
  44. When Through the Torn Sail
  45. Who Yon­der on the De­sert Heath
  46. World Is Grown Old, Her Plea­sures Are Past, The
  1. Calcutta