1813-1856

1813, Cir­en­ces­ter, Glou­ces­ter­shire, Eng­land.

Ju­ly 29, 1856, Clif­ton, Glou­ces­ter­shire, Eng­land.

Ar­no’s Vale Cem­e­te­ry, Bris­tol, Eng­land.

Daughter of Rich­ard Bow­ly of Cir­en­ces­ter, Ma­ry mar­ried John Mc­Wil­liam Pe­ters, Rec­tor of Quen­ing­ton, Glou­ces­ter­shire. She con­trib­ut­ed sev­er­al hymns to the Ply­mouth Breth­ren’s Psalms, Hymns and Spir­it­u­al Songs (Lon­don: D. Wal­ther, 1842). She pub­lished these and others, 58 in all, in Hymns In­tend­ed to Help the Com­mun­ion of Saints (Lon­don: Nis­bet Com­pa­ny, 1847). Her other works in­clude:

  1. Blessed Lord, Our Hearts Are Pant­ing
  2. Earth’s Firm­est Ties Will Per­ish
  3. Enquire, My Soul, En­quire
  4. Hallelujah, We Are Hast­en­ing
  5. Holiest We En­ter, The
  6. Holy Fa­ther, We Ad­dress Thee
  7. How Can There Be One Ho­ly Thought!
  8. Jesus, How Much Thy Name Un­folds
  9. Jesus, of Thee We Ne’er Would Tire
  10. Lord Je­sus, in Thy Name Alone
  11. Lord, Through the De­sert Drear and Wide
  12. Lord, We See the Day Ap­proach­ing
  13. Many Sons to Glo­ry Bring
  14. Murmurs of the Wild­er­ness, The
  15. O Lord, We Know It Mat­ters Not
  16. O Lord, While We Con­fess the Worth
  17. Our God Is Light, We Do Not Go
  18. Praise Ye the Lord, Again, Again
  19. Saints Awhile Dis­persed Abroad, The
  20. Salvation to Our God
  21. Through the Love of God Our Sav­ior
  22. Thy Grace, O Lord, to Us Hath Shown
  23. Unworthy Is Thanks­giv­ing
  24. We’re Pil­grims in the Wild­er­ness
  25. Whom Have We, Lord, but Thee?
  26. With Thank­ful Hearts We Meet, O Lord