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Jonathan Bayley

Jonathan Bayley
Short Name: Jonathan Bayley
Full Name: Bayley, Jonathan, 1810-1886
Birth Year: 1810
Death Year: 1886

Jonathan Bayley was born in Sal­ford, England on Ju­ly 22nd, 1810. At the age of 14, he be­gan to at­tend the ev­en­ing class­es and joined the Sun­day School at the New Je­ru­sa­lem Tem­ple. Until the age of 19 he was en­gaged at the Sal­ford Ir­on Works. He became a preacher and served the Accrington Society. While there he started a night school and later opened schools at Holl­and-bank, and Waterloo. Dr. Bayley was with the Ar­gyle Square So­ci­e­ty for six­teen years. He died on May 12, 1886, in Kensington, London, England.

Dr. Bayley was chairman of the committee entrusted to compile a new hymnal for the Swedonborgian church
The result of their labors was published in 1880, as Hymns for the Use of The New Church signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation. Compiled by Older of the General Conference of The New Church in Great Britain. London: James Speirs, 1880. This collection contains 750 hymns. To it Dr. Bayley contributed 5 hymns. From this collection a selection for mission services was published in 1883.

NN, Hymnary editor. Sources: New Church Herald (Yorkshire, England, 1886) and John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, (1907)


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