Short Name: | S. Y. Harmer |
Full Name: | Harmer, S. Y. (Samuel Young) 1809-1884 |
Birth Year: | 1809 |
Death Year: | 1884 |
Harmer, Samuel Young, son of Samuel Harmer, a member of the Society of Friends, was born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, Dec. 9, 1809. In 1827 he joined the American Methodist Episcopalian Church, and was engaged for several years as a Sunday School teacher and superintendent. In 1842 he became a local preacher of that body, and, in 1847, was admitted into the ministry. He has held appointments in Philadelphia and Iowa. His well-known hymn "In the Christian's home in glory" (Heaven) was written in 1856 for a camp-meeting collection which the Rev. John Gladding was then compiling. It has been slightly altered, and set to music by the Rev. W. McDonald of Boston, Massachusetts. (For these details we are indebted to Dr. Hatfield's Poets of the Church N. Y., 1884.)
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, 1907
Texts by S. Y. Harmer (13) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Ever precious, ever dear, Make Thy grace to me be known | Samuel Young Harmer (Author) | English | 1 |
في المواطن البهية عبر وادي الدموع | Samuel Y. Harmer (Author) | Arabic | 1 |
Heimatland im Himmelshöhen | S. Y. Harmer (Author) | German | 1 |
I de Kristnes hjem beroven | Samuel Young Harmer (Author) | 2 | |
In des Christen heimatlanden | Samuel Young Harmer (Author) | German | 8 |
In the Christian's home in glory | Samuel Young Harmer (Author) | English | 311 |
In the days of His flesh they brought little children | Samuel Young Harmer (Author) | English | 5 |
O come to the fountain of cleansing with me | Rev. S. Y. Harmer (Author) | English | 7 |
There is a calm and peaceful river | Samuel Young Harmer (Author) | 2 | |
There is rest for the weary, There is rest for the weary | Samuel Young Harmer (Author) | English | 5 |
To the promised home in glory | Rev. S. Y. Harmer (Author) | English | 1 |
Waters from the smitten rock | Samuel Young Harmer (Author) | English | 9 |
Welcome, day of sweet | Samuel Young Harmer (Author) | 1 |