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Robert P. Kerr

Short Name: Robert P. Kerr
Full Name: Kerr, Robert P. (Robert Pollok), 1850-1923
Birth Year: 1850
Death Year: 1923

Born: 1850, Greensboro, Alabama.
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery , Nashville, Tennessee.

Kerr, Robert P., D.D., b. at Greensborough, Alabama, graduated at Union Theological Seminary, Va., 1873, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Lafayette, 1874. His Hymns of the Ages, a collection on conservative Evangelical lines which hardly justified its title, was published in N.Y., 1891. In it appeared his hymn,"Blessed country, home of Jesus," 1891, A later hymn, "Galilean King and Prophet," is dated 1901. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)


TextsTunesHymnals
Texts by Robert P. Kerr (16)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A small affair the bows we wearRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
Blessed country, home of JesusRev. Robert P. Kerr, D.D. (Author)English3
Galilean King and ProphetRobert P. Kerr (Author)English4
Hosanna to Jesus, Our Savior and King, No theme can so please us, and cause us to singRobert P. Kerr (Author)English5
How sweetly christ, the morning StarRev. Rob't Kerr (Author)English4
In glory now, where angels bowRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
Like snow in the sunshineRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
O Lamb of God, my sacrificeRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
Of all the names of those we loveRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
O Watchman, tell what of the night?Rev. Robert Kerr (Author)English2
Our fatherland for temperanceRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
Remember Him in youthful daysRev. Robt. Kerr (Author)English4
The silver trumpets call The gladsome jubileeRobert P. Kerr (Author)English8
The world for Christ, let angelsRobert P. Kerr (Author)2
Upon the Rock of agesRev. Rob't Kerr (Author)2
We have a good and gentleRev. Rob't Kerr (Author)2

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