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Basil Manly

Basil Manly
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Short Name: Basil Manly
Full Name: Manly, Basil, 1825-1892
Birth Year: 1825
Death Year: 1892

Manly, Basil, junior, D.D., born in Edgefield County, South Carolina, Dec. 19, 1825, was educated at the State University of Alabama, and entered the Baptist ministry in 1848. He has held several important appointments amongst the Baptists. He is the author of nearly 40 hymns, several of which are in common use. Of these the following 9 appeared in The Baptist Psalmody, 1850, which he edited with his father:—
1. Before a pool the sufferer lay. The Pool of Bethesda.
2. God of the seas, Whose ruling voice. For those at Sea.
3. God with us, 0 glorious [wondrous] name, Manifest in flesh He came. Christmas.
4. Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of hosts in heaven adored. The Divine Holiness.
5. In doubt's dim twilight here I stray.
6. Jesus, my Lord, I own Thee God. Divinity of Jesus.
7. Lord, I deserve Thy deepest wrath.
8. Our God invites the wanderers home. Invitation.
9. There is a light which shines from heaven.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Manly, Basil M., Jr. (Edgefield County, South Carolina, December 19, 1825--January 31, 1892, Louisville, Kentucky). Southern Baptist. University of Alabama, Dipl. 1844; honorary D.D. 1859; Princeton Theological Seminary, Dipl. 1847; Agricultural College, Auburn, Alabama, honorary LL.D. 1874. Pastorates in Sumter County, Ala., and Noxubee County, Mississippi, 1848; Richmond, Virginia, 1850-1854. President of Richmond Female Institute, 1854-1859, and Georgetown College, Ky., 1871-1879. Faculty member at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ky., 1859-1871, 1879-1892. Leader in formation of first Southern Baptist Sunday School Board (1863-1873). His hymnal, The Baptist Psalmody (Charleston, 1850, with Basil Manly, Sr.), became quite popular among Southern Baptists; also compiled Baptist Chorals (Richmond, 1859) and The Choice (Louisville, 1891); served on editorial board for The Baptist Praise Book (New York, 1872). His best-known hymn, "Soldiers of Christ, in truth arrayed" was written for the first commencement at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1860), where it is still sung on every such occasion. Another of his hymns, "Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of hosts, in heaven adored" found its way into C.H. Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn-Book (London, 1866, No. 189).

--David W. Music, DNAH Archives

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