Joshua Marsden

Joshua Marsden
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Short Name: Joshua Marsden
Full Name: Marsden, Joshua, 1777-1837
Birth Year: 1777
Death Year: 1837

Marsden, Joshua, a Wesleyan Methodist Missionary in Nova Scotia, and afterwards in the Bermuda Islands, born in 1777, and died in 1837. He published Amusements of a Mission, N. Y., 1812, in which a poem on Missions appeared as "Go, ye messengers of God." In his Narrative of a Mission (2nd ed.), 1827, he claims this as his own.

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


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