You help make Hymnary.org possible.

In 2025, more than 10 million people from 200+ countries found hymns, liturgical resources, and encouragement here. If Hymnary has meant something to you this year, would you take a moment to help sustain it? A gift of any size — and a note of encouragement, if you'd like to share one — directly supports the server costs, research, and curation that keep this resource freely available to the world.

Give securely online today, or mail a check to:
Hymnary.org (c/o Calvin University)
3201 Burton Street SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Thank you for being part of this important online ministry resource.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again

John B. Matthias

Short Name: John B. Matthias
Full Name: Matthias, John B. (Barnet), 1767-1848
Birth Year: 1767
Death Year: 1848

Born: January 21, 1767, Germantown, New York.
Died: May 27, 1848, Hempstead, Long Island, New York.
Buried: Methodist churchyard, Hempstead, Long Island, New York.

Matthias moved to New York City as a young man, and attended the John Street Methodist Church. He was licensed as a Methodist preacher in 1793, and four years later Bishop Asbury ordained him a deacon. He entered the "itinerant connection" in 1811, and in 1813 Bishop McKendree ordained him an elder. He pastored at a number of locations in New York, and by 1836 was in Huntington, where he wrote Deliverance Will Come. In 1841, failing eyesight forced him to retire to Hempstead, Long Island.

Sources:
Choir Herald, June 1947, pp. 222-23

http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/t/matthias_jb.htm

=================

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Matthias


Data Sources

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.