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Short Name: | Elias Nason |
Full Name: | Nason, Elias, 1811-1887 |
Birth Year: | 1811 |
Death Year: | 1887 |
Nason, Elias, a Congregational minister, lecturer, and writer, was born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, April 21, 1811, and was educated at Brown University, where he graduated in 1835. He was a teacher in Georgia for some time, and from 1840 to 1849 in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Subsequently he entered the Congregational ministry. He is the author of several biographies. In 1855 he published Songs for the School Room; in 1857 his Congregational Hymn Book; and in 1863, in conjunction with Dr. Edward Kirk, Songs for Social and Public Worship. His hymn, "Jesus only, when the morning " (Jesus always), was written at Natick, Massachusetts, about 1856, and was published with music by the author in the Boston Wellspring. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Texts by Elias Nason (6) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Have you heard the sweet story more precious | Elias Nason (Author) | 3 | |
Ho! ye heralds of salvation | Elias Nason (Author) | English | 2 |
Jesus only, when the morning | Elias Nason (Author) | English | 55 |
'Mid troubles and dangers that darken my way | Elias Nason (Author) | English | 4 |
To thee, O God, in grateful praise | Elias Nason (Author) | 6 | |
What sweet angelic strains | Elias Nason (Author) | 3 |