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

W. E. Winks

Short Name: W. E. Winks
Full Name: Winks, W. E. (William Edward), 1842-1926
Birth Year: 1842
Death Year: 1926

Winks, William Edward, son of J. F. Winks, Leicester, was born at Leicester, Jan. 28, 1842, and educated at Chilwell College, Nottingham. He entered the Baptist Ministry in 1865, and has been Pastor of Baptist Churches in Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire, and has now (1907) charge of Bethany Chapel, Cardiff. Most of his hymns were written for special services. In 1897 he collected several of these and published them as Christian Hymns and Songs for Church and Sunday School (2nd ed. 1907). From this collection the following have passed into The Baptist Church Hymnal, 1900.
1. Be still, my heart, be still, my mind. Waiting upon God. Written in 1897.
2. In the night our toil is fruitless. Working with Trustfulness. Dated Oct. 39, 1891.
3. Lord, Thy servants forth are going. Departure of Missionaries. Written in 1892.
Mr. Winks's prose works include Thoughts on Prayer, Prayer in the Four Gospels, and others.

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

Hymnary Pro Subscribers
Access an additional article on the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology:
Hymnary Pro subscribers have full access to the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Get Hymnary Pro

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.