1821 - 1861 Hymnal Number: 206 Author of "Hallelujah to the Lamb" in The Plymouth Sabbath School Collection of Hymns and Tunes Ballantyne, Randall Hunter, sister of R. M. Ballantyne, the novelist, was born July 8, 1821, and died in August, 1861. Her Heir of Glory was published in 1849, Mabel Grant, 1854, and others. Her hymn, "How loving is Jesus, Who came from the sky" (The Love of Jesus ), in The Church Hymnary (Scotch), 1898, appeared in her Hymns about Jesus, 1842.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Randall H. Ballantyne