1805 - 1846 Person Name: G. Rogers Meter: 8.8.8.8 Author of "Religion, in its blessed ray" in Hymns for Christian Devotion Rogers, Rev. George. (1805--July 6, 1846, Cincinnati, Ohio). A Universalist minister, author and editor. He published a Universalist Hymn Book in 1845, in which he included 26 hymns which he had written. Four of his hymns are included in Church Harmonies: New and Old, 1895:
1. As gentle dews distil
2. Let songs of praise arise
3. Religion! in thy blessed ray
4. There is a Sabbath rest, O Lord
--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives
George Rogers