1821 - 1861 Person Name: R. H. Ballantyne Hymnal Number: 329 Author of "How Loving Is Jesus" in Hymns of Grace and Truth 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