1839 - 1896 Person Name: Albert E. Evans Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Author of "Lord, to Thee alone we turn" in The Hymnal Evans, Albert Eubule, B.A., was educated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford (B.A. 1866), and took Holy Orders in 1864. He held successively the Curacies of Slough, New Windsor, and Walmer; was an Organising Secretary of the S. P. G., Secretary to the South American Missionary Society, and Assistant Examiner to the Civil Service Commissioners; and became Rector of Kirk-Hallam, Ilkston, in 1875. Mr. Evans published Pietas Puerilis, 1865; The Fourfold Message of Advent, 1870; and some tales. His hymns appeared in the Rev. R. Brown-Borthwick's Sixteen Hymns, &c, 1870; his Select Hymns for Church & Home, 1871; Dr. Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873; and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Church Hymns, 1871.
These collections include the following:
1. Lo! the voice of Jesus. Voice of Jesus.
2. Look up, look up, my soul, still higher. Upwards and Onwards.
3. Lord, to Thee alone we turn. Lent.
4. Many mansions, O what rapture. Heaven.
5. O render thanks unto the Lord. Septuagesima.
6. There is a road that all may tread. Christian Life a Pilgrimage.
7. Trust in God and God alone. Trust.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Evans, A. E. , p. 357, ii. Although appointed Sec. to the S. A. M. Society he did not take up the work. He died May 21, 1896.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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