Abner Kneeland

Abner Kneeland
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Short Name: Abner Kneeland
Full Name: Kneeland, Abner, 1774-1844
Birth Year: 1774
Death Year: 1844

Kneeland, Abner, born in 1774, was noted for his religious changes, most of which may be traced through his hymns. He contributed 147 pieces to the American Universalist's Hymns composed by different Authors, 1808; and also edited The Philadelphia Hymn Book, 1819, and Hymns for the Use of those who are Slaves to no Sect, in 1834. In 1836 he underwent a trial at Boston for blasphemy. He died in 1844.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (190

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Kneeland, Rev. Abner. (Iowa, 1774--1844, Salubria, Iowa). A Universalist miniter, one of the editors of the collection Hymns composed by different Authors, by order of the General Convention of Universalists of the New England States, 1808, to which he contributed 138 hymns, of poor quality. He resigned from the Universalist ministry in 1829 and became lecturer to a society of Freethinkers in Boston, and began publication of a periodical called the Investigator. In 1833 he was indicted on a charge of blasphemy and served a prison sentence. On his release he returned to Iowa, then a territory, and established a free-thinking colony which he called Salubria. His hymn beginning "Mediator, Son of God" is included in Church Harmonies: New and Old, 1895.

--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Wikipedia Biography

Abner Kneeland (April 7, 1774 – August 27, 1844) was an American evangelist and theologian who advocated views on women's rights, racial equality, and religious skepticism that were radical for his day. As a young man, Kneeland was a lay preacher in a Baptist church, but he converted to Universalism and was ordained as a minister. Later in life, he rejected revealed religion and Universalism's Christian God. Due to provocative statements he published, Massachusetts convicted Kneeland under its rarely used blasphemy law. Kneeland was the last man in the United States jailed for blasphemy. After his sentence, he founded a utopian society in Iowa, but it failed shortly after his death.

Texts by Abner Kneeland (174)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A conscious fortitude sustainsAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Ah shall we see that glorious dayAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Ah wretched minds who still remainAbner Kneeland (Author)4
All beings are of God, In heaven and earthA. Kneeland (Author)3
All nature speaks, let men give earAbner Kneeland (Author)9
All things in heaven and in earthKneeland (Author)3
An offering Jesus madeKneeland (Author)3
And is religion all a dreamAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Answer me, burning stars of nightAbner Kneeland (Author)2
As all to Christ the Father gaveAbner Kneeland (Author)3
As ancient bigots disagreeKneeland (Author)3
As God, all merciful and kindKneeland (Author)3
As we are met from various partsAbner Kneeland (Author)4
As when the spirit leaves the clayAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Attend and hear the sacred wordKneeland (Author)3
Awake my drowsy sense allAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Awake, my soul, away, thy fearsAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Away, ye sad desponding thoughtsAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Balmy seas of time and motionAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Behold the elect of God, his servantKneeland (Author)3
Behold the fountain, crimson floodAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Behold the love of God, displayed in worksKneeland (Author)3
Behold the man, the sent of GodKneeland (Author)3
Behold the ministers of ChristAbner Kneeland (Author)2
Behold the sad impending strokeAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Behold the sun whose cheering lightAbner Kneeland (Author)7
Behold the wine, behold the breadAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Blest be thy name, my God and KingKneeland (Author)5
Christ shall descend in flaming fireAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Come, all ye saints, who love the LordKneeland (Author)4
Come, all ye tender, lovely youthKneeland (Author)4
Come, all ye [you] saints that love the LordAbner Kneeland (Author)1
Come, brothers, sisters, all, and let us joyful beKneeland (Author)3
Come, friends give an earAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Come join in sacred songsKneeland (Author)4
Come sinners dry your tearsKneeland (Author)3
Come, then, O my soul, meditate on that dayKneeland (Author)4
Days of error long have spreadAbner Kneeland (Author)2
Death, like a cruel tyrant, reignsKneeland (Author)3
Did Christ, Immaneul, dieKneeland (Author)3
Down to the wilderness of slavery and prideKneeland (Author)3
Ere time commenced, a darksome nightAbner Kneeland (Author)4
Except the Lord the house doth build, The laborers toilKneeland (Author)3
Farewell, a sad and long farewellKneeland (Author)3
From cruel death no age is freeAbner Kneeland (Author)3
From Greenland's icy mountainsAbner Kneeland (Author)English1
From Jesse's root, a Branch did riseAbner Kneeland (Author)7
Gather your roses while you mayAbner Kneeland (Author)4
Give me some green retired spotAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Glory to God on high, On earth, Let there be peaceKneeland (Author)3
Go traverse all the world aroundAbner Kneeland (Author)4
Great Source of beings, Fount of lifeAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Had I the tongues of menKneeland (Author)3
Hail, all victorious Lamb of GodKneeland (Author)3
Hail, King Emmanuel, at whose swayAbner Kneeland (Author)4
Hail, universe, capacious goodAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Hark! from the wilderness and hearKneeland (Author)3
Hark! hear the heavn'ly sound!Kneeland (Author)3
Hear the glad voice, Messiah comesKneeland (Author)3
How can my soul indifferent beKneeland (Author)4
How lovely in the arch of heavenAbner Kneeland (Author)3
How oft the tender bloom of MayKneeland (Author)3
How vain are earthly thingsKneeland (Author)4
I sing the gospel dayAbner Kneeland (Author)9
I sing the joys of heavenAbner Kneeland (Author)4
I'd bid my carnal joys farewellKneeland (Author)3
If Christ did not possess the powerKneeland (Author)3
In thine own house, O Lord, we meetAbner Kneeland (Author)3
In union let our voices join, To hymn eternal praiseAbner Kneeland (Author)3
In Zion let the trumpet blowAbner Kneeland (Author)5
Is not thy promise pledgedKneeland (Author)4
Jesus calls, I will adore himKneeland (Author)3
Jesus the living vine, sprung from the eternalKneeland (Author)3
Justice and judgment are God's throneAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Kind providence to us impartsKneeland (Author)4
Knowledge its empire shall extendAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Let earth rejoice and nature singKneeland (Author)4
Let every mortal ear attendKneeland (Author)English2
Let others boast how good they beKneeland (Author)3
Let party names aloneAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Let such as make the truth their choiceAbner Kneeland (Author)4
Let truth alone prevailAbner Kneeland (Author)4
Lo from the mountains of the lawAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Lo see the brilliant temple riseAbner Kneeland (Author)4
Lo, what a pleasing [pleasant] sightKneeland (Author)English2
Long long hath superstition reignedAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Look around the fields of natureAbner Kneeland (Author)4
Lord, bless Columbia's happy landKneeland (Author)4
Lord, we adore thy bounteous hand, Which spreadKneeland (Author)3
Mediator, Son of GodKneeland (Author)7
Mid fables and fallacies, baubles of youthAbner Kneeland (Author)3
My body under I must keepKneeland (Author)3
My soul, call home each wandering thoughtKneeland (Author)3
No mortal tongue can tellKneeland (Author)4
No sacrifice of costly nameKneeland (Author)3
No sure foundation can be laidKneeland (Author)3
Now as the body is but oneAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Now as the day is past and goneAbner Kneeland (Author)2
Now I'll repine at death no moreKneeland (Author)3
Now let us here enjoy the signKneeland (Author)3
Now let us join to praise the LordAbner Kneeland (Author)4
Now Lord, once more thy church dismissAbner Kneeland (Author)6
Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a songKneeland (Author)English3
Now the day is past and goneKneeland (Author)3
Now to the Lord, O let us raiseKneeland (Author)4
O could I stretch my thoughts aboveKneeland (Author)4
O God, how holy, just and pureAbner Kneeland (Author)3
O haste not to the gilded shrineAbner Kneeland (Author)3
O Lord of hosts, all gracious GodKneeland (Author)4
O sacred peace, contentment sweetAbner Kneeland (Author)2
Our Father, God, in heaven above, Perfect in wisdom, power and loveKneeland (Author)English4
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow (Ken)Kneeland (Author)English2
Rise, my soul, expand thy wingsAbner Kneeland (Author)English4
Salvation, O the darling themeKneeland (Author)3
Science, thou fair effusive rayAbner Kneeland (Author)3
See on Mount Calvary, upon the fatal woodAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Send down thy blessing, gracious LordAbner Kneeland (Author)6
Shall slavish fear torment my soulKneeland (Author)3
Should former patriots be forgotAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Sin, O that monster of the deepKneeland (Author)4
So human nature, one and allKneeland (Author)3
Sons, who have with truth been fedAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Sound the loud timbrel over mystery's dark seaAbner Kneeland (Author)English3
Source of life as found in natureAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Strike the cymbal, roll the tymbal [timbrel]Abner Kneeland (Author)English17
Ten thousand streams of loveKneeland (Author)3
The ardent spouse has found his brideKneeland (Author)3
The bright sun of reason relumes her fair skyAbner Kneeland (Author)3
The day of God shall surely comeKneeland (Author)3
The God of glory sends his mandate forthKneeland (Author)3
The great Jehovah's mighty swayAbner Kneeland (Author)3
The great, the unknown causeAbner Kneeland (Author)3
The hypocrite doth fast, with a dejected faceKneeland (Author)3
The hypocrites do often fastAbner Kneeland (Author)3
The Lord hath come from hills of lightAbner Kneeland (Author)3
The Lord, his boundless love to showKneeland (Author)4
The Lord my only Shepherd isKneeland (Author)3
The Lord my Shepherd is, Supplying all my needKneeland (Author)3
The Lord our God, our heavenly KingKneeland (Author)3
The Lord who holds the gospel fanKneeland (Author)3
The solemn facts, which nature speaksKneeland (Author)3
The unchangeable Jehovah saithAbner Kneeland (Author)6
The whole creation owns a GodKneeland (Author)4
The wicked are a troubled seaAbner Kneeland (Author)3
There is, we read, a time for painAbner Kneeland (Author)3
These are the ministers of ChristKneeland (Author)3
Though mothers may forgetful proveKneeland (Author)3
Thou great first Cause, least understoodKneeland (Author)English2
Thus saith the great and mighty GodAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Thus saith the mighty GodKneeland (Author)3
Thy benediction, LordKneeland (Author)6
Thy children, Lord, perpetual waitKneeland (Author)3
Thy children, Lord, whom thou didst makeKneeland (Author)4
To God Jehovah, only wiseKneeland (Author)2
To Jesus let us prostrate fallKneeland (Author)3
To spread the truth, and truth aloneAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Weep not, my friends, O weep no moreAbner Kneeland (Author)3
What if some men do not believeKneeland (Author)3
What is the cause of moral deathKneeland (Author)3
What joyful tidings do I hearKneeland (Author)5
When by faith I see my SaviorKneeland (Author)3
When God at first did man createAbner Kneeland (Author)3
When I behold the effects of sinKneeland (Author)4
When Joseph saw his brethren dear Kneeland (Author)3
When men set out to run a raceKneeland (Author)3
When thou dost fast thou shalt not beAbner Kneeland (Author)3
Where oppression's iron handAbner Kneeland (Author)3
While shepherds watched their wandering sheepKneeland (Author)3
Who will regret that Christ should haveKneeland (Author)3
Why should I doubt thy goodness, LordKneeland (Author)4
Why do we mourn departing friendsKneeland (Alterer)English2
Worthy the Paschal LambKneeland (Author)4
Ye aged fathers, mothers dearKneeland (Author)3
Ye humble souls proclaim abroadKneeland (Author)5

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