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Robert P. Kerr

Short Name: Robert P. Kerr
Full Name: Kerr, Robert P. (Robert Pollok), 1850-1923
Birth Year: 1850
Death Year: 1923

Born: 1850, Greensboro, Alabama.
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery , Nashville, Tennessee.

Kerr, Robert P., D.D., b. at Greensborough, Alabama, graduated at Union Theological Seminary, Va., 1873, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Lafayette, 1874. His Hymns of the Ages, a collection on conservative Evangelical lines which hardly justified its title, was published in N.Y., 1891. In it appeared his hymn,"Blessed country, home of Jesus," 1891, A later hymn, "Galilean King and Prophet," is dated 1901. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)


TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Texts by Robert P. Kerr (16)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A small affair the bows we wearRobert P. Kerr (Author)1
Blessed country, home of JesusRobert P. Kerr (Author)English2
Galilean King and ProphetRev. Robert P. Kerr (Author)English3
Hosanna to Jesus, Our Savior and King, No theme can so please us, and cause us to singRobert P. Kerr (Author)English4
How sweetly Christ, the morning StarRev. Rob't Kerr (Author)English3
In glory now, where angels bowRobert P. Kerr (Author)1
Like snow in the sunshineRobert P. Kerr (Author)1
O Lamb of God, my sacrificeRobert P. Kerr (Author)1
O Watchman, tell what of the night?Robert P. Kerr (Author)English1
Of all the names of those we loveRobert P. Kerr (Author)1
Our fatherland for temperanceRev. Robert Kerr (Author)1
Remember Him in youthful daysRev. Rob't Kerr (Author)English3
The silver trumpets call The gladsome jubileeRobert P. Kerr (Author)English7
The world for Christ, let angelsRobert P. Kerr (Author)1
Upon the Rock of agesRobert P. Kerr (Author)1
We have a good and gentleRobert P. Kerr (Author)1

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