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Acquaint thee, O mortal, acquaint thee with God

Author: Knox Appears in 34 hymnals Used With Tune: [Acquaint thee, O mortal, acquaint thee with God]

[Acquaint thee, O mortal, acquaint thee with God]

Appears in 1,438 hymnals Incipit: 11512 55323 43211 Used With Text: Acquaint thee, O mortal, acquaint thee with God

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Acquaint thee, O mortal, acquaint thee with God

Author: Knox Hymnal: Good-Will Songs #130 (1890) Languages: English Tune Title: [Acquaint thee, O mortal, acquaint thee with God]

Acquaint thee, O mortal, acquaint thee with God

Author: William Knox Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns for the Sanctuary. Rev.ed. with a Supplement #d1 (1860) Languages: English

Acquaint thee, O mortal, acquaint thee with God

Author: William Knox Hymnal: Conference Hymns and Tunes #d3 (1846) Languages: English

Author of "Acquaint thee, O spirit, acquaint thee with God" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion. (10th ed.) In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

William Knox

1789 - 1825 Person Name: Knox Author of "Acquaint thee, O mortal, acquaint thee with God" in Good-Will Songs Born: August 17, 1789, Firth, Lilliesleaf, Roxburgh, Scotland. Died: November 12, 1825, Edinburgh, Scotland. Buried: New Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh, Scotland. Knox, William, born at Firth, Lilliesleaf, Roxburgh, Aug. 17, 1789, and educated at the parish school, and the grammar school at Musselburgh. For some time he was engaged in farming at Wrae, near Langholm, Dumfriesshire; but not succeeding to his satisfaction, he left Wrae in 1817, and finally settled in Edinburgh in 1820, where he subsequently obtained employment as a contributor to the public journals. He died in Edinburgh, Nov. 12, 1825. His poetical works were, (1) The Lonely Hearth, North Shields, 1818 ; (2) Songs of Israel, 1824; (3) The Harp of Zion, 1825; and (4) these three works, together with a short Memoir, as his Poems, &c, Lond., J. Johnson, 1847. The Songs and Harp are mainly paraphrases of portions of Holy Scripture. A few have come into use as congregational hymns, as, "A voice comes from Ramah," "Acquaint thee, O mortal," "O sweet as vernal dews that fall" (Ps. cxxxiii.), and others. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)