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James Flint

Short Name: James Flint
Full Name: Flint, James, 1779-1855
Birth Year: 1779
Death Year: 1855

Flint, James, D.D., born at Reading, Mass., 1779, and graduated at Harvard, 1802. In 1806 he became pastor of a Unitarian Church at East Bridgewater, Mass., from which he passed to East Church, Salem, 1821. Died in 1855. In 1820 he contributed one hymn to Sewell’s New York Collection, and in 1843 he also published A Collection of Hymns, to which he contributed from 10 to 12 originals.

His best known hymns are:—
1. Here to the High and Holy One. This hymn, "On leaving an Ancient Church," appeared in the Cambridge Selection of 1828.
2. In pleasant lands have fallen the lines. Remembrance of our Fathers. Written for the bicentenary of Quincy, Mass., May 25, 1840, and published in his Collection, 1843.
3. Happy the unrepining poor. Appeared in Sewell's New York Collection, 1820. Dr. Flint's hymns are unknown to the English Collections.
[Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)


TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Texts by James Flint (14)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
All glorious Lord of heaven and earthJames Flint (Author)2
Father, thy mercies never failJames Flint (Author)2
Freemen, we our chartered rightsFlint (Author)2
From thee, O God, our spirits comeJames Flint (Author)1
Giver of all good gifts to manJames Flint (Author)1
Happy the unrepining poorFlint (Author)1
Here to the High and Holy OneRev. Dr. Flint (Author)English13
In costly fane, the pride of artJames Flint (Author)2
In pleasant lands have fallen the linesFlint (Author)English35
Lord of the winds and ocean's swellJames Flint (Author)1
O'er life's pale wrecks in lovelinessJames Flint (Author)1
On the dewy breath of evenFlint (Author)English3
What thanks to thee, O GodJames Flint (Author)1
When loud the midnight tempest roaringJames Flint (Author)1

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