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As sinners saved we gladly praise

Author: James H. Evans Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: DUKE STREET

WARRINGTON

Appears in 189 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. Harrison Incipit: 55435 11271 32232 Used With Text: As Sinners Saved

DUKE STREET

Appears in 1,560 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John L. Hatton Incipit: 13456 71765 55565 Used With Text: As sinners saved we gladly praise

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As sinners saved we gladly praise

Author: James H. Evans Hymnal: Hymns of Worship and Remembrance #3 (1950) Languages: English Tune Title: DUKE STREET

As Sinners Saved

Hymnal: Celestial Songs #46 (1921) First Line: As sinners saved we gladly praise Languages: English Tune Title: WARRINGTON

1710 - 1793 Person Name: John L. Hatton Composer of "DUKE STREET" in Hymns of Worship and Remembrance John Warrington Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) was christened in Warrington, Lancashire, England. He supposedly lived on Duke Street in Lancashire, from where his famous tune name comes. Very little is known about Hatton, but he was most likely a Presbyterian, and the story goes that he was killed in a stagecoach accident. Bert Polman

Ralph Harrison

1748 - 1810 Person Name: R. Harrison Composer of "WARRINGTON" in Celestial Songs

James H. Evans

1785 - 1849 Author of "As sinners saved we gladly praise" in Hymns of Worship and Remembrance Evans, James Harrington, M.A., son of the Rev. Dr. Evans, priest-vicar of Salisbury Cathedral, was born. April 15, 1785, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1803, and became a Fellow in 1805. Taking Holy Orders in 1808 he remained in the Church of England until 1815, when he seceded, and became a Baptist Minister. He was the Minister of John Street Baptist Chapel, Gray's Inn Road, London, for many years. He died at Stonehaven, Scotland, Dec. 1, 1849. His Memoir and Remains were published by his son in 1852. In addition to various prose works, Dialogues on Important Subjects, 1819; Checks to Infidelity, 1840; and others, he also published:— Hymns, Selected Chiefly for Public Worship, London, printed by E. Justius, 1818. This edition contained 179 hymns, several of which he wrote. This Selection was enlarged from time to time; the 3rd edition, 1822, contained 211 hymns; and the last, 1843, 451 hymns. Of his hymns, “Change is our portion here," and "Faint not, Christian, though the road," are the best known. Mr. Evans contributed to Carus Wilson's Friendly Visitor of 1827, &c., under the signature of "Alix." [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)