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| Short Name: | John Bulmer |
| Full Name: | Bulmer, John, 1784-1857 |
| Birth Year: | 1784 |
| Death Year: | 1857 |
Bulmer, John, born in Yorkshire in 1784, educated for the Congregational Ministry at the Rotherham (Masborough) Independent College, and successively pastor at Haverford-west, Rugelcy, Bristol, Newbury, and Langrove, near Ross. He died in 1857. He composed a few hymns, and compiled:—
(1) Hymns, Original and Select, 1834; (2) Hymns and Evangelical Songs for the use of Sunday Schools; (3) Original Hymns intended to be sung at the Public Meetings and other Services of Temperance Societies, 1836; and (4) Beauties of the Vicar of Llandovery: Light from the Welshman's Candle; being translated from the Welsh of Poems by Rees Prichard (died 1644), (2nd edition, 1830). .
From his Collection of 1834 the following are still in common use:—
1. Lord of the vast creation. Lent.
2. To Thee in ages past. Public Worship.
These hymns, are in the New Congregational Hymn Book and others.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Texts by John Bulmer (8) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before us to the grave | John Bulmer (Author) | 2 | |
| Death what a solemn word to all | John Bulmer (Author) | 2 | |
| Lord of the vast creation | John Bulmer (Author) | English | 7 |
| Now from the world withdrawn | Bulmer (Author) | English | 7 |
| O thou who art the light | John Bulmer (Author) | English | 3 |
| Through another year conducted | John Bulmer (Author) | 4 | |
| Through Christ when we together came | John Bulmer (Author) | 8 | |
| To thee, in ages past | John Bulmer (Author) | 1 |
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