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George Barrell Cheever

George Barrell Cheever
Short Name: George Barrell Cheever
Full Name: Cheever, George Barrell, 1807-1890
Birth Year: 1807
Death Year: 1890

Cheever, George Barrell, D.D., eminent in reform, philanthropy, and literature, born at Hallowell, Maine, April 17, 1807, and graduated at Bowdoin College, 1825. Dr. Cheever was a Congregational Pastor at Salem, Mass., 1833; New York, 1839; and the Church of the Puritans, N. Y., 1846-67. He has published several works, and one, Deacon Giles Distillery, procured him a month's imprisonment, in 1835. In 1831 he edited the American Common Place Book of Poetry, and in 1851 Christian Melodies. The latter contains 19 hymns by him. One of these, "Thy loving-kindness, Lord, I sing," is still in common use. It is adopted in an abbreviated form of 4 stanzas by Dr. Hitchcock, in Hymns & Songs of Praise, N. Y., 1874, where it is dated 1845. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M. A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)


TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Texts by George Barrell Cheever (20)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Amidst all blessings from his handC. (Author)2
Amidst temptation and distressC. (Author)2
Blest be the wondrous graceGeorge Barrell Cheever (Author)2
Grace takes away my sinC. (Author)2
Lord, I would make thy matchless graceGeorge Barrell Cheever (Author)2
Lord, I would make thy matchless grace My soul's delight and hiding place;George Barrell Cheever (Author)0
My gracious God, my soul hungers and thirstsGeorge Barrell Cheever (Author)2
My Lord, I would be thine, would sing thy love divineC. (Author)2
O could I keep, from hour to hourC. (Author)2
O how I love the holy lightC. (Author)2
O Lord, my heart would fain retreatGeorge Barrell Cheever (Author)English4
O Lord, to Thee I call, Thou art my all in allC. (Author)English4
O Lord, when on the cross I seeC. (Author)2
O that I might be freed from sinC. (Author)2
Teach me, my gracious LordGeorge Barrell Cheever (Author)2
Teach me, O thou that hearest prayerC. (Author)2
The burden of my guiltC. (Author)2
There is a way that seemeth right, The steps go on with easeC. (Author)English4
Thy loving kindness, Lord, I singGeorge Barrell Cheever (Author)English21
Thy wondrous grace bestowed on meC. (Author)2
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