1814 - 1853 Author of "He Bids the Children Come" Maxwell, Mary Hamlin, born in 1814, and died in 1853, published in 1849 a volume of Original Hymns, N. Y., in which 107 pieces were included. Her hymn in the Methodist Episcopal Hymnal, 1878, "God hath said, 'For ever blessed'" (Early Piety), is from this work.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907), p. 1579
Mary Hamlin Maxwell