Glory Be to God the Father

Author: Horatius Bonar

Horatius Bonar was born at Edinburgh, in 1808. His education was obtained at the High School, and the University of his native city. He was ordained to the ministry, in 1837, and since then has been pastor at Kelso. In 1843, he joined the Free Church of Scotland. His reputation as a religious writer was first gained on the publication of the "Kelso Tracts," of which he was the author. He has also written many other prose works, some of which have had a very large circulation. Nor is he less favorably known as a religious poet and hymn-writer. The three series of "Hymns of Faith and Hope," have passed through several editions. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872… Go to person page >

Glory be to God the Father. H. Bonar. [Praise.] Published in his Hymns of Faith and Hope, 3rd series, 1866, in 4 stanzas of 6 lines, and entitled "Praise." It is included in several collections in Great Britain and America, in its original form. In the Supplement to the New Congregational Hymnal, 1874, and that to the Baptist Psalms & Hymns, 1880, the stanzas are transposed, ii., iv., iii., i., and the hymn begins, "Glory be to Him Who loved us." The last stanza is sometimes used as a doxology distinct from the hymn itself.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)