Hope of the world, thou living Christ

Author: Walter John Dean

Dean, Walter John. Retired minister of the United Church of Canada. Born in St. Helens, England, and served there for five years as an apprentice in the Pilkington Glass Works; because a local preacher in the Wesleyan Methodist Church; studied for a time in the Joyful News Home for Evangelists in Rochdale, England. In 1900 he went to Newfoundland as a candidate for the Methodist ministry; in 1904, took further theological studies at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick; served parishes in the Methodist Church and later the United Church, until 1940 when he retired. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives… Go to person page >