Jesus, assembled in Thy name

Author: Joseph Rusling

Rusling, J., p. 931, i. 255, b. 1788, d. 1839. From this American writer there is a mutilated fragment in Stryker's College Hymnal, 1904: "The morn, O Christian, breaketh o'er thee" (Death and Heaven anticipated). In H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, this hymn begins “Christian, the morn breaks sweetly o'er thee." It is usually dated 1832. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)  Go to person page >

Jesus, assembled in Thy name. [Public Worship.] Anon, in Ryle's Additional Hymn Book, 1875 ; The Baptist Hymnal, 1879; The Canadian Baptist Hymnal, 1889, and others.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)