Macdonald, George, LL.D., was born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Dec. 10, 1824, and educated at King's College, Aberdeen, where he graduated M.A., and from which he afterwards received the honorary degree of LL.D. For a brief time he studied for the Congregational ministry at Highbury College, London, and then became the Minister of the Congregational Church at Arundel, Sussex (1850-53). He afterwards preached for a short time to a small company at Manchester and Bolton. Relinquishing the ministry, he became Lecturer on English Literature at King's College, London, and ultimately gave himself up entirely to literary work. Dr. Macdonald has acquired a great reputation by means of his works of fiction, most of which were originally contributed to… Go to person page >
John B. Dykes (PHH 147) composed ST. AGNES for [Jesus the Very Thought of Thee]. Dykes named the tune after a young Roman Christian woman who was martyred in A.D. 304 during the reign of Diocletian. St. Agnes was sentenced to death for refusing to marry a nobleman to whom she said, "I am already eng…
Composed by Alexander R. Reinagle (b. Brighton, Sussex, England, 1799; d. Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England, 1877), ST. PETER was published as a setting for Psalm 118 in Reinagle's Psalm Tunes for the Voice and Pianoforte (c. 1836). The tune first appeared with Newton's text in Hymns Ancient and Mode…
Display Title: O God, whose daylight leadeth downFirst Line: O God, whose daylight leadeth downTune Title: ST. PETERAuthor: G. MacDonaldDate: 1905Subject: Hours of the Day | Evening
Display Title: O God, whoe daylight leadeth downFirst Line: O God, whose daylight leadeth downTune Title: ST. FLAVIANAuthor: George Macdonald, 1824 - 1905Meter: C.M.Date: 1936Subject: Times and Seasons | Evening
Display Title: O God, whose daylight leadeth downFirst Line: O God, whose daylight leadeth downTune Title: ST. FLAVIANAuthor: George Macdonald, 1824 - 1905Meter: C.M.Date: 1930Subject: Times and Seasons | Evening