O it is joy in one to meet

Author: Richard Mant

Mant, Richard D.D., son of the Rev. Richard Mant, Master of the Grammar School, Southampton, was born at Southampton, Feb. 12, 1776. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity, Oxford (B.A. 1797, M.A., 1799). At Oxford he won the Chancellor's prize for an English essay: was a Fellow of Oriel, and for some time College Tutor. On taking Holy Orders he was successively curate to his father, then of one or two other places, Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, 1810; Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1813, Rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London. 1816, and East Horsley, 1818, Bishop of Killaloe, 1820, of Down and Connor, 1823, and of Dromore, 1842. He was also Bampton Lecturer in 1811. He died Nov. 2, 1848. His prose works were numerou… Go to person page >

O it is joy in one to meet. Bishop B. Mant. [Divine Worship.] In his Ancient Hymns, Ac, 1837, p. 89, is given an original "Hymn commemorative of the pleasure of Social Worship," in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, beginning, "Glad is thy sound, O Sabbath bell" (edition 1871, p. 153). From this sts. ii.-v. were taken, slightly altered, and given in Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, No. 709, as, "O, it is joy in one to meet." In the Songs for the Sanctuary, N. Y., 1865, the same stanzas are given as "O, it is joy for those to meet." The use of both arrangements is limited.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)