O Lord, how excellent thy Name

O Lord, how excellent thy Name

Author: Joseph Rusling
Published in 2 hymnals

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 >

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First Line: O Lord, how excellent thy Name
Author: Joseph Rusling
Copyright: Public Domain

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Anglican Hymn Book #256

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Portions of the Psalms of David, and other parts of scripture, in verse #18

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