While saints and angels, glorious King. J. Montgomery. [Charitable Objects.] Published in Dr. Sutton's Psalms & Hymns, . . . . , Sung at the Parish Church, Sheffield, 2nd ed., en¬larged, 1816, No. 102, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines. It was repeated in Cotterill's Selection, 1819, No. 255; in Montgomery's Christian Psalmist, 1825, No. 540, and in his Original Hymns, 1853, No. 345. In the last two works it is headed "For the Children in a Charity School." It was probably written to be sung at an anniversary of one of the Sheffield Charity Schools. Sometimes it begins with stanza iv. as "Father Thy heavenly gifts afford."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)