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Reginald Heber

1783-1826

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Born: April 21, 1783, Malpas, Cheshire, England.

Died: April 3, 1826, Trichinopoly (Tiruchirappalli), Tamil Nadu, India, of a cerebral hemorrhage while bathing.

Buried: St. John’s Church, Trichinopoly, Tamil Nadu, India (north side of the altar).

 Reginald Heber (1783-1826)

Heber attended Brasenose College, Oxford, where he won a number of awards in English and Latin. He received a fellowship to All Souls College, and later became rector in Hodnet, Shropshire, England. In 1823, he became, somewhat reluctantly, Bishop of Calcutta, India. He wrote over 50 hymns in his lifetime.

Hymns:

  1. Beneath Our Feet, and o’er Our Head
  2. Bread of the World, in Mercy Broken
  3. Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning
  4. By Cool Siloam’s Shady Rill
  5. Creator of the Rolling Flood
  6. Feeble Pulse, the Gasping Breath, The
  7. Forth from the Dark and Stormy Sky
  8. From Greenland’s Icy Mountains
  9. God of Glory Walks His Round, The
  10. God, That Madest Earth and Heaven
  11. Holy, Holy, Holy
  12. Hosanna to the Living Lord
  13. Lo, the Lilies of the Field
  14. Lord of Mercy and Might
  15. Lord of Might from Sinai’s Brow, The
  16. Lord Will Come! The Earth Shall Quake, The
  17. O God, by Whom the Seed Is Given
  18. O God, My Sins Are Manifold
  19. O Hand of Bounty, Largely Spread
  20. O King of Earth, and Air, and Sea
  21. O More Than Merciful, Whose Bounty Gave
  22. O Most Merciful! O Most Bountiful
  23. O Savior, Whom This Holy Morn
  24. O Thou, Who Gav’st Thy Servant Grace
  25. O Thou, Whom Neither Time Nor Space
  26. O Weep Not o’er Thy Children’s Tomb
  27. Oh, Savior, Is Thy Promise Fled
  28. Room for the Proud! Ye Sons of Clay
  29. Sit Thou on My Right Hand
  30. Son of God Goes Forth to War, The
  31. Sound of War in Earth and Air, The
  32. Spirit of Truth, on This Thy Day
  33. There Was Joy in Heaven
  34. Thou Art Gone to the Grave
  35. Though Sorrows Rise and Dangers Roll
  36. To Conquer and Save, the Son of God
  37. Virgin-Born, We Bow Before Thee
  38. Wake Not, O Mother, Sounds of Lamentation
  39. When on Her Maker’s Bosom
  40. When Through the Torn Sail the Wild Tempest Is Streaming
  41. Who Yonder on the Desert Heath
  42. World Is Grown Old, Her Pleasures are Past, The
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