Hymns / Music :: Thomas Hornblower Gill

Born: February 10, 1819, Bristol Road, Birmingham, England.

Gill’s parents belonged to English Presbyterian families which, like many others, had become Unitarian in their doctrine. He was educated at King Edward’s Grammar School under Dr. Jeune, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough. He left the school in 1838, and would have gone to the University of Oxford, but was prevented by his hereditary Unitarianism (long since given up), which forbade subscription to the Articles of the Church of England then necessary for entrance to the University. This constrained him to lead the life of an isolated student, in which he gave himself chiefly to historical and theological subjects. He wrote over 200 hymns total.

Hymns:

1. Ah, Tremblers, Fainting and Forlorn
2. Alas the Outer Emptiness
3. Alas These Pilgrims Faint and Worn
4. Alone with Thee, with Thee Alone
5. And Didst Thou, Lord, Our Sorrows Take?
6. Behold the Everlasting Son
7. Break, New Born Year, on Glad Eyes Break
8. Bright Presence! May My Soul Have Part
9. Bright Thy Presence When It Breaketh
10. Day Divine! When Sudden Streaming
11. Dear Lord and Master Mine
12. Dear Lord, Thou Art Not Sorry
13. Dear Lord, Thy Light Thou Dost Not Hide
14. Do We Only Give Thee Heed
15. Embrace Your Full Salvation
16. Farewell, Delightful Day
17. Father, Glorious with All Splendor
18. Father, Thou Hast Not On Me
19. Full Many a Smile, Full Many a Song
20. Happy Fields, the Heavenly Host, the
21. How Can I, Lord, Abide with Thee?
22. How, Lord, Shall Vows of Ours Be Sweet?
23. Is Earth Too Fair, Is Youth Too Bright?
24. Is Not My Spirit Filled with Thine
25. Let Bolder Hearts the Strife Require
26. Lift Thy Song among the Nations
27. Lord, Am I Precious in Thy Sight
28. Lord, Comes this Bidding Strange to Us?
29. Lord, Dost Thou Ne’er Thy Servants Bless?
30. Lord, from Thee, What Grace and Glory
31. Lord, from These Trembling Souls of Ours
32. Lord God, by Whom All Change Is Wrought
33. Lord God of Old, Who Wentest
34. Lord, if Our Dwelling Place Thou Art
35. Lord, in this Awful Fight with Sin
36. Lord, in Thy People Thou Dost Dwell
37. Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Dwelling Place
38. Lord, Thou Wouldst Have Us Like to Thee
39. Lord, Thy Gracious Voice Hath Spoken
40. Lord, When I All Things Would Possess
41. Lord, When We Come at Thy Dear Call
42. May We Not, Father, Meetly Mourn?
43. Methought My Soul Had Learned to Love
44. My God, I Do Not Flee from Thee
45. My God, My Majesty Divine
46. Not, Lord, Thy Ancient Works Alone
47. Not Yet I Love My Lord
48. Not Yet, Ye People of his Grace
49. O Height That Doth All Height Excel
50. O Holy Ghost, Who Down Dost Come
51. O Not Alone in Saddest Plight
52. O Not to Fill the Mouth of Fame
53. O Not upon Our Waiting Eyes
54. O Saints of Old, Not Yours Alone
55. O Smitten Soul That Cares and Conflicts Wring
56. O Spirit, Sweet and Pure
57. O Time, Ne’er Resteth Thy Swift Wing
58. O Wherefore Hath My Spirit Leave?
59. O’er Fullness of Grace, Blest Britain Rejoice
60. Our God, Our God, Thou Shinest Here
61. Savior, Needs the World No Longer?
62. Savior, Who from Death Didst Take
63. Sweet Spirit, Would Thy Breath Divine
64. Thy Happy Ones a Strain Begin
65. Too Dearly, Lord, Hast Thou Redeemed
66. Unto Thy Rest Return
67. We Come unto Our Fathers’ God
68. We Triumph in the Glorious Grace
69. What Sweetness on thine Earth Doth Dwell
70. When Shall I, Lord, a Journey Take
71. Whence This Flaming Joy That Maketh?
72. Would the Spirit More Completely?
73. Ye Children of the Father
74. Ye of the Father Loved
75. Ye People of the Lord, Draw Near
76. Ye Souls, the Father’s Very Own