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Edward Payson Hammond
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Short Name: Edward Payson Hammond
Full Name: Hammond, Edward Payson, 1831-1910
Birth Year: 1831
Death Year: 1910

Hammond, Edward Payson, was born at Ellington, Connecticut, Sep. 1, 1831. He edited Hymns of Prayer and Praise, and is the author of a few pieces in that and other evangelistic hymnals, including "Christian [Children] go and tell Jesus," and "I feel like singing all the time."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Born: Sep­tem­ber 1, 1831, El­ling­ton, Con­nec­ti­cut.
Died: Au­gust 14, 1910.

Payson was con­vert­ed when he heard Alas, and Did My Sav­ior Bleed. He was ed­u­cat­ed at var­i­ous Amer­i­can schools, and fin­ished his the­o­lo­gic­al ed­u­ca­tion in Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land. In Scot­land, he started to preach in plac­es with no Chris­tian ac­tiv­i­ty, and he could see fruit of his work. At the end of 1861 he re­turned to Amer­i­ca and preached in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, where he met Dwight Moody. In 1866 he and his wife tra­veled to Egypt, Pal­es­tine and Eur­ope. While in Pal­es­tine, he wrote the hymn Geth­sem­a­ne. He was ve­ry fond of preach­ing to the child­ren, and was called "The Child­ren’s Evan­gel­ist." His works in­clude:
Hymns of Pray­er and Praise (ed­it­or)
Jesus the Child­ren’s Friend, 1864
New Prais­es of Je­sus, 1869
The Ar­mor Bear­er: a Choice Col­lect­ion of New and Pop­u­lar Hymns and Mu­sic, with War­ren Bent­ley (New York: Will­iam A. Pond, cir­ca 1876)

--hymntime.com/tch


Hymnals by Edward Payson Hammond (4)sort descendingAsPublication Year
New Praises of JesusE. P. Hammond (Editor)1869
Praises of JesusEdward Payson Hammond (Editor)1865
The Song EvangelE. P. Hammond (Editor)1873
The Song EvangelE. P. Hammond (Editor)1901
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