T. Vincent Tymms

Tymms, Thomas Vincent, was born in Westminster, Jan. 5, 1842. After being educated for the Baptist ministry in Regent's Park College, London, he became, in 1865, pastor at Berwick-upon-Tweed. Thence, in 1868, he removed to Accrington, and in 1869 to London, where he now ministers to an influential congregation in the Downs Chapel, Clapton. In 1885 Mr. Tymms published an able book entitled The Mystery of God; a consideration of some intellectual hindrances to Faith (2nd ed. 1886; a 3rd ed. 1887). Mr. Tymms has written several hymns, which have been printed in the 1880 Supplement to the Baptist Psalms and Hymns, and in the Baptist Psalms and Hymns for School and Home, 1882:—
1. Another Sabbath ended (1866). Sunday Evening.
2. In Shiloh, where Thine ark was stored (1881). Prayer to the God of Samuel.
3. 0 Lord of glory, be my light (1882). Invocation.
4. Lord, I read of tender mercy (1882). Tenderness of Jesus.
Of these hymns, No. 4, originally in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, was altered and abridged to 5 stanzas in the Baptist Psalms and Hymns for School and Home.
[Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.]

-- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Tymms, T. V., p. 1190, i. He was President and Professor of Theology at Rawdon College, Leeds, 1891-1904, President of the Baptist Union 1896, and received D.D. from St. Andrews in 1897. He now (1906) resides at Bexhill-on-Sea. His fine hymn, "How oft an absent Lord we mourn" (Nearness to Christ), was written in 1892, and published in Good Words, 1892, p. 853, in 11 stanzas, entitled "Light from Emmaus." In the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, No. 465, it is considerably altered, and begins "Let evening twilight turn to dawn"; st. i. being a combination of 6, 7, and ii. of 4, 5. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)