1795 - 1870 Hymnal Number: 85 Author of "Not as He was, a houseless stranger" in The Churchman's Treasury of Song Pyper, Mary, daughter of a soldier, was born at Greenock May 25, 1795. Although earning her living as a needlewoman, and dwelling in comparative poverty, she wrote some pleasing pieces of sacred verse, which were collected and published as Select Pieces in 1847. She died May 25. 1870. One of her hymns, from her Select Pieces, 1847, p. 23, "We shall see Him, in our nature" (Heaven Anticipated), is in common use.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Mary Pyper