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Andrew Broaddus
1770 - 1848 Person Name: A. Broaddus Hymnal Number: d311 Author of "O give me, Lord, my sins to mourn" in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Selected and Original. 7th ed. Broaddus, Andrew. (Caroline County, Virginia, November 4, 1770--December 1, 1848, Salem, Virginia). Baptist. Reared an Episcopalian; became Baptist, 1789. Honorary D.D., 1843, Columbian College, Washington, D.C., "humbly refused." Ordained October 16, 1791. Pastorates at Burrus, 1793-1820; while at Burrus also served Bethel, Fredericksburg, Upper Zion, Beulah, and Mangohick on rotational basis; Salem, 1820-1848; Upper King and Queen, 1827-1848, all in Viriginia. Author of The Age of Reason and Revelation (1795) (a reply to Paine's attack on Christianity); A Bible History for Schools and Families (Baltimore, 1816); Help for Children: Three Plain and Easy Catechisms (American Baptist Publication Society, n.d.). Edited Christian Baptist (1826-1830) and wrtoe for it under the pen name "Paulinus" and for Religious Herald under pen name "Christianos" arguing with Alexander Campbell. Designed a seal for Richmond College, 1843 (now University of Richmond).
Published Collection of Sacred Ballads (1790) of songs in popular use at the time; compiled Dover Selection (1828) (xvii, 275, vii, 75p.), 2d ed, 1829 (viii 1 l., 11-412 p.) at request of Dover Association of Virginia Baptists; Virginia Selection (1836) (xxviii, 447 p.), rev. enl. ed. (600 p.) 1840, reprinted until 1876.
Hymns:
In the Dover Selection (1829): Help thy servant, gracious Lord, 192 (labelled "Original")
In the Virginia Selection (1840), three hymns indicated by initials "A.B.": Help thy servant, gracious Lord, 665; Send thy blessing Lord we pray, 667; Restless thy spirit poor wandering sinner, 708. One hymn (Labelled "Chiefly original"): How solemn the signal I hear! 495.
--Martha C. Powell, DNAH Archives
Andrew Broaddus
Robert T. Daniel
1773 - 1840 Hymnal Number: d403 Author of "The glorious Son of God" in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Selected and Original. 7th ed. Daniel, Robert T., was born June 10, 1773, in Middlesex Co., Virginia, and removed in boyhood to Orange Co., North Carolina. He was engaged for some time as a blacksmith and cabinet-maker. In 1803 he was ordained to the Baptist Ministry, and acted as a missioner in North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Besides being an agent for various Baptist Missionary and Education Societies, he was an eminent revivalist. He died at Paris, Tennessee, 1840. His hymn for Immersion, “Lord, in humble, sweet submission," appeared in Broaddus's Dover Selection, 1828-31, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines; Winchell's Additional Hymns, 1832; and is given in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Robert T. Daniel
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