At Thy Feet, our God and Father. J. D. Burns. [New Year.] Printed in the English Presbyterian Psalms & Hymns, 1867, No. 62, and in his Remains by Dr. J. Hamilton, 1869, pp. 224-5, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and headed "New Year's Hymn” with the text, Ps. lxv. 2, prefixed. It has attained to a fair position in the hymnals of Great Britain, Canada, and America. The opening line sometimes reads, "At Thy feet, 0 God our Father."
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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At Thy feet, our God and Father, p. 89, ii. This hymn was published in the Family Treasury, 1861.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Burns, James Drummond, M.A., was born at Edinburgh, February 18, 1823. He studied and graduated M.A. at the University of Edinburgh. In 1845 he became Free Church minister of Dunblane, but resigned through failing health, in 1848, and took charge of the Presbyterian Church at Funchal, Madeira. In 1855 he became minister of Hampstead Presbyterian Church, London. Died at Mentone, Nov. 27, 1864, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery, London.
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