Glory to the Father Give

Author: James Montgomery

James Montgomery (b. Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, 1771; d. Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, 1854), the son of Moravian parents who died on a West Indies mission field while he was in boarding school, Montgomery inherited a strong religious bent, a passion for missions, and an independent mind. He was editor of the Sheffield Iris (1796-1827), a newspaper that sometimes espoused radical causes. Montgomery was imprisoned briefly when he printed a song that celebrated the fall of the Bastille and again when he described a riot in Sheffield that reflected unfavorably on a military commander. He also protested against slavery, the lot of boy chimney sweeps, and lotteries. Associated with Christians of various persuasions, Montgomery supported missio… Go to person page >

Glory to the Father give. J. Montgomery. [Children praising God.] Written for the Sheffield Sunday School Union, 1825, and first printed as a broadsheet. In the same year it was published in his Christian Psalmist, No. 544, and again in his Original Hymns, 1853, No. 334. It was included in Bickersteth's Christian Psalmody, 1833, and since then also in several collections in Great Britain and America.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)