Display Title: Hark, the glad sound! the Saviour comes First Line: Hark, the glad sound! the Saviour comes Tune Title: ST. SAVIOUR Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 Meter: C. M. Date: 1918 Subject: God: His Attributes, Works and Word | The Lord Jesus Christ - His Advent and Nativity; God: His Attributes, Works and Word | The Lord Jesus Christ - His Coming in Power; Hymns for the Young | The Lord Jesus - His Life and Death; The Church | The Gospel Call; The Church | The Sacraments - The Lord's Supper Source: Form chiefly as in Scottish Paraphrase
The Book of Praise #164
Philip Doddridge (b. London, England, 1702; d. Lisbon, Portugal, 1751) belonged to the Non-conformist Church (not associated with the Church of England). Its members were frequently the focus of discrimination. Offered an education by a rich patron to prepare him for ordination in the Church of England, Doddridge chose instead to remain in the Non-conformist Church. For twenty years he pastored a poor parish in Northampton, where he opened an academy for training Non-conformist ministers and taught most of the subjects himself. Doddridge suffered from tuberculosis, and when Lady Huntington, one of his patrons, offered to finance a trip to Lisbon for his health, he is reputed to have said, "I can as well go to heaven from Lisbon as from Nort… Go to person page >
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