Display Title: Hark, the Glad Sound, the Saviour Comes First Line: Hark, the glad sound, the Saviour comes Tune Title: HENRY Author: Philip Doddridge Meter: C. M. Scripture: Isaiah 61:1-3 Date: 1926 Subject: Advent, First Sunday | ; Advent, Fourth Sunday | ; Christ | Second Advent of; Christ, Prince of Peace | ; Church Year | Advent; Names and Office of Christ | Prince of Peace; Names and Office of Christ | Riches; Names and Office of Christ | Salvation; Second Advent |
The Hymnal and Order of Service #19
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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