My God, my Father, let me rest

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My God, my Father, let me rest

Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth
Published in 3 hymnals

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Author: Edward Henry Bickersteth

Bickersteth, Edward Henry, D.D., son of Edward Bickersteth, Sr. born at Islington, Jan. 1825, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. with honours, 1847; M.A., 1850). On taking Holy Orders in 1848, he became curate of Banningham, Norfolk, and then of Christ Church, Tunbridge Wells. His preferment to the Rectory of Hinton-Martell, in 1852, was followed by that of the Vicarage of Christ Church, Hampstead, 1855. In 1885 he became Dean of Gloucester, and the same year Bishop of Exeter. Bishop Bickersteth's works, chiefly poetical, are:— (l) Poems, 1849; (2) Water from the Well-spring, 1852; (3) The Rock of Ages, 1858 ; (4) Commentary on the New Testament, 1864; (5) Yesterday, To-day, and For Ever, 1867; (6) The Spirit of Life, 1868;… Go to person page >

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First Line:	My God, my Father, let me rest
Author:	Edward Henry Bickersteth
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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My God, my Father, let me rest. Bp. E. H. Bickersteth. [Spiritual Service.] Written in 1881 for the Church of England Sunday School Institute. Published in his From Year to Year, 1883, p. 180, and his Hymnal Companion, 1890.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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