Thou, Lord, through every changing scene. P. Doddridge. [God, the Dwelling-place of His People.] This is No. 21 in the Dodderidge manuscript, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines is headed "God the Dwelling-place of His people thro' all generations” from Ps. xc. 1, and dated May 30, 1736. It was given in J. Orton's posthumous edition of Doddridge's Hymns, &c, 1755, No. 51; and again with slight differences in J. D. Humphreys's edition of the same, 1839. It has passed into several modern hymnals.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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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