Worthy the Lamb for sinners slain

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Worthy the Lamb for sinners slain

Author: James Montgomery
Published in 2 hymnals

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 >

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First Line:	Worthy the Lamb for sinners slain
Author:	James Montgomery
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Worthy the Lamb for sinners slain. [Praise to Jesus.] This cento appeared in the General Baptist New Hymn Book, edited by the brothers J. B. and J. C. Pike, in 1851; and was repeated in the Baptist Hymnal, 1879, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines. Of the cento stanzas i., ii. are from J. Montgomery's "Sing we the song of those who stand," and the rest (iii.-v.) are anonymous. The Rev. W. E. Stevenson, editor of the Baptist Hymnal, is strongly inclined to think that these stanzas were by the Rev. J. G. Pike, of Derby (with whom he was co-pastor for some time), who was the father of the brothers Pike named above: but he was not quite satisfied with his authority.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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