George W. Briggs (1875–1959) was an Anglican priest and hymn-writer, one of the founders of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland. His best-known hymn is 'God Hath Spoken by the Prophets', although my personal favourite is 'Now Is Eternal Life'. It turns out that he was a man of good judgement, too. In…
Abide with Me—some notes and original text
As a sort of follow-up to a past post on bad things done to good hymns (and more so), a positive story about how a great hymn came about. Abide with Me, by Henry Francis Lyte, is, by one measure, the most popular English hymn in the world (according to this table [PDF] from Christianity…
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