Short Name: | John Morison |
Full Name: | Morison, John, 1750-1798 |
Birth Year: | 1750 |
Death Year: | 1798 |
Morison, John, D.D., was born in Aberdeenshire in 1749. He studied at the University of Aberdeen (King's College), where he graduated M.A. in 1771. In 1780 he became parish minister of Canisbay, Caithness. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1792. He died at Canisbay, June 12, 1798. He was one of the members added on May 26, 1781, to the Committee appointed by the General Assembly of 1775 to revise the Translations and Paraphrases of 1745. To him are ascribed Nos. 19, 21, 29, 30 and 35, in the 1781 collection, and he is said to have been joint author with John Logan of Nos. 27 and 28. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Texts by John Morison (15) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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'Twas on that night, when doomed to know | John Morison (Author) | English | 36 |
Trust in a loving Father's | John Morrison (Author) | 2 | |
To us a child of hope is born | John Morison (Author) | English | 180 |
To hail Thy rising, Sun of life | John Morison (Author) | English | 6 |
The race that long in darkness pined | Rev. John Morison (Author) | English | 147 |
Our hearts, if God we seek to know | John Morrison (Author) | 2 | |
Los que andaban en la oscuridad | John Morison (Author) | Spanish | 3 |
Long hath the night of sorrow reigned | Rev. John Morison (1749-1798) (Author) | English | 6 |
Let such as feel oppression's load [rod] | John Morison (Author) | 8 | |
في الليلة التي بها | John Morison (Author) | Arabic | 1 |
Do I delight in sorrow's dress | John Morison (Author) | 1 | |
Come, let us to the Lord our God | Rev. John Morison (Author) | English | 82 |
Attend, and mark the solemn fast | John Morison (Author) | 1 | |
Amidst the mighty, where he is | John Morrison (Author) | 1 | |
Alas, and did my Savior bleed | John Morison (Author) | English | 1 |