Robert M. Offord

Short Name: Robert M. Offord
Full Name: Offord, Robert M., 1846-1924
Birth Year: 1846
Death Year: 1924

Offord, Robert M., son of an English "open-communion" Baptist, was born at St. Austell, Cornwall, Sept. 17, 1846. In 1870 he removed to America, where he was associated for some time with the Methodists, but subsequently joined the Reformed Dutch Church in 1878. He is editor of the New York Observer. To that paper he contributed:—
1. Jesus, heed me, lost and dying. Lent.
2. It is no untried way. Christ's Burden.
No. 1 appeared on Jan. 25th, and No. 2 on Feb. 1st, 1883. They were revised for Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884 (Duffield's English Hymns, N. Y., 1886).

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)


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Texts by Robert M. Offord (19)sort iconAsInstances
A mother dear is weepingRobert M. Offord (Author)5
Come, my soul, thy songs prepareRobert M. Offord (Author)2
Come unto me, O precious wordsRobert M. Offord (Author)4
Help me sing my Savior's worthRobert M. Offord (Author)5
How brief the life we live belowRobert M. Offord (Author)6
Jesus, heed me, lost and dyingRobert M. Offord (Author)10
Jesus weeping, sinner, seeRobert M. Offord (Author)2
Just as I am, O LordRev. Robert M. Offord (Author)2
Lo a risen Lord we singRobert M. Offord (Author)4
Niemand hat je mein Elend gekanntRobert M. Offord (Author)2
Niemand lasse sich erschreckenRobert M. Offord (Author)2
Nobody knows the burdens I bearRobert M. Offord (Author)7
Not in some cloistered cell dost Thou, Lord, bid me dwellRobert M. Offord (Author)5
O carry thy burdens no longerRobert M. Offord (Author)3
O how much to thee I oweRobert M. Offord (Author)2
Our God hath not forsaken usRobert M. Offord (Author)2
Preach the gospel as you goRobert M. Offord (Author)5
Thy mercy, Lord, is like the seaRobert M. Offord (Author)2
We give thee thanks, O God, this dayRobert M. Offord (Author)11