Display Title: Hark, the Glad Sound First Line: Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes Tune Title: RICHMOND Author: Philip Doddridge Meter: 8 6 8 6 Date: 1996 Subject: Advent 1 | Year A; Advent 2 | Year A; Advent 3 | Year B; Advent 3 | Year C; Advent 4 | Year B; Advent 4 | Year C; Baptism of Jesus | Year B; Christian Year | Advent; Easter 2 | Year B; Easter 2 | Year C; Epiphany 3 | Year C; Freedom | ; Healing | ; Heaven(s)/Paradise | ; Hosanna | ; Humility | ; Jesus Christ | Life of; Jesus Christ | Saviour; Jesus Christ | Signs and Wonders; Justice | ; Palm/Passion Sunday | Year B; Palm/Passion Sunday | Year C; Peace (World) | ; Poverty | ; Prisoner(s) | ; Proper 18 | Year B; Redemption | ; Satan/Demonic Forces/Devil | ; Second Coming | ; Sin | ; The Christian Year | Advent
Voices United #29
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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