MARTYRDOM was originally an eighteenth-century Scottish folk melody used for the ballad "Helen of Kirkconnel." Hugh Wilson (b. Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, c. 1766; d. Duntocher, Scotland, 1824) adapted MARTYRDOM into a hymn tune in duple meter around 1800. A triple-meter version of the tune was fir…
Display Title: How Dreadful Is The Sinner's FateFirst Line: How dreadful is the sinner’s fateTune Title: MARTYRDOMAuthor: Charles WesleyMeter: CMSource: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scriptures (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762)