Born: December 30, 1864, Manchester, New Hampshire.
Died: April 23, 1942, Manchester, New Hampshire.
Cross attended Phillips Andover Academy, Amherst College and the Andover Theological Seminary. He pastored in Cliftondale, Massachusetts (1892-96); Springfield, Massachusetts (1896-1901); at the Old South Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1901-12); and Milford, Massachusetts (1916-25). His works include:
Pass on the Torch, 1929
Thunder Over Jerusalem/, 1936
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
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TRURO is an anonymous tune, first published in Thomas Williams's Psalmodia Evangelica, (second vol., 1789) as a setting for Isaac Watts' "Now to the Lord a noble song." Virtually nothing is known about this eighteenth-century British editor of the two-volume Psalmodia Evangelica, a collection of thr…
First published anonymously in Henry Boyd's Select Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1793), DUKE STREET was credited to John Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) in William Dixon's Euphonia (1805). Virtually nothing is known about Hatton, its composer,…
Display Title: More Light Shall Break From Out Thy WordFirst Line: More light shall break from out Thy wordTune Title: TRUROAuthor: Allen Eastman Cross; John Robinson, 1682-1762Meter: LMScripture: Psalm 119:105Date: 2007Subject: Holy Spirit | ; Pilgrim / Pilgrimage | ; Word of God |