O Thou who givest corn and wine

Author: T. G. Crippen

Crippen, Thomas G., a descendant of an old Huguenot family long resident in Canterbury, was born in London in 1841, and educated for the Congregational Ministry at Airedale College, Bradford, Yorkshire. His first pastorate was at Boston Spa, Yorkshire, 1866, and his present (1891) is at Milverton, Somerset. Mr. Crippen published in 1868 translations of Ancient Hymns and Poems. Two of his original hymns are in the Congregational Church Hymnal, 1887:— "Lord Jesu Christ, by Whom alone" (Election of Deacons), and "O God, Who boldest in Thy hand" (Before a Parliamentary Election). The first of these was written specially for that Hymnal. His metrical rendering of one of Mr. Rodwell's prose translations of Jared's Abyssinian hymns (see p. 8, i.… Go to person page >