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MERRILL (Kerr)

MERRILL (Kerr)

Composer: Robert P. Kerr (1891)
Published in 4 hymnals


Composer: Robert P. Kerr

Born: 1850, Greensboro, Alabama. Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery , Nashville, Tennessee. Kerr, Robert P., D.D., b. at Greensborough, Alabama, graduated at Union Theological Seminary, Va., 1873, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Lafayette, 1874. His Hymns of the Ages, a collection on conservative Evangelical lines which hardly justified its title, was published in N.Y., 1891. In it appeared his hymn,"Blessed country, home of Jesus," 1891, A later hymn, "Galilean King and Prophet," is dated 1901. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)  Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: MERRILL (Kerr)
Composer: Robert P. Kerr (1891)
Meter: 7.7.7.7
Incipit: 12314 13212 13213
Copyright: Public Domain
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Instances

Instances (1 - 4 of 4)
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Hymns of the Ages #110

Hymns of the Ages #110
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Hymns of the Ages #111

Hymns of the Ages #111
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Hymns of the Ages #112

Hymns of the Ages #112
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Hymns of the Ages #113

Hymns of the Ages #113
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