Short Name: | Henry Lyman Morehouse |
Full Name: | Morehouse, Henry Lyman, 1834-1917 |
Birth Year: | 1834 |
Death Year: | 1917 |
Morehouse, Henry Lyman, D.D., born at Stanford, Dutchess County, New York, Oct. 2, 1834, and entered the Baptist ministry in 1864. His hymn "Friend of sinners, hear my plea" (Pardon desired), was printed in the Examiner, and then included in Good as Gold, 1883. Dr. Morehouse is also the author of several other hymns.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Morehouse, Henry Lyman. (Stanford, New York, October 2, 1834--May, 1917, New York, New York). Baptist. Genesee Wesleyan Seminary; University of Rochester, N.Y., 1858; Rochester Theological Seminary, 1861-1864. Pastorates at East Saginaw, Michigan, 1864-1873; East Avenue Baptist Church, Rochester, N.Y., 1873-1879. President of Michigan Baptist State Convention. Corresponding secretary of American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1879-ca.1888.
Author of hymns entitled, "Friend of Sinners, hear my plea," "No room in thy heart for the Savior of men?", "Prayers, Means, and Men for Mexico," each published in Examiner; and of "Led About," published in Zion's Advocate, January 5, 1887. His hymn, "Prayers, Means, and Men for Mexico" "stirred many hearts to deeper sympathy for mission work" in Mexico, according to Burrage.
See: Crandall, Lathan Augustus. (1919). Henry Lyman Morehouse : a biography.
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