Short Name: | E. T. Winkler |
Full Name: | Winkler, E. T. (Edwin Theodore), 1823-1883 |
Birth Year: | 1823 |
Death Year: | 1883 |
Winkler, Edwin Theodore, D.D., was born in Savannah, Nov. 13, 1823, and educated at Brown University. He entered the Baptist ministry in 1846, and subsequently filled several important literary and other appointments in addition to his pastorates. He died at Marion, Alabama, Nov. 10, 1883. He compiled The Sacred Lute, a Collection of popular Hymns, 1855 (enlarged ed., 1860), to which he contributed 8 hymns, the first lines of which are given in Burrage. (Burrage's Baptist Hymn Writers, 1888, p. 416.) Some of these have passed into other American collections, including "Our land with mercies crowned." (National Hymn.)
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Winkler, E. T., p. 1287, i. From his Sacred Lute, &c, 1855, the hymn, "Now in this consecrated place." (On behalf of Church Officers), is included in the American Sursum Corda, 1898, No. 708.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Texts by E. T. Winkler (9)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Aloft to heaven our hope ascends | E. T. Winkler (Author) | 2 | |
Dear native land, rejoice | E. T. Winkler (Author) | 2 | |
Lo there is light in heaven | E. T. Winkler (Author) | 2 | |
Long did the scenes of Jerusalem | E. T. Winkler (Author) | 2 | |
Now, in this consecrated place | E. T. Winkler (Author) | English | 9 |
O sinner, idly dreaming | E. T. Winkler (Author) | 2 | |
Our land, with mercies crowned | E. T. Winkler (Author) | English | 15 |
Savior of men, Thy searching eye | E. T. Winkler (Author) | English | 28 |
To earth descend, O holy dove | E. T. Winkler (Author) | 4 |