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Horace Eaton Walker

1852 - 1952 Author of "When Is Christ Coming?"

I. T. Walker

Person Name: Rev. I. T. Walker Author of "Rest Awhile" in Songs of Free Grace

J. Walker

Composer of "[Weinen möcht' ich, bitter weinen]" in Unser Liederbuch

J. H. Walker

Composer of "ALPHA" in Sunday-School Book

James B. Walker

Author of "Blessed Saviour--thou hast told us" in New Select Hymns

James T. Walker

Author of "Bear the Cross, Ye Sons of Men"

John Walker

b. 1920 Author of "We Long for Thy Saving Truth" in The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement II

1768 - 1833 Author of "God's Glorious Presence" Walker, John, B.D., son of Matthias Walker, was born at Silvermines, county Tipperary, in 1769, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated in 1790, and was elected a Fellow on taking Holy Orders in 179lines Seceding from the Church of England he resigned his Fellowship in 1801, and founded the sect called "Walkerites." He died Oct. 23, 1833. He was the author of several mathematical, classical, and other works. His Essays and Correspondence were published in 1838. Of two hymns written by him for the opening of the Bethesda Chapel, Dorset Street, Dublin, on June 22, 1794, and which appeared in the Selection of Hymns for use there, 1814, one, "Thou God of Power and God of Love " (Opening of a Place of Worship), has passed into several collections, including the Irish Church Hymnal, 1873; the American Methodist Episcopal Hymnal, 1878, and others. [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)