The developer of this site, Robert (Bob) Cottrill, went home to be with his Saviour on the 31st of August 2019, after a short illness. Bob’s work is being re-published at wordwisebiblestudies.com, so feel free to go there to read, share, and comment.Robert Cottrill 1941-2019
Words: Jane Elizabeth Leeson (b. Dec. ___, 1808; d. Nov. 18, 1881)Music: Posen, by Georg Christoph Strattner (b. _____, 1644; d. Apr. 11, 1704) Note: We know little about Jane Leeson except that she wrote many hymns, mostly for children. Apparently she belonged to an eccentric sect of the time called the Holy Apostolic Catholic […]
Words: Isaac Watts (b. July 17, 1674; d. Nov. 25, 1748)Music: Darwall (or, Darwall’s 148th) by John Darwall (b. Jan 13, 1731; d. Dec. 18, 1789) Note: Isaac Watts is justly called the Father of English Hymnody. In his day, many churches were singing only the Psalms of the Bible. But he argued that missed […]
Words: Lelia Naylor Morris (b. Apr. 15, 1862; d. July 23, 1929)Music: Lelia Naylor Morris Note: Lelia Naylor married Charles Morris in 1881. She began writing sacred songs in the 1890s, and kept it up, even after her eyesight began to fail in 1913. Her daughter set up a blackboard twenty-eight feet long, with a […]
