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That stream of truth, a silver thread

Hymnal: Hymns for the Church of Christ. (6th thousand) #500 (1857) Languages: English
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That stream of Truth--a silver thread

Hymnal: Hymns for the Church of Christ (3rd thousand) #500 (1853) Languages: English
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Progress of Truth

Author: J. Richardson Hymnal: The Gospel Psalmist #789 (1861) First Line: That stream of truth, a silver thread Topics: Christian Philanthropy and Reform

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James Richardson

1817 - 1863 Author of "That stream of truth, a silver thread" Richardson, James, son of the Hon. James Richardson, of Dedham, Massachusetts, was born in that town May 25, 1817, and graduated at Harvard College, 1837. After being engaged, first as a clerk of the county courts, and then in teaching, he entered the Divinity School at Cambridge, where he graduated in theology in 1845. Subsequently he was Unitarian Pastor at Southington, Connecticut, and then of the Unitarian Society in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Ill health compelled him to retire from his pastoral work to Dedham. During the war he joined himself to the hospitals at Washington, where he died Nov. 10, 1863. Mr. Richardson was well known as an Essayist, Poet, and Preacher. Two of his hymns, from Longfellow and Johnson's Book of Hymns, 1848, are still in common use: "From Zion's holy hill there rose " (One in Christ), and "How glad the tone when summer's sun " (Summer). We are indebted to Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, Boston, U. S. A., 1875, for these details. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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