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Why, mourning soul, why flow these tears?
Appears in 15 hymnals
Why, mourning soul, why flow these tears?
Why, mourning soul [souls], why flow these tears
Author: John Dobell Hymnal: The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems #CCXLIX (1823)
Why, mourning soul [souls], why flow these tears
Why, mourning soul [souls], why flow these tears
Author: John Dobell Hymnal: A New Selection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs #185 (1839) Languages: English
Why, mourning soul [souls], why flow these tears
Why, mourning soul [souls], why flow these tears
Author: John Dobell Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns for the use of social religious meetings, and for private devotions 2d ed. #242 (1828) Languages: English
Why, mourning soul [souls], why flow these tears
William Walker
1809 - 1875 Person Name: Wm. Walker Composer of "BREAKER" in The Good Old Songs
William Walker
John Dobell
1757 - 1840 Author of "Why, mourning soul [souls], why flow these tears" Dobell, John, b. 1757, d. May, 1840, was a port-gauger under the Board of Excise, at Poole, Dorset, and a person of some local note. In 1806 he published:—
A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evangelical Hymns for Private, Family, and Public Worship (Many Original) from more than two hundred of the best Authors in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, Arranged in alphabetical order; Intended as a Supplement to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns. By John Dobell. Lond., Williams and Smith, 1806.
Subsequently this Selection was increased to "More than Eight Hundred" hymns, and the wording of the title-page was changed in several instances. Dobell's account of this work is:—
"The hymns here presented to the public I have collected from more than two hundred authors; many of them are taken from Manuscripts which I deemed too valuable to be suffered to remain in obscurity, and some have been supplied by friends. As this work has been the labour of years, and the choice of many thousand hymns, it will, I trust, give satisfaction to the Church of God." Preface, p. iii.
In addition to a work on Baptisms,1807, and another on Humanity, 1812, Dobell also published:—
The Christian's Golden Treasure; or, Gospel Comfort for Doubting Minds, 1823. This work was in two vols., the first of which contained 124 hymns, several of which were by Dobell.
Of this writer's hymns very few are found in modern hymn-books. We have from the 1806 book:—(1) "Come, dearest Lord, and bless this day" (Sunday Morning); (2) "Great Ruler of the earth and skies” (In time of War); (3) "Now is the accepted time," (Invitation) — in common use in Great Britain and America, out of twenty or more. It is not as a hymn-writer, but as a diligent and successful hymnologist, that J. Dobell is best known.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Dobell
