The Story of the Hymns and Tunes

by Hezekiah Butterworth; Theron Brown

“THERE IS A HAPPY LAND FAR, FAR AWAY”

This child's hymn was written by a lover of children, Mr. Andrew Young, head master of Niddrey St. School, Edinburgh, and subsequently English instructor at Madras College, E.I. He was born April 23, 1807, and died Nov. 30, 1899, and long before the end of the century which his life-time so nearly covered his little carol had become one of the universal hymns.