617. Now to him who loved us, gave us
Samuel Miller Waring, 1792-1827
From the author’s Sacred Melodies, 1826, where it was followed by a second verse.
Samuel Miller Waring, an Englishman, was brought up in the Society of Friends but left it to unite with the Church of England. He published Sacred Melodies in 1826, in which his hymns appear.
MUSIC. TRIUMPH appeared first in The Church Hymn and Tune Book, 1852, edited by W. J. Blew and H. J. Gauntlett.
For comments on the composer, Henry J. Gauntlett, see [Hymn 412].