Katherine Hankey, 1834-1911
For comments on the author, Katherine Hankey, and an account of the origin of this hymn, see [Hymn 493].
MUSIC. Dr. W. H. Doane heard the poem read at a Y.M.C.A. Conference at Montreal in 1867 and was so impressed by it that he copied it and later set it to music while riding on a stage coach during a vacation in the White Mountains.
For comments on W. H. Doane, see [Hymn 313].
496. There is a Name I love to hear
Frederick Whitfield, 1829-1904
A hymn on the name of Jesus which was published in 1855 in hymn-sheets and leaflets in various languages. In 1861, it appeared in the author’s Sacred Poems and Prose, a volume containing twenty-six hymns.
Frederick Whitfield, born at Threapwood, Shropshire, was a minister in the Anglican Church. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his B.A. degree in 1859, he became, successively, curate of Otley, vicar of Kirby-Ravensworth, senior curate of Greenwich, and vicar of St. John’s, Bexley. He is the author of nearly thirty volumes of prose and poetry.
MUSIC. O HOW I LOVE JESUS is a traditional melody of unknown authorship.