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RAY PALMER (1808-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 645 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAY See also:PALMER (1808-1887)  , See also:American clergyman and hymn-writer, was See also:born in Little See also:Compton, Rhode See also:Island,on the 12th of See also:November 1808 . He graduated at Yale See also:College in 1830, and in 1832 was licensed to preach by the New Haven See also:West Association of Congregational Ministers . In 1835-1850 he was pastor of the Central Congregational See also:Church of See also:Bath, See also:Maine, and in 1850-1866 of the First Congregational Church of See also:Albany, New See also:York; and from 1866 to 1878 was corresponding secretary of the American Congregational See also:Union . He died on the 29th of See also:March 1887 in See also:Newark, New See also:Jersey, where, from 1881 to 1884 he had been assistant pastor of the See also:Belleville See also:Avenue Congregational Church . His most widely known hymn, beginning " My faith looks up to Thee, See also:Thou See also:Lamb of See also:Calvary," was written in 1830, was set to the tune " Olivet " by See also:Lowell See also:Mason, and has been translated into many See also:languages; his hymn beginning " Jesus, these eyes have never seen " (1858) is also well-known . Among the See also:hymns translated by him are those beginning: " O See also:Christ, our See also:King, Creator, See also:Lord " (by See also:Gregory the See also:Great); " Come See also:Holy See also:Ghost in love " (by See also:Robert II. of See also:France) ; " Jesus, thou Joy of loving See also:hearts " (by See also:Bernard of See also:Clairvaux) ; and " 0, See also:Bread to pilgrims given " (from the Latin) . Other hymns(someof them See also:translations from Latin) and poems were collected in his See also:Complete Poetical See also:Works (1876), followed in 188o by Voices of See also:Hope and Gladness . He also wrote Spiritual Improvement (1839), republished in 1851 as Closet See also:Hours; Hints on the Formation of Religious Opinions (1860), and See also:Earnest Words on True Success in See also:Life (1873) .

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