Arranger: Ernest Hawkins

From HymnsWithoutWords

'Ernest Hawkins (1802 - 1868) B.D. was an English Clergyman, son of Major Hawkins and born at Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, he was educated at Balliol College, Oxford obtaining his BA in 1842. He became a Fellow of Exeter College and on taking Holy Orders became Curate of Burwash. He was sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library, Curate of St. George's, Bloomsbury, Minister of Curzon Chapel, Mayfair, London, Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Canon of Westminster.

From 1838 to his death, in 1866, he also acted as secretary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Besides his prose works, which were not numerous, he published Verses in commemoration of the Third Jubilee of the S.P.G., 1851-2. To this little collection his hymns were contributed. The most extensively used of these, Lord, a Saviour's love displaying (Missions), has been adopted by many collections.