New Praises of Jesus: A Collection of Choice Hymns and Tunes

by Edward Payson Hammond, William Batchelder Bradbury

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100 pages, Hardcover

Published September 1, 2015

About the author

Edward Payson Hammond was an evangelist born in Ellington, Connecticut on September 1, 1831. He graduated from Williams in 1858, studied two years in Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and in 1861 completed his studies in the Theological Seminary of the Free Church in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was ordained as an evangelist by the presbytery of New York on January 2, 1863, and in the spring of 1864 he began laboring in Chicago with Dwight L. Moody. From 1866 to 1868, Mr. Hammond made an extended tour through Great Britain, France, Italy, Egypt, and Palestine, and in 1867 held services for six weeks in London, where he was instrumental in establishing "The Children's Special Service Mission." His labors in St. Louis in 1874 resulted in the addition of over 5,000 members to the different churches and the organization of the "Evangelical Alliance of St. Louis." In 1874, he also made a missionary tour as far north as Alaska, reaching that territory before any other missionary. Mr. Hammond preached with great success in all parts of the United States and Canada, and spent, in all, six and a half years at work in the Old World. In 1886, he conducted a series of meetings in London, extending over seven months. Mr. Hammond was the first to introduce the "service of song," and to use the kind of hymns that become popular for such meetings. He is the author of about one hundred books and tracts, besides many hymns. One of Mr. Hammond's hymn books was translated into Norwegian and Swedish. His history and methods of work were described in "Reaper and Harvest," by the Reverend Phineas C. Headley (New York, 1884).