There is a Name I love to hear

There is a Name I love to hear. Frederick Whitfield* (1829-1904). According to Harry Eskew* (Handbook to the Baptist Hymnal [1991], 1992, p. 250) this hymn was first published separately on a hymn sheet, ca. 1855; but Whitfield’s son said that it was written while his father was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin, which places it between 1856 and 1859 (Whitfield, 1905, p. 6). It was included in Whitfield’s Sacred Poems and Prose (Dublin, 1859), where it was the first hymn in the book. It had nine 4-line stanzas, and was entitled ‘Jesus’. Most books have shortened the text to four stanzas: There is a Name I love to hear,  I love to sing its worth,It sounds like music in my ear,  The...