Thou, whose almighty word

Thou, whose almighty word. John Marriott* (1780-1825). Marriott’s hymns were not published during his lifetime. This appeared shortly after his death in the Evangelical Magazine (June 1825) as part of a record of a meeting of the London Missionary Society on 12 May, when it had been quoted by the Revd Thomas Mortimer, Lecturer of St Olave’s, Southwark. It then appeared in The Friendly Visitor (July 1825). It had no author’s name. It was entitled ‘Missionary Hymn’. According to one of Marriott’s sons, it was written ca. 1813. It was included in the SPCK Hymns for Public Worship (1852), edited by Thomas Vincent Fosbery*. The text, beginning as above and in four 7-line stanzas was printed in...