1818-1895
Cecil F. Alexander (1818-1895)

Ear­ly Ap­ril 1818, Red­cross, Coun­ty Wick­low, Ire­land.

Oc­to­ber 12, 1895, Lon­don­der­ry, North­ern Ire­land.

Ci­ty Cem­e­te­ry, Lon­don­der­ry, North­ern Ire­land.

Cecil F. Alexander (1818-1895)

Alex­and­er’s hus­band was Will­iam Alex­an­der, bi­shop of Der­ry and Ra­phoe, and lat­er the An­gli­can pri­mate for Ire­land. Ce­cil and her sis­ter found­ed a school for the deaf, and she set up the Girls’ Friend­ly So­ci­e­ty in Lon­don­der­ry. Ce­cil Al­ex­and­er wrote about 400 hymns in her life­time. Her works in­clude:

  1. All Things Bright and Beau­ti­ful
  2. Angels Stand Around Thy Throne, The
  3. Dear Lord, This Thy Serv­ant’s Day
  4. Do No Sin­ful Act­ion
  5. Christ Has As­cend­ed Up Again
  6. Eternal Gates Lift Up Their Heads, The
  7. Every Morn­ing the Red Sun
  8. For All Thy Saints, a No­ble Throng
  9. Forgive Them, O My Fa­ther
  10. Forsaken Once, and Thrice De­nied
  11. From Out the Cloud of Am­ber Light
  12. He Is Com­ing, He Is Com­ing
  13. He Is Ris­en
  14. His Are the Thou­sand Spark­ling Rills
  15. How Good Is the Al­mighty God
  16. In Nazareth in Olden Times
  17. In the Rich Man’s Garden
  18. It Was Early in the Morn­ing
  19. Jesus Calls Us
  20. O Love Most Patient, Give Me Grace
  21. Once in Roy­al Da­vid’s City
  22. Roseate Hues of Early Dawn, The
  23. Saints of God Are Ho­ly Men, The
  24. Saw You Ne­ver, in the Twilight?
  25. So Be It, Lord; the Pray­ers are Prayed
  26. Souls in Heath­en Dark­ness Lying
  27. Spirit of God, That Moved of Old
  28. St. Patrick’s Breastplate
  29. Still Bright and Blue Doth Jordan Flow
  30. There Is a Green Hill Far Away
  31. There Is One Way
  32. Up in Hea­ven
  33. We Are But Lit­tle Child­ren Weak
  34. We Are Lit­tle Christ­ian Child­ren
  35. We Were Washed in Ho­ly Water
  36. When Christ Came Down on Earth of Old
  37. When of Old the Jewish Mothers
  38. When Wound­ed Sore the Strick­en Heart
  39. Within the Church­yard, Side by Side