Robert Lowry

Born: March 12, 1826, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Died:  November 25, 1899, Plainfield, New Jersey.

Buried: Hillside Cemetery, Plainfield, New Jersey.

    Robert Lowry attended the University at Lewisburg (later renamed Bucknell University), where he became a professor of literature. He was ordained as a Baptist minister and pastored at West Chester, Pennsylvania; Bloomingdale Baptist Church, New York City; Hanson Place Baptist Church, Brooklyn, New York; First Baptist Church, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania; and Park Avenue Baptist Church, Plainfield, New Jersey. He also worked as a music editor at the Biglow Publish­ing Company. He wrote about 500 Gospel tunes, and jointly edited the following volumes:

• Happy Voices, 1865
• Gospel Melodies, 1868
• Bright Jewels, 1869
• Pure Gold, 1871
• Royal Diadem, 1873
• Temple Anthems, 1873
• Hymn Service, 1871, 1872 & 1873
• Tidal Wave, 1874
• Welcome Tidings: A New Collection of Sacred Songs for the Sunday School (with Howard Doane and Ira Sankey) (New York: Biglow & Main, 1877)
• Chautauqua Carols, 1878
• Gospel Hymn and Tune Book, with Howard Doane (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1879)
• Good as Gold, 1880
• Our Glad Hosannas, 1882
• Joyful Lays, 1884
• Glad Refrain, 1886

Hymns

1. Angel's Song, The
2. Chorus of Fire
3. Christ Arose
4. How Can I Keep from Singing?
5. Lead Them to Thee
6. Low in the Grave He Lay
7. Nothing but the Blood
8. Shall We Gather at the River?
9. We Are Pilgrims of a Day
10. Where is My Boy Tonight?

Music

1. All the Way
2. At the Cross There's Room
3. Follow On
4. Glad Tidings
5. Heavenly Father
6. Here is Love
7. Hide Thou Me
8. Home at Last
9. Marching to Zion
10. Mistakes of My Life, The
11. Need
12. Never Shone a Light so Fair!
13. No Hope in Jesus
14. Oh, How Sweet When We Mingle
15. One More Day's Work
16. Paxtang
17. Room for the Penitent
18. So Near to the Kingdom
19. Something for Jesus