Thomas
Toke Lynch
Born:
July 5, 1818, Dunmow, Essex, England.
Died:
May 9, 1871, Camden Town, Middlesex, England. His last words: “Now I am going
to begin to live.”
Buried:
Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London, England.
Lynch was an English minister and son of a doctor. He pastored at Highgate,
Mortimer Street, Grafton Street, and Fitzroy Square, London, 1849-1856. He was
then incapacitated by illness for three years, but starting in 1860 and for the
rest of his life, he served on Gower Street and in Hampstead Road, London.
Lynch’s works include:
- Thoughts on a
Day, 1844
- The Rivulet: a
Contribution to Sacred Song (London: Longman, 1855, 1856, 1868)
- The Mornington
Lecture, 1870
Hymns
- All Faded is the
Glowing Light
- Be Thy Word with
Power Fraught
- Christ in His Word
Draws Near
- Dismiss Me Not Thy
Service, Lord
- Gracious
Spirit, Dwell with Me
- How Calmly the
Evening Once More Is Descending
- I Give Myself to
Prayer
- Lift Up Your Heads,
Rejoice
- Lord Is Rich and
Merciful, The
- Lord, on Thy
Returning Day
- Lord, When in Silent
Hours I Muse
- Love Me, O Lord,
Forgivingly
- Mountains by the
Darkness Hidden
- My Faith, It Is an
Oaken Staff
- Now Have We Met That
We May Ask
- O Break My Heart
- O Lord, Thou Art Not
Fickle
- O Where Is He That
Trod the Sea
- Oft When of God We
Ask
- Praying by the River
Side
- Rise, He Calleth
Thee, Arise
- Say Not, My Soul,
from Whence
- There Is Purpose in
This Waste
- Thousand Years Have
Come and Gone, A
- Where Is Thy God, My
Soul?