<P> Robert Lowry (March 12, 1826--November 25, 1899) was an American professor of literature, a Baptist minister and composer of gospel hymns . </P> <P> Lowry was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 12, 1826 . </P> <P> He studied theology at the University at Lewisburg (now Bucknell University) and on graduating, in 1854, became ordained as a Baptist minister . He had charge of churches in a number of places including the Bloomingdale Baptist Church in New York City; the Hanson Place Baptist Church in Brooklyn; and others in West Chester, Pennsylvania and New Jersey . </P>

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