1825 JAMES MONTGOMERY. Original Manuscript Hymn, "According to Thy Gracious Word." Martyrs Stryker read to me an

Stryker read to me an article from a little paper entitled

not as that word signifieth an hereticating majority of Bishops

Triumphs of Grace - Fulton Street Prayer Meeting

and the State Constitution of Pennsylvania

1825 JAMES MONTGOMERY. Original Manuscript Hymn, "According to Thy Gracious Word." Martyrs Stryker read to me anA wonderful, wonderful piece of hymn history. I have handled a fair number of Montgomery holographs hymns in his own hand over the years. Those are great. This though is the original manuscript for one of his most famous hymns . . . a true piece of historical hymnody. James Montgomery [1771 1854] was the son of Moravian missionaries to the West Indies. A man of broad, evangelical mind, he was an early abolitionist, writing poems to work on concert