Adams, Sarah Flower, was born at Harlow,
England, February 22, 1805; and died in
London August 21, 1848. Sarah Flower
was the younger daughter of Benjamin
Flower, editor and proprietor of the Cambridge
Intelligencer. In 1834 she married
John Brydges Adams, a civil engineer and
inventor. She is represented by her friends
as being beautiful, intelligent, and high-minded.
Mrs. Adams had a gift for lyric
poetry, and wrote thirteen hymns for her
pastor, the Rev. William Johnson Fox, an
Independent minister. These were all published
in Hymns and Anthems, London,
1841. Several of these hymns have come
into common use, but her masterpiece is
the one found in this book:
| Nearer, my God, to thee |
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