{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-artist-js","path":"/artists/hammond-edward-payson-64a58768d222760013dd8ad1","result":{"data":{"strapiArtist":{"name":"Hammond, Edward Payson","bio":"1831 - 1910\n\nHammond, Edward Payson, was born at Ellington, Connecticut, Sep. 1, 1831. He edited Hymns of Prayer and Praise, and is the author of a few pieces in that and other evangelistic hymnals, including \"Christian [Children] go and tell Jesus,\" and \"I feel like singing all the time.\"\n\nPayson was con­vert­ed when he heard Alas, and Did My Sav­ior Bleed. He was ed­u­cat­ed at var­i­ous Amer­i­can schools, and fin­ished his the­o­lo­gic­al ed­u­ca­tion in Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land. In Scot­land, he started to preach in plac­es with no Chris­tian ac­tiv­i­ty, and he could see fruit of his work. At the end of 1861 he re­turned to Amer­i­ca and preached in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, where he met Dwight Moody. In 1866 he and his wife tra­veled to Egypt, Pal­es­tine and Eur­ope. While in Pal­es­tine, he wrote the hymn Geth­sem­a­ne. He was ve­ry fond of preach­ing to the child­ren, and was called \"The Child­ren’s Evan­gel­ist.\" His works in­clude:\nHymns of Pray­er and Praise (ed­it­or)\nJesus the Child­ren’s Friend, 1864\nNew Prais­es of Je­sus, 1869","externalUrl":null,"songs":[],"lyrics":[{"id":"64a587f3d222760013dd8ad3","title":"Singing all the time","pubyear":1878}],"translations":[],"picture":{"childImageSharp":{"fixed":{"src":"/static/027a3ca9e109cc3e4a480dd7f7f2fc67/76539/45e3b221db675513b6fb3d80b06a7b8e.jpg"}}}}},"pageContext":{"id":"64a58768d222760013dd8ad1"}}}