McElroy's thoughts had left the great country of the Hudson Bay and travelled back along the winding waterways, across the lakes, and at last out on that heaving sea which bore away from his homeland.
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe
The Swedish "Psalm-book" of 1819, which for more than a century has been the hymn-book of the Swedish people in the homeland and in other parts of the world, is in large measure the work of this one man.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
Perronet came from a distinguished line of French Protestants who had found refuge in England during times of religious persecution in their homeland.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden