Sylvanus Dryden Phelps

1816-1895

Born: May 15, 1816, Suffield, Connecticut.

Died: November 23, 1895, New Haven, Connecticut.

Phelps attended the Connecticut Literary Institute, Brown University, and Yale Divinity School. After ordination, he pastored at the First Baptist Church in New Haven, Connecticut (1854-1882), and the Jefferson Street Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island. Later, he became editor of The Christian Secretary. His works include:

• The Holy Land, with Glimpses of Europe and Egypt, 1862.

Hymns:

1. Once I Heard a Sound at My Heart’s Dark Door
2. Savior, Thy Dying Love
3. Sweet is the Hour of Prayer