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<title>BLB Hymns</title>
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<h2>John Morison</h2>
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<h2>1750-1798</h2>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<p><em>Born:</em> 1750, Cairnie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.</p>
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<p><em>Died:</em> June, 12, 1798, Canisbay, Caithness, Scotland.</p>
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<p><em>Burial:</em></p>
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<blockquote><p>It is mortifying to think that not even a common slab indicates the spot where reposes the dust of one of the best poets of the Church of Scotland.</p>
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<p>James T. Calder<br>
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<em>Sketch of the Civil and Traditional History of Caithness from the 10th Century</em>, 2nd edition (Wick: W. Rae, 1887)</p>
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<p class="just">Morison graduated from King’s College, Aberdeen, before several teaching jobs in Caithness. He then studied Greek at Edinburgh. He was ordained in 1780, and was soon involved at the Assembly in revising <em>Translations and Paraphrases</em>. He also wrote poems that appeared in the <em>Edinburgh Weekly</em>.</p>
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<p><em>Hymns:</em></p>
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<li><a href = "./hymns/hymns_html/htm_c_l_cletustl.html" >Come, Let Us to the Lord Our God</a></li>
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<li><a href = "./hymns/hymns_html/htm_r_a_racethat.html" >Race That Long in Darkness Pined, The</a></li>
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<li><a href = "./hymns/hymns_html/htm_t_o_tousacoh.html" >To Us a Child of Hope Is Born</a></li>
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<li><a href = "./hymns/hymns_html/htm_t_w_twasontn.html" >’Twas on that Night When Doomed to Know</a></li>
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