Thomas Haweis

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I have a Believers Hymn Book from Pickering & I Inglis LTD
Printed before WW2.
The happy morn has come!
Number 268
It is in the index of first lines.
Author is given as Thomas Haweis.
I am using an Huawei mobile phone.
Was he a missionary to China?

He wasn't a missionary but he was an Anglican clergyman [1734-1820] who was also a founder of the London Missionary Society. Timothy Stunt

Arthur Skevington Wood drew attention to Haweis and Milner's Church History (There was a copy of this work in my Grammar School library) thus "His Church History, despite its many defects, is noteworthy for its unusual purpose, shared by Joseph Milner, of tracing the true, spiritual and Evangelical Church amidst the manifold historical distortions of primitive Christianity". I found it to be an engaging book to read and of warm evangelical tone. I still recommend it.