Born: No­vem­ber 27, 1787, St. Cle­ment Danes, Mid­dle­sex, Eng­land.

Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 25, 1862, Cam­bridge Heath, Mid­dle­sex, Eng­land.

Buried: Ab­ney Park Cem­e­te­ry, Stoke New­ing­ton, Lon­don.

Reed wrote his own epitaph:

I was born yesterday, I shall die tomorrow,
And I must not spend today in telling what I have done,
But in doing what I may for HIM who has done all for me.
I sprang from the people, I have lived for the people–
The most for the most unhappy; and the people when
They know it will not suffer me to die out of loving remembrance.

Husband of hymn­ist Eliz­abeth Reed, An­drew at­tend­ed Hack­ney Coll­ege, Lon­don, and be­came a Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­ter. He was pas­tor at the New Road Cha­pel, St. George’s-in-the-East, then at Wy­cliffe Cha­pel, which he helped build in 1830. He al­so earned a de­gree from Yale Coll­ege, and found­ed the Lon­don Or­phan Asy­lum and Reed’s School in Cob­ham, Sur­rey. He wrote 21 to­tal hymns. His works in­clude:

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Ah, Jesus, Let Me Hear Thy Voice
  2. Come, Let Us Strike Our Harps Afresh
  3. Come, My Re­deem­er, Come
  4. Gentle Savior, Look on Me
  5. Gracious Lord, as Thou Hast Taught Us
  6. Hark! Hark! The Notes of Joy
  7. Ho­ly Ghost, with Light Di­vine
  8. Listen, Sinner, Mer­cy Hails You
  9. Rich Are the Joys of Sol­i­tude
  10. Spirit Di­vine, Attend Our Pray­er
  11. There [Comes] Is an Hour When I Must Part
  12. Ye Saints Your Mu­sic Bring