A Dictionary of Hymnology/A children's temple here we build

A children's temple here we build. J. Montgomery. [The Erection of a Sunday School] This hymn was written for the opening of the first Sunday School building in Wincobank, Sheffield. The ms.—which is in the Wincobank Hall Collection of mss.—is dated "December 18, 1840," and signed "J. M." The building was opened on the 13th of April, 1841, tho hymn being printed on a fly-leaf for the occasion. In 1853, Montgomery included it in his Original Hymns, No. 313, in 6 st. of 4 l. and entitled it "The erection of a Sunday School." In the Meth. S. S. H. Bk. 1870, No. 512, st. iv. is omitted, and slight changes are also introduced. Orig. text in Orig. Hys., 1858, p. 333. The hymn by Mrs. Gilbert, née Ann Taylor, "We thank the Lord of heaven and earth," was also written for, and sung on, the same occasion. This hymn has not come into C. U.