Joseph scriven biography

SCRIVEN, JOSEPH MEDLICOTT, preacher and hymnist; b. 10 Sept. 1819 in Banbridge, County Down (Northern Ireland), son of John Scriven and Jane Medlicott; d. unmarried 10 Aug. 1886 near Bewdley on Rice Lake, Ont.

Joseph Scriven attended Addiscombe Military College near London, England, from 1837 to 1839, preparing for service in India.

He withdrew for reasons of health, but in 1842 he received a ba from Trinity College, Dublin. About this time he adopted the faith of the Plymouth Brethren, to which his parents had earlier been converted: the group believed in the priesthood of all male believers and the sufficiency of grace for justification and redemption.

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In 1845 he joined Plymouth Brethren friends in Woodstock, Canada West. He taught there and later at Brantford, where for two or three years in the early 1850s he conducted a private school. He also held religious services and preached throughout the district, and evidently it was here that his famous hymn, “Wh