Charles Seymour Robinson

Charles Seymour Robinson, D.D., LL.D., (March 31, 1829 – February 1, 1899), was a pastor, and an editor and compiler of hymns.

Born in Bennington, Vermont, Robinson graduated from Williams College in 1849, then spent a year and a half at Princeton Theological Seminary before entering the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, where he was afterward an instructor.

[2] He then became pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian church, New York City, which was erected and freed from debt under his management.

[2] Robinson, in 1876–1877 was editor of the Illustrated Christian Weekly, and compiled and published several successful hymn-books.

[2] Around the time of his return from Europe to New York City there was a demand for an additional work of a slightly different character which he met by issuing (through the Century Company) the book called Spiritual Songs, 1878.