Remember me: or, the holy communion

by Ray Palmer

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First published August 31, 2010

About the author

Palmer, Ray, D.D., son of the Hon. Thomas Palmer, a Judge in Rhode Island, was born at Little Compton, Rhode Island, Nov. 12, 1808. His early life was spent at Boston, where he was for some time clerk in a dry-goods store. At Boston he joined the Park Street Congregational Church, then under the pastoral care of Dr. S. E. Dwight. After spending three years at Phillips Academy, Andover, he entered Yale College, New Haven, where he graduated in 1830. In 1835 he became pastor of the Central Congregational Church, Bath, Maine. During his pastorate there he visited Europe in 1847. In 1850 he was appointed to the First Congregational Church, at Albany, New York, and in 1865 Corresponding Secretary to the American Congregational Union, New York. He resigned in 1878, and retired to Newark, New Jersey. He died at Newark, Mar. 29, 1887. Dr. Palmer's published works in prose and verse include:--

(1) Memoirs and Select Remains of Charles Pond, 1829;
(2) The Spirit's Life, a Poem, 1837;
(3) How to Live, or Memoirs of Mrs. C. L. Watson, 1839;
(4) Doctrinal Text Book, 1839;
(5) Spiritual Improvement, 1839, republished as Closet Hours in 185;
(6) What is Truth? or Hints on the Formation of Religious Opinions, 1860;
(7) Remember Me, or The Holy Communion, 1865;
(8) Hymns and Sacred Pieces, with Miscellaneous Poems, 1865 ;
(9) Hymns of my Holy Hours, and Other Pieces, 1868;
(10) Home, or the Unlost Paradise, 1873; and
(11) Voices of Hope and Gladness, 1881.

Most of Dr. Palmer's hymns have passed into congregational use, and have won great acceptance. The best of them by their combination of thought, poetry, and devotion, are superior to almost all others of American origin. The first which he wrote has become the most widely known of all. [...]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Ray Palmer was born at Little Compton, Rhode Island, in 1808. He studied at Phillip's Academy, Andover, Mass., and graduated at Yale College in 1830. In 1835, he was ordained pastor of a Congregational Society in Bath, Maine, from which he removed, in 1850, to the pastorate of a Congregational Society in Albany, N.Y. He has published many hymns, some of his own authorship, and some translations. He has published some sermons and reviews.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.