"Written in 1866, in 5 st. of 4 l., for the festival of the Malpas, Middlewich, and Nantwich Choral Association of that year, and adapted to the tune 'St. Agnes,' in Thorne's Coll. [...] The success which has attended this hymn is very great. No composition of Mr. Ellerton's has attained to anything approaching it in extensiveness of use in Great Britain and America." —"Saviour, again to Thy dear Name we raise," in A Dictionary of Hymnology, (ed.) by John Julian (1892).
