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Carey Bonner

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Carey Bonner (1 May 1859 — 1938) was a Baptist minister who served as the General Secretary of the National Sunday School Union from 1900 until 1929 and as Joint Secretary of the World Sunday School Association. A composer and hymnist, he wrote and arranged hymns, choral works and sacred cantatas and compiled a number of hymnals. He is known for The Sunday School Hymnary (1905) and The Baptist Church Hymnal (1933).


Selected Works by Carey Bonner

Some Baptist Hymnists from the Seventeenth Century to Modern Times,1937

The Sunday School Hymnary, 1905

Bunyan the Dreamer (sacred cantata) 1928

The Romance of the English Bible, 1927

The Baptist Church Hymnal, 1933

The Christian Endeavour Hymnal, 1904

Three Choral Benedictions: 1. Of Grace and Peace. 2. Of Farewell. 3. Of the Trinity, c. 1890

The Blind Maid of Bethany (sacred cantata) c.1910

The New Crusaders (sacred cantata) 1914

The Ship of Adventure:The story of the "Mayflower" (sacred cantata) 1920

Day-dawn: the Story of a Noble Venture (sacred cantata) 1930

Greatheart: The Story of John Pounds (sacred cantata) 1934

SOURCE: COPAC