Luther J. Cox
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Luther J. Cox [1]
the bard of the Methodist Protestant Church, was born in Maryland, December 27, 1791. He was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1819, but afterwards left it; and was among the first to organize and set in operation the Methodist Protestant Church, in which he acted as a zealous, unstationed minister until 1869, and then was received as a supernumerary member in the Maryland Annual Conference. He died July 26, 1870. With an ardent and devotional temperament he possessed a genius and talent for poetry. He is the author of several popular hymns especially "An alien from God and a stranger to grace." See Cobhouer, Founders of the Meth. Prot. Church, page 213.
