Stephen Herbert Roblin

Stephen Herbert Roblin was a Universalist minister of Canadian origin, raised as a Methodist at Bloomfield, Ontario, who took a Universalist pulpit in Bay City, Michigan, in the 1880s. He is chiefly remembered as a member of the committee, alongside Charles Conklin and Cornelius A. Parker, appointed under the authority of the Universalist Publishing House to prepare Hymns of the Church (1917), a hymnal with services and chants for use in Universalist congregations.

The last hymnal of the independent Universalist church's classic era, edited by Cornelius A. Parker, Stephen H. Roblin, and Charles Conklin and issued at the Murray Press. Hymns with full orders of service and chants, reflecting both the liturgical enrichment and the theological broadening of early twentieth-century Universalism — the book many congregations were still using at mid-century.

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