Allon was ed­u­cat­ed at Ches­hunt Coll­ege, Hert­ford­shire. In 1844 he be­came co-pas­tor with T. Lew­is of the Uni­on Cha­pel, Is­ling­ton, and suc­ceed­ed to the sole pas­tor­ate up­on Lew­is’ death in 1852. In 1865 he be­came co-ed­it­or with Dr. Rey­nolds of the Brit­ish Quar­ter­ly Re­view, and in 1877, sole ed­it­or of that jour­nal. His works in­clude:

• Congrega­tional Psalm­ist (Lon­don: 1858)
• New Congrega­tional Hymn Book, 1859 (co-ed­it­or)
• Memoir of the Rev. J. Sher­man, 1863
• Supplemental Hymns, 1868, 1875
• Sermons on The Vision of God, 1876
• Children’s Wor­ship, 1878
• The Congrega­tional Psalm­ist Hymn­al, 1886

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Lyrics

1. Hark, Hark, My Soul
2. Low in Thine Agony