W. E. Winks

Winks, William Edward, son of J. F. Winks, Leicester, was born at Leicester, Jan. 28, 1842, and educated at Chilwell College, Nottingham. He entered the Baptist Ministry in 1865, and has been Pastor of Baptist Churches in Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire, and has now (1907) charge of Bethany Chapel, Cardiff. Most of his hymns were written for special services. In 1897 he collected several of these and published them as Christian Hymns and Songs for Church and Sunday School (2nd ed. 1907). From this collection the following have passed into The Baptist Church Hymnal, 1900.
1. Be still, my heart, be still, my mind. Waiting upon God. Written in 1897.
2. In the night our toil is fruitless. Working with Trustfulness. Dated Oct. 39, 1891.
3. Lord, Thy servants forth are going. Departure of Missionaries. Written in 1892.
Mr. Winks's prose works include Thoughts on Prayer, Prayer in the Four Gospels, and others.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)