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Russell Kelso Carter
1849 - 1928 Person Name: R. Kelso Carter Composer of "HEALING" in Hymns of the Christian Life Russel Kelso Carter was a professor in the Pennsylvania Military College of Chester. While there he was licensed to preach by the Methodist Episcopal Church. He became very active in leading camp meetings and revivals. After failing health forced him to abandon this work, he studied and became a medical doctor as well as a writer. He wrote novels as well as hymns.
Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)
Russell Kelso Carter
Thomas C. Upham
1799 - 1872 Person Name: Thomas Upham, 1799-1872 Author of "The Great Healer" in The Cyber Hymnal Upham, Thomas Cogswell, D.D., was born at Durfield, New Haven, Jan. 30,1799, and educated at Dartmouth College (1818), and at Andover (1821). Having entered the Congregational Ministry he became Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Bowdon College, in 1825, and retained the same to 1867. He died at New York, April 2, 1872. His publications were numerous and included Mental Philosophy (which was long and widely used); American Cottage Life; a volume of Poems, 1852, &c. Five of his hymns are given, with accompanying dates, in Hymns and Songs of Praise, &c, N. Y., 1874, as follows:—
1. Fear not, poor weary one. Help in Sorrow (1872).
2. Happy the man who knows. Obedience (1872).
3. 0 Thou great Ruler of the sky. Morning (1872).
4. 0 Thou great Teacher from the skies. Following Christ (1872).
5. 'Tis thus in solitude I roam. Omnipresence (1853).
These hymns are limited in their use. In 1847 Upham published the Life and Religious Opinions and Experiences of Madam de la Mothe Guyon. . . Two vols., N. Y. In this work the anonymous translations from Madam Guyon's hymns are found, viz.,
(1) “By sufferings only can we know";
(2) "I would love Thee, God and Father";
(3) "'Tis not [by] the skill of human art." There are also additional translations of two of her hymns in the same work.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Thomas C. Upham
