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Jonathan E. Hall

Person Name: Jonathan Hall Hymnal Number: d1 Author of "Will you go, will you go, will you go to that beautiful land" in Spiritual Melodies. Enl. & impr. ed. 19th Century We know little of Hall, except that he was a minister. Most hymnals list him as "J. E. Hall," but his first name, John, is shown in "The Finest of Wheat," by George C. Elderkin (Chicago, Illinois: R. R. McCabe & Company, 30th edition, 1890), number 91. Lyrics-- Are You Ready for the Coming of the Son of Man Today? Beautiful Land Fear Not He Knows My Way Hear My Prayer My Father Hear the News Glad News of Jesus Jesus Son of David More Than Tongue Can Tell Wash Me Clean Music: EASTER OFFERINGS --www.hymntime.com/tch/

I. I. Leslie

Hymnal Number: d179 Author of "I'm a lonely traveler here" in Spiritual Melodies. Enl. & impr. ed. Leslie, Dr. I.I. An Advent Christian writer. --Doris Colby, DNAH Archives

C. T. Catlin

Hymnal Number: d188 Author of "I long to be there" in Spiritual Melodies. Enl. & impr. ed. Charles Titus Catlin was born on March 12, 1821 near Fort Ann, New York. He was the oldest of five children of Leonard and Lucinda Catlin. His family moved from the Fort Ann, New York area to West Troy, New York between 1830 and 1835. According to family oral tradition Leonard Catlin operated a canal boat business and Charles worked as a canal boat pilot. While Charles traveled the Erie Canal, he wrote many poems with deeply religious themes. His earliest extant poem dates to 1838. His poetry infers that he was well educated and according to family oral tradition could read Greek as easily as we read English. On March 27, 1842, Charles Titus Catlin married Jane A. Morrison and had three children with her by 1848. By early 1847 Charles started to lament the Erie Canal life that takes him away from his “…children dear” and his“…fond and faithful wife.” On May 1, 1847 Charles sold his 80 - ton scow the “Charles T. Catlin”. Based on his poetry he continued to pilot on the Erie Canal but by 1850 he was working as a tinsmith in his father’s and brother’s tinsmithing shop, “L. Catlin and Son.” He continued to write poetry and has some of his works published in the local newspaper, The West Troy Advocate. By 1857 Charles moved with his family from West Troy to Troy, New York. Charles worked as a tinsmith until 1859 when he started working for his father as a bookkeeper. From 1860 to 1868 his occupation is listed as bookkeeper. In 1869, he was listed as the principal of the William Rich School in Troy, New York. The William Rich School was an all African-American school. When the school was closed in the spring of 1873, Charles later in the year was ordained at the 5th Street Baptist Church in Troy on December 13, 1873. Based on his extant sermons, Charles worked as a circuit pastor for two churches in Rennsalear County from 1876 to 1879. On December 7, 1879 his wife of 37 years died and he moved to East Poestenkill, New York in 1880, where he was the pastor of the East Poestenkill Baptist Church. On April 8, 1883, Charles married Cynthia A. Wager, a widowed woman with one surviving child. The couple had a 28 year age difference between them. Together the couple had three children, one of which lived to adulthood. Charles Titus Catlin continued to pastor at the East Poestenkill Baptist church until he became ill before his death on January 7, 1898. He was buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Troy next to his first wife. As of the early 21st Century he has over 366 descendants by his youngest surviving son from his second marriage. Notes on the song “I Long to be There” and “Deliverance will Come”: Based on the poetry of Charles Titus Catlin, Charles appears to have been caught up in the anticipation of the expected Second Advent of Christ in the early 1840’s. He writes in 1843 the poem, “An Admonition to Inconsiderate Judges of the Miller Theory”. In this poem he writes, ‘If the cause is of God, Tis useless on Miller, to Hamper.” In spite of the “Great Disappointment” the poem “I Long to be There” passionately anticipates a better world to come. Charles work, originally written as a 10 stanza poem, is found as part of his paste book collection of poetry dating from the late 1840’s to the mid 1850’s. Most of the poems written in the book were published under his name in the West Troy Advocate. “Deliverance Will Come” has long been considered by the Catlin Family to have been an original work by Charles Titus Catlin. The poem is found among his collection of paste book poetry. In Charles T. Catlin’s two poetry books he appears to be very careful to only attribute his work with his initials C. T. C or published works clearly list him as the author. This poem is clearly marked with his initials. But the poem has an earlier claim to authorship by J. B. Matthias that predates Charles’ work. While Charles original authorship for “Deliverence Will Come” is doubtful, “I Long to be there” has the only and exclusive attribution. Sources: The Catlin Family Bible; The West Troy Advocate, New York State Archives, Albany, New York; New York State Archives, Albany, New York; Written Works by Charles Titus Catlin. Collected and Researched by Gertrude Catlin and Gary R. Catlin. Prepared by Elmer and Bonnie Taylor for the Catlin Family Reunion July 14, 2007. (A collection of the poetry from two original booklets of poetry written by Charles Titus Catlin from 1838 to the mid 1850’s); Troy City Directories, Troy Public Library, Troy New York. From 1854 to 1879; Recorded Oral History of the Descendents of Edwin R. Catlin, part of Betty Hall Payne Collection. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.; U.S. Census Records and New.York.State. Census Records; History of the First Baptist Chruch at East Poestenkill, wrtitten by Marian Legenbauer and Ellen Dzembo from recrods in the chruch archives; Oakwood Cemetery Interment Records, 50-101st Street, Troy, New York 121180 --Gary Catlin, great-great-grandson of C. T. Catlin

George Clair Wells

1819 - 1873 Person Name: George C. Well Hymnal Number: d177 Author of "If I in thy likeness, O Lord, may awake" in Spiritual Melodies. Enl. & impr. ed.

Aaron Coons

Hymnal Number: d71 Author of "Come, my brethren, let us try" in Spiritual Melodies. Enl. & impr. ed.

J. Rusling

1788 - 1839 Person Name: Joseph Rusling Hymnal Number: d56 Author of "Arise, arise, the light breaks o'er thee" in Spiritual Melodies. Enl. & impr. ed. Rusling, J., p. 931, i. 255, b. 1788, d. 1839. From this American writer there is a mutilated fragment in Stryker's College Hymnal, 1904: "The morn, O Christian, breaketh o'er thee" (Death and Heaven anticipated). In H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, this hymn begins “Christian, the morn breaks sweetly o'er thee." It is usually dated 1832. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

C. W. Ainsworth

1817 - 1851 Hymnal Number: d122 Author of "Here o'er the earth as a stranger I roam" in Spiritual Melodies. Enl. & impr. ed.

Sigmund C. Gmelin

1679 - 1707 Hymnal Number: d280 Author of "O thou who all things canst control" in Spiritual Melodies. Enl. & impr. ed. Gmelin, Sigmund Christian, was b. March 15,1679, at Pfullingen in Württemberg. After studying at the University of Tubingen, where he graduated in 1697 and became lecturer in 1700, he was in 1705 appointed assistant pastor at Herrenberg. There he associated himself with the Separatists; denounced the Church as worldly and as requiring a mere outward profession; objected to infant baptism, and departed from the views of the Church on the intermediate state, on the millennial reign, and on the reconciliation of all things.. For these teachings he was deposed in 1706. After living for a time at Dortenbach, near Calw, he retired to Wittgenstein, and finally to Schwarzenau, near Berleberg. He died Oct. 12, 1707, probably at Schwarzenau (Koch, v. 5; Allg. Deutsche Biographie, ix. 274). The only hymn by him translated into English is:— Ach treib aua meiner Seel. [Watchfulness.] Included as No. 21 in the Anmuthiger Blumen Krantz, 1712, in 21 stanzas of 6 lines, and repeated as No. 231 in the Herrnhut Gesang-Buch, 1735, omitting st. xx. In full as No. 1101 in Schober's Liedersegen, 1769. The only translation in common use is:— 0 Thou who all things canst control, a translation in L. M. of stanzas i.-vi., by J. Wesley, in Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1739 (P. Works, 1868-72, vol. i. p. 12). It was not included in the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780; but was given, as No. 130, in Wesley's Pocket Hymn Book, 1785. In England stanzas i., ii. were included as No. 323 in Psalms & Hymns, 1854 (Colonial Church & School Society), and stanzas i., ii., v., vi., as No. 467, in Martineau's Hymns of Praise & Prayer, 1873. In America stanzas. i., ii., iv., v., were included, as No. 146, in the Christian Lyre, 1830, and repeated in the Methodist Episcopal South Collection, 1847; the Unitarian Book of Hymns, 1846; and Boardman's Collection, 1861. Stanzas i.-v. were also included in the Methodist Episcopal Collection, 1849, and the Evang. Association Hymn Book, 1882: stanzas i., ii. in the American Unitarian Hymn Book, 1869: and stanzas i., ii., vi., with a stanza from iii., lines. 3, 4, and v. lines 3, 4, in the Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Book 1868. [Rev. James Mearns] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

G. W. Langford

Person Name: George W. Hangford Hymnal Number: d324 Author of "Speak gently, it is better far" in Spiritual Melodies. Enl. & impr. ed.

Moses Browne

1703 - 1787 Hymnal Number: d423 Author of "When with [my] mind divinely pressed" in Spiritual Melodies. Enl. & impr. ed. Browne, Moses, was born in humble circumstances in 1703, and was distinguished as a poet and miscellaneous writer. He was Vicar of Olney, Bucks, and for some time Chaplain of Morden College, Blackheath, Kent, where he died Sept. 13, 1787. His poetical works were:— (1) Poems, 1739; (2) The Works, and Rest of the Creation,in two parts. Pt. i. An Essay on the Universe; Pt. ii. Sunday Thoughts, &c, 1752 (6th edition, 1805). His hymns are contained in Pt. iv. of the Sunday Thoughts, together with versions of Ps. 130 and 139. He is known chiefly through his hymn "When with a mind devoutly pressed" (Penitence), which is "Night Song, No. viii.," in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, of the Sunday Thoughts, having originally appeared in his Poems, 1739, p. 457. He complains in a note of editors of hymn-books printing this hymn "from an imperfect copy." It has been ascribed from time to time to various authors. (3) He also published in 1772, a translation of J. L. Zimmerman's Excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ, 1732, from which the hymn, "Tis not too hard, too high an aim," is taken. It is annotated under "Es ist nicht schwert." -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)