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Russell S. Cook

1811 - 1864 Hymnal Number: d227 Author of "Just as thou art, without one trace Of love or joy" in Sunday School Hymn Book Cook, Russell Sturgis, born at New Marlborough, Mass., March 6, 1811, was educated for the Congregational Ministry, and married a daughter of Dr. Caesar Malan, of Geneva. From 1839 to 1856 he was one of the Secretaries of the American Tract Society. He was the originator of its system of colportage. Subsequently he became Secretary of the New York Sabbath Committee. He also edited the American Messenqer. He died at Pleasant Valley, New York, Sept. 4, 1864. His hymn:— Just as thou art, without one trace. Invitation, was published in the American Messenger, March, 1850, in. 6 stanzas of 4 lines. It was written as a companion hymn to Miss Elliott's "Just as I am, without one plea," and was sent by the author to her. It was soon adopted by editors of American hymn-books, sometimes in an abbreviated form, beginning with stanza iii. as, "Burdened with guilt, wouldst thou be blest?" as in the Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858. It became known in Great Britain through Lord Selborne's Book of Praise, 1862. In that collection it was reprinted from an anonymous tract, in which stanzas ii, and vi. are omitted. This form of the hymn is usually given in the English collections. Full original text in Schaff’s Christ in Song, 1869-70. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

George B. Ide

1804 - 1872 Hymnal Number: d194 Author of "In life's joyous morning" in Sunday School Hymn Book Ide, George Barton, D.D., Baptist Minister, was born at Coventry, Vermont, in 1806; educated at Middlebury College, Vermont; was pastor successively at Boston, Philadelphia, and Springfield, Massachusetts, and died in 1872. He edited the Baptist Harp, Philadelphia, 1849. To that work he contributed 9 hymns. Of these, "Son of God, our glorious Head" (On behalf of ministers) is still in common use. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ========================== Ide, George Barton, D.D., p. 561, i. Dr. Burrage gives in his Baptist Hymn Writers, 1888, p. 308, a list of Dr. Ide's hymns, and states that he was born Sep. 17, 1804. This date must be substituted for 1806 on p. 561, i. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Amelia Opie

1769 - 1853 Hymnal Number: d436 Author of "Shall I be mute" in Sunday School Hymn Book Opie, Amelia, née Alderson, daughter of Dr. Alderson, a physician at Norwich, was born there Nov. 12, 1769. In May 1798 she was married to John Opie, the painter, who died in 1807. Originally Mrs. Opie was an Unitarian, but in 1814 she joined the Society of Friends. Most of her subsequent life she lived at Castle Meadow, Norwich, where she died Dec. 2, 1853. Mrs. Opie's prose works were somewhat numerous, and included Father and Daughter, 1801, a most popular tale; Temper, 1812; Tales of Real Life, 1813; and others. Her poetical works were Miscellaneous Poems, 1802; The Warrior's Return and Other Poems, 1808; Lays for the Dead, 1833, &c. Very few of her poems have come into use as hymns. The best known is “There seems a voice in every gale." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =================== Opie, Amelia , p. 871, i. Another hymn by Mrs. Opie in common use is "When the disciples saw their Lord" (Travel by Sea and Land), in Com. Praise 1879. Dated 1838. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

William Russell

1798 - 1873 Hymnal Number: d321 Author of "O'er the dark wave [waves] of Galilee" in Sunday School Hymn Book Russell, William, was born in Glasgow in 1798, and educated at the University of Glasgow. Removing from Scotland to America, he was at Savannah in 1817, and subsequently at other places in the United States. He was an active promoter of education, teachers' associations, and kindred objects, and did much to further the cause of education in the States. He was originally a Baptist, but did not hold to close communion. He died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, Aug. 16, 1873. His hymn, "O'er the dark wave of Galilee" (Christ in Solitude), begins with st. iii. of a poem written by him at the request of Dr. Ware, editor of the Unitarian Christian Examiner, and printed therein in 1826. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Lucius Manlius Sargent

1786 - 1867 Hymnal Number: d376 Author of "Slavery and death the cup contains" in Sunday School Hymn Book Sargent, Lucius Manlius. (Boston, Massachusetts, June 25, 1786--June 2, 1867, Boston). A layman of independent mans, author of many articles advocating temperance. His temperance hymn beginning "Slavery and death the cup contains" was written during the Washingtonian Temperance Revival and appeared in Adams' and Chapin's Unitarian Hymns for Christian Devotion (Boston, 1846). In the American Methodist Episcopal Hymnal (1878), the first line is altered to read "Bondage and death the cup contains." The hymn is included, with the original wording, in the Universalist Church Harmonies (1895). --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

James H. Aikman

Hymnal Number: d460 Author of "Touch not the cup, it is death to thy [the] soul" in Sunday School Hymn Book

W. C. Tillou

Hymnal Number: d168 Author of "Eden of love" in Sunday School Hymn Book

Elbert S. Porter

1820 - 1888 Hymnal Number: d198 Author of "In the far better land of glory and light" in Sunday School Hymn Book Porter, Elbert Stothoff, D.D. (October 23, 1820--February 26, 1888). Reformed Church of America. Editor Christian Intelligencer for 14 years. The Church Hymnary, 1891, gives his birth date as 1819. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives

Harriet Phillips

1806 - 1884 Person Name: Harriet Cecilia Phillips Hymnal Number: d471 Author of "We bring no glittering treasures, no gems" in Sunday School Hymn Book Phillips, Harriet Cecilia, was born in Sharon, Connecticut, in 1806, and was for many years an active worker in Sunday Schools in New York city. She contributed five hymns to the Rev. W. C. Hoyt's Family and Social Melodies, 1853, and has also written for various magazines. "We bring no glittering treasures" (Sunday School Anniversary), was written circa 1848 for a Sunday School Festival in New York city, and published in the Methodist Episcopal Hymns, 1849 (Nutter's Hymn Notes, 1884, p. 31l). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)