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S. V. R. Ford

1835 - 1910 Hymnal Number: 449 Author of "Lift me higher, lift me higher" in The Revivalist Born: 1835, Greenville, New York. Died: June 5, 1910, New York City. Son of Cyrus Earle and Amanda Hedden Ford, Stephen wrote several battle hymns during the American civil war which were sung by Union soldiers. He was a partner in a shirt and collar making company, Ide & Ford, in Troy, New York (1865-72). In his later years, he was known as an author, editor, composer and critic. He was living in Schenectady, New York, in 1908. His works include: Sunday-School Teaching (Hitchcock & Walden, 1868) Melodies for Little People (New York: Hunt and Eaton, 1891) The King’s Birthday: A Carol Service for Christmas (New York: Hunt and Eaton, 1893) The Stone Rolled Away: An Easter Missionary Service (Curts & Jennings, 1897) Recitations, Song and Story for Sunday and Day Schools, Primary and Intermediate Departments (Eaton & Mains, 1900) The Junior League Songster Bible Wonders and Aids to Bible Study (New York: Bible Wonders Company) Methodist Year Book, 1902 (editor) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

1788 - 1879 Person Name: Sarah J. Hale Hymnal Number: 338 Author of "Our Father in heaven we hallow thy name" in The Revivalist Hale, Sarah Josepha, née Buell, born at Newport, New Hampshire, 1795, and married to David Hale, a lawyer, who died in 1822. Mrs. Hale edited The Ladies' Magazine, Boston, from 1828; and Godey's Ladies’ Book, Philadelphia, from 1837, besides publishing several works. Her hymn, “Our Father in heaven, we hallow Thy name" (The Lord's Prayer), appeared in Mason & Greene's Church Psalmody, 1831, No. 553, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. Mrs. Hale, who was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, died in 1879. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Mary P. Griffin

Person Name: Miss Mary P. Griffin Hymnal Number: 84 Author of "We are waiting by the river" in The Revivalist

Edmund Jones

1722 - 1765 Hymnal Number: 47 Author of "Come, humble sinner, in whose breast" in The Revivalist Jones, Edmund, son of the Rev. Philip Jones, Cheltenham, was born in 1722, and attended for a time the Baptist College at Bristol. At the age of 19 he began to preach for the Baptist Congregation at Exeter, and two years afterwards he became its pastor. In 1760 he published a volume of Sacred Poems. After a very-useful ministry he died April 15, 1765. From an old manuscript record of the Exeter Baptist Church, it appears that it was under his ministry in the year 1759, that singing was first introduced into that Church as a part of worship. As a hymn-writer he is known chiefly through:— Come, humble sinner, in whose breast. This hymn appeared in Rippon's Baptist Selection, 1181, No. 355, in 1 stanza of 4 lines, and headed, "The successful Resolve—'I will go in unto the King,' Esther iv. 16." It has undergone several changes, including:— 1. "Come, sinner, in whose guilty breast." In the Methodist Free Church Sunday School Hymn Book, 1860. 2. “Come, trembling sinner, in whose breast." This is in a great number of American hymn-books. 3. “Come, weary sinner, in whose breast." Also in American use. Miller, in his Singers & Songs of the Church, 1869, p. 333, attributes this hymn to a Welsh Baptist hymn-writer of Trevecca, and of the same name. Rippon, however, says in the first edition of his Selection that Edmund Jones, the author of No. 333, was pastor of the Baptist Church at Exon, Devon. This decides the matter. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Jones, Edmund, p. 605, ii. In The Church Book, by L. W. Bacon, N. Y., 1883, No. 279 begins with stanzas ii. of Jones's hymn, "Come, humble sinner, &c," and begins:—"I'll go to Jesus, though my sin." Also note that in that article the words “author of No. 333," should read "author of No. 355." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Charles Mackay

1814 - 1889 Hymnal Number: 309 Author of "The loud winds dwindled to a whisper low" in The Revivalist Charles Mackay, the well known writer, was born at Perth, 1814, and died Dec. 24, 1889. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

W. H. Hyde

Hymnal Number: 372 Author of "Pilgrim's home" in The Revivalist 19th Century For a while in 1845 Hyde was associated with Ellen Harmon White & others who eventually formed the Seventh-Day Adventists. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

I. I. Leslie

Hymnal Number: 397 Author of "I'm a lonely traveler here" in The Revivalist Leslie, Dr. I.I. An Advent Christian writer. --Doris Colby, DNAH Archives

Silas H. Ayers

Person Name: S. H. Ayers Hymnal Number: 315 Author of "Doth Jesus live in thee" in The Revivalist

B. M. Adams

Hymnal Number: 284 Author of "Sad and weary with my longing" in The Revivalist B. M. Adams was a Methodist minister of Brooklyn, New York, and was present and assisted at the opening of the camp meeting at Vineland New Jersey in 1867, and at Hamilton, Massachusetts in July, 1870. He died about 1903. American writers and compilers of sacred music by Frank J. Metcalf (New York; Cincinnati: Abingdon Press, 1925)