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Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö

Scripture: Psalm 31 Composer of "OI HERRA, JOS MÄ MATKAMIES MAAN" in Moravian Book of Worship

Henry A. Lewis

Scripture: Psalm 31 Composer of "[O Lord, in mercy hear]" in Bible Songs No. 4

1924 - 2019 Scripture: Psalm 31:15 Composer of "SPIRITSONG" in More Voices Jane Marshall, was born Jane Anne Manton in Dallas in 1924. She became a pianist and organist and composed music as a teenager. She earned a music degree in 1945 from SMU. She married Elbert Marshall. She went on to write more than 200 hymns and other sacred music works. She later earned a Masters degree in 1968 from SMU in choral conducting and composition. She taught at SMU's Perkins School of Theology and tis Church Music Summer School from 1975-2010. She attended Northaven United Methodist Church in Dallas for many years, collaborated often with other hymn writers, and encouraged many students. Dianne Shapiro, from UM News article , May 30, 2019 by Sam Hodges (accessed 6-7-2019)

Francis V. Strahan

Scripture: Psalm 31 Composer (refrain) of "[Father, Father, I put my life in your hands]" in One in Faith

Nicholas T. Freund

Person Name: Nicholas T. Freund, 1933-2009 Scripture: Psalm 31 Composer (verses) of "[Father, Father, I put my life in your hands]" in One in Faith

James V. Marchionda

Scripture: Psalm 31 Composer of "[In you, O LORD, I take refuge]" in One in Faith

Linnea Good

Scripture: Psalm 31:2-35 Composer of "LIKE A ROCK" in Sing a New Creation

Marie J. Post

1919 - 1990 Scripture: Psalm 31 Versifier of "I Seek My Refuge in You, LORD" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Marie (Tuinstra) Post (b. Jenison, MI, 1919; d. Grand Rapids, MI, 1990) While attending Dutch church services as a child, Post was first introduced to the Genevan psalms, which influenced her later writings. She attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she studied with Henry Zylstra. From 1940 to 1942 she taught at the Muskegon Christian Junior High School. For over thirty years Post wrote poetry for the Grand Rapids Press and various church periodicals. She gave many readings of her poetry in churches and schools and has been published in a number of journals and poetry anthologies. Two important collections of her poems are I Never Visited an Artist Before (1977) and the posthumous Sandals, Sails, and Saints (1993). A member of the 1987 Psalter Hymnal Revision Committee, Post was a significant contributor to its array of original texts and paraphrases. Bert Polman

Friedrich von Spee

1591 - 1635 Person Name: F. von Spee, 1591-1635 Scripture: Psalm 31:14-15 Author (st. 1, 3. 4 of "O Morning Star, O Radiant Sun" in Lift Up Your Hearts Spee, Friedrich von, son of Peter Spee (of the family of Spee, of Langenfeld), judge at Kaisers worth, was born at Kaisersworth, Feb. 25, 1591. He was educated in the Jesuit gymnasium at Cologne, entered the order of the Jesuits there on Sept. 22, 1610, and was ordained priest about 1621. From 1613 to 1624 he was one of the tutors in the Jesuit college at Cologne, and was then sent to Paderborn to assist in the Counter Reformation. In 1627 he was summoned by the Bishop of Würzburg to act as confessor to persons accused of witchcraft, and, within two years, had to accompany to the stake some 200 persons, of all ranks and ages, in whose innocence he himself firmly believed (His Cautio criminalis, sen de processibus contra sagas lib, Rinteln, 1631, was the means of almost putting a stop to such cruelties). He was then sent to further the Counter Reformation at Peine near Hildesheim, but on April 29, 1629, he was nearly murdered by some persons from Hildesheim. In 1631 he became professor of Moral Theology at Cologne. The last years of his life were spent at Trier, where, after the city had been stormed by the Spanish troops on May 6, 1635, he contracted a fever from some of the hospital patients to whom he was ministering, and died there Aug. 7, 1635. (Koch, iv. 185; Goedeke's Grundriss, vol. iii., 1887, p. 193,

Martin L. Seltz

1909 - 1967 Person Name: M. L. Selts, 1909-1967 Scripture: Psalm 31:14-15 Translator (st. 1, 3. 4) of "O Morning Star, O Radiant Sun" in Lift Up Your Hearts