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Henry Pitt

1705 - 1733 Person Name: H. Pitt Author of "On God supreme our hope depends" in Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship Pitt, Henry. (1705/1706--1733). A friend of John Wesley who became a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, in 1724. In a letter dated 4 April 1726 to his brother Samuel, John Wesley enclosed two poems from "a gentleman of Oxford." --George Walton Williams, DNAH Archives

John Glas

1695 - 1773 Person Name: Glas Author of "Praise" in Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Edward Young

1683 - 1765 Author of "Eternal love, how large the sum" in Psalms and Hymns, for Social and Private Worship bapt. July 3, 1683, Upham, Hampshire, Eng.--d. April 5, 1765, Welwyn, Hertfordshire), English poet, dramatist, and literary critic LOC Name Authority File

Vachel Lindsay

1879 - 1931 Author of "Let not young souls be smothered" in Hymns for the Celebration of Life Lindsay, Vachel. (Springfield, Illinois, November 10, 1879--December 4, 1931, Springfield, Ill.). This noted American poet was an enthusiastic supporter of the Disciple movement (see, for example, his poem "Alexander Campbell"), and one of his short pieces, "Foreign Missions in Battle Array," was used as a hymn in Christian Worship (1941), having appeared earlier in the nondenominational Christian Worship and Praise (1939). It begins: An endless line of splendor, These troops with heaven for home, With creeds they go from Scotland, With incense go from Rome. --George Brandon, DNAH Archives Also: Lintsey, Veitsel Lindsay, Nicholas Vachel

Sharon Anway

Person Name: Sharon Anway, 1951- Adapter of "O Brother Sun" in Singing the Journey

David Paine

Composer of "CHICKERING'S CHANT" in The Gospel Psalmist

Clara Beers Blashfield

1889 - 1974 Person Name: Clare Beers Blashfield Author of "We love our church, O God" in The Beacon Song and Service book

William Cornysh

? - 1523 Person Name: William Cornish Author of "Pleasure it is" in The Beacon Song and Service book

Moncure Daniel Conway

1832 - 1907 Person Name: M. D. Conway Author of "A storm sped over sea and land" in The Truth Seeker Collection of Forms, Hymns and Recitations, Original and Selected, for the Use of Liberals Conway, Moncure Dana, b. 1832. For many years minister at South Place Chapel, Finsbury, and editor of the enlarged edition of W. J. Fox's Hymns & Anthems, 1873, which contains his hymn of Music out of the storm, "A storm sped over sea and land." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)