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Robert J. Fryson

Person Name: Robert Fryson Topics: Year C Advent 2 Composer of "[You will have joy and gladness]" in The New Century Hymnal

1812 - 1877 Person Name: George N. Allen Topics: Church Year Advent; Church Year Easter; Comfort and Encouragement; Daily Prayer Night Prayer; Darkness; Disciples / Calling; Discipleship; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Eternal Life; Fear; God Light from; God as Refuge; God as Guide; God's Presence; God's Way; Hope; Life Stages Death; Longing for God; Salvation; Trust; Year A, B, C, Easter, Easter vigil; Year A, Easter, 2nd Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, November 13-19; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 26-July 2 Composer of "MAITLAND" in Psalms for All Seasons George Nelson Allen (1812-1871), studied at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Oh OH and with Lowell Mason in Boston. Allen gave a strong musical foundation to Oberlin College in its earliest years; in addition to being Professor of Music he also served as Professor of Geology and Natural History, Secretary and Treasurer. In 1835 he compiled The Oberlin Social and Sabbath Hymn Book, in which appeared his most well known tune MAITLAND (also known as CROSS AND CROWN or WESTERN MELODY) with the text "Must Jesus bear the cross alone?". This was adapted by Thomas A. Dorsey in 1938 for his hymn "Precious Lord, take my hand". hand." He composed anthems and wrote some additional music for Isaac Woodbury's Oratorio "Absalom." He compiled a small 3" x 4" hymnal that every student should keep in his pocket that went through several printings. Mary Louise VanDyke

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: James H. Fillmore, 1849-1936 Topics: Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Mount Hermon; Biblical Names and Places Rahab; Biblical Names and Places Tabor; Church Year Advent; Church Year Baptism of the Lord; Covenant; Discipleship; Doxologies; Earth; Elements of Worship Call to Worship; Elements of Worship Gathering; God as Shield; God as King; God's Wonders; God's Armor; God's Compassion; God's Deeds; God's Faithfulness; God's Justice; God's Love; God's Majesty; God's People (flock, sheep); Happiness; Joy; Judgment; Lament Community; Love; New Creation; Occasional Services Dedication / Consecration / Anniversary; Occasional Services Funerals; Occasional Services New Year; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; Royal Psalms; Truth; Unity and Fellowship; Witness; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 26-July 2; Year B, Advent, 4th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 17-23 Author (st. 1) of "I Will Sing of the Mercies of the LORD" in Psalms for All Seasons James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

William Watkins Reid

1923 - 2007 Person Name: William Reid, junior (born 1923) Topics: Advent 2 The Word of God in the Old Testament Author of "Help us, O Lord, to learn" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) William W. Reid, Jr. (1923-2007), after graduating from Oberlin College and Seminary and Yale Divinity School served for more than fifty years as pastor in the Wyoming Conference in rural and inner-city Methodist churches. He served on the Executive Committee of The Hymn Society of America. He was involved in social issues, serving as a councilman and county commissioner. His hymns are widely published in hymnals of many denominations. Mary Louise VanDyke =============================== William W. Reid, Jr. is pastor of the Methodist Church Circuit at Carverton, Pennsylvania. He previously served in a similar capacity at Camptown in the same State. He is a graduate of the Yale Divinity School and Oberlin College. He served during World War II in the Medical Corps and was held prisoner by the Germans for eight months. He is the author of several hymns including those in "Fourteen New Rural Hymns" and "Twelve New World Order Hymns" published by the Hymn Society. ----Fifteen New Christian Education Hymns, 1959. Used by permission. ================================ William Watkins Reid, Jr., is currently pastor of Central United Methodist Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Wyoming Annual Conference and has been active on its Social Concerns, Town and Country, and Evangelism boards, and on the Pennsylvania Council of Churches. ----Twelve New Lord’s Day Hymns, 1968. Used by permission. ================================ [Reid] is an executive committee member of the Hymn Society of America, and is the author of a number of hymns that have been published in hymnals in the United States, Canada, England, and in South Africa. As a council man he is concern with the ecology of Wyoming Valley (Penn. and N.Y.) and with the rebuilding of Wilkes-Barre after the disastrous flood of 1972. --16 New Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment [Ecology] , 1973. Used by permission.

John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Topics: Aid and development; Confirmation; Evangelism; Faith, Trust and Commitment; Lent; The Journey of Life; The Wholeness of Creation; Year A Epiphany 3; Year A Proper 5; Year A Third Sunday Before Advent; Year B Easter 7; Year B Epiphany 2; Year B Third Sunday Before Advent; Year C Bible Sunday; Year C Easter 7; Year C Epiphany 3; Year C Proper 8 Author of "Will you come and follow me (The Summons)" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink

David Beebe

b. 1931 Topics: Eternal Life; God Love of; Hope; Year A Proper 5; Year B Advent 3; Year B Lent 2; Year B Proper 25; Year C Epiphany 4; Year C Lent 5 Author of "Let Us Hope when Hope Seems Hopeless" in The New Century Hymnal David Beebe was born in Arkansas and was ordained as a minister in the United Church of Christ in 1959. He served churches in northern California and Chattanooga, Tennessee. He served as a college chaplain for six years and also worked with the United Church of Christ Stewardship Council for stewardship education. NN, Hymnary editor. Source: http://www.firstcongmadison.org/hymn-notes/hymn-461-let-us-hope-when-hope-seems-hopeless

Edward J. Burns

b. 1938 Person Name: Edward Joseph Burns, b. 1938 Topics: Evangelism; The Witnessing Community; Year A Easter 2; Year A Fourth Sunday Before Advent; Year B Proper 1; Year B Second Sunday Before Lent; Year C Easter 3; Year C Proper 22; Year C Proper 4; Years A, B, and C Christmas 2; Years A, B, and C Christmas Day Author of "We have a gospel to proclaim" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Craig S. Kingsbury

b. 1952 Person Name: Craig S. Kingsbury, b. 1952 Topics: Musical Style Gospel; Care of the Sick; Musical Style Gospel; Care of the Sick; Musical Style Gospel; Care of the Sick; Musical Style Gospel; Care of the Sick; Covenant; Musical Style Gospel; Care of the Sick; Covenant; Musical Style Gospel; Care of the Sick; Covenant; Discipleship; Faith; Hope; Petition/Prayer; Advent Season Common Psalm; Advent 1 Year C; Twenty-Sixth Ordinary Year A; The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls' Day) (November 2); Rites of the Church Rite of Annointing (Care of teh Sick); The Liturgical Year Advent (Sundasy and Weekdays) Arranger (choral) of "[Make me to know your ways, O God]" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

Clement Cotterill Scholefield

1839 - 1904 Person Name: Clement Cotterill Scholefield, 1839-1904 Topics: Year A Advent 2 Composer of "ST CLEMENT" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Rev. Clement C. Scholefield (b. Edgbaston, near Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, 1839; d. Goldalming, Surrey, England, 1904) Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1867. He served at Hove, Brighton, St. Peter's in Kensington (1869-1879), and briefly at St. Luke's in Chelsea. From 1880 to 1890 he was chaplain at Eton College and from 1890 to 1895 vicar of Holy Trinity in Knightsbridge. Mainly self-taught as a musician, Scholefield became an accomplished pianist and composed some songs and hymn tunes. Bert Polman