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Avis B. Christiansen

1895 - 1985 Scripture: Matthew 23:12-46 Author of "Blessed Redeemer" in Baptist Hymnal (1975 ed) Avis Marguerite Burgeson was born in 1895 and lived in Chicago all her life. She attended the Moody Church, pastored for many years by Dr. Harry Ironside. In 1917, Avis Burgeson married Ernest Christiansen who later became a vice president of Moody Bible Institute. She was a modest and retiring woman, and sometimes used pen names: Avis Burgesson, Christian B. Anson and Constance B. Reid. She began writing poems in childhood, and before her death in 1985 had written thousands of them. She died in 1985. NN, Hymnary

Harry Dixon Loes

1895 - 1965 Scripture: Matthew 23:12-46 Composer of "REDEEMER" in Baptist Hymnal (1975 ed) Pseudonyms: Deal Bartells Born Harold Loes, the American gospel song writer took the middle name Dixon in honour of A. C. Dixon, the pastor of Moody Church at the time. Harry Dixon Loes studied at Moody Bible Institute, and after extensive training in music he served a number of churches with a ministry of music. From 1939 until his retirement he was a member of the music faculty of Moody Bible Institute. He wrote the lyrics for 1,500 gospel songs, and composed 3,000 tunes. One day in 1915, Paul Rader preached a sermon in Moody Church, in Chicago. His theme was, “All that I want is in Jesus.” In the congregation was young Harry Dixon Loes, then a senior at Moody Bible Institute, where he would eventually teach. Inspired by Dr. Rader’s message, Harry Loes wrote the words and music for a song he called "All Things in Jesus." It was first sung by the church’s youth group. Friends all around me are trying to find What the heart yearns for, by sin undermined; I have the secret, I know where ’tis found: Only true pleasures in Jesus abound. All that I want is in Jesus. He satisfies, joy He supplies; Life would be worthless without Him; All things in Jesus I find. Some carry burdens whose weight has for years Crushed them with sorrow and blinded with tears. Yet One stands ready to help them just now, If they will humbly in penitence bow. --http://wordwisehymns.com/2010/02/09/ ================== Harry Dixon Loes was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on October 20, 1892. After serving several churches as music director and later being active for more than twelve years in evangelist work, he joined the music faculty of Moody Bible Institute, in 1939, where he remained as a popular music teacher until his death in 1965. Mr. Loes was the writer of numerous gospel songs and choruses. One day, while listening to a sermon on the subject of Christ's atonement entitled “Blessed Redeemer,” Mr. Loes was inspired to compose this tune. He then sent the melody with the suggested title to Mrs. Christiansen, a friend for many years, asking her to write the text. The hymn first appeared in Songs of Redemption, compiled by Marin and Jelks, in 1920, and published by the Baptist Home Mission Board, Atlanta, Georgia. --http://www.gracecommunitycog.org/

Richard Gillard

b. 1953 Person Name: Richard Gillard, 1953- Scripture: Matthew 23:1-12 Author of "Sister, Let Me Be Your Servant" in Common Praise (1998) Gillard, Richard. (Malmesbury, Wiltshire County, England, May 22, 1953- ). The eldest of six children, he emigrated to New Zealand with his family when he was three years old. Writes, "I've had almost no formal musical training. I'm a self-taught guitarist and play mostly in a folk style." Regarding "The Servant Song," he says it "was first published in 1978 on a record album by Scripture in Song called "Father Make Us One" and has appeared subsequently in other Scripture in Song publications including a song book entitled "Songs of Praise" which is widely used by New Zealand congregations. It has also been recorded by the St. Pauls Singers of St Pauls Anglican Church. This album, called New Harvest introduces songs and hymns from their own songbook of the same name." --Letter from Richard Gillard to Mary Louise VanDyke, 25 March 1987, DNAH Archives

Albert F. Bayly

1901 - 1984 Person Name: Albert Frederick Bayly, 1901-1984 Scripture: Matthew 23:1-12 Author of "Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service" in Common Praise (1998) Albert F. Bayly was born on September 6, 1901, Bexhill on Sea, Sussex, England. He received his education at London University (BA) and Mansfield College, Oxford. Bayly was a Congregationalist (later United Reformed Church) minister from the late 1920s until his death in 1984. His life and ministry spanned the Depression of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the years of reconstruction which followed. After retiring in 1971, he moved to Springfield, Chelmsford, and was active in the local United Reformed Church. He wrote several pageants on mission themes, and librettos for cantatas by W. L. Lloyd Webber. He died on July 26, 1984 in Chichester, Sussex, England. NN, Hymnary editor. Sources: www.hymntime.com/tch and Church Times, an Anglican newspaper, Tuesday 20 October 2015

B. F. White

1800 - 1879 Person Name: Benjamin Franklin White, 1800-1879 Scripture: Matthew 23:1-12 Composer (attributed to) of "BEACH SPRING" in Common Praise (1998) Benjamin F. White (b. Spartanburg, SC, 1800; d. Atlanta, GA, 1879), was coeditor of The Sacred Harp (1844). He came from a family of fourteen children and was largely self-taught. Eventually White became a popular singing-school teacher and editor of the weekly Harris County newspaper. Bert Polman

William Knapp

1698 - 1768 Scripture: Matthew 23:1-12 Composer of "WAREHAM" in Glory to God Born: 1698, Wareham, Dorsetshire, England. Died: September 26, 1768, Poole, Dorsetshire, England. Buried: Poole, Dorsetshire, England.

Charles A. Dickinson

1849 - 1907 Person Name: Rev. C. A. Dickinson Scripture: Matthew 23:8 Author of "O Golden Day" in Young People's Songs of Praise Charles Albert Dickinson was born July 4, 1849. He spent the first sixteen years of his life living on his family farm in Westminster, Vermont. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 1872. He then went on to graduate from Harvard College in 1876 and Andover Seminary in 1879. Dickinson served as pastor of Payson Memorial Church in Portland, Maine and Kirk Street Church in Lowell, Massachusetts before assuming his thirteen-year post at Berkeley Street Church in Boston, MA. in 1887. Under Dickinson's auspices, Berkeley Street Church became Berkeley Temple and greatly expanded its community outreach and so-called "rescue work," including the establishment of New England Kurn Hattin Homes for "homeless and neglected boys and girls" in Dickinson's hometown of Westminster, Vermont. Dickinson passed away in January of 1907 after an illness. Jaimie Scanlon ======================= Dickinson, Charles Albert, D.D., an American Congregational Minister, born at Westminster, Vermont, July 4, 1849, and graduated at Harvard University in 1876. He held various charges to 1899 when he retired through ill health, and returned to Ceres, California. His hymn-writing has been mainly for the young. Several of these hymns are in the Christian Endeavour Hymnal and other collections. The most widely known are "O golden day, so long desired," and "Blessed Master, I have promised" (Consecration to Christ). This latter was written Jan. 4, 1900. [Rev. C. L. Noyes, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Graham Maule

1958 - 2019 Person Name: Graham Maule, b. 1958 Scripture: Matthew 23 Author of "Jesus Christ is waiting" in Singing the Faith

Paul Leddington Wright

b. 1951 Person Name: Paul Leddington Wright, b. 1951 Scripture: Matthew 23 Arranger of "NOËL NOUVELET" in Singing the Faith

David Mowbray

b. 1938 Person Name: David Mowbray, 1938- Scripture: Matthew 23:12 Author of "Shout for Joy, Loud and Long" in Worship and Rejoice David Mowbray (b. 1938) was born in Wallington, Surrey, England. He attended Dulwich College, Fitzwilliam, Cambridge where he read English. He gained an MA at Trinity in Bristol and a BD at London (External). Ordained in the Church of England, he was a curate at St. Giles in Northampton and at St. Mary's in Walford. Appointed Vicar of Broxborne, Herts in 1970 in 1984, he became Vicar of All Saints, Hertfordshire. In 1991 he became Vicar of St. Matthew's Darley Abbey, Derby, where he serves to this day. He has been writing hymns since 1977 and most of his texts are represented by Jubilate Hymns. Three of his hymn texts have been included in Hope's new hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001). --www.hopepublishing.com