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Katharine Lee Bates

1859 - 1929 Author of "Dear God, our Father, at thy knee confessing" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Katharine Lee Bates was born in Falmouth, Mass., August 12, 1859. Her father was a pastor in the Congregational Church; he died when she was an infant. Her mother moved the family to Wellesley. She received a B.A. (1880) and M.A. (1891) from Wellesley College. She taught high school from 1880-1885 and then was a professor of English literature at Wellesley. She wrote poetry, children's stories, textbooks and travel books. In the summer if 1893 when she was lecturing at Colorado College she went to the top of Pike's Peak. Inspired by the beauty of the view she wrote all four verses of "America the Beautiful" which was an instant hit when it was published. She had an intimate relationship with Katharine Coman, dean of Wellesley, who she lived with for 25 years, until Coman's death. "Yellow Clover: A Book of Remembrance" celebrates their love and partnership.She enjoyed traveling, the out of doors, reading and friends, Dianne Shapiro from Woman's Who's who in America, 1914-1915 by John William Leonard, New York: The American Commonwealth Company and Harvard Square Library, Digital Library of Unitarian Universalist Biographies, History, Books and Media (http://harvardsquarelibrary.org/cambridge-harvard/katharine-lee-bates/) (accessed 7-4-2018

Walter Rauschenbusch

1861 - 1918 Person Name: W. R. Translator of "Wir möchten Jesum seh'n" in Evangeliums-Lieder 1 und 2 (Gospel Hymns)

Henry Collins

1827 - 1919 Person Name: Rev. Henry Collins Author of "Jesus, my Lord, I thee adore" in Songs of Praise Collins, Henry, M.A., educated at Oxford, where he graduated about 1854. He was ordained to the Ministry of the Church of England, but in Nov., 1857, he entered the Roman communion, becoming a member of the Cistercian Order in 1860. Author of Life of the Rev. Father Gentili, &c, 1861; The Spirit and Mission of the Cistercian Order , &c. His hymns were published by him before leaving the Church of England, in his Hymns for Missions , 1854, first published at Leeds, and then by Shrimpton of Oxford, and Masters of London. It contains 37 hymns, of which two only were by him:—"Jesu, meek and lowly" (Passiontide), and "Jesu, my Lord, my God, my all." (Love of Jesus desired) These hymns are in extensive use. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

H. M.

Author of "Alza tu canto" in Himnario Adventista

Sarah Wilder Pratt

Author of "Guide me, O Lord, thy one right way" in Song-Hymnal of Praise and Joy

Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars

1837 - 1916 Person Name: Juan B. Cabrera (1837-1916) Author of "Ya el fin se acerca" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars was born in Benisa, Spain, April 23, 1837. He attended seminary in Valencia, studying Hebrew and Greek, and was ordained as a priest. He fled to Gibraltar in 1863 due to religious persecution where he abandoned Catholicism. He worked as a teacher and as a translator. One of the works he translated was E.H. Brown's work on the thirty-nine articles of the Anglican Church, which was his introduction to Protestantism. He was a leader of a Spanish Reformed Church in Gibraltar. He continued as a leader in this church when he returned to Spain after the government of Isabel II fell, but continued to face legal difficulties. He then organized the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church and was consecrated as bishop in 1894. He recognized the influence of music and literature on evangelism which led him to write and translate hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from Real Academia de la Historia (https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/39825/juan-bautista-cabrera-ivars) and Himnos Cristanos (https://www.himnos-cristianos.com/biografia-juan-bautista-cabrera/) (accessed 7/30/2021)

Speros Demetrios Athans

1883 - 1969 Person Name: S. D. Athans, 1883-1969 Translator of "Al Despertar la Purpurina Aurora" in Himnario Metodista Speros Demetrios Athans was born 1883 in Turkey. Raised in the Greek Orthodox Church, Athans left home at age 15, after his father’s death. He spent two years on the island of Corfu, Greece, and two more in Egypt, then went to Great Britain, where he worked as a sailor. In 1903 he went to America, and during immigration processing, someone gave him a New Testament in Greek. A year later, he joined a Nazarene church in Chicago, Illinois. He then enrolled in a Bible school and university. While in school in California, he began to study Spanish and to work with the Latino community. In 1910 he decided to work in evangelism. In 1931, he joined the Methodist missionary work in Latin America, retiring in 1949. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)

Daniel Hughes

Person Name: D. H. Translator of "Tydi, Dragwyddol Un, sy'n taenu'r wawr (O Thou Eternal One, whose presence bright)" in Mawl a chân = praise and song

Lady Lucy Whitmore

1792 - 1840 Person Name: Lucy E. G. Whitmore Author of "O we would bless thee for thy ceaseless care" in The Primitive Methodist Church Hymnal Whitmore, Lady Lucy Elizabeth Georgina

Anīs Maqdisī

1885 - 1977 Person Name: انيس المقدسي Author of "رب البرايا مبدع الأكوان" in كتاب الترانيم الروحية للكنائس الإنجيلية انيس الخوري المقدسي ولد في طرابلس في لبنان. كان قد تعلم في المدارس التبشيرية، وعمل أستاذًا للغةِ العربية في الجامعة الأمريكية، وكان عضو المجمع العلمي العربي في دمشق. وكذلك عضو مجمع اللغة العربية في القاهرة منذ سنة 1961 Anis Khuri Makdisi