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David J. Beattie

Hymnal Number: 80 Author of "The Song of Love" in Worship and Service

1860 - 1929 Hymnal Number: 155 Author of "Won't You Come?" in Worship and Service Mattie was born on August 28, 1860 in Jamestown, Ohio. Mattie developed creative teaching methods such as short poems or sayings, called epigrams, to communicate spiritual truth. She also encouraged students to memorize Bible verses. Mattie increased her sphere of influence when, from 1894 until 1911, she edited two publications, Lookout and Christian Standard. She died on August 38, 1929 in Cincinnati, Ohio. From http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boteler-325

F. H. Shaul

Hymnal Number: 117 Composer of "[When the day is dreary and your heart is sad]" in Worship and Service

R. Ward McCombie

Person Name: R.. W. McC. Hymnal Number: 95 Author of "No Tears Up Yonder" in Worship and Service

J. Y. B. Wood

Hymnal Number: 17 Author of "Sometimes" in Worship and Service

Homer F. Kellems

Hymnal Number: 58 Author of "When the Saviour Sends Us" in Worship and Service

H. R. Christie

1848 - 1925 Hymnal Number: 1 Composer of "[Jerusalem, the golden, with milk and honey blest]" in Worship and Service Harvey Robert Christie, 1848-1925 Born: June 29, 1848, Monroe County, West Virginia. Died: March 19, 1925, Willowton, West Virginia. Buried: Rest Haven Memorial Park, Princeton, West Virginia. Christie taught singing classes from 1871 to 1874, which led him to a musical career. He studied under Rigdon McIntosh, who at the time was in the music department at Vanderbilt University. Christie remained in Tennessee until 1876, when he returned to West Virginia. Around 1877, he conducted a two month course at the Concord Normal School, in Athens, West Virginia, followed by a similar course in Princeton, West Virginia; Rural Retreat, Virginia (1878); and four courses in Snowville, Virginia (1879-1880); and a nine month course at Rural Retreat, Virginia (1881). In 1881, he studied for a while at the Commercial College at Kentucky University, and in 1882, moved to Milligan College, Tennessee, where he eventually rose to serve on the Board of Directors. In 1894, Christie became music editor for the Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. His works include: Favorite Songs (co-editor), 1876 Gospel Light, 1894 Songs of Service (music editor) (Atlanta, Georgia: R. M. McIntosh Co., 1896) The Christian Church Hymnal, 1906 Songs of Evangelism, 1911 Worship and Service (Cincinnati, Ohio: The Standard Publishing Company, 1916) Music: Let Him Come In --http://www.hymntime.com

M. E. Dodd

Hymnal Number: 138 Author of "Win One To-day" in Worship and Service

Henry Melville King

1838 - 1919 Person Name: Henry M. King Hymnal Number: 33 Author of "An Open Bible for the World" in Worship and Service King, Henry Melville, D.D., an American Baptist minister, born at Oxford, Maine, Sept. 3, 1838; educated at Bowdoin College, (1859) and Newton Theo. Institution (1862), and entered the ministry in 1862. He was from 1863 to 1882 Pastor of Dudley Street Bap. Church, Roxbury, Mass., and since of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Albany, N.Y. Besides several prose productions, he is the author of the following hymns in common use:— 1. Christ, our Shepherd, leads us still. [Christ the Divine Leader] Dated 1886. 2. Holy Babe, Mary's Son, Calm the night, &c. [Christmas.] Dated 1886, and revised 1891. 3. O Thou, with Whom a thousand years Are but as yesterday. [For Anniversaries]. Dated 1871. These hymns were included in Sursum Corda, 1898. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ======================== King, Henry Melville. (Oxford, Maine, September 3, 1838--June 16, 1919, Providence, Rhode Island). Baptist. Bowdoin College, 1859 with highest honors; Newton Theological Institution, 1862; Honorary D.Div. from Colby Univeristy, 1877. Pastorates long, few, and conspicuous: 1863-1882, Boston, Massachusetts; 1882-1891, Albany, New York; 1891-1906, at the historic First Baptist Church, Providence, R.I. where he continued as pastor-emeritus until his death. Served as President of the Board of Managers of American Baptist Missionary Union, 1884-1887, and served four years as President of the Rhode Island Baptist Convention. King, an eighth-generation descendant of John Alden of Plymouth and of Francis Eaton, also of the Mayflower group, loved his native New England. With a great interest in history and biographies, he authored a number of historical papers, pamphlets, sermons, and discourses and was a frequent contributor to denominational journals and reviews, including a history of the First Baptist Church of Providence, R.I. King wrote a number of occasional hymns, several of which were published by Pond and Co. of New York. These include an Easter hymn, "Sing, O Heavens and Earth Rejoice" and a Christmas hymn, "Angels Sand the Natal Day." The Sursum Corda (1898) included three hymns by king: "Christ, our Shepherd, Leads Us Still" (1886); "Holy Babe, Mary's Son, Calm the Night" (1886) and "O Thou, with Whom a Thousand Years Are But as Yesterday" (1871). King was also the pastor of another Baptist hymn writer, John M. Hewes. --Donald A. Spencer, DNAH Archives