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Joshua Marsden
1777 - 1837 Person Name: J. Marsden Hymnal Number: 498 Author of "Go, ye messengers of God" in Village hymns for social worship, selected and original Marsden, Joshua, a Wesleyan Methodist Missionary in Nova Scotia, and afterwards in the Bermuda Islands, born in 1777, and died in 1837. He published Amusements of a Mission, N. Y., 1812, in which a poem on Missions appeared as "Go, ye messengers of God." In his Narrative of a Mission (2nd ed.), 1827, he claims this as his own.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Joshua Marsden
Augustus Lucas Hillhouse
1792 - 1859 Person Name: Hillhouse Hymnal Number: 97 Author of "Trembling before thine awful throne" in Village hymns for social worship, selected and original Hillhouse, Augustus Lucas, younger brother of James Hillhouse (commonly known as the poet Hillhouse), was born at New Haven, Connecticut, 1792, and educated at Yale, where he graduated in 1810. For some time he conducted a school in Paris; and died near that city, March 14, 1859. His hymn:—
Trembling before Thine awful throne (Joy in the Forgiveness of Sins) was written cir. 1816, and published in the Christian Spectator, New Haven, April, 1822. It is a good hymn, and is in extensive use, but usually in an abbreviated form. The hymn, "Earth has a joy unknown to heaven," found in a few American hymnbooks, begins with st. iii. of this hymn. Original text in Christ in Song, 1870.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
Augustus Lucas Hillhouse
W. E. Miller
1766 - 1839 Person Name: Miller Hymnal Number: 419 Author of "Our souls, by love together knit" in Village hymns for social worship, selected and original
W. E. Miller
Moses Browne
1703 - 1787 Person Name: Brown Hymnal Number: 404 Author of "When with my mind devoutly press'd" in Village hymns for social worship, selected and original Browne, Moses, was born in humble circumstances in 1703, and was distinguished as a poet and miscellaneous writer. He was Vicar of Olney, Bucks, and for some time Chaplain of Morden College, Blackheath, Kent, where he died Sept. 13, 1787. His poetical works were:—
(1) Poems, 1739; (2) The Works, and Rest of the Creation,in two parts. Pt. i. An Essay on the Universe; Pt. ii. Sunday Thoughts, &c, 1752 (6th edition, 1805). His hymns are contained in Pt. iv. of the Sunday Thoughts, together with versions of Ps. 130 and 139. He is known chiefly through his hymn "When with a mind devoutly pressed" (Penitence), which is "Night Song, No. viii.," in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, of the Sunday Thoughts, having originally appeared in his Poems, 1739, p. 457. He complains in a note of editors of hymn-books printing this hymn "from an imperfect copy." It has been ascribed from time to time to various authors. (3) He also published in 1772, a translation of J. L. Zimmerman's Excellency of the Knowledge of Jesus Christ, 1732, from which the hymn, "Tis not too hard, too high an aim," is taken. It is annotated under "Es ist nicht schwert."
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Moses Browne
Joseph Steward
1753 - 1822 Person Name: J. Steward Hymnal Number: 148 Author of "God from his throne with piercing eye" in Village hymns for social worship, selected and original Steward, Joseph; preacher who became a portrait painter and silhouettist, active in Hartford, Conn.; b. 1753, d. 1822
Joseph Steward
J. H. Livingstone
1746 - 1825 Person Name: Livingstone Hymnal Number: 379 Author of "My soul, with humble fervor raise" in Village hymns for social worship, selected and original Livingstone. Under this name several hymns are in Collyer's Collection, 1812. Of these "My soul, with humble fervour raise" (Praise) is still in common use.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
J. H. Livingstone
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