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William Harris Rule

1802 - 1890 Person Name: G. H. Rule Translator of "Influencia vivificador del Espíritu" in Himnario de la Iglesia Metodista Episcopal

Salīm Abdel Ahad

? - 1960 Person Name: سليم عبد الأحد Author of "يا رب لم ننظرك إذ" in كتاب الترانيم الروحية للكنائس الإنجيلية سليم عبد الأحد

Melva Treffinger Graham

b. 1947 Person Name: Melva Treffinger Graham (1947-) Trombone arrangement of "CREATION" in Common Praise (1998)

Anita González

1920 - 2010 Person Name: Anita Gonzalez, 1920- Adapter of "Los Cielos Proclaman" in Himnario Metodista

Author of "Come Forth, Ye Men of Every Race and Nation!" in Christian Worship Jay Holmes Smith went to India as an educational Methodist missionary in 1930. He was one of the founders and acting head of the Lucknow Ashram in India until 1940, when he had to return to the US because he joined 3 other american missionaries in a protest against British Imperialism. He returned to the US and founded and directed the Harlem Ashram in NYC- This Ashram advocated Ghandian non violent protest, and was visited by several early "pre-civil rights" era leaders among whom were Bayard Rustin. Rustin quotes my Smith in his documents regarding the use of non violent passive resistance as a means of protest. Rustin carried his ideas to the south to Martin Luther King, Jr. who adopted this method in his strategies to fight racial injustice. Smith was also the VP of the India League of America and chairman of the Free India and Free Puerto Rico Committees of The Fellowship of Reconciliation. He was a strong advocate for the rights of the oppressed and disenfranchised and organized marches on Washington for garment workers. Sue Mocniak (great niece)

Nellie H. Butler

b. 1865 Author of "O God, Today We May Forget" in The Cyber Hymnal Daughter of a Baptist minister, Butler was already contributing to the Chicago Weekly Magazine as a teenager. As of 1888, she was living in Highland Park, Illinois. Sources: Smith, p. 79 © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

Maurillo López Lázaro

b. 1919 Person Name: Maurilio López L. Translator of "El firmamento de esplendor" in Celebremos Su Gloria

Effie Chastain de Naylor

1889 - 1960 Author of "Cantad, Cantad, la Voz Alzad" in Cántico Nuevo Born in Mexico in 1889 to parents from the U.S. who were missionaries. She married George Dent Naylor, a Methodist missionary and they worked in Guantánamo. She was a composer and choir director. Her music is widely used in Cuban churches. Dianne Shapiro, from A Social History of Cuban's Protestants: God and the Nation, by James A.Baer (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019)

Thomas M. Westrup

1837 - 1909 Person Name: T. M. Westrup Translator of "Dominará Jesús el Rey" in El Himnario Evangelico Thomas Martin Westrup moved with his family from London to Mexico when he was fifteen years old. He translated hundreds of hymns and, along with his son, Enrique, published a three-volume hymnal Incienso Christiano. Dianne Shapiro from Celebremos su Gloria (Colombia/Illinois: Libros Alianza/Celebration), 1992