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Vivian Burnett

1876 - 1937 Hymnal Number: 250 Author of "O, when we see God's mercy" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Burnett, Vivian. (Paris, France, 1876--1937). Educated at Harvard University, and joined the Church of Christ, Scientist, in 1918. He wrote a biography of his mother, The Romantic Lady, in 1927. --Joan E. Wilson, DNAH Archives

Violet Ker Seymer

1860 - 1954 Person Name: V. K. S. Hymnal Number: 147 Author of "In God I find a precious gift" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Ker Seymer, Violet. (Paris, France, 1860--1954). English parents. Educated by tutors and in private schools in Paris, Dresden and Brussels. She was a Christian Science teacher, lecturer and editor, also a practitioner from 1902 to 1954. --Joan E. Wilson, DNAH Archives

Minny M. H. Ayers

1890 - 1942 Hymnal Number: 139 Author of "I walk with Love along the way" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Minny Maud Hanff Ayers

Christopher Tye

1497 - 1572 Hymnal Number: 225 Composer of "YATTENDON 15" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Tye, Christopher, MUS. D., born at Westminster in the reign of Henry VIII. He was celebrated as a musician, and was granted the degree of MUS. D. at Cambridge in 1545. He was musical tutor to King Edward VI., and organist of the Chapel Royal under Queen Elizabeth. Besides composing numerous anthems, he rendered the first fourteen chapters of the Acts of the Apostles into metre, which were set to music by him and sung in Edward 6th's Chapel, and published in 1553. He died circa 1580. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

C. Christian Hoffman

Hymnal Number: 15 Composer of "FULFILLMENT" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.)

Maude De Verse Newton

Person Name: M. de V. N. Hymnal Number: 101 Author of "He sent His Word, His holy Word" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.)

Nemi Robertson

Hymnal Number: S422 Author of "Grace for today, O Love divine" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Robertson, Nemi. Studied with Mary Baker Eddy in 1889 and again in 1898. She resided in Chicago from 1888 to 1898, and in East Orange, New Jersey, from 1899 to 1910. She was a Christian Science practitioner and teacher from 1896 to 1926. --Joan E. Wilson, DNAH Archives

R. C. Waterston

1812 - 1893 Person Name: Robert C. Waterston Hymnal Number: 338 Author of "Theories, which thousands cherish" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Waterston, Robert Cassie, M.A., son of Robert Waterston, was born at Kennebunk, in 1812, but has resided from his infancy at Boston, Massachusetts. He studied Theology at Cambridge; had for five years the charge of a Sunday school for the children of seamen; was associated for several years with the Pitts Street Unitarian Chapel, Boston; and then pastor for seven years of the Unitarian Church of the Saviour in the same city. Much of his time has been given to literature, and a long list of his papers of various kinds is given in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, 1874. He also interested himself largely in educational matters. He contributed one hymn to the American Unitarian Cheshire Pastoral Association Christian Hymns, 1844; to his own popular Supplement to Greenwood's Psalms and Hymns, 1845, and others to various works. Putnam gives 20 poetical pieces in his Singers and Songs, &c, 1874, amongst which are the following, which are in common use at the present time:— 1. In darkest hours I hear a voice. Looking unto Jesus. Contributed to Putnam's Singers and Songs, &c, 1874, and found in a few collections. 2. In each breeze that wanders free. Nature and the Soul. Published before 1853, and again in Putnam, 1874. The hymn "Nature, with eternal youth," in Hedge and Huntington's Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, No. 185, is composed of stanza iv-vii. of this piece. 3. One sweet [bright] flower has drooped and faded. Death of a Child. Appeared in the American Unitarian Cheshire Pastoral Association Christian Hymns, 1844, No. 668, and again in Putnam, 1874, as “One bright flower, &c." It is in several collections. In the Christian Hymns the heading is "Death of a Pupil;" and Putnam, "On the Death of a Child. Sung by her classmates." In Putnam there are other pieces by him which are worthy of attention. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)