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Elizabeth C. Adams

? - 1953 Person Name: E. C. A. Hymnal Number: 58 Author of "Father, we Thy loving children" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Adams, Elizabeth C. (Mrs. Comfort A. Adams). Died April 10, 1953, Germantown, PA. Christian Scientist. Adams became a member of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston in 1920 and serves as a Christian Science practitioner 1938-1948. She was the author of three hymns, all written specifically for the 1932 revision of the Christian Science Hymnal. They are "Father, we thy loving children"; "God giveth light to all"; and "No eye hath seen, nor tongue declared." -Anastasia Van Burkalow, DNAH Archives

Irving Clinton Tomlinson

1860 - 1944 Person Name: Irving C. Tomlinson Hymnal Number: 236 Author of "O peace of the world" in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Tomlinson, Irving Clinton. (Perry, New York, 1860--1944). Graduated from Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, B.A., 1880; M.A., 1883; and Tufts Divinity School, B.D., 1888. From 1889 to 1896 he was pastor of the First Universalist Church, Saugus, Massachusetts, and a social worker in the Boston area. From 1899 to 1940 he was a Christian Science practitioner, teacher, and lecturer. He was the author of Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy (1945). --Joan E. Wilson, DNAH Archives

Abiel A. Livermore

1811 - 1892 Person Name: Abiel Abbot Livermore Hymnal Number: 4 Author of "A holy air is breathing round " in Christian Science Hymnal (Rev. and enl.) Livermore, Abiel Abbot, D.D. was born at Wilton, New Hampshire, Oct. 30, 1811, and graduated at Harvard in Arts, in 1833; and Divinity, 1836. The latter year he was ordained as a Unitarian Minister, and became Pastor at Keene, New Hampshire, 1836; Cincinnati, 1850; Yonkers, New York, 1857. In 1863 he removed to Meadville, Pennsylvania, as the President of the Theological School. Dr. Livermore is the author of various works, and was the chief editor of the Cheshire Pastoral Association's Christian Hymns, 1844, one of the most widely circulated and estimable of American Unitarian collections. To that collection he contributed "A holy air is breathing round" (Holy Communion), which has passed into several collections, including Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907), p. 680