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Oscar Clute

1837 - 1902 Person Name: Rev. Oscar Clute (1840-1901) Author of "O Love of God most full" in The Hymnal Born: March 11, 1837, Bethlehem (near Albany), New York. Died: January 27, 1903, Los Angeles, California. Buried: Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, California. After teaching school (1854-59), Clute graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College, then taught math 1862-66 before studying at Meadville Theological Seminary. He pastored in Vineland and Newark, New Jersey; Keokuk and Iowa City, Iowa; and Pomona, California. He also served as the fourth president of the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State College) (1889-93) and Florida Agricultural College (1893-97). He spent his last years retired in California. --www.hymntime.com/tch

João Soares da Fonseca

Translator of "Ó Bom Consolador" in Hinário para o Culto Cristão

Rafael Cepeda

Author of "Oh, Dios, inspira en mí" in Toda La Iglesia Canta

F. Richard Garland

Author of "Out Where the Stars Are Born (A Hymn on Health and Healing for Those Who Serve)" in Discipleship Ministries Collection The Reverend F. Richard Garland is a retired United Methodist pastor. He and his wife, Catherine Sprigg, a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, live in North Kingstown, RI. Dick was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is a lifelong Methodist. A graduate of Garrett Theological Seminary, he interned in Chicago and then served churches in Indiana, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. He continues to preach on occasion, provide coverage in emergency pastoral situations, and write a monthly essay, "From Where I Sit" for the newsletter of the North Kingstown UMC. He has been a contributor to The Upper Room. Dick is a lifelong hiker who still climbs in the mountains of New Hampshire. At home, he spends a great deal of time in his flower gardens. He has sung with the Rhode Island Civic Chorale and Orchestra and is a member of the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts. Dick wrote his first hymn, a children's song, in a seminary music class with Austin C. Lovelace, and he has written poetry for many years. He began writing hymns for use in his churches about twenty years ago, but did not submit them for publication until 2006, after being encouraged to do so by a classmate and friend. Many of his texts are inspired by the seasons of the church year, particularly Christmas and Easter, and by Scriptures from the Lectionary. In April of 2007, an appeal from a clergy colleague for a memorial hymn in response to the shootings at Virginia Tech University resulted in the creation of his hymn, In Grief and Aching Sorrow, set to the tune, Passion Chorale by J.S. Bach. Once, his pastor, frustrated in trying to find enough hymns to go with the Good Samaritan story in Luke 10:25-37, asked him to write a new hymn for a service. The result was his hymn, "When We Would Neighbor Be." On a dare from a colleague, he revealed a whimsical side by writing a hymn for Groundhog Day, "Praise the Lord for Woodland Creatures." His hymn, "I Have a Dream," was written to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the address by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He has written a series of texts based on the selections from the Letters to the Ephesians and to the Philippians found in the New Revised Common Lectionary. F. Richard Garland

Don Hustad

1918 - 2013 Person Name: Donald P. Hustad Composer (descant) of "TRENTHAM" in The Worshiping Church

William Watkins Reid

1923 - 2007 Person Name: William W. Reid, Jr. Author of "Help Us, O Lord, to Learn" in Hymnal of the Church of God William W. Reid, Jr. (1923-2007), after graduating from Oberlin College and Seminary and Yale Divinity School served for more than fifty years as pastor in the Wyoming Conference in rural and inner-city Methodist churches. He served on the Executive Committee of The Hymn Society of America. He was involved in social issues, serving as a councilman and county commissioner. His hymns are widely published in hymnals of many denominations. Mary Louise VanDyke =============================== William W. Reid, Jr. is pastor of the Methodist Church Circuit at Carverton, Pennsylvania. He previously served in a similar capacity at Camptown in the same State. He is a graduate of the Yale Divinity School and Oberlin College. He served during World War II in the Medical Corps and was held prisoner by the Germans for eight months. He is the author of several hymns including those in "Fourteen New Rural Hymns" and "Twelve New World Order Hymns" published by the Hymn Society. ----Fifteen New Christian Education Hymns, 1959. Used by permission. ================================ William Watkins Reid, Jr., is currently pastor of Central United Methodist Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Wyoming Annual Conference and has been active on its Social Concerns, Town and Country, and Evangelism boards, and on the Pennsylvania Council of Churches. ----Twelve New Lord’s Day Hymns, 1968. Used by permission. ================================ [Reid] is an executive committee member of the Hymn Society of America, and is the author of a number of hymns that have been published in hymnals in the United States, Canada, England, and in South Africa. As a council man he is concern with the ecology of Wyoming Valley (Penn. and N.Y.) and with the rebuilding of Wilkes-Barre after the disastrous flood of 1972. --16 New Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment [Ecology] , 1973. Used by permission.

Suzanne Bidgrain

1879 - 1961 Translator (into French) of "Breathe on Me, Breath of God (Souffle du Dieu vivant)" in Voices United

James Beaumont

? - 1750 Author of "My Shepherd is the Lamb" in Hymns of Worship and Remembrance Beaumont, James. (?-1750). Was the author of Hymns and Spiritual Songs Composed from Several Scriptures for the Use of Religious Societies (London: J. Lewis, Paternoster Row, 1751). --Henry L. Williams, DNAH Archives

George B. Bubier

1823 - 1869 Author of "A fitly spoken word" in Hymns of the United Church Bubier, George Burden, son of the Rev. William Bubier, born at Reading, Feb. 2, 1823. After serving for some time in a bank at Banbury, he prepared for the Congregational Ministry, at Homerton College. He was successively pastor of congregations at Orsett, Essex, 1844; Union Chapel, Brixton; Cambridge; and Hope Chapel, Salford, 1854. In 1864 he was appointed Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Spring Hill Congregational College, Birmingham. He died at Acock's Green, near Birmingham, March 19, 1869. In 1855 he was joint editor with Dr. George Macdonald, and the brother of the latter, of Hymns and Sacred Songs for Sunday Schools and Social Worship, in two parts, &c, Manchester, Fletcher and Tubbs, 1855. A great many of the 318 hymns in this collection have been repeated in later hymnals. To that work he contributed 11 hymns under the signature "B." These, increased from other sources to 21, together with 6 Psalm Versions, were given with dates and in some instances with notes also, in his Hymns and Devotional Verses, Birmingham, 1867. Amongst those of his hymns in common use are:— 1. A fitly spoken word. Kind Words. Dated "January, 1855," and published in the Hymns, &c, as above, No. 285, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines. Also in Hymns and Devotional Verses, 1867, p. 14. Given in Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884. 2. Blest be the God of love. Sunday Evening. Written in "June, 1855," and published in Hymns, &c, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines as above; Hymns and Devotional Verses, 1867, Horder, 1884, and others. 3. Great is Thy mercy, Lord. Chosen by Christ. Dated "January, 1854," and published in the two works as above, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines. In Horder, 1884. 4. I would commune with Thee, my God. Longing for God. This is the most popular of this author's hymns, and is given in several collections. It was written "February 2nd, 1854," in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. It is in both the Hymns, &c, 1855, and the Hymns and Devotional Verses, 1867. Original text in Baptist Hymnal. 1879, No. 376. 5. My God, I love Thee for Thyself. Love to God. This is not in the Hymns, &c, 1855. It is dated "June 13th, 1857" in his Hymns and Devotional Verses, 1867, p. 22. It is given in the Baptist Hymnal, 1879, Horder, 1884, and others. [Rev. F. J. Falding, D.D.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)