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Olin Williams

Composer of "[Tho' thorns are o'erspreading the path we are treading]" in Paradise Garden

Olive J. Williams

Arranger of "[He is King of Kings]" in Hymnal of the Church of God

Oscar Williams

Composer of "[Rallying around the banner of the Savior]" in The Cyber Hymnal

1723 - 1796 Translator (st. 1) of "Guide Me, O My Great Redeemer" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Peter Williams (b. Llansadurnin, Carmarthanshire, Wales, 1722; d. Llandyfeilog, Wales, 1796) was converted to Christianity by the preaching of George Whitefield and was ordained in the Church of England in 1744. His evangelical convictions soon made him suspect, however, and he left the state church to join the Calvinist Methodists in 1746. He served as an itinerant preacher for many years and was a primary figure in the Welsh revival of the eighteenth century. After being expelled by the Methodists in 1791 on a charge of heresy, he ministered in his own chapel during the last years of his life. He published the first Welsh Bible commentary (1767-1770) and a Bible concordance (1773); he was also one of the annotators for John Canne's Welsh Bible (1790). In addition Williams published a Welsh hymnal, Rhai Hymnau ac Odlau Ysbrydol (1759), as well as Hymns on Various Subjects (1771). Bert Polman