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Ethelbert W. Bullinger

1837 - 1913 Hymnal Number: 287 Composer of "BULLINGER" in The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) Ethelbert William Bullinger DD United Kingdom 1837-1913. Born in Canterbury, he was an Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and ultradispensationalist theologian and writer. Educated at King's College, London, he became a good organist, singer, and composer. He married Emma Dobson, 13 years his senior, and they had two sons. In 1861 he began as Associate Curate to the parish of St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey, and was ordained as priest in the Church of England in 1862. He served as parish curate in Tittleshall until 1866, then Notting Hill until 1869, them Leytonstone to 1870, and finally Walthamstow, until becoming Vicar of the new parish of St. Stephen's in 1874. He resigned his vicarage in 1888. In 1867 he was clerical secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, which he held (except for illnesses) until his death. The Society completed and published a Hebrew version of the New Testament, the Tanakh (introduction to the Hebrew Bible), formation of the Brittany evangelical Mission Society under Pasteur LeCoat and translation of the Bible into Breton, also producing the first ever Protestant Portuguese reference Bible. It also distributed Spanish Bibles in Spain after the 1868 Spanish Revolution. Bullinger, a practiced musician, collected and harmonized untranscribed hymns on his visits to Tremel, Brittany. He wrote many articles, edited a monthly journal “Things to come”. He wrote 4 Biblical works (16 works). John Perry

Ballington Booth

1857 - 1940 Hymnal Number: 160 Author of "The Cross Is Not Greater" in The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) Rv Ballington Booth United Kingdom 1857-1940 Born in Brighouse, England, the 2nd son of William Booth and Catherine Booth, founders of the Salvation Army, he became a Christian minister. In his teens he began preaching, singing and playing his concertina at open-air meetings sponsored by the Salvation Army. He became a Colonel in that organization at 23 and was positioned as a training officer. He later moved to Australia, followed by the U.S., and then Canada. He married Maud Charlesworth in 1886. Together they were assigned to the U.S., as the Salvation Army was becoming a world-wide organization. They became American citizens the following year, During the 1890s depression the Booths established shelters for homeless men. Although they played a great part in organizing and structuring the Salvation Army in America, Ballington disagreed with his brother, Bramwell, Chielf of Staff, and his father about being reassigned to areas outside the U.S., and he and his wife stayed in the U.S., establishing a new organization in 1896, Volunteers of America. It was not intended to interfere or take from the coffers of the Salvation Army, headquartered in England by his parents, but two-thirds of the volunteers left the Salvation Army and joined VOA. Many of the Salvation Army supporters also went with VOA. He became its first General (1896-1940). On his demise, his wife, Maud, assumed his roll as VOA General. John Perry

Laurie Klein

b. 1950 Hymnal Number: 248 Author of "I Love You, Lord" in The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition)

Eleanor Allen Schroll

1878 - 1966 Hymnal Number: 334 Author of "The Beautiful Garden of Prayer" in The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) Born: 1878, Newport, Kentucky. Died: January 8, 1966, Daytona Beach, Florida. Buried: Southgate, Kentucky. Lyrics-- Beautiful Garden of Prayer, The He Lives --www.hymntime.com/bio

C. R. Dunbar

1830 - 1895 Hymnal Number: 227 Composer of "DUNBAR" in The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) Rv Charles R Dunbar USA 1830-1895. Born in Pulaski,NY, he became a minister. He died in Columbus, OH. John Perry

Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Ippolitov-Ivanov

1859 - 1935 Person Name: Milkail Ippolitof-Ivanoff Hymnal Number: 20 Composer of "[Bless the Lord, O my soul]" in The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition)

F. A. Clark

1868 - 1948 Hymnal Number: 288 Arranger of "BY AND BY" in The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) F. A. Clark (Francis A.) was a respected Black musician and composer from Philadelphia. Dianne Shapiro, from "Charles Albert Tindley: Progenitor of Black-American Gospel Music," by Horace Clarence Boyer, in The Black Perspective in Music Vol. 11, No. 2 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 103-132 (retrieved online from JSTOR, 8/27/2020)

W. S. Marshall

Hymnal Number: 130 Composer of "[Joys are flowing like a river]" in The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) He composed tunes for gospel lyric writers. John Perry

John Stafford Smith

1750 - 1836 Hymnal Number: 458 Composer (attributed to) of "NATIONAL ANTHEM" in The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition)

Thomas Koschat

1845 - 1914 Hymnal Number: 241 Composer of "[The Lord is my Shepherd, no want shall I know]" in The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) Thomas Koschat Austria 1845-1914. Born at Viktring, Austria, he studied chemistry in Vienna (1865-67). A Roman Catholic, in 1866 he joined the Vienna State Opera and sang bass in the Hofoper (court opera) Choir, and eventually became choir director. In 1874 he joined the choir at St. Stephen’s Cathedral. In 1877 he joined the Hofmusikkapelle (choir) and served as a soloist there. From 1877-1906 he founded and sang with the Koschat Quintet, touring Europe and America extensively. He was well-known for his ‘Karntnerlider’ Carinthian folk songs. Emperor Wilhelm awarded him the ‘Adler Order of the Red Eagle’. He wrote several books and also published a book of poems in the Carinthian dialect. He died in Vienna, Austria. He was a musician, author, composer, librettist, adapter, and contributor. John Perry