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William Hammond

1719 - 1783 Hymnal Number: CCCXXXVI Author of "In Christ alone all fulness dwells" in The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems Hammond, William, B.A, born at Battle, Sussex, Jan. 6, 1719, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1743 he joined the Calvinistic Methodists; and in 1745, the Moravian Brethren. He died in London, Aug. 19, 1783, and was buried in the Moravian burial-ground, Sloane Street, Chelsea. He left an Autobiography in Greek, which remains unpublished. His original hymns, together with his translations from the Latin, were published in his:— Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs. To which is prefix'd A Preface, giving some Account of a Weak Faith, and a Full Assurance of Faith; and briefly stating the Doctrine of Sanctification; and shewing a Christian's Completeness, Perfection, and Happiness in Christ. By William Hammond, A.B., late of St. John's College, Cambridge. London: Printed by W. Strahan; and sold by J. Oswald, at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry, mdccxlv. A few of his original hymns from scriptural fidelity and earnestness have attained to a foremost position amongst English hymns. These include, "Awake, and sing the song," and "Lord, we come before Thee now." His translations of Latin hymns were amongst the earliest published after those contained in the Primers and other devotional works of 16th and 17th centuries. They are of merit, and worthy of attention. Greater use might also be made of his original compositions. In addition to those named above, the following are also in common use:— 1. Brightness of the Father's Face. God the Son. 2. How great the Christian's portion is. Possession of All in Christ. 3. If Jesus is yours. God's unchangeable Love. 4. In Thine own appointed way. Divine Worship. 5. Jesus, Who died the [a] world to save. Easter. 6. Lord, if on earth the thought of Thee. Heaven anticipated. 1. Now with joint consent we sing. Divine Worship. 8. O Lord, how little do we know. Quinquagesima. 9. Would you win a soul to God ? The Gospel Message. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Jesse Mercer

1769 - 1841 Editor of "" in The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems Mercer, Jesse. (Halifax County, North Carolina, December 16, 1769--September 6, 1841, Washington, Georgia). Baptist. Son of Rev. Silas Mercer. Married Sabrina Chivers. Ordained November 7, 1789. Pastorates at Hutton Fork (now Sardis), Indian Cree, 1793-?; Sardis, 1788-1817; Phillips' Mill, 1796-1835; Whatley's Mill (now Bethesda), 1796-1827; Eatonton, 1820-1826; and Washington, 1827-1841, all in Georgia. Editor of The Index of Georgia Baptist Convention. Author of many articles on theology, Baptist history, and ecclesiology. Compiled The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems, Augusta, Ga., in pamphlet form, and issued three editions before 1817, which contained as hymn no.233, in its later editions, entitled "The Experience of J.M." Wrote second part of Edmund Jones' well known hymn "Come, humble sinner in whose breast," (also in the The Cluster) which second part was intended as a response, as follows: "Resolving thus I entered in . . ." Mercer's Cluster has been used in some Southern Baptist churches at least through 1888. See: Mallary, Charles Dutton. Memoirs of Elder Jesse Mercer. New York, 1841. --E. F. Quinn, DNAH Archives

William Kingsbury

1744 - 1818 Hymnal Number: CLII Author of "Let us awake our joys" in The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems Born: July 12, 1744, Bishopsgate Street, London, England. Christened: August 12, 1744, Poultry Chapel, Camomile Street Independent Church, London, England. Died: February 18, 1818, Caversham, Southampton, England. Kingsbury, William, was born in 1744, educated at an Independent academy in London, and became Pastor of the ancient Congregational Church, Above Bar, in Southampton, where he died in 1818, after an honourable and useful ministry of fifty-four years. He was the author of several published sermons and pamphlets, including:—(1) A Sermon on the King's recovery, 1780; (2) The Manner in which Protestant Dissenters perform Public Worship represented and vindicated, 1796; (3) An Apology for Village Preachers, 1799; (4) A Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Mr. Towle, 1807, &c. Kingsbury was one of the ministers under whose patronage Dobell published his New Selection, 1806, and to that book contributed two hymns.-—"Great Lord of all thy churches, hear!" No. 213 (Divine Worship), and "Let us awake our joys," No. 100 (Jesus the King). Both these hymns are in common use, the second being specially popular in America. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

W. E. Miller

1766 - 1839 Hymnal Number: CCLXXIII Author of "Our souls by [in] love together knit [drawn] [joined]" in The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems

J. M. Orrock

Hymnal Number: DLXXV Author of "The Lord is my Shepherd, My Guard and my Guide" in The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems

Robert T. Daniel

1773 - 1840 Hymnal Number: DX Author of "This morning let my praise arise" in The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems Daniel, Robert T., was born June 10, 1773, in Middlesex Co., Virginia, and removed in boyhood to Orange Co., North Carolina. He was engaged for some time as a blacksmith and cabinet-maker. In 1803 he was ordained to the Baptist Ministry, and acted as a missioner in North and South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Besides being an agent for various Baptist Missionary and Education Societies, he was an eminent revivalist. He died at Paris, Tennessee, 1840. His hymn for Immersion, “Lord, in humble, sweet submission," appeared in Broaddus's Dover Selection, 1828-31, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines; Winchell's Additional Hymns, 1832; and is given in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Justus Hull

Hymnal Number: CLXXI Author of "Farewell, my [dear] brethren in the Lord" in The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems

De Courcy, Richard

1743 - 1803 Person Name: Decourcy Hymnal Number: CCXVIII Author of "Come, ye weary sinners, oppressed" in The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems De Courcy, Richard, M.A., born in Ireland in 1743, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Having received Deacon's Orders, he became, in 1767, Curate to the Rev. Walter Shirley; but his theological views being obnoxious to Dr. Smythe, the Archbishop of Dublin, he was refused Priest's Orders and inhibited from preaching. These circumstances led to his being invited by Lady Huntingdon to England, and his joining her band of preachers. After some time, through Lady Huntingdon's influence, he obtained Priest's Orders from the Bishop of Lichfield. In 1770 he became Curate of Shawbury, Salop, and in 1774 Vicar of St. Alkmond's, Shrewsbury. The latter he retained to his death in 1803. His theological views, work, and other matters concerning him, are dwelt upon with some detail in the Life and Times of the Countess of Huntingdon, 1839. His published works include Some Elegiac Lines on the Death of the Rev. G. Whitefield, 1771; Christ Crucified, a reply to Dr. Priestley, in 2 vols., 1791; and various Sermons, &c. In 1775 he also published:— A Collection of Psalms and Hymns Extracted from different Authors, with a Preface by Mr. De Courcy, Shrewsbury, 1775. (Preface dated "Shrewsbury, December 6, 1775.") To the 2nd ed. of this Collection, published in 1782, several hymns were added, amongst which the following are by common consent attributed to De Courcy: — 1. Angels who the throne surround. Praise of Christ. 2. Hark! from heaven a voice I hear. Burial. 3. Jesus the Saint's perpetual theme. Christ, the Rose of Sharon. 4. Lord, I thank Thee for Thy grace. Thanksgiving for Salvation. 5. Mount, my soul, to things above. Looking Heavenward. These hymns are attributed to De Courcy on the ground that they cannot be found in any collection or work published before his Collection, and that they have never been claimed by or on behalf of any other hymn-writer. All the hymns in his Collection were published anonymously. Other hymns, sometimes attributed to him, have been traced to earlier hymn-books, and are consequently omitted from the foregoing list. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Samuel Boyce

Hymnal Number: CDXL Author of "Sin, in ten thousand treacherous ways" in The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems Boyce. Twenty-one hymns appeared under this signature in Williams and Boden's Collection of above Six Hundred Hymns, &c, 1801. The writer is sometimes described as "Samuel Boyce"; but nothing definite is known to us concerning him. Of these hymns the following are in common use:— 1. All hail, redeeming Lord. Christ the Day-Spring. 2. Grace, how melodious is the sound. Fulness of Grace. 3. Great Sovereign Lord, what human eye. Harvest. 4. 0 the transcendent love. Christ the Sinner's Friend. 5. Ye trembling captives, hear. The Gospel Trumpet. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Joseph Hinchsliffe

1760 - 1807 Hymnal Number: DCLX Author of "This is the field, the world below, In which the sower" in The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns and Sacred Poems Hinchsliffe, Joseph, a Sheffield manufacturer, and a member of the Wesleyan body, was born at Sheffield in 1760, and died at Dumfries in 1807. Concerning his hymn in the Primitive Methodist Hymnal, 1887, "This is the field, the world below" (Death and the Resurrection), Dorricott and Collins say in their Lyric Studies, 1889, p. 289, "It has been traced to a Tract, entitled Favourite Hymns, Odes, and Anthems, as Sung at the Methodist Chapels in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Nottingham Circuits, Fifth edition, 1797, and immediately under the title of this hymn are the words 'By J. Hinchsliffe.'" --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)