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J. H. Weber

Person Name: J. H. W. Hymnal Number: 129 Author of "Can a Boy Forget His Mother?" in Songs for Service

E. C. Avis

1859 - 1933 Person Name: E. C. A. Hymnal Number: 6 Author of "Speak Just a Word" in Songs for Service

Hattie Bell Allen

1896 - 1981 Person Name: Hattie A. Allen Hymnal Number: 30 Author of "While the Days Are Going By" in Songs for Service Hattie Bell McCracken Allen 1896-1981 Residence: Born in Columbus, MS; lived in Nashville, TN; Hartsville, SC; Winston-Salem, NC Education: Mississippi Women's College Occupation: Teacher, editor of children's books for Broadman Press, author Notes: All of her books are of a religious nature; married to Clifton J. Allen --www.lib.usm.edu/legacy

Edward Perronet

1721 - 1792 Hymnal Number: 24 Author of "All Hail the Power" in Songs for Service Edward Perronet was the son of the Rev. Vincent Perronet, Vicar of Shoreham, Kent. For some time he was an intimate associate of the Wesleys, at Canterbury and Norwich. He afterwards became pastor of a dissenting congregation. He died in 1792. In 1784, he published a small volume, entitled "Occasional Verses, Moral and Social;" a book now extremely rare. At his death he is said to have left a large sum of money to Shrubsole, who was organist at Spafield's Chapel, London, and who had composed the tune "Miles Lane" for "All hail the power of Jesus' Name!" --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872. ------ Perronet, Edward. The Perronets of England, grandfather, father, and son, were French emigres. David Perronet came to England about 1680. He was son of the refugee Pasteur Perronet, who had chosen Switzerland as his adopted country, where he ministered to a Protestant congregation at Chateau D'Oex. His son, Vincent Perronet, M.A., was a graduate of Queen's College, Oxford, though his name is not found in either Anthony Woods's Athenae Oxonienses nor his Fasti, nor in Bliss's apparatus of additional notes. He became, in 1728, Vicar of Shoreham, Kent. He is imperishably associated with the Evangelical Revival under the Wesleys and Whitefield. He cordially cooperated with the movement, and many are the notices of him scattered up and down the biographies and Journals of John Wesley and of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. He lived to the venerable age of ninety-one; and pathetic and beautiful is the account of John Wesley's later visits to the white-haired saint (b. 1693, d. May 9, 1785).* His son Edward was born in 1726. He was first educated at home under a tutor, but whether he proceeded to the University (Oxford) is uncertain. Born, baptized, and brought up in the Church of England, he had originally no other thought than to be one of her clergy. But, though strongly evangelical, he had a keen and searching eye for defects. A characteristic note to The Mitre, in referring to a book called The Dissenting Gentleman's answer to the Rev. Mr. White, thus runs:—"I was born, and am like to die, in the tottering communion of the Church of England; but I despise her nonsense; and thank God that I have once read a book that no fool can answer, and that no honest man will". The publication of The Mitre is really the first prominent event in his life. A copy is preserved in the British Museum, with title in the author's holograph, and manuscript notes; and on the fly-leaf this:— "Capt. Boisragon, from his oblig'd and most respectful humble servt. The Author. London, March 29th, 1757." The title is as follows:— The Mitre; a Sacred Poem (1 Samuel ii. 30). London: printed in the year 1757. This strangely overlooked satire is priceless as a reflex of contemporary ecclesiastical opinion and sentiment. It is pungent, salted with wit, gleams with humour, hits off vividly the well-known celebrities in Church and State, and is well wrought in picked and packed words. But it is a curious production to have come from a "true son" of the Church of England. It roused John Wesley's hottest anger. He demanded its instant suppression; and it was suppressed (Atmore's Methodist Memorial, p. 300, and Tyerman, ii. 240-44, 264, 265); and yet it was at this period the author threw himself into the Wesleys' great work. But evidences abound in the letters and journals of John Wesley that he was intermittently rebellious and vehement to even his revered leader's authority. Earlier, Edward Perronet dared all obloquy as a Methodist. In 1749 Wesley enters in his diary: "From Rochdale went to Bolton, and soon found that the Rochdale lions were lambs in comparison with those of Bolton. Edward Perronet was thrown down and rolled in mud and mire. Stones were hurled and windows broken" (Tyerman's Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., 3 vols., 1870 ; vol. ii. 57). In 1750 John Wesley writes: ”Charles and you [Edward Perronet] behave as I want you to do; but you cannot, or will not, preach where I desire. Others can and will preach where I desire, but they do not behave as I want them to do. I have a fine time between the one and the other. I think Charles and you have in the general a right sense of what it is to serve as sons in the gospel; and if all our helpers had had the same, the work of God would have prospered better both in England and Ireland. I have not one preacher with me, and not six in England, whose wills are broken to serve me" (ibid. ii. 85, and Whitehead's Life of Wesley, ii. 259). In 1755 arrangements to meet the emergency created by its own success had to be made for Methodism. As one result, both Edward and Charles Perronet broke loose from John Wesley's law that none of his preachers or "helpers" were to dispense the Sacraments, but were still with their flocks to attend the parish churches. Edward Perronet asserted his right to administer the Sacraments as a divinely-called preacher ibid. ii. 200). At that time he was resident at Canterbury, "in a part of the archbishop's old palace" (ibid. ii. 230. In season and out of season he "evangelized." Onward, he became one of the Countess of Huntingdon's "ministers" in a chapel in Watling Street, Canterbury. Throughout he was passionate, impulsive, strong-willed; but always lived near his divine Master. The student-reader of Lives of the Wesleys will be "taken captive" by those passages that ever and anon introduce him. He bursts in full of fire and enthusiasm, yet ebullient and volatile. In the close of his life he is found as an Independent or Congregational pastor of a small church in Canterbury. He must have been in easy worldly circumstances, as his will shows. He died Jan. 2, 1792, and was buried in the cloisters of the great cathedral, Jan. 8. His Hymns were published anonymously in successive small volumes. First of all came Select Passages of the Old and New Testament versified; London: Printed by H. Cock, mdcclvi. … A second similar volume is entitled A Small Collection of Hymns, &c, Canterbury: printed in the year dcclxxxii. His most important volume was the following:— Occasional Verses, moral and sacred. Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious. London, printed for the Editor: And Sold by J. Buckland in Paternoster Row; and T. Scollick, in the City Road, Moorfields, mdcclxxxv. pp. 216 (12°). [The British Museum copy has the two earlier volumes bound up with this.] The third hymn in this scarce book is headed, “On the Resurrection," and is, ”All hail the power of Jesus' name". But there are others of almost equal power and of more thorough workmanship. In my judgment, "The Lord is King" (Psalm xcvi. 16) is a great and noble hymn. It commences:— “Hail, holy, holy, holy Loud! Let Pow'rs immortal sing; Adore the co-eternal Word, And shout, the Lord is King." Very fine also is "The Master's Yoke—the Scholar's Lesson," Matthew xi. 29, which thus opens:— O Grant me, Lord, that sweet content That sweetens every state; Which no internal fears can rent, Nor outward foes abate." A sacred poem is named "The Wayfaring Man: a Parody"; and another, "The Goldfish: a Parody." The latter has one splendid line on the Cross, "I long to share the glorious shame." "The Tempest" is striking, and ought to be introduced into our hymnals; and also "The Conflict or Conquest over the Conqueror, Genesis xxxii. 24". Still finer is "Thoughts on Hebrews xii.," opening:— "Awake my soul—arise! And run the heavenly race; Look up to Him who holds the prize, And offers thee His grace." "A Prayer for Mercy on Psalm cxix. 94," is very striking. On Isaiah lxv. 19, is strong and unmistakable. "The Sinner's Resolution," and "Thoughts on Matthew viii. 2," and on Mark x. 51, more than worthy of being reclaimed for use. Perronet is a poet as well as a pre-eminently successful hymnwriter. He always sings as well as prays. It may be added that the brief paraphrase after Ovid given below, seems to echo the well-known lines in Gray's immortal elegy:— "How many a gem unseen of human eyes, Entomb'd in earth, a sparkling embryo lies; How many a rose, neglected as the gem, Scatters its sweets and rots upon its stem: So many a mind, that might a meteor shone, Had or its genius or its friend been known; Whose want of aid from some maternal hand, Still haunts the shade, or quits its native land." [Rev. A. B. Grosart, D.D., LL.D.] * Agnew's Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XIV. confounds Vincent the father with Edward his son. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

William Henry Monk

1823 - 1889 Person Name: Wm. H. Monk Hymnal Number: 233 Composer of "[Abide with me! Fast falls the eventide]" in Songs for Service William H. Monk (b. Brompton, London, England, 1823; d. London, 1889) is best known for his music editing of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861, 1868; 1875, and 1889 editions). He also adapted music from plainsong and added accompaniments for Introits for Use Throughout the Year, a book issued with that famous hymnal. Beginning in his teenage years, Monk held a number of musical positions. He became choirmaster at King's College in London in 1847 and was organist and choirmaster at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington, from 1852 to 1889, where he was influenced by the Oxford Movement. At St. Matthias, Monk also began daily choral services with the choir leading the congregation in music chosen according to the church year, including psalms chanted to plainsong. He composed over fifty hymn tunes and edited The Scottish Hymnal (1872 edition) and Wordsworth's Hymns for the Holy Year (1862) as well as the periodical Parish Choir (1840-1851). Bert Polman

G. Tabor Thompson

Hymnal Number: 20 Author of "My Old Country Home" in Songs for Service Thompson, G. Tabor. (19th century). Little information has been available on this author, except that he succeeded J.H. Burke as song leader under A.B. Simpson at the New York Gospel Tabernacle about 1890. --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

Mrs. M. T. Haughey

Person Name: M. T. H. Hymnal Number: 98 Author of "The Blessed Hope" in Songs for Service Late 19th Century Music SUNLIGHT IN THE HEART --www.hymntime.com/tch

Sidney Martin Grannis

1827 - 1907 Person Name: S. M. Grannis Hymnal Number: 134 Composer of "[Do you know a heart that hungers]" in Songs for Service Born: September 23, 1827, Geneseo, New York. Died: 1907, Los Angeles, California. Buried: Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, California. Grannis’ family moved to Le Roy, New York in 1831. His father Samuel owned a hardware business which in 1844 was located in the Barrett Block, known as the "Dock," on the present site of the Le Roy Post Office. Samuel was involved on the Underground Railroad. Sidney would drop into Samuel’s Store where he would sit down at the melodeon and sing until the room filled with people. Although it was said that he never learned to read music, he wrote music to several poems. Grannis established a reputation with "Do They Miss Me at Home?" Caroline Mason wrote the poem "Do They Miss Me at Home?" and Sidney Grannis put it to music. It became a popular favorite during the Civil War. One of the lines reads: “Does someone repeat my name over and sigh that I tarry so long? And is there a chord in the music "That’s miss’d when my voice is away, And a chord in each heart that awaketh, regret at my wearisome stay?" He also composed the ballads, "Only Waiting," "Cling to the Union," and "People Will Talk You Know." In 1856 Grannis wrote the words and music for Sparking Sunday Night. Sheet music was published by Joseph P. Shaw, Rochester, New York, affiliated with Oliver Ditson (Boston), who also distributed the song. The sheet music is preserved in the Sibley Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York. As a solo singer, Grannis had a remarkable tenor voice, and it was said that his voice "was of marvelous flexibility, sweet as a flute, and had a range of three octaves." A newspaper in Pultneyville mentioned that Grannis performed at the Union Church in 1864 "to an appreciative audience." He sang at more than five thousand concerts. He organized the Amphion Troupe, a vocal quartet which included "Pixley and Bryant" and Emily Goodenou, who sang solo. The group toured the country giving concerts. In 1864, Grannis was in New Haven, Connecticut, where he composed his music for Your Mission. In the later days of the Civil War, Philip Phillips, who had a wonderfully sweet tenor voice, was invited to sing at a great meeting of the United States Christian Commission in the Senate Chamber at Washington, February, 1865, President Lincoln and Secretary Seward (then president of the commission) were there, and the hall was crowded with leading statesmen, army generals, and friends of the Union. The song selected by Mr. Phillips was Mrs. Gates’ "Your Mission." The hushed audience listened spell-bound as the sweet singer went on, their interest growing to feverish eagerness until the climax was reached in the fifth stanza. In the storm of enthusiasm that followed, President Lincoln handed a hastily scribbled line on a bit of paper to Chairman Seward, "Near the close let us have Your Mission repeated." In 1884, Grannis moved to Los Angeles, California, where several of his admirers presented him a cottage and grounds. It was said of him: "He was the best man we ever knew, going in and out among us like a ray of light, never complaining, always cheerful, always happy, never a cloud on his sunny countenance. His nature was musical, he loved to sing. His songs were inspiring, his mirth contagious. Who that has heard his favorite laughing song, can forget his sunlit face, or fail to recall the effect the song produced? His invitation "please join the chorus" was superfluous. Throughout this broad land his rollicking laughter has been heard and his sweet and musical songs have flowed like soothing and peace giving rivers." --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Asa Smith

Hymnal Number: 48 Composer of "[Jesus, I my cross have taken]" in Songs for Service

George R. Lewis

Person Name: Geo. Lewis Hymnal Number: 124 Author of "The Beautiful Land" in Songs for Service

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