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William Penfro Rowlands

1860 - 1937 Person Name: William Penfro Rowlands (1860-1937) Topics: Unity of Humanity Composer of "BLAENWERN" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

1865 - 1959 Person Name: Laurence Housman (1865-1959) Topics: Unity of Humanity Author of "Father eternal, Ruler of creation" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Housman, Lawrence, author and artist, was born July 18, 1867, at Bromsgrove, Worcs. His devotional poetry is principally in his Spikenard, 1898, and Bethlehem, 1902. To the English Hymnal, 1906, he contributed eight translations (142, 188, 191, 228, 229, 230, 231, 234); also three original hymns, with a fourth previously published, viz.:— 1. Lord God of Hosts, within Whose hand. St. George. 2. The Maker of the sun and moon. Christmas. From Bethlehem, 1902, p. 75. 3. The Saint who first found grace to pen. St. Mark. 4. When Christ was born in Bethlehem. Holy Innocents. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================== Born: July 18, 1865, Bromsgrove, Hereford, England. Died: February 20, 1959, Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Buried: St. Mary’s, Bathwick, Smallcombe, near Bath. Housman studied art at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He had great success as an illustrator, but when his eyesight began to fail, he turned to writing books and plays. He wrote 80 books during his lifetime. He often seemed to fall afoul of the censors, though, for religious and political reasons. A committed socialist and pacifist, in 1907, he helped found the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage. He was also an honorary associate of the Women Writers’ Suffrage League. His works include: Jump-to-Glory Jane, by Meredith Goblin Market, by Christiantina Rossetti, 1893 The End of Elfintown, by Jane Barlow, 1894 Spikenard, 1898 The Sensitive Plant, 1898 Bethlehem, 1902 The Blue Moon, 1904 Angels and Ministers, 1921 Little Plays of St. Francis, 1922 Victoria Regina, 1937 The Unexpected Years, 1937 (autobiography) --www.hymntime.com/tch

Harry Emerson Fosdick

1878 - 1969 Person Name: Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878-1969 Topics: Words and Deeds of Prophetic Women and Men Commitment and Action; Courage; God, Goddess, and Spirit; Humanism; Peace and War; Unity and Diversity; Wisdom and Understanding; World Community Author of "God of Grace and God of Glory" in Singing the Living Tradition Born: May 24, 1878, Buffalo, New York. Died: October 5, 1969, Bronxville, New York. Fosdick attended Colgate University, Union Theological Seminary, and Columbia University. Ordained in 1903, he pastored at the First Baptist Church in Montclair, New Jersey, from 1904 to 1915. At Union Theological Seminary, he lectured on Baptist principles and homiletics (1908-1915) and was professor of practical theology (1915-1946). He also found time to serve as associate minister at the First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, New York (1919-1925), and pastor of Park Avenue Baptist Church (1929-1946). His picture was on the cover of Time magazine, September 21, 1925. His works include: A Guide to Understanding the Bible, 1938 The Living of These Days (an autobiography), 1956 A Book of Public Prayers, 1960 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Communauté de Taizé

Person Name: The Community of Taizé Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jerusalem; Biblical Names and Places Zion; Church Year Ash Wednesday; Church Year Christmas; Church Year Lent; Cry to God; Earth; Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); God as Creator; God's Word; God's Glory; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Way; Humanity Sustained by God; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Lament Illness; Lament Individual; Life Stages Children; Life Stages Death; Life Stages Generations; Life Stages Old Age; New Creation; Occasional Services New Year; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; Servants of God; The Creation; The Incarnation; Unity of the Church Adapter of "O Lord, Hear My Prayer" in Psalms for All Seasons

Jacques Berthier

1923 - 1994 Person Name: Jacques Berthier, 1923-1994 Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jerusalem; Biblical Names and Places Zion; Church Year Ash Wednesday; Church Year Christmas; Church Year Lent; Cry to God; Earth; Elements of Worship Confession (Individual); God as Creator; God's Word; God's Glory; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Way; Humanity Sustained by God; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Lament Illness; Lament Individual; Life Stages Children; Life Stages Death; Life Stages Generations; Life Stages Old Age; New Creation; Occasional Services New Year; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; Servants of God; The Creation; The Incarnation; Unity of the Church Composer of "[O Lord, hear my prayer]" in Psalms for All Seasons Jacques Berthier (b. Auxerre, Burgundy, June 27, 1923; d. June 27, 1994) A son of musical parents, Berthier studied music at the Ecole Cesar Franck in Paris. From 1961 until his death he served as organist at St. Ignace Church, Paris. Although his published works include numerous compositions for organ, voice, and instruments, Berthier is best known as the composer of service music for the Taizé community near Cluny, Burgundy. Influenced by the French liturgist and church musician Joseph Gelineau, Berthier began writing songs for equal voices in 1955 for the services of the then nascent community of twenty brothers at Taizé. As the Taizé community grew, Berthier continued to compose most of the mini-hymns, canons, and various associated instrumental arrangements, which are now universally known as the Taizé repertoire. In the past two decades this repertoire has become widely used in North American church music in both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions. Bert Polman

Somerset Corry Lowry

1855 - 1932 Person Name: Somerset Corry Lowry (1855-1932) Topics: Unity of Humanity Author of "Son of God, eternal Saviour" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Lowry, Somerset Corry, M.A., son of James Corry Lowry, Q.C., of Rockdale, Dungannon, Ireland, b. in 1855, and educated at Repton and Trin. Hall, Camb., B.A. 1877, M.A. 1880. Ordained in 1879 to the Curacy of Doncaster. Subsequently Vicar of North Holmwood, Surrey, 1891-1900, and of St. Augustin's, Bournemouth, from 1900. He has published The Work of the Holy Spirit, 1894; Convalescence, 1897; Lessons from the Passion, 1899, &c. His hymns include:— 1. Behold, Lord! how the nations rage, [In Time of War.] Written "For Use during the War between Russia and Japan," in 1904, and printed as a leaflet by Jarvis & Co., Bournemouth. 2. Lord, while afar our brothers fight. [In Time of War.] Written at Holmwood, Surrey, in 1899, after the reverse of Colenso, and extensively used during the S. African War. Given in the 1904 ed. of Hymns Ancient & Modern. 3. 0 Saviour, once again the ebbing year. [For a Memorial Service.] Written at Holmwood, in 1898, for Queen Victoria's annual Service in memory of the Prince Consort. Included in Hymns of the Christ. Centuries, 1903. 4. 0 Son of God, enthroned above. [Advent] Written at Holmwood, in 1892, and given in M. Woodward's Children's Service Book, 1897. 5. Pressing forward. [Processional.] Also in Woodward's Children's Service Book, 1897. Written at Bournemouth, in 1888. 6. Son of God, Eternal Saviour. [For Unity.] Written at Holmwood, in 1893 ; printed in Goodwill, Feb. 1894, and included in the 1904 ed. of Hymns Ancient & Modern. 7. We meet as we have never met before. [Burial.] Written for use after a Child's Funeral, Holmwood, 1892, and given in Woodward's Children's Service Book, 1897. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Noel Dexter

1938 - 2019 Person Name: Noel G. Dexter (b. 1938) Topics: Unity of Humanity Composer of "RIGHT HAND" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Noel Dexter was born on December 21, 1938 and grew up in Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica. He studied ethnomusicology and church music at the University of West Indies, in the United Kingdom and in the United States. He founded and led the Kingston Singers as well as other theatrical productions. For 25 years he was director of music at the University of West Indies, Mona, While there he lead the University Singers, until 2012, when he retired. He composed many hymns, anthems, and arrangements. Dianne Shapiro, from "Music Great, Noel Dexter, Remembered" in "The Gleaner," August 19, 2019 (accessed online 8/6/2020)

Miriam Therese Winter

b. 1938 Person Name: Miriam Therese Winter, 1938- Topics: Acceptance; Human Rights; Interfaith Respect; Justice; Human Love; Mission; Peace on Earth; Truth; Unity; Vision; Yearning; Zion-Reign of God Author of "O for a World" in Community of Christ Sings

H. W. Baker

1821 - 1877 Person Name: Rev. Sir Henry Williams Baker, 1821-1877 Topics: Childlikeness; Christ Divine-Human; Darkness; Lord's Day; Prayer; Saints Communion of; Unity Christian Author of "O Jesus, God and Man" in The Sunday School Hymnal Baker, Sir Henry Williams, Bart., eldest son of Admiral Sir Henry Loraine Baker, born in London, May 27, 1821, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated, B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847. Taking Holy Orders in 1844, he became, in 1851, Vicar of Monkland, Herefordshire. This benefice he held to his death, on Monday, Feb. 12, 1877. He succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1851. Sir Henry's name is intimately associated with hymnody. One of his earliest compositions was the very beautiful hymn, "Oh! what if we are Christ's," which he contributed to Murray's Hymnal for the Use of the English Church, 1852. His hymns, including metrical litanies and translations, number in the revised edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern, 33 in all. These were contributed at various times to Murray's Hymnal, Hymns Ancient & Modern and the London Mission Hymn Book, 1876-7. The last contains his three latest hymns. These are not included in Hymns Ancient & Modern. Of his hymns four only are in the highest strains of jubilation, another four are bright and cheerful, and the remainder are very tender, but exceedingly plaintive, sometimes even to sadness. Even those which at first seem bright and cheerful have an undertone of plaintiveness, and leave a dreamy sadness upon the spirit of the singer. Poetical figures, far-fetched illustrations, and difficult compound words, he entirely eschewed. In his simplicity of language, smoothness of rhythm, and earnestness of utterance, he reminds one forcibly of the saintly Lyte. In common with Lyte also, if a subject presented itself to his mind with striking contrasts of lights and shadows, he almost invariably sought shelter in the shadows. The last audible words which lingered on his dying lips were the third stanza of his exquisite rendering of the 23rd Psalm, "The King of Love, my Shepherd is:"— Perverse and foolish, oft I strayed, But yet in love He sought me, And on His Shoulder gently laid, And home, rejoicing, brought me." This tender sadness, brightened by a soft calm peace, was an epitome of his poetical life. Sir Henry's labours as the Editor of Hymns Ancient & Modern were very arduous. The trial copy was distributed amongst a few friends in 1859; first ed. published 1861, and the Appendix, in 1868; the trial copy of the revised ed. was issued in 1874, and the publication followed in 1875. In addition he edited Hymns for the London Mission, 1874, and Hymns for Mission Services, n.d., c. 1876-7. He also published Daily Prayers for those who work hard; a Daily Text Book, &c. In Hymns Ancient & Modern there are also four tunes (33, 211, 254, 472) the melodies of which are by Sir Henry, and the harmonies by Dr. Monk. He died Feb. 12, 1877. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Patrick Appleford

1925 - 2018 Person Name: Patrick Robert Norman Appleford, 1925- Topics: Unity of Humanity Author of "Father all-loving and ruling in majesty" in Together in Song