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Calvin Weiss Laufer

1874 - 1938 Person Name: Calvin W. Laufer, d. 1938 Author of "O Master of the Loving Heart" in The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church Presbyterian minister and hymnographer Calvin Weiss Laufer was born today in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania in 1874. Following his graduation from Union Seminary in 1900 he was ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and led congregations in New York and New Jersey for several years. Laufer had a generally cheerful outlook on his Christian life, and his first two books, Key-Notes of Optimism (1911) and The Incomparable Christ (1914) expressed that viewpoint. A review of the first book spoke of the "crisp and stirring note in these sermonettes which is well calculated to rouse the mind of readers and banish dejection." His books were popular in their time but today are seen as somewhat superficial. He later began to work with the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education and became its editor of musical publications, producing books such as The Junior Church School Hymnal (1927), The Church School Hymnal for Youth (1928) and When the Little Child Wants to Sing (1935). He was also the associate editor of the Presbyterian Hymnal of 1933, a very popular book which was used in many churches for more than fifty years. In 1932, his book Hymn Lore was published, which contained the stories of fifty hymns from The Church School Hymnal for Youth, with information about their writers and composers (much like this blog). He chose a broad range of hymns, some quite modern and others well-known and loved for centuries. Several of them were by his mentor and friend Louis F. Benson, who had edited the Presbyterian Hymnal of 1895 and its 1911 revision (and also wrote The Best Church Hymns). In the preface to Hymn Lore, Laufer wrote: To live with hymns and to make them one's own is the only sure way of appreciating their literary beauty and spiritual power. (...) That the reading and singing of hymns may become less mechanical, more thoughtful and intelligent, and emotionally more effective, this volume is released to the public. Laufer wrote both hymn texts and tunes himself, most of which first appeared in the books he edited but also had some life outside Presbyterian circles. This tune was written while Laufer was attending a conference in Kansas, though with no particular text in mind. Not long after, he hummed it to a friend, William H. Foulkes, who then wrote the text "Take thou our minds, dear Lord." Laufer's tune was originally called STONY BROOK, but he changed it to honor a friend, William Ralph Hall. Little is known about the writer May Pierpont Hoyt. Her text is generally sung to the tune BREAD OF LIFE by William F. Sherwin, but since that tune is more known with "Break thou the Bread of life," this text could use a different one. --conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/

W. W. Wallace

Composer of "[We may not climb the heav'nly steeps]" in Riches of Grace

Mary Francis Cusack

1832 - 1899 Person Name: M. F. Clare Author of "Before the throne of God above" in The New Children's Hymnal [Cusack, Mary Francis., also known as Sister Mary Francis Clare, Religious of the Order of Poor Clares, Margaret Anna Cusack, C. F. Cusack, M. F. Cusack] Sister Mary F. Clare, of Kenmare, has written several hymns of merit, including:— 1. Before the throne of God above. Angels. 2. Hark, the angels bright are singing. Easter. 3. Jesus was once a little child. Jesus the Holy Example. Of these Nos. 1, 3 are in Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881, and No. 2 in W. G. Horder's Hymn Lover, 1889. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================= Clare, Mary F., p. 1556, ii. In the Standard of June 7, 1899, is the following: "June 5, at Leamington, Margaret Anna Cusack, only daughter of the late Samuel Cusack, M.D., of Dublin, aged 70." In the same paper on the following day, this lady is identified as "Sister Mary F. Clare," the Nun of Kenmare, who, on leaving the Roman Catholic Church, lectured extensively on Protestantism. The hymns noted on p. 1556, ii., are from her Hymns for Children by a Religious of the Holy Order of the Poor Clares, London, 1862. Two others in 1862 have passed into the Congregational Book of Praise for Children, 1881, "O gentle Jesus, had I been" (Christ blessing Children), and “When Jesus was on earth He used" (Jesus, the Healer). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Oliver Huckel

1864 - 1940 Author of "O mind of God, broad as the sky" in The School Hymnal Born: January 11, 1864, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: February 3, 1940, Orlando, Florida. Buried: Second Congregational Church Cemetery, Greenwich, Connecticut. An 1887 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Huckel was known as the class poet, and spoke at the university’s celebration of the birth of American president George Washington, and at the 1887 graduation ceremony. He went on to study at Harvard University and Andover Theological Seminary, Newton, Massachusetts, and in 1890 was ordained a Congregational minister, and received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from Boston University. He then pastored in Weymouth, Massachusetts, until 1894, when he went abroad to study at the University of Berlin and Oxford University. He returned to America in 1896, serving briefly in Amherst, Massachusetts, then moving to the Associate Congregational Church, Baltimore, Maryland, where he stayed the next two decades. In 1917, he moved to the Second Congregational Church in Greenwich, Connecticut, and retired in 1905. He also served as chaplain at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;, Cornell University; and the University of Virginia. --www.hymntime.org/tch

Rolland W. Schloerb

1893 - 1993 Person Name: Rolland W. Schloerb, 1893- Author of "O God, Thy Summons Still Is Heard" in Christian Worship Of Chicago, Illinois. --Five New Hymns on the City , 1954. Used by permission.

John Anketell

1835 - 1905 Author of "Lord Jesus, on the Holy Mount" in The Hymnal and Order of Service Anketell, John, M.A., was born at New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A., March 8, 1835, and educated at Yale College, and the University of- Halle-Wittenberg, Prussian Saxony. He was ordained deacon of the American Episcopalian Church in 1859, and priest in 1860. He founded (Stanza John's (American) Episcopal Church in Dresden in 1869. Subsequently he became Professor of Hebrew and Greek Exegesis in the Seabury Divinity School. Mr. Anketell published in 1889 Gospel and Epistle Hymns for the Christian Year, N.Y. He has also translated about 120 hymns from the German, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Danish, Italian, and Syriac, which were published in the Church Review, N.Y., 1876 and later, and in other periodicals. A few of those from the Latin are noted in Duffield's Latin Hymn-Writers, &c, 1889. Mr. Anketell's original hymns number about 150. Both these and his translations are worthy of notice. He died March 9, 1905. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Benjamin Waugh

1839 - 1908 Person Name: Rev. B. Waugh Author of "Now let us see Thy beauty, Lord" in Hymnal Amore Dei Waugh, Benjamin, was born at Settle, in Yorkshire, Feb. 20, 1839, and educated for the Congregational Ministry at Airedale College, Bradford. He has held pastorates at Newbury, Berkshire, Greenwich, and New Southgate. He has been for several years editor of The Sunday Magazine, and a large contributor to its pages. He has published (1) The Goal Cradle, Who rocks it; (2) Sunday Evenings with my Children; (3) The Children's Sunday Hour; (4) The Child of the English Savage; (5) Imperial Legislation and Street Children. Mr. Waugh's hymns have appeared from time to time in The Sunday Magazine, and have not been separately published. Those which have come into common use include:— 1. Jesus, the Friend of friendless men. Jesus the Sinner's Friend. 1874. 2. 0 happy pair of Nazareth. The Child Jesus. 3. O let me see Thy beauty. Lord. The Beauty of the Lord. This is given in a revised form as “Now let us see Thy beauty, Lord," in Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884. Mr. Waugh's hymns are for children's use, and are exceedingly fresh and unconventional. Several others of merit might be selected from the Sunday Magazine with advantage to children's hymnody. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================= Waugh, B., p. 1241, ii. He has published a collection of 93 original Hymns for Children, 1892. Nos. 1, 3 of those noted here are in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905; No. 2 is in Worship Song, 1905. 1. Heavenly Father, I would serve Thee. [Childlike Service.] Written 1890; 1892, as above, p. 64. 2. I'll come to Thee, 0 Jesus Christ, [Following Jesus.] Written 1879; first published in the Sunday Magazine in 1882. 3. Where is Jesus, little children. [Jesus ever present.) Written 1890; 1892, p. 54; also in School Hymns, 1891, No. 422. Mr. Waugh's work at p. 1241, ii., as The Good Cradle, &c, should be The Goal Cradle, &c. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)