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Rodolphe Petter

Scripture: John 20:22 Translator of "Ma'heo'o, Nehmetsemeno Ma'heone-omotome" in Tsese-Ma'heone-Nemeotȯtse (Cheyenne Spiritual Songs)

Warren Sidney Ashworth

b. 1938 Person Name: Warren S. Ashworth (1938- ) Scripture: John 20:21 Vers. esp. of "Te envío a ti" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día

Carlos A. Steger

b. 1953 Person Name: Carlos A. Steger (1953- ) Scripture: John 20:21 Vers. esp. of "Te envío a ti" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día

b. 1954 Person Name: Sylvia Rose Scripture: John 20:15 Author of "Why Weepest Thou?" in Songs of Faith Sylvia Rose Cobb (b. c.1954) attended Southwestern Christian College (Terrell, Tex.) and completed her undergraduate studies at Harding University (Searcy, Ark.). She taught music at Southwestern Christian College for three years and has lived most of her life in the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area, teaching, writing, singing, and publishing music. Her Songs of Faith hymnal is a collection of fifty spiritual songs she authored and composed.

George Matheson

1842 - 1906 Person Name: Rev. George Matheson Scripture: John 20:2 Author of "The Sing of Immortality" in Sacred Songs Matheson, George, D.D., was born at Glasgow, March 27, 1842, and although deprived of his eyesight in youth he passed a brilliant course at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. in 1862. In 1868 he became the parish minister at Innellan; and subsequently of St. Bernard's, Edinburgh. He was the Baird Lecturer in 1881, and St. Giles Lecturer in 1882. He has published several important prose works. His poetical pieces were collected and published in 1890 as Sacred Songs, Edinburgh: W. Blackwood. In addition to his hymn "O Love that wilt not let me go" (q. v.), four others from his Sacred Songs are in Dr. A. C. Murphey's Book of Common Song, Belfast, 1890. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ======================= Matheson, G., p. 1579, i. In addition to Dr. Matheson's hymn, "O Love, that wilt not let me go," p. 1583, i,, the following from his Sacred Songs, 1890, have come into common use since 1892:— 1. Come, let us raise a common song. Brotherhood. 2. Father divine, I come to Thee. Strength for Life. This, in Horder's Worship Song, 1905, is altered to”Saviour divine, I come to Thee." 3. Gather us in, Thou Love that fillest all. One in Christ. 4. Jesus, Fountain of my days. Christian's Polestar. 5. Lend me, O Lord, Thy softening cloud. The Fire and the Cloud. In the Sunday Magazine, 1875. 6. Lord, Thou hast all my frailty made. Strength for the Day. 7. Make me a captive, Lord. Christian Freedom. 8. There are coming changes great. The Glad New Time. 9. Three doors there are in the temple. Prayer. Dr. Matheson informed us that these hymns, together with the rest of his Sacred Songs, 1890, were written at Bow, Dumbartonshire, in 1890. The 3rd ed. of the Sacred Songs was published in 1904. He died suddenly at Avenelle, North Berwick, Aug. 28, 1906. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)