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Georg Peter Weimar

1734 - 1800 Person Name: G. P. Weimar, 1734-1800 Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "ALLGÜTIGER, MEIN PREISGESANG" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes

1753 - 1823 Person Name: Johann Gottfried Schicht, 1753-1823 Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "MANNA" in Singing the Faith Johann Gottfried Schicht Born: September 29, 1753 - Reichenau, Zittau, Germany Died: February 16, 1823 - Leipzig, Germany

Jeffrey H. Rickard

b. 1942 Person Name: Jeffrey H. Rickard (1942-) Meter: 8.8.6 D Harmonizer of "WILLOUGHBY NEW" in Common Praise (1998)

S. Chandler

b. 1760 Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "GANGES" in The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal

Edward Patrick Crawford

1846 - 1912 Person Name: Dean E. P. Crawford Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "JEHOVAH NISSI" in The Book of Common Praise

T. Bowman Stephenson

1839 - 1912 Meter: 8.8.6 D Author of "Lothian" Stephenson, Thomas Bowman, D.D., LL.D., son of the Rev. John Stephenson, was born at Newcastle on Dec. 22, 1839, and educated at Wesley College, Sheffield, subsequently graduating at the University of London. In 1860 he entered the Wesleyan Ministry, and has since laboured in Norwich, Manchester, Bolton, and London. The great work of his life has been the establishment and maintenance of The Children's Home at Victoria Park, London, and its branches at Bolton, Birmingham, and the Isle of Man, and in Canada. Dr. Stephenson has written for Magazines and Reviews, and published a small work on Sisterhoods, and a Memorial Sketch of the late James Barlow. He has written several hymns, of which the following are most widely known:— 1. Fading like a lifetime ends another day. Evening. Written circa 1873, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 487, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. 2. Hear us, Saviour, bowed before Thee. Children's Hymn. Written for a Festival at the Children's Home, circa 1879. 3. 0 Father, Whose spontaneous love. Easter, or Missions. Appeared in The General Hymnary for Missions, &c, 1889, No. 266, in 9 stanzas of 4 lines. 4. Onward, o'er Time's great ocean. Life a Voyage. Written during a voyage across the South Sea. 5. Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning. Sunday Morning. Written circa 1875, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 504, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines. 6. This is the glorious gospel word. Jesus saves. Called forth by a religious Convention at Brighton, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 314, in 5 st. of 8 1., and in The General Hymnary, 1889, No. 431, with an additional stanza (st. iv.). -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Stephenson, T. B. , p. 1092, ii. Dr. Stephenson was President of the Wesleyan Conference in 1891, and became warden of the Wesley Deaconess Institute in 1903. His hymn,"Lord, grant us like the watching five," is in The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

James Foster

1807 - 1885 Person Name: J. Foster, 1807-85 Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "PEMBROKE" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes

John Frederick Bridge

Person Name: J. F. Bridge, 1844-1924 Meter: 8.8.6 D Composer of "LOTHIAN" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes See Bridge, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1924

L. P. Brink

1876 - 1936 Person Name: Rev. L. P. Brink Meter: 8.8.6 D Author of "The Tribes of the Southwest" in The New Christian Hymnal Leonard P. Brink (b. East Saugatuck, MI, 1876; d. Pomeroy, IA 1936), a graduate of Calvin Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1900), spent much of his life as a missionary among the Navajo people. He translated Bible books and hymns into the Navajo language and wrote a catechism for the Navajo people. He also translated Dutch poetry and hymns into English. Bert Polman