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Mark A. Miller

Topics: Order of Service Response to the Word; Assurance; Choruses; Comfort; Contentment; Devotional; Family and Home; God Our Love For God; Inner Peace; Jesus Christ His Love and Mercy; Joy; Serenity Arranger of "CENTER OF MY JOY" in Zion still Sings

Richard Smallwood

b. 1948 Topics: Order of Service Response to the Word; Assurance; Choruses; Comfort; Contentment; Devotional; Family and Home; God Our Love For God; Inner Peace; Jesus Christ His Love and Mercy; Joy; Serenity Composer of "CENTER OF MY JOY" in Zion still Sings Richard Smallwood (b. Washington, D.C., 1948), a composer, arranger, pianist, and innovator in the African American gospel style. Many of his arrangements of gospel hymns appear in Lift Every Voice and Sing (1981). Organized by Smallwood in 1967, the Richard Smallwood Singers have sung and recorded many of his arrangements. He remains their current director. Smallwood has a BM degree from Howard University, Washington, DC. Bert Polman

William Wordsworth

1770 - 1850 Person Name: Wordsworth Topics: Family Devotion Author of "Noonday Hymn" in The Gospel Psalmist Wordsworth, William, the poet, the son of an attorney, was born at Cockermouth in 1770, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1791. Devoting himself to literature, and especially to poetry, he gradually rose into the front rank of English poets. His works include Lyrical Ballads, 1798; Poems; The Prelude; The Excursion, 1814, &c. All his poetical productions were collected and republished under his own supervision in 7 vols., in 1842. He died at Kydal Mount, near Grasmere, in 1850. Notwithstanding his rank and reputation as a poet, his pieces used as hymns are limited to the following extracts from his poems:— 1. Not seldom clad in radiant vest. Christ, the Unchangeable. This is No. v. of five "Inscriptions supposed to be found In and near a Hermit's cell, 1818." It is in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, and is given in his Poetical Works, 1831, vol. iii., p. 290. It is in Stowell's Selection of Hymns, 1831-77; the American Plymouth Collection, 1855, &c. 2. Up to the throne of God is borne. Noonday. This is entitled "The Labourer's Noon-Day Hymn," is dated 1834, and is in 6 stanzas of 4 lines. (Poetical Work, 1837, vol. v. p. 122.) It is in common use in an abridged form, beginning with stanza i., and the latter part is also given in Martineau's Hymns, 1840, as "Look up to heaven, the industrious sun," as No. 535. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Ancel H. Bassett

1809 - 1886 Person Name: A. H. Bassett Topics: The Christian Family Private Devotion Author of "Rise up, and bless your God" in The Voice of Praise Rev. Ancel Henry Bassett was born on July 1, 1809 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. He was the youngest child of Elisha and Abigail (Dillingham) Bassett. The Bassetts moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1810, and Ancel’s father died there in 1814. He became a Christian at age twelve and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, but left that denomination because he sympathized with the Methodist Protestant cause. In 1830, he received his license to preach, and in 1840 he was elected as President of the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. Ancel married Priscilla White, the daughter of Rev. Robert and Mary (Johnson) White, on August 24, 1837 in Greenbush, Ohio. In 1845 Ancel became the editor of the Western Recorder, a Methodist Protestant newspaper that had strong anti-slavery sentiments. In 1860, he was elected as publishing agent for the denomination. At the request of the denomination, he wrote and published A Concise History of the Methodist Protestant Church in 1877. He co-founded the Methodist Protestant Book Concern in Springfield, Ohio, as well as the Mad River Historical Society, where he served as its first president. He earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from Adrian College in Lansing, Michigan. He edited the denomination’s 1860 hymnal, Hymn Book for the Methodist Protestant Church, and then served again on the Hymnal Committee when the denomination ordered a new hymnal in 1867. It was for this hymnal, The Voice of Praise, for which he served as publishing agent, that he wrote the hymn “Midnight Praise”. Ancel and Priscilla had no children of their own, but when Priscilla’s younger sister Susan died at a young age, they took Priscilla’s niece Caroline to live with them, and was thought of as a very dear uncle. Ancel had a life-long passion for the Gospel, racial equality, history, and writing. He died on August 30, 1886, in Staunton, Ohio, at the home of his niece, Caroline Matthis, and is buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Springfield, Ohio. Rev. Richard J. Wilcox (great-great-grandson of Caroline)

Sewall S. Cutting

1813 - 1882 Person Name: S. S. Cutting Topics: Family Devotion Author of "Family Hymn.—Evening" in The Gospel Psalmist Cutting, Sewell Sylvester, D.D., a Baptist Minister, was born at Windsor, Vermont, Jan. 19, 1813, graduated at the University of Vermont, 1835, and was ordained at Boylston, Massachusetts, 1836. He was pastor at Southbridge, Mass., from 1837 to 1845. Editor of the New York Recorder. 1845-50, and 1853-55; and of the Christian Review, 1850-53, and 1855-68. In 1868 he was appointed Professor of Rhetoric and History at the University, Rochester, N. York, and Secretary of the American Baptist Educational Commission. He died at Brooklyn, Feb. 7, 1882. His Historical Vindication of the Baptists was published in 1858. His hymns in common use include:— 1. Father, we bless the gentle care. The love of God. Appeared in Hymns for the Vestry and Fireside, Boston, 1841. 2. Gracious Saviour, we adore Thee. Holy Baptism. Appeared in Winchell's Additional Hymns, 1832, No. 509 (the author being then but 19); again in the Psalmist, 1843, and others. 3. Great God, Thy glories blaze. Praise to God the Father. Appeared in Linsley and Davis's Select Hymns, 1836-41, No. 514. In the Psalmist, 1843, it was altered to "God of the world, Thy glories shine." This is repeated in several collections, including the Baptist Praise Book, 1871, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. In the Baptist Service of Song, 1871, it is given as "God of the world, near and afar," is expanded into 5 stanzas, and is dated 1835. 4. 0 Saviour, I am blind, Lead Thou my way. The True Guide. This hymn, in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, is also by Dr. Cutting. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Franz Hünten

1793 - 1878 Person Name: F. Hunten Topics: Family Devotion Composer of "PHILLIPS" in The Gospel Psalmist

James L. Gilbert

Person Name: J. L. Gilbert Topics: Family Devotion Composer of "LONGWORTH" in The Gospel Psalmist

Harriet Martineau

1802 - 1876 Person Name: Anon. Topics: The Christian Family Private Devotion Author of "Sweet is the prayer whose holy stream" in The Voice of Praise Martineau, Harriet, was born at Norwich, June 12, 1802, and died at Ambleside, June 27, 1876. Best known as the writer of Illustrations of Political Economy, Retrospect of Western Travel; two novels, Deerbrook and The Hour and the Man; Eastern Life, Past and Present; a History of the Thirty Years’ Peace, and various other works. Her first publication was a book of Devotional Exercises, with hymns appended to each Exercise, and her hymns also belong to what she speaks of in the Autobiography as her "Unitarian" period. Five of them appeared in A Collection of Hymns for Christian Worship, printed in 1831 for the congregation of Eustace Street, Dublin, and edited by her brother, the Rev. James Martineau. 1. All men are equal in their birth. Human Equality. 2. Lord Jesus! come; for here. Jesus desired. Sometimes given as(1) "Come, Jesus, come, for here"; (2) and "Thy kingdom come, for here." 3. The floods of grief have spread around. In Affliction. 4. What hope was thine, O Christ! when grace. Peace. 5. When Samuel heard, in still midnight . Samuel. The Rev. J. R. Beard's Collection 1837, contains 1, 2, 4 and 5, and:— 6. The sun had set, the infant slept. Gethsemane. The Rev. W. J. Fox's Hymns and Anthems, 1841, contains No. 1, and 7. Beneath this starry arch. Progress . [Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

William Rhinehart

1800 - 1861 Person Name: Wm. Rinehart Topics: The Christian Family Private Devotion Author of "Oh, why are you cast down, my soul?" in The Voice of Praise Rhinehart, William. (Virginia, November 28, 1800--May 5, 1861). United Brethren in Christ. Licensed 1825, ordained 1829. Presiding elder, Virginia Conference and Miami Conference. Editor of The Religious Telescope (magazine), 1834. Pastor, First Church, Dayton. Powerful singer. Active in temperance and anti-slavery movements. Compiled American Church Harp and in 1837 the Hymn Book of the United Brethren in Christ. --Ellen Jane Lorenz, DNAH Archives

Paul F. Ford

b. 1947 Topics: Devotions Rosary; Mary; Musical Style Chant; Night Prayer Antiphon in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Rites of the Church Order for the Blessing on the Fifteenth Birthday; The Liturgical Year Mary, the Holy Mother of God; The Liturgical Year Our Lady of Guadalupe (December 12); The Liturgical Year The Annunciation of the Lord (March 25); The Liturgical Year The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (August 15); The Liturgical Year The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph; The Liturgical Year The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (December 8); The Liturgical Year The Presentation of the Lord (February 2) Translator of "Ave Maria" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.)