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Alexander C. Hopkins

1843 - 1900 Person Name: Alex. C. Hopkins Hymnal Number: 22 Composer of "[Jesus, my Saviour, to Bethlehem came]" in Songs of Rejoicing Rv Alexander C Hopkins USA 1843-1900. He pastored a Christian Church in Louisville, KY. He married Mary Louise Broadhurst, and they had seven children: Charles, Clara, Cora, Robert, Louis, John, and Walter. He wrote music for a number of hymn lyrics, and collaborated with hymnwriter, Marshall Kurfees, on the hymn "How blest and how joyous." He died in Kokomo, IN. John Perry

Augustus Hayden

Hymnal Number: 116 Author of "Sowing the Seed of the Kingdom" in Songs of Rejoicing

J. G. Archer

Hymnal Number: 61 Composer of "[All hail the pow'r of Jesus' name]" in Songs of Rejoicing

Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth

Hymnal Number: 63 Author of "Almost" in Songs of Rejoicing Late 19th Century

James Maxwell

1720 - 1800 Person Name: Maxwell Hymnal Number: 83 Author of "Wonderful Love" in Songs of Rejoicing Maxwell, James , was born in Renfrewshire in 1720. In his youth he journeyed to England with a hardware pack, but eventually returning to Scotland, he followed the joint occupation of schoolmaster and poet. In 1783, during a famine in Scotland he was reduced to great destitution, and had to earn his bread by breaking stones on the highway. Most of his publications (from 30 to 40 in all) were produced after that period. The two works in which we are interested are:— (1) Hymns and Spiritual Songs. In Three Books. 1759. (2) A New Version of the whole of the Book of Psalms in Metre; by James Maxwell, S. D. P. [Student of Divine Poetry.] Glasgow, 1773. From the former of these the following hymns are in common use:— 1. All glory to the eternal Three. Holy Trinity. 2. Didst Thou, dear Jesus [Saviour], suffer shame. Resignation and Courage. 3. Go forth, ye heralds, in my Name. Missions. The last of these is in somewhat extensive use in America, where it appeared as early as in the Prayer Book Collection, 1789. Maxwell died at Paisley (where he was known as the Paisley Poet, or as he put it on the title-page of some of his books, Poet in Paisley) in 1800. [Rev. J. T. Bingley, L.R.A.M., F.G.O.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)