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Jonathan Allen

Hymnal Number: d200 Author of "Sinner [sinners], will you [ye] scorn [slight] the message" in The Thanksgiving Allen, Jonathan. Concerning this hymn-writer, to whom is credited the hymn, "Sinners, will you scorn the message?" we can only say that this hymn appeared in Hymns adapted to Public Worship, collected from various Authors, Exeter, S. Woolmer, 1801, edited by Richard Pearsell Allen, Minister of Castle Street Meeting, Exeter; and that in D. Sedgwick's marked copy of John Dobell's New Selection, &c., 1806, it is attributed to Jonathan Allen. What authority Sedgwick had for this ascription we cannot determine. It is through him that it has gained currency. Allen's hymn, "Sinners, will you scorn, &c," is sometimes given with stanzas i. and ii. transposed, as "Hear the heralds of the Gospel," as in the American Baptist Praise Book, N. Y. 1871. [William T. Brooke] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Sarah Judson

1803 - 1845 Hymnal Number: d185 Author of "Proclaim the lofty praise" in The Thanksgiving Judson, Sarah, née Hull, daughter of Ralph Hull, was born at Alstead, New Haven, Nov. 4, 1803, and married first to the Rev. George D. Boardman, and afterwards to Dr. Judson. She died at St. Helena, Sept. 1, 1845. Her fine missionary hymn, “Proclaim the lofty praise," is in W. Urwick's Dublin Collection, 1829, No. 142, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines. Its appearance in America prior to this has not been traced. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ===================== Judson, Sarah Hall. (Alstead, New Hampshire, November 4, 1803--September 1, 1845, St. Helena Island). Baptist. Daughter of Ralph and Abiah Hall. First married to George Dana Boardman, missionary to Burma. Three children were born to this marriage. After her husband's death, she became the second wife of Dr. Adoniram Judson (1834). En route to Burma and shortly before he death, Mrs. Judson penned nine stanzas of a parting hymn, the last of which voices the pleas: Then gird thine armor on, love; Nor faint thou by the way, Till Buddh shall fall, and Burma's sons Shall own Messiah's sway. Her most noted hymn "Proclaim thy lofty praise," first appeared in Urwick's Dublin Collection (1829), and was later printed in The Psalmist (1843). A fuller biography is to be found in (1) Wyeth, Walter N., Sarah B. Judson, A Memorial (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Author, 1889), and (2) Wayland, Francis, Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson (Boston: Phillips Sampson Co., 1854). --Paul R. Powell, DNAH Archives

Sarah Emily York

1819 - 1851 Person Name: Sarah E. W. York Hymnal Number: d106 Author of "I'm weary of straying [sighing] O fain would [when shall] I rest" in The Thanksgiving York, Sarah Emily, née Waldo, an American writer, was b. in 1819, and d. in 1851. Her Memoir was published by Mrs. Medberry in 1853. Her hymn, "I'm weary of straying, O fain would I rest" (Rest desired), appeared in the Reformed Dutch Psalms & Hymns, 1847. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Samuel Boyce

Hymnal Number: d295 Author of "Ye trembling captives, hear The gospel trumpet sounds" in The Thanksgiving Boyce. Twenty-one hymns appeared under this signature in Williams and Boden's Collection of above Six Hundred Hymns, &c, 1801. The writer is sometimes described as "Samuel Boyce"; but nothing definite is known to us concerning him. Of these hymns the following are in common use:— 1. All hail, redeeming Lord. Christ the Day-Spring. 2. Grace, how melodious is the sound. Fulness of Grace. 3. Great Sovereign Lord, what human eye. Harvest. 4. 0 the transcendent love. Christ the Sinner's Friend. 5. Ye trembling captives, hear. The Gospel Trumpet. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

F. J. Huntington

Publisher of "" in The Thanksgiving

T. F. Middleton

1769 - 1822 Hymnal Number: d13 Author of "As o'er the past my memory strays" in The Thanksgiving Middleton, Thomas Fanshaw, D.D., son of Thomas Middleton, Rector of Redleston, in Derbyshire, was born there on Jan. 26, 1769. He was educated first by his father, then at Christ's Hospital, and finally at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge (B.A. in honours 1792). He was successively Curate of Gainsborough; Rector of Tansor, Northamptonshire, 1795; Vicar of St. Pancras, 1810; Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1812; and the first bishop of Calcutta, 1814. He died in Calcutta, July 8, 1822. Bishop Middleton's publications were mainly confined to various Sermons and Charges, and a work on the Greek Article. In 1824 his Sermons and Charges were collected and published with a short Memoir, by Dr. H. R. Bonney. At p. xciv. the only hymn ascribed to him is given with the explanation that it was composed by the Bishop "and always sung on new year's day, by his desire." It is: "As o'er the past my mem'ry strays"(New Year), in 4 st. of 4 1. It was printed in the August number of Carus Wilson's Family Visitor, 1826; again in Hall's Mitre Hymnal, 1836, and later in several collections. Original text in Book of Praise, 1862, p. 238. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Bond

Hymnal Number: d52 Author of "Father of spirits, hear our prayer" in The Thanksgiving

W. G. Clark

1810 - 1841 Hymnal Number: d263 Author of "We have met in peace together" in The Thanksgiving Clark, Willis Gaylord, born at Otisco, Onondaga County, New York, 1810, died June 12, 1841. He was sometime editor of the Philadelphia Gazette, and contributed to the Knickerbocker Magazine. His poetical writings were published in 1846. His hymn:— We have met in peace together, was written for the 8th Anniversary of the American Sunday School Union, 1832. It is unknown to the English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

A. Moore

Hymnal Number: d110 Author of "It was night in the mansion" in The Thanksgiving

I. B. Woodbury

1819 - 1858 Person Name: Isaac B. Woodbury Hymnal Number: d86 Author of "Ho reapers of life's harvest why stand with rested blade" in The Thanksgiving Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris. He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina. He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives