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Uriah Smith

Person Name: U. Smith Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Author of "Happy day! happy day!" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book

J. Henry Showalter

1864 - 1947 Person Name: J. Henry Showalter, 1864-1947 Topics: Christian Life Waiting for Christ's Return Composer of "I NEED THEE PRECIOUS JESUS" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4

William H. Pontius

1860 - 1937 Person Name: Will H. Pontius Topics: The Home Eternal Waiting for Christ Composer of "[We know not the time when He cometh]" in Christ in Song

Mrs. Vokes

Person Name: Mrs. Voke Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Author of "Behold th' expected time draw near" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book Pseudonym. See also

1786 - 1826 Person Name: Carl M. von Weber Topics: Prayer in Afflictions; Comfort; Confession of Sin; Guidance of God, of Christ; Holy Spirit; Longing for God or Christ; Revival; God our Teacher; Waiting upon God Composer of "JEWETT" in Psalter Hymnal (Red) Carl Maria von Weber; b. 1786, Oldenburg; d. 1826, London Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Roswell F. Cottrell

1814 - 1892 Person Name: R. F. Cottrell Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Author of "O lift up your heads! your redemption draws near!" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book Born: January 17, 1814, Brookfield, New York. Died: March 22, 1892, Mill Grove, New York. Buried: West Ridgeway Cemetery, Medina, New York. Cottrell was known as a writer, poet and minister. A member of the Seventh-day Adventists, he served for a time on the editorial committee of The Review and Herald in Battle Creek, Michigan. As of 1857, he was living in Mill Grove, New York. --www.hymntime.com/tch

L. D. Santee

1845 - 1919 Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Author of "Brother pilgrim, be not weary" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book Lorenzo Dow Santee, 1845-1919. Lorenzo Santee, a pioneer Seventh-day Adventist minister, served as a pastor in the state of Kansas and in Chicago and Moline, Kansas. He was also a writer and poet whose poem "When the King Shall Claim His Own" became the words for "In the Glad time of Harvest," Hymn #539 in the 1941 Seventh-day Adventist Church Hymnal. Lorenzo was born in Hornell, New York, on September 19, 1845, and raised in Steuben County, New York, near Hornell, the oldest of twelve children of James Moore and Celina Coal Santee. He and his parents accepted the doctrine of the second coming of Christ and the SDA interpretation of Revelation 14 when he was very young. He moved to Illinois in his late teens, attended Tremont College and then taught for a short while in public schools before marrying Alice Merritt on March 4, 1869, at age 23. They would have six children, one son and five daughters. Santee was ordained in 1876 by James White and then traveled to Kansas, where he started his ministry. Known as a gentle, thoughtful man without pretense, he particularly enjoyed writing articles and poetry, many of which were published in the Review and Herald in the 1880s, 1890s, and early 1900s. "In the Glad Time of Harvest," with music by Edwin Barnes, music teacher at Battle Creek College, was first published in the 1888 Hymns and Tunes, as hymn #1332, along with the words for two other hymns by Santee (#188 and "302). The Santees were residing in Pasadena, California, when Alice died on August 10, 1917, at age 67. Lorenzo died two years later, on September 3, 1919, at age 73. email sent to Hymnary Sources: Obituary, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 23 October 1919, 22; Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia, Volume 11, Second Revised Edition, 1996, (Review and Herald Publishing Association) 542.

I. I. Leslie

Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Author of "On time's tempestuous ocean wide" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book Leslie, Dr. I.I. An Advent Christian writer. --Doris Colby, DNAH Archives

Ethelbert W. Bullinger

1837 - 1913 Person Name: Ethelert W. Bullinger Topics: Aspirations For Christ; Aspirations For Grace; Aspirations For Holiness; Assurance Desired; Christians Believers; Faith Act of; Gospel Fulness of ; Hope; Pardon Set Forth; Pardon Sought; Penitence; Prayer Confession in; Prayer For Pardon; Prayer Importunity in ; Repentance; Resignation; Salvation From Sin and Trouble; Salvation God's Gift; Sin Confession of; Sin Salvation from; Waiting upon God ; Watchfulness Composer of "BULLINGER" in The Psalter Ethelbert William Bullinger DD United Kingdom 1837-1913. Born in Canterbury, he was an Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and ultradispensationalist theologian and writer. Educated at King's College, London, he became a good organist, singer, and composer. He married Emma Dobson, 13 years his senior, and they had two sons. In 1861 he began as Associate Curate to the parish of St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey, and was ordained as priest in the Church of England in 1862. He served as parish curate in Tittleshall until 1866, then Notting Hill until 1869, them Leytonstone to 1870, and finally Walthamstow, until becoming Vicar of the new parish of St. Stephen's in 1874. He resigned his vicarage in 1888. In 1867 he was clerical secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, which he held (except for illnesses) until his death. The Society completed and published a Hebrew version of the New Testament, the Tanakh (introduction to the Hebrew Bible), formation of the Brittany evangelical Mission Society under Pasteur LeCoat and translation of the Bible into Breton, also producing the first ever Protestant Portuguese reference Bible. It also distributed Spanish Bibles in Spain after the 1868 Spanish Revolution. Bullinger, a practiced musician, collected and harmonized untranscribed hymns on his visits to Tremel, Brittany. He wrote many articles, edited a monthly journal “Things to come”. He wrote 4 Biblical works (16 works). John Perry

J. Rusling

1788 - 1839 Person Name: John F. Rusling Topics: Waiting for Christ Closing Work Author of "Christian, the morn breaks sweetly o'er thee" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book Rusling, J., p. 931, i. 255, b. 1788, d. 1839. From this American writer there is a mutilated fragment in Stryker's College Hymnal, 1904: "The morn, O Christian, breaketh o'er thee" (Death and Heaven anticipated). In H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, this hymn begins “Christian, the morn breaks sweetly o'er thee." It is usually dated 1832. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)