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Purd E. Deitz

b. 1897 Person Name: P. Deitz Topics: The Christian Life Aspiration and Consecration Author of "We would be building; temples still undone" in Churches of Christ Hymn Book Born: October 22, 1897, York, Pennsylvania. Died: After 1968. Son of Harry William and Ada Gertrude Gilbert Dietz, Purd sang as a boy in the choir at St. James Episcopal Church in York, and later in York’s St. James Episcopal Church. At college, he belonged to both the college choir and glee club. He was educated at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania (AB 1918, DD 1937); Central Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio; and the University of Edinburgh (a year of graduate study around 1940). Ordained in 1921, Dietz married Thisbe Elizabeth Schultz that same year. He served at the Fourth Reformed Church in Dayton, Ohio, for four years, and for 13 years at Trinity Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He then became professor of practical theology at Eden Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. He served on the committee that compiled the Evangelical and Reformed Church’s Book of Worship, and was president of the denomination’s Board of National Missions (elected the board’s executive secretary in 1949). --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Henry Lahee

1826 - 1912 Person Name: H. Lahee Topics: Corner-stone and Consecration; Processionals Corner-stone and Consecration Composer of "NATIVITY" in The Church Hymnal Born: April 11, 1826, Chelsea, London, England. Died: April 29, 1912, London, England. Lahee studied under John Goss and William Sterndale Bennett. He played the organ at several churches, including Holy Trinity Church, Brompton (1847-74). He won prizes for his compositions in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and London, and set to music poems by Edgar Allen Poe ("The Bells"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Building of the Ship") and Alfred Tennyson ("Sleeping Beauty"). His works include: Metrical Psalter, with William Irons, 1855 Famous Singers of Today and Yesterday, 1898 One Hundred Hymn Tunes Sources: Frost, p. 680 CS Concordance, pp. 246-47 Nutter, p. 460 --www.hymntime.com/tch

James Langran

1835 - 1909 Topics: The Gospel Consecration Composer of "LANGRAN" in The Church Hymnal James Langran (b. St. Pancras, London, England, November 10, 1835; d. Tottenham, London, England, June 8, 1909) studied organ as a youth but did not receive his Bachelor of Music degree from Oxford until he was forty-nine years old. He had several organist positions–the longest was at St. Paul's Church, Tottenham, England, from 1870 to 1909. He also taught music at St. Katherine's Training College for Schoolmistresses (1878-1909). Music editor of theNew Mitre Hymnal　(1875), Langran composed around fifty hymn tunes and contributed several of them to early editions of Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman

C. G. Gläser

1784 - 1829 Person Name: Carl Gotthilf Gläser , 1784 - 1829 Topics: The Life in Christ Consecration and Discipleship Composer (Adapted from) of "DENFIELD" in The Hymnary Carl Gotthelf Gläser Germany 1781-1829. Born at Weissenfels, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, he received musical training from his father, after which he attended St. Thomas school in Leipzig. He became an author and composer. At Barmen he taught voice, piano, and violin. He also wrote and conducted chorale music. He died at Barmen. John Perry

M. M. Wells

1815 - 1895 Topics: Consecration Composer of "GUIDE" in Gloria Deo Converted to Christianity as a youth at a mission in Buffalo, New York, Marcus Morris Wells (b. Cooperstown, NY, 1815; d. Hartwick, NY, 1895) spent most of his life near Hartwick as a farmer and maker of farm implements. He is remembered in hymnody for writing both the text and tune of "Holy Spirit, Faithful Guide." "On a Saturday afternoon, October 1858, while at work in my cornfield, the sentiment of the hymn came to me," writes Wells. "The next day, Sunday, being a very stormy day, I finished the hymn and wrote the tune for it and sent it to Prof. I. B. Woodbury." Isaac Woodbury was the editor of the New York Musical Pioneer, and the original text and tune were first published in that periodical's November 1858 issue. Bert Polman ================= Wells, Marcus M. Concerning this author and his hymn we have no information beyond the following facts:— Holy Spirit, faithful Guide. [Whitsuntide.] Appeared in The Sacred Lute, by T. E. Perkins, N.Y., undated [1864], p. 373, with music. Both words and music are attributed therein to M. M. Wells. The hymn has since been repeated in several English and American collections, including I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878. It is dated 1858. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

John Baptiste Calkin

1827 - 1905 Person Name: J. B. Calkin Topics: Consecration of Churches; Corner-stone and Consecration Composer of "NOX PRAECESSIT" in The Church Hymnal John Baptiste Calkin United Kingdom 1827-1905. Born in London, he was reared in a musical atmosphere. Studying music under his father, and with three brothers, he became a composer, organist, and music teacher. At 19, he was appointed organist, precenter, and choirmaster at St. Columbia's College, Dublin, Ireland, 1846 to 1853. From 1853 to 1863 we was organist and choirmaster at Woburn Chapel, London. From 1863 to 1868, he was organist of Camden Road Chapel. From 1870 to 1884 he was organist at St. Thomas's Church, Camden Town. In 1883 he became professor at Guildhall School of Music and concentrated on teaching and composing. He was also a professor of music and on the council of Trinity College, London, and a member of the Philharmonic Society (1862). In 1893 he was a fellow of the College of Organists. John and wife, Victoire, had four sons, each following a musical carer. He wrote much music for organ and scored string arrangements, sonatas, duos, etc. He died at Hornsey Rise Gardens. John Perry