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Petrus Herbert

1530 - 1571 Hymnal Number: d35 Author of "Faith is a living power from heaven" in Banner Hymns (1st ed) Herbert, Petrus, seems to have been a native of or resident at Fulnek in Moravia. He was ordained priest of the Brethren's Unity in 1562, became a member of the Select Council in 1567, and was latterly Consenior of the Unity. By the Unity he was entrusted with many important missions. He was sent as a deputy to confer with Calvin: and again in 1562 to arrange with Duke Christoph of Württemberg for the education at Tübingen of young men from the Bohemian Brethren. He was also one of the deputies sent to Vienna to present the revised form of the Brethren's Confession of Faith to the Emperor Maximilian II. in 1564, and in 1566 to present their new German Hymn Book. He died at Eibenschütz in 1571 (Koch, ii. 414, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xiii. 263-264, &c.). Herbert was one of the principal compilers of the enlarged edition of the Brethren's German Hymn Book published in 1566 as their Kirchengeseng, and contributed to it some 90 hymns. In the ed. of 1639 there are 104 hymns marked as his. His hymns are distinguished by simplicity and beauty of style. A number are translations from the Bohemian. His hymns translated into English include:— i. Die Nacht ist kommen drin wir ruhen sollen. [Evening] Written probably under the pressure of persecution and oppression. In the G. 2?., 1566, as above, in 5 stanzas of 7 lines (the last stanza being a versification of the Lord's Prayer), and thence in Wackernagel, iv. p. 442, and the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851, No. 515. In J. H. Schein's Cantiona, 1627, it appears as No. 99, with an additional stanza not by Herbert, which reads— Denn wir kein besser Zuflucht konnen haben, ,Als zu dir, 0 Herr, in dem Himmel droben, Du veriest keinen, gibst Acht auff die deinen. Die dich recht meyuen," This stanza is included as stanza v. in the version in Bunsen's Versuch, 1833, No. 43. Translated as:— 1. The night is come, wherein at last we rest, in full from Bunsen by Miss Winkworth in her Lyra Germanica, 2nd Ser., 1858, p. 77, repeated as No. 105 in R. Minton Taylor's Collection, 1872. 2. Now God be with us, for the night is closing, a good translation from Bunsen, in the original metre, by Miss Winkworth, as No. 170 in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, and repeated in her Christian Singers of Germany, 1869, p. 139. This version has been included in various recent collections, though generally abridged or altered, as in the Hymnary, 1872; Thring's Collection, 1882; and in America in the Evangelical Hymnal, N. Y., 1880, &c. In Laudes Domini, N.Y., 1884, it is in two parts (Nos. 209-210), the second beginning, "Father, Thy name be praised, Thy kingdom given." This is stanza vi. with an added doxology, as in the Hymnary, 1872. Other translations are:— (1) "The night comes apace," as No. 293 in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. (2) “Lo! evening's shades to sleep invite," by H. J. Buckoll, 1842, p. 64. ii. 0 Christenmensch, merk wie sichs halt. [Faith] 1566, as above, in 18 stanzas of 4 lines, repeated in Wackernagel, iv. p. 433. In Bunsen's Versuch , 1833, No. 390 Allgemeine Gesang-Buch, 1846, No. 130), the hymn begins with stanza iii. altered to "Der Glaub’ ist ein lebend'ge Kraft," and consists of stanzas iii., viii., xi., xii., xvi., xviii. Bunsen calls it "a noble confession of the true Christian faith." Translated as:— Faith is a living power from heaven. A good translation from Bunsen by Miss Winkworth in her Lyra Germanica, 2nd ser., 1858, p. 160, and thence in her Chorale Book for England, 1863. It is repeated, more or less altered and abridged, in Kennedy, 1863; and in America in the Presbyterian Hymnal, 1874, Baptist Service of Song, 1871, &c. ii. Hymns not in English common use:— iii. Des Herren Wort bleibt in Ewigkeit. [Holy Scripture.] 1566, as above, in 25 stanzas, and in Wackernagel, iv. p. 432. Translated as "God's holy Word, which ne’er shall cease," by J. Swertner, as No. 3 in the Moravian Hymn Book1789 (1849, No. 2). iv. Fürchtet Gott, 0 lieben Leut. [Martyrs.] 1566, as above, in 13 stanzas, and in Wackernagel, iv. p. 429. The translations are, (i.) "O love God, ye people dear," as No. 267 in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. (2) "O exalt and praise the Lord" (from the version in the Brüder Gesang-Buch1778, beginning "Liebet Gott"), as No. 871 in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1789 (1886, No. 1306). v. Lasst uns mit Lust und Freud aus Olauben singen. [Eternal Life.] A fine hymn on the Joys of Heaven. 1566, as above, in 12 stanzas, and in Wackernagel, iv. p. 447. Translated as "In faith we sing this song of thank-fulness," by Mrs. Bevan, 1858, p. 34. vi. 0 höchster Trost, heiliger Geist [Whitsuntide.] 1566, as above, in 13 stanzas, and Wackernagel, iv. p. 407. The translations are, (1) "O highest comfort, Holy Ghost," as No. 262 in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. (2) "O Comforter, God Holy Ghost," as No. 203 in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1789 (1849, No. 265). Besides the above a number of hymns by Herbert (all of which appeared in the Kirchengeseng, 1566, and are included in Wackernagel’s vol. iv.) were translated in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. The numbers in the 1754 are 166, 259, 263, 264, 265, 266, 274, 277, 281, 287, and 294. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

S. K. Wheatlake

Hymnal Number: d52 Author of "I am one of them today" in Banner Hymns (1st ed)

Bert Shadduck

1869 - 1950 Person Name: Burt H. Shadduck Hymnal Number: d59 Author of "The judgment morning" in Banner Hymns (1st ed)

Vivian A. Dake

1854 - 1892 Hymnal Number: d14 Author of "We'll girdle the globe with salvation" in Banner Hymns (1st ed) Born: February 9, 1854, Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois. Died: January 5, 1892, on a ship near Sierra Leone. Buried: At sea. Dake was the founder of the Pentacost Bands (not Pentecostal) that evangelized Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Ohio. He was on a missionary trip at the time of his death. --www.hymntime.com/tch ========================= Vivian Adelbert Dake, the oldest of five children was born February 9, 1854, in Oregon, Agle County, Illinois, to Athelia Merrill Dake and Jonathon Woodcock Dake. Jonathan Dake was at this time pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1860, he and his wife enrolled as charter members of the newly organized Free Methodist Church. Vivian, who was then six years of age, grew up in the Free Methodist Church, becoming one of its able preachers. His desire for an education was granted through an unusual circumstance; directly connected to the founder and first Bishop of the Free Methodist Church, Benjamin Titus Roberts. At a camp meeting in 1867, the bishop was raising money for seminary buildings at North Chili, New York, one of the first to give was a poorly dressed young teenager who gave ten cents. In 1870, after the school was established, this story was repeated in another camp meeting with an appeal for someone to support this boy in school, as his parents were unable to help him. A man responded to the need. When Vivian heard the news he could go to school, he was jubilant, causing him to turn a somersault and stand on his head. He entered Chili Seminary in 1872, at eighteen years of age. Following graduation, he entered Rochester University, completing only three terms before leaving to begin his ministry. He preached his first sermon July 12, 1874, at Jefferson, Iowa. In the spring of 1876, he taught a course in Greek at the Seminary. Dake was married to Lenna Bailey at Birmingham, Iowa, in October 1876. In this same month, he was appointed by the Illinois Conference to the St. Charles Church. Because of his wife's frail health, he was not able to accept. They accepted work in the Iowa Conference where the climate was more suitable. Mrs. Dake died in December, 1876. On January 30, 1878, he married Ida Campbell of Fairfield, Iowa. The couple's son, Bertie, died at the age of three, shortly before the birth of their daughter Mary, in December 1881. Two more daughters, Carrie and Ruth, were born to this union. From 1876 to 1881, he served churches in the Iowa Conference; also traveling widely as an evangelist. He received his ordination as elder at the Iowa Conference in September 1881. In 1882, he joined the Minnesota and Northern Iowa Conference, receiving an appointment as conference missionary. It was during this year, in a revival meeting lasting nearly 3 months, that he wrote his first song, entitled "My Cross." In 1885, he joined the Michigan Conference and was appointed as Conference evangelist. It was at Parma, Michigan, on July 25, 1885, that the Pentecost Bands were permanently started by Dake. Dake's work centered in the Pentecost Bands. These consisted of groups of itinerant evangelists; mainly young people, who were assigned to do evangelistic work in dozens of cities in the United States and around the world. In this he was ahead of his generation. From 1889 until his death, Dake traveled in Germany, England, Norway, and Monrovia. It was while in Monrovia that he contracted a tropical disease and died on January 5, 1892, in Sierra Leone. His biographer lists more than forty hymns and prems written by Dake, the most famous and most characteristic of his works being "We'll Girdle the Globe with Salvation." This particular song, the composer of which was his wife, Ida, appeared in the 1910 edition of the Free Methodist Hymnal. --Arlene Clyde, DNAH Archives

Thomas H. Nelson

b. 1863 Person Name: T. H. Nelson Hymnal Number: d77 Author of "The open fountain" in Banner Hymns (1st ed)

J. L. Moore

Person Name: John Lewis Moore Hymnal Number: d9 Author of "Are you working for a crown" in Banner Hymns (1st ed) Judson L. Moore from Bethlehem, Georgia Dianne Shapiro, from email and Union Harp and History of Songs by James S. James (Douglasville, Ga, 1909)