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Robert H. Pruyn

Hymnal Number: d189 Author of "Safe, safe at home" in The Gem

1820 - 1896 Hymnal Number: d148 Author of "The shining way" in The Gem John P Ellis USA 1820-1896. A life-long resident of Flushing, Queens, NY, he was active in his community as a civic leader and speaker, militia captain (police justice officer and member of the Union Riflemen in 1839). In 1848 the newspaper “Family Companion” relates a presentation to him of a fine sword and epaulettes given him by fellow unit members. He was an inventor, having held two patents for window sash locks and a waterproof safe. He was also a poet and hymnist. His poetry was first published in the early 1840s and hymns in 1850. John Perry

Sidney P. Gill

Hymnal Number: d59 Author of "I want to be an angel, and with the angels stand" in The Gem

W. W. Rand

Hymnal Number: d119 Author of "O swiftly the Jordan rolls" in The Gem

Minnie Waters

Hymnal Number: d190 Author of "O say shall we meet you all there" in The Gem Pseudonym. See also Kidder, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1820-1905

A. A. Smith

Hymnal Number: d113 Author of "On Calvary heights amazing love behold" in The Gem

Ernest F. McGregor

1879 - 1946 Hymnal Number: d102 Author of "O come, let us sing, our youthful hearts" in The Gem

James Boden

1757 - 1841 Hymnal Number: d19 Author of "Come all ye [you] saints of God" in The Gem Boden, James, was born April 13, 1757, in the house at Chester long occupied by Matthew Henry, and educated for the Congregational Ministry at Homerton College. In 1784 he became the pastor of the Independent Chapel, Hanley; and, in 1796, of the Queen's Street Chapel, Sheffield. This last charge he held for nearly 43 years. He died at Chesterfield, June 4, 1841. In 1801 he assisted Dr. Williams, of the Masborough Theological College, near Sheffield, in compiling A Collection of above Six Hundred Hymns designed as a New Supplement to Dr. Watts's Psalms & Hymns, &c, Doncaster, 1801. This collection is known as Williams and Boden, and to it is traced the anonymous modern version of "Jerusalem, my happy home" (q.v.). To this collection Boden contributed, under the signature "Boden” the following hymns:— 1. Bright source of everlasting love. Charity Sermon. 2. Come, all ye saints of God. Passiontide. 3. Come death, released from dread. Death. 4. Our great High Priest we sing. Christ the H. Priest. 5. Shall sin, that cruel foe? Lent. 6. Triumphant sing ye favoured [ransom'd] saints. Jesus, all in all. 7. We come, dear Jesus, to Thy throne. Prayer Meeting. Of these hymns, No. 1 appeared in the Evangelical Magazine Aug., 1798. Most of them are still in common use, but chiefly in America. They are of no special merit. In the Gospel Magazine, 1777, there are a few hymns under the signature "J-----s B-----n, Chester." Of these, one only (8), "Ye dying sons of men" [Invitation), was given in the Williams and Boden Collection, and then, not with the full signature of "Boden," but as by “B___." On this evidence mainly the hymn has been ascribed to James Boden. It appeared in the Gospel Magazine twice in 1777, in Feb. and in Aug. It may be by our author; but seeing that it alone of the eight hymns above noted is signed "B-----," and was given in the Gospel Magazine in 1777, and that the rest are signed "Baden," and did not appear in the Gospel Magazinein 1777, or in any other year, we regard the evidence as somewhat inconclusive. It has been suggested that possibly the "J-----s B-----n, Chester," was his father. The signatures appended to the hymns in the 1st edition of Williams & Boden, 1801, were omitted from the 2nd edition, 1803, and portions of the Preface were rewritten. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Edward Francis Hughes

1814 - 1879 Hymnal Number: d49 Author of "How kind is the Savior" in The Gem Hughes, Edward Francis, p. 1572, i. This writer, the author of ”How kind is the Saviour," &c, was an English Baptist Minister who took up his abode in Australia, where he became editor of a newspaper. He died in Victoria, and is buried in the Portland Cemetery there. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)