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James Fraser

Hymnal Number: d1 Author of "And give to Jesus glory" in Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Justus Hull

Hymnal Number: d105 Author of "Farewell, my [dear] brethren in the Lord" in Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Josiah Goddard

Hymnal Number: d184 Author of "I've listed [enlisted] in the holy war" in Hymns and Spiritual Songs

1760 - 1807 Hymnal Number: d376 Author of "This is the field, the world below, In which the sower" in Hymns and Spiritual Songs Hinchsliffe, Joseph, a Sheffield manufacturer, and a member of the Wesleyan body, was born at Sheffield in 1760, and died at Dumfries in 1807. Concerning his hymn in the Primitive Methodist Hymnal, 1887, "This is the field, the world below" (Death and the Resurrection), Dorricott and Collins say in their Lyric Studies, 1889, p. 289, "It has been traced to a Tract, entitled Favourite Hymns, Odes, and Anthems, as Sung at the Methodist Chapels in Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Nottingham Circuits, Fifth edition, 1797, and immediately under the title of this hymn are the words 'By J. Hinchsliffe.'" --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)