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Samuel Greg

1804 - 1876 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Author of "Stay, Master, Stay upon This Heavenly Hill" in The Cyber Hymnal Greg, Samuel, was born in Manchester, Sept. 6, 1804, and educated by Dr. Lant Carpenter, at Bristol, and at the Edinburgh University. He subsequently became a millowner at Bollington, near Macclesfield. He died, May 14, 1877. The addresses given by him at services which he conducted for his workmen at Bollington were published posthumously as A Layman's Legacy, 1877, with a prefatory note by Dean Stanley. He was also author of Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, 2nd ed. 1869. Some of his short poems were appended to his Layman's Legacy. He is known to hymnody as the author of:— 1. My soul in death was sleeping. New Life in Christ. Appeared in his Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, and included in the Baptist Hymnal, 1879, No. 400. 2. Slowly, slowly darkening. Old Age. Written in the midst of affliction, Sept. 1868, and published in his Layman's Legacy, 1877, in 11 st. of 4 lines, and entitled "Mystery of Life." In 1884 it was given in W. G. Horder's Congregational Hymns, No. 837. In Martineau's Hymns, 1873, it reads, "Now, slowly, slowly, darkening." It is a hymn of great merit, and is well suited for Private Devotion. 3. Stay, Master, stay upon this heavenly hill. [Transfiguration.] 1st published in his Scenes from the Life of Jesus, 1854, at the close of a chapter on the Transfiguration. It was reprinted in Macmillan's Magazine, 1870. pp. 543-6, together with Dean Stanley's hymn, "Master, it is good to be," on the same subject. It was included in W. G. Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884, No. "4. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

William Watkins Reid

1890 - 1983 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Author of "Creator God, who gave the planets life" Reid, William Watkins, Sr. (Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland, October 15, 1890--February 18, 1983, Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania). Methodist. Parents were William Reid, a native of Moneymore, near Belfast, and Sarah Watkins of Londonderry. Came to the United States in 1900. Attended New York University (bachelor's degree, 1915; master's degree in journalism, 1917). Served The Hymn Society as President, Executive Director, and Editor of The Hymn from 1966 to 1976. Authored the Hymn Society's 40th anniversary history, Sing with Spirit and Understanding. Also edited The Pastor's Journal for the Methodist church and worked as its director of the News Service of the Board of Missions. Also: Caulfield, Benjamin. --From DNAH Archives ============================== William Watkins Reid, of Whitestone, Long Island, was president of the Hymn Society of America from 1942 to 1945, and is now a member of its Executive Committee. Used the title of "My God is There, Controlling," the Society has published 65 of his hymns, and several others were published in the Society's "searches", for new hymns. He is the author of the Society's history of its first forty years, and also of the added period of ten years (1962-1972). --16 New Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment [Ecology] , 1973. Used by permission.

Edwin F. Hatfield

1807 - 1883 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Author of "Messiah comes to reign" Hatfield, Edwin Francis, D.D., was born at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Jan. 9, 1807, and educated at Middlcbury College, Vermont, and at Andover. From 1832 to 1835 he was pastor of the 2nd Presbyterian Church, St. Louis. In 1835 he removed to New York, where he was at first pastor of 7th Presbyterian Church, and then of the North Presbyterian Church (1856-63) in the same city; and in 1864 he was appointed special agent to the Union Theological Seminary, New York. He also held from 1846 the appointment of Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly. He died at Summit, New Jersey, Sept. 22, 1883. His hymnological knowledge was extensive. His publications include:— (1) Freedom's Lyre; or, Psalms, Hymns, and Sacred Songs, for the Slave and his Friends, N. Y., 1840, to which he contributed 24 hymns under the signature of “E. F. H."; (2) The Church Hymn Book for the Worship of God, N. Y., 18t2, in which are 10 of his hymns; and (3) Chapel Hymns, N. Y., 1873. (4) The Poets of the Church. Biographical Sketches of Hymn Writers, with Notes on their Hymns, New York, 1884. This was a posthumous publication, and is far from being accurate. His hymns and psalm versions in common use include:— 1. Come, bless Jehovah's name. (1837.) Psalms 134. 2. Come, let us gladly sing. (1837.) Psalms 95. 3. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. (1837.) Psalms 150. 4. How perfect is Thy law. (1837.) Psalms 19. 5. How sweetly breaks the Sabbath dawn. (1840.) Sunday. 6. My Shepherd's name is love. (1837.) Psalms 23. 7. 0 sing hallelujah, praise ye the Lord. (1837.) Psalms 146. 8. Thee, Thee, we praise, 0 God, and now. (1871.) A paraphrase of the Te Deum. 9. 'Tis Thine alone, Almighty Name. (1872.) Temperance. 10. Why, 0 God, Thy people spurn! (1837.) Psalms 60. 11. To God the Father, Son. Doxology. In Freedom's Lyre, 1840. It is widely used. These hymns and psalm versions are all in his Church Hymn Book, 1872, and the dates appended above are from that collection. No. 10 was published in his Freedom's Lyre, 1810, No. 25. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

James Edmund Jones

1866 - 1939 Person Name: James Edmund Jones, 1866- Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Composer of "LANGEMARCK" in The Book of Praise

Walter Stanton

1891 - 1978 Person Name: Walter K. Stanton, b.1891 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Composer of "NORTHUMBRIA" in The Book of Praise Stanton, Walter Kendall; d. 1978; British conductor and educator

Edwin LeGrice

1911 - 1992 Person Name: Edwin Le Grice, 1911-1992 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Author of "Great Son of God" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Marjorie Caudill

b. 1908 Person Name: M. J. de Caudill Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Translator (Spanish) of "Reposa Mi Alma" in El Himnario Bautista de la Gracia In addition to translating hymns, Marjorie J. de Caudill was the author of Cantos para coros de niños, nº 1. De Caudill’s husband was a Baptist missionary in Cuba for almost four decades. Translations-- A Jésus Prefiero Alabanzas a Nuestro Dios Amigo del Hogar ¿Cuántos Pueden? La Escalera de Jacob Lo Debes Compartir Maravilloso Es el Nombre de Jésus Me Condujo el Salvador Por los Lazos del Santo Amor Todas Tus Ansias y Tu Pesar Tu Cruz Levanta y Ven Tas Mí Tuya Es la Gloria Un Eterno y Grande Amor Ven Hoy al Salvador Villancico de la Estrella Yo Te Siguiré --www.hymntime.com/tch

Georgina Pando-Connolly

b. 1946 Person Name: Georgina Pando-Connolly, b. 1946 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Translator of "Lord, Who at Your First Eucahrist (En Esa Eucaristía, Buen Señor)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Cosmas, the Melodist

706 - 760 Person Name: Cosmas the Melodist Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Author of "As Jonah, Issuing from His Three Days' Tomb" in The Cyber Hymnal Cosmas, St., The Melodist. (Died circ. A.D. 760.) The second among the Greek ecclesiastical poets. He was adopted by the father of St. John of Damascus, and educated with him by a Sicilian monk also named Cosmas, who had been redeemed from slavery by his adopted father. The two foster-brothers retired together to St. Sabas, and there stimulated, assisted and vied witii one another in the composition of hymns. It is not certain whether some of the Canons, Triodia, and Idiomela under the name of Cosmas may not be the work of the elder Cosmas. He was elected Bishop of Maiuma in A.D. 743, and is commemorated in the Greek Calendar on Oct. 14. The story of Cosmas the elder is beautifully told in Milman's Lat. Christ., vol. ii. 364. Daniel, vol. iii., gives 12 pieces by him, and Dr. Neale has translated in his Hymns of the Eastern Church, 1862, the Canon for Christmas Day, and a cento from that for the Transfiguration. To English readers he is known through the translation of this cento, "The choirs of ransom'd Israel," and its abbreviated form, "In days of old on Sinai." [Rev. H. Leigh Bennett, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

J. W. Schulte Nordholt

1920 - 1995 Person Name: J. W. Schulte-Nordholt Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Author of "No saint on earth lives life to self alone" in Wonder, Love, and Praise J.W. Schulte Nordholt (b. 1920; d. 1995) was a Dutch writer and professor of the history and culture of North America. He is best known for his publications about the United States, particularly his biography of Woodrow Wilson. Lift Up Your Hearts, 2013