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John Sterling

1806 - 1844 Person Name: Julia Sterling Topics: Work and Duty Author of "Work and Pray" in Best Endeavor Hymns Sterling was born at Kames Castle, Bute, July 20, 1806, and died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Sep. 18, 1844. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907 ================ Sterling, J., p. 1595, ii. (Under "When up to nightly skies," &c.) Another of his hymns which was given in the American Hymns of the Spirit, 1864 and Martineau's Hymns of Praise and Prayer, 1873, No. 31, "0 Source divine and Life of all" (Reverence and Love), has passed into a few modern American collections, including The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904. It is dated 1840. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Thomas W. Freckelton

1827 - 1903 Person Name: Thomas W. Freckleton Topics: Work and Duty Author of "Fellow Workers with God" in The Pilgrim Hymnal Freckelton, Thomas Wesley, b. 1827. Minister of Unity Church, Islington. His hymn, "The toil of brain, or heart, or hand" (Christian Service), is in J. P. Hopp’s Collection, 1877 and in Horder's Congregational Hymnal, 1884. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Grace J. Frances

Topics: Work and Duty Author of "Toil on and Pray, Endeav'rers" in Best Endeavor Hymns Pseudonym. See also Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

Alice Pugh

Topics: The Christian Life Work and Duty Author of "In the Heart of Jesus" in The Church Hymnal

A. N. O.

Topics: Sabbath School Work and Duty Author of "If Any Little Word of Mine" in The Church Hymnal

Amos R. Wells

1862 - 1933 Topics: Work and Duty Author of "Reception Hymn" in Best Endeavor Hymns

U. C. Burnap

1834 - 1900 Person Name: Uzziah C. Burnap Topics: Brotherhoods and Men's Guilds; Church Work; Following Christ; Kingdom of Christ Prayer for; Ministry, The Consecration and Duties of; Schools and Colleges Graduation Hymn; Social Progress; Soldiers of Christ Composer of "TENNENT" in The Hymnal Burnap ran a dry goods business in Brooklyn, though he graduated from the University of Paris with a music degree, and for 37 years played the organ at the Reformed Church in Brooklyn Heights. He was a prolific composer, and helped edit the following: Hymns of the Church, 1869 Hymns of Prayer and Praise, 1871 Hymns and Songs of Praise, 1874 --The Cyber Hymnal™ There is uncertainty about his middle name. Reynolds and the Library of Congress say it was Christopher. A contemporary obituary relied on by "The Cyber Hymnal™" says it was Cicero. It appears that there was another Uzziah C[icero] Burnap who lived (per LOC) 1794-1854.

C. H. Forrest

Topics: The Christian Life Work and Duty Composer of "HEART OF JESUS" in The Church Hymnal Late 19th Century

I. B. Woodbury

1819 - 1858 Person Name: Isaac B. Woodbury Topics: Adoration; Christ Communion with; Christ Glorying in; Christ The Saviour; Christ Worshiped; Christians Duties of; God Adored and Exalted; God Attributes of; God Creator of All; God Glorious; God Kingly Character of; God Sovereignty of ; Gospel Invitations of ; Invitation and Divine Pleading; Joy Exhortations to; Joy Reasons for; Missions Encouragements of; Praise Calls to; Praise For Works of Creation; Praise For Works of Providence; Praise Part of Public Worship; Salvation Thanksgiving for; The Sea; Worship Acts of; Worship Only as God Appoints Composer of "CHOPIN" in The Psalter Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris. He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina. He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

Ellen M. H. Gates

1835 - 1920 Person Name: E. H. Gates Topics: Activity and Zeal; Activity; Charity; Christians Duties; Church Work of; Missions; Activity; Charity; Christians Duties; Church Work of; Missions Author of ""What thy hand findeth"" in Laudes Domini Gates, Ellen, née Huntingdon, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is the author of several popular pieces in the American Mission and Sunday School hymn-books. Of these the following have passed from the American books into Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos:— 1. Come home, come home, you are weary at heart. Invitation. 2. I am now a child of God. Saved through Jesus. 3. I will sing you a song of that beautiful land. Concerning Heaven. 4. O the clanging bells of time. Yearning for Heaven. 5. Say, is your lamp burning, my brother. Watching and Waiting. Concerning her poem which is used as a hymn in America, "If you cannot on the ocean" (Duty), Duffield says her account of its origin is as follows:—"The lines were written upon my slate one snowy afternoon in the winter of 1860. I knew, as I know now, that the poem was only a simple little thing, but somehow 1 had a presentiment that it had wings, and would fly into sorrowful hearts, uplifting and strengthening them." (English Hymns, 1886, p. 257.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ====================== Gates, Ellen, p. 1565, i., now (1906) of New York city, was born at Torrington, Conn., and married to Isaac E. Gates. Her poems, &c, were published as Treasures of Kurium, 1895. Concerning Dr. March's hymn, "Hark! the voice of Jesus crying" (q.v.), and Mrs. Gates's "If you cannot on the ocean," some confusion has arisen, mainly, we think, from the fact that the opening line of Mrs. Gates's hymn, written in 1860, and the first line of Dr. March's second stanza are nearly the same, i.e., "If you cannot on the ocean," and "If you cannot cross the ocean." The incident which associates the late President Lincoln's name with this hymn is thus set forth by Mr. Philip Phillips in his Singing Pilgrim, 1866, p. 97:— "The words of this truly beautiful song ['If you cannot on the ocean'] were written by Mrs. Ellen H. Gates . . . When our lamented President Lincoln heard Mr. Phillips sing it at the Hall of Representatives in Washington, Feb. 29, 1865, he was overcome with emotion, and sent up the following written request [given in facsimile on p. 97] to Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Chairman, for its repetition:—' Near the end let us have "Your Mission" [the title of the hymn] repeated by Mr. Phillips. Don't say I called for it. A. Lincoln.' " It was through this incident that the hymn became known through America as " President Lincoln's favourite hymn." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)