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Frances S. Osgood

Person Name: Mrs. Osgood Hymnal Number: 464 Author of "Glad Worship" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)

Letitia E. Landon

Person Name: L. E. Landon Hymnal Number: 447 Author of "Feed My Lambs!" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)

Frederica Bremer

1801 - 1865 Person Name: Miss Bremer Hymnal Number: 236 Author of "Thirst for Living Waters" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) Born in Finland

Lord Morpeth

Person Name: Morpeth Hymnal Number: 325 Author of "The Use of Tears" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)

S. Graham

Person Name: Graham Hymnal Number: 430 Author of "God With Us on the Deep" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)

Bulwer

Hymnal Number: 308 Author of "The Minister of Love" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)

Roscoe

Hymnal Number: 321 Author of "The Pilgrim" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)

1799 - 1888 Person Name: Mrs. Howitt Hymnal Number: 330 Author of "In Affliction" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) Howitt, Mary, née Botham, second daughter of Samuel Botham, a member of the Society of Friends, was born at Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, circa 1804, was married in 1823 to William Howitt, and died Jan. 30, 1888. Her publications have little in common with hymnody. They include poems, novels, translations of Swedish and Spanish works, and numerous contributions to magazines. In addition she was joint author with her husband of Literature and Romance of Northern Europe, 1852, &c. Her hymns include:— 1. God might have made the earth bring forth. The Use of Flowers. From her Birds and Flowers, and Other Country Things, Lond., N. D. (Preface, Sept. 28, 1837), p. 122, in 8 stanzas of 4 lines. 2. How goodly is the earth. Flower Services. From her Hymns and Fireside Verses, Lond., 1839, p. 167. 3. 0 spirit, freed from earth. Death and Burial. Altered from her poem, "The Ascent of the Spirit," in her Ballads and Other Poems, 1847, p. 318. Dr. Martineau dates this poem 1834. Mrs. Howitt also contributed " Let me suffer, let me drain" (The Willing Disciple), and " Clothe me with Thy saving grace " (The Cry of the spirit) to Lyra Britannica, 1867. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology ============================= Howitt, Mary, p. 541, i. Her hymn “Let me suffer; let me drain," is the opening hymn of the Lays of the Sanctuary, 1859. She died Jan. 30, 1888. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Mrs. T. J. Carney

1823 - 1908 Person Name: Miss Fletcher Hymnal Number: 284 Author of "Kindly Judgment" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) Carney, Julia Abigail (Fletcher). (Lancaster, Massachusetts, April 6, 1823--November 1, 1908, Galesburg, Illinois). Universalist. Married Rev. T.J. Carney, a Universalist minister. Author of many prose articles and poems, generally published in Universalist periodicals. In later life she lived in Galesburg, Illinois. Three of her hymns were included in Church Harmonies, New and Old, 1895: 1. Father, we pray for those who dwell 2. Our heaven is everywhere 3. Think gently of the erring --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives ======================= Carney, Julia A., née Fletcher, was born in 1823. She was a teacher for some time in one of the Boston Primary Schools, U.S.A., which was held in the vestry of Hollis Street Church, in that city. This Church was demolished in 1846. It was for use in these Primary Schools that her "Little drops of water" (q.v.) was written in 1845. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Emily Taylor

1795 - 1872 Hymnal Number: 1 Author of "Invitation" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) Taylor, Emily, born 1795, was the daughter of Samuel Taylor, of New Buckenham, Norfolk, niece of John Taylor, of Norwich, the hymnwriter, and great grand-daughter of Dr. John Taylor, the Hebraist. Miss Taylor was the writer of numerous tales for children, chiefly historical, and of various books of instruction, and of descriptive natural history. Amongst her publications are:— (1) Letters to a Child on Maritime Discovery, 1820; (2) Vision of Las Casas, and other Poems, 1825; (3) Poetical Illustrations of Passages of Scripture, 1826 ; (4) Tales of the Saxons, 1832; (5) Tales of the English, 1833; (6) Memoir of Sir T. More, 1834; (7) The Boy and the Birds, 1835. She also edited Sabbath Recreations, 1826; and Flowers and Fruit in Old English Gardens, 1836; and contributed to the Magnet Stories, 1860, &c.; and the Rainbow Stories, 1870, &c. Miss Taylor wrote several hymns, which appeared as follows:—To the Unitarian Collection of Psalms & Hymns, printed for the Renshaw Street Chapel, Liverpool, 1818, she contributed anonymously:— 1. Come to the house of prayer. Invitation to Public Worship. Sometimes given as "O come to the house of Prayer." 2. God of the changing year Whose arm of power. Lessons of the Changing Year. 3. O Father, though the anxious fear. Sunday. 4. O here, if ever, God of love. Holy Communion. These, and the following 6 hymns, were given anonymously in the 2nd ed. of the Norwich Unitarian Hymn Book, 1826:— 5. Here, Lord, when at Thy Table met. Holy Communion. 6. O not for these alone I pray. Holy Communion. Sometimes, "No, not for these alone I pray." 7. The Gospel is the light. Worth and Power of the Gospel. Sometimes “It is the one true light." 8. Thus shalt thou love the Almighty God [Lord] . Self-consecration to God. 9. Who shall behold the King of kings? Purity. 10. Who that o'er many a barren part. Missions. Sometimes it begins with st. ii., "Thy kingdom come! The heathen lands." Of the above No. 6 is part of a longer poem which was given in her Poetical Illustrations of Passages of Scripture, 1826. This work also contains:— 11. O Source of good! around me spread. Seek, and ye shall find. 12. Truly the light of morn is sweet. Early Piety. 13. When summer suns their radiance fling. Resignation with Praise. In the Rev. J. R. Beard's Collection of Hymns for Public and Private Worship, 1837, several of the above are repeated, and also:— 14. If love, the noblest, purest, best. Communion with Jesus. Of these 14 hymns 10 are in Dr. Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1840, and 9 in his Hymns, &c, 1873. Several are also found in other collections, as Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1881, and some American and other hymn-books. Although for the greater part of her life Miss Taylor was a Unitarian, latterly, under the influence of F. D. Maurice, she joined the Church of England She died in 1872. [Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)