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Charles Walker Ray

1832 - 1917 Person Name: C. W. Ray Hymnal Number: 110 Author of "Death Is Only a Dream" in Soul Inspiring Songs Rv Charles Walker Ray DD USA 1832-1917. Born at Otselic, NY, he became a Baptist minister. He was educated at Hamlton College, Clinton, NY. He earned his doctorate from Monongahela College, Jefferson, PA. That school closed in 1894. He pastored at North Stonington, CT, for a number of years. He also served at Plymouth, NY. He married Julia Tracy Sheffield, and they had a son, Arthur. He wrote a number of books and song books: “Grace Vernon Bussell, the heroine of western Australia” (1878); “Spicy breezes” (1883); “The day school crown” (1892); “The revival helper: a collection of songs for Christian work and worship” (1893); “Bright blossoms of song” (1895); “Zion’s delight” (1901); “The song of songs of the King and his bride-an interpretation” (1913); “The fallacies and vagaries of misinterpretation” (1914). He died at Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

N. B. Herrell

1877 - 1953 Hymnal Number: 10 Author of "It’s So" in Soul Inspiring Songs Born: March 8, 1877, Miami, Indiana. Died: May 10, 1953, Pasadena, California. A Nazarene minister, Herrell was a pastor in Arlington, Virginia, when a heart ailment forced his retirement. His works include: Christ at the Controls The Way of Christian Prosperity --www.hymntime.com/tch/ ================ Rev. N. B. Herrell has had a rich and abiding ministry in the church. As pastor, evangelist, district superintendent, and church leader, he has had opportunity to test the fundamental principles of stewardship in every phase of church activity. He has spent nearly a lifetime of study concerning this important theme. For thirty-five years he has preached and practiced the fundamentals of Christian stewardship. --wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/ ================= Herrell, Noah Benjamin. (Miami, Indiana, March 8, 1879--1953). Saved and sanctified in 1901 under the preaching of Lillian Belle Vanderbur, in Marion, Ind. Two years later, he married the girl evangelist. They had one daughter, five sons. District Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene: Pittsburgh District (1910-1916) (Brought Illinois Holiness University into his denomination as Olivet Nazarene College); Northern California District; Idaho-Oregon District (helped build Northwest Nazarene College and Good Samaritan Hospital); 1920-1922, Ohio District (bought and organized Central Ohio Camp Ground); 1925-1933 (Kansas City District); Pastored churches in Coffeeville, Kansas; Hammond, Ind.; and Arlington, Virginia. Could not read or write music. Most songs came by inspiration, words and tune together. --E. Roger Taylor, DNAH Archives

Vida Munden Nixon

Hymnal Number: 3 Author of "Too Late at the Gate" in Soul Inspiring Songs

Ada Powell

Hymnal Number: 21 Author of "Make Room in Your Heart" in Soul Inspiring Songs

D. M. Shanks

1889 - 1973 Hymnal Number: 163 Composer of "[I’ve a song of delight in my heart all the while]" in Soul Inspiring Songs Doc McKinley Shanks, 1889-1973

J. L. Heath

Hymnal Number: 76 Composer of "[I care not today what the morrow may bring]" in Soul Inspiring Songs One of the greatest testimonies of a life of faith, was that of a man by the name of J.L. Heath. Mr. Heath was a hard-working father of seven children, who worked in a steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He received a meager salary, and being the sole provider in his home, he knew from first-hand experience what it meant to live by faith. He told that there were many times he was unable to buy school clothes and shoes for his children. Many times it was even difficult to have enough money to pay the bills, and put food on the table. Yet, through it all, he trusted God, he believed God, and one day he put the feelings of his soul on paper, as he penned the blessed old hymn: LIVING BY FAITH! --www.sermonsearch.com/sermon-outlines/ ================= Jesse Lindon Heath was an early twentieth century Methodist minister. Grace United Methodist Church, Mobile, Alabama, was organized in 1961. Heath came out of retirement to be the first pastor. --www.naznet.com/community ================ Julius Lawrence Heath (1862-1933) of Iredell County, North Carolina. He was a singing school teacher and composer, with connections to the singing school normals of his day. email from Robert Vaughn

James Henry Stanley

1869 - 1954 Person Name: J. H. S. Hymnal Number: 169 Author of "Saved by the Blood" in Soul Inspiring Songs James Henry Stanley, Feb. 2,1869 - June 1, 1954, was a singing school teacher, band director and hymn composer. He died in Saltillo, Miss., where he had been a resident for 60 years.He is buried at Springhill Presbyterian Church in Lee County. His best known composition was "Prepare to Meet Thy God," for which wrote music and lyrics. Carolyn Hurt Nichols (grandchild), from email 7-19-2018

Thomas J. Laney

1878 - 1953 Person Name: T. J. L. Hymnal Number: 126 Author of "I'll Live On" in Soul Inspiring Songs Thomas Jesse Laney Born: May 17, 1878, Carroll County, Georgia. Died: January 5, 1953, Jefferson County, Alabama. Buried: Forest Hill Cemetery, Birmingham, Alabama. --www.hymntime.com/tch