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Henry Mills

1786 - 1867 Person Name: H. Mills Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Translator of "Near the cross was Mary weeping" in The Lutheran Hymnary Mills, Henry, D.D., son of John Mills, was born at Morriston, New Jersey, March 12, 1786, and educated at the New Jersey College, Princeton, where he graduated in 1802. After being engaged in teaching for some time at Morristown and elsewhere, he was ordained Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1816. On the opening of the Auburn Theological Seminary in 1821, he was appointed Professor of Biblical Criticism and Oriental Languages, from which he retired in 1854. He died at Auburn, June 10, 1867. In 1845 he published Horae Germanicae; A Version of German Hymns. This was enlarged in 1856. The translations are not well done, and very few are now in common use, although 18 and 9 doxologies were given in the Lutheran General Synod's Collection, 1850. Many are noted in the articles on German hymnwriters and hymns throughout this Dictionary. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Joseph Anstice

1808 - 1836 Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Author of "Darkly Rose the Guilty Morning" in The Cyber Hymnal Anstice, Joseph , M.A., son of William Anstice of Madeley, Shropshire, born 1808, and educated at Enmore, near Bridgwater, Westminster, and Ch. Church, Oxford, where he gained two English prizes and graduated as a double-first. Subsequently, at the ago of 22, he became Professor of Classical Literature at King's College, London; died at Torquay, Feb. 29, 1836, aged 28. His works include Richard Coeur de Lion, a prize poem, 1828; The Influence of the Roman Conquest upon Literature and the Arts in Rome (Oxford prize Essay); Selections from the Choice Poetry of the Greek Dramatic Writers, translated into English Verse, 1832, &c. His hymns were printed a few months after his death, as:— Hymns by the late Joseph Anstice, M.A., formerly Student of Christ Church, Oxford, and Professor of Classical Literature, King’s College, London, Bridgwater, 1836, and thus introduced:— "As none of the following Hymns had the advantage of being corrected and prepared for the press by their lamented Author, his family have not considered themselves at liberty to bring them before the public; but, having reason to believe that a large circle of surviving friends will be gratified by possessing a memorial of the manner in which some of his leisure hours were employed, and of the subjects which chiefly occupied his thoughts, during the last few months of his life, they have consented to their being printed for private distribution.—-Bridgwater, June, 1836." This work contains 52 hymns on various subjects, together with a poem "To my Hymn Book." The circumstances under which they were written are thus detailed by Mrs. Anstice in a communication to the Rev. Josiah Miller, author of Singers and Songs of the Church:— "The hymns were all dictated to his wife during the last few weeks of his life, and were composed just at the period of the day (the afternoon) when he felt the oppression of his illness—all his brighter morning hours being given to pupils up to the very day of his death."-—S. & S., p. 495. A few of the hymns are of a joyful character, but the circumstances under which they were written account for the prevailing tone of sadness by which they are chiefly characterized. About one half of these hymns were included by Mrs. Yonge in her Child's Christian Year, 1841. Being thus brought before the public, many soon came into common use. Those in most extensive use are: "Father, by Thy love and power;" "In all things like “Thy brethren, Thou;" "Lord of the harvest, once again;" and, "O Lord, how happy should we be." -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Thomas Stern

Person Name: Th. Stern Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Composer of "CHRIST REMONTE" in El Himnario

Christian Richardt

1831 - 1892 Person Name: Chr. Richardt Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Author of "Jesus, Life And Way To Heaven" in Hymnal for Church and Home Christian Richardt (25 May 1831 in Copenhagen - 18 December 1892) was a Danish writer. He wrote the libretto for the opera Drot og marsk by Peter Heise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Richardt

Luther D. Reed

1873 - 1972 Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Translator (stanza 4) of "Be not dismayed, thou little flock" in Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church

William Jackson

1815 - 1866 Person Name: William Jackson, 1815 - 1866 Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Composer of "EVENING HYMN" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada

Walter Cecil Macfarren

1826 - 1905 Person Name: Walter C. Macfarren Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Composer of "HERI MUNDUS EXULTAVIT" in The Cyber Hymnal Walter Cecil Macfarren, b. London, 1826 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908 ================= Born: August 28, 1826, Westminster, London, England. Died: September 2, 1905, at home in St. Pancras, London, England. Buried: St. Pancras Cemetery, East Finchley, London, England. Brother of George Macfarren, Walter served as a chorister in Westminster Abbey (1836-41). He entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1842 and was a professor of piano there (1846-1903). He composed pieces for piano, voice and piano, and vocal ensemble, and for many years was a music critic for The Queen. Sources: Frost, p. 681 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/c/macfarren_wc.htm ================== http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Macfarren,_Walter_Cecil_%28DNB12%29