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G. R. Seltzer

Person Name: George Rise Seltzer, b.1902 Author of "Come, all ye people, come away" in Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America

1841 - 1931 Person Name: Emanuel Cronenwett Author of "Of Omnipresent Grace I Sing" in American Lutheran Hymnal Cronenwett, Emmanuel, a Lutheran Pastor at Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., contributed to the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, Published by Order of the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and other States, 1880, in addition to 20 translations from the German, the following original hymns, some of which rank with the best in the collection:— 1. A holy state is wedded life. Domestic Worship. 2. Faith is wisdom from on high. Faith. 3. Heavenly Father, Jesus taught us. Prayer. 4. Lord, Thine omniscience I adore. Omniscience. 5. O Triune God, Thy blessing great. Domestic Worship. 6. Of omniscient grace I sing. Omniscience. 7. Of Zion's honour angels sing. Ordination. 8. The precepts of the word are pure. Holy Scripture. 9. The Spirit's fruits are peace and love. Fruits of the Spirit. 10. 'Tis a marvel in our eyes. Foundation Stone laying of a Church. 11. To Thee, our fathers' God, we bow. Domestic Worship. 12. Unto Caesar let us render. National Thanksgiving. 13. We have a sure, prophetic word. Holy Scripture. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Ibrāhīm Baz Al-Haddad

1854 - 1923 Person Name: ابراهيم باز الحداد Author of "يا رب قدني كي أقود" in كتاب الترانيم الروحية للكنائس الإنجيلية إبراهيم باز الحداد

John Davis Long

1838 - 1915 Person Name: John D. Long Author of "I would, dear Jesus, I could break" in Sunday School Service Book and Hymnal Long, Hon. John Davis (Buckfield, Maine, October 27, 1838--August 28, 1915, Hingham, Massachusetts, 1915). Harvard, A.B. 1857; L.L.D. 1880. He was Governor of Massachusetts, 1880-1883, and Secretary of the Navy, 1897-1902. A member of the First Parish (Unitarian) in Hingham, he wrote one hymn beginning "The evening winds begin to blow" which was included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, but which has not passed into other books. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Robert Owen

Person Name: R. O. Author (stanzas 1-4) of "O, mor ddymunol yw cael cwrdd" in Mawl a chân = praise and song

M. Franklyn

Author of "O God who is the breath of life" in CPWI Hymnal

John Humberger

Person Name: Rev. John Humberger Author of "Now say good night! O Father be " in Evangelical Lutheran hymnal b. Perry Co, Ohio, 1840. Ordained a Lutheran minister, 1865. Lutheran pastor (Ohio Synod) at Steubenville, Ohio. Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal 1908

Mabel N. McCaw

b. 1899 Person Name: Mabel Niedermeyer Author of "Our Gifts of Money" in Hymns for Primary Worship Niedermeyer, Mabel. (Bloomington, Illinois, March 13, 1899--?). Disciples of Christ. Illinois Wesleyan University, B.S. 1924; Yale Divinity School, M.A. 1926; Director of Religious Eduction., Bloomington, Ill., 1928-1936; National Director of Children's Work, United Christian Missionary Society, Indianapolis, 1936-1948. Married C.C. McCaw in 1948, widowed, 1978. Author of fourteen books for children and many children's songs. Her hymn "Our Church Proclaims God's Love and Care" is included in Hymns for Junior Worship (1940) and Christian Worship (1941); several hymns in Hymns for Primary Worship. --Jean E. Garriott, DNAH Archives

Charles Edward York

1842 - 1908 Person Name: Charles E. York Author of "As Near the Wished for Port We Draw" in The Cyber Hymnal York, Charles Edward, M.A., b. in 1842, Chaplain Royal Marine Light Infantry; educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A. 1864), and for sometime Chaplain in the Royal Navy, is the author of "As near the wish'd-for port we draw" (For Use at Sea), in the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Edna A. Lambert

Author of "Behold His Cross Against the Sky" in Twelve New World Order Hymns Lambert, Edna A. Of Wellington, New Zealand, member of Kelburn Presbyterian Church. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives ============================= Edna A. Lambert is a resident of Wellington, New Zealand. She is a housewife with a husband and three children to look after. She finds time, however, to write hymns and poems which occasionally have been published in religious periodicals. She is the author of one of the Hymn Society's World Order Hymns. --Seven New Social Welfare Hymns, 1961. Used by permission.