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Mattie Alice Long

Author of "Sing His Praises" in Songs for Sunday Schools Early 20th Century Lyrics: America, of Her We Sing Flash the Light of Truth Along Go Out in the Highways I Am Going Back to Jesus Joyful Songs We Sing Love That Is Never Failing My Heart Is Filled with Peace and Love Our Joyful Songs We’ll Sing in Praise Pure Water, Cold Water Silent Night, Hallowed Night Sing the Song Soldier Boys and Girls Are We The Christ Is King o’er All the World There Is a Song I Love to Sing Walking with Jesus We Are Little Children We Are Marching on to Battle When the World Seems Cold and Dreary With Our Banners Waving High in the Light You’ve a Friend Who’s Interceding http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/o/n/long_ma.htm

Raymond Lahey

Person Name: Raymond J. Lahey, b. 1940 Author (vs. 2-4) of "God Created Earth and Heaven" in Catholic Book of Worship III

Adolf Burkhardt

1929 - 2004 Translator of "Homoj, kantu ĝojo-kanton" in TTT-Himnaro Cigneta Evangelical German pastor, writer, translator (largely of religious songs), ecumenical activist, and one of the most influential and prolific hymnal compilers in Esperanto. He was a member of the editorial committee responsible for the 1971 Protestant hymnal Adoru Kantante, the sole compiler of the ten-installment Tero kaj Ĉielo Kantu (later republished in three volumes), and one of the three members of "Kloster Kirchberg", the editorial board that produced the 2001 ecumenical Esperanto hymnal Adoru - Ekumena Diserva Libro. Burkhardt was honored in a 368-page Festschrift, Esperante kaj Ekumene, Fest-libro por la 75a naskiĝ-tago de Adolf Burkhardt. With the other members of Kloster Kirchberg, he shared in the 2002 FAME-foundation's Aalener Esperanto-Kulturpreis. Articles in the Esperanto and German Wikipedias.

G. H. Peake

Author of "Hoderaiko lalandava Jeso Lay mpanavotro" in Protestant Madagascar Hymnal, 2001

Friederich Schiller

1759 - 1805 Person Name: Friedrich Schiller, 1759-1805 Author of "Joy, Thou Goddess" in Singing the Living Tradition

José A. Rubio

b. 1949 Author of "Elevamos Nuestros Cantos" in Cantos del Pueblo de Dios = Songs of the People of God (2nd ed.)

Shirley F. Ludgater

b. 1937 Person Name: Shirley F. Ludgater, 1937- Author of "When the light of first creation" in Together in Song

Jay Glover Eldridge

1875 - 1962 Author of "God of years, Thy love hath led us" in The Hymnal Born: November 8, 1875, Janesville, Wisconsin. Died: August 1962. Buried: Moscow Cemetery, Moscow, Idaho. Eldridge spent his childhood in Missouri, Kansas, and Penfield, New York. He studied modern languages at Yale University and taught German there. In 1896, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, and spent a year in Germany before accepting a position in 1901 as Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Idaho. Two years later, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty, the first Dean created there. In World War I, Eldridge served in France with the Young Men’s Christian Association. He returned to University of Idaho after the war, where he helped found a Phi Beta Kappa chapter in 1923; he later served as chapter president. He was also president of the Moscow Choral Society (1930-31), a leader in the regional Presbyterian Church organization, and Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge in Idaho. He served various roles in the Masons until poor health curtailed his activities in 1955. --www.hymntime.com/tch/