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William Watkins Reid
1923 - 2007 Person Name: William Watkins Reid (b. 1923) Hymnal Number: 373 Author of "Living the Faith" in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard Edition William W. Reid, Jr. (1923-2007), after graduating from Oberlin College and Seminary and Yale Divinity School served for more than fifty years as pastor in the Wyoming Conference in rural and inner-city Methodist churches. He served on the Executive Committee of The Hymn Society of America. He was involved in social issues, serving as a councilman and county commissioner. His hymns are widely published in hymnals of many denominations.
Mary Louise VanDyke
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William W. Reid, Jr. is pastor of the Methodist Church Circuit at Carverton, Pennsylvania. He previously served in a similar capacity at Camptown in the same State. He is a graduate of the Yale Divinity School and Oberlin College. He served during World War II in the Medical Corps and was held prisoner by the Germans for eight months. He is the author of several hymns including those in "Fourteen New Rural Hymns" and "Twelve New World Order Hymns" published by the Hymn Society.
----Fifteen New Christian Education Hymns, 1959. Used by permission.
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William Watkins Reid, Jr., is currently pastor of Central United Methodist Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Wyoming Annual Conference and has been active on its Social Concerns, Town and Country, and Evangelism boards, and on the Pennsylvania Council of Churches.
----Twelve New Lord’s Day Hymns, 1968. Used by permission.
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[Reid] is an executive committee member of the Hymn Society of America, and is the author of a number of hymns that have been published in hymnals in the United States, Canada, England, and in South Africa. As a council man he is concern with the ecology of Wyoming Valley (Penn. and N.Y.) and with the rebuilding of Wilkes-Barre after the disastrous flood of 1972.
--16 New Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment [Ecology] , 1973. Used by permission.
William Watkins Reid
Cyril Taylor
1907 - 1991 Person Name: Cyril V. Taylor (b. 1907) Hymnal Number: 486 Composer of "STONEGATE" in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard Edition Cyril V. Taylor (b. Wigan, Lancashire, England, 1907; d. Petersfield, England, 1992) was a chorister at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and studied at Christ Church, Oxford, and Westcott House, Cambridge. Ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1932, he served the church as both pastor and musician. His positions included being a producer in the religious broadcasting department of the BBC (19391953), chaplain of the Royal School of Church Music (1953-1958), vicar of Cerne Abbas in Dorsetshire (1958-1969), and precentor of Salisbury Cathedral (1969-1975). He contributed twenty hymn tunes to the BBC Hymn Book (1951), which he edited, and other tunes to the Methodist Hymns and Psalms (1983). He also edited 100 Hymns for Today (1969) and More Hymns for Today (1980). Writer of the booklet Hymns for Today Discussed (1984), Taylor was chairman of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland from 1975 to 1980.
Bert Polman
Cyril Taylor
Andrew Young
1885 - 1971 Person Name: Andrew Young (1885-1971) Hymnal Number: 486 Author of "Harvest" in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard Edition Andrew John Young, poet and clergyman; born 29 Apr. 1885 at Elgin, died 25 Nov. 1971 at Bognor Regis; also an amateur botanist and author of "A prospect of flowers"
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