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Fred Pratt Green

1903 - 2000 Person Name: F. Pratt Green Hymnal Number: 3 Author of "Love Is the Greatest of the Three" in Seven New Hymns of Hope The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies. Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more." --Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.

Ernest K. Emurian

1912 - 2004 Hymnal Number: 6 Author of "Our Hope Is in the Living God" in Seven New Hymns of Hope Born: February 20, 1912, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Died: January 23, 2004, Alexandria, Virginia. Buried: Columbia Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. Son of an Armenian immigrant pastor, Emurian attended Davidson College, North Carolina (BA); Union Theological Seminary, Virginia (BD); and Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey (ThM). Randolph-Macon College of Virginia also conferred an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree on him in 1971. Emurian served as pastor of the Cherrydale United Methodist Church, Arlington, Virginia, for 19 years, until retiring in 1981. He wrote some 19 books and 60 hymns, as well as hymn tunes, anthems, and popular songs. His works include: Hymn Festivals Hymn Stories for Programs The Living Dramatization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s the Last Supper Sweetheart of the Civil War Living Stories of Famous Hymns (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1955) Famous Stories of Inspiring Hymns (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1956) Stories of Christmas Carols, revised and enlarged edition (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1958) Forty Stories of Famous Gospel Songs (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1959) --www.hymntime.com/tch/ =========================== Ernest K. Emurian is pastor of the Elm Avenue Methodist Church, Portsmouth, Virginia. He has served several pastorates in the Methodist Church, chiefly in Virginia. He has long been interested in hymns, and has written several of them, including "When Dawns the Morning Sunlight" in the "Fourteen New Rural Hymns" published by the Society in 1955. He is the author of two volumes entitled "Dramatized Stories of Hymns and Hymn Writers". He had his college work at Davidson College, graduating in 1931. --Twelve New World Order Hymns, 1958. Used by permission. =========================== Ernest K. Emurian, a fourth-generation minister, is a graduate of Davidson College, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and Princeton Seminary. He has been a Methodist minister since 1936 and is currently pastor of Cherrydale Methodist Church, Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of seventeen books in the fields of hymnody and drama, and of more than thirty hymns. A member of ASCAP, he is the composer of hymn tunes, and sacred and secular songs. His hymn "We Dedicate This Temple" is in The Armed Forces Hymnal and The Presbyterian Hymnal. He lectures widely on Practical Hymnology and Religious Drama, and as an after-dinner speaker addresses conventions and conferences in many states. ----Twelve New Lord’s Day Hymns, 1968. Used by permission.

Charles Parkin

1894 - 1994 Hymnal Number: 2 Author of "Lord, When the Way We Cannot See" in Seven New Hymns of Hope Parkin, Charles. (England, 1894--?). Studied at Oxford University, served in the British Army, 1916-1919, went to the United States in 1923 and was ordained a minister in the Maine Conference of the Methodist Church. Among his pastorates in Maine were parishes in Brunswick, Farmington, Bangor, Portland, and Ocean Park. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives =============================== From 1950 to 1952, [Parkin] was superintendent of the Portland District of the Maine Conference. From 1952 to 1964, Mr. Parkin was on the administrative and cultivation staffs of his church's Board of Missions, with offices in Philadelphia and New York. Throughout his active ministry and now "in retirement", Mr. Parkin has written many hymns, poems, and articles on missionary topics which have found wide use in the religious press of the nation. His hymn, "See the morning sun ascending", is one of the new "hymns of adoration" in The Methodist Hymnal, 1966. --Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.

William Watkins Reid

1890 - 1983 Hymnal Number: 7 Author of "Where Lies the Christian's Hope?" in Seven New Hymns of Hope Reid, William Watkins, Sr. (Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland, October 15, 1890--February 18, 1983, Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania). Methodist. Parents were William Reid, a native of Moneymore, near Belfast, and Sarah Watkins of Londonderry. Came to the United States in 1900. Attended New York University (bachelor's degree, 1915; master's degree in journalism, 1917). Served The Hymn Society as President, Executive Director, and Editor of The Hymn from 1966 to 1976. Authored the Hymn Society's 40th anniversary history, Sing with Spirit and Understanding. Also edited The Pastor's Journal for the Methodist church and worked as its director of the News Service of the Board of Missions. Also: Caulfield, Benjamin. --From DNAH Archives ============================== William Watkins Reid, of Whitestone, Long Island, was president of the Hymn Society of America from 1942 to 1945, and is now a member of its Executive Committee. Used the title of "My God is There, Controlling," the Society has published 65 of his hymns, and several others were published in the Society's "searches", for new hymns. He is the author of the Society's history of its first forty years, and also of the added period of ten years (1962-1972). --16 New Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment [Ecology] , 1973. Used by permission.

Raymond Byrd Spivey

Hymnal Number: 1 Author of "Break, Dawn Divine, Throughout the World" in Seven New Hymns of Hope Spivey, Raymond Byrd. Born in North Carolina, he was educated at Lees-McRae Junior College, King College, and Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. Served churches in Madill, Oklahoma; Petersburg, Alaska; School of the Ozarks, Missouri; Palmyra-Hannibal, Missouri; Louisville, Kentucky; Baltimore, Maryland; and Arthurdale, West Virginia. For a period he also was superintendent of church extension in the Indian Presbytery of Oklahoma. --The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives ======================== [Spivey] has served as moderator of four presbyteries, and of the Synod of Oklahoma. His hymns and poems have appeared in various magazines and in two anthologies. --Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.

Doyle A. Stover

Hymnal Number: 5 Author of "O Lord of Earth and Sky (A hymn of the seasons)" in Seven New Hymns of Hope Doyle A. Stover was born in Arkansas, but has spent most of his life in Tennessee. A member of the Highland Park United Methodist Church in Chatanooga [sic], he lives in nearly Franklin, Tennessee, where he plays the organ daily at the First Presbyterian Church. Music has been his lifelong avocation; he has written considerable religious verse, and composed hymn tunes. He is a graduate of Austin Peay State University of Clarksvile, Tennessee. Mr. Stover has particular admiration for the music of George Frederick Handel and devotes much practice time to his works. He is also a steam locomotive enthusiast, and has a keen interest in ancient Egyptian art and artifacts of which he has a considerable collection. --Seven New Hymns of Hope , 1971. Used by permission.

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