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James Vila Blake
1842 - 1925 Person Name: J. Vila Blake Author of "Welcome" in Heart and Voice Blake, James Vila. (Brooklyn, New York, January 21, 1842--April 28, 1925, Chicago, Illinois). He graduated from Harvard College in 1862 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1866, and served Unitarian churches in Massachusetts and Illinois, his last and longest pastorate being at Evanston, Illinois, 1892-1916.
Author of a number of books. He shared with W.G. Gannett and F.L. Hosmer in the compilation of the first edition of Unity Hymns and Chorals, (1880), which included his hymn, "Father, Thou art calling, calling to us plainly," included also in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, and in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. the latter book also includes his hymn of the church universal, "O sing with loud and joyful song."
--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives
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Lewis G. Pray
1793 - 1882 Author of "Welcome! Welcome!" Pray, Lewis Glover, was born at Quincy, Massachusetts, Aug. 15, 1793. Removing to Boston in 1808, he entered into business there in 1815, and retired therefrom in 1838. He was for some time a member of the City Government of Boston, of the Board of Education, and of the State Legislature. From an early date lie was associated with Sunday schools, and was for 34 years superintendent of the Sunday School of the Twelfth Congregational Society, Boston. In 1833 he published a Sunday School Hymn Book, the first with music ever compiled for American Unitarian Sunday schools. This was enlarged in 1844 as the Sunday School Hymn and Service Book. He also published a History of Sunday Schools, 1847; a Christian Catechism, 1849; and other works. His hymns and poems were collected and published in 1862, as The Sylphides' School, and a second volume of a like kind appeared in 1873, as Autumn Leaves. Most of his hymns appeared in his collections of 1833 and 1844. Putnam (to whom we are indebted for these details) gives in his Singers and Song, &c, 1874, p. 81, four pieces from his volume of 1862, and two from that of 1873. One of these, "When God upheaved the pillared earth" (Silent Work) was repeated in the American Hymns of the Ages, 3rd series, 1864.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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