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Charles Walker Ray

1832 - 1917 Author of "When The Bridegroom Comes" in The Cyber Hymnal Rv Charles Walker Ray DD USA 1832-1917. Born at Otselic, NY, he became a Baptist minister. He was educated at Hamlton College, Clinton, NY. He earned his doctorate from Monongahela College, Jefferson, PA. That school closed in 1894. He pastored at North Stonington, CT, for a number of years. He also served at Plymouth, NY. He married Julia Tracy Sheffield, and they had a son, Arthur. He wrote a number of books and song books: “Grace Vernon Bussell, the heroine of western Australia” (1878); “Spicy breezes” (1883); “The day school crown” (1892); “The revival helper: a collection of songs for Christian work and worship” (1893); “Bright blossoms of song” (1895); “Zion’s delight” (1901); “The song of songs of the King and his bride-an interpretation” (1913); “The fallacies and vagaries of misinterpretation” (1914). He died at Philadelphia, PA. John Perry
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H. R. Christie

1848 - 1925 Person Name: Harvey Robert Christie Composer of "[When in robes of light, and in glory bright]" in The Cyber Hymnal Harvey Robert Christie, 1848-1925 Born: June 29, 1848, Mon­roe Coun­ty, West Vir­gin­ia. Died: March 19, 1925, Wil­low­ton, West Vir­gin­ia. Buried: Rest Ha­ven Me­mor­i­al Park, Prince­ton, West Vir­gin­ia. Christie taught sing­ing class­es from 1871 to 1874, which led him to a mu­sic­al ca­reer. He stu­died un­der Rig­don Mc­In­tosh, who at the time was in the mu­sic de­part­ment at Van­der­bilt Un­i­ver­si­ty. Christie re­mained in Ten­nes­see un­til 1876, when he re­turned to West Vir­gin­ia. Around 1877, he con­duct­ed a two month course at the Con­cord Nor­mal School, in Athens, West Vir­gin­ia, fol­lowed by a sim­i­lar course in Prince­ton, West Vir­gin­ia; Rur­al Re­treat, Vir­gin­ia (1878); and four cours­es in Snow­ville, Vir­gin­ia (1879-1880); and a nine month course at Rur­al Re­treat, Vir­gin­ia (1881). In 1881, he stu­died for a while at the Com­mer­cial Coll­ege at Ken­tucky Un­i­ver­si­ty, and in 1882, moved to Mil­li­gan Coll­ege, Ten­nes­see, where he event­u­al­ly rose to serve on the Board of Di­rect­ors. In 1894, Christie be­came mu­sic ed­it­or for the Stand­ard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny in Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio. His works in­clude: Favorite Songs (co-ed­it­or), 1876 Gospel Light, 1894 Songs of Ser­vice (music ed­it­or) (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: R. M. Mc­In­tosh Co., 1896) The Christ­ian Church Hymn­al, 1906 Songs of Evan­gel­ism, 1911 Worship and Ser­vice (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: The Stand­ard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1916) Music: Let Him Come In --http://www.hymntime.com
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