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Thomas Morrell

1781 - 1841 Hymnal Number: d146 Author of "Go and the Savior's grace proclaim" in A Prayer Meeting and Revival Hymn Book . 27th ed.

b. 1880 Hymnal Number: d442 Author of "God's promises are firm" in A Prayer Meeting and Revival Hymn Book . 27th ed. Mabel J. Rosemon, 1880-? Born: December 3, 1880, Manhattan, New York. Rosemon seems to have been living in Mercer County, New Jersey, in 1900. Her works include: Christmas Suggestion Book No. 2 (editor), 1928 --www.nethymnal.com

Richard Lee

Hymnal Number: d550 Author of "When frowning death appears" in A Prayer Meeting and Revival Hymn Book . 27th ed. Lee, Richard. Said to have been "a laborious mechanic," and "a political and religious fanatic," contributed several hymns to the Evangelical Magazine, 1793, 1794, which were signed "Ebenezer," and dated from "Leicester Fields, London." In 1794 he published Flowers from Sharon. From this work the hymns, "When I view my Saviour bleeding" (Good Friday), and "See the Captain of Salvation" (Ascension), are taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

William Fairfield Warren

1833 - 1929 Person Name: W. F. Warren Hymnal Number: d379 Author of "Out on an ocean all boundless we ride" in A Prayer Meeting and Revival Hymn Book . 27th ed. Warren, William Fairfield, D.D., was born at Williamsburg, Massachusetts, in 1833, and graduated at the Wesleyan University in 1853. After spending some time in Germany, he was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology in the Methodist Episcopal Mission Institute at Bremen, in 1861. Returning to America in 1866, he held some important appointments there, ultimately becoming President of Boston University, in 1873. His hymn, "I worship Thee, O Holy Ghost" (Whitsuntide), was contributed to the American Methodist Episcopal Hymnal, at the request of the editorial committee, in 1877, and was published therein in 1878. It has passed into other collections. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ========================== Warren, William, D.D. (Williamsburg, Massachusetts, March 13, 1833--December 6, 1929). He prepared for college at East Greenwich Academy, graduated A.B., Wesleyan University, took training at Andover Theological Seminary, and continued his studies at the Universities of Berlin and Halle. He was the recipient of honorary degrees from Boston, Wesleyan, and Ohio Wesleyan Universities. Ordained a Methodist Episcopal minister in 1855, after preaching in Boston for five years he returned to Germany where for a like term of years he was Professor of Systematic Theology at Mission Institute, Bremen, which later became Martin Institute at Frankfort. He returned to Boston to occupy a similar professorship at the Theological Seminary and to become Acting President when the Methodist Biblical Institute moved there from Concord, New Hampshire. His return gave impetus to the plan under way which eventuated the establishment of Boston University in 1869. Becoming President of the University in 1873, he was Dean of its School of Theology, 1903-1911, and made President Emeritus in 1923. --Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives

Miller

Hymnal Number: d512 Author of "Today if ye [you] will hear his voice" in A Prayer Meeting and Revival Hymn Book . 27th ed.

James Boden

1757 - 1841 Hymnal Number: d72 Author of "Come all ye [you] saints of God" in A Prayer Meeting and Revival Hymn Book . 27th ed. Boden, James, was born April 13, 1757, in the house at Chester long occupied by Matthew Henry, and educated for the Congregational Ministry at Homerton College. In 1784 he became the pastor of the Independent Chapel, Hanley; and, in 1796, of the Queen's Street Chapel, Sheffield. This last charge he held for nearly 43 years. He died at Chesterfield, June 4, 1841. In 1801 he assisted Dr. Williams, of the Masborough Theological College, near Sheffield, in compiling A Collection of above Six Hundred Hymns designed as a New Supplement to Dr. Watts's Psalms & Hymns, &c, Doncaster, 1801. This collection is known as Williams and Boden, and to it is traced the anonymous modern version of "Jerusalem, my happy home" (q.v.). To this collection Boden contributed, under the signature "Boden” the following hymns:— 1. Bright source of everlasting love. Charity Sermon. 2. Come, all ye saints of God. Passiontide. 3. Come death, released from dread. Death. 4. Our great High Priest we sing. Christ the H. Priest. 5. Shall sin, that cruel foe? Lent. 6. Triumphant sing ye favoured [ransom'd] saints. Jesus, all in all. 7. We come, dear Jesus, to Thy throne. Prayer Meeting. Of these hymns, No. 1 appeared in the Evangelical Magazine Aug., 1798. Most of them are still in common use, but chiefly in America. They are of no special merit. In the Gospel Magazine, 1777, there are a few hymns under the signature "J-----s B-----n, Chester." Of these, one only (8), "Ye dying sons of men" [Invitation), was given in the Williams and Boden Collection, and then, not with the full signature of "Boden," but as by “B___." On this evidence mainly the hymn has been ascribed to James Boden. It appeared in the Gospel Magazine twice in 1777, in Feb. and in Aug. It may be by our author; but seeing that it alone of the eight hymns above noted is signed "B-----," and was given in the Gospel Magazine in 1777, and that the rest are signed "Baden," and did not appear in the Gospel Magazinein 1777, or in any other year, we regard the evidence as somewhat inconclusive. It has been suggested that possibly the "J-----s B-----n, Chester," was his father. The signatures appended to the hymns in the 1st edition of Williams & Boden, 1801, were omitted from the 2nd edition, 1803, and portions of the Preface were rewritten. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Thomas Greene

1710 - 1779 Person Name: T. Green Hymnal Number: d293 Author of "My days, my [and] weeks, my [and] months, my [and] years" in A Prayer Meeting and Revival Hymn Book . 27th ed. Greene, Thomas, of Ware, was for some time a member of the Congregational body in that town. In 1778 a minority of the members, of Arian principles, having obtained the lease of the chapel, the majority seceded and built themselves the "Old Independent Chapel." Mr. Greene was one of these seceders (Miller's Singers & Songs, 1869, p. 314). His Hymns and Poems on Various Subjects, chiefly Sacred, were published in 1780 (2nd ed., 1797). From this work the hymn "It is the Lord, enthroned in light" (Resignation), is taken. In Bickersteth's Christian Psalmody, 1833, it begins, "It is the Lord, my covenant God." In modern collections it is found in both forms. Another hymn from the same work is "The more my conduct I survey " (Trusting in Jesus), as in Spurgeon's 0ur Own Hymn Book, 1866. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)