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Frances Coan Percy

Person Name: Frances Percy Author of "O Father, hear my morning prayer" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada

Michael Evers

Harmonizer of "ST. PETER" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal

Anne Carter

Person Name: Anne Carter, RSCJ Author of "Canticle of Mary" in Catholic Book of Worship III

José Joaquín de Mora

1783 - 1864 Person Name: José M. de Mora Translator of "Cuán Dulce el Nombre de Jesús" in El Himnario

b. 1904 Author of "From Every Race, from Every Clime" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal McDormand, Thomas Bruce. (Bear River, Nova Scotia, March 15, 1904--?). Baptist. Acadia University, B.A., 1929; St. Stephen's College (Edmonton), B.D., 1935; Emmanuel College (Toronto), Th.D., 1952. Pastorates at Middleton (1930-1933) and Amherst, Nova Scotia (1936-1938); Edmonton, Alberta (1933-1936). Director of Christian Education for the Baptist Union of Western Canada, 1938-1942; editor, Canadian Baptist Sunday School Publications, 1942-1948; general secretary of the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, 1948-1955; secretary-treasurer, Baptist Federation of Canada, 1955-1959; vice-president, Acadia University, 1959-1961; president, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1961-1967; retired to Amherst, N.S. His books and articles deal mostly with liturgical topics, except for his autobiography, Unforgettable Encounters, which he published privately in 1974. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives =========================== [McDormand] is a member of the Executive Committee of the Baptist World Alliance. He is the author of several books and has published a number of poems. --Ten New Stewardship Hymns, 1961. Used by permission.

Phillips Brooks

1835 - 1893 Author of "O little town of Bethlehem" in The Harvard University Hymn Book Brooks, Phillips, D.D., was born at Boston, Dec. 13, 1835, graduated at Harvard College 1855, and was ordained in 1859. Successively Rector of the Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, and Trinity Church, Boston, he became Bishop of Mass. in 1891, and died at Boston in Jan., 1893. His Carol, "O little town of Bethlehem," was written for his Sunday School in 1868, the author having spent Christmas, 1866, at Bethlehem. His hymn, "God hath sent His angels to the earth again," is dated 1877. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Mark Edwards

Arranger of "ST. PETER" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal

Greville Phillimore

1821 - 1884 Author of "O God, Before Thy Sun's Bright Beams" in The Cyber Hymnal Phillimore, Greville, M.A., was born in 1821 and educated at Westminster, the Charterhouse, and Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1842). Taking Holy Orders in 1843, he became Vicar of Downe-Ampney, Cricklade, Gloucestershire, in 1851, Rector of Henley-on-Thames, 1867, and of Ewelme, 1883. He died Jan. 20, 1884. His Parochial Sermons were pu.lished in 1856. He was joint editor with H. W. Beadon and J. R. Woodford (afterwards Bishop of Ely) of The Parish Hymn Book, 1863 (195 hymns), and the enlarged edition, 1875 (274 hymns). The first edition of this collection was one of the first hymn-books which gave Dr. Neale's translations of Greek hymns for congregational use. To the 1863 edition Mr. Phillimore contributed the following hymns, several of which have been repeated in other collections:— 1. Christ, through grief and toil we come. Epiphany. 2. Darkly frowns the eastern sky. Good Friday Evening and Easter Eve. 3. Every morning they are new. 4. Lonely in her virgin home. Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 5. 0 fear not, little flock. Security of the Church in Christ. 6. 0 God, before the sun's bright beams. Morning. 7. 0 God, the weary path of life. Public Worship. 8. 0 Lord of health and life, what tongue can tell. Epiphany. 9. Peace be in the house of death. Evening, or Anticipation of Death. 10. Saul, why such furious hate, such blinded zeal? Conversion of St. Paul. 11. Thou art gone up on high, Why gaze they, &c. Ascension. In addition some of Mr. Phillimore's translations from the Latin were given in the 1863 edition of the Parish Hymn Book; and other original hymns which are annotated under their respective first lines. His hymn forSaints Days, "O Lord of glory, King of saints," was included in the 1875 edition of that collection. Phillimore's Sermons and Hymns. were published in 1884. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)