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W. B. Carnes

1860 - 1910 Hymnal Number: 53 Author of "Our Offering Bring" in Songs of the Golden Born: September 23, 1860. Died: 1910, McKinney, Texas. Buried: Pecan Grove Cemetery, McKinney, Texas. Carne grew up in Smithville, Tennessee. He entered the ministry in 1882, and moved to Texas in 1888. He served as a Church of Christ minister at churches in Lancaster, Weatherford, Cisco, Abilene, Terrell, Cleburne, Melissa, and Denison, Texas, and did considerable evangelistic work. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

John G. Robinson

Person Name: J. G. Robinson Hymnal Number: 57 Composer of "[Tho' the night o'erhang our dwelling]" in Songs of the Golden

Frances V. Hubbard

Hymnal Number: 35 Author of "Save and Comfort Me" in Songs of the Golden

Thomas L. Poulson

Person Name: Rev. Thos. L. Poulson Hymnal Number: 57 Author of "Christ Our Friend" in Songs of the Golden

William H. Ruddiman

Person Name: W. H. Ruddiman Hymnal Number: 182 Author of "Golden Bells" in Songs of the Golden

William Edward Penney

Person Name: Wm. Edw. Penney Hymnal Number: 6 Author of "Earnest Toilers" in Songs of the Golden

E. J. Parker

Hymnal Number: 87 Author of "Roll Away the Stone" in Songs of the Golden

Melia Z. Haffner

Hymnal Number: 3 Author of "Like a Sparkling River" in Songs of the Golden

Edwin H. Nevin

1814 - 1889 Person Name: Rev. E. H. Nevin Hymnal Number: 167 Author of "Clinging to the Saviour" in Songs of the Golden Nevin, Edwin Henry, D.D., son of Major David Nevin, was born at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1814. He graduated in Arts at Jefferson College, 1833; and in Theology at Princeton Seminary, in 1836. He held several pastorates as a Presbyterian Minister from 1836 to 1857; then as a Congregational Minister from 1857 to 1868; and then, after a rest of six years through ill health, as a Minister of the Reformed Church, first at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then in Philadelphia. Dr. Nevin is the author of several hymns, the more important of which are:— 1. Always with me [us], always with [us] me. Jesus always present. 2. Come up hither, come away. Invitation Heavenward. 3. Happy, Saviour, would I be. Trust. This is given in the Lyra Sacra Americana as "Saviour! happy should I be." This change was made by the editor "with the consent and approbation of the author." 4. 0 heaven, sweet heaven. Heaven. Written and published in 1862 after the death of a beloved son, which made heaven nearer and dearer from the conviction that now a member of his family was one of its inhabitants" (Schaff’s Christ in Song, 1870, p. 539). 5. Live on the field of battle. Duty. Appeared in the Baptist Devotional Hymn Book, 1864. 6. I have read of a world of beauty. Heaven. 7. Mount up on high! as if on eagle's wings. Divine Aspirations. Of these hymns, Nos. 1, 2, 3 appeared in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857; and all, except No. 5, are in the Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868. [Rev. F.M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)