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Carl Bohm

Hymnal Number: 139 Composer of "[Now, host with host assembling]" in A Book of Song and Service

1821 - 1881 Person Name: G. L. Banks Hymnal Number: 105 Author of "I Live for Those Who Love Me" in A Book of Song and Service Banks, George Linnaeus, newspaper editor and verse writer, was born at Birmingham, March 2, 1821, and died in London, May 3, 1881. His hymn, “I live far those who love me” [Work for God], in the Tonic Solfa Reporter, June, 1861, and in Daisies in the Grass, 1865 (the joint work of himself and his wife, Isabella, née Varley), p. 21, entitled "What I live for," and signed G. L. B. It is in various recent hymnals, sometimes as in Worship Song, 1905, beginning "I'd live." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

J. Berthold

Hymnal Number: 123 Composer of "[What is the law of thy beauty?]" in A Book of Song and Service

Arthur W. Thayer

Hymnal Number: 177 Composer of "[Come, ye faithful, raise the strain]" in A Book of Song and Service

Brooke Herford

1830 - 1903 Hymnal Number: 130 Author of "Franconia" in A Book of Song and Service Born: 1830, Altrincham, Manchester, England, Died: December 21, 1903, Hampstead, Middlesex, England. Buried: Hale, Cheshire, England. Son of John and Sarah Herford, Brooke received his early education in Manchester, at the school of John Relly Beard. At age 14, he left school and went into his father’s counting house for four years. As he became engaged with the local Sunday School, and at the Mosley Street Mission School, he eventually decided upon the ministry as a career. At age 18, he enrolled at Manchester New College (now at Oxford, but then at Manchester). At age 21, he began preaching at Todmorden, Yorkshire and, as his college would not support him, he withdrew from school to be a full time minister. After five years at Todmorden, his moved to the Upper Chapel, Sheffield, and nine years later, to Strangeways Free Church in Manchester. He spent 11 years there, also tutoring at the Home Missionary College. He then moved to America to become pastor of the First Unitarian Society in Chicago, Illinois (1874-91). He also served as Corresponding Secretary (1878-79) and president (1880-81) of the Chicago Literary Club; pastor of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1882-92); and on the faculty of Harvard University, before returning to England in 1893. Herford’s works include: A Protestant Poor Friar: The Life-Story of Travers Madge A The Story of Religion in England A Sermons of Courage and Cheer A The Small End of Great Problems Anchors of the Soul --www.hymntime.com/tch/

George Callow

Hymnal Number: 138 Arranger of "[Our fathers' faith, we'll sing of thee]" in A Book of Song and Service

Charles Gordon Ames

1828 - 1912 Person Name: Chas. G. Ames Hymnal Number: 25 Author of "Hear Us To-day" in A Book of Song and Service Ames, Charles Gordon. (Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1828-April 15, 1912, Boston, Massachusetts). He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1849 and spent some years as a home missionary in Minnesota. In 1859, he joined the Unitarian denomination and served several churches, his last pastorate being with the Church of the Disciples, Boston. In 1905, he wrote a hymn for the dedication of the new edifice of that Society, beginning "With loving hearts and hands we rear," which is included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914. A hymn beginning "Father in heaven, hear us today," is attributed to him in the Universalist Church Harmonies: Old and New, 1898, but is not found elsewhere. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives