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Lilla M. Alexander

Hymnal Number: d20 Author of "Shining for Jesus" in Happy Greetings to All

1722 - 1765 Hymnal Number: d46 Author of "He will save you" in Happy Greetings to All Jones, Edmund, son of the Rev. Philip Jones, Cheltenham, was born in 1722, and attended for a time the Baptist College at Bristol. At the age of 19 he began to preach for the Baptist Congregation at Exeter, and two years afterwards he became its pastor. In 1760 he published a volume of Sacred Poems. After a very-useful ministry he died April 15, 1765. From an old manuscript record of the Exeter Baptist Church, it appears that it was under his ministry in the year 1759, that singing was first introduced into that Church as a part of worship. As a hymn-writer he is known chiefly through:— Come, humble sinner, in whose breast. This hymn appeared in Rippon's Baptist Selection, 1181, No. 355, in 1 stanza of 4 lines, and headed, "The successful Resolve—'I will go in unto the King,' Esther iv. 16." It has undergone several changes, including:— 1. "Come, sinner, in whose guilty breast." In the Methodist Free Church Sunday School Hymn Book, 1860. 2. “Come, trembling sinner, in whose breast." This is in a great number of American hymn-books. 3. “Come, weary sinner, in whose breast." Also in American use. Miller, in his Singers & Songs of the Church, 1869, p. 333, attributes this hymn to a Welsh Baptist hymn-writer of Trevecca, and of the same name. Rippon, however, says in the first edition of his Selection that Edmund Jones, the author of No. 333, was pastor of the Baptist Church at Exon, Devon. This decides the matter. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Jones, Edmund, p. 605, ii. In The Church Book, by L. W. Bacon, N. Y., 1883, No. 279 begins with stanzas ii. of Jones's hymn, "Come, humble sinner, &c," and begins:—"I'll go to Jesus, though my sin." Also note that in that article the words “author of No. 333," should read "author of No. 355." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Harriet Phillips

1806 - 1884 Person Name: Harriet Cecilia Phillips Hymnal Number: d280 Author of "We bring no glittering treasures, no gems" in Happy Greetings to All Phillips, Harriet Cecilia, was born in Sharon, Connecticut, in 1806, and was for many years an active worker in Sunday Schools in New York city. She contributed five hymns to the Rev. W. C. Hoyt's Family and Social Melodies, 1853, and has also written for various magazines. "We bring no glittering treasures" (Sunday School Anniversary), was written circa 1848 for a Sunday School Festival in New York city, and published in the Methodist Episcopal Hymns, 1849 (Nutter's Hymn Notes, 1884, p. 31l). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Mrs. J. M. Hunter

1860 - 1942 Person Name: J. M. Hunter Hymnal Number: d203 Author of "With hearts aglow, O let us go" in Happy Greetings to All Laura Bell Ogilvie Hunter. Married John Madison Hunter.

James Callaway Midyett

Hymnal Number: d14 Author of "Go ye therefore" in Happy Greetings to All

John J. Hood

b. 1847 Hymnal Number: d38 Author of "Cast thy bread upon the waters Who have but scant supply" in Happy Greetings to All Born: 1847, Scotland. Died: After 1929 (he was in the 1930 census). Hood ran a Gospel music publishing business in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from as early as 1875 to at least 1913. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Mrs. T. D. Crewdson

1808 - 1863 Person Name: Jane F. Crewdson Hymnal Number: d255 Author of "There is no sorrow, Lord, too light [slight]" in Happy Greetings to All Crewdson, Jane, née Fox, daughter of George Fox, of Perraw, Cornwall, was born at Perraw, October, 1809; married to Thomas Crewdson, of Manchester, 1836; and died at Summerlands, near Manchester, Sept. 14, 1863. During a long illness Mrs. Crewdson composed her works published as:— (1) Lays of the Reformation, 1860. (2) A Little While, and Other Poems (posthumous), 1864. (3) The Singer of Eisenach, n.d.; and (4) Aunt Jane's Verses for Children, 1851. 2nd ed. 1855, 3rd 1871. From these works nearly a dozen of her hymns have come into common use. The best known are, "O for the peace which floweth as a river," and "There is no sorrow, Lord, too light." In addition to these and others which are annotated under their respective first lines, there are the following in various collections: 1. Give to the Lord thy heart. 1864. Offertory. 2. How tenderly Thy hand is laid . 1864. Resignation. 3. Looking unto Jesus. 1864. Jesus All in All. 4. Lord, we know that Thou art near us. 1864. Resignation. 5. 0 Saviour, I have naught to plead. 1864. During Sickness. These plaintive lines were written a short time before her death. 6. 0 Thou whose bounty fills my cup. 1860. Peace. 7. The followers of the Son of God. 1864. The Daily Cross. 8. Though gloom may veil our troubled skies. 1864. Resignation. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ====================== Crewdson, Jane, p. 268, ii. The following additional hymns by Mrs. Crewdson have recently come into common use through The Baptist Church Hymnal, 1900:— 1. For the sunshine and the rain. Harvest. 2. O Fount of grace that runneth o'er. Public Worship. 3. There is an unsearchable joy. Joy in God. 4. When I come with troubled heart. Prayer. These hymns are all from her A Little While, and Other Poems, 1864. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) =================== Crewdson, Jane, née Fox, p. 269, i. From her A Little While, and Other Poems, 1864, are:— 1. I've found a joy in sorrow. Power of Faith. 2. One touch from Thee, the Healer of diseases. Christ the Healer. 3. Tis not the Cross I have to bear. Faith desired . --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Henry Septimus Sutton

1825 - 1901 Person Name: H. Sutton Hymnal Number: d60 Author of "How beautiful it is to be alive" in Happy Greetings to All Sutton, Henry Septimus, born at Nottingham, 1825, the son of a bookseller and newspaper proprietor. He was articled to a surgeon, but abandoned medicine for literature. Mr. Sutton's connection with newspaper work has been life-long, and for upwards of thirty years he has been editor of the Alliance News. His first volume of Poems was issued from the Review office, Nottingham, 1848. This included Clifton Grove Garland, a long descriptive and narrative poem. In 1854 appeared Quinquinergia, a prose work of mystical religion, the author being a member of the New Church. To this was appended a series of poems, entitled Rose's Diary, written in memory of an early friend of the author's, who died in 1850. In successive cantos the changing moods and aspirations of personal religion are depicted, with occasionally a touch of quaintness in the language and imagery which reminds one of the best of the devout poets of the seventeenth century. An enlarged and revised edition of the Poems was published by David M. Main, Glasgow, 1886. In Martineau's Hymns, 1873, appear the following five pieces, selected from Rose's Diary:— 1. I have a little trembling light, which still. The inward light. Canto I. and the last two stanzas of Canto III. 2. 0 Father! I have sinned: I have done. Under the sense of sin. Canto XI. 3. Put not on me, 0 Lord, this work divine. Self distrust and self-surrender. Canto VIII. 4. The day with light its genial self engirds. The outer and inner sunshine. Canto VI. 5. What mean these slow returns of love; these days. The sleep that longs for waking. Canto X. [Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

William Russell

1798 - 1873 Hymnal Number: d243 Author of "If any man have not the spirit" in Happy Greetings to All Russell, William, was born in Glasgow in 1798, and educated at the University of Glasgow. Removing from Scotland to America, he was at Savannah in 1817, and subsequently at other places in the United States. He was an active promoter of education, teachers' associations, and kindred objects, and did much to further the cause of education in the States. He was originally a Baptist, but did not hold to close communion. He died at Lancaster, Massachusetts, Aug. 16, 1873. His hymn, "O'er the dark wave of Galilee" (Christ in Solitude), begins with st. iii. of a poem written by him at the request of Dr. Ware, editor of the Unitarian Christian Examiner, and printed therein in 1826. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)