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H. Pollard

Hymnal Number: d258 Author of "Wait a little while" in Temple Chimes

1775 - 1843 Person Name: Bourne H. Draper Hymnal Number: d277 Author of "Ye Christian heroes [heralds], go proclaim" in Temple Chimes Draper, Bourne Hall, born at Cumnor, near Oxford, in 1775, and educated for the Baptist Ministry at the Bristol Academy, under the Rev. Dr. J. Rylands. He was pastor of the Baptist Church at Chipping Norton 1804, and subsequently at Southampton, where he d. Oct. 12, 1843. See note on his hymn," Ye Christian heroes, go, proclaim," p. 1296, ii. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Emma E. Goodrich

Hymnal Number: d113 Author of "He knoweth the way that I take" in Temple Chimes

C. C. Luher

Hymnal Number: d192 Author of "Welcome home" in Temple Chimes

William Ellsworth Witter

1854 - 1954 Person Name: Will E. Witter Hymnal Number: d271 Author of "Come, sinner, come" in Temple Chimes Witter, Will Ellsworth, was born Dec. 9, 1854, near La Grange, New York, and educated at the Genessee State Normal School, New York, and the University of Rochester. From the latter he passed in 1880 to the Rochester Baptist Theological Seminary, and in 1884 he entered the Baptist Ministry. He has written several songs and poems, one of which:— While Jesus whispers to you (The Divine Call) has come into somewhat prominent use. It was written in July 1878, and originated mainly in the great anxiety of the author respecting two of his pupils. In 1878 it was set to music by H. R. Palmer, and included in his Book of Anthems, 1878: from whence it passed into Good as Gold, and I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London 1881. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)