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Samuel O'Malley Cluff

1837 - 1910 Person Name: S. O'Maley Cluff Hymnal Number: 72 Author of "I Am Praying for You" in Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism Rv Samuel O'Malley Gore Cluff (Clough) United Kingdom 1837-1910. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he attended Trinity College and became a minister in the (Anglican) Church of Ireland. He pastored at various locations in Ireland. In 1884 he became leader of the Plymouth Brethren. He married Anne Blake Edge. They had four children. He wrote hymn poems and about 1000 songs. He composed many melodies and oratories. He died in Abbeyleix, Ireland. While holding crusades in Scotland with D. L. Moody, Ira Sankey came across Cluff's poem about prayer and composed the music for it, used in subsequent crusades. John Perry

Merrill Dunlop

1905 - 2002 Hymnal Number: 248 Author of "Smile, Only Smile" in Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism Merrill Everett Dunlop Born: May 9, 1905, Chicago, Illinois. Died: June 15, 2002. Dunlop was educated at Central YMCA College, Chicago (BA) and the Moody Bible Institute (graduated 1926). He played the piano and organ at Moody Church (1921-24), and served as director of music at the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (1926-53). Burton Bosworth was his father-in-law. Dunlop wrote over 700 hymns and Gospel songs, and works including: Songs of a Christian, 1937 New Songs of a Christian, 1941 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.net/tch)

Alexcenah Thomas

1857 - 1910 Hymnal Number: 132 Author of "Bring Them In" in Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism

H. L. Turner

Hymnal Number: 51 Author of "Christ Returneth" in Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism

C. R. Dunbar

1830 - 1895 Hymnal Number: 111 Composer of "[My life, my love I give to Thee]" in Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism Rv Charles R Dunbar USA 1830-1895. Born in Pulaski,NY, he became a minister. He died in Columbus, OH. John Perry

George Orlia Webster

1866 - 1942 Person Name: George O. Webster Hymnal Number: 19 Author of "I Need Jesus" in Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism

C. C. Case

1843 - 1918 Hymnal Number: 123 Composer of "[While we pray and while we plead]" in Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism Charles Clinton Case USA 1843-1918. Born in Linesville, PA, his family moved to Gustavus, OH, when he was four. His father was an accomplished violinist, but a neighbor gave him a small violin when he was nine, and he mastered it before he could read music. At age 16 he went to singing school (without parental consent), borrowing the money from a neighbor. C. A. Bentley, a prominent conductor, was his first vocal music instructor, and William Bradbury's “Jubilee” was the school textbook. For three winters in a row, he attended Bentley's singing school, working his father's farm in the summer. He married Annie Williams. In 1866 he studied music in Boston with B. F. Baker. He also studied under George Root, Horatio Palmer, Philip Bliss, George Webb, and others, hymnwriters in their own right. Soon after, Case began teaching music, and when James McGranahan moved two miles from his home, they became friends. Case wrote and edited a number of Gospel song books in his life. 6 works. John Perry

Charles F. Butler

Person Name: Charles J. Butler Hymnal Number: 280 Author of "Where Jesus Is, 'Tis Heaven" in Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism Butler, Charles F. (fl. 1898). Known only from his "Since Christ Jesus my soul from sin set free" (Refrain: "O Hallelujah, yes, 'tis heaven"). This was copyrighted by James M. Black in his The Chorus of Praise (New York: Eton & Main, 1898). It appeared in about 100 hymnals, 1898-1978, mostly non-denominational gospel-song collections. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

J. Edwin McConnell

1892 - 1954 Person Name: J. E. M. Hymnal Number: 85 Author of "Whosoever, Meaneth Me" in Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism McConnell attended the Webb Preparatory School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, and William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri. He worked with his father (former pastor of the First Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) in evangelism meetings for some time, playing the piano, singing, and directing the choir. In 1922 he began broadcasting his "Hymn Time" program on the radio, and was known as "Smilin’ Ed McConnell." © Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

William Ellsworth Witter

1854 - 1931 Person Name: W. E. Witter Hymnal Number: 125 Author of "While Jesus Whispers to You" in Foursquare Hymnal of Standard Songs of Evangelism 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)