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Waldo S. Pratt

1857 - 1939 Person Name: W. S. P. Hymnal Number: 161 Composer of "[My faith looks up to Thee]" in Songs of Worship Pratt, Waldo Selden. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1857--July 29, 1939, Hartford, Connecticut). Williams College, A.B. 1878, graduate study at Johns Hopkins University in classical archaeology and esthetics. He was largely self-taught in music. He was assistant director of the New York Metropolitan Museum, 1880-1882, and then joined the faculty of the Hartford Theological Seminary where he spent the rest of his life, teaching hymnology, music, public worship and allied subjects. Over the years he lectured at Trinity College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the Institute of Musical Art, New York. He was president of the Music Teachers National Association, 1906-1908, editor of its Proceedings, 1906-1915. He was awarded the honorary Mus.Doc. degree by Syracuse University in 1898, and the L.H.D. degree by Williams College in 1929. A distinguished lexicographer, he contributed to several encyclopedias, edited the American Supplement to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1935, and compiled his own New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1924. Among other books, he wrote an outstanding History of Music, 1907, 1927 & 1935. As music historian he wrote many article in music and church journals. In the field of hymnology, he published The Music of the Pilgrims, 1921 (a study of Ainsworth's Psalter), "The importance of the French Psalter of 1562" in The Musical Quarterly, January 1935, and an edition of the French Psalter in 1939. Pratt was responsible for gathering the large Warrington-Pratt-Soule Collection of hymnals at Hartford Seminary--since 1976 in the Pitts Library, Candler Theological Seminary, Emory University, Atlanta. There is a fine tribute to him by Otto Kinkeldey in The Musical Quarterly, April, 1940. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

Elizabeth Parson

1812 - 1873 Person Name: Mrs. E. R. Parson Hymnal Number: 2 Author of "Jesus, we love to meet on this Thy holy Day" in Songs of Worship Parson, Elizabeth, nee Hooker, daughter of the Rev. W. Rooker (for nearly fifty years Congregational Minister at Tavistock), was born at Tavistock, June 5, 1812, and married in 1844 to Mr. T. Edgecombe Parson. She died at Plymouth in 1873. Previous to her marriage (from 1840 to 1844) Mrs. Parson conducted a class for young men and women in the vestry of her father's chapel on Sunday evenings, and to which was given the name of the “Willing Class," because those who came, came "willingly." For this class she wrote from 1840 to 1844 several hymns, some of which came into use through various collections including the Baptist Psalms & Hymns, 1858, and others at a later date. A few years ago 18 of these hymns were collected, and printed for private circulation by one of her old scholars as Willing Class Hymns. The greater part of these hymns have found a place in children's hymn-books, some fifteen collections having one or more therein. For tenderness, "Saviour, round Thy footstool bending," is the most pathetic; and for praise, "Angels round the throne are praising," and "What shall we render?" the most joyous. Mrs. Parson also wrote a few hymns for adults, which have been printed for private use only. In addition to those hymns there are also the following in common use:— 1. Far above the lofty sky. Praise. 2. Father of spirits, we entreat. New Year. 3. Hark ! a distant voice is calling. Missions. 4. Hark ! 'tis the Saviour calls. The Invitation. 5. Is there one heart, dear Saviour here? Passiontide. 6. Jesus, we love to meet. Sunday. 7. Lord, we bend before Thee now. Home Missions, or Prayer Meetings. 8. Lord, we stand before Thy throne. This is an altered form of No. 7. 9. Our Saviour's voice is soft and sweet. Missions. 10. This is God's most holy day. Sunday. 11. Youthful, weak, and unprotected. Self Dedication to Christ. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Berthold Tours

1838 - 1897 Person Name: B. Tours Hymnal Number: 205 Composer of "[Eternal Father, Thou hast said]" in Songs of Worship

W. Harrison

Hymnal Number: 113 Composer of "[Come, gracious Spirit, heav'nly Dove]" in Songs of Worship

Thomas O. Summers

1812 - 1882 Person Name: T. O. Summers Hymnal Number: 155 Author of "The morning bright" in Songs of Worship Summers, Thomas Osmond, D.D., LL.D., son of James Summers, was born near Corfe Castle, Dorsetshire, England, Oct. 11, 1812. Proceeding to the United States in after years, he was admitted to the Baltimore Conference in 1835. From 1840 to 1843 he was a missionary in Texas; removing to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1844, and Charleston, South Carolina, 1846. From 1845 he acted as Secretary of the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was also Book Editor. Subsequently he was Professor of Theology and Pastor of Vanderbilt University. He was Chairman of the Hymn Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and edited the Songs of Zion, 1851, and the Wesleyan Psalter, 1855. He died in May 1882. Dr. Summers is the author of several original works, and of the following hymns:— 1. The morning bright, With rosy light. Morning. 2. The daylight fades, The evening shades. Evening. Concerning these Morning and Evening hymns Dr. Summers says:— ”My first child was born in January, 1845. When she was about a year old, as I was descending the Tombigbee River in a little steamer, I wrote a morning Hymn for her on the back of a letter, transcribed it when I reached Mobile, and sent it to her at Tuscaloosa. That was the origin of ‘The morning bright.' When editing the Southern Christian Advocate, I put it without name in the Child's Department. It was copied into the religious papers generally, and into books. My second child was born in 1847, and for her I wrote ‘The daylight fades,' as far as I can recollect, about 1849. . . . Both of these children for whom they were written are now singing hallelujahs with the angels." (Stevenson's Hymns for Church & Home, Biog. Index, 1873.) These hymns have attained to great popularity as children's hymns, and are found in numerous collections both at home and in Great Britain. The 3rd line of stanza i. of the Morning Hymn should read: "Has waked me up from sleep," and not as found in many collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John Naylor

1838 - 1897 Person Name: J. Naylor Hymnal Number: 40 Composer of "[My God, is any hour so sweet]" in Songs of Worship

E. H. Thorne

1834 - 1916 Hymnal Number: 214b Composer of "[O what their joy and their glory must be]" in Songs of Worship Thorne, Edward Henry; b. 5-9-1834, Cranbourne, Dorset, d. 12-26-16, London; organist and compos

G. P. Merrick

1842 - 1918 Hymnal Number: 186 Composer of "ALDERSGATE" in Songs of Worship

Henry Wilson

1828 - 1878 Person Name: H. Wilson Hymnal Number: 73 Composer of "BENEDICTE OMNIA" in Songs of Worship Wilson, Henry; b. Dec. 2, 1828, Greenfield, Mass., d. Jan. 8, 1878, Hartford, Conn.; American composer and organist LOC Name Authority Files

Charles Edward Mudie

1818 - 1890 Person Name: C. E. Mudie Hymnal Number: 159 Author of "I lift my heart to Thee" in Songs of Worship Mudie, Charles Edward, the founder of the well-known library which bears his name, was born at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, Oct. 18, 1818. In 1872 he collected his poems and published them as Stray Leaves (2nd ed., 1873). Several poems on Scriptural subjects, and a few hymns are included in the volume. The hymn by which he is best known is "I lift my heart to Thee, Saviour divine" (His and Mine). It is from the Stray Leaves, and is in several hymnbooks, including the Scottish Evangelical Union Hymnal, 1878; Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884, and many others. It is marked by great beauty and tenderness of expression. Several of Mr. Mudie's hymns, which are not in common use are worthy of attention. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Mudie, Charles E., p. 774, i. He died at 31, Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, Oct. 28, 1890. His hymn, "I lift my heart to Thee, &c," was written in Oct., 1871. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)