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R. E. Hudson

1843 - 1901 Person Name: Ralph E. Hudson Hymnal Number: d2 Author of "At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light" in Spiritual Re-Armament, Hymns and Songs Ralph Hudson (1843-1901) was born in Napoleon, OH. He served in the Union Army in the Civil War. After teaching for five years at Mt. Union College in Alliance he established his own publishing company in that city. He was a strong prohibitionist and published The Temperance Songster in 1886. He compiled several other collections and supplied tunes for gospel songs, among them Clara Tear Williams' "All my life long I had panted" (Satisfied). See 101 More Hymn Stories, K. Osbeck, Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Publications, 1985). Mary Louise VanDyke

William E. Booth-Clibborn

1893 - 1969 Hymnal Number: d6 Author of "O, Jesus, 'twas to save me" in Spiritual Re-Armament, Hymns and Songs William E. Booth-Clibborn was born on August 4, 1893 in Switzerland. He was the son of Arthur and Catherine Booth-Clibborn, and became the best known of the Booth-Clibborn children, having a worldwide ministry of evangelism and writing. He accepted the Oneness doctrine and was baptized in Jesus' name. Meetings he conducted in Australia during the early 1930s helped found several Pentecostal churches. He later founded Immanuel Temple in Portland, Oregon, where he died in 1969. From www.apostolicarchives.com

Herbert H. Booth

1862 - 1926 Hymnal Number: d34 Author of "Cleansing for me" in Spiritual Re-Armament, Hymns and Songs Herbert Henry Howard Booth (26 August 1862 – 25 September 1926) was the third son of William and Catherine Booth. He oversaw the Limelight Department's development and he was the writer and director for Soldiers of the Cross. See also in: Wikipedia

Henry Twells

1823 - 1900 Hymnal Number: d4 Author of "At even ere the sun was set" in Spiritual Re-Armament, Hymns and Songs Twells, Henry, M.A., was born in 1823, and educated at St. Peter's College, Cambridge. B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851. Taking Holy Orders in 1849, he was successively Curate of Great Berkhamsted, 1849-51; Sub-Vicar of Stratford-on-Avon, 1851-54; Master of St. Andrew's House School, Mells, Somerset, 1854-56; and Head Master of Godolphin School, Hammersmith, 1856-70. In 1870 he was preferred to the Rectory of Baldock, Herts, and in 1871 to that of Waltham-on-the Wolds. He was Select Preacher at Cambridge in 1873-74, and became an Honorary Canon of Peterborough Cathedral in 1884. Canon Twells is best known by his beautiful evening hymn, "At even ere the sun was set." He also contributed the following hymns to the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern:— 1. Glorious is Thy Name, O Lord. The Name of God. 2. Know ye the Lord hath borne away? Ascension. 3. Not for our sins alone. Plea for Divine Mercy. 4. The voice of God's Creation found me. The Word of God a Light. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Twells, H., p. 1189, i. Canon Twells was born on March 13, 1823, at Ashted, Birmingham, and died at Bournemouth, Jan. 19, 1900. His Memoir, by W. Clavell Ingram, D.D., was published in 1901. His Hymns and other Stray Verses, appeared in 1901i. From it the following additional hymns have come into common use:— 1. Spirit of Truth and Might, 'Tis Thou alone can teach. [Our Words.] On "The Responsibility of Speech," p. 26. In the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905. 2. The day of Pentecost is fully come. [Whitsuntide.] Usually the second stanza is taken as the opening of this hymn. In this form it is given as "Awake, 0 Lord, as in the days of old," in Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1904, the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and other collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Catherine Booth-Clibborn

1858 - 1955 Hymnal Number: d45 Author of "At thy feet I fall" in Spiritual Re-Armament, Hymns and Songs Catherine Booth-Clibborn (Katie Booth) (18 September 1858 – 9 May 1955) was the oldest daughter of William and Catherine Booth. She was also known as "la Maréchale". See also in: Wikipedia

Arthur Sydney Booth-Clibborn

1855 - 1939 Hymnal Number: d10 Author of "Church of God, lift up thy voice" in Spiritual Re-Armament, Hymns and Songs Commissioner Arthur Sydney Booth-Clibborn (née Clibborn) (1855 – 20 February 1939) was a pioneering early Salvation Army officer in France and Switzerland, and the husband of Kate Booth, the oldest daughter of General William and Catherine Booth. See also in: Wikipedia

Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest

1895 - 1981 Hymnal Number: d11 Author of "Dark the night and fierce the storm" in Spiritual Re-Armament, Hymns and Songs [Mrs. Agnew Demarest] The Rev. Victoria Booth Demarest, an evangelist, writer and member of the founding family of the Salvation Army, died Sunday of heart failure at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. She was 93 years old and lived in St. Petersburg. She was the granddaughter of William Booth, who founded the mission group in England that became the Salvation Army, and the daughter of Catherine Booth-Clibborn, who organized groups in France and the Netherlands. Mrs. Demarest was born in Paris and graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Music. She came to the United States in 1918 and married Cornelius A. Demarest of Louisville, Ky., with whom she wrote hymns and sacred music. She also wrote such inspirational books as "The Shade of His Hand," and plays, including "King David and the Empty House." She traveled widely as an evangelist in the United States and abroad, preaching in four languages. In 1946 she founded the World Association of Mothers for Peace Inc. In 1949, Mrs. Demarest was ordained a minister in the Congregational Church, now the United Church of Christ, at the Broadway Tabernacle Congregational Church at 58th Street. Mrs. Demarest, whose husband died in 1959, is survived by four children: Evangeline Demarest of St. Petersburg; Victoria Monro of Austin, Tex.; Arthur Demarest of Beechurst, Queens, and Cornelius Demarest of Lexington; 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. --www.nytimes.com/1982/04/06/obituaries/