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Archer T. Gurney

1820 - 1887 Hymnal Number: d47 Author of "Christ is risen, Christ is risen, He hath burst his bonds" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service Gurney, Archer Thompson, was born in 1820, and educated for the legal profession. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple, but in 1849 he entered Holy Orders. He held several appointments, including the Curacy of Buckingham, 1854-58; the Chaplaincy of the Court Church, Paris, 1858-71, and other charges. He died at Bath, March 21, 1887. His published works include:— Spring, 1853; Songs of the Present, 1854; The Ode of Peace, 1855; Songs of Early Summer, 1856; and A Book of Praise, 1862. To the Book of Praise he contributed 147 hymns. Very few of these are known beyond his own collection. He is widely known through his Easter hymn “Christ is risen, Christ is risen." His "Memory of the blest departed" (SS. Philip and James) is in the People's Hymnal, 1867. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1850 - 1919 Person Name: Ella W. Wilcox Hymnal Number: d215 Author of "Love thyself last" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service

Oscar Clute

1837 - 1902 Hymnal Number: d272 Author of "O love of God most full" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service Born: March 11, 1837, Bethlehem (near Albany), New York. Died: January 27, 1903, Los Angeles, California. Buried: Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, California. After teaching school (1854-59), Clute graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College, then taught math 1862-66 before studying at Meadville Theological Seminary. He pastored in Vineland and Newark, New Jersey; Keokuk and Iowa City, Iowa; and Pomona, California. He also served as the fourth president of the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State College) (1889-93) and Florida Agricultural College (1893-97). He spent his last years retired in California. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Eliza Scudder

1821 - 1896 Hymnal Number: d379 Author of "Thou Life within my life, than self more near" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service Scudder, Eliza , niece of Dr. E. H. Sears, (q.v.), was born in Boston, U.S.A., Nov. 14,1821, and now (1888) lives in Salem, Massachusetts. Formerly an Unitarian, she some time ago joined the Protestant Episcopal Church. Her hymns in common use are:— 1. From past regret and present[faithlessness] feebleness . Repentance. In the Quiet Hours, Boston, 1875. 2. I cannot find Thee! Still on restless pinion . Seeking after God. Appeared in Longfellow and Johnson's Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. 3. In Thee my powers and treasures live. Faith. 4. Life of our life, and light of all our seeing! Prayer. In the Boston Quiet Hours, 1875. 5. The day is done; the weary day of thought and toil is past. Evening. In Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life, by E. H. Sears, Boston, 2nd ed.,1878, p. 296, entitled "Vesper Hymn," and dated "October, 1874." This is possibly her finest hymn. 6. Thou grace divine, encircling all . Divine Grace. Appeared in Dr. E. H. Sears's Pictures of the Olden Time, as shown in the Fortunes of a Family of Pilgrims, 1857. It was written in 1852, and included in the Boston Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. It has sometimes been taken as "An Ancient Catholic Hymn" (Universalist's Psalms & Hymns 1865), but in error. 7. Thou long disowned, reviled, oppresst. The Spirit of Truth. In the Boston Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. Of these hymns, Nos. 2, 6, and 7 are in Dr. Martineau's Hymns, 1873. Some of Miss Scudder's poetical pieces appeared in Dr. Sears's Monthly Religious Magazine. Her Hymns and Sonnets, by E. S., were published by Lockwood, Brooks & Co., Boston, 1880. From this her hymn "Thou hast gone up again" (Ascension), is taken. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ==================== Scudder, Eliza, pp. 1035, L, 1589, i. Miss Scudder died in 1896. Her Hymns & Sonnets, with biographical notes, &c, by Horace E. Scudder, was published by Houghton & Mifflin, 1897. In The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, the hymn," Thou Life within my life," begins with st. ii. of "From past regret and present [faithlessness] feebleness," p. 1035, i. 1), which was written in Feb. 1871. Another of Miss Scudder's hymns is “ Let whosoever will enquire" (New Heaven), from which "My God, I rather look to Thee," in Horder's Worship Song, 1905, is taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Theodore Parker

1810 - 1860 Hymnal Number: d286 Author of "O thou great Friend to all the sons of men" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service Parker, Theodore, M.A., was born at Lexington, Massachusetts, Aug. 24, 1810; laboured with his father as a farmer and mechanic; entered Harvard College in 1830, but continued his work at home and attended the College for examinations; attended the Divinity School from 1834 to 1836, and became pastor of the Unitarian congregation in West Roxbury, June 21, 1837. He received the degree of M.A. from his College in 1840. Changes in his theological views led him to undertake the pastorate of a congregation in Boston, in January 1846. He continued his writing, preaching, and lecturing till 1859, when bleeding at the lungs compelled him to seek relief in Europe. He died at Florence, May 10, 1860. His publications were numerous, and have been republished in Great Britain. An extended list is given, together with 12 poetic pieces, in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, Boston, U. S. A., 1875. His life has been published by Weiss, and by Frothingham. A few of his poetical pieces are given in American Unitarian hymn-books. These include :— 1. In darker days and nights of storm. Almighty Love. "Introduced in a sermon which Mr. Parker preached, entitled ‘The Practical Effects of the Ecclesiastical Conception of God.’” 2. 0 Thou great Friend of all the sons of men. Jesus the Way, the Truth, and the Life. This in the original is a sonnet. Altered for use as a hymn, it is widely used by American Unitarian; and is also given in some English hymnbooks. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Elizabeth M. Chandler

1807 - 1834 Hymnal Number: d244 Author of "O Father, when the softened heart" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service

Frank W. Gunsaulus

1856 - 1921 Person Name: Frank W. Gunsoulus Hymnal Number: d254 Author of "O God, would I might bring to Thee" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service

William Sterne Raymond

1832 - 1863 Person Name: W. S. Raymond Hymnal Number: d406 Author of "Weeping, as they go their way" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service Raymond, William Stern, M.A., was born in 1832, and educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, B.A. 1854. Taking holy orders, he was for sometime Curate of Tedstone-Delamere, Herefordshire. Subsequently he became a Fellow of St. Nicholas College, Lancing, Sussex. He died in 1863. His hymn for Easter Eve, "Weeping as they go their way," was published in I. G. Smith's Hymn Book for the Services of the Church, &c, 1855, and is found in several collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)