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Mrs. James G. Johnson

Person Name: Mrs. E. Johnson Hymnal Number: 32 Author of "Come, O come to me!" in The Canadian Hymnal

1845 - 1914 Person Name: F. L. Bristow Hymnal Number: 236 Adapter of "[O'er Jordan's dark and stormy river]" in The Canadian Hymnal Born: April 15, 1845, Jacksonville, Illinois. Died: November 11, 1914, Covington, Kentucky. Buried: Linden Grove Cemetery, Covington, Kentucky. Son of minister Benjamin Franklin Bristow, Frank was a well known composer and teacher of popular and religious music. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Annie Cummings

Hymnal Number: 277 Author of "Come, oh, come, and with us meet" in The Canadian Hymnal 19th Century

Eli Corwin

Person Name: Rev. E. Corwin Hymnal Number: 147 Author of "As flows the river calm and deep" in The Canadian Hymnal

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Hymnal Number: 91 Author of "My brother, the Master is calling for thee" in The Canadian Hymnal Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

S. Dryden Phelps

1816 - 1895 Person Name: S. D. Phelps Hymnal Number: 121 Author of "Saviour, thy dying love" in The Canadian Hymnal Phelps, Sylvanus Dryden, D.D., was born at Suffield, Connecticut, May 15, 1816, and educated at Brown University, where he graduated in 1844. In 1846 he became pastor of the first Baptist Church, New Haven. Dr. Phelps is the Editor of The Christian Secretary, Hartford. His publications include, Eloquence of Nature, and Other Poems, 1842; Sunlight and Hearthlight, 1856; the Poet's Song, 1867, &c. He is the author of the following hymns:— 1. Christ, Who came my soul to save. Holy Baptism. 2. Did Jesus weep for me? Lent. 3. Saviour, Thy dying love. Passiontide. 4. Sons of day, arise from slumber. Home Missions. 5. This rite our blest Redeemer gave. Holy Baptism. Of these Nos. 1 and 4 appeared in the Baptist ed. of the Plymouth Collection, 1857; Nos. 2 and 5 in the Baptist Devotional Hymn Book, 1864; and No. 3 in Gospel Hymns, 1st series, and Laudes Domini, 1884. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ==================== Phelps, Sylvanus Dryden, p. 893, ii. Additional hymns in common use by Dr. Phelps include (1) "Father, from Thy throne above" (Temperance); (2) "When over our land hung oppression's dark pall" (Temperance), both written in 1841. To J. Aldrich's Sacred Lyre, 1858, he contributed (3) "Sweet is the hour of prayer" (Prayer); (4) "Sweet Sunday-school! I love the place" (Sunday Schools); and (5) "Come friends, and let our hearts awake" (Divine Worship). There are also (6) "Once I heard a sound at my heart's dark door" (Voice of God within), in Pure Gold, with a refrain by Dr. Lowry; (7) "While on life's stormy sea" (Trust in God), written in 1862; and (8) "Come, trembling soul, be not afraid" (Confidence), "written after visiting a sick man, who, feeling his need of Christ, found it difficult to believe." Concerning his popular hymn "Saviour! Thy dying love," Burrage says it was written in 1862, and published in the Watchman and Reflector, and then, with music by Dr. R. Lowry in Pure Gold. It has been translated into Swedish and other languages. Burrage gives a revised version of the text, recently made by the author. (Burrage's Baptist Hymn Writers, 1888, p. 384.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

F. H. Jacobs

Hymnal Number: 384 Author of "Then to Jesus draw near" in The Canadian Hymnal 19th Century

Theron Brown

1832 - 1914 Person Name: Rev. Theron Brown Hymnal Number: 374 Author of "Those healing leaves, those healing leaves!" in The Canadian Hymnal Born: April 29, 1832, Willimantic, Connecticut. A Baptist minister, Brown pastored churches in South Framingham and Canton, Massachusetts (1859-70). Retiring from pastoral work due to vocal disability, he was a contributor and editor of the Youth’s Companion for more than 40 years, and a member of the office staff for the last 20. Between 1880 and 1890, he contributed hymns more or less regularly to the quartet and antiphonal chorus service at the Ruggles Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts. His works include: The Blount Family Nameless Women of the Bible Life Songs The Story of the Hymns and Tunes, with Hezekiah Butterworth (New York: American Tract Society, 1906) --www.hymntime.com/tch