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William B. Forbush

1868 - 1927 Person Name: W. Forbush Hymnal Number: 541 Author of "God of our youth, to whom we yield" in Churches of Christ Hymn Book Born: February 20, 1868, Springfield, Vermont. Died: October 23, 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Buried: Quaker Burial Grounds, Hartford Road, Baltimore, Maryland. Forbush graduated from Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1888, and became a principal in Amherst, New Hampshire, the next year. He served as pastor of the Riverside Congregational Church, Riverside, Rhode Island (1893-94), entered Union Theological Seminary, in 1889, graduating in 1892. He received an AM in 1890 and PhD in 1892 from the University of New York, and was acting pastor at the Rockaway Church in Brooklyn while enrolled in 1890. He served as pastor at Riverside Church in East Providence, Rhode Island (1892); Tabernacle Church, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (1894-96); Warren, Massachusetts (1896-1908); Winthrop Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1905-06); and Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan (to 1913). In 1913, he became President of the American Institute of Child Life in Philadelphia, resigning in 1914 to pursue writing. He established his home in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he lived the rest of his life and for a time headed the Woolman House, a school of social and religious education under the Quaker management of Swarthmore. In 1895, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Hanover College, Indiana. He founded the Knights of King Arthur in 1893, which attracted thousands of young boys. In 1918, he became General Editor of the publications of the University Society of New York, serving until 1924, when he became consulting editor of the John C. Winston Publishing Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His works include: The Queens of Avalon, 1911 The Coming Generation (New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1912) Manual of Stories, 1915 The Wonder Book of Myths and Legends (The John C. Winston Company: 1928) Myths and Legends of Greece and Rome --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Basil Mathews

1879 - 1951 Person Name: B. Mathews Hymnal Number: 516 Author of "Far round the world Thy children sing their song" in Churches of Christ Hymn Book

Frederick M. White

Person Name: F. White Hymnal Number: 427 Author of "We bless Thee, Lord, for all this common life" in Churches of Christ Hymn Book

Henry Edward Manning

1808 - 1892 Person Name: H. Manning Hymnal Number: 446 Translator of "To win my heart with visions bright and fair" in Churches of Christ Hymn Book Manning, Cardinal Henry Edward, D.D., was b. July 15, 1808, at Copped Hall, Totteridge, Herts, and was educated at Harrow and at Balliol College, Oxford. He was sometime Archdeacon of Chichester, joined the Church of Rome 1851, became Archbishop of Westminster 1865, and Cardinal 1875, d. Jan. 14, 1892. See the details of his career in the Life by E. S. Purcell, 1895, in A. W. Hutton's Cardinal Manning, 1892, &c. He was a voluminous writer, a famous preacher, and a well-known philanthropist and temperance worker. His connection with hymnody was slight. He contributed a translation to the Holy Family Hymns, 1860, noted under Grignon, L. M. The only original hymns we have been able definitely to trace to him are the following, contributed to the Catholic Parochial Hymn Book, 1873 (Nos. 358, pts. i.—iv., 359), viz.:— 1. All creatures of Thy hand are good. Temperance. 2. I promise Thee, sweet Lord, that I. Temperance. 3. In penance for the guilt of men. Temperance. 4. O holy Patrick ! Ireland's saint. St. Patrick. 5. O Jesus ! Who for love of me. Temperance. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Charles McMillan

Person Name: C. McMillan Hymnal Number: 256 Author of "On this holy Lord's day morning" in Churches of Christ Hymn Book

Harold I. Donnelly

b. 1892 Person Name: H. Donnelly Hymnal Number: 585 Author of "I know that my Redeemer lives" in Churches of Christ Hymn Book 20th Century Donnelly’s works include: What Shall I Do with My Life? (The Westminster Press, 1924) Measuring Certain Aspects of Faith in God as Found in Boys and Girls (dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1931) Administering the Senior Department of the Church School (The Westminster Press, 1931) "The Importance of Christian Education," The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, 1931, pp. 15-21 --www.hymntime.com/tch =============== Harold I. Donnelly, is Professor of Christian Education in Princeton Theological Seminary, to which position he was called from the Department of Educational Research of the Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. He has given particular attention to work with adolescents in both denominational and interdenominational circles and is therefore ably fitted to write a Senior specialization text. from "Administering the Senior Department of the Church School"