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James Arnold Blaisdell

1867 - 1957 Person Name: James A. Blaisdell Hymnal Number: 90 Author of "Christians, lo, the star appeareth" in The New Hymnal for American Youth James Arnold Blaisdell was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, December 15, 1867. He graduated from Beloit College in 1899 and became a minister, then returned to Beloit College as Chair of the Bible Department and director of the library. In 1910 he became of Pomona College (California). The college grew under his leadership. In 1921 he made the decision to cap enrollment to keep the college small. He soon developed the vision of small liberal arts colleges sharing common facilities. He became head of the Claremont Colleges Consortium in 1927. Dianne Shapiro, from Anderson, Seth. "James Blaisdell-The Visionary". Claremont Conversation. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28 (https://web.archive.org/web/20070928024653/http://claremontconversation.org/tcourse/tndy4010/page/James+Blaisdell-The+Visionary) and Find A Grave website (retrieved 11/11/2023)

Thomas W. Freckelton

1827 - 1903 Person Name: Thomas W. Freckleton Hymnal Number: 189 Author of "O God, who workest hitherto" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Freckelton, Thomas Wesley, b. 1827. Minister of Unity Church, Islington. His hymn, "The toil of brain, or heart, or hand" (Christian Service), is in J. P. Hopp’s Collection, 1877 and in Horder's Congregational Hymnal, 1884. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Cecil Spring-Rice

1859 - 1918 Hymnal Number: 331 Author of "I vow to thee my country, all earthly things above" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

J. S. Warburton

Hymnal Number: 235 Composer of "SPES MEA IN DEO" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Gena Branscombe

1881 - 1977 Hymnal Number: 230a Composer of "CHALICE" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Henry Richard MacFadyen

1877 - 1964 Person Name: H. R. MacFadyen Hymnal Number: 59 Author of "The lone, wild fowl in lofty flight" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Patty Stair

Hymnal Number: 169 Composer of "BASSETT" in The New Hymnal for American Youth

Calvin Weiss Laufer

1874 - 1938 Person Name: Calvin W. Laufer Hymnal Number: 249 Author of "We thank thee, Lord, thy paths of service lead" in The New Hymnal for American Youth Presbyterian minister and hymnographer Calvin Weiss Laufer was born today in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania in 1874. Following his graduation from Union Seminary in 1900 he was ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and led congregations in New York and New Jersey for several years. Laufer had a generally cheerful outlook on his Christian life, and his first two books, Key-Notes of Optimism (1911) and The Incomparable Christ (1914) expressed that viewpoint. A review of the first book spoke of the "crisp and stirring note in these sermonettes which is well calculated to rouse the mind of readers and banish dejection." His books were popular in their time but today are seen as somewhat superficial. He later began to work with the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education and became its editor of musical publications, producing books such as The Junior Church School Hymnal (1927), The Church School Hymnal for Youth (1928) and When the Little Child Wants to Sing (1935). He was also the associate editor of the Presbyterian Hymnal of 1933, a very popular book which was used in many churches for more than fifty years. In 1932, his book Hymn Lore was published, which contained the stories of fifty hymns from The Church School Hymnal for Youth, with information about their writers and composers (much like this blog). He chose a broad range of hymns, some quite modern and others well-known and loved for centuries. Several of them were by his mentor and friend Louis F. Benson, who had edited the Presbyterian Hymnal of 1895 and its 1911 revision (and also wrote The Best Church Hymns). In the preface to Hymn Lore, Laufer wrote: To live with hymns and to make them one's own is the only sure way of appreciating their literary beauty and spiritual power. (...) That the reading and singing of hymns may become less mechanical, more thoughtful and intelligent, and emotionally more effective, this volume is released to the public. Laufer wrote both hymn texts and tunes himself, most of which first appeared in the books he edited but also had some life outside Presbyterian circles. This tune was written while Laufer was attending a conference in Kansas, though with no particular text in mind. Not long after, he hummed it to a friend, William H. Foulkes, who then wrote the text "Take thou our minds, dear Lord." Laufer's tune was originally called STONY BROOK, but he changed it to honor a friend, William Ralph Hall. Little is known about the writer May Pierpont Hoyt. Her text is generally sung to the tune BREAD OF LIFE by William F. Sherwin, but since that tune is more known with "Break thou the Bread of life," this text could use a different one. --conjubilant.blogspot.com/2010/04/