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Harold Humbert

Person Name: Harold Humbert Scripture: 1 Kings 8:22-30 Author of "We Built a Sanctuary Sure" in Moravian Book of Worship

Derek Holman

b. 1931 Person Name: Derek Holman (1931-) Scripture: 1 Kings 8:22-30 Harmonizer of "CHRISTE SANCTORUM" in Common Praise (1998)

1875 - 1958 Person Name: Martin Shaw (1875-1958) Scripture: 1 Kings 8:22-30 Composer of "LITTLE CORNARD" in Common Praise (1998) Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music. Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915). Bert Polman

David Iliff

Person Name: David Iliff (born 1939) Scripture: 1 Kings 8 Composer of "BUSHEY HALL" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Person Name: Carl Daw, Jr. (1944-) Scripture: 1 Kings 8:22-30 Author of "O God of Font and Altar" in Common Praise (1998) Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink

Ludvig M. Bjørn

1834 - 1908 Person Name: Ludv. M. Bjørn Scripture: 1 Kings 8:15-62 Author of "O Jesus, fra det Høie" in Salmebog for Lutherske Kristne i Amerika Ludvig Marinus Biorn, was born in Moss, Norway, September 7, 1835. His father was minister in the state c hurch of Norway, and some of his ancestors held high military and ecclesiastical postions in Slesvig. Biorn became a student at the University of Norway in 1855, graduating as a theological candidate in 1861. The following year he emigrated to America, being called as pastor by the congregation of the Norwegian Synod in Manitowac county, Wisconsin. Here Rev. Biorn met all the hardships incident to pioner life. The war, too, added to the difficulty. Company F, of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Regiment, was mostly taken from his congregation. In 1879 he removed to Goodhue County, to the congregations of Land and Minneola. The year before the crops of the Northwest were a failure, and Goodhue, with the rest of the counties of this section, were suffering from that failure. With his parishioners, he set to work with a will, enlarging h s congregations, establishing schools, forming missions and other societies in connection witht the church. He taught the young and the old, visited the sick, assisted the poor, and buried the dead. Reverend Biorn was one of the leaders of the Anti-Missourians in the great predestination controversy, and when, after the division of the synod, the United Church was organized out of three Norwegian Lutheran denominations, Reverand Biorn became the vice-president of the new body. The North, in 1893, said: "Reverend Biorn has a frank, honest, prepossessing face. He is a thorough bred gentleman, a popular preacher, an able writer, and last but not least, there is a vein of true poetry in his psychical makeup, which has found expression in a number of poems, two or three of which are gems of their kind." Reverend Biorn died June 14, 1908. He was first married to Bolette Fleisher who died in September 1881. In 1884 he married Mathilda Johnson, of Wittenburg, Wis. From History of Goodhue County Minnesota edited by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge , Chcago: H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1909 (pp 405-406)

Patrick Wedd

1948 - 2019 Person Name: Patrick Wedd (1948-) Scripture: 1 Kings 8:22-30 Adapter (harmony) of "KING'S LYNN" in Common Praise (1998) Patrick Wedd was an organist and choral conductor. He was born in Simcoe, Ontario. By the age of twelve he was organist and choir director in his church. He studied at the University of Toronto and U.B.C. He was music director at Vancouver's Christ Church Cathedral. In 1986 he moved to Montreal and served at Church os Saint Andrew and Saint Paul from 1986-1992, at the Church of St. John the Evangelist from 1992-1996, and at Christ Church Cathedral from 1996 to 2018. He also directed the Tudor Singers and Musica Orbium, a semi-professional choir he founded. Dianne Shapiro, from www.cbc.ca article accessed 5/24/2019

Calvin Seerveld

b. 1930 Scripture: 1 Kings 8:23-53 Versifier of "LORD God of Israel, Come among Us" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Calvin Seerveld (b. 1930) was professor of aesthetics at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto from 1972 until he retired in 1995. Educated at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan; the University of Michigan; and the Free University of Amsterdam (Ph.D.), he also studied at Basel University in Switzerland, the University of Rome, and the University of Heidelberg. Seerveld began his career by teaching at Bellhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi (1958-1959), and at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois (1959-1972). A fine Christian scholar, fluent in various biblical and modern languages, he is published widely in aesthetics, biblical studies, and philosophy. His books include Take Hold of God and Pull (1966), The Greatest Song: In Critique of Solomon (1967), For God's Sake, Run with Joy (1972), Rainbows for the Fallen World: Aesthetic Life and Artistic Task (1980), and On Being Human (1988). He credits the Dutch musician Ina Lohr for influencing his compositions of hymn tunes. Most of his Bible versifications and hymns were written for the Psalter Hymnal (1987), on whose revision committee he ably served. Bert Polman