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Franklin H. Lummis

Hymnal Number: 701 Arranger of "BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal

John M. Critchlow

Hymnal Number: 721 Composer of "TITUSVILLE" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal

1838 - 1905 Hymnal Number: 255 Author of "From Sinai's cloud of darkness" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal Hay, John, diplomat and author, born at Salem, Ind., Oct. 8, 1838; graduated at Brown University 1858; admitted to the 111. Bar; was private secretary to Pres. Lincoln; served in the Civil War; member of the Legation at Paris, Madrid, and Vienna, and Ambassador at the Court of St. James. In 1879-81 he was First Assistant Sec. of State, and from 1898 Sec. of State in the Cabinets of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, to his death July 1, 1905. His publications included Castilian Days, 1871; and, with J. G. Nicolay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, 10 vols., 1887, &c. In 1871 he also published Pike County Ballads, and in 1890 Poems. Of his poems the following are in common use as hymns:— 1. From Sinai's cloud of darkness. [Law and the Gospel.] This begins with st. ii. of his poem, “Sinai and Calvary," in Poems, 1890, p. 152. Asked for its date and origin, Mr. Hay said: "I wrote the hymn several years ago, because I felt like it. I can say nothing more intelligible than that." It was included iu the New Laudes Domini, N.Y., 1892. 2. Lord, from far-severed climes we come. [Work on for God.] In the summer of 1895, at his summer home at Lake Sunapee, Mr. Hay was asked to write a hymn for the opening of the 15th International Christian Endeavour Convention, at Washington, the following year, but declined on the ground that his verse-writing days were past. But in the following spring he sent this hymn, with the statement that there was no obligation to use it. In his manuscript it is entitled "An Invocation." It was sung at the opening of the Convention of 1896, and again at the Convention on July 4, 1905, when the opening exercises assumed the form of a memorial service, as his body was being borne to the grave. It is in several American collections. In The Methodist Hymnal, N.Y., 1905, it opens with st. ii., “Defend us, Lord, from every ill." The original is in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. 3. Not in dumb resignation. [Submission.] Appeared in 3 stanzas of 8 lines in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Oct. 1891, and entitled "Thy will be done." Given with alterations in Dr. L. Abbott's Plymouth Hymnal, N.Y., 1894. Mr. Hay was for some time an office-bearer in the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, Washington, D.C. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Alfred G. Wathall

1880 - 1938 Hymnal Number: 459 Composer of "STELLA" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal

Emmelar

Hymnal Number: 398 Arranger of "ARMSTRONG" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal

David Snethen Warner

1857 - 1957 Person Name: Davis S. Warner Hymnal Number: 55 Arranger of "THE LORD WILL PROVIDE" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal

Helen Smith Arnold

1849 - 1873 Person Name: Helen S. Arnold Hymnal Number: 449 Author of "He leadeth me, He leadeth me" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal Helen Smith Arnold USA 1849-1873, She wrote several hymn lyrics, one in the Free Methodist hymnal (1951), John Perry

William Backus Olmstead

1862 - 1941 Person Name: W. B. Olmstead Hymnal Number: 85 Arranger of "ASSURANCE" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal William Backus Olmstead USA 1862-1941. He was born in Michigan. Musically inclined, he wrote a score: “A little while, O hands” for the piano. He wrote a handbook for Sunday school workers and a biography of the Rev Charles H Sage (his pioneering church work in MI and other states and formation of the Canadian church conference). He published three song books: “Light & life songs” (1904), “Voices of praise” (1909), and “Light & life songs #2” (1914). He also served on the commission (one of three editors) that produced the Free Methodist Hymnal (1910), published in Winona Lake, IN. He was living in Chicago in 1914. In 1921 he became Mission Secretary for the China Inland Mission of the Methodist Church. In 1923-24 he and his wife, Minnie, were engaged on a world-wide trip on behalf of the church, visiting hospitals, schools, leper colonies, and congregations across Japan, China, India, and southern Africa. He died in San Francisco, CA. John Perry

Joseph S. Cook

1859 - 1933 Person Name: Joseph Cook Hymnal Number: 606 Author of "Choose I must, and soon must choose" in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal Cook, Joseph Simpson. (Durham County, England, December 4, 1859--May 27, 1933, Toronto, Canada). Methodist. Wesleyan Theological College (Montreal) certificate, 1885; B.D., 1893; Illinois Wesleyan University, M.A., 1892; S.T.D., 1903. Pastorates in Ontario at Bayfield (1881-1882); Bluevale (1885-1887); Hensall (1888-1890); Ripley (1891-1893); Granton (1894-1896); Walkerville (1896-1898); Wallaceburg (1899-1902); Clinton (1903-1904); Ridgetown (1905-1908); Toronto (1909-1913, 1919-1925); Meaford (1914-1916); and Gravenhurst (1917-1918). He contributed articles and verse to many church-connected magazines. His best-known hymn, "Gentle Mary laid her child Lowly in a manger" won a 1919 contest of the Methodist weekly Christian Guardian. --Hugh McKellar, DNAH Archives