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Clara M. Wilson

Person Name: Mrs. Clara M. Wilson Hymnal Number: 258 Author of "Jesus' Little Friend" in Our Glad Hosanna Pseudonym of Fanny Crosby. See Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

Rose Mathews

Person Name: Mrs. Rose Mathews Hymnal Number: 217 Author of "Walking in the Steps of Jesus" in Our Glad Hosanna

1847 - 1919 Person Name: Maro L. Bartlett Hymnal Number: 103 Composer of "[Christ, the Lord, is risen today]" in Our Glad Hosanna Bartlett was born on October 25, 1847 in Browhelm, Ohio. He was a choral conductor, composed many popular tunes, and wrote several books on music. As of 1905, he was Director of the Des Moines, Iowa, College of Music. He died in 1919 in Des Moines, Iowa. Sources: Hughes, p. 307 Nutter, p. 453 Price, p. 195 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch) ============= The publication Bartlett's Music Reader (1901) states that the editor, M.L. Bartlett, was "President of the Des Moines, Ia., Music College and formerly Teacher of Music in the Schools of New York City." This same M.L. Bartlett edited The Sunday School Serial. --

W. P. Balfern

1818 - 1887 Person Name: W. Poole Balfern Hymnal Number: 61 Author of "Something from the Lord" in Our Glad Hosanna Balfern, William Poole, born in 1818, at Hammersmith; entered the Baptist Ministry in 1848; and has laboured chiefly in the suburbs of London, and in Brighton. Mr. Balfern is the author of Glimpses of Jesus and other prose works of similar character, has been a frequent contributor to Religious Periodicals, and has published the following vols. of poetry:— (1) The Beauty of the Great King, and other Poems, 1871, Lond., Passmore and Alabaster. (2) Lyrics for the Heart, 1876. (Same publishers) (3) Hymns of the Passion, 1882, Lond., Nelson and Sons. (4) Pilgrim Chimes for the Weeks of the Year, 1881, is a selection from Mr. Balfern's poems made and published by Rev. Chas. Bullock. Mr. Balfern's hymns have appeared in the Baptist Hymnal ; Psalms & Hymns for the Young; the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book; Songs of Gladness (S. S. Union); Book of Hymns for Sunday School, Lond., Weeks & Co.; Treasury of Sacred Song, Kirkwall, W. Peace; and in a few collections of the Church of England. They include:— 1. Come unto Me, the Saviour speaks [said]. Invitation. 2. Hark, dear children, hear the angels. Sunday. 3. 0 gentle Teacher, ever near. Divine Teacher. 4. 0 Lamb of God, most lowly [holy]. Holiness of Jesus. 5. 0 morning star, whose distant ray. Divine Guidance. 6. 0 Thou Who art enthroned on high. Praise. 7. Shepherd of those sunlit mountains. The Good Shepherd. All these hymns were contributed to the Sunday School Union Songs of Gladness, 1871, and from thence have passed into other collections. 8. Say not, 0 wounded heart. Love of Jesus. From his work, The Beauty of the Great King, 1871, into the Baptist Hymnal, 1879. Whilst these hymns do not take a high rank as poetry, they are characterised by simplicity of expression, and by devout and earnest, often tender, Christian feeling. Balfern died July 3, 1887. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Samuel Alman

1844 - 1911 Person Name: Rev. Samuel Alman Hymnal Number: 49 Composer of "["Whosoever," word of promise]" in Our Glad Hosanna Samuel Alman was born February 6, 1844 in Wales. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1854 as an apprentice and served until 1868. He was at the Washington Navy Yard when Lincoln was shot and was one of the few men who knew of the final disposition of J. Wilkes Booth's body, but he was sworn to secrecy. At one time he was commander-in-chief of the National Association of Naval Veterans, holding the title of Admiral. He was also chaplain of the G.A.R. and the Farragut Association of Naval Veterans. After two years of service with the United States Government, he resigned and became an evangelist, taking charge of the mission that later became Emmanuel Baptist Church in Manhattan. He was ordained in the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in 1871 and continued serving as pastor of Emmanuel Baptist church until 1899. He wrote many hymns and compiled two hymnals. He died in June 12, 1911, in New York. Dianne Shapiro, from obituary, "The Brooklyn Daily Eagle," 14 June 1911

O. R. Barrows

b. 1823 Person Name: Oren R. Barrows Hymnal Number: 59 Composer of "[At the golden gate of prayer I wait]" in Our Glad Hosanna

Mary M. Adams

1840 - 1902 Person Name: Mrs. Mary Matthews-Smith Hymnal Number: 26 Author of "Hearken to the Music" in Our Glad Hosanna Mary Jane Matthews, married C. M. Smith; married A. S. Barnes, 1883; married Charles Kendall Adams, 1890. She has written verses in the leisure of her happy life. First her hymns sang themselves from her heart and then her poems caroled their way from her soul. Few of her classmates in Packer Institute, where she was for the most part educated, knew that the popular Mary Mathews was not American born and a Brooklyn girl. Her birthplace was Ireland and her ancestry Irish. She is the author of thirty or more known hymns, many of them incorporated in song books of a score of more songs and ballads, several of which have been set to music, and are familiar favorites, and of many lyrics and sonnets. Excerpts from The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, Volume 2