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William Cutter

1801 - 1867 Hymnal Number: d119 Author of "What if the little rain drop should say" in Sunshine for Sunday Schools Cutter, William, born at North Yarmouth, Maine, May 15, 1801, and was removed in childhood to Portland, and educated at Bowdoin College, graduating in 1821. He was subsequently engaged for some time in business in Portland, and again in Brooklyn, New York. Died Feb. 8, 1867. Mr. Cutter, who was a member of the Congregational body, was a deserving writer, who has hitherto missed his due meed of acknowledgment. To his friend Mr. Colesworthy we are indebted for the details of his life and hymnological work. His hymns include:— 1. Thy neighbour? it is he whom thou. Christian Brotherhood. This appeared in the Christian Mirror for May 30, 1828 (Mr. Colesworthy thinks that he set the types for it), and again in Cheever'sAmerican Poetry, 1831. An altered form of the hymn, "Who is thy neighbour? he whom thou," soon came into use, and was often printed before it was included anonymously in W. B. O. Peabody's Unitarian Springfield Collection, 1835. From being found in that collection it has been attributed to Peabody in error. 2. Hide not thy talent in the earth. Duty. Appeared in the Christian Mirror, Oct. 10, IS28. In some collections it begins with stanza ii., "What if the little rain should say." 3. She loved her Saviour, and to Him. Thankfulness and Duty. Was first published in the Christian Mirror, but the date is uncertain. It was reprinted by Cheever in his American Poetry, 1831. In addition to the above, Cutter wrote several hymns which appeared in the Mirror, and in the Sunday School Instructor, of which he and Mr. Colesworthy were joint editors. His hymns are unknown to the English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Leonhard Sturm

1608 - 1682 Hymnal Number: d33 Author of "Good night, good night till then" in Sunshine for Sunday Schools Sturm, Leonhard, became Master in the Latin School, and Cantor (precentor) in St. George's Church, at Nördlingen, Bavaria, in 1635. In the church registers at Nördlingen he is described as "of Fehlburg in the Pfalz" (? Pfalzburg in Alsace). He died at Nördlingen, Sept. 11, 1682, aged 74 (Blätter für Hymnologie, 1886, p. 62). Eight hymns, by Sturm, are included in the Appendix to the Newvermehrte christliche Seeleharpf, Onoltzbach (Ansbach), 1664-65 [Heidelberg University Library]; and eleven in the Nördlingischer Kirchen-Schall, oder Geistliche Seelen-Lust, Nördlingen, 1676 [Wernigerode Library]. Only one of these has passed into English, viz., Ich fahr dahin mit Freuden. For the Dying. The first stanza is taken almost verbatim from a piece by Martin Rinkart. Sturm added to this seven stanzas, which carry out Rinkart's idea without borrowing almost anything more from him. The initial letters of Sturm's eight stanzas form the acrostic Jacobina; this being the name of his second wife, Maria Jacobina, to whom he was married in 1646, and who died in 1687. Possibly the hymn was written at some period when she was dangerously ill. Sturm's hymn appeared in the Nördlingen Gesang-Buch, 1676. Translated as:— I journey forth rejoicing. This is a somewhat free version of st. i.-iii., vi., vii , by Miss Borthwick, in Hymns from the Land of Luther, First Ser., 1854, p. 71. The translations of st. iii., vi., vii., beginning, "Why thus so sadly weeping," are No. 63, in J. H. Wilson's Service of Praise, 1865. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)