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James M. Kirk

1854 - 1945 Person Name: J. M. K. Hymnal Number: 38 Author of "Since the Comforter Has Come" in Songs of the Evening Light James McPherson Kirk, 1854-1945 Born: June 18, 1854, Flushing, Ohio. Died: June 10, 1945, Flushing, Ohio. Buried: Flushing, Ohio. Raised a Methodist, Kirk became associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CAMA) in 1887. He organized the CAMA’s Gospel Mission in Flushing, Ohio, in 1907, and as part of the Ohio Quartet, sang at CAMA conventions and gatherings. --www.hymntime.com/tch/ ========================== Kirk, James M. (Flushing, Ohio, 1854--1945). Converted at an early age. Became associated with the C&MA in 1887, was a first subscriber to The Alliance Weekly, and wonderfully healed at the first Cleveland Alliance convention. Spent entire life on a farm but devoted much time to Christian work. A member of a famous singing group, the Ohio Quartet, which for 12 years traveled extensively in convention work. In 1906 organized the Gospel Mission of the C&MA in Flushing. An outstanding figure in the Central District as song leader and in Bible teaching and prayer. Grandfather of Geraldine Southern, well-known mezzo-soprano, music instructor at Nyack, and director of music in Alliance churches. Kirk wrote some 40 songs, many while busy with farm chores. Some favorites: Blessed Quietness He Is Just the Same Today I've Yielded to God --Paul Milburn, DNAH Archives

J. W. Byers

1859 - 1944 Hymnal Number: 79 Author of "He is Just the Same To-day" in Songs of the Evening Light Jacob Whistler Byers was born on March 26, 1859 in Albany, Whiteside County, Illinois to Andrew and Nancy (Whistler) Byers. His father was a farmer and a minister of a small denomination known as the River Brethren. Jacob received a basic rural education and self-taught himself to become a teacher. He was converted at a Methodist revival meeting. He and his wife, Jennie Shirk, were actively involved in the Brethren in Christ Church. They together began an evangelistic work in Illinois and Iowa over the next two years. In 1890 they felt that God was calling them to the Pacific coast. They opened an evangelistic mission in San Diego and also worked in Los Angeles and held tent meetings up the coast. In 1893 Byers wrote a book, the "The Grace of Healing" to describe his conversion. Byers taught divine healing for the body as well as the soul and published a magazine called "Tidings of Healing". In 1899 he published a book on the subject called "The Grace of Healing". J. W. died in Los Angeles, California on October 16,1944. NN, Hymnary. See http://healingandrevival.com/BioJWByers.htm

Della Fry

Hymnal Number: 133 Author of "A Song of Praise" in Songs of the Evening Light

Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts

1830 - 1930 Person Name: W. F. Crafts Hymnal Number: 71 Author of "Praise God for the Bible" in Songs of the Evening Light

Fred L. Hahn

Person Name: F. L. Hahn Hymnal Number: 31 Author of "Jesus, Thy Blood and Name" in Songs of the Evening Light

L. Thompson

Hymnal Number: 143 Composer of "[Hark! I hear hope sweetly singing]" in Songs of the Evening Light

Thomas C. Upham

1799 - 1872 Person Name: Prof. T. C Upham Hymnal Number: 70 Author of "A Heaven is Here" in Songs of the Evening Light Upham, Thomas Cogswell, D.D., was born at Durfield, New Haven, Jan. 30,1799, and educated at Dartmouth College (1818), and at Andover (1821). Having entered the Congregational Ministry he became Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Bowdon College, in 1825, and retained the same to 1867. He died at New York, April 2, 1872. His publications were numerous and included Mental Philosophy (which was long and widely used); American Cottage Life; a volume of Poems, 1852, &c. Five of his hymns are given, with accompanying dates, in Hymns and Songs of Praise, &c, N. Y., 1874, as follows:— 1. Fear not, poor weary one. Help in Sorrow (1872). 2. Happy the man who knows. Obedience (1872). 3. 0 Thou great Ruler of the sky. Morning (1872). 4. 0 Thou great Teacher from the skies. Following Christ (1872). 5. 'Tis thus in solitude I roam. Omnipresence (1853). These hymns are limited in their use. In 1847 Upham published the Life and Religious Opinions and Experiences of Madam de la Mothe Guyon. . . Two vols., N. Y. In this work the anonymous translations from Madam Guyon's hymns are found, viz., (1) “By sufferings only can we know"; (2) "I would love Thee, God and Father"; (3) "'Tis not [by] the skill of human art." There are also additional translations of two of her hymns in the same work. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)