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Charles Beecher

1815 - 1900 Hymnal Number: d4 Author of "Nearer to thee" in The Sabbath Hour Beecher, Charles, son of the well-known Dr. Lyman Beecher, whose autobiography he chiefly edited, and brother of Henry Ward Beecher, was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, 1815. Mr. Beecher was for some time a Congregational pastor at Georgetown, Mass. He has published Review of Spiritual Manifestations, 1853; Pen Pictures of the Bible, 1855, &c. His hymns were contributed to his brother's Plymouth Collection, 1855, and include:— 1. There's rest in the grave. Heaven. 2. We are on our journey home. Heaven. The latter is in the more extensive use, but both are unknown to the English collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Francis L. Keeler

Hymnal Number: d24 Author of "God is love, ye nations hear him" in The Sabbath Hour

R. T. Cook

Hymnal Number: d91 Author of "Come unto me" in The Sabbath Hour

Frances L. Mace

1836 - 1899 Hymnal Number: d64 Author of "Only waiting till the shadows" in The Sabbath Hour Mace, Frances P., née Laughton, was born in Orono, Maine, Jan. 15, 1836, and married in 1855 to Benjamin H. Mace, a Lawyer of Bangor. Her hymn "Only waiting till the shadows" (Heaven Anticipated), was written in 1854, and printed in a local newspaper, the Waterville Mail (Maine), Sep. 7, 1854, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines. It has attained a wide circulation in Great Britain and America. Full text in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. See Woman in Sacred Song, 1885, p. 139, for counter-claim on behalf of Mrs. F. A. F. Wood-White. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================== Born: January 15, 1834, Orono, Maine. Died: July 20, 1899. Buried: Los Gatos Memorial Park, San Jose, California. In 1837, Frances’ family moved to Foxcroft (now Dover-Foxcroft), Maine, where she grew up. By age 10, she was studying Latin, and had verses published by age 12. The family later moved to Bangor, Maine, where she graduated from high school, and studied German and music with private teachers. In 1855, she married lawyer Benjamin F. Mace of Bangor; in 1885, they moved to San Jose, California. They had eight children, four of whom reached adulthood. Her works include: Legends, Lyrics and Sonnets, 1883 Under Pine and Palm, 1888 Sources: Willard, pp. 482-83 http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/c/mace_fl.htm

Grace W. Hinsdale

1833 - 1902 Hymnal Number: d60 Author of "Such grace to mine [ours] be given" in The Sabbath Hour Hinsdale, Grace Webster, née Haddock, a Congregationalism daughter married to Theodore Hinsdale, a lawyer of New York, in 1850. Mrs. Hinsdale is a contributor to the periodical press, and has published Coming to the King, a Book of Daily Devotion for Children, 1865; republished in England as Daily Devotions for Children, 1867. Her hymns include :— i. From Coming to the King, 1865. 1. A light streams downward from the sky. Heaven. 2. My soul complete in Jesus stands (1855). Safety in Jesus. ii. From Schaff’s Christ in Song, N.Y., 1869. 3. Are there no wounds for me? Passiontide. Written April, 1868. 4. Jesus, the rays divine. Jesus ever present. Written July, 1868. 5. There was no angel 'midst the throng. Jesus, the Deliverer; or, Redemption. Written April, 1868. The hymn, "Jesus, Thou art my Lord, my God,” in the 1874 Supplement to the New Congregational Hymn Book, is composed of st. viii.-x., xv.-xvii., slightly altered, of this hymn. 6. Thou stand'st between the earth and heave. Virgin and Child. This poem was "written after viewing Raphael's Madonna di San Sisto, in the Royal Gallery of Dresden, Aug., 1867." (Christ in Song.) It is not suited for congregational use. Her pen name is "Farin." -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

Jean Frederic Oberlin

1740 - 1826 Hymnal Number: d59 Author of "To thee, my God, to thee" in The Sabbath Hour

Nathan Barker

Hymnal Number: d86 Author of "Tranquil and peaceful is our [the] path to heaven" in The Sabbath Hour

Farrell

Hymnal Number: d68 Author of "O blessed hope" in The Sabbath Hour

Marion Harland

1830 - 1922 Person Name: Mary Virginia Terhune Hymnal Number: d75 Author of "Ever sing the love" in The Sabbath Hour Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune ("Marion Harland"); Mary Virginia Hawes; author; Mrs. Edward Payson Terhune; wife of Cong. minister; mother of author Albert Payson Terhune; Pompton Lakes, N.J.