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Sarah Elizabeth Miles

1807 - 1877 Hymnal Number: d91 Author of "Thou, who didst stoop below" in A Collection of Hymns for the Sanctuary. Rev.ed. with a Supplement Miles, Elizabeth, nee Appleton, was born at Boston, U.S.A,, March 28, 1807, and married in 1833 to Solomon P. Miles, Head Master of the Boston High School, and afterwards the Principal of a private school for young ladies in the same city. He died in 1842. On leaving Boston, Mrs. Miles went to reside with her son at Brattleborough, Vermont. Her principal hymns are:— 1. The earth all light and loveliness. Part i. Summer. 2. When on devotion's seraph wing. Part ii., st. v., vii. Foretaste of Heaven. These two parts appeared as one hymn in The Christian Examiner, 1828. 3. Thou Who didst stoop below. Looking unto Jesus. Appeared in The Christian Examiner, 1827. Sometimes it begins with st. ii., "It was no path of flowers," as in the Boston Unitarian Book of Hymns, 1846. 4. Father, direct my ways. Divine Guidance desired in Affliction. In the Boston Book of Hymns, 1846; the Boston Hymns of the Spirit, 1864; and some other collections, it begins with st. ii., "Thou, infinite in love." Three additional hymns were published for the first time in Putnam's Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith, 1875. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

N. L. Frothingham

1793 - 1870 Person Name: Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham Hymnal Number: d69 Author of "Remember me, the Savior [Master] said" in A Collection of Hymns for the Sanctuary. Rev.ed. with a Supplement Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon, D.D., born at Boston July 23rd, 1793, and graduated at Harvard 1811, where he was also sometime Tutor. From 1815 to 1850 he was Pastor of the First Church (Unitarian), Boston, and subsequently attended as a worshipper the church where he had been 35 years minister till his sight and strength failed him. He died April 4th, 1870. His Metrical Pieces, in 2 volumes, were published in 1855 and 1870. 1. O God, Whose presence glows in all. Ordination. This was written in 1828 for the ordination of W. B. Lunt, New York. 2. We meditate the day . Installation. Written in 1835 for Mr. Lunt's installation at Quincy, Mass., as Co-pastor with Peter Whitney. 3. O Lord of life and truth and grace . Ordination. Also a special hymn. It was composed for the ordination of H. W. Bellowes, New York, 1839. It is found in common with Nos. 1 and 2 in Frothingham's Metrical Pieces, 1855. These Metrical Pieces are unknown to the English Collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Frothingham, N. L. , p. 400, ii. Other hymns are:— 1. O Saviour, Whose immortal word. Opening of a Place of Worship. Written "For the Dedication of the Church of the Saviour, Boston, November 16, 1847." 2. Remember Me, the Saviour said. Holy Communion. 3. They passed away from sight. Death and Burial. 4. When I am weak, I'm strong. Spiritual Strength. Nos. l, 2, and 4 are from his Metrical Pieces, Translated and Original, 1855, --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

John Bickersteth

1781 - 1855 Hymnal Number: d43 Author of "Isr'l's Shepherd, guide me [us], feed me [us]" in A Collection of Hymns for the Sanctuary. Rev.ed. with a Supplement Bickersteth, John, M.A., son of Henry Bickersteth, surgeon, born at Kirkby-Lonsdale, June, 19, 1781, and educated at the Grammar School of that town, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in honours. Taking Holy Orders, he became Vicar of Acton, Suffolk, and subsequently Rector of Sapcote, Leicestershire. He died Oct. 2, 1855. The Dean of Lichfield is his second, and the late Bishop of Ripon his fourth son. In 1819 he published Psalms and Hymns, selected and revised for Public, Social, Family, or Secret Devotion, in which his hymns were included. A fourth edition, much enlarged, appeared in 1832. Of his hymns contributed to his Collection in 1819, the following were transferred to his brother's Christian Psalmody, 1833:— 1. Great God, let children to Thy throne. S. Schools. 2. Hast Thou, holy Lord, Redeemer. H. Communion. 3. Israel's Shepherd, guide me, feed me. H. Communion. and were thus brought into wider notice than through his own work. No. 3 is sometimes given as "Heavenly Shepherd, guide us, feed us," as in the American Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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