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John Blain

1795 - 1879 Hymnal Number: d165 Author of "My dearest friends in bonds of love" in Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. Blain, John. (Fishkill, New York, February 14, 1795--December 26, 1879, Mansfield, Massachusetts). Baptist. Studied at Fairfield (New York) and Middlebury (New York) academies. Pastored for nearly sixty years in : Auburn, New York City, York, and Syracuse, New York; Pawtucket and Central Falls, Rhode Island; New London, Connecticut; Charlestown and Mansfield, Massachusetts. He was also an evangelist and baptized about three thousand persons. He gave large sums to missions while living, and willed his property to home and foreign missions. The one hymn for which Blain is remembered is a parting hymn written in 1818, and published in the Original and Selected Reformation Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1829). Comprising twelve stanzas, the hymn begins: My Christian friends in bonds of love, Whose hearts in sweetest union prove; Your friendship's like a drawing band, Yet we must take the parting hand. A part of this hymn, altered by Rev. H.L. Hastings, later appeared in Songs of Pilgrimage (1886). Paul R. Powell (?), DNAH Archives

Sigmund C. Gmelin

1679 - 1707 Hymnal Number: d208 Author of "O thou who all things canst control" in Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. Gmelin, Sigmund Christian, was b. March 15,1679, at Pfullingen in Württemberg. After studying at the University of Tubingen, where he graduated in 1697 and became lecturer in 1700, he was in 1705 appointed assistant pastor at Herrenberg. There he associated himself with the Separatists; denounced the Church as worldly and as requiring a mere outward profession; objected to infant baptism, and departed from the views of the Church on the intermediate state, on the millennial reign, and on the reconciliation of all things.. For these teachings he was deposed in 1706. After living for a time at Dortenbach, near Calw, he retired to Wittgenstein, and finally to Schwarzenau, near Berleberg. He died Oct. 12, 1707, probably at Schwarzenau (Koch, v. 5; Allg. Deutsche Biographie, ix. 274). The only hymn by him translated into English is:— Ach treib aua meiner Seel. [Watchfulness.] Included as No. 21 in the Anmuthiger Blumen Krantz, 1712, in 21 stanzas of 6 lines, and repeated as No. 231 in the Herrnhut Gesang-Buch, 1735, omitting st. xx. In full as No. 1101 in Schober's Liedersegen, 1769. The only translation in common use is:— 0 Thou who all things canst control, a translation in L. M. of stanzas i.-vi., by J. Wesley, in Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1739 (P. Works, 1868-72, vol. i. p. 12). It was not included in the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780; but was given, as No. 130, in Wesley's Pocket Hymn Book, 1785. In England stanzas i., ii. were included as No. 323 in Psalms & Hymns, 1854 (Colonial Church & School Society), and stanzas i., ii., v., vi., as No. 467, in Martineau's Hymns of Praise & Prayer, 1873. In America stanzas. i., ii., iv., v., were included, as No. 146, in the Christian Lyre, 1830, and repeated in the Methodist Episcopal South Collection, 1847; the Unitarian Book of Hymns, 1846; and Boardman's Collection, 1861. Stanzas i.-v. were also included in the Methodist Episcopal Collection, 1849, and the Evang. Association Hymn Book, 1882: stanzas i., ii. in the American Unitarian Hymn Book, 1869: and stanzas i., ii., vi., with a stanza from iii., lines. 3, 4, and v. lines 3, 4, in the Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Book 1868. [Rev. James Mearns] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Annie Chadwick

Hymnal Number: d346 Author of "When torn is the [thy] bosom by [with] sorrow [anguish] or [and] care" in Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. Chadwick, Mrs. Annie. "When torn is the bosom by sorrow and care" in 1840 is attributed to "Miss Ann Lutton of Ireland." In 1885, however, it is attributed to Mrs. Annie Chadwick, presumably Ann's married name. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives

Benjamin Cleveland

1733 - 1811 Person Name: B. Cleveland Hymnal Number: d183 Author of "O could I find from day to day" in Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. Cleveland, Benjamin. Probably a Baptist, but known only by his Hymns on Different Spiritual Subjects, in Two Parts, whereof the 4th ed. appeared in Norwich, Connecticut, 1792. He is the author of:— 0 could I find from day to day. [Longing for Christ.] This was preserved from oblivion by the Hartford Selection 1799, and is now in general use as altered and abridged to 4 stanzas by Nettleton, in his Village Hymns, 1824, No. 145. What is supposed to be the original text of the first four stanzas is found in Dr. Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, 1872, No. 876. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ============================ Cleveland, Benjamin. (Windham, Connecticut, August 30, 1733--March 9, 1811, Horton [now Wolfville], Nova Scotia). Baptist. Son of Benjamin Cleveland. The name is sometimes spelled "Cleavland" or "Cleaveland" in family records. He was a layman and a Baptist deacon; little else is known of his life except that of his twelve children, one, Nathan Cleveland, became a Baptist minister. He published in 1792 his Hymns on Different Subjects. In Two Parts in Norwich, Connecticut. His hymn, "O could I find from day to day," was widely reprinted through most of the nineteenth century. In his 1792 collection, it had six stanzas. Joshua Smith reprinted it in 1797, and it was altered for the Hartford Selection of 1799. Asahel Nettleton abridged it to four stanzas and altered it for his Village Hymns in 1824. It was in this form that it was widely sung; it was reprinted in the same for in Edwin Francis Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, 1872. the original first four stanzas treat the desire to "find from day to day a nearness to my God" throughout the course of life, ending in stanza 4 "Thus, till my last expiring breath, Thy goodness I'll adore . . ." --Thomas W. Hunt, DNAH Archives

James N. Maffitt

Hymnal Number: d190 Author of "Eden is my home" in Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed.

Benjamin Francis

1734 - 1799 Hymnal Number: d172 Author of "My gracious Redeemer I [I'll] love" in Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. Francis, Benjamin , M.A., was born in Wales in 1734. He was baptized at the age of 15, and began to preach at 19. He studied at the Bristol Baptist College, and commenced his ministry at Sodbury. In 1757 he removed to Horsley (afterwards called Shortwood), in Gloucestershire. There he remained, through a happy and very successful ministry of 42 years, until his death in 1799. He was the author of many poetical compositions :— (1) Conflagration, a Poem in Four Parts, (1770); (2) Elegies on the Deaths of the Revs. George Whitefield , Caleb Evans, Robert Day, and Joshua Thomas; (3) The Association, a Poem (1790); (4) a Poetical Address to the Stockbridge Indians (5) two satirical pieces on the Baptismal controversy; The Salopian Zealot; and The Oracle, the former passing through several editions and being reprinted in America. Francis was the author of five hymns in Rippon's Selections, 1787, all of which are still in common use :— 1. Before Thy throne, eternal King . Meetings of Ministers: or Church Conferences. 2. Glory to the eternal King. Majesty of God. In Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory for Private, Family and Public Worship, 1872. 3. In tweet [loud] exalted strains . Opening of a Place of Worship . This was given in Rippon, No. 338, in 6 st. of 6 1. with the note:—“Sung on opening the Meeting House at Horsley, Gloucestershire, [his Chapel,] September 18, 1774; and also at the opening of the New Meeting House, at Downend, near Bristol, October 4, 1786."This hymn is abbreviated in the Baptist Hymnal, 1879, to 4 stanzas, and begins with st. iii. which is altered to "Come, King of glory, come." No. 1020 in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymnbook is the same arrangement of stanzas altered by Mr. Spurgeon to "Great King of Zion, now." In several American hymnals it reads: "Great King of glory, come." 4. My gracious Redeemer, I love. The love of Christ to Men. In various collections. 5. Praise the Saviour, all ye nations . Offertory. In Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory, 1872, No. 739, "With my substance I will honour," is a cento from this hymn. 6. Ye objects of sense and enjoyments of time . Death. A long hymn of 16 st. of 4 l. given in the new and improved edition of Rippon, 1837, No. 553, Pt. ii. with the heading, "The dying Christian bidding adieu to the world." This hymn had previously appeared in the Baptist Register, 1795. It was as a writer of Welsh hymns, however, that Francis excelled. In 1774 he published his Alleluia, neu Hymnau perthynol i Addoliad Cyhoeddus (Hymns pertaining to Public Worship) To this he contributed 103 hymns. A second volume appeared in 1786, to which he contributed 91 hymns, being a total of 194 in all [D. Sedgwick’s Manuscript]. Of these many are still in common use in Wales, the most popular being:— 1. Clod i'r bendigedig Oen—-a oddefodd. 2. Deffro 'nghalon, deffro 'nghan—-i ddyrchafu. 3. Gwyn fyd y dyn a gred yn Nuw. 4. Arglwydd grasol, clyw fy nghri—-a'm griddfanau. 5. Wele gadarn sylfaen Sion. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

1788 - 1879 Person Name: Sarah J. Hale Hymnal Number: d227 Author of "The Lord's prayer" in Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. Hale, Sarah Josepha, née Buell, born at Newport, New Hampshire, 1795, and married to David Hale, a lawyer, who died in 1822. Mrs. Hale edited The Ladies' Magazine, Boston, from 1828; and Godey's Ladies’ Book, Philadelphia, from 1837, besides publishing several works. Her hymn, “Our Father in heaven, we hallow Thy name" (The Lord's Prayer), appeared in Mason & Greene's Church Psalmody, 1831, No. 553, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. Mrs. Hale, who was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, died in 1879. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

W. E. Miller

1766 - 1839 Hymnal Number: d228 Author of "Christian union" in Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed.

Thomas Dale

1797 - 1870 Hymnal Number: d345 Author of "When the spark of life is waning [fading]" in Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. Dale, Thomas, M.A., son of Thomas Dale, a bookseller in London, born at Pentonville, Aug. 22, 1797, and educated at Christ's Hospital, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825. On taking Holy Orders, he became, after holding several curacies, Vicar of St. Bride's, Fleet Street, London; Canon of St. Paul's, 1843; Vicar of St. Pancras, 1846; and Rector of Therfield, Herts, 1800. In 1870 he was nominated to the Deanery of Rochester, but died before induction, May 14, 1870. His poetical works are:— (1) The Widow of Nain, 1819; (2) The Outlaw of Tauris, 1820; (3) Irad and Adah, a tale of the Flood; and Specimens of a New Translation of the Psalms, 1822. These Poems were collected and published in one vol. in 1836; 2nd ed. 1842. From these works the following hymns have been taken:— 1. Dear as thou wert [wast], and justly dear (1819). Burial. In the Leeds Hymn Book, 1S53, and several American collections. It is from the Widow of Nain, and is given as a dirge sung at the funeral by the Village Minstrel. 2. 0 never, never can we know (1822). Good Friday. In the Baptist Psalms & Hymns, 1858-80. 3. Speak, 0 ye judges of the earth (1822). Ps. lviii. In the Mitre Hymn Book, 1836, &c. 4. The Lord Whose Name is love (1836). Children's Praises. In the Mitre Hymn Book, 1836. 5. When the spark of life is waning (1819). A Dying request. This is No. viii. of Poems, appended to The Widow of Nain, 1819, p. 69. In Stevenson's Hymns for Church & Home, 1873. Other hymns of a similar character might be taken from these works with advantage. [William T. Brooke] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Edmund Jones

1722 - 1765 Hymnal Number: d44 Author of "Come, humble sinner, in whose breast" in Revival Hymns ... with a Supplement. 2nd ed. Jones, Edmund, son of the Rev. Philip Jones, Cheltenham, was born in 1722, and attended for a time the Baptist College at Bristol. At the age of 19 he began to preach for the Baptist Congregation at Exeter, and two years afterwards he became its pastor. In 1760 he published a volume of Sacred Poems. After a very-useful ministry he died April 15, 1765. From an old manuscript record of the Exeter Baptist Church, it appears that it was under his ministry in the year 1759, that singing was first introduced into that Church as a part of worship. As a hymn-writer he is known chiefly through:— Come, humble sinner, in whose breast. This hymn appeared in Rippon's Baptist Selection, 1181, No. 355, in 1 stanza of 4 lines, and headed, "The successful Resolve—'I will go in unto the King,' Esther iv. 16." It has undergone several changes, including:— 1. "Come, sinner, in whose guilty breast." In the Methodist Free Church Sunday School Hymn Book, 1860. 2. “Come, trembling sinner, in whose breast." This is in a great number of American hymn-books. 3. “Come, weary sinner, in whose breast." Also in American use. Miller, in his Singers & Songs of the Church, 1869, p. 333, attributes this hymn to a Welsh Baptist hymn-writer of Trevecca, and of the same name. Rippon, however, says in the first edition of his Selection that Edmund Jones, the author of No. 333, was pastor of the Baptist Church at Exon, Devon. This decides the matter. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Jones, Edmund, p. 605, ii. In The Church Book, by L. W. Bacon, N. Y., 1883, No. 279 begins with stanzas ii. of Jones's hymn, "Come, humble sinner, &c," and begins:—"I'll go to Jesus, though my sin." Also note that in that article the words “author of No. 333," should read "author of No. 355." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)