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Robert M. Offord

1846 - 1924 Hymnal Number: d41 Author of "Which life shall it be" in Sunday School Chimes Offord, Robert M., son of an English "open-communion" Baptist, was born at St. Austell, Cornwall, Sept. 17, 1846. In 1870 he removed to America, where he was associated for some time with the Methodists, but subsequently joined the Reformed Dutch Church in 1878. He is editor of the New York Observer. To that paper he contributed:— 1. Jesus, heed me, lost and dying. Lent. 2. It is no untried way. Christ's Burden. No. 1 appeared on Jan. 25th, and No. 2 on Feb. 1st, 1883. They were revised for Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884 (Duffield's English Hymns, N. Y., 1886). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

A. O. Newpher

Hymnal Number: d22 Author of "Jesus, dear Jesus, thou protect me every day" in Sunday School Chimes

Mary F. Kirby

Hymnal Number: d62 Author of "Thoughts of home" in Sunday School Chimes

H. B. Hartzler

1840 - 1920 Person Name: Henry B. Hartzler Hymnal Number: d19 Author of "Open the windows of heaven" in Sunday School Chimes Hartzler, Henry Burns. (York County, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1840--1920). Evangelical. Licensed 1869, pastor Trinity Church, York Penn., in 1873-1874; editor of The Messenger in 1870s and 1880s; taught Bible in Mt. Hermon school, Northfield, Massachusetts. Was associated with D.L. Moody. Went with the United Evangelical CHurch in the schism, was editor of its Evangel 1894-1902. Editor of and hymn-contributor to Evangelischer Gesangbuch and Hymn Book of the United Evangelical Church. Bishop of that denomination 1902-1910. Most famous hymn was "Go and seek the lost and dying." --Ellen Jane Lorenz, DNAH Archives

Mrs. R. N. Turner

1857 - 1957 Person Name: R. N. Turner Hymnal Number: d9 Author of "All the works of nature praise him" in Sunday School Chimes Fronie Bell Turner, married to Rev. R. N. Turner, pastor in the Protestant Episcopal Church.