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James Wells

Hymnal Number: d141 Author of "Be ready today" in Everlasting Praises No. 4

Ada Powell

Hymnal Number: d104 Author of "Sing to me of heaven, sing that song of peace" in Everlasting Praises No. 4

1924 - 2007 Person Name: Lynwood M. Smith Hymnal Number: d82 Author of "Soon I will be at home" in Everlasting Praises No. 4 Morris Lynwood Smith (1924-2007) was a preacher for Churches of Christ. He preached and held gospel meetings throughout Oklahoma, Alabama, and elsewhere. He helped initiate a special annual gathering of one-cup congregations on July 4 and New Year's Day that met in a different Oklahoma town each year. His interest in music led him to attend the Stamps Quartet School of Music in 1947. He sang with "The Zita Boys," a quartet composed of Johnny Elmore, Billy Smith, C. A. Smith, and himself. Smith wrote and published several songs, often writing a song for the annual meetings. In his lifetime, Smith published 16 songbooks of his and others' songs and hymns. He published over 700 songs and helped publish the songs of many other hymn and song writers. - M. Lynn; Source: Elmore, Johnny. "M. Lynwood Smith: His Life and Work." In Smith, M. Lynwood. "Passing It On": A Book of Sermons. Ardmore, OK: Johnny Elmore, Pathway Books and Bibles.

J. W. Ferrill

1879 - 1975 Hymnal Number: d56 Author of "A soul winner for Jesus" in Everlasting Praises No. 4

Caroline L. Smith

1827 - 1886 Hymnal Number: d114 Author of "Tarry with me, blessed Savior" in Everlasting Praises No. 4 Smith, Caroline Louisa, née Sprague, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, and married to the Rev. Charles Smith, pastor of the South Congregational Church, Andover. Mrs. Smith is the author of:— Tarry with me, O my Saviour. An Old Man's Prayer. Mrs. Smith's account of this hymn is "About the year 1853 [in the summer of 1852], I heard the Rev. Dr. H. M. Dexter preach a sermon on 'The Adaptedness of Religion to the Wants of the Aged.' I went home and embodied the thought in the hymn 'Tarry with me, 0 my Saviour!' I sent it to Mr. Hallock, for The Messenger. He returned it as 'not adapted to the readers of the paper.' Years after I sent it, without any signature, to the little Andover paper .... I send it to you in its original form, in a little paper of which my sister, Mrs. Terry [Rochester, N.Y.], is editoress." (Hatfield's Poets of the Church, N.Y., 1884, p. 564.) Hatfield gives the full text in 1 stanza of 6 lines. In the Plymouth Collection, 1855, No. 1337, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, was compiled from st. i., ii., vi., vii. This was repeated in The Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858, and others. Of this text st. ii. is sometimes omitted. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

V. E. Howard

1911 - 2000 Hymnal Number: d100 Author of "Sing of his love, sing the glad news" in Everlasting Praises No. 4 Born: September 29, 1911, Farmersville, Louisiana. Died: September 28, 2000, Texarkana, Texas. Buried: Rocky Branch, Louisiana. Howard attended Abilene Christian College, Harding College and Arkansas State University. He began preaching at age 19, and served in Powen, Greenville, and Texarkana, Texas; and in Hot Springs and Conway, Arkansas. He also conducted Gospel meetings throughout America, baptizing over 8,000 people. He owned a jewelry store, was president of Central Printers and Publishing Company and of Howard Foundations, Inc., and served on the Board of Freed-Hardeman College. He is perhaps best remembered as a radio broadcaster, beginning in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1934, with his signature tag line, "Are you listening?" He retired from radio in 1995. His works include: Church Gospel Songs and Hymns, with Broadus E. Smith (West Monroe, Louisiana: Central Printers and Publishers, 1978, 1983) © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.come/tch)