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Mrs. C. A. Holmes

Person Name: C. A. Holmes Hymnal Number: 20 Author of "Jesus is here, angels are near" in Songs for Little Folks Late 19th Century Lyrics Welcome Song Within Thy Courts --www.hymntime.com/tch

1788 - 1839 Person Name: Joseph Rusling Hymnal Number: 38c Author of "Jesus, let a little child" in Songs for Little Folks Rusling, J., p. 931, i. 255, b. 1788, d. 1839. From this American writer there is a mutilated fragment in Stryker's College Hymnal, 1904: "The morn, O Christian, breaketh o'er thee" (Death and Heaven anticipated). In H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, this hymn begins “Christian, the morn breaks sweetly o'er thee." It is usually dated 1832. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Julia A. Mathews

Hymnal Number: 32 Author of "Lead us, lead us" in Songs for Little Folks [Julia A. Mathews] 19th Century We have little data on this author. Possibly she was related to Timothy R. Matthews, who wrote music for one of her songs. http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/t/mathews_ja.htm

Mrs. C. L. Holmes

Person Name: C. L. Holmes Hymnal Number: 67 Author of "Little children, come to Jesus, Hear him saying" in Songs for Little Folks

Harriet Phillips

1806 - 1884 Person Name: Harriet Cecilia Phillips Hymnal Number: 109c Author of "The dearest gift of heaven" in Songs for Little Folks Phillips, Harriet Cecilia, was born in Sharon, Connecticut, in 1806, and was for many years an active worker in Sunday Schools in New York city. She contributed five hymns to the Rev. W. C. Hoyt's Family and Social Melodies, 1853, and has also written for various magazines. "We bring no glittering treasures" (Sunday School Anniversary), was written circa 1848 for a Sunday School Festival in New York city, and published in the Methodist Episcopal Hymns, 1849 (Nutter's Hymn Notes, 1884, p. 31l). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)