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W. H. Hacker

Hymnal Number: d118 Author of "He is coming after me" in Spiritual Evangel

Hymnal Number: d165 Author of "You can't do wrong and get by" in Spiritual Evangel Lethal Albert Ellis was born in New Liberty, MS, Calhoun County. He was a widower, with one son, who he raised by himself with modest means. He remarried late in life. He had three grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, eight great-great. He fought in World War I. Ellis died in Vardaman, MS.

Maria Weston Chapman

1806 - 1885 Hymnal Number: d30 Author of "Gather the golden grain" in Spiritual Evangel Chapman, Maria Weston. Wrote several anti-slavery hymns, including "O God of freedom, bless this night" and "O God of freedom! hear us pray." Edited Songs of the Free, 1836. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Edmund Jones

1722 - 1765 Hymnal Number: d22 Author of "O you must be a lover of the Lord" in Spiritual Evangel 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)

Joe H. Pannell

Hymnal Number: d193 Author of "I'll be satisfied" in Spiritual Evangel

Mrs. C. L. Shacklock

Person Name: C. L. Shacklock Hymnal Number: d206 Author of "At the golden gate, we will come" in Spiritual Evangel

Henry Martyn Dexter

1821 - 1890 Person Name: H. M. Dexter Hymnal Number: d137 Author of "Shepherd of eager [tender] youth" in Spiritual Evangel Dexter, Henry Martyn, D.D., born at Plympton, Mass., Aug. 13, 1821, and educated at Yale College, and Andover. In 1844 he was ordained Pastor of a Congregational Church at Manchester, New Haven. In 1849 he removed to the Berkeley Street Congregational Church, Boston, where he remained until his appointment as Editor of the Congregationalist, in 1867. Dr. Dexter is the translator of “Shepherd of tender youth" [see Clemens, Titus], in common usage in Great Britain and America. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

G. T. Byrd

1871 - 1950 Hymnal Number: d128 Author of "All alone" in Spiritual Evangel George Thomas Byrd was born on April 16, 1871 in Haralson County, Georgia. He was a Methodist minister, and later a bishop in the Methodist Holston Conference, living in Dayton, Tennessee. He died on October 13, 1950. His works include: Living Songs of Faith and Hope (Dayton, Tennessee: G. T. Byrd, 1940) See more at http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/y/r/byrd_gt.htm

John McPherson

Hymnal Number: d103 Author of "Rock of my refuge" in Spiritual Evangel John McPherson (Late 19th Century)

Henry Bennett

1813 - 1868 Hymnal Number: d20 Author of "Cling to the Mighty One" in Spiritual Evangel Bennett, Henry, born at Lyme Regis, April 18, 1813, and died at Islington, Nov. 12, 1868. His hymns, written at various dates, were collected and published as follows:— (1) Hymns by H. B., Lond.: Printed for the Author, 1867. This contained 25 pieces. (2) Hymns by the late Henry Bennett, 2nd ed., 1869. This was published by request, with additional hymns (32 in all, and 6 unfinished). From these editions of his Hymns, “Cling to the Mighty One," and "I have a home above," are in extensive use. The following are also in common use:— 1. Jesus, my [the] Holy One. Jesus for Men. 2. Lord Jesus, hide Thy people. Jesus All in All. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)