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Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Author of "A Hallelujah Christian" in Songs of Pentecostal Power, Complete In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

John R. Clements

1868 - 1946 Author of "A Hallelujah Christian" in Gospel Hour Song Book John R. Clements was born in County Armagh, Ireland 28 November 1868 and was brought to the United States at the age of two years. He worked at the age of thirteen as a retail grocery clerk and had a successful wholesale grocery business. He began writing poetry when he was young. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Arthur F. Ingler

1873 - 1935 Person Name: A. F. I. Arranger of "[I’m a hallelujah Christian]" in The Joy Bells of Canaan or Burning Bush Songs No. 2 Born: May 12, 1873, Montandon, Pennsylvania. Died: August 8, 1935, Abington, Connecticut. Buried: North Swansea, Rhode Island. The 1900 census shows Ingler as a "vocalist" living in Denver, Colorado. The 1920 census shows him as a Nazarene preacher in Tillamook, Oregon. After the death of his wife Amalia, he moved east and married Lura Horton, who at the time was pastor of the People’s Church of the Nazarene in Providence, Rhode Island. The two of them served joint pastorates in Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Jackman, Maine; North Attleboro, Massachusetts; New Haven, Connecticut; and, in 1931, at Emmanuel Church, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. His works include: Burning Bush Songs No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Metropolitan Church Association, 1902) The Joy Bells of Canaan No. 2 Songs of the Blood-Washed (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Praise Publishing Company, 1909) (editor) Canaan Melodies, 1914 (editor) --www.hymntime.com/tch