1829 - 1904 Person Name: Sarah B. Rhodes Author of "God Who Made the Earth" in The Children's Hymnbook Rhodes, Sarah Betts, née Bradshaw, wife of a Sheffield merchant, wrote "God Who made the earth" (Sunday School Festival) for the Sheffield Sunday School Union Whitsuntide Festival, 1870. The tune also was by Mrs. Rhodes. The hymn is in several collections, including the Methodist Sunday School Hymnbook, 1879, &c.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Sarah Betts Rhodes