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Christian Science Publishing Society

Person Name: CSPS Harmonizer of "BEACH SPRING" in Christian Science Hymnal

Herman G. Stuempfle

1923 - 2007 Person Name: Herman Stuempfle Author of "Jesus, Tempted in the Desert" in Voices United Rev. Dr. Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr., 83, died Tuesday, March 13, 2007, after a long illness. Born April 2, 1923, in Clarion, he was the son of the late Herman G. and Helen (Wolfe) Stuempfle, Sr. Stuempfle lived most of his life in Gettysburg, PA. He served as President of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg. He attended Hughesville public schools, and was a graduate of Susquehanna University and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. He received additional advanced degrees from Union Theological Seminary in New York and a doctoral degree at Southern California School of Theology at Claremont. He retired in 1989. Rev. Dr. Stuempfle was the author of several books and numerous articles and lectures on preaching, history, and theology. He was also among the most honored and respected hymn writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Rev. Dr. Stuempfle was known for his leadership in community and civic projects. Always taking an active stance on social issues, he participated in the creation of day care centers, served on the Gettysburg interchurch social action committee, helped create and support prison ministries and a homeless shelter, and tutored young people in the after school program of Christ Lutheran Church, where he was a long time member. --Excerpts from his obituary published in Evening Sun from Mar. 15 to Mar. 16, 2007

Lyndell Leatherman

Person Name: Lyndell Leatherman, 10th century Arranger of "BEACH SPRING" in CPWI Hymnal Lyndell Leatherman was born into a Nazarene parsonage in southeast Kansas in 1953. He began piano lessons at age eight, studying with his mother Wilma, a piano teacher and church musician (and still today—as an active octogenarian—organist in her local church in Eureka, Illinois). By the age of thirteen he was playing regularly in the Green Rock (now Colona), Illinos church where his father was then pastoring. While attending Olivet Nazarene University, Kankakee, Illinois, he was privileged to study piano with Stephen Nielson and organ with Ovid Young, two keyboard artists who comprise the renowned duo known worldwide as Nielson and Young. After earning a degree in church and choral music at ONU, he continued his education with graduate studies in music theory and composition at Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, where his composition professor was Panamanian-born Roque Cordero. Since 1977 Lyndell has been immersed in sacred and educational music publishing—as an editor, composer, arranger, orchestrator, and engraver. He has concurrently served in local churches as a minister of music, orchestra director, organist, or pianist...and, since 1993, accompanist and staff arranger at First Church of the Nazarene of Kansas City, Missouri. In addition, he enjoys assisting in school and community musical theatre productions. His family includes his wife, Barbara—also a musician as well as an artist and quilter—and three grown children and their families. Used by permission of Lyndell Leatherman

Alan J. Hommerding

Author of "The Sacrament of Service" in One in Faith

Georgina Pando-Connolly

b. 1946 Person Name: Georgina Pando-Connolly, b. 1946 Paraphraser of "As a Fire Is Meant for Burning (Como un Fuego Brilla y Quema)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Gerardo C. C. Oberman

b. 1965 Person Name: Gerardo Oberman, b. 1965 Translator of "Wash, O God, Our Sons and Daughters (Lava, oh Dios, a nuestros hijos)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Edith Sinclair Downing

Person Name: Edith Sinclair Downing, b. 1922 Author of "Come to Us, Beloved Stranger" in Sing! A New Creation

Anne Neufeld Rupp

b. 1932 Person Name: Ann Neufeld Rupp, 1932- Author of "Holy Spirit, Come with Power" in Community of Christ Sings

Joseph Medlicott Scriven

1819 - 1886 Person Name: Joseph M. Scriven Author of "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Joseph M. Scriven (b. Seapatrick, County Down, Ireland, 1819; d. Bewdley, Rice Lake, ON, Canada, 1886), an Irish immigrant to Canada, wrote this text near Port Hope, Ontario, in 1855. Because his life was filled with grief and trials, Scriven often needed the solace of the Lord as described in his famous hymn. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, he enrolled in a military college to prepare for an army career. However, poor health forced him to give up that ambition. Soon after came a second blow—his fiancée died in a drowning accident on the eve of their wedding in 1844. Later that year he moved to Ontario, where he taught school in Woodstock and Brantford. His plans for marriage were dashed again when his new bride-to-be died after a short illness in 1855. Following this calamity Scriven seldom had a regular income, and he was forced to live in the homes of others. He also experienced mistrust from neighbors who did not appreciate his eccentricities or his work with the underprivileged. A member of the Plymouth Brethren, he tried to live according to the Sermon on the Mount as literally as possible, giving and sharing all he had and often doing menial tasks for the poor and physically disabled. Because Scriven suffered from depression, no one knew if his death by drowning in Rice Lake was suicide or an accident. Bert Polman ================ Scriven, Joseph. Mr. Sankey, in his My Life and Sacred Songs, 1906, p. 279, says that Scriven was b. in Dublin in 1820, was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and went to Canada when he was 25, and died there at Port Hope, on Lake Ontario, in 1886. His hymn:— What a Friend we have in Jesus. [Jesus our Friend] was, according to Mr. Sankey, discovered to be his in the following manner: "A neighbour, sitting up with him in his illness, happened upon a manuscript of 'What a Friend we have in Jesus.' Reading it with great delight, and questioning Mr. Scriven about it, he said he had composed it for his mother, to comfort her in a time of special sorrow, not intending any one else should see it." We find the hymn in H. 1... Hastings's Social Hymns, Original and Selected, 1865, No. 242; and his Song of Pilgrimage, 1886, No. 1291, where it is attributed to "Joseph Scriven, cir. 1855." It is found in many modern collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

James Wood

1921 - 2003 Person Name: James H. Wood Harmonizer of "BEACH SPRING" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 James Wood was born April 14, 1921, in Rochester, Minn. He was a teacher of music and a concert singer, a choral conductor and composer In later life, he published a book of poems titled, "Songs Without Melodies." Dianne Shapiro