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Lucius Chapin

1760 - 1842 Scripture: Mark 12:38-44 Composer of "TWENTY-FOURTH" in Glory to God Lucius Chapin, 1760-1842 Born: April 25, 1760, Longmeadow (near Springfield), Massachusetts. Died: December 24, 1842, Hamilton County, Ohio. Buried: Originally at Walnut Hills Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1842. Reinterred at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 26, 1858. Lucius’ brother was Amzi Chapin. In 1775, Lucius joined the Continental Army in Boston as a fifer; re-enlisting in 1776, he served at the Battles of Ticonderoga and Stillwater, and endured the infamous winter of 1777-8 at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with George Washington. After the war, he conducted singing schools in Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and in 1787 moved to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, later teaching in Rocbridge, Augusta and Rockingham Counties. Around 1797, he moved to Vernon, Kentucky. He retired in 1835 and moved to Hamilton County, Ohio. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

John Mason

1645 - 1694 Person Name: John Mason (1645?-1694) Scripture: Mark 12:41-44 Author of "How Shall I Sing That Majesty" in Common Praise (1998) Mason, John. The known facts of his life are scanty. He was the son of a Dissenting Minister, and the grandfather of John Mason, the author of A Treatise on Self-Knowledge. He was educated at Strixton School, Northants, and Clare Hall, Cambridge. After taking his M.A., he became Curate of Isham; and in 1668, Vicar of Stantonbury, Bucks. A little more than five years afterwards he was appointed Rector of Water-Stratford. Here he composed the volume containing The Songs of Praise, his paraphrase of The Song of Solomon, and the Poem on Dives and Lazarus, with which Shepherd's Penitential Cries was afterwards bound up. This volume passed through twenty editions. Besides the Songs of Praise, it contains six Penitential Cries by Mason, and it is this portion of his work which harmonizes with the compositions of Shepherd. Probably his hymns were used in public worship, and if so, they are among the earliest hymns so used in the Church of England. Some of his hymns are often found in the early Hymn Collections of the 18th century. The most notable work besides this volume is Select Remains of the Rev, John Mason, a collection of sententious and practical sayings and Christian letters, published by his grandson, and much eulogized by Dr. Watts. His friend, Shepherd, who was at Water-Stratford at the remarkable period to which reference is made below, published two of Mason's Sermons, with a preface of his own. Mason was a man of true piety and humility; known for eminent prayerfulness; faithful, experimental, effectual preaching; "a light in the pulpit, and a pattern out of it." His friendship with Baxter, and Shepherd, the Nonconformist Minister of Braintree, probably indicates his sympathies and theological position. Baxter calls him "the glory of the Church of England," and says :— "The frame of his spirit was so heavenly, his deportment so humble and obliging, his discourse of spiritual things so weighty, with such apt words and delightful air, that it charmed all that had any spiritual relish.” The close of his life was sensational enough. One night, about a month before his death, he had a vision of the Lord Jesus, wearing on His head a glorious crown, and with a look of unutterable majesty in His face. Of this vision he spoke; and preached a Sermon called The Midnight Cry, in which he proclaimed the near approach of Christ's Second Advent. A report spread that this Advent would take place at Water-Stratford itself, and crowds gathered there from the surrounding villages. Furniture and provisions were brought in, and every corner of the house and village occupied. Most extraordinary scenes occurred, singing and leaping and dancing. The excitement had scarcely died out when the old man passed away (1694), still testifying that he had seen the Lord, and that it was time for the nation to tremble, and for Christians to trim their lamps. His last words were, “I am full of the loving kindness of the Lord." [Rev. H. Leigh Bennett, M.A.] The full titles of his Songs of Praise, and the additions thereto, are:— (1) Spiritual Songs; or, Songs of Praise to Almighty God upon several occasions, 1683. (2) The Song of Songs which is Solomon's first Turned, then Paraphrased in English Verse. Published with the former. (3) Dives and Lazarus, incorporated with the former 1685. (4) Penitential Cries, Begun by the Author of the Songs of Praise, And carried on by another Hand. Licensed and Entered, Sept. 13, 1693. This forms the concluding part of all editions of the Songs of Praise after 1693. The complete work was reprinted by D. Sedgwick in 1859. This reprint was accompanied by a short Memoir. In this reprint Mason's Penitential Cries and Ps. 86 are given under Songs of Praise, pp. 49-61, those under Penitential Cries being all by Shepherd (q.v.). Mason's Life, by John Dunton, was published in 1694, and included some miscellaneous poems; and another, by Henry Maurice, in 1695, in which are two hymns not found elsewhere. We may add that Mason published a Catechism, with some Verses for Children. Of this, however, no copy is known to exist. Mason's Songs are commonly presented in modern hymnbooks in the form of centos, which are sometimes compiled from a single Song, and in other instances from several Songs. Many of these are annotated under their respective first lines. The rest include:— 1. Blest be my God that I was born. Praise for the Gospel. 2. Lord, for the mercies of the night. Morning. 3. Lord of my life, Length of my days. Praise for Deliverance from Immediate danger of Death. 4. My God, a God of pardon is. Praise for Pardon of Sin. 5. My God, my only Help and Hope. Praise for Providence. 6. My God, my reconciled God. Praise for Peace of Conscience. 7. My God was with me all this night. Morning. 8. Thou wast, 0 God; and Thou wast blest. Praise for Creation. 9. Thousands of thousands stand around. Praise. A cento from Songs i. and ii. In Griffith, Farran & Co.'s Ancient and Modern Library, No. 12, Giles Fletcher's Christ's Victory and Triumph, &c, 1888, p. 208 (edited by W. T. Brooke), a short hymn by Mason is given from Multum in Parvo: or the Jubilee of Jubilees, 1732, beginning "High praises meet and dwell within." It is an indifferent example of Mason's powers as a writer of sacred verse. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ==================== Mason, J., p. 716, ii. Mason's Midnight Cry, stated on p. 717, i. as having been preached in 1694, was delivered in 1691. The 1st ed. of this sermon is:— “The Midnight Cry. A Sermon Preached On the Parable of the Ten Virgins . . . . By J. M., M.A., Rector of W. in the County of B., London: Nathanael Ranew . . 1691. This edition has no hymns. To the 4th ed. in 1692, published by the same Nathanael Ranew, there was added:— The Fourth Edition, with the Addition of two Hymns for the Coming of Christ. By the same Author. The first of these hymns begins:— "The evening of the Day Portends a dismal night," and is in 12 stanzas of 8 lines. The second hymn is:— "Come, come, my dearest, dearest Lord, Make haste and come away." This is in 14 stanzas of 4 lines. Of the first and fifth eds. there are copies in the Brit. Museum, and of the first in the Julian Collection of the Church House, London. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Walter MacNutt

1910 - 1996 Person Name: Walter MacNutt (1910-1996) Scripture: Mark 12:41-44 Composer of "HURRLE" in Common Praise (1998)

George Lockwood

b. 1946 Scripture: Mark 12:38-44 Translator of "When the Poor Ones (Cuando el pobre)" in Glory to God Rev. George Lockwood was born in 1946 and has been a missionary to Costa Rica. He has pastored Spanish-speaking congregations in both Arizona and California and served on the editorial committee for the Methodist hymnal supplement Celebremos II. In addition, Lockwood has traveled throughout Central and South America interviewing church musicians and gathering new hymns from both Spanish and Portuguese cultures which he then presents at conferences and workshops. The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

Ronald F. Krisman

Person Name: Ronald F. Krisman, n. 1946 Scripture: Mark 12:38-44 Arranger of "PEQUEÑAS ALCARACIONES" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Jim Strathdee

b. 1941 Scripture: Mark 12:38-44 Author of "What Does the Lord Require of You?" in Glory to God

Krishnarao Rathnaji Sangle

1834 - 1908 Scripture: Mark 12:41-44 Author of "तन मन धन पभूतव चरणी Tana mana dhana prabhū tava caraṇī (Heart and Mind, Possessions, God)" in Voices Together

Alden H. Clark

1878 - 1960 Scripture: Mark 12:41-44 Translator of "तन मन धन पभूतव चरणी Tana mana dhana prabhū tava caraṇī (Heart and Mind, Possessions, God)" in Voices Together Born: June 26, 1878, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Died: May 27, 1960, Boston, Massachusetts. Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts Clark attended Amherst College; Union Theological Seminary, New York; and Columbia University. In 1904, he went to India as a Congregational Church missionary; in 1925, he founded the Nagpada Neighborhood House in Bombay (now Mumbai). He later served as principal of Union Training College and the United Theological College, secretary to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1930-47), and trustee of the International Medical Missionary Society and secretary for India, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Philippines, Spain, and Mexico. His works include: Was It Worthwhile?, 1915 India on the March, 1922 The Social Dynamic of Jesus, 1930 --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Marion Jean Chute

1901 - 1995 Scripture: Mark 12:41-44 Adapter of "TANA MANA DHANA" in Voices Together Marion Jean Chute died at the age of 93. She was born Nov. 16, 1901 in Springfield Mass., and was raised in Holyoke, Mass. She studied American history and music at Mount Holyoke College, graduated in 1922 and became a teacher. Her first position was teaching music at a reform school for girls in Indiana. From 1924 to 1933, she served as a missionary in India. She taught music in the city of Ahmadnegar and was active in social work, language study and translation. She married Gordon Chute on Oct. 16, 1928, in Bombay, India. The couple left India in 1933 and livwd in Canada, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts until moving to Eugene in 1971. Chute sang in the church choir, taught Sunday School and served on numerous church boards and committees. A member of the First Congregational Church in Eugene she received the Ruben H. Huenemann Award for Christian Leadership from the Pacific Conference of the United Church of Christ. She continued to schedule volunteers from the church for the family soup kitchen until the time of her death. Working for international understanding, peace and social justice was a major part of her life. She helped resettle refugees after World War II, sought fair treatment of migrant workers and took international students into her home. Chute joined Clergy and Laity Concerned during the Vietnam War and served as its treasurer for nine years. She also was involved in the Interchurch Sanctuary Network, Interchurch Seminars, Church Women United and the Eugene-Springfield Homeless Action Coalition. She was a avid reader, a history buff, an outdoor enthusiast and an amateur naturalist. She enjoyed her family history, writing letters, poetry and autobiographical sketches. --obituary from the Eugene Register-Guard - Sept. 26, 1995