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G. A. Stearns

Hymnal Number: d755 Author of "Will you go, will you go" in The Christian Hymnal

1800 - 1868 Person Name: James G. Lyons Hymnal Number: d641 Author of "The Christian banner, dread no loss" in The Christian Hymnal Lyons, James Gilborne, LL.D.,was born in Ireland, circa 1800, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He emigrated to America, and had for some time a school at Radnor, Pennsylvania. He died Jan. 2, 1868. In 1848 he published Christian Songs (Philadelphia). He is known through his hymn "If thou dost truly seek to live" (Youthful Piety), in the American Baptist Praise Book, 1871. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Hattie M. Bolman

Hymnal Number: d336 Author of "In that world of ancient story" in The Christian Hymnal

C. A. Briggs

Hymnal Number: d214 Author of "God's law demands one living faith" in The Christian Hymnal Briggs, C. A. A hymn beginning "God's law demands one living faith" is attributed to a person with this name in Hedge and Huntington's Hymns for the Church of Christ, (1853). It is probable, but not certain, that the author was Rev. Charles Briggs, Halifax, Massachusetts (January 17, 1791--December 1, 1873, Roxbury, Massachusetts). He graduated from Harvard College in 1815, and from Divinity School in 1818, was minister of the First Church in Lexington, Massachusetts, 1818-1834, and secretary of the American Unitarian Association, 1835-1848. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives