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Samuel W. Lynd
1796 - 1876 Person Name: S. W. Lynd Hymnal Number: a709 Author of "'Wine is a mocker;' so the word" in Baptist Hymn Book Lynd, Samuel W. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 23, 1796--June 17, 1876, Lockport, Illinois). Baptist. Baptised in 1820 by Dr. William Staughton who also directed his theological studies and gave his eldest daughter to Lynd in marriage. In 1824, he was called to a brief pastorate in Philadelphia before sickness and its resultant voice problems threatened his ability to preach and delayed his work in the ministry. He and his wife then opened a female academy in Baltimore. Pastorates: 1831-1845, Cincinnati, Ohio and 1845-1848, St. Louis, Missouri. In 1848 he serves as a professor at Georgetown College in Kentucky and then a brief term as President of Western Baptist Theological Seminary, Covington, Kentucky with the responsibility of trying to united Southern and Northern trustees who were split over the slavery issue. Failing in this, he returned to the pastorate serving Chicago and then in another church in Cincinnati. He is credited by his peers with doing more than any other man of his day to build up Baptist causes in the Cincinnati area. In 1854, due to impaired health, he retired, living in Chicago and then in Lockport, Illinois, where he served briefly as pastor of a small Baptist church. Following two years of intense sickness, he died peacefully at age 80 with his last words being, "it is glorious!"
Lynd was known for taking a prominent stand in the slavery issue, a strong stand against Campbellism and a strong stand for missions.
Lynd contributed seven hymns to Millers' New Selection of Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1835):
To Jesus now my Youthful Heart
Another Brought through Grace, We Trust
Once a Poor Thoughtless Child was I
Wine is Mocker, So the Word
Thy Servants, Lord, Today
Of Jesus Christ I'm not Ashamed
Hail Brethren, While Together Met
The Illinois Baptist Annual of 1876 includes a more complete biography.
--Donald A. Spencer, DNAH Archives
Samuel W. Lynd
D. G. York
Hymnal Number: aB140 Author of "Hark, the gospel trump is sounding" in Baptist Hymn Book
D. G. York
Herbert Mayo
Person Name: Mayo Hymnal Number: a613 Author of "If worklings ask the reason why" in Baptist Hymn Book
Herbert Mayo
J. Russell
Person Name: John Russell Hymnal Number: a245 Author of "Ho, ye who thirst! a living fount" in Baptist Hymn Book
J. Russell
Abby Hyde
1799 - 1872 Person Name: Hide Hymnal Number: a750 Author of "Ah what can I a sinner do" in Baptist Hymn Book Hyde, Abby Bradley, was born at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Sept. 28, 1799, and married to the Rev. Lavius Hyde, of Salisbury, Mass., Sept. 28, 1818. She died at Andover, April 7, 1872. Her first poem, an Address to Mr. Wolfe, the Jewish missionary, appeared in a New Haven paper in 1822 or 1823, and from it Dr. L. Bacon (q.v.) took two hymns for his Hymns & Sacred Songs for the Monthly Concert, Andover, 1823. Those hymns have merit, but are not now in common use. Asahel Nettleton included 9 pieces by her in his Village Hymns, 1824, and 34 more were given in the revised and enlarged edition of the same, 1851. An additional hymn appeared in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857.
Of those hymns the following are still in common use:—
1. Ah, what can I a sinner do! Lent. From Nettleton's Village Hymns, 1824, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, into a few collections.
2. And canst thou, sinner, slight! Grieve not the Spirit. From Nettleton's Village Hymns, 1824, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, into a great number of American collections, and a few in Great Britain.
3. Behold the glorious dawning bright. Second Advent. From Nettleton's Village Hymns, 1824, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. Limited in use.
4. Dear Saviour, if these lambs should stray. Prayer on behalf of children. In Nettleton's Village Hymns, 1824, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. A touching hymn, and widely used.
5. Say, sinner, hath a voice within! Exhortation to Repentance. In a letter to Mr. Nason, dated July 10, 1857, Mrs. Hyde says that this hymn "was written down from my lips by a young sister, when I was not able to hold up my head from the pillow." It appeared in Nettleton's Village Hymns, 1824, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and is in extensive use.
All Mrs. Hyde's pieces in the Village Hymns are signed "Hyde." [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
Abby Hyde
Samuel Pearce
1766 - 1799 Person Name: Pearce Hymnal Number: a534 Author of "A garden fenced from common earth" in Baptist Hymn Book Pearce, Samuel, son of a silversmith at Plymouth, was born in that town, July 20, 1766. Early in life he joined the Baptist Church in Plymouth, and, showing gifts for the ministry, was invited to preach. After a course of study at the Baptist College, Bristol, he became, in 1790, pastor of the Baptist congregation in Cannon Street, Birmingham. There his ministry was remarkably successful; but after a brief and bright course he died on Oct. 10, 1799. He was strongly disposed to foreign mission work, and was one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society, in 1792. His Memoirs, by A. Fuller, was published in 1800. Embodied in the Memoirs were eleven poetical pieces. In the 2nd edition, 1801, these pieces were grouped together at the end of the Memoirs. He is known to hymnology through the following hymns:—
1. Author of life, with grateful heart. Evening. This in the Methodist Free Church Sunday School Hymn Book, 1860, is the original with the omissions of st. iii.; that noted on p. 98, i. is a cento for "Morning." Both are from the Memoirs, 1800.
2. God of our lives, our morning song. Morning. From the Memoirs, 1800, into the Methodist Free Church Hymn Book, 1860, with the omission of st. ii.
3. In the floods of tribulation. In Affliction. His “Hymn in a Storm," in the Memoirs, 1800, in 4 st. of 10 1. In the 10th ed. of Rippon's Baptist Selections, 1800, it is given in another form of 8 st. of 6 1. This form has come down to modern hymnals.
4. Let ocean's waves tumultuous rise. Contentment. No in the Memoirs; but in Rippon's Selections, 1800, in 6 st. of 6 1.
5. Whene'er I look into Thy word. Sunday Morning. In the Memoirs, 1800, in 8 st. of 6 1. In the 27th ed. of Rippon's Selections., 1827, st. iv.-vii., slightly altered, were given as “Our precious Lord, on duty bent." [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Samuel Pearce
Thomas Baldwin
1753 - 1825 Person Name: Baldwin Hymnal Number: a584 Author of "Go ye heralds of salvation" in Baptist Hymn Book Baldwin, Thomas. (Bozrah, Connecticut, December 23, 1753--August 29, 1825, Waterville, Maine). Following the death of his father and his mother's remarriage, he moved at age sixteen to Canaan, New Hampshire. He was married in 1775, and while a young man was elected to represent Canaan in the legislature and was repeatedly reelected. Following his conversion he was baptized in 1781. He then abandoned his legal studies and began to preach in 1782, being ordained in the following year and then serving for seven years as an evangelist. In 1790 he became pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Boston. He published a number of books and was the first editor of the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Magazine, beginning in 1803. For many years he was chosen chaplain of the General Court of Massachusetts, delivering the annual sermon on the general election day in 1802. He was given the M.A. from Brown University in 1794 and the D.D. from Union College in 1803. His death occurred during a visit he made as a trustee to the annual commencement of Waterville College.
See: Chessman, Daniel. (1826). Memoir of Rev. Thomas Baldwin. (Boston).
--Harry Eskew, DNAH Archives
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Baldwin, Thomas, D.D., born at Bozrah, or Norwich, Connecticut, 1753, was representative for some time of his native State in the Legislature. In 1783 he was ordained to the Baptist ministry, and from 1790 till his death, in 1825, he was Pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Boston. His best known hymns are:—
1. Almighty Saviour, here we stand. Holy Baptism. This hymn "For Immersion " was contributed to a Collection of Sacred and Devotional Hymns, Boston, 1808, from whence it has passed into later Collections, including the Baptist Praise Book, N. Y., 1871, and others.
2. From whence does this union rise? Communion of Saints. First found in J. Asplund's New Collection, Baltimore, 1793, beginning, "O whence does this union rise." Formerly very popular, and still in use as in the Baptist Hymn [and Tune] Book, Phila., 1871, No. 638. In the Church Pastorals, Boston, 1864, No. 981, it is altered to "From whence doth this union arise.”
3. Ye happy saints, the Lamb adore. Holy Baptism. For Immersion, first appeared in a Collection of Sacred and Devotional Hymns, Boston, 1808, from whence it passed in an altered form as:—"Come, happy souls, adore the Lamb," into Winchell's Supplement to Watts, 1819. It is found in Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866, and many modern American Baptist collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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