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James Foster

1807 - 1885 Person Name: J. Foster Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "PEMBROKE" in The Church Hymnal

1796 - 1867 Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Composer of "HABAKKUK" in Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary Born: July 20, 1796, Bristol, England. Died: September 1, 1867, Clifton, Bristol, England. Buried: Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stanton Drew (about eight miles south of Bristol). Hodges’ musical gift showed itself at an early age; by 1819, he was playing the organ at St. James’ Church in Bristol, and at St. Nicholas’, 1821-1838. He also had an interesting mechanical bent, and spurred several technical improvements in organ design. He composed a number of services and anthem pieces, and Cambridge University awarded him a doctorate in music in 1825. Hodges eventually emigrated, accepting a post at the cathedral in Toronto, Canada, in 1838. The next year, he became music director at Trinity Parish in New York City. He became the organist at Trinity Church when it opened in 1846 (the church had its organ built to his specifications). He retired for health reasons in 1859, and returned to his native England in 1863. Hodges’ works include: An Apology for Church Music and Musical Festivals, in Answer…to the Standard and the Record (London: 1834) Essays on the Objects of Musical Study (Bristol, England: 1838) An Essay on the Cultivation of Church Music (New York: 1841) Contributions to the Quarterly Musical Magazine & Musical World Trinity Collection of Church Music (Boston, Massachusetts: 1864) (editor) Music-- BRISTOL GLOUCESTER HABAKKUK HYMN TO JOY --www.hymntime.com/

John Walker

1768 - 1833 Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Author of "Thou God of Power and God of Love" in The Cyber Hymnal Walker, John, B.D., son of Matthias Walker, was born at Silvermines, county Tipperary, in 1769, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated in 1790, and was elected a Fellow on taking Holy Orders in 179lines Seceding from the Church of England he resigned his Fellowship in 1801, and founded the sect called "Walkerites." He died Oct. 23, 1833. He was the author of several mathematical, classical, and other works. His Essays and Correspondence were published in 1838. Of two hymns written by him for the opening of the Bethesda Chapel, Dorset Street, Dublin, on June 22, 1794, and which appeared in the Selection of Hymns for use there, 1814, one, "Thou God of Power and God of Love " (Opening of a Place of Worship), has passed into several collections, including the Irish Church Hymnal, 1873; the American Methodist Episcopal Hymnal, 1878, and others. [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Edwin F. Hatfield

1807 - 1883 Person Name: Edwin Francis Hatfield Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Author of "Panting for help" Hatfield, Edwin Francis, D.D., was born at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Jan. 9, 1807, and educated at Middlcbury College, Vermont, and at Andover. From 1832 to 1835 he was pastor of the 2nd Presbyterian Church, St. Louis. In 1835 he removed to New York, where he was at first pastor of 7th Presbyterian Church, and then of the North Presbyterian Church (1856-63) in the same city; and in 1864 he was appointed special agent to the Union Theological Seminary, New York. He also held from 1846 the appointment of Stated Clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly. He died at Summit, New Jersey, Sept. 22, 1883. His hymnological knowledge was extensive. His publications include:— (1) Freedom's Lyre; or, Psalms, Hymns, and Sacred Songs, for the Slave and his Friends, N. Y., 1840, to which he contributed 24 hymns under the signature of “E. F. H."; (2) The Church Hymn Book for the Worship of God, N. Y., 18t2, in which are 10 of his hymns; and (3) Chapel Hymns, N. Y., 1873. (4) The Poets of the Church. Biographical Sketches of Hymn Writers, with Notes on their Hymns, New York, 1884. This was a posthumous publication, and is far from being accurate. His hymns and psalm versions in common use include:— 1. Come, bless Jehovah's name. (1837.) Psalms 134. 2. Come, let us gladly sing. (1837.) Psalms 95. 3. Hallelujah, praise the Lord. (1837.) Psalms 150. 4. How perfect is Thy law. (1837.) Psalms 19. 5. How sweetly breaks the Sabbath dawn. (1840.) Sunday. 6. My Shepherd's name is love. (1837.) Psalms 23. 7. 0 sing hallelujah, praise ye the Lord. (1837.) Psalms 146. 8. Thee, Thee, we praise, 0 God, and now. (1871.) A paraphrase of the Te Deum. 9. 'Tis Thine alone, Almighty Name. (1872.) Temperance. 10. Why, 0 God, Thy people spurn! (1837.) Psalms 60. 11. To God the Father, Son. Doxology. In Freedom's Lyre, 1840. It is widely used. These hymns and psalm versions are all in his Church Hymn Book, 1872, and the dates appended above are from that collection. No. 10 was published in his Freedom's Lyre, 1810, No. 25. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

Hugh Bourne

1772 - 1852 Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Author of "The Lord's into his vineyard come, The blossoms yield a sweet perfume" Bourne, Hugh, the principal founder of the Primitive Methodist Society, and the editor of their first hymn-books, was born at Fordhays, Stoke-on-Trent, April 3, 1772. His father, Joseph Bourne, a person in humble circumstances, was a member of the Church of England, whilst his mother belonged to the Wesleyan Society. His education, for his circumstances, was fairly good; and by earnest application to study he acquired some knowledge of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. His mind was of a strongly devotional cast, and the Methodist movement of those days had such attractions for him that he joined himself thereto in 1709. The following year he went to reside near the Mow Cop Colliery, near Burslem, where he had secured an engagement. There, with two or three men of kindred spirit, he carried on a system of Prayer Meetings which culminated in a great Camp Meeting, after the American fashion, upon the Mow Cop Mountain, on Sunday, May 31st, 1807. Other camp meetings followed, but were condemned by the Wesleyan Conference later in the same year. Hugh Bourne, however, continued his evangelistic work in connection with the Wesleyan Society until June 27, 1808, when he was excommunicated, without notice or trial, by the Quarterly Meeting held at Burslem on that day. Subsequent acts of coolness and indifference on the part of the Wesleyan authorities, together with continued success in his evangelistic work, led him gradually to organize the Primitive Methodist Connexion. The decisive break occurred in 1810. From that date to his death, on the 11th Oct., 1852, Bourne gave himself to the work of extending and building up the Society of which he was practically the founder. He was the first editor of its magazine, and the first to compile a hymnal for its use. Hugh Bourne's first effort in hymnology was the published of a very small General Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs for Camp Meetings, Revivals, &c. 1809. This was enlarged and improved in 1819, 1820, 1821,1822, and again in 1824. To these editions he contributed 10 hymns. In 1829 a second collection was added by him to the foregoing, to which he contributed another 20 hymns. This is the Large Hymn Book, for the Use of the Primitive Methodists. From the first collection one hymn only is still retained in common use:—"Camp-meetings with success are crown'd,” altered to “Camp-meetings God has richly own'd," also rewritten by J. Flesher as, "This meeting with Thy presence crown," in the authorised hymnal of the Connexion; and from the second collection two hymns as follows:— 1. O Righteous Father, Lord of all. Prayer for Children. 2. We have a great High Priest. H. P. of Christ. To the Large Hymn Book 146 hymns were also contributed which bore the signatures sometimes of "H. B. & W. S." and again "W. S. & H. B." In a note we are informed that the hymns with these ascriptions were by "Hugh Bourne and Wm. Sanders, jointly." Of these the following are at present in the authorized Primitive Methodist Hymn Book, 1853, and, in common with most of the hymns in that book, are greatly mutilated, and attributed now to Wm. Sanders and again to H. Bourne, without any apparent reason:— 1. A Pharisee unwisely stood. Lent. 2. Almighty God, of love divine. Praise. 3. Assist us, O Almighty Lord. Missions. 4. Come, let us lift our heart and voice. Christmas. 5. Come, with your sore diseases. Invitation. 6. Encouraged by Thy gracious word. Prayer. 7. Great Jehovah, Sovereign Lord. Prayer. 8. Hark, the Gospel news is sounding. Invitation. 9. Jesus, my Lord, was crucified. Passiontide. 10. Jesus, Who spilt His precious blood. The Advocate. 11. Led by the God of truth and grace. Seeking Heaven. 12. Light of the Gentile race. Missions. 13. My brethren in the Lord. Altered to— Ye foll'wers of the Lord. Faithfulness. 14. My soul is now united, &c. Altered to— By faith I am united. Union with Christ. 15. Now, Lord, I on Thy truth depend. Altered to— O Lord, I on Thy truth depend. Divine Aid. 16. Now, Lord, Thy blessing we implore. D. Blessing. 17. O, heavenly Zion, rise and shine. Altered to— Arise, O Zion, rise, &c. Missions. 18. See, in the mountain of the Lord. Missions. 19. Tho' in a world of sickness. Altered to— While in this world of sickness. Confidence. 20. To Thee, great Source of light. Confidence. 21. To Thee, O God of power divine. Goodness of God. 22. We now are journeying [going] to the place. Heavenward. 23. We read in Thy most holy word. Holy Baptism. 24. Ye sleeping souls, arise. Exhortation. In addition to these, all of which are given in the official Collection of the Primitive Methodist Society, there is also:— 25. Welcome, 0 Saviour, to my heart. Prayer— which is well known to the American hymnals. From a literary point of view these hymns are not worthy of the position which has been accorded to them for so many years. Their simplicity is their redeeming feature. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =================== Bourne, Hugh, p. 165. ii., Nos. 14, "My soul is now united," and 19, "Tho' in a world of sickness," appeared in theSmall Hymn Book, 1821. Another hymn by Bourne and Sanders in the Primitive Methodist Hymnal, 1887, "Behold a sinner at Thy feet" (Penitence), is compiled from hymns 493 and 118 in the P. M. Large Hymn Book, 1824. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

João Gomes da Rocha

1861 - 1947 Person Name: João Gomes da Rocha (1861-1947) Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Translator of "Quão insondável é o amor." in Mil Vozes para Celebrar Born in Rio de Janeiro on March 14, 1861, the son of Brazilian parents, he was later adopted by Dr. Robert Reid Kalley and Sarah Poulton, English missionaries to Brazil who founded Igreja Evangélical Fluminense. The Kalley's worked on Salmos e Hinos, the first Brazilian evangelical hymnal. Rocha helped to complete the hymnal. [Source?]

Samuel Pearce

1766 - 1799 Person Name: Samuel Pearce, 1766-1799 Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6 Author of "Whene'er I Look Into Thy Word" in The Cyber Hymnal 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)