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Isobel Gordon

b. 1969 Person Name: Isobel Gordon (b. 1969) Meter: 9.8.9.8 Harmonizer of "BUNILLIDH" in Ancient and Modern

1924 - 1996 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Author of "Be in Our Midst, O Christ" in Chalice Hymnal Colbert ("Bert") Scott Cartwright was born in Coffeyville, Kansas, on August 7, 1924 of Lin D. and Inez S. Cartwright. His father was the pastor of First Christian Church, Coffeyville. The family lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 1928 to 1940, at which time they moved to Saint Louis, Missouri. Cartwright received a bachelor of arts degree from Washington University (Saint Louis) in 1946. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Sigma Iota honorary societies at that school. He received from Yale University Divinity School the bachelor of divinity degree in 1948 and the master of sacred theology degree in 1950. Texas Christian University of Fort Worth, Texas, conferred an honorary doctor of divinity degree upon him in 1976. An ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Cartwright served as a pastor to the following congregations: First Christian Church, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1950-1953; Pulaski Heights Christian Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1954-1963; Central Christian Church, Youngstown, Ohio, 1964-1970; South Hills Christian Church, Fort Worth, Texas, 1971-1979. He served as area minister for the Trinity-Brazos Area of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Southwest, with offices in Fort Worth, from 1979 until his retirement in 1989. Throughout his residence in Little Rock Cartwright became identified with racial issues which to his mind sought better human relations. On the Sunday following the historic Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision of May 17, 1954, he preached a sermon urging compliance. An extended excerpt of that sermon was printed in the Arkansas Gazette, thus putting Cartwright on public record in support of the desegregation of public schools. As a response to the landmark Supreme Court decision, Cartwright in 1955 joined with other interested persons in forming the Arkansas Council on Human Relations with an office and full-time executive in Little Rock. Cartwright served as chairperson of the Council's first search committee for an executive director. He served on its board throughout his residence in Little Rock and was its president in 1956 and 1957. He also served on the board of the Southern Regional Council (Atlanta, Georgia) from 1958-1963. Cartwright chaired the committee to unite separate black and white ministerial associations into the Little Rock Ministerial Association (Interdenominational) and served as its president in 1962. He was a delegate to the National Conference on Religion and Race, held in Chicago in 1963, and joined with others in Little Rock that same year to form the Little Rock Conference on Religion and Race. This organization was an interfaith group involving Catholics, Jews and Protestants. Through this organization Cartwright joined with a Catholic priest in speaking engagements across Arkansas. Cartwright also served on the executive committee of the Arkansas Council of Churches (offices in Little Rock) from 1958-1963. Following the racially tumultuous years of 1957-1958 in Little Rock, Cartwright participated in an informal coalition of interested persons convened by Thelma Babbit of the American Friends Service Committee to work for what was commonly termed "Community Unity." Several pioneering interracial conferences were held at Camp Aldersgate, affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Cartwright served throughout those years on that group's steering committee. Its work culminated in an effort to organize an on-going interracial organization in Little Rock for fostering a non-discriminating community. Cartwright was chosen to be the chief speaker at its launching on November 22, 1960. Throughout his years of residence in Little Rock Cartwright reflected and reported on racial issues through his writing for publications. In September 1957 he became an accredited writer in Little Rock for his denominational magazine and for several months became a part of the working press--even as he continued his pastoral responsibilities. His articles in such publications as The Christian Century, Christianity and Crisis, Progressive, New South, and The Reporter were widely read and reprinted. They also resulted in invitations for him to speak on racial issues at various points across the United States. In regard to the immediate issues and circumstances of racial turmoil in Little Rock Cartwright generally expressed his preference for working quietly within the community behind the scenes and through such organizations as the Arkansas Council on Human Relations. Through its auspices he convened sympathetic ministers and lay persons to make public statements in support of orderly desegregation; or to oppose thwarting state legislation. He sought to be a link of communication between blacks and whites. Cartwright was the pastor of all-white Pulaski Heights Christian Church which was known both within the city and within its denomination for its "liberal" heritage. In late autumn of 1957 thirty-one of its 310 members left the church in protest against their minister's words from the pulpit and actions within the city relating to school desegregation. The church's official board thereupon extended to Cartwright a unanimous vote of confidence and the church proceeded on an extensive renovation program of its building. The stained glass windows of the new sanctuary were given anonymously in appreciation of the "the courage and conviction" of Cartwright. --libinfo.uark.edu/specialcollections/findingaids/cartwrightaid.html

Norman Warren

1934 - 2019 Person Name: Norman L. Warren, b. 1934 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Composer of "STEEPLE BELLS" in Worship (3rd ed.)

John Morison

1750 - 1798 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Author of "Los que andaban en la oscuridad" in El Himnario Morison, John, D.D., was born in Aberdeenshire in 1749. He studied at the University of Aberdeen (King's College), where he graduated M.A. in 1771. In 1780 he became parish minister of Canisbay, Caithness. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1792. He died at Canisbay, June 12, 1798. He was one of the members added on May 26, 1781, to the Committee appointed by the General Assembly of 1775 to revise the Translations and Paraphrases of 1745. To him are ascribed Nos. 19, 21, 29, 30 and 35, in the 1781 collection, and he is said to have been joint author with John Logan of Nos. 27 and 28. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Marie J. Post

1919 - 1990 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Versifier of "O LORD My Rock, in Desperation" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Marie (Tuinstra) Post (b. Jenison, MI, 1919; d. Grand Rapids, MI, 1990) While attending Dutch church services as a child, Post was first introduced to the Genevan psalms, which influenced her later writings. She attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she studied with Henry Zylstra. From 1940 to 1942 she taught at the Muskegon Christian Junior High School. For over thirty years Post wrote poetry for the Grand Rapids Press and various church periodicals. She gave many readings of her poetry in churches and schools and has been published in a number of journals and poetry anthologies. Two important collections of her poems are I Never Visited an Artist Before (1977) and the posthumous Sandals, Sails, and Saints (1993). A member of the 1987 Psalter Hymnal Revision Committee, Post was a significant contributor to its array of original texts and paraphrases. Bert Polman

Clarence Walhout

b. 1934 Person Name: Clarence P. Walhout Meter: 9.8.9.8 Versifier of "The LORD Is My Strength and My Refuge" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Clarence P. Walhout (b. Muskegon, Michigan, 1934) studied at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; he taught many years at his alma mater, Calvin College, and was a member of the Poet’s Workshop, a group of several writers who prepared psalm versifications for the 1987 Psalter Hymnal; he was also editor of the journal Christianity and Literature and co-author of The Responsibility of Hermeneutics (1985). Bert Polman

D. J. Dickinson

Person Name: Rev. D. J. Dickinson Meter: 9.8.9.8 Composer of "AGAPÉ" in The Book of Common Praise

Joy F. Patterson

b. 1931 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Author of "Lord God of Constant Loving Kindness" in Scripture Song Database Joy F. Patterson (b. 1931), of Wassau, Wisconsin, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church who has written many texts and tunes; twenty-nine are collected in Come, You People of the Promise (Hope Publishing, Co., 1994); another collection, Teach Our Eyes New Ways of Seeing, was published in 2005 (Selah). Patterson has enjoyed a varied career as a French professor, homemaker, and claim representative for the Social Security Administration. Sing! A New Creation

Ludvig Mathias Lindeman

1812 - 1887 Person Name: Ludv. M. Lindeman, 1812—87 Meter: 9.8.9.8 Composer of "[O Rock of Ages, one foundation]" in The Lutheran Hymnary Ludvig M. Lindeman (b. 1812; d. 1887) was a Norwegian composer and organist. Born in Trondheim, he studied theology in Oslo where he remained the rest of his life. In 1839 he succeeded his brother as the organist and cantor of Oslo Cathedral, a position he held for 48 years up until his death. Lindeman was appointed Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, and was invited to both help christen the new organ in Royal Albert Hall in London, as well as compose for the coronation of King Oscar II and Queen Sophie of Sweden. In 1883, he and his son started the Organist School in Oslo. Lindeman is perhaps best known for his arrangements of Norwegiam folk tales; over the course of his life he collected over 3000 folk melodies and tunes. Laura de Jong

John White Chadwick

1840 - 1904 Person Name: John W. Chadwick Meter: 9.8.9.8 Author of "Now Sing We A Song For The Harvest" in The Cyber Hymnal Chadwick, John White, was born at Marblehead, Mass., U.S., Oct. 19, 1840; graduated at the Cambridge Divinity School, July 19, 1864, and ordained minister of the Second Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 21, 1864. A frequent contributor to the Christian Examiner; The Radical; Old and New; Harper's Magazine; and has published many poems in American periodicals. His hymn on Unity, "Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round," was written for the graduating class of the Divinity School, Cambridge, June 19, 1864. It is in Horder's Congregational Hymns, 1884. It is a hymn of superior merit. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ======================== Chadwick, J. W, p. 216, i. Mr. Chadwick's important prose works were the Life of Theodore Parker, 1890, and that of William Ellery Channing, 1903; and his poetical productions A Book of Poems, 1876, and In Nazareth Town and other Poems, 1883. He received his M.A. from Harvard in 1888; and d. Dec. 11, 1901. In addition to "Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round," already noted on p. 216, ii., Mr. Chadwick's widow has supplied us with the following data concerning his hymns:— 1. A gentle tumult in the earth. [Easter.] Dated 1876. 2. Another year of setting suns. [New Year.] Written as a New Year's Hymn for 1873, and originally began "That this shall be a better year." In The Pilgrim Hymnal, Boston, 1904. 3. Come, let us sing a tender song, [Communion of Saints.] Dated 1901, and included in The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904. 4. Everlasting Holy One. [Invocation.] 1875. 5. It singeth low in every heart. [In Memoriam.] Written in 1876, for the 25th Anniversary of the Dedication of his Church at Brooklyn. It has passed into a great many collections in America, and a few in Great Britain, including Horder's Worship Song, 1905. 6. Now sing we a song for the harvest. [Harvest.] Written for a Harvest Thanksgiving Service in 1871. Given in The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, and others. 7. 0 God, we come not as of old. [Perfect Law of Liberty.] Written in 1874, and entitled "The Perfect Law." 8. 0 Love Divine of all that is. [Trust.] Written in 1865, and included in his Book of Poems, 1876, as "A Song of Trust." In several American collections. 9. 0 Thou, Whose perfect goodness crowns. [For an Anniversary.] "Written for the 23th Anniversary of his Installation, Dec. 21, 1889." In The Pilgrim Hymnal, and other collections. 10. Thou Whose Spirit dwells in all. [Easter.] Written in 1890. 11. What has drawn us thus apart? [For Unity.] Undated, in the Boston Unitarian Hymns for Church and Home, 1895. During the past ten years Mr. Chadwick's hymns have become very popular in America, and especially with the compilers of Congrega¬tional and Unitarian collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)