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Ethelbert W. Bullinger
1837 - 1913 Person Name: Ethelbert William Bullinger Composer of "BULLINGER" in The Cyber Hymnal Ethelbert William Bullinger DD United Kingdom 1837-1913. Born in Canterbury, he was an Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and ultradispensationalist theologian and writer. Educated at King's College, London, he became a good organist, singer, and composer. He married Emma Dobson, 13 years his senior, and they had two sons. In 1861 he began as Associate Curate to the parish of St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey, and was ordained as priest in the Church of England in 1862. He served as parish curate in Tittleshall until 1866, then Notting Hill until 1869, them Leytonstone to 1870, and finally Walthamstow, until becoming Vicar of the new parish of St. Stephen's in 1874. He resigned his vicarage in 1888. In 1867 he was clerical secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, which he held (except for illnesses) until his death. The Society completed and published a Hebrew version of the New Testament, the Tanakh (introduction to the Hebrew Bible), formation of the Brittany evangelical Mission Society under Pasteur LeCoat and translation of the Bible into Breton, also producing the first ever Protestant Portuguese reference Bible. It also distributed Spanish Bibles in Spain after the 1868 Spanish Revolution. Bullinger, a practiced musician, collected and harmonized untranscribed hymns on his visits to Tremel, Brittany. He wrote many articles, edited a monthly journal “Things to come”. He wrote 4 Biblical works (16 works).
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Alice Jane Janvrin
1846 - 1908 Person Name: Alice J. Janvrin Author of "He Expecteth" in The Cyber Hymnal Janvrin, Alice Jane, daughter of William Janvrin, was born in the island of Jersey on Dec. 13, 1846, but has resided mainly in England. She has written somewhat extensively for the Church Miss. Society and kindred associations. In 1903 she edited the letters of Bishop Ridley, late of New Caledonia, which was published as Snapshots from the North Pacific, and has done other work for the Church Missionary Society. Her hymns include the following:—
1. Great Jehovah, King of Nations. [Opening of Missionary Exhibitions.] Written in 1902, for missionary exhibitions.
2. He expecteth, He expecteth! [Missions.] For the annual anniversary of the C.M.S. Gleaners' Union Miss Janvrin has written a hymn each anniversary during the last ten years. This hymn was written for 1894, and first printed in the service sheet for the meeting. It was printed in the C.M.S. Gleaner, Oct. 1894, p. 159, and included in the Church Missionary Hymn Book, 1899, No. 12.
3. Lord, I know a work is waiting. [Missions.] Also written for the Gleaners' Union, 1898, and printed on the anniversary hymn-sheet. Given in the Church Missionary Hymn Book, 1899, No. 136.
4. Lord of all the ages of Eternity. [Missions.] Written for the Centenary of the C.M.S., in 1889, and sung, on that occasion, at the great gathering of children at the Albert Hall, London. Included in Dodderidge's Hymns for Church and Home, 1904, No. 140.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Alice Jane Janvrin
