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William W. Phelps

1792 - 1872 Person Name: William W. Phelps, 1792–1872 Scripture: Isaiah 1:16-18 Author of "Gently Raise the Sacred Strain" in Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Thomas C. Griggs

1845 - 1903 Person Name: Thomas C. Griggs, 1845–1903 Scripture: Isaiah 1:16-18 Composer of "URE" in Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Brenda Barker

b. 1959 Person Name: Brenda Barker, 1959- Scripture: Isaiah 1:18 Author (Stanzas 2, 3) of "O the Blood of Jesus" in Rejoice Hymns

Richard Smyth

Scripture: Isaiah 1:26-31 Author of "Israel, Israel, God is calling" in The Hymnal

Ken Barker

b. 1955 Person Name: Ken Barker, 1955- Scripture: Isaiah 1:18 Arranger of "O THE BLOOD OF JESUS" in Rejoice Hymns

1873 - 1932 Person Name: John Hughes, 1873-1932 Scripture: Isaiah 1:26-31 Composer of "CWM RHONDDA" in The Hymnal John Hughes (b. Dowlais, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1873; d. Llantwit Fardre, Wales, 1932) received little formal education; at age twelve he was already working as a doorboy at a local mining company in Llantwit Fardre. He eventually became an official in the traffic department of the Great Western Railway. Much of his energy was devoted to the Salem Baptist Church in Pontypridd, where he served as both deacon and precentor. Hughes composed two anthems, a number of Sunday school marches, and a few hymn tunes, of which CWM RHONDDA is universally known, the tune was composed in 1905 Baptist Cymanfa Ganu (song festival) in Capel Rhondda, Pontypridd, Wales. Bert Polman

Isaac Naylor

Person Name: Rev. Isaac Naylor Scripture: Isaiah 1:18 Author of "Cleansing in the Precious Blood" in The Voice of Triumph (19th ed.)

James M. Black

1856 - 1938 Scripture: Isaiah 1:18 Composer of "[O hasten now to Calv'ry's mountain]" in The Voice of Triumph (19th ed.) James Milton Black USA 1856-1938 Born in South Hill, NY, Black was an American hymn composer, choir leader and Sunday school teacher. He worked, lived,and died in Williamsport, PA. An active member, he worked at the Pine Tree Methodist Episcopal Church there. He married Lucy Love Levan. He started his music career with John Howard of New York and Daniel B. Towner of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He edited a dozen gospel song books and wrote nearly 1500 songs. He also served on the commission for the 1905 Methodist Hymnal. John Perry

Robert M. Offord

1846 - 1924 Person Name: R. M. Offord Scripture: Isaiah 1:18 Author of "The Penitent's Plea" in Laudes Domini Offord, Robert M., son of an English "open-communion" Baptist, was born at St. Austell, Cornwall, Sept. 17, 1846. In 1870 he removed to America, where he was associated for some time with the Methodists, but subsequently joined the Reformed Dutch Church in 1878. He is editor of the New York Observer. To that paper he contributed:— 1. Jesus, heed me, lost and dying. Lent. 2. It is no untried way. Christ's Burden. No. 1 appeared on Jan. 25th, and No. 2 on Feb. 1st, 1883. They were revised for Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884 (Duffield's English Hymns, N. Y., 1886). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)