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Graham Maule

1958 - 2019 Person Name: Graham Maule (b. 1958) Scripture: James 3:17-18 Author of "Praise to the Lord for the joys of the earth" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Jim Strathdee

b. 1941 Person Name: Jim Strathdee (b. 1941) Scripture: James 3:15-18 Composer of "APANÁS" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Margery Stomne Selden

Scripture: James 3:16-18, 4:1-6 Author of "Peace among earth's peoples" in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Michael Thwaites

1915 - 2005 Person Name: Michael Rayner Thwaites, 1915- Scripture: James 3:13-18 Author of "Lord of earth and all creation" in Together in Song

1914 - 1993 Person Name: Honor Mary Thwaites, 1914-93 Scripture: James 3:13-18 Author of "Lord of earth and all creation" in Together in Song Honor Mary Thwaites was born in Australia in 1914. She attended the University of Melbourne. She went to England in the 1930s and worked with a group from the Society of Friends assisting Jewish people and others to escape from Nazi Germany. She married the Australian poet and intelligence officer Michael Thwaites in 1939 and they returned to Australia. There she wrote several hymns that appear in Australian hymnbooks. N Naber, Hymnary

Charles Price Jones

1865 - 1949 Person Name: Charles P. Jones Scripture: James 3:2 Author of "Mind, Brother" in His Fullness Songs Charles Price Jones born December 9, 1865, near Rome, Georgia. He grew up in Kingston, Georgia, and attended the Baptist church. He was converted in 1884 while living in Cat Island, Arkansas. In 1885 he was called to the ministry and began preaching. In 1888 he attended Arkansas Baptist College and taught school in Grant County, Arkansas. He preached and pastored several Baptist churches. After asking God for a deeper experience of grace and fasting and praying for three days, Jones experienced a closeness with God, and in 1895, along with other Baptist holiness adherents, who taught that a second work of grace can cleanse the Christian of original sin. They started a holiness movement in the Baptist church, and he began teaching holiness in his congregation, Mount Helm Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. He faced much opposition from some members of his congregation and other Baptist churches. Eventually the church voted to remove "Baptist" and change it to "Church of Christ." For several years, Jones led a non-denominational holiness movement. In 1899 he began to write songs for his church. Most of his hymns were inspired by a scripture passage. The congregation built the Christ Temple campus which included a 1000 seat sanctuary, a printing press, a school building, and a girl's dormitory. In 1917, Jones organized Christ Temple Church in Los Angeles and moved the printing press there. He died January 19, 1949 in Los Angeles Dianne Shapiro, from Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. website and "Charles Price Jones (1865-1949) Religious Leader" by David Daniels, Mississippi Encyclopedia website (both accessed 10/9/2020)

H. Ecuyer

Person Name: H. Écuyer Scripture: James 3:17 Translator (French) of "Oh come, oh come, Emmanuel" in The Book of Praise

Randall Keith DeBruyn

b. 1947 Person Name: Randall DeBruyn, b. 1947 Scripture: James 3:17 Composer (descant) of "VENI, VENI EMMANUEL" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.)

Healey Willan

1880 - 1968 Person Name: Healey Willan, 1880-1968 Scripture: James 3:17 Arranger of "VENI EMMANUEL" in The Book of Praise Healey Willan (b. Balham, London, England, October 12, 1880; d. Toronto, Ontario, February 16, 1968), theory teacher, composer and organist, was born into an Anglo-Catholic family in England and served several churches in the London area, becoming known especially for his adaptations of Gregorian chant to be able to be sung in English translation. In 1913 he moved to Canada where he led the theory department and was organist at the Toronto Conservatory of Music. He also was organist at St. Paul’s, Canada’s largest Anglican church, and after 1921 at the smaller Church of St. Mary Magdalene. By invitation, he composed an anthem for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a singular honor for one not residing in England. Emily Brink

Edwin Hatch

1835 - 1889 Person Name: Edwin Hatch, 1835-1889 Scripture: James 3:13-18, 4:1-3 Author of "Breathe on Me, Breath of God" in Common Praise (1998) Hatch, Edwin, D.D., was born at Derby, Sep. 4, 1835, and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, B.A., in honours, in 1857. After holding important appointments in Canada, he returned to England and became Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1867; and Rector of Purleigh, 1883. (See also Crockford). He died Nov. 10, 1889. His hymn-writing was limited. One, and that a very spirited lyric, is in Allon's Congregational Psalmist Hymnal, 1886 "Breathe on me, Breath of God." (Whitsuntide.) Dr. Hatch's hymns were published in his posthumous Towards Fields of Light, London 1890. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)