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Harrison Millard

1830 - 1895 Person Name: H. M. Arranger of "[Saviour, blessed Saviour]" in Gospel Melodies

1856 - 1931 Person Name: Edmund Palmer, 1856-1931 Translator of "Jesu, Son of Mary" in The New English Hymnal Palmer, Edmund Stuart, M.A., was b. Dec. 31, 1856, at Wherwell Priory, Hants, and educated at the Univ. of Edinburgh (M.B. and C.M., 1882) and Cuddesdon College. He was ordained D. 1889, P. 1890, as curate of St. Saviour's, Leeds; was from 1893 to 1901 on the staff of the Universities Mission at Zanzibar, and in 1904 became Vicar of Kirton in Holland, Lines. While at Zanzibar he wrote, in Swahili, a hymn for the Holy Communion, beginning “Yesu Bin Mariamu," printed in the U.M.C. A. Hymn Book. He translation it into English as "Jesu, Son of Mary, Fount of life alone," and this, privately printed in 1902, was re-written for The English Hymnal, 1906, No. 356. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Brooke Herford

1830 - 1903 Author of "Lead us, heavenly Father" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book Born: 1830, Altrincham, Manchester, England, Died: December 21, 1903, Hampstead, Middlesex, England. Buried: Hale, Cheshire, England. Son of John and Sarah Herford, Brooke received his early education in Manchester, at the school of John Relly Beard. At age 14, he left school and went into his father’s counting house for four years. As he became engaged with the local Sunday School, and at the Mosley Street Mission School, he eventually decided upon the ministry as a career. At age 18, he enrolled at Manchester New College (now at Oxford, but then at Manchester). At age 21, he began preaching at Todmorden, Yorkshire and, as his college would not support him, he withdrew from school to be a full time minister. After five years at Todmorden, his moved to the Upper Chapel, Sheffield, and nine years later, to Strangeways Free Church in Manchester. He spent 11 years there, also tutoring at the Home Missionary College. He then moved to America to become pastor of the First Unitarian Society in Chicago, Illinois (1874-91). He also served as Corresponding Secretary (1878-79) and president (1880-81) of the Chicago Literary Club; pastor of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1882-92); and on the faculty of Harvard University, before returning to England in 1893. Herford’s works include: A Protestant Poor Friar: The Life-Story of Travers Madge A The Story of Religion in England A Sermons of Courage and Cheer A The Small End of Great Problems Anchors of the Soul --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Walter Rauschenbusch

1861 - 1918 Person Name: W. R. Author of "Abend wird es wieder" in Glockenklänge

T. B. Browne

1805 - 1874 Person Name: Thomas Briarly Browne Author of "Praise the Lord of heaven, praise him in the height" in Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America Browne, Thomas Briarly, of Wellington, was the author of The Oxford Divines not Members of the Church of England, 1839; Thoughts of the Times, 1838; and the National Bankruptcy and other Poems, Lond., Pickering, 1844. From this last work a version of the 148th Psalm has come into somewhat extensive use in English-speaking countries. It is the well-known "Praise the Lord of heaven, praise Him in the height." Original text in Lord Selborne's Book of Praise, 1862, p. 25. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Ibrahim Hourani

1844 - 1916 Person Name: ابراهيم الحوراني Author of "أيها النائم ما هذا السبات" in كتاب الترانيم الروحية للكنائس الإنجيلية إبراهيم بن يحيى بن يعقوب بن سليمان بن فرح الغساني الحوراني ولد في مدينة حلب (شمالي سورية) وتوفي في بيروت.

Ebenezer S. Oakley

1865 - 1935 Person Name: Ebenezer Sherman Oakley Author of "In life's earnest morning" in Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America Oakley, Ebenezer Sherman, M.A., son of the Rev. Henry Oakley, Congregational Minister, was b. Dec. 24, 1865, at Richmond, Yorks. He studied in arts at Glasgow Univ., and in theology at Airedale College, Bradford, and the Univ. of Giessen, and took his M.A. at the Univ. of Allahabad in N. India. He is now (1906) missionary of the L.M.S. at Almora in N. India, and Principal of Ramsay College there. He contributed three hymns to Dr. John Hunter's Hymns of Faith and Life, 1889 and 1896, from which Nos. 1 and 2 passed into the Public School Hymn Book, 1903, and Worship Song, 1905. 1. Enduring Soul of all our life. [Whitsuntide.] Written 1885; in Hunter, 1889, No. 176. 2. In life's earnest morning. [Help in God.] "Written 1885; in Hunter, 1889, No. 661, entitled Student’s Hymn. 3. 0 Holy Child of Bethlehem. [Devotion to Christ.] In Hunter, 1896, No. 360. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)