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B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Person Name: Bentley D. Ackley, 1872-1958 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Composer of "JOY IN SERVING" in Rejoice Hymns Bentley DeForrest Ackley was born 27 September 1872 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the brother of A. H. Ackley. In his early years, he traveled with his father and his father's band. He learned to play several musical instruments. By the age of 16, after the family had moved to New York, he began to play the organ for churches. He married Bessie Hill Morley on 20 December 1893. In 1907 he joined the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team as secretary/pianist. He worked for and traveled with the Billy Sunday organization for 8 years. He also worked as an editor for the Homer Rodeheaver publishing company. He composed more than 3000 tunes. He died 3 September 1958 in Winona Hills, Indiana at the age of 85 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana, near his friend Homer Rodeheaver. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleyfamilygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)

Henry J. Rael

b. 1921 Person Name: Henry J. Rael, b. 1921 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Translator of "To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King (A Cristo, el Soberano Rey)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Robert M. Millman

1878 - 1945 Person Name: Rev. Robert M. Millman Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Author of "Temple of God's Holy Spirit" in The Book of Common Praise Millman, Robert Malcolm. (Woodstock, Ontario, October 10, 1878--June 3, 1945, St. Catharine's, Ont.). Anglican. University of Toronto, B.A., 1900; M.A., 1904; B.D., 1930. Curate in Toronto, 1904-1909; missionary at Hiroshima and Toyohashi, Japan, 1911-1928; professor at Emmanuel College, Saskatoon, 1928-1944. Canada's pre-1914 drive toward prohibition drew only tepid support from the Anglican Church, to which most brewers and distillers belonged; hence the main compiler of the Book of Common Praise (1908) could say to Millman in October 1906, "If you want to immortalize yourself, write a dignified and useful temperance hymn." Within an hour, Millman had complied by writing and mailing "Temple of God's holy Spirit;" a second, more studied lyric was rejected. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

William George Arbaugh

1902 - 1974 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Translator of "Sí, segura, Santa, pura" William George Arbaugh was born in 1902 in Indiana. He was a missionary in Puerto Rico, Argentina, and Brazil from 1935-1965. He died in Chicago in 1974. Dianne Shapiro, from https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KCMN-ZPD/william-george-arbaugh-1902-1974

Georgia Hayes Jones

1894 - 1972 Person Name: Mrs. Georgia Jones Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Author of "Precious Memories" in African American Heritage Hymnal Georgia Hayes Jones (b 29 Apr. 1894 | d June 1972, Chicago, IL), daughter of George and Nettie Hayes, married Gilbert H. Jones in 1919 in Chicago, bringing two daughters with her from previous relationships (Vera Pierce, Marguerite Fowlkes). She was for many years director of the Joseph M. Evans Chorus and Christian Endeavor Choir of the Metropolitan Community Center Church, Chicago. She recorded her first solo album, Inspiration (1965), with accompanist Leon Hooper under the name The Marvelaires. She is probably the Georgia Jones named as co-author of “Precious Memories,” although there were at least three Georgia Joneses in Chicago at the time. —Chris Fenner, Hymns & Devotions for Daily Worship: African American Edition (2025)

H. L. Hastings

1831 - 1899 Person Name: Horace L. Hastings Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Author of "Shall We Meet Beyond the River" in Church Hymnal, Mennonite Hastings, Horace Lorenzo, was born at Blandford, Mass., Nov. 26, 1831; commenced writing hymns, and preaching, in his 17th year, and laboured as an evangelist in various parts of the U. S. In 1866 he established The Christian, a monthly paper, in which many of his hymns have appeared, and in 1865 the Scriptural Tract Repository in Boston. He published Social Hymns, Original and Selected, Boston, 1865; Songs of Pilgrimage, a Hymnal for the Churches of Christ, Part i., 1880; and in August, 1886, the same completed, to tho extent of 1533 hymns, 450 of which are original and signed "H." The best known of these is "Shall we meet beyond the river," written in N. Y. city, 1858, and lately published as a leaflet in 14 stanzas of 8 lines. The text in Gospel Hymns and elsewhere consists of the 1st half of stanzas i., iv., xi. and ix. The Hastings Birthday Book, extracts from his prose writings, appeared 1886. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

Faye Lopez

b. 1955 Person Name: Faye Lopez, 1955- Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Composer of "ENDURING WORD" in Rejoice Hymns

Jorge Sánchez

Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Translator of "Grande amor, sublime, eterno"

Coni Huisman

Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Composer of "COMFORT (Huisman)"

David Wright

b. 1966 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Author of "As We Rise, O God, to Meet You" in Voices Together David Wright is a poet and professor of English at Monmouth College (IL). In addition to his poetry collections--A Liturgy for Stones (Cascadia, 2003), The Small Books of Bach (Wipf & Stock, 2014) and Local Talent (Purple Flag, 2019)--he has collaborated with composer Jim Clemens on several dozen hymns and choral works. Before teaching at Monmouth, Wright taught at Richland Community College, Wheaton College, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He still considers First Mennonite Church of Urbana his home church. David Wright