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Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Author of "Like the Murmur of the Dove's Song" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink

Ronaldo Blue

Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Author of "Oh, cumple tu ministerio"

Edmund Dumas

1810 - 1882 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Composer of "MULLINS"

Earl E. McCord

1892 - 1985 Person Name: Earl E. McCord, 1892-? Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Composer of "[Boundless grace is now extended]" in Sacred Songs of the Church Earl E. McCord was born May 27, 1892, at Palatka, Arkansas. He attended two music normals held in Palatka by Will Slater and S. J. Oslin, and later attended a normal at the Vaughn School of music in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Both Earl and his brother Calvin E. McCord became well known as song leaders among the Churches of Christ in Arkansas. Earl estimated that he had led the singing for more than one hundred gospel meetings, and had taught at least that many singing schools in multiple states. He died in Corning, Arkansas in 1985. Scott Harp, "Earl E. McCord", History of the Restoration Movement. (https://therestorationmovement.com/_states/arkansas/mccord,e.htm) Gene C. Finley, Our Garden of Song (Monroe, LA: Howard Publishing, 1980). --David Russell Hamrick