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William Everett

1839 - 1910 Topics: God our Father Author of "Deal Gently With Us" in A Book of Song and Service Everett, William, LL.D., s. of the Hon. Edward Everett, was born at Watertown, Massachusetts, Oct. 10, 1839, and educated at Harvard College and Trinity College, Cambridge, England, M.A. 1869. He became Latin Tutor in Harvard Coll. in 1870, and Assistant Professor of Latin in 1873. He entered the Unitarian Ministry in 1872. Putnam gives six of his hymns in Singers and Songs, &c, 1874, p. 504. The best are "Deal gently with us, Lord" [God’s tenderness], from the American Christian Register, 1866; and "Almighty Father, Thou didst frame" [God the Father]," written for the Unitarian Festival at the Music Hall, May 27, 1869." He has published College Essays; School Sermons , and other works. He is LL.D. of Williams College, Mass. [Rev. C. L. Noyes, D.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ========================== Everett, William. (Watertown, Massachusetts, October 10, 1839--February 16, 1910, Quincy, Massachusetts). Son of Hon. Edward Everett. He graduated from Harvard College in 1859; took the B.A. degree at Cambridge University, England, in 1863; and the degrees of A.M. and LL.B. at Harvard in 1865. He received the honorary degree of Litt.D. from Williams College in 1889 and the degree of LL.D. from the same in 1893, and from Dartmouth in 1901. After graduation from the Harvard Law School he did not enter the legal profession, but served the College as tutor and then Assistant Professor of Latin for several years. In 1872, the Boston Association of Ministers licensed him as a lay preacher and thereafter he spoke frequently in Unitarian pulpits in New England, abut he was never ordained as a settled minister. He served Adams Academy in Quincy, Massachusetts as headmaster from 1877 to 1907, with an interruption of two years when in 1893 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives in Washington. In 1866, The Christian Register printed his hymn beginning "Deal gently with us, Lord" and three years later he wrote "for the Unitarian Festival at the Music Hall [Boston], May 27, 1869" a hymn beginning "Almighty Father, Thou didst frame." These hymns, and four others by him, are included in Putnam's Singers and Songs, Etc.. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

John Warren

Topics: God our father Composer of "HALLON" in Book of Worship with Hymns and Tunes

S. M. I. Henry

1839 - 1900 Topics: God Father Author of "My Father Knows" in The Popular Hymnal HENRY, Mrs. Sarepta M. I., evangelist, temperance reformer, poet and author, born in Albion, Pa., 4th November, 1839. her father Rev. H. Nelson Irish, was a Methodist clergyman of the old style. He was preaching in Albion at the time of the daughter's birth. In 1841 he was sent to Illinois as a missionary, where he did heroic pioneer work and where he ended his days. In 1859 Miss Irish entered the Rock River Seminary, in Mt. Morris, Ill., when she had for her pastor Rev. J. H. Vincent, then just coming into his life work. Recognition had been given to her literary ability, and during her school days she won many honors in composition. On 7th March, 1861, Miss Irish became the wife of James W. Henry, of East Homer, N. Y. The Civil War broke in upon the plans of the young couple and left Mrs. Henry, in 1871, a soldier's widow. The trio of children born from this union are just such as would be expected from so true a marriage. Mary, an alumna of the Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., is already a writer of acknowledged ability in both prose and verse, and at the national convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in New York, in 1888, she was elected to the position of superintendent of the press department. Alfred, the oldest son, is a faithful and eloquent clergyman, and Arthur is an author. Mrs. Henry was among the first to join the crusade against rum. From the beginning of the organization of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union she has been associated with the national body as superintendent of evangelical work and as evangelist. The result of her seven years of service in gospel temperance in Rockford, Ill., would alone suffice to crown the labors of any ordinary life-time. A partial record of this work is found in her book "Pledge and Cross." Her published books number fourteen, of which two, "Victoria," written during the first year of her daughter's life, and "Marble Cross," are poems. The prose works are "After the! Truth," in four volumes, "Pledge and Cross," "Voice of the Home and Its Legend," "Mabel's Work," "One More Chance," "Beforehand," "Afterward," "Unanswered Prayer," and "Frances Raymond's Investment." Mrs. Henry has long occupied pulpits among all denominations throughout the land. Through her evangelistic work saloons have been closed, churches built and hundreds converted. Her home is now in Evanston, Illinois. American Women: fifteen hundred biographies, with over 1,400 photos: a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century (Rev. ed.) by Frances E. Willard an Mary A Livermore (New York/Chicago/Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897

George W. Frazier

Topics: Adoration and Praise God Our Father; God Father Author of "God, Our Father, We Adore Thee" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration

William Channing Gannett

1840 - 1923 Person Name: William C. Gannett Topics: God our Father Author of "I Read of Many Mansions" in A Book of Song and Service Gannett, William Channing, M.A., s. of Dr. Ezra Stiles Gannett, was b. at Boston, March 13, 1840, and educated at Harvard College, 1860, and the Divinity School, Cambridge. Entered the Unitarian Ministry in 1868, and after filling several pastorates he became Pastor of the Unitarian Church at Rochester, N.Y., 1889. Mr. Gannett's hymns, mainly written for special occasions, were included in great part in The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems, Boston, 1st Series 1885,2nd Series 1894, the combined production of F. L. Hosmer (q.v.) and himself. Of Mr. Gannett's hymns the following are in common use:— 1. Bring, 0 morn, thy music [God Everlasting.] Written in 1893, and printed in A Chorus of Faith, being an account and resume of the Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago, 1893. Included in The Thought of God, 2nd Series, 1894, and again in several hymnals. 2. Clear in memory's silent reaches. [Memory.] Written in 1877 for a Free Religious Assoc. Festival, and published in The Thought of God, 1st Series, 1885. 3. Prom heart to heart, from creed to creed. [Faith.] Written in 1875 for the 150th anniversary of the First Religious Society in Newburyport, and given in The Thought of God, 1ist Series, 1885. Usually st. ii. is omitted. 4. He hides within the lily. [Divine Providence.] "Consider the lilies, how they grow." Written in 1873, and printed for use at the Free Religious Assoc. Festival, May 30th, 1873. Published in The Thought of God, &c, 1st Series, 1885, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines. The most widely used of the author's hymns. 5. I hear it often in the dark. [The Voice of God.] Written at Milwaukee, in 1870, and published in The Thought of God, &c, 1st Series, 1885. Sometimes it begins with st. iii., "0 God within, so close to me," as in Hymns for Church and Home, Boston, 1895. 6. Praise to God and thanksgiving. [ Harvest.] Written in 1872 for a Harvest Festival at St. Paul's, Minn., of which he was then Pastor, and included in The Thought of God &c, 1st Series, 1885. in the Boston Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904, it begins "Praise to God, and thanks we bring." 7. Sleep, my little Jesus. [ Christmas Carol.] Written for the Sunday School, St. Paul's, Minn., in 1882, and given in The Thought of God, 2nd Series, 1894, as "Mary's Manger Song." 8. The Lord is in His holy place. [Dedication of a Place of Worship.] Written for the Dedication of the Rev. C. W. Wendte's Church, Chicago, April 24, 1873, and pub. in The Thought of God, &c, 1st Series, 1885. It is one of the most popular and widely used of the author's hymns. 9. The morning hangs its signal. [Morning.] This is dated by the author "Chicago, July 30, 1886," and printed in Love to God and Love to Man, being No. 28 ot the Chicago "Unity Mission" series of hymns (N.D.). Also included in The Thought of God, &c, 2nd Series, 1894. Although in some sense a Morning hymn, it is adapted for use in Advent. It is usually known as “The Crowning Day." 10. The Truth is the Voice of God. In the "Unity Mission" Series, No. 28 (see above), this is given as No. 33, with the title "Truth and Righteousness and Love," in 4 stanzas of 4 lines and a refrain of 4 lines. These annotations are based upon manuscript notes kindly supplied by the author. The use made of Mr. Gannett's hymns shows that their poetic beauty and loving sympathy with all things beautiful and pure, are widely appreciated in America and to a limited extent in Great Britain also. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Fred R. Anderson

b. 1941 Topics: God as Father Author of "Why Are Nations Raging" in Christian Worship FRED R. ANDERSON is pastor emeritus of Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, a liturgical theologian, and a recognized hymn writer whose hymn and psalm texts appear in Protestant and Catholic hymnals around the world. —Singing God's Psalms (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2016) His collections of psalm paraphrases include Singing Psalms of Joy and Praise (1986) and Singing God's Psalms (2016).

Peter Ritter

1760 - 1846 Topics: God Father Composer of "GROSSER GOTT" in Elmhurst Hymnal Peter Ritter; b. 1760, Mannheim; d. 1846 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

William Jensen Reynolds

1920 - 2009 Person Name: William J. Reynolds Topics: Father and Creator; God; God--Creator; God--Love of Composer of "COLORBURST" in Moravian Book of Worship Pseudonyms include: Bigelow, James Buie, Dean Clark, John Day, Francis Dorff, Gregory Dorsey, Jane Drakestone, John East, Richard Eastis, Ellen Frye, Dan Gregory, Peter Harrold, Stan Hawk, John Horn, Ellen Ingham, Marie Jordaan, Jacques Keely, Grant Kije, Cyd Kringel, Cark Kuliami, Tiki [?] Lee, Wilbur Long, Richard Long, Robert MacDougall, Thom Madsen, Carl O. Monroe, Lou Munroe, June Reed, Ruth Rodgers, Lee Rosemont, David Ross, Don Saul, J. Crawford Sneed, Roger Wheeler, Annette Winston, Clyde York, Henry --Email from William Colson to Mary Louise VanDyke, 4 May 2005, DNAH Archives. Names taken from the program of Reynolds' retirement dinner. Colson notes, "The program has faded and the one designated with a question mark is not 100% certain."