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Grace Wilbur Conant
1858 - 1948 Meter: 8.7.8.7.7 Composer of "FAR HILLS" Pseudonym: A. B. Ponsonby.
Born: September 9, 1858, Boston, Massachusetts.
Died: April 7, 1948, Malden, Massachusetts.
Grace remained single all her life. Her middle name was her mother’s maiden name. She served as musical editor for the Kindergarten Review for at least six years, starting in 1908. Her works include:
Songs for Little People, with Frances Weld Danielson (Boston, Massachusetts: The Pilgrim Press, 1905)
Worship and Song, with Benjamin S. Winchester (Pilgrim Press, 1913)
Religious Dangers of Modern Tendencies in So-Called Religious Songs, 1917
Song and Play for Children, with Frances Weld Danielson (Pilgrim Press, 1925)
--The Cyber Hymnal
Grace Wilbur Conant
John R. MacDuff
1818 - 1895 Person Name: John Ross MacDuff Meter: 8.7.8.7.7 Author of "Jesus Wept" in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs Macduff, John Ross, D.D., second son of Alexander Macduff, of Bonhard, near Perth, was born at Bonhard, May 23, 1818. After studying at the University of Edinburgh, he became in 1842 parish minister of Kettins, Forfarshire, in 1849 of St. Madoes, Perthshire, and in 1855 of Sandyford, Glasgow. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1862, and about the same time also from the University of New York. He retired from pastoral work in 1871, lived at Chislehurst, Kent and died in 1887. He has published many practical and devotional works which have attained a wide circulation. In 1857 he was appointed by the General Assembly a member of their Hymnal Committee. His 31 hymns appeared in his Altar Stones, 1853, and were also included with his later poems in his The Gates of Praise, 1876. Of these hymns the following are in common use:—
1. Christ Is coming! Let creation. Second Advent.
2. Eternal Rock! To Thee I flee. (1853.) Christ the Rock.
3. Everlasting arms of love. (1853.) Support in Christ.
4. From Thy habitation holy. Whitsuntide.
5. Hasten, Lord, that morn of glory. Second Advent.
6. Jesus wept! Those tears are over. (1853.) The raising of Lazarus.
7. O do not, blessed Lord, depart. Christ's presence desired.
8. Where shall I look for holy calm. (1853.) Passiontide.
9. Why should I murmur or repine? Resignation.
Of these hymns those dated 1853 are parts only of Dr. Macduff’s originals.
[Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Macduff, J. R., p. 708, i. Another hymn from his Gates of Praise, 1876, is "Blessed feast! most gracious token" (Holy Communion). He died April 30, 1895.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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John R. MacDuff
H. Heathcote Statham
1839 - 1924 Meter: 8.7.8.7.7 Composer of "ST. JOSEPH" in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs
H. Heathcote Statham
Henry Lyle Lambdin
b. 1892 Person Name: Henry L. Lambdin, 1892-1993 Meter: 8.7.8.7.7 Versifier of "Unto Jesus Has Been Given" in When Breaks the Dawn Lambdin, Henry Lyle. Professor of homiletics at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. A native of Tennessee, all of his ministerial experience was in New Jersey. A member of the Northern New Jersey Methodist Conference, he served as pastor of the First Methodist Church of Summit, as District Superintendent, and a pastorate at Morristown Methodist Church.
--The Hymn Society, DNAH Archives
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[Lambdin' has been a member of three General Conferences and four Jurisdictional Conferences of The Methodist Church, and is author of the Newark Conference Centennial Hymn.
----16 New Hymns on the Stewardship of the Environment [Ecology] , 1973. Used by permission.
Henry Lyle Lambdin
Vincenzo Righini
1756 - 1812 Person Name: V. Rhigini Meter: 8.7.8.7.7 Composer of "MEADOWS" in Elmhurst Hymnal
Vincenzo Righini
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