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Edna Randolph Worrell

Person Name: Edna R. Worrell Topics: Admonition and Invitation Author of "Someone's Last Call" in The Baptist Standard Hymnal

1838 - 1914 Person Name: H. G. Jackson, 19th Century Topics: Admonition; The Gospel Warnings and Invitations Author of "Look to the Lamb of God" in Worship and Service Hymnal Henry Godden Jackson Born: January 1, 1838, Manchester, Indiana. Died: November 12, 1914. A Methodist minister, Jackson and his wife Alice spent many years as missionaries in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Upon their return to America, they lived in the River Forest/Oak Park area of Chicago, Illinois. © Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)

E. Grace Updegraff

1871 - 1964 Person Name: E. Grace Undegraff Topics: Admonition and Invitation Composer of "[No beautiful chamber, no soft cradle bed]" in The Baptist Standard Hymnal Eliza Grace Updegraff ((1871-1964) was born in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, the daughter of a Quaker minister, the Rev. David Brainard Updegraff and his wife Eliza Jane. According to the 1880 census, at age nine, Eliza Grace Updegraff lived in Mount Pleasant, in Jefferson County, Ohio with her parents and siblings, three brothers and two sisters, all born in Ohio. When she was composing hymn tunes she did not use her first initial, and is almost always listed as E. Grace Updegraff. She is known as the composer of two hymn tunes: CARTER ("In doubt and temptation I rest Lord, in Thee") and THE HOPE OF THE AGES ("Jesus comes, he comes in glory"). Two of her texts are "What meaneth this, this strange display?" (see Songs of Love and Praise, No.4 , 1897 and Praise Hymns, 1898) and "Are you faithful to the work?" (see Songs of Help, 1917). In 1906 she married the Rev. Dr. John Talmadge Bergen, a minister in the Reformed Church of America. She was his second wife. In her memory her family (Mohns and Hoagland) has established a scholarship at Lake Forest College, Illinois to assist a student heading toward the Christian ministry or majoring in music. Mary Louise VanDyke, from research done by VanDyke and John Dalles

Ellen Knight Bradford

1839 - 1899 Person Name: Ellen K. Bradford Topics: Admonition and Invitation Author of "Over the Line" in The Baptist Standard Hymnal Author, poet, was born in Ypsilanti, Mich. NN

William Henry Harper

1845 - 1933 Person Name: W. H. Harper Topics: Admonition and Invitation Composer of "[I love to tell the story]" in The Baptist Standard Hymnal Born: August 26, 1845, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England. Died: February 4, 1933, Fulham, London, England.