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Dony McGuire

Topics: Choruses Scripture and Praise Author of "A Perfect Heart" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration

Frederick R. C. Clarke

b. 1931 Person Name: F. R. C. Clarke Topics: The Church at Worship Scripture Composer of "CAUSA DIVINA" in Voices United Wrote A William Boyce suite, 1973 and Healey Willan, c1983

1837 - 1932 Person Name: Seth Curtis Beach, 1837-1932 Topics: Scriptures Author of "Mysterious Presence, Source of All" in Hymns of the Saints Seth Curtis Beach was born on August 8, 1837 in western New York State. He was a Unitarian minister, author, poet and hymnist. The family lived in a log cabin they had built on a fifty acre farm near the village of Marion, New York. His mother and older sister tutored him until he was eight. In 1858 he enrolled at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, but transferred to Union College in Schenectady, New York and gradated from there with an A.B. degree in 1863. As a Unitarian, Beach enrolled at Harvard Divinity School to prepare for the ministry. After college he preached as a supply minister for a number of churches eventually settling at All Souls Unitarian Church in Augusta, Maine in 1867. He also served as minister at First Church in Dedham and later in Bangor. He published several books of sermons, served as secretary of the national Unitarian Ministerial Union, and was appointed Superintendent for Missionary Work in Northern New England for the American Unitarian Association (AUA). He visited struggling parishes in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont helping them to solve congregational problems. Seth Curtis Beach died in 1932. The Unitarian Year Book called him “the dean of our Unitarian ministers.” NN, Hymnary editor. Source: Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography, www25.uua.org/uuhs/

Jane Parker Huber

1926 - 2008 Person Name: Jane Parker Huber, 1926- Topics: Canticles and Scripture Paraphrases Paraphraser of "Creator God, creating still" in The Book of Praise

S. T. Kimbrough

b. 1936 Person Name: S T Kimbrough, Jr. Topics: Holy Scripture Paraphraser (English) of "Our Father, who is in heaven (Au preah vo bey)" in Global Praise 3