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David Young Bagby

1849 - 1939 Person Name: D. Y. Bagby Composer of "[Life is oft beset with sorrows]" in The Cyber Hymnal David Young Bagby, PhD was a Baptist minister. His works include: A Short History of the New Testament: Or How the New Testament Writings Have Been Kept Since the Apostles Rome in Prophecy Bible Baptism Jesus the Nazarene Is Certainly the Messiah of Jewish Prophecy (Louisville, Kentucky: Baptist Book Concern, 1897)

W. B. Carnes

1860 - 1910 Author of "Will He Bid Us Enter In?" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: Sep­tem­ber 23, 1860. Died: 1910, Mc­Kin­ney, Tex­as. Buried: Pe­can Grove Cem­e­te­ry, Mc­Kin­ney, Tex­as. Carne grew up in Smith­ville, Ten­nes­see. He en­tered the min­is­try in 1882, and moved to Tex­as in 1888. He served as a Church of Christ min­ister at churche­s in Lan­cas­ter, Wea­ther­ford, Cis­co, Abi­lene, Ter­rell, Cle­burne, Me­lis­sa, and Den­i­son, Texas, and did con­sid­er­a­ble evan­gel­is­tic work. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

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