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H. K. Lewis

1823 - 1898 Composer of "[The fields are all white and the reapers are few]" in Sacred Songs for Little Singers Lewis, Henry King, was born Feb. 10, 1823, at Margate, became a medical publisher in Gower Street, London, and d. in Jan. 1898. His hymns appeared principally in two collections which he edited, viz., Songs for Little Children, 1879, and Songs for Little Singers, 1880, enlarged ed. 1881. Three have passed into various books for children:— 1. A little tiny bird. God's Care. 1879, No. 130. 2. God is near me when the light. God is near. 1879, No. 106; previously in Horder's Book of Praise for Children, 1875, p. 51. 3. Who is this [He] that claims my heart. God's Claim. 1879, No. 131. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Julius Henry Waterbury

1826 - 1882 Person Name: Rev. J. H. W. Composer of "[The fields are all white]" in Children's Praise

Alonzo Stone

Person Name: Alonzo Stone, Mus. Bac. Composer of "[The fields are all white]" in Boundless Love

Mrs. E. B. Hopkins

Composer of "[The fields are all white]" in The Gospel Trumpet Sarah W. Hopkins (1843-1927) compiled the song book, The Gospel Trumpet, for the use of Missionary Societies and Children’s Bands in 1890. Her name is given as “Mrs. E. B. Hopkins” because she was married to Dr. Elisha B Hopkins (1824-1899) of Madison, NY. Both were active in the Utica District of the Northern New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Sarah Hopkins served on the Board of Control for Deaconess Work for the Conference and was the District President of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1889. Her husband was ordained as a Deacon as well as a Local Preacher. The tunes of a number of the songs in The Gospel Trumpet were written or arranged by Sarah Hopkins. Alan M. Guenther from: -“New York Branch,” Heathen Woman’s Friend 21 (Sept. 1889), p. 71. -“Recent Publications,” Heathen Woman’s Friend 22 (Nov. 1890), p. 110. -Minutes of the Twenty-Third Session, Northern New York Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church (Syracuse, NY: Hunt & Eaton, University Press, 1895), p. 7. -Minutes of the Eighth Session of the Northern New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (Ilion, NY: Citizen Steam Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1880), p. 16-24. -John E. Smith, ed., Our Country and its People: A Descriptive and Biographical Record of Madison County, New York (Boston: Boston History Company, 1899), p. 378. -Find A Grave Memorial website for Elisha B. Hopkins