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Minot J. Savage

1841 - 1918 Author of "O God, whose law is in the sky" in Jubilate Deo Savage, Minot Judson, D.D., was born at Norridgewock, Maine, June 10, 1841, and educated at Bangor Seminary, where he graduated in 1864. From 1867 to 1873 he was a Congregational Minister, and then he joined the Unitarians, and has now (1900) a charge in Boston. He has published several works, including Poems, Boston, 1882. He also edited, with H. M. Dow, Sacred Songs for Public Worship, Boston, 1883, to which he contributed 46 original hymns. In hymnals other than this, of his hymns the following are in common use:— 1. Dost thou hear the bugle sounding. Consecration to Duty. 2. Father, we would not dare to change Thy purpose, &C. Prayer. 3. 0 God Whose law is in the sky. Consecration to Duty. 4. 0 star of truth down shining. Truth. 5. The God that to the fathers revealed His holy will. God unchangeable. 6. The very blossoms of our life. Holy Baptism. 7. What purpose burns within our hearts. Joining in Church Fellowship. 8. God of the glorious summer hours. New Year This is in D. Agate's Sunday S. Hymn Book, 1881, No. 371, and dated 1875. From the Sunny Side, N.Y.. 1875,p. 119. Some of these hymns are given in Hunter's Hymns of Faith and Life, Glasgow, 1889, and recent American hymnals. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Johnson Donald Hughes

b. 1932 Person Name: J. D. Hughes Author of "Creator of the Universe" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 The author is a student at the Boston University School of Theology, and a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles. --Five New Hymns for Youth by Youth, 1955. Used by permission. ========================== J. Donald Hughes is an ordained minister in the Southern California-Arizona Conference of the Methodist Church. He is a graduate of Boston University School of Theology; and is currently a candidate for the Ph.D. degree in Church History at that institution. ----Twelve New World Order Hymns, 1958. Used by permission.

Juanita R. de Balloch

1894 - 1959 Person Name: J. R. de Balloch Translator of "¿Quién la Seguirá?" in Cántico Nuevo Born: 1894, Spain.

Ernest Bourner Allen

1868 - 1931 Person Name: Rev. Ernest Bourner Allen Author of "The Son of God goes forth for Peace" in Church Hymnal

Henry Fillmore

Person Name: H. F. Arranger of "[The Son of God goes forth to war]" in Quartets and Choruses for Men

Jay T. Stocking

1870 - 1936 Author of "O Master Workman of the race" in American Church and Church School Hymnal Clergyman; held posts at various NE churches; d. St. Louis, Mo.

Denis Wortman

1835 - 1922 Author of "Our country for the world, we sing" in Jubilate Deo

Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw, Jr. b. 1944 Author of "We Sing for All the Unsung Saints" in Lutheran Service Book Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink

Caroline Goforth

Author of "Make Large our Hearts" in A Hymnal for Friends We have little data on Goforth, except that her hymn appeared in A Hymnal for Friends (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Friends General Conference, 1955), number 101. --www.hymntime.com/tch/