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Charlotte G. Homer

1856 - 1932 Hymnal Number: 74 Author of "Resting On God's Promises" in Loyal Praise Pseudonym. See also Gabriel, Chas. Hutchinson, 1856-1932

W. A. Post

Hymnal Number: 34 Composer of "[I've found a Friend, all friends above]" in Loyal Praise

Ada Powell

Hymnal Number: 25 Author of "A shelter in thee" in Loyal Praise

M. L. McPhail

Hymnal Number: 94 Composer of "[There was nothing within me that, justly, I might]" in Loyal Praise

Edward S. Ufford

1851 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. S. U. Hymnal Number: 150 Author of "Waiting for the Crown" in Loyal Praise

1826 - 1886 Person Name: C. S. Harrington Hymnal Number: 77 Composer of "[In some way or other, the Lord will provide]" in Loyal Praise Born: May 17, 1826, St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Died: February 16, 1886, at his home in Middletown, Connecticut. Buried: Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut. Harrington graduated from Wesleyan University in 1852. From 1852 to 1855, he taught Latin at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, Sanbornton Bridge, New Hampshire; from 1855 to 1860, he served as president of the seminary. From 1861 to 1863 he was a professor of Greek at Wesleyan University; from 1863 to his death, he was a professor of Latin there. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Jemima Luke

1813 - 1906 Person Name: Mrs. Jemima Luke Hymnal Number: 143 Author of "The Old Sweet Story" in Loyal Praise Luke, Jemima Thompson, the wife of Rev. Samuel Luke, an Independent minister of England, was the daughter of Thomas 422 Thompson, a philanthropist, and was born at Colebrook Terrace, Islington, August 19, 1813. When only thirteen years of age she began writing for the Juvenile Magazine. She published a volume titled The Female Jesuit in 1851 and A Memoir of Eliza Ann Harris, of Clifton, in 1859, but her name is known to the Christian world almost wholly through the one hymn found in this volume. Mrs. Luke died February 2, 1906. I think when I read that sweet 682 Hymn Writers of the Church, 1915, Charles Nutter =============== Luke, Jemima, née Thompson, daughter of Thomas Thompson, sometime of Bath, was born at Colebrooke Terrace, Islington, Aug. 19, 1813, and was married to the late Samuel Luke, a Congregational Minister, in 1843. She was an anonymous contributor to The Juvenile Magazine at the age of 13, and subsequently pub. several works, including The Female Jesuit, 1851; A Memoir of Eliza Ann Harris, of Clifton, 1859, &c. Mrs. Luke is known to hymnody through her hymn:— I think when I read that sweet story of old. [The Love of Jesus.] It is recorded that this hymn was composed in a stage coach in 1841, and was designed for use in the village school, near her father's seat, Poundsford Park. It was published anonymously in the Leeds Hymn Book, 1853, No. 874, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines, and has since come into use through children's hymn-books in most English-speaking countries. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)