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William F. Sherwin
1826 - 1888 Person Name: Wm. F. Sherwin Composer of "[Just as God leads me I would go]" in Hosanna for the Sunday School Sherwin, William Fisk, an American Baptist, was born at Buckland, Massachusetts, March 14,1826. His educational opportunities, so far as schools were concerned, were few, but he made excellent use of his time and surroundings. At fifteen he went to Boston and studied music under Dr. Mason: In due course he became a teacher of vocal music, and held several important appointments in Massachusetts; in Hudson and Albany, New York County, and then in New York City. Taking special interest in Sunday Schools, he composed carols and hymn-tunes largely for their use, and was associated with the Rev. R. Lowry and others in preparing Bright Jewels, and other popular Sunday School hymn and tune books. A few of his melodies are known in Great Britain through I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, where they are given with his signature. His hymnwriting was limited. The following pieces are in common use:—
1. Grander than ocean's story (1871). The Love of God.
2. Hark, bark, the merry Christmas bells. Christmas Carol.
3. Lo, the day of God is breaking. The Spiritual Warfare.
4. Wake the song of joy and gladness. Sunday School or Temperance Anniversary.
5. Why is thy faith, 0 Child of God, so small. Safety in Jesus.
Mr. Sherwin died at Boston, Massachusetts, April 14, 1888.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Sherwin, W. F., p. 1055, i. Another hymn from his Bright Jewels, 1869, p. 68, is "Sound the battle cry" (Christian Courage), in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and several other collections.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
William F. Sherwin
H. L. Hastings
1831 - 1899 Person Name: Horace L. Hastings Translator of "Just As God Leads Me I Would Go" in The Cyber Hymnal Hastings, Horace Lorenzo, was born at Blandford, Mass., Nov. 26, 1831; commenced writing hymns, and preaching, in his 17th year, and laboured as an evangelist in various parts of the U. S. In 1866 he established The Christian, a monthly paper, in which many of his hymns have appeared, and in 1865 the Scriptural Tract Repository in Boston. He published Social Hymns, Original and Selected, Boston, 1865; Songs of Pilgrimage, a Hymnal for the Churches of Christ, Part i., 1880; and in August, 1886, the same completed, to tho extent of 1533 hymns, 450 of which are original and signed "H." The best known of these is "Shall we meet beyond the river," written in N. Y. city, 1858, and lately published as a leaflet in 14 stanzas of 8 lines. The text in Gospel Hymns and elsewhere consists of the 1st half of stanzas i., iv., xi. and ix. The Hastings Birthday Book, extracts from his prose writings, appeared 1886. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
H. L. Hastings
Lampertus Gedicke
1683 - 1735 Author of "Just as God leads me I would go" in Hosanna for the Sunday School Gedicke, Lampertus, son of Christian Gedicke, superintendent of Gardelegen in the Altmark, was born at Gardelegen Jan. 6, 1683. After the completion of his theological studies at Halle under Francke, he was for some time tutor in the orphanage at Halle, and then in a family at Berlin. Becoming an army chaplain he was successively appointed chaplain to the Guards (1709), accompanying them on several expeditions; chaplain to the Wartensleben regiment and garrison preacher at Berlin (1713); and Probst and inspector of all the garrison and regimental chaplains (1717). He died at Berlin, Feb. 21, 1735 (Koch, iv. 414, 415; Bode, p. 72, &c). He contributed two hymns to the Neu-vermehrtes geistreiches Gesang-Buch, Berlin, 1711. One of these is:- Wie Gott mich führt, so will ich gehn. [Trust in God.] 1711, as above, No. 798, in 6 stanzas of 7 lines, repeated in Freylinghausen, 1714, and as No. 918 in the Berlin Geistlicher Leider Schlatz, 9 ed. 1863. Often used at weddings. The only translation in common use is:—
Just as God leads me I would go , a good translation, omitting st. ii., as No. 258, in H. L. Hastings's Hymnal, 1880.
Other translations are : (l) “As God shall lead I'll take my way," by Dr. H. Mills, 1845 (1856, p. 176). (2) "As God leads me, will I go," by Miss Warner, 1858 (1861, p. 498). (3) “As God doth lead me will I go," by Miss Burlingham in the British Herald, June, 1866, p. 278, repeated as No. 407 in Reid's Praise Book, 1872. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Lampertus Gedicke
