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Benjamin Cleveland
1733 - 1811 Person Name: B. Cleveland Hymnal Number: d555 Author of "Desiring a nearness to God" in A Baptist Hymn Book, Designed Especially for the Regular Baptist Church and All Lovers of Truth Cleveland, Benjamin. Probably a Baptist, but known only by his Hymns on Different Spiritual Subjects, in Two Parts, whereof the 4th ed. appeared in Norwich, Connecticut, 1792. He is the author of:—
0 could I find from day to day. [Longing for Christ.] This was preserved from oblivion by the Hartford Selection 1799, and is now in general use as altered and abridged to 4 stanzas by Nettleton, in his Village Hymns, 1824, No. 145. What is supposed to be the original text of the first four stanzas is found in Dr. Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, 1872, No. 876. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Cleveland, Benjamin. (Windham, Connecticut, August 30, 1733--March 9, 1811, Horton [now Wolfville], Nova Scotia). Baptist. Son of Benjamin Cleveland. The name is sometimes spelled "Cleavland" or "Cleaveland" in family records. He was a layman and a Baptist deacon; little else is known of his life except that of his twelve children, one, Nathan Cleveland, became a Baptist minister. He published in 1792 his Hymns on Different Subjects. In Two Parts in Norwich, Connecticut. His hymn, "O could I find from day to day," was widely reprinted through most of the nineteenth century. In his 1792 collection, it had six stanzas. Joshua Smith reprinted it in 1797, and it was altered for the Hartford Selection of 1799. Asahel Nettleton abridged it to four stanzas and altered it for his Village Hymns in 1824. It was in this form that it was widely sung; it was reprinted in the same for in Edwin Francis Hatfield's Church Hymn Book, 1872. the original first four stanzas treat the desire to "find from day to day a nearness to my God" throughout the course of life, ending in stanza 4 "Thus, till my last expiring breath, Thy goodness I'll adore . . ."
--Thomas W. Hunt, DNAH Archives
Benjamin Cleveland
Esther Grünbeck
1717 - 1796 Person Name: Esther Gruenbeck Hymnal Number: d243 Author of "Grace alone can afford hope to a sinner" in A Baptist Hymn Book, Designed Especially for the Regular Baptist Church and All Lovers of Truth Grünbeck, Esther, née Magdalene Augusta Naveroffsky, was born at Gotha, Oct. 21, 1717, of a Polish-Jewish family who had become Christians. In 1734 she married Michael Grünbeck, a sculptor in Gotha, and in 1738 with him became a Moravian; entering the Widows' Choir after his death in 1742. Marrying in 1746 David Kirchhof, a baptized Jew, she engaged with him for some time in mission work among the Jews in Prussia and Poland. After his death she became leader of the Widows' Choir at Zeist, near Utrecht, and died there Oct. 13, 1796.
In the Historische Nachricht to the Brüder Gesang-Buch,1778 (ed. 1851, p. 205), 8 hymns and part of a ninth in that collection are ascribed to her. Those in English use outside the Moravian hymn-books are:—
i. Dem blut'gen Lamme. Self Dedication. Founded on Rom. vi., 13. First pub. 1739, as No. 1365 in the Supplement to the 8th Appendix to the Herrnhut Gesang-Buch, 1735; in 10 stanzas of 6 lines, repeated as No. 753 in the Berlin Geistlicher Lieder-Schatz ed. 1863. The only translation in common use is:—
To the Lamb stain'd with Blood, translated in full by C. Kinchen as No. 155 in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1742. Four forms are in use:—
1. "Unto the Lamb of God," in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1789, No. 263 (1886, No. 335), altered, and omitting stanzas viii., ix.
2. "To Christ the Lamb of God," st. i., iv., vii. altered in J. A. Latrobe's Collection, 1841, No. 313.
3. "Lord! bring me to resign," a cento from st. vii., viii., as No. 437 in Dr. Martineau's Hymns, 1840 (1873, No. 288), and as No. 668 in the American Baptist Psalmist, 1843.
4. "To Thee I wholly give." A cento beginning with stanza ii. in Lady Huntingdon's Selection, 1780. It was subsequently changed to “To Thee, my Lord, I give."
ii. Gnade ist ein schönes Wort. Forgiveness of Sins. First pub. 1739 as No. 1293 in the 8th Appendix to the Herrnhut Gesang-Buch, 1735, in 8 stanzas of 8 lines. The only translation is:
Grace! Grace! 0 that's a charming sound in full, by C. Kinchen, as No. 32, in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1742, altered and abridged in later ed. (1886, No. 319). A cento in 8 stanzas of CM. from st. ii., iii., v.-viii., and beginning "Grace, how exceeding sweet to those," was included in the 1780 ed. of Lady Huntingdon's Selection, No. 85; and reduced to 5 stanzas in Campbell's Comprehensive Hymn Book, 1837, and to 3 stanzas in C. H. Bateman's Congregational Psalmist, 1846. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
Esther Grünbeck
Hubert Stogdon
1692 - 1728 Person Name: Stogdon Hymnal Number: d836 Author of "God ready to forgive" in A Baptist Hymn Book, Designed Especially for the Regular Baptist Church and All Lovers of Truth
Hubert Stogdon
James Maxwell
1720 - 1800 Person Name: J. Maxwell Hymnal Number: d320 Author of "How shall I my [we our] Savior set forth" in A Baptist Hymn Book, Designed Especially for the Regular Baptist Church and All Lovers of Truth Maxwell, James , was born in Renfrewshire in 1720. In his youth he journeyed to England with a hardware pack, but eventually returning to Scotland, he followed the joint occupation of schoolmaster and poet. In 1783, during a famine in Scotland he was reduced to great destitution, and had to earn his bread by breaking stones on the highway. Most of his publications (from 30 to 40 in all) were produced after that period. The two works in which we are interested are:—
(1) Hymns and Spiritual Songs. In Three Books. 1759. (2) A New Version of the whole of the Book of Psalms in Metre; by James Maxwell, S. D. P. [Student of Divine Poetry.] Glasgow, 1773.
From the former of these the following hymns are in common use:—
1. All glory to the eternal Three. Holy Trinity.
2. Didst Thou, dear Jesus [Saviour], suffer shame. Resignation and Courage.
3. Go forth, ye heralds, in my Name. Missions.
The last of these is in somewhat extensive use in America, where it appeared as early as in the Prayer Book Collection, 1789. Maxwell died at Paisley (where he was known as the Paisley Poet, or as he put it on the title-page of some of his books, Poet in Paisley) in 1800.
[Rev. J. T. Bingley, L.R.A.M., F.G.O.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
James Maxwell
James Grant
? - 1785 Hymnal Number: d591 Author of "Comfort for the Church in Trouble" in A Baptist Hymn Book, Designed Especially for the Regular Baptist Church and All Lovers of Truth Grant, James, born probably in Edinburgh, but date unknown, and d. there on Jan. 1st, 1785. An ironmonger by trade, he carried on his business in West Bow, Edinburgh. From 1746 to 1752 he held several offices of importance in the Town Council of Edinburgh. Amongst several works of benevolence which received his aid the Orphan Hospital in Edinburgh was specially favoured, and to it the profits of the 1st and 2nd ed. of his Hymns, &c, were given. Those hymns and poems were mainly written to popular Scottish melodies, and were published as:—
Original Hymns and Poems, written by a Private Christian for his own use, and Published at the earnest desire of Friends, Edinburgh, 1784. (2nd ed., 1820, 3rd a reprint by D. Sedgwick, Lond., 1862.)
Of the hymns the best known is "O Zion, afflicted with wave upon wave." (God’s Unchangeable Love.) It appeared as Hymn xvi. in the Original Hymns, &c, 1784, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, and is found in several modern collections, including the New Congregational Hymn Book, 1859, No. 610, and others.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
James Grant
Barby Litchfield
Hymnal Number: d318 Author of "How precious is the name, brethren sing" in A Baptist Hymn Book, Designed Especially for the Regular Baptist Church and All Lovers of Truth
Barby Litchfield
John Norman
? - 1782 Hymnal Number: d773 Author of "Thus it became the Prince of grace" in A Baptist Hymn Book, Designed Especially for the Regular Baptist Church and All Lovers of Truth Norman, John, was a student at the Baptist College, Bristol, and entered the Baptist ministry, as assistant to D. Turner, in 1777. He was afterwards, for a short time, assistant to the Rev. P. Gibbs, of Plymouth, in which town he died in the spring of 1782. In Rippon's Baptist Selection 1787, appeared a hymn on Holy Baptism, "Thus it became the Prince of grace," in 4 stanzas of 6 lines, and signed "Norman." It is still in use in its full or in an abbreviated form. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
John Norman
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