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Felipe Blycker-J

Person Name: F. B. J. Scripture: John 1:29-37 Arranger of "LAMB OF GLORY" in Celebremos Su Gloria Spanish name used by Phillip W. Blycker. See also

George W. Torrance

1835 - 1907 Person Name: G. W. Torrance Scripture: John 1:29 Composer of "TRUST" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise

C. A. Garratt

Scripture: John 1:29 Composer of "FAITH" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise

John Price

1857 - 1930 Person Name: John Price (Beulah), b. 1857 Scripture: John 1:29 Composer of "GWYNETH" in Trinity Hymnal

1710 - 1778 Person Name: Thomas A. Arne, 1710-1778 Scripture: John 1:29-39 Composer of "ARLINGTON" in Worship and Rejoice Dr. Thomas Augustine Arne was born March 12, 1710, in London; became early celebrated as a composer, and established his reputation by settling Milton's "Comus" to music - light, airy, and original; he composed many songs, and nearly all his attempts were successful; died March 5, 1778, aged 68. A Dictionary of Musical Information by John W. Moore, Boston: Oliver, Ditson & Company, 1876

C. G. Gläser

1784 - 1829 Person Name: Carl G. Gläser, 1784-1829 Scripture: John 1:29 Composer of "AZMON" in Worship and Rejoice Carl Gotthelf Gläser Germany 1781-1829. Born at Weissenfels, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, he received musical training from his father, after which he attended St. Thomas school in Leipzig. He became an author and composer. At Barmen he taught voice, piano, and violin. He also wrote and conducted chorale music. He died at Barmen. John Perry

Thomas Jarman

1776 - 1861 Person Name: Thomas Jarman, 1782-1862 Scripture: John 1:29 Composer of "LYNGHAM (DESERT)" in Singing the Faith Thomas Jarman was born on 21st December 1776 in Clipston, a small village near the northern border of the County of Northampton. His father was not only a Baptist lay preacher, but also a tailor, and Thomas was brought up in the same trade, although his brother, John, followed his father’s calling to become a minister. His natural taste for music, however, considerably interfered with his work, and he was frequently reduced to dire straits, from which only the extreme liberality of his publishers relieved him. He was a man of fine, commanding presence, but self-willed, and endowed with a considerable gift of irony, as choirs frequently found to their cost. Weston quotes from Kant that Jarman neglected his work and ‘this kept him poor and soured his temper’. He joined the choir of the Baptist chapel in his native village when quite a youth, and soon became the choirmaster there. He adopted music as a profession (with occasional returns to his old trade), and was engaged as teacher of harmony and singing in many of the neighbouring villages. He was a successful choir-trainer, spending several years at Leamington, and conducted concerts as well as services, for which he was ‘constantly composing works’. The village choir festival held under his direction at Naseby, in 1837, is said to have been the talk of the district for long after. He spent some six or seven years at Leamington, during which time he enjoyed the friendship of C. Rider, a wealthy Methodist who did much good for the psalmody of Lancashire and elsewhere some fifty or sixty years ago. Jarman published an enormous quantity of music, including over six hundred hymn-tunes, besides anthems, services, and similar pieces. Amongst his many anthems written for special occasions there is one for the opening of the new Baptist chapel at Clipston. Another is a MAGNIFICAT for Dr Marsh's Episcopal chapel at Leamington, where Thomas Jarman was called to assist the quire in their study and performance of psalmody. Thomas Jarman lived to the good old age of eighty-five, dying in 1861, and lies buried in the graveyard attached to the Baptist chapel at Clipston in Northants. --immanuelsground.com/composers/ (excerpts)

Henry Lahee

1826 - 1912 Scripture: John 1:29 Composer of "NATIVITY" in Singing the Faith Born: April 11, 1826, Chelsea, London, England. Died: April 29, 1912, London, England. Lahee studied under John Goss and William Sterndale Bennett. He played the organ at several churches, including Holy Trinity Church, Brompton (1847-74). He won prizes for his compositions in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and London, and set to music poems by Edgar Allen Poe ("The Bells"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Building of the Ship") and Alfred Tennyson ("Sleeping Beauty"). His works include: Metrical Psalter, with William Irons, 1855 Famous Singers of Today and Yesterday, 1898 One Hundred Hymn Tunes Sources: Frost, p. 680 CS Concordance, pp. 246-47 Nutter, p. 460 --www.hymntime.com/tch

Cecil Frances Alexander

1818 - 1895 Person Name: Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895 Scripture: John 1:29-51 Author of "Jesus calls us! O'er the tumult" in Singing the Faith As a small girl, Cecil Frances Humphries (b. Redcross, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1818; Londonderry, Ireland, 1895) wrote poetry in her school's journal. In 1850 she married Rev. William Alexander, who later became the Anglican primate (chief bishop) of Ireland. She showed her concern for disadvantaged people by traveling many miles each day to visit the sick and the poor, providing food, warm clothes, and medical supplies. She and her sister also founded a school for the deaf. Alexander was strongly influenced by the Oxford Movement and by John Keble's Christian Year. Her first book of poetry, Verses for Seasons, was a "Christian Year" for children. She wrote hymns based on the Apostles' Creed, baptism, the Lord's Supper, the Ten Commandments, and prayer, writing in simple language for children. Her more than four hundred hymn texts were published in Verses from the Holy Scripture (1846), Hymns for Little Children (1848), and Hymns Descriptive and Devotional ( 1858). Bert Polman ================== Alexander, Cecil Frances, née Humphreys, second daughter of the late Major John Humphreys, Miltown House, co. Tyrone, Ireland, b. 1823, and married in 1850 to the Rt. Rev. W. Alexander, D.D., Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. Mrs. Alexander's hymns and poems number nearly 400. They are mostly for children, and were published in her Verses for Holy Seasons, with Preface by Dr. Hook, 1846; Poems on Subjects in the Old Testament, pt. i. 1854, pt. ii. 1857; Narrative Hymns for Village Schools, 1853; Hymns for Little Children, 1848; Hymns Descriptive and Devotional, 1858; The Legend of the Golden Prayers 1859; Moral Songs, N.B.; The Lord of the Forest and his Vassals, an Allegory, &c.; or contributed to the Lyra Anglicana, the S.P.C.K. Psalms and Hymns, Hymns Ancient & Modern, and other collections. Some of the narrative hymns are rather heavy, and not a few of the descriptive are dull, but a large number remain which have won their way to the hearts of the young, and found a home there. Such hymns as "In Nazareth in olden time," "All things bright and beautiful," "Once in Royal David's city," "There is a green hill far away," "Jesus calls us o'er the tumult," "The roseate hues of early dawn," and others that might be named, are deservedly popular and are in most extensive use. Mrs. Alexander has also written hymns of a more elaborate character; but it is as a writer for children that she has excelled. - John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =============== Alexander, Cecil F., née Humphreys, p. 38, ii. Additional hymns to those already noted in this Dictionary are in common use:— 1. Christ has ascended up again. (1853.) Ascension. 2. His are the thousand sparkling rills. (1875.) Seven Words on the Cross (Fifth Word). 3. How good is the Almighty God. (1S48.) God, the Father. 4. In [a] the rich man's garden. (1853.) Easter Eve. 5. It was early in the morning. (1853.) Easter Day. 6. So be it, Lord; the prayers are prayed. (1848.) Trust in God. 7. Saw you never in the twilight? (1853.) Epiphany. 8. Still bright and blue doth Jordan flow. (1853.) Baptism of Our Lord. 9. The angels stand around Thy throne. (1848.) Submission to the Will of God. 10. The saints of God are holy men. (1848.) Communion of Saints. 11. There is one Way and only one. (1875.) SS. Philip and James. 12. Up in heaven, up in heaven. (1848.) Ascension. 13. We are little Christian children. (1848.) Holy Trinity. 14. We were washed in holy water. (1848.) Holy Baptism. 15. When of old the Jewish mothers. (1853.) Christ's Invitation to Children. 16. Within the Churchyard side by side. (1848.) Burial. Of the above hymns those dated 1848 are from Mrs. Alexander's Hymns for Little Children; those dated 1853, from Narrative Hymns, and those dated 1875 from the 1875 edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern. Several new hymns by Mrs. Alexander are included in the 1891 Draft Appendix to the Irish Church Hymnal. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ============= Alexander, Cecil F. , p. 38, ii. Mrs. Alexander died at Londonderry, Oct. 12, 1895. A number of her later hymns are in her Poems, 1896, which were edited by Archbishop Alexander. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) See also in:Hymn Writers of the Church

S. F. Jones

1826 - 1895 Person Name: Samuel Flood Jones, 1826-1895 Scripture: John 1:29-51 Composer of "ST. CATHERINE (Flood Jones)" in Singing the Faith Jones, Samuel Flood, M.A., son of William Jones, for many years the Secretary of the Religious Tract Society, was born in London in 1826, and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A. 1851). Taking Holy Orders he was Minister of St. Matthew's, Spring Gardens, London, 1854-76; Lecturer of Bow, London, 1858-76; Minor Canon, Westminster Abbey, 1859; Precentor, 1869; Vicar of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, London, 1876; and Priest in Ordinary to the Queen, 1869. In 1860 he published Hymns of Prayer and Praise, Lond., Dalton & Lucy. This book contained 100 hymns, of which the following were by Mr. Jones:— 1. Here all is strife and war. The Present and the Future. 2. Jesus, my Advocate in heaven. Jesus the Advocate. This is adapted from "Star of the Sea." 3. Lord of light, this day our Guardian be. Morning. 4. This is the day of light, When first the silv'ry dawn. Sunday. Written long before 1860. Mr. Jones's most popular hymn is:— 5. Father of Life, confessing. Holy Matrimony. This was written about 1867, at the request of the late Dean Stanley for use at Marriages in Westminster Abbey. It has passed into several hymn-books. Mr. Jones's brother, William Henry Rich-Jones, M.A., Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon, and Canon of Salisbury (b. 1817, d. 1885), contributed :— 1. Haste, my soul, thy God adore. God the Sustainer. 2. Lord, Thy Solemn Passion past. Ascension. (In W. J. Blew's Collection, 1852-55, but not his) to his Hymns, &c, as above; and his wife Catherine Flood Jones (b. 1828) also contributed:— Pilgrim, bend thy footsteps on. Onward. to the same work. He died Feb. 26, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ====================== Jones, Samuel F., p. 606, i. We find that his hymn “Father of life, confessing," was published with Turle's music in Feb., 1866. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)