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Friedrich von Flotow

1812 - 1883 Person Name: Flotow Hymnal Number: 132 Composer of "[Softly now the dew is falling]" in Evangel Songs Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand, Freiherr von Flotow

Albert Zeller

1804 - 1877 Hymnal Number: 224 Author of "I've ventured, and I'll venture still" in Evangel Songs

1805 - 1884 Hymnal Number: 156 Author of "The less I am, the more Thou art" in Evangel Songs Moraht, Adolph , Ph.D., son of J. D. M. Moraht, merchant in Hamburg, was born at Hamburg, Nov. 28, 1805. From 1825 to 1828 he was a student of theology at the Universities of Halle, Göttingen, and Berlin, graduating Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1828. He was then resident for nine years as a candidate of Theology (licensed preacher) at Hamburg, teaching in private schools, and devoting his spare time to the work of Home Missions. At Easter, 1838, he was appointed second pastor at Mollen, in Lauenburg, and in 1846 chief pastor. He died at Möllen, Dec. 6, 1884 (Koch vii. 296; MS. from his daughter, &c). His hymns appeared principally in his (1) Harfenklänge (90), Lüneburg, 1840; 2nd ed. (107), Hamburg, 1865. (2) Zweite Sammlung der Harfenklänge (73), Hamburg, 1880. Some of them first appeared in various papers and collections. The best are his hymns of Love to Christ, which are sweet in tone and the fruits of ripe Christian experience. Those which have passed into English are:— i. Ich bleib bei dir! wo könnt ichs besser haben. Rest in the Lord. 1840 as above, p. 111, in 5 st.; and in O. Kraus, 1879, p. 360, omitting st. v. Translated as "I rest with Thee, Lord! whither should I go," by Miss Borthwick in Hymns from the Land of Luther., 1855, p. 62 (1884, p. 120), and in Miss Warner's Hymns of the Church Militant, 1858, p. 60. ii. Je kleiner ich, je grösser du. Humility. Founded on St. John iii. 30. 1840, as above (1865, p. 121), in 7 st., and in O. Kraus, 1879, p. 361. Translated as “The less I am, the more Thou art," by J. Kelly, 1885, p. 31. iii. Wo ist dein Bethel, wo die Himmelspforte. Secret Prayer, 1840, as above, p. 101, in 4 st., and in F. Seinecke's Evangelical Liedersegen, 1862, No. 192. Translated as (1) "Where is thy Bethel, where the world's control," by C. T. Astley, 1860, p. 22. (2) "Where is thy Bethel? where the gate of heaven.” by J. Kelly, 1885, p. 11. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Charles Force Deems

1820 - 1893 Person Name: Charles F. Deems, D.D., LL.D. Hymnal Number: 152 Author of "At the thought of Love Eternal" in Evangel Songs Born: December 4, 1820, Baltimore, Maryland. Died: November 18, 1893, Staten Island, New York. Buried: Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, New York. Grandson of a Methodist minister, Deems began preaching temperance at the tender age of 13. He studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, intending to become a lawyer. Instead, after graduating in 1839, became a Methodist minister in Asbury, New Jersey. The next year, he began working for the American Bible Society of North Carolina, and later became a professor of logic and rhetoric at the University of North Carolina (1842-48). In 1849, he taught natural sciences at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia for a year, then began pastoring a Methodist congregation in New Berne, North Carolina. Shortly thereafter, he became president of the Women’s College in Greensboro, North Carolina, serving until 1854, when he returned to New Berne. After the American civil war, he moved to New York City, where he edited The Watchman newspaper and founded the Church of Strangers, helped in part by a large grant from Cornelius Vanderbilt. He also influenced Vanderbilt’s decision to contribute a million dollars to the Central University of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (now Vanderbilt University). Deems’ works include: Hymns for All Christians, 1869 (compiled with Phoebe Cary) Scotch Verdict in re Evolution, 1885 --www.hymntime.com/tch

William Morley Punshon

1824 - 1881 Person Name: W. Morley Punshon, D.D. Hymnal Number: 253 Author of "Sweet is the sunlight after rain" in Evangel Songs Punshon, William Morley, LL.D. This greatly and justly honoured name of recent Wesleyan Methodism finds a tiny niche in this work from a thin poetic vein, which gave him much enjoyment, if its working out must be confessed to have yielded nothing of permanent value for hymnody, or at all comparable with his splendid service to the Christian Church as preacher and lecturer. His contributions to J. Lyth's Wild Flowers, or, a Selection of Original Poetry (1843), though reprinted in 1846, speedily withered as "flowers" in a hortus siccus. His Lays of Hope (1853) was no advance on the Wild Flowers. His Sabbath Chimes, or, Meditations in Verse for the Sundays of a Year (1867), suggested inevitable comparisons with Keble's classic of the Christian Year. Throughout, the thinking is bewilderingly meagre, the sentiment commonplace, the workmanship clumsy and poor. Ease and inspiration are absent. His Life has been amply and lovingly written by F. W. Macdonald and A. H. Reynar (1887); and it is a noble and beautiful story. He was born at Doncaster on 29th May, 1824, only child of John Punshon and Elizabeth Morley. The latter was of a good family. He lost his parents in boyhood. Through maternal relationship, young Punshon was introduced to commercial life in Yorkshire, Hull, &c. He marked 29th November, 1838, as the day of his spiritual birth. In 1842 he began to be heard of locally as a preacher, being still in business. In 1844 he proceeded to the Methodist Theological Institute at Richmond; but remained there only a few months. He preferred evangelizing to stated preaching. He leapt into popularity at a bound, probably not to his gain, either intellectually or morally, though his diary breathes an admirable humility. In 1854 he made his advent as a lecturer by his Prophet of Horeb. The impression made by it was amazing. Then followed others, with ever deepening and widening impression. Contemporaneous with his abundant, over-abundant preaching and platform speaking, was such quantity and quality of effective work and service in raising large sums of money for Christian and other missionary and educational work as astounds a reader of his Life. He was five times President of the Canadian Methodist Conference (1868-72), and once of the English Conference (1875). His degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the Victoria University, Cobourg, Canada, in 1873. Throughout, in private and public, he was a large-souled, whole-hearted, true man of God. "Weakened by the way" on the continent, he slowly worked his way home, and after a brief final illness, fell gently and softly asleep on April 14, 1881. His hymns in the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1875, and the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, are :— 1. Listen ! the Master beseecheth. Go, work in the Vineyard. 2. Sweet is the sunlight after rain. Sunday Morning. 3. We woke today with anthems sweet. Sunday Evening. No. 1 is in the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879; and 2 and 3 are from the Sabbath Chime, 1867. [Rev. A. B. Grosart, D.D., LL.D.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ========================= Punshon, William Morley. (Doncaster, Yorkshire, May 29, 1824--London, April 14, 1881). Methodist. Except for 6 months at Richmond Theological Institution, he qualified privately for pastorates at Newcastle (1845-1848), Sheffield (1848-1855), Leeds (1855-1858), Bayswater (1858-1861), Islington (1861-1864), and Clifton (1864-1867). His growing fame as preacher, lecturer, and organizer led to his appointment as president of the Canadian Methodist Conference in 1867, to maintain a British tie despite Confederation. Between 1868 and 1873 he travelled all over Canada, besides spearheading the erection of Metropolitan Church. Canadians repaid his leadership and achievements by using for a century three hymns from his Sabbath Chimes (1867). He served as president of the British Methodist Conference (1874-1875), and as Missionary Secretary. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

D. A. Woodworth

Hymnal Number: 242 Author of "Art thou weak in faith, and doubting?" in Evangel Songs

Grace Lindsey

Person Name: Mrs. Grace Lindsey Hymnal Number: 172 Author of "Carry the News" in Evangel Songs Pseudonym. See also Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915

Bertha C. Mason

Person Name: Bertha Mason Hymnal Number: 179 Author of "What a Chorus there will be" in Evangel Songs

Alfred T. Schauffler

1841 - 1915 Person Name: A. T. Schauffler Hymnal Number: 264 Composer of "[The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ]" in Evangel Songs An essay on Alfred Theodore Schauffler is available in the DNAH Archives: Schauffler, Robert McE. (n.d.; data compiled 1950-1951). Alfred Theodore Schauffler. In Schauffler chronicle : a roster and biographical sketches of the Schauffler family in America : William Gottlieb Schauffler and Mary Reynolds Schauffler and their descendants (15-16). [s.l.] : The Author.