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N. B. Herrell

1877 - 1953 Scripture: Matthew 27:51 Author of "The Unveiled Christ" in Hymns of Faith Born: March 8, 1877, Miami, Indiana. Died: May 10, 1953, Pasadena, California. A Nazarene minister, Herrell was a pastor in Arlington, Virginia, when a heart ailment forced his retirement. His works include: Christ at the Controls The Way of Christian Prosperity --www.hymntime.com/tch/ ================ Rev. N. B. Herrell has had a rich and abiding ministry in the church. As pastor, evangelist, district superintendent, and church leader, he has had opportunity to test the fundamental principles of stewardship in every phase of church activity. He has spent nearly a lifetime of study concerning this important theme. For thirty-five years he has preached and practiced the fundamentals of Christian stewardship. --wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/ ================= Herrell, Noah Benjamin. (Miami, Indiana, March 8, 1879--1953). Saved and sanctified in 1901 under the preaching of Lillian Belle Vanderbur, in Marion, Ind. Two years later, he married the girl evangelist. They had one daughter, five sons. District Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene: Pittsburgh District (1910-1916) (Brought Illinois Holiness University into his denomination as Olivet Nazarene College); Northern California District; Idaho-Oregon District (helped build Northwest Nazarene College and Good Samaritan Hospital); 1920-1922, Ohio District (bought and organized Central Ohio Camp Ground); 1925-1933 (Kansas City District); Pastored churches in Coffeeville, Kansas; Hammond, Ind.; and Arlington, Virginia. Could not read or write music. Most songs came by inspiration, words and tune together. --E. Roger Taylor, DNAH Archives

George Lockwood

b. 1946 Person Name: George Lockwood, b. 1946 Scripture: Matthew 27:28-30 Versifier of "You, Lord, Are Both Lamb and Shepherd (Tú, Pastor, también Cordero)" in Santo, Santo, Santo Rev. George Lockwood was born in 1946 and has been a missionary to Costa Rica. He has pastored Spanish-speaking congregations in both Arizona and California and served on the editorial committee for the Methodist hymnal supplement Celebremos II. In addition, Lockwood has traveled throughout Central and South America interviewing church musicians and gathering new hymns from both Spanish and Portuguese cultures which he then presents at conferences and workshops. The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

John R. Van Maanen

Person Name: John Van Maanen, 1958- Scripture: Matthew 27:35 Composer of "PARADOX" in The Book of Praise John Van Maanen has been a member of Arcady since its founding and often sings as a baritone soloist in performances of Handel's Messiah. He sings in the choir of his home congregation and sometimes serves as a substitute organist in local churches. John’s first hymn tune, (Christus) Paradox (1984), is in three Canadian denominational hymnals: Voices United (1996), The Book of Praise (1997) and Common Praise (1998). Common Praise (1998) also has his tune, Phos Hilaron, written in 1990. John’s arrangement of the hymn Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence was published by Oxford University Press in 2007. He continues to enjoy composing: most of his works are for choir with organ accompaniment. John Van Maanen

Greg Scheer

b. 1966 Scripture: Matthew 27:32-54 Arranger of "AMEN" in Sing With Me Greg Scheer is a composer, author, and speaker. His life’s work includes two sons (Simon and Theo), two books (The Art of Worship, 2006, and Essential Worship, 2016), and hundreds of compositions, songs, and arrangements in a dizzying variety of styles. Greg is also co-founder of Hymnary.org and source of many ideas and inspirations, some good. Greg Scheer

William Billings

1746 - 1800 Person Name: William Billings, 1746-1800 Scripture: Matthew 27:46 Composer of "WHEN JESUS WEPT" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.) William Billings (b. 1746; d. 1800) was an American choral composer, thought by some to be the father of American choral music. His father died when William was 14, and he was forced to drop all formal education and take up tanning to get by. With no formal musical training he began to compose, and his songs were well-loved and traveled quickly. However, due to unsubstantial copyright laws, Billings received hardly a penny from the publication of his music. After a period of fame and prosperity, his music was forgotten, and his last decade was one of decline. Married with six children, he died in poverty, though his music would be resurrected after his death and sung to this day. Laura de Jong

Maud Frazer Jackson

1873 - 1950 Person Name: Maud Frazer Scripture: Matthew 27:36 Author of "When I See My Savior" in Hymns of Faith Maud Frazer Jackson USA 1873-1950. It is surmised she lived in PA and/or NJ. She was a religious author, poet, and music compiler, who published her collections of music, including 400 hymns called “Hymns about forgiveness!”, “Wayside Song” (1922), and “Starlight & lamplight” (1928). Her poems were sometimes furnished to newspapers around the country and printed. John Perry

Robert Harkness

1880 - 1961 Scripture: Matthew 27:36 Composer of "[When I see my Savior, hanging on Calvary]" in Hymns of Faith After attending a revival meeting by Reuben Torrey and Charles M. Alexander, Harkness became Alexander’s pianist. He came to Christ shortly thereafter (on a bicycle, he said), and made several round the world tours with Torrey and Alexander. Harkness was especially well known for his program The Music of the Cross, and as the author of correspondence courses in hymn playing. He wrote over 2,000 hymns and Gospel songs in his lifetime. (hymntime.com/tch)

Edmund Spenser

1552 - 1599 Person Name: Edmund Spenser, 1552-1599 Scripture: Matthew 27:52 Author of "Most glorious Lord of life" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Spenser, Edmund (born 1552; died 1599), has a right to his place in this work extrinsically and intrinsically. Extrinsically his odes, entitled by himself Fowre Hymnes, give us a connecting link with Chaucer; and intrinsically they are of "the brave translunary things" that ought long since to have introduced much in them to the Church's Hymnology. Spenser in the outset acknowledged Chaucer for his "dere maister;" and throughout there are echoes and re-echoes of him. Specifically in relation to the Foure Hymn, the Compleynt of Pite must have been carried by the youthful Spenser to Hurstwood and the Pendle district, or was found in one or other of the contemporary oultured Spenser households there. The Compleyn is of "Love," as is Spenser's first of the immortal four "in honour of Love." Like Chaucer's, the metre of the new Hymnes is rhyme-royal; and the meditative reader of the elder and later poets will catch notes and images common to both. Nor is it mere verbal resemblances that we come upon. The thought and emotion flow in the same channels… Turning to the Hymnes themselves, the student-reader will be rewarded if he consult Professor F. T. Palgrave's inestimable Essay on the "Minor Poems of Spenser." I can only cull two bits on the two greatest of the Hymnes. Of “Love":— "The love painted here is at once so idealized and so general—the human and the personal aspect of passion so faintly present—that we feel as though this were tome splendid procession unwinding itself before us in progress to the Capitol, rather than a hymn sung in the inmost shrine of Eros. What we hear is far lets the music of Love, than Love set to lovely music: a stream of gorgeous beauty, in which the chivalry of the Middle Ages blends audibly with the mythology of the Renaissance." Then of "Heavenly Love:"— "Nowhere, I think, has Spenser written, in his larger pieces at least, with more uniformly equable dignity, united with more serene melody, than here; and great is the gain in reasonableness and charm to the celestial vision and the pictures from the Gospel story which he presents, from the absence of that Platonic colouring—so far as Platonism it is—which tinges the earlier companion Ode. Spenser, in fact, now writes from the fulness of his faith ; and the poem has hence a reality which the most skilful art alone, in the most skilful hands, let the artist strive as he will, must ever fail to compass." [Rev. A. B. Grosart, D.D., LL.D] --Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================= Spenser, Edmund, p. 1072, ii. His poem, “Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day " (Sunday), is Sonnet lxviii. in his Amoretti and Epithalamion, 1595 (not paged), and is in his Works, ed. K. Morris, 1871, p. 583. In The English Hymnal, 1906. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Henry Lawes

1596 - 1662 Person Name: Henry Lawes, 1596-1992 Scripture: Matthew 27:52 Composer of "FARLEY CASTLE" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Born: January 5, 1596, Dinton, Wiltshire, England. Died: October 21, 1662, London, England. Buried: In the cloisters of Westminster Abbey, London, England. Lawes, tutor to the daughters of the Earl of Bridgewater, is best known as a composer. He became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1626, and a member of the "King’s Musick" in 1631. He wrote over 400 vocal pieces, as well as anthems and instrumental compositions. His works include: Choice Psalmes Put into Musick for Three Voices, 1648 Ayres and Dialogues (London: 1653) Sources: Frost, p. 680 Hughes, pp. 467-68 Nutter, p. 460 Stulken, p. 292 --www.hymntime.com/tch

Marty Haugen

b. 1950 Person Name: Marty Haugen, b. 1950 Scripture: Matthew 27:45 Composer of "ANNIKA" in Gather Comprehensive Marty Haugen (b. 1950), is a prolific liturgical composer with many songs included in hymnals across the liturgical spectrum of North American hymnals and beyond, with many songs translated into different languages. He was raised in the American Lutheran Church, received a BA in psychology from Luther College, yet found his first position as a church musician in a Roman Catholic parish at a time when the Roman Catholic Church was undergoing profound liturgical and musical changes after Vatican II. Finding a vocation in that parish to provide accessible songs for worship, he continued to compose and to study, receiving an MA in pastoral studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota. A number of liturgical settings were prepared for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and more than 400 of his compositions are available from several publishers, especially GIA Publications, who also produced some 30 recordings of his songs. He is composer-in-residence at Mayflower Community Congregational Church in Minneapolis and continues to compose and travel to speak and teach at worship events around the world. Emily Brink