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Colin P. Thompson

b. 1945 Person Name: Colin P. Thompson, b. 1945 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:13 Translator of "Nothing distress you" in Common Praise

D'Arcy Wood

b. 1936 Person Name: D'Arcy Wood, 1936- Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 Versifier of "So God loved the people of the world" in Together in Song

Deirdre Browne

b. 1936 Person Name: Deirdre Browne, 1936- Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:8-13 Author of "Come as you are: that’s how I want you" in Together in Song

1835 - 1918 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:9 Author of "I Know" in Songs of the Kingdom Hawks, Annie Sherwood. Mrs. Hawks was born in Hoosick, N. Y., May 28, 1835, and has resided for many years at Brooklyn. Her hymns were contributed to Bright Jewels, Pure Gold, Boyal Diadem, Brightest and Best, Temple Anthems, Tidal Wave, and other popular Sunday School hymnbooks. They include "I need Thee every hour" (written April, 1872), "Thine, most gracious Lord," "Why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?" and others of the same type. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ==============

Fenella Bennetts

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 Author of "Though I May Speak" in Christian Science Hymnal

Rob Atkins

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 Author of "If we could speak all tongues of earth and heaven" in Hymnary Custom Collection

Daniel B. Merrick

1926 - 2004 Person Name: Daniel B. Merrick, 1926-2004 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 Author of "Welcome to this Feast of Witness" in When Breaks the Dawn Merrick Daniel B. (Bloomington, Illinois, April 29, 1926--November 11, 2004). Married Dagmar Gustafson in 1952 while a student at Phillips Theological Seminary (A.B., 1948; B.D., 1954); three children. Served churches in Sandoval, Ill.; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Panama Canal Zone; Peoria, Illinois; and Havana, Ill. Won his first hymn writing contest in the mid-1950s. The hymn "O God whose Love Compels Us" was a winning entry for a theme hymn for the American Baptist convention in 1967. Edited the Chalice Hymnal for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). --DNAH Archives

Rory Cooney

b. 1952 Person Name: Rory Cooney, b. 1952 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 Author of "Faithful Family" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

Nelson A. Sosa

b. 1935 Person Name: Nelson Sosa Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 Author of "El amor permanecerá" in Celebremos Su Gloria

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 Author of "What a Blessed Reunion" in Lasting Hymns No. 2 Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============