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Edmund Martin Geldart

Hymnal Number: 155 Author of "When the light of day is waning" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book

1848 - 1948 Person Name: Janet Steel Pattinson Hymnal Number: 142 Author of "While sinks our land to realms of night" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book Pattinson, Janet Steel, was born at Paisley, Scotland, but as a child removed to Bradford, Yorks, where she is now (1906) engaged in educational work. She published in 1899 Far-Ben, or Poems in Many Moods. Her hymns, mostly written for Sunday School Anniversaries and other occasions connected with College Chapel (Congregational), Bradford, include:— 1. Come to me, 0 my Saviour. [Fellowship with Jesus.] Written 1884, first published in The Teacher at Work, 1886; in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905. 2. Hosanna! rang the song of old. [Children's Voices.] In C. Bonner's Garland of S. S. Music, 1882; ed. 1886, No. 26. 3. While sinks our land to realms of night. [Sunday Evening.] Written and printed for the S. S. Anniversary of 1891; in Border's Hymns Supplement 1894 and Worship Song, 1905. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Leicester Darwall

1812 - 1897 Person Name: Leicester Darwell Hymnal Number: 324 Composer of "ST. HUBERT" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book

Charles Gordon Ames

1828 - 1912 Hymnal Number: 497a Author of "With loving hearts and hands we rear" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book Ames, Charles Gordon. (Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1828-April 15, 1912, Boston, Massachusetts). He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1849 and spent some years as a home missionary in Minnesota. In 1859, he joined the Unitarian denomination and served several churches, his last pastorate being with the Church of the Disciples, Boston. In 1905, he wrote a hymn for the dedication of the new edifice of that Society, beginning "With loving hearts and hands we rear," which is included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914. A hymn beginning "Father in heaven, hear us today," is attributed to him in the Universalist Church Harmonies: Old and New, 1898, but is not found elsewhere. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Mary Warburton Hawkes

Hymnal Number: 476 Author of "'Give us each day our daily bread'" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book

Florence Harris

1891 - 1933 Hymnal Number: 407 Author of "Like pilgrims sailing through the night" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book Harris, Florence (Mrs. Robert H. Hooke). (1891-1933). Wrote in 1907, for the tenth anniversary of Unity Church (Unitarian), Montclair, New Jersey, of which she was a member, a hymn entitled "The Founders" beginning "Like a pilgrim sailing through the night" which was included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, and in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Edward A. Church

1844 - 1929 Hymnal Number: 487 Author of "Almighty Builder, bless, we pray" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book Church, Edward Alonzo. (Boston, Massachusetts, 1844--January 29, 1929, Roxbury, Massachusetts). He was a business man who wrote in 1904, for the laying of the cornerstone of the new edifice for the Church of the Disciples (Unitarian), Boston, of which he was a member, a hymn beginning "Almighty Builder, bless, we pray, The cornerstone that here we lay." The next year, for the final service in the old edifice which the congregation was leaving, he wrote a hymn beginning "O Thou to whom in prayer and praise, We here have turned with constant heart." Both hymns were included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, and the first is also in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives