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Hu Te-ngai

Person Name: Hu Te-ngai, dates unknown Hymnal Number: 486 Adapter of "LE P'ING" in Pilgrim Hymnal

1866 - 1931 Person Name: Ozora S. Davis, 1866-1931 Hymnal Number: 220 Author of "We Bear the Strain of Earthly Care" in Pilgrim Hymnal Born: July 30, 1866, Wheelock, Vermont. Died: March 15, 1931, Chicago, Illinois. Davis grew up in White River Junction, Vermont, and by age 15 was an expert telegraph operator. He attended St. Johnsbury Academy and graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1889. With the aid of a fellowship from Hartford Theological Seminary, he earned a PhD in Leipzig, Germany. He pastored in Springfield, Vermont; Newtonville, Massachusetts, and New Britain, Connecticut. From 1909-29, he was president of Chicago Theological Seminary. In 1927 he became Moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches. His works include: John Robinson–The Pilgrim Pastor, 1903 Elihu Burritt (New Britain: 1907) The Pilgrim Faith, 1913 Using the Bible in Public Address, 1916 Meeting the Master, 1917 International Aspects of Christianity, 1919 Comrades in the Great Cause The Gospel in the Light of the Great War, 1919 Evangelistic Preaching, 1921 Preaching and the Social Gospel, 1922 Davis died near Kansas City, Missouri, while traveling with Grace, his wife, from Los Angeles to Chicago. --www.hymntime.com/tch/b

John Henry Hopkins

1861 - 1945 Person Name: John H. Hopkins, 1861-1945 Hymnal Number: 481 Composer of "GRAND ISLE" in Pilgrim Hymnal John Henry Hopkins, born in Vermont, he was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1891. He served mostly in the Chicago diocese. He died in Grand Isle, Vermont. Dianne Shapiro from The Great Forty Years: in the Diocese of Chicago A.D. 1893 to 1934 (The Centenary Fund of the Diocese of Chicago, Inc.: 1936 and Find a Grave website (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33095210/john-henry-hopkins) (accessed 5/22/2024)

John Randall

1717 - 1799 Person Name: John Randall, 1715-1799 Hymnal Number: 569 Composer of "[Blessed art thou, O Lord]" in Pilgrim Hymnal

Zhao Zichen

1888 - 1979 Person Name: T. C. Chao, 1888- Hymnal Number: 486 Author of "Golden Breaks the Dawn" in Pilgrim Hymnal See also Tzu-Chen Chao. Zhao Zichen (Chao Tzu-chen) 1888-1979, born in Deqing, Zhejiang (Chekiang), China in 1888. He had a solid classical Chinese education. Although he came from a Buddhist family, he attended a missionary middle school where he was introduced to the Christian faith and joined the church, although he was not baptized until 1908. Then he studied at Suzhou (Soochow) University, a missionary institution, graduating in 1911. A few years later, he went to the United States where, in the years 1914-17, he received M.A. and B.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1917, he returned to the Methodist Dongwu University in Suzhou and taught there for six years. In 1926 he moved to Yenching University in Beijing (Peking) as a professor of theology. He became dean of the School of Religion in 1928, a post he held until 1952, when he was denounced politically and removed. From 1910s until 1940s, Zhao, along with other colleagues such as Liu Tingfang (Timothy Lew), Xu Baoqian (Hsu Pao-ch'ien), and Wu Leichuan (Wu Lei-ch'uan), tried to make Christianity relevant to the needs of Chinese culture and society and tended to strip it of all supernatural elements. He was recognized in China by the mainline churches before the coming of the new government as one of its leading theologians. He was concerned that the church be purified both institutionally from its denominationalism and doctrinally from its many nonscientific views. He was also concerned that Christianity be related to Confucianism or, more broadly, to humanism. During these decades, he was active on national Protestant scene, attending major conferences and organizations, including the National Chinese Christian Council and YMCA; participating in the International Missionary Council (IMC) meetings in Jerusalem in 1928; in Madras in 1938; and the first assembly of the World Council (WCC) at Amsterdam in 1948, where he was elected one of the six presidents of the WCC, representing East Asian churches. He resigned from this post in 1951 due to the break out of the Korean War. Zhao went through several phases in his theological journey. In his early works---Christian Philosophy (Chinese, 1925) and The Life of Jesus (Chinese, 1935)---he espoused a liberal theological perspective. In his later writings---An Interpretation of Christianity, The Life of Paul (both in Chinese, 1947), and My Prison Experience (1948) --- he became more conservative in faith, especially after his imprisonment by the Japanese for several months in 1942. He also wrote many articles in English, especially for the Chinese Recorder in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1947 Zhao was awarded an honorary doctorate from Princeton University. Zhao reconciled himself to the new Communist government after 1949 and participated in the China People's Political Consultation Meeting as one of five Christian representatives. When the Three-Self Movement was launched, he was one of the 40 church leaders who signed the "Three-Self Manifesto." In 1956 Zhao was accused of siding with American mission boards in their imperialism toward China and was forced to resign from his position as professor and dean at the School of Religion at Yanjing University. After that he descended into obscurity and apparently lost his faith long before his death. In many ways he was a liberal theologian, although Western terms do not do justice to his thought. Zhao died in Beijing on November 21, 1979. He was rehabilitated officially a short time before his death. --www.bdcconline.net/en/stories/z/zhao-zichen.php

William Merrell Vories

1880 - 1964 Person Name: William M. Vories, 1880- Hymnal Number: 449 Author of "Let There Be Light, Lord God of Hosts" in Pilgrim Hymnal

David Jenkins

1848 - 1915 Person Name: David Jenkins, 1849-1915 Hymnal Number: 356 Adapter of "LLANLLYFNI" in Pilgrim Hymnal Born: December 30, 1848, Trecastle, Breconshire, Wales. Died: December 10, 1915, Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales. Buried: Trecastle, Breconshire, Wales. Professor David Jenkins (1848 - 1915) was a Welsh composer born at Trecastle, Brecknockshire, Wales. Originally apprenticed to the tailoring trade, he joined the Tonic Solfa choral movement and in 1874 enrolled at Aberystwyth College and studied under the renowned composer Joseph Parry, the first Professor of Music there. Jenkins received his Mus. Bac. from Cambridge in 1878. In 1893, he was appointed lecturer in the newly-formed Music Department of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was appointed Professor in 1910, a post he held until his death. He was a prominent figure in the musical life of Wales, judging at the National Eisteddfod and provincial eisteddfodau, and conducting at cymanfaoedd (hymn-singing festivals). He was a prolific composer; his best-known choral works are Arch y Cyfamod, Job, Yr Ystorm and The Psalm of Life, which was written for the Cardiff Triennial Festival in 1895, and was first premiered by two thousand singers at the Crystal Palace, London, on July 1896. He was also an editor of Y Cerddor. He died in Castell Brychan, Aberystwyth. --www.hymnswithoutwords.com