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Howard B. Grose

1851 - 1939 Topics: The Christian Life Aspiration and Consecration; Christ his example; Invitation To Dedication; Courage & Loyalty; Service; Stewardship Author of "Give of Your Best to the Master" in The New Church Hymnal Born: September 5, 1851, Millerton, New York. Died: May 19, 1939, Ballston Spa, New York. Buried: Ballston Spa, New York. Grose attended the University of Chicago, Illinois, and the University of Rochester, New York (AB 1876, AM 1880). He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1883, and served at the First Baptist Church, Poughkeepsie, New York (1883-87) and the First Baptist Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1888-90). He also served as president of the University of South Dakota (1890-92), taught history at the University of Chicago (1892-96), was assistant editor of The Watchman in Boston, Massachusetts (1896-1900), and editorial secretary for the American Baptist Home Mission Society (1904-10), and edited the Missions journal for 23 years. He lived his later years in Mount Vernon, New York. His works include: The Endeavor Hymnal (New York: 1902) Aliens or Americans, 1906 The Incoming Millions, 1906 The Praise Book, with George B. Graff (Boston, Massachusetts: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1906) Advance to the Antilles, 1910 Never Man So Spake, 1924 --www.hymntime.org/tch

David Gambrell

Topics: Dedication and Stewardship Author of "Great God of Every Blessing" in Glory to God Rev. David Gambrell is associate for worship in the PC(USA) Office of Theology and Worship and editor of Call to Worship, and an ex officio advisor to the hymnal committee. Education: Ph.D., liturgical studies Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary --www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries

W. S. Weeden

1847 - 1908 Person Name: Winfield S. Weeden, 1847-1908 Topics: Benevolence; Dedication of Life; Social Betterment; Stewardship of Life and Talents; The Christian Way of Life Stewardship and Service Composer of "[Somebody did a golden deed]" in Worship and Service Hymnal Winfield S. Weeden was born in 1847 in Middleport, OH. In his early life he was active in teaching singing schools throughout that area in Ohio. As singer and associate to Judson VandeVenter in his evangelistic campaigns, Weeden assisted in meetings at East Palestine and Sebring. He compiled several collections of hymns among them The Peacemaker, Songs of the Peacemaker, and Songs of Sovereign Grace. Weeden died in 1908. (see 101 More Hymn Stories, Osbeck, Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1985) Mary Louise VanDyke

Eddie Espinosa

Topics: Dedication and Stewardship Author (English and Spanish) of "Change My Heart, O God (Cámbiame, Señor) (항 상 진 실 케)" in Glory to God

J. A. P. Schulz

1747 - 1800 Person Name: Johann A. P. Schulz, 1747-1800 Topics: Benevolence; Dedication of Life; Labor Day; Planting and Harvest; Stewardship of Life and Talents; Working Man Composer of "WIR PFLÜGEN (Dresden)" in Worship and Service Hymnal Johann Abraham Peter Schulz Germany 1747-1800. Born at Luneburg, Germany, son of a baker, he attended St Michaelis school in Luneburg and studied organ, then the Johanneum from 1759-1764. In 1765 he was a student of composer, Johann Kimberger, and then taught in Berlin himself. In 1768 Kimberger recommended Schulz for the position of music teacher and accompanist to the Polish Princess Sapieha Woiwodin von Smolensk. Schulz moved to Berlin and traveled with her for three years performing throughout Europe, where he came in contact with many new musical ideas. He married Catharina Maria Gercken, and they had a daughter, Celle. He served as the conductor of the French Theatre in Berlin from 1776-1780. From 1786-1787 he was the Kapellmeister of Prince Henry in Rheinsberg. He began writing operas in 1785 and became musical director of the Berlin French theatre. Schulz went on to serve as Court Kapellmeister in Copenhagen from 1787-1795 before returning to Berlin. In Copenhagen the music library burned down, and he had a breakdown in health from trying to save it. His health suffered further from the effects of a shipwreck he experienced in 1796. Schulz wrote seven operas, stage music, oratorios, and cantatas, as well as piano pieces, folk songs, and church music. He also wrote articles on music theory for Johann Georg Sulzer’s ‘Allgemeine Theorie der schonen Kunste’ in four volumes. He died at Schwedt an der Oder, Germany. John Perry

John Thompson

b. 1950 Topics: Dedication and Stewardship Author of "Lord, Prepare Me (Sanctuary)" in Glory to God

Grant Colfax Tullar

1869 - 1950 Person Name: Grant C. Tullar, 1869-1950 Topics: Benevolence; Dedication of Life; Social Betterment; Stewardship of Life and Talents; Youth Hymns; The Christian Way of Life Stewardship and Service Composer of "[Hear ye the Master's call]" in Worship and Service Hymnal Grant Colfax Tullar was born August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut. He was named after the American President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax. After the American Civil War, his father was disabled and unable to work, having been wounded in the Battle of Antietam. Tullar's mother died when he was just two years old so Grant had no settled home life until he became an adult. Yet from a life of sorrow and hardship he went on to bring joy to millions of Americans with his songs and poetry. As a child, he received virtually no education or religious training. He worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk. The last Methodist camp meeting in Bolton was in 1847. Tullar became a Methodist at age 19 at a camp meeting near Waterbury in 1888. He then attended the Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey. He became an ordained Methodist minister and pastored for a short time in Dover, Delaware. For 10 years he was the song leader for evangelist Major George A. Hilton. Even so, in 1893 he also helped found the well-known Tullar-Meredith Publishing Company in New York, which produced church and Sunday school music. Tullar composed many popular hymns and hymnals. His works include: Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar Meredith Co., 1903) and The Bible School Hymnal (New York: Tullar Meredith Co., 1907). One of Grant Tullar's most quoted poems is "The Weaver": My Life is but a weaving Between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft times He weaveth sorrow And I, in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, And I the under side. Not til the loom is silent And the shuttles cease to fly, Shall God unroll the canvas And explain the reason why. The dark threads are as needful In the Weaver's skillful hand, As the threads of gold and silver In the pattern He has planned. He knows, He loves, He cares, Nothing this truth can dim. He gives His very best to those Who chose to walk with Him. Grant Tullar --http://www.boltoncthistory.org/granttullar.html, from Bolton Community News, August 2006.

James Wood

1921 - 2003 Person Name: James H. Wood Topics: Dedication and Stewardship Harmonizer of "BEACH SPRING" in Glory to God James Wood was born April 14, 1921, in Rochester, Minn. He was a teacher of music and a concert singer, a choral conductor and composer In later life, he published a book of poems titled, "Songs Without Melodies." Dianne Shapiro

Jane M. Campbell

1817 - 1878 Person Name: Jane M. Campbell, 1817-1878 Topics: Benevolence; Dedication of Life; Labor Day; Planting and Harvest; Stewardship of Life and Talents; Working Man Translator of "We Plow the Fields, and Scatter" in Worship and Service Hymnal Campbell, Jane Montgomery, daughter of the Rev. A. Montgomery Campbell, born in London, 1817, died at Bovey Tracey, Nov. 15, 1878. Miss Campbell contributed in 1861, a number of translations from the German to the Rev. C. S. Bere's Garland of Songs; or, an English Liederkranz, 1862; and also to his Children’s Choral Book, 1869. The best known and most widely used of these translations is a portion of "Im Anfang war's auf Erden," as the harvest hymn, "We plough the fields and scatter.” Miss Campbell also published A Handbook for Singers, Lond., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. This small work contains the musical exercises which she taught in her father's parish school. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Doreen Potter

1925 - 1980 Topics: Dedication and Stewardship Adapter of "LINSTEAD" in Glory to God Doreen Potter was born in 1925 in Panama, but lived in Jamaica during her childhood. She studied music at St. Katharine's College in Liverpool, UK and at Trinity College, London. She was a violinist, pianist, and teacher. She married Philip Potter, general secretary of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Through her husband she met Fred Kaan and composed tunes for Kaan's texts, as well as other hymn tunes. Dianne Shapiro, from biography published by Hope Publishing Company (accessed online 8/5/2020)