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Frances Abernathy

Hymnal Number: 10314 Author of "Peace I Leave With You" in The Cyber Hymnal

William Griffith

1867 - 1929 Hymnal Number: 3313 Composer of "CUTTLE MILLS" in The Cyber Hymnal

R. N. Grisham

1877 - 1936 Hymnal Number: 3182 Author (v. 1-3) of "I Will Never Turn Back" in The Cyber Hymnal Rufus Norton Grisham

1839 - 1912 Person Name: Thomas Bowman Stephenson Hymnal Number: 6416 Author of "Sweetly Dawns the Sabbath Morning" in The Cyber Hymnal Stephenson, Thomas Bowman, D.D., LL.D., son of the Rev. John Stephenson, was born at Newcastle on Dec. 22, 1839, and educated at Wesley College, Sheffield, subsequently graduating at the University of London. In 1860 he entered the Wesleyan Ministry, and has since laboured in Norwich, Manchester, Bolton, and London. The great work of his life has been the establishment and maintenance of The Children's Home at Victoria Park, London, and its branches at Bolton, Birmingham, and the Isle of Man, and in Canada. Dr. Stephenson has written for Magazines and Reviews, and published a small work on Sisterhoods, and a Memorial Sketch of the late James Barlow. He has written several hymns, of which the following are most widely known:— 1. Fading like a lifetime ends another day. Evening. Written circa 1873, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 487, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. 2. Hear us, Saviour, bowed before Thee. Children's Hymn. Written for a Festival at the Children's Home, circa 1879. 3. 0 Father, Whose spontaneous love. Easter, or Missions. Appeared in The General Hymnary for Missions, &c, 1889, No. 266, in 9 stanzas of 4 lines. 4. Onward, o'er Time's great ocean. Life a Voyage. Written during a voyage across the South Sea. 5. Sweetly dawns the Sabbath morning. Sunday Morning. Written circa 1875, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 504, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines. 6. This is the glorious gospel word. Jesus saves. Called forth by a religious Convention at Brighton, and published in The Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 314, in 5 st. of 8 1., and in The General Hymnary, 1889, No. 431, with an additional stanza (st. iv.). -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Stephenson, T. B. , p. 1092, ii. Dr. Stephenson was President of the Wesleyan Conference in 1891, and became warden of the Wesley Deaconess Institute in 1903. His hymn,"Lord, grant us like the watching five," is in The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Antti Achrenius

1745 - 1810 Person Name: Anders A. Achrenius, 1746-1810 Hymnal Number: 15191 Author of "Arise My Soul, New Light Receiving" in The Cyber Hymnal

Charles Guiet

1601 - 1664 Hymnal Number: 5522 Author of "O Word of God Above" in The Cyber Hymnal Guiet, Charles, a Jesuit, born at Tours in 1601. Taught classical literature and moral theology. He was also a preacher and experienced in the ceremonial of the Church. He wrote a work on the order of reciting the divine offices and died at Tours, March 30, 1664. Jöcher Gelehrten-Lexikon. Miller places his death about 1684. Some of his hymns were given in the Paris Breviary, 1736. [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

J. B. Greenwood

1828 - 1905 Person Name: John B. Greenwood, 1832-1905 Hymnal Number: 9338 Author of "Crown With Thy Benediction" in The Cyber Hymnal Greenwood, John Brooke, born at Huddersfield, Feb. 9, 1828, and educated at the Huddersfield College, is a merchant shipper of cotton yarn to the continental markets. In 1853 he published Records-Memorial of E. B. Cave. He has written many hymns, chiefly for Sunday-school anniversary services, and other special occasions. Of these the following, which appeared with others in an Appendix to the Leeds Sunday School Hymn Book, published for the use of the Cheetham Hill (Manchester) Sunday School, are in common use outside that collection:— 1. Crown with Thy benediction. Holy Matrimony. 2. Finding: no place of rest. Return of the Dove to the Ark. 3. How long, 0 Lord, how long? Thy children sigh. First pub. in the Manchester Congregational Magazine. 4. There is no fold so fair as Thine. The Church of Christ. 5. What shall we render, Lord, to Thee? Holy Baptism. The full text of No. 2 is 7 stanzas, i.-iv. forming the original, and v.-vii. being a subsequent addition. Through a Roman Catholic relative of the author st. i.-iv. were given in the Catholic Progress with her initial " S." From thence it was taken by Mr. Orby Shipley and included in his Annus Sanctus, 1884, Pt. ii., p. 81, with the same signature. The full text is in Horder's The Poet's Bible. Mr. Greenwood's hymns possess great tenderness and refinement, and are worthy of greater attention than they have received. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

Minnie B. Johnson

Hymnal Number: 7997 Author of "I Only Know It Reaches Me" in The Cyber Hymnal

Moses Gage Shirley

1865 - 1965 Person Name: Moses G. Shirley Hymnal Number: 7323 Author of "When I Shall Fall Asleep" in The Cyber Hymnal Moses Gage Shirley was born at Goffstown, N.H. 15 May 1865. His poems are about truth, justice and righteousness. A few of his poems have been set to music. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)