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F. E. Belden

1858 - 1945 Composer of "OGDEN" in The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book Belden was born in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1858. He began writing music in his late teenage years after moving to California with his family. For health reasons he later moved to Colorado. He returned to Battle Creek with his wife in the early 1880s, and there he became involved in Adventist Church publishing. F. E. Belden wrote many hymn tunes, gospel songs, and related texts in the early years of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Belden was able to rapidly write both music and poetry together which enabled him to write a song to fit a sermon while it was still being delivered. He also wrote songs for evangelist Billy Sunday. Though Belden’s later years were marred by misunderstandings with the church leadership over his royalties, he did donate his papers and manuscripts to the church’s seminary at his death. He died on December 2, 1945 in Battle Creek, Michigan. N.N., Hymnary. Source: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/e/l/belden_fe.htm

Anonymous

Author of "Rejoice in the Lord Alway" in A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

A. Williams

1731 - 1776 Composer of "ST. THOMAS" in Songs for the Service of Prayer Aaron Williams (b. London, England, 1731; d. London, 1776) was a singing teacher, music engraver, and clerk at the Scottish Church, London Wall. He published various church music collections, some intended for rural church choirs. Representative of his compilations are The Universal Psalmodist (1763)— published in the United States as The American Harmony (1769)—The Royal Harmony (1766), The New Universal Psalmodist (1770), and Psalmody in Miniature (1778). His Harmonia Coelestis (1775) included anthems by noted composers. Bert Polman

John Moultrie

1799 - 1874 Person Name: Moultrie Author of "Rejoice in God alway" in Songs for the Service of Prayer Moultrie, John, M.A., father of Gerard and Mary D. Moultrie, was born Dec. 31, 1799, at London, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1823), where he was Bell's University Scholar, 1820, and Trinity College Scholar, 1822. Taking Holy Orders in 1825, he was presented the same year by the Earl of Craven to the Rectory of Rugby, where he remained till his death, on Dec. 26, 1874. His publications included:— (1) My Brother's Grave, and other Poems, 1837; (2) Dream of Life, Lays of the English Church, &c, 1843; (3) Memoir and Poetical Remains of W. S. Walker, 1852; (4) Sermons, 1852; (5) Altars, Hearths, and Graves, 1854; (6) Psalms and Hymns as Sung in the Parish Church, Rugby, 1851. In his Preface Mr. Moultrie says of the Psalms & Hymns, 1851:— "The present collection of Psalms & Hymns is founded on the basis of that which has been in use during the last twelve years in the Parish Church of Rugby, and for which the congregation of that Church are indebted to the kindness and taste of the Rev. H. J. Buckoll." Further on in the same preface he says:— "More than twenty original compositions--some altered or abridged from my former publications, others written expressly for the present collection, and (I am sorry to add) on the spur of the moment—-have thus been introduced into company with which they have perhaps but slender claims to associate. Several of these are little more than paraphrases of the Epistles or Gospel for the day." These hymns, most of which are in Kennedy, 1863, include the following:— 1. Blest are the eyes of those. Gospel, 13 Sunday after Trinity. (The Good Samaritan.) 2. Bring the infant to the font. Holy Baptism. 3. Christ His own Apostles chooseth. St. Andrew. 4. Dear Lord, a lonely life was Thine. Gospel, 4 S. after Epiphany. (Stilling the Tempest.) 5. Friends and parents lingered weeping. Gospel, 24 S. after Trinity. (Raising the Ruler's daughter.) 6. God, Who dost the increase grant. Sexagesima. (The Sower.) 7. In patient faith till Christ shall come. Gospel, 6 S. after Epiphany. 8. In the beaming brow of Moses. Epistle, 12 S. after Trinity. 9. Lord, with glad and grateful spirits. Epistle, 1 S. after Trinity. (Perfect Love.) 10. Meek to suffer, strong to save. St. Mark. 11. Mysterious to the Christian heart. St. Michael and All Angels. 12. No act of sin our Saviour wrought. Collect, 2 S. after Easter. (Christ the Example.) 13. O Lord, a wondrous story. For Sunday Schools. 14. Our mortal eyes are all too dim. St. Stephen. 15. Source of wisdom, past and present. For Sunday Schools. 16. The world may look serene and bright. Circumcision. 17. Thou gavest, Lord, the life we live. Holy Communion. 18. When our hearts with grief are sore. Epistle. Ash Wednesday. 19. Wondrous was Thy path on earth. Gospel, 2 S. after Epiphany. (Marriage in Cana of Galilee.) These hymns, from the special subjects of which they treat, are of more than ordinary interest to hymnal compilers, and are worthy of attention. Nos. 4, 6, 7, 12, 16, 18, 19, are from his Lays of the English Church, 1843; the rest were written expressly for the Psalms & Hymns, 1851 (S. MSS.). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)