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Index of Authors and Translators

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“Index of Authors and Translators” as printed in The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920).

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Verse 1

Adams, Sarah F. (1805-1848), 87.

Alexander, Cecil F. (1823-1895), 58, 80.

Alford, Henry (1810-1871), 123, 178, 181.

Verse 2

Bacon, Leonard (1802-1881), 161.

Baker, Henry W. (1821-1877), 23, 238.

Bakewell, John (1721-1819), 70.

Ballantine, William G., 156.

Barbauld, Anna L. (1743-1825), 178.

Baring-Gould, Sabine (1834 ——), 13, 124, 132.

Barton, Bernard D. (1784-1849). Orders of Worship, p. 19.

Bates, Katherine Lee (1859 ), 153.

Baxter, Mrs. Lydia, 219.

Benson, Louis F. (1855 ), 235.

Bernard, Edward. Orders of Worship, p. 19.

Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153), 100, 103.

Bernard of Cluny (12th Century), 180.

Bickersteth, Edward H. (1825-1906), 94.

Black, James M., 188.

Blandy, Edward W., 74.

Blaisdell, James A. (1867 ), 51.

Bliss, Philip P. (1838-1876), 139, 220, 224.

Bonar, Horatius (1808-1889), 77.

Borthwick, Jane (1813-1897), 75, 114.

Bowring, John (1792-1872), 45, 61.

Bradford, N. K, 196.

Bridges, Matthew (1800-1894), 65, 68, 77.

Bright, William, 172.

Brooks, Charles T. (1813-1883), 159.

Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893), 35.

Brown, Mary, 169.

Bruce, Charles, 86.

Burns, James D. (1823-1864), 3.

Burton, Henry (1840 ), 101.

Verse 3

Carpenter, William Boyd (1864 ), 234.

Cary, Phoebe (1824-1871), 189.

Caswell, Edward (1814-1878), 2.

Cennick, John (1718-1755), 185.

Clephan, Elizabeth C. (1830-1869), 59.

Codner, Elizabeth (1835 ), 73.

Coghill, Anna L. (1836 ), 138.

Cornelius, Maxwell N., 190.

Cowper, William (1731-1800), 197.

Coxe, Arthur C. (1818-1896), 129.

Croly, George (1780-1860), 29.

Crosby, Fanny J. (1820-1915), 19, 140, 187,192, 193, 194, 195, 200, 206, 212, 222.

Cross, Allen Eastman. Orders of Worship, p. 49.

Cushing, W. O., 97, 207.

Verse 4

Davis, Frank M., 218.

Davis, Ozora Stearns (1866 ), 105.

Dickson, David (1583-1663), 179.

Dix, William C. (1837-1898), 47, 79.

Doane, George W. (1799-1859), 11, 163.

Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751), 134.

Duffield, George (1818-1888), 130.

Dwight, John S. (1813-1893), 159.

Dwight, Timothy (1752-1817), 173.

Edmeston, James (1791-1867), 10.

Ellerton, John (1826-1893), 15, 186.

Elliott, Charlotte (1789-1871), 76.

Verse 5

Faber, Frederick W. (1814-1863), 22, 177, 182.

Fawcett, John (1740-1817), 14, 170.

Verse 6

Gaskell, William (1805-1884). Orders of Worship, p. 26.

Gannett, William C. (1840——), 49. Orders of Worship, p. 33.

Gerhardt, Paul (1607-1676), 42.

Gibbons, T. (1720-1785), 64.

Gillman, F. J., 147.

Gilmore, Joseph H. (1834——), 99.

Gladden, Washington (1836-1918), 142.

Grant, Robert (1785-1838), 21.

Grigg, Joseph (1720-1768), 113.

Verse 7

Habershon, Ada R., 227.

Hammond, William (1719-1783), 84.

Hamilton, Mary C. D., 149.

Hankey, Kate (1846 ——), 72, 107.

Hartsough, Lewis (1828 ——), 203.

Hastings, Thomas (1784-1872), 165.

Havergal, Frances R. (1836-1879), 92, 109, 116, 125, 136, 199.

Hawks, Annie S. (1835-1918), 89.

Heath, George (1822), 135.

Heber, Reginald (1783-1826), 4, 46, 120, 171.

Frederick H. Hedge, 121.

Hewitt, E. E., 225.

Hoffman, Elisha A., 198.

Holland, Josiah G. (1819-1881), 38.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894), 150, 162.

Homer, Charlotte G., 208.

Hopper, Edward (1818-1888), 98.

How, William Walsham (1823-1897), 54, 183.

Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910), 151.

Verse 8

Ingemann, Bernhardt S. (1789-1862), 124.

Verse 9

John of Damascus (8th Century), 62.

Verse 10

Keble, John (1792-1866), 12.

Kelly, Thomas (1769-1854), 66.

Ken, Thomas (1637-1711), 240.

Orders of Worship, p. 9.

Key, Francis Scott (1779-1843), 160.

Kilmer, Joyce (1886-1918).

Orders of Worship, p. 46.

Kipling, Rudyard (1865 ——), 157.

Verse 11

Lathbury, Mary A. (1841 ——), 8, 27.

Longfellow, Henry W. (1807-1892), 50.

Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891), 148.

Lowry, Robert (1826-1899), 191.

Luke, Jemima (1813-1906), 52.

Luther, Martin (1483-1546), 44, 121.

Lynch, Thomas T. (1818-1871), 40.

Lyte, Henry F. (1793-1847), 9.

Verse 12

MacLeod, Norman (1812-1872), 126.

Martin, C. D., 26.

Orders of Worship, p. 16.

Matheson, George (1842-1906), 110.

Medley, Samuel (1738-1799), 69.

Mohr, Joseph (1792-1848), 37.

Monsell, John S. B. (1811-1875).

Orders of Worship, p. 6.

Morris, Mrs. C. H., 233.

Montgomery, James (1771-1854), 24, 34, 119.

Orders of Worship, p. 11.

Moore, Thomas (1778-1852), 78.

Moultree, Gerard (1829-1885), 128.

Verse 13

Nathan, El, 213, 214, 232.

Neal, John M. (1818-1866), 55, 62,180,236.

Newman, John H. (1801-1890), 96.

Newton, John (1825-1807), 6, 175.

North, Frank Mason (1850 ——), 145.

Verse 14

Oakley, Frederick (1802-1880), 36.

Oatman, Johnson, Jr., 209.

Ogdon, Ina Duley, 216.

O'Reilly, Miles.

Orders of Worship, p. 23.

Owens, Priscilla J., 201.

Oxenham, John, 143.

Orders of Worship, p. 55.

Verse 15

Palmer, Horatio R. (1834-1907), 118.

Palmer, Ray (1808-1897), 115.

Penfield, Thornton B., 144.

Perronet, Edward (1726-1792), 67.

Phelps, S. Dryden (1816-1895), 108.

Pierpoint, Folliott S. (1835 ——), 48.

Pollock, Thomas B. (1836-1896), 174.

Prentiss, Elizabeth P. (1818-1878), 229.

Verse 16

Rankin, J. E. (1828-1904), 16.

Raymond, Rossiter W. (1840-191S), 25, 41.

Reed, Andrew (1788-1862), 30.

Rippon, John (1751-1836), 122.

Roberts, Daniel C. (1841-1907), 155.

Robinson, Robert (1735-1790), 112.

Rolfsen, Nordahl.

Orders of Worship, p. 47.

Rowley, Francis H., 202.

Verse 17

Sammis, J. H., 211.

Savonarola, Jerome (1452-1498), 204.

Schmolck, Benjamin (1672-1737), 114.

Scott, T. (1705-1775), 64.

Sears, Edmund H. (1810-1876), 33.

Scriven, Joseph (1820-1886), 106.

Shaw, Knowles, 215.

Sherwin, William F. (1826-1888), 127.

Shrubsole, William (1759-1829), 166.

Shurtleff, Ernest W. (1862 ), 133.

Sleeper, W. T., 81.

Smith, Samuel F. (1808-1895), 158, 164, 237.

Stephenson, Isabella S., 93.

Stone, Samuel J. (1839-1900), 176.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896), 5.

Stowell, Hugh (1799-1865), 83.

Verse 18

Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892), 146, 184.

Thalheimer, Elsie.

Orders of Worship, p. 18.

Thompson, Will L., 205.

Thomson, Mary A. (1834 ).

Orders of Worship, p. 52.

Thring, Godfrey (1823-1903), 43, 230.

Toplady, Augustus M. (1740-1778), 91.

Verse 19

Ufford, Edwin S., 217.

Verse 20

Walford, W. W., 85.

Warner, Anna B. (1820-1915), 223.

Watson, William, 154.

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), 1, 17, 18, 31, 60, 131, 167, 221.

Wells, M. M. (1815-1858), 28.

Wesley, Charles (1707-1788), 20, 32, 63, 71, 82, 90, 117.

Whiting, William (1825-1878), 141.

Whittier, John G. (1807-1892), 104.

Whittle, D. W., 210.

Wilberforce, L. R. (1861 ), 88.

Williams, Theodore Chickering (1855-1915), 39, 137.

Williams, William (1717-1791), 95.

Winkworth, Catherine, 42.

Wolcott, Samuel (1813-1886), 168.

Worrell, Edna R., 228.

Wreford, John (1800-1881), 152.

Wordsworth, Christopher (1807-1885), 7.

Verse 21

Yates, John H., 102.

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