The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-09
CHRISTIAN ENDE1VOR
Hymnists for the Coming Cleveland Ca
 yentiOn,

Hymnists for the Coming Cleveland Con-
 vention.
 The new Christian Endeavor hymn book will be published by the United Society of Christian Endeavor in time for the thirteenth annual convention at Cleveland, Ohio July 11-15 Advance sheets are in hand that reveal a DOT tion of the hymns that will be sung by the great Cleveland choir of one thou sand members and by thousands in numerous churches and the great Con- vention hall and tent.
 Chief among the hymnists will be Fanny Crosby, or Mrs. Frances J. Van Alstyne, who has written about three thousand Sunday school pieces-some of them very widely known. She was born at South East, N. Y, in 1823 and lost her sight when six weeks old through the ignorant application of a warm poultice to her eyes. She has been an inmate of, and teacher in, the New York (city) Institution for the Blind since 1885. In 1858 she was mar ried to Alexander Van Alstyne, mu- sician, who was also blind. Her first poem was published in 1881 and her first volume of verse, "A Blind Girl and Other Poems," in 1S44. Her first hymn related to Death and Burial" It's first line was: We are going, we are going" It was written for William B. Bradbury and published in "The Gold en Censer," 1864. From 1853 to 1858 she wrote twenty songs, that were set to music by the popular composer, George F. Root, who is still living in Chicago. Among them were those very popular songs, "Rosalie the Prairie Flower" Hazel Dell' and There's Music in the Air" Her earliest Sun day school piece was "A Home Beyond the Tide"-written February 9th, 1864, for MT. w. B. Bradbury.
 Another Cleveland Endeavor hym- mist will be Mrs. Annie Sherwood Hawks, who is said to have been born in Horsick N. r., (which may be misprint for Hoosick) May 18th, 1885, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Her hymns have been contributed to many Sunday school books. They include T Need Thee Every Hour" written in April, 1872.
 Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe will need no introduction to Endeav- orers or to the world. She was born at Litchtield, Conn.,, June IA, 1911, and is the sixth child of the famous preach CT, Dr. Lyman Beecher. She early showed unusual talent, and before the age of twenty had begun literary work. In 1886 she married Rev. Calvin E. Stowe D. D., then professor at Lane Theological seminary, Cincinnati, o. During her residence there she ire quently visited the slave states and acquired detailed knowledge of south ern life. Fugitives were often assisted by her family to escape to Canada, and she felt with intensity the indifference of Christians to the wrongs involved in slavery. In 1850 she removed with her husband to Brunswick, Me, where he was made professor in Bowdoin college. Two years after this she went to An dover, Mass, to reside, her husband having become professor of sacred lite rature in the theological seminary. It was at this time that she published Uncle Toms Cabin," which has been translated into more than twenty lan- guages, and has passed into the world history. It was first given to the pub lie as a serial in "The National Era" at Washington. D. C., running from June 1851, to April, 1852; then it was is- sued in book form, Boston, 1852.
 Mrs. Stowe is at the present time living in Hartford, Conn. She is more than four score years old, and is rarely seen in public. She sometimes visits the house of her sister, Mrs. Jonathan Hooker, and that of Mrs. Charles Dud- ley Warner.
 Mrs. Stowe, who has done the world such service as a novelist, is known in hymnology chiefly by three contribu-