The Lorenz fam­i­ly were Ad­vent­ists, and em­i­grat­ed from Mess­er, Russ­ia (near Sar­a­tow), to Amer­i­ca, and lived in Day­ton, Ohio. Ed­mund at­tend­ed Ot­ter­bein Un­i­ver­si­ty, Un­ion Bib­li­cal Sem­in­ary, Yale The­o­lo­gic­al Sem­i­na­ry, and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Leip­zig. He served as pas­tor of the High Street Unit­ed Breth­ren Church in Day­ton, Ohio (1884-6), and as pre­si­dent of Le­ba­non Val­ley Coll­ege, Ann­ville, Penn­syl­van­ia (1886-8). He lat­er found­ed the Lo­renz and Com­pa­ny mu­sic pub­lish­ing house in Day­ton, Ohio. His works in­clude:

• Gates of Praise (with Isai­ah Balt­zell) (Day­ton, Ohio: Unit­ed Breth­ren Pub­lish­ing House, by W. J. Shuey, 1884)
• Garnered Sheaves of Song for the Sun­day School (with Isaiah Balt­zell) (Day­ton, Ohio: W. J. Shu­ey, 1888)
• Songs of the Morn­ing (with Isaiah Balt­zell) (Day­ton, Ohio: W. J. Shu­ey, 1889)
• The Ot­ter­bein Hymn­al (Day­ton, Ohio: Unit­ed Breth­ren Pub­lish­ing House, 1892)
• Practical Church Mu­sic (New York: Flem­ing H. Re­vell Com­pa­ny, 1909)
• Church Mu­sic: What a Min­i­ster Should Know About It (New York: Flem­ing H. Re­vell Com­pa­ny, 1923)
• Music in Work and Wor­ship (New York: Flem­ing H. Re­vell Com­pa­ny, 1925)
• The Sing­ing Church, 1937

Sources

Hymns

1. Garnered Sheaves

Music

1. Gates of Praise
2. Give Me the Bi­ble
3. God Is Love
4. Name of Jesus, The
5. Tell It to Jesus