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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns - -Author: Henry Wilder Foote - -Release Date: December 30, 2016 [EBook #53833] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN UNITARIAN HYMN WRITERS *** - - - - -Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns - - - Compiled by Henry Wilder Foote for the Hymn Society of America for - publication in the Society’s proposed Dictionary of American Hymnology - - - - - _Contents_: - - - (1) Historical Sketch of American Unitarian Hymnody. (Pages 1-11) - (2) Catalogue of American Unitarian Hymn Books. (Pages 12-36) - (3) Alphabetical List of Writers. (Pages 37-39) - (4) Biographical Sketches, with Notes on Hymns. (Pages 40-247) - (5) Index of First Lines of Published Hymns. (Pages 248-270) - - - Cambridge, Massachusetts - January, 1959 - - -I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Misses Ruth and Orlo -McCormack in the preparation of this compilation. - - H.W.F. - - - - - _AMERICAN UNITARIAN HYMNODY_ - - -In the first edition of Julian’s _Dictionary of Hymnology_ (1891) F. M. -Bird[1] wrote, “The Unitarians—possessing a large share of the best -blood and brain of the most cultivated section of America—exhibit a long -array of respectable hymnists whose effusions have often won the -acceptance of other bodies,” (pp. 58-59). And in this century Louis F. -Benson[2] in his classic book _The English Hymn_ (p. 460) wrote, “It is -not surprizing that a body including the best blood and highest culture -of Massachusetts shared in the Literary Movement [of the 19^th century] -and succeeded in imparting to its hymn books a freshness of interest in -great contrast to those of the orthodox churches” and that “from their -[the compilers’] hands there proceeded —— a series of hymn books whose -literary interest was very notable” (p. 462). - -This succession of Unitarian hymn writers over a period of approximately -150 years can best be traced in the nearly 50 hymn books compiled by -individuals or committees for use in Unitarian churches.[3] The editors -of these books were among the best educated men of their time, who knew -where to look for fresh lyrical utterances of a living faith. The -earliest of them lived in the period when the traditional metrical -psalms which, for more than two centuries, had been almost the only -worship-song of the English speaking world, were being slowly superseded -by the songs of a new age. These songs they chiefly found in the various -hymn-books published for use in English Non-conformist chapels when the -Church of England still generally adhered to the Old or New Versions of -the Psalms. It was from these sources that Jeremy Belknap first -introduced to Americans the hymns of Anne Steele, and included in his -_Sacred Poetry_ (1795) hymns by Addison, Cowper, Newton, Doddridge and -other English contemporaries. When, in 1808, the vestry of Trinity -Church, Boston, impatient at the delay of the General Convention of the -Protestant Episcopal Church in getting out a hymnal, issued one for -their own use, they drew heavily upon Belknap’s collection, saying in -their preface “In this selection we are chiefly indebted to Dr. Belknap, -whose book unquestionably contains the best expressions of sacred poetry -extant.” - -Many of the later collections in this series of Unitarian hymn books -have been no less notable for their introduction to use in this country -of new English hymns, such as Pope’s “Father of all, in every age;” Sir -Walter Scott’s “When Israel of the Lord beloved;” translations of hymns -in the Roman Breviary; Sarah Flower Adams’ “Nearer, my God, to Thee” -(only three years after its publication in England); and Newman’s “Lead, -kindly Light;” and for the ability of their compilers to discover fresh -materials near at hand, as when Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson -were the first to notice the hymnic possibilities of Whittier’s poems. - -The story of American Unitarian hymnody begins with the publication in -1783 of the _Collection of Hymns—designed for the use of the West -Society of Boston._ This church belonged to the liberal wing of New -England Congregationalism, destined to become known as Unitarian a -generation later. The book contained a small selection of traditional -psalms and hymns by British authors and a number of quaintly didactic -moral ditties in doggerel, presumably contributed by Boston versifiers -who cannot now be identified. - -The first group of Unitarian hymn-writers whose names are known and -whose productions have survived did not begin to write until the opening -decades of the 19^th century. Of this group the earliest born was John -Quincy Adams, (1767-1848), best remembered as the sixth President of the -United States. That he was also a hymn writer, and the only president of -the country who was one, has generally been forgotten. Two or three -hymns by him were written earlier but most of them came from the period -following his retirement from the presidency in 1829. Soon after that -event he wrote one for the 200^th anniversary of the First Church in -Quincy, of which he was a member, and later in life he composed a -metrical paraphrase of the whole Book of Psalms. When Dr. Lunt, minister -of the Quincy church, was preparing his _Christian Psalter_, 1841, Mrs. -Adams put into his hands the mss. of her husband’s poems, and Lunt -included in his book five hymns and seventeen psalms by his -distinguished parishioner. None of them rose above the level of -respectable verse but his version of Psalm 43 survived in one or more -hymn books 100 years later. - -Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866) was a poet of considerable abilities -whose verses were in demand for special occasions and whose hymns were -the best lyrical expressions of the developing new thought in religion. -W. Garrett Horder, the English hymnologist, wrote that Pierpont’s hymn -of universal praise was “the earliest really great hymn I have found by -an American author.” It is still in use, as are two others by him. - -Prof. Andrews Norton (1786-1853) of the Harvard Divinity School, -published a hymn as early as 1809 and a good deal of verse in later -years, much of it in a rather sombre introspective mood, but with one -fine hymn still in use. He was followed by Rev. Nathaniel Langdon -Frothingham (1793-1870) who wrote a good many hymns for special -occasions, one of which survives today, and by Rev. Henry Ware, Jr. -(1794-1843) who wrote a number of hymns highly valued as utterances of -the religious idealism of the period, but long since dropped from use, -except for an excellent one for the dedication of an organ, probably the -only hymn in the English language written expressly for such an -occasion. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), a lay man of letters, was -another of the elder members of the famous group of New England poets of -the 19^th century, and as early as 1820 he contributed 5 hymns to -Sewall’s _New York Collection_, published in that year, and he later -wrote others. - -The latest born of this first group who attained memorable distinction -in this field was Rev. Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890), whose earliest -hymn, still in use, was written in 1829, but who is best known for his -great translation of Luther’s “Ein’ feste Burg,” and for a fine Good -Friday hymn. He collaborated with Rev. Frederic Dan Huntington[4] -(1819-1904) then the college preacher at Harvard, in compiling _Hymns -for the Church of Christ_, (1853), to which Huntington contributed five -hymns, none now in use. Their book was the last and best of the various -_Collections_ published up to the middle of the century by editors who -belonged to what was becoming the conservative wing of the denomination, -to whom Emerson’s _Divinity School Address_ of 1838 seemed dangerously -radical. - -But meantime a new era in Unitarian hymnody was opening with the -publication in 1846 of the _Book of Hymns_ edited by Samuel Longfellow -(1819-1891) and Samuel Johnson (1822-1882), while they were still -studying in the Harvard Divinity School. Both had come under the -influence of the Transcendentalist movement which was liberalizing -Unitarian thought and they eagerly sought out hymns which were fresh -expressions of their youthful outlook on religion. The book was notable -for the new sources of hymns which they discovered, among them the poems -of John Greenleaf Whittier, which they were the first to introduce into -a hymn book. - -Their _Book of Hymns_ was followed in 1864 by their larger and even more -influential _Hymns of the Spirit_, which includes most of their own -hymns and many by other Unitarian writers of the period, too numerous to -name here, but whose hymns are listed in the catalogue of writers -appended to this introductory sketch. Samuel Johnson wrote only half a -dozen hymns, but they are among the finest in the language. Samuel -Longfellow wrote many more, the best of which are quite equal to -Johnson’s, and together they made a more important contribution to -American Unitarian hymnody than that of any other writers in the middle -of the 19^th century. - -This was the period of “the flowering of New England literature” and two -of its poets, besides those already named, made their contribution to -hymnody. The more important of the two was Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, -(1809-1894) with half a dozen fine and widely used hymns, and Prof. -James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) who, strictly speaking, was hardly a -hymn writer at all, but from whose poems two or three have been -quarried. Two other writers of this period were Rev. Edmund Hamilton -Sears (1810-1876) and his niece, Miss Eliza Scudder (1819-1896). Sears -wrote two Christmas hymns widely used throughout the English speaking -world. Miss Scudder wrote half a dozen hymns in a mystical vein of the -highest quality, but in temperament and outlook both writers belong more -to the earlier period of Unitarian thought than to that prevalent in -their later lifetime. - -In this mid-century period should also be included the famous war-time -hymn by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), “Mine eyes have seen the glory -of the coming of the Lord,” written in 1861 to provide worthier words -than “John Brown’s body” for the popular tune “Glory, Hallelujah”, which -had been composed a few years earlier for a Sunday School in Charleston, -South Carolina. - -A third period in Unitarian hymnody began with the appearance of hymns -by three good friends, Rev. John White Chadwick (1840-1906), Rev. -Frederic Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) and Rev. William Channing Gannett -(1840-1923), who carried forward in the last third of the century the -broadly theistic interpretation of a universal religion to which -Longfellow and Johnson had given utterance. Chadwick’s first hymn was -written in 1864 for the graduation of his class from the Harvard -Divinity School, a great hymn of brotherhood, widely used in England as -well as here. A half-dozen others of fine quality have survived. Hosmer -and Gannett worked together in bringing out their book _The Thought of -God in Hymns and Poems_, 1885, 1894, and _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, -1880, 1911. Neither wrote any hymns while in the Divinity School, but -both began to do so soon after. In 1873 Gannett wrote a fine one which -is probably the earliest in the language to give a religious -interpretation to the then controversial doctrine of evolution, and -later a half dozen others to which deep feeling is expressed in -beautiful lyrical verse. Hosmer, however, was a much more prolific -writer, producing more than 40 hymns which have had some use. He was a -meticulous craftsman who studied the technique of hymn-writing, and -several of his hymns are among the finest in the language. Canon -Dearmer, a leading authority on hymnody in the Church of England, -included seven of them in his _Songs of Praise_ and calls one of them -“this flawless poem, one of the completest expressions of religious -faith,” and says another is “one of the noblest hymns in the language.” -For approximately 40 years, c. 1880-1920, Hosmer was the outstanding -hymn writer in the English speaking world, and he left no successor who -was his equal in the perfection of his finest hymns. - -A smaller but important contribution to the Unitarian hymnody of this -period was made by Rev. Theodore Chickering Williams (1855-1915) who, -while still a student in the Harvard Divinity School wrote one of the -best ordination hymns in the language, and, in later years, eight -others, still in use, which are religious poetry of a high order. - -The latest period in Unitarian hymnody, covering the last half-century, -is notable for the productions of two writers, Rev. Marion Franklin Ham -(1867-1957) and Rev. John Haynes Holmes, (1879-still living). Although -he had published a volume of poems in 1896 Dr. Ham did not begin to -write hymns until 1911, but thereafter he produced a succession of -beautiful religious lyrics, eight or ten of which have come into use. -Some of them are utterances of a profound mystical insight akin to that -of Eliza Scudder, but others are expressions of a world-wide theism, and -one has been translated into Japanese. - -Rev. John Haynes Holmes has been a more prolific writer, author of about -45 hymns, many written for special occasions, but 10 or 15 others have -come into general and widespread use. His hymns are in a quite different -key from those of Dr. Ham’s quiet mysticism, generally being stirring -calls to social justice and the service of mankind, though a few are -hymns of gratitude for the simple joys of life. While he has -infrequently attained the felicity of phrasing which results in a -memorable line his hymns are cast in vigorous and often stirring verse, -expressing a noble altruism and a wholesome attitude towards life. - -M. F. Ham and J. H. Holmes are the latest notable figures in this era of -150 years since the beginning of American Unitarian hymnody, throughout -which scores of lesser writers have also contributed their offerings to -the main stream. These writers are far too numerous to name in this -outline sketch but their thumbnail biographies and notations as to their -hymns will be found in the following catalogue. A survey of this whole -era discloses the evolution in liberal religious thought from the period -when the emphasis was on the sinfulness of man and the redemptive -function of the Christian Church, to the vision of a world wide religion -taking in many forms, and manifested in that service of mankind which -found expression in the “social gospel” in the first half of this -century. - -The production of so great a number of fine hymns (and of a long series -of hymn books of a superior type) over so long a period, by persons -belonging to one of the smallest Protestant denominations, commonly -considered coldly intellectual rather than emotional in its approach to -religion, is a phenomenon unique in the history of hymnody. When the -first edition of the _Pilgrim Hymnal_ was published in 1910 it listed -both the nationality and the church membership of the authors included, -which led to the disclosure that nearly half the American authors were -Unitarians who had contributed considerably more than half the hymns of -American authorship. In answer to critics Dr. Washington Gladden replied -that this was due to the simple fact that the Unitarians had written a -larger number of the best hymns than had the American writers in other -denominations. - -Canon Dearmer in England observed the same fact and was puzzled to -explain it. The explanation, however, is a simple one. With the -exception of a relatively small number of writers born in other parts of -the country and with different backgrounds, these Unitarian authors were -men brought up in the atmosphere of the so-called “New England -Renaissance,” that literary revival of which Boston, Cambridge and -Concord were the chief centres in the 19^th century, and they belonged -by blood, by education and by social ties to the New England literary -group. The majority were also graduates of Harvard College or Harvard -Divinity School, or both, in a period when the spirit of the time was -most favorable to the stimulation of poetic gifts, and in a place where -the intellectual level was high and there was freedom from any dogmatic -control.[5] Thus they had the culture and the warmth of atmosphere -needed, and the Divinity School had the admirable custom of encouraging -students to write a hymn for the annual graduation exercises or for the -School’s Christmas service, and so stimulated their poetic gifts. - -Thanks to these favorable circumstances what has been called “the -Harvard school of hymnody” has had no equal in the English speaking -world, the only comparable institution being Trinity College, Cambridge, -England, which, for a much briefer period (1820-1845) was the nursing -mother of a notable succession of Anglican hymn writers. It was this -fact which led W. Garrett Horder, an English Congregationalist who was -also a highly competent hymnologist, to write, “Harvard, like our -English Cambridge, has been ‘a nest of singing birds’. I was struck by -this when editing _The Treasury of American Sacred Songs_. Harvard -provided the bulk —— of the verse I included.” And other orthodox -authorities, notably F. M. Bird and Louis F. Benson, already quoted, -have borne witness to the high achievements of both the editors of the -long succession of Unitarian hymn books and the authors of the hymns -which they included. - - - - - _Catalogue of American Unitarian Hymn Books._ - compiled by Henry Wilder Foote and reprinted (with revisions) from the - Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, May, 1938, by - permission. - - -In the 17^th century, and down to the middle of the 18^th, all churches -of the Congregational order in New England used the _Bay Psalm Book_, -first printed in Cambridge in 1640, except for the use of Ainsworth’s -_Psalter_ in the churches of the Plymouth Plantation and in the First -Church in Salem for a part of the 17^th century. In the latter part of -the 18^th century, the _Bay Psalm Book_ was gradually superseded by -either the New Version of the Psalms (Tate and Brady) or, more -generally, by one of the editions of _Watts and Select_, i.e. Isaac -Watts’ _Psalms and Hymns_, with a supplement of hymns selected from -other authors. - -The first steps away from the Psalm books in general use were taken by -two churches which were in the vanguard of the rising liberalism of the -last half of the 18^th century. In 1782 the West Church in Boston -published _A Collection of Hymns, more particularly designed for the Use -of the West Society in Boston_ (1),[6] and in 1788 the East Church in -Salem published _A Collection of Hymns for Publick Worship_, (2). These -two books were of only local significance, but they clearly pointed the -way which later publications were to follow. In 1795 Rev. Jeremy Belknap -brought out his _Sacred Poetry_ (3), which was an attempt to produce a -book which should be acceptable to both the liberal and the orthodox -wings of Congregationalism. In this purpose it failed, though it was -widely used by Unitarians. The succeeding books were more definitely -Unitarian in character and illustrate the changing emphasis in religious -thought and practice through five generations of religious liberals. -They form a notable series, for most of them attained a literary -standard and spiritual outlook higher than that of other contemporary -hymn books. - -The earlier books in this series were very imperfectly edited, judged by -modern standards. Some of them contain no preface and no indication as -to the identity of the compiler. In other cases, the compiler is -indicated by initials. In some cases the names of the authors of hymns -are not given at all, in others only the surname, when known, and there -are frequent mistaken attributions. Directions as to the music are -usually lacking, the metre of each hymn alone being indicated. In some -cases the names of suitable tunes are given, but only one book (18) -earlier than 1868 included any music, in that case an appendix of -twenty-one tunes in two parts at the back of the book. The first -American Unitarian hymn book to be printed with a tune on each page was -the American Unitarian Association’s _Hymn and Tune Book_ of 1868 (34). -Thereafter few books appeared without tunes, but half-a-dozen other -collections with music were published in the next forty years, each of -which had considerable use. - -It will be noted that in the course of the 19^th century no less than -thirty-six different hymn-books appeared, a far larger number than any -other American denomination can show for the same period, and -illustrative of the extreme individualism of the Unitarian churches. -Throughout the middle third of the century Greenwood’s _Collection_ -(13), the _Springfield Collection_ (14), and the _Cheshire Collection_ -(20), had the widest use, followed in the last third of the century by -the _Hymn and Tune Books_ (34) and (36) of the American Unitarian -Association, but all the other collections had some local vogue, in some -cases only for a brief period or only in those churches the ministers of -which had compiled the collections in question. As late, however, as the -beginning of the 20^th century, at least eight different hymn-books were -in use in the Unitarian churches of the United States and Canada. This -diversity of usage declined rapidly after the publication of _The New -Hymn and Tune Book_ (45) in 1914, and had practically disappeared by the -time when that book’s successor, _Hymns of the Spirit_ (48) was -published in 1937. - - - - - BIBLIOGRAPHY - - - Copies of at least one edition of each of the following books are - in the Historical Library of the American Unitarian Association, - 25 Beacon Street, Boston, except in the cases noted. - -1. _A Collection of Hymns, more particularly designed for the Use of -the West Society in Boston_—Boston, 1782; 2nd ed., 1803; 3rd ed., -1806; 4th ed., 1813. - -The editor is said to have been Rev. Simeon Howard (1733-1804), (See -Bentley’s _Diary_, II, 371), Jonathan Mayhew’s successor as minister -of the West Church. Mayhew’s congregation was notably liberal and this -book represents the first step away from psalm-books of the -traditional type. It contains 166 hymns, including a number of -classics by Watts, Barbauld, Addison, etc. The tone in general is -ethical rather than theological, and many of the hymns are moral -precepts in mediocre verse, some, at least, probably of local -production, but the authors cannot be identified as no author is -named; there is no preface, and the compiler’s name is not given. - - Note:—The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy. - There is one in the Congregational Library, 14 Beacon Street, - Boston. - -2. _A Collection of Hymns for Publick Worship_—Salem; n.d. (1788) - -Edited by Rev. William Bentley (1750-1819) of the East Church, Salem, -Mass., and used there until superseded in 1843 by Flint’s _Collection_ -(17). There is no preface and the compiler’s name is not given. There -are no musical directions except the metre of each hymn. The book -consists of two parts, the first containing 40 psalms “according to -Tate and Brady’s Version,” arranged by metre; the second containing -163 hymns of high quality, including many of the classics of the -period. The book is much superior to No. 1, but had little use outside -the church for which it was intended, perhaps because Bentley, though -one of the earliest outspoken Unitarians, was _persona non grata_ in a -Federalist stronghold on account of his political opinions. - - Note:—The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy. - There is one at The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. - -3. _Sacred Poetry: consisting of Psalms and Hymns adapted to Christian -devotion in publick and private. Selected from the best authors, with -variations and additions_—By Jeremy Belknap, D.D., Boston, 1795. - -Many editions. Some included a supplement of _Hymns for the Lord’s -Supper, selected and original_, (7) prepared by Rev. Thaddeus M. -Harris, minister of the First Church in Dorchester, 1801. In 1812 an -edition appeared with 28 additional hymns, “Selected by the successor -of the Rev. Author,” i.e. by W. E. Channing. - -Dr. Belknap (1744-1798) was the first Congregational minister of the -Federal Street Church (his predecessors having been Presbyterians), -and his immediate successor was William Ellery Channing. Belknap -endeavored to compile a collection which should serve both the -orthodox and the liberal wings of the New England Congregationalism of -his day. In his preface he says, “In this selection, those Christians -who do not scruple to sing praises to their Redeemer and Sanctifier, -will find materials for such a sublime enjoyment; whilst others, whose -tenderness of conscience may oblige them to confine their addresses to -the Father only, will find no deficiency of matter suited to their -idea of the chaste and awful spirit of devotion.” Belknap, however, -failed in his attempt to produce a compromise book, as it found favor -only in the liberal churches, which used it for some forty years. - -The book contains 150 psalms, selected from versions by Tate and -Brady, Watts, and others, often “with variations”; and 300 hymns, -widely selected from English sources, including Pope’s “Universal -Prayer” (altered), Helen Maria Williams’ “While Thee I seek, -protecting Power,” hymns by Cowper, Newton, Doddridge, Merrick, -Addison, Anne Steele and others. Belknap introduced Anne Steele’s -hymns to Americans. There are no hymns by Charles Wesley, and the only -hymns of American authorship appear to be Mather Byles’ “When wild -confusion rends the air,” and a metrical version of Psalm 65 by Jacob -Kimball. - -There are no musical directions save the metre of each hymn and the -key. “The characters denoting the sharp or flat key are prefixed to -each psalm or hymn, at my request, by the Rev. Dr. Morse, of -Charlestown.” - -The book was much the best of its period. When, in 1808, the vestry of -Trinity Church, Boston, impatient at the delay of the General -Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in getting out a hymnal, -issued one for their own use, they drew heavily on Belknap’s, saying -in their preface, “In this selection we are chiefly indebted to Dr. -Belknap, whose book unquestionably contains the best specimens of -sacred poetry extant.” - -4. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for public worship._—Boston, -1799; edited by Rev. James Freeman (1759-1825). 2nd ed., 1813. - -This was the first of the hymn-books prepared for use in King’s -Chapel, Boston, where it was used for 30 years until succeeded by -Greenwood’s _Collection_ (13). No preface; no musical directions -except that the metre is indicated. The names of some authors are -given in the index of first lines. The book contains 155 psalms, or -parts of psalms, “selected principally from Tate and Brady,” followed -by 90 hymns and 8 doxologies. The collection is decidedly inferior to -that of Belknap (3) in range and quality. - - Note:—The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy, but - King’s Chapel does. - -5. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns_—by William Emerson, A.M., Pastor -of the First Church in Boston; Boston, 1808. - -Rev. William Emerson (1769-1811) was the father of Ralph Waldo -Emerson. His book is more handsomely printed than most hymn books of -the period and contains 150 hymns. It was very liberal in tone and was -assailed by the orthodox for having omitted hymns on several of “the -most essential doctrines of Christianity.” Its most notable feature -was its endeavor to improve the singing by “prefixing to each psalm -and hymn the name of a tune, well composed and judicially chosen” as -“a valuable auxiliary to musical bands. No American hymn-book has -hitherto offered this aid to the performers of psalmody.” The key in -which the tune is set and the metre are also indicated at the head of -each hymn. There is also an interesting “Index of Tunes, and Musical -Authors,” with references to the various collections in which the -recommended tunes may be found. As this list of collections of tunes -was prepared by a person particularly interested in promoting good -music it is here reprinted as indicating the best available sources at -the time: - -Mass. Com., Massachusetts Compiler; Sal. Coll., Salem Collection; Lock -H. Coll., Lock’s Hospital Collection; Sac. Min., Sacred Minstrel; -B.C.M., Beauties of Church Music; Psal. Evan., Psalmodia Evangelica; -F. C. Coll., First Church Collection; Suff. Selec., Suffolk Selection; -Bos. Selec., Boston Selection; Newb’t Coll., Newburyport Collection; -Mus. Olio, Musical Olio; Col. Repos., Columbian Repository; B. Coll., -Bridgewater Collection. - -While this book thus made the selection of tunes easier than did most -of its contemporaries, it is needless to point out how inconvenient it -was not to have the tunes in the same book with the words. With all -its excellencies the book had small use, being rather too far in -advance of its time. - -6. _A Selection of Sacred Poetry consisting of Psalms and Hymns from -Watts, Doddridge, Merrick, Scott, Cowper, Barbauld, Steele and -others_—Philadelphia, 1812; 2nd ed., 1818; 3rd ed., 1828; 4th ed., -1846. - -Edited by Ralph Eddowes (1751-1833) and James Taylor (1769-1844) two -laymen of the church in Philadelphia in which Joseph Priestley had -preached after coming to America, but which remained without a settled -minister until Rev. W. H. Furness was installed in 1825. A good -collection of 606 psalms and hymns, from varied English sources, as -indicated by the following quotation from preface:—“The Society of -Unitarian Christians in Philadelphia, from its first formation, has -used, in its public devotional exercises, the collection of hymns and -psalms made by the Rev. Doctors Kippis and Rees, and Messrs. Jervis -and Morgan.... A late collection by the Rev. Mr. Aspland, of Hackney, -has also afforded assistance, of which advantage has been freely -taken; and by resorting to another, published in 1789 by the Rev. -Messrs. Ash and Evans of Bristol, this work has been enriched with -several pieces of Mrs. Steele’s exquisitely beautiful and highly -devotional poetry.” - -7. _Hymns for the Lord’s Supper_, Original and Selected. [edited] by -Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D., Boston; printed by Sewall Phelps, no. 5 -Court Street, 1820; 2nd ed., 1821. - -In 1801 Rev. Thaddeus M. Harris, minister of the First Church in -Dorchester, Mass., printed a few hymns for use at the Lord’s Supper, -and these formed the basis for this enlarged collection published in -1820. This edition contains original hymns by Rev. John Pierpont of -Boston, Rev. Samuel Gilman of Charleston, S. C., and others, none of -them in use today. The booklet probably had more circulation for -private reading than for public use. - -8. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for social and private -worship_—New York, 1820; 2nd ed., 1827; 4th ed., 1845. - -Compiled by Dr. Henry D. Sewall, one of the laymen who founded the -First Congregational Society of New York, now All Souls Church, which -was organized in 1819. Commonly called “the New York Collection.” It -contains 504 psalms and hymns arranged in three sections in -alphabetical order of first lines. There are no musical directions -except that the metre of each hymn is indicated. The Collection is -chiefly notable for the inclusion, without the author’s name, of five -original hymns by William Cullen Bryant, a member of the congregation, -who had written them at the instance of Miss Sedgwick. - -The fourth edition, 1845, made some substitutions and added 146 hymns -to the original number. - -9. _A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, for social and private -worship_—Andover, 1821; 2nd ed., Cambridge, 1824; 11th ed., Boston, -1832. - -Edited by Jonathan Peele Dabney (1793-1868), a graduate of Harvard who -had studied for the ministry but was never ordained. The book was -smaller, cheaper and better arranged than Sewall’s (8), and had -considerable use. It contains 385 hymns, and 21 “Ascriptions and -Occasional Pieces,” these last including Henry Ware’s Easter hymn, -“Lift your glad voices,” and Heber’s “From Greenland’s icy mountains.” -There are no musical instructions beyond indication of metres. - -10. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and Private Worship, -compiled by a committee of the West Parish in Boston_—Boston; printed -by John B. Russell, 1823. - -This book was a successor to No. 1. No preface; no copyright; no -indication of the identity of the compilers. It contains 320 psalms -and hymns by Tate and Brady, Watts, Doddridge, Barbauld, Steele and -others. No hymn by Charles Wesley, but it has John Wesley’s “Lo, God -is here,” attributed to “Salisbury Coll.” Also 6 communion hymns; 5 -for Christmas, including Tate’s “While shepherds watched their flocks -by night,” attributed to Dr. Patrick; Milton’s “Nor war nor battle’s -sound,” altered by Dr. Gardiner; and Sir Walter Scott’s “When Israel -of the Lord beloved”. - - Note:—The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy, but - there is one at the Congregational Library, 16 Beacon Street, - Boston, Mass. - -11. _A Selection from Tate and Brady’s Version of the Psalms: with -Hymns by various authors_—For the use of the church in Brattle Square, -Boston. Boston: Richardson & Lord, 1825. - -Compiled by a committee of that church. The church used the _Bay Psalm -Book_ until 1753; then Tate and Brady’s _New Version_ of the Psalms, -with an appendix of hymns selected by a committee. In 1808 another -committee published another appendix, entitled _A Second Part of -Hymns_. The book issued in 1825, by a committee the membership of -which is unknown, is a revision and enlargement of the original Tate -and Brady and the appendices. It contains 150 psalms and 363 hymns. No -musical directions save indications of metres. - -12. _Sacred Poetry and Music reconciled, or a Collection of Hymns -original and compiled_—by Samuel Willard, D.D., A.A.S. Boston: L. C. -Bowles, 1830. - -This book, “adopted while in manuscript, by the Third Congregational -Society in Hingham,” had little use beyond that parish. It contains -518 hymns, and 7 chants, the latter being a feature not met with in -any earlier book in this series. Tunes are indicated for each hymn, -but the editor had some peculiar theories about the “reconciliation” -of words and music. The editor, Rev. Samuel Willard (1776-1859), had -been minister at Deerfield but had retired on account of blindness and -was temporarily resident in Hingham when this book was published. - -13. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship_—Boston: -Carter and Hendee, 1830. - -Edited by Rev. Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1797-1843), minister of -King’s Chapel, Boston. _Greenwood’s Collection_, as it was generally -called, containing 560 psalms and hymns, superseded Belknap’s (3) as -the hymn-book most widely used in Unitarian churches in the first half -of the 19^th century. It ran to fifty editions and was used in King’s -Chapel, for which it was prepared, until superseded there by _Hymns of -the Church Universal_, 1890, (39). Based upon Watts, the book contains -the then very recent hymns by James Montgomery, Harriet Auber, Bowring -and Heber, and practically introduced Charles Wesley to American -Unitarians. In _Young Emerson Speaks_, edited by A. C. McGiffert, -1937, pages 145-150, will be found a sermon on “Hymn Books” preached -by R. W. Emerson in 1831, while still minister of the Second Church in -Boston, in which he recommends the church to adopt _Greenwood’s -Collection_ in place of Belknap’s. Emerson, in his Journal for 1847, -noted that _Greenwood’s Collection_ was “still the best.” - -14. _The Springfield Collection of Hymns for sacred worship_, by -William B. O. Peabody—Springfield: Samuel Bowles, 1835. - -Rev. William Oliver Bourne Peabody (1799-1847) was minister at -Springfield, Mass. His collection contains 509 hymns, admirably chosen -from the accepted classics of the period, Watts and Doddridge -predominant, but with an increasing number of the recent compositions -by Unitarian hymn-writers of the first third of the 19^th century. No -musical instructions beyond indication of metres. On its merits the -_Springfield Collection_ rightly shared with _Greenwood’s Collection_ -(13) and _The Cheshire Collection_ (20) the largest measure of -popularity and use among Unitarians in the middle of the 19^th -century. - -15. _The Christian Psalter: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for -social and private worship_—Boston, 1841. - -Edited by Rev. William Parsons Lunt (1805-1857), for use in the First -Church in Quincy, Mass. It contains 702 hymns and psalms and -represents a reversion to the older type of hymnody, “but, if -old-fashioned, it was excellent and serviceable.” Lunt included 22 -pieces by his parishioner, ex-President John Quincy Adams, whose wife -had put into his hands a complete metrical psalter which Adams had -composed. At least one of Adams’ psalms is still to be found in some -hymn-books. - -16. _A Manual of Prayer for public and private worship, with a -collection of hymns_—Boston, 1842. - -Edited by Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot (1811-1887). Although printed -in Boston, this book was prepared for The First Congregational Society -of St. Louis, Missouri, of which the editor had become minister in -1834. The Society was the earliest Unitarian church in the Mississippi -Valley, excepting that at New Orleans. The book is primarily a -collection of service materials followed by 272 well-selected hymns -from standard sources. It was the earliest volume of the sort to be -prepared for Unitarian use in the Middle West. - -17. _A Collection of Hymns, for the Christian Church and Home_—Boston, -1843. - -Edited by Rev. James Flint (1779-1855). The editor was minister of the -East Church in Salem, Mass., and based his book upon the 18^th century -collection of his predecessor, William Bentley (2). He borrowed the -title and much of the contents of James Martineau’s book published in -England in 1840. The book contains 415 hymns. - - Note:—The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy of - this book. One is in the Congregational Library, 14 Beacon Street, - Boston. - -18. _The Social Hymn Book; consisting of psalms and hymns for social -worship and private devotions_—Boston, 1843. - -Edited by Rev. Chandler Robbins (1810-1882), minister of the Second -Church in Boston. The book, which contains 350 psalms and hymns, is -based upon Watts and Doddridge, but it introduced new hymns from -various sources, among them about twenty of Bishop Mant’s translations -of “ancient hymns” from the Roman Breviary. Dr. Robbins was one of the -earliest American hymn-book editors to avail himself of the English -versions of Latin hymns which were among the fruits of the Oxford -Movement. His book has an appendix of 21 tunes in two parts, the book -being thus the first in this series to include any printed music. - -19. _The Disciples’ Hymn Book; a collection of hymns and chants for -public and private devotions, prepared for the use of the Church of -the Disciples_—Boston, 1844. - -Edited by Rev. James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) for use in the Church -of the Disciples, Boston, which had been organized in 1841 and of -which he was the first minister. The first edition is commonly bound -up with _Service Book: for the use of the Church of the Disciples_. A -revised and enlarged edition appeared in 1852. The collection contains -318 hymns and an appendix of chants. It was notable for its freshness -and progressive outlook, and drew upon the most recent English -sources. It introduced into American use the hymn “Nearer, my God, to -thee,” by Sarah Flower Adams, published in England only three years -earlier, and other hymns by the same author. It also included some of -Clarke’s own hymns, more of which appeared in the second edition. - -20. _Christian Hymns for public and private worship. A Collection -compiled by a committee of the Cheshire Pastoral Association_—Boston, -1845. - -Edited by Rev. Abiel Abbott Livermore (1811-1892), Chairman; Rev. Levi -W. Leonard (1790-1864), Rev. William A. Whitwell (1804-1865) and Rev. -Curtis Cutler (1806-1874), ministers at Keene, Dublin, Wilton, and -Peterboro, New Hampshire, respectively. The editorial work was chiefly -done by Livermore, who also contributed to it his communion hymn, “A -holy air is breathing round.” - -This book, commonly called _The Cheshire Collection_, ran through -sixty editions and was widely used. Its popularity was due in part to -its wide range—908 hymns—and to its provision for special occasions, -but more to the inclusion of fresh material of high quality. - -21. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary_—Boston, 1845. - -Edited by Rev. George E. Ellis (1814-1894) for use in the Harvard -Church in Charlestown, Mass., of which he was then minister. It -contains 658 hymns and psalms, and is based on _Greenwood’s -Collection_ (13) and _The Springfield Collection_ (14). A Selection -from the Psalms, apparently intended for responsive reading, is bound -up with the hymn-book, of which it is an unusual feature. - -22. _Hymns for Public Worship_—Boston, 1845. - -Edited by Rev. George W. Briggs (1810-1895), minister of the First -Church at Plymouth, Mass. (1838-1852). The book contains 601 hymns; no -musical directions beyond indication of metres. There is a strong -emphasis on hymns of the inner life, the compiler having sought “to -bring together the most fervent expressions of a profound spiritual -life,” many of which “have never been in familiar use in Unitarian -churches.” - -23. _Service Book: for the Church of the Saviour, with a Collection of -Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship_—Boston, 1845. - -Edited by Rev. Robert Cassie Waterston (1812-1893), minister of the -Church of the Saviour, Boston. _The Collection of Psalms and Hymns_ -bound up with the services is _Greenwood’s Collection_ (13) with a -supplement of 116 hymns selected by Waterston, so that the book is -more accurately described as one of the editions of Greenwood than as -an independent publication. The supplement, however, is notable for -the high proportion of good new hymns, not available when _Greenwood’s -Collection_ first appeared. Among them are hymns by Samuel F. Smith, -G. W. Doane, the early and mid-century Unitarian writers, and some -taken from Breviary sources. - -No musical instructions beyond indication of the metres. - -24. _A Book of Hymns for public and private devotion_—Cambridge: -Metcalf & Company, printers to the University. 1846. - -Edited by Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892) and Samuel Johnson -(1822-1882). The editors were, at the time, students in the Harvard -Divinity School (class of 1846), and the book “grew out of an offer to -provide a new book for a minister who found even the recent ones too -antiquated.” It was marked by poetic excellence and freshness, and -introduced to American use “Lead, Kindly Light,” and hymns by -Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Jones Very, Mrs. Stowe and others, -besides hymns by the editors themselves. First used in Church of the -Unity, Worcester, Mass., of which Edward Everett Hale was minister; -then in the Music Hall congregation of Theodore Parker, who is said, -on receiving a copy, to have remarked, “I see we have a new book of -Sams.” It ran to a twelfth edition in two years, but its greatest -influence was as a source-book for later editors. A somewhat enlarged -edition appeared in 1848. - -25. _Hymns of the Sanctuary_—Boston, 1849. - -Edited by Rev. Cyrus A. Bartol (1813-1900), minister of the West -Church in Boston, assisted by Charles G. Loring, Joseph Willard, and -other laymen of the church. The book is a revised and enlarged edition -of the “West Boston Collection” (10) of which the original edition had -been prepared by Rev. Simeon Howard (1). It contains 643 hymns and a -few chants. No musical directions beyond indication of metres. - -26. _Hymns for the Church of Christ_—Edited by Rev. Frederic H. Hedge -and Rev. Frederic D. Huntington, Boston, 1853. - -Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890) later became a distinguished -professor in the Harvard Divinity School. Frederic Dan Huntington -(1819-1904) later joined the Episcopal Church, in which he attained a -bishopric. - -The book contains 872 hymns,—no musical instructions beyond indication -of metres. It is conservative in tone but is marked by high literary -standards, and by a catholic inclusiveness beyond that of most books -in this series. It includes a number of translations of Breviary -hymns, and in it appears, for the first time, Hedge’s translation of -Luther’s “Ein’ feste Burg.” Better printed than most contemporary -hymn-books, it was hailed as “much the best book of hymns yet -published.” Many hymns are listed as “Anon.” and some authors are -given by surname only, making identification doubtful. - -27. _Services and Hymns for the use of the Unitarian Church of -Charleston_, S.C., 1854, 1867. - -The preface to the first edition, dated “April, 1854,” was signed by -S. Gilman and C. M. Taggart, then joint ministers of the church. No -copy of this edition appears to be extant. A new and enlarged edition, -with an unsigned preface but reprinting the earlier preface signed by -Gilman and Taggart, appeared in 1867, “Printed by Joseph Walker, Agt., -Charleston.” “Hymns for Christian Worship,” 171 in number, make up the -second half of this volume. Almost all of them are the standard -English hymns in current use in the first half of the 19^th century, -with 10 hymns by American authors, three of which are by Dr. Gilman -and two by his wife, Caroline Gilman, all of which had appeared in -earlier collections. - -28. _Hymn Book for Christian Worship_—Boston, 1854. - -There is no preface and the name of the compiler nowhere appears. It -was, however, edited by Rev. Chandler Robbins (1810-1882), minister of -the Second Church in Boston, and is, in effect, an enlargement of his -earlier _Social Hymn Book_, (18), with 761 hymns, better adapted to -church use. Like its predecessor, it contained chiefly the older type -of hymns,—107 by Watts, 62 by Doddridge, 40 by James Montgomery, 13 by -C. Wesley, and 20 more called “Wesleyan.” - -29. _The Soldier’s Companion: Dedicated to the Defenders of their -Country in the Field, by their Friends at Home_, published as the -issue of _The Monthly Journal_, Boston, for October, 1861, vol. II, -No. 10. - -This was a small paper bound collection of a few traditional hymns, -supplemented by a dozen anti-slavery or wartime songs by living -writers, including J. Pierpont, E. H. Sears, and J. R. Lowell, with a -supplement of devotional readings and prayers. Presumably it had some -use in the Army, but copies are now very rare. - -30. _Christian Worship_—New York, 1862. - -Edited by Rev. Samuel Osgood (1812-1880), then minister of the Church -of the Messiah, New York, and Rev. Frederic A. Farley (1800-1892), -minister of The First Unitarian Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. - -A small collection of 159 hymns, bound up with a liturgical type of -service-book indicating the trend which later took Osgood into the -Episcopal Church. - -31. _The Soldier’s Hymn Book, containing a supplement of national -songs for the use of chaplains and soldiers in the army and navy of -the United States_—Prepared by J. G. Forman, Chaplain of the 3d -Regiment Missouri Infantry, Army of the U. S., Alton, Illinois, 1863. - -Rev. Jacob G. Forman (d. 1885), the compiler, was at the time minister -of the Unitarian Church at Alton. This little pocket hymnal contains -99 hymns, and 26 additional patriotic songs. - -32. _The Soldier’s Hymn Book for Camp and Hospital_—Cambridge, printed -at the University Press, 1863. - -There is no indication as to the source of this little book, and the -identity of its compiler has not been discovered. Its contents, -however, indicate that it came from a Unitarian source. It is a pocket -hymnal containing 150 familiar hymns and a few prayers, somewhat -larger and better printed than (31). - -33. _Hymns of the Spirit_—Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1864. - -Edited by Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892) and Samuel Johnson -(1822-1882). This is the second and more famous hymn-book compiled by -the editors. It contains 717 hymns and represents their later and more -radical trend of thought, the book being theistic rather than -explicitly Christian in its emphasis. It introduced many hymns by the -editors themselves, and made drastic adaptations or revisions of hymns -by other authors. Like their first book (24), it was more generally -drawn upon as a source-book by later editors than it was used in the -churches. In that respect it was one of the most important books in -this series. - -34. _Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and Home_—Boston, 1868. - -This book was compiled by a committee appointed by the American -Unitarian Association, but the editorial work was chiefly done by Rev. -Leonard J. Livermore (1822-1886). It is the first hymn-book to be -issued by the Association and the first American Unitarian hymn-book -to be completely furnished with tunes. It contained 740 hymns, about -30 chants, etc., and 299 tunes, a large proportion of which have since -dropped out of use. Regarded as in some measure an authorized -denominational hymn-book, it had wide use, though it “marked no -advance over its predecessors, but its tunes were well up to the -average level and gave it a great advantage,” and stimulated -congregational singing. - -35. _Hymns for the Christian Church, for the use of the First Church -of Christ in Boston_—Boston, 1869. - -Edited by Rev. Rufus Ellis (1819-1885), minister of the First Church, -Boston. It was based on Lunt’s conservative Christian Psalter (15) -which had been in use in the First Church for 25 years. About 250 -hymns were retained from the earlier volume and enough more added to -bring the total to 469. The selections were well made, but, without -music, the book could not compete with the more inclusive _Hymn and -Tune Book_ (34) which the American Unitarian Association had published -the preceding year. - -36. _Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and Home_—Revised edition. -American Unitarian Association, Boston, 1877. - -The compiler’s name nowhere appears in the book, which was edited by -Rev. Rush R. Shippen (1828-1911), then Secretary of the American -Unitarian Association. It is a thorough-going revision of (34), -virtually a new book. It contains 871 hymns, 14 chants, etc., 316 -tunes, a much richer selection than its predecessor, although the -music was still of the mid-century type, with only a few examples of -the newer English tunes which were being introduced into America by -the choirs of Episcopal churches. The book was well adapted to the -general needs of Unitarians and was the most widely used book among -the Unitarian churches for the ensuing forty years. - -37. _Unity Hymns and Chorals_—Edited by W. C. Gannett, J. V. Blake, F. -L. Hosmer. Chicago, 1880. - -A later and largely revised edition was published in 1911 by Hosmer -and Gannett. The editors, Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929), William -Channing Gannett (1840-1923), and James Vila Blake (1842-1925), were -hymn-writers and ministers in the Western Unitarian Conference. This -small book, noted for its “split-leaf” arrangement, represented the -point of view of the “left-wing” group in the denomination. In its two -editions it contained most of the hymns by its editors, and a good -many by other authors which appeared for the first time within its -covers. In this respect, as in its radical character, it may be -compared to the hymn-books by Longfellow and Johnson (24 and 33). It -was widely used in the Western Unitarian Conference. Musically it was -mediocre. - -38. _Sacred Songs for Public Worship: A Hymn and Tune Book_—Edited by -M. J. Savage and Howard M. Dow. Boston, 1883. - -This small book contains 195 hymns and songs for popular use, selected -by Minot J. Savage (1841-1918), minister of Unity Church, Boston, -Mass., and set to music by Howard M. Dow. Forty-two items are from Mr. -Savage’s pen, the rest mostly from familiar sources. It is much more -of a “one-man book” and musically nearer akin to the typical gospel -song-book than any other collection in this series. - -39. _Hymns of the Church Universal_—Compiled by the Rev. Henry Wilder -Foote [I]: Revised and edited by Mary W. Tileston and Arthur Foote. -Boston, 1890. - -This book was compiled for use in King’s Chapel, Boston, of which Mr. -Foote (1838-1889) was minister, but was not published until after his -death, the editorial work being completed by his sister and brother. -The book superseded _Greenwood’s Collection_ (13) in King’s Chapel, -and had considerable use elsewhere. It contained 647 hymns, a number -of chants, and 299 tunes. It introduced many hymns and tunes of the -later 19^th century English authors and composers which were not found -in any earlier American Unitarian collections, and was influential in -setting a standard for later books. - -40. _Hymnal: Amore Dei_—Compiled by Mrs. Theodore C. Williams, Boston, -1890. Revised, 1897. - -Edited by Mrs. Williams in co-operation with her husband, Rev. -Theodore C. Williams (1855-1915), minister of All Souls’ Church, New -York. - -It contained 382 hymns, about 25 chants and responses and 272 tunes. A -collection similar to _Hymns of the Church Universal_ (39) in -utilizing the newer English hymns and tunes of the nineteenth century, -it had many excellencies and considerable use. The biographical -indexes of composers and authors are far more complete than those of -any earlier book in this series. - -41. _Hymns for Church and Home_—American Unitarian Association, -Boston, 1895. - -Edited by Mary Wilder Tileston and Arthur Foote, it was in effect a -revised and enlarged edition of _Hymns for the Church Universal_ (39), -containing 801 hymns. It was an admirable compilation but rather large -and heavy for handling. - -42. _Hymns for Church and Home Abridged_—1902. - -An edition of (41) with the number of hymns reduced to 513. - -43. _Hymns of the Ages_—Cambridge: The University Press. 1904. - -Edited by Louisa Putnam Loring (1854-1924). A book of high literary -and musical standards, based upon the (Harvard) _University Hymn Book_ -(1895). It contained 316 hymns and 205 tunes, but it represented a -rather limited and individualistic point of view and did not prove -adaptable to general use. - -44. _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book and Candle Light Service_—The Isles of -Shoals Association, 1908. - -Edited by Rev. George H. Badger (1859-1954). Since the book was -intended for use at the summer meetings on the Isles of Shoals, off -Portsmouth, N. H., the religious interpretation of nature is strongly -emphasized. The book contains 219 hymns and 96 tunes, mostly selected -from _Hymns for Church and Home_ (41), but nine of them are original -contributions to this book, some with lines referring directly to the -island setting or history. Both words and music represent the highest -standards at the time of publication, and the book is an exceptional -collection of hymns expressing this aspect of religion. - -45. _The New Hymn and Tune Book_—American Unitarian Association: -Boston, 1914. - -Edited by a commission: Rev. Samuel A. Eliot (1862-1950), Chairman; -Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, (II), (1875-____), Secretary; Rev. Rush R. -Shippen, (1828-1911), Rev. Lewis G. Wilson, (1858-1928). - -Nominally a revision of the _Hymn and Tune Book_ of 1877 (36), it was -in effect a new compilation, drawing largely upon _Hymns for Church -and Home_ (41), _Amore Dei_ (40) and _Unity Hymns and Chorals_ (37). -It contained 546 hymns, 28 chants, etc., and 268 tunes. It also -included a set of services and responsive readings, prepared by -another committee. It represented a great advance on earlier books and -was more widely adopted than any of them. In its music it was less -progressive than in its selection of hymns, representing the musical -standard and practice of about 1900. - -46. _Twenty-five Hymns for Use in Time of War_—The Beacon Press. -Boston, n. d. (1916). - -A pamphlet of hymns, more than half of them reprinted from the _Hymn -and Tune Book_ of 1914 (45) for use during the Great War. - -47. _Songs and Readings_—compiled and edited by Jacob Trapp and R. T. -Porte. Salt Lake City, 1931. - -This booklet contains 58 songs and hymns, without music, and 32 -responsive readings for use in the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake -City, of which Mr. Trapp (1899-____) was then minister. Intended for -ministers with “Humanist” leanings. - -48. _Hymns of the Spirit_—Beacon Press, 1937. - -Edited by a Unitarian Commission: Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, (II) -(1875-____), Chairman; Rev. Edward P. Daniels (1891-____), Rev. Curtis -W. Reese (1887-____), Rev. Von Ogden Vogt (1879-____), working in -co-operation with a Universalist Commission: Rev. L. G. Williams -(1893-____), Chairman; Rev. Prof. Alfred S. Cole, (1893-____), Rev. -Prof. Edson R. Miles (1875-1958), and Rev. Tracy M. Pullman -(1904-____). - -The title is borrowed from the second collection, edited by Samuel -Longfellow and Samuel Johnson, 1864, (33). The book is printed with -services and responsive readings prepared by the same two commissions. -It is an extensive revision of the _New Hymn and Tune Book_ (45) of -1914, with special emphasis on “the social gospel” and on hymns -dealing with “man in the universe.” Its most notable advance over its -predecessors is in its music, edited by E. P. Daniels and Robert L. -Sanders. It contains 533 hymns, 42 chants, etc., 366 tunes. - - - - - _Alphabetical List of Unitarian Hymn Writers In the Following - Catalogue_ - - - Adams, John Quincy - Alcott, Louisa May - Alger, Wm. R. - Ames, Chas. G. - Anonymous - Appleton, Francis P. - - Badger, George H. - Ballou, Adin - Barber, Henry H. - Barnard, John - Barrows, Samuel J. - Bartol, Cyrus A. - Bartrum, Joseph P. - Beach, Seth Curtis - Belknap, Jeremy - Blake, James Vila - Briggs, C. A. - Briggs, LeB. R. - Brooks, Charles T. - Bryant, William Cullen - Bulfinch, Stephen G. - Burleigh, Wm. H. - - Cabot, Eliza Lee, see Follen, Eliza Lee - Chadwick, John W. - Chapman, Mrs. - Cheney, Mrs. Edna D. - Church, Edward A. - Clapp, Eliza T. - Clarke, J. F. - Collyer, Robert - Clute, Oscar - - Dana, Chas. A. - Dwight, John S. - - Emerson, R. W. - Everett, Wm. - - Fernald, W. M. - Flint, James - Follen, Eliza Lee - Foote, H. W., I - Foote, H. W., II - Freeman, James - Frothingham, N. L. - Frothingham, Octavius B. - Fuller, Sarah Margaret - Furness, W. H. - - Gannett, W. C. - Gilman, Caroline (Howard) - Gilman, Samuel - Goldsmith, Peter H. - Greenough, James B. - Greenwood, Helen W. - - Hale, Edw. Everett - Hale, Mary W. - Hall, Harriet W. - Ham, M. F. - Harris, Florence - Harris, Thaddeus M. - Hedge, F. H. - Higginson, T. W. - Hill, Thomas - Holland, J. G. - Holmes, John Haynes - Holmes, Oliver Wendell - Horton, Edw. A. - Hosmer, F. L. - Howe, Julia (Ward) - Huntington, F. D. - Hurlburt, W. H. - - Johnson, Samuel - - Kimball, Jacob - - Larned, Augusta - Lathrop, John Howland - Livermore, A. A. - Livermore, Sarah W. - Long, John D. - Longfellow, Henry W. - Longfellow, Samuel - Loring, Louisa P. - Loring, W. J. - Lowell, J. R. - Lunt, W. P. - - Mann, Newton - Marean, Emma (Endicott) - Mason, Caroline A. - Miles, Sarah E. - Mott, F. B. - - Newell, Wm. - Norton, Andrews - - Ossoli, Margaret, see Fuller - - Parker, Theodore - Peabody, Ephraim - Peabody, O. W. B. - Peabody, W. B. O. - Perkins, J. H. - Pierpont, John - Pray, Lewis G. - Prince, Thomas - Putnam, A. P. - - Robbins, Chandler - Robbins, S. D. - - Sargent, L. M. - Savage, M. J. - Scudder, Eliza - Sears, E. H. - Sewall, C. - Sigourney, Lydia H. - Sill, E. R. - Silliman, V. B. - Spencer, Anna G. - Sprague, Charles - - Trapp, Jacob - Tuckerman, J. - - Very, Jones - Very, Washington - - Ware, Henry - Waterston, R. C. - Weir, R. S. - Weiss, John - Wendte, Chas. W. - Westwood, Horace - Wile, Frances W. - Wiley, Hiram O. - Willard, Samuel - Williams, Theodore C. - Williams, Velma C. - Willis, Love Maria - Willis, Nathaniel P. - Wilson, Edwin H. - Wilson, Lewis G. - - Young, George H. - - - - - Biographical Sketches - with Notes on Hymns - - -Adams, Hon. John Quincy, Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, July -11, 1767—February 21, 1848, Washington, D. C. He graduated from -Harvard in 1787. From 1794-1801 he was United States Minister to -England, the Netherlands and Prussia. In 1806 he was appointed -Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard. In 1809 he became United States -Minister to Russia, in 1817 he was Secretary of State, and from 1824 -to 1828 he was President of the United States. In 1831 he was elected -to the House of Representatives, in which body he served until his -death. - -Most of his verse, both religious and secular, was written after he -had left the Presidency, but he remains the only hymn writer who has -ever been President of this country. In his later years he composed a -metrical version of the Psalms, best described as a free rendering in -fairly good verse of what he felt was the essential idea of each -Psalm. When his minister, Rev. William P. Lunt, _q.v._, of the First -Parish, (Unitarian) Quincy, Massachusetts, undertook the preparation -of his hymn book _The Christian Psalmist_, (1841), Mrs. Adams put the -manuscript of her husband’s metrical Psalms into Mr. Lunt’s hands, and -the latter included 17 of them in his book, and five other hymns by -his distinguished parishioner. - -The effect on Adams is recorded in a moving entry in his _Journal_ -which reveals an aspect of his character quite unknown to those who -regarded him as an opinionated and uncompromising though sincere and -upright politician. He wrote on June 29, 1845, “Mr. Lunt preached this -morning, Eccles. III, 1. For everything there is a season. He had -given out as the first hymn to be sung the 138^th of the Christian -Psalter, his compilation and the hymn-book now used in our church. It -was my version of the 65^th Psalm; and no words can express the -sensations with which I heard it sung. Were it possible to compress -into one pulsation of the heart the pleasure which, in the whole -period of my life, I have enjoyed in praise from the lips of mortal -man, it would not weigh a straw to balance the ecstasy of delight -which streamed from my eyes as the organ pealed and the choir of -voices sung the praise of Almighty God from the soul of David, adapted -to my native tongue by me. There was one drawback. In the printed -book, the fifth line of the second stanza reads, - - ‘The morning’s dawn, the evening’s shade,’ - -and so it was sung, but the corresponding seventh line of the same -stanza reads, - - ‘The fields from thee the rains receive,’ - -totally destroying the rhyme. I instantly saw that the fifth line -should read, - - ‘The morning’s dawn, the shades of eve,’ - -but whether this enormous blunder was committed by the copyist or the -pressman I am left to conjecture.” - -After Adams’ death his verses, both religious and secular, were -published in a small volume entitled _Poems of Religion and Society_, -New York, 1848, which ran to a fourth edition in 1854. This collection -included the five hymns and 17 metrical Psalms printed in _The -Christian Psalmist_, unchanged except that the opening line of each -psalm has been substituted for the number of the psalm as its heading. -Nor was the misprint which Adams lamented amended. Judged by the -conventional standards of his time Adams’ poetry was consistently -respectable verse, but without any notable distinction other than that -lent to it by the fame of the author. - -His five hymns are, - - 1. _Sure to the mansions of the blest_, (Death of Children) - - This is part of a piece of 20 stanzas, which appeared in the - _Monthly Anthology and Boston Review_, January 1807. It is - entitled “Lines addressed to a mother on the death of two infants, - 19th Sept. 1803, and 19th Decb. 1806.” - - 2. _Alas! how swift the moments fly_, (The Hour-Glass) - - Sometimes given as - - _How swift, alas, the moments fly_, - - written for the 200^th anniversary of the First Parish Church in - Quincy, September 20, 1839. - - 3. _Hark! ’tis the holy temple bell_, (Sabbath morning) undated - - 4. _When, o’er the billow-heaving deep_, - - “A Hymn for the twenty-second of December,” i.e., the coming of - the Pilgrim Fathers, undated. - - 5. _Lord of all worlds, let thanks and praise_, - - “Written in Sickness;” undated. - -His metrical versions of the Psalms follow:— - - 6. _Blest is the mortal whose delight_, Ps. 1 - - 7. _Come let us sing unto the Lord_, Ps. 95 - - 8. _For thee in Zion there is praise_, Ps. 65 - - 9. _My Shepherd is the Lord on high_, Ps. 23 - - 10. _My soul, before thy Maker kneel_, Ps. 103 - - 11. _O, all ye people, clap your hands_, Ps. 47 - - 12. _O God, with goodness all thine own_, Ps. 67 - - 13. _O heal me, Lord, for I am weak_, Ps. 6 - - 14. _O, judge me, Lord, for thou art just_, Ps. 26 - - 15. _O Lord my God! how great thou art_, Ps. 104 - - 16. _O Lord, thy all-discerning eyes_, Ps. 139 - - 17. _O that the race of men would raise_, Ps. 107 - - 18. _Send forth, O God, thy truth and light_, Ps. 43 - - 19. _Sing to Jehovah a new song_, Ps. 98 - - 20. _Sing to the Lord a song of praise_, Ps. 149 - - 21. _Turn to the stars of heaven thine eyes_, Ps. 19 - - 22. _Why should I fear in evil days_, Ps. 49 - -A few of these hymns and psalms found their way into other -collections. Nos. 2 and 3 were included in _Lyra Sacra Americana_; no. -18 is in _Hymnal for American Youth_ and the _American Student -Hymnal_; no. 16 is in the Jewish _Union Hymnal for Worship_, 1914. - - J. 16, 1647 - H.W.F. - - -Alcott, Louisa May, Concord, Massachusetts, November 29, 1833—March 5, -1888, Concord. She was the author of widely known books for children, -_Little Women_, _Little Men_, and others. Julian’s _Dictionary_, p. -1602, records her hymn, - - _A little kingdom I possess_, - -and cites Eva Munson Smith’s _Women in Sacred Song_ as quoting a note -from Miss Alcott dated “Concord, Oct. 7, 1883,” in which she says that -this is “the only hymn I ever wrote. It was composed at thirteen - - - -and still expresses my soul’s desire.” Notwithstanding this statement -another hymn attributed to her, apparently written for use by young -people and beginning, - - _O the beautiful old story!_ - -is included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - - J 1550, 1602 - H.W.F. - - -Alger, Rev. William Rounsville, Freetown, Massachusetts, December 28, -1822—February 7, 1905, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1847 and in the same year became minister -of the Mount Pleasant Society, Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1855 he was -settled over the Bulfinch Place Church, Boston. He was a popular -lecturer and the author of numerous articles and several books, the -most notable of which was his _History of the Doctrine of the Future -Life_, 1864, and later editions. - -His Christmas hymn - - _Jesus has lived! and we would bring_, - -written in 1845 while he was still a student, is included in Hedge and -Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. - -Other poems by him, including a hymn for the graduation of his class -from the Divinity School in 1847 and another for the ordination of -Thomas Starr King, are included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, but -have had no further use. - - H.W.F. - - -Ames, Rev. Charles Gordon, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1828—April 15, -1912, Boston, Massachusetts. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in -1849 and spent some years as a home missionary in Minnesota. In 1859 -he joined the Unitarian denomination and served several churches, his -last pastorate being with the Church of the Disciples, Boston. In 1905 -he wrote a hymn for the dedication of the new edifice of that Society -beginning, - - _With loving hearts and hands we rear_, - -which is included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - -A hymn beginning - - _Father in heaven, hear us today_, - -is attributed to him in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_: _Old and -New_, 1898, but is not found elsewhere. - - H.W.F. - - -Anonymous - -In Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, -there is no Index of Authors, but in its Index of First Lines the name -of the author, (often only his or her surname) is given in most -instances. The Index also lists 57 hymns as “Anon.” or, more often, -with no word as to authorship. The source of several of these hymns -can be traced in Julian’s _Dictionary_ or in Putnam’s _Singers and -Songs of the Liberal Faith_, but I have been unable to identify the -author or source of the following hymns, or to check their later use, -if any. - - H.W.F. - -_Hys. Ch. Ch._ - - 509 Abba, Father, hear thy child, - 758 Alas! how poor and little worth, - 602 Behold, the servant of the Lord, - 73 Blest is the hour when cares depart, - 510 Come, let us who in Christ believe - 288 Come, O thou universal good! - 581 Come to the morning prayer, - - 707 Gently, Lord, O gently lead us, - 868 God of the mountain, God of the storm, - 437 God of the rolling year! to Thee - 765 Go to thy rest, fair child! - 305 Head of the church triumphant, - 860 Hear, Father, hear our prayer - 691 He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower - 686 I cannot always trace the way - 763 In the broad fields of heaven, - 37 “Let there be light!” When born on high - 255 Lord, in thy garden agony, - 409 Lord, may the spirit of this feast, - 861 Meek and lowly, pure and holy, - 573 Meek hearts are by sweet manna fed, - 798 Mortal, the angels say, - 856 My feet are worn and weary with the march, - 481 O’er mountaintops, the mount of God, - 294 On earth was darkness spread, - 742 O speed thee, Christian, on thy way, - 506 O Thou, who hearest prayer, - 803 O why should friendship grieve for them - 56 O wondrous depth of grace divine, - - 307 Saviour and dearest friend, - 312 Saviour, source of every blessing, - 539 Sovereign of worlds! display thy power, - 757 Swift years, but teach me how to bear, - 611 Take my heart, O Father, take it, - 75 There is a world, and O how blest, - 276 Thou art the Way, and he who sighs, - 768 Thou must go forth alone, my soul! - 155 ’Tis not Thy chastening hand I fear, - 247 Wake the song of jubilee. - 528 When shall the voice of singing, - 846 Why come not spirits from the realms of glory? - 448 Why slumbereth, Lord, each promised sign? - - -Anonymous Hymns - - _Come, Holy Spirit, hush my heart_, - - C.M. 3 stas. 3 _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - _Come thou Almighty King!_ - - The widely used hymn to the Trinity which begins with this line - was written about 1757 in England. It has often been mistakenly - attributed to Charles Wesley, and research has failed to discover - who its author was. Perhaps he thought it prudent not to disclose - his name because both his words and the tune by Felice di Giardini - to which it was set in 1769 offered so marked a contrast to the - British national anthem, in the same unusual metre, which had come - into popular use about 1745 with the words _God save our lord the - King_. American Unitarians in the 19^th century could sing the - first stanza of the hymn, addressed to the “Father all glorious,” - but not the trinitarian stanzas which followed. An unknown writer - produced two additional stanzas in a carefully revised version - which was included in Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, 1841; in the - 1851 _Supplement_ to Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, - 1846; and in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. This version, - however, was not satisfactory to later Unitarians and was again - largely rewritten in the form in which it has been included in - most of the Unitarian hymn books of more recent date. This version - will be found in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns - of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - _For mercies past we praise thee, Lord_, - - Given as Anonymous in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, - 1846, in 4 stas. of 4 l. It was repeated in their _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864, and in the (Unitarian) _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868. - - J. 1564 - - _My life flows on in endless song_, - - 8.7.8.7.D. 3 stas. _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - _Now, when the dusky shades of night retreating_, - - This is a free translation in five stanzas of the Latin hymn, - _Ecce jam noctis tenuatar umbra_ by Gregory the Great, c. 600, - included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_, 1853, as anonymous. It passed into Beecher’s _Plymouth - Collection_, 1855, and into many other hymn books, British and - American, often with the 3^d and 4^th stanzas omitted. There is no - clue as to its author though Julian (p. 320) points out that the - first stanza appears to be an altered form of W. J. Copeland’s - translation from the Latin, published in 1848. The three stanza - form of the hymn is included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, - 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 819 - H.W.F. - - _We follow, Lord, where thou dost lead_, - - L.M. 5 stas. Attributed to “Book of Hymns,” in _Isles of - Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - -Appleton, Rev. Francis Parker, Boston, Massachusetts, August 9, -1822—June 14, 1903, Cohasset, Massachusetts. He graduated from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1845, and was minister to the Unitarian -church, in South Danvers, (now Peabody) Massachusetts from 1846 to -1853. He then left the ministry for secular occupations. His hymn, - - _Thirsting for a living spring_, - -was included, anonymously, in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of -Hymns_, 1846, and, attributed to him, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. -It is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908; in _The New -Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. His -hymn, - - _The past yet lives in all its truth, O God_, - -was also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in _The New Hymn -and Tune Book_, 1914, but has now dropped out of use. - - J. 1551, 1606 - H.W.F. - - -Badger, Rev. George Henry, Charlestown, Massachusetts, March 27, -1859—May 11, 1953, Orlando, Florida. He was educated at Williams -College, A.B. 1883, at Andover Theological Seminary and the Harvard -Divinity School, receiving the degree of S.T.B. from the latter -institution in 1886. He served several Unitarian churches in New -England. From 1912-1918 he was a minister in San Antonio, Texas; from -1919-1936 in Orlando, Florida. The preface to _The Isles of Shoals -Hymn Book_, 1908, is signed with his initials as editor. That book -contains three hymns of which he was author:— - - 1. _God of the vastness of the far-spread sea_, - - 2. _Lord, I believe, and in my faith_, - - 3. _Thy way, O Lord, is in the sea_, - -In 1910 he wrote a hymn beginning, - - 4. _O Thou who art my King_, - -which was included in The _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. None of -these hymns have passed into later collections. - - H.W.F. - - -Ballou, Rev. Adin, 1803-1890. Without much formal education, but -gifted in mind and spirit, he was ordained in 1827 as a Universalist -minister, but in 1831 joined the Unitarian denomination in which he -served a number of New England parishes. He wrote a hymn beginning, - - _Years are coming—speed them onward!_ - _When the sword shall gather rust_ - -which was included in Universalist hymnbooks and in _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Barber, Rev. Henry Hervey, Warwick, Massachusetts, December 30, -1835—January 18, 1923, Jacksonville, Florida. He was educated at -Deerfield (Massachusetts) Academy, and at Meadville Theological School -from which he graduated in 1861. After pastorates in two New England -churches he became in 1881 a professor in Meadville Theological -School, a position from which he retired in 1904. His hymn beginning, - - _Far off, O God, and yet most near,_ - -dated 1891, had considerable use and was included in _The New Hymn and -Tune Book_, 1914. - - H.W.F. - - -Barnard, Rev. John, Boston, Massachusetts, November 6, 1681—January -24, 1770, Marblehead, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in -1700, and was installed as minister of the Congregational Church in -Marblehead in 1716, which he served with distinction through the rest -of his life. A number of his sermons were printed, and in 1752 he -published _A New Version of the Psalms of David_, 278 pp., printed in -Boston, the result of his own endeavor to produce a fresh metrical -translation. It is listed in Julian’s _Dictionary_, p. 929, under -_Psalters, English_. His book was used in his own church, but not -elsewhere, and is now very rare. His own annotated copy is in the -Harvard College Library and the original ms. is in the Massachusetts -Historical Society. - - H.W.F. - - -Barrows, Rev. Samuel June, New York, New York, May 26, 1845—April 21, -1909, New York. He graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1875 -and in 1876 was ordained minister of Mount Pleasant Church, -Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he served until 1881. He was editor -of the _Christian Register_ from 1881 to 1897, and was a member of -Congress, 1897-1899. - -A hymn beginning - - _Enkindling Love, eternal Flame_ - -is attributed to him in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - H.W.F. - - -Bartol, Rev. Cyrus Augustus, D.D., Freeport, Maine, August 30, -1813—December 16, 1890, Boston. He graduated from Bowdoin College in -1832 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1835. After lay preaching -for a year in Cincinnati he was ordained in 1837 as successor to Rev. -Charles Lowell (father of James Russell Lowell) in the West Church -(Unitarian) in Boston. He retired in 1889. He was author of several -books and of a large number of printed sermons and addresses. He, with -others, edited _Hymns for the Sanctuary_, Boston, 1849, commonly -called “Bartol’s Collection”, in which was included an anonymous hymn -beginning - - _Be thou ready, fellow-mortal_ (Readiness for Duty) - -This hymn passed into the _Supplement_ to Hedge and Huntington’s -_Hymns of the Church of Christ_, Boston, 1853, and into other -collections. Its authorship has never been disclosed, but its theme -and mode of expression suggest that it may have been written by -Bartol. - - J. 120 - H.W.F. - - -Bartrum, Joseph P., a Unitarian layman living in the 19^th century, -who published _The Psalms newly Paraphrased for the Service of the -Sanctuary_, Boston, 1833, from which his version of Psalm CVI, - - _O from these visions, dark and drear_, - -was taken for inclusion in several Unitarian collections in Great -Britain and America and in the Universalist _Church Harmonies, New and -Old_, 1895. His version of Psalm LXXXVII, - - _Amid the heaven of heavens_, - -is included in Holland’s _Psalmists of Britain_, 1843, vol. II, p. -339, with a critical note. - -Neither hymn is found in use today. - - J. 116 - H.W.F. - - -Beach, Rev. Seth Curtis, D.D., near Marion, Wayne County, New York, -August 3, 1837—January 30, 1932, Watertown, Massachusetts. He -graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York in 1863, and from -the Harvard Divinity School in 1866. From 1867 to 1869 he served the -Unitarian Church in Augusta, Maine. Ill health then led him to take up -a farm in Minnesota for four years. In 1873 he returned to New -England, where his longest pastorates were at Bangor, Maine, -1891-1901, and at Wayland, Massachusetts, 1901-1911, when he retired -to Watertown. His hymn, - - 1. _Mysterious Presence! Source of all_, - -was first printed in the “Order of Exercises at the Fiftieth Annual -Visitation of the Divinity School, July 17, 1866,” having been written -for that occasion. - -In 1884 he wrote - - 2. _Thou One in all, thou All in one_ (God in Nature) - -These two hymns were included in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune -Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. His third hymn - - 3. _Kingdom of God! The day how blest_, - -is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - J. 1581 - H.W.F. - - -Belknap, Rev. Jeremy, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, June 4, 1744—June -20, 1798, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1762; taught -school for four years; in 1766 accepted a position as assistant to -Rev. Jonathan Cushing of Dover, New Hampshire, and in 1767 was -ordained, serving that parish until 1786. In 1787 he became minister -of the Federal Street Church, (now the Arlington Street Church) -Boston, which he served until his death. Harvard gave him the honorary -degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1792. He was the author of a three -volume _History of New Hampshire_; of a petition (1788) for the -abolition of the slave trade; and of other books and essays; and -formed the plan for the Massachusetts Historical Society, organized in -1791. He wrote no hymns but made an important contribution to American -hymnody in his collection _Sacred Poetry: consisting of Psalms and -Hymns adapted to Christian devotion in public and private. Selected -from the best authors, with variations and additions_, by Jeremy -Belknap, D.D., Boston, 1795, which ran to many editions. His intention -was to provide a book acceptable to both the conservative and the -liberal wings of Congregationalism, to bridge the widening gap which -resulted in the formation of the Unitarian denomination a generation -later. In this he failed, for only the liberal churches accepted it, -though it was widely used by them for 40 years, being much the best of -the period. It includes 300 hymns from the best English sources, and -was the first to introduce to Americans the hymns by Anne Steele. The -only American hymns in the collection are Jacob Kimball’s metrical -version of Psalm 65 and Mather Byles’ _When wild confusion rends the -air_. - - H.W.F. - - -Blake, Rev. James Vila, Brooklyn, New York, January 21, 1842—April 28, -1925, Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard College in 1862 and -from the Harvard Divinity School in 1866, and served Unitarian -churches in Massachusetts and Illinois, his last and longest pastorate -being at Evanston, Ill., 1892-1916. Author of a number of books. He -shared with W. C. Gannett, _q.v._ and F. L. Hosmer, _q.v._ in the -compilation of the first edition of _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1880, -which included his hymn, - - _Father, Thou art calling, calling to us plainly_, - -included also in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of -the Spirit_, 1937. The latter book also includes his hymn of the -church universal, - - _O sing with loud and joyful song_. - - H.W.F. - - -Briggs, C. A. - -A hymn beginning, - - _God’s law demands one living faith_ (Law of God) - -is attributed to a person with this name in Hedge and Huntington’s -_Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. It is probable, but not -certain, that the author was Rev. Charles Briggs, Halifax, -Massachusetts, January 17, 1791—December 1, 1873, Roxbury, -Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1815 and from the -Divinity School in 1818, was minister of the First Church in -Lexington, Massachusetts, 1818-1834, and secretary of the American -Unitarian Association, 1835-1848. - - H.W.F. - - -Briggs, LeBaron Russell, LL.D., Salem, Massachusetts, December 11, -1855—April 24, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1875, A.M., 1882; served as tutor, then as professor of -English, and as dean from 1891-1925. Harvard gave him the degree of -LL.D. in 1900, as did Yale in 1917, and Lafayette University gave him -the degree of Litt.D. For the celebration of the 300^th anniversary of -the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, December 21, 1920, he wrote a -poem which is introduced by a prayer in three stanzas, 11.10.11.10, -offered by “The Pilgrim”, beginning, - - _God of our fathers, who hast safely brought us_, - -It is a fine hymn of thanksgiving for religious freedom and it was -included in the program celebrating the 300^th anniversary of the -“Cambridge Platform” in October 27, 1948. It deserves wide use. - - H.W.F. - - -Brooks, Rev. Charles Timothy, Salem, Massachusetts, June 20, 1813—June -14, 1883, Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from Harvard College in -1832 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1835. He was ordained as -the first minister of the Unitarian Church in Newport, Rhode Island, -on January 1, 1837, and served there until 1873. He was author of a -number of books, most of them translations from German poets and -novelists. After his death a volume entitled _Poems, Original and -Translated_, was published. The only hymn with which his name is -associated was in two stanzas beginning, - - _God bless our native land!_ - -said to have been written while he was a student in the Divinity -School. Part of the first and almost the whole of the second stanza -were rewritten by J. S. Dwight, _q.v._, and Putnam, in _Songs of the -Liberal Faith_, states that it was first published in this form in one -of Lowell Mason’s song books in 1844. It was included, with further -alterations, in Hedge and Huntington’s_ Hymns of the Church of -Christ_, 1853, and with yet other changes in Longfellow and Johnson’s -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. In the 20^th century collection also -entitled _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, the hymn appears in 3 stas. of -which the first is by Brooks, the second by Dwight, and a third, of -which the first 3 lines are those introduced by Longfellow and -Johnson, the remaining four lines from a later unknown source, and its -authorship is attributed to “Composite: based on Charles Timothy -Brooks and John Sullivan Dwight.” The complicated history of this hymn -is traced in Julian, 184, 1566, 1685. - - H.W.F. - - -Bryant, William Cullen, Cummington, Massachusetts, November 3, -1794—June 12, 1878, New York, New York. He was a student at Williams -College for two years, then studied law, and was admitted to the bar -at Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1815, where he practised until -1825 when he removed to New York. There he devoted himself to -journalism as editor of _The New York Review_ and of the _New York -Evening Post_, reserving part of his time, especially in later years, -to literary pursuits at his retreat at Roslyn, Long Island, where he -wrote addresses, essays and reviews as well as poems. In point of time -he was the first of the famous group of New England poets of the -nineteenth century. He began writing verses when a child and composed -his noblest poem, _Thanatopsis_, when only eighteen years of age. His -first volume of poems, containing one entitled _The Ages_ delivered -before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard, and some others, was -published in 1821. In 1832 a volume entitled _Poems_, complete to that -date, was published, for which Washington Irving secured republication -in England, where it brought him wide recognition. Many successive -editions of Poems, each with some additional items, were published in -later years, and after his death a complete edition of the _Poetical -Works of William Cullen Bryant_ appeared in 1879. He also had -privately printed a little volume of his _Hymns_, 1869. - -The following pieces by him have been included in various collections -of hymns, some of them having considerable use in Great Britain as -well as in this country. - - 1. _All praise to him of Nazareth_ (Communion) - - Dated 1864. Included in Hatfield’s (British) _Church Hymn Book_, - 1874, in 3 stanzas, and in _Songs of the Sanctuary_ and in - Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc. in 5 stanzas. - - 2. _All that in this wide world we see_ (Omnipresence) - - Dated 1836, but Beard, in his _Collection_, (British) 1837, gives - it as an original contribution, thus fixing the date of first - publication. Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., notes that it was - “Written, probably, for some church in England,” information which - sounds like the aged poet’s vague recollection many years after he - had responded to Beard’s request. Included in Lunt’s _Christian - Psalter_, 1841. - - 3. _All things that are on earth_, (Love of God) - - Included in Beard’s _Collection_, 1837. - - 4. _Almighty! hear thy children raise_, (Praise) - - One of five hymns written by Bryant at the request of Miss - Sedgwick for inclusion (without the author’s name) in Sewall’s - _Collection_, 1820, compiled for use in the First Congregational - Society of New York (Unitarian), now All Souls Church. In Beard’s - _Collection_, 1837, the first line is altered to read - - _Almighty, listen while we praise_, - - and in the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, Boston, 1868, it is - altered to - - _Almighty, hear us while we praise_, - - 5. _As shadows cast by cloud and sun_, - - Written for the Semi-Centennial of the Church of the Messiah, - Boston, March 19, 1875. Included in the Methodist Episcopal - _Hymnal_, New York, 1878. - - 6. _Close softly, fondly, while ye weep_ (Death) - - Included in H. W. Beecher’s _Plymouth Collection_, 1855. - - 7. _Dear ties of mutual succor bind_ (Charity) - - Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, 1874, p. 130, says, “Mr. Bryant has - kindly sent us, as an additional contribution to this volume, the - following exquisite lines, which were written about forty years - since, for some charitable occasion, and which he lately found - among some old papers. They are not among his published poems.” - Included in the Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, 1878. - - 8. _Deem not that they are blest alone_ (Mourning) - - Written for Sewall’s _Collection_, 1820, _vide supra._ Included in - Beard’s _Collection_, 1837, and, the first line altered to read, - - _O deem not they are blest alone_, - - in Martineau’s _Hymns of Prayer and Praise_, 1873, and in _Songs - for the Sanctuary_, New York, 1865-1872. - - 9. _Father, to thy kind love we owe_, (God’s Loving Kindness) - - One of the five hymns, written by Bryant for inclusion in Sewall’s - _Collection_, New York, 1820. Included in the _Hymn and Tune - Book_, Boston, 1868, and in Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873. In Putnam’s - _Singers and Songs_, etc. the first line reads, - - _Our Father, to thy love we owe_. - - 10. _How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps?_ (Future - life) - - A memorial poem in 9 stanzas rather than a hymn, but included in - part in the supplement of devotional readings in Hedge and - Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. Complete text - in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc., pp. 125-126. - - 11. _Look from Thy sphere of endless day_ (Home missions) - - Dated 1840. Included in _Songs for the Sanctuary_, New York, 1865; - in Horder’s (British) _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, and in the - _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935. - - 12. _Lord, who ordainest for mankind_ (Thanks for Mother Love) - - Written at the request of Rev. Samuel Osgood of New York for - inclusion in his _Christian Worship_, 1862, and included in - Martineau’s _Hymns_, etc., 1873. - - 13. _Mighty One, before whose face_ (Ordination) - - Dated c. 1820. It was included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns_, - etc. 1853, H. W. Beecher’s _Plymouth Collection_, 1855, and - elsewhere. - - 14. _Not in the solitude_, (God in the city) - - Dated 1836. Included in Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873. - - 15. O God, whose dread and dazzling brow (God’s compassion) - - Included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns_, etc. 1853, and in the - _Hymn and Tune Book_, Boston, 1868. - - 16. _O North, with all thy vales of green!_ (Reign of Christ) - - Included in the author’s privately printed _Hymns_, 1869, undated. - It passed into several British collections, e.g., the Scotch - _Church Hymnary_, 1898; _Worship Song_, 1905; _The English - Hymnal_, 1906; and is included in the American Episcopal _Hymnal_, - 1940. - - 17. _O Thou, whose love can ne’er forget_ (Ordination) - - One of Bryant’s early hymns, perhaps written for the ordination of - Rev. William Ware, December, 1821, as minister of the First - Congregational Society of New York, (now All Souls Church). - Included in Beard’s English _Collection_, 1837. - - 18. _O Thou Whose own vast temple stands_ (Opening of a house - of worship) - - Written in 1835 for the dedication of a Chapel in Prince Street, - New York. The building was soon afterwards destroyed by fire. This - hymn is the most widely used of all those written by Bryant. It - was included in Beard’s English _Collection_ in 1837, and in - Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873. In Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc., - the opening line reads, - - _Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands_, - - and in this form it was included in Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, - 1861, and in the American Presbyterian _Psalms and Hymns_, - Richmond, 1867; in Horder’s _Congregational Hymns_, London, 1884; - and elsewhere. - - 19. _Standing forth in life’s rough way_ (On behalf of - children) - - Included in Dr. Allon’s (British) _Children’s Worship_, 1878; in - Horder’s _Congregational Hymns_, 1884; and elsewhere. - - 20. _Thou unrelenting past_ (The Past) - - Dated 1836. A poem of 14 stanzas, a few of which were included in - Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873. - - 21. _When doomed to death the Apostle lay_ (On behalf of - Drunkards) - - Included in the Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, 1878. - - 22. _When he who from the scourge of wrong_ (Hope of - Resurrection) - - Written for Sewall’s _Collection_, 1820. Included in _Lyra Sacra - Americana_, 1868. - - 23. _When this song of praise shall cease_ (Anticipation of - Death) - - Written for a collection of hymns printed at the end of a _Sunday - School Liturgy_, prepared by James Lombard, of Utica, New York, in - 1859. Included in Bryant’s privately printed _Hymns_, 1869, and in - Stevenson’s (British) _School Hymnal_, 1889. - - 24. _When the blind suppliant in the way_ (Opening the eyes of - the blind) - - Dated 1874. Included in the Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, New - York, 1878. - - 25. _Whither, midst falling dew_, (Divine Guidance) - - This is one of Bryant’s best known poems, entitled “To a - Waterfowl,” and dated 1836, and is in no sense a hymn, although - included in Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873. - - 26. _Wild was the day, the wintry sea_, (The Pilgrim Fathers) - - Included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. - -Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., p. 123 reports a hymn beginning - - _Ancient of Days! except Thou deign_, - -“written for the dedication of Rev. R. C. Waterston’s church in -Boston,” and another hymn beginning - - _Lord, from whose glorious presence came_, - -written “at the request of a friend, Mr. Hiram Barney, for the opening -of an Orthodox Congregational Church,” but does not print the text of -either, and neither appears to have been included in any Collection. - -As indicated in the foregoing list, the text of several of Bryant’s -hymns is found with the opening line altered from the original, either -by the author himself, or, presumably, with his consent, so that it is -impossible to say which is the correct or authorized form, and -frequently no more than approximate date of composition can be given. - -The early flowering of Bryant’s gifts as a poet, promoted by a -fortunate combination of circumstances, quickly brought him widespread -recognition in both Great Britain and America, which deepened into -respect for his fine character as he advanced in age. The writings of -no other American poet of his period were so eagerly searched by -compilers of hymn books, who sometimes included verses which were -meditative, poems rather than hymns, e.g., nos. 8, 10, 20 and 25 in -the above list. Bryant’s mind was cool and meditative, and his hymns -are correct and smoothly flowing, but seldom touched with lyric fire, -and none of them quite reach the highest level. They express an -attitude towards religion characteristic of the intellectual life of -his time but now largely passed away. No. 16 is still included in -several leading hymn collections of the 20^th century; nos. 11 and 18 -are in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914; and nos. 12 and -18 are in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 189-190, 1682 - H.W.F. - - -Bulfinch, Rev. Stephen Greenleaf, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, June -18, 1809—October 12, 1870, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was son of -Charles Bulfinch, a leading architect, and received his early -education in Washington, D.C., returning to Cambridge to enter the -Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1830. He was -ordained in January, 1831, as assistant to Rev. Samuel Gilman, _q.v._, -of Charleston, South Carolina, and later served Unitarian churches in -Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; Nashua, New Hampshire; -Dorchester, Massachusetts and East Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a -voluminous writer in both prose and verse. Most of his hymns first -appeared in his books _Contemplations of the Saviour_, Boston, 1832; -_Poems_, Charleston, 1834; and _Lays of the Gospel_, 1845. The first -of these was reprinted in England, where 19 of his hymns were included -in Beard’s _Collection_, 1837, and where they had widespread use. - -His best known hymns are as follows: - - 1. _Benignant Saviour: ’twas not thine_, (Compassion of - Christ) - - From his “Contemplations of the Saviour,” altered in Horder’s - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, to read - - _Most gracious Saviour: ’twas not thine_. - - 2. _Burden of shame and woe_, (The Crucifixion) - 3. _Hail to the Sabbath day_, (Sunday) - 4. _Hath not thy heart within thee burned_, (Evening) - 5. _Holy Son of God most high_, (Christ) - 6. _How glorious is the hour_, (The New Life) - 7. _In the Saviour’s hour of death_, (Good Friday) - 8. _It is finished! Glorious word_, (Good Friday) - 9. _Lord, in this sacred hour_, (Worship) - 10. _O suffering friend of all mankind_, (Passiontide) - 11. _There is a strife we all must wage_, (Life’s Duty) - 12. _Toiling through the livelong night_, (Miracle of - fishes) - 13. _What power unseen by mortal eye_, (Miracle) - -These hymns are well written contemplations of gospel episodes, as -viewed by the conservative piety of the author’s period. Several were -included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846-1848; nos. -6 and 10 are in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of -Christ_, 1853; and most of them in one and another 19^th century -collection. Only No. 4 has survived in present-day use, being found in -_The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 191, 1555 revised - H.W.F. - - -Burleigh, William Henry, Woodstock, Connecticut, February 12, -1812—March 18, 1871, Brooklyn, New York. He was an editor and -publisher working successively in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1837-1843; -in Hartford, Connecticut, 1843-1849; in Syracuse, New York, 1849-1854. -From 1855-1870 he was Harbor Master of New York. He was a member of -the Second Unitarian Church in Brooklyn and an ardent advocate of -anti-slavery and temperance reforms. Early in life he began writing -hymns and other poems which were printed in various periodicals, but -for many of which the date and occasion are impossible to determine. -They were collected for publication in a volume entitled _Poems_, -Philadelphia, 1841, and this book, enlarged with his later poems, was -republished in 1871 after his death, with a biographical notice by his -wife. Some of the best were included in the British collection _Lyra -Sacra Americana_, 1868, the editor of which, Dr. Cleveland, said, -“Most of these beautiful hymns of Mr. Burleigh’s were given to me in -ms. by the author.” From this publication they were taken for -extensive use in British hymn books. - - 1. _Abide not in the realm of dreams_, (The Harvest Call) - - Included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., is a poem of 10 - stanzas from which a cento consisting of the first two lines of - stanza 1 combined with the second two lines of stanza 2, followed - by stanzas 3, 6, 7 and 10 are taken to form a hymn in the _New - Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 2. _Fades from the west the farewell light_ (Night) - - This poem, entitled “A Psalm of Night,” is given in his _Poems_, - New York, 1871. Although not in the first edition of _Poems_, - 1841, stanzas selected from it came into use as early as 1844. The - original is in 5 stanzas of 8 lines. From it the following centos - have come into use. - - (a) _Day unto day uttereth speech_, - - This consists of stanzas III-V, and is given in the _Christian - Hymns_ of the Cheshire Pastoral Association, 1844, as an “Evening - Hymn.” - - (b) _O Holy Father, mid the calm_ - - This cento consists of stanzas IV-V, and is given in Longfellow - and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, and in their _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864. - - (c) _Not only doth the voiceful day_, - - Composed of stanzas II-III, in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of - the Spirit_, 1864. Another arrangement beginning with the same - stanza is in _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - (d) _The brightening dawn and voiceful day_, - - In the British _Hymnary_, London, 1872, an altered form of (c), - with the addition of a doxology. - - In these various forms the use of this hymn was very extensive. - - 3. _Father, beneath thy sheltering wing_, (Trust and Peace) - - Printed in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, - in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. Included in the British _Baptist Hymnal_, - 1879; in Horder’s _Congregational Hymns_, 1884; and others; and in - many American collections. - - 4. _Father, thy servant waits to do thy will_ (Ordination) - - “Written for the ordination of Mr. J. W. Chadwick, as pastor of - the Second Unitarian Church, in Brooklyn, New York, 1864.” - Included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc. - - 5. _For the dear love that kept us through the night_ (Morning) - - Taken from the author’s _Poems_, 1871, for inclusion in Horder’s - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884. - - 6. _From the profoundest depths of tribulation_ (Lent) - - A meditative poem rather than a hymn, included in the Supplement - to Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns of the Church of Christ_, 1853. - - 7. _Lead us, O Father, in the paths of peace_ (Divine Guidance) - - In _Lyra Sacra Americana_ headed “A Prayer for Guidance.” This is - one of the author’s best known and most widely used hymns. - Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 8. Not in vain I poured my supplication (Lent) - - A continuation of the same thought as no. 6, preceding, which it - follows in the Supplement to Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns_, etc. - - 9. _O deem not that earth’s crowning bliss_, (Morning) - - In his _Poems_, 1871; in _Lyra Sacra Americana_ from which it - passed into the British _Baptist Hymnal_, 1879, and Horder’s - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, and others. In the Methodist - Episcopal _Hymnal_, New York, 1878, the hymn beginning - - _From lips divine the healing balm_ - - is a cento from this poem. - - 10. _Still will we trust though earth seems dark and dreary_, - (Faith) - - From _Lyra Sacra Americana_ this passed into many non-conformist - collections in Great Britain where it was the most widely used of - all of Burleigh’s hymns. It had a much more limited use in this - country. Included in Putnam’s _Singers & Songs_, etc. - - 11. _There is a beautiful land by the spoiler untrod_, (Heaven) - - Dr. Cleveland, editor of _Lyra Sacra Americana_ says “This piece - was first published in the _Independent_, Jan. 18, 1866.” - - 12. _They who have kept their virgin whiteness_, (Purity) - - In _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 13. _Thou who look’st with pitying eye_ (Lent) - - In _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 14. _Through the changes of the day_ (Evening) - - From his Poems, 1841. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_; in S.P.C.K.’s - _Psalms and Hymns_, 1852; in Thring’s _Collection_, and other - British books. - - 15. _We ask not that our path be always bright_, (Trust in God) - - From _Lyra Sacra Americana_ this passed into Horder’s - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884. - - 16. _When gladness gilds our prosperous day_ (Good in all) - - From _Lyra Sacra Americana_ this passed into Horder’s - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884. - -The above hymns have had much less use in this country than in Great -Britain. Nos. 7 and 10 are in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_, -1895; nos. 1 and 7 in _Hymns of the Spirit_. 1937, no. 7 in _The -Hymnal_, 1940; and no. 3 in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_. The -others, though very acceptable expressions of the religious thought -and feeling in the era in which the author lived, have now dropped out -of use. - - J. 195-6 - Revised H.W.F - - -Chadwick, Rev. John White, Marblehead, Massachusetts, October 19, -1840—December 11, 1904, Brooklyn, New York. After two years of study -at the Bridgewater Normal School, and a shorter period at Phillips -Exeter Academy, he entered the Harvard Divinity School, from which he -graduated in 1864. He received the degree of A.M. 1888. In December, -1864, he was ordained minister of the Second Unitarian Church, -Brooklyn, where he remained until his death. He was an influential -preacher and a prolific author in both prose and verse, his principal -publications being a _Book of Poems_, 1876, _Nazareth Town_, 1883 -(poems), the two being later combined and republished in 1888 with the -earlier title; _The Bible Today_, 1879: _Old and New Unitarian -Belief_, 1894; and first-rate biographies of _Theodore Parker_, 1901, -and _William Ellery Channing_, 1903. After his death a small volume -was published entitled _Later Poems_, 1905, and his printed sermons -have been collected in 14 volumes. As a young man he became a close -friend of W. C. Gannett, _q.v._, and F. L. Hosmer, _q.v._, both of -whom were also born in 1840, though not his classmates in the Divinity -School, and his hymns are expressions of a theological outlook similar -to theirs, notably in his endeavor to give a religious interpretation -to the then disputed doctrine of evolution. Although several of his -hymns are of exceptionally fine quality, he often wrote in haste, -lacking the patience with which his two friends sought for the precise -word to convey their meaning, but he often abbreviated or re-wrote his -verses at the request of hymn-book editors, or willingly accepted -their proposed alterations. The result is that some of his hymns now -appear in forms which depart considerably from their original texts. -His secular poems, mostly the utterances of a nature lover, are often -the too hastily written verse of a minor poet. - -His _Book of Poems_, 1888, and _Later Poems_, 1905, include all his -hymns, three of which had little use, viz: - - 1. _A gentle tumult in the earth_, (Easter) 1876 - - 2. _Everlasting Holy One_, (Invocation) 1875 - - 3. _O God, we come not as of old_, (Worship) 1874 - -His best known hymn was written for the Visitation Day exercises at -the Harvard Divinity School, 1864, - - 4. _Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round_, - -It has been widely used in Great Britain and in this country. Other -hymns by him have had considerable use, as follows: - - 5. _Another year of setting suns_, (New Year’s) 1873 - - This was written in ten stanzas beginning - - “That this shall be a better year,” - - but in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, only stas. 5, 6, 7, and 10 are - given, beginning as above. - - 6. _It singeth low in every heart_, (Commemoration) 1876 - - Written for the 25^th anniversary of the dedication of his church - in Brooklyn, and widely used. - - 7. _Now sing we a song of the harvest_, (Thanksgiving Day) 1871 - - 8. _O Love Divine, of all that is_, (A song of Trust) 1865 - - 9. _O Thou, whose perfect goodness crowns_, (Anniversary Hymn) - - Written in 1889 for the 25^th anniversary of his ordination. - - 10. _Thou glorious God, before whose face_, (Anniversary Hymn) - - Undated. - - 11. _Thou whose spirit dwells in all_, (Easter) - - Written in 1890. - - 12. _Thy seamless robe conceals Thee not_, (Jesus) - - Written in 1876. Included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, - but not in later publications. - - 13. _What has drawn us thus apart_, (Unity of Spirit) - - Written in 1891. - -Several of the above hymns, as printed in current hymn-books, consist -of selected stanzas, or have been slightly altered from their original -forms, in most cases by Gannett and Hosmer, for inclusion in their -collection _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1880, 1911. Two others included -in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, were not written as hymns but have -been quarried out of verses in _Later Poems_, by permission of the -author’s widow, viz: - - 14. _Spirit of God, in thunder speak_, (Summons to Duty) - - This arrangement combines stanzas 13 and 16 in the poem entitled - “A Missionary Chant”, used as the first two stanzas of the hymn, - with stanzas 8 and 9 of the poem to “William Cullen Bryant” as the - third and fourth stanzas of the hymn, both poems being found in - _Later Poems_, 1905. - - 15. _Thou mighty God, who didst of old_, (Communion of Saints) - - This is arranged from the same sources. Stanzas 1 and 2 are the - first two stanzas in “William Cullen Bryant,” the last three - stanzas are stanzas 11, 7, and 8 in “A Missionary Chant,” - considerably altered. These arrangements were made by H. W. Foote, - with the coöperation of F. L. Hosmer and W. C. Gannett, for - inclusion in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - -Of the hymns listed above _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937 includes Nos. 4, -5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15. - - J. 216, 1619 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Chapman, Mrs. (No information available). - -An anti-slavery hymn beginning - - _O God of freedom! Hear us pray_, - -is attributed to “Mrs. Chapman” in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for -the Church of Christ_, 1853. - - H.W.F. - - -Cheney, Mrs. Ednah D. (Dow) Boston, Massachusetts, June 27, -1824—November 19, 1904, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She married Seth -Wells Cheney. She was the author of several books, including _The Life -and Letters of Louisa May Alcott_. She wrote a hymn on “the larger -prayer,” beginning - - _At first I prayed for Light_, - -in 4 stanzas of 10 lines each, printed in the _Riverside Record_ and -reprinted in the _Boston Gazette_, February 4, 1882. Enough lines have -been taken from this hymn to make a much shorter one in 5 stanzas of -four lines each, C.M. for inclusion in Unitarian hymn-books. It has -also been considerably rewritten, but since this revised form is not -marked as “altered” it is probable that the changes were made by the -author or at least with her permission. It is included in _Hymns of -the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Church, Edward Alonzo, Boston, Massachusetts, —— 1844—January 29, -1929, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a business man who wrote in 1904, -for the laying of the cornerstone of a new edifice for the Church of -the Disciples (Unitarian), Boston, of which he was a member, a hymn -beginning, - - _Almighty Builder, bless, we pray,_ - _The cornerstone that here we lay,_ - -The next year, for the final service in the old edifice which the -congregation was leaving, he wrote one beginning, - - _O Thou to whom in prayer and praise_ - _We here have turned with constant heart._ - -Both hymns were included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and -the first is also in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Clapp, Eliza Thayer, 1811-1888. She was a resident of Dorchester, -Massachusetts. She was author of _Words in a Sunday School_, of -_Studies in Religion_, New York, 1845, and of later essays on religion -and of poems posthumously collected in a volume entitled _Essays, -Letters and Poems_, privately printed in Boston, 1888. At the request -of her friend R. W. Emerson she contributed three hymns and two poems -to The _Dial_, 1841. From one of the hymns in 9 stanzas of 4 lines, -published in The _Dial_, July, 1841, and entitled “The future is -better than the past,” is taken the hymn beginning - - _All before us is the way_, (Onward with confidence) - -included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, -1853, where it was erroneously attributed to Emerson, an error which -was repeated in several other collections which included it. - - J. 234 - H.W.F. - - -Clarke, Rev. James Freeman, D.D., Hanover, New Hampshire, April 4, -1810—June 8, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts. He was named for his -step-grandfather, Rev. James Freeman, _q.v._ He graduated from Harvard -College in 1829 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1833. He -served as minister of the Unitarian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, -from 1833 to 1840. In 1841 he returned to Boston where he gathered a -group of persons interested in the more radical social and religious -reforms of the day into a church which he named the Church of the -Disciples (Unitarian) of which he remained minister until his death. -He became one of the most distinguished ministers of his period in -Boston, greatly beloved and admired for his courage as well as his -piety, his wisdom as well as his wit. He was the author of several -books (and many short printed articles) the best known of which were -his _Orthodoxy: its Truths and Errors_, and _Ten Great Religions_. The -latter is an amplification of lectures on Comparative Religion which -he gave at the Harvard Divinity School as early as 1854, and again for -several years in the eighteen-seventies, the earliest course in this -field of study to be given in any American theological school. In 1844 -he published a _Service Book_ for use by his congregation, which -included a small selection of hymns, among them Sarah Flower Adams’ -_Nearer my, God, to Thee_, which had appeared in England only three -years earlier and was now introduced for the first time to an American -congregation, whence it quickly passed into numerous other -collections. In 1852 a revised and enlarged edition of the _Service -Book_ was published entitled the _Disciples Hymn Book_, which included -five hymns by the compiler. A few of his poems are included in -Putnam’s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, and the following -hymns by him have come into some use. - - 1. _Brother, hast thou wandered far?_ (The Prodigal) - - First printed in the _Service Book_, 1844. It appeared in - abbreviated form as - - _Hast thou wasted all the powers?_ - - (beginning with the second stanza) in _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_, 1853; in Beecher’s _Plymouth Collection_, 1855, and in - other American and British books. - - 2. _Dear Friend, whose presence in the house_, (Jesus at Cana) - - Dated 1855. A tender poem rather than a hymn, included in the - British _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 3. _Father, to us Thy children humbly kneeling_ (Aspiration) - - About 1833, after arrival in Louisville, Clarke wrote a poem - entitled “Hymn and Prayer” beginning _Infinite Spirit, who art - round us ever_, which was published in _The Dial_ for January, - 1841. Five stanzas beginning - - _Unseen, yet not unfelt!—if any thought_ - - were taken from this form of the poem for inclusion in Hedge and - Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, but already - Clarke had taken from his poem, and largely rewritten, three - stanzas to make the hymn beginning as above. In this later form it - was included in his _Service Book_, 1844, in Longfellow and - Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, in the _Disciples Hymn Book_, - 1852, and in many later collections down to the present day. - - 4. _For all thy gifts we bless Thee, Lord_ - - Written for a Unitarian Convention in New York City, held on - October 22, 1845, and included in _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_, 1853. - - 5. _Hast thou wasted all the powers_, - - Included in _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. - - 6. _To him who children blessed_ (Christening) - - 7. _To Thee, O God in heaven_ (Christening) - - Both of these tender and beautiful hymns for a christening - appeared in the _Service Book_, 1844, and have passed into a good - many other collections, although hymns are now seldom sung at such - a service. - -Of the above no. 3 was included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of -Hymns_, 1846, attributed to Clarke, and nos. 1, 5 and 6 were included -as Anonymous. In their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, these hymns were -correctly attributed to Clarke. He was the author of a limited -quantity of pleasing religious verse acceptable to his many friends -rather than a hymn writer of distinction, his best ones being nos. 3, -5 and 6. _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, includes nos. 3 and 6; -_The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935, includes nos. 3 and 5; _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1937, has only no. 3. - - J. 235, 1556 - Re-written, H.W.F. - - -Collyer, Rev. Robert, D.D., Keighly, Yorkshire, England, December 8, -1823—November 30, 1912, New York, New York. His education in childhood -was very limited, and in early manhood he became a blacksmith, which -had been his father’s trade. He joined the Methodist Church in 1847 -and three years later sailed for America, settling at Shoemakertown, -Pennsylvania, where he was both a blacksmith and a preacher. Having -become acquainted with Dr. W. H. Furness, _q.v._, of Philadelphia, he -accepted Unitarian beliefs and left the Methodist Church. His great -intellectual abilities and natural gifts as a preacher brought him an -invitation in 1859 to go to Chicago to take charge of the newly -organized Unity Church in that city, which he served until 1879, when -he accepted a call to the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian), New York. -He was a widely popular lecturer and author of many published sermons, -other articles, and a few occasional verses. The church of which he -was minister was destroyed by the great Chicago fire of 1870 but was -soon rebuilt. For the dedication of the new building in December 3, -1873, he wrote his one fine hymn beginning, - - _With thankful hearts, O God, we come_, - -which altered to - - _Unto thy temple, Lord, we come_, - -has had wide use in Unitarian hymn books and is included in the _New -Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 1623 - H.W.F. - - -Clute, Rev. Oscar, Bethlehem, New York, March 11, 1837—January 27, -1902, Sawtelle, California. He took the degree of M.S. at Michigan -State College, and then studied at Meadville Theological School, -1867-1868. In the latter year he was ordained as minister of the -Unitarian Church at Vineland, New Jersey, where he remained for five -years. He served churches in Keokuk, Iowa, 1875-1878; Iowa City, -1878-1888; and Pomona, California, 1888-1889. From 1889 to 1893 he was -president of Michigan State Agricultural College, and president of -Florida Agricultural College from 1893 to 1897, when he moved to -California. - -He wrote a hymn beginning, - - _O Love of God most full,_ - _O Love of God most free,_ - -which is included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, in _Hymns of -the Spirit_, 1937, and in _The Hymnal_ (Presbyterian), 1935, the -Handbook to which describes it as “a rhapsody of gratitude for the -love of God.” - - J. 1682 - H.W.F. - - -Dana, Charles Anderson, Hinsdale, New Hampshire, August 8, -1819—October 17, 1897, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. He was one of -the leaders in the Brook Farm Association, 1842; then became a -journalist and man of letters; on the staff of the New York _Tribune_, -1847-1862; Assistant Secretary of War, 1863-1864; editor of the New -York _Sun_, 1868. - -The hymn beginning - - _Work, and thou shalt bless the day_ (Joy in Labor) - -which Hedge and Huntington included in their _Hymns for the Church of -Christ_, 1853, and attributed to “C. A. Dana” was probably written -while he was engaged in the Brook Farm experiment. - - H.W.F. - - -Dwight, Rev. John Sullivan, Boston, Massachusetts, May 13, -1812—September 5, 1893. He graduated from Harvard College and from the -Harvard Divinity School, and entered the Unitarian ministry, but after -six years turned to literary pursuits, and was for nearly 50 years -editor of the Journal of Music. A meditative poem by him in seven -stanzas, entitled “True Rest,” beginning - - _Sweet is the pleasure_, - -is included in the Supplement in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the -Church of Christ_, 1853, but it is not a hymn and his only connection -with hymnody was his part in re-writing the hymn beginning - - _God bless our native land!_ - -by his friend, C. T. Brooks, _q.v._ In most versions of this much -altered hymn the second stanza is in the form given it by Dwight. - - J. 1560, 1631 - H.W.F. - - -Emerson, Ralph Waldo, LL.D., Boston, Massachusetts, May 25, 1803—April -27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts. He was the son of Rev. William -Emerson, _q.v._, minister of the First Church of Boston (Unitarian) -who, though not himself a hymn writer, published in 1808 the excellent -small collection entitled _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns_ (5). - -R. W. Emerson graduated from Harvard College in 1821 and after further -study in the Harvard Divinity School took his A.M. in 1827. He was -ordained in 1829 as minister of the Second Church of Boston -(Unitarian). He served the church for three years but resigned in -1832, feeling that his pastoral work was inadequate and that he was -not in accord with his parishioners’ views about the Communion -Service. A volume of his sermons, selected and edited by A. C. -McGiffert, Jr., was published in 1938 under the title _The Young -Emerson Speaks_. Although he preached occasionally for several years -thereafter he never held another pastorate, but retired to Concord and -devoted himself to lecturing and authorship. As an essayist and poet -he rose to great and lasting distinction. He published _Orations, -Lectures, and Addresses_, 1844; _Poems_, 1846; _Representative Men_, -1850; _English Traits_, 1856; and a succession of later volumes. His -_Collected Works_ were published after his death, in 12 volumes. -Perhaps his most famous essay was his epoch-making _Divinity School -Address_, delivered in 1838. In 1833 he wrote his hymn - - _We love the venerable house_ (The house of God) - -for the ordination of his successor, Rev. Chandler Robbins, _q.v._, in -the Second Church, though it is more a commemorative poem than an -ordination hymn. It was included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of -the Spirit_, 1864; in Martineau’s _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, -printed in England in 1873; and in later Unitarian and other hymn -books down to the present day. Four stanzas selected from this poem, -beginning with the second, - - _Here holy thoughts a light have shed_, - -were included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of -Christ_, 1853, though without the author’s name, and the same -collection erroneously attributed to Emerson a hymn beginning, - - _All before us is the way_, - -the author of which was Eliza T. Clapp, _q.v._, an error which was -repeated in various other collections. - -Part of Emerson’s poem entitled _The Problem_, beginning - - _Out of the heart of nature rolled_ (The Everlasting Word) - -originally printed in the _Dial_, July, 1840, and then in his _Poems_, -1846, was also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in -Martineau’s _Hymns_, but has since dropped out of use. - -Another poem of two stanzas beginning - - _Not gold, but only men can make_ - -was attributed to Emerson in the later book called _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1937, probably mistakenly. These verses are listed as -Emerson’s in Granger’s _Index to Poetry and Recitations_, under _A -Nation’s Strength_, and Granger states that they are to be found in a -publication of The Penn Publishing Company of Philadelphia. They are -not to be found, however, in the _Centenary Edition of Emerson’s -Poems_ nor in Hubbell’s _Concordance to the poems of Emerson_ (N. Y., -Wilson, 1932). It is therefore doubtful whether the attribution to -Emerson is well-founded. - - J. 329 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Everett, William, Watertown, Massachusetts, October 10, 1839—February -16, 1910, Quincy, Massachusetts. Son of Hon. Edward Everett. He -graduated from Harvard College in 1859; took the B.A. degree at -Cambridge University, England, in 1863; and the degrees of A.M. and -LL. B. at Harvard in 1865. He received the honorary degree of Litt.D. -from Williams College in 1889 and the degree of LL.D. from the same -college in 1893 and from Dartmouth in 1901. After graduation from the -Harvard Law School he did not enter the legal profession but served -the College as tutor and then Assistant Professor of Latin for several -years. In 1872 the Boston Association of Ministers licensed him as a -lay preacher and thereafter he spoke frequently in Unitarian pulpits -in New England, but he was never ordained as a settled minister. He -served Adams Academy in Quincy, Massachusetts as headmaster from 1877 -to 1907, with an interruption of two years when in 1893 he was elected -a member of the House of Representatives in Washington. In 1866 _The -Christian Register_ printed his hymn beginning - - _Deal gently with us, Lord_, - -and three years later he wrote “for the Unitarian Festival at the -Music Hall [Boston], May 27, 1869” a hymn beginning - - _Almighty Father, Thou didst frame_ - -These hymns, and four others by him, are included in Putnam’s _Singers -and Songs, Etc._ - - J. 1634 - H.W.F. - - -Fernald, Woodbury Melcher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, March 21, -1813—December 10, 1873, Boston, Massachusetts. He entered the -Universalist ministry in 1835 and served churches of that denomination -in Newburyport and Chicopee, Massachusetts, and elsewhere, for a few -years. He then became a Unitarian, without entering the ministry of -that denomination, and eventually joined the Swedenborgian Church of -the New Jerusalem in Boston. He did some travelling on behalf of this -body, as far west as Wisconsin, in intervals of employment at the -Custom House and, later, at the Post Office in Boston. He was author -of books and essays, most of them expositions of Swedenborgian -doctrine, and of a small amount of occasional verse, published in the -periodicals of the day but never collected in a printed volume. In his -private collection of his poems are a few hymns, only two of which -appear to have had any public use. One beginning - - _Great Source of being, truth and love_, - -was written for the ordination of Rev. Thomas C. Adam as pastor of the -West Universalist Society in Boston, March 12, 1845. The other, - - _When Israel, humbled of the Lord_, - -a protest against slavery published in the _Boston Journal_, in July, -1861, was included, in part and considerably re-written, in _The -Soldier’s Companion: Dedicated to the Defenders of their Country in -the Field, by their Friends at Home_. This was published as the Army -Number of the _Monthly Journal_, Boston, October, 1861, vol. II, no. -10, a small Unitarian collection of hymns and devotional readings. In -this collection the hymn begins, - - _When Israel’s foes, a numerous host_, - -and is attributed to “Rev. W. M. Fernald,” though it is not included -in this form in the author’s private collection of his verse. None of -his hymns appear to have had any further use. - - H.W.F. - - -Flint, Rev. James, D.D. Reading, Massachusetts, December 10, -1779—March 4, 1855. He graduated from Harvard College in 1802, and was -ordained an orthodox Congregational minister at East Bridgewater in -1806, where he soon adopted more liberal beliefs, and carried most of -his congregation with him. In 1821 he accepted a call to the East -Church (Unitarian) Salem, Massachusetts, where he served until his -death. In 1843 he published _A Collection of Hymns for the Christian -Church and Home_, to replace the earlier collection (1788) by Rev. -William Bentley, _q.v._, for use in the East Church. Flint’s -_Collection_ included several hymns by himself. One of them, “On -leaving an old house of worship,” beginning - - _Here to the high and holy One_ - -was included in Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, 1841, as was a second, -written in 1840 for the 200^th anniversary of the incorporation of the -town of Quincy, Massachusetts, beginning, - - _In pleasant lands have fallen the lines_ - _That bound our goodly heritage._ - -This second hymn has been included in a number of later hymnbooks, -among them _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 379 - H.W.F. - - -Follen, Mrs. Eliza Lee (Cabot), Boston, Massachusetts, August 15, -1787—January 26, 1860, Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1828 she married -Dr. Charles Follen, a German scholar who had sought freedom in this -country and who was then teaching German Literature and Ecclesiastical -History at Harvard. Later he was minister of the Unitarian Church (now -called the Follen Church Society) at East Lexington, Massachusetts. -Mrs. Follen both before and after her marriage contributed verse and -prose articles to various periodicals and published a number of small -books, including _Hymns for Children_, Boston, 1825; _Poems_, 1839, -and, while she was in England in 1854, another small volume for -children, entitled _The Lark and the Linnet_. These books contain some -translations from the German and the versions of a few Psalms. - -Her best known hymns are - - 1. _How sweet to be allowed to pray_, (Resignation) - - This first appeared in _The Christian Disciple_, September 1818, - then in her _Poems_, 1839, entitled “Thy will be done.” - - 2. _How sweet upon this sacred day_ (Sunday) - - In _The Christian Disciple_, September, 1828, and in _Poems_, - entitled “Sabbath Day.” - - 3. _Lord deliver, thou canst save_, (Prayer for the Slave) - - In _Songs of the Free_, 1836; in Adams and Chapin’s (Universalist) - _Hymns for Christian Devotion_, Boston, 1845; in Hedge and - Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; and in other - collections, but not included in her _Poems_. - - 4. _God, thou art good, each perfumed flower_, (God In Nature) - - This first appeared in _Hymns for Children_, Boston, 1825, - beginning with a defective line (7s instead of 8s) - - (a) _God is good! each perfumed flower_ - - and altered as above in her _Poems_ and in _The Lark and the - Linnet_. - - This hymn underwent further transformations in England. In Emily - Taylor’s _Sabbath Recreations_, 1826, it was included as an - original piece never before printed, and signed “E.L.C.”, the - initials of Mrs. Follen’s maiden name. Possibly she sent a ms. - copy to Miss Taylor before it appeared in Boston. In J. R. Beard’s - British Unitarian _Collection of Hymns_, 1837, it appears as - - (b) _Yes, God is good! each perfumed flower_, - - J. H. Gurney, the Anglican hymn writer and editor, included it in - his Lutterworth _Collection of Hymns for Public Worship_, 1838, - but, while retaining Mrs. Follen’s opening stanza, rewrote about - half of the remaining four stanzas, and in his later _Marylebone - Collection_, 1851, rewrote it further, beginning it - - (c) _Yes, God is Good.—in earth and sky,_ - - and in a note appended to the Index of first lines he wrote that - he had found the hymn “in a small American volume —— well - conceived, but very imperfectly executed,” and that because of - “successive alterations—the writer has not scrupled to put his - name to it, J.H.G.” In these altered forms the hymn had - considerable use in England (For further details see Julian, - _Dictionary_, 1298). - - 5. _Will God, who made the earth and sea_, (Child’s Prayer) - - In _Poems_, 1839. In Dr. Allan’s (English) _Children’s Worship_ it - is erroneously attributed to “H. Bateman.” - -The only one of Mrs. Follen’s hymns in present use is 4_c_, in _The -Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, but several of her poems are -included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_. - - J. 380, 1298 - H.W.F. - - -Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder (I), Salem, Massachusetts, June 2, 1838—May -29, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts. Educated at Harvard, A.B. 1858; A.M. -1861; graduated at the Harvard Divinity School, 1861. He was minister -of King’s Chapel (Unitarian), Boston, from 1861 until his death, and -his book, _The Annals of King’s Chapel_ (vol. I, 1882, vol. II, 1896, -completed by others) gives an authoritative account of the religious -controversies in Colonial Boston. At the time of his death he had in -preparation a hymnbook to replace the _Collection of Psalms and Hymns_ -which his predecessor, Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood, _q.v._, had published -in 1830. His hymnbook was completed by his widow, his sister Mrs. Mary -W. Tileston, (_q.v._) and his brother Arthur Foote, and was published -in 1891 as _Hymns of the Church Universal_. It was notable for its -scholarly catholicity and helped to introduce to American -congregations the then popular English hymn tunes of the “cathedral -school” by Barnby, Dykes, Stainer, Sullivan and others. The book -included the hymn which Mr. Foote had written for the Visitation Day -(graduation exercises) at the Divinity School in 1861, - - _O Thou with whom in sweet content_ - -This hymn has also been included in _Hymns for Church and Home_, 1896, -in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. - - J. 1604 - H.W.F. - - -Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder (II), D.D., Litt.D., Boston, Massachusetts, -February 2, 1875—still living. Son of the above; educated at Harvard, -A.B. 1897; A.M. 1900; S.T.B. 1902. He entered the Unitarian ministry -and has served churches in New Orleans, Louisiana; Ann Arbor, -Michigan; Belmont, Massachusetts and Charlottesville, Virginia. From -1914-1924 he was an assistant professor at the Harvard Divinity School -where he gave a course on the history of Christian hymnody. He was -secretary of the committee which edited _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, -published in 1914 by the American Unitarian Association, and was -chairman of the committee which edited _Hymns of the Spirit_, -published in 1937 by the Beacon Press (to be distinguished from the -earlier _Hymns of the Spirit_ by S. Johnson and S. Longfellow, 1864). -This later book includes one hymn by Dr. Foote beginning, - - _Thou whose love brought us to birth_, - -Dr. Foote also edited the words in _The Concord Anthem Book_, 1924, -and in _The Second Concord Anthem Book_, 1936, for which Professor -Archibald T. Davison selected and edited the music. He is the author -of several books and articles on the cultural or religious aspects of -American colonial history, one of which, _Three Centuries of American -Hymnody_, 1940, covers the period from the publication of the _Bay -Psalm Book_ in 1640 to the late nineteen-thirties. - - -Freeman, James, D.D., Charlestown, Massachusetts, April 22, -1759—November 14, 1835, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1777. In March, 1776, Rev. Henry Caner, rector of -King’s Chapel, Boston, left with the British troops when they -evacuated the town, accompanied by many of his leading parishioners. -The remaining members of the church in September, 1782, engaged James -Freeman as a lay “Reader” to conduct worship. The prayers for the King -and royal family of England had been dropped and Freemen soon began to -omit references to the Trinity, expecting soon to be dismissed as -Reader. Instead the congregation voted to revise the liturgy in -accordance with his beliefs and in 1785 published the first edition of -the “Book of Common Prayer according to the Use of King’s Chapel.” -This action led Bishop Seabury, after his arrival in America, to -refuse ordination to Freeman, whereupon the congregation ordained him -according to Congregational usage. Freeman thus became “the first -avowed preacher of Unitarianism in the United States.” He remained -active pastor of the Chapel until 1826. He edited a _Collection of -Psalms and Hymns for public worship_, published in 1799. It included -155 psalms “selected chiefly from Tate and Brady,” followed by 90 -hymns, and remained in use in the Chapel until the publication in 1830 -of the much better _Collection_ edited by his successor, Rev. F. W. P. -Greenwood, _q.v._ Freeman wrote one hymn - - _Lord of the worlds below_ (The Seasons) - -which first appeared in his _Collection_, from which it passed to a -number of later ones. It is an adaptation for congregational use of -Thomson’s “Hymn on the Seasons.” See Putnam, _Singers and Songs of the -Liberal Faith_. - - J. 389 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Frothingham, Rev. Nathaniel Langdon, D.D., Boston, July 23, 1793—April -4, 1870, Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1811, and after a brief -period of further study and as tutor in the College, he entered the -Unitarian ministry and in 1815 was settled as minister of the First -Church in Boston, where he served until 1850, when ill-health and -approaching blindness caused his resignation. He was one of the most -distinguished Boston ministers of his period, and the author of a good -deal of verse, published in his _Metrical Pieces, Translated and -Original_, 1855, and in a second volume with the same title in 1870. -In 1828 he wrote his finest hymn, - - 1. _O God, whose presence glows in all_ - - for the ordination of his friend, W. P. Lunt, _q.v._, as minister - of the Second Unitarian Congregational Church, New York, on June - 19, of that year. - -In 1835 he wrote - - 2. _We meditate the day_ - - for the installation of Mr. Lunt as Co-pastor with Rev. Peter - Whitney of the First Church at Quincy, Massachusetts, and in 1839 - he wrote - - 3. _O Lord of life and truth and grace_, - - for the ordination of Henry Whitney Bellows in New York. - -His later hymns were - - 4. _O Saviour, whose immortal word_, - - “Written for the Dedication of the Church of the Saviour, Boston, - November 16, 1847.”; - - 5. _Remember me, the Saviour said_, (Communion Service) - - 6. _The Lord gave the word,_ - _’Twas the word of his truth._ - - 7. _The patriarch’s dove, on weary wing_, - - 8. _They passed away from sight_, (Death and Burial) - - 9. _When I am weak, I’m strong_ (Spiritual Strength) - -Of these hymns the first two were included in Lunt’s _Christian -Psalter_, 1841; nos. 1, 2, 6 and 7 were included in Hedge and -Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ (1853); and all but no. -8 are included in the author’s _Metrical Pieces_, 1855. No. 5 had -considerable use in the 19^th century, but no. 1 alone survives in -20^th century Unitarian collections. - - J. 400, 1564 - Revised H.W.F. - - -Frothingham, Rev. Octavius Brooks, son of Rev. Nathaniel Langdon -Frothingham, D.D., _q.v._, Boston, November 26, 1822—November 27, -1895, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1843, and in 1846 -from the Harvard Divinity School, where, for the graduating exercises -of his class, he wrote his fine, and only, hymn, - - _Thou Lord of Hosts, whose guiding hand_, (Soldiers of the - Cross) - -which was included in the _Book of Hymns_ prepared by his classmates, -Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson, published later in the same -year. He served as minister of the (Unitarian) North Church, Salem, -Massachusetts from 1847 to 1855, and became minister of the Third -Congregational Church in New York City, resigning in 1879. He was a -bold, outspoken, eloquent speaker, and the author of many printed -discourses and of several important biographies. - - J. 400, 1638 - H.W.F. - - -Furness, Rev. William Henry, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, -1802—January 30, 1896, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1820 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1823, -and was given the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Harvard in 1847. In -1825 he was ordained minister of the First Unitarian Church in -Philadelphia where he served for 50 years before becoming pastor -emeritus, his connection with the church covering a period of 71 -years. He was an accomplished scholar, and attained distinction as a -preacher, an author and a worker in social reforms. His publications -include _Notes on the Gospels_, 1836; _Jesus and his Biographers_, -1838; _The History of Jesus_, 1850; _a Manual of Domestic Worship_, -1840, in which his earlier hymns were printed; a translation of -Schiller’s _Song of the Bell_; and other translations from the German. -His collected _Verses, Translations and Hymns_ appeared in 1886. The -following hymns by him have had considerable use. - - 1. _Father in heaven, to Thee my heart_, - - Appeared in The _Christian Disciple_, 1822. It was printed in this - form in several collections, including the Unitarian _Hymn and - Tune Book_, 1868. In Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, - 1846, it reads - - _Father in heaven, to whom our hearts_ - - and was reprinted in this form in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, - 1864, and in Martineau’s _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873. - - This hymn has sometimes been attributed to “H. Ware,” in error. - - 2. _Feeble, helpless, how shall I_, - - Included on the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844, and in later - 19^th century Unitarian publications; also in the British _Lyra - Sacra Americana_, 1868, and Thring’s _Collection_, 1882. - - 3. _Have mercy, O Father_, - - Contributed to Martineau’s _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873. - - 4. _Here in a world of doubt_, (Psalm XLII) - - Contributed to the New York Lutheran Coll., 1834, and included in - the author’s _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840 and in Martineau’s - _Hymns_, 1873. - - 5. _Here in the broken bread_, - - Included in the _Appendix_ to the Philadelphia Unitarian - _Collection_, 1828; in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the - Church of Christ_, 1853; and in a few later collections, among - them _The Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868. - - 6. _Holy Father, Gracious art Thou_, - - Contributed to Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873. - - 7. _I feel within a want_, - - Included in the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844; in Hedge and - Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; and in a few - other collections. - - 8. _In the morning I will praise_ (pray) - - In the author’s _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840, this hymn - began - - _In the morning I will raise_ - - and was thus included in Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873, but in - Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, and later American - collections the first stanza is dropped and the hymn begins - - _In the morning I will pray_ - - 9. _O for a prophet’s fire,_ - - Included in the _Appendix_ to the Philadelphia Unitarian - _Collection_, 1828, and in the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844. - - 10. _Richly, O richly have I been_, - - Written in 1823 and included in the author’s _Manual of Domestic - Worship_, 1840. In Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, - and in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, it is altered to begin - - _O richly, Father, have I been_ - - In Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, - and most later Unitarian and other collections, the opening stanza - is dropped and it begins with the second stanza, - - _Unworthy to be called Thy son_, - - 11. _She is not dead, but sleepeth_ - - Included in the author’s _Verses, Translations and Hymns_, 1886. - - 12. _Slowly by Thy [God’s] hand unfurled_ - - Written in 1825 and included in the author’s _Manual of Domestic - Worship_, 1840. In Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_, 1853, the first line was changed to read, - - _Slowly by God’s hand unfurled_, - - and was thus printed in the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868. - In Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873, and in most later American Unitarian - collections, the original reading has been retained. - - 13. _That God is Love, unchanging Love_, - - Written in 1892 and included in _Hymns for Church and Home_, 1896, - and in _The Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - 14. _Thou only Living, only True_, - - An ordination hymn, dated 1868, included in Martineau’s _Hymns_, - 1873. - - 15. _Thou who dost all things give_ - - Written in 1869. Included in the author’s _Verses, Translations - and Hymns_, 1886; in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1904; and in Horder’s - _Treasury of American Sacred Song_, 1896. - - 16. _To the High and Holy One_, - - This is printed in full in _Lyra Sacra Americana_, 1868. In - Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, the first - stanza is dropped and it begins with the 2^nd stanza, - - _To the truth that makes us free_, - - 17. _What is the world that it should share_, - - Printed in the _Christian Disciple_, 1822, and in Martineau’s - _Hymns_, 1873. It begins with the second stanza of a hymn of which - the opening line reads, - - _Here in Thy temple, Lord, we bow_, - - In _Lyra Sacra Americana_ it is altered to read - - _Oh, is there aught on earth to share_ - - 18. _What is this that stirs within_? - - Printed in the author’s _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840; in the - Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844, in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns - for the Church of Christ_, and in a good many other American - collections. - -Dr. Furness’s hymns, though creditable religious verse of the period -and widely esteemed because of the author’s distinction, nowhere -attain a very high level of poetic beauty, and almost all of them have -passed out of use. Only nos. 8, 10, and 12 were included in the -Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and only no. 12 survives in -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 402, 1638 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Fuller, Sarah Margaret, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 23, 1810—July -16, 1850, in a shipwreck south of New York. In 1847 she married the -Marchese Ossoli in Rome. She did educational work in Boston and in -Providence, Rhode Island, edited _The Dial_ in 1840, and was noted -locally for her intellectual brilliance. Memorials of her by R. W. -Emerson, W. H. Channing and J. F. Clarke appeared in 1851, her _Works_ -in 1874. - -Her hymn beginning - - _Jesus, a child his course began_, (Christ the Pattern of - Childhood) - -from _Life Without and Life Within_, 1859, p. 404, had some use in -Great Britain as well as in America. - - J. 1585 - H.W.F. - - -Gannett, Rev. William Channing, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, March 13, -1840—December 15, 1923, Rochester, New York. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1860; taught school in Newport, Rhode Island one year; and -spent four years on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, as agent for -the New England Freedmen’s Society doing relief and educational work -with the thousands of Negro refugees gathered there. In 1865 he -studied for a year in Europe, then entered the Harvard Divinity School -from which he graduated in 1868. His first pastorate was in Milwaukee, -Wisconsin, 1868-1871. He then spent several years writing a biography -of his father, Ezra Stiles Gannett, who had been William Ellery -Channing’s successor as minister of the Federal Street Church, Boston. -He was minister of Unity Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1877-1883; -served the Western Unitarian Conference for four years; was minister -at Hinsdale, Illinois, 1887-1889; and of the Unitarian Church in -Rochester, New York, 1889-1908, where he remained as minister-emeritus -until his death. Throughout his professional career he was closely -associated with Frederick Lucian Hosmer, _q.v._ Together they -published three small collections entitled _The Thought of God in -Hymns and Poems_, the first in 1885, the second in 1894, the third in -1918; and together they also edited _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1880, -revised edition in 1911. James Vila Blake, _q.v._, was co-editor of -the first edition. This little hymn book is a markedly individualistic -production with many of the older hymns altered to conform to the -beliefs of the editors. - -In these publications, in which most of their own hymns were first -published, and in the careful workmanship with which their thought was -brought to a perfection of poetic utterance, Gannett and Hosmer may be -compared to Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson whose _Book of -Hymns_, 1846, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, had appeared a -generation earlier. - -Dr. Gannett’s hymns are listed, with annotations “based upon ms. notes -kindly supplied by the author” in Julian’s _Dictionary of Hymnology_, -pp. 1638-9, as follows: - - 1. _Bring, O morn thy music! Night thy starlit silence!_ (God - Everlasting) - - Written in 1892, and printed in _A Chorus of Faith_, being an - account and resumé of the Parliament of Religions, held in - Chicago, 1893. Included in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, - 1894, and again in several hymnals. - - 2. _Clear in memory’s silent reaches_, (Memory) - - Written in 1877 for a Free Religious Association Festival, and - published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885. - - 3. _From heart to heart, from creed to creed_, (Faith) - - Written in 1875 for 150^th anniversary of the First Religious - Society of Newburyport, and given in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885. - - 4. _He hides within the lily_, (Divine Providence) - - “Consider the lilies, how they grow.” Written in 1873, and printed - for use at the Free Religious Association Festival, May 30, 1873. - Published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885, in 4 st. of - 8 l. The most widely used of the author’s hymns. - - 5. _I hear it often in the dark_, (The Voice of God) - - Written at Milwaukee in 1870, and published in _The Thought of - God_, 1^st Series, 1885. Sometimes it begins with St. iii, “O God - within, so close to me,” as in _Hys. for Church and Home_, Boston, - 1895. - - 6. _Praise to God and Thanksgiving_, (Harvest) - - Written in 1882 for a Harvest Festival at St. Paul, Minnesota, - where he was then a pastor, and included in _The Thought of God_, - 1^st Series, 1885. In the Boston _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1904, and in - _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, it begins - - _Praise to God, and thanks we bring_, - - 7. _Sleep, my little Jesus_, (Christmas Carol) - - Written for the Sunday School, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1882, and - given in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894, as “Mary’s - Manger Song.” - - 8. _The Lord is in His holy place_ (Dedication of a Place of - Worship) - - Written for the Dedication of the Rev. C. W. Wendte’s Church, - Chicago, April 24, 1873, and published in _The Thought of God_, - 1^st Series, 1885. It is one of the most popular and widely used - of the author’s hymns. - - 9. _The morning hangs its signal_, (Morning) - - This is dated by the author “Chicago, July 30, 1886,” and printed - in _Love to God and Love to Man_, being no. 28 of the Chicago - “Unity Mission” series of hymns, n.d. It is also included in _The - Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894. Although a morning hymn it is - adapted for use in Advent. It is usually known as “The Crowning - Day.” - -Of the hymns thus listed in Julian’s _Dictionary_ Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 -and 9 have been widely used and are included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. No. 1 was written to be set to J. B. Dykes’ tune _Nicaea_, to -which it is usually sung. No. 4 is probably the earliest hymn in the -English language to give a religious interpretation of the then novel -and controversial doctrine of evolution. No. 9, as included in _Hymns -of the Spirit_, 1937, is attributed to “William Channing Gannett and -others”, being an arrangement from one of his poems. - -Another fine hymn by Dr. Gannett beginning, - - 10. _God laid his rocks in courses_, - - is unaccountably missing from the above list in Julian’s - _Dictionary_. It is dated 1888 and was written for the dedication - of the church in Hinsdale which was erected shortly before his - pastorate there came to an end. - -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, also includes as a hymn beginning, - - 11. _It sounds along the ages_, - - an arrangement of stanzas from one of Dr. Gannett’s poems entitled - “The Word of God.” - -Finally, mention should be made of his part in giving form to the -great hymn beginning - - 12. _Praise to the living God! All praiséd be his name!_ - - This is a metrical version of the Yigdal, a summary of the Jewish - faith attributed to Daniel Ben Judah who lived about the 14^th - century A.D. About 1760 Thomas Olivers, a Methodist preacher - visiting a Jewish synagogue in London, heard it chanted in Hebrew - by the cantor Leoni (Meyer Lyon) to a traditional melody. Much - impressed he secured a prose translation which he turned into the - hymn beginning - - _The God of Abraham praise_, - - to be sung to the same tune, to which he gave the name Leoni. His - version, however, did not follow the original text at all closely, - for he gave it a Christian interpretation. (A detailed account of - this episode will be found in Julian’s _Dictionary_, pp. - 1149-1151.) This hymn soon became, and has remained, widely - popular. In the 1880’s Rabbi Max Landsberg of Temple Berith Kodesh - in Rochester, New York, a friend of Rev. Newton Mann, _q.v._ then - minister of the Unitarian Church in Rochester, asked Mr. Mann if - he could not make a metrical version of the Yigdal in English - which would be a more exact translation. Mr. Mann did so, but not - in the metre of the tune to which the Hebrew text was sung. After - Dr. Gannett had succeeded Mr. Mann in Rochester, Rabbi Landsberg - asked him to recast Mr. Mann’s version in the same metre as the - tune. Dr. Gannett did so, and his version in 5 stas. was included - in the Jewish _Union Hymnal_, 1910, from which, with one stanza - omitted and some other alterations which in most cases are not - improvements, it has come into a number of Christian hymn books. - The unchanged version in 4 stas. will be found in _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1937, where it is recorded as “Revised version of the - Yigdal of Daniel Ben Judah” and the tune is called “Yigdal - (Leoni)” and is described as “Jewish Melody, arr. by Meyer Lyon.” - Dr. Gannett never claimed this version as his, and it is now - impossible to discover how much of its wording is due to Mr. - Mann’s earlier verse, but its poetic perfection is highly - suggestive of Dr. Gannett’s craftsmanship, which assuredly has - contributed much to its present form. - - H.W.F - - -Gilman, Mrs. Caroline (Howard), Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, -1794—September 18, 1888, Washington D. C. She married Rev. Samuel -Gilman, _q.v._, on October 14, 1819, and after his death in 1858 lived -for a time in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later in Tiverton, Long -Island, New York. - -She began to write stories and poems at an early age, many of which -were published in “The Rosebud,” later called “The Southern Rose,” a -juvenile weekly paper published in Charleston, South Carolina, which -she edited for several years, beginning in 1832. Her book entitled -“Verses of a Lifetime” was published in 1854, as were a number of -other books which gave her a considerable reputation as an author. -Five of her poems are included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc. -Two of her hymns had considerable use, - - 1. _Is there a lone and dreary hour_, (Providence) - - This was contributed to Sewall’s _Collection_, 1820, in 4 stanzas - of 4 lines, to which in 1867 she added a fifth stanza for - inclusion in the Charleston _Services and Hymns_. This hymn had - wide use in both British and American collections in the 19^th - century. - - 2. _We bless Thee for this sacred day_ (Sunday) - - Also contributed to Sewall’s _Collection_, 1820, in 4 stanzas of 4 - lines, to which she added a fifth stanza, when included in the - Charleston _Services and Hymns_, 1867. - -Neither of these hymns is in current use. - - J. 423 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Gilman, Rev. Samuel, D.D., Gloucester, Massachusetts, February 16, -1791—February 9, 1858, Kingston, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1811, served the College as tutor in mathematics -for two years, and studied in the Harvard Divinity School. On December -1, 1819, he was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church in -Charleston, South Carolina, which he served with great distinction -until his death, which occurred while on a visit to Massachusetts. His -wife, Caroline Howard Gilman, _q.v._, was a writer noted in her day. -He wrote a good many poems and essays, published in magazines; a book, -“Memoirs of a New England Village Choir,” 1829, which ran to three -editions; and in 1856 a volume of his miscellaneous essays, entitled -“Contributions to Literature, Descriptive, Critical, Humorous, -Biographical, Philosophical and Poetical.” His two best known songs -were _The Union Ode_, composed for the Union party of South Carolina -and sung there on July 4, 1831, during the Nullification excitement, -and later in the North during the Civil War; and the college hymn -_Fair Harvard_, which he wrote in 1836. He had come to Cambridge for -the twenty-fifth anniversary of his graduation and the 200^th -anniversary of the founding of the College. On the eve of the -celebration, having already an established reputation as a poet, he -was asked to write a song for the occasion and it was sung at the -meeting on September 8, 1836, to a tune popular at the time, composed -for the song “Believe me, if all those endearing young charms.” -Harvard gave him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1837. - -He wrote a number of hymns of minor importance. - - 1. _O God, accept this sacred hour_ (Communion) - - was contributed to Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris’s _Hymns for the - Lord’s Supper_, 1820, and was republished in Sewall’s New York - Collection of the same year, in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for - the Church of Christ_, 1853, and other collections. - - 2. _This child we dedicate to Thee_ (Christening) - - In Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ the - author’s name is not given and the piece is attributed to the - _West Boston Collection_, 1823. Putnam, in _Singers and Songs_, - etc., p. 73, gives four of its original stanzas, and says that it - is a translation from the German, but the original has not been - traced. - - 3. _We sing Thy mercy, God of love_, (Communion) - - Contributed to _Hymns of the Lord’s Supper_ and included in - Sewall’s New York _Collection_. - - 4. _Who would sever freedom’s shrine?_ - - A song supporting the Union cause, of which Gilman was a strong - advocate, written at the time of the Nullification agitation. - Several stanzas from it, beginning as above, were included in _The - Soldier’s Companion_, 1861. - - 5. _Yes, to the [that] last command_ (Communion) - - Like no. 1 and 3 included in _Hymns for the Lord’s Supper_ and in - Sewall’s _Collection_. - -All these hymns have long since passed out of use. - -Gilman (with C. M. Taggart) edited the _Charleston Collection_ in -1854, under the title _Services and Hymns for the use of the Unitarian -Church of Charleston, S.C._, a second and enlarged edition of which -appeared in 1867. It included three of his hymns, nos. 1, 3 and 5, -listed above, and the two by his wife, Caroline Gilman, _q.v._, listed -under her name. - - J. 423, 1592 - revised—H.W.F. - - -Goldsmith, Rev. Peter Hair, D.D. (1865-1926) was born in Greenville, -South Carolina. He was educated at the Southern Baptist Theological -Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, and served several Baptist churches -before transferring his membership to the Unitarian denomination, -after which he served as minister to the First Church in Salem, -Massachusetts, 1903-1910, and to the church in Yonkers, New York, -1910-1917. - -In 1912 he wrote a hymn beginning, - - _Holy, holy Lord,_ - _We with one accord,_ - -which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, but has not -passed into other collections. - - H.W.F. - - -Greenough, James Bradstreet, Portland, Maine, 1833-1901, Cambridge, -Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1856, was -appointed tutor in 1865, assistant professor in 1873, and professor of -Latin in 1883. In 1884 he wrote the Latin hymn in four stanzas -beginning - - _Deus omnium creator_, - -for the tune _Harvard Hymn_ which his friend, John Knowles Paine, -professor of music at Harvard, had composed in 1883 for use at the -Harvard Commencement dinner. - -It is included in _The University Hymn Book_, 1896, and in _The -Harvard University Hymn Book_, 1926. - - H.W.F. - - -Greenwood, Helen Woodward, Leominster, Massachusetts, April 18, -1880—April 2, 1959, Leominster. She was for many years engaged in -secretarial work for the General Alliance of Unitarian Women at 25 -Beacon Street, Boston. A hymn by her, beginning - - _As once again we gather here_ - -is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - H.W.F. - - -Hale, Rev. Edward Everett, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, April 3, -1822—June 10, 1909, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1839, the youngest member of his class. He did not go to -the Divinity School, but taught in the Boston Latin School and studied -for the ministry under the direction of Rev. S. K. Lothrop and Rev. J. -G. Palfrey. He was licensed to preach by the Boston Association and in -1846 was ordained as minister of the Church of the Unity (now the -First Unitarian Church), Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1856 he moved to -Boston, where he served the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) as -minister and minister emeritus until his death. He was a voluminous -writer. One of his stories entitled “A Man Without A Country,” and -another, “In His Name,” brought him wide reputation. He was a -distinguished preacher and a greatly beloved pastor, an ardent -advocate of peace who as early as 1871 proposed a “United States of -Europe,” and in 1889 outlined a plan for an “International Tribunal.” -In 1858 he wrote a hymn “For the dedication of a Church” beginning, - - _O Father, take this new-built shrine_, - -which was included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1864, from which Martineau took it for his _Hymns of Praise and -Prayer_, London, 1873. - - J. 481 - H.W.F. - - -Hale, Mary Whitwell, Boston, Massachusetts, January 29, 1810—November -17, 1862, Keene, New Hampshire. Most of her life she was a school -teacher in Boston, later in Taunton, Massachusetts, and, for her last -20 years, in Keene. She wrote a good deal of verse. Two of her poems, -one on “Home,” and the second on “Music” were written for a juvenile -concert in the Unitarian Church at Taunton, April, 1834. A number of -her later hymns and poems appeared in _The Christian Register_, signed -by Y.L.E. (the final letters of her name), and in 1840 a volume -entitled _Poems_ was published in Boston. Several of her poems are -included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc. - -Four of her hymns were included in the _Cheshire Collection_, 1844, -viz: - - 1. _Praise for the glorious light_, - - Written for a Temperance meeting. - - 2. _This day let grateful praise ascend_ (Sunday) - - 3. _Whatever dims the sense of truth_ - - In Putnam, Singers and Songs, this is entitled “A Mother’s - Counsel,” with a quotation from John Wesley’s mother. - - 4. _When in silence o’er the deep_ (Christmas) - -Of these nos. 2 and 3 were taken from her _Poems_, and nos. 1 and 4 -were written for the _Cheshire Collection_. No. 4 is in _Church -Harmonies_. 1895, but none of her hymns are in current use. - - J. 481 - H.W.F. - - -Hall, Harriet Ware, Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1841—March -18, 1889, Boston. She was a lifelong resident of Boston, a member of -King’s Chapel. Two small books by her were privately printed, one a -collection of poems entitled _A Book for Friends_, 1888, the other -entitled _Essays_, printed posthumously in 1890. The first book -contains a hymn beginning - - _Lord, beneath thine equal hand_, - -in three stanzas, 7.7.7.7.D., dated February 10, 1869, and written for -the installation of Rev. E. H. Hall at Worcester, Massachusetts, in -1869. It is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, the -first line altered to read, - - _Lord, beneath whose equal hand._ - - H.W.F. - - -Ham, Rev. Marion Franklin, D.D., Harveysburg, Ohio, February 18, -1867—July 23, 1956, Arlington, Massachusetts. He was educated in the -public schools at Harveysburg, but as a youth moved to Chattanooga, -Tennessee to find employment. There he joined the Unitarian Church -and, after serving it as a lay reader for several years, was ordained -in 1898 as its minister, serving it until 1904. He later served -Unitarian churches in Dallas, Texas, 1904-1909; in Reading, -Massachusetts, 1909-1934; and in Waverley, Massachusetts, 1934-1939. -He began to write verse in 1888, and many of his poems appeared in -newspapers and periodicals, some of them being widely reprinted. His -collected poems were published in book form in 1896, entitled _The -Golden Shuttle_, which reached a fourth edition in 1910. He then -turned to hymn writing, and four of his earliest hymns were included -in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, viz:— - - 1. _I hear Thy voice, within the silence speaking_, (1913) - - 2. _O Lord of life, Thy kingdom is at hand_, (1912) - - 3. _O Thou whose gracious presence shone_ (Communion) (1912) - - 4. _Touch Thou mine eyes, the sombre shadows falling_, (1911) - -These are also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, as are five -later hymns by him, viz:— - - 5. _As tranquil streams that meet and merge_ (1933) - - 6. _From Bethany the Master_, (Palm Sunday) (1935) - - 7. _Heir of all the waiting ages_, (Advent) (1937) - - 8. _Ring, O ring, ye Christmas bells_ (1932) - - 9. _The builders, toiling through the days_ (Church dedication) - (1925) - -In April, 1936, he wrote an Easter hymn - - 10. _Oh, who shall roll the stone away?_ - -which first appeared in the Boston _Transcript_. It is included in -_The Hymnal_, 1940. - -In his later years he published, or had privately printed, several -small booklets containing these and other poems by him: _Songs of the -Spirit_, 1932; _Songs of Faith and Hope_, 1940; _Songs at Sunset_, -1951; _Songs of a Lifetime_, 1953; and _In a Rose Garden_, 1956. Of -these, _Songs of a Lifetime_ contains what he regarded as his best -poems, as well as his latest hymns, among them one widely used on -United Nations Sunday, beginning, - - 11. _Freedom, thy holy light_, - -and a fine national hymn, - - 12. _O my country, land of promise_, - -A number of his hymns have been included in the hymnals of several -denominations, and No. 2 was translated into Japanese. - -Dr. Ham’s hymns manifest a deep spiritual insight expressed with -literary craftsmanship of a high order, which make them among the most -notable contributions to American hymnody in the first half of the -20^th century. - - H.W.F. - - -Harris, Florence, (Mrs. Robert G. Hooke) (1891-1933) wrote in 1907, -for the tenth anniversary of Unity Church (Unitarian), Montclair, New -Jersey, of which she was a member a hymn entitled “The Founders,” -beginning, - - _Like pilgrims sailing through the night_, - -which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Harris, Rev. Thaddeus Mason, D.D. (1768-1842). He graduated from -Harvard in 1787, entered the ministry and served the First Church in -Dorchester, Massachusetts (Unitarian) from 1793 until his resignation -in 1836. Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1801 he -printed a leaflet with a few hymns, which formed the basis for a -larger collection of _Hymns for the Lord’s Supper, original and -selected_, [edited] _by Thaddeus Mason Harris. D.D. Boston; printed by -Sewall Phelps, No. 5 Court Street, 1820_. A second edition was printed -in 1821. This booklet contains original hymns by Rev. John Pierpont, -_q.v._, Rev. Samuel Gilman, _q.v._, and others, none of them in use -today. - - H.W.F. - - -Hedge, Rev. Frederic Henry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12, -1805—August 21, 1890, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Son of Professor Levi -Hedge of Harvard, he was a very precocious child, ready to enter -college at 12 years of age, but his father wisely sent him to Germany, -with a tutor, George Bancroft, later a noted historian, where he -studied in German schools for 5 years. He then returned to Harvard -College, graduating in 1825, followed by a period of study in Harvard -Divinity School, where he became an intimate friend of R. W. Emerson. -He was ordained minister of the First Congregational Parish -(Unitarian) in West Cambridge (now Arlington) Massachusetts in 1829. -In 1835 he moved to Bangor, Maine, where he served the Independent -Congregational Society until 1850, then serving the Westminster -Congregational Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 1850-1856. In the -latter year he was called to the First Parish in Brookline, -Massachusetts, which he served until 1872. His removal to Brookline -enabled him to serve as a nonresident professor of ecclesiastical -history in the Harvard Divinity School. He retired from the ministry -in 1872 and moved to Cambridge, where he was appointed professor of -German language and literature, retiring in 1882. He was a man of -extraordinary intellectual ability, one of the most learned of his -time, and a pioneer in bringing to this country an acquaintance with -German literature and metaphysics. Harvard gave him the degree of D.D. -in 1852, and that of LL.D. in 1886. He was one of the editors of the -_Christian Examiner_, author of _The Prose Writers of Germany_, 1848, -of _Reason in Religion_, 1865, of a volume of _Metrical Translations -and Poems_ in 1888, and of a large number of essays and sermons. He -was president of the American Unitarian Association 1860-1863. He -collaborated with Dr. F. D. Huntington, _q.v._, in editing _Hymns for -the Church of Christ_, Boston, 1853, to which he contributed three -translations from the German: - - 1. _A mighty fortress is our God_, (Ein’ feste Burg) - - 2. _Christ hath arisen!_ (Goethe’s Faust) - - 3. _The sun is still forever sounding_ (Goethe’s Faust) - - The Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book for Church and Home_, 1868, - includes his translation from the Latin, - - 4. _Holy Spirit, Fire Divine_, (Veni, Sancte Spiritus) - - Translated 1862. - -His original hymns included in _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, -are, - - 5. _Beneath thine hammer, Lord, I lie_, - - Undated but “Written at a time of severe trial and deep - depression.” - - 6. _Sovereign and Transforming Grace_, - - Written for the ordination of H. D. Barlow at Lynn, Massachusetts, - December 9, 1829. This fine hymn is appropriate to a service of - worship and, with the omission of one stanza, has been widely - used. - - 7. _’Twas in the East, the mystic East_, - - A Christmas hymn, written about 1853. - - 8. _’Twas the day when God’s anointed_, - - Written for a service in Bangor, Maine, held on Good Friday, 1843, - in six stanzas, the last three of which, beginning - - _It is finished, Man of sorrows!_ - - had considerable use in Great Britain and this country. The whole - six stanzas were included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of - Hymns_, 1846, as “Anonymous.” The last three stanzas are in - Martineau’s _Hymns_ and in many other collections. - - He also wrote a hymn beginning - - 9. _Lo! another offering,_ - _To Thy courts this day we bring,_ - - for his own ordination at West Cambridge in 1829, which was also - used at the ordination of F. A. Whitney, at Brighton, - Massachusetts, on February 24, 1844, but which passed into no - collections. - -All these hymns, and two other religious poems, are included in -Putnam’s Singers and _Songs of the Liberal Faith_. Most of them had -gone out of use by the end of the 19^th century, but nos. 1, 6 and 8 -(beginning _It is finished, Man of sorrows_,) are in _The New Hymn and -Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - -By far the best known of Hedge’s hymns is his fine and accurate -translation of Luther’s great chorale _Ein’ feste Burg_ (no. 1). This -is the version accepted by almost all the Protestant denominations in -this country, whereas in Great Britain Thomas Carlyle’s earlier -translation (1831) is generally used, although James Martineau -included Hedge’s version in his _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873, -mistakenly attributing it to Samuel Longfellow. Putnam, _op. cit._, -214, says that it was first printed in W. H. Furness’s _Gems of German -Verse_, which appeared in Philadelphia, without date but undoubtedly -in the latter part of 1853, a second edition following in 1859. That -Hedge should have sent his translation of the chorale to Furness -without delay was natural, because the two men were close friends with -a common interest in German literature, and Putnam was the younger -contemporary of both, in a position to know that Furness’s little book -had appeared on the market a few days, or weeks, ahead of the -collection of hymns which Hedge and F. D. Huntington were editing and -which they published late in 1853 as _Hymns for the Church of Christ_. - -The earliest record of the hymn, however, is to be found in the -autograph letter (now in the Harvard University Library) which Hedge -wrote to Rev. Joseph H. Allen, his successor in the pulpit at Bangor, -Maine, asking him to recommend hymns for inclusion in the book on -which he and Huntington were working. This letter is dated -“Providence, March 27th, 1853.” In the course of it Hedge wrote, “I -have made a new translation of Luther’s splendid psalm ‘Eine feste -Burg ist unser Gott’ Carlyle’s translation not being available.” This -statement is followed by the four stanzas of his translation. That -book contained no printed tunes, only citing the metre at the head of -each hymn as a guide to the organist, but in his letter Hedge goes on -with the surprizing statement, “The original is much sung in Germany -and therefore I suppose that it will not be difficult to find a tune -for it.” Since he must have become familiar with both the words and -the music of the famous chorale when he was a youthful student in -Germany this remark indicates that the tune was still unknown in -America, and that he took little interest in introducing it. - - J. 504, 1647 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12, -1822—May 9, 1911, Cambridge. He graduated from Harvard College in 1841 -and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1847. Entering the Unitarian -ministry he served churches in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1847-1850, -and in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1852-1858. He was an ardent -Abolitionist and when the Civil War came he entered the Union Army, in -which he rose to the command of a Negro regiment. After the war he -became a man of letters and published several books and numerous -essays. While still a student in the Divinity School he contributed to -the _Book of Hymns_, 1846, which his friends Longfellow and Johnson -were preparing, four hymns, which they marked with an asterisk, viz: - - 1. _No human eyes Thy face may see_ (God known through love) - - 2. _The land our fathers left to us_ (American Slavery) - - 3. _The past is dark with sin and shame_, (Hope) - - 4. _To thine eternal arms, O God_, (Lent) - -The last two have had considerable use. Both express the pessimistic -mood with which the young man viewed the evils of the time. - -One of his later poems of social justice has also had some use as a -hymn, - - 5. _From street and square, from hill and glen,_ - _Of this vast world beyond my door._ - -His four hymns in the _Book of Hymns_, with other poems by him, are -included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs, of the Liberal Faith_, 1875. -Of the above hymns those listed as 3 and 5 are included in _Hymns of -the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 521, 1711 - H.W.F. - - -Hill, Rev. Thomas, D.D., L.L.D., New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 7, -1818—November 21, 1891, Portland, Maine. - -He graduated from Harvard College in 1843 and from the Harvard -Divinity School in 1845. He served as minister of the First Parish -(Unitarian) in Waltham, Massachusetts from 1845 to 1859; was president -of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1859-1862; president of -Harvard University, 1862-1868; and minister of the First Parish of -Portland, Maine, 1873 to 1891. He was distinguished as a -mathematician. - -In the earlier part of his career he wrote or translated many hymns -which found publication in current periodicals, usually anonymously or -signed only with cryptic initials. One by him, beginning, - - _All holy, ever living One,_ - -was included in a few hymn books of the 19^th century, but has dropped -out of use. A few others, mostly written for special occasions, are in -Putnam’s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, but none have found -other use. - - J. 524 - H.W.F. - - -Holland, Joseph Gilbert, Belchertown, Massachusetts, July 24, -1819—October 12, 1881. A newspaper man on the staff of the -_Springfield Republican_ who became editor of _Scribner’s Magazine_ in -1870. Author of several books and some poetical pieces. One of the -latter, beginning - - _For summer’s bloom, and autumn’s blight_, (Praise in and - through all things) - -from his _Bitter Sweet_, 1858, was included in the Unitarian _Hymn and -Tune Book for Church and Home_, Boston, 1868. - - J. 529 - H.W.F. - - -Holmes, Rev. John Haynes, D.D.; Litt. D.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, -November 29, 1879—still living. He graduated from Harvard, _summa cum -laude_ in 1902, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1904. He -received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Jewish -Institute of Religion in 1930, from St. Lawrence University in 1931, -and from Meadville Theological School in 1945; Doctor of Letters from -Benares Hindu University, India, in 1947, and Doctor of Humanities -from Rollins College, Florida, in 1951. He was installed as minister -of the Third Religious Society (Unitarian), Dorchester, Massachusetts -in 1904, and went to New York in 1907 as associate and successor to -Rev. Robert Collyer, _q.v._, minister of the Second Congregational -Unitarian Society, (Church of the Messiah, now called the Community -Church of New York) of which he became pastor emeritus in 1949. He -withdrew from the Unitarian fellowship in 1919, not on theological -grounds but because he preferred a position independent of any -denominational label. Throughout his career in New York he has been an -outspoken leader in many causes for social betterment, and a prolific -author in prose and verse who has published a large number of books, -religious and biographical, and of printed sermons. No other American -author of his period has written so many fine hymns which have been -widely used in this country, in England, and in Japan. - - 1. _Accept, O Lord, this precious gift_ - - 8.6.8.6. 3 stas. - - Written for dedication on October 31, 1943, of Chapel in the - rebuilt Community Church. - - 2. _Accept, O Lord, this temple_, - - 7.6.7.6.7.6. 3 stas. - - Written on the occasion of the rededication of the Community - Church, December 31, 1922. - - 3. _All hail the pageant of the years_, - - 8.6.8.6.8.8. 5 stas. Undated - - Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 4. _Almighty God, beneath whose eye_ - - C.M.D. 4 stas. - - An early hymn written for Labor Day Sunday in 1910. - - 5. _Almighty God, to whom the dark_ - - C.M.D. 3 stas. 8 l. - - A Vesper hymn written in 1906. - - 6. _America triumphant! Brave land of pioneers._ - - 7.6.7.6.D. 5 stas. - - Written during World War I, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 7. _Behold, O God! our holy house_, - - C.M. 5 stas. September, 1919 - - Written on the occasion of the burning of the Community Church, - September 11, 1919. - - 8. _Be with us, Father, in this place._ - - Dated 1945. - - 9. _Bless, thou, O God, this fellowship_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. - - Written for the Installation of Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, B.D., - D.D. as President of the American Unitarian Association on October - 7, 1958. - - 10. _Bright visions glow across the sky_, - - 8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6. 3 stas. - - Written by Mr. Holmes in 1947 on the occasion of his 40^th - anniversary as Minister of the Community Church. - - 11. _God of the nations, near and far._ - - C.M. 6 stas. - - Written before this country entered World War I, for a hymn - contest sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in - America, for use on Peace Sunday. This hymn was widely sung in - churches of many denominations. - - Included in _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1937, with alteration in 2^nd sta. - - 12. _God save the people’s cause._ - - 6.6.4.6.6.6.4. 3 stas. - - Written in 1939. - - 13. _Great Spirit of the speeding spheres_, - - L.M. 6 stas. - - Written in 1932 on the occasion of the 25^th anniversary of Mr. - Holmes as minister of the Community Church. - - 14. _Joy to our hearts! Again we meet!_ - - 8.6.8.8.6.6.6.4. 3 stas. 8 l. - - A Hymn of reunion, 1920, set to the tune of Antioch. - - 15. _O blessed isle of quiet_, - - 7.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. - - Written at the Isles of Shoals in the summer of 1930, and set to - an original tune by Robert B. Buxton. - - 16. _O Father, Thou who givest all_ - - L.M. 4 stas. - - Written for _The Beacon Song and Service Book_, Beacon, 1908; - included in _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1937. - - 17. _O God of field and city_, - - 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6. 3 stas. Prompted, in 1917, by the darkly - unfolding experiences of World War I. - - 18. _O God of light and darkness_, - - 7.6.7.6.D. 3 stas. 8 l. Undated. - - 19. _O God, whose law from age to age_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 4 stas. 1910. - - 20. _O God, whose love is over all_, - - 8.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. 1909. - - 21. _O God, whose smile is in the sky_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 4 stas. - - Written in 1907 for the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, in 4 - stas., C.M.D. Included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, in 5 - stas. of 4 l. with revisions approved by the author, and in _Hymns - of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 22. _Old Jubal twanged the bow-string_ - - 7.6.7.6.D. 3 stas. - - Written for the 25^th anniversary of Clifford Demarest as organist - of the Community Church, May 10, 1936, based on Genesis 4.21. - “Jubal,—father of all such as handle the harp and the pipe.” An - interesting _tour de force_ on the rise of music in praise of God. - - 23. _Onward still and upward_ - - 6.5.6.5.D. 3 stas. - - Written in 1950, and dedicated to the American Unitarian - Association in celebration of the 125^th anniversary (1825-1950) - of its founding. - - 24. _O Thou who in chaotic night_, - - 8.8.8.8.8.8. 4 stas. - - Written in war time, 1918. - - 25. _O Thou, whose presence moved before_ - - C.M.D. 6 stas. - - Written for use on the 10^th anniversary of his installation as - Minister of the Community Church, February 4, 1917. - - 26. _O’er continent and ocean_ - - 7.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. - - Written for a “Service of Commemoration of a Century of British - American Peace,” held in the Church of the Messiah, Montreal, - Canada, at a meeting of Unitarian General Conference on September - 25, 1917. In _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 27. _Show us thy way, O God!_ - - 6.6.8.6. 4 stas. - - Printed in _The Christian Century_ in 1936, included in _Hymns of - the Spirit_, 1937, with a correction by the author. - - 28. _The Bethlehem stars are dim tonight_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. Dated 1925 - - 29. _The voice of God is calling_ - - 7.6.7.6.D. 4 stas. - - Written in September, 1913 for the Young People’s Religious Union - of Boston. In _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. In _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1937; widely used in the United States, England, - translated into German, Japanese and Spanish. - - 30. _Thou God of all, whose presence dwells_ - - 8.8.8.8. 4 stas. - - Written some time after World War I. Intended as a protest against - nationalistic theism which induced both belligerent nations to - claim a monopoly of God. - - 31. _Thou God of all, whose Spirit moves_ - - 8.6.8.6.D 3 stas. - - Printed in _The Christian Century_, May 29, 1940 and in _The - Christian Register_, August, 1940. - - 32. _Thy voice, O God, in every age_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. - - Written for the Installation of Rev. Donald Harrington at the - Community Church of New York on November 19, 1944. - - 33. _To earth’s remote horizons_ - - 7.6.7.6.D. 4 stas. - - Written in 1949 and first sung on November 27th of that year at a - special service in commemoration of the retirement of Mr. Holmes - from the active ministry. - - 34. _To Thee, O God, be homage_ - - 7.6.7.6.D. 3 stas. 1945. - - 35. _When darkness, brooding o’er the deep_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 4 stas. - - Written in 1925 on the occasion of the 100^th anniversary of the - founding of the Community Church of New York. - - 36. _Why trust we not our God?_ - - 6.6.8.6. 5 stas. - -Of the hymns listed above, Nos. 3, 6, 11, 18, 20, 23 and 29 have had -the most widespread use. - - H.W.F. in collaboration with J.H.H. - - -Holmes, Oliver Wendell, M.D., LL.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts, August -29, 1809—October 7, 1894, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in the famous Class of 1829, studied medicine and -became a practitioner in Boston, and was appointed Professor of -Anatomy in the Harvard Medical School in 1847. Although distinguished -as a physician his fame is that of a man of letters gifted with a -sense of humor which made him one of the wittiest men of his time. -Besides important medical treatises he wrote essays, novels, -biographical sketches, and poetry which brought him a great reputation -in this country and in Great Britain. Much of his poetry is occasional -verse, which he was often called upon to write, such as his -“International Ode” to be sung to the tune “America” (“God Save the -Queen”) on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1860. -Oxford University gave him the honorary degree of D.C.L. in 1886. He -was a member of Kings’ Chapel, (Unitarian) Boston, and two of his -poems are about that church. He contributed The _Autocrat at the -Breakfast Table_ to the opening issues of _The Atlantic Monthly_, -1857-58, published _The Professor at the Breakfast Table_ in 1859, -_The Poet at the Breakfast Table_ in 1872. He wrote _Elsie Venner_, -1861, and two other novels. His poetry was published in _Songs in Many -Keys_, 1861; _Humorous Poems_, 1865; _Before the Curfew_, 1888; and in -his _Complete Poetical Works_, in 1895. - -Although he made a greater contribution to American hymnody than did -any other of the “New England poets” of his era, except Bryant and -Whittier, his hymns were incidental literary by-products, for he was -not primarily a hymn writer. They include: - - 1. _Angel of peace, thou hast tarried too long_ - - Written in 1869. - - 2. _Father of mercies, heavenly Friend_, - - A prayer in time of war. Undated but between 1861 and 1865. - - 3. _Lead where the banners wave last to the sea_, - - Written as an American national anthem. It appeared in his _Songs - in Many Keys_, 1861, entitled “Freedom, our Queen.” - - 4. _Lord of all being, throned afar_, (God’s Omnipotence) - - Included in _The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table_, 1848, under the - title of “A Sun-day Hymn.” This is his finest hymn and has had - widespread use in many collections. - - 5. _O Lord of hosts, Almighty King_, - - Entitled “Army Hymn,” and published in _The Soldier’s Companion_, - a hand-book of hymns and scripture readings issued in the fall of - 1861, by the American Unitarian Association, for use by soldiers - in the Union Army. It is a fine hymn, but with several lines - directly referring to the immediate situation which make it - unsuitable for present use and which cannot be altered or dropped - without mutilating the hymn. In the same collection he wrote an - “Additional Verse” appended to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” - beginning - - _When our land is illumined with Liberty’s smile_, - - 6. _O Love Divine, that stooped to share_, - - Written in 1859, a hymn of trust in time of doubt and sorrow. - - 7. _Our Father, while our hearts unlearn,_ - _The creeds that wrong thy name,_ - - Written for the 25^th Anniversary of the Boston Young Men’s - Christian Union, May 31, 1893. - - 8. _Thou gracious Power whose mercy lends_, - - Written in 1869 for the 40^th anniversary meeting of the Harvard - Class of 1829. In the Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, altered to read - - _Thou gracious God_, etc. - -Of these hymns nos. 4 and 6 have had the most widespread use. Those -two, and no. 1 are included in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935, and nos. 4, -6, 7 and 8 are in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and In -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 530, 1649, 1713, rewritten by - H.W.F. - - -Horton, Rev. Edward Augustus, Springfield, Massachusetts, September -28, 1843—April 15, 1931, Toronto, Canada. He studied at the University -of Chicago and at Meadville Theological School, from which he -graduated in 1868. He served Unitarian churches in Leominster, -Massachusetts, 1868-1875; Hingham, Massachusetts, 1877-1880; and the -Second Church in Boston, 1880-1892. Thereafter he was active in the -work of the Unitarian Sunday School Society. In 1912 he wrote an -“Anniversary Hymn” beginning, - - _We honor those whose work began_, - -which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - - H.W.F. - - -Hosmer, Rev. Frederick Lucian, D.D., Framingham, Massachusetts, -October 16, 1840—June 7, 1929, Berkeley, California. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1862, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1869. -In October of that year he was ordained minister of the First -Congregational Church (Unitarian), Northborough, Massachusetts, where -he served for 3 years. He served the Unitarian Church in Quincy, -Illinois, 1872-1877; then spent sixteen months in Europe, returning -late in 1878 to serve the First Unitarian Church of Cleveland, Ohio, -1878-1892; the Church of the Unity, St. Louis, Missouri, 1894-1899; -and the First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, California, 1900-1915, where -he remained as minister-emeritus until his death. In 1887 Buchtel -College gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. - -While in the Divinity School he formed a close life-long friendship -with William C. Gannett, _q.v._ Neither wrote any hymns until early -middle life, Dr. Gannett’s earliest having been written in 1873, Dr. -Hosmer’s in 1875, but thereafter they worked together for nearly four -decades to make a contribution to American hymnody comparable to that -made by Samuel Longfellow, _q.v._, and Samuel Johnson, _q.v._, a -generation earlier. Of the two men it has been well said that “Gannett -was the better poet, Hosmer the better hymn writer,” and many more of -his hymns than of those by Gannett have come into widespread use. - -Working together they edited _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, published in -1880, a revised edition of which appeared in 1911. (J. V. Blake, -_q.v._, was also an editor of the first, but not of the revised -edition). In 1885 they published a small collection of their poems -entitled _The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems_, followed by later -collections with the same title, 2^nd Series 1894, 3^rd Series 1918. -In 1908 Dr. Hosmer gave a series of lectures on hymnody at the Harvard -Divinity School, repeated at the Pacific Unitarian School for the -Ministry, in Berkeley, California, but these have not been published. - -Julian’s _Dictionary_, pp. 1650-51, lists 27 hymns by Dr. Hosmer, with -“annotations—from ms. notes supplied—by the author,” as follows:— - - 1. _Father, to Thee we look in all our sorrow_ (Trust in God) - - Written in 1881 upon the death of a member of the author’s - congregation, and published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, - 1885. - - 2. _From age to age how grandly rise_ (Unity) - - Written for the annual festival of the Free Religious Association, - Boston, June 2, 1899, and first published in _Souvenir Festival - Hys._ 1899. Subsequently altered by the author to “From age to age - the prophet’s vision.” - - 3. _From age to age they gather, all the brave of heart and - strong_, (Victory of Truth) - - Written in 1891 for the Dedication of Unity Church, Decorah, Iowa, - and published in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894. - - 4. _From many ways and wide apart_, (College or School Reunion) - - Dated in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894, as having been - written in 1890. - - 5. _Go not, my soul, in search of Him_, (God within) - - Written in 1879, printed in the Boston _Christian Register_, May - 31, 1879, and included in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885, - with the title “The Indwelling God.” - - 6. _I cannot think of them as dead_ (Eternal Life) - - Written in 1882 and first published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885, and entitled “My Dead.” In the English collections - it is usually given as “We cannot think of them as dead.” - - 7. _I little see, I little know_, (Trust) - - “A Psalm of Trust” written in 1883, first appeared in the Boston - _Christian Register_, and again in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885. - - 8. _Immortal, by their deed and word_ (The Spirit of Jesus) - - Written in 1880, and first published in _Unity Hys. and Carols_, - Chicago, Illinois, 1880, and then in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885. - - 9. _Many things in life, there are_ (Mystery in All Things) - - Written in 1885 and first published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885, with the title “Passing Understanding”, and the - quotation “the Peace of God which passeth all understanding.” - - 10. _Not always on the Mount may we_ (On the Mount) - - This lesson from the _Transfiguration_ was written in 1882, and - published in the _Chicago Unity_, April 1, 1884. After revision by - the author, it was included in the 1^st Series of _The Thought of - God_, 1885. - - 11. _Not when, with self dissatisfied_, (Lent) - - Written in 1891, and given in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, - 1894, p. 33. It is in _The Public School Hymn Book_, 1903, and - others. - - 12. _O beautiful, my country_, (National Hymn) - - As “Our Country,” written in 1884, and published in the _Chicago - Unity Festivals_, 1884, and again in _The Thought of God_, 1885. - - 13. _O Light, from age to age the same_, (Dedication - Anniversary) - - Written in 1890 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Second - Congregational Church (Unitarian), Quincy, Illinois. Included in - _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894, and entitled “From - Generation to Generation.” - - 14. _O Lord of Life, where’er they be_, (Life in God) - - “Written in 1888 for Easter service in Author’s own church,” and - first published in the _Chicago Unity_, and again in _The Thought - of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894. The “Alleluia” refrain, which is added - in some collections to each verse, is appended, in the original, - to the last verse only. - - 15. _O Name, all other names above_, (Trust in God) - - Under the title “Found. ‘They that know Thy name will put their - trust in Thee’,” this hymn, written in 1878, was given in _The - Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885. - - 16. _O Prophet souls of all the years_ (Unity) - - “Written in 1893 for, and sung at, the Unitarian gathering in - connection with The World’s Parliament of Religions (World’s Fair) - Chicago, Sep. 1893,” and included in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd - Series, 1894, and entitled “One Law, One Life, One Love.” - - 17. _O Thou, in all Thy might so far_, (God All in All) - - This hymn, given in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885, with - the title “The Mystery of God,” was written in 1876, and first - published in the _New York Inquirer_. - - 18. _O thou in lonely vigil led_, - - This encouragement for lonely workers was written for the “Emerson - Commemoration, W.U.C. 1888,” and included in _The Thought of God_, - 2^nd Series, 1894. - - 19. _O Thou, who art of all that is_, (Divine Guidance) - - Under the title “Through unknown paths,” this hymn was included in - _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885; it was written in 1877. - - 20. _O Thou, whose Spirit witness bears_, (Dedication of a - Place of Worship) - - Written for the Dedication of the First Unitarian Church, Omaha, - February 6, 1891, and published in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd - Series, 1894, with the title “The Inward Witness”, and the - subscription “For T.K. Omaha, 1891.” - - 21. _On eyes that watch through sorrow’s night_ (Easter) - - A Carol for Easter Morn, written in 1890 for the author’s - congregation, and published in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, - 1894. - - 22. _One thought I have, my ample creed_, (The Thought of God) - - This is the initial hymn to the collection _The Thought of God_, - 1^st Series, 1885, and supplies the title to the work. It was - written in 1880, and first published in the _Chicago Unity Hymns - and Carols_, 1880, and then in _The Thought of God_, 1885. - - 23. _The rose is queen among the flowers_, (Flower services) - - Written in 1875, first published in _The Sunnyside_, a songbook - for Sunday Schools, and again in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885, under the title “Flower Sunday.” - - 24. _Thy kingdom come—on bended knee_, (Missions) - - “Written in 1891 for the Commencement of the Meadville Theological - School (Meadville, Pa.) June 12, 1891, and pub. in _The Thought of - God_, 2^nd Series, 1894.” under the title “The Day of God,” and - the subscription “M.T.S., June 12, 1891.” - - 25. _We pray no more, made lowly wise_ - _For miracle and sign._ (Greater Faith Desired) - - “Written in 1879, and first pub. in _The Christian Register_ - (Boston) Mar. 22 of that year, under the title ‘The Larger - Faith.’” Included under the same title in _The Thought of God_, - 1^st Series, 1885. Sometimes given as “Made lowly wise, we pray no - more.” - - 26. _When courage fails, and faith burns low_, (Victory of - Truth) - - Under the title “Loyalty,” this hymn was given in _The Thought of - God_, 1^st Series, 1885. It was written in 1881. - - 27. _Where men on mounts of vision_, - _Have passed the veil within_. (Dedication of a Place of - Worship) - - “Written in 1891 for the Dedication of First Unitarian Church, - Oakland, California.” Included in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd - Series, 1894, entitled “Holy Place”, and subscribed “For C.W.W., - Oakland, Cal. 1891.” - -This account of Hosmer’s hymns, copied verbatim from Julian’s -_Dictionary_, may be accepted as authoritative as to the date and -occasion for each hymn listed, but Canon Julian presumably added the -descriptive notations in brackets, and fell into minor inaccuracies, -as when he wrote _Unity Hymns and Carols_ for _Unity Hymns and -Chorals_ (cf. nos. 3 and 22), and cited the periodical _Unity_, -published in Chicago, as _Chicago Unity_. By way of further -clarification it should be noted that the opening line of no. 12, _O -beautiful my country_, was taken from J. R. Lowell’s great -Commemoration Ode, and that Hosmer always wanted it printed ‘_O -Beautiful my Country_’, in recognition of its source. No. 18 was -written for the observance by the Western Unitarian Conference of the -fiftieth anniversary of Emerson’s famous _Divinity School Address_. -The person initialed as “T.K.” for whom no. 20 was written on February -6, 1891, probably was Thomas Kilpatrick, a layman who did much to make -possible the erection of the church in Omaha, which was not dedicated -until December 15 of that year. The person initialled “C.W.W.”, for -whom no. 27 was written, was Rev. Charles W. Wendte, then minister of -the First Unitarian Church in Oakland, California. - -Julian’s account of Hosmer’s contribution to hymnody, though no doubt -as satisfactory as could be expected at the time it was written, is -incomplete in two respects. The latest hymn listed is dated 1899, yet -at least three earlier hymns by Hosmer are unaccountably missing, -(viz, nos. 32, 33, 41, noted below), presumably because he neglected -to send Julian any information about them. More important than these -are several later occasional hymns which he wrote in the last three -decades of his life, too late for any inclusion in Julian’s -_Dictionary_, and which form a notable addition to the earlier list. -Some of them were included in the revised edition of _Unity Hymns and -Chorals_, 1911, and all of them in _The Thought of God_, 3^rd. Series, -1918, as follows: - - 28. _Across a century’s border line_, - - Written for the centennial commemoration of W. E. Channing’s - famous “Baltimore Sermon” at the General Unitarian Conference, - September 26, 1917. - - 29. _All hidden lie the future ways_, - - Written as a hymn at the christening of children. Not dated. - - 30. _Forward through the ages, in unbroken line_, - - A hymn of the church universal, written in 1908 for an - Installation Service, set to Sullivan’s tune St. Gertrude. In some - collections it has replaced Baring Gould’s _Onward, Christian - Soldiers_. - - 31. _Hear, hear, O ye nations, and hearing obey_, (Reign of - Peace) - - Written in 1909 and included in _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, - and, with one word altered in the last stanza, in _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1937. - - 32. _I came not hither of my will_, (Divine Providence) - - Written in 1883. - - 33. _Lo, the day of days is here_, (Easter) - - Written in 1890. - - 34. _Lo, the Easter-tide is here_, (Easter) - - Written in 1914. - - 35. _Now while the day in trailing splendor_ (Evening) - - Written in 1902, published in Louisa Loring’s _Hymns of the Ages_, - 1904. - - 36._ O blest the souls that see and hear_, - - Written for the National Conference of Unitarian Churches, - Chicago, September 27, 1909, in 5 stanzas, beginning “From many - ways and far apart.” In _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and - _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, this first stanza has been dropped, - and the remaining four stanzas printed, beginning as above. - - 37. _O day of light and gladness_ (Easter) - - Written in 1903, published in Louisa Loring’s _Hymns of the Ages_, - 1904, and, slightly revised, in _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1911. - - 38. _The outward building stands complete_, - - Written for the Dedication of Unity Church, St. Louis, Missouri, - October 7, 1917. - - 39. _Through willing heart and helping hand_, - - Written in 1909 for the Dedication of the Parish House of the - First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, California. - - 40. _Thy kingdom come, O Lord._ - - Written in 1905. - - 41. _Today be joy in every heart_, (Christmas) - - Written in 1877. - - 42. _Uplift the song of praise_, - - The first two stanzas of this hymn were written in 1904 and were - included in Miss Louisa Loring’s _Hymns of the Ages_, published in - that year. At a later date Dr. Hosmer wrote two additional stanzas - and the hymn was thus printed in _The Thought of God_, 3^rd - Series, 1918. In _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of - the Spirit_, 1937, it is set to the tune Yigdal. - - 43. _When shadows gather on our way_, - - Written in 1904 and published in Miss Louisa Loring’s _Hymns of - the Ages_, 1904. - - 44. _When the constant sun returning_, - - Reginald Heber in 1827 wrote a single stanza hymn beginning, “God - that madest earth and heaven.” In 1912 Hosmer wrote for _The New - Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, a second stanza, the first line of - which is quoted above, to complete the thought. This composite two - stanza hymn has since been included in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935, - and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - -The period of Dr. Hosmer’s hymn writing covered more than 40 years -(1875-1917) and during the latter half of that time he was widely -recognized by hymn lovers as the most distinguished hymn writer of his -time. Many of his hymns found their way into the collections of -various denominations in both this country and Great Britain. Canon -Dearmer included 8 in the British collection _Songs of Praise_, and in -the accompanying handbook, _Songs of Praise Discussed_, calls the hymn -_O Thou, in all thy might so far_, (no. 17) “this flawless poem, one -of the completest expressions of religious faith,” and the hymn _Thy -kingdom come, on bended knee_, (no. 24) “one of the noblest hymns in -the language.” - -All of Hosmer’s hymns in recent use will be found in both the -Unitarian collections—_The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns -of the Spirit_, 1937, except where initials indicate one or the other -book, as follows:—Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 (N.H.T.B.), 8, 10 (N.H.T.B.), -12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 (H.S.), 29 -(H.S.), 30, 31, 32, 34 (H.S,), 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43. Nos. -10, 17, 24, 30 and 40 are included in the Protestant Episcopal -_Hymnal_, 1940. - - J. 1650 - H.W.F. - - -Howe, Mrs. Julia (Ward), New York, New York, May 27, 1819—October 17, -1910, Boston, Massachusetts. Married Samuel Gridley Howe on April 26, -1843. She was a woman with a distinguished personality and intellect; -an Abolitionist and active in social reforms; author of several books -in prose and verse. The latter include _Passion Flower_, 1854; _Words -of the Hour_, 1856; _Later Lyrics_, 1866; and _From a Sunset Ridge_, -1896. She became famous as the author of the poem entitled “Battle -Hymn of the Republic,” beginning, - -_Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord_, which, in -spite of its title, was written as a patriotic song and not as a hymn -for use in public worship, but which has been included in many -American hymn books. It was written on November 19, 1861, while she -and her husband, accompanied by their pastor, Rev. James Freeman -Clarke, _q.v._, minister of the (Unitarian) Church of the Disciples, -Boston, were visiting Washington soon after the outbreak of the Civil -War. She had seen the troops gathered there and had heard them, -singing “John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave” to a -popular tune called “Glory, Hallelujah” composed a few years earlier -by William Steffe of Charleston, South Carolina, for Sunday School -use. Dr. Clarke asked Mrs. Howe if she could not write more uplifting -words for the tune and as she awoke early the next morning she found -the verses forming in her mind as fast as she could write them down, -so completely that later she re-wrote only a line or two in the last -stanza and changed only four words in other stanzas. She sent the poem -to _The Atlantic Monthly_, which paid her $4 and published it in its -issue for February, 1862. It attracted little attention until it -caught the eye of Chaplain C. C. McCabe (later a Methodist bishop) who -had a fine singing voice and who taught it first to the 122d Ohio -Volunteer Infantry regiment to which he was attached, then to other -troops, and to prisoners in Libby Prison after he was made prisoner of -war. Thereafter it quickly came into use throughout the North as an -expression of the patriotic emotion of the period. - - J. 1652 - H.W.F. - - -Huntington, Rt. Rev. Frederic Dan, D.D., Hadley, Massachusetts, May -23, 1819—July 11, 1904, Hadley, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Amherst College in 1839 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1842. -He was minister of the South Congregational Church (Unitarian), -Boston, 1842-1855, and from 1855 to 1859 he was Professor of Christian -Morals and University Preacher at Harvard College. In 1859 he was -ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church and served as -rector of Emmanuel Church in Boston from 1860 to 1869, when he was -consecrated Bishop of Central New York. In 1853 he collaborated with -Rev. Frederic Henry Hedge, _q.v._, in editing their Unitarian -collection, _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, to which he contributed -three hymns, - - 1. _O Love Divine, lay on me burdens if Thou wilt_ - (Supplication) - - 2. _O Thou, in whose Eternal Name_ (Ordination) - - 3. _O Thou that once on Horeb stood_ (God in Nature) - -The hymn beginning - - _Father, whose heavenly kingdom lies_, - -in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, is a cento -taken from no. 2. _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ also includes a -good many anonymous hymns, some of which may be by him, though there -is no proof that such is the case. Dr. Huntington also collaborated -with Dr. Hedge in editing a collection of sacred poetry entitled -_Elim: Hymns of Holy Refreshment_, Boston, 1865, which includes a -funeral hymn beginning - - _So heaven is gathering one by one_, - -This hymn has been mistakenly attributed to Huntington, but is an -altered form of a hymn by E. H. Bickersteth beginning - - _Thus heaven is gathering one by one_. - -Although Dr. Huntington is known to have written occasional verses in -religious themes later in life for his own edification he is not -credited with any published hymns after his resignation from his -professorship at Harvard, and none of the three listed above are in -present use. - - J. 544, 1714 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Hurlburt, (Hurlbut, Hurlbert) William Henry. Charleston, South -Carolina, July 3, 1827—September 4, 1895, Cadenabbia, Lake Como, -Italy. (His family name is spelled Hurlburt in records at Charleston -but at Harvard he was registered as Hurlbut, and in later years he -changed the spelling to Hurlbert). He graduated from Harvard College -in 1847 and from the Divinity School in 1849. He preached in Unitarian -pulpits for a few months but was never ordained as a settled minister; -then he studied in the Harvard Law School for a year; then turned to -journalism in New York City. After 1883 he spent most of his time in -Europe, his last few years in Italy. As a student at Harvard he was a -contemporary of Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson and contributed -three hymns to their _Book of Hymns_, edition of 1848, which they also -included in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, viz: - - 1. _My God, in life’s most doubtful hour_, - - 2. _We pray for truth and peace_, - - 3. _We will not weep, for God is standing by us_ - -In both books his surname is spelled Hurlbut. - - J. 545 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Johnson, Rev. Samuel, Salem, Massachusetts, October 10, 1822—February -19, 1882, North Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1842 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1846. He -served from 1853-1870 as minister of the Independent Church, Lynn, -Massachusetts which he organized and which ceased to exist when he -resigned. He refused to identify himself with any denomination, though -in belief he was a Unitarian and in the public mind was associated -with the churches which adhered to the liberal wing of the -Congregational order. He was author of a book on _Oriental Religions_, -one of the earliest American studies in the History of Religions. In -1846 he and his classmate in the Divinity School, Samuel Longfellow, -_q.v._, while still students, prepared their _Book of Hymns_, because -they and some of their friends thought the Unitarian hymn books then -in use were too traditional. This book appeared in enlarged edition in -1848, and made a notable contribution to American hymnody in its -freshness of outlook and its inclusion of hymns by hitherto -unrecognized writers, notably John Greenleaf Whittier. Johnson -contributed 7 hymns to the edition of 1846, viz: - - 1. _Father [Savior] in Thy mysterious presence kneeling_ - (Worship) - - 2. _Go, preach the gospel in my name_ (Ordination) - - 3. _Lord, once our faith in man no fear could move_, (In Time - of War) - - 4. _Onward, Christians, though the region_ (Conflict) - - Altered in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, to - - _Onward, onward though the region_ - - 5. _Thy servants’ sandals, Lord, are wet_ (Ordination) - -In the edition of 1848 he included - - 6. _God of the earnest heart_, (Trust) - -which he had “Written for the Graduating Exercises of the Class of -1846, in Cambridge Divinity School.” In 1864 he and Longfellow -published their second and no less important collection, _Hymns of the -Spirit_, (not to be confused with the book of the same title published -in 1937 by the American Unitarian Association). To this volume he -contributed 7 more hymns, viz: - - 7. _City of God, how broad, how far_, (The Church Universal) - - 8. _I bless Thee, Lord, for sorrows sent_ (Purification through - suffering) - -This was “Written at the request of Dorothea L. Dix for a collection -made by her for the use of an asylum.” (Miss Dix was engaged in a -notable reform of institutions for the insane.) - - 9. _Life of Ages, richly poured_ (Inspiration) - - 10. _Strong-souled Reformer, whose far-seeing faith_ (Jesus) - - 11. _The Will Divine that woke a waiting time_ (St. Paul) - - 12. _Thou whose glad summer yields_, (Worship) - - 13. _To light that shines in stars and souls_, (Dedication of a - Place of Worship) - -A number of these hymns have had widespread and long-continued use. -Numbers 1, 4, 6, 7, and 9 are included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, -and stand out as some of the finest examples of American hymnody in -their lyrical quality and depth of religious feeling. A few of -Johnson’s hymns have found acceptance also in England, the most -notable example being No. 7, sung at the consecration of the new -Anglican cathedral at Liverpool in 1924, an occasion which the words -fitted to perfection. But, since even the existence of the obscure -minister in Lynn, Massachusetts, was quite unknown to all but very few -of those present, the Samuel Johnson to whom it was attributed was -commonly supposed to be the famous 18^th century English -lexicographer, and the hymn is mistakenly assigned to him in the -latest edition of Bartlett’s _Familiar Quotations_! Following its use -at Liverpool it was sung in Westminster Abbey at a service for the -League of Nations in 1935; at the jubilee service for the 25^th -anniversary of the coronation of George V; and was one of seven hymns -included in the special service prepared by the Archbishops of -Canterbury and York for use in parish churches throughout England at -the time of the coronation of George VI. Probably no other hymn of -American authorship is so widely known or used in British dominions. - - J. 604-5, 1583, 1681, 1711 - H.W.F. - - -Kimball, Jacob, Topsfield, Massachusetts, February 15, 1761—July 24, -1826, Topsfield. He graduated from Harvard in 1780, studied law, -taught school, and tried to make a living at various other -occupations, with small success except in the field of music where he -was regarded as the outstanding singer, teacher, and composer of his -period. He edited _Rural Harmony_, (Boston, 1793) which he followed -with _Essex Harmony_, (1800) and _Essex Harmony_, Part II, (1802), -which included the only tunes of his own composition which can now be -identified as his, except those in the popular _Village Harmony_ -(1795) the later editions of which, down to 1821, were probably edited -by him. There is evidence that he also wrote poetry, including a -number of hymns, some of them perhaps the anonymous ones, otherwise -unknown, included in the above-mentioned song books. The one hymn -which can be attributed to him with assurance is his excellent -metrical version of Psalm 65 which Jeremy Belknap included in his -_Sacred Psalmody_ (1795), entitled “A New Version” and beginning - - _Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits._ - -The only other hymns by an American author in Belknap’s Collection is -Mather Byles’ - - _When wild confusion wrecks the air_, - -republished in 1760. - - See _Jacob Kimball: A Pioneer American Musician_, Essex Institute - Historical Collections, XCII, no. 4. - - H.W.F. - - -Larned, Augusta, Rutland, New York, April 16, 1835—1924. Author of six -volumes of stories for children and of one on Greek mythology and -another on Norse mythology. Contributor to various periodicals and for -20 years correspondent and editorial writer with _The Christian -Register_, Boston. She published in 1895 a book of poems entitled _In -the Woods and Fields_ from which was taken her hymn on peace of mind, - - _In quiet hours the tranquil soul_, - -for inclusion in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn-Book_, 1908; _The New Hymn -and Tune Book_, 1914 and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Lathrop, Rev. John Howland, D.D., Jackson, Michigan, June 6, -1880—still living. He graduated from Meadville Theological School in -1903, then entered Harvard where he took an A.B. in 1905. He also -studied at the University of Chicago, and the University of Jena. He -served as minister of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, -California, 1905-1911, and the First Unitarian Congregational Church -of Brooklyn, New York, 1911 to 1957, when he became pastor emeritus. -In 1935 he wrote a hymn for Palm Sunday beginning, - - _Hosanna in the highest! Our eager hearts acclaim_, - -which was included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, set to St. -Theodulph. - - H.W.F. - - -Livermore, Rev. Abiel Abbot, D.D., Wilton, New Hampshire, October 26, -1811—November 28, 1892, Wilton, New Hampshire. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1833, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1836. -He was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church at Keene, New -Hampshire, in November, 1836, and remained there until 1850, when he -accepted a call to Cincinnati, Ohio. After a period in New York he was -elected president of the Meadville Theological School in 1862, and -served in that capacity until 1890, when he retired to his ancestral -home at Wilton. He received the degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1888. -He was author of a number of books, and of several hymns, printed in -Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_. He was the chief editor of the Cheshire -Pastoral Association’s _Christian Hymns_, 1844, one of the finest and -most widely circulated American Unitarian collections, to which he -contributed his Communion hymn beginning, - - _A holy air is breathing round_, - -This hymn was included in Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873, in most American -Unitarian collections, and appears in slightly altered form in _The -New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 680 - H.W.F. - - -Livermore, Sarah White, Wilton, New Hampshire, July 20, 1789—July 3, -1874, Wilton. She was an aunt of A. A. Livermore, _q.v._, and was a -school teacher for most of her life. She contributed two hymns to the -_Cheshire Collection_, 1844, viz: - - 1. _Glory to God, and peace on earth_, (Christmas) - - 2. _Our pilgrim brethren, dwelling far_, (Mission) - -These passed into a few other collections. - -She wrote a number of others for various church occasions, but they -have never been collected for publication. - - J. 680 - H.W.F. - - -Long, Hon. John Davis (1838-1915) was born in Buckfield, Maine, -October 27, 1838, and died in Hingham, Massachusetts on August 28, -1915. Harvard, A.B. 1857, L.L.D. 1880. He was Governor of -Massachusetts, 1880-1883, and Secretary of the Navy, 1897-1902. A -member of the First Parish (Unitarian) in Hingham, he wrote one hymn -beginning, - - _The evening winds begin to blow_ - -which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, but which -has not passed into other books. - - H.W.F. - - -Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, D.C.L., Portland, Maine, February 27, -1807—March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Bowdoin College in 1825. After four years of study in Europe he was -appointed to the Chair of Modern Languages at Bowdoin, but removed to -Harvard in 1835, upon his election as professor of Modern Languages -and Belles-Lettres in the latter College. He retained that -Professorship until 1854, when he retired to give himself time for -authorship in prose and verse. He became one of the most widely read -and beloved poets in the English-speaking world, and after his death a -marble bust commemorating him was placed in Westminster Abbey. In the -strict sense of the term he was not a hymn-writer, his brother, Samuel -Longfellow, _q.v._, twelve years his junior, far surpassing him in -this field, but hymn-book editors have culled selections from his -poems which they could use, as follows: - - 1. _Ah, what a sound! The infinite fierce chorus_, - - From his poem “The Arsenal at Springfield,” published in _The - Belfry of Bruges_, 1845. Four stanzas, beginning as above, are - included in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935. In S. Longfellow’s and - Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1848, the selected stanzas from this - poem begin - - _Down the dark future through long generations_, - - and the hymn appeared in this form in other collections. - - 2. _Alas, how poor and little worth_, - - Tr. from the Spanish of Don Jorge Manrique, (d. 1479), in - Longfellow’s _Poetry of Spain_, 1833. - - 3. _All are architects of fate_, - - The first three stanzas of Longfellow’s poem, “The Builders,” - written in 1846. Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 4. _All is of God; If he but wave his hand._ - - From the poem “The Two Angels,” in his _Birds of Passage_, 1858; - included in S. Longfellow’s and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, - 1864. - - 5. _Blind Bartimeus at the gate_, - - From _Miscellaneous Poems_, 1841. Included in G. W. Conder’s 1874 - _Appendix_ to the (British) _Leeds Hymn Book_. - - 6. _Christ to the young man said, “Yet one thing more.”_ - - Written in 1848 for the ordination of the poet’s younger brother, - Samuel Longfellow; published in the author’s _Seaside and - Fireside_, 1851, and in H. W. Beecher’s _Plymouth Collection_, - 1855, altered to read, - - _The Saviour said, “Yet one thing more”_ - - In spite of the occasion for which it was written it is not a hymn - but a hortatory poem of five stanzas in a most unusual 10.6.10.6 - metre, for which it must have been difficult to find any singable - tune. - - 7. _I heard the bells on Christmas Day_ - - This carol was written in 1864, for the Sunday School of the - Unitarian Church of the Disciples, Boston, of which Rev. James - Freeman Clarke was minister. The entire poem, entitled “Christmas - Bells,” has seven stanzas, of which 1, 2, 6 and 7 are in _The New - Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, and in - _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935. The omitted stanzas contain references - to the Civil War, in progress when the carol was written. - - 8. Into the silent land, - - A translation from the German poem “Ins Stille Land! Wer Leitet - uns hinüber,” by J. G. Salis-Seewis, 1808. Published by Longfellow - in _Voices of the Night_, 1840. Included in Hedge and Huntington’s - _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, and other American - collections. - - 9. _Tell me not in mournful numbers_, - - Published in _Voices of the Night_, 1839, as “A Psalm of Life; - What the heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist.” Included in - several hymnals in Great Britain and America. In some collections - it begins with the second stanza - - _Life is real! Life is earnest_ - - 10. _There is no flock, however watched and tended_ - - A cento from the author’s _Seaside and Fireside_, 1849. - - 11. _We have not wings: we may not soar._ - - In 1850 the poet wrote “The Ladder of St. Augustine,” a poem in - twelve stanzas, based upon a quotation from Sermon III, De - Ascensione, by St. Augustine of Hippo, “De vitiis nostris scalam - nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus.” (We shall make a ladder - out of our vices, if we tread those vices under foot.) The three - stanzas of the hymn are, respectively, the seventh, tenth and - second stanzas of the poem. - - H.W.F. - - -Longfellow, Rev. Samuel, Portland, Maine, June 18, 1819—October 3, -1892, Portland, was the youngest of the eight children of Stephen and -Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow. Stephen Longfellow had graduated from -Harvard and had become one of the most prominent citizens of Portland. -His son Samuel entered Harvard with the Class of 1839, just after his -brother, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, more than twelve years his -senior, had returned from Europe to begin his professorship at -Harvard. - -Samuel entered the Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in -1846, and served as minister of the Unitarian Church in Fall River, -Massachusetts, 1848-51; the Second Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, New -York, 1853-1860; and the Unitarian Church, Germantown, Pennsylvania, -1878-1883. In the intervals between these pastorates he did much -occasional preaching, and, having independent means and no marital -ties, made several prolonged visits to Europe. He had an attractive -personality, was witty and highly intelligent, and was an acceptable -though outspoken preacher, but he is now remembered for his -contribution to American hymnody through the hymns which he wrote and -the books which he edited. His accomplishment in this field was -greater and more lasting than that of any other American in the middle -period of the 19^th century. Its development can best be traced in the -books which he published. - -The first of these was _A Book of Hymns for Public and Private -Devotions_, which he and his classmate in the Divinity School, Samuel -Johnson, daringly compiled while still students in the School. A not -improbable story of the origin of the book reports that their friend, -Rev. Francis Parker Appleton, then a young minister at Peabody, -Massachusetts, had complained to them about the antiquated hymn-book -which he found in use in his church, to which they replied that they -would prepare a book for him which would express the religious -aspirations of the rising generation. The book appeared in 1846, -before either of the young editors had been ordained, and was an -immediate success. It was first used in the First Unitarian Church at -Worcester, Massachusetts, where Longfellow’s classmate and lifelong -friend, Edward Everett Hale, had just been ordained at a service for -which Longfellow wrote the ordination hymn, and it was promptly -adopted by Theodore Parker for his congregation in Music Hall. The -book was re-published in somewhat revised and enlarged form in 1848, -and ran to 12 editions. It marked a new epoch in American hymnody -because it was the product of young and adventurous but well-trained -minds seeking to give utterance to the emotions stirred by the -intellectual and political ferment of the times, and because of the -new sources to which they turned. They were the first to see and make -use of the hymnic possibilities of the poems of John Greenleaf -Whittier, and to include in an American hymn-book Newman’s “Lead, -kindly Light,” which they had found printed in a newspaper without the -author’s name, though they altered the first line to read “Send kindly -Light,” and another line further down. From their book it passed into -other collections, with variant readings. - -In 1859 Longfellow published a little collection entitled _Vespers_, -hymns for use at the vesper services which he had instituted in his -church in Brooklyn. In 1860 he published _A Book of Hymns and Tunes -for the Sunday School, the Congregation, and the Home_, and in 1864 he -and Samuel Johnson brought out their second notable book, _Hymns of -the Spirit_, (not to be confused with the hymn book with the same -title published by the Beacon Press in 1937). This book contained most -of the later hymns written by the two editors, and a good many new -hymns by other authors who were glad to contribute them. Its literary -level was higher than that of their first book, but it had less -popular success, in part, perhaps, because they failed to set the -words to tunes, which had become the common practice in the period -since their earlier book appeared. In 1876 he brought out _A Book of -Hymns & Tunes for the Congregation & the Home_, a revision of his -earlier book with a similar title, in which several of his earlier -hymns appear in revised form. In 1887 he printed privately _A Few -Verses of Many Years_. - -After his death a small volume entitled _Hymns and Verses by Samuel -Longfellow_ was published in 1894 with a very brief introductory note -by his niece, Miss Alice M. Longfellow. It included 41 hymns which she -thought were his, followed by 30 short poems of no outstanding -excellence. Some of the “hymns” included seem never to have come into -use as such; some of her attributions were mistaken; she omitted some -hymns which he wrote or adapted but cited in his books as “Anonymous” -because based on the work of others; and she did not always print the -best of extant variant readings. This book, therefore, must be used -with caution in compiling the list of Longfellow’s hymns, whether -original or adapted. - -Before listing his hymns it should be noted that he wrote or edited -several other literary works. In 1853 he and his classmate Thomas -Wentworth Higginson published a beautiful collection of sea-poems -entitled _Thalatta_. He wrote a memoir of his friend, Rev. Samuel -Johnson, 1883; was the author of a _Life of Henry Wadsworth -Longfellow_, 1886; and edited _Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth -Longfellow_ in 1887. A volume of his own _Essays and Sermons_, edited -by Joseph May, was published in 1894. - - _Alphabetical List of Hymns written or adapted by Samuel Longfellow_ - - _Abbreviations_: - - Bk. Hys. = The Book of Hymns, 1846 or 1848. - - H. and V. = Hymns & Verses by Samuel Longfellow, 1894. - - Hys. Sp. = Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. - - J. (followed by page number) = Julian’s Dictionary of Hymnology. - - S. L. = Samuel Longfellow - - 1. _A voice by Jordan’s shore._ (Advent) - - Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864, under title of “John and Jesus”; in H. & - V., no date. - - 2. _Again as evening’s shadow falls._ (Evening) - - Published in _Vespers_, New York, 1860, headed “Nox et tenebrae,” - in 2 stas. of 8 l., and reprinted in Hys. Sp. 1864, with the title - “Vesper Hymn,” in 4 stas. of 4 l.; also in H. & V. in which it is - the fourth and concluding hymn of a group called “Vesper Hymns,” - and dated 1859, the 3^d and 4^th of which were included in Hys. - Sp., 1864. - - 3. _Beneath the shadow of the cross._ (Sacrifice) - - Written in Fall River, 1848, and published in the _Supplement to A - Book of Hymns, Second Edition_, Boston, 1848, with the title “The - New Commandment,” in 3 stas. of 4 l.; in H. & V. - - 4. _Eternal One, Thou living God._ (Anniversary) - - Written in 1875 for a church anniversary, possibly for the 25^th - anniversary of the Preble Chapel in Portland, Maine; 5 stas. of 4 - l. In H. & V. the original reading of the last two lines, - - “Afloat upon its boundless sea, - Who sails with God is safe indeed.” - - are changed to the inferior reading, - - “That truth alone can make us free; - Who goes with God is safe indeed.” - - 5. _Every bird that upward springs._ - - Included in _Supplement to Bk. Hys._, 1848, attributed to Neale, - and also in Hys. Sp., 1864. It is in fact S.L.’s adaptation of - part of a hymn by Neale for St. Andrew’s Day, included in his - “Hymns for Children”, 1842; see pp. 360-1 of the _Collected Hymns, - Sequences and Carols of J. M. Neale_, 1914. S.L. used stas. 4, 5, - 6 and 7 of Neale’s hymn in 8 stas. Of the 16 lines in S.L.’s - version 9 are taken unchanged from Neale, 6 contain part of - Neale’s wording, and only 1 is wholly S.L.’s. S.L. writing in 1880 - said, “I may say that hymn 585, [i.e. Every bird, etc.] is mine—I - did not put my name because two lines were not mine—“. (see H. W. - Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. - Rev. Oct., 1917.) This letter illustrates the fallibility of human - memory. In the 32 years which had elapsed since he had adapted - Neale’s verses for the _Supplement to Bk. Hys._ his own - contribution to the final result had come to bulk much larger than - it really was. S.L. was right in ascribing the hymn to Neale, as - he did in 1848 and 1864, tho he might properly have marked it as - “Neale, altered.” - - 6. Father, give thy benediction. (Dismissal) - - One stanza, 8 lines, printed anonymously in Hys. Sp.; described by - S.L. as “of no importance”, but included in his H. & V. Listed as - “Anon.” in the first edition of the _Pilgrim Hymnal_. Included in - the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. (H. W. Foote, _The - Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev. October, - 1917). See J. 1563. - - 7. _Go forth to life, O child of earth._ (Life’s mission) - - Written in 1859, included in his _Book of Hymns and Tunes for the - Sunday School_, and in Hys. Sp. 1864, under title “Life’s - Mission.” 4 stas. of 4 l. - - 8. _God of the earth, the sea, the sky._ (Divine Immanence) - - Printed anonymously in Hys. Sp. 1864, under title “God, through - all and in you all”; included in H. & V. with l. 2 in sta. 1 - altered; no date. (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel - Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev. October, 1917). - - 9. _God of Truth! Thy sons should be_, - - No. 550 in Hys. Sp. 1864, where it is listed as “Anon,” because, - as he later wrote, it was “founded on a H. of Wesley” though - “nearly all mine.” (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel - Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev., October, 1917). - - 10. _God’s trumpet wakes the slumbering world._ (Courage) - - Printed anonymously in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title “On the Lord’s - Side”; in H. & V., no date. 5 stas. of 4 l. - - 11. _He, who himself and God would know._ (Silent worship) - - Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864 as “From Martineau” under title of “Be - still, and know that I am God.” This is S.L.’s versification of a - passage from Martineau’s sermon, “Silence and Meditation”, no. 17 - in “Endeavors after the Christian Life,” in which Martineau - paraphrased a few sentences in Pascal’s “Thoughts”, no. 72. Not - dated; not included in H. & V. (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns - of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev. October, 1917.) - - 12. _Holy Spirit, Truth [Light] Divine._ - - Included in Hys. Sp. under title “Prayer for Inspiration”; also in - H. & V., without date. In the introductory note to H. & V. it is - stated that this hymn “bears some resemblance to one by Andrew - Reed, but after careful investigation they appear to be quite - distinct.” In spite of this disclaimer it is clear that the theme - of the hymn as a whole, and several of its lines, are borrowed - from the hymn, “Holy Ghost, with light divine” by Andrew Reed, - 1817. Furthermore, S.L.’s arrangement of this hymn is found in two - different versions, the one in H. & V. beginning, “Holy Spirit, - Truth divine,” the other, and superior one, beginning, “Holy - Spirit, Light divine.” It will be found in this latter form in - _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, - 1937, in both of which it is attributed to both Reed and - Longfellow. - - 13. _Holy Spirit, source of gladness._ - - S.L.’s adaptation of Jacobi and Toplady’s version of Gerhardt’s “O - du allersusste Freude”; included in _Supplement to Bk. Hys._ 1848, - and in altered form in Hys. Sp. 1864; set down as “Anon.” in both; - not included in H. & V. - - 14. _I look to Thee in every need_, (Trust) - - In Hys. Sp., 1864, with title “Looking Unto God,” and listed as - “Anon.”, but included in H. & V. as Longfellow’s. He had not - claimed it because its opening stanza was strongly reminiscent of - a love-song by Thomas Haynes Bayly, as indicated by S.L.’s - pencilled notation in his copy of Hys. Sp. now in the library of - Union Theological Seminary, New York, reading “V. 1, T. H. Bayley, - alt.” Bayly (not Baylēy) (1797-1839) was an English composer of - popular sentimental songs one of which began, - - I turn to thee in time of need - And never turn in vain; - I see thy fond and fearless smile - And hope revives again. - It gives me strength to struggle on, - Whate’er the strife may be; - And if again my courage fail - Again I turn to thee. - - This song, though one of Bayly’s best, is not included in his - collected works, but a copy, with his name as its author, is in - the Harvard University Library. It was published by C. Bradlee, - 107 Washington St., Boston, n.d., the words set “to a favorite - Neapolitan melody”, and must have still been well remembered when - S.L. was inspired to transfigure the thought of its opening stanza - by giving it a profoundly spiritual interpretation. He made no use - of Bayly’s second and third stanzas, and changed the metre from - 8.6.8.6. double to six line stanzas, 8.6.8.6.8.8., thus making - sure that his words would be sung to another tune than the - “Neapolitan melody.” - - 15. _In the beginning was the word._ (The Word of God) - - This was printed in _The Liberty Bell_, Boston, 1851, in 6 stanzas - of 8 lines, and dated “Fall River, Sept. 1850.” Two stanzas are - included in Hys. Sp. 1864; also in H. & V., undated. - - 16. _Life of all that lives below._ - - An adaptation from Charles Wesley; not in Bk. Hys. or Hys. Sp. - - 17. _Life of God, within my soul._ (God in the soul) - - Only found in H. & V., undated, entitled “A Prayer.” 4 stas. of 4 - l. - - 18. _Light of ages and of nations._ (Inspiration) - - Dated 1860 in H. & V. in which it begins as above with title “In - all ages entering holy souls.” It was first printed, however, in - Hys. Sp. 1864 as “God of ages,” under title “The word of the Lord - abideth forever.” 3 stas. of 8 l. - - 19. _Lo! the earth is risen again._ (Easter) - - In H. & V. the first line reads “Lo the earth again is risen,” - with no date, but Dr. Louis F. Benson owned a copy of the book in - which a ms. note was appended to this hymn reading - - “In memory of C.J. - July 6, 1864 - May 12, 1886. - Written for the first anniversary of her death, May 12, 1887.” - - Several other lines besides the opening one have been re-written, - presumably by S.L., to make the later and improved version of the - hymn included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 20. _Love for all! and can it be?_ (The Prodigal Son) - - Included in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title “Father, I have sinned”; - also in H. & V. without date. 6 stas. of 4 l. - - 21. _Now on land and sea descending._ (Evening) - - This is the 3^d of the Vesper Hymns in H. & V. 2 stas. of 8 l. - (See note under “Again as evening’s shadow falls.”) - - 22. _Now while we sing our closing psalm._ (Close of worship) - - In H. & V., no date; not in Bk. Hys. or Hys. Sp. - - 23. _Now with creation’s morning song._ (Morning) - - In Hys. Sp. 1864, ascribed to “Breviary”; it is S.L.’s adaptation - of E. Caswall’s trans. of “Lux ecce surgit aurea”, beginning “Now - with the rising golden dawn”; see Julian’s Dict. pp. 820-821. - - 24. _O church of freedom and of faith._ (Installation) - - Written in 1891, presumably for the installation of Rev. John - Carroll Perkins as minister of the First Parish in Portland in - that year. Included in H. & V. Not found elsewhere. - - 25. _O Father, fix this wavering will._ - - No. 368 in Hys. Sp. 1864, “Anon.” but later acknowledged by S.L. - as his though “of no importance.” (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous - Hymns of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev., Oct., 1917.) - - 26. _O God! a temple to thy name._ - - “Hymn for the dedication of the new chapel of the First Parish, - Haverhill.” Dated 1848 in H. & V., but not found elsewhere. 5 - stas. of 4 l. - - 27. _O God! Thy children gathered here._ (Ordination) - - “Hymn for the ordination of Edward Everett Hale” at Worcester, - Massachusetts in 1846. Bk. Hys. 1848; H. & V. 1894. 6 stas. of 4 - l. - - 28. _O God, thou giver of all good!_ (Gratitude) - - Included in Hys. Sp. 1864, and in H. & V., without date, under - title “Give us this day our daily bread.” 4 stas. of 4 l. - - 29. _O God unseen, but ever near._ - - S.L.’s adaptation of hymn by E. Osler, printed in Hys. Sp. 1864, - in 3 stas of 4 l., entitled “At the fountain”. Anon, in index. “It - is, in fact E. Osler’s hymn rewritten, 7 of its 12 lines being - Osler’s.” The expanded form in later books is attributed to S.L., - but should be “E. Osler alt. by S.L.” See Julian’s Dict. pp. 1665, - 1681, 833. - - 30. _O holy, holy, holy,_ - _Art Thou, our God and Lord._ (Praise) - - This hymn in two stanzas, 8 lines, is found only in C. W. Wendte’s - book _The Carol: for Sunday School and the Home_ (1886), where it - is attributed to Samuel Longfellow and dated 1886. - - 31. _O Life that maketh all things new._ - - Written under the title “The light that lighteth every man,” for - the 2^d Social Festival of the Free Religious Association 1874, in - 2 stas. of 8 l.; afterwards published in _A Book of Hymns and - Tunes for the Congregation and the Home_, Cambridge, 1876, with - the title “Greeting”, in 4 stas. of 4 l.; included in H. & V. - under title “Behold, I make all things new”, and there incorrectly - dated 1878. For use of first line see note under “O Thou whose - liberal sun and rain.” - - 32. _O still in accents sweet and strong._ (Ordination) - - Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title “Behold the fields are - white.” H. & V., no date. 4 stas. of 4 l. - - 33. _O Thou, in whom we live and move._ - - In Hys. Sp. 1864, this begins, “O God, in whom we live and move,” - 5 stas. of 4 l. headed “God’s Law and Love.” In H. & V. it begins, - “O Thou, in whom we live and move,” the form in which the hymn has - passed into later use. - - 34. _O Thou, whose liberal sun and rain._ (Church anniversary) - - Included in Hys. Sp. 1864, and in H. & V. no date. 3 stas. of 4 l. - (Note the last line, “To Him who maketh all things new”, used - later for first line of hymn “O Life that maketh all things new.”) - - 35. _One holy church of God appears._ (The church universal) - - Dated 1860 in H. & V.; included in Hys. Sp. 1864. 5 stas. of 4 l. - - 36. _Out of every clime and people._ (Christmas) - - This hymn in two stanzas, 8 lines, with chorus, is found only in - C. W. Wendte’s _The Carol: for Sunday School and the Home_ (1886) - where it is attributed to S.L. (except chorus). - - 37. _Out of the dark, the circling sphere._ (Hope and courage) - - Based on a hymn written in 1856 for the 25^th anniversary of the - American Anti-Slavery Society, with the title “What of the night?” - and beginning, “A quarter of the circling sphere.” See H. & V. for - the original version, which S.L. rewrote for Hys. Sp. 1864, in 5 - stas. of 4 l. The misplaced comment by Putnam in _Singers and - Songs of the Liberal Faith_, p. 429, that it was “founded on a - passage in one of Mr. Martineau’s sermons,” refers not to this - hymn but to “He who himself and God would know,” cited earlier in - this listing. - - 38. _Peace, peace on earth, the heart of man forever._ (Peace - on earth) - - Included in Hys. Sp. 1864 and H. & V., no date. 2 stas. of 4 l. - - 39. _Sing forth his high eternal name._ (Praise) - - Written by request for words to tune “Coronation.” In H. & V. - under title “The Lord of all”, no date, 6 stas. of 4 l. - - 40. _Spirit divine attend our prayer._ - - This hymn appeared in Hys. Sp. 1864, as “Anon.” It is S.L.’s - adaptation of a hymn by Andrew Reed, 1829, about half the lines - having been re-written. It should be credited to both writers as a - joint production. - - 41. _The loving Friend to all who bowed._ (Jesus) - - Included in Hys. Sp. under title “Jesus of Nazareth”; no date in - H. & V. 5 stas. of 4 l. - - 42. _The summer days are come again._ - - H. & V. includes a song in three 8-line stanzas headed “Summer - Rural Gathering”, dated 1859, each stanza beginning, “The sweet - June days are come again.” In Hys. Sp. 1864, the second and third - stanzas of this song are taken to form a hymn for summer, each - beginning, “The summer days are come again”, the concluding - quatrain of the last stanza re-written. - - 43. _’Tis winter now; the fallen snow._ - - Dated 1859 in H. & V. In Hys. Sp., 4 stas. of 4 l. - - 44. _Thou Lord of life, our saving health._ (Dedication of - hospital) - - “Written for dedication of Cambridge Hospital.” In H. & V., 4 - stas. of 4 l., dated 1886. - - 45. _We sowed a seed in faith and hope._ - - “Written for the 25^th anniversary of the first meeting of the - Second Unitarian Society of Brooklyn”, included in H. & V. under - title “The truth shall make you free.” No further use. - - 46. _When from the Jordan’s gleaming wave._ (Baptism) - - Dated 1848 in H. & V., but it was included in Bk. Hys. 1846, 5 - stas. of 4 l. - -There are also five hymns, composite in origin and listed as -“Anonymous” in Hys. Sp. 1864, which in style and sentiment so closely -resemble S.L.’s writings as to suggest that he gave them the form in -which they are there printed, viz:— - - 47. _As darker, darker fall around_ - _The shadows of the night._ - - This is printed in 6 stas., the first four of which are taken from - “The Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds,” printed in William Young’s - _Catholic Choralist_, 1842, but there beginning, “Darker and - darker fall around.” The 5^th and 6^th stas. may be by S.L. since - he referred to this hymn as it appeared in Hys. Sp. as “founded - upon the Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds,” tho he did not state - that he wrote them. (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel - Longfellow_; and Julian, _Dictionary_, p. 1627.) - - 48. _Come, thou Almighty Will_ - - This hymn in three stanzas was included as Anon. in Longfellow and - Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. Its theme was obviously - suggested by Ray Palmer’s five stanza translation of the 12^th - century Latin hymn _Veni Sancte Spiritus_, beginning _Come, Holy - Ghost, in love_, published in 1858, from which three lines are - borrowed intact, with as many more which only slightly alter - Palmer’s words. Since the religious outlook expressed is - characteristic of Samuel Longfellow, and the hymn first appeared - in _Hymns of the Spirit_, it seems certain that he was the author - but listed it as _Anon_, because of its composite form. It was - included in several later Unitarian hymn books, most recently in - _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, - 1937. (J. 1623 H.W.F.) - - 49. _Give forth thine earnest cry._ - - Printed in three 4-line stas. There is no evidence as to the - authorship of this hymn, but its sentiment is completely in line - with Longfellow’s. Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in - _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - - 50. _God is in his holy temple._ - - Printed in four 4-line stas. One line is almost identical with one - found in S.L.’s earlier hymn “Written for the dedication of the - New Chapel of the First Parish, Haverhill, Mass.”, which had had - no use beyond the occasion for which it was written, but which - Miss Longfellow included in _Hymns and Verses_. The recurrence of - this line in the hymn here listed suggests the probability that - the whole hymn is by S.L. though he preferred to cite it as - “Anon.” - - 51. _Supreme disposer of the heart._ - - This appeared in the 1848 edition of the _Book of Hymns_, where it - is cited as from “Breviary”, and was included by Miss Longfellow - in _Hymns and Verses_ with the same citation. She probably assumed - that it was a translation by S.L. from a Latin hymn. It is, - however, a largely rewritten version of John Chandler’s - translation of the hymn _Supreme motor cordium_, in his _Hymns of - the Primitive Church_, 1837, p. 31. Longfellow retained the - general pattern of Chandler’s five stanzas, and kept a few of his - lines unchanged, or altered by only a word or two, but rewrote the - rest, the fourth and fifth stas. being wholly S.L.’s, differing - from Chandler’s in both phrase and significance, and even further - from the Latin original. - -The _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, contains a hymn in two stanzas, -8.6.8.6.D., beginning - - 52. _The heavens thy praise are telling_, - - Given as “Anon.” but Mrs. Emma Marean, _q.v._, who was - exceptionally well informed about that book, attributed it to - “Spitta-Longfellow,” i.e., by S. Longfellow based on a German hymn - by C. J. P. Spitta. It is possible that this is the case but the - original by Spitta has not been traced and Longfellow did not - claim this arrangement. - - H.W.F. - - -Loring, Louisa Putnam (1854-1924) of Boston and Pride’s Crossing, -Massachusetts, compiled _Hymns of the Ages_, published in 1904. Her -literary and musical standards were high, and the book was handsomely -printed, but its appeal was limited and it had to compete with several -other excellent hymnbooks then on the market for use among Unitarians. -It included Miss Loring’s own morning hymn beginning, - - _O Thou who turnest into morning_, (1902) - -also included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - - H.W.F. - - -Loring, William Joseph, Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 1795—1841, -Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1813 and went into -business in Boston. He was a lay member of the Unitarian denomination; -was president of the Washington Benevolent Society; and was a member -of the Horticultural Society. He was probably the author of the hymn -beginning, - - _Why weep for those, frail child of woe_, - -attributed to “W. J. Loring” in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the -Church of Christ_, 1853. - - H.W.F. - - -Lowell, James Russell, LL.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22, -1819—August 12, 1891, Cambridge. Son of Rev. Charles Lowell, minister -of the West Church (Unitarian), Boston, he graduated from Harvard -College in 1838, and entered upon a literary career as a poet, -essayist and scholar. In 1855 he succeeded H. W. Longfellow as -Professor of Belles Lettres at Harvard and spent the next two years in -Europe to increase his knowledge of southern European languages and -literature. On his return he was the first editor of _The Atlantic -Monthly_, 1857-1862, then editor of _The North American Review_, -1863-1872. He was United States Minister to Spain, 1877-1880, and to -Great Britain, 1880-1885. He wrote many essays, addresses and poems. -These last were published in a succession of volumes, “A Year’s Life,” -1841; “Poems,” 1844-1854; “The Vision of Sir Launfal,” 1845; “A Fable -for Critics,” 1845; “The Biglow Papers,” 1848 and 1867; “The -Commemoration Ode,” 1865; “Under the Willows,” 1868; and later -volumes, his “Complete Poems” appearing in 1895. Though some of his -poems show deep religious feeling he made only a slight and indirect -contribution to American hymnody, writing only one hymn and one -Christmas carol, although stanzas quarried out of his poems have been -used as hymns, as follows:— - - 1. _Men who boast it is that ye_ - _Come of fathers brave and free_, - - The 1^st, 3^d and 4^th stanzas of his anti-slavery poem, “Stanzas - on Freedom,” written in 1844. It was included in this form in _The - Soldier’s Companion_, 1861, in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of - the Spirit_, 1864, and in part in _Songs of the Sanctuary_, N. Y. - 1865, beginning - - _They are slaves who will not choose_, - - 2. _Once to every man and nation_, - - In December, 1844, Lowell wrote a poem in 18 stas. of 5 l. - entitled “The Present Crisis,” a protest against the war with - Mexico. The English hymnnologist, Rev. V. Garrett Horder, took - from this poem a number of lines sufficient to make a hymn of 4 - stas. which he included, with a few verbal alterations, in his - _Hymns Supplemental_, 1896, and then in his _Treasury of Hymns_. - The _English Hymnal_ included the hymn in 1906, and from this it - passed into many collections. In the form commonly used in this - country, stanza 1 is that of sta. 5 in the original poem; sta. 2 - is that of original sta. 11; sta. 3 is no. 13, original; and sta. - 4, part of sta. 6 and part of sta. 8 original. In this form it has - had considerable use in this country. - - 3. _Our house, our God, we give to Thee_, - - Hymn for the dedication of the First Church (Unitarian), - Watertown, Massachusetts, on August 3, 1842, in a service in which - Rev. Samuel Ripley made the dedicatory prayer and the sermon was - preached by Rev. Convers Francis, who had recently left Watertown - to accept a professorship at the Harvard Divinity School. Lowell’s - Cambridge residence at “Elmwood” was only a short distance from - the Watertown line, and Miss Maria White, whom he married in 1844, - belonged to the Watertown parish, which suggests the possibility - that it was she who persuaded him to write the hymn. It was not - included in any of his published works but has been found on the - only known copy of the printed program of the service, now owned - by the Huntington Library, San Marino, Pasadena, California. It - probably was used only on the occasion for which it was written. - - 4. _The ages one great minster seem_, - - Taken from a poem “Godminster Chimes” which was “Written in aid of - a chime of bells for Christ Church, Cambridge,” and published in - “Under the Willows,” 1868. From this poem of 7 stas. 8 l., enough - lines have been selected and arranged, with a few verbal - alterations, to make a hymn on the theme of the Church Universal, - in 4 stas. of 4 l. - - 5. _What means this glory round our feet?_ - - A Christmas carol written in 1866 “For the children of the Church - of the Disciples”, Boston, (Unitarian), of which Rev. James - Freeman Clarke, _q.v._, was minister. Of the original 7 stas., - five have come into considerable use. - -Of the above listed hymns all except no. 3 are in current use in -various hymn books. Nos. 2 and 5 are in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935; -nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. - - J. 698 - H.W.F. - - -Lunt, Rev. William Parsons, D.D., Newburyport, Mass., April 21, -1805—March 31, 1857, Akabah, Arabia. He graduated from Harvard College -in 1823, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1828. On June 19, -1828 he was ordained as the first settled minister of the Second -Unitarian Congregational Society in New York, where he served for five -years. On June 3, 1835, he was installed as associate minister of the -First Church in Quincy, Mass., where he became the sole minister in -1843 and served until his death while on a journey to Palestine. After -his death his hymns and occasional poems were printed in a small -volume entitled _Gleanings_, but none of them have been included in -later books. His contribution to American hymnody was made by the -publication of his collection entitled _The Christian Psalter_, 1841, -for his congregation at Quincy, but its fine quality brought it into -much wider use. It is chiefly remembered today because it included 5 -hymns and the metrical version of 17 psalms by his distinguished -parishioner, John Quincy Adams, _q.v._ - - J. 703 - H.W.F. - - -Mann, Rev. Newton, Cazenovia, New York, January 16, 1856—July 25, -1926, Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Cazenovia Academy, and -during the Civil War served as head of the Western Sanitary -Commission. He then entered the Unitarian ministry and was ordained as -pastor of the church in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which he organized and -served for three years. He later served churches in Troy, New York, -1868-70; Rochester, New York, 1870-1888; and Omaha, Nebraska, -1888-1908, after which he retired to Chicago. His only connection with -hymnody was his versification of an English translation of the Jewish -creedal statement known as the Yigdal. His verse, which has not -survived, was later recast by Rev. W. C. Gannett, _q.v._, to form the -great hymn - - _Praise to the living God! All praiséd be his name!_ - -concerning which detailed information will be found under Dr. -Gannett’s name. In its present form the hymn is probably mostly the -work of Gannett, but Mann should be credited with having drafted its -earlier form. See also Foote, _Three Centuries of American Hymnody_, -339-340. - - H.W.F. - - -Marean, Mrs. Emma (Endicott), Boston, Massachusetts, January 20, -1854—October 17, 1936, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She married Joseph -Mason Marean January 20, 1876. Two hymns by her were included in _The -Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_ (Unitarian), 1908, - - 1. _Grateful for another day_, (An Island Morning) - - 2. _Set from the restless world apart_ (An Island Hymn) - -Neither has been included in later hymn books but both are in her -small volume of poems, _Now and Then_, Cambridge, 1928. - - H.W.F. - - -Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton (Briggs), Marblehead, Massachusetts, -July 27, 1823—June 13, 1890, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1853 she -married Charles Mason, a lawyer living in Fitchburg. She published in -1852 a volume of poems entitled _Utterance: or Private Voices to the -Public Heart_, and after her death another collection was published, -her _Lost Ring and Other Poems_, 1891. - -Three of her hymns have had considerable use. - - 1. _I cannot walk in darkness long_, (Evening) - - This begins with stanza V of her poem on _Eventide_, “At cool of - day with God I walk,” in her _Lost Ring_, p. 165. - - 2. _O God I thank Thee for each sight_, (The Joy of Living) - - A cento of 4 stanzas, from her poem “A Matin Hymn” beginning “I - lift the sash and gaze abroad,” in her _Lost Ring_, p. 164. - - 3. _The changing years, eternal God_, (Adoration) - - Written for the Bicentennial of the First Congregational Church, - Marblehead, August 13, 1884. In her _Lost Ring_ it begins “The - changing centuries, O God,”. - -Of these hymns no. 2 has had considerable use. It is included in -_Hymns of the Church Universal_, 1891; the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, -1914; the _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935; _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 1669 - H.W.F. - - -Miles, Sarah Elizabeth (Appleton) Boston, Massachusetts, March 28, -1807—January 3, 1877, Brattleboro, Vermont. She married Solomon P. -Miles. In 1827 she printed in the _Christian Examiner_ a hymn -beginning, - - _Thou, who didst stoop below_, - -which passed into a number of hymn books of the period, and in 1828, -in the same periodical she printed a poem in 4 stanzas, C.M.D., which -S. Longfellow and S. Johnson, in their second hymn-book, _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1864, divided into two hymns, of 2 stanzas each, the first -beginning - - _The earth, all light and loveliness_, - -the second - - _When, on devotion’s seraph wing._ - -They also included another of her hymns, consisting of the second, -fourth and fifth stanzas of her poem entitled “In Affliction,” -beginning - - _Thou, infinite in love._ - -These, and some other religious poems, are included in Putnam’s -_Singers and Songs_, etc. None of her hymns are now in use. - - H.W.F. - - -Mott, Rev. Frederick B., England, 1856-1941, England. When a young man -he emigrated to this country and on September 30, 1887 was ordained -minister of the Barton Square Church (Unitarian) in Salem, -Massachusetts. In 1892 he became minister of the Third Religious -Society in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which he served till 1903. In -1904 he returned to England and was installed as minister of the -Unitarian Chapel at Southport, and later moved to London as editor of -the periodical _Christian Life_. Two hymns in the Universalist _Church -Harmonies_, 1895, are attributed to him, viz:— - - 1. _Take our pledge, eternal Father_, - - 2. _The spirit of the Lord has stirred_, - -but appear to have had no further use. - - H.W.F. - - -Newell, Rev. William, D.D., Littleton, Massachusetts, February 25, -1804—October 28, 1881, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1824 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1829. -He was ordained minister of the First Parish in Cambridge on May 19, -1830, where he served until his retirement on March 31, 1868. He was -author of many commemorative sermons and memoirs, and received the -honorary degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1853. A number of his poems -are included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc. His hymn beginning, - - _All hail, God’s angel, Truth_ (Thanksgiving) - -is included in G. Horder’s _Worship Song, with Tunes_, London, 1905, -but is not found in American collections. - - J. 1676 - H.W.F. - - -Norton, Prof. Andrews, Hingham, Massachusetts, December 31, -1786—September 18, 1853, Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from -Harvard in 1804. In 1811 he was appointed tutor in the College, in -1813 librarian and Lecturer on the Bible, and in 1819 Professor of -Sacred Literature in the Harvard Divinity School, a post which he -resigned in 1830 to devote himself to literary and theological -pursuits. In 1837 he published the first volume of his famous book -_The Genuineness of the Gospels_, followed in 1844 by the second and -third volumes. This was the earliest scholarly work on the New -Testament by an American author, and expressed the conservative -Unitarian thought of his period. He wrote several other books, and -numerous articles. His few poems were printed in a small volume soon -after his death, including six hymns, some of which have had -considerable use. - - 1. _Another year, another year_, (Close of the Year) - - Appeared in the _Christian Examiner_, Nov.-Dec. 1827, in 11 stas. - of 4 l. In the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868, a cento from - it begins with sta. 6, - - _O what concerns it him whose way_ - - 2. _Faint not, poor traveller, though thy way_, (Fortitude) - - Printed in the _Christian Disciple_, July-Aug. 1822, and included - in the West Boston _Collection_, 1823. - - 3. _He has gone to his God, he has gone to his home_ (Burial) - - Printed in the _Christian Examiner_, Jan.-Feb. 1824. - - 4. _My God, I thank Thee; may no thought_ (Submission) - - Appeared in the _Monthly Anthology and Boston Review_, Sept. 1809, - and was included in Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, 1841, and in many - later collections. This was Norton’s earliest and best known hymn. - - 5. _O stay thy tears; for they are blest_, (Burial of the - Young) - - Printed in the _General Depository and Review_, April, 1812, in 5 - stas. of 4 l. In 1855, stas. III-V were included in Beecher’s - _Plymouth Coll._ no. 1094 as - - _How blest are they whose transient years_ - - 6. _Where ancient forests round us spread_, - - Written in 1833 for the dedication of a church. - -Of the above nos. 1, 4, 5 were included in Martineau’s _Hymns_, -London, 1873. Nos. 4 and 6 are in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune -Book_, 1914, and no. 6 is in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. See Putnam’s -_Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_ for the full text of all -Norton’s hymns. - - J. 810 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Parker, Rev. Theodore, was born on a farm in Lexington, Massachusetts -on August 24, 1810, and died in Florence, Italy, on May 10, 1860. He -entered Harvard College in 1830, but did most of his work at home, and -studied in the Harvard Divinity School, 1834-1836. In 1840 he was -granted the degree of A.M. from Harvard. Entering the ministry he -served the Unitarian Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1837-1846, -and the 28^th Congregational Society, Boston, 1846-1860. He was a -famous preacher; author of numerous printed discourses on social and -religious problems; and one of the earliest American translators of -current German theological literature. He wrote a few poems, none -intended for use as hymns, but Longfellow and Johnson took one of his -sonnets and, by eliminating two lines, transformed it into a hymn of 3 -stanzas of 4 lines each beginning, - - _O thou great Friend of all the sons of men_, - -which they included in their _Book of Hymns_, 1846. It has had -widespread and long continued use in American hymn-books and to some -extent in England. Twelve of Parker’s poetical pieces are included in -A. P. Putnam’s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_. Biographies -of Parker have been written by John Weiss, Octavius B. Frothingham, -and other authors. - - J. 882 - H.W.F. - - -Peabody, Rev. Ephraim, Wilton, New Hampshire, March 22, 1807—November -28, 1856, Boston, Massachusetts. - -He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1827, and from the Harvard -Divinity School in 1830. After serving as a tutor in the Huidekoper -family in Meadville, Pennsylvania, he was ordained in 1832 as minister -of a recently gathered Unitarian congregation in Cincinnati, Ohio. In -1837 he joined Rev. John H. Morison in serving the First -Congregational Society of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and in 1845 he -accepted a call to King’s Chapel, Boston, where he remained until his -death, though ill-health prevented him from preaching in the last year -and a half of his life. An impressive preacher, he also wrote some -poetry, and a hymn for an ordination, beginning - - _Lift aloud the voice of praise_ - -is attributed to him in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church -of Christ_, 1853. - - H.W.F. - - -Peabody, Rev. Oliver William Bourne, Exeter, New Hampshire, July 9, -1799—July 5, 1847, Burlington, Vermont. He was twin brother of W. B. -O. Peabody, _q.v._ He graduated from Harvard College in 1817, -practised law for a few years at Exeter, served as professor of -English Literature in Jefferson College, Louisiana from 1842 to 1845, -and in the latter year was licensed to preach by the Boston -Association and served as minister of the Unitarian Church at -Burlington, Vermont, until his death two years later. - -A hymn beginning - - _God of the rolling orbs above_ - -is attributed to him in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church -of Christ_, 1853, but does not appear to have had further use. - - J. 887 - H.W.F. - - -Peabody, Rev. William Bourne Oliver, D.D., Exeter, New Hampshire, July -9, 1799—May 28, 1847, Springfield, Massachusetts. Graduated from -Harvard College in 1817, taught for a year in Phillips Exeter Academy, -and studied for the ministry at the Harvard Divinity School. He was -ordained as the first minister of the Unitarian Church in Springfield, -Massachusetts, in October, 1820, and remained there until his death. -In 1823 he published a _Poetical Catechism for the Young_, in which he -included some original hymns. He edited _The Springfield Collection of -Hymns for Sacred Worship_, Springfield, 1835, which was adopted for -use in many parishes besides his own, and several of his hymns were -included in it. A _Memoir_ of him, written by his twin brother, O. W. -B. Peabody, was published in the 2^d edition of his _Sermons_, 1849, -and a collection of his _Literary Remains_ was published in 1850. He -is described as “a man of rare accomplishments, and consummate -virtue,” widely respected and admired. - -The following hymns by him had considerable use in the 19^th century, -but only the last survived in a hymn book of the 20^th. - - 1. _Behold the western evening light_; (Death of the Righteous) - - Published in his _Catechism_, 1823, and in _Springfield - Collections_, 1835, and elsewhere. It passed into use in England; - in altered form in the _Leeds Hymn Book_, 1853, and in George - Rawson’s Baptist _Ps._ and _Hys._ 1858, where it begins, - - _How softly on the western hills._ - - 2. _O when the hours of life are past_ (The Hereafter) - - Published in his _Catechism_ in answer to the question “What do - you learn of the future state of happiness?” It was included in - Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, and - had some use in its original form, and also altered to _When all - the hours of life are past_. - - 3. _The moon is up; how calm and slow_, (Evening) - - A poem rather than a hymn, in 6 stas. of 4 l., appended to his - _Catechism_, 1823. - - 4. _When brighter suns and milder skies_, (Spring) - - Appended to his _Catechism_, 1823, in 6 stas. of 4 l. - - 5. _Who is thy neighbor? He whom thou_ (The good neighbor) - - Included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - -The full texts of Peabody’s hymns are printed in Putnam, _Singers & -Songs of the Liberal Faith_, Boston, 1874. - - J. 887 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Perkins, Rev. James Handasyde, Boston, Massachusetts, July 31, -1810—December 14, 1849, near Cincinnati, Ohio. He was educated at -Phillips Exeter Academy and at Round Hill School, Northampton, -Massachusetts. After a brief business experience in Boston he moved to -Cincinnati, where he was admitted to the bar in 1837, but two years -later he took up the Ministry-at-Large organized by the First -Congregational Society (Unitarian) of Cincinnati, and later became -pastor of the church. He was active in social reforms and as a -lecturer, and was author of a number of essays descriptive of life in -what was then the far west. - -The hymn in 3 stanzas, C.M., beginning - - _It is a faith sublime and sure_, - -attributed to “J. H. Perkins” in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of -Hymns_, 1846-48, is presumably by him, although it is not included -with his poems printed in the _Memoir and Writings of James Handasyde -Perkins_, edited by W. H. Channing, Cincinnati, 1851. It does not -appear to have had any further use. - - H.W.F. - - -Pierpont, Rev. John, Litchfield, Connecticut, April 6, 1785—August 27, -1866, Medford, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1804, -studied law, and in 1812 set up practice in Newburyport, -Massachusetts, but later turned to the ministry and graduated from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1818. That fall he became minister of the -Hollis Street Church (Unitarian) in Boston, which he served till 1840, -when a sharp controversy over his outspoken attacks on intemperance, -slavery and other social evils led to his resignation. In the same -year he published his _Poems and Hymns_, which included his temperance -and anti-slavery poems and songs, and of which a later edition -appeared in 1854. He also wrote a number of excellent school books. In -1845 he became minister of the Unitarian Church at Troy, New York, and -in 1849 of the First Parish in Medford, Massachusetts, which he served -until 1859, when he retired. With the outbreak of the Civil War he -became an Army chaplain and was later employed in the Treasury -Department at Washington. He died suddenly while on a visit to -Medford. - -He was the maternal grandfather of J. Pierpont Morgan of New York, who -was named for him, but it would be hard to find a greater contrast -than that offered by the careers of the hymn-writing reformer and his -grandson, the financial magnate. - -In his own day Pierpont’s hymns brought him a wide reputation. Thus -Putnam, in his _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, 1873, says, -“Mr. Pierpont was one of the best hymn writers in America. He was a -genuine poet, as well as a powerful preacher and stern reformer.” -Today he occupies a much more modest place in American hymnody. None -of his hymns attained a very high level of excellence. Most of them -are respectable verse, written in response to frequent requests for -hymns for special occasions, but they well illustrate the mood of the -Unitarianism of his period. - -His hymns which have come into use are - - 1. _Another day its course hath run_ (Evening) - - Appeared in _Hymns for Children_, Boston 1825; in Greenwood’s - _Chapel Liturgy_, 1827; in Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, 1841; and - in the author’s _Poems and Hymns_, 1840. - - 2. _Break forth in song, ye trees_ (Public Thanksgiving) - - Written for the celebration of the 200^th anniversary of the - Settlement of Boston, Sept. 17, 1830. Included in _Poems and - Hymns_, 1840. - - 3. _Break the bread and pour the wine_ (Communion) - - In Harris’s _Hymns for the Lord’s Supper_, 1820. - - 4. _Father, while we break the bread_, (Communion) - - 5. _God Almighty and All-seeing_ (Greatness of God) - - Contributed to Elias Nason’s _Congregational Hymn Book_, Boston, - 1857. - - 6. _God of mercy, do Thou never_ (Ordination) - - Written for the ordination of John B. P. Storer at Walpole, Mass., - Nov. 18, 1826. Included in the author’s _Poems_, 1840, and in - Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. - - 7. _God of our fathers, in Whose sight_, (Love of Truth) - - This hymn is composed of stas. IX and X of a longer hymn written - for the Charlestown (Mass.) Centennial, June 17, 1830. In this - form it was included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864, and elsewhere. - - 8. _Gone are those great and good_, (Commemoration) - - Part of no. 2, above, in _Church Harmonies_, 1895. - - 9. _I cannot make him dead_ (Memorial) - - A part of an exquisitely touching and beautiful poem of ten - stanzas, originally printed in the _Monthly Miscellany_, Oct. - 1840. - - 10. _Let the still air rejoice_, (Praise) - - This was headed “Temperance Hymn” in _The Soldier’s Companion_, - 1861, but is really a patriotic ditty. - - 11. _Mighty God, whose name is holy_ (Charitable Institutions) - - Written for the anniversary of the Howard Benevolent Society, Dec. - 1826. Included in the author’s _Poems_, 1840. - - 12. _My God, I thank Thee that the night_ (Morning) - - In the author’s Poems, 1840. In Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, 1841, - and Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873, it begins - - _O God, I thank Thee_. - - 13. _O bow Thine ear, Eternal One_ (Opening of Worship) - - Dated 1823, but not included in the author’s Poems. It is given in - Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns_, etc. 1853. - - 14. _O Thou to Whom in ancient times_ (Worship) - - “Written for the opening of the Independent Congregational Church - in Barton Square, Salem, Mass. Dec. 7, 1824,” and printed at the - close of the sermon preached by Henry Colman on that day. Included - in the author’s _Poems_, 1840, and in many collections in this - country and in Great Britain. - - 15. _O Thou Who art above all height_ (Ordination) - - “Written for the ordination of Mr. William Ware as Pastor of the - First Congregational Church in New York, Dec. 18, 1821.” Included - in _Poems_, 1840, and in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns_, etc. - - 16. _O Thou, Who on the whirlwind rides_ (Dedication of a - Place of Worship) - - Written for the opening of the Seamen’s Bethel in Boston, Sept. - 11, 1833. Sometimes used beginning - - _Thou Who on the whirlwind rides_ - - 17. _O’er Kedron’s stream, and Salem’s height_, (Gethsemane) - - Contributed to T. M. Harris’s _Hymns for the Lord’s Supper_, 1820. - Included in Martineau’s _Hymns_, London, 1873. - - 18. _On this stone, now laid with prayer_ (Foundation Stone) - - Written for the laying of the cornerstone of Suffolk Street - Chapel, Boston, for the Ministry to the Poor, May 23, 1839. - - 19. _With Thy pure dew and rain_, (Against slavery) - - Written for the African Colonization Society. Included in - Cheever’s _Common Place Book_, 1831, but not in the author’s - _Poems_, 1840. - - 20. _While with lips with praise that glow_, (Communion) - - Included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns_, etc. - -All of the above hymns have passed out of use except nos. 1, 8, 12, -and 14 which are included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and -nos. 8 and 14, included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 895, 1647 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Pray, Lewis Glover, Quincy, Massachusetts, August 15, 1793—October 9, -1882, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a business man in Boston, active -in civic and church affairs. For 33 years he was superintendent of the -Sunday School in the Twelfth Congregational Society of Boston. In 1833 -he published a _Sunday School Hymn Book_, the first book containing -music published for Sunday Schools in New England. It appeared in -enlarged form in 1844 as the _Sunday School Hymn and Service Book_. In -1847 he published his _History of Sunday Schools_. His own hymns and -poems were published in 1862 as _The Sylphids’ School_, and in a -second volume, _Autumn Leaves_, 1873. Most of them are songs for -Sunday School use rather than hymns for the church service but one of -them, from _The Sylphids’ School_, beginning - - _When God upheaved the pillared earth_, - -was included in _Hymns of the Ages_. 3^d Series, 1864. - - J. 906 - H.W.F. - - -Prince, Rev. Thomas, D.D., Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 15, -1687—October 22, 1758, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard in 1707. After voyages to Barbadoes and a stay of several -years in England he returned to Boston and in 1717 was ordained as -colleague of Rev. Joseph Sewall, minister of the Old South Church. His -career was marked by frequent controversies and by his _Chronological -History of New England_, based on his great collection of rare -documents dating from the early years of the Colony. This priceless -collection was unfortunately dispersed and much of it lost after his -death. During his ministry the Tate and Brady version of the Psalms -was gradually replacing the _Bay Psalm Book_ in New England, but his -parishioners clung to the old book. He persuaded them to let him -revise it, which he did, improving or modernizing the verse and -printing after the Psalms “an addition of Fifty other Hymns on the -most important subjects of Christianity.” It included one hymn by -himself beginning - - _With Christ and all his shining Train_ - _Of Saints and Angels, we shall rise_ (The Resurrection) - -His collection was published in 1758 and was first used in the Old -South Meeting House on the Sunday following his death. Its use there -continued for another 30 years, but it was not adopted elsewhere, the -_Bay Psalm Book_ being by that time generally superseded by -collections of _Watts and Select_. - - H.W.F. - - -Putnam, Rev. Alfred Porter, D. D. Danvers, Massachusetts, January 10, -1827—April 15, 1906, Salem, Massachusetts. He was educated at Brown -University, A.B. 1852, and graduated from the Harvard Divinity School -in 1855. Entering the Unitarian ministry he served a church in -Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1855-1864, and the Church of the Saviour, -Brooklyn, New York, 1864-1886, when he retired. Brown University gave -him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1871. He wrote no hymns but -published in 1874 a book entitled _Singers and Songs of the Liberal -Faith: being selections of hymns and other sacred poems of the Liberal -Church in America, with biographical sketches of the writers_. This -book includes practically all the hymns by American Unitarian authors -which had come into use prior to 1870, and the biographical sketches -are generally accurate and adequate in brief space. This useful -reference book is elsewhere referred to in this Dictionary as Putnam: -_Singers and Songs_. - - H.W.F. - - -Robbins, Rev. Chandler, D.D., Lynn, Massachusetts, February 14, -1810—September 12, 1882, Westport, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1829 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1833. -On December 4th of the same year he was ordained minister of the -Second Church (Unitarian), Boston, in succession to Henry Ware, Jr. -and R. W. Emerson. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from -Harvard in 1855. He was the author of a number of books, essays and -memorial discourses dealing with local events and persons. In 1843 he -published _The Social Hymn Book_, intended for social gatherings -rather than for church services, and in 1854 an enlarged edition -entitled _Hymn Book for Christian Worship_, though this book does not -give his name as editor. He contributed two hymns to _A Collection of -Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary_, 1845, compiled by George E. -Ellis. - - 1. _Lo! the day of rest declineth_ (Evening) - - for which L. B. Barnes, then president of the Handel and Haydn - Society composed the tune, Bedford Street, named for the location - of Dr. Robbins’ church. - - 2. _While thus [now] thy throne of grace we seek_, (Voice of - God) - - The first of these is included in The _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, - 1908, and in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. The second is in - _Church Harmonies_, 1895. - - J. 966 - H.W.F. - - -Robbins, Rev. Samuel Dowse, Lynn, Massachusetts, March 7, 1812—?1884, -Belmont, Massachusetts, he was a brother of Chandler Robbins, _q.v._ -He graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1833 and on November -13 of the same year was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church in -Lynn. He subsequently held pastorates in Chelsea (1840), Framingham -(1859) and Wayland, Massachusetts, 1867-1873. - -He wrote a good many poems on religious themes, which were published -in magazines and newspapers but were never collected in a volume. The -Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868, included four of his hymns, viz: - - 1. _Down toward the twilight drifting_, (Sunset) - - 2. _Saviour, when thy bread we break_, (Communion) - - 3. _Thou art my morning, God of light_, (Day) - - 4. _Thou art, O God! my East. In thee I dawned_, - - In Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., this is entitled “The - Compass,” with the statement, “Several mistakes in this hymn, as - it is printed in the Hymn and Tune Book, are here corrected by Mr. - Robbins.” - -Julian’s _Dictionary_, p. 967, also cites one beginning - - 5. _Thou art our father! thou of God the Son_ (Christ) - -but it is a religious poem rather than a hymn and there is no evidence -that it was included in any hymn book. - - J. 967 - Revised H.W.F. - - -Sargent, Lucius Manlius, Boston, Massachusetts, June 25, 1786—June 2, -1867, Boston. A layman of independent means, author of many articles -advocating temperance. His temperance hymn beginning - - _Slavery and death the cup contains_ - -“was written during the Washingtonian Temperance Revival” and appeared -in Adams’ and Chapin’s Unitarian _Hymns for Christian Devotion_, -Boston, 1846. In the American Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, 1878 the -first line is altered to read - - _Bondage and death the cup contains_, - -The hymn is included, with the original wording, in the Universalist -_Church Harmonies_, 1895. - - J. 1061 - H.W.F. - - -Savage, Rev. Minot Judson, D.D., Norridgewock, Maine, June 10, -1841—May 22, 1918, Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were strictly -orthodox Congregationalists whose resources were meagre, but a -generous benefactor made it possible for him to enter Bangor -Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1864. He served as a -Congregational minister in California, Massachusetts and Missouri, -but, having become acquainted with the works of Darwin and Herbert -Spencer, he transferred his membership to the Unitarian denomination -in 1872 and became minister of the Third Unitarian Church in Chicago. -Two years later he accepted a call to Unity Church in Boston, which he -served until 1896 when he moved to New York as minister of the Church -of the Messiah. He was one of the earliest advocates of a religious -interpretation of the doctrine of evolution, a bold thinker and -forceful speaker in great demand, and the author of many books and -printed sermons. In 1883 he published _Sacred Songs for Public -Worship; a Hymn and Tune Book_, with music arranged by Howard M. Dow, -for use in Unity Church. It contained 195 hymns and songs, 42 of which -were from his own pen. It had the shortcomings of a “one-man book” and -was musically nearer akin to the typical gospel song-book than was -usual in Unitarian hymn-books, and it had little use outside his own -congregation. Several of his hymns passed into other collections in -England and America, viz: - - 1. _Dost thou hear the bugle sounding_, (Duty) - - 2. _Father, we would not dare to change thy purpose_ (Prayer) - - 3. _God of the glorious summer hours_, (New Year) - - 4. _How shall come the kingdom holy_ (Coming of the kingdom) - - 5. _O God, whose law is in the sky_ (Consecration to Duty) - - 6. _O star of truth, down shining_, (Devotion to Truth) - - 7. _Seek not afar for beauty_, (God in Nature) - - 8. _The God that to our fathers revealed his holy will_, - - 9. _The very blossoms of our life_, (Baptism) - - 10. _What purpose burns within our hearts_, (Church Fellowship) - - 11. _When the gladsome day declineth_, (Evening) - -Of these nos. 4, 6, 7 and 11 are included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. - - J. 1698 - H.W.F. - - -Scudder, Eliza, Boston, Massachusetts, November 14, 1821—September 28, -1896, Weston, Massachusetts. She was a niece of Rev. E. H. Sears, -_q.v._ Early in life she joined a Congregational Church, throughout -her middle years was a Unitarian, and late in life entered the -Episcopal Church. She wrote a small number of poems which were -published in Boston in 1880 under the title _Hymns and Sonnets, by -E.S._, and again with her two latest poems and a brief biographical -sketch by Horace E. Scudder, in 1897, but most of her hymns had -appeared at earlier dates in other places. They are characterized by a -profound mystical spirit expressed in terms of great literary beauty, -and some of them passed into a considerable measure of common use. - - 1. _And wherefore should I seek above_, - - This hymn, included in _The Isles of Shoals Hymnbook_, 1908, - consists of the last three stanzas of a much longer poem entitled - “The New Heaven,” dated 1855. - - 2. _From past regret and present faithlessness_, (Repentance) - - written in August, 1871, and published in _Quiet Hours_, Boston, - 1875. This was altered in some hymnbooks to, - - _From past regret and present feebleness_, - - In most cases the opening stanza has been omitted and the hymn has - begun with the second stanza, - - _Thou Life within my life, than self more near_, - - see no. 9, below. - - 3. _I cannot find Thee, still on restless pinion_, (Seeking - after God) - - This first appeared in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864. - - 4. _In Thee my powers and treasures live_, (Faith and Joy) - - This appeared in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. It is part of a hymn - of 10 stanzas beginning - - _Let whosoever will inquire_, dated 1855. - - In _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, another arrangement of - stanzas forms a hymn beginning - - _My God, I rather look to Thee_ - - 5. _Life of our life, and light of all our seeing_, (Prayer) - - Written in August, 1870, it was included in _Quiet Hours_, 1875. - - 6. _The day is done: the weary day of thought and toil is past_, - (Evening) - - Included in _Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life_, E. H. - Sears, Boston, 2^nd ed. 1878, p. 296, entitled “Vesper Hymn,” - dated “October, 1874.” - - 7. _Thou Grace divine, encircling all_, (Divine Grace) - - This appeared in E. H. Sears’ _Pictures of the Olden Time, as - shown in the Fortunes of a Family of Pilgrims_, 1857. Written in - 1852, it was included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. In the - Universalist _Psalms and Hymns_, 1865, it was mistakenly called - “An Ancient Catholic Hymn.” - - 8. _Thou hast gone up again_ (Ascension) - - In _Hymns and Sonnets_, 1880. - - 9. _Thou Life within my life, than self more near_, - - As noted above, this is part of No. 2, beginning with the second - stanza of that hymn. In this form it is perhaps Miss Scudder’s - most beautiful hymn. - - 10. _Thou long disowned, reviled, opprest_, (Spirit of Truth) - - Written in January, 1860, it was included in _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864. A cento from this hymn, altered to read, - - _Come Thou, with purifying fire_, - - was included in Stryker’s _Church Song_, 1889. - -Of these hymns nos. 3, 4 (selected stanzas), 7, 9 and 10 are included -in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and nos. 3, 7 and 9 in _Hymns -of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 1035, 1589, 1700 - H.W.F. - - -Sears, Rev. Edmund Hamilton; Sandisfield, Massachusetts April 6, -1810—January 16, 1876, Weston, Massachusetts. Studied at Union -College, graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1837. Ordained -minister of the First Parish (Unitarian) of Wayland, Massachusetts, on -February 20, 1839. He soon after went to Lancaster, Massachusetts; -returned to Wayland, 1848-1864; and was minister of the First Parish, -Weston, Massachusetts, 1866 until his death. He was author of many -books and printed sermons, and of a good many poems, often hymns -supplementary to his sermons. None of these, however, have come into -general use, and his reputation as a hymn writer is based on his two -widely used Christmas hymns, found in many hymn books. The first, - - _Calm on the listening ear of night_, - -was written in 1839. It was included as “Anon.” in _The Christian -Psalter_, published in 1841 by Sears’ friend, Rev. W. P. Lunt, _q.v._ -of Quincy, Massachusetts. In the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, the -second line of sta. 6 - - The Saviour now is born! - -was changed to read - - The Prince of Peace is born! - -but the original reading was restored in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. -His second hymn, - - _It came upon the midnight clear_, - -was written in 1849. One tradition about it reports that it was -written at Mr. Lunt’s request and was first used at the Christmas -celebration of the Sunday School in Quincy in that year. Sta. 5 of -this hymn - - For lo! the days are hastening on - By prophet bards foretold, - When with the ever-circling years - Comes round the age of gold; - When peace shall over all the earth - Its ancient splendors fling, - And the whole world give back the song - Which now the angels sing - -has appeared in re-written forms more than once because its “backward -look” to a golden age is not Biblical but is derived from the Fourth -Eclogue of the poet Virgil. In the Episcopal _Hymnal_ of 1874 this is -altered to read - - For lo, the days are hastening on - By prophets seen of old, - Till with the ever circling years - Shall come the time foretold, - When the new heaven and earth shall own - The Prince of Peace their King- - - - - -and this version was reprinted in the Episcopal hymnals of 1892 and -1916, and passed into other collections. In the _Hymnal_, 1940, it was -again altered to read - - For lo, the days are hastening on - By prophets seen of old, - When with the ever circling years - Shall come the time foretold - -These alterations may have brought the hymn into closer accord with -orthodox theology, but at the expense of some of its poetic beauty. - -Two patriotic songs by Sears were included in the army hymn book, _The -Soldier’s Companion_, 1861. One headed “A Psalm of Freedom” begins, - - _Still wave our streamer’s glorious folds_, - -The other is headed “Song of the Stars and Stripes,” and begins, - - _We see the gallant streamer yet_, - -Neither has any great merit, though both may have served the purpose -for which they were written. - - J. 1036 - H.W.F. - - -Sewall, C. - -An anti-slavery hymn attributed to a person of this name is included -in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. It -begins, - - _Lord, when thine ancient people cried_, - -It is probable, but not certain, that the author was Rev. Charles -Chauncy Sewall, Marblehead, Massachusetts, May 10, 1802—November 22, -1886, Medfield, Massachusetts; who was a graduate of Bowdoin College -and who received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1832. He -was a Unitarian minister serving churches in Peabody, Massachusetts, -1827-1841; Sharon, Massachusetts, 1857-1862; and Medfield, 1873-1377. - - H.W.F. - - -Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia Howard (Huntley), Norwich, Connecticut, -September 1, 1791—June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut, wife of -Charles Sigourney. She was a prolific writer of prose and verse -contributed to many periodicals, and author of many books, chiefly -moral tales for young people. She became a very popular writer and -spent two years, 1840-1842, in England where she met many celebrities. -Two hymns by her were included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for -the Church of Christ_, 1853, viz: - - 1. _Laborers of Christ, arise_, (Brotherhood) - - This was also included in _Church Harmonies_, 1895, with the first - line altered to read - - _Servants of Christ, arise_. - - 2. _When adverse winds and waves arise_ (Trust) - - Neither hymn has had later use. - - J. 1057, 1589. - H.W.F. - - -Sill, Edward Rowland, Windsor, Connecticut, April 29, 1841—February -27, 1887, Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Yale in 1861 and spent -several months in the year 1866-1867 at the Harvard Divinity School, -writing his one fine hymn, - - _Send down thy truth, O God_, - -for the School’s Visitation Day exercises in 1867. It was included in -his collection of poems, _The Hermitage_, published the same year, and -passed thence into many American hymnbooks. Presumably he entered the -Divinity School intending to prepare for the Unitarian ministry, but -he did not do so and neither then nor later associated himself with -any denomination. At the end of the academic year 1867 he moved to -California where he was Professor of English Literature, 1874-1882 at -the University of California. He published several books of poems of -superior quality. - - J. 1703 - H.W.F. - - -Silliman, Rev. Vincent Brown, D.D., Hudson, Wisconsin, June 29, -1894—still living. He graduated from Meadville Theological School in -1920 and from the University of Minnesota in 1925. He has served -Unitarian churches in Buffalo, New York; Portland, Maine; Hollis, New -York; and Chicago, Illinois. He was a member of the committee which -edited _The Beacon Song and Service Book for Children and Young -People_, 1935, and edited _We Sing of Life_, 1955, an unusual -collection of songs for children and young people, with a strong -ethical emphasis, some set to familiar hymn tunes, others to -interesting folk music. Mr. Silliman contributed the words of several -songs. One of them, beginning, - - _Morning, so fair to see_, - -is also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, set to St. Elizabeth -(Crusader’s Hymn). - - H.W.F. - - -Spencer, Mrs. Anna Garlin, (wife of Rev. William H. Spencer), -Attleboro, Massachusetts, April 17, 1851—February 12, 1931, New York. -She was ordained as a Unitarian minister, and was a lecturer and -author of books on social problems. In 1896 in her “Orders of Service -for Public Worship” she included her song entitled “The Marching Song -of the Workers,” beginning, - - _Hail the hero workers of the mighty past_, - -set to St. Gertrude. It was included in _Hymns of the United Church_, -1924, in _Songs of Work and Worship_, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Sprague, Charles, Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1791—January 22, -1875, Boston. A Unitarian layman. Although a business man without a -college education he wrote much verse which brought him a considerable -reputation and requests for poems to celebrate special occasions. One -of them was read before the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in -Cambridge in 1829, and was re-published, with minor alterations, a few -years later in Calcutta by a British officer, as his own work. A -collection of his poems was published in 1841, and an enlarged edition -in 1850. A number of his shorter poems are given in Putnam’s _Singers -and Songs_, and a hymn attributed to “C. Sprague” is included in Hedge -and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, beginning - - _O Thou, at whose dread name we stand_. - - H.W.F. - - -Trapp, Rev. Jacob, S.T.D., Muskegon, Michigan, April 12, 1899—still -living. He was educated at Valparaiso University and The Pacific -Unitarian School for the Ministry (now called The Starr King School -for the Ministry). He was ordained in 1929 and has served Unitarian -churches in Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Colorado; and Summit, New -Jersey. In 1932 he wrote a hymn beginning, - - _Wonders still the world shall witness_, - -which is included, with some revisions, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Tuckerman, Rev. Joseph, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, January 18, -1778—April 20, 1840, Havana, Cuba. He graduated from Harvard College -in 1798, a classmate of Rev. William Ellery Channing, whose close -friend he remained through life. He was licensed to preach by the -Boston Association and in 1801 was ordained minister of a church in -Chelsea, Massachusetts, at that time a small farming community, which -he served for 25 years. He then moved to Boston to begin his -“ministry-at-large” to the unchurched elements in the population, -under the auspices of the American Unitarian Association and later of -the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. He attained wide reputation for -his philanthropy and his wide methods of social reform. Harvard gave -him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1824. - -His hymn - - _Father divine! This deadening power control_ (Aspiration) - -is attributed to “Tuckerman” in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the -Church of Christ_, 1853, and in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1864, but is not listed in Julian’s _Dictionary_ or included -in later collections. - - H.W.F. - - -Very, Jones, Salem, Massachusetts, August 28, 1813—May 8, 1880, Salem, -Massachusetts. He was brother of Washington Very, _q.v._ He graduated -from Harvard College in 1836, and served as tutor in Greek there for -two years. Although Julian, _Dictionary_, p. 1219, says that he -entered the Unitarian ministry in 1843, he was never ordained as a -settled minister though he served frequently as an occasional lay -preacher. Most of his life was given to literary pursuits. In 1839 he -published _Essays and Poems_, and thereafter was a frequent -contributor in prose and verse to periodicals, including _The -Christian Register_ and the _Monthly Magazine_. The following hymns by -him have passed into various American Unitarian collections. - - 1. _Father! I wait Thy word_, (Waiting upon God) - - 2. _Father, there is no change to live with Thee_ (Peace) - - 3. _Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand_ (The Spirit Land) - - 4. _Wilt Thou not visit me?_ (The Divine Presence) - -These four, from _Essays and Hymns_, were included in Longfellow and -Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, as were also three from other -sources:— - - 5. _I saw on earth another light_ (The Light Within) - - 6. _The bud will soon become a flower_ (Sowing and Reaping) - - 7. _Turn not from him who asks of thee_ (Kind Words) - -Longfellow and Johnson’s second book, _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, -also included - - 8. _One saint to another I heard say, How long_ (The Future) - -Most of these hymns are in Lyra Sacra Americana and in Putnam’s -Singers and Songs, etc. Two other of his hymns have been published in -later collections, viz: - - 9. _O heavenly gift of love divine_, (Divine assistance) - - from his _Essays and Poems_ is included in the _Pilgrim Hymnal_, - 1904; and - - 10. _We go not on a pilgrimage_ (This earth as holy land) - - is included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914 and in _Hymns of - the Spirit_, 1937. - -Of the hymns listed above nos. 2 and 3 are included in the _Isles of -Shoals Hymn Book_, and in other publications. Another hymn beginning - - _There is a world eye hath not seen_ (The Spirit World) - -included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and -there marked _Anon._, is attributed to Very in Julian’s _Dictionary_. -The hymn is an abbreviated and mutilated version of the beautiful poem -beginning - - _There is a world we have not seen_ - -in A. M. Buchanan’s _Folk Hymns of America_, pp. 80-81. (See H. W. -Foote, _Three Centuries of American Hymnody_, p. 173). The original -form is in three stanzas of eight lines, long metre. The very inferior -re-written form is in four stanzas, four lines, common metre. Some of -the lines are unchanged from the original, others altered, and the -last stanza is a didactic addition. It is altogether improbable that -this was done by Very. - - J. 1219, 1721 - H.W.F. - - -Very, Washington, Salem, Massachusetts, November 12, 1815—April 28, -1853, Salem. He graduated from Harvard College in 1843, and from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1846. After preaching for a year without -settlement he opened a private school in Salem, which he conducted -until his death. He was brother of Jones Very, _q.v._ Putnam in -_Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_ includes three of W. Very’s -poetical pieces, one of which - - _There cometh o’er the Spirit_ (Spring) - -appeared in Longfellow and Johnson’s Book of Hymns, 1846. - - J. 1219 - H.W.F. - - -Ware, Rev. Henry, Jr., D.D., Hingham, Massachusetts, April 21, -1794—September 22, 1843, Framingham, Massachusetts. His family was for -three generations an outstanding one in the liberal ministry; his -father, Dr. Henry Ware, Sr., was called in 1805 from a pastorate in -Hingham to serve as Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard; his -younger brother, William Ware, was the first minister of what is now -All Souls Church, New York; and his son, J. F. W. Ware, was later the -minister of Arlington Street Church, Boston. Henry Ware, Jr. graduated -with high honors from Harvard in 1812, and after teaching for two -years at Phillips Exeter Academy returned to Cambridge, to continue -his theological studies. He was licensed to preach on July 31, 1815, -but was not ordained as minister of the Second Church in Boston -(Unitarian) until January 1, 1817. Never vigorous in body, he offered -his resignation in 1829, but the congregation refused to accept it, -appointing R. W. Emerson to be assistant minister. In 1830, however, -he resigned, to accept an appointment as Professor of Pulpit Eloquence -and Pastoral Care at the Harvard Divinity School, a position which he -held till 1842. He then moved from Cambridge to Framingham, -Massachusetts, where he died a few months later. Harvard gave him the -degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1834. In spite of ill health he wrote -much, and he was a greatly beloved teacher, whose saintly character -commanded the highest respect. For several years he edited the -_Christian Disciple_, established in 1813, and he was author of many -printed books, addresses and sermons, listed in the _Memoir_ of him, -published by his brother, Dr. John Ware, in 1846. His collected works -were published in four volumes in 1847, the first volume including his -occasional poems and his hymns. Some of these last reached a high -standard of excellence and brought him wide recognition in the liberal -churches of Great Britain as well as in this country. No less than -eight pieces of his verse were included in _Lyra Sacra Americana_, -published by the British Religious Tract Society in 1868. His hymns -are some of the choicest poetical expressions of liberal religious -thought in the first period of American Unitarian hymnody, but almost -all have dropped out of present use. Most of them will be found in -Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc. - - 1. _All nature’s works His praise declare_, (Worship) - - Headed “On Opening an Organ” and dated November 9, 1822. In view - of the almost universal use of organs in modern churches it is - rather surprizing that this should be a well-nigh unique example - of a hymn for the dedication of such an instrument. It is also a - good general hymn of worship. It was included in Horder’s British - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, and in a number of American - Unitarian collections. - - 2. _Around the throne of God, the host angelic sings_, - - A hymn of “Universal Praise,” based on Revelation IV, 2, 3; XV, 3. - Dated 1823 and published in the _Christian Disciple_, vol. V. A - fine hymn of its type, but little used, perhaps because of its - metre, 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4. - - 3. _Father of earth and heaven, Whose arm upholds creation_, - (Thanksgiving for Divine Mercies) - - Included in Cheever’s _Common Place Book_, 1831, and in _Lyra - Sacra Americana_. - - 4. _Father, Thy gentle chastisement_ (In sickness) - - Dated March, 1836. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 5. _Great God, the followers of thy Son_, (Ordination) - - Written for the ordination of Jared Sparks, the historian, as - minister of the First Unitarian Church, Baltimore, Maryland, May - 5, 1819, but suitable for any service of worship and perhaps the - most widely used of Ware’s hymns. - - 6. _In this glad hour when children meet_ (Family Gatherings) - - Dated August 20, 1835. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 7. _Lift your glad voices in triumph on high_ (Easter) - - Dated 1817, and published in the _Christian Disciple_ of that - year, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_ and - included in many 19^th century hymn books. In a few cases the - second stanza alone is given, beginning - - _Glory to God, in full anthems of joy!_ - - 8. _Like Israel’s hosts to exile driven_ (The God of our - Fathers) - - Written for the Centennial Celebration of the Boston Thursday - Lecture, October 17, 1833. It is a quasi-national hymn in praise - of the Pilgrim Fathers. Included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns - for the Church of Christ_ and in _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 9. _O Thou in whom alone is found_ (Laying Foundation Stone for - a Place of Worship) - - Not dated. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_, and in Thring’s _Collection_ - (British) 1882. - - 10. _O Thou who on thy chosen Son_, (Ordination) - - Written “For an ordination, March, 1829.” Included in Dale’s - _English Hymn Book_, 1874. - - 11. _Oppression shall not always reign_, (Anti-Slavery Song) - - Dated March 15, 1843, it is the last of the author’s writings in - verse. In its original form it was a poem in several stanzas - unsuited for use as a hymn, but 3 stanzas, beginning as above, had - been taken from it, altered and transposed, and thus adapted for - worship. Stanzas one and two were included in Hedge and - Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ and in Longfellow - and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. - - 12. _To prayer, to prayer, for morning breaks_, (Prayer) - - In 1826 he wrote a poem of 10 stanzas, 6 lines each, entitled - “Seasons of Prayer,” printed in full in _Lyra Sacra Americana_ and - in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, from which at least three variant - centos were in use in the 19^th century. One beginning with the - first line, as above, adapting it for morning worship, was - included in Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, 1841, and in later - collections. Another beginning with the second stanza - - _To prayer, the glorious sun is gone_, - - was adapted for evening worship. A third selection, beginning with - the third stanza of the poem, - - _To prayer! for the day that God hath blest_, - - was included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_. - - 13. _We rear not a temple, like Judah of old_, (Dedication of a - Place of Worship) - - “For the dedication of a church, April, 1839.” - - 14. _With praise and prayer our gifts we bring_ (Opening of a - Place of Worship) - - In Dale’s _English Hymn Book_, 1874. Not in Putnam’s _Singers and - Songs_, etc. - -None of the hymns listed above are in current use except nos. 1 and 5, -both of which are included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 1233, 1595 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Waterston, Rev. Robert Cassie, Kennebunk, Maine, 1812—February 21, -1893, Boston, Massachusetts. He studied for a time at the Harvard -Divinity School. In 1844 Harvard gave him the degree of Master of -Arts, following the publication of his book on _Moral and Spiritual -Culture_. In 1839 he was ordained to the ministry-at-large (Unitarian) -in Boston, in charge of the Pitts Street Chapel, where he remained -till 1845. From 1845 to 1852 he served as minister of the Church of -the Saviour, Boston, and from 1854 to 1856 he was minister of the -First Religious Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Thereafter he -gave himself to educational and literary pursuits. He was a member of -the Massachusetts Historical Society and was long active on the Boston -School Committee. He wrote many essays, addresses and poems, the most -important of which are listed in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc., -pp. 390-410. He contributed one hymn to the Cheshire Pastoral -Association’s _Christian Hymns_, 1844, and eight to his own -_Supplement_ to Greenwood’s _Psalms and Hymns_, 1845. - - 1. _God of the soul_ (The soul and God) - - 2. _Great God, in heaven above_, - - Written for a Sunday School. - - 3. _Great Source of Good, our God and Friend_ (Worship) - - 4. _In ages past, majestic prophets_, (The Coming of Jesus) - - 5. _Nature with eternal youth_ - - Written before 1853 and included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns - for the Church of Christ_, published in that year. It is a - selection of 4 stanzas, numbers 4 to 7, from a longer poem - entitled _Nature and the Soul_, printed in full in Putnam. - - 6. _Lord of all, we bow before Thee_ - - Entitled “Christian Benevolence.” - - 7. _O God of Light and Love_, - - Written for the annual meeting of the American Unitarian - Association, Boston, 1845. - - 8. _O Lord of Life! to Thee we pray_, - - Written for the dedication of a church. - - 9. _One sweet flower has drooped and faded_, - - Included in the Cheshire _Collection_, 1844, entitled “Death of a - Pupil.” In Putnam the opening line reads - - “_One bright flower has drooped_”, etc. - - and the hymn is entitled “On the Death of a Child”, with a note, - “Sung by her classmates.” - - 10. _Theories, which thousands cherish_, (Truth) - - Published in _The Religious Monthly_, Boston, and included in - several collections. - - 11. _Thou who didst aid our sires_ (On leaving an old house of - worship) - - Written for the last service of worship held in the Federal Street - Meeting House, Boston, March 13, 1859. - -All of these hymns, and a number of other poems by Waterston, are -included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc., but few of them are -dated or annotated as to use. The author was a popular writer of -verses which were respectable expressions of the religious thought and -feeling of his community, in which they had considerable vogue, but -they rarely rise above mediocrity and have long since dropped out of -use. - - J. 1235, 1724 - H.W.F. - - -Weir, Hon. Robert Stanley, D.C.L. 1856-1926. Judge in Admiralty of the -Exchequer Court of Canada. He translated, from the original French by -Calixa Lavallée, the hymn beginning, in his English version, - - _O Canada, our home, our native land_, - -which was adopted by the Canadian government as Canada’s national -hymn. It is included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. He was a -member of the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian), Montreal. - - H.W.F. - - -Weiss, Rev. John, Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 1828—March 9, 1879, -Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837, and from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1843. He was ordained minister of the First -Church, (Unitarian) Watertown, Massachusetts in 1843; was minister of -the First Church, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1847-1858; and served -the church at Watertown again 1862-1869. He was a leader in the -anti-slavery movement and a prolific author of books and essays. For -Visitation Day at the Divinity School, 1843, he wrote a hymn -beginning, - - 1. _A wondrous star our pioneer_, - - which was included in the _Book of Hymns_, 1846, compiled by S. - Longfellow and S. Johnson, and in their later book, _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864. The _Book of Hymns_ also included a hymn “For a - Summer Festival” beginning, - - 2. _Beneath thy trees we meet today_, - - which is in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_, 1895. - -His hymn - - 3. _The world throws wide its brazen gates_ - - was included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_, 1853. - -Three other hymns by him, which have not found their way into any hymn -books, are printed in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_. - - H.W.F. - - -Wendte, Rev. Charles William, Boston, Massachusetts, June 11, -1844—September 9, 1911, San Francisco, California. He graduated from -the Harvard Divinity School in 1869 and served Unitarian churches in -Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Newport, Rhode Island. From -1885 to 1900 he was engaged in denominational work on the Pacific -Coast and thereafter was Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the American -Unitarian Association, Boston, spending a part of each year in Europe. -Long interested in Sunday Schools he published in 1886 _The Carol, for -Sunday School and Home_; a book of songs for use by children and young -people entitled _Jubilate Deo_ in 1900; and another in 1908 entitled -_Heart and Voice, a Collection of Songs and Services for the -Sunday-School and Home_. In 1907 he wrote a hymn on “The City of God” -beginning, - - _Not given to us from out the sky_, - -which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, (with a slight alteration by the author). - - H.W.F. - - -Westwood, Rev. Horace, D.D., Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, August 17, -1884—December 24, 1956, Clearwater, Florida. Emigrating to the United -States, he served in the Methodist ministry for several years, and -after 1910 served as minister in Unitarian churches in Youngstown, -Ohio; Winnipeg, Canada; Toledo, Ohio; and extensively as a mission -preacher. His hymn in one stanza, - - _Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power_, (1922) - -was included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, and he privately printed -a small collection, _Some Hymns and Verses_, n.d., a few of which -appeared in periodicals, but have not had wider use. - - H.W.F. - - -Wile, Mrs. Frances Whitmarsh, Bristol Centre, New York, December 2, -1878—July 31, 1939, Rochester, New York. Married A. J. Wile in 1901. -Her lovely hymn for use in winter, beginning, - - _All beautiful the march of days_, - -was written about 1907 while she was a parishioner of Rev. William C. -Gannett, _q.v._, in Rochester, New York, in consultation with him, and -was included in Gannett and Hosmer’s revised edition of _Unity Hymns -and Chorals_, 1911, from which it passed into _The New Hymn and Tune -Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Wiley, Hiram Ozias, Middlebury, Vermont, May 20, 1831—January 28, -1873, Peabody, [Danvers] Massachusetts. He was a Unitarian layman who -practised law in Peabody from 1855 until his death, and was the author -of occasional verse contributed to local newspapers. On May 17, 1865, -the _South Danvers Wizard_ published his hymn beginning - - _He leads us on by paths we did not know_, - -and republished it on May 8, 1867, with a note reading “Some years ago -we published the following poem, which was written for our columns by -H. O. Wiley, Esq. Since then it has traversed the country in all -directions, without any credit being given either to our paper or to -the author. We reproduce it from a Western paper in order to correct -several errors that have crept into it. Ed.” It is the only hymn -included in the small volume of Wiley’s poems published as a memorial -to him soon after his death. Its earliest appearance in a hymn book -was in the 1873 Supp. to the Unitarian _Sunday School Hymn Book_, with -the first line changed to - - _God leads us on, etc._, - -About the same time it reached England, where it passed into a number -of collections without the name of the author. In Julian’s -_Dictionary_, p. 1647, “J.M.” states that it appears as _Anon._ in -_Our Home beyond the Tide_, Glasgow, 1878, and that in _Meth. Free. -Ch. Hys._, 1889, it is attributed to “Count Zinzendorf, about 1750. -Tr. H.L.L.” (Jane Borthwick) although that attribution is questioned -because the hymn could not be found in any of Miss Borthwick’s -translations. The mistaken attribution persisted, however, long enough -to be included in the second edition of the _Pilgrim Hymnal_, in the -first decade of this century. Since then the hymn has passed, in its -original form and rightly attributed to Wiley, into various other -collections, among them the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns -of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Willard, Rev. Samuel, 1776-1859. He graduated from Harvard College in -1803, served the First Church (Unitarian) in Deerfield, Massachusetts -1807 to 1829, when he resigned on account of blindness. In 1823 he -published a collection of 158 songs, composed by himself, and in 1830 -a compilation entitled “_Sacred Music and Poetry Reconciled_,” a -hymnbook containing 518 hymns by various authors, about 180 of them -written by himself. This book was adopted for use in the Third Parish -in Hingham, Massachusetts where Willard was then living, but had -little circulation elsewhere, and none of his hymns came into general -use. - - H.W.F. - - -Williams, Velma Curtis (Wright), East Boston, Massachusetts, July 29, -1852—January 22, 1941, Boston, Massachusetts. Wife of Rev. Theodore C. -Williams, _q.v._ Her _Hymnal: Amore Dei, compiled by Mrs. Theodore C. -Williams_, was published in Boston in 1890, revised edition 1897. It -was edited with the assistance of her husband, then minister of All -Souls’ Church, New York, where it was used, and in many other churches -as well. Mrs. Williams herself wrote no hymns. - - J. 1604 - H.W.F. - - -Williams, Rev. Theodore Chickering, Brookline, Massachusetts, July 2, -1855—May 6, 1915, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1876, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1882. He was -ordained minister of the Unitarian Church in Winchester, -Massachusetts, in 1882, but became minister of All Souls’ Church, New -York in 1883. He resigned in 1896, and spent two years in Europe. -After his return he served as headmaster of Hackley School, Tarrytown, -New York, 1899-1905. A classical scholar, and gifted as a poet, he -published a fine metrical translation of Virgil’s _Aeneid_, wrote a -number of hymns which are religious poetry of a high order, and -assisted his wife, Velma C. Williams, _q.v._, in compiling her -_Hymnal: Amore Dei_, 1890, revised edition 1897. A few of his hymns -appeared in this book and, with others of later date, are included in -_The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, -as follows: - - 1. _As the storm retreating_, (Peace after storm) - - Dated 1888. - - 2. _By law from Sinai’s clouded steep_, (Sabbath rest) - - 3. _God be with thee! Gently o’er thee_ (Inward Peace) - - Dated 1889. - - 4. _Hast thou heard it, O my brother?_ (The Challenge of Life) - - Dated 1902. - - 5. _In the lonely midnight_ (Christmas) - - 6. _Lord, who dost the voices bless_ - - Written for the ordination of Rev. Benjamin R. Bulkeley at - Concord, Massachusetts, 1882. - - 7. _My country, to thy shore_, (Hymn for the Nation) - - Dated 1912. - - 8. _Thou rulest, Lord, the lights on high_ (Universal Praise) - - Dated 1911. - - 9. _To hold thy glory, Lord of all_, (Dedication of a Church) - - Dated 1911. - - 10. _When the world around us throws_, (Lent) - - Dated 1899. - - 11. _When thy heart, with joy o’erflowing_ (Brotherhood) - - Dated 1891. - -Three other hymns by him, included in _Amore Dei_, have not come into -general use, viz.: - - 12. _Glory be to God on high_, (Universal Worship) - - Dated 1889. - - 13. _I long did roam afar from home_, - - Dated 1889. - - 14. _My heart of dust was made_, - -Of the above all from nos. 1 to 11 are included in the _New Hymn and -Tune Book_, 1914, and, except no. 9, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, -which also includes no. 12. Nos. 5, 11 and 12 are in the _Pilgrim -Hymnal_, 1934. - - J. 1728 - H.W.F. - - -Willis, Love Maria (Whitcomb), Hancock, New Hampshire, June 9, -1824—November 26, 1908, Elmira, New York. She married Frederick L. E. -Willis, M.D., of Boston, in 1858. She was for some years one of the -editors of _The Banner of Light_, Boston, and of _Tiffany’s Monthly -Magazine_, and was a frequent contributor to these and other -periodicals. She wrote a number of hymns, one of which, beginning, - - _Father, hear the Prayer I offer_ (Aspiration) - -was published in _Tiffany’s Monthly_ in 1859. In Longfellow and -Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, it was considerably rewritten, -with the opening line changed to read, - - _Father, hear the prayer we offer_, - -and was cited as “Anon.” This 1864 text came into considerable use in -various collections in England, and was included in _The English -Hymnal_ as late as 1906. It has also had wide use in America and will -be found in almost all Unitarian hymn books since 1864, most recently -in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. - - J. 1728 - H.W.F. - - -Willis, Nathaniel Parker, Portland, Maine, January 20, 1807—January -29, 1867. He graduated from Yale College in 1826. A journalist and -editor, he wrote for the _American Monthly_ and the _New York Mirror_. -From 1831 to 1837 he was in Europe attached to the American Legation -at the French Court. On his return he became, in 1839, one of the -editors of _The Corsair_. His works are numerous and include _Sacred -Poems_, 1843. His hymn - - _The perfect world by Adam trod_, - -was “Written to be sung at the Consecration of Hanover Street -[Unitarian] Church, Boston,” in 1826. It was included in Hedge and -Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, and in a good -many other collections, although of no exceptional merit. - - J. 1285 - H.W.F. - - -Wilson, Rev. Edwin Henry, D.D. Chester Park, Long Island, New York, -August 23, 1898—still living. He graduated from Boston University, -1922; from Meadville Theological School, 1926; and took the degree of -M.A. at the University of Chicago, 1928. He has served as minister of -Unitarian churches in Chicago, Illinois; Schenectady, New York; and -Salt Lake City, Utah. Since 1949 he has been Director of the American -Humanist Association. His hymn beginning, - - _Where is our holy church?_ - -written in 1928, is included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Wilson, Rev. Lewis Gilbert, Southboro, Massachusetts, February 19, -1858—April 24, 1928, Floral City, Florida. He studied at Dartmouth, -Harvard and Meadville Theological School, and in 1883 was ordained -minister of the Unitarian Church at Leicester, Massachusetts. Later he -served the Unitarian church at Hopedale, Massachusetts, and from -1907-1915 was Secretary in the American Unitarian Association. While -there he was a member of the committee which edited _The New Hymn and -Tune Book_ published in 1914 by the Association. This book included -three of his hymns, beginning - - 1. _O God, our dwelling place_, - - 2. _O troubled sea of Galilee_, - - 3. _The works, O Lord, our hands have wrought_, - -all three of which were written in 1912. The first of these is also -included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Young, George H. (No information available) - -A hymn of 4 stanzas, L.M., beginning, - - _With heart’s glad song, dear Lord, we come_, - -is attributed to him in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - H.W.F. - - - - - FOOTNOTES - - -[1]Frederic M. Bird, an Episcopalian clergyman, then professor at - Lehigh University, in his day the leading authority on American - hymnody. - -[2]Louis F. Benson, a Presbyterian clergyman, the successor of F. M. - Bird as the foremost American hymnologist in the first third of - this century. - -[3]See accompanying Catalogue of American Unitarian Hymn Books. - -[4]Julian’s _Dictionary_, p. 60, lists Huntington, with Eliza Scudder - and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as Episcopalian. It is true that - Huntington joined the Episcopal church in 1859, as did Miss Eliza - Scudder in her old age, but all the hymns produced by either of - them were written while they were still Unitarians in belief, and - Harriet Beecher Stowe was a life long Congregationalist. - -[5]A few graduates of Harvard College (or Divinity School), belonging - to other denominations have also written hymns, the most notable - being Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895), the greatest hymn writer of - the 19^th century in the Baptist denomination; Phillips Brooks - (1835-1893) with his one famous Christmas hymn; and, in the present - century, Rev. Walter Russell Bowie (1882-_1969_), but the total - number of their hymns is a very small percentage of the number by - Unitarian graduates at Harvard. - -[6]The numbers in brackets refer to the books listed in this - catalogue. - - - - - _Index of First Lines of American Unitarian Hymns_ - which have been included in one or more published Hymn Books, with - names of their authors, to facilitate reference to the preceding -Biographical Sketches for further information. Verses by these authors - printed elsewhere than in some Hymn Book are there noted, but have - not been indexed. - - - A - A holy air is breathing round— Livermore, A. A. - A little kingdom I possess,— Alcott - A mighty fortress is our God— Hedge - A voice by Jordan’s shore— Longfellow, S. - A wondrous star our pioneer— Weiss - Abba, Father, hear— Anon. - Abide not in the realm of dreams,— Burleigh - Across a century’s border line— Hosmer - Again as evening’s shadow falls— Longfellow, S. - Alas! how poor and little worth— Anon. - Alas! how swift— Adams, J. Q. - All are architects of fate— Longfellow, H. W. - All beautiful the march of days— Wile - All before us is the way— Clapp, see also Emerson - All hail, God’s angel, Truth— Newell - All hail the pageant of the years— Holmes, J. H. - All hidden lie the future ways— Hosmer - All holy, ever living One— Hill - All is of God: if he but wave his hand— Longfellow, H. W. - All nature’s works His praise declare— Ware - All praise to him of Nazareth— Bryant - All that in this wide world— Bryant - All things that are on earth— Bryant - Almighty Builder, bless, we pray— Church - Almighty! hear thy children raise— - altered to - Almighty, listen while we praise— Bryant - America triumphant! Brave land of pioneers— Holmes, J. H. - Amid the heaven of heavens— Bartrum - And wherefore should I seek above— Scudder - Angel of peace, thou hast tarried— Holmes, O. W. - Another day its course hath run— Pierpont - Another year of setting suns— Chadwick - Around the throne of God, the host— Ware - As darker, darker fall around— See: Longfellow, S. - As once again we gather here— Greenwood - As shadows cast by sun and cloud— Bryant - As the storm retreating— Williams, T. C. - As tranquil streams that meet— Ham - At first I prayed for light— Cheney - - - B - Be thou ready, fellow-mortal— Bartol - Behold, the servant of the Lord— Anon. - Behold the western evening light— Peabody, W. B. O. - Beneath the shadow of the cross— Longfellow, S. - Beneath thine hammer, Lord— Hedge - Beneath thy trees we meet today— Weiss - Benignant Saviour: ’twas not thine, - altered to - Most gracious Saviour: ’twas not thine— Bulfinch - Blest is the hour when— Anon. - Blest is the mortal— Adams, J. Q. - Blind Bartimeus at the gate— Longfellow, H. W. - Bondage and death the cup contains— Sargent - Break the bread and pour the wine— Pierpont - Bring, O morn, thy music— Gannett - Brother, hast thou wandered far— Clarke - Burden of shame and woe— Bulfinch - By law from Sinai’s clouded steep— Williams, T. C. - - - C - Calm on the listening ear of night— Sears - Christ hath arisen— Hedge - Christ to the young man said— Longfellow, H. W. - City of God, how broad, how far— Johnson - Clear in memory’s silent reaches— Gannett - Close softly, fondly, while ye weep— Bryant - Come, Holy Spirit, hush my heart— Anon. - Come, let us sing— Adams, J. Q. - Come, let us who in Christ— Anon. - Come, O thou universal good— Anon. - Come, Thou Almighty King— Anon. - Come, Thou Almighty Will— See: Longfellow, S. - Come to the morning prayer— Anon. - - - D - Day unto day uttereth speech— Burleigh - Dear ties of mutual succor— Bryant - Deem not that they are blest alone— Bryant - Deus omnium creator— Greenough - Down the dark future thro long generations— Longfellow, H. W. - Down toward the twilight drifting— Robbins, S. D. - - - E - Enkindling Love, eternal Flame— Barrows - Eternal One, Thou living God— Longfellow, S. - Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round— Chadwick - Every bird that upward springs— Neale, but see Longfellow, S. - - - F - Faint not, poor traveller, though— Norton - Far off, O God, and yet most near— Barber - Father, beneath thy sheltering wing— Burleigh - Father divine! This deadening power control— Tuckerman - Father, give thy benediction— Longfellow, S. - Father, hear the prayer we offer— Willis, L. M. - Father! I wait Thy word— Very, J. - Father in heaven, hear us— Ames - Father in heaven, to Thee my heart— - altered to - Father in heaven, to whom our hearts— Furness - Father, in thy mysterious presence kneeling— Johnson - Father, there is no change to live with Thee— Very, J. - Father, Thou art calling— Blake - Father, thy servant waits— Burleigh - Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand— Very, J. - Father, to thee we look— Hosmer - Father, to thy kind love— Bryant - Father, to us thy children— Clarke - Father, we would not dare— Savage - Father, whose heavenly kingdom lies— Huntington - Feeble, helpless, how shall I— Furness - For all thy gifts we bless Thee, Lord— Clarke - For mercies past we praise thee— Anon. - For summer’s bloom, and autumn’s— Holland - For the dear love that kept us— Burleigh - For Thee in Zion— Adams, J. Q. - Forward through the ages— Hosmer - Freedom, thy holy light— Ham - From age to age how grandly rise— Hosmer - From age to age they gather, all the— Hosmer - From Bethany the Master— Ham - From heart to heart, from creed— Gannett - From lips divine the healing balm— Burleigh - From many ways and wide apart— Hosmer - From past regret and present faithlessness— - altered to - From past regret and present feebleness— Scudder - From street and square, from hill— Higginson - From the profoundest depths— Burleigh - - - G - Gently, Lord, O gently lead— Anon. - Give forth thine earnest cry— Longfellow, S. - Glory be to God on high— Williams, T. C. - Glory to God, and peace on earth— Livermore, S. W. - Go forth to life, O child of earth— Longfellow, S. - Go not, my soul, in search of Him— Hosmer - Go, preach the gospel in my name— Johnson - Go to thy rest, fair child— Anon. - God almighty and All-seeing— Pierpont - God be with thee! Gently o’er thee— Williams, T. C. - God bless our native land— Brooks and Dwight - God is good: each perfumed flower— Follen - God is in his holy temple— Longfellow, S. - God laid his rocks in courses— Gannett - God leads us on by paths— Wiley - God of mercy, do Thou never— Pierpont - God of our fathers, in Whose sight— Pierpont - God of our fathers, who hast— Briggs, L. R. - God of the earnest heart— Johnson - God of the earth, the sea, the sky— Longfellow, S. - God of the glorious summer hours— Savage - God of the mountain— Anon. - God of the nations, near and far— Holmes, J. H. - God of the rolling orbs above— Peabody, O. W. B. - God of the rolling year— Anon. - God of the soul— Waterston - God of the vastness— Badger - God of Truth! Thy sons should be— Longfellow, S. - God’s law demands one living faith— Briggs, C. A. - God’s trumpet wakes the slumbering world— Longfellow, S. - Gone are those great and good— Pierpont - Grateful for another day— Marean - Great God, in heaven above— Waterston - Great God, the followers of thy Son— Ware - Great Source of Good, our God— Waterston - - - H - Hail the hero workers— Spencer - Hail to the Sabbath day— Bulfinch - Hark! ’tis the holy temple bell— Adams, J. Q. - Hast thou heard it, O my brother?— Williams, T. C. - Hast thou heard the bugle sounding— Savage - Hast thou wasted all the powers— Clarke - Hath not thy heart within thee burned— Bulfinch - Have mercy, O Father— Furness - He hides within the lily— Gannett - He leads us on by paths we did not know— Wiley - He sendeth sun, he sendeth— Anon. - He who himself and God would know— Longfellow, S. - Head of the church triumphant— Anon. - Hear, Father, hear our prayer— Anon. - Hear, hear, O ye nations— Hosmer - Heir of all the waiting ages— Ham - Here holy thoughts a light have shed— Emerson - Here in a world of doubt— Furness - Here in the broken bread— Furness - Here to the high and holy One— Flint - Holy Father, gracious art Thou— Furness - Holy, holy Lord— Goldsmith - Holy Son of God most high— Bulfinch - Holy Spirit, Fire divine— Hedge - Holy Spirit, source of gladness— Longfellow, S. - Holy Spirit, Truth Divine— - altered to - Holy Spirit, Light Divine— Longfellow, S. - Hosanna in the highest!— Lathrop - How blest are they whose transient years— Norton - How glorious is the hour— Bulfinch - How shall come the kingdom holy— Savage - How shall I know thee— Bryant - How softly on the western hills— Peabody, W. B. O. - - - I - I bless Thee, Lord, for sorrows sent— Johnson - I came not hither of my will— Hosmer - I cannot always trace the way— Anon. - I cannot find Thee, still on restless pinion— Scudder - I cannot think of them as dead— Hosmer - I cannot walk in darkness long— Mason - I feel within a want— Furness - I hear it often in the dark— Gannett - I hear Thy voice, within the silence— Ham - I heard the bells on Christmas Day— Longfellow, H. W. - I little see, I little know— Hosmer - I long did roam afar— Williams, T. C. - I look to Thee in every need— Longfellow, S. - I saw on earth another light— Very, J. - Immortal by their deed and word— Hosmer - In ages past majestic prophets— Waterston - In pleasant lands have fallen— Flint - In quiet hours the tranquil soul— Larned - In the beginning was the word— Longfellow, S. - In the broad fields of heaven— Anon. - In the lonely midnight— Williams, T. C. - In the morning I will praise— - altered to - In the morning I will pray— Furness - In the Saviour’s hour of death— Bulfinch - In Thee my powers and treasures— Scudder - Into the silent land— Longfellow, H. W. - Is there a lone and dreary hour— Gilman, C. - It came upon the midnight clear— Sears - It is a faith sublime and sure— Perkins - It is finished! Glorious word— Bulfinch - It is finished, Man of sorrows— Hedge - It singeth low in every heart— Chadwick - It sounds along the ages— Gannett - - - J - Jesus, a child his course began— Fuller - Jesus has lived! and we— Alger - - - K - Kingdom of God, the day how blest— Beach - - - L - Laborers of Christ, arise— Sigourney - Lead us, O Father, in the paths of peace— Burleigh - Let the still air rejoice— Pierpont - “Let there be light!” when— Anon. - Let whosoever will inquire— Scudder - Life is real! Life is earnest— Longfellow, H. W. - Life of Ages, richly poured— Johnson - Life of all that lives below— Longfellow, S. - Life of God, within my soul— Longfellow, S. - Lift aloud the voice of praise— Peabody, E. - Lift your glad voices in triumph on high— Ware - Light of ages and of nations— Longfellow, S. - Like Israel’s host to exile driven— Ware - Like pilgrims sailing through the night— Harris, F. - Lo, the day of days is here— Hosmer - Lo! the day of rest declineth— Robbins, C. - Lo, the earth is risen again— Longfellow, S. - Lo, the Easter-tide is here— Hosmer - Look from Thy sphere— Bryant - Lord, beneath thine equal hand— - altered to - Lord, beneath whose equal hand— Hall - Lord deliver, thou canst save— Follen - Lord, I believe, and in my faith— Badger - Lord, in this sacred hour— Bulfinch - Lord, in thy garden agony— Anon. - Lord, may the spirit of this feast— Anon. - Lord of all being, throned afar— Holmes, O. W. - Lord of all, we bow before Thee— Waterston - Lord of all worlds— Adams, J. Q. - Lord of the worlds below— Freeman - Lord, once our faith in man— Johnson - Lord, when thine ancient people cried— Sewall - Lord, who dost the voices bless— Williams, T. C. - Lord, who ordainest for mankind— Bryant - Love for all! and can it be— Longfellow, S. - - - M - Many things in life there are— Hosmer - Meek and lowly, pure and holy— Anon. - Meek hearts are by sweet manna fed— Anon. - Men whose boast it is that ye— Lowell - Mighty One, before whose face— Bryant - Mine eyes have seen the glory— Howe - Morning, so fair to see— Silliman - Mortal, the angels say— Anon. - My country, to thy shore— Williams, T. C. - My feet are worn and weary— Anon. - My God, I rather look to Thee— Scudder - My God, I thank Thee: may no thought— Norton - My God, I thank Thee that the night— - altered to - O God, I thank Thee— Pierpont - My God, in life’s most doubtful hour— Hurlburt - My heart of dust was made— Williams, T. C. - My life flows on in endless song— Anon. - My Shepherd is the Lord— Adams, J. Q. - My soul, before thy Maker— Adams, J. Q. - Mysterious Presence, Source of all— Beach - - - N - Nature with eternal youth— Waterston - No human eyes Thy face may see— Higginson - Not always on the Mount may we— Hosmer - Not given to us from out the sky— Wendte - Not gold, but only men can make— See under Emerson - Not in the solitude— Bryant - Not in vain I poured my supplication— Burleigh - Not only doth the voiceful day— Burleigh - Not when, with self dissatisfied— Hosmer - Now on land and sea descending— Longfellow, S. - Now sing we a song of the harvest— Chadwick - Now with creation’s morning song— Longfellow, S. - Now while the day in trailing splendor— Hosmer - Now while we sing our closing hymn— Longfellow, S. - - - O - O, all ye people— Adams, J. Q. - “O beautiful, my country”— Hosmer - O blest the souls that see and hear— Hosmer - O bow Thine ear, Eternal One— Pierpont - O church of freedom and of faith— Longfellow, S. - O day of light and gladness— Hosmer - O deem not that earth’s crowning bliss— Burleigh - O Father, fix this wavering will— Longfellow, S. - O Father, take this new-built shrine— Hale, E. E. - O Father, Thou who givest all— Holmes, J. H. - O Father, while I live, I pray— Holmes, J. H. - O for a prophet’s fire— Furness - O from these visions, dark— Bartrum - O God! a temple to thy name— Longfellow, S. - O God, accept this sacred hour— Gilman, S. - O God, I thank Thee for each sight— Mason - O God, in whom we live and move— - altered to - O Thou, in whom we live and move— Longfellow, S. - O God of freedom! Hear us pray— Chapman - O God of Light and Love— Waterston - O God, our dwelling-place— Wilson, L. G. - O God, thou giver of all good— Longfellow, S. - O God! thy children gathered here— Longfellow, S. - O God unseen, but ever near— Longfellow, S. - O God, whose dread and dazzling brow— Bryant - O God, whose law is in the sky— Savage - O God, whose presence glows in all— Frothingham, N. L. - O God, whose smile is in the sky— Holmes, J. H. - O God, with goodness all thine own— Adams, J. Q. - O heal me, Lord— Adams, J. Q. - O heavenly gift of love divine— Very, J. - O Holy Father, mid the calm— Burleigh - O holy, holy, holy, art Thou— Longfellow, S. - O, judge me, Lord— Adams, J. Q. - O Life that maketh all things new— Longfellow, S. - O Light, from age to age the same— Hosmer - O Lord my God! how great— Adams, J. Q. - O Lord of hosts, Almighty King— Holmes, O. W. - O Lord of life, thy kingdom is at hand— Ham - O Lord of Life, where’er they be— Hosmer - O Lord, thy all-discerning— Adams, J. Q. - O Love Divine, lay on me burdens— Huntington - O Love Divine, of all that is— Chadwick - O Love Divine, that stooped to share— Holmes, O. W. - O Love of God most full— Clute - O my country, land of promise— Ham - O Name, all other names above— Hosmer - O North, with all thy vales— Bryant - O Prophet souls of all the years— Hosmer - O sing with loud and joyful song— Blake - O speed thee, Christian— Anon. - O star of truth, down shining— Savage - O stay thy tears; for they are blest— Norton - O still in accents sweet and strong— Longfellow, S. - O suffering Friend of all mankind— Bulfinch - O that the race of men— Adams, J. Q. - O the beautiful old story— Alcott - O Thou, at whose dread name we stand— Sprague - O thou great Friend to all the sons— Parker - O Thou, in all thy might so far— Hosmer - O thou in lonely vigil led— Hosmer - O Thou in whom alone is found— Ware - O Thou, in whom we live and move— Longfellow, S. - O Thou, in whose Eternal Name— Huntington - O Thou that once on Horeb stood— Huntington - O Thou to Whom in ancient times— Pierpont - O Thou to whom in prayer and praise— Church - O Thou who art above all height— Pierpont - O Thou who art my King— Badger - O Thou, who art of all that is— Hosmer - O Thou, who hearest prayer— Anon. - O Thou who on the whirlwind rides— Pierpont - O Thou who on thy chosen Son— Ware - O Thou who turnest into morning— Loring, L. P. - O thou whose gracious presence— Ham - O Thou, whose liberal sun and rain— Longfellow, S. - O Thou, whose love can ne’er forget— Bryant - O Thou whose own vast temple stands— - altered to - Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands— Bryant - O Thou, whose perfect goodness crowns— Chadwick - O Thou, whose Spirit witness bears— Hosmer - O Thou with whom in sweet content— Foote, H. W., I - O troubled sea of Galilee— Wilson, L. G. - O what concerns it him whose way— Norton - O when the hours of life are past— Peabody, W. B. O. - O why should friendship grieve— Anon. - O wondrous depth of grace— Anon. - O’er continent and ocean— Holmes, J. H. - O’er Kedron’s stream and Salem’s— Pierpont - O’er mountaintops, the mount— Anon. - Oh, who shall roll the stone away— Ham - On earth was darkness spread— Anon. - On eyes that watch through sorrow’s night— Hosmer - Once to every man and nation— Lowell - One holy church of God appears— Longfellow, S. - One saint to another I heard say— Very, J. - One sweet flower has drooped and faded— Waterston - One thought I have, my ample creed— Hosmer - Onward, onward, through the region— Johnson - Oppression shall not always reign— Ware - Our Father, while our hearts unlearn— Holmes, O. W. - Our house, our God, we give to Thee— Lowell - Our pilgrim brethren, dwelling far— Livermore, S. W. - Out of every clime and people— Longfellow, S. - Out of the dark, the circling sphere— Longfellow, S. - Out of the heart of nature rolled— Emerson - - - P - Peace, peace on earth! The heart— Longfellow, S. - Praise for the glorious light— Hale, M. W. - Praise to God and thanksgiving— Gannett - Praise to the living God— Gannett and Mann - - - R - Remember me, the Saviour said— Frothingham, N. L. - Richly, O richly have I been— Furness - Ring, O ring, ye Christmas bells— Ham - - - S - Saviour and dearest friend— Anon. - Saviour, and source of every blessing— Anon. - Saviour, when thy bread we break— Robbins, S. D. - Seek not afar for beauty— Savage - Send down thy truth, O God— Sill - Send forth, O God, thy truth— Adams, J. Q. - Servants of Christ, arise— Sigourney - Set from the restless world apart— Marean - Show us thy way, O God— Holmes, J. H. - Sing forth his high eternal name— Longfellow, S. - Sing to Jehovah a new song— Adams, J. Q. - Sing to the Lord a song— Adams, J. Q. - Slavery and death the cup contains— Sargent - Sleep, my little Jesus— Gannett - Slowly, by Thy hand unfurled— - altered to - Slowly by God’s hand unfurled— Furness - Sovereign and transforming Grace— Hedge - Sovereign of worlds! display— Anon. - Spirit Divine! attend our prayer— Longfellow, S. - Spirit of God, in thunder speak— Chadwick - Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power— Westwood - Standing forth in life’s rough way— Bryant - Still wave our streamer’s glorious folds— Sears - Still will we trust, though earth— Burleigh - Strong-souled Reformer, whose— Johnson - Supreme Disposer of the heart— See: Longfellow, S. - Sure to the mansions of the blest— Adams, J. Q. - Swift years, but teach me— Anon. - - - T - Take my heart, O Father— Anon. - Take our pledge, eternal Father— Mott - Tell me not in mournful numbers— Longfellow, H. W. - That God is Love, unchanging Love— Furness - The ages one great minster seem— Lowell - The brightening dawn and— Burleigh - The bud will soon become a flower— Very, J. - The builders, toiling through the days— Ham - The changing years, Eternal God— Mason - The earth, all light and loveliness— Miles - The evening wind begins to blow— Long - The God that to our fathers— Savage - The heavens thy praise are telling— See: Longfellow, S. - The land our fathers left to us— Higginson - The Lord gave the word— Frothingham, N. L. - The Lord is in his holy place— Gannett - The loving Friend to all who bowed— Longfellow, S. - The morning hangs its signal— Gannett - The outward building stands complete— Hosmer - The past is dark with sin and shame— Higginson - The past yet lives in all its truth— Appleton - The patriarch’s dove, on weary wing— Frothingham, N. L. - The perfect world by Adam trod— Willis, N. P. - The rose is queen among the flowers— Hosmer - The Saviour said “Yet one thing more”— Longfellow, H. W. - The spirit of the Lord has stirred— Mott - The summer days are come again— Longfellow, S. - The sun is still forever sounding— Hedge - The very blossoms of our life— Savage - The voice of God is calling— Holmes, J. H. - The Will Divine that woke a waiting time— Johnson - The works, O Lord, our hands— Wilson, L. G. - The world throws wide its brazen gates— Weiss - Theories, which thousands cherish— Waterston - There cometh o’er the spirit— Very, W. - There is a beautiful land— Burleigh - There is a strife we all must wage— Bulfinch - There is a world, and O how blest— Anon. - There is a world eye hath not seen— Attributed to Very, J. - There is no flock, however watched— Longfellow, H. W. - They are slaves who will not choose— Lowell - Thirsting for a living spring— Appleton - This child we dedicate— Gilman, S. - This day let grateful praise ascend— Hale, M. W. - Thou art my morning, God of light— Robbins, S. D. - Thou art, O God! my East— Robbins, S. D. - Thou art the Way, and he— Anon. - Thou, infinite in love— Miles - Thou glorious God, before whose face— Chadwick - Thou Grace Divine, encircling all— Scudder - Thou gracious Power, whose mercy— Holmes, O. W. - Thou Life within my life, than self— Scudder - Thou Lord of hosts, whose guiding hand— Frothingham, O. B. - Thou Lord of life, our saving health— Longfellow, S. - Thou mighty God, who didst of old— Chadwick - Thou One in all, thou All in one— Beach - Thou only Living, only True— Furness - Thou must go forth alone— Anon. - Thou rulest, Lord, the lights on high— Williams, T. C. - Thou unrelenting past— Bryant - Thou, who didst stoop below— Miles - Thou who dost all things give— Furness - Thou whose glad summer yields— Johnson - Thou whose love didst give us birth— - altered to - Thou whose love brought us to birth— Foote, H. W., II. - Thou whose spirit dwells in all— Chadwick - Through the changes of the day— Burleigh - Through willing heart and helping hand— Hosmer - Thy kingdom come, O Lord— Hosmer - Thy kingdom come, on bended knee— Hosmer - Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits— Kimball - Thy seamless robe conceals Thee not— Chadwick - Thy servants’ sandals, Lord— Johnson - Thy way, O Lord, is in the sea— Badger - ’Tis not Thy chastening hand— Anon. - ’Tis winter now; the fallen snow— Longfellow, S. - To him who children blessed— Clarke - To hold thy glory, Lord of all— Williams, T. C. - To light that shines in stars and souls— Johnson - To prayer! for the day that God hath blest— Ware - To prayer, the glorious sun is gone— Ware - To prayer, to prayer, for morning breaks— Ware - To the High and Holy One— Furness - To the truth that makes us free— Furness - To Thee, O God in heaven— Clarke - To thine eternal arms, O God— Higginson - Today be joy in every heart— Hosmer - Toiling through the livelong night— Bulfinch - Touch Thou mine eyes— Ham - Turn not from him who asks of thee— Very, J. - Turn to the stars of heaven— Adams, J. Q. - ’Twas in the East, the mystic East— Hedge - ’Twas the day when God’s anointed— Hedge - - - U - Unto thy temple, Lord, we come— Collyer - Unworthy to be called thy son— Furness - Uplift the song of praise— Hosmer - - - W - We ask not that our path— Burleigh - We bless Thee for this sacred day— Gilman, C. - We follow, Lord, where thou— Anon. - We go not on a pilgrimage— Very, J. - We have not wings; we may not soar— Longfellow, H. W. - We honor those whose work began— Horton - We love the venerable house— Emerson - We meditate the day— Frothingham, N. L. - We pray for truth and peace— Hurlburt - We pray no more, made lowly wise— Hosmer - We see the gallant streamer yet— Sears - We sowed a seed in faith and hope— Longfellow, S. - We will not weep, for God is standing by— Hurlburt - What has drawn us thus apart— Chadwick - What is the world that it should share— Furness - What is this that stirs within— Furness - What means this glory round our feet— Lowell - What power unseen by mortal eye— Bulfinch - What purpose burns within our hearts— Savage - Whatever dims the sense of truth— Hale, M. W. - When adverse winds and waves arise— Sigourney - When Christ with all his shining train— Prince - When courage fails, and faith burns low— Hosmer - When doomed to death the Apostle lay— Bryant - When from the Jordan’s gleaming wave— Longfellow, S. - When gladness gilds our prosperous day— Burleigh - When God upheaved the pillared earth— Pray - When he who from the scourge of wrong— Bryant - When in silence o’er the deep— Hale, M. W. - When Israel’s foes, a numerous host— Fernald - When, o’er the billow-heaving— Adams, J. Q. - When, on devotion’s seraph wing— Miles - When shadows gather on our way— Hosmer - When shall the voice of singing— Anon. - When the blind suppliant— Bryant - When the constant sun returning— Hosmer - When the gladsome day declineth— Savage - When the world around us throws— Williams, T. C. - When this song of praise shall cease— Bryant - When thy heart, with joy o’erflowing— Williams, T. C. - Where ancient forests round us spread— Norton - Where is our holy church?— Wilson, E. H. - Where men on mounts of vision— Hosmer - While thus [now] thy throne of grace— Robbins, C. - While with lips with praise that glow— Pierpont - Whither, midst falling dew— Bryant - Who is thy neighbor? He whom thou— Peabody, W. B. O. - Who would sever freedom’s shrine?— Gilman, S. - Why come not spirits— Anon. - Why should I fear— Adams, J. Q. - Why slumbereth, Lord, each— Anon. - Why weep for those, frail child— Loring, W. J. - Wild was the day, the wintry sea— Bryant - Will God, who made the earth— Follen - Wilt Thou not visit me?— Very, J. - With heart’s glad song, dear Lord— Young - With loving hearts and hands— Ames - With praise and prayer our gifts we bring— Ware - Wonders still the world shall witness— Trapp - Work, and thou shalt bless the day— Dana - - - Y - Years are coming, speed them— Ballou - Yes, to the last command— Gilman, S. - - - - - Transcriber’s Notes - - ---This eBook is public-domain in the country of publication. - ---Corrected a few palpable typographical errors. - ---Restored a book name, _Hymns of the Ages_, that had apparently dropped - out of page 149 of the typescript. - ---Added a heading “Biographical Sketches” for consistency with the Table - of Contents. - ---Tweaked the form of some personal names to be consistent; and added - links where possible. - ---Created a Book Cover Image, released for free and unrestricted use - with this eBook. - ---In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by - _underscores_. - - - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of American Unitarian Hymn Writers and -Hymns, by Henry Wilder Foote - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN UNITARIAN HYMN WRITERS *** - -***** This file should be named 53833-0.txt or 53833-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/8/3/53833/ - -Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns - -Author: Henry Wilder Foote - -Release Date: December 30, 2016 [EBook #53833] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN UNITARIAN HYMN WRITERS *** - - - - -Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns - - - Compiled by Henry Wilder Foote for the Hymn Society of America for - publication in the Society's proposed Dictionary of American Hymnology - - - - - _Contents_: - - - (1) Historical Sketch of American Unitarian Hymnody. (Pages 1-11) - (2) Catalogue of American Unitarian Hymn Books. (Pages 12-36) - (3) Alphabetical List of Writers. (Pages 37-39) - (4) Biographical Sketches, with Notes on Hymns. (Pages 40-247) - (5) Index of First Lines of Published Hymns. (Pages 248-270) - - - Cambridge, Massachusetts - January, 1959 - - -I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Misses Ruth and Orlo -McCormack in the preparation of this compilation. - - H.W.F. - - - - - _AMERICAN UNITARIAN HYMNODY_ - - -In the first edition of Julian's _Dictionary of Hymnology_ (1891) F. M. -Bird[1] wrote, "The Unitarians--possessing a large share of the best -blood and brain of the most cultivated section of America--exhibit a -long array of respectable hymnists whose effusions have often won the -acceptance of other bodies," (pp. 58-59). And in this century Louis F. -Benson[2] in his classic book _The English Hymn_ (p. 460) wrote, "It is -not surprizing that a body including the best blood and highest culture -of Massachusetts shared in the Literary Movement [of the 19^th century] -and succeeded in imparting to its hymn books a freshness of interest in -great contrast to those of the orthodox churches" and that "from their -[the compilers'] hands there proceeded ---- a series of hymn books whose -literary interest was very notable" (p. 462). - -This succession of Unitarian hymn writers over a period of approximately -150 years can best be traced in the nearly 50 hymn books compiled by -individuals or committees for use in Unitarian churches.[3] The editors -of these books were among the best educated men of their time, who knew -where to look for fresh lyrical utterances of a living faith. The -earliest of them lived in the period when the traditional metrical -psalms which, for more than two centuries, had been almost the only -worship-song of the English speaking world, were being slowly superseded -by the songs of a new age. These songs they chiefly found in the various -hymn-books published for use in English Non-conformist chapels when the -Church of England still generally adhered to the Old or New Versions of -the Psalms. It was from these sources that Jeremy Belknap first -introduced to Americans the hymns of Anne Steele, and included in his -_Sacred Poetry_ (1795) hymns by Addison, Cowper, Newton, Doddridge and -other English contemporaries. When, in 1808, the vestry of Trinity -Church, Boston, impatient at the delay of the General Convention of the -Protestant Episcopal Church in getting out a hymnal, issued one for -their own use, they drew heavily upon Belknap's collection, saying in -their preface "In this selection we are chiefly indebted to Dr. Belknap, -whose book unquestionably contains the best expressions of sacred poetry -extant." - -Many of the later collections in this series of Unitarian hymn books -have been no less notable for their introduction to use in this country -of new English hymns, such as Pope's "Father of all, in every age;" Sir -Walter Scott's "When Israel of the Lord beloved;" translations of hymns -in the Roman Breviary; Sarah Flower Adams' "Nearer, my God, to Thee" -(only three years after its publication in England); and Newman's "Lead, -kindly Light;" and for the ability of their compilers to discover fresh -materials near at hand, as when Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson -were the first to notice the hymnic possibilities of Whittier's poems. - -The story of American Unitarian hymnody begins with the publication in -1783 of the _Collection of Hymns--designed for the use of the West -Society of Boston._ This church belonged to the liberal wing of New -England Congregationalism, destined to become known as Unitarian a -generation later. The book contained a small selection of traditional -psalms and hymns by British authors and a number of quaintly didactic -moral ditties in doggerel, presumably contributed by Boston versifiers -who cannot now be identified. - -The first group of Unitarian hymn-writers whose names are known and -whose productions have survived did not begin to write until the opening -decades of the 19^th century. Of this group the earliest born was John -Quincy Adams, (1767-1848), best remembered as the sixth President of the -United States. That he was also a hymn writer, and the only president of -the country who was one, has generally been forgotten. Two or three -hymns by him were written earlier but most of them came from the period -following his retirement from the presidency in 1829. Soon after that -event he wrote one for the 200^th anniversary of the First Church in -Quincy, of which he was a member, and later in life he composed a -metrical paraphrase of the whole Book of Psalms. When Dr. Lunt, minister -of the Quincy church, was preparing his _Christian Psalter_, 1841, Mrs. -Adams put into his hands the mss. of her husband's poems, and Lunt -included in his book five hymns and seventeen psalms by his -distinguished parishioner. None of them rose above the level of -respectable verse but his version of Psalm 43 survived in one or more -hymn books 100 years later. - -Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866) was a poet of considerable abilities -whose verses were in demand for special occasions and whose hymns were -the best lyrical expressions of the developing new thought in religion. -W. Garrett Horder, the English hymnologist, wrote that Pierpont's hymn -of universal praise was "the earliest really great hymn I have found by -an American author." It is still in use, as are two others by him. - -Prof. Andrews Norton (1786-1853) of the Harvard Divinity School, -published a hymn as early as 1809 and a good deal of verse in later -years, much of it in a rather sombre introspective mood, but with one -fine hymn still in use. He was followed by Rev. Nathaniel Langdon -Frothingham (1793-1870) who wrote a good many hymns for special -occasions, one of which survives today, and by Rev. Henry Ware, Jr. -(1794-1843) who wrote a number of hymns highly valued as utterances of -the religious idealism of the period, but long since dropped from use, -except for an excellent one for the dedication of an organ, probably the -only hymn in the English language written expressly for such an -occasion. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), a lay man of letters, was -another of the elder members of the famous group of New England poets of -the 19^th century, and as early as 1820 he contributed 5 hymns to -Sewall's _New York Collection_, published in that year, and he later -wrote others. - -The latest born of this first group who attained memorable distinction -in this field was Rev. Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890), whose earliest -hymn, still in use, was written in 1829, but who is best known for his -great translation of Luther's "Ein' feste Burg," and for a fine Good -Friday hymn. He collaborated with Rev. Frederic Dan Huntington[4] -(1819-1904) then the college preacher at Harvard, in compiling _Hymns -for the Church of Christ_, (1853), to which Huntington contributed five -hymns, none now in use. Their book was the last and best of the various -_Collections_ published up to the middle of the century by editors who -belonged to what was becoming the conservative wing of the denomination, -to whom Emerson's _Divinity School Address_ of 1838 seemed dangerously -radical. - -But meantime a new era in Unitarian hymnody was opening with the -publication in 1846 of the _Book of Hymns_ edited by Samuel Longfellow -(1819-1891) and Samuel Johnson (1822-1882), while they were still -studying in the Harvard Divinity School. Both had come under the -influence of the Transcendentalist movement which was liberalizing -Unitarian thought and they eagerly sought out hymns which were fresh -expressions of their youthful outlook on religion. The book was notable -for the new sources of hymns which they discovered, among them the poems -of John Greenleaf Whittier, which they were the first to introduce into -a hymn book. - -Their _Book of Hymns_ was followed in 1864 by their larger and even more -influential _Hymns of the Spirit_, which includes most of their own -hymns and many by other Unitarian writers of the period, too numerous to -name here, but whose hymns are listed in the catalogue of writers -appended to this introductory sketch. Samuel Johnson wrote only half a -dozen hymns, but they are among the finest in the language. Samuel -Longfellow wrote many more, the best of which are quite equal to -Johnson's, and together they made a more important contribution to -American Unitarian hymnody than that of any other writers in the middle -of the 19^th century. - -This was the period of "the flowering of New England literature" and two -of its poets, besides those already named, made their contribution to -hymnody. The more important of the two was Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, -(1809-1894) with half a dozen fine and widely used hymns, and Prof. -James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) who, strictly speaking, was hardly a -hymn writer at all, but from whose poems two or three have been -quarried. Two other writers of this period were Rev. Edmund Hamilton -Sears (1810-1876) and his niece, Miss Eliza Scudder (1819-1896). Sears -wrote two Christmas hymns widely used throughout the English speaking -world. Miss Scudder wrote half a dozen hymns in a mystical vein of the -highest quality, but in temperament and outlook both writers belong more -to the earlier period of Unitarian thought than to that prevalent in -their later lifetime. - -In this mid-century period should also be included the famous war-time -hymn by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), "Mine eyes have seen the glory -of the coming of the Lord," written in 1861 to provide worthier words -than "John Brown's body" for the popular tune "Glory, Hallelujah", which -had been composed a few years earlier for a Sunday School in Charleston, -South Carolina. - -A third period in Unitarian hymnody began with the appearance of hymns -by three good friends, Rev. John White Chadwick (1840-1906), Rev. -Frederic Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) and Rev. William Channing Gannett -(1840-1923), who carried forward in the last third of the century the -broadly theistic interpretation of a universal religion to which -Longfellow and Johnson had given utterance. Chadwick's first hymn was -written in 1864 for the graduation of his class from the Harvard -Divinity School, a great hymn of brotherhood, widely used in England as -well as here. A half-dozen others of fine quality have survived. Hosmer -and Gannett worked together in bringing out their book _The Thought of -God in Hymns and Poems_, 1885, 1894, and _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, -1880, 1911. Neither wrote any hymns while in the Divinity School, but -both began to do so soon after. In 1873 Gannett wrote a fine one which -is probably the earliest in the language to give a religious -interpretation to the then controversial doctrine of evolution, and -later a half dozen others to which deep feeling is expressed in -beautiful lyrical verse. Hosmer, however, was a much more prolific -writer, producing more than 40 hymns which have had some use. He was a -meticulous craftsman who studied the technique of hymn-writing, and -several of his hymns are among the finest in the language. Canon -Dearmer, a leading authority on hymnody in the Church of England, -included seven of them in his _Songs of Praise_ and calls one of them -"this flawless poem, one of the completest expressions of religious -faith," and says another is "one of the noblest hymns in the language." -For approximately 40 years, c. 1880-1920, Hosmer was the outstanding -hymn writer in the English speaking world, and he left no successor who -was his equal in the perfection of his finest hymns. - -A smaller but important contribution to the Unitarian hymnody of this -period was made by Rev. Theodore Chickering Williams (1855-1915) who, -while still a student in the Harvard Divinity School wrote one of the -best ordination hymns in the language, and, in later years, eight -others, still in use, which are religious poetry of a high order. - -The latest period in Unitarian hymnody, covering the last half-century, -is notable for the productions of two writers, Rev. Marion Franklin Ham -(1867-1957) and Rev. John Haynes Holmes, (1879-still living). Although -he had published a volume of poems in 1896 Dr. Ham did not begin to -write hymns until 1911, but thereafter he produced a succession of -beautiful religious lyrics, eight or ten of which have come into use. -Some of them are utterances of a profound mystical insight akin to that -of Eliza Scudder, but others are expressions of a world-wide theism, and -one has been translated into Japanese. - -Rev. John Haynes Holmes has been a more prolific writer, author of about -45 hymns, many written for special occasions, but 10 or 15 others have -come into general and widespread use. His hymns are in a quite different -key from those of Dr. Ham's quiet mysticism, generally being stirring -calls to social justice and the service of mankind, though a few are -hymns of gratitude for the simple joys of life. While he has -infrequently attained the felicity of phrasing which results in a -memorable line his hymns are cast in vigorous and often stirring verse, -expressing a noble altruism and a wholesome attitude towards life. - -M. F. Ham and J. H. Holmes are the latest notable figures in this era of -150 years since the beginning of American Unitarian hymnody, throughout -which scores of lesser writers have also contributed their offerings to -the main stream. These writers are far too numerous to name in this -outline sketch but their thumbnail biographies and notations as to their -hymns will be found in the following catalogue. A survey of this whole -era discloses the evolution in liberal religious thought from the period -when the emphasis was on the sinfulness of man and the redemptive -function of the Christian Church, to the vision of a world wide religion -taking in many forms, and manifested in that service of mankind which -found expression in the "social gospel" in the first half of this -century. - -The production of so great a number of fine hymns (and of a long series -of hymn books of a superior type) over so long a period, by persons -belonging to one of the smallest Protestant denominations, commonly -considered coldly intellectual rather than emotional in its approach to -religion, is a phenomenon unique in the history of hymnody. When the -first edition of the _Pilgrim Hymnal_ was published in 1910 it listed -both the nationality and the church membership of the authors included, -which led to the disclosure that nearly half the American authors were -Unitarians who had contributed considerably more than half the hymns of -American authorship. In answer to critics Dr. Washington Gladden replied -that this was due to the simple fact that the Unitarians had written a -larger number of the best hymns than had the American writers in other -denominations. - -Canon Dearmer in England observed the same fact and was puzzled to -explain it. The explanation, however, is a simple one. With the -exception of a relatively small number of writers born in other parts of -the country and with different backgrounds, these Unitarian authors were -men brought up in the atmosphere of the so-called "New England -Renaissance," that literary revival of which Boston, Cambridge and -Concord were the chief centres in the 19^th century, and they belonged -by blood, by education and by social ties to the New England literary -group. The majority were also graduates of Harvard College or Harvard -Divinity School, or both, in a period when the spirit of the time was -most favorable to the stimulation of poetic gifts, and in a place where -the intellectual level was high and there was freedom from any dogmatic -control.[5] Thus they had the culture and the warmth of atmosphere -needed, and the Divinity School had the admirable custom of encouraging -students to write a hymn for the annual graduation exercises or for the -School's Christmas service, and so stimulated their poetic gifts. - -Thanks to these favorable circumstances what has been called "the -Harvard school of hymnody" has had no equal in the English speaking -world, the only comparable institution being Trinity College, Cambridge, -England, which, for a much briefer period (1820-1845) was the nursing -mother of a notable succession of Anglican hymn writers. It was this -fact which led W. Garrett Horder, an English Congregationalist who was -also a highly competent hymnologist, to write, "Harvard, like our -English Cambridge, has been 'a nest of singing birds'. I was struck by -this when editing _The Treasury of American Sacred Songs_. Harvard -provided the bulk ---- of the verse I included." And other orthodox -authorities, notably F. M. Bird and Louis F. Benson, already quoted, -have borne witness to the high achievements of both the editors of the -long succession of Unitarian hymn books and the authors of the hymns -which they included. - - - - - _Catalogue of American Unitarian Hymn Books._ - compiled by Henry Wilder Foote and reprinted (with revisions) from the - Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, May, 1938, by - permission. - - -In the 17^th century, and down to the middle of the 18^th, all churches -of the Congregational order in New England used the _Bay Psalm Book_, -first printed in Cambridge in 1640, except for the use of Ainsworth's -_Psalter_ in the churches of the Plymouth Plantation and in the First -Church in Salem for a part of the 17^th century. In the latter part of -the 18^th century, the _Bay Psalm Book_ was gradually superseded by -either the New Version of the Psalms (Tate and Brady) or, more -generally, by one of the editions of _Watts and Select_, i.e. Isaac -Watts' _Psalms and Hymns_, with a supplement of hymns selected from -other authors. - -The first steps away from the Psalm books in general use were taken by -two churches which were in the vanguard of the rising liberalism of the -last half of the 18^th century. In 1782 the West Church in Boston -published _A Collection of Hymns, more particularly designed for the Use -of the West Society in Boston_ (1),[6] and in 1788 the East Church in -Salem published _A Collection of Hymns for Publick Worship_, (2). These -two books were of only local significance, but they clearly pointed the -way which later publications were to follow. In 1795 Rev. Jeremy Belknap -brought out his _Sacred Poetry_ (3), which was an attempt to produce a -book which should be acceptable to both the liberal and the orthodox -wings of Congregationalism. In this purpose it failed, though it was -widely used by Unitarians. The succeeding books were more definitely -Unitarian in character and illustrate the changing emphasis in religious -thought and practice through five generations of religious liberals. -They form a notable series, for most of them attained a literary -standard and spiritual outlook higher than that of other contemporary -hymn books. - -The earlier books in this series were very imperfectly edited, judged by -modern standards. Some of them contain no preface and no indication as -to the identity of the compiler. In other cases, the compiler is -indicated by initials. In some cases the names of the authors of hymns -are not given at all, in others only the surname, when known, and there -are frequent mistaken attributions. Directions as to the music are -usually lacking, the metre of each hymn alone being indicated. In some -cases the names of suitable tunes are given, but only one book (18) -earlier than 1868 included any music, in that case an appendix of -twenty-one tunes in two parts at the back of the book. The first -American Unitarian hymn book to be printed with a tune on each page was -the American Unitarian Association's _Hymn and Tune Book_ of 1868 (34). -Thereafter few books appeared without tunes, but half-a-dozen other -collections with music were published in the next forty years, each of -which had considerable use. - -It will be noted that in the course of the 19^th century no less than -thirty-six different hymn-books appeared, a far larger number than any -other American denomination can show for the same period, and -illustrative of the extreme individualism of the Unitarian churches. -Throughout the middle third of the century Greenwood's _Collection_ -(13), the _Springfield Collection_ (14), and the _Cheshire Collection_ -(20), had the widest use, followed in the last third of the century by -the _Hymn and Tune Books_ (34) and (36) of the American Unitarian -Association, but all the other collections had some local vogue, in some -cases only for a brief period or only in those churches the ministers of -which had compiled the collections in question. As late, however, as the -beginning of the 20^th century, at least eight different hymn-books were -in use in the Unitarian churches of the United States and Canada. This -diversity of usage declined rapidly after the publication of _The New -Hymn and Tune Book_ (45) in 1914, and had practically disappeared by the -time when that book's successor, _Hymns of the Spirit_ (48) was -published in 1937. - - - - - BIBLIOGRAPHY - - - Copies of at least one edition of each of the following books are - in the Historical Library of the American Unitarian Association, - 25 Beacon Street, Boston, except in the cases noted. - -1. _A Collection of Hymns, more particularly designed for the Use of -the West Society in Boston_--Boston, 1782; 2nd ed., 1803; 3rd ed., -1806; 4th ed., 1813. - -The editor is said to have been Rev. Simeon Howard (1733-1804), (See -Bentley's _Diary_, II, 371), Jonathan Mayhew's successor as minister -of the West Church. Mayhew's congregation was notably liberal and this -book represents the first step away from psalm-books of the -traditional type. It contains 166 hymns, including a number of -classics by Watts, Barbauld, Addison, etc. The tone in general is -ethical rather than theological, and many of the hymns are moral -precepts in mediocre verse, some, at least, probably of local -production, but the authors cannot be identified as no author is -named; there is no preface, and the compiler's name is not given. - - Note:--The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy. - There is one in the Congregational Library, 14 Beacon Street, - Boston. - -2. _A Collection of Hymns for Publick Worship_--Salem; n.d. (1788) - -Edited by Rev. William Bentley (1750-1819) of the East Church, Salem, -Mass., and used there until superseded in 1843 by Flint's _Collection_ -(17). There is no preface and the compiler's name is not given. There -are no musical directions except the metre of each hymn. The book -consists of two parts, the first containing 40 psalms "according to -Tate and Brady's Version," arranged by metre; the second containing -163 hymns of high quality, including many of the classics of the -period. The book is much superior to No. 1, but had little use outside -the church for which it was intended, perhaps because Bentley, though -one of the earliest outspoken Unitarians, was _persona non grata_ in a -Federalist stronghold on account of his political opinions. - - Note:--The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy. - There is one at The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. - -3. _Sacred Poetry: consisting of Psalms and Hymns adapted to Christian -devotion in publick and private. Selected from the best authors, with -variations and additions_--By Jeremy Belknap, D.D., Boston, 1795. - -Many editions. Some included a supplement of _Hymns for the Lord's -Supper, selected and original_, (7) prepared by Rev. Thaddeus M. -Harris, minister of the First Church in Dorchester, 1801. In 1812 an -edition appeared with 28 additional hymns, "Selected by the successor -of the Rev. Author," i.e. by W. E. Channing. - -Dr. Belknap (1744-1798) was the first Congregational minister of the -Federal Street Church (his predecessors having been Presbyterians), -and his immediate successor was William Ellery Channing. Belknap -endeavored to compile a collection which should serve both the -orthodox and the liberal wings of the New England Congregationalism of -his day. In his preface he says, "In this selection, those Christians -who do not scruple to sing praises to their Redeemer and Sanctifier, -will find materials for such a sublime enjoyment; whilst others, whose -tenderness of conscience may oblige them to confine their addresses to -the Father only, will find no deficiency of matter suited to their -idea of the chaste and awful spirit of devotion." Belknap, however, -failed in his attempt to produce a compromise book, as it found favor -only in the liberal churches, which used it for some forty years. - -The book contains 150 psalms, selected from versions by Tate and -Brady, Watts, and others, often "with variations"; and 300 hymns, -widely selected from English sources, including Pope's "Universal -Prayer" (altered), Helen Maria Williams' "While Thee I seek, -protecting Power," hymns by Cowper, Newton, Doddridge, Merrick, -Addison, Anne Steele and others. Belknap introduced Anne Steele's -hymns to Americans. There are no hymns by Charles Wesley, and the only -hymns of American authorship appear to be Mather Byles' "When wild -confusion rends the air," and a metrical version of Psalm 65 by Jacob -Kimball. - -There are no musical directions save the metre of each hymn and the -key. "The characters denoting the sharp or flat key are prefixed to -each psalm or hymn, at my request, by the Rev. Dr. Morse, of -Charlestown." - -The book was much the best of its period. When, in 1808, the vestry of -Trinity Church, Boston, impatient at the delay of the General -Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in getting out a hymnal, -issued one for their own use, they drew heavily on Belknap's, saying -in their preface, "In this selection we are chiefly indebted to Dr. -Belknap, whose book unquestionably contains the best specimens of -sacred poetry extant." - -4. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for public worship._--Boston, -1799; edited by Rev. James Freeman (1759-1825). 2nd ed., 1813. - -This was the first of the hymn-books prepared for use in King's -Chapel, Boston, where it was used for 30 years until succeeded by -Greenwood's _Collection_ (13). No preface; no musical directions -except that the metre is indicated. The names of some authors are -given in the index of first lines. The book contains 155 psalms, or -parts of psalms, "selected principally from Tate and Brady," followed -by 90 hymns and 8 doxologies. The collection is decidedly inferior to -that of Belknap (3) in range and quality. - - Note:--The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy, but - King's Chapel does. - -5. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns_--by William Emerson, A.M., -Pastor of the First Church in Boston; Boston, 1808. - -Rev. William Emerson (1769-1811) was the father of Ralph Waldo -Emerson. His book is more handsomely printed than most hymn books of -the period and contains 150 hymns. It was very liberal in tone and was -assailed by the orthodox for having omitted hymns on several of "the -most essential doctrines of Christianity." Its most notable feature -was its endeavor to improve the singing by "prefixing to each psalm -and hymn the name of a tune, well composed and judicially chosen" as -"a valuable auxiliary to musical bands. No American hymn-book has -hitherto offered this aid to the performers of psalmody." The key in -which the tune is set and the metre are also indicated at the head of -each hymn. There is also an interesting "Index of Tunes, and Musical -Authors," with references to the various collections in which the -recommended tunes may be found. As this list of collections of tunes -was prepared by a person particularly interested in promoting good -music it is here reprinted as indicating the best available sources at -the time: - -Mass. Com., Massachusetts Compiler; Sal. Coll., Salem Collection; Lock -H. Coll., Lock's Hospital Collection; Sac. Min., Sacred Minstrel; -B.C.M., Beauties of Church Music; Psal. Evan., Psalmodia Evangelica; -F. C. Coll., First Church Collection; Suff. Selec., Suffolk Selection; -Bos. Selec., Boston Selection; Newb't Coll., Newburyport Collection; -Mus. Olio, Musical Olio; Col. Repos., Columbian Repository; B. Coll., -Bridgewater Collection. - -While this book thus made the selection of tunes easier than did most -of its contemporaries, it is needless to point out how inconvenient it -was not to have the tunes in the same book with the words. With all -its excellencies the book had small use, being rather too far in -advance of its time. - -6. _A Selection of Sacred Poetry consisting of Psalms and Hymns from -Watts, Doddridge, Merrick, Scott, Cowper, Barbauld, Steele and -others_--Philadelphia, 1812; 2nd ed., 1818; 3rd ed., 1828; 4th ed., -1846. - -Edited by Ralph Eddowes (1751-1833) and James Taylor (1769-1844) two -laymen of the church in Philadelphia in which Joseph Priestley had -preached after coming to America, but which remained without a settled -minister until Rev. W. H. Furness was installed in 1825. A good -collection of 606 psalms and hymns, from varied English sources, as -indicated by the following quotation from preface:--"The Society of -Unitarian Christians in Philadelphia, from its first formation, has -used, in its public devotional exercises, the collection of hymns and -psalms made by the Rev. Doctors Kippis and Rees, and Messrs. Jervis -and Morgan.... A late collection by the Rev. Mr. Aspland, of Hackney, -has also afforded assistance, of which advantage has been freely -taken; and by resorting to another, published in 1789 by the Rev. -Messrs. Ash and Evans of Bristol, this work has been enriched with -several pieces of Mrs. Steele's exquisitely beautiful and highly -devotional poetry." - -7. _Hymns for the Lord's Supper_, Original and Selected. [edited] by -Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D., Boston; printed by Sewall Phelps, no. 5 -Court Street, 1820; 2nd ed., 1821. - -In 1801 Rev. Thaddeus M. Harris, minister of the First Church in -Dorchester, Mass., printed a few hymns for use at the Lord's Supper, -and these formed the basis for this enlarged collection published in -1820. This edition contains original hymns by Rev. John Pierpont of -Boston, Rev. Samuel Gilman of Charleston, S. C., and others, none of -them in use today. The booklet probably had more circulation for -private reading than for public use. - -8. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for social and private -worship_--New York, 1820; 2nd ed., 1827; 4th ed., 1845. - -Compiled by Dr. Henry D. Sewall, one of the laymen who founded the -First Congregational Society of New York, now All Souls Church, which -was organized in 1819. Commonly called "the New York Collection." It -contains 504 psalms and hymns arranged in three sections in -alphabetical order of first lines. There are no musical directions -except that the metre of each hymn is indicated. The Collection is -chiefly notable for the inclusion, without the author's name, of five -original hymns by William Cullen Bryant, a member of the congregation, -who had written them at the instance of Miss Sedgwick. - -The fourth edition, 1845, made some substitutions and added 146 hymns -to the original number. - -9. _A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, for social and private -worship_--Andover, 1821; 2nd ed., Cambridge, 1824; 11th ed., Boston, -1832. - -Edited by Jonathan Peele Dabney (1793-1868), a graduate of Harvard who -had studied for the ministry but was never ordained. The book was -smaller, cheaper and better arranged than Sewall's (8), and had -considerable use. It contains 385 hymns, and 21 "Ascriptions and -Occasional Pieces," these last including Henry Ware's Easter hymn, -"Lift your glad voices," and Heber's "From Greenland's icy mountains." -There are no musical instructions beyond indication of metres. - -10. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and Private Worship, -compiled by a committee of the West Parish in Boston_--Boston; printed -by John B. Russell, 1823. - -This book was a successor to No. 1. No preface; no copyright; no -indication of the identity of the compilers. It contains 320 psalms -and hymns by Tate and Brady, Watts, Doddridge, Barbauld, Steele and -others. No hymn by Charles Wesley, but it has John Wesley's "Lo, God -is here," attributed to "Salisbury Coll." Also 6 communion hymns; 5 -for Christmas, including Tate's "While shepherds watched their flocks -by night," attributed to Dr. Patrick; Milton's "Nor war nor battle's -sound," altered by Dr. Gardiner; and Sir Walter Scott's "When Israel -of the Lord beloved". - - Note:--The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy, but - there is one at the Congregational Library, 16 Beacon Street, - Boston, Mass. - -11. _A Selection from Tate and Brady's Version of the Psalms: with -Hymns by various authors_--For the use of the church in Brattle -Square, Boston. Boston: Richardson & Lord, 1825. - -Compiled by a committee of that church. The church used the _Bay Psalm -Book_ until 1753; then Tate and Brady's _New Version_ of the Psalms, -with an appendix of hymns selected by a committee. In 1808 another -committee published another appendix, entitled _A Second Part of -Hymns_. The book issued in 1825, by a committee the membership of -which is unknown, is a revision and enlargement of the original Tate -and Brady and the appendices. It contains 150 psalms and 363 hymns. No -musical directions save indications of metres. - -12. _Sacred Poetry and Music reconciled, or a Collection of Hymns -original and compiled_--by Samuel Willard, D.D., A.A.S. Boston: L. C. -Bowles, 1830. - -This book, "adopted while in manuscript, by the Third Congregational -Society in Hingham," had little use beyond that parish. It contains -518 hymns, and 7 chants, the latter being a feature not met with in -any earlier book in this series. Tunes are indicated for each hymn, -but the editor had some peculiar theories about the "reconciliation" -of words and music. The editor, Rev. Samuel Willard (1776-1859), had -been minister at Deerfield but had retired on account of blindness and -was temporarily resident in Hingham when this book was published. - -13. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship_--Boston: -Carter and Hendee, 1830. - -Edited by Rev. Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1797-1843), minister of -King's Chapel, Boston. _Greenwood's Collection_, as it was generally -called, containing 560 psalms and hymns, superseded Belknap's (3) as -the hymn-book most widely used in Unitarian churches in the first half -of the 19^th century. It ran to fifty editions and was used in King's -Chapel, for which it was prepared, until superseded there by _Hymns of -the Church Universal_, 1890, (39). Based upon Watts, the book contains -the then very recent hymns by James Montgomery, Harriet Auber, Bowring -and Heber, and practically introduced Charles Wesley to American -Unitarians. In _Young Emerson Speaks_, edited by A. C. McGiffert, -1937, pages 145-150, will be found a sermon on "Hymn Books" preached -by R. W. Emerson in 1831, while still minister of the Second Church in -Boston, in which he recommends the church to adopt _Greenwood's -Collection_ in place of Belknap's. Emerson, in his Journal for 1847, -noted that _Greenwood's Collection_ was "still the best." - -14. _The Springfield Collection of Hymns for sacred worship_, by -William B. O. Peabody--Springfield: Samuel Bowles, 1835. - -Rev. William Oliver Bourne Peabody (1799-1847) was minister at -Springfield, Mass. His collection contains 509 hymns, admirably chosen -from the accepted classics of the period, Watts and Doddridge -predominant, but with an increasing number of the recent compositions -by Unitarian hymn-writers of the first third of the 19^th century. No -musical instructions beyond indication of metres. On its merits the -_Springfield Collection_ rightly shared with _Greenwood's Collection_ -(13) and _The Cheshire Collection_ (20) the largest measure of -popularity and use among Unitarians in the middle of the 19^th -century. - -15. _The Christian Psalter: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for -social and private worship_--Boston, 1841. - -Edited by Rev. William Parsons Lunt (1805-1857), for use in the First -Church in Quincy, Mass. It contains 702 hymns and psalms and -represents a reversion to the older type of hymnody, "but, if -old-fashioned, it was excellent and serviceable." Lunt included 22 -pieces by his parishioner, ex-President John Quincy Adams, whose wife -had put into his hands a complete metrical psalter which Adams had -composed. At least one of Adams' psalms is still to be found in some -hymn-books. - -16. _A Manual of Prayer for public and private worship, with a -collection of hymns_--Boston, 1842. - -Edited by Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot (1811-1887). Although printed -in Boston, this book was prepared for The First Congregational Society -of St. Louis, Missouri, of which the editor had become minister in -1834. The Society was the earliest Unitarian church in the Mississippi -Valley, excepting that at New Orleans. The book is primarily a -collection of service materials followed by 272 well-selected hymns -from standard sources. It was the earliest volume of the sort to be -prepared for Unitarian use in the Middle West. - -17. _A Collection of Hymns, for the Christian Church and -Home_--Boston, 1843. - -Edited by Rev. James Flint (1779-1855). The editor was minister of the -East Church in Salem, Mass., and based his book upon the 18^th century -collection of his predecessor, William Bentley (2). He borrowed the -title and much of the contents of James Martineau's book published in -England in 1840. The book contains 415 hymns. - - Note:--The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy of - this book. One is in the Congregational Library, 14 Beacon Street, - Boston. - -18. _The Social Hymn Book; consisting of psalms and hymns for social -worship and private devotions_--Boston, 1843. - -Edited by Rev. Chandler Robbins (1810-1882), minister of the Second -Church in Boston. The book, which contains 350 psalms and hymns, is -based upon Watts and Doddridge, but it introduced new hymns from -various sources, among them about twenty of Bishop Mant's translations -of "ancient hymns" from the Roman Breviary. Dr. Robbins was one of the -earliest American hymn-book editors to avail himself of the English -versions of Latin hymns which were among the fruits of the Oxford -Movement. His book has an appendix of 21 tunes in two parts, the book -being thus the first in this series to include any printed music. - -19. _The Disciples' Hymn Book; a collection of hymns and chants for -public and private devotions, prepared for the use of the Church of -the Disciples_--Boston, 1844. - -Edited by Rev. James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) for use in the Church -of the Disciples, Boston, which had been organized in 1841 and of -which he was the first minister. The first edition is commonly bound -up with _Service Book: for the use of the Church of the Disciples_. A -revised and enlarged edition appeared in 1852. The collection contains -318 hymns and an appendix of chants. It was notable for its freshness -and progressive outlook, and drew upon the most recent English -sources. It introduced into American use the hymn "Nearer, my God, to -thee," by Sarah Flower Adams, published in England only three years -earlier, and other hymns by the same author. It also included some of -Clarke's own hymns, more of which appeared in the second edition. - -20. _Christian Hymns for public and private worship. A Collection -compiled by a committee of the Cheshire Pastoral Association_--Boston, -1845. - -Edited by Rev. Abiel Abbott Livermore (1811-1892), Chairman; Rev. Levi -W. Leonard (1790-1864), Rev. William A. Whitwell (1804-1865) and Rev. -Curtis Cutler (1806-1874), ministers at Keene, Dublin, Wilton, and -Peterboro, New Hampshire, respectively. The editorial work was chiefly -done by Livermore, who also contributed to it his communion hymn, "A -holy air is breathing round." - -This book, commonly called _The Cheshire Collection_, ran through -sixty editions and was widely used. Its popularity was due in part to -its wide range--908 hymns--and to its provision for special occasions, -but more to the inclusion of fresh material of high quality. - -21. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary_--Boston, -1845. - -Edited by Rev. George E. Ellis (1814-1894) for use in the Harvard -Church in Charlestown, Mass., of which he was then minister. It -contains 658 hymns and psalms, and is based on _Greenwood's -Collection_ (13) and _The Springfield Collection_ (14). A Selection -from the Psalms, apparently intended for responsive reading, is bound -up with the hymn-book, of which it is an unusual feature. - -22. _Hymns for Public Worship_--Boston, 1845. - -Edited by Rev. George W. Briggs (1810-1895), minister of the First -Church at Plymouth, Mass. (1838-1852). The book contains 601 hymns; no -musical directions beyond indication of metres. There is a strong -emphasis on hymns of the inner life, the compiler having sought "to -bring together the most fervent expressions of a profound spiritual -life," many of which "have never been in familiar use in Unitarian -churches." - -23. _Service Book: for the Church of the Saviour, with a Collection of -Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship_--Boston, 1845. - -Edited by Rev. Robert Cassie Waterston (1812-1893), minister of the -Church of the Saviour, Boston. _The Collection of Psalms and Hymns_ -bound up with the services is _Greenwood's Collection_ (13) with a -supplement of 116 hymns selected by Waterston, so that the book is -more accurately described as one of the editions of Greenwood than as -an independent publication. The supplement, however, is notable for -the high proportion of good new hymns, not available when _Greenwood's -Collection_ first appeared. Among them are hymns by Samuel F. Smith, -G. W. Doane, the early and mid-century Unitarian writers, and some -taken from Breviary sources. - -No musical instructions beyond indication of the metres. - -24. _A Book of Hymns for public and private devotion_--Cambridge: -Metcalf & Company, printers to the University. 1846. - -Edited by Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892) and Samuel Johnson -(1822-1882). The editors were, at the time, students in the Harvard -Divinity School (class of 1846), and the book "grew out of an offer to -provide a new book for a minister who found even the recent ones too -antiquated." It was marked by poetic excellence and freshness, and -introduced to American use "Lead, Kindly Light," and hymns by -Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Jones Very, Mrs. Stowe and others, -besides hymns by the editors themselves. First used in Church of the -Unity, Worcester, Mass., of which Edward Everett Hale was minister; -then in the Music Hall congregation of Theodore Parker, who is said, -on receiving a copy, to have remarked, "I see we have a new book of -Sams." It ran to a twelfth edition in two years, but its greatest -influence was as a source-book for later editors. A somewhat enlarged -edition appeared in 1848. - -25. _Hymns of the Sanctuary_--Boston, 1849. - -Edited by Rev. Cyrus A. Bartol (1813-1900), minister of the West -Church in Boston, assisted by Charles G. Loring, Joseph Willard, and -other laymen of the church. The book is a revised and enlarged edition -of the "West Boston Collection" (10) of which the original edition had -been prepared by Rev. Simeon Howard (1). It contains 643 hymns and a -few chants. No musical directions beyond indication of metres. - -26. _Hymns for the Church of Christ_--Edited by Rev. Frederic H. Hedge -and Rev. Frederic D. Huntington, Boston, 1853. - -Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890) later became a distinguished -professor in the Harvard Divinity School. Frederic Dan Huntington -(1819-1904) later joined the Episcopal Church, in which he attained a -bishopric. - -The book contains 872 hymns,--no musical instructions beyond -indication of metres. It is conservative in tone but is marked by high -literary standards, and by a catholic inclusiveness beyond that of -most books in this series. It includes a number of translations of -Breviary hymns, and in it appears, for the first time, Hedge's -translation of Luther's "Ein' feste Burg." Better printed than most -contemporary hymn-books, it was hailed as "much the best book of hymns -yet published." Many hymns are listed as "Anon." and some authors are -given by surname only, making identification doubtful. - -27. _Services and Hymns for the use of the Unitarian Church of -Charleston_, S.C., 1854, 1867. - -The preface to the first edition, dated "April, 1854," was signed by -S. Gilman and C. M. Taggart, then joint ministers of the church. No -copy of this edition appears to be extant. A new and enlarged edition, -with an unsigned preface but reprinting the earlier preface signed by -Gilman and Taggart, appeared in 1867, "Printed by Joseph Walker, Agt., -Charleston." "Hymns for Christian Worship," 171 in number, make up the -second half of this volume. Almost all of them are the standard -English hymns in current use in the first half of the 19^th century, -with 10 hymns by American authors, three of which are by Dr. Gilman -and two by his wife, Caroline Gilman, all of which had appeared in -earlier collections. - -28. _Hymn Book for Christian Worship_--Boston, 1854. - -There is no preface and the name of the compiler nowhere appears. It -was, however, edited by Rev. Chandler Robbins (1810-1882), minister of -the Second Church in Boston, and is, in effect, an enlargement of his -earlier _Social Hymn Book_, (18), with 761 hymns, better adapted to -church use. Like its predecessor, it contained chiefly the older type -of hymns,--107 by Watts, 62 by Doddridge, 40 by James Montgomery, 13 -by C. Wesley, and 20 more called "Wesleyan." - -29. _The Soldier's Companion: Dedicated to the Defenders of their -Country in the Field, by their Friends at Home_, published as the -issue of _The Monthly Journal_, Boston, for October, 1861, vol. II, -No. 10. - -This was a small paper bound collection of a few traditional hymns, -supplemented by a dozen anti-slavery or wartime songs by living -writers, including J. Pierpont, E. H. Sears, and J. R. Lowell, with a -supplement of devotional readings and prayers. Presumably it had some -use in the Army, but copies are now very rare. - -30. _Christian Worship_--New York, 1862. - -Edited by Rev. Samuel Osgood (1812-1880), then minister of the Church -of the Messiah, New York, and Rev. Frederic A. Farley (1800-1892), -minister of The First Unitarian Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. - -A small collection of 159 hymns, bound up with a liturgical type of -service-book indicating the trend which later took Osgood into the -Episcopal Church. - -31. _The Soldier's Hymn Book, containing a supplement of national -songs for the use of chaplains and soldiers in the army and navy of -the United States_--Prepared by J. G. Forman, Chaplain of the 3d -Regiment Missouri Infantry, Army of the U. S., Alton, Illinois, 1863. - -Rev. Jacob G. Forman (d. 1885), the compiler, was at the time minister -of the Unitarian Church at Alton. This little pocket hymnal contains -99 hymns, and 26 additional patriotic songs. - -32. _The Soldier's Hymn Book for Camp and Hospital_--Cambridge, -printed at the University Press, 1863. - -There is no indication as to the source of this little book, and the -identity of its compiler has not been discovered. Its contents, -however, indicate that it came from a Unitarian source. It is a pocket -hymnal containing 150 familiar hymns and a few prayers, somewhat -larger and better printed than (31). - -33. _Hymns of the Spirit_--Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1864. - -Edited by Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892) and Samuel Johnson -(1822-1882). This is the second and more famous hymn-book compiled by -the editors. It contains 717 hymns and represents their later and more -radical trend of thought, the book being theistic rather than -explicitly Christian in its emphasis. It introduced many hymns by the -editors themselves, and made drastic adaptations or revisions of hymns -by other authors. Like their first book (24), it was more generally -drawn upon as a source-book by later editors than it was used in the -churches. In that respect it was one of the most important books in -this series. - -34. _Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and Home_--Boston, 1868. - -This book was compiled by a committee appointed by the American -Unitarian Association, but the editorial work was chiefly done by Rev. -Leonard J. Livermore (1822-1886). It is the first hymn-book to be -issued by the Association and the first American Unitarian hymn-book -to be completely furnished with tunes. It contained 740 hymns, about -30 chants, etc., and 299 tunes, a large proportion of which have since -dropped out of use. Regarded as in some measure an authorized -denominational hymn-book, it had wide use, though it "marked no -advance over its predecessors, but its tunes were well up to the -average level and gave it a great advantage," and stimulated -congregational singing. - -35. _Hymns for the Christian Church, for the use of the First Church -of Christ in Boston_--Boston, 1869. - -Edited by Rev. Rufus Ellis (1819-1885), minister of the First Church, -Boston. It was based on Lunt's conservative Christian Psalter (15) -which had been in use in the First Church for 25 years. About 250 -hymns were retained from the earlier volume and enough more added to -bring the total to 469. The selections were well made, but, without -music, the book could not compete with the more inclusive _Hymn and -Tune Book_ (34) which the American Unitarian Association had published -the preceding year. - -36. _Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and Home_--Revised edition. -American Unitarian Association, Boston, 1877. - -The compiler's name nowhere appears in the book, which was edited by -Rev. Rush R. Shippen (1828-1911), then Secretary of the American -Unitarian Association. It is a thorough-going revision of (34), -virtually a new book. It contains 871 hymns, 14 chants, etc., 316 -tunes, a much richer selection than its predecessor, although the -music was still of the mid-century type, with only a few examples of -the newer English tunes which were being introduced into America by -the choirs of Episcopal churches. The book was well adapted to the -general needs of Unitarians and was the most widely used book among -the Unitarian churches for the ensuing forty years. - -37. _Unity Hymns and Chorals_--Edited by W. C. Gannett, J. V. Blake, -F. L. Hosmer. Chicago, 1880. - -A later and largely revised edition was published in 1911 by Hosmer -and Gannett. The editors, Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929), William -Channing Gannett (1840-1923), and James Vila Blake (1842-1925), were -hymn-writers and ministers in the Western Unitarian Conference. This -small book, noted for its "split-leaf" arrangement, represented the -point of view of the "left-wing" group in the denomination. In its two -editions it contained most of the hymns by its editors, and a good -many by other authors which appeared for the first time within its -covers. In this respect, as in its radical character, it may be -compared to the hymn-books by Longfellow and Johnson (24 and 33). It -was widely used in the Western Unitarian Conference. Musically it was -mediocre. - -38. _Sacred Songs for Public Worship: A Hymn and Tune Book_--Edited by -M. J. Savage and Howard M. Dow. Boston, 1883. - -This small book contains 195 hymns and songs for popular use, selected -by Minot J. Savage (1841-1918), minister of Unity Church, Boston, -Mass., and set to music by Howard M. Dow. Forty-two items are from Mr. -Savage's pen, the rest mostly from familiar sources. It is much more -of a "one-man book" and musically nearer akin to the typical gospel -song-book than any other collection in this series. - -39. _Hymns of the Church Universal_--Compiled by the Rev. Henry Wilder -Foote [I]: Revised and edited by Mary W. Tileston and Arthur Foote. -Boston, 1890. - -This book was compiled for use in King's Chapel, Boston, of which Mr. -Foote (1838-1889) was minister, but was not published until after his -death, the editorial work being completed by his sister and brother. -The book superseded _Greenwood's Collection_ (13) in King's Chapel, -and had considerable use elsewhere. It contained 647 hymns, a number -of chants, and 299 tunes. It introduced many hymns and tunes of the -later 19^th century English authors and composers which were not found -in any earlier American Unitarian collections, and was influential in -setting a standard for later books. - -40. _Hymnal: Amore Dei_--Compiled by Mrs. Theodore C. Williams, -Boston, 1890. Revised, 1897. - -Edited by Mrs. Williams in co-operation with her husband, Rev. -Theodore C. Williams (1855-1915), minister of All Souls' Church, New -York. - -It contained 382 hymns, about 25 chants and responses and 272 tunes. A -collection similar to _Hymns of the Church Universal_ (39) in -utilizing the newer English hymns and tunes of the nineteenth century, -it had many excellencies and considerable use. The biographical -indexes of composers and authors are far more complete than those of -any earlier book in this series. - -41. _Hymns for Church and Home_--American Unitarian Association, -Boston, 1895. - -Edited by Mary Wilder Tileston and Arthur Foote, it was in effect a -revised and enlarged edition of _Hymns for the Church Universal_ (39), -containing 801 hymns. It was an admirable compilation but rather large -and heavy for handling. - -42. _Hymns for Church and Home Abridged_--1902. - -An edition of (41) with the number of hymns reduced to 513. - -43. _Hymns of the Ages_--Cambridge: The University Press. 1904. - -Edited by Louisa Putnam Loring (1854-1924). A book of high literary -and musical standards, based upon the (Harvard) _University Hymn Book_ -(1895). It contained 316 hymns and 205 tunes, but it represented a -rather limited and individualistic point of view and did not prove -adaptable to general use. - -44. _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book and Candle Light Service_--The Isles of -Shoals Association, 1908. - -Edited by Rev. George H. Badger (1859-1954). Since the book was -intended for use at the summer meetings on the Isles of Shoals, off -Portsmouth, N. H., the religious interpretation of nature is strongly -emphasized. The book contains 219 hymns and 96 tunes, mostly selected -from _Hymns for Church and Home_ (41), but nine of them are original -contributions to this book, some with lines referring directly to the -island setting or history. Both words and music represent the highest -standards at the time of publication, and the book is an exceptional -collection of hymns expressing this aspect of religion. - -45. _The New Hymn and Tune Book_--American Unitarian Association: -Boston, 1914. - -Edited by a commission: Rev. Samuel A. Eliot (1862-1950), Chairman; -Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, (II), (1875-____), Secretary; Rev. Rush R. -Shippen, (1828-1911), Rev. Lewis G. Wilson, (1858-1928). - -Nominally a revision of the _Hymn and Tune Book_ of 1877 (36), it was -in effect a new compilation, drawing largely upon _Hymns for Church -and Home_ (41), _Amore Dei_ (40) and _Unity Hymns and Chorals_ (37). -It contained 546 hymns, 28 chants, etc., and 268 tunes. It also -included a set of services and responsive readings, prepared by -another committee. It represented a great advance on earlier books and -was more widely adopted than any of them. In its music it was less -progressive than in its selection of hymns, representing the musical -standard and practice of about 1900. - -46. _Twenty-five Hymns for Use in Time of War_--The Beacon Press. -Boston, n. d. (1916). - -A pamphlet of hymns, more than half of them reprinted from the _Hymn -and Tune Book_ of 1914 (45) for use during the Great War. - -47. _Songs and Readings_--compiled and edited by Jacob Trapp and R. T. -Porte. Salt Lake City, 1931. - -This booklet contains 58 songs and hymns, without music, and 32 -responsive readings for use in the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake -City, of which Mr. Trapp (1899-____) was then minister. Intended for -ministers with "Humanist" leanings. - -48. _Hymns of the Spirit_--Beacon Press, 1937. - -Edited by a Unitarian Commission: Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, (II) -(1875-____), Chairman; Rev. Edward P. Daniels (1891-____), Rev. Curtis -W. Reese (1887-____), Rev. Von Ogden Vogt (1879-____), working in -co-operation with a Universalist Commission: Rev. L. G. Williams -(1893-____), Chairman; Rev. Prof. Alfred S. Cole, (1893-____), Rev. -Prof. Edson R. Miles (1875-1958), and Rev. Tracy M. Pullman -(1904-____). - -The title is borrowed from the second collection, edited by Samuel -Longfellow and Samuel Johnson, 1864, (33). The book is printed with -services and responsive readings prepared by the same two commissions. -It is an extensive revision of the _New Hymn and Tune Book_ (45) of -1914, with special emphasis on "the social gospel" and on hymns -dealing with "man in the universe." Its most notable advance over its -predecessors is in its music, edited by E. P. Daniels and Robert L. -Sanders. It contains 533 hymns, 42 chants, etc., 366 tunes. - - - - - _Alphabetical List of Unitarian Hymn Writers In the Following - Catalogue_ - - - Adams, John Quincy - Alcott, Louisa May - Alger, Wm. R. - Ames, Chas. G. - Anonymous - Appleton, Francis P. - - Badger, George H. - Ballou, Adin - Barber, Henry H. - Barnard, John - Barrows, Samuel J. - Bartol, Cyrus A. - Bartrum, Joseph P. - Beach, Seth Curtis - Belknap, Jeremy - Blake, James Vila - Briggs, C. A. - Briggs, LeB. R. - Brooks, Charles T. - Bryant, William Cullen - Bulfinch, Stephen G. - Burleigh, Wm. H. - - Cabot, Eliza Lee, see Follen, Eliza Lee - Chadwick, John W. - Chapman, Mrs. - Cheney, Mrs. Edna D. - Church, Edward A. - Clapp, Eliza T. - Clarke, J. F. - Collyer, Robert - Clute, Oscar - - Dana, Chas. A. - Dwight, John S. - - Emerson, R. W. - Everett, Wm. - - Fernald, W. M. - Flint, James - Follen, Eliza Lee - Foote, H. W., I - Foote, H. W., II - Freeman, James - Frothingham, N. L. - Frothingham, Octavius B. - Fuller, Sarah Margaret - Furness, W. H. - - Gannett, W. C. - Gilman, Caroline (Howard) - Gilman, Samuel - Goldsmith, Peter H. - Greenough, James B. - Greenwood, Helen W. - - Hale, Edw. Everett - Hale, Mary W. - Hall, Harriet W. - Ham, M. F. - Harris, Florence - Harris, Thaddeus M. - Hedge, F. H. - Higginson, T. W. - Hill, Thomas - Holland, J. G. - Holmes, John Haynes - Holmes, Oliver Wendell - Horton, Edw. A. - Hosmer, F. L. - Howe, Julia (Ward) - Huntington, F. D. - Hurlburt, W. H. - - Johnson, Samuel - - Kimball, Jacob - - Larned, Augusta - Lathrop, John Howland - Livermore, A. A. - Livermore, Sarah W. - Long, John D. - Longfellow, Henry W. - Longfellow, Samuel - Loring, Louisa P. - Loring, W. J. - Lowell, J. R. - Lunt, W. P. - - Mann, Newton - Marean, Emma (Endicott) - Mason, Caroline A. - Miles, Sarah E. - Mott, F. B. - - Newell, Wm. - Norton, Andrews - - Ossoli, Margaret, see Fuller - - Parker, Theodore - Peabody, Ephraim - Peabody, O. W. B. - Peabody, W. B. O. - Perkins, J. H. - Pierpont, John - Pray, Lewis G. - Prince, Thomas - Putnam, A. P. - - Robbins, Chandler - Robbins, S. D. - - Sargent, L. M. - Savage, M. J. - Scudder, Eliza - Sears, E. H. - Sewall, C. - Sigourney, Lydia H. - Sill, E. R. - Silliman, V. B. - Spencer, Anna G. - Sprague, Charles - - Trapp, Jacob - Tuckerman, J. - - Very, Jones - Very, Washington - - Ware, Henry - Waterston, R. C. - Weir, R. S. - Weiss, John - Wendte, Chas. W. - Westwood, Horace - Wile, Frances W. - Wiley, Hiram O. - Willard, Samuel - Williams, Theodore C. - Williams, Velma C. - Willis, Love Maria - Willis, Nathaniel P. - Wilson, Edwin H. - Wilson, Lewis G. - - Young, George H. - - - - - Biographical Sketches - with Notes on Hymns - - -Adams, Hon. John Quincy, Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, July -11, 1767--February 21, 1848, Washington, D. C. He graduated from -Harvard in 1787. From 1794-1801 he was United States Minister to -England, the Netherlands and Prussia. In 1806 he was appointed -Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard. In 1809 he became United States -Minister to Russia, in 1817 he was Secretary of State, and from 1824 -to 1828 he was President of the United States. In 1831 he was elected -to the House of Representatives, in which body he served until his -death. - -Most of his verse, both religious and secular, was written after he -had left the Presidency, but he remains the only hymn writer who has -ever been President of this country. In his later years he composed a -metrical version of the Psalms, best described as a free rendering in -fairly good verse of what he felt was the essential idea of each -Psalm. When his minister, Rev. William P. Lunt, _q.v._, of the First -Parish, (Unitarian) Quincy, Massachusetts, undertook the preparation -of his hymn book _The Christian Psalmist_, (1841), Mrs. Adams put the -manuscript of her husband's metrical Psalms into Mr. Lunt's hands, and -the latter included 17 of them in his book, and five other hymns by -his distinguished parishioner. - -The effect on Adams is recorded in a moving entry in his _Journal_ -which reveals an aspect of his character quite unknown to those who -regarded him as an opinionated and uncompromising though sincere and -upright politician. He wrote on June 29, 1845, "Mr. Lunt preached this -morning, Eccles. III, 1. For everything there is a season. He had -given out as the first hymn to be sung the 138^th of the Christian -Psalter, his compilation and the hymn-book now used in our church. It -was my version of the 65^th Psalm; and no words can express the -sensations with which I heard it sung. Were it possible to compress -into one pulsation of the heart the pleasure which, in the whole -period of my life, I have enjoyed in praise from the lips of mortal -man, it would not weigh a straw to balance the ecstasy of delight -which streamed from my eyes as the organ pealed and the choir of -voices sung the praise of Almighty God from the soul of David, adapted -to my native tongue by me. There was one drawback. In the printed -book, the fifth line of the second stanza reads, - - 'The morning's dawn, the evening's shade,' - -and so it was sung, but the corresponding seventh line of the same -stanza reads, - - 'The fields from thee the rains receive,' - -totally destroying the rhyme. I instantly saw that the fifth line -should read, - - 'The morning's dawn, the shades of eve,' - -but whether this enormous blunder was committed by the copyist or the -pressman I am left to conjecture." - -After Adams' death his verses, both religious and secular, were -published in a small volume entitled _Poems of Religion and Society_, -New York, 1848, which ran to a fourth edition in 1854. This collection -included the five hymns and 17 metrical Psalms printed in _The -Christian Psalmist_, unchanged except that the opening line of each -psalm has been substituted for the number of the psalm as its heading. -Nor was the misprint which Adams lamented amended. Judged by the -conventional standards of his time Adams' poetry was consistently -respectable verse, but without any notable distinction other than that -lent to it by the fame of the author. - -His five hymns are, - - 1. _Sure to the mansions of the blest_, (Death of Children) - - This is part of a piece of 20 stanzas, which appeared in the - _Monthly Anthology and Boston Review_, January 1807. It is - entitled "Lines addressed to a mother on the death of two infants, - 19th Sept. 1803, and 19th Decb. 1806." - - 2. _Alas! how swift the moments fly_, (The Hour-Glass) - - Sometimes given as - - _How swift, alas, the moments fly_, - - written for the 200^th anniversary of the First Parish Church in - Quincy, September 20, 1839. - - 3. _Hark! 'tis the holy temple bell_, (Sabbath morning) undated - - 4. _When, o'er the billow-heaving deep_, - - "A Hymn for the twenty-second of December," i.e., the coming of - the Pilgrim Fathers, undated. - - 5. _Lord of all worlds, let thanks and praise_, - - "Written in Sickness;" undated. - -His metrical versions of the Psalms follow:-- - - 6. _Blest is the mortal whose delight_, Ps. 1 - - 7. _Come let us sing unto the Lord_, Ps. 95 - - 8. _For thee in Zion there is praise_, Ps. 65 - - 9. _My Shepherd is the Lord on high_, Ps. 23 - - 10. _My soul, before thy Maker kneel_, Ps. 103 - - 11. _O, all ye people, clap your hands_, Ps. 47 - - 12. _O God, with goodness all thine own_, Ps. 67 - - 13. _O heal me, Lord, for I am weak_, Ps. 6 - - 14. _O, judge me, Lord, for thou art just_, Ps. 26 - - 15. _O Lord my God! how great thou art_, Ps. 104 - - 16. _O Lord, thy all-discerning eyes_, Ps. 139 - - 17. _O that the race of men would raise_, Ps. 107 - - 18. _Send forth, O God, thy truth and light_, Ps. 43 - - 19. _Sing to Jehovah a new song_, Ps. 98 - - 20. _Sing to the Lord a song of praise_, Ps. 149 - - 21. _Turn to the stars of heaven thine eyes_, Ps. 19 - - 22. _Why should I fear in evil days_, Ps. 49 - -A few of these hymns and psalms found their way into other -collections. Nos. 2 and 3 were included in _Lyra Sacra Americana_; no. -18 is in _Hymnal for American Youth_ and the _American Student -Hymnal_; no. 16 is in the Jewish _Union Hymnal for Worship_, 1914. - - J. 16, 1647 - H.W.F. - - -Alcott, Louisa May, Concord, Massachusetts, November 29, 1833--March -5, 1888, Concord. She was the author of widely known books for -children, _Little Women_, _Little Men_, and others. Julian's -_Dictionary_, p. 1602, records her hymn, - - _A little kingdom I possess_, - -and cites Eva Munson Smith's _Women in Sacred Song_ as quoting a note -from Miss Alcott dated "Concord, Oct. 7, 1883," in which she says that -this is "the only hymn I ever wrote. It was composed at thirteen - - - -and still expresses my soul's desire." Notwithstanding this statement -another hymn attributed to her, apparently written for use by young -people and beginning, - - _O the beautiful old story!_ - -is included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - - J 1550, 1602 - H.W.F. - - -Alger, Rev. William Rounsville, Freetown, Massachusetts, December 28, -1822--February 7, 1905, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1847 and in the same year became minister -of the Mount Pleasant Society, Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1855 he was -settled over the Bulfinch Place Church, Boston. He was a popular -lecturer and the author of numerous articles and several books, the -most notable of which was his _History of the Doctrine of the Future -Life_, 1864, and later editions. - -His Christmas hymn - - _Jesus has lived! and we would bring_, - -written in 1845 while he was still a student, is included in Hedge and -Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. - -Other poems by him, including a hymn for the graduation of his class -from the Divinity School in 1847 and another for the ordination of -Thomas Starr King, are included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, but -have had no further use. - - H.W.F. - - -Ames, Rev. Charles Gordon, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1828--April 15, -1912, Boston, Massachusetts. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in -1849 and spent some years as a home missionary in Minnesota. In 1859 -he joined the Unitarian denomination and served several churches, his -last pastorate being with the Church of the Disciples, Boston. In 1905 -he wrote a hymn for the dedication of the new edifice of that Society -beginning, - - _With loving hearts and hands we rear_, - -which is included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - -A hymn beginning - - _Father in heaven, hear us today_, - -is attributed to him in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_: _Old and -New_, 1898, but is not found elsewhere. - - H.W.F. - - -Anonymous - -In Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, -there is no Index of Authors, but in its Index of First Lines the name -of the author, (often only his or her surname) is given in most -instances. The Index also lists 57 hymns as "Anon." or, more often, -with no word as to authorship. The source of several of these hymns -can be traced in Julian's _Dictionary_ or in Putnam's _Singers and -Songs of the Liberal Faith_, but I have been unable to identify the -author or source of the following hymns, or to check their later use, -if any. - - H.W.F. - -_Hys. Ch. Ch._ - - 509 Abba, Father, hear thy child, - 758 Alas! how poor and little worth, - 602 Behold, the servant of the Lord, - 73 Blest is the hour when cares depart, - 510 Come, let us who in Christ believe - 288 Come, O thou universal good! - 581 Come to the morning prayer, - - 707 Gently, Lord, O gently lead us, - 868 God of the mountain, God of the storm, - 437 God of the rolling year! to Thee - 765 Go to thy rest, fair child! - 305 Head of the church triumphant, - 860 Hear, Father, hear our prayer - 691 He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower - 686 I cannot always trace the way - 763 In the broad fields of heaven, - 37 "Let there be light!" When born on high - 255 Lord, in thy garden agony, - 409 Lord, may the spirit of this feast, - 861 Meek and lowly, pure and holy, - 573 Meek hearts are by sweet manna fed, - 798 Mortal, the angels say, - 856 My feet are worn and weary with the march, - 481 O'er mountaintops, the mount of God, - 294 On earth was darkness spread, - 742 O speed thee, Christian, on thy way, - 506 O Thou, who hearest prayer, - 803 O why should friendship grieve for them - 56 O wondrous depth of grace divine, - - 307 Saviour and dearest friend, - 312 Saviour, source of every blessing, - 539 Sovereign of worlds! display thy power, - 757 Swift years, but teach me how to bear, - 611 Take my heart, O Father, take it, - 75 There is a world, and O how blest, - 276 Thou art the Way, and he who sighs, - 768 Thou must go forth alone, my soul! - 155 'Tis not Thy chastening hand I fear, - 247 Wake the song of jubilee. - 528 When shall the voice of singing, - 846 Why come not spirits from the realms of glory? - 448 Why slumbereth, Lord, each promised sign? - - -Anonymous Hymns - - _Come, Holy Spirit, hush my heart_, - - C.M. 3 stas. 3 _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - _Come thou Almighty King!_ - - The widely used hymn to the Trinity which begins with this line - was written about 1757 in England. It has often been mistakenly - attributed to Charles Wesley, and research has failed to discover - who its author was. Perhaps he thought it prudent not to disclose - his name because both his words and the tune by Felice di Giardini - to which it was set in 1769 offered so marked a contrast to the - British national anthem, in the same unusual metre, which had come - into popular use about 1745 with the words _God save our lord the - King_. American Unitarians in the 19^th century could sing the - first stanza of the hymn, addressed to the "Father all glorious," - but not the trinitarian stanzas which followed. An unknown writer - produced two additional stanzas in a carefully revised version - which was included in Lunt's _Christian Psalter_, 1841; in the - 1851 _Supplement_ to Longfellow and Johnson's _Book of Hymns_, - 1846; and in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. This version, - however, was not satisfactory to later Unitarians and was again - largely rewritten in the form in which it has been included in - most of the Unitarian hymn books of more recent date. This version - will be found in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns - of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - _For mercies past we praise thee, Lord_, - - Given as Anonymous in Longfellow and Johnson's _Book of Hymns_, - 1846, in 4 stas. of 4 l. It was repeated in their _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864, and in the (Unitarian) _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868. - - J. 1564 - - _My life flows on in endless song_, - - 8.7.8.7.D. 3 stas. _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - _Now, when the dusky shades of night retreating_, - - This is a free translation in five stanzas of the Latin hymn, - _Ecce jam noctis tenuatar umbra_ by Gregory the Great, c. 600, - included in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_, 1853, as anonymous. It passed into Beecher's _Plymouth - Collection_, 1855, and into many other hymn books, British and - American, often with the 3^d and 4^th stanzas omitted. There is no - clue as to its author though Julian (p. 320) points out that the - first stanza appears to be an altered form of W. J. Copeland's - translation from the Latin, published in 1848. The three stanza - form of the hymn is included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, - 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 819 - H.W.F. - - _We follow, Lord, where thou dost lead_, - - L.M. 5 stas. Attributed to "Book of Hymns," in _Isles of - Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - -Appleton, Rev. Francis Parker, Boston, Massachusetts, August 9, -1822--June 14, 1903, Cohasset, Massachusetts. He graduated from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1845, and was minister to the Unitarian -church, in South Danvers, (now Peabody) Massachusetts from 1846 to -1853. He then left the ministry for secular occupations. His hymn, - - _Thirsting for a living spring_, - -was included, anonymously, in Longfellow and Johnson's _Book of -Hymns_, 1846, and, attributed to him, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. -It is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908; in _The New -Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. His -hymn, - - _The past yet lives in all its truth, O God_, - -was also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in _The New Hymn -and Tune Book_, 1914, but has now dropped out of use. - - J. 1551, 1606 - H.W.F. - - -Badger, Rev. George Henry, Charlestown, Massachusetts, March 27, -1859--May 11, 1953, Orlando, Florida. He was educated at Williams -College, A.B. 1883, at Andover Theological Seminary and the Harvard -Divinity School, receiving the degree of S.T.B. from the latter -institution in 1886. He served several Unitarian churches in New -England. From 1912-1918 he was a minister in San Antonio, Texas; from -1919-1936 in Orlando, Florida. The preface to _The Isles of Shoals -Hymn Book_, 1908, is signed with his initials as editor. That book -contains three hymns of which he was author:-- - - 1. _God of the vastness of the far-spread sea_, - - 2. _Lord, I believe, and in my faith_, - - 3. _Thy way, O Lord, is in the sea_, - -In 1910 he wrote a hymn beginning, - - 4. _O Thou who art my King_, - -which was included in The _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. None of -these hymns have passed into later collections. - - H.W.F. - - -Ballou, Rev. Adin, 1803-1890. Without much formal education, but -gifted in mind and spirit, he was ordained in 1827 as a Universalist -minister, but in 1831 joined the Unitarian denomination in which he -served a number of New England parishes. He wrote a hymn beginning, - - _Years are coming--speed them onward!_ - _When the sword shall gather rust_ - -which was included in Universalist hymnbooks and in _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Barber, Rev. Henry Hervey, Warwick, Massachusetts, December 30, -1835--January 18, 1923, Jacksonville, Florida. He was educated at -Deerfield (Massachusetts) Academy, and at Meadville Theological School -from which he graduated in 1861. After pastorates in two New England -churches he became in 1881 a professor in Meadville Theological -School, a position from which he retired in 1904. His hymn beginning, - - _Far off, O God, and yet most near,_ - -dated 1891, had considerable use and was included in _The New Hymn and -Tune Book_, 1914. - - H.W.F. - - -Barnard, Rev. John, Boston, Massachusetts, November 6, 1681--January -24, 1770, Marblehead, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in -1700, and was installed as minister of the Congregational Church in -Marblehead in 1716, which he served with distinction through the rest -of his life. A number of his sermons were printed, and in 1752 he -published _A New Version of the Psalms of David_, 278 pp., printed in -Boston, the result of his own endeavor to produce a fresh metrical -translation. It is listed in Julian's _Dictionary_, p. 929, under -_Psalters, English_. His book was used in his own church, but not -elsewhere, and is now very rare. His own annotated copy is in the -Harvard College Library and the original ms. is in the Massachusetts -Historical Society. - - H.W.F. - - -Barrows, Rev. Samuel June, New York, New York, May 26, 1845--April 21, -1909, New York. He graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1875 -and in 1876 was ordained minister of Mount Pleasant Church, -Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he served until 1881. He was editor -of the _Christian Register_ from 1881 to 1897, and was a member of -Congress, 1897-1899. - -A hymn beginning - - _Enkindling Love, eternal Flame_ - -is attributed to him in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - H.W.F. - - -Bartol, Rev. Cyrus Augustus, D.D., Freeport, Maine, August 30, -1813--December 16, 1890, Boston. He graduated from Bowdoin College in -1832 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1835. After lay preaching -for a year in Cincinnati he was ordained in 1837 as successor to Rev. -Charles Lowell (father of James Russell Lowell) in the West Church -(Unitarian) in Boston. He retired in 1889. He was author of several -books and of a large number of printed sermons and addresses. He, with -others, edited _Hymns for the Sanctuary_, Boston, 1849, commonly -called "Bartol's Collection", in which was included an anonymous hymn -beginning - - _Be thou ready, fellow-mortal_ (Readiness for Duty) - -This hymn passed into the _Supplement_ to Hedge and Huntington's -_Hymns of the Church of Christ_, Boston, 1853, and into other -collections. Its authorship has never been disclosed, but its theme -and mode of expression suggest that it may have been written by -Bartol. - - J. 120 - H.W.F. - - -Bartrum, Joseph P., a Unitarian layman living in the 19^th century, -who published _The Psalms newly Paraphrased for the Service of the -Sanctuary_, Boston, 1833, from which his version of Psalm CVI, - - _O from these visions, dark and drear_, - -was taken for inclusion in several Unitarian collections in Great -Britain and America and in the Universalist _Church Harmonies, New and -Old_, 1895. His version of Psalm LXXXVII, - - _Amid the heaven of heavens_, - -is included in Holland's _Psalmists of Britain_, 1843, vol. II, p. -339, with a critical note. - -Neither hymn is found in use today. - - J. 116 - H.W.F. - - -Beach, Rev. Seth Curtis, D.D., near Marion, Wayne County, New York, -August 3, 1837--January 30, 1932, Watertown, Massachusetts. He -graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York in 1863, and from -the Harvard Divinity School in 1866. From 1867 to 1869 he served the -Unitarian Church in Augusta, Maine. Ill health then led him to take up -a farm in Minnesota for four years. In 1873 he returned to New -England, where his longest pastorates were at Bangor, Maine, -1891-1901, and at Wayland, Massachusetts, 1901-1911, when he retired -to Watertown. His hymn, - - 1. _Mysterious Presence! Source of all_, - -was first printed in the "Order of Exercises at the Fiftieth Annual -Visitation of the Divinity School, July 17, 1866," having been written -for that occasion. - -In 1884 he wrote - - 2. _Thou One in all, thou All in one_ (God in Nature) - -These two hymns were included in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune -Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. His third hymn - - 3. _Kingdom of God! The day how blest_, - -is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - J. 1581 - H.W.F. - - -Belknap, Rev. Jeremy, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, June 4, 1744--June -20, 1798, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1762; taught -school for four years; in 1766 accepted a position as assistant to -Rev. Jonathan Cushing of Dover, New Hampshire, and in 1767 was -ordained, serving that parish until 1786. In 1787 he became minister -of the Federal Street Church, (now the Arlington Street Church) -Boston, which he served until his death. Harvard gave him the honorary -degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1792. He was the author of a three -volume _History of New Hampshire_; of a petition (1788) for the -abolition of the slave trade; and of other books and essays; and -formed the plan for the Massachusetts Historical Society, organized in -1791. He wrote no hymns but made an important contribution to American -hymnody in his collection _Sacred Poetry: consisting of Psalms and -Hymns adapted to Christian devotion in public and private. Selected -from the best authors, with variations and additions_, by Jeremy -Belknap, D.D., Boston, 1795, which ran to many editions. His intention -was to provide a book acceptable to both the conservative and the -liberal wings of Congregationalism, to bridge the widening gap which -resulted in the formation of the Unitarian denomination a generation -later. In this he failed, for only the liberal churches accepted it, -though it was widely used by them for 40 years, being much the best of -the period. It includes 300 hymns from the best English sources, and -was the first to introduce to Americans the hymns by Anne Steele. The -only American hymns in the collection are Jacob Kimball's metrical -version of Psalm 65 and Mather Byles' _When wild confusion rends the -air_. - - H.W.F. - - -Blake, Rev. James Vila, Brooklyn, New York, January 21, 1842--April -28, 1925, Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard College in 1862 -and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1866, and served Unitarian -churches in Massachusetts and Illinois, his last and longest pastorate -being at Evanston, Ill., 1892-1916. Author of a number of books. He -shared with W. C. Gannett, _q.v._ and F. L. Hosmer, _q.v._ in the -compilation of the first edition of _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1880, -which included his hymn, - - _Father, Thou art calling, calling to us plainly_, - -included also in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of -the Spirit_, 1937. The latter book also includes his hymn of the -church universal, - - _O sing with loud and joyful song_. - - H.W.F. - - -Briggs, C. A. - -A hymn beginning, - - _God's law demands one living faith_ (Law of God) - -is attributed to a person with this name in Hedge and Huntington's -_Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. It is probable, but not -certain, that the author was Rev. Charles Briggs, Halifax, -Massachusetts, January 17, 1791--December 1, 1873, Roxbury, -Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1815 and from the -Divinity School in 1818, was minister of the First Church in -Lexington, Massachusetts, 1818-1834, and secretary of the American -Unitarian Association, 1835-1848. - - H.W.F. - - -Briggs, LeBaron Russell, LL.D., Salem, Massachusetts, December 11, -1855--April 24, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1875, A.M., 1882; served as tutor, then as professor of -English, and as dean from 1891-1925. Harvard gave him the degree of -LL.D. in 1900, as did Yale in 1917, and Lafayette University gave him -the degree of Litt.D. For the celebration of the 300^th anniversary of -the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, December 21, 1920, he wrote a -poem which is introduced by a prayer in three stanzas, 11.10.11.10, -offered by "The Pilgrim", beginning, - - _God of our fathers, who hast safely brought us_, - -It is a fine hymn of thanksgiving for religious freedom and it was -included in the program celebrating the 300^th anniversary of the -"Cambridge Platform" in October 27, 1948. It deserves wide use. - - H.W.F. - - -Brooks, Rev. Charles Timothy, Salem, Massachusetts, June 20, -1813--June 14, 1883, Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1832 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1835. He was -ordained as the first minister of the Unitarian Church in Newport, -Rhode Island, on January 1, 1837, and served there until 1873. He was -author of a number of books, most of them translations from German -poets and novelists. After his death a volume entitled _Poems, -Original and Translated_, was published. The only hymn with which his -name is associated was in two stanzas beginning, - - _God bless our native land!_ - -said to have been written while he was a student in the Divinity -School. Part of the first and almost the whole of the second stanza -were rewritten by J. S. Dwight, _q.v._, and Putnam, in _Songs of the -Liberal Faith_, states that it was first published in this form in one -of Lowell Mason's song books in 1844. It was included, with further -alterations, in Hedge and Huntington's_ Hymns of the Church of -Christ_, 1853, and with yet other changes in Longfellow and Johnson's -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. In the 20^th century collection also -entitled _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, the hymn appears in 3 stas. of -which the first is by Brooks, the second by Dwight, and a third, of -which the first 3 lines are those introduced by Longfellow and -Johnson, the remaining four lines from a later unknown source, and its -authorship is attributed to "Composite: based on Charles Timothy -Brooks and John Sullivan Dwight." The complicated history of this hymn -is traced in Julian, 184, 1566, 1685. - - H.W.F. - - -Bryant, William Cullen, Cummington, Massachusetts, November 3, -1794--June 12, 1878, New York, New York. He was a student at Williams -College for two years, then studied law, and was admitted to the bar -at Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1815, where he practised until -1825 when he removed to New York. There he devoted himself to -journalism as editor of _The New York Review_ and of the _New York -Evening Post_, reserving part of his time, especially in later years, -to literary pursuits at his retreat at Roslyn, Long Island, where he -wrote addresses, essays and reviews as well as poems. In point of time -he was the first of the famous group of New England poets of the -nineteenth century. He began writing verses when a child and composed -his noblest poem, _Thanatopsis_, when only eighteen years of age. His -first volume of poems, containing one entitled _The Ages_ delivered -before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard, and some others, was -published in 1821. In 1832 a volume entitled _Poems_, complete to that -date, was published, for which Washington Irving secured republication -in England, where it brought him wide recognition. Many successive -editions of Poems, each with some additional items, were published in -later years, and after his death a complete edition of the _Poetical -Works of William Cullen Bryant_ appeared in 1879. He also had -privately printed a little volume of his _Hymns_, 1869. - -The following pieces by him have been included in various collections -of hymns, some of them having considerable use in Great Britain as -well as in this country. - - 1. _All praise to him of Nazareth_ (Communion) - - Dated 1864. Included in Hatfield's (British) _Church Hymn Book_, - 1874, in 3 stanzas, and in _Songs of the Sanctuary_ and in - Putnam's _Singers and Songs_, etc. in 5 stanzas. - - 2. _All that in this wide world we see_ (Omnipresence) - - Dated 1836, but Beard, in his _Collection_, (British) 1837, gives - it as an original contribution, thus fixing the date of first - publication. Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., notes that it was - "Written, probably, for some church in England," information which - sounds like the aged poet's vague recollection many years after he - had responded to Beard's request. Included in Lunt's _Christian - Psalter_, 1841. - - 3. _All things that are on earth_, (Love of God) - - Included in Beard's _Collection_, 1837. - - 4. _Almighty! hear thy children raise_, (Praise) - - One of five hymns written by Bryant at the request of Miss - Sedgwick for inclusion (without the author's name) in Sewall's - _Collection_, 1820, compiled for use in the First Congregational - Society of New York (Unitarian), now All Souls Church. In Beard's - _Collection_, 1837, the first line is altered to read - - _Almighty, listen while we praise_, - - and in the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, Boston, 1868, it is - altered to - - _Almighty, hear us while we praise_, - - 5. _As shadows cast by cloud and sun_, - - Written for the Semi-Centennial of the Church of the Messiah, - Boston, March 19, 1875. Included in the Methodist Episcopal - _Hymnal_, New York, 1878. - - 6. _Close softly, fondly, while ye weep_ (Death) - - Included in H. W. Beecher's _Plymouth Collection_, 1855. - - 7. _Dear ties of mutual succor bind_ (Charity) - - Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, 1874, p. 130, says, "Mr. Bryant has - kindly sent us, as an additional contribution to this volume, the - following exquisite lines, which were written about forty years - since, for some charitable occasion, and which he lately found - among some old papers. They are not among his published poems." - Included in the Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, 1878. - - 8. _Deem not that they are blest alone_ (Mourning) - - Written for Sewall's _Collection_, 1820, _vide supra._ Included in - Beard's _Collection_, 1837, and, the first line altered to read, - - _O deem not they are blest alone_, - - in Martineau's _Hymns of Prayer and Praise_, 1873, and in _Songs - for the Sanctuary_, New York, 1865-1872. - - 9. _Father, to thy kind love we owe_, (God's Loving Kindness) - - One of the five hymns, written by Bryant for inclusion in Sewall's - _Collection_, New York, 1820. Included in the _Hymn and Tune - Book_, Boston, 1868, and in Martineau's _Hymns_, 1873. In Putnam's - _Singers and Songs_, etc. the first line reads, - - _Our Father, to thy love we owe_. - - 10. _How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps?_ (Future - life) - - A memorial poem in 9 stanzas rather than a hymn, but included in - part in the supplement of devotional readings in Hedge and - Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. Complete text - in Putnam's _Singers and Songs_, etc., pp. 125-126. - - 11. _Look from Thy sphere of endless day_ (Home missions) - - Dated 1840. Included in _Songs for the Sanctuary_, New York, 1865; - in Horder's (British) _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, and in the - _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935. - - 12. _Lord, who ordainest for mankind_ (Thanks for Mother Love) - - Written at the request of Rev. Samuel Osgood of New York for - inclusion in his _Christian Worship_, 1862, and included in - Martineau's _Hymns_, etc., 1873. - - 13. _Mighty One, before whose face_ (Ordination) - - Dated c. 1820. It was included in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns_, - etc. 1853, H. W. Beecher's _Plymouth Collection_, 1855, and - elsewhere. - - 14. _Not in the solitude_, (God in the city) - - Dated 1836. Included in Martineau's _Hymns_, 1873. - - 15. O God, whose dread and dazzling brow (God's compassion) - - Included in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns_, etc. 1853, and in the - _Hymn and Tune Book_, Boston, 1868. - - 16. _O North, with all thy vales of green!_ (Reign of Christ) - - Included in the author's privately printed _Hymns_, 1869, undated. - It passed into several British collections, e.g., the Scotch - _Church Hymnary_, 1898; _Worship Song_, 1905; _The English - Hymnal_, 1906; and is included in the American Episcopal _Hymnal_, - 1940. - - 17. _O Thou, whose love can ne'er forget_ (Ordination) - - One of Bryant's early hymns, perhaps written for the ordination of - Rev. William Ware, December, 1821, as minister of the First - Congregational Society of New York, (now All Souls Church). - Included in Beard's English _Collection_, 1837. - - 18. _O Thou Whose own vast temple stands_ (Opening of a house - of worship) - - Written in 1835 for the dedication of a Chapel in Prince Street, - New York. The building was soon afterwards destroyed by fire. This - hymn is the most widely used of all those written by Bryant. It - was included in Beard's English _Collection_ in 1837, and in - Martineau's _Hymns_, 1873. In Putnam's _Singers and Songs_, etc., - the opening line reads, - - _Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands_, - - and in this form it was included in Lunt's _Christian Psalter_, - 1861, and in the American Presbyterian _Psalms and Hymns_, - Richmond, 1867; in Horder's _Congregational Hymns_, London, 1884; - and elsewhere. - - 19. _Standing forth in life's rough way_ (On behalf of - children) - - Included in Dr. Allon's (British) _Children's Worship_, 1878; in - Horder's _Congregational Hymns_, 1884; and elsewhere. - - 20. _Thou unrelenting past_ (The Past) - - Dated 1836. A poem of 14 stanzas, a few of which were included in - Martineau's _Hymns_, 1873. - - 21. _When doomed to death the Apostle lay_ (On behalf of - Drunkards) - - Included in the Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, 1878. - - 22. _When he who from the scourge of wrong_ (Hope of - Resurrection) - - Written for Sewall's _Collection_, 1820. Included in _Lyra Sacra - Americana_, 1868. - - 23. _When this song of praise shall cease_ (Anticipation of - Death) - - Written for a collection of hymns printed at the end of a _Sunday - School Liturgy_, prepared by James Lombard, of Utica, New York, in - 1859. Included in Bryant's privately printed _Hymns_, 1869, and in - Stevenson's (British) _School Hymnal_, 1889. - - 24. _When the blind suppliant in the way_ (Opening the eyes of - the blind) - - Dated 1874. Included in the Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, New - York, 1878. - - 25. _Whither, midst falling dew_, (Divine Guidance) - - This is one of Bryant's best known poems, entitled "To a - Waterfowl," and dated 1836, and is in no sense a hymn, although - included in Martineau's _Hymns_, 1873. - - 26. _Wild was the day, the wintry sea_, (The Pilgrim Fathers) - - Included in Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. - -Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., p. 123 reports a hymn beginning - - _Ancient of Days! except Thou deign_, - -"written for the dedication of Rev. R. C. Waterston's church in -Boston," and another hymn beginning - - _Lord, from whose glorious presence came_, - -written "at the request of a friend, Mr. Hiram Barney, for the opening -of an Orthodox Congregational Church," but does not print the text of -either, and neither appears to have been included in any Collection. - -As indicated in the foregoing list, the text of several of Bryant's -hymns is found with the opening line altered from the original, either -by the author himself, or, presumably, with his consent, so that it is -impossible to say which is the correct or authorized form, and -frequently no more than approximate date of composition can be given. - -The early flowering of Bryant's gifts as a poet, promoted by a -fortunate combination of circumstances, quickly brought him widespread -recognition in both Great Britain and America, which deepened into -respect for his fine character as he advanced in age. The writings of -no other American poet of his period were so eagerly searched by -compilers of hymn books, who sometimes included verses which were -meditative, poems rather than hymns, e.g., nos. 8, 10, 20 and 25 in -the above list. Bryant's mind was cool and meditative, and his hymns -are correct and smoothly flowing, but seldom touched with lyric fire, -and none of them quite reach the highest level. They express an -attitude towards religion characteristic of the intellectual life of -his time but now largely passed away. No. 16 is still included in -several leading hymn collections of the 20^th century; nos. 11 and 18 -are in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914; and nos. 12 and -18 are in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 189-190, 1682 - H.W.F. - - -Bulfinch, Rev. Stephen Greenleaf, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, June -18, 1809--October 12, 1870, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was son of -Charles Bulfinch, a leading architect, and received his early -education in Washington, D.C., returning to Cambridge to enter the -Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1830. He was -ordained in January, 1831, as assistant to Rev. Samuel Gilman, _q.v._, -of Charleston, South Carolina, and later served Unitarian churches in -Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; Nashua, New Hampshire; -Dorchester, Massachusetts and East Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a -voluminous writer in both prose and verse. Most of his hymns first -appeared in his books _Contemplations of the Saviour_, Boston, 1832; -_Poems_, Charleston, 1834; and _Lays of the Gospel_, 1845. The first -of these was reprinted in England, where 19 of his hymns were included -in Beard's _Collection_, 1837, and where they had widespread use. - -His best known hymns are as follows: - - 1. _Benignant Saviour: 'twas not thine_, (Compassion of - Christ) - - From his "Contemplations of the Saviour," altered in Horder's - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, to read - - _Most gracious Saviour: 'twas not thine_. - - 2. _Burden of shame and woe_, (The Crucifixion) - 3. _Hail to the Sabbath day_, (Sunday) - 4. _Hath not thy heart within thee burned_, (Evening) - 5. _Holy Son of God most high_, (Christ) - 6. _How glorious is the hour_, (The New Life) - 7. _In the Saviour's hour of death_, (Good Friday) - 8. _It is finished! Glorious word_, (Good Friday) - 9. _Lord, in this sacred hour_, (Worship) - 10. _O suffering friend of all mankind_, (Passiontide) - 11. _There is a strife we all must wage_, (Life's Duty) - 12. _Toiling through the livelong night_, (Miracle of - fishes) - 13. _What power unseen by mortal eye_, (Miracle) - -These hymns are well written contemplations of gospel episodes, as -viewed by the conservative piety of the author's period. Several were -included in Longfellow and Johnson's _Book of Hymns_, 1846-1848; nos. -6 and 10 are in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of -Christ_, 1853; and most of them in one and another 19^th century -collection. Only No. 4 has survived in present-day use, being found in -_The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 191, 1555 revised - H.W.F. - - -Burleigh, William Henry, Woodstock, Connecticut, February 12, -1812--March 18, 1871, Brooklyn, New York. He was an editor and -publisher working successively in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1837-1843; -in Hartford, Connecticut, 1843-1849; in Syracuse, New York, 1849-1854. -From 1855-1870 he was Harbor Master of New York. He was a member of -the Second Unitarian Church in Brooklyn and an ardent advocate of -anti-slavery and temperance reforms. Early in life he began writing -hymns and other poems which were printed in various periodicals, but -for many of which the date and occasion are impossible to determine. -They were collected for publication in a volume entitled _Poems_, -Philadelphia, 1841, and this book, enlarged with his later poems, was -republished in 1871 after his death, with a biographical notice by his -wife. Some of the best were included in the British collection _Lyra -Sacra Americana_, 1868, the editor of which, Dr. Cleveland, said, -"Most of these beautiful hymns of Mr. Burleigh's were given to me in -ms. by the author." From this publication they were taken for -extensive use in British hymn books. - - 1. _Abide not in the realm of dreams_, (The Harvest Call) - - Included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., is a poem of 10 - stanzas from which a cento consisting of the first two lines of - stanza 1 combined with the second two lines of stanza 2, followed - by stanzas 3, 6, 7 and 10 are taken to form a hymn in the _New - Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 2. _Fades from the west the farewell light_ (Night) - - This poem, entitled "A Psalm of Night," is given in his _Poems_, - New York, 1871. Although not in the first edition of _Poems_, - 1841, stanzas selected from it came into use as early as 1844. The - original is in 5 stanzas of 8 lines. From it the following centos - have come into use. - - (a) _Day unto day uttereth speech_, - - This consists of stanzas III-V, and is given in the _Christian - Hymns_ of the Cheshire Pastoral Association, 1844, as an "Evening - Hymn." - - (b) _O Holy Father, mid the calm_ - - This cento consists of stanzas IV-V, and is given in Longfellow - and Johnson's _Book of Hymns_, 1846, and in their _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864. - - (c) _Not only doth the voiceful day_, - - Composed of stanzas II-III, in Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of - the Spirit_, 1864. Another arrangement beginning with the same - stanza is in _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - (d) _The brightening dawn and voiceful day_, - - In the British _Hymnary_, London, 1872, an altered form of (c), - with the addition of a doxology. - - In these various forms the use of this hymn was very extensive. - - 3. _Father, beneath thy sheltering wing_, (Trust and Peace) - - Printed in Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, - in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. Included in the British _Baptist Hymnal_, - 1879; in Horder's _Congregational Hymns_, 1884; and others; and in - many American collections. - - 4. _Father, thy servant waits to do thy will_ (Ordination) - - "Written for the ordination of Mr. J. W. Chadwick, as pastor of - the Second Unitarian Church, in Brooklyn, New York, 1864." - Included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc. - - 5. _For the dear love that kept us through the night_ (Morning) - - Taken from the author's _Poems_, 1871, for inclusion in Horder's - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884. - - 6. _From the profoundest depths of tribulation_ (Lent) - - A meditative poem rather than a hymn, included in the Supplement - to Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns of the Church of Christ_, 1853. - - 7. _Lead us, O Father, in the paths of peace_ (Divine Guidance) - - In _Lyra Sacra Americana_ headed "A Prayer for Guidance." This is - one of the author's best known and most widely used hymns. - Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 8. Not in vain I poured my supplication (Lent) - - A continuation of the same thought as no. 6, preceding, which it - follows in the Supplement to Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns_, etc. - - 9. _O deem not that earth's crowning bliss_, (Morning) - - In his _Poems_, 1871; in _Lyra Sacra Americana_ from which it - passed into the British _Baptist Hymnal_, 1879, and Horder's - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, and others. In the Methodist - Episcopal _Hymnal_, New York, 1878, the hymn beginning - - _From lips divine the healing balm_ - - is a cento from this poem. - - 10. _Still will we trust though earth seems dark and dreary_, - (Faith) - - From _Lyra Sacra Americana_ this passed into many non-conformist - collections in Great Britain where it was the most widely used of - all of Burleigh's hymns. It had a much more limited use in this - country. Included in Putnam's _Singers & Songs_, etc. - - 11. _There is a beautiful land by the spoiler untrod_, (Heaven) - - Dr. Cleveland, editor of _Lyra Sacra Americana_ says "This piece - was first published in the _Independent_, Jan. 18, 1866." - - 12. _They who have kept their virgin whiteness_, (Purity) - - In _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 13. _Thou who look'st with pitying eye_ (Lent) - - In _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 14. _Through the changes of the day_ (Evening) - - From his Poems, 1841. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_; in S.P.C.K.'s - _Psalms and Hymns_, 1852; in Thring's _Collection_, and other - British books. - - 15. _We ask not that our path be always bright_, (Trust in God) - - From _Lyra Sacra Americana_ this passed into Horder's - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884. - - 16. _When gladness gilds our prosperous day_ (Good in all) - - From _Lyra Sacra Americana_ this passed into Horder's - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884. - -The above hymns have had much less use in this country than in Great -Britain. Nos. 7 and 10 are in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_, -1895; nos. 1 and 7 in _Hymns of the Spirit_. 1937, no. 7 in _The -Hymnal_, 1940; and no. 3 in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_. The -others, though very acceptable expressions of the religious thought -and feeling in the era in which the author lived, have now dropped out -of use. - - J. 195-6 - Revised H.W.F - - -Chadwick, Rev. John White, Marblehead, Massachusetts, October 19, -1840--December 11, 1904, Brooklyn, New York. After two years of study -at the Bridgewater Normal School, and a shorter period at Phillips -Exeter Academy, he entered the Harvard Divinity School, from which he -graduated in 1864. He received the degree of A.M. 1888. In December, -1864, he was ordained minister of the Second Unitarian Church, -Brooklyn, where he remained until his death. He was an influential -preacher and a prolific author in both prose and verse, his principal -publications being a _Book of Poems_, 1876, _Nazareth Town_, 1883 -(poems), the two being later combined and republished in 1888 with the -earlier title; _The Bible Today_, 1879: _Old and New Unitarian -Belief_, 1894; and first-rate biographies of _Theodore Parker_, 1901, -and _William Ellery Channing_, 1903. After his death a small volume -was published entitled _Later Poems_, 1905, and his printed sermons -have been collected in 14 volumes. As a young man he became a close -friend of W. C. Gannett, _q.v._, and F. L. Hosmer, _q.v._, both of -whom were also born in 1840, though not his classmates in the Divinity -School, and his hymns are expressions of a theological outlook similar -to theirs, notably in his endeavor to give a religious interpretation -to the then disputed doctrine of evolution. Although several of his -hymns are of exceptionally fine quality, he often wrote in haste, -lacking the patience with which his two friends sought for the precise -word to convey their meaning, but he often abbreviated or re-wrote his -verses at the request of hymn-book editors, or willingly accepted -their proposed alterations. The result is that some of his hymns now -appear in forms which depart considerably from their original texts. -His secular poems, mostly the utterances of a nature lover, are often -the too hastily written verse of a minor poet. - -His _Book of Poems_, 1888, and _Later Poems_, 1905, include all his -hymns, three of which had little use, viz: - - 1. _A gentle tumult in the earth_, (Easter) 1876 - - 2. _Everlasting Holy One_, (Invocation) 1875 - - 3. _O God, we come not as of old_, (Worship) 1874 - -His best known hymn was written for the Visitation Day exercises at -the Harvard Divinity School, 1864, - - 4. _Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round_, - -It has been widely used in Great Britain and in this country. Other -hymns by him have had considerable use, as follows: - - 5. _Another year of setting suns_, (New Year's) 1873 - - This was written in ten stanzas beginning - - "That this shall be a better year," - - but in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, only stas. 5, 6, 7, and 10 are - given, beginning as above. - - 6. _It singeth low in every heart_, (Commemoration) 1876 - - Written for the 25^th anniversary of the dedication of his church - in Brooklyn, and widely used. - - 7. _Now sing we a song of the harvest_, (Thanksgiving Day) 1871 - - 8. _O Love Divine, of all that is_, (A song of Trust) 1865 - - 9. _O Thou, whose perfect goodness crowns_, (Anniversary Hymn) - - Written in 1889 for the 25^th anniversary of his ordination. - - 10. _Thou glorious God, before whose face_, (Anniversary Hymn) - - Undated. - - 11. _Thou whose spirit dwells in all_, (Easter) - - Written in 1890. - - 12. _Thy seamless robe conceals Thee not_, (Jesus) - - Written in 1876. Included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, - but not in later publications. - - 13. _What has drawn us thus apart_, (Unity of Spirit) - - Written in 1891. - -Several of the above hymns, as printed in current hymn-books, consist -of selected stanzas, or have been slightly altered from their original -forms, in most cases by Gannett and Hosmer, for inclusion in their -collection _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1880, 1911. Two others included -in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, were not written as hymns but have -been quarried out of verses in _Later Poems_, by permission of the -author's widow, viz: - - 14. _Spirit of God, in thunder speak_, (Summons to Duty) - - This arrangement combines stanzas 13 and 16 in the poem entitled - "A Missionary Chant", used as the first two stanzas of the hymn, - with stanzas 8 and 9 of the poem to "William Cullen Bryant" as the - third and fourth stanzas of the hymn, both poems being found in - _Later Poems_, 1905. - - 15. _Thou mighty God, who didst of old_, (Communion of Saints) - - This is arranged from the same sources. Stanzas 1 and 2 are the - first two stanzas in "William Cullen Bryant," the last three - stanzas are stanzas 11, 7, and 8 in "A Missionary Chant," - considerably altered. These arrangements were made by H. W. Foote, - with the coperation of F. L. Hosmer and W. C. Gannett, for - inclusion in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - -Of the hymns listed above _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937 includes Nos. 4, -5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15. - - J. 216, 1619 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Chapman, Mrs. (No information available). - -An anti-slavery hymn beginning - - _O God of freedom! Hear us pray_, - -is attributed to "Mrs. Chapman" in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for -the Church of Christ_, 1853. - - H.W.F. - - -Cheney, Mrs. Ednah D. (Dow) Boston, Massachusetts, June 27, -1824--November 19, 1904, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She married -Seth Wells Cheney. She was the author of several books, including _The -Life and Letters of Louisa May Alcott_. She wrote a hymn on "the -larger prayer," beginning - - _At first I prayed for Light_, - -in 4 stanzas of 10 lines each, printed in the _Riverside Record_ and -reprinted in the _Boston Gazette_, February 4, 1882. Enough lines have -been taken from this hymn to make a much shorter one in 5 stanzas of -four lines each, C.M. for inclusion in Unitarian hymn-books. It has -also been considerably rewritten, but since this revised form is not -marked as "altered" it is probable that the changes were made by the -author or at least with her permission. It is included in _Hymns of -the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Church, Edward Alonzo, Boston, Massachusetts, ---- 1844--January 29, -1929, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a business man who wrote in 1904, -for the laying of the cornerstone of a new edifice for the Church of -the Disciples (Unitarian), Boston, of which he was a member, a hymn -beginning, - - _Almighty Builder, bless, we pray,_ - _The cornerstone that here we lay,_ - -The next year, for the final service in the old edifice which the -congregation was leaving, he wrote one beginning, - - _O Thou to whom in prayer and praise_ - _We here have turned with constant heart._ - -Both hymns were included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and -the first is also in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Clapp, Eliza Thayer, 1811-1888. She was a resident of Dorchester, -Massachusetts. She was author of _Words in a Sunday School_, of -_Studies in Religion_, New York, 1845, and of later essays on religion -and of poems posthumously collected in a volume entitled _Essays, -Letters and Poems_, privately printed in Boston, 1888. At the request -of her friend R. W. Emerson she contributed three hymns and two poems -to The _Dial_, 1841. From one of the hymns in 9 stanzas of 4 lines, -published in The _Dial_, July, 1841, and entitled "The future is -better than the past," is taken the hymn beginning - - _All before us is the way_, (Onward with confidence) - -included in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, -1853, where it was erroneously attributed to Emerson, an error which -was repeated in several other collections which included it. - - J. 234 - H.W.F. - - -Clarke, Rev. James Freeman, D.D., Hanover, New Hampshire, April 4, -1810--June 8, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts. He was named for his -step-grandfather, Rev. James Freeman, _q.v._ He graduated from Harvard -College in 1829 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1833. He -served as minister of the Unitarian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, -from 1833 to 1840. In 1841 he returned to Boston where he gathered a -group of persons interested in the more radical social and religious -reforms of the day into a church which he named the Church of the -Disciples (Unitarian) of which he remained minister until his death. -He became one of the most distinguished ministers of his period in -Boston, greatly beloved and admired for his courage as well as his -piety, his wisdom as well as his wit. He was the author of several -books (and many short printed articles) the best known of which were -his _Orthodoxy: its Truths and Errors_, and _Ten Great Religions_. The -latter is an amplification of lectures on Comparative Religion which -he gave at the Harvard Divinity School as early as 1854, and again for -several years in the eighteen-seventies, the earliest course in this -field of study to be given in any American theological school. In 1844 -he published a _Service Book_ for use by his congregation, which -included a small selection of hymns, among them Sarah Flower Adams' -_Nearer my, God, to Thee_, which had appeared in England only three -years earlier and was now introduced for the first time to an American -congregation, whence it quickly passed into numerous other -collections. In 1852 a revised and enlarged edition of the _Service -Book_ was published entitled the _Disciples Hymn Book_, which included -five hymns by the compiler. A few of his poems are included in -Putnam's _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, and the following -hymns by him have come into some use. - - 1. _Brother, hast thou wandered far?_ (The Prodigal) - - First printed in the _Service Book_, 1844. It appeared in - abbreviated form as - - _Hast thou wasted all the powers?_ - - (beginning with the second stanza) in _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_, 1853; in Beecher's _Plymouth Collection_, 1855, and in - other American and British books. - - 2. _Dear Friend, whose presence in the house_, (Jesus at Cana) - - Dated 1855. A tender poem rather than a hymn, included in the - British _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 3. _Father, to us Thy children humbly kneeling_ (Aspiration) - - About 1833, after arrival in Louisville, Clarke wrote a poem - entitled "Hymn and Prayer" beginning _Infinite Spirit, who art - round us ever_, which was published in _The Dial_ for January, - 1841. Five stanzas beginning - - _Unseen, yet not unfelt!--if any thought_ - - were taken from this form of the poem for inclusion in Hedge and - Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, but already - Clarke had taken from his poem, and largely rewritten, three - stanzas to make the hymn beginning as above. In this later form it - was included in his _Service Book_, 1844, in Longfellow and - Johnson's _Book of Hymns_, 1846, in the _Disciples Hymn Book_, - 1852, and in many later collections down to the present day. - - 4. _For all thy gifts we bless Thee, Lord_ - - Written for a Unitarian Convention in New York City, held on - October 22, 1845, and included in _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_, 1853. - - 5. _Hast thou wasted all the powers_, - - Included in _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. - - 6. _To him who children blessed_ (Christening) - - 7. _To Thee, O God in heaven_ (Christening) - - Both of these tender and beautiful hymns for a christening - appeared in the _Service Book_, 1844, and have passed into a good - many other collections, although hymns are now seldom sung at such - a service. - -Of the above no. 3 was included in Longfellow and Johnson's _Book of -Hymns_, 1846, attributed to Clarke, and nos. 1, 5 and 6 were included -as Anonymous. In their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, these hymns were -correctly attributed to Clarke. He was the author of a limited -quantity of pleasing religious verse acceptable to his many friends -rather than a hymn writer of distinction, his best ones being nos. 3, -5 and 6. _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, includes nos. 3 and 6; -_The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935, includes nos. 3 and 5; _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1937, has only no. 3. - - J. 235, 1556 - Re-written, H.W.F. - - -Collyer, Rev. Robert, D.D., Keighly, Yorkshire, England, December 8, -1823--November 30, 1912, New York, New York. His education in -childhood was very limited, and in early manhood he became a -blacksmith, which had been his father's trade. He joined the Methodist -Church in 1847 and three years later sailed for America, settling at -Shoemakertown, Pennsylvania, where he was both a blacksmith and a -preacher. Having become acquainted with Dr. W. H. Furness, _q.v._, of -Philadelphia, he accepted Unitarian beliefs and left the Methodist -Church. His great intellectual abilities and natural gifts as a -preacher brought him an invitation in 1859 to go to Chicago to take -charge of the newly organized Unity Church in that city, which he -served until 1879, when he accepted a call to the Church of the -Messiah (Unitarian), New York. He was a widely popular lecturer and -author of many published sermons, other articles, and a few occasional -verses. The church of which he was minister was destroyed by the great -Chicago fire of 1870 but was soon rebuilt. For the dedication of the -new building in December 3, 1873, he wrote his one fine hymn -beginning, - - _With thankful hearts, O God, we come_, - -which altered to - - _Unto thy temple, Lord, we come_, - -has had wide use in Unitarian hymn books and is included in the _New -Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 1623 - H.W.F. - - -Clute, Rev. Oscar, Bethlehem, New York, March 11, 1837--January 27, -1902, Sawtelle, California. He took the degree of M.S. at Michigan -State College, and then studied at Meadville Theological School, -1867-1868. In the latter year he was ordained as minister of the -Unitarian Church at Vineland, New Jersey, where he remained for five -years. He served churches in Keokuk, Iowa, 1875-1878; Iowa City, -1878-1888; and Pomona, California, 1888-1889. From 1889 to 1893 he was -president of Michigan State Agricultural College, and president of -Florida Agricultural College from 1893 to 1897, when he moved to -California. - -He wrote a hymn beginning, - - _O Love of God most full,_ - _O Love of God most free,_ - -which is included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, in _Hymns of -the Spirit_, 1937, and in _The Hymnal_ (Presbyterian), 1935, the -Handbook to which describes it as "a rhapsody of gratitude for the -love of God." - - J. 1682 - H.W.F. - - -Dana, Charles Anderson, Hinsdale, New Hampshire, August 8, -1819--October 17, 1897, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. He was one -of the leaders in the Brook Farm Association, 1842; then became a -journalist and man of letters; on the staff of the New York _Tribune_, -1847-1862; Assistant Secretary of War, 1863-1864; editor of the New -York _Sun_, 1868. - -The hymn beginning - - _Work, and thou shalt bless the day_ (Joy in Labor) - -which Hedge and Huntington included in their _Hymns for the Church of -Christ_, 1853, and attributed to "C. A. Dana" was probably written -while he was engaged in the Brook Farm experiment. - - H.W.F. - - -Dwight, Rev. John Sullivan, Boston, Massachusetts, May 13, -1812--September 5, 1893. He graduated from Harvard College and from -the Harvard Divinity School, and entered the Unitarian ministry, but -after six years turned to literary pursuits, and was for nearly 50 -years editor of the Journal of Music. A meditative poem by him in -seven stanzas, entitled "True Rest," beginning - - _Sweet is the pleasure_, - -is included in the Supplement in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the -Church of Christ_, 1853, but it is not a hymn and his only connection -with hymnody was his part in re-writing the hymn beginning - - _God bless our native land!_ - -by his friend, C. T. Brooks, _q.v._ In most versions of this much -altered hymn the second stanza is in the form given it by Dwight. - - J. 1560, 1631 - H.W.F. - - -Emerson, Ralph Waldo, LL.D., Boston, Massachusetts, May 25, -1803--April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts. He was the son of Rev. -William Emerson, _q.v._, minister of the First Church of Boston -(Unitarian) who, though not himself a hymn writer, published in 1808 -the excellent small collection entitled _A Collection of Psalms and -Hymns_ (5). - -R. W. Emerson graduated from Harvard College in 1821 and after further -study in the Harvard Divinity School took his A.M. in 1827. He was -ordained in 1829 as minister of the Second Church of Boston -(Unitarian). He served the church for three years but resigned in -1832, feeling that his pastoral work was inadequate and that he was -not in accord with his parishioners' views about the Communion -Service. A volume of his sermons, selected and edited by A. C. -McGiffert, Jr., was published in 1938 under the title _The Young -Emerson Speaks_. Although he preached occasionally for several years -thereafter he never held another pastorate, but retired to Concord and -devoted himself to lecturing and authorship. As an essayist and poet -he rose to great and lasting distinction. He published _Orations, -Lectures, and Addresses_, 1844; _Poems_, 1846; _Representative Men_, -1850; _English Traits_, 1856; and a succession of later volumes. His -_Collected Works_ were published after his death, in 12 volumes. -Perhaps his most famous essay was his epoch-making _Divinity School -Address_, delivered in 1838. In 1833 he wrote his hymn - - _We love the venerable house_ (The house of God) - -for the ordination of his successor, Rev. Chandler Robbins, _q.v._, in -the Second Church, though it is more a commemorative poem than an -ordination hymn. It was included in Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of -the Spirit_, 1864; in Martineau's _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, -printed in England in 1873; and in later Unitarian and other hymn -books down to the present day. Four stanzas selected from this poem, -beginning with the second, - - _Here holy thoughts a light have shed_, - -were included in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of -Christ_, 1853, though without the author's name, and the same -collection erroneously attributed to Emerson a hymn beginning, - - _All before us is the way_, - -the author of which was Eliza T. Clapp, _q.v._, an error which was -repeated in various other collections. - -Part of Emerson's poem entitled _The Problem_, beginning - - _Out of the heart of nature rolled_ (The Everlasting Word) - -originally printed in the _Dial_, July, 1840, and then in his _Poems_, -1846, was also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in -Martineau's _Hymns_, but has since dropped out of use. - -Another poem of two stanzas beginning - - _Not gold, but only men can make_ - -was attributed to Emerson in the later book called _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1937, probably mistakenly. These verses are listed as -Emerson's in Granger's _Index to Poetry and Recitations_, under _A -Nation's Strength_, and Granger states that they are to be found in a -publication of The Penn Publishing Company of Philadelphia. They are -not to be found, however, in the _Centenary Edition of Emerson's -Poems_ nor in Hubbell's _Concordance to the poems of Emerson_ (N. Y., -Wilson, 1932). It is therefore doubtful whether the attribution to -Emerson is well-founded. - - J. 329 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Everett, William, Watertown, Massachusetts, October 10, 1839--February -16, 1910, Quincy, Massachusetts. Son of Hon. Edward Everett. He -graduated from Harvard College in 1859; took the B.A. degree at -Cambridge University, England, in 1863; and the degrees of A.M. and -LL. B. at Harvard in 1865. He received the honorary degree of Litt.D. -from Williams College in 1889 and the degree of LL.D. from the same -college in 1893 and from Dartmouth in 1901. After graduation from the -Harvard Law School he did not enter the legal profession but served -the College as tutor and then Assistant Professor of Latin for several -years. In 1872 the Boston Association of Ministers licensed him as a -lay preacher and thereafter he spoke frequently in Unitarian pulpits -in New England, but he was never ordained as a settled minister. He -served Adams Academy in Quincy, Massachusetts as headmaster from 1877 -to 1907, with an interruption of two years when in 1893 he was elected -a member of the House of Representatives in Washington. In 1866 _The -Christian Register_ printed his hymn beginning - - _Deal gently with us, Lord_, - -and three years later he wrote "for the Unitarian Festival at the -Music Hall [Boston], May 27, 1869" a hymn beginning - - _Almighty Father, Thou didst frame_ - -These hymns, and four others by him, are included in Putnam's _Singers -and Songs, Etc._ - - J. 1634 - H.W.F. - - -Fernald, Woodbury Melcher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, March 21, -1813--December 10, 1873, Boston, Massachusetts. He entered the -Universalist ministry in 1835 and served churches of that denomination -in Newburyport and Chicopee, Massachusetts, and elsewhere, for a few -years. He then became a Unitarian, without entering the ministry of -that denomination, and eventually joined the Swedenborgian Church of -the New Jerusalem in Boston. He did some travelling on behalf of this -body, as far west as Wisconsin, in intervals of employment at the -Custom House and, later, at the Post Office in Boston. He was author -of books and essays, most of them expositions of Swedenborgian -doctrine, and of a small amount of occasional verse, published in the -periodicals of the day but never collected in a printed volume. In his -private collection of his poems are a few hymns, only two of which -appear to have had any public use. One beginning - - _Great Source of being, truth and love_, - -was written for the ordination of Rev. Thomas C. Adam as pastor of the -West Universalist Society in Boston, March 12, 1845. The other, - - _When Israel, humbled of the Lord_, - -a protest against slavery published in the _Boston Journal_, in July, -1861, was included, in part and considerably re-written, in _The -Soldier's Companion: Dedicated to the Defenders of their Country in -the Field, by their Friends at Home_. This was published as the Army -Number of the _Monthly Journal_, Boston, October, 1861, vol. II, no. -10, a small Unitarian collection of hymns and devotional readings. In -this collection the hymn begins, - - _When Israel's foes, a numerous host_, - -and is attributed to "Rev. W. M. Fernald," though it is not included -in this form in the author's private collection of his verse. None of -his hymns appear to have had any further use. - - H.W.F. - - -Flint, Rev. James, D.D. Reading, Massachusetts, December 10, -1779--March 4, 1855. He graduated from Harvard College in 1802, and -was ordained an orthodox Congregational minister at East Bridgewater -in 1806, where he soon adopted more liberal beliefs, and carried most -of his congregation with him. In 1821 he accepted a call to the East -Church (Unitarian) Salem, Massachusetts, where he served until his -death. In 1843 he published _A Collection of Hymns for the Christian -Church and Home_, to replace the earlier collection (1788) by Rev. -William Bentley, _q.v._, for use in the East Church. Flint's -_Collection_ included several hymns by himself. One of them, "On -leaving an old house of worship," beginning - - _Here to the high and holy One_ - -was included in Lunt's _Christian Psalter_, 1841, as was a second, -written in 1840 for the 200^th anniversary of the incorporation of the -town of Quincy, Massachusetts, beginning, - - _In pleasant lands have fallen the lines_ - _That bound our goodly heritage._ - -This second hymn has been included in a number of later hymnbooks, -among them _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 379 - H.W.F. - - -Follen, Mrs. Eliza Lee (Cabot), Boston, Massachusetts, August 15, -1787--January 26, 1860, Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1828 she married -Dr. Charles Follen, a German scholar who had sought freedom in this -country and who was then teaching German Literature and Ecclesiastical -History at Harvard. Later he was minister of the Unitarian Church (now -called the Follen Church Society) at East Lexington, Massachusetts. -Mrs. Follen both before and after her marriage contributed verse and -prose articles to various periodicals and published a number of small -books, including _Hymns for Children_, Boston, 1825; _Poems_, 1839, -and, while she was in England in 1854, another small volume for -children, entitled _The Lark and the Linnet_. These books contain some -translations from the German and the versions of a few Psalms. - -Her best known hymns are - - 1. _How sweet to be allowed to pray_, (Resignation) - - This first appeared in _The Christian Disciple_, September 1818, - then in her _Poems_, 1839, entitled "Thy will be done." - - 2. _How sweet upon this sacred day_ (Sunday) - - In _The Christian Disciple_, September, 1828, and in _Poems_, - entitled "Sabbath Day." - - 3. _Lord deliver, thou canst save_, (Prayer for the Slave) - - In _Songs of the Free_, 1836; in Adams and Chapin's (Universalist) - _Hymns for Christian Devotion_, Boston, 1845; in Hedge and - Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; and in other - collections, but not included in her _Poems_. - - 4. _God, thou art good, each perfumed flower_, (God In Nature) - - This first appeared in _Hymns for Children_, Boston, 1825, - beginning with a defective line (7s instead of 8s) - - (a) _God is good! each perfumed flower_ - - and altered as above in her _Poems_ and in _The Lark and the - Linnet_. - - This hymn underwent further transformations in England. In Emily - Taylor's _Sabbath Recreations_, 1826, it was included as an - original piece never before printed, and signed "E.L.C.", the - initials of Mrs. Follen's maiden name. Possibly she sent a ms. - copy to Miss Taylor before it appeared in Boston. In J. R. Beard's - British Unitarian _Collection of Hymns_, 1837, it appears as - - (b) _Yes, God is good! each perfumed flower_, - - J. H. Gurney, the Anglican hymn writer and editor, included it in - his Lutterworth _Collection of Hymns for Public Worship_, 1838, - but, while retaining Mrs. Follen's opening stanza, rewrote about - half of the remaining four stanzas, and in his later _Marylebone - Collection_, 1851, rewrote it further, beginning it - - (c) _Yes, God is Good.--in earth and sky,_ - - and in a note appended to the Index of first lines he wrote that - he had found the hymn "in a small American volume ---- well - conceived, but very imperfectly executed," and that because of - "successive alterations--the writer has not scrupled to put his - name to it, J.H.G." In these altered forms the hymn had - considerable use in England (For further details see Julian, - _Dictionary_, 1298). - - 5. _Will God, who made the earth and sea_, (Child's Prayer) - - In _Poems_, 1839. In Dr. Allan's (English) _Children's Worship_ it - is erroneously attributed to "H. Bateman." - -The only one of Mrs. Follen's hymns in present use is 4_c_, in _The -Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, but several of her poems are -included in Putnam's _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_. - - J. 380, 1298 - H.W.F. - - -Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder (I), Salem, Massachusetts, June 2, 1838--May -29, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts. Educated at Harvard, A.B. 1858; A.M. -1861; graduated at the Harvard Divinity School, 1861. He was minister -of King's Chapel (Unitarian), Boston, from 1861 until his death, and -his book, _The Annals of King's Chapel_ (vol. I, 1882, vol. II, 1896, -completed by others) gives an authoritative account of the religious -controversies in Colonial Boston. At the time of his death he had in -preparation a hymnbook to replace the _Collection of Psalms and Hymns_ -which his predecessor, Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood, _q.v._, had published -in 1830. His hymnbook was completed by his widow, his sister Mrs. Mary -W. Tileston, (_q.v._) and his brother Arthur Foote, and was published -in 1891 as _Hymns of the Church Universal_. It was notable for its -scholarly catholicity and helped to introduce to American -congregations the then popular English hymn tunes of the "cathedral -school" by Barnby, Dykes, Stainer, Sullivan and others. The book -included the hymn which Mr. Foote had written for the Visitation Day -(graduation exercises) at the Divinity School in 1861, - - _O Thou with whom in sweet content_ - -This hymn has also been included in _Hymns for Church and Home_, 1896, -in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. - - J. 1604 - H.W.F. - - -Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder (II), D.D., Litt.D., Boston, Massachusetts, -February 2, 1875--still living. Son of the above; educated at Harvard, -A.B. 1897; A.M. 1900; S.T.B. 1902. He entered the Unitarian ministry -and has served churches in New Orleans, Louisiana; Ann Arbor, -Michigan; Belmont, Massachusetts and Charlottesville, Virginia. From -1914-1924 he was an assistant professor at the Harvard Divinity School -where he gave a course on the history of Christian hymnody. He was -secretary of the committee which edited _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, -published in 1914 by the American Unitarian Association, and was -chairman of the committee which edited _Hymns of the Spirit_, -published in 1937 by the Beacon Press (to be distinguished from the -earlier _Hymns of the Spirit_ by S. Johnson and S. Longfellow, 1864). -This later book includes one hymn by Dr. Foote beginning, - - _Thou whose love brought us to birth_, - -Dr. Foote also edited the words in _The Concord Anthem Book_, 1924, -and in _The Second Concord Anthem Book_, 1936, for which Professor -Archibald T. Davison selected and edited the music. He is the author -of several books and articles on the cultural or religious aspects of -American colonial history, one of which, _Three Centuries of American -Hymnody_, 1940, covers the period from the publication of the _Bay -Psalm Book_ in 1640 to the late nineteen-thirties. - - -Freeman, James, D.D., Charlestown, Massachusetts, April 22, -1759--November 14, 1835, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1777. In March, 1776, Rev. Henry Caner, rector of -King's Chapel, Boston, left with the British troops when they -evacuated the town, accompanied by many of his leading parishioners. -The remaining members of the church in September, 1782, engaged James -Freeman as a lay "Reader" to conduct worship. The prayers for the King -and royal family of England had been dropped and Freemen soon began to -omit references to the Trinity, expecting soon to be dismissed as -Reader. Instead the congregation voted to revise the liturgy in -accordance with his beliefs and in 1785 published the first edition of -the "Book of Common Prayer according to the Use of King's Chapel." -This action led Bishop Seabury, after his arrival in America, to -refuse ordination to Freeman, whereupon the congregation ordained him -according to Congregational usage. Freeman thus became "the first -avowed preacher of Unitarianism in the United States." He remained -active pastor of the Chapel until 1826. He edited a _Collection of -Psalms and Hymns for public worship_, published in 1799. It included -155 psalms "selected chiefly from Tate and Brady," followed by 90 -hymns, and remained in use in the Chapel until the publication in 1830 -of the much better _Collection_ edited by his successor, Rev. F. W. P. -Greenwood, _q.v._ Freeman wrote one hymn - - _Lord of the worlds below_ (The Seasons) - -which first appeared in his _Collection_, from which it passed to a -number of later ones. It is an adaptation for congregational use of -Thomson's "Hymn on the Seasons." See Putnam, _Singers and Songs of the -Liberal Faith_. - - J. 389 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Frothingham, Rev. Nathaniel Langdon, D.D., Boston, July 23, -1793--April 4, 1870, Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1811, and -after a brief period of further study and as tutor in the College, he -entered the Unitarian ministry and in 1815 was settled as minister of -the First Church in Boston, where he served until 1850, when -ill-health and approaching blindness caused his resignation. He was -one of the most distinguished Boston ministers of his period, and the -author of a good deal of verse, published in his _Metrical Pieces, -Translated and Original_, 1855, and in a second volume with the same -title in 1870. In 1828 he wrote his finest hymn, - - 1. _O God, whose presence glows in all_ - - for the ordination of his friend, W. P. Lunt, _q.v._, as minister - of the Second Unitarian Congregational Church, New York, on June - 19, of that year. - -In 1835 he wrote - - 2. _We meditate the day_ - - for the installation of Mr. Lunt as Co-pastor with Rev. Peter - Whitney of the First Church at Quincy, Massachusetts, and in 1839 - he wrote - - 3. _O Lord of life and truth and grace_, - - for the ordination of Henry Whitney Bellows in New York. - -His later hymns were - - 4. _O Saviour, whose immortal word_, - - "Written for the Dedication of the Church of the Saviour, Boston, - November 16, 1847."; - - 5. _Remember me, the Saviour said_, (Communion Service) - - 6. _The Lord gave the word,_ - _'Twas the word of his truth._ - - 7. _The patriarch's dove, on weary wing_, - - 8. _They passed away from sight_, (Death and Burial) - - 9. _When I am weak, I'm strong_ (Spiritual Strength) - -Of these hymns the first two were included in Lunt's _Christian -Psalter_, 1841; nos. 1, 2, 6 and 7 were included in Hedge and -Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ (1853); and all but no. -8 are included in the author's _Metrical Pieces_, 1855. No. 5 had -considerable use in the 19^th century, but no. 1 alone survives in -20^th century Unitarian collections. - - J. 400, 1564 - Revised H.W.F. - - -Frothingham, Rev. Octavius Brooks, son of Rev. Nathaniel Langdon -Frothingham, D.D., _q.v._, Boston, November 26, 1822--November 27, -1895, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1843, and in 1846 -from the Harvard Divinity School, where, for the graduating exercises -of his class, he wrote his fine, and only, hymn, - - _Thou Lord of Hosts, whose guiding hand_, (Soldiers of the - Cross) - -which was included in the _Book of Hymns_ prepared by his classmates, -Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson, published later in the same -year. He served as minister of the (Unitarian) North Church, Salem, -Massachusetts from 1847 to 1855, and became minister of the Third -Congregational Church in New York City, resigning in 1879. He was a -bold, outspoken, eloquent speaker, and the author of many printed -discourses and of several important biographies. - - J. 400, 1638 - H.W.F. - - -Furness, Rev. William Henry, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, -1802--January 30, 1896, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1820 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1823, -and was given the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Harvard in 1847. In -1825 he was ordained minister of the First Unitarian Church in -Philadelphia where he served for 50 years before becoming pastor -emeritus, his connection with the church covering a period of 71 -years. He was an accomplished scholar, and attained distinction as a -preacher, an author and a worker in social reforms. His publications -include _Notes on the Gospels_, 1836; _Jesus and his Biographers_, -1838; _The History of Jesus_, 1850; _a Manual of Domestic Worship_, -1840, in which his earlier hymns were printed; a translation of -Schiller's _Song of the Bell_; and other translations from the German. -His collected _Verses, Translations and Hymns_ appeared in 1886. The -following hymns by him have had considerable use. - - 1. _Father in heaven, to Thee my heart_, - - Appeared in The _Christian Disciple_, 1822. It was printed in this - form in several collections, including the Unitarian _Hymn and - Tune Book_, 1868. In Longfellow and Johnson's _Book of Hymns_, - 1846, it reads - - _Father in heaven, to whom our hearts_ - - and was reprinted in this form in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, - 1864, and in Martineau's _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873. - - This hymn has sometimes been attributed to "H. Ware," in error. - - 2. _Feeble, helpless, how shall I_, - - Included on the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844, and in later - 19^th century Unitarian publications; also in the British _Lyra - Sacra Americana_, 1868, and Thring's _Collection_, 1882. - - 3. _Have mercy, O Father_, - - Contributed to Martineau's _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873. - - 4. _Here in a world of doubt_, (Psalm XLII) - - Contributed to the New York Lutheran Coll., 1834, and included in - the author's _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840 and in Martineau's - _Hymns_, 1873. - - 5. _Here in the broken bread_, - - Included in the _Appendix_ to the Philadelphia Unitarian - _Collection_, 1828; in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the - Church of Christ_, 1853; and in a few later collections, among - them _The Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868. - - 6. _Holy Father, Gracious art Thou_, - - Contributed to Martineau's _Hymns_, 1873. - - 7. _I feel within a want_, - - Included in the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844; in Hedge and - Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; and in a few - other collections. - - 8. _In the morning I will praise_ (pray) - - In the author's _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840, this hymn - began - - _In the morning I will raise_ - - and was thus included in Martineau's _Hymns_, 1873, but in - Longfellow and Johnson's _Book of Hymns_, 1846, and later American - collections the first stanza is dropped and the hymn begins - - _In the morning I will pray_ - - 9. _O for a prophet's fire,_ - - Included in the _Appendix_ to the Philadelphia Unitarian - _Collection_, 1828, and in the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844. - - 10. _Richly, O richly have I been_, - - Written in 1823 and included in the author's _Manual of Domestic - Worship_, 1840. In Longfellow and Johnson's _Book of Hymns_, 1846, - and in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, it is altered to begin - - _O richly, Father, have I been_ - - In Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, - and most later Unitarian and other collections, the opening stanza - is dropped and it begins with the second stanza, - - _Unworthy to be called Thy son_, - - 11. _She is not dead, but sleepeth_ - - Included in the author's _Verses, Translations and Hymns_, 1886. - - 12. _Slowly by Thy [God's] hand unfurled_ - - Written in 1825 and included in the author's _Manual of Domestic - Worship_, 1840. In Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_, 1853, the first line was changed to read, - - _Slowly by God's hand unfurled_, - - and was thus printed in the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868. - In Martineau's _Hymns_, 1873, and in most later American Unitarian - collections, the original reading has been retained. - - 13. _That God is Love, unchanging Love_, - - Written in 1892 and included in _Hymns for Church and Home_, 1896, - and in _The Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - 14. _Thou only Living, only True_, - - An ordination hymn, dated 1868, included in Martineau's _Hymns_, - 1873. - - 15. _Thou who dost all things give_ - - Written in 1869. Included in the author's _Verses, Translations - and Hymns_, 1886; in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1904; and in Horder's - _Treasury of American Sacred Song_, 1896. - - 16. _To the High and Holy One_, - - This is printed in full in _Lyra Sacra Americana_, 1868. In - Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, the first - stanza is dropped and it begins with the 2^nd stanza, - - _To the truth that makes us free_, - - 17. _What is the world that it should share_, - - Printed in the _Christian Disciple_, 1822, and in Martineau's - _Hymns_, 1873. It begins with the second stanza of a hymn of which - the opening line reads, - - _Here in Thy temple, Lord, we bow_, - - In _Lyra Sacra Americana_ it is altered to read - - _Oh, is there aught on earth to share_ - - 18. _What is this that stirs within_? - - Printed in the author's _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840; in the - Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844, in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns - for the Church of Christ_, and in a good many other American - collections. - -Dr. Furness's hymns, though creditable religious verse of the period -and widely esteemed because of the author's distinction, nowhere -attain a very high level of poetic beauty, and almost all of them have -passed out of use. Only nos. 8, 10, and 12 were included in the -Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and only no. 12 survives in -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 402, 1638 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Fuller, Sarah Margaret, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 23, 1810--July -16, 1850, in a shipwreck south of New York. In 1847 she married the -Marchese Ossoli in Rome. She did educational work in Boston and in -Providence, Rhode Island, edited _The Dial_ in 1840, and was noted -locally for her intellectual brilliance. Memorials of her by R. W. -Emerson, W. H. Channing and J. F. Clarke appeared in 1851, her _Works_ -in 1874. - -Her hymn beginning - - _Jesus, a child his course began_, (Christ the Pattern of - Childhood) - -from _Life Without and Life Within_, 1859, p. 404, had some use in -Great Britain as well as in America. - - J. 1585 - H.W.F. - - -Gannett, Rev. William Channing, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, March 13, -1840--December 15, 1923, Rochester, New York. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1860; taught school in Newport, Rhode Island one -year; and spent four years on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, as -agent for the New England Freedmen's Society doing relief and -educational work with the thousands of Negro refugees gathered there. -In 1865 he studied for a year in Europe, then entered the Harvard -Divinity School from which he graduated in 1868. His first pastorate -was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1868-1871. He then spent several years -writing a biography of his father, Ezra Stiles Gannett, who had been -William Ellery Channing's successor as minister of the Federal Street -Church, Boston. He was minister of Unity Church in St. Paul, -Minnesota, 1877-1883; served the Western Unitarian Conference for four -years; was minister at Hinsdale, Illinois, 1887-1889; and of the -Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York, 1889-1908, where he remained -as minister-emeritus until his death. Throughout his professional -career he was closely associated with Frederick Lucian Hosmer, _q.v._ -Together they published three small collections entitled _The Thought -of God in Hymns and Poems_, the first in 1885, the second in 1894, the -third in 1918; and together they also edited _Unity Hymns and -Chorals_, 1880, revised edition in 1911. James Vila Blake, _q.v._, was -co-editor of the first edition. This little hymn book is a markedly -individualistic production with many of the older hymns altered to -conform to the beliefs of the editors. - -In these publications, in which most of their own hymns were first -published, and in the careful workmanship with which their thought was -brought to a perfection of poetic utterance, Gannett and Hosmer may be -compared to Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson whose _Book of -Hymns_, 1846, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, had appeared a -generation earlier. - -Dr. Gannett's hymns are listed, with annotations "based upon ms. notes -kindly supplied by the author" in Julian's _Dictionary of Hymnology_, -pp. 1638-9, as follows: - - 1. _Bring, O morn thy music! Night thy starlit silence!_ (God - Everlasting) - - Written in 1892, and printed in _A Chorus of Faith_, being an - account and resum of the Parliament of Religions, held in - Chicago, 1893. Included in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, - 1894, and again in several hymnals. - - 2. _Clear in memory's silent reaches_, (Memory) - - Written in 1877 for a Free Religious Association Festival, and - published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885. - - 3. _From heart to heart, from creed to creed_, (Faith) - - Written in 1875 for 150^th anniversary of the First Religious - Society of Newburyport, and given in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885. - - 4. _He hides within the lily_, (Divine Providence) - - "Consider the lilies, how they grow." Written in 1873, and printed - for use at the Free Religious Association Festival, May 30, 1873. - Published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885, in 4 st. of - 8 l. The most widely used of the author's hymns. - - 5. _I hear it often in the dark_, (The Voice of God) - - Written at Milwaukee in 1870, and published in _The Thought of - God_, 1^st Series, 1885. Sometimes it begins with St. iii, "O God - within, so close to me," as in _Hys. for Church and Home_, Boston, - 1895. - - 6. _Praise to God and Thanksgiving_, (Harvest) - - Written in 1882 for a Harvest Festival at St. Paul, Minnesota, - where he was then a pastor, and included in _The Thought of God_, - 1^st Series, 1885. In the Boston _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1904, and in - _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, it begins - - _Praise to God, and thanks we bring_, - - 7. _Sleep, my little Jesus_, (Christmas Carol) - - Written for the Sunday School, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1882, and - given in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894, as "Mary's - Manger Song." - - 8. _The Lord is in His holy place_ (Dedication of a Place of - Worship) - - Written for the Dedication of the Rev. C. W. Wendte's Church, - Chicago, April 24, 1873, and published in _The Thought of God_, - 1^st Series, 1885. It is one of the most popular and widely used - of the author's hymns. - - 9. _The morning hangs its signal_, (Morning) - - This is dated by the author "Chicago, July 30, 1886," and printed - in _Love to God and Love to Man_, being no. 28 of the Chicago - "Unity Mission" series of hymns, n.d. It is also included in _The - Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894. Although a morning hymn it is - adapted for use in Advent. It is usually known as "The Crowning - Day." - -Of the hymns thus listed in Julian's _Dictionary_ Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 -and 9 have been widely used and are included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. No. 1 was written to be set to J. B. Dykes' tune _Nicaea_, to -which it is usually sung. No. 4 is probably the earliest hymn in the -English language to give a religious interpretation of the then novel -and controversial doctrine of evolution. No. 9, as included in _Hymns -of the Spirit_, 1937, is attributed to "William Channing Gannett and -others", being an arrangement from one of his poems. - -Another fine hymn by Dr. Gannett beginning, - - 10. _God laid his rocks in courses_, - - is unaccountably missing from the above list in Julian's - _Dictionary_. It is dated 1888 and was written for the dedication - of the church in Hinsdale which was erected shortly before his - pastorate there came to an end. - -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, also includes as a hymn beginning, - - 11. _It sounds along the ages_, - - an arrangement of stanzas from one of Dr. Gannett's poems entitled - "The Word of God." - -Finally, mention should be made of his part in giving form to the -great hymn beginning - - 12. _Praise to the living God! All praisd be his name!_ - - This is a metrical version of the Yigdal, a summary of the Jewish - faith attributed to Daniel Ben Judah who lived about the 14^th - century A.D. About 1760 Thomas Olivers, a Methodist preacher - visiting a Jewish synagogue in London, heard it chanted in Hebrew - by the cantor Leoni (Meyer Lyon) to a traditional melody. Much - impressed he secured a prose translation which he turned into the - hymn beginning - - _The God of Abraham praise_, - - to be sung to the same tune, to which he gave the name Leoni. His - version, however, did not follow the original text at all closely, - for he gave it a Christian interpretation. (A detailed account of - this episode will be found in Julian's _Dictionary_, pp. - 1149-1151.) This hymn soon became, and has remained, widely - popular. In the 1880's Rabbi Max Landsberg of Temple Berith Kodesh - in Rochester, New York, a friend of Rev. Newton Mann, _q.v._ then - minister of the Unitarian Church in Rochester, asked Mr. Mann if - he could not make a metrical version of the Yigdal in English - which would be a more exact translation. Mr. Mann did so, but not - in the metre of the tune to which the Hebrew text was sung. After - Dr. Gannett had succeeded Mr. Mann in Rochester, Rabbi Landsberg - asked him to recast Mr. Mann's version in the same metre as the - tune. Dr. Gannett did so, and his version in 5 stas. was included - in the Jewish _Union Hymnal_, 1910, from which, with one stanza - omitted and some other alterations which in most cases are not - improvements, it has come into a number of Christian hymn books. - The unchanged version in 4 stas. will be found in _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1937, where it is recorded as "Revised version of the - Yigdal of Daniel Ben Judah" and the tune is called "Yigdal - (Leoni)" and is described as "Jewish Melody, arr. by Meyer Lyon." - Dr. Gannett never claimed this version as his, and it is now - impossible to discover how much of its wording is due to Mr. - Mann's earlier verse, but its poetic perfection is highly - suggestive of Dr. Gannett's craftsmanship, which assuredly has - contributed much to its present form. - - H.W.F - - -Gilman, Mrs. Caroline (Howard), Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, -1794--September 18, 1888, Washington D. C. She married Rev. Samuel -Gilman, _q.v._, on October 14, 1819, and after his death in 1858 lived -for a time in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later in Tiverton, Long -Island, New York. - -She began to write stories and poems at an early age, many of which -were published in "The Rosebud," later called "The Southern Rose," a -juvenile weekly paper published in Charleston, South Carolina, which -she edited for several years, beginning in 1832. Her book entitled -"Verses of a Lifetime" was published in 1854, as were a number of -other books which gave her a considerable reputation as an author. -Five of her poems are included in Putnam's _Singers and Songs_, etc. -Two of her hymns had considerable use, - - 1. _Is there a lone and dreary hour_, (Providence) - - This was contributed to Sewall's _Collection_, 1820, in 4 stanzas - of 4 lines, to which in 1867 she added a fifth stanza for - inclusion in the Charleston _Services and Hymns_. This hymn had - wide use in both British and American collections in the 19^th - century. - - 2. _We bless Thee for this sacred day_ (Sunday) - - Also contributed to Sewall's _Collection_, 1820, in 4 stanzas of 4 - lines, to which she added a fifth stanza, when included in the - Charleston _Services and Hymns_, 1867. - -Neither of these hymns is in current use. - - J. 423 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Gilman, Rev. Samuel, D.D., Gloucester, Massachusetts, February 16, -1791--February 9, 1858, Kingston, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1811, served the College as tutor in mathematics -for two years, and studied in the Harvard Divinity School. On December -1, 1819, he was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church in -Charleston, South Carolina, which he served with great distinction -until his death, which occurred while on a visit to Massachusetts. His -wife, Caroline Howard Gilman, _q.v._, was a writer noted in her day. -He wrote a good many poems and essays, published in magazines; a book, -"Memoirs of a New England Village Choir," 1829, which ran to three -editions; and in 1856 a volume of his miscellaneous essays, entitled -"Contributions to Literature, Descriptive, Critical, Humorous, -Biographical, Philosophical and Poetical." His two best known songs -were _The Union Ode_, composed for the Union party of South Carolina -and sung there on July 4, 1831, during the Nullification excitement, -and later in the North during the Civil War; and the college hymn -_Fair Harvard_, which he wrote in 1836. He had come to Cambridge for -the twenty-fifth anniversary of his graduation and the 200^th -anniversary of the founding of the College. On the eve of the -celebration, having already an established reputation as a poet, he -was asked to write a song for the occasion and it was sung at the -meeting on September 8, 1836, to a tune popular at the time, composed -for the song "Believe me, if all those endearing young charms." -Harvard gave him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1837. - -He wrote a number of hymns of minor importance. - - 1. _O God, accept this sacred hour_ (Communion) - - was contributed to Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris's _Hymns for the - Lord's Supper_, 1820, and was republished in Sewall's New York - Collection of the same year, in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for - the Church of Christ_, 1853, and other collections. - - 2. _This child we dedicate to Thee_ (Christening) - - In Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ the - author's name is not given and the piece is attributed to the - _West Boston Collection_, 1823. Putnam, in _Singers and Songs_, - etc., p. 73, gives four of its original stanzas, and says that it - is a translation from the German, but the original has not been - traced. - - 3. _We sing Thy mercy, God of love_, (Communion) - - Contributed to _Hymns of the Lord's Supper_ and included in - Sewall's New York _Collection_. - - 4. _Who would sever freedom's shrine?_ - - A song supporting the Union cause, of which Gilman was a strong - advocate, written at the time of the Nullification agitation. - Several stanzas from it, beginning as above, were included in _The - Soldier's Companion_, 1861. - - 5. _Yes, to the [that] last command_ (Communion) - - Like no. 1 and 3 included in _Hymns for the Lord's Supper_ and in - Sewall's _Collection_. - -All these hymns have long since passed out of use. - -Gilman (with C. M. Taggart) edited the _Charleston Collection_ in -1854, under the title _Services and Hymns for the use of the Unitarian -Church of Charleston, S.C._, a second and enlarged edition of which -appeared in 1867. It included three of his hymns, nos. 1, 3 and 5, -listed above, and the two by his wife, Caroline Gilman, _q.v._, listed -under her name. - - J. 423, 1592 - revised--H.W.F. - - -Goldsmith, Rev. Peter Hair, D.D. (1865-1926) was born in Greenville, -South Carolina. He was educated at the Southern Baptist Theological -Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, and served several Baptist churches -before transferring his membership to the Unitarian denomination, -after which he served as minister to the First Church in Salem, -Massachusetts, 1903-1910, and to the church in Yonkers, New York, -1910-1917. - -In 1912 he wrote a hymn beginning, - - _Holy, holy Lord,_ - _We with one accord,_ - -which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, but has not -passed into other collections. - - H.W.F. - - -Greenough, James Bradstreet, Portland, Maine, 1833-1901, Cambridge, -Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1856, was -appointed tutor in 1865, assistant professor in 1873, and professor of -Latin in 1883. In 1884 he wrote the Latin hymn in four stanzas -beginning - - _Deus omnium creator_, - -for the tune _Harvard Hymn_ which his friend, John Knowles Paine, -professor of music at Harvard, had composed in 1883 for use at the -Harvard Commencement dinner. - -It is included in _The University Hymn Book_, 1896, and in _The -Harvard University Hymn Book_, 1926. - - H.W.F. - - -Greenwood, Helen Woodward, Leominster, Massachusetts, April 18, -1880--April 2, 1959, Leominster. She was for many years engaged in -secretarial work for the General Alliance of Unitarian Women at 25 -Beacon Street, Boston. A hymn by her, beginning - - _As once again we gather here_ - -is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - H.W.F. - - -Hale, Rev. Edward Everett, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, April 3, -1822--June 10, 1909, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1839, the youngest member of his class. He did not go to -the Divinity School, but taught in the Boston Latin School and studied -for the ministry under the direction of Rev. S. K. Lothrop and Rev. J. -G. Palfrey. He was licensed to preach by the Boston Association and in -1846 was ordained as minister of the Church of the Unity (now the -First Unitarian Church), Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1856 he moved to -Boston, where he served the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) as -minister and minister emeritus until his death. He was a voluminous -writer. One of his stories entitled "A Man Without A Country," and -another, "In His Name," brought him wide reputation. He was a -distinguished preacher and a greatly beloved pastor, an ardent -advocate of peace who as early as 1871 proposed a "United States of -Europe," and in 1889 outlined a plan for an "International Tribunal." -In 1858 he wrote a hymn "For the dedication of a Church" beginning, - - _O Father, take this new-built shrine_, - -which was included in Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1864, from which Martineau took it for his _Hymns of Praise and -Prayer_, London, 1873. - - J. 481 - H.W.F. - - -Hale, Mary Whitwell, Boston, Massachusetts, January 29, 1810--November -17, 1862, Keene, New Hampshire. Most of her life she was a school -teacher in Boston, later in Taunton, Massachusetts, and, for her last -20 years, in Keene. She wrote a good deal of verse. Two of her poems, -one on "Home," and the second on "Music" were written for a juvenile -concert in the Unitarian Church at Taunton, April, 1834. A number of -her later hymns and poems appeared in _The Christian Register_, signed -by Y.L.E. (the final letters of her name), and in 1840 a volume -entitled _Poems_ was published in Boston. Several of her poems are -included in Putnam's _Singers and Songs_, etc. - -Four of her hymns were included in the _Cheshire Collection_, 1844, -viz: - - 1. _Praise for the glorious light_, - - Written for a Temperance meeting. - - 2. _This day let grateful praise ascend_ (Sunday) - - 3. _Whatever dims the sense of truth_ - - In Putnam, Singers and Songs, this is entitled "A Mother's - Counsel," with a quotation from John Wesley's mother. - - 4. _When in silence o'er the deep_ (Christmas) - -Of these nos. 2 and 3 were taken from her _Poems_, and nos. 1 and 4 -were written for the _Cheshire Collection_. No. 4 is in _Church -Harmonies_. 1895, but none of her hymns are in current use. - - J. 481 - H.W.F. - - -Hall, Harriet Ware, Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1841--March -18, 1889, Boston. She was a lifelong resident of Boston, a member of -King's Chapel. Two small books by her were privately printed, one a -collection of poems entitled _A Book for Friends_, 1888, the other -entitled _Essays_, printed posthumously in 1890. The first book -contains a hymn beginning - - _Lord, beneath thine equal hand_, - -in three stanzas, 7.7.7.7.D., dated February 10, 1869, and written for -the installation of Rev. E. H. Hall at Worcester, Massachusetts, in -1869. It is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, the -first line altered to read, - - _Lord, beneath whose equal hand._ - - H.W.F. - - -Ham, Rev. Marion Franklin, D.D., Harveysburg, Ohio, February 18, -1867--July 23, 1956, Arlington, Massachusetts. He was educated in the -public schools at Harveysburg, but as a youth moved to Chattanooga, -Tennessee to find employment. There he joined the Unitarian Church -and, after serving it as a lay reader for several years, was ordained -in 1898 as its minister, serving it until 1904. He later served -Unitarian churches in Dallas, Texas, 1904-1909; in Reading, -Massachusetts, 1909-1934; and in Waverley, Massachusetts, 1934-1939. -He began to write verse in 1888, and many of his poems appeared in -newspapers and periodicals, some of them being widely reprinted. His -collected poems were published in book form in 1896, entitled _The -Golden Shuttle_, which reached a fourth edition in 1910. He then -turned to hymn writing, and four of his earliest hymns were included -in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, viz:-- - - 1. _I hear Thy voice, within the silence speaking_, (1913) - - 2. _O Lord of life, Thy kingdom is at hand_, (1912) - - 3. _O Thou whose gracious presence shone_ (Communion) (1912) - - 4. _Touch Thou mine eyes, the sombre shadows falling_, (1911) - -These are also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, as are five -later hymns by him, viz:-- - - 5. _As tranquil streams that meet and merge_ (1933) - - 6. _From Bethany the Master_, (Palm Sunday) (1935) - - 7. _Heir of all the waiting ages_, (Advent) (1937) - - 8. _Ring, O ring, ye Christmas bells_ (1932) - - 9. _The builders, toiling through the days_ (Church dedication) - (1925) - -In April, 1936, he wrote an Easter hymn - - 10. _Oh, who shall roll the stone away?_ - -which first appeared in the Boston _Transcript_. It is included in -_The Hymnal_, 1940. - -In his later years he published, or had privately printed, several -small booklets containing these and other poems by him: _Songs of the -Spirit_, 1932; _Songs of Faith and Hope_, 1940; _Songs at Sunset_, -1951; _Songs of a Lifetime_, 1953; and _In a Rose Garden_, 1956. Of -these, _Songs of a Lifetime_ contains what he regarded as his best -poems, as well as his latest hymns, among them one widely used on -United Nations Sunday, beginning, - - 11. _Freedom, thy holy light_, - -and a fine national hymn, - - 12. _O my country, land of promise_, - -A number of his hymns have been included in the hymnals of several -denominations, and No. 2 was translated into Japanese. - -Dr. Ham's hymns manifest a deep spiritual insight expressed with -literary craftsmanship of a high order, which make them among the most -notable contributions to American hymnody in the first half of the -20^th century. - - H.W.F. - - -Harris, Florence, (Mrs. Robert G. Hooke) (1891-1933) wrote in 1907, -for the tenth anniversary of Unity Church (Unitarian), Montclair, New -Jersey, of which she was a member a hymn entitled "The Founders," -beginning, - - _Like pilgrims sailing through the night_, - -which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Harris, Rev. Thaddeus Mason, D.D. (1768-1842). He graduated from -Harvard in 1787, entered the ministry and served the First Church in -Dorchester, Massachusetts (Unitarian) from 1793 until his resignation -in 1836. Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1801 he -printed a leaflet with a few hymns, which formed the basis for a -larger collection of _Hymns for the Lord's Supper, original and -selected_, [edited] _by Thaddeus Mason Harris. D.D. Boston; printed by -Sewall Phelps, No. 5 Court Street, 1820_. A second edition was printed -in 1821. This booklet contains original hymns by Rev. John Pierpont, -_q.v._, Rev. Samuel Gilman, _q.v._, and others, none of them in use -today. - - H.W.F. - - -Hedge, Rev. Frederic Henry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12, -1805--August 21, 1890, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Son of Professor Levi -Hedge of Harvard, he was a very precocious child, ready to enter -college at 12 years of age, but his father wisely sent him to Germany, -with a tutor, George Bancroft, later a noted historian, where he -studied in German schools for 5 years. He then returned to Harvard -College, graduating in 1825, followed by a period of study in Harvard -Divinity School, where he became an intimate friend of R. W. Emerson. -He was ordained minister of the First Congregational Parish -(Unitarian) in West Cambridge (now Arlington) Massachusetts in 1829. -In 1835 he moved to Bangor, Maine, where he served the Independent -Congregational Society until 1850, then serving the Westminster -Congregational Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 1850-1856. In the -latter year he was called to the First Parish in Brookline, -Massachusetts, which he served until 1872. His removal to Brookline -enabled him to serve as a nonresident professor of ecclesiastical -history in the Harvard Divinity School. He retired from the ministry -in 1872 and moved to Cambridge, where he was appointed professor of -German language and literature, retiring in 1882. He was a man of -extraordinary intellectual ability, one of the most learned of his -time, and a pioneer in bringing to this country an acquaintance with -German literature and metaphysics. Harvard gave him the degree of D.D. -in 1852, and that of LL.D. in 1886. He was one of the editors of the -_Christian Examiner_, author of _The Prose Writers of Germany_, 1848, -of _Reason in Religion_, 1865, of a volume of _Metrical Translations -and Poems_ in 1888, and of a large number of essays and sermons. He -was president of the American Unitarian Association 1860-1863. He -collaborated with Dr. F. D. Huntington, _q.v._, in editing _Hymns for -the Church of Christ_, Boston, 1853, to which he contributed three -translations from the German: - - 1. _A mighty fortress is our God_, (Ein' feste Burg) - - 2. _Christ hath arisen!_ (Goethe's Faust) - - 3. _The sun is still forever sounding_ (Goethe's Faust) - - The Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book for Church and Home_, 1868, - includes his translation from the Latin, - - 4. _Holy Spirit, Fire Divine_, (Veni, Sancte Spiritus) - - Translated 1862. - -His original hymns included in _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, -are, - - 5. _Beneath thine hammer, Lord, I lie_, - - Undated but "Written at a time of severe trial and deep - depression." - - 6. _Sovereign and Transforming Grace_, - - Written for the ordination of H. D. Barlow at Lynn, Massachusetts, - December 9, 1829. This fine hymn is appropriate to a service of - worship and, with the omission of one stanza, has been widely - used. - - 7. _'Twas in the East, the mystic East_, - - A Christmas hymn, written about 1853. - - 8. _'Twas the day when God's anointed_, - - Written for a service in Bangor, Maine, held on Good Friday, 1843, - in six stanzas, the last three of which, beginning - - _It is finished, Man of sorrows!_ - - had considerable use in Great Britain and this country. The whole - six stanzas were included in Longfellow and Johnson's _Book of - Hymns_, 1846, as "Anonymous." The last three stanzas are in - Martineau's _Hymns_ and in many other collections. - - He also wrote a hymn beginning - - 9. _Lo! another offering,_ - _To Thy courts this day we bring,_ - - for his own ordination at West Cambridge in 1829, which was also - used at the ordination of F. A. Whitney, at Brighton, - Massachusetts, on February 24, 1844, but which passed into no - collections. - -All these hymns, and two other religious poems, are included in -Putnam's Singers and _Songs of the Liberal Faith_. Most of them had -gone out of use by the end of the 19^th century, but nos. 1, 6 and 8 -(beginning _It is finished, Man of sorrows_,) are in _The New Hymn and -Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - -By far the best known of Hedge's hymns is his fine and accurate -translation of Luther's great chorale _Ein' feste Burg_ (no. 1). This -is the version accepted by almost all the Protestant denominations in -this country, whereas in Great Britain Thomas Carlyle's earlier -translation (1831) is generally used, although James Martineau -included Hedge's version in his _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873, -mistakenly attributing it to Samuel Longfellow. Putnam, _op. cit._, -214, says that it was first printed in W. H. Furness's _Gems of German -Verse_, which appeared in Philadelphia, without date but undoubtedly -in the latter part of 1853, a second edition following in 1859. That -Hedge should have sent his translation of the chorale to Furness -without delay was natural, because the two men were close friends with -a common interest in German literature, and Putnam was the younger -contemporary of both, in a position to know that Furness's little book -had appeared on the market a few days, or weeks, ahead of the -collection of hymns which Hedge and F. D. Huntington were editing and -which they published late in 1853 as _Hymns for the Church of Christ_. - -The earliest record of the hymn, however, is to be found in the -autograph letter (now in the Harvard University Library) which Hedge -wrote to Rev. Joseph H. Allen, his successor in the pulpit at Bangor, -Maine, asking him to recommend hymns for inclusion in the book on -which he and Huntington were working. This letter is dated -"Providence, March 27th, 1853." In the course of it Hedge wrote, "I -have made a new translation of Luther's splendid psalm 'Eine feste -Burg ist unser Gott' Carlyle's translation not being available." This -statement is followed by the four stanzas of his translation. That -book contained no printed tunes, only citing the metre at the head of -each hymn as a guide to the organist, but in his letter Hedge goes on -with the surprizing statement, "The original is much sung in Germany -and therefore I suppose that it will not be difficult to find a tune -for it." Since he must have become familiar with both the words and -the music of the famous chorale when he was a youthful student in -Germany this remark indicates that the tune was still unknown in -America, and that he took little interest in introducing it. - - J. 504, 1647 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12, -1822--May 9, 1911, Cambridge. He graduated from Harvard College in -1841 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1847. Entering the -Unitarian ministry he served churches in Newburyport, Massachusetts, -1847-1850, and in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1852-1858. He was an -ardent Abolitionist and when the Civil War came he entered the Union -Army, in which he rose to the command of a Negro regiment. After the -war he became a man of letters and published several books and -numerous essays. While still a student in the Divinity School he -contributed to the _Book of Hymns_, 1846, which his friends Longfellow -and Johnson were preparing, four hymns, which they marked with an -asterisk, viz: - - 1. _No human eyes Thy face may see_ (God known through love) - - 2. _The land our fathers left to us_ (American Slavery) - - 3. _The past is dark with sin and shame_, (Hope) - - 4. _To thine eternal arms, O God_, (Lent) - -The last two have had considerable use. Both express the pessimistic -mood with which the young man viewed the evils of the time. - -One of his later poems of social justice has also had some use as a -hymn, - - 5. _From street and square, from hill and glen,_ - _Of this vast world beyond my door._ - -His four hymns in the _Book of Hymns_, with other poems by him, are -included in Putnam's _Singers and Songs, of the Liberal Faith_, 1875. -Of the above hymns those listed as 3 and 5 are included in _Hymns of -the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 521, 1711 - H.W.F. - - -Hill, Rev. Thomas, D.D., L.L.D., New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 7, -1818--November 21, 1891, Portland, Maine. - -He graduated from Harvard College in 1843 and from the Harvard -Divinity School in 1845. He served as minister of the First Parish -(Unitarian) in Waltham, Massachusetts from 1845 to 1859; was president -of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1859-1862; president of -Harvard University, 1862-1868; and minister of the First Parish of -Portland, Maine, 1873 to 1891. He was distinguished as a -mathematician. - -In the earlier part of his career he wrote or translated many hymns -which found publication in current periodicals, usually anonymously or -signed only with cryptic initials. One by him, beginning, - - _All holy, ever living One,_ - -was included in a few hymn books of the 19^th century, but has dropped -out of use. A few others, mostly written for special occasions, are in -Putnam's _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, but none have found -other use. - - J. 524 - H.W.F. - - -Holland, Joseph Gilbert, Belchertown, Massachusetts, July 24, -1819--October 12, 1881. A newspaper man on the staff of the -_Springfield Republican_ who became editor of _Scribner's Magazine_ in -1870. Author of several books and some poetical pieces. One of the -latter, beginning - - _For summer's bloom, and autumn's blight_, (Praise in and - through all things) - -from his _Bitter Sweet_, 1858, was included in the Unitarian _Hymn and -Tune Book for Church and Home_, Boston, 1868. - - J. 529 - H.W.F. - - -Holmes, Rev. John Haynes, D.D.; Litt. D.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, -November 29, 1879--still living. He graduated from Harvard, _summa cum -laude_ in 1902, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1904. He -received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Jewish -Institute of Religion in 1930, from St. Lawrence University in 1931, -and from Meadville Theological School in 1945; Doctor of Letters from -Benares Hindu University, India, in 1947, and Doctor of Humanities -from Rollins College, Florida, in 1951. He was installed as minister -of the Third Religious Society (Unitarian), Dorchester, Massachusetts -in 1904, and went to New York in 1907 as associate and successor to -Rev. Robert Collyer, _q.v._, minister of the Second Congregational -Unitarian Society, (Church of the Messiah, now called the Community -Church of New York) of which he became pastor emeritus in 1949. He -withdrew from the Unitarian fellowship in 1919, not on theological -grounds but because he preferred a position independent of any -denominational label. Throughout his career in New York he has been an -outspoken leader in many causes for social betterment, and a prolific -author in prose and verse who has published a large number of books, -religious and biographical, and of printed sermons. No other American -author of his period has written so many fine hymns which have been -widely used in this country, in England, and in Japan. - - 1. _Accept, O Lord, this precious gift_ - - 8.6.8.6. 3 stas. - - Written for dedication on October 31, 1943, of Chapel in the - rebuilt Community Church. - - 2. _Accept, O Lord, this temple_, - - 7.6.7.6.7.6. 3 stas. - - Written on the occasion of the rededication of the Community - Church, December 31, 1922. - - 3. _All hail the pageant of the years_, - - 8.6.8.6.8.8. 5 stas. Undated - - Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 4. _Almighty God, beneath whose eye_ - - C.M.D. 4 stas. - - An early hymn written for Labor Day Sunday in 1910. - - 5. _Almighty God, to whom the dark_ - - C.M.D. 3 stas. 8 l. - - A Vesper hymn written in 1906. - - 6. _America triumphant! Brave land of pioneers._ - - 7.6.7.6.D. 5 stas. - - Written during World War I, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 7. _Behold, O God! our holy house_, - - C.M. 5 stas. September, 1919 - - Written on the occasion of the burning of the Community Church, - September 11, 1919. - - 8. _Be with us, Father, in this place._ - - Dated 1945. - - 9. _Bless, thou, O God, this fellowship_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. - - Written for the Installation of Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, B.D., - D.D. as President of the American Unitarian Association on October - 7, 1958. - - 10. _Bright visions glow across the sky_, - - 8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6. 3 stas. - - Written by Mr. Holmes in 1947 on the occasion of his 40^th - anniversary as Minister of the Community Church. - - 11. _God of the nations, near and far._ - - C.M. 6 stas. - - Written before this country entered World War I, for a hymn - contest sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in - America, for use on Peace Sunday. This hymn was widely sung in - churches of many denominations. - - Included in _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1937, with alteration in 2^nd sta. - - 12. _God save the people's cause._ - - 6.6.4.6.6.6.4. 3 stas. - - Written in 1939. - - 13. _Great Spirit of the speeding spheres_, - - L.M. 6 stas. - - Written in 1932 on the occasion of the 25^th anniversary of Mr. - Holmes as minister of the Community Church. - - 14. _Joy to our hearts! Again we meet!_ - - 8.6.8.8.6.6.6.4. 3 stas. 8 l. - - A Hymn of reunion, 1920, set to the tune of Antioch. - - 15. _O blessed isle of quiet_, - - 7.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. - - Written at the Isles of Shoals in the summer of 1930, and set to - an original tune by Robert B. Buxton. - - 16. _O Father, Thou who givest all_ - - L.M. 4 stas. - - Written for _The Beacon Song and Service Book_, Beacon, 1908; - included in _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1937. - - 17. _O God of field and city_, - - 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6. 3 stas. Prompted, in 1917, by the darkly - unfolding experiences of World War I. - - 18. _O God of light and darkness_, - - 7.6.7.6.D. 3 stas. 8 l. Undated. - - 19. _O God, whose law from age to age_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 4 stas. 1910. - - 20. _O God, whose love is over all_, - - 8.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. 1909. - - 21. _O God, whose smile is in the sky_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 4 stas. - - Written in 1907 for the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, in 4 - stas., C.M.D. Included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, in 5 - stas. of 4 l. with revisions approved by the author, and in _Hymns - of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 22. _Old Jubal twanged the bow-string_ - - 7.6.7.6.D. 3 stas. - - Written for the 25^th anniversary of Clifford Demarest as organist - of the Community Church, May 10, 1936, based on Genesis 4.21. - "Jubal,--father of all such as handle the harp and the pipe." An - interesting _tour de force_ on the rise of music in praise of God. - - 23. _Onward still and upward_ - - 6.5.6.5.D. 3 stas. - - Written in 1950, and dedicated to the American Unitarian - Association in celebration of the 125^th anniversary (1825-1950) - of its founding. - - 24. _O Thou who in chaotic night_, - - 8.8.8.8.8.8. 4 stas. - - Written in war time, 1918. - - 25. _O Thou, whose presence moved before_ - - C.M.D. 6 stas. - - Written for use on the 10^th anniversary of his installation as - Minister of the Community Church, February 4, 1917. - - 26. _O'er continent and ocean_ - - 7.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. - - Written for a "Service of Commemoration of a Century of British - American Peace," held in the Church of the Messiah, Montreal, - Canada, at a meeting of Unitarian General Conference on September - 25, 1917. In _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 27. _Show us thy way, O God!_ - - 6.6.8.6. 4 stas. - - Printed in _The Christian Century_ in 1936, included in _Hymns of - the Spirit_, 1937, with a correction by the author. - - 28. _The Bethlehem stars are dim tonight_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. Dated 1925 - - 29. _The voice of God is calling_ - - 7.6.7.6.D. 4 stas. - - Written in September, 1913 for the Young People's Religious Union - of Boston. In _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. In _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1937; widely used in the United States, England, - translated into German, Japanese and Spanish. - - 30. _Thou God of all, whose presence dwells_ - - 8.8.8.8. 4 stas. - - Written some time after World War I. Intended as a protest against - nationalistic theism which induced both belligerent nations to - claim a monopoly of God. - - 31. _Thou God of all, whose Spirit moves_ - - 8.6.8.6.D 3 stas. - - Printed in _The Christian Century_, May 29, 1940 and in _The - Christian Register_, August, 1940. - - 32. _Thy voice, O God, in every age_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 3 stas. - - Written for the Installation of Rev. Donald Harrington at the - Community Church of New York on November 19, 1944. - - 33. _To earth's remote horizons_ - - 7.6.7.6.D. 4 stas. - - Written in 1949 and first sung on November 27th of that year at a - special service in commemoration of the retirement of Mr. Holmes - from the active ministry. - - 34. _To Thee, O God, be homage_ - - 7.6.7.6.D. 3 stas. 1945. - - 35. _When darkness, brooding o'er the deep_ - - 8.6.8.6.D. 4 stas. - - Written in 1925 on the occasion of the 100^th anniversary of the - founding of the Community Church of New York. - - 36. _Why trust we not our God?_ - - 6.6.8.6. 5 stas. - -Of the hymns listed above, Nos. 3, 6, 11, 18, 20, 23 and 29 have had -the most widespread use. - - H.W.F. in collaboration with J.H.H. - - -Holmes, Oliver Wendell, M.D., LL.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts, August -29, 1809--October 7, 1894, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in the famous Class of 1829, studied medicine and -became a practitioner in Boston, and was appointed Professor of -Anatomy in the Harvard Medical School in 1847. Although distinguished -as a physician his fame is that of a man of letters gifted with a -sense of humor which made him one of the wittiest men of his time. -Besides important medical treatises he wrote essays, novels, -biographical sketches, and poetry which brought him a great reputation -in this country and in Great Britain. Much of his poetry is occasional -verse, which he was often called upon to write, such as his -"International Ode" to be sung to the tune "America" ("God Save the -Queen") on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1860. -Oxford University gave him the honorary degree of D.C.L. in 1886. He -was a member of Kings' Chapel, (Unitarian) Boston, and two of his -poems are about that church. He contributed The _Autocrat at the -Breakfast Table_ to the opening issues of _The Atlantic Monthly_, -1857-58, published _The Professor at the Breakfast Table_ in 1859, -_The Poet at the Breakfast Table_ in 1872. He wrote _Elsie Venner_, -1861, and two other novels. His poetry was published in _Songs in Many -Keys_, 1861; _Humorous Poems_, 1865; _Before the Curfew_, 1888; and in -his _Complete Poetical Works_, in 1895. - -Although he made a greater contribution to American hymnody than did -any other of the "New England poets" of his era, except Bryant and -Whittier, his hymns were incidental literary by-products, for he was -not primarily a hymn writer. They include: - - 1. _Angel of peace, thou hast tarried too long_ - - Written in 1869. - - 2. _Father of mercies, heavenly Friend_, - - A prayer in time of war. Undated but between 1861 and 1865. - - 3. _Lead where the banners wave last to the sea_, - - Written as an American national anthem. It appeared in his _Songs - in Many Keys_, 1861, entitled "Freedom, our Queen." - - 4. _Lord of all being, throned afar_, (God's Omnipotence) - - Included in _The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table_, 1848, under the - title of "A Sun-day Hymn." This is his finest hymn and has had - widespread use in many collections. - - 5. _O Lord of hosts, Almighty King_, - - Entitled "Army Hymn," and published in _The Soldier's Companion_, - a hand-book of hymns and scripture readings issued in the fall of - 1861, by the American Unitarian Association, for use by soldiers - in the Union Army. It is a fine hymn, but with several lines - directly referring to the immediate situation which make it - unsuitable for present use and which cannot be altered or dropped - without mutilating the hymn. In the same collection he wrote an - "Additional Verse" appended to "The Star-Spangled Banner," - beginning - - _When our land is illumined with Liberty's smile_, - - 6. _O Love Divine, that stooped to share_, - - Written in 1859, a hymn of trust in time of doubt and sorrow. - - 7. _Our Father, while our hearts unlearn,_ - _The creeds that wrong thy name,_ - - Written for the 25^th Anniversary of the Boston Young Men's - Christian Union, May 31, 1893. - - 8. _Thou gracious Power whose mercy lends_, - - Written in 1869 for the 40^th anniversary meeting of the Harvard - Class of 1829. In the Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, altered to read - - _Thou gracious God_, etc. - -Of these hymns nos. 4 and 6 have had the most widespread use. Those -two, and no. 1 are included in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935, and nos. 4, -6, 7 and 8 are in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and In -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 530, 1649, 1713, rewritten by - H.W.F. - - -Horton, Rev. Edward Augustus, Springfield, Massachusetts, September -28, 1843--April 15, 1931, Toronto, Canada. He studied at the -University of Chicago and at Meadville Theological School, from which -he graduated in 1868. He served Unitarian churches in Leominster, -Massachusetts, 1868-1875; Hingham, Massachusetts, 1877-1880; and the -Second Church in Boston, 1880-1892. Thereafter he was active in the -work of the Unitarian Sunday School Society. In 1912 he wrote an -"Anniversary Hymn" beginning, - - _We honor those whose work began_, - -which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - - H.W.F. - - -Hosmer, Rev. Frederick Lucian, D.D., Framingham, Massachusetts, -October 16, 1840--June 7, 1929, Berkeley, California. He graduated -from Harvard College in 1862, and from the Harvard Divinity School in -1869. In October of that year he was ordained minister of the First -Congregational Church (Unitarian), Northborough, Massachusetts, where -he served for 3 years. He served the Unitarian Church in Quincy, -Illinois, 1872-1877; then spent sixteen months in Europe, returning -late in 1878 to serve the First Unitarian Church of Cleveland, Ohio, -1878-1892; the Church of the Unity, St. Louis, Missouri, 1894-1899; -and the First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, California, 1900-1915, where -he remained as minister-emeritus until his death. In 1887 Buchtel -College gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. - -While in the Divinity School he formed a close life-long friendship -with William C. Gannett, _q.v._ Neither wrote any hymns until early -middle life, Dr. Gannett's earliest having been written in 1873, Dr. -Hosmer's in 1875, but thereafter they worked together for nearly four -decades to make a contribution to American hymnody comparable to that -made by Samuel Longfellow, _q.v._, and Samuel Johnson, _q.v._, a -generation earlier. Of the two men it has been well said that "Gannett -was the better poet, Hosmer the better hymn writer," and many more of -his hymns than of those by Gannett have come into widespread use. - -Working together they edited _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, published in -1880, a revised edition of which appeared in 1911. (J. V. Blake, -_q.v._, was also an editor of the first, but not of the revised -edition). In 1885 they published a small collection of their poems -entitled _The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems_, followed by later -collections with the same title, 2^nd Series 1894, 3^rd Series 1918. -In 1908 Dr. Hosmer gave a series of lectures on hymnody at the Harvard -Divinity School, repeated at the Pacific Unitarian School for the -Ministry, in Berkeley, California, but these have not been published. - -Julian's _Dictionary_, pp. 1650-51, lists 27 hymns by Dr. Hosmer, with -"annotations--from ms. notes supplied--by the author," as follows:-- - - 1. _Father, to Thee we look in all our sorrow_ (Trust in God) - - Written in 1881 upon the death of a member of the author's - congregation, and published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, - 1885. - - 2. _From age to age how grandly rise_ (Unity) - - Written for the annual festival of the Free Religious Association, - Boston, June 2, 1899, and first published in _Souvenir Festival - Hys._ 1899. Subsequently altered by the author to "From age to age - the prophet's vision." - - 3. _From age to age they gather, all the brave of heart and - strong_, (Victory of Truth) - - Written in 1891 for the Dedication of Unity Church, Decorah, Iowa, - and published in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894. - - 4. _From many ways and wide apart_, (College or School Reunion) - - Dated in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894, as having been - written in 1890. - - 5. _Go not, my soul, in search of Him_, (God within) - - Written in 1879, printed in the Boston _Christian Register_, May - 31, 1879, and included in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885, - with the title "The Indwelling God." - - 6. _I cannot think of them as dead_ (Eternal Life) - - Written in 1882 and first published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885, and entitled "My Dead." In the English collections - it is usually given as "We cannot think of them as dead." - - 7. _I little see, I little know_, (Trust) - - "A Psalm of Trust" written in 1883, first appeared in the Boston - _Christian Register_, and again in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885. - - 8. _Immortal, by their deed and word_ (The Spirit of Jesus) - - Written in 1880, and first published in _Unity Hys. and Carols_, - Chicago, Illinois, 1880, and then in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885. - - 9. _Many things in life, there are_ (Mystery in All Things) - - Written in 1885 and first published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885, with the title "Passing Understanding", and the - quotation "the Peace of God which passeth all understanding." - - 10. _Not always on the Mount may we_ (On the Mount) - - This lesson from the _Transfiguration_ was written in 1882, and - published in the _Chicago Unity_, April 1, 1884. After revision by - the author, it was included in the 1^st Series of _The Thought of - God_, 1885. - - 11. _Not when, with self dissatisfied_, (Lent) - - Written in 1891, and given in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, - 1894, p. 33. It is in _The Public School Hymn Book_, 1903, and - others. - - 12. _O beautiful, my country_, (National Hymn) - - As "Our Country," written in 1884, and published in the _Chicago - Unity Festivals_, 1884, and again in _The Thought of God_, 1885. - - 13. _O Light, from age to age the same_, (Dedication - Anniversary) - - Written in 1890 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Second - Congregational Church (Unitarian), Quincy, Illinois. Included in - _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894, and entitled "From - Generation to Generation." - - 14. _O Lord of Life, where'er they be_, (Life in God) - - "Written in 1888 for Easter service in Author's own church," and - first published in the _Chicago Unity_, and again in _The Thought - of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894. The "Alleluia" refrain, which is added - in some collections to each verse, is appended, in the original, - to the last verse only. - - 15. _O Name, all other names above_, (Trust in God) - - Under the title "Found. 'They that know Thy name will put their - trust in Thee'," this hymn, written in 1878, was given in _The - Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885. - - 16. _O Prophet souls of all the years_ (Unity) - - "Written in 1893 for, and sung at, the Unitarian gathering in - connection with The World's Parliament of Religions (World's Fair) - Chicago, Sep. 1893," and included in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd - Series, 1894, and entitled "One Law, One Life, One Love." - - 17. _O Thou, in all Thy might so far_, (God All in All) - - This hymn, given in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885, with - the title "The Mystery of God," was written in 1876, and first - published in the _New York Inquirer_. - - 18. _O thou in lonely vigil led_, - - This encouragement for lonely workers was written for the "Emerson - Commemoration, W.U.C. 1888," and included in _The Thought of God_, - 2^nd Series, 1894. - - 19. _O Thou, who art of all that is_, (Divine Guidance) - - Under the title "Through unknown paths," this hymn was included in - _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885; it was written in 1877. - - 20. _O Thou, whose Spirit witness bears_, (Dedication of a - Place of Worship) - - Written for the Dedication of the First Unitarian Church, Omaha, - February 6, 1891, and published in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd - Series, 1894, with the title "The Inward Witness", and the - subscription "For T.K. Omaha, 1891." - - 21. _On eyes that watch through sorrow's night_ (Easter) - - A Carol for Easter Morn, written in 1890 for the author's - congregation, and published in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, - 1894. - - 22. _One thought I have, my ample creed_, (The Thought of God) - - This is the initial hymn to the collection _The Thought of God_, - 1^st Series, 1885, and supplies the title to the work. It was - written in 1880, and first published in the _Chicago Unity Hymns - and Carols_, 1880, and then in _The Thought of God_, 1885. - - 23. _The rose is queen among the flowers_, (Flower services) - - Written in 1875, first published in _The Sunnyside_, a songbook - for Sunday Schools, and again in _The Thought of God_, 1^st - Series, 1885, under the title "Flower Sunday." - - 24. _Thy kingdom come--on bended knee_, (Missions) - - "Written in 1891 for the Commencement of the Meadville Theological - School (Meadville, Pa.) June 12, 1891, and pub. in _The Thought of - God_, 2^nd Series, 1894." under the title "The Day of God," and - the subscription "M.T.S., June 12, 1891." - - 25. _We pray no more, made lowly wise_ - _For miracle and sign._ (Greater Faith Desired) - - "Written in 1879, and first pub. in _The Christian Register_ - (Boston) Mar. 22 of that year, under the title 'The Larger - Faith.'" Included under the same title in _The Thought of God_, - 1^st Series, 1885. Sometimes given as "Made lowly wise, we pray no - more." - - 26. _When courage fails, and faith burns low_, (Victory of - Truth) - - Under the title "Loyalty," this hymn was given in _The Thought of - God_, 1^st Series, 1885. It was written in 1881. - - 27. _Where men on mounts of vision_, - _Have passed the veil within_. (Dedication of a Place of - Worship) - - "Written in 1891 for the Dedication of First Unitarian Church, - Oakland, California." Included in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd - Series, 1894, entitled "Holy Place", and subscribed "For C.W.W., - Oakland, Cal. 1891." - -This account of Hosmer's hymns, copied verbatim from Julian's -_Dictionary_, may be accepted as authoritative as to the date and -occasion for each hymn listed, but Canon Julian presumably added the -descriptive notations in brackets, and fell into minor inaccuracies, -as when he wrote _Unity Hymns and Carols_ for _Unity Hymns and -Chorals_ (cf. nos. 3 and 22), and cited the periodical _Unity_, -published in Chicago, as _Chicago Unity_. By way of further -clarification it should be noted that the opening line of no. 12, _O -beautiful my country_, was taken from J. R. Lowell's great -Commemoration Ode, and that Hosmer always wanted it printed '_O -Beautiful my Country_', in recognition of its source. No. 18 was -written for the observance by the Western Unitarian Conference of the -fiftieth anniversary of Emerson's famous _Divinity School Address_. -The person initialed as "T.K." for whom no. 20 was written on February -6, 1891, probably was Thomas Kilpatrick, a layman who did much to make -possible the erection of the church in Omaha, which was not dedicated -until December 15 of that year. The person initialled "C.W.W.", for -whom no. 27 was written, was Rev. Charles W. Wendte, then minister of -the First Unitarian Church in Oakland, California. - -Julian's account of Hosmer's contribution to hymnody, though no doubt -as satisfactory as could be expected at the time it was written, is -incomplete in two respects. The latest hymn listed is dated 1899, yet -at least three earlier hymns by Hosmer are unaccountably missing, -(viz, nos. 32, 33, 41, noted below), presumably because he neglected -to send Julian any information about them. More important than these -are several later occasional hymns which he wrote in the last three -decades of his life, too late for any inclusion in Julian's -_Dictionary_, and which form a notable addition to the earlier list. -Some of them were included in the revised edition of _Unity Hymns and -Chorals_, 1911, and all of them in _The Thought of God_, 3^rd. Series, -1918, as follows: - - 28. _Across a century's border line_, - - Written for the centennial commemoration of W. E. Channing's - famous "Baltimore Sermon" at the General Unitarian Conference, - September 26, 1917. - - 29. _All hidden lie the future ways_, - - Written as a hymn at the christening of children. Not dated. - - 30. _Forward through the ages, in unbroken line_, - - A hymn of the church universal, written in 1908 for an - Installation Service, set to Sullivan's tune St. Gertrude. In some - collections it has replaced Baring Gould's _Onward, Christian - Soldiers_. - - 31. _Hear, hear, O ye nations, and hearing obey_, (Reign of - Peace) - - Written in 1909 and included in _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, - and, with one word altered in the last stanza, in _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1937. - - 32. _I came not hither of my will_, (Divine Providence) - - Written in 1883. - - 33. _Lo, the day of days is here_, (Easter) - - Written in 1890. - - 34. _Lo, the Easter-tide is here_, (Easter) - - Written in 1914. - - 35. _Now while the day in trailing splendor_ (Evening) - - Written in 1902, published in Louisa Loring's _Hymns of the Ages_, - 1904. - - 36._ O blest the souls that see and hear_, - - Written for the National Conference of Unitarian Churches, - Chicago, September 27, 1909, in 5 stanzas, beginning "From many - ways and far apart." In _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and - _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, this first stanza has been dropped, - and the remaining four stanzas printed, beginning as above. - - 37. _O day of light and gladness_ (Easter) - - Written in 1903, published in Louisa Loring's _Hymns of the Ages_, - 1904, and, slightly revised, in _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1911. - - 38. _The outward building stands complete_, - - Written for the Dedication of Unity Church, St. Louis, Missouri, - October 7, 1917. - - 39. _Through willing heart and helping hand_, - - Written in 1909 for the Dedication of the Parish House of the - First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, California. - - 40. _Thy kingdom come, O Lord._ - - Written in 1905. - - 41. _Today be joy in every heart_, (Christmas) - - Written in 1877. - - 42. _Uplift the song of praise_, - - The first two stanzas of this hymn were written in 1904 and were - included in Miss Louisa Loring's _Hymns of the Ages_, published in - that year. At a later date Dr. Hosmer wrote two additional stanzas - and the hymn was thus printed in _The Thought of God_, 3^rd - Series, 1918. In _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of - the Spirit_, 1937, it is set to the tune Yigdal. - - 43. _When shadows gather on our way_, - - Written in 1904 and published in Miss Louisa Loring's _Hymns of - the Ages_, 1904. - - 44. _When the constant sun returning_, - - Reginald Heber in 1827 wrote a single stanza hymn beginning, "God - that madest earth and heaven." In 1912 Hosmer wrote for _The New - Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, a second stanza, the first line of - which is quoted above, to complete the thought. This composite two - stanza hymn has since been included in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935, - and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - -The period of Dr. Hosmer's hymn writing covered more than 40 years -(1875-1917) and during the latter half of that time he was widely -recognized by hymn lovers as the most distinguished hymn writer of his -time. Many of his hymns found their way into the collections of -various denominations in both this country and Great Britain. Canon -Dearmer included 8 in the British collection _Songs of Praise_, and in -the accompanying handbook, _Songs of Praise Discussed_, calls the hymn -_O Thou, in all thy might so far_, (no. 17) "this flawless poem, one -of the completest expressions of religious faith," and the hymn _Thy -kingdom come, on bended knee_, (no. 24) "one of the noblest hymns in -the language." - -All of Hosmer's hymns in recent use will be found in both the -Unitarian collections--_The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns -of the Spirit_, 1937, except where initials indicate one or the other -book, as follows:--Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 (N.H.T.B.), 8, 10 (N.H.T.B.), -12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 (H.S.), 29 -(H.S.), 30, 31, 32, 34 (H.S,), 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43. Nos. -10, 17, 24, 30 and 40 are included in the Protestant Episcopal -_Hymnal_, 1940. - - J. 1650 - H.W.F. - - -Howe, Mrs. Julia (Ward), New York, New York, May 27, 1819--October 17, -1910, Boston, Massachusetts. Married Samuel Gridley Howe on April 26, -1843. She was a woman with a distinguished personality and intellect; -an Abolitionist and active in social reforms; author of several books -in prose and verse. The latter include _Passion Flower_, 1854; _Words -of the Hour_, 1856; _Later Lyrics_, 1866; and _From a Sunset Ridge_, -1896. She became famous as the author of the poem entitled "Battle -Hymn of the Republic," beginning, - -_Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord_, which, in -spite of its title, was written as a patriotic song and not as a hymn -for use in public worship, but which has been included in many -American hymn books. It was written on November 19, 1861, while she -and her husband, accompanied by their pastor, Rev. James Freeman -Clarke, _q.v._, minister of the (Unitarian) Church of the Disciples, -Boston, were visiting Washington soon after the outbreak of the Civil -War. She had seen the troops gathered there and had heard them, -singing "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave" to a -popular tune called "Glory, Hallelujah" composed a few years earlier -by William Steffe of Charleston, South Carolina, for Sunday School -use. Dr. Clarke asked Mrs. Howe if she could not write more uplifting -words for the tune and as she awoke early the next morning she found -the verses forming in her mind as fast as she could write them down, -so completely that later she re-wrote only a line or two in the last -stanza and changed only four words in other stanzas. She sent the poem -to _The Atlantic Monthly_, which paid her $4 and published it in its -issue for February, 1862. It attracted little attention until it -caught the eye of Chaplain C. C. McCabe (later a Methodist bishop) who -had a fine singing voice and who taught it first to the 122d Ohio -Volunteer Infantry regiment to which he was attached, then to other -troops, and to prisoners in Libby Prison after he was made prisoner of -war. Thereafter it quickly came into use throughout the North as an -expression of the patriotic emotion of the period. - - J. 1652 - H.W.F. - - -Huntington, Rt. Rev. Frederic Dan, D.D., Hadley, Massachusetts, May -23, 1819--July 11, 1904, Hadley, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Amherst College in 1839 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1842. -He was minister of the South Congregational Church (Unitarian), -Boston, 1842-1855, and from 1855 to 1859 he was Professor of Christian -Morals and University Preacher at Harvard College. In 1859 he was -ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church and served as -rector of Emmanuel Church in Boston from 1860 to 1869, when he was -consecrated Bishop of Central New York. In 1853 he collaborated with -Rev. Frederic Henry Hedge, _q.v._, in editing their Unitarian -collection, _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, to which he contributed -three hymns, - - 1. _O Love Divine, lay on me burdens if Thou wilt_ - (Supplication) - - 2. _O Thou, in whose Eternal Name_ (Ordination) - - 3. _O Thou that once on Horeb stood_ (God in Nature) - -The hymn beginning - - _Father, whose heavenly kingdom lies_, - -in Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, is a cento -taken from no. 2. _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ also includes a -good many anonymous hymns, some of which may be by him, though there -is no proof that such is the case. Dr. Huntington also collaborated -with Dr. Hedge in editing a collection of sacred poetry entitled -_Elim: Hymns of Holy Refreshment_, Boston, 1865, which includes a -funeral hymn beginning - - _So heaven is gathering one by one_, - -This hymn has been mistakenly attributed to Huntington, but is an -altered form of a hymn by E. H. Bickersteth beginning - - _Thus heaven is gathering one by one_. - -Although Dr. Huntington is known to have written occasional verses in -religious themes later in life for his own edification he is not -credited with any published hymns after his resignation from his -professorship at Harvard, and none of the three listed above are in -present use. - - J. 544, 1714 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Hurlburt, (Hurlbut, Hurlbert) William Henry. Charleston, South -Carolina, July 3, 1827--September 4, 1895, Cadenabbia, Lake Como, -Italy. (His family name is spelled Hurlburt in records at Charleston -but at Harvard he was registered as Hurlbut, and in later years he -changed the spelling to Hurlbert). He graduated from Harvard College -in 1847 and from the Divinity School in 1849. He preached in Unitarian -pulpits for a few months but was never ordained as a settled minister; -then he studied in the Harvard Law School for a year; then turned to -journalism in New York City. After 1883 he spent most of his time in -Europe, his last few years in Italy. As a student at Harvard he was a -contemporary of Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson and contributed -three hymns to their _Book of Hymns_, edition of 1848, which they also -included in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, viz: - - 1. _My God, in life's most doubtful hour_, - - 2. _We pray for truth and peace_, - - 3. _We will not weep, for God is standing by us_ - -In both books his surname is spelled Hurlbut. - - J. 545 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Johnson, Rev. Samuel, Salem, Massachusetts, October 10, 1822--February -19, 1882, North Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1842 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1846. He -served from 1853-1870 as minister of the Independent Church, Lynn, -Massachusetts which he organized and which ceased to exist when he -resigned. He refused to identify himself with any denomination, though -in belief he was a Unitarian and in the public mind was associated -with the churches which adhered to the liberal wing of the -Congregational order. He was author of a book on _Oriental Religions_, -one of the earliest American studies in the History of Religions. In -1846 he and his classmate in the Divinity School, Samuel Longfellow, -_q.v._, while still students, prepared their _Book of Hymns_, because -they and some of their friends thought the Unitarian hymn books then -in use were too traditional. This book appeared in enlarged edition in -1848, and made a notable contribution to American hymnody in its -freshness of outlook and its inclusion of hymns by hitherto -unrecognized writers, notably John Greenleaf Whittier. Johnson -contributed 7 hymns to the edition of 1846, viz: - - 1. _Father [Savior] in Thy mysterious presence kneeling_ - (Worship) - - 2. _Go, preach the gospel in my name_ (Ordination) - - 3. _Lord, once our faith in man no fear could move_, (In Time - of War) - - 4. _Onward, Christians, though the region_ (Conflict) - - Altered in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, to - - _Onward, onward though the region_ - - 5. _Thy servants' sandals, Lord, are wet_ (Ordination) - -In the edition of 1848 he included - - 6. _God of the earnest heart_, (Trust) - -which he had "Written for the Graduating Exercises of the Class of -1846, in Cambridge Divinity School." In 1864 he and Longfellow -published their second and no less important collection, _Hymns of the -Spirit_, (not to be confused with the book of the same title published -in 1937 by the American Unitarian Association). To this volume he -contributed 7 more hymns, viz: - - 7. _City of God, how broad, how far_, (The Church Universal) - - 8. _I bless Thee, Lord, for sorrows sent_ (Purification through - suffering) - -This was "Written at the request of Dorothea L. Dix for a collection -made by her for the use of an asylum." (Miss Dix was engaged in a -notable reform of institutions for the insane.) - - 9. _Life of Ages, richly poured_ (Inspiration) - - 10. _Strong-souled Reformer, whose far-seeing faith_ (Jesus) - - 11. _The Will Divine that woke a waiting time_ (St. Paul) - - 12. _Thou whose glad summer yields_, (Worship) - - 13. _To light that shines in stars and souls_, (Dedication of a - Place of Worship) - -A number of these hymns have had widespread and long-continued use. -Numbers 1, 4, 6, 7, and 9 are included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, -and stand out as some of the finest examples of American hymnody in -their lyrical quality and depth of religious feeling. A few of -Johnson's hymns have found acceptance also in England, the most -notable example being No. 7, sung at the consecration of the new -Anglican cathedral at Liverpool in 1924, an occasion which the words -fitted to perfection. But, since even the existence of the obscure -minister in Lynn, Massachusetts, was quite unknown to all but very few -of those present, the Samuel Johnson to whom it was attributed was -commonly supposed to be the famous 18^th century English -lexicographer, and the hymn is mistakenly assigned to him in the -latest edition of Bartlett's _Familiar Quotations_! Following its use -at Liverpool it was sung in Westminster Abbey at a service for the -League of Nations in 1935; at the jubilee service for the 25^th -anniversary of the coronation of George V; and was one of seven hymns -included in the special service prepared by the Archbishops of -Canterbury and York for use in parish churches throughout England at -the time of the coronation of George VI. Probably no other hymn of -American authorship is so widely known or used in British dominions. - - J. 604-5, 1583, 1681, 1711 - H.W.F. - - -Kimball, Jacob, Topsfield, Massachusetts, February 15, 1761--July 24, -1826, Topsfield. He graduated from Harvard in 1780, studied law, -taught school, and tried to make a living at various other -occupations, with small success except in the field of music where he -was regarded as the outstanding singer, teacher, and composer of his -period. He edited _Rural Harmony_, (Boston, 1793) which he followed -with _Essex Harmony_, (1800) and _Essex Harmony_, Part II, (1802), -which included the only tunes of his own composition which can now be -identified as his, except those in the popular _Village Harmony_ -(1795) the later editions of which, down to 1821, were probably edited -by him. There is evidence that he also wrote poetry, including a -number of hymns, some of them perhaps the anonymous ones, otherwise -unknown, included in the above-mentioned song books. The one hymn -which can be attributed to him with assurance is his excellent -metrical version of Psalm 65 which Jeremy Belknap included in his -_Sacred Psalmody_ (1795), entitled "A New Version" and beginning - - _Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits._ - -The only other hymns by an American author in Belknap's Collection is -Mather Byles' - - _When wild confusion wrecks the air_, - -republished in 1760. - - See _Jacob Kimball: A Pioneer American Musician_, Essex Institute - Historical Collections, XCII, no. 4. - - H.W.F. - - -Larned, Augusta, Rutland, New York, April 16, 1835--1924. Author of -six volumes of stories for children and of one on Greek mythology and -another on Norse mythology. Contributor to various periodicals and for -20 years correspondent and editorial writer with _The Christian -Register_, Boston. She published in 1895 a book of poems entitled _In -the Woods and Fields_ from which was taken her hymn on peace of mind, - - _In quiet hours the tranquil soul_, - -for inclusion in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn-Book_, 1908; _The New Hymn -and Tune Book_, 1914 and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Lathrop, Rev. John Howland, D.D., Jackson, Michigan, June 6, -1880--still living. He graduated from Meadville Theological School in -1903, then entered Harvard where he took an A.B. in 1905. He also -studied at the University of Chicago, and the University of Jena. He -served as minister of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, -California, 1905-1911, and the First Unitarian Congregational Church -of Brooklyn, New York, 1911 to 1957, when he became pastor emeritus. -In 1935 he wrote a hymn for Palm Sunday beginning, - - _Hosanna in the highest! Our eager hearts acclaim_, - -which was included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, set to St. -Theodulph. - - H.W.F. - - -Livermore, Rev. Abiel Abbot, D.D., Wilton, New Hampshire, October 26, -1811--November 28, 1892, Wilton, New Hampshire. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1833, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1836. -He was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church at Keene, New -Hampshire, in November, 1836, and remained there until 1850, when he -accepted a call to Cincinnati, Ohio. After a period in New York he was -elected president of the Meadville Theological School in 1862, and -served in that capacity until 1890, when he retired to his ancestral -home at Wilton. He received the degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1888. -He was author of a number of books, and of several hymns, printed in -Putnam's _Singers and Songs_. He was the chief editor of the Cheshire -Pastoral Association's _Christian Hymns_, 1844, one of the finest and -most widely circulated American Unitarian collections, to which he -contributed his Communion hymn beginning, - - _A holy air is breathing round_, - -This hymn was included in Martineau's _Hymns_, 1873, in most American -Unitarian collections, and appears in slightly altered form in _The -New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 680 - H.W.F. - - -Livermore, Sarah White, Wilton, New Hampshire, July 20, 1789--July 3, -1874, Wilton. She was an aunt of A. A. Livermore, _q.v._, and was a -school teacher for most of her life. She contributed two hymns to the -_Cheshire Collection_, 1844, viz: - - 1. _Glory to God, and peace on earth_, (Christmas) - - 2. _Our pilgrim brethren, dwelling far_, (Mission) - -These passed into a few other collections. - -She wrote a number of others for various church occasions, but they -have never been collected for publication. - - J. 680 - H.W.F. - - -Long, Hon. John Davis (1838-1915) was born in Buckfield, Maine, -October 27, 1838, and died in Hingham, Massachusetts on August 28, -1915. Harvard, A.B. 1857, L.L.D. 1880. He was Governor of -Massachusetts, 1880-1883, and Secretary of the Navy, 1897-1902. A -member of the First Parish (Unitarian) in Hingham, he wrote one hymn -beginning, - - _The evening winds begin to blow_ - -which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, but which -has not passed into other books. - - H.W.F. - - -Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, D.C.L., Portland, Maine, February 27, -1807--March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Bowdoin College in 1825. After four years of study in Europe he was -appointed to the Chair of Modern Languages at Bowdoin, but removed to -Harvard in 1835, upon his election as professor of Modern Languages -and Belles-Lettres in the latter College. He retained that -Professorship until 1854, when he retired to give himself time for -authorship in prose and verse. He became one of the most widely read -and beloved poets in the English-speaking world, and after his death a -marble bust commemorating him was placed in Westminster Abbey. In the -strict sense of the term he was not a hymn-writer, his brother, Samuel -Longfellow, _q.v._, twelve years his junior, far surpassing him in -this field, but hymn-book editors have culled selections from his -poems which they could use, as follows: - - 1. _Ah, what a sound! The infinite fierce chorus_, - - From his poem "The Arsenal at Springfield," published in _The - Belfry of Bruges_, 1845. Four stanzas, beginning as above, are - included in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935. In S. Longfellow's and - Johnson's _Book of Hymns_, 1848, the selected stanzas from this - poem begin - - _Down the dark future through long generations_, - - and the hymn appeared in this form in other collections. - - 2. _Alas, how poor and little worth_, - - Tr. from the Spanish of Don Jorge Manrique, (d. 1479), in - Longfellow's _Poetry of Spain_, 1833. - - 3. _All are architects of fate_, - - The first three stanzas of Longfellow's poem, "The Builders," - written in 1846. Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 4. _All is of God; If he but wave his hand._ - - From the poem "The Two Angels," in his _Birds of Passage_, 1858; - included in S. Longfellow's and Johnson's _Hymns of the Spirit_, - 1864. - - 5. _Blind Bartimeus at the gate_, - - From _Miscellaneous Poems_, 1841. Included in G. W. Conder's 1874 - _Appendix_ to the (British) _Leeds Hymn Book_. - - 6. _Christ to the young man said, "Yet one thing more."_ - - Written in 1848 for the ordination of the poet's younger brother, - Samuel Longfellow; published in the author's _Seaside and - Fireside_, 1851, and in H. W. Beecher's _Plymouth Collection_, - 1855, altered to read, - - _The Saviour said, "Yet one thing more"_ - - In spite of the occasion for which it was written it is not a hymn - but a hortatory poem of five stanzas in a most unusual 10.6.10.6 - metre, for which it must have been difficult to find any singable - tune. - - 7. _I heard the bells on Christmas Day_ - - This carol was written in 1864, for the Sunday School of the - Unitarian Church of the Disciples, Boston, of which Rev. James - Freeman Clarke was minister. The entire poem, entitled "Christmas - Bells," has seven stanzas, of which 1, 2, 6 and 7 are in _The New - Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, and in - _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935. The omitted stanzas contain references - to the Civil War, in progress when the carol was written. - - 8. Into the silent land, - - A translation from the German poem "Ins Stille Land! Wer Leitet - uns hinber," by J. G. Salis-Seewis, 1808. Published by Longfellow - in _Voices of the Night_, 1840. Included in Hedge and Huntington's - _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, and other American - collections. - - 9. _Tell me not in mournful numbers_, - - Published in _Voices of the Night_, 1839, as "A Psalm of Life; - What the heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist." Included in - several hymnals in Great Britain and America. In some collections - it begins with the second stanza - - _Life is real! Life is earnest_ - - 10. _There is no flock, however watched and tended_ - - A cento from the author's _Seaside and Fireside_, 1849. - - 11. _We have not wings: we may not soar._ - - In 1850 the poet wrote "The Ladder of St. Augustine," a poem in - twelve stanzas, based upon a quotation from Sermon III, De - Ascensione, by St. Augustine of Hippo, "De vitiis nostris scalam - nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus." (We shall make a ladder - out of our vices, if we tread those vices under foot.) The three - stanzas of the hymn are, respectively, the seventh, tenth and - second stanzas of the poem. - - H.W.F. - - -Longfellow, Rev. Samuel, Portland, Maine, June 18, 1819--October 3, -1892, Portland, was the youngest of the eight children of Stephen and -Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow. Stephen Longfellow had graduated from -Harvard and had become one of the most prominent citizens of Portland. -His son Samuel entered Harvard with the Class of 1839, just after his -brother, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, more than twelve years his -senior, had returned from Europe to begin his professorship at -Harvard. - -Samuel entered the Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in -1846, and served as minister of the Unitarian Church in Fall River, -Massachusetts, 1848-51; the Second Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, New -York, 1853-1860; and the Unitarian Church, Germantown, Pennsylvania, -1878-1883. In the intervals between these pastorates he did much -occasional preaching, and, having independent means and no marital -ties, made several prolonged visits to Europe. He had an attractive -personality, was witty and highly intelligent, and was an acceptable -though outspoken preacher, but he is now remembered for his -contribution to American hymnody through the hymns which he wrote and -the books which he edited. His accomplishment in this field was -greater and more lasting than that of any other American in the middle -period of the 19^th century. Its development can best be traced in the -books which he published. - -The first of these was _A Book of Hymns for Public and Private -Devotions_, which he and his classmate in the Divinity School, Samuel -Johnson, daringly compiled while still students in the School. A not -improbable story of the origin of the book reports that their friend, -Rev. Francis Parker Appleton, then a young minister at Peabody, -Massachusetts, had complained to them about the antiquated hymn-book -which he found in use in his church, to which they replied that they -would prepare a book for him which would express the religious -aspirations of the rising generation. The book appeared in 1846, -before either of the young editors had been ordained, and was an -immediate success. It was first used in the First Unitarian Church at -Worcester, Massachusetts, where Longfellow's classmate and lifelong -friend, Edward Everett Hale, had just been ordained at a service for -which Longfellow wrote the ordination hymn, and it was promptly -adopted by Theodore Parker for his congregation in Music Hall. The -book was re-published in somewhat revised and enlarged form in 1848, -and ran to 12 editions. It marked a new epoch in American hymnody -because it was the product of young and adventurous but well-trained -minds seeking to give utterance to the emotions stirred by the -intellectual and political ferment of the times, and because of the -new sources to which they turned. They were the first to see and make -use of the hymnic possibilities of the poems of John Greenleaf -Whittier, and to include in an American hymn-book Newman's "Lead, -kindly Light," which they had found printed in a newspaper without the -author's name, though they altered the first line to read "Send kindly -Light," and another line further down. From their book it passed into -other collections, with variant readings. - -In 1859 Longfellow published a little collection entitled _Vespers_, -hymns for use at the vesper services which he had instituted in his -church in Brooklyn. In 1860 he published _A Book of Hymns and Tunes -for the Sunday School, the Congregation, and the Home_, and in 1864 he -and Samuel Johnson brought out their second notable book, _Hymns of -the Spirit_, (not to be confused with the hymn book with the same -title published by the Beacon Press in 1937). This book contained most -of the later hymns written by the two editors, and a good many new -hymns by other authors who were glad to contribute them. Its literary -level was higher than that of their first book, but it had less -popular success, in part, perhaps, because they failed to set the -words to tunes, which had become the common practice in the period -since their earlier book appeared. In 1876 he brought out _A Book of -Hymns & Tunes for the Congregation & the Home_, a revision of his -earlier book with a similar title, in which several of his earlier -hymns appear in revised form. In 1887 he printed privately _A Few -Verses of Many Years_. - -After his death a small volume entitled _Hymns and Verses by Samuel -Longfellow_ was published in 1894 with a very brief introductory note -by his niece, Miss Alice M. Longfellow. It included 41 hymns which she -thought were his, followed by 30 short poems of no outstanding -excellence. Some of the "hymns" included seem never to have come into -use as such; some of her attributions were mistaken; she omitted some -hymns which he wrote or adapted but cited in his books as "Anonymous" -because based on the work of others; and she did not always print the -best of extant variant readings. This book, therefore, must be used -with caution in compiling the list of Longfellow's hymns, whether -original or adapted. - -Before listing his hymns it should be noted that he wrote or edited -several other literary works. In 1853 he and his classmate Thomas -Wentworth Higginson published a beautiful collection of sea-poems -entitled _Thalatta_. He wrote a memoir of his friend, Rev. Samuel -Johnson, 1883; was the author of a _Life of Henry Wadsworth -Longfellow_, 1886; and edited _Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth -Longfellow_ in 1887. A volume of his own _Essays and Sermons_, edited -by Joseph May, was published in 1894. - - _Alphabetical List of Hymns written or adapted by Samuel Longfellow_ - - _Abbreviations_: - - Bk. Hys. = The Book of Hymns, 1846 or 1848. - - H. and V. = Hymns & Verses by Samuel Longfellow, 1894. - - Hys. Sp. = Hymns of the Spirit, 1864. - - J. (followed by page number) = Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology. - - S. L. = Samuel Longfellow - - 1. _A voice by Jordan's shore._ (Advent) - - Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864, under title of "John and Jesus"; in H. & - V., no date. - - 2. _Again as evening's shadow falls._ (Evening) - - Published in _Vespers_, New York, 1860, headed "Nox et tenebrae," - in 2 stas. of 8 l., and reprinted in Hys. Sp. 1864, with the title - "Vesper Hymn," in 4 stas. of 4 l.; also in H. & V. in which it is - the fourth and concluding hymn of a group called "Vesper Hymns," - and dated 1859, the 3^d and 4^th of which were included in Hys. - Sp., 1864. - - 3. _Beneath the shadow of the cross._ (Sacrifice) - - Written in Fall River, 1848, and published in the _Supplement to A - Book of Hymns, Second Edition_, Boston, 1848, with the title "The - New Commandment," in 3 stas. of 4 l.; in H. & V. - - 4. _Eternal One, Thou living God._ (Anniversary) - - Written in 1875 for a church anniversary, possibly for the 25^th - anniversary of the Preble Chapel in Portland, Maine; 5 stas. of 4 - l. In H. & V. the original reading of the last two lines, - - "Afloat upon its boundless sea, - Who sails with God is safe indeed." - - are changed to the inferior reading, - - "That truth alone can make us free; - Who goes with God is safe indeed." - - 5. _Every bird that upward springs._ - - Included in _Supplement to Bk. Hys._, 1848, attributed to Neale, - and also in Hys. Sp., 1864. It is in fact S.L.'s adaptation of - part of a hymn by Neale for St. Andrew's Day, included in his - "Hymns for Children", 1842; see pp. 360-1 of the _Collected Hymns, - Sequences and Carols of J. M. Neale_, 1914. S.L. used stas. 4, 5, - 6 and 7 of Neale's hymn in 8 stas. Of the 16 lines in S.L.'s - version 9 are taken unchanged from Neale, 6 contain part of - Neale's wording, and only 1 is wholly S.L.'s. S.L. writing in 1880 - said, "I may say that hymn 585, [i.e. Every bird, etc.] is mine--I - did not put my name because two lines were not mine--". (see H. W. - Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. - Rev. Oct., 1917.) This letter illustrates the fallibility of human - memory. In the 32 years which had elapsed since he had adapted - Neale's verses for the _Supplement to Bk. Hys._ his own - contribution to the final result had come to bulk much larger than - it really was. S.L. was right in ascribing the hymn to Neale, as - he did in 1848 and 1864, tho he might properly have marked it as - "Neale, altered." - - 6. Father, give thy benediction. (Dismissal) - - One stanza, 8 lines, printed anonymously in Hys. Sp.; described by - S.L. as "of no importance", but included in his H. & V. Listed as - "Anon." in the first edition of the _Pilgrim Hymnal_. Included in - the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. (H. W. Foote, _The - Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev. October, - 1917). See J. 1563. - - 7. _Go forth to life, O child of earth._ (Life's mission) - - Written in 1859, included in his _Book of Hymns and Tunes for the - Sunday School_, and in Hys. Sp. 1864, under title "Life's - Mission." 4 stas. of 4 l. - - 8. _God of the earth, the sea, the sky._ (Divine Immanence) - - Printed anonymously in Hys. Sp. 1864, under title "God, through - all and in you all"; included in H. & V. with l. 2 in sta. 1 - altered; no date. (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel - Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev. October, 1917). - - 9. _God of Truth! Thy sons should be_, - - No. 550 in Hys. Sp. 1864, where it is listed as "Anon," because, - as he later wrote, it was "founded on a H. of Wesley" though - "nearly all mine." (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel - Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev., October, 1917). - - 10. _God's trumpet wakes the slumbering world._ (Courage) - - Printed anonymously in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title "On the Lord's - Side"; in H. & V., no date. 5 stas. of 4 l. - - 11. _He, who himself and God would know._ (Silent worship) - - Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864 as "From Martineau" under title of "Be - still, and know that I am God." This is S.L.'s versification of a - passage from Martineau's sermon, "Silence and Meditation", no. 17 - in "Endeavors after the Christian Life," in which Martineau - paraphrased a few sentences in Pascal's "Thoughts", no. 72. Not - dated; not included in H. & V. (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns - of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev. October, 1917.) - - 12. _Holy Spirit, Truth [Light] Divine._ - - Included in Hys. Sp. under title "Prayer for Inspiration"; also in - H. & V., without date. In the introductory note to H. & V. it is - stated that this hymn "bears some resemblance to one by Andrew - Reed, but after careful investigation they appear to be quite - distinct." In spite of this disclaimer it is clear that the theme - of the hymn as a whole, and several of its lines, are borrowed - from the hymn, "Holy Ghost, with light divine" by Andrew Reed, - 1817. Furthermore, S.L.'s arrangement of this hymn is found in two - different versions, the one in H. & V. beginning, "Holy Spirit, - Truth divine," the other, and superior one, beginning, "Holy - Spirit, Light divine." It will be found in this latter form in - _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, - 1937, in both of which it is attributed to both Reed and - Longfellow. - - 13. _Holy Spirit, source of gladness._ - - S.L.'s adaptation of Jacobi and Toplady's version of Gerhardt's "O - du allersusste Freude"; included in _Supplement to Bk. Hys._ 1848, - and in altered form in Hys. Sp. 1864; set down as "Anon." in both; - not included in H. & V. - - 14. _I look to Thee in every need_, (Trust) - - In Hys. Sp., 1864, with title "Looking Unto God," and listed as - "Anon.", but included in H. & V. as Longfellow's. He had not - claimed it because its opening stanza was strongly reminiscent of - a love-song by Thomas Haynes Bayly, as indicated by S.L.'s - pencilled notation in his copy of Hys. Sp. now in the library of - Union Theological Seminary, New York, reading "V. 1, T. H. Bayley, - alt." Bayly (not Bayley) (1797-1839) was an English composer of - popular sentimental songs one of which began, - - I turn to thee in time of need - And never turn in vain; - I see thy fond and fearless smile - And hope revives again. - It gives me strength to struggle on, - Whate'er the strife may be; - And if again my courage fail - Again I turn to thee. - - This song, though one of Bayly's best, is not included in his - collected works, but a copy, with his name as its author, is in - the Harvard University Library. It was published by C. Bradlee, - 107 Washington St., Boston, n.d., the words set "to a favorite - Neapolitan melody", and must have still been well remembered when - S.L. was inspired to transfigure the thought of its opening stanza - by giving it a profoundly spiritual interpretation. He made no use - of Bayly's second and third stanzas, and changed the metre from - 8.6.8.6. double to six line stanzas, 8.6.8.6.8.8., thus making - sure that his words would be sung to another tune than the - "Neapolitan melody." - - 15. _In the beginning was the word._ (The Word of God) - - This was printed in _The Liberty Bell_, Boston, 1851, in 6 stanzas - of 8 lines, and dated "Fall River, Sept. 1850." Two stanzas are - included in Hys. Sp. 1864; also in H. & V., undated. - - 16. _Life of all that lives below._ - - An adaptation from Charles Wesley; not in Bk. Hys. or Hys. Sp. - - 17. _Life of God, within my soul._ (God in the soul) - - Only found in H. & V., undated, entitled "A Prayer." 4 stas. of 4 - l. - - 18. _Light of ages and of nations._ (Inspiration) - - Dated 1860 in H. & V. in which it begins as above with title "In - all ages entering holy souls." It was first printed, however, in - Hys. Sp. 1864 as "God of ages," under title "The word of the Lord - abideth forever." 3 stas. of 8 l. - - 19. _Lo! the earth is risen again._ (Easter) - - In H. & V. the first line reads "Lo the earth again is risen," - with no date, but Dr. Louis F. Benson owned a copy of the book in - which a ms. note was appended to this hymn reading - - "In memory of C.J. - July 6, 1864 - May 12, 1886. - Written for the first anniversary of her death, May 12, 1887." - - Several other lines besides the opening one have been re-written, - presumably by S.L., to make the later and improved version of the - hymn included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - 20. _Love for all! and can it be?_ (The Prodigal Son) - - Included in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title "Father, I have sinned"; - also in H. & V. without date. 6 stas. of 4 l. - - 21. _Now on land and sea descending._ (Evening) - - This is the 3^d of the Vesper Hymns in H. & V. 2 stas. of 8 l. - (See note under "Again as evening's shadow falls.") - - 22. _Now while we sing our closing psalm._ (Close of worship) - - In H. & V., no date; not in Bk. Hys. or Hys. Sp. - - 23. _Now with creation's morning song._ (Morning) - - In Hys. Sp. 1864, ascribed to "Breviary"; it is S.L.'s adaptation - of E. Caswall's trans. of "Lux ecce surgit aurea", beginning "Now - with the rising golden dawn"; see Julian's Dict. pp. 820-821. - - 24. _O church of freedom and of faith._ (Installation) - - Written in 1891, presumably for the installation of Rev. John - Carroll Perkins as minister of the First Parish in Portland in - that year. Included in H. & V. Not found elsewhere. - - 25. _O Father, fix this wavering will._ - - No. 368 in Hys. Sp. 1864, "Anon." but later acknowledged by S.L. - as his though "of no importance." (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous - Hymns of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev., Oct., 1917.) - - 26. _O God! a temple to thy name._ - - "Hymn for the dedication of the new chapel of the First Parish, - Haverhill." Dated 1848 in H. & V., but not found elsewhere. 5 - stas. of 4 l. - - 27. _O God! Thy children gathered here._ (Ordination) - - "Hymn for the ordination of Edward Everett Hale" at Worcester, - Massachusetts in 1846. Bk. Hys. 1848; H. & V. 1894. 6 stas. of 4 - l. - - 28. _O God, thou giver of all good!_ (Gratitude) - - Included in Hys. Sp. 1864, and in H. & V., without date, under - title "Give us this day our daily bread." 4 stas. of 4 l. - - 29. _O God unseen, but ever near._ - - S.L.'s adaptation of hymn by E. Osler, printed in Hys. Sp. 1864, - in 3 stas of 4 l., entitled "At the fountain". Anon, in index. "It - is, in fact E. Osler's hymn rewritten, 7 of its 12 lines being - Osler's." The expanded form in later books is attributed to S.L., - but should be "E. Osler alt. by S.L." See Julian's Dict. pp. 1665, - 1681, 833. - - 30. _O holy, holy, holy,_ - _Art Thou, our God and Lord._ (Praise) - - This hymn in two stanzas, 8 lines, is found only in C. W. Wendte's - book _The Carol: for Sunday School and the Home_ (1886), where it - is attributed to Samuel Longfellow and dated 1886. - - 31. _O Life that maketh all things new._ - - Written under the title "The light that lighteth every man," for - the 2^d Social Festival of the Free Religious Association 1874, in - 2 stas. of 8 l.; afterwards published in _A Book of Hymns and - Tunes for the Congregation and the Home_, Cambridge, 1876, with - the title "Greeting", in 4 stas. of 4 l.; included in H. & V. - under title "Behold, I make all things new", and there incorrectly - dated 1878. For use of first line see note under "O Thou whose - liberal sun and rain." - - 32. _O still in accents sweet and strong._ (Ordination) - - Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title "Behold the fields are - white." H. & V., no date. 4 stas. of 4 l. - - 33. _O Thou, in whom we live and move._ - - In Hys. Sp. 1864, this begins, "O God, in whom we live and move," - 5 stas. of 4 l. headed "God's Law and Love." In H. & V. it begins, - "O Thou, in whom we live and move," the form in which the hymn has - passed into later use. - - 34. _O Thou, whose liberal sun and rain._ (Church anniversary) - - Included in Hys. Sp. 1864, and in H. & V. no date. 3 stas. of 4 l. - (Note the last line, "To Him who maketh all things new", used - later for first line of hymn "O Life that maketh all things new.") - - 35. _One holy church of God appears._ (The church universal) - - Dated 1860 in H. & V.; included in Hys. Sp. 1864. 5 stas. of 4 l. - - 36. _Out of every clime and people._ (Christmas) - - This hymn in two stanzas, 8 lines, with chorus, is found only in - C. W. Wendte's _The Carol: for Sunday School and the Home_ (1886) - where it is attributed to S.L. (except chorus). - - 37. _Out of the dark, the circling sphere._ (Hope and courage) - - Based on a hymn written in 1856 for the 25^th anniversary of the - American Anti-Slavery Society, with the title "What of the night?" - and beginning, "A quarter of the circling sphere." See H. & V. for - the original version, which S.L. rewrote for Hys. Sp. 1864, in 5 - stas. of 4 l. The misplaced comment by Putnam in _Singers and - Songs of the Liberal Faith_, p. 429, that it was "founded on a - passage in one of Mr. Martineau's sermons," refers not to this - hymn but to "He who himself and God would know," cited earlier in - this listing. - - 38. _Peace, peace on earth, the heart of man forever._ (Peace - on earth) - - Included in Hys. Sp. 1864 and H. & V., no date. 2 stas. of 4 l. - - 39. _Sing forth his high eternal name._ (Praise) - - Written by request for words to tune "Coronation." In H. & V. - under title "The Lord of all", no date, 6 stas. of 4 l. - - 40. _Spirit divine attend our prayer._ - - This hymn appeared in Hys. Sp. 1864, as "Anon." It is S.L.'s - adaptation of a hymn by Andrew Reed, 1829, about half the lines - having been re-written. It should be credited to both writers as a - joint production. - - 41. _The loving Friend to all who bowed._ (Jesus) - - Included in Hys. Sp. under title "Jesus of Nazareth"; no date in - H. & V. 5 stas. of 4 l. - - 42. _The summer days are come again._ - - H. & V. includes a song in three 8-line stanzas headed "Summer - Rural Gathering", dated 1859, each stanza beginning, "The sweet - June days are come again." In Hys. Sp. 1864, the second and third - stanzas of this song are taken to form a hymn for summer, each - beginning, "The summer days are come again", the concluding - quatrain of the last stanza re-written. - - 43. _'Tis winter now; the fallen snow._ - - Dated 1859 in H. & V. In Hys. Sp., 4 stas. of 4 l. - - 44. _Thou Lord of life, our saving health._ (Dedication of - hospital) - - "Written for dedication of Cambridge Hospital." In H. & V., 4 - stas. of 4 l., dated 1886. - - 45. _We sowed a seed in faith and hope._ - - "Written for the 25^th anniversary of the first meeting of the - Second Unitarian Society of Brooklyn", included in H. & V. under - title "The truth shall make you free." No further use. - - 46. _When from the Jordan's gleaming wave._ (Baptism) - - Dated 1848 in H. & V., but it was included in Bk. Hys. 1846, 5 - stas. of 4 l. - -There are also five hymns, composite in origin and listed as -"Anonymous" in Hys. Sp. 1864, which in style and sentiment so closely -resemble S.L.'s writings as to suggest that he gave them the form in -which they are there printed, viz:-- - - 47. _As darker, darker fall around_ - _The shadows of the night._ - - This is printed in 6 stas., the first four of which are taken from - "The Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds," printed in William Young's - _Catholic Choralist_, 1842, but there beginning, "Darker and - darker fall around." The 5^th and 6^th stas. may be by S.L. since - he referred to this hymn as it appeared in Hys. Sp. as "founded - upon the Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds," tho he did not state - that he wrote them. (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel - Longfellow_; and Julian, _Dictionary_, p. 1627.) - - 48. _Come, thou Almighty Will_ - - This hymn in three stanzas was included as Anon. in Longfellow and - Johnson's _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. Its theme was obviously - suggested by Ray Palmer's five stanza translation of the 12^th - century Latin hymn _Veni Sancte Spiritus_, beginning _Come, Holy - Ghost, in love_, published in 1858, from which three lines are - borrowed intact, with as many more which only slightly alter - Palmer's words. Since the religious outlook expressed is - characteristic of Samuel Longfellow, and the hymn first appeared - in _Hymns of the Spirit_, it seems certain that he was the author - but listed it as _Anon_, because of its composite form. It was - included in several later Unitarian hymn books, most recently in - _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, - 1937. (J. 1623 H.W.F.) - - 49. _Give forth thine earnest cry._ - - Printed in three 4-line stas. There is no evidence as to the - authorship of this hymn, but its sentiment is completely in line - with Longfellow's. Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in - _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - - 50. _God is in his holy temple._ - - Printed in four 4-line stas. One line is almost identical with one - found in S.L.'s earlier hymn "Written for the dedication of the - New Chapel of the First Parish, Haverhill, Mass.", which had had - no use beyond the occasion for which it was written, but which - Miss Longfellow included in _Hymns and Verses_. The recurrence of - this line in the hymn here listed suggests the probability that - the whole hymn is by S.L. though he preferred to cite it as - "Anon." - - 51. _Supreme disposer of the heart._ - - This appeared in the 1848 edition of the _Book of Hymns_, where it - is cited as from "Breviary", and was included by Miss Longfellow - in _Hymns and Verses_ with the same citation. She probably assumed - that it was a translation by S.L. from a Latin hymn. It is, - however, a largely rewritten version of John Chandler's - translation of the hymn _Supreme motor cordium_, in his _Hymns of - the Primitive Church_, 1837, p. 31. Longfellow retained the - general pattern of Chandler's five stanzas, and kept a few of his - lines unchanged, or altered by only a word or two, but rewrote the - rest, the fourth and fifth stas. being wholly S.L.'s, differing - from Chandler's in both phrase and significance, and even further - from the Latin original. - -The _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, contains a hymn in two stanzas, -8.6.8.6.D., beginning - - 52. _The heavens thy praise are telling_, - - Given as "Anon." but Mrs. Emma Marean, _q.v._, who was - exceptionally well informed about that book, attributed it to - "Spitta-Longfellow," i.e., by S. Longfellow based on a German hymn - by C. J. P. Spitta. It is possible that this is the case but the - original by Spitta has not been traced and Longfellow did not - claim this arrangement. - - H.W.F. - - -Loring, Louisa Putnam (1854-1924) of Boston and Pride's Crossing, -Massachusetts, compiled _Hymns of the Ages_, published in 1904. Her -literary and musical standards were high, and the book was handsomely -printed, but its appeal was limited and it had to compete with several -other excellent hymnbooks then on the market for use among Unitarians. -It included Miss Loring's own morning hymn beginning, - - _O Thou who turnest into morning_, (1902) - -also included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - - H.W.F. - - -Loring, William Joseph, Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 1795--1841, -Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1813 and went into -business in Boston. He was a lay member of the Unitarian denomination; -was president of the Washington Benevolent Society; and was a member -of the Horticultural Society. He was probably the author of the hymn -beginning, - - _Why weep for those, frail child of woe_, - -attributed to "W. J. Loring" in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the -Church of Christ_, 1853. - - H.W.F. - - -Lowell, James Russell, LL.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22, -1819--August 12, 1891, Cambridge. Son of Rev. Charles Lowell, minister -of the West Church (Unitarian), Boston, he graduated from Harvard -College in 1838, and entered upon a literary career as a poet, -essayist and scholar. In 1855 he succeeded H. W. Longfellow as -Professor of Belles Lettres at Harvard and spent the next two years in -Europe to increase his knowledge of southern European languages and -literature. On his return he was the first editor of _The Atlantic -Monthly_, 1857-1862, then editor of _The North American Review_, -1863-1872. He was United States Minister to Spain, 1877-1880, and to -Great Britain, 1880-1885. He wrote many essays, addresses and poems. -These last were published in a succession of volumes, "A Year's Life," -1841; "Poems," 1844-1854; "The Vision of Sir Launfal," 1845; "A Fable -for Critics," 1845; "The Biglow Papers," 1848 and 1867; "The -Commemoration Ode," 1865; "Under the Willows," 1868; and later -volumes, his "Complete Poems" appearing in 1895. Though some of his -poems show deep religious feeling he made only a slight and indirect -contribution to American hymnody, writing only one hymn and one -Christmas carol, although stanzas quarried out of his poems have been -used as hymns, as follows:-- - - 1. _Men who boast it is that ye_ - _Come of fathers brave and free_, - - The 1^st, 3^d and 4^th stanzas of his anti-slavery poem, "Stanzas - on Freedom," written in 1844. It was included in this form in _The - Soldier's Companion_, 1861, in Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of - the Spirit_, 1864, and in part in _Songs of the Sanctuary_, N. Y. - 1865, beginning - - _They are slaves who will not choose_, - - 2. _Once to every man and nation_, - - In December, 1844, Lowell wrote a poem in 18 stas. of 5 l. - entitled "The Present Crisis," a protest against the war with - Mexico. The English hymnnologist, Rev. V. Garrett Horder, took - from this poem a number of lines sufficient to make a hymn of 4 - stas. which he included, with a few verbal alterations, in his - _Hymns Supplemental_, 1896, and then in his _Treasury of Hymns_. - The _English Hymnal_ included the hymn in 1906, and from this it - passed into many collections. In the form commonly used in this - country, stanza 1 is that of sta. 5 in the original poem; sta. 2 - is that of original sta. 11; sta. 3 is no. 13, original; and sta. - 4, part of sta. 6 and part of sta. 8 original. In this form it has - had considerable use in this country. - - 3. _Our house, our God, we give to Thee_, - - Hymn for the dedication of the First Church (Unitarian), - Watertown, Massachusetts, on August 3, 1842, in a service in which - Rev. Samuel Ripley made the dedicatory prayer and the sermon was - preached by Rev. Convers Francis, who had recently left Watertown - to accept a professorship at the Harvard Divinity School. Lowell's - Cambridge residence at "Elmwood" was only a short distance from - the Watertown line, and Miss Maria White, whom he married in 1844, - belonged to the Watertown parish, which suggests the possibility - that it was she who persuaded him to write the hymn. It was not - included in any of his published works but has been found on the - only known copy of the printed program of the service, now owned - by the Huntington Library, San Marino, Pasadena, California. It - probably was used only on the occasion for which it was written. - - 4. _The ages one great minster seem_, - - Taken from a poem "Godminster Chimes" which was "Written in aid of - a chime of bells for Christ Church, Cambridge," and published in - "Under the Willows," 1868. From this poem of 7 stas. 8 l., enough - lines have been selected and arranged, with a few verbal - alterations, to make a hymn on the theme of the Church Universal, - in 4 stas. of 4 l. - - 5. _What means this glory round our feet?_ - - A Christmas carol written in 1866 "For the children of the Church - of the Disciples", Boston, (Unitarian), of which Rev. James - Freeman Clarke, _q.v._, was minister. Of the original 7 stas., - five have come into considerable use. - -Of the above listed hymns all except no. 3 are in current use in -various hymn books. Nos. 2 and 5 are in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935; -nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. - - J. 698 - H.W.F. - - -Lunt, Rev. William Parsons, D.D., Newburyport, Mass., April 21, -1805--March 31, 1857, Akabah, Arabia. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1823, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1828. On June -19, 1828 he was ordained as the first settled minister of the Second -Unitarian Congregational Society in New York, where he served for five -years. On June 3, 1835, he was installed as associate minister of the -First Church in Quincy, Mass., where he became the sole minister in -1843 and served until his death while on a journey to Palestine. After -his death his hymns and occasional poems were printed in a small -volume entitled _Gleanings_, but none of them have been included in -later books. His contribution to American hymnody was made by the -publication of his collection entitled _The Christian Psalter_, 1841, -for his congregation at Quincy, but its fine quality brought it into -much wider use. It is chiefly remembered today because it included 5 -hymns and the metrical version of 17 psalms by his distinguished -parishioner, John Quincy Adams, _q.v._ - - J. 703 - H.W.F. - - -Mann, Rev. Newton, Cazenovia, New York, January 16, 1856--July 25, -1926, Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Cazenovia Academy, and -during the Civil War served as head of the Western Sanitary -Commission. He then entered the Unitarian ministry and was ordained as -pastor of the church in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which he organized and -served for three years. He later served churches in Troy, New York, -1868-70; Rochester, New York, 1870-1888; and Omaha, Nebraska, -1888-1908, after which he retired to Chicago. His only connection with -hymnody was his versification of an English translation of the Jewish -creedal statement known as the Yigdal. His verse, which has not -survived, was later recast by Rev. W. C. Gannett, _q.v._, to form the -great hymn - - _Praise to the living God! All praisd be his name!_ - -concerning which detailed information will be found under Dr. -Gannett's name. In its present form the hymn is probably mostly the -work of Gannett, but Mann should be credited with having drafted its -earlier form. See also Foote, _Three Centuries of American Hymnody_, -339-340. - - H.W.F. - - -Marean, Mrs. Emma (Endicott), Boston, Massachusetts, January 20, -1854--October 17, 1936, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She married Joseph -Mason Marean January 20, 1876. Two hymns by her were included in _The -Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_ (Unitarian), 1908, - - 1. _Grateful for another day_, (An Island Morning) - - 2. _Set from the restless world apart_ (An Island Hymn) - -Neither has been included in later hymn books but both are in her -small volume of poems, _Now and Then_, Cambridge, 1928. - - H.W.F. - - -Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton (Briggs), Marblehead, Massachusetts, -July 27, 1823--June 13, 1890, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1853 she -married Charles Mason, a lawyer living in Fitchburg. She published in -1852 a volume of poems entitled _Utterance: or Private Voices to the -Public Heart_, and after her death another collection was published, -her _Lost Ring and Other Poems_, 1891. - -Three of her hymns have had considerable use. - - 1. _I cannot walk in darkness long_, (Evening) - - This begins with stanza V of her poem on _Eventide_, "At cool of - day with God I walk," in her _Lost Ring_, p. 165. - - 2. _O God I thank Thee for each sight_, (The Joy of Living) - - A cento of 4 stanzas, from her poem "A Matin Hymn" beginning "I - lift the sash and gaze abroad," in her _Lost Ring_, p. 164. - - 3. _The changing years, eternal God_, (Adoration) - - Written for the Bicentennial of the First Congregational Church, - Marblehead, August 13, 1884. In her _Lost Ring_ it begins "The - changing centuries, O God,". - -Of these hymns no. 2 has had considerable use. It is included in -_Hymns of the Church Universal_, 1891; the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, -1914; the _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935; _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 1669 - H.W.F. - - -Miles, Sarah Elizabeth (Appleton) Boston, Massachusetts, March 28, -1807--January 3, 1877, Brattleboro, Vermont. She married Solomon P. -Miles. In 1827 she printed in the _Christian Examiner_ a hymn -beginning, - - _Thou, who didst stoop below_, - -which passed into a number of hymn books of the period, and in 1828, -in the same periodical she printed a poem in 4 stanzas, C.M.D., which -S. Longfellow and S. Johnson, in their second hymn-book, _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1864, divided into two hymns, of 2 stanzas each, the first -beginning - - _The earth, all light and loveliness_, - -the second - - _When, on devotion's seraph wing._ - -They also included another of her hymns, consisting of the second, -fourth and fifth stanzas of her poem entitled "In Affliction," -beginning - - _Thou, infinite in love._ - -These, and some other religious poems, are included in Putnam's -_Singers and Songs_, etc. None of her hymns are now in use. - - H.W.F. - - -Mott, Rev. Frederick B., England, 1856-1941, England. When a young man -he emigrated to this country and on September 30, 1887 was ordained -minister of the Barton Square Church (Unitarian) in Salem, -Massachusetts. In 1892 he became minister of the Third Religious -Society in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which he served till 1903. In -1904 he returned to England and was installed as minister of the -Unitarian Chapel at Southport, and later moved to London as editor of -the periodical _Christian Life_. Two hymns in the Universalist _Church -Harmonies_, 1895, are attributed to him, viz:-- - - 1. _Take our pledge, eternal Father_, - - 2. _The spirit of the Lord has stirred_, - -but appear to have had no further use. - - H.W.F. - - -Newell, Rev. William, D.D., Littleton, Massachusetts, February 25, -1804--October 28, 1881, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1824 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1829. -He was ordained minister of the First Parish in Cambridge on May 19, -1830, where he served until his retirement on March 31, 1868. He was -author of many commemorative sermons and memoirs, and received the -honorary degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1853. A number of his poems -are included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc. His hymn beginning, - - _All hail, God's angel, Truth_ (Thanksgiving) - -is included in G. Horder's _Worship Song, with Tunes_, London, 1905, -but is not found in American collections. - - J. 1676 - H.W.F. - - -Norton, Prof. Andrews, Hingham, Massachusetts, December 31, -1786--September 18, 1853, Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from -Harvard in 1804. In 1811 he was appointed tutor in the College, in -1813 librarian and Lecturer on the Bible, and in 1819 Professor of -Sacred Literature in the Harvard Divinity School, a post which he -resigned in 1830 to devote himself to literary and theological -pursuits. In 1837 he published the first volume of his famous book -_The Genuineness of the Gospels_, followed in 1844 by the second and -third volumes. This was the earliest scholarly work on the New -Testament by an American author, and expressed the conservative -Unitarian thought of his period. He wrote several other books, and -numerous articles. His few poems were printed in a small volume soon -after his death, including six hymns, some of which have had -considerable use. - - 1. _Another year, another year_, (Close of the Year) - - Appeared in the _Christian Examiner_, Nov.-Dec. 1827, in 11 stas. - of 4 l. In the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868, a cento from - it begins with sta. 6, - - _O what concerns it him whose way_ - - 2. _Faint not, poor traveller, though thy way_, (Fortitude) - - Printed in the _Christian Disciple_, July-Aug. 1822, and included - in the West Boston _Collection_, 1823. - - 3. _He has gone to his God, he has gone to his home_ (Burial) - - Printed in the _Christian Examiner_, Jan.-Feb. 1824. - - 4. _My God, I thank Thee; may no thought_ (Submission) - - Appeared in the _Monthly Anthology and Boston Review_, Sept. 1809, - and was included in Lunt's _Christian Psalter_, 1841, and in many - later collections. This was Norton's earliest and best known hymn. - - 5. _O stay thy tears; for they are blest_, (Burial of the - Young) - - Printed in the _General Depository and Review_, April, 1812, in 5 - stas. of 4 l. In 1855, stas. III-V were included in Beecher's - _Plymouth Coll._ no. 1094 as - - _How blest are they whose transient years_ - - 6. _Where ancient forests round us spread_, - - Written in 1833 for the dedication of a church. - -Of the above nos. 1, 4, 5 were included in Martineau's _Hymns_, -London, 1873. Nos. 4 and 6 are in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune -Book_, 1914, and no. 6 is in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. See Putnam's -_Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_ for the full text of all -Norton's hymns. - - J. 810 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Parker, Rev. Theodore, was born on a farm in Lexington, Massachusetts -on August 24, 1810, and died in Florence, Italy, on May 10, 1860. He -entered Harvard College in 1830, but did most of his work at home, and -studied in the Harvard Divinity School, 1834-1836. In 1840 he was -granted the degree of A.M. from Harvard. Entering the ministry he -served the Unitarian Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1837-1846, -and the 28^th Congregational Society, Boston, 1846-1860. He was a -famous preacher; author of numerous printed discourses on social and -religious problems; and one of the earliest American translators of -current German theological literature. He wrote a few poems, none -intended for use as hymns, but Longfellow and Johnson took one of his -sonnets and, by eliminating two lines, transformed it into a hymn of 3 -stanzas of 4 lines each beginning, - - _O thou great Friend of all the sons of men_, - -which they included in their _Book of Hymns_, 1846. It has had -widespread and long continued use in American hymn-books and to some -extent in England. Twelve of Parker's poetical pieces are included in -A. P. Putnam's _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_. Biographies -of Parker have been written by John Weiss, Octavius B. Frothingham, -and other authors. - - J. 882 - H.W.F. - - -Peabody, Rev. Ephraim, Wilton, New Hampshire, March 22, 1807--November -28, 1856, Boston, Massachusetts. - -He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1827, and from the Harvard -Divinity School in 1830. After serving as a tutor in the Huidekoper -family in Meadville, Pennsylvania, he was ordained in 1832 as minister -of a recently gathered Unitarian congregation in Cincinnati, Ohio. In -1837 he joined Rev. John H. Morison in serving the First -Congregational Society of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and in 1845 he -accepted a call to King's Chapel, Boston, where he remained until his -death, though ill-health prevented him from preaching in the last year -and a half of his life. An impressive preacher, he also wrote some -poetry, and a hymn for an ordination, beginning - - _Lift aloud the voice of praise_ - -is attributed to him in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church -of Christ_, 1853. - - H.W.F. - - -Peabody, Rev. Oliver William Bourne, Exeter, New Hampshire, July 9, -1799--July 5, 1847, Burlington, Vermont. He was twin brother of W. B. -O. Peabody, _q.v._ He graduated from Harvard College in 1817, -practised law for a few years at Exeter, served as professor of -English Literature in Jefferson College, Louisiana from 1842 to 1845, -and in the latter year was licensed to preach by the Boston -Association and served as minister of the Unitarian Church at -Burlington, Vermont, until his death two years later. - -A hymn beginning - - _God of the rolling orbs above_ - -is attributed to him in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church -of Christ_, 1853, but does not appear to have had further use. - - J. 887 - H.W.F. - - -Peabody, Rev. William Bourne Oliver, D.D., Exeter, New Hampshire, July -9, 1799--May 28, 1847, Springfield, Massachusetts. Graduated from -Harvard College in 1817, taught for a year in Phillips Exeter Academy, -and studied for the ministry at the Harvard Divinity School. He was -ordained as the first minister of the Unitarian Church in Springfield, -Massachusetts, in October, 1820, and remained there until his death. -In 1823 he published a _Poetical Catechism for the Young_, in which he -included some original hymns. He edited _The Springfield Collection of -Hymns for Sacred Worship_, Springfield, 1835, which was adopted for -use in many parishes besides his own, and several of his hymns were -included in it. A _Memoir_ of him, written by his twin brother, O. W. -B. Peabody, was published in the 2^d edition of his _Sermons_, 1849, -and a collection of his _Literary Remains_ was published in 1850. He -is described as "a man of rare accomplishments, and consummate -virtue," widely respected and admired. - -The following hymns by him had considerable use in the 19^th century, -but only the last survived in a hymn book of the 20^th. - - 1. _Behold the western evening light_; (Death of the Righteous) - - Published in his _Catechism_, 1823, and in _Springfield - Collections_, 1835, and elsewhere. It passed into use in England; - in altered form in the _Leeds Hymn Book_, 1853, and in George - Rawson's Baptist _Ps._ and _Hys._ 1858, where it begins, - - _How softly on the western hills._ - - 2. _O when the hours of life are past_ (The Hereafter) - - Published in his _Catechism_ in answer to the question "What do - you learn of the future state of happiness?" It was included in - Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, and - had some use in its original form, and also altered to _When all - the hours of life are past_. - - 3. _The moon is up; how calm and slow_, (Evening) - - A poem rather than a hymn, in 6 stas. of 4 l., appended to his - _Catechism_, 1823. - - 4. _When brighter suns and milder skies_, (Spring) - - Appended to his _Catechism_, 1823, in 6 stas. of 4 l. - - 5. _Who is thy neighbor? He whom thou_ (The good neighbor) - - Included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. - -The full texts of Peabody's hymns are printed in Putnam, _Singers & -Songs of the Liberal Faith_, Boston, 1874. - - J. 887 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Perkins, Rev. James Handasyde, Boston, Massachusetts, July 31, -1810--December 14, 1849, near Cincinnati, Ohio. He was educated at -Phillips Exeter Academy and at Round Hill School, Northampton, -Massachusetts. After a brief business experience in Boston he moved to -Cincinnati, where he was admitted to the bar in 1837, but two years -later he took up the Ministry-at-Large organized by the First -Congregational Society (Unitarian) of Cincinnati, and later became -pastor of the church. He was active in social reforms and as a -lecturer, and was author of a number of essays descriptive of life in -what was then the far west. - -The hymn in 3 stanzas, C.M., beginning - - _It is a faith sublime and sure_, - -attributed to "J. H. Perkins" in Longfellow and Johnson's _Book of -Hymns_, 1846-48, is presumably by him, although it is not included -with his poems printed in the _Memoir and Writings of James Handasyde -Perkins_, edited by W. H. Channing, Cincinnati, 1851. It does not -appear to have had any further use. - - H.W.F. - - -Pierpont, Rev. John, Litchfield, Connecticut, April 6, 1785--August -27, 1866, Medford, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in -1804, studied law, and in 1812 set up practice in Newburyport, -Massachusetts, but later turned to the ministry and graduated from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1818. That fall he became minister of the -Hollis Street Church (Unitarian) in Boston, which he served till 1840, -when a sharp controversy over his outspoken attacks on intemperance, -slavery and other social evils led to his resignation. In the same -year he published his _Poems and Hymns_, which included his temperance -and anti-slavery poems and songs, and of which a later edition -appeared in 1854. He also wrote a number of excellent school books. In -1845 he became minister of the Unitarian Church at Troy, New York, and -in 1849 of the First Parish in Medford, Massachusetts, which he served -until 1859, when he retired. With the outbreak of the Civil War he -became an Army chaplain and was later employed in the Treasury -Department at Washington. He died suddenly while on a visit to -Medford. - -He was the maternal grandfather of J. Pierpont Morgan of New York, who -was named for him, but it would be hard to find a greater contrast -than that offered by the careers of the hymn-writing reformer and his -grandson, the financial magnate. - -In his own day Pierpont's hymns brought him a wide reputation. Thus -Putnam, in his _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, 1873, says, -"Mr. Pierpont was one of the best hymn writers in America. He was a -genuine poet, as well as a powerful preacher and stern reformer." -Today he occupies a much more modest place in American hymnody. None -of his hymns attained a very high level of excellence. Most of them -are respectable verse, written in response to frequent requests for -hymns for special occasions, but they well illustrate the mood of the -Unitarianism of his period. - -His hymns which have come into use are - - 1. _Another day its course hath run_ (Evening) - - Appeared in _Hymns for Children_, Boston 1825; in Greenwood's - _Chapel Liturgy_, 1827; in Lunt's _Christian Psalter_, 1841; and - in the author's _Poems and Hymns_, 1840. - - 2. _Break forth in song, ye trees_ (Public Thanksgiving) - - Written for the celebration of the 200^th anniversary of the - Settlement of Boston, Sept. 17, 1830. Included in _Poems and - Hymns_, 1840. - - 3. _Break the bread and pour the wine_ (Communion) - - In Harris's _Hymns for the Lord's Supper_, 1820. - - 4. _Father, while we break the bread_, (Communion) - - 5. _God Almighty and All-seeing_ (Greatness of God) - - Contributed to Elias Nason's _Congregational Hymn Book_, Boston, - 1857. - - 6. _God of mercy, do Thou never_ (Ordination) - - Written for the ordination of John B. P. Storer at Walpole, Mass., - Nov. 18, 1826. Included in the author's _Poems_, 1840, and in - Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. - - 7. _God of our fathers, in Whose sight_, (Love of Truth) - - This hymn is composed of stas. IX and X of a longer hymn written - for the Charlestown (Mass.) Centennial, June 17, 1830. In this - form it was included in Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864, and elsewhere. - - 8. _Gone are those great and good_, (Commemoration) - - Part of no. 2, above, in _Church Harmonies_, 1895. - - 9. _I cannot make him dead_ (Memorial) - - A part of an exquisitely touching and beautiful poem of ten - stanzas, originally printed in the _Monthly Miscellany_, Oct. - 1840. - - 10. _Let the still air rejoice_, (Praise) - - This was headed "Temperance Hymn" in _The Soldier's Companion_, - 1861, but is really a patriotic ditty. - - 11. _Mighty God, whose name is holy_ (Charitable Institutions) - - Written for the anniversary of the Howard Benevolent Society, Dec. - 1826. Included in the author's _Poems_, 1840. - - 12. _My God, I thank Thee that the night_ (Morning) - - In the author's Poems, 1840. In Lunt's _Christian Psalter_, 1841, - and Martineau's _Hymns_, 1873, it begins - - _O God, I thank Thee_. - - 13. _O bow Thine ear, Eternal One_ (Opening of Worship) - - Dated 1823, but not included in the author's Poems. It is given in - Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns_, etc. 1853. - - 14. _O Thou to Whom in ancient times_ (Worship) - - "Written for the opening of the Independent Congregational Church - in Barton Square, Salem, Mass. Dec. 7, 1824," and printed at the - close of the sermon preached by Henry Colman on that day. Included - in the author's _Poems_, 1840, and in many collections in this - country and in Great Britain. - - 15. _O Thou Who art above all height_ (Ordination) - - "Written for the ordination of Mr. William Ware as Pastor of the - First Congregational Church in New York, Dec. 18, 1821." Included - in _Poems_, 1840, and in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns_, etc. - - 16. _O Thou, Who on the whirlwind rides_ (Dedication of a - Place of Worship) - - Written for the opening of the Seamen's Bethel in Boston, Sept. - 11, 1833. Sometimes used beginning - - _Thou Who on the whirlwind rides_ - - 17. _O'er Kedron's stream, and Salem's height_, (Gethsemane) - - Contributed to T. M. Harris's _Hymns for the Lord's Supper_, 1820. - Included in Martineau's _Hymns_, London, 1873. - - 18. _On this stone, now laid with prayer_ (Foundation Stone) - - Written for the laying of the cornerstone of Suffolk Street - Chapel, Boston, for the Ministry to the Poor, May 23, 1839. - - 19. _With Thy pure dew and rain_, (Against slavery) - - Written for the African Colonization Society. Included in - Cheever's _Common Place Book_, 1831, but not in the author's - _Poems_, 1840. - - 20. _While with lips with praise that glow_, (Communion) - - Included in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns_, etc. - -All of the above hymns have passed out of use except nos. 1, 8, 12, -and 14 which are included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and -nos. 8 and 14, included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 895, 1647 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Pray, Lewis Glover, Quincy, Massachusetts, August 15, 1793--October 9, -1882, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a business man in Boston, active -in civic and church affairs. For 33 years he was superintendent of the -Sunday School in the Twelfth Congregational Society of Boston. In 1833 -he published a _Sunday School Hymn Book_, the first book containing -music published for Sunday Schools in New England. It appeared in -enlarged form in 1844 as the _Sunday School Hymn and Service Book_. In -1847 he published his _History of Sunday Schools_. His own hymns and -poems were published in 1862 as _The Sylphids' School_, and in a -second volume, _Autumn Leaves_, 1873. Most of them are songs for -Sunday School use rather than hymns for the church service but one of -them, from _The Sylphids' School_, beginning - - _When God upheaved the pillared earth_, - -was included in _Hymns of the Ages_. 3^d Series, 1864. - - J. 906 - H.W.F. - - -Prince, Rev. Thomas, D.D., Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 15, -1687--October 22, 1758, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard in 1707. After voyages to Barbadoes and a stay of several -years in England he returned to Boston and in 1717 was ordained as -colleague of Rev. Joseph Sewall, minister of the Old South Church. His -career was marked by frequent controversies and by his _Chronological -History of New England_, based on his great collection of rare -documents dating from the early years of the Colony. This priceless -collection was unfortunately dispersed and much of it lost after his -death. During his ministry the Tate and Brady version of the Psalms -was gradually replacing the _Bay Psalm Book_ in New England, but his -parishioners clung to the old book. He persuaded them to let him -revise it, which he did, improving or modernizing the verse and -printing after the Psalms "an addition of Fifty other Hymns on the -most important subjects of Christianity." It included one hymn by -himself beginning - - _With Christ and all his shining Train_ - _Of Saints and Angels, we shall rise_ (The Resurrection) - -His collection was published in 1758 and was first used in the Old -South Meeting House on the Sunday following his death. Its use there -continued for another 30 years, but it was not adopted elsewhere, the -_Bay Psalm Book_ being by that time generally superseded by -collections of _Watts and Select_. - - H.W.F. - - -Putnam, Rev. Alfred Porter, D. D. Danvers, Massachusetts, January 10, -1827--April 15, 1906, Salem, Massachusetts. He was educated at Brown -University, A.B. 1852, and graduated from the Harvard Divinity School -in 1855. Entering the Unitarian ministry he served a church in -Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1855-1864, and the Church of the Saviour, -Brooklyn, New York, 1864-1886, when he retired. Brown University gave -him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1871. He wrote no hymns but -published in 1874 a book entitled _Singers and Songs of the Liberal -Faith: being selections of hymns and other sacred poems of the Liberal -Church in America, with biographical sketches of the writers_. This -book includes practically all the hymns by American Unitarian authors -which had come into use prior to 1870, and the biographical sketches -are generally accurate and adequate in brief space. This useful -reference book is elsewhere referred to in this Dictionary as Putnam: -_Singers and Songs_. - - H.W.F. - - -Robbins, Rev. Chandler, D.D., Lynn, Massachusetts, February 14, -1810--September 12, 1882, Westport, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1829 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1833. -On December 4th of the same year he was ordained minister of the -Second Church (Unitarian), Boston, in succession to Henry Ware, Jr. -and R. W. Emerson. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from -Harvard in 1855. He was the author of a number of books, essays and -memorial discourses dealing with local events and persons. In 1843 he -published _The Social Hymn Book_, intended for social gatherings -rather than for church services, and in 1854 an enlarged edition -entitled _Hymn Book for Christian Worship_, though this book does not -give his name as editor. He contributed two hymns to _A Collection of -Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary_, 1845, compiled by George E. -Ellis. - - 1. _Lo! the day of rest declineth_ (Evening) - - for which L. B. Barnes, then president of the Handel and Haydn - Society composed the tune, Bedford Street, named for the location - of Dr. Robbins' church. - - 2. _While thus [now] thy throne of grace we seek_, (Voice of - God) - - The first of these is included in The _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, - 1908, and in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. The second is in - _Church Harmonies_, 1895. - - J. 966 - H.W.F. - - -Robbins, Rev. Samuel Dowse, Lynn, Massachusetts, March 7, 1812--?1884, -Belmont, Massachusetts, he was a brother of Chandler Robbins, _q.v._ -He graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1833 and on November -13 of the same year was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church in -Lynn. He subsequently held pastorates in Chelsea (1840), Framingham -(1859) and Wayland, Massachusetts, 1867-1873. - -He wrote a good many poems on religious themes, which were published -in magazines and newspapers but were never collected in a volume. The -Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868, included four of his hymns, viz: - - 1. _Down toward the twilight drifting_, (Sunset) - - 2. _Saviour, when thy bread we break_, (Communion) - - 3. _Thou art my morning, God of light_, (Day) - - 4. _Thou art, O God! my East. In thee I dawned_, - - In Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., this is entitled "The - Compass," with the statement, "Several mistakes in this hymn, as - it is printed in the Hymn and Tune Book, are here corrected by Mr. - Robbins." - -Julian's _Dictionary_, p. 967, also cites one beginning - - 5. _Thou art our father! thou of God the Son_ (Christ) - -but it is a religious poem rather than a hymn and there is no evidence -that it was included in any hymn book. - - J. 967 - Revised H.W.F. - - -Sargent, Lucius Manlius, Boston, Massachusetts, June 25, 1786--June 2, -1867, Boston. A layman of independent means, author of many articles -advocating temperance. His temperance hymn beginning - - _Slavery and death the cup contains_ - -"was written during the Washingtonian Temperance Revival" and appeared -in Adams' and Chapin's Unitarian _Hymns for Christian Devotion_, -Boston, 1846. In the American Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, 1878 the -first line is altered to read - - _Bondage and death the cup contains_, - -The hymn is included, with the original wording, in the Universalist -_Church Harmonies_, 1895. - - J. 1061 - H.W.F. - - -Savage, Rev. Minot Judson, D.D., Norridgewock, Maine, June 10, -1841--May 22, 1918, Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were strictly -orthodox Congregationalists whose resources were meagre, but a -generous benefactor made it possible for him to enter Bangor -Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1864. He served as a -Congregational minister in California, Massachusetts and Missouri, -but, having become acquainted with the works of Darwin and Herbert -Spencer, he transferred his membership to the Unitarian denomination -in 1872 and became minister of the Third Unitarian Church in Chicago. -Two years later he accepted a call to Unity Church in Boston, which he -served until 1896 when he moved to New York as minister of the Church -of the Messiah. He was one of the earliest advocates of a religious -interpretation of the doctrine of evolution, a bold thinker and -forceful speaker in great demand, and the author of many books and -printed sermons. In 1883 he published _Sacred Songs for Public -Worship; a Hymn and Tune Book_, with music arranged by Howard M. Dow, -for use in Unity Church. It contained 195 hymns and songs, 42 of which -were from his own pen. It had the shortcomings of a "one-man book" and -was musically nearer akin to the typical gospel song-book than was -usual in Unitarian hymn-books, and it had little use outside his own -congregation. Several of his hymns passed into other collections in -England and America, viz: - - 1. _Dost thou hear the bugle sounding_, (Duty) - - 2. _Father, we would not dare to change thy purpose_ (Prayer) - - 3. _God of the glorious summer hours_, (New Year) - - 4. _How shall come the kingdom holy_ (Coming of the kingdom) - - 5. _O God, whose law is in the sky_ (Consecration to Duty) - - 6. _O star of truth, down shining_, (Devotion to Truth) - - 7. _Seek not afar for beauty_, (God in Nature) - - 8. _The God that to our fathers revealed his holy will_, - - 9. _The very blossoms of our life_, (Baptism) - - 10. _What purpose burns within our hearts_, (Church Fellowship) - - 11. _When the gladsome day declineth_, (Evening) - -Of these nos. 4, 6, 7 and 11 are included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. - - J. 1698 - H.W.F. - - -Scudder, Eliza, Boston, Massachusetts, November 14, 1821--September -28, 1896, Weston, Massachusetts. She was a niece of Rev. E. H. Sears, -_q.v._ Early in life she joined a Congregational Church, throughout -her middle years was a Unitarian, and late in life entered the -Episcopal Church. She wrote a small number of poems which were -published in Boston in 1880 under the title _Hymns and Sonnets, by -E.S._, and again with her two latest poems and a brief biographical -sketch by Horace E. Scudder, in 1897, but most of her hymns had -appeared at earlier dates in other places. They are characterized by a -profound mystical spirit expressed in terms of great literary beauty, -and some of them passed into a considerable measure of common use. - - 1. _And wherefore should I seek above_, - - This hymn, included in _The Isles of Shoals Hymnbook_, 1908, - consists of the last three stanzas of a much longer poem entitled - "The New Heaven," dated 1855. - - 2. _From past regret and present faithlessness_, (Repentance) - - written in August, 1871, and published in _Quiet Hours_, Boston, - 1875. This was altered in some hymnbooks to, - - _From past regret and present feebleness_, - - In most cases the opening stanza has been omitted and the hymn has - begun with the second stanza, - - _Thou Life within my life, than self more near_, - - see no. 9, below. - - 3. _I cannot find Thee, still on restless pinion_, (Seeking - after God) - - This first appeared in Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864. - - 4. _In Thee my powers and treasures live_, (Faith and Joy) - - This appeared in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. It is part of a hymn - of 10 stanzas beginning - - _Let whosoever will inquire_, dated 1855. - - In _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, another arrangement of - stanzas forms a hymn beginning - - _My God, I rather look to Thee_ - - 5. _Life of our life, and light of all our seeing_, (Prayer) - - Written in August, 1870, it was included in _Quiet Hours_, 1875. - - 6. _The day is done: the weary day of thought and toil is past_, - (Evening) - - Included in _Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life_, E. H. - Sears, Boston, 2^nd ed. 1878, p. 296, entitled "Vesper Hymn," - dated "October, 1874." - - 7. _Thou Grace divine, encircling all_, (Divine Grace) - - This appeared in E. H. Sears' _Pictures of the Olden Time, as - shown in the Fortunes of a Family of Pilgrims_, 1857. Written in - 1852, it was included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. In the - Universalist _Psalms and Hymns_, 1865, it was mistakenly called - "An Ancient Catholic Hymn." - - 8. _Thou hast gone up again_ (Ascension) - - In _Hymns and Sonnets_, 1880. - - 9. _Thou Life within my life, than self more near_, - - As noted above, this is part of No. 2, beginning with the second - stanza of that hymn. In this form it is perhaps Miss Scudder's - most beautiful hymn. - - 10. _Thou long disowned, reviled, opprest_, (Spirit of Truth) - - Written in January, 1860, it was included in _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864. A cento from this hymn, altered to read, - - _Come Thou, with purifying fire_, - - was included in Stryker's _Church Song_, 1889. - -Of these hymns nos. 3, 4 (selected stanzas), 7, 9 and 10 are included -in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and nos. 3, 7 and 9 in _Hymns -of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 1035, 1589, 1700 - H.W.F. - - -Sears, Rev. Edmund Hamilton; Sandisfield, Massachusetts April 6, -1810--January 16, 1876, Weston, Massachusetts. Studied at Union -College, graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1837. Ordained -minister of the First Parish (Unitarian) of Wayland, Massachusetts, on -February 20, 1839. He soon after went to Lancaster, Massachusetts; -returned to Wayland, 1848-1864; and was minister of the First Parish, -Weston, Massachusetts, 1866 until his death. He was author of many -books and printed sermons, and of a good many poems, often hymns -supplementary to his sermons. None of these, however, have come into -general use, and his reputation as a hymn writer is based on his two -widely used Christmas hymns, found in many hymn books. The first, - - _Calm on the listening ear of night_, - -was written in 1839. It was included as "Anon." in _The Christian -Psalter_, published in 1841 by Sears' friend, Rev. W. P. Lunt, _q.v._ -of Quincy, Massachusetts. In the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, the -second line of sta. 6 - - The Saviour now is born! - -was changed to read - - The Prince of Peace is born! - -but the original reading was restored in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. -His second hymn, - - _It came upon the midnight clear_, - -was written in 1849. One tradition about it reports that it was -written at Mr. Lunt's request and was first used at the Christmas -celebration of the Sunday School in Quincy in that year. Sta. 5 of -this hymn - - For lo! the days are hastening on - By prophet bards foretold, - When with the ever-circling years - Comes round the age of gold; - When peace shall over all the earth - Its ancient splendors fling, - And the whole world give back the song - Which now the angels sing - -has appeared in re-written forms more than once because its "backward -look" to a golden age is not Biblical but is derived from the Fourth -Eclogue of the poet Virgil. In the Episcopal _Hymnal_ of 1874 this is -altered to read - - For lo, the days are hastening on - By prophets seen of old, - Till with the ever circling years - Shall come the time foretold, - When the new heaven and earth shall own - The Prince of Peace their King- - - - - -and this version was reprinted in the Episcopal hymnals of 1892 and -1916, and passed into other collections. In the _Hymnal_, 1940, it was -again altered to read - - For lo, the days are hastening on - By prophets seen of old, - When with the ever circling years - Shall come the time foretold - -These alterations may have brought the hymn into closer accord with -orthodox theology, but at the expense of some of its poetic beauty. - -Two patriotic songs by Sears were included in the army hymn book, _The -Soldier's Companion_, 1861. One headed "A Psalm of Freedom" begins, - - _Still wave our streamer's glorious folds_, - -The other is headed "Song of the Stars and Stripes," and begins, - - _We see the gallant streamer yet_, - -Neither has any great merit, though both may have served the purpose -for which they were written. - - J. 1036 - H.W.F. - - -Sewall, C. - -An anti-slavery hymn attributed to a person of this name is included -in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. It -begins, - - _Lord, when thine ancient people cried_, - -It is probable, but not certain, that the author was Rev. Charles -Chauncy Sewall, Marblehead, Massachusetts, May 10, 1802--November 22, -1886, Medfield, Massachusetts; who was a graduate of Bowdoin College -and who received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1832. He -was a Unitarian minister serving churches in Peabody, Massachusetts, -1827-1841; Sharon, Massachusetts, 1857-1862; and Medfield, 1873-1377. - - H.W.F. - - -Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia Howard (Huntley), Norwich, Connecticut, -September 1, 1791--June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut, wife of -Charles Sigourney. She was a prolific writer of prose and verse -contributed to many periodicals, and author of many books, chiefly -moral tales for young people. She became a very popular writer and -spent two years, 1840-1842, in England where she met many celebrities. -Two hymns by her were included in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for -the Church of Christ_, 1853, viz: - - 1. _Laborers of Christ, arise_, (Brotherhood) - - This was also included in _Church Harmonies_, 1895, with the first - line altered to read - - _Servants of Christ, arise_. - - 2. _When adverse winds and waves arise_ (Trust) - - Neither hymn has had later use. - - J. 1057, 1589. - H.W.F. - - -Sill, Edward Rowland, Windsor, Connecticut, April 29, 1841--February -27, 1887, Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Yale in 1861 and spent -several months in the year 1866-1867 at the Harvard Divinity School, -writing his one fine hymn, - - _Send down thy truth, O God_, - -for the School's Visitation Day exercises in 1867. It was included in -his collection of poems, _The Hermitage_, published the same year, and -passed thence into many American hymnbooks. Presumably he entered the -Divinity School intending to prepare for the Unitarian ministry, but -he did not do so and neither then nor later associated himself with -any denomination. At the end of the academic year 1867 he moved to -California where he was Professor of English Literature, 1874-1882 at -the University of California. He published several books of poems of -superior quality. - - J. 1703 - H.W.F. - - -Silliman, Rev. Vincent Brown, D.D., Hudson, Wisconsin, June 29, -1894--still living. He graduated from Meadville Theological School in -1920 and from the University of Minnesota in 1925. He has served -Unitarian churches in Buffalo, New York; Portland, Maine; Hollis, New -York; and Chicago, Illinois. He was a member of the committee which -edited _The Beacon Song and Service Book for Children and Young -People_, 1935, and edited _We Sing of Life_, 1955, an unusual -collection of songs for children and young people, with a strong -ethical emphasis, some set to familiar hymn tunes, others to -interesting folk music. Mr. Silliman contributed the words of several -songs. One of them, beginning, - - _Morning, so fair to see_, - -is also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, set to St. Elizabeth -(Crusader's Hymn). - - H.W.F. - - -Spencer, Mrs. Anna Garlin, (wife of Rev. William H. Spencer), -Attleboro, Massachusetts, April 17, 1851--February 12, 1931, New York. -She was ordained as a Unitarian minister, and was a lecturer and -author of books on social problems. In 1896 in her "Orders of Service -for Public Worship" she included her song entitled "The Marching Song -of the Workers," beginning, - - _Hail the hero workers of the mighty past_, - -set to St. Gertrude. It was included in _Hymns of the United Church_, -1924, in _Songs of Work and Worship_, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Sprague, Charles, Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1791--January 22, -1875, Boston. A Unitarian layman. Although a business man without a -college education he wrote much verse which brought him a considerable -reputation and requests for poems to celebrate special occasions. One -of them was read before the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in -Cambridge in 1829, and was re-published, with minor alterations, a few -years later in Calcutta by a British officer, as his own work. A -collection of his poems was published in 1841, and an enlarged edition -in 1850. A number of his shorter poems are given in Putnam's _Singers -and Songs_, and a hymn attributed to "C. Sprague" is included in Hedge -and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, beginning - - _O Thou, at whose dread name we stand_. - - H.W.F. - - -Trapp, Rev. Jacob, S.T.D., Muskegon, Michigan, April 12, 1899--still -living. He was educated at Valparaiso University and The Pacific -Unitarian School for the Ministry (now called The Starr King School -for the Ministry). He was ordained in 1929 and has served Unitarian -churches in Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Colorado; and Summit, New -Jersey. In 1932 he wrote a hymn beginning, - - _Wonders still the world shall witness_, - -which is included, with some revisions, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Tuckerman, Rev. Joseph, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, January 18, -1778--April 20, 1840, Havana, Cuba. He graduated from Harvard College -in 1798, a classmate of Rev. William Ellery Channing, whose close -friend he remained through life. He was licensed to preach by the -Boston Association and in 1801 was ordained minister of a church in -Chelsea, Massachusetts, at that time a small farming community, which -he served for 25 years. He then moved to Boston to begin his -"ministry-at-large" to the unchurched elements in the population, -under the auspices of the American Unitarian Association and later of -the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. He attained wide reputation for -his philanthropy and his wide methods of social reform. Harvard gave -him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1824. - -His hymn - - _Father divine! This deadening power control_ (Aspiration) - -is attributed to "Tuckerman" in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the -Church of Christ_, 1853, and in Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of the -Spirit_, 1864, but is not listed in Julian's _Dictionary_ or included -in later collections. - - H.W.F. - - -Very, Jones, Salem, Massachusetts, August 28, 1813--May 8, 1880, -Salem, Massachusetts. He was brother of Washington Very, _q.v._ He -graduated from Harvard College in 1836, and served as tutor in Greek -there for two years. Although Julian, _Dictionary_, p. 1219, says that -he entered the Unitarian ministry in 1843, he was never ordained as a -settled minister though he served frequently as an occasional lay -preacher. Most of his life was given to literary pursuits. In 1839 he -published _Essays and Poems_, and thereafter was a frequent -contributor in prose and verse to periodicals, including _The -Christian Register_ and the _Monthly Magazine_. The following hymns by -him have passed into various American Unitarian collections. - - 1. _Father! I wait Thy word_, (Waiting upon God) - - 2. _Father, there is no change to live with Thee_ (Peace) - - 3. _Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand_ (The Spirit Land) - - 4. _Wilt Thou not visit me?_ (The Divine Presence) - -These four, from _Essays and Hymns_, were included in Longfellow and -Johnson's _Book of Hymns_, 1846, as were also three from other -sources:-- - - 5. _I saw on earth another light_ (The Light Within) - - 6. _The bud will soon become a flower_ (Sowing and Reaping) - - 7. _Turn not from him who asks of thee_ (Kind Words) - -Longfellow and Johnson's second book, _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, -also included - - 8. _One saint to another I heard say, How long_ (The Future) - -Most of these hymns are in Lyra Sacra Americana and in Putnam's -Singers and Songs, etc. Two other of his hymns have been published in -later collections, viz: - - 9. _O heavenly gift of love divine_, (Divine assistance) - - from his _Essays and Poems_ is included in the _Pilgrim Hymnal_, - 1904; and - - 10. _We go not on a pilgrimage_ (This earth as holy land) - - is included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914 and in _Hymns of - the Spirit_, 1937. - -Of the hymns listed above nos. 2 and 3 are included in the _Isles of -Shoals Hymn Book_, and in other publications. Another hymn beginning - - _There is a world eye hath not seen_ (The Spirit World) - -included in Longfellow and Johnson's _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and -there marked _Anon._, is attributed to Very in Julian's _Dictionary_. -The hymn is an abbreviated and mutilated version of the beautiful poem -beginning - - _There is a world we have not seen_ - -in A. M. Buchanan's _Folk Hymns of America_, pp. 80-81. (See H. W. -Foote, _Three Centuries of American Hymnody_, p. 173). The original -form is in three stanzas of eight lines, long metre. The very inferior -re-written form is in four stanzas, four lines, common metre. Some of -the lines are unchanged from the original, others altered, and the -last stanza is a didactic addition. It is altogether improbable that -this was done by Very. - - J. 1219, 1721 - H.W.F. - - -Very, Washington, Salem, Massachusetts, November 12, 1815--April 28, -1853, Salem. He graduated from Harvard College in 1843, and from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1846. After preaching for a year without -settlement he opened a private school in Salem, which he conducted -until his death. He was brother of Jones Very, _q.v._ Putnam in -_Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_ includes three of W. Very's -poetical pieces, one of which - - _There cometh o'er the Spirit_ (Spring) - -appeared in Longfellow and Johnson's Book of Hymns, 1846. - - J. 1219 - H.W.F. - - -Ware, Rev. Henry, Jr., D.D., Hingham, Massachusetts, April 21, -1794--September 22, 1843, Framingham, Massachusetts. His family was -for three generations an outstanding one in the liberal ministry; his -father, Dr. Henry Ware, Sr., was called in 1805 from a pastorate in -Hingham to serve as Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard; his -younger brother, William Ware, was the first minister of what is now -All Souls Church, New York; and his son, J. F. W. Ware, was later the -minister of Arlington Street Church, Boston. Henry Ware, Jr. graduated -with high honors from Harvard in 1812, and after teaching for two -years at Phillips Exeter Academy returned to Cambridge, to continue -his theological studies. He was licensed to preach on July 31, 1815, -but was not ordained as minister of the Second Church in Boston -(Unitarian) until January 1, 1817. Never vigorous in body, he offered -his resignation in 1829, but the congregation refused to accept it, -appointing R. W. Emerson to be assistant minister. In 1830, however, -he resigned, to accept an appointment as Professor of Pulpit Eloquence -and Pastoral Care at the Harvard Divinity School, a position which he -held till 1842. He then moved from Cambridge to Framingham, -Massachusetts, where he died a few months later. Harvard gave him the -degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1834. In spite of ill health he wrote -much, and he was a greatly beloved teacher, whose saintly character -commanded the highest respect. For several years he edited the -_Christian Disciple_, established in 1813, and he was author of many -printed books, addresses and sermons, listed in the _Memoir_ of him, -published by his brother, Dr. John Ware, in 1846. His collected works -were published in four volumes in 1847, the first volume including his -occasional poems and his hymns. Some of these last reached a high -standard of excellence and brought him wide recognition in the liberal -churches of Great Britain as well as in this country. No less than -eight pieces of his verse were included in _Lyra Sacra Americana_, -published by the British Religious Tract Society in 1868. His hymns -are some of the choicest poetical expressions of liberal religious -thought in the first period of American Unitarian hymnody, but almost -all have dropped out of present use. Most of them will be found in -Putnam's _Singers and Songs_, etc. - - 1. _All nature's works His praise declare_, (Worship) - - Headed "On Opening an Organ" and dated November 9, 1822. In view - of the almost universal use of organs in modern churches it is - rather surprizing that this should be a well-nigh unique example - of a hymn for the dedication of such an instrument. It is also a - good general hymn of worship. It was included in Horder's British - _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, and in a number of American - Unitarian collections. - - 2. _Around the throne of God, the host angelic sings_, - - A hymn of "Universal Praise," based on Revelation IV, 2, 3; XV, 3. - Dated 1823 and published in the _Christian Disciple_, vol. V. A - fine hymn of its type, but little used, perhaps because of its - metre, 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4. - - 3. _Father of earth and heaven, Whose arm upholds creation_, - (Thanksgiving for Divine Mercies) - - Included in Cheever's _Common Place Book_, 1831, and in _Lyra - Sacra Americana_. - - 4. _Father, Thy gentle chastisement_ (In sickness) - - Dated March, 1836. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 5. _Great God, the followers of thy Son_, (Ordination) - - Written for the ordination of Jared Sparks, the historian, as - minister of the First Unitarian Church, Baltimore, Maryland, May - 5, 1819, but suitable for any service of worship and perhaps the - most widely used of Ware's hymns. - - 6. _In this glad hour when children meet_ (Family Gatherings) - - Dated August 20, 1835. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 7. _Lift your glad voices in triumph on high_ (Easter) - - Dated 1817, and published in the _Christian Disciple_ of that - year, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_ and - included in many 19^th century hymn books. In a few cases the - second stanza alone is given, beginning - - _Glory to God, in full anthems of joy!_ - - 8. _Like Israel's hosts to exile driven_ (The God of our - Fathers) - - Written for the Centennial Celebration of the Boston Thursday - Lecture, October 17, 1833. It is a quasi-national hymn in praise - of the Pilgrim Fathers. Included in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns - for the Church of Christ_ and in _Lyra Sacra Americana_. - - 9. _O Thou in whom alone is found_ (Laying Foundation Stone for - a Place of Worship) - - Not dated. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_, and in Thring's _Collection_ - (British) 1882. - - 10. _O Thou who on thy chosen Son_, (Ordination) - - Written "For an ordination, March, 1829." Included in Dale's - _English Hymn Book_, 1874. - - 11. _Oppression shall not always reign_, (Anti-Slavery Song) - - Dated March 15, 1843, it is the last of the author's writings in - verse. In its original form it was a poem in several stanzas - unsuited for use as a hymn, but 3 stanzas, beginning as above, had - been taken from it, altered and transposed, and thus adapted for - worship. Stanzas one and two were included in Hedge and - Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ and in Longfellow - and Johnson's _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. - - 12. _To prayer, to prayer, for morning breaks_, (Prayer) - - In 1826 he wrote a poem of 10 stanzas, 6 lines each, entitled - "Seasons of Prayer," printed in full in _Lyra Sacra Americana_ and - in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, from which at least three variant - centos were in use in the 19^th century. One beginning with the - first line, as above, adapting it for morning worship, was - included in Lunt's _Christian Psalter_, 1841, and in later - collections. Another beginning with the second stanza - - _To prayer, the glorious sun is gone_, - - was adapted for evening worship. A third selection, beginning with - the third stanza of the poem, - - _To prayer! for the day that God hath blest_, - - was included in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_. - - 13. _We rear not a temple, like Judah of old_, (Dedication of a - Place of Worship) - - "For the dedication of a church, April, 1839." - - 14. _With praise and prayer our gifts we bring_ (Opening of a - Place of Worship) - - In Dale's _English Hymn Book_, 1874. Not in Putnam's _Singers and - Songs_, etc. - -None of the hymns listed above are in current use except nos. 1 and 5, -both of which are included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - J. 1233, 1595 - Revised by H.W.F. - - -Waterston, Rev. Robert Cassie, Kennebunk, Maine, 1812--February 21, -1893, Boston, Massachusetts. He studied for a time at the Harvard -Divinity School. In 1844 Harvard gave him the degree of Master of -Arts, following the publication of his book on _Moral and Spiritual -Culture_. In 1839 he was ordained to the ministry-at-large (Unitarian) -in Boston, in charge of the Pitts Street Chapel, where he remained -till 1845. From 1845 to 1852 he served as minister of the Church of -the Saviour, Boston, and from 1854 to 1856 he was minister of the -First Religious Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Thereafter he -gave himself to educational and literary pursuits. He was a member of -the Massachusetts Historical Society and was long active on the Boston -School Committee. He wrote many essays, addresses and poems, the most -important of which are listed in Putnam's _Singers and Songs_, etc., -pp. 390-410. He contributed one hymn to the Cheshire Pastoral -Association's _Christian Hymns_, 1844, and eight to his own -_Supplement_ to Greenwood's _Psalms and Hymns_, 1845. - - 1. _God of the soul_ (The soul and God) - - 2. _Great God, in heaven above_, - - Written for a Sunday School. - - 3. _Great Source of Good, our God and Friend_ (Worship) - - 4. _In ages past, majestic prophets_, (The Coming of Jesus) - - 5. _Nature with eternal youth_ - - Written before 1853 and included in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns - for the Church of Christ_, published in that year. It is a - selection of 4 stanzas, numbers 4 to 7, from a longer poem - entitled _Nature and the Soul_, printed in full in Putnam. - - 6. _Lord of all, we bow before Thee_ - - Entitled "Christian Benevolence." - - 7. _O God of Light and Love_, - - Written for the annual meeting of the American Unitarian - Association, Boston, 1845. - - 8. _O Lord of Life! to Thee we pray_, - - Written for the dedication of a church. - - 9. _One sweet flower has drooped and faded_, - - Included in the Cheshire _Collection_, 1844, entitled "Death of a - Pupil." In Putnam the opening line reads - - "_One bright flower has drooped_", etc. - - and the hymn is entitled "On the Death of a Child", with a note, - "Sung by her classmates." - - 10. _Theories, which thousands cherish_, (Truth) - - Published in _The Religious Monthly_, Boston, and included in - several collections. - - 11. _Thou who didst aid our sires_ (On leaving an old house of - worship) - - Written for the last service of worship held in the Federal Street - Meeting House, Boston, March 13, 1859. - -All of these hymns, and a number of other poems by Waterston, are -included in Putnam's _Singers and Songs_, etc., but few of them are -dated or annotated as to use. The author was a popular writer of -verses which were respectable expressions of the religious thought and -feeling of his community, in which they had considerable vogue, but -they rarely rise above mediocrity and have long since dropped out of -use. - - J. 1235, 1724 - H.W.F. - - -Weir, Hon. Robert Stanley, D.C.L. 1856-1926. Judge in Admiralty of the -Exchequer Court of Canada. He translated, from the original French by -Calixa Lavalle, the hymn beginning, in his English version, - - _O Canada, our home, our native land_, - -which was adopted by the Canadian government as Canada's national -hymn. It is included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. He was a -member of the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian), Montreal. - - H.W.F. - - -Weiss, Rev. John, Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 1828--March 9, 1879, -Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837, and from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1843. He was ordained minister of the First -Church, (Unitarian) Watertown, Massachusetts in 1843; was minister of -the First Church, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1847-1858; and served -the church at Watertown again 1862-1869. He was a leader in the -anti-slavery movement and a prolific author of books and essays. For -Visitation Day at the Divinity School, 1843, he wrote a hymn -beginning, - - 1. _A wondrous star our pioneer_, - - which was included in the _Book of Hymns_, 1846, compiled by S. - Longfellow and S. Johnson, and in their later book, _Hymns of the - Spirit_, 1864. The _Book of Hymns_ also included a hymn "For a - Summer Festival" beginning, - - 2. _Beneath thy trees we meet today_, - - which is in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_, 1895. - -His hymn - - 3. _The world throws wide its brazen gates_ - - was included in Hedge and Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of - Christ_, 1853. - -Three other hymns by him, which have not found their way into any hymn -books, are printed in Putnam's _Singers and Songs_. - - H.W.F. - - -Wendte, Rev. Charles William, Boston, Massachusetts, June 11, -1844--September 9, 1911, San Francisco, California. He graduated from -the Harvard Divinity School in 1869 and served Unitarian churches in -Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Newport, Rhode Island. From -1885 to 1900 he was engaged in denominational work on the Pacific -Coast and thereafter was Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the American -Unitarian Association, Boston, spending a part of each year in Europe. -Long interested in Sunday Schools he published in 1886 _The Carol, for -Sunday School and Home_; a book of songs for use by children and young -people entitled _Jubilate Deo_ in 1900; and another in 1908 entitled -_Heart and Voice, a Collection of Songs and Services for the -Sunday-School and Home_. In 1907 he wrote a hymn on "The City of God" -beginning, - - _Not given to us from out the sky_, - -which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in -_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, (with a slight alteration by the author). - - H.W.F. - - -Westwood, Rev. Horace, D.D., Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, August 17, -1884--December 24, 1956, Clearwater, Florida. Emigrating to the United -States, he served in the Methodist ministry for several years, and -after 1910 served as minister in Unitarian churches in Youngstown, -Ohio; Winnipeg, Canada; Toledo, Ohio; and extensively as a mission -preacher. His hymn in one stanza, - - _Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power_, (1922) - -was included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, and he privately printed -a small collection, _Some Hymns and Verses_, n.d., a few of which -appeared in periodicals, but have not had wider use. - - H.W.F. - - -Wile, Mrs. Frances Whitmarsh, Bristol Centre, New York, December 2, -1878--July 31, 1939, Rochester, New York. Married A. J. Wile in 1901. -Her lovely hymn for use in winter, beginning, - - _All beautiful the march of days_, - -was written about 1907 while she was a parishioner of Rev. William C. -Gannett, _q.v._, in Rochester, New York, in consultation with him, and -was included in Gannett and Hosmer's revised edition of _Unity Hymns -and Chorals_, 1911, from which it passed into _The New Hymn and Tune -Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Wiley, Hiram Ozias, Middlebury, Vermont, May 20, 1831--January 28, -1873, Peabody, [Danvers] Massachusetts. He was a Unitarian layman who -practised law in Peabody from 1855 until his death, and was the author -of occasional verse contributed to local newspapers. On May 17, 1865, -the _South Danvers Wizard_ published his hymn beginning - - _He leads us on by paths we did not know_, - -and republished it on May 8, 1867, with a note reading "Some years ago -we published the following poem, which was written for our columns by -H. O. Wiley, Esq. Since then it has traversed the country in all -directions, without any credit being given either to our paper or to -the author. We reproduce it from a Western paper in order to correct -several errors that have crept into it. Ed." It is the only hymn -included in the small volume of Wiley's poems published as a memorial -to him soon after his death. Its earliest appearance in a hymn book -was in the 1873 Supp. to the Unitarian _Sunday School Hymn Book_, with -the first line changed to - - _God leads us on, etc._, - -About the same time it reached England, where it passed into a number -of collections without the name of the author. In Julian's -_Dictionary_, p. 1647, "J.M." states that it appears as _Anon._ in -_Our Home beyond the Tide_, Glasgow, 1878, and that in _Meth. Free. -Ch. Hys._, 1889, it is attributed to "Count Zinzendorf, about 1750. -Tr. H.L.L." (Jane Borthwick) although that attribution is questioned -because the hymn could not be found in any of Miss Borthwick's -translations. The mistaken attribution persisted, however, long enough -to be included in the second edition of the _Pilgrim Hymnal_, in the -first decade of this century. Since then the hymn has passed, in its -original form and rightly attributed to Wiley, into various other -collections, among them the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns -of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Willard, Rev. Samuel, 1776-1859. He graduated from Harvard College in -1803, served the First Church (Unitarian) in Deerfield, Massachusetts -1807 to 1829, when he resigned on account of blindness. In 1823 he -published a collection of 158 songs, composed by himself, and in 1830 -a compilation entitled "_Sacred Music and Poetry Reconciled_," a -hymnbook containing 518 hymns by various authors, about 180 of them -written by himself. This book was adopted for use in the Third Parish -in Hingham, Massachusetts where Willard was then living, but had -little circulation elsewhere, and none of his hymns came into general -use. - - H.W.F. - - -Williams, Velma Curtis (Wright), East Boston, Massachusetts, July 29, -1852--January 22, 1941, Boston, Massachusetts. Wife of Rev. Theodore -C. Williams, _q.v._ Her _Hymnal: Amore Dei, compiled by Mrs. Theodore -C. Williams_, was published in Boston in 1890, revised edition 1897. -It was edited with the assistance of her husband, then minister of All -Souls' Church, New York, where it was used, and in many other churches -as well. Mrs. Williams herself wrote no hymns. - - J. 1604 - H.W.F. - - -Williams, Rev. Theodore Chickering, Brookline, Massachusetts, July 2, -1855--May 6, 1915, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1876, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1882. He was -ordained minister of the Unitarian Church in Winchester, -Massachusetts, in 1882, but became minister of All Souls' Church, New -York in 1883. He resigned in 1896, and spent two years in Europe. -After his return he served as headmaster of Hackley School, Tarrytown, -New York, 1899-1905. A classical scholar, and gifted as a poet, he -published a fine metrical translation of Virgil's _Aeneid_, wrote a -number of hymns which are religious poetry of a high order, and -assisted his wife, Velma C. Williams, _q.v._, in compiling her -_Hymnal: Amore Dei_, 1890, revised edition 1897. A few of his hymns -appeared in this book and, with others of later date, are included in -_The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, -as follows: - - 1. _As the storm retreating_, (Peace after storm) - - Dated 1888. - - 2. _By law from Sinai's clouded steep_, (Sabbath rest) - - 3. _God be with thee! Gently o'er thee_ (Inward Peace) - - Dated 1889. - - 4. _Hast thou heard it, O my brother?_ (The Challenge of Life) - - Dated 1902. - - 5. _In the lonely midnight_ (Christmas) - - 6. _Lord, who dost the voices bless_ - - Written for the ordination of Rev. Benjamin R. Bulkeley at - Concord, Massachusetts, 1882. - - 7. _My country, to thy shore_, (Hymn for the Nation) - - Dated 1912. - - 8. _Thou rulest, Lord, the lights on high_ (Universal Praise) - - Dated 1911. - - 9. _To hold thy glory, Lord of all_, (Dedication of a Church) - - Dated 1911. - - 10. _When the world around us throws_, (Lent) - - Dated 1899. - - 11. _When thy heart, with joy o'erflowing_ (Brotherhood) - - Dated 1891. - -Three other hymns by him, included in _Amore Dei_, have not come into -general use, viz.: - - 12. _Glory be to God on high_, (Universal Worship) - - Dated 1889. - - 13. _I long did roam afar from home_, - - Dated 1889. - - 14. _My heart of dust was made_, - -Of the above all from nos. 1 to 11 are included in the _New Hymn and -Tune Book_, 1914, and, except no. 9, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, -which also includes no. 12. Nos. 5, 11 and 12 are in the _Pilgrim -Hymnal_, 1934. - - J. 1728 - H.W.F. - - -Willis, Love Maria (Whitcomb), Hancock, New Hampshire, June 9, -1824--November 26, 1908, Elmira, New York. She married Frederick L. E. -Willis, M.D., of Boston, in 1858. She was for some years one of the -editors of _The Banner of Light_, Boston, and of _Tiffany's Monthly -Magazine_, and was a frequent contributor to these and other -periodicals. She wrote a number of hymns, one of which, beginning, - - _Father, hear the Prayer I offer_ (Aspiration) - -was published in _Tiffany's Monthly_ in 1859. In Longfellow and -Johnson's _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, it was considerably rewritten, -with the opening line changed to read, - - _Father, hear the prayer we offer_, - -and was cited as "Anon." This 1864 text came into considerable use in -various collections in England, and was included in _The English -Hymnal_ as late as 1906. It has also had wide use in America and will -be found in almost all Unitarian hymn books since 1864, most recently -in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, -1937. - - J. 1728 - H.W.F. - - -Willis, Nathaniel Parker, Portland, Maine, January 20, 1807--January -29, 1867. He graduated from Yale College in 1826. A journalist and -editor, he wrote for the _American Monthly_ and the _New York Mirror_. -From 1831 to 1837 he was in Europe attached to the American Legation -at the French Court. On his return he became, in 1839, one of the -editors of _The Corsair_. His works are numerous and include _Sacred -Poems_, 1843. His hymn - - _The perfect world by Adam trod_, - -was "Written to be sung at the Consecration of Hanover Street -[Unitarian] Church, Boston," in 1826. It was included in Hedge and -Huntington's _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, and in a good -many other collections, although of no exceptional merit. - - J. 1285 - H.W.F. - - -Wilson, Rev. Edwin Henry, D.D. Chester Park, Long Island, New York, -August 23, 1898--still living. He graduated from Boston University, -1922; from Meadville Theological School, 1926; and took the degree of -M.A. at the University of Chicago, 1928. He has served as minister of -Unitarian churches in Chicago, Illinois; Schenectady, New York; and -Salt Lake City, Utah. Since 1949 he has been Director of the American -Humanist Association. His hymn beginning, - - _Where is our holy church?_ - -written in 1928, is included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Wilson, Rev. Lewis Gilbert, Southboro, Massachusetts, February 19, -1858--April 24, 1928, Floral City, Florida. He studied at Dartmouth, -Harvard and Meadville Theological School, and in 1883 was ordained -minister of the Unitarian Church at Leicester, Massachusetts. Later he -served the Unitarian church at Hopedale, Massachusetts, and from -1907-1915 was Secretary in the American Unitarian Association. While -there he was a member of the committee which edited _The New Hymn and -Tune Book_ published in 1914 by the Association. This book included -three of his hymns, beginning - - 1. _O God, our dwelling place_, - - 2. _O troubled sea of Galilee_, - - 3. _The works, O Lord, our hands have wrought_, - -all three of which were written in 1912. The first of these is also -included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. - - H.W.F. - - -Young, George H. (No information available) - -A hymn of 4 stanzas, L.M., beginning, - - _With heart's glad song, dear Lord, we come_, - -is attributed to him in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. - - H.W.F. - - - - - FOOTNOTES - - -[1]Frederic M. Bird, an Episcopalian clergyman, then professor at - Lehigh University, in his day the leading authority on American - hymnody. - -[2]Louis F. Benson, a Presbyterian clergyman, the successor of F. M. - Bird as the foremost American hymnologist in the first third of - this century. - -[3]See accompanying Catalogue of American Unitarian Hymn Books. - -[4]Julian's _Dictionary_, p. 60, lists Huntington, with Eliza Scudder - and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as Episcopalian. It is true that - Huntington joined the Episcopal church in 1859, as did Miss Eliza - Scudder in her old age, but all the hymns produced by either of - them were written while they were still Unitarians in belief, and - Harriet Beecher Stowe was a life long Congregationalist. - -[5]A few graduates of Harvard College (or Divinity School), belonging - to other denominations have also written hymns, the most notable - being Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895), the greatest hymn writer of - the 19^th century in the Baptist denomination; Phillips Brooks - (1835-1893) with his one famous Christmas hymn; and, in the present - century, Rev. Walter Russell Bowie (1882-_1969_), but the total - number of their hymns is a very small percentage of the number by - Unitarian graduates at Harvard. - -[6]The numbers in brackets refer to the books listed in this - catalogue. - - - - - _Index of First Lines of American Unitarian Hymns_ - which have been included in one or more published Hymn Books, with - names of their authors, to facilitate reference to the preceding -Biographical Sketches for further information. Verses by these authors - printed elsewhere than in some Hymn Book are there noted, but have - not been indexed. - - - A - A holy air is breathing round-- Livermore, A. A. - A little kingdom I possess,-- Alcott - A mighty fortress is our God-- Hedge - A voice by Jordan's shore-- Longfellow, S. - A wondrous star our pioneer-- Weiss - Abba, Father, hear-- Anon. - Abide not in the realm of dreams,-- Burleigh - Across a century's border line-- Hosmer - Again as evening's shadow falls-- Longfellow, S. - Alas! how poor and little worth-- Anon. - Alas! how swift-- Adams, J. Q. - All are architects of fate-- Longfellow, H. W. - All beautiful the march of days-- Wile - All before us is the way-- Clapp, see also Emerson - All hail, God's angel, Truth-- Newell - All hail the pageant of the years-- Holmes, J. H. - All hidden lie the future ways-- Hosmer - All holy, ever living One-- Hill - All is of God: if he but wave his hand-- Longfellow, H. W. - All nature's works His praise declare-- Ware - All praise to him of Nazareth-- Bryant - All that in this wide world-- Bryant - All things that are on earth-- Bryant - Almighty Builder, bless, we pray-- Church - Almighty! hear thy children raise-- - altered to - Almighty, listen while we praise-- Bryant - America triumphant! Brave land of pioneers-- Holmes, J. H. - Amid the heaven of heavens-- Bartrum - And wherefore should I seek above-- Scudder - Angel of peace, thou hast tarried-- Holmes, O. W. - Another day its course hath run-- Pierpont - Another year of setting suns-- Chadwick - Around the throne of God, the host-- Ware - As darker, darker fall around-- See: Longfellow, S. - As once again we gather here-- Greenwood - As shadows cast by sun and cloud-- Bryant - As the storm retreating-- Williams, T. C. - As tranquil streams that meet-- Ham - At first I prayed for light-- Cheney - - - B - Be thou ready, fellow-mortal-- Bartol - Behold, the servant of the Lord-- Anon. - Behold the western evening light-- Peabody, W. B. O. - Beneath the shadow of the cross-- Longfellow, S. - Beneath thine hammer, Lord-- Hedge - Beneath thy trees we meet today-- Weiss - Benignant Saviour: 'twas not thine, - altered to - Most gracious Saviour: 'twas not thine-- Bulfinch - Blest is the hour when-- Anon. - Blest is the mortal-- Adams, J. Q. - Blind Bartimeus at the gate-- Longfellow, H. W. - Bondage and death the cup contains-- Sargent - Break the bread and pour the wine-- Pierpont - Bring, O morn, thy music-- Gannett - Brother, hast thou wandered far-- Clarke - Burden of shame and woe-- Bulfinch - By law from Sinai's clouded steep-- Williams, T. C. - - - C - Calm on the listening ear of night-- Sears - Christ hath arisen-- Hedge - Christ to the young man said-- Longfellow, H. W. - City of God, how broad, how far-- Johnson - Clear in memory's silent reaches-- Gannett - Close softly, fondly, while ye weep-- Bryant - Come, Holy Spirit, hush my heart-- Anon. - Come, let us sing-- Adams, J. Q. - Come, let us who in Christ-- Anon. - Come, O thou universal good-- Anon. - Come, Thou Almighty King-- Anon. - Come, Thou Almighty Will-- See: Longfellow, S. - Come to the morning prayer-- Anon. - - - D - Day unto day uttereth speech-- Burleigh - Dear ties of mutual succor-- Bryant - Deem not that they are blest alone-- Bryant - Deus omnium creator-- Greenough - Down the dark future thro long generations-- Longfellow, H. W. - Down toward the twilight drifting-- Robbins, S. D. - - - E - Enkindling Love, eternal Flame-- Barrows - Eternal One, Thou living God-- Longfellow, S. - Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round-- Chadwick - Every bird that upward springs-- Neale, but see Longfellow, S. - - - F - Faint not, poor traveller, though-- Norton - Far off, O God, and yet most near-- Barber - Father, beneath thy sheltering wing-- Burleigh - Father divine! This deadening power control-- Tuckerman - Father, give thy benediction-- Longfellow, S. - Father, hear the prayer we offer-- Willis, L. M. - Father! I wait Thy word-- Very, J. - Father in heaven, hear us-- Ames - Father in heaven, to Thee my heart-- - altered to - Father in heaven, to whom our hearts-- Furness - Father, in thy mysterious presence kneeling-- Johnson - Father, there is no change to live with Thee-- Very, J. - Father, Thou art calling-- Blake - Father, thy servant waits-- Burleigh - Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand-- Very, J. - Father, to thee we look-- Hosmer - Father, to thy kind love-- Bryant - Father, to us thy children-- Clarke - Father, we would not dare-- Savage - Father, whose heavenly kingdom lies-- Huntington - Feeble, helpless, how shall I-- Furness - For all thy gifts we bless Thee, Lord-- Clarke - For mercies past we praise thee-- Anon. - For summer's bloom, and autumn's-- Holland - For the dear love that kept us-- Burleigh - For Thee in Zion-- Adams, J. Q. - Forward through the ages-- Hosmer - Freedom, thy holy light-- Ham - From age to age how grandly rise-- Hosmer - From age to age they gather, all the-- Hosmer - From Bethany the Master-- Ham - From heart to heart, from creed-- Gannett - From lips divine the healing balm-- Burleigh - From many ways and wide apart-- Hosmer - From past regret and present faithlessness-- - altered to - From past regret and present feebleness-- Scudder - From street and square, from hill-- Higginson - From the profoundest depths-- Burleigh - - - G - Gently, Lord, O gently lead-- Anon. - Give forth thine earnest cry-- Longfellow, S. - Glory be to God on high-- Williams, T. C. - Glory to God, and peace on earth-- Livermore, S. W. - Go forth to life, O child of earth-- Longfellow, S. - Go not, my soul, in search of Him-- Hosmer - Go, preach the gospel in my name-- Johnson - Go to thy rest, fair child-- Anon. - God almighty and All-seeing-- Pierpont - God be with thee! Gently o'er thee-- Williams, T. C. - God bless our native land-- Brooks and Dwight - God is good: each perfumed flower-- Follen - God is in his holy temple-- Longfellow, S. - God laid his rocks in courses-- Gannett - God leads us on by paths-- Wiley - God of mercy, do Thou never-- Pierpont - God of our fathers, in Whose sight-- Pierpont - God of our fathers, who hast-- Briggs, L. R. - God of the earnest heart-- Johnson - God of the earth, the sea, the sky-- Longfellow, S. - God of the glorious summer hours-- Savage - God of the mountain-- Anon. - God of the nations, near and far-- Holmes, J. H. - God of the rolling orbs above-- Peabody, O. W. B. - God of the rolling year-- Anon. - God of the soul-- Waterston - God of the vastness-- Badger - God of Truth! Thy sons should be-- Longfellow, S. - God's law demands one living faith-- Briggs, C. A. - God's trumpet wakes the slumbering world-- Longfellow, S. - Gone are those great and good-- Pierpont - Grateful for another day-- Marean - Great God, in heaven above-- Waterston - Great God, the followers of thy Son-- Ware - Great Source of Good, our God-- Waterston - - - H - Hail the hero workers-- Spencer - Hail to the Sabbath day-- Bulfinch - Hark! 'tis the holy temple bell-- Adams, J. Q. - Hast thou heard it, O my brother?-- Williams, T. C. - Hast thou heard the bugle sounding-- Savage - Hast thou wasted all the powers-- Clarke - Hath not thy heart within thee burned-- Bulfinch - Have mercy, O Father-- Furness - He hides within the lily-- Gannett - He leads us on by paths we did not know-- Wiley - He sendeth sun, he sendeth-- Anon. - He who himself and God would know-- Longfellow, S. - Head of the church triumphant-- Anon. - Hear, Father, hear our prayer-- Anon. - Hear, hear, O ye nations-- Hosmer - Heir of all the waiting ages-- Ham - Here holy thoughts a light have shed-- Emerson - Here in a world of doubt-- Furness - Here in the broken bread-- Furness - Here to the high and holy One-- Flint - Holy Father, gracious art Thou-- Furness - Holy, holy Lord-- Goldsmith - Holy Son of God most high-- Bulfinch - Holy Spirit, Fire divine-- Hedge - Holy Spirit, source of gladness-- Longfellow, S. - Holy Spirit, Truth Divine-- - altered to - Holy Spirit, Light Divine-- Longfellow, S. - Hosanna in the highest!-- Lathrop - How blest are they whose transient years-- Norton - How glorious is the hour-- Bulfinch - How shall come the kingdom holy-- Savage - How shall I know thee-- Bryant - How softly on the western hills-- Peabody, W. B. O. - - - I - I bless Thee, Lord, for sorrows sent-- Johnson - I came not hither of my will-- Hosmer - I cannot always trace the way-- Anon. - I cannot find Thee, still on restless pinion-- Scudder - I cannot think of them as dead-- Hosmer - I cannot walk in darkness long-- Mason - I feel within a want-- Furness - I hear it often in the dark-- Gannett - I hear Thy voice, within the silence-- Ham - I heard the bells on Christmas Day-- Longfellow, H. W. - I little see, I little know-- Hosmer - I long did roam afar-- Williams, T. C. - I look to Thee in every need-- Longfellow, S. - I saw on earth another light-- Very, J. - Immortal by their deed and word-- Hosmer - In ages past majestic prophets-- Waterston - In pleasant lands have fallen-- Flint - In quiet hours the tranquil soul-- Larned - In the beginning was the word-- Longfellow, S. - In the broad fields of heaven-- Anon. - In the lonely midnight-- Williams, T. C. - In the morning I will praise-- - altered to - In the morning I will pray-- Furness - In the Saviour's hour of death-- Bulfinch - In Thee my powers and treasures-- Scudder - Into the silent land-- Longfellow, H. W. - Is there a lone and dreary hour-- Gilman, C. - It came upon the midnight clear-- Sears - It is a faith sublime and sure-- Perkins - It is finished! Glorious word-- Bulfinch - It is finished, Man of sorrows-- Hedge - It singeth low in every heart-- Chadwick - It sounds along the ages-- Gannett - - - J - Jesus, a child his course began-- Fuller - Jesus has lived! and we-- Alger - - - K - Kingdom of God, the day how blest-- Beach - - - L - Laborers of Christ, arise-- Sigourney - Lead us, O Father, in the paths of peace-- Burleigh - Let the still air rejoice-- Pierpont - "Let there be light!" when-- Anon. - Let whosoever will inquire-- Scudder - Life is real! Life is earnest-- Longfellow, H. W. - Life of Ages, richly poured-- Johnson - Life of all that lives below-- Longfellow, S. - Life of God, within my soul-- Longfellow, S. - Lift aloud the voice of praise-- Peabody, E. - Lift your glad voices in triumph on high-- Ware - Light of ages and of nations-- Longfellow, S. - Like Israel's host to exile driven-- Ware - Like pilgrims sailing through the night-- Harris, F. - Lo, the day of days is here-- Hosmer - Lo! the day of rest declineth-- Robbins, C. - Lo, the earth is risen again-- Longfellow, S. - Lo, the Easter-tide is here-- Hosmer - Look from Thy sphere-- Bryant - Lord, beneath thine equal hand-- - altered to - Lord, beneath whose equal hand-- Hall - Lord deliver, thou canst save-- Follen - Lord, I believe, and in my faith-- Badger - Lord, in this sacred hour-- Bulfinch - Lord, in thy garden agony-- Anon. - Lord, may the spirit of this feast-- Anon. - Lord of all being, throned afar-- Holmes, O. W. - Lord of all, we bow before Thee-- Waterston - Lord of all worlds-- Adams, J. Q. - Lord of the worlds below-- Freeman - Lord, once our faith in man-- Johnson - Lord, when thine ancient people cried-- Sewall - Lord, who dost the voices bless-- Williams, T. C. - Lord, who ordainest for mankind-- Bryant - Love for all! and can it be-- Longfellow, S. - - - M - Many things in life there are-- Hosmer - Meek and lowly, pure and holy-- Anon. - Meek hearts are by sweet manna fed-- Anon. - Men whose boast it is that ye-- Lowell - Mighty One, before whose face-- Bryant - Mine eyes have seen the glory-- Howe - Morning, so fair to see-- Silliman - Mortal, the angels say-- Anon. - My country, to thy shore-- Williams, T. C. - My feet are worn and weary-- Anon. - My God, I rather look to Thee-- Scudder - My God, I thank Thee: may no thought-- Norton - My God, I thank Thee that the night-- - altered to - O God, I thank Thee-- Pierpont - My God, in life's most doubtful hour-- Hurlburt - My heart of dust was made-- Williams, T. C. - My life flows on in endless song-- Anon. - My Shepherd is the Lord-- Adams, J. Q. - My soul, before thy Maker-- Adams, J. Q. - Mysterious Presence, Source of all-- Beach - - - N - Nature with eternal youth-- Waterston - No human eyes Thy face may see-- Higginson - Not always on the Mount may we-- Hosmer - Not given to us from out the sky-- Wendte - Not gold, but only men can make-- See under Emerson - Not in the solitude-- Bryant - Not in vain I poured my supplication-- Burleigh - Not only doth the voiceful day-- Burleigh - Not when, with self dissatisfied-- Hosmer - Now on land and sea descending-- Longfellow, S. - Now sing we a song of the harvest-- Chadwick - Now with creation's morning song-- Longfellow, S. - Now while the day in trailing splendor-- Hosmer - Now while we sing our closing hymn-- Longfellow, S. - - - O - O, all ye people-- Adams, J. Q. - "O beautiful, my country"-- Hosmer - O blest the souls that see and hear-- Hosmer - O bow Thine ear, Eternal One-- Pierpont - O church of freedom and of faith-- Longfellow, S. - O day of light and gladness-- Hosmer - O deem not that earth's crowning bliss-- Burleigh - O Father, fix this wavering will-- Longfellow, S. - O Father, take this new-built shrine-- Hale, E. E. - O Father, Thou who givest all-- Holmes, J. H. - O Father, while I live, I pray-- Holmes, J. H. - O for a prophet's fire-- Furness - O from these visions, dark-- Bartrum - O God! a temple to thy name-- Longfellow, S. - O God, accept this sacred hour-- Gilman, S. - O God, I thank Thee for each sight-- Mason - O God, in whom we live and move-- - altered to - O Thou, in whom we live and move-- Longfellow, S. - O God of freedom! Hear us pray-- Chapman - O God of Light and Love-- Waterston - O God, our dwelling-place-- Wilson, L. G. - O God, thou giver of all good-- Longfellow, S. - O God! thy children gathered here-- Longfellow, S. - O God unseen, but ever near-- Longfellow, S. - O God, whose dread and dazzling brow-- Bryant - O God, whose law is in the sky-- Savage - O God, whose presence glows in all-- Frothingham, N. L. - O God, whose smile is in the sky-- Holmes, J. H. - O God, with goodness all thine own-- Adams, J. Q. - O heal me, Lord-- Adams, J. Q. - O heavenly gift of love divine-- Very, J. - O Holy Father, mid the calm-- Burleigh - O holy, holy, holy, art Thou-- Longfellow, S. - O, judge me, Lord-- Adams, J. Q. - O Life that maketh all things new-- Longfellow, S. - O Light, from age to age the same-- Hosmer - O Lord my God! how great-- Adams, J. Q. - O Lord of hosts, Almighty King-- Holmes, O. W. - O Lord of life, thy kingdom is at hand-- Ham - O Lord of Life, where'er they be-- Hosmer - O Lord, thy all-discerning-- Adams, J. Q. - O Love Divine, lay on me burdens-- Huntington - O Love Divine, of all that is-- Chadwick - O Love Divine, that stooped to share-- Holmes, O. W. - O Love of God most full-- Clute - O my country, land of promise-- Ham - O Name, all other names above-- Hosmer - O North, with all thy vales-- Bryant - O Prophet souls of all the years-- Hosmer - O sing with loud and joyful song-- Blake - O speed thee, Christian-- Anon. - O star of truth, down shining-- Savage - O stay thy tears; for they are blest-- Norton - O still in accents sweet and strong-- Longfellow, S. - O suffering Friend of all mankind-- Bulfinch - O that the race of men-- Adams, J. Q. - O the beautiful old story-- Alcott - O Thou, at whose dread name we stand-- Sprague - O thou great Friend to all the sons-- Parker - O Thou, in all thy might so far-- Hosmer - O thou in lonely vigil led-- Hosmer - O Thou in whom alone is found-- Ware - O Thou, in whom we live and move-- Longfellow, S. - O Thou, in whose Eternal Name-- Huntington - O Thou that once on Horeb stood-- Huntington - O Thou to Whom in ancient times-- Pierpont - O Thou to whom in prayer and praise-- Church - O Thou who art above all height-- Pierpont - O Thou who art my King-- Badger - O Thou, who art of all that is-- Hosmer - O Thou, who hearest prayer-- Anon. - O Thou who on the whirlwind rides-- Pierpont - O Thou who on thy chosen Son-- Ware - O Thou who turnest into morning-- Loring, L. P. - O thou whose gracious presence-- Ham - O Thou, whose liberal sun and rain-- Longfellow, S. - O Thou, whose love can ne'er forget-- Bryant - O Thou whose own vast temple stands-- - altered to - Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands-- Bryant - O Thou, whose perfect goodness crowns-- Chadwick - O Thou, whose Spirit witness bears-- Hosmer - O Thou with whom in sweet content-- Foote, H. W., I - O troubled sea of Galilee-- Wilson, L. G. - O what concerns it him whose way-- Norton - O when the hours of life are past-- Peabody, W. B. O. - O why should friendship grieve-- Anon. - O wondrous depth of grace-- Anon. - O'er continent and ocean-- Holmes, J. H. - O'er Kedron's stream and Salem's-- Pierpont - O'er mountaintops, the mount-- Anon. - Oh, who shall roll the stone away-- Ham - On earth was darkness spread-- Anon. - On eyes that watch through sorrow's night-- Hosmer - Once to every man and nation-- Lowell - One holy church of God appears-- Longfellow, S. - One saint to another I heard say-- Very, J. - One sweet flower has drooped and faded-- Waterston - One thought I have, my ample creed-- Hosmer - Onward, onward, through the region-- Johnson - Oppression shall not always reign-- Ware - Our Father, while our hearts unlearn-- Holmes, O. W. - Our house, our God, we give to Thee-- Lowell - Our pilgrim brethren, dwelling far-- Livermore, S. W. - Out of every clime and people-- Longfellow, S. - Out of the dark, the circling sphere-- Longfellow, S. - Out of the heart of nature rolled-- Emerson - - - P - Peace, peace on earth! The heart-- Longfellow, S. - Praise for the glorious light-- Hale, M. W. - Praise to God and thanksgiving-- Gannett - Praise to the living God-- Gannett and Mann - - - R - Remember me, the Saviour said-- Frothingham, N. L. - Richly, O richly have I been-- Furness - Ring, O ring, ye Christmas bells-- Ham - - - S - Saviour and dearest friend-- Anon. - Saviour, and source of every blessing-- Anon. - Saviour, when thy bread we break-- Robbins, S. D. - Seek not afar for beauty-- Savage - Send down thy truth, O God-- Sill - Send forth, O God, thy truth-- Adams, J. Q. - Servants of Christ, arise-- Sigourney - Set from the restless world apart-- Marean - Show us thy way, O God-- Holmes, J. H. - Sing forth his high eternal name-- Longfellow, S. - Sing to Jehovah a new song-- Adams, J. Q. - Sing to the Lord a song-- Adams, J. Q. - Slavery and death the cup contains-- Sargent - Sleep, my little Jesus-- Gannett - Slowly, by Thy hand unfurled-- - altered to - Slowly by God's hand unfurled-- Furness - Sovereign and transforming Grace-- Hedge - Sovereign of worlds! display-- Anon. - Spirit Divine! attend our prayer-- Longfellow, S. - Spirit of God, in thunder speak-- Chadwick - Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power-- Westwood - Standing forth in life's rough way-- Bryant - Still wave our streamer's glorious folds-- Sears - Still will we trust, though earth-- Burleigh - Strong-souled Reformer, whose-- Johnson - Supreme Disposer of the heart-- See: Longfellow, S. - Sure to the mansions of the blest-- Adams, J. Q. - Swift years, but teach me-- Anon. - - - T - Take my heart, O Father-- Anon. - Take our pledge, eternal Father-- Mott - Tell me not in mournful numbers-- Longfellow, H. W. - That God is Love, unchanging Love-- Furness - The ages one great minster seem-- Lowell - The brightening dawn and-- Burleigh - The bud will soon become a flower-- Very, J. - The builders, toiling through the days-- Ham - The changing years, Eternal God-- Mason - The earth, all light and loveliness-- Miles - The evening wind begins to blow-- Long - The God that to our fathers-- Savage - The heavens thy praise are telling-- See: Longfellow, S. - The land our fathers left to us-- Higginson - The Lord gave the word-- Frothingham, N. L. - The Lord is in his holy place-- Gannett - The loving Friend to all who bowed-- Longfellow, S. - The morning hangs its signal-- Gannett - The outward building stands complete-- Hosmer - The past is dark with sin and shame-- Higginson - The past yet lives in all its truth-- Appleton - The patriarch's dove, on weary wing-- Frothingham, N. L. - The perfect world by Adam trod-- Willis, N. P. - The rose is queen among the flowers-- Hosmer - The Saviour said "Yet one thing more"-- Longfellow, H. W. - The spirit of the Lord has stirred-- Mott - The summer days are come again-- Longfellow, S. - The sun is still forever sounding-- Hedge - The very blossoms of our life-- Savage - The voice of God is calling-- Holmes, J. H. - The Will Divine that woke a waiting time-- Johnson - The works, O Lord, our hands-- Wilson, L. G. - The world throws wide its brazen gates-- Weiss - Theories, which thousands cherish-- Waterston - There cometh o'er the spirit-- Very, W. - There is a beautiful land-- Burleigh - There is a strife we all must wage-- Bulfinch - There is a world, and O how blest-- Anon. - There is a world eye hath not seen-- Attributed to Very, J. - There is no flock, however watched-- Longfellow, H. W. - They are slaves who will not choose-- Lowell - Thirsting for a living spring-- Appleton - This child we dedicate-- Gilman, S. - This day let grateful praise ascend-- Hale, M. W. - Thou art my morning, God of light-- Robbins, S. D. - Thou art, O God! my East-- Robbins, S. D. - Thou art the Way, and he-- Anon. - Thou, infinite in love-- Miles - Thou glorious God, before whose face-- Chadwick - Thou Grace Divine, encircling all-- Scudder - Thou gracious Power, whose mercy-- Holmes, O. W. - Thou Life within my life, than self-- Scudder - Thou Lord of hosts, whose guiding hand-- Frothingham, O. B. - Thou Lord of life, our saving health-- Longfellow, S. - Thou mighty God, who didst of old-- Chadwick - Thou One in all, thou All in one-- Beach - Thou only Living, only True-- Furness - Thou must go forth alone-- Anon. - Thou rulest, Lord, the lights on high-- Williams, T. C. - Thou unrelenting past-- Bryant - Thou, who didst stoop below-- Miles - Thou who dost all things give-- Furness - Thou whose glad summer yields-- Johnson - Thou whose love didst give us birth-- - altered to - Thou whose love brought us to birth-- Foote, H. W., II. - Thou whose spirit dwells in all-- Chadwick - Through the changes of the day-- Burleigh - Through willing heart and helping hand-- Hosmer - Thy kingdom come, O Lord-- Hosmer - Thy kingdom come, on bended knee-- Hosmer - Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits-- Kimball - Thy seamless robe conceals Thee not-- Chadwick - Thy servants' sandals, Lord-- Johnson - Thy way, O Lord, is in the sea-- Badger - 'Tis not Thy chastening hand-- Anon. - 'Tis winter now; the fallen snow-- Longfellow, S. - To him who children blessed-- Clarke - To hold thy glory, Lord of all-- Williams, T. C. - To light that shines in stars and souls-- Johnson - To prayer! for the day that God hath blest-- Ware - To prayer, the glorious sun is gone-- Ware - To prayer, to prayer, for morning breaks-- Ware - To the High and Holy One-- Furness - To the truth that makes us free-- Furness - To Thee, O God in heaven-- Clarke - To thine eternal arms, O God-- Higginson - Today be joy in every heart-- Hosmer - Toiling through the livelong night-- Bulfinch - Touch Thou mine eyes-- Ham - Turn not from him who asks of thee-- Very, J. - Turn to the stars of heaven-- Adams, J. Q. - 'Twas in the East, the mystic East-- Hedge - 'Twas the day when God's anointed-- Hedge - - - U - Unto thy temple, Lord, we come-- Collyer - Unworthy to be called thy son-- Furness - Uplift the song of praise-- Hosmer - - - W - We ask not that our path-- Burleigh - We bless Thee for this sacred day-- Gilman, C. - We follow, Lord, where thou-- Anon. - We go not on a pilgrimage-- Very, J. - We have not wings; we may not soar-- Longfellow, H. W. - We honor those whose work began-- Horton - We love the venerable house-- Emerson - We meditate the day-- Frothingham, N. L. - We pray for truth and peace-- Hurlburt - We pray no more, made lowly wise-- Hosmer - We see the gallant streamer yet-- Sears - We sowed a seed in faith and hope-- Longfellow, S. - We will not weep, for God is standing by-- Hurlburt - What has drawn us thus apart-- Chadwick - What is the world that it should share-- Furness - What is this that stirs within-- Furness - What means this glory round our feet-- Lowell - What power unseen by mortal eye-- Bulfinch - What purpose burns within our hearts-- Savage - Whatever dims the sense of truth-- Hale, M. W. - When adverse winds and waves arise-- Sigourney - When Christ with all his shining train-- Prince - When courage fails, and faith burns low-- Hosmer - When doomed to death the Apostle lay-- Bryant - When from the Jordan's gleaming wave-- Longfellow, S. - When gladness gilds our prosperous day-- Burleigh - When God upheaved the pillared earth-- Pray - When he who from the scourge of wrong-- Bryant - When in silence o'er the deep-- Hale, M. W. - When Israel's foes, a numerous host-- Fernald - When, o'er the billow-heaving-- Adams, J. Q. - When, on devotion's seraph wing-- Miles - When shadows gather on our way-- Hosmer - When shall the voice of singing-- Anon. - When the blind suppliant-- Bryant - When the constant sun returning-- Hosmer - When the gladsome day declineth-- Savage - When the world around us throws-- Williams, T. C. - When this song of praise shall cease-- Bryant - When thy heart, with joy o'erflowing-- Williams, T. C. - Where ancient forests round us spread-- Norton - Where is our holy church?-- Wilson, E. H. - Where men on mounts of vision-- Hosmer - While thus [now] thy throne of grace-- Robbins, C. - While with lips with praise that glow-- Pierpont - Whither, midst falling dew-- Bryant - Who is thy neighbor? He whom thou-- Peabody, W. B. O. - Who would sever freedom's shrine?-- Gilman, S. - Why come not spirits-- Anon. - Why should I fear-- Adams, J. Q. - Why slumbereth, Lord, each-- Anon. - Why weep for those, frail child-- Loring, W. 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M. Bird<a class="fn" id="fr_1" href="#fn_1">[1]</a> wrote, “The Unitarians—possessing a large -share of the best blood and brain of the most cultivated section -of America—exhibit a long array of respectable hymnists whose -effusions have often won the acceptance of other bodies,” (pp. 58-59). -And in this century Louis F. Benson<a class="fn" id="fr_2" href="#fn_2">[2]</a> -in his classic book <i>The English Hymn</i> (p. 460) wrote, -“It is not surprizing that a body including the best blood -and highest culture of Massachusetts shared in the Literary Movement -[of the 19<sup>th</sup> century] and succeeded -in imparting to its hymn books a freshness of interest -in great contrast to those of the orthodox churches” and that -“from their [the compilers’] hands there proceeded —— a series -of hymn books whose literary interest was very notable” (p. 462).</p> -<p>This succession of Unitarian hymn writers over a period of -approximately 150 years can best be traced in the nearly 50 hymn -books compiled by individuals or committees for use in Unitarian -churches.<a class="fn" id="fr_3" href="#fn_3">[3]</a> -The editors of these books were among the best -educated men of their time, who knew where to look for fresh -lyrical utterances of a living faith. The earliest of them -lived in the period when the traditional metrical psalms which, -for more than two centuries, had been almost the only worship-song -of the English speaking world, were being slowly superseded by -<span class="pb" id="Page_2">2</span> -the songs of a new age. These songs they chiefly found in the -various hymn-books published for use in English Non-conformist -chapels when the Church of England still generally adhered to -the Old or New Versions of the Psalms. It was from these sources -that Jeremy Belknap first introduced to Americans the hymns of -Anne Steele, and included in his <i>Sacred Poetry</i> (1795) hymns by -Addison, Cowper, Newton, Doddridge and other English contemporaries. -When, in 1808, the vestry of Trinity Church, Boston, impatient -at the delay of the General Convention of the Protestant -Episcopal Church in getting out a hymnal, issued one for their -own use, they drew heavily upon Belknap’s collection, saying in -their preface “In this selection we are chiefly indebted to -Dr. Belknap, whose book unquestionably contains the best expressions -of sacred poetry extant.”</p> -<p>Many of the later collections in this series of Unitarian -hymn books have been no less notable for their introduction to -use in this country of new English hymns, such as Pope’s “Father -of all, in every age;” Sir Walter Scott’s “When Israel of the -Lord beloved;” translations of hymns in the Roman Breviary; -Sarah Flower Adams’ “Nearer, my God, to Thee” (only three years -after its publication in England); and Newman’s “Lead, kindly -Light;” and for the ability of their compilers to discover fresh -materials near at hand, as when Samuel Longfellow and Samuel -Johnson were the first to notice the hymnic possibilities of -Whittier’s poems.</p> -<p>The story of American Unitarian hymnody begins with the -publication in 1783 of the <i>Collection of Hymns—designed for -the use of the West Society of Boston.</i> This church belonged to -<span class="pb" id="Page_3">3</span> -the liberal wing of New England Congregationalism, destined -to become known as Unitarian a generation later. The book -contained a small selection of traditional psalms and hymns -by British authors and a number of quaintly didactic moral -ditties in doggerel, presumably contributed by Boston versifiers -who cannot now be identified.</p> -<p>The first group of Unitarian hymn-writers whose names are -known and whose productions have survived did not begin to write -until the opening decades of the 19<sup>th</sup> century. Of this group -the earliest born was John Quincy Adams, (1767-1848), best -remembered as the sixth President of the United States. That -he was also a hymn writer, and the only president of the country -who was one, has generally been forgotten. Two or three hymns -by him were written earlier but most of them came from the period -following his retirement from the presidency in 1829. Soon after -that event he wrote one for the 200<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the First -Church in Quincy, of which he was a member, and later in life he -composed a metrical paraphrase of the whole Book of Psalms. When -Dr. Lunt, minister of the Quincy church, was preparing his -<i>Christian Psalter</i>, 1841, Mrs. Adams put into his hands the mss. -of her husband’s poems, and Lunt included in his book five hymns -and seventeen psalms by his distinguished parishioner. None of -them rose above the level of respectable verse but his version -of Psalm 43 survived in one or more hymn books 100 years later.</p> -<p>Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866) was a poet of considerable -abilities whose verses were in demand for special occasions and -whose hymns were the best lyrical expressions of the developing -<span class="pb" id="Page_4">4</span> -new thought in religion. W. Garrett Horder, the English -hymnologist, wrote that Pierpont’s hymn of universal praise -was “the earliest really great hymn I have found by an American -author.” It is still in use, as are two others by him.</p> -<p>Prof. Andrews Norton (1786-1853) of the Harvard Divinity -School, published a hymn as early as 1809 and a good deal of -verse in later years, much of it in a rather sombre introspective -mood, but with one fine hymn still in use. He was followed -by Rev. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham (1793-1870) who wrote -a good many hymns for special occasions, one of which survives -today, and by Rev. Henry Ware, Jr. (1794-1843) who wrote a number -of hymns highly valued as utterances of the religious idealism -of the period, but long since dropped from use, except for an -excellent one for the dedication of an organ, probably the only -hymn in the English language written expressly for such an occasion. -William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), a lay man of letters, -was another of the elder members of the famous group of New -England poets of the 19<sup>th</sup> century, and as early as 1820 he contributed -5 hymns to Sewall’s <i>New York Collection</i>, published in -that year, and he later wrote others.</p> -<p>The latest born of this first group who attained memorable -distinction in this field was Rev. Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890), -whose earliest hymn, still in use, was written in 1829, -but who is best known for his great translation of Luther’s -“Ein’ feste Burg,” and for a fine Good Friday hymn. He collaborated -<span class="pb" id="Page_5">5</span> -with Rev. Frederic Dan Huntington<a class="fn" id="fr_4" href="#fn_4">[4]</a> (1819-1904) then -the college preacher at Harvard, in compiling <i>Hymns for the -Church of Christ</i>, (1853), to which Huntington contributed -five hymns, none now in use. Their book was the last and best -of the various <i>Collections</i> published up to the middle of the -century by editors who belonged to what was becoming the conservative -wing of the denomination, to whom Emerson’s <i>Divinity -School Address</i> of 1838 seemed dangerously radical.</p> -<p>But meantime a new era in Unitarian hymnody was opening -with the publication in 1846 of the <i>Book of Hymns</i> edited by -Samuel Longfellow (1819-1891) and Samuel Johnson (1822-1882), -while they were still studying in the Harvard Divinity School. -Both had come under the influence of the Transcendentalist -movement which was liberalizing Unitarian thought and they -eagerly sought out hymns which were fresh expressions of their -youthful outlook on religion. The book was notable for the -new sources of hymns which they discovered, among them the -poems of John Greenleaf Whittier, which they were the first -to introduce into a hymn book.</p> -<p>Their <i>Book of Hymns</i> was followed in 1864 by their larger -and even more influential <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, which includes -most of their own hymns and many by other Unitarian writers of -the period, too numerous to name here, but whose hymns are -listed in the <a href="#c3">catalogue of writers</a> appended to this introductory -<span class="pb" id="Page_6">6</span> -sketch. Samuel Johnson wrote only half a dozen hymns, but -they are among the finest in the language. Samuel Longfellow -wrote many more, the best of which are quite equal to Johnson’s, -and together they made a more important contribution to American -Unitarian hymnody than that of any other writers in the middle -of the 19<sup>th</sup> century.</p> -<p>This was the period of “the flowering of New England literature” -and two of its poets, besides those already named, made -their contribution to hymnody. The more important of the two -was Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, (1809-1894) with half a dozen -fine and widely used hymns, and Prof. James Russell Lowell -(1819-1891) who, strictly speaking, was hardly a hymn writer at -all, but from whose poems two or three have been quarried. Two -other writers of this period were Rev. Edmund Hamilton Sears -(1810-1876) and his niece, Miss Eliza Scudder (1819-1896). -Sears wrote two Christmas hymns widely used throughout the -English speaking world. Miss Scudder wrote half a dozen hymns -in a mystical vein of the highest quality, but in temperament -and outlook both writers belong more to the earlier period of -Unitarian thought than to that prevalent in their later lifetime.</p> -<p>In this mid-century period should also be included the -famous war-time hymn by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), “Mine -eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,” written in -1861 to provide worthier words than “John Brown’s body” for the -popular tune “Glory, Hallelujah”, which had been composed a few -years earlier for a Sunday School in Charleston, South Carolina.</p> -<p>A third period in Unitarian hymnody began with the appearance -<span class="pb" id="Page_7">7</span> -of hymns by three good friends, Rev. John White Chadwick -(1840-1906), Rev. Frederic Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) and Rev. -William Channing Gannett (1840-1923), who carried forward in -the last third of the century the broadly theistic interpretation -of a universal religion to which Longfellow and Johnson -had given utterance. Chadwick’s first hymn was written in 1864 -for the graduation of his class from the Harvard Divinity School, -a great hymn of brotherhood, widely used in England as well as -here. A half-dozen others of fine quality have survived. Hosmer -and Gannett worked together in bringing out their book <i>The -Thought of God in Hymns and Poems</i>, 1885, 1894, and <i>Unity Hymns -and Chorals</i>, 1880, 1911. Neither wrote any hymns while in the Divinity School, but both began to do so soon after. In 1873 -Gannett wrote a fine one which is probably the earliest in the -language to give a religious interpretation to the then controversial -doctrine of evolution, and later a half dozen others to -which deep feeling is expressed in beautiful lyrical verse. -Hosmer, however, was a much more prolific writer, producing more -than 40 hymns which have had some use. He was a meticulous -craftsman who studied the technique of hymn-writing, and several -of his hymns are among the finest in the language. Canon Dearmer, -a leading authority on hymnody in the Church of England, included -seven of them in his <i>Songs of Praise</i> and calls one of them “this -flawless poem, one of the completest expressions of religious -faith,” and says another is “one of the noblest hymns in the -language.” For approximately 40 years, c. 1880-1920, Hosmer was -the outstanding hymn writer in the English speaking world, and -he left no successor who was his equal in the perfection of his -finest hymns.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_8">8</div> -<p>A smaller but important contribution to the Unitarian hymnody -of this period was made by Rev. Theodore Chickering Williams -(1855-1915) who, while still a student in the Harvard Divinity -School wrote one of the best ordination hymns in the language, -and, in later years, eight others, still in use, which are -religious poetry of a high order.</p> -<p>The latest period in Unitarian hymnody, covering the last -half-century, is notable for the productions of two writers, -Rev. Marion Franklin Ham (1867-1957) and Rev. John Haynes Holmes, -(1879-still living). Although he had published a volume of -poems in 1896 Dr. Ham did not begin to write hymns until 1911, -but thereafter he produced a succession of beautiful religious -lyrics, eight or ten of which have come into use. Some of them -are utterances of a profound mystical insight akin to that of -Eliza Scudder, but others are expressions of a world-wide theism, -and one has been translated into Japanese.</p> -<p>Rev. John Haynes Holmes has been a more prolific writer, -author of about 45 hymns, many written for special occasions, -but 10 or 15 others have come into general and widespread use. -His hymns are in a quite different key from those of Dr. Ham’s -quiet mysticism, generally being stirring calls to social justice -and the service of mankind, though a few are hymns of gratitude -for the simple joys of life. While he has infrequently attained -the felicity of phrasing which results in a memorable line his -hymns are cast in vigorous and often stirring verse, expressing -a noble altruism and a wholesome attitude towards life.</p> -<p>M. F. Ham and J. H. Holmes are the latest notable figures in -<span class="pb" id="Page_9">9</span> -this era of 150 years since the beginning of American Unitarian -hymnody, throughout which scores of lesser writers have also -contributed their offerings to the main stream. These writers -are far too numerous to name in this outline sketch but their -thumbnail biographies and notations as to their hymns will be -found in the following catalogue. A survey of this whole era -discloses the evolution in liberal religious thought from the -period when the emphasis was on the sinfulness of man and the -redemptive function of the Christian Church, to the vision of -a world wide religion taking in many forms, and manifested in that -service of mankind which found expression in the “social gospel” -in the first half of this century.</p> -<p>The production of so great a number of fine hymns (and of a -long series of hymn books of a superior type) over so long a period, -by persons belonging to one of the smallest Protestant denominations, -commonly considered coldly intellectual rather than emotional in its -approach to religion, is a phenomenon unique in the history of -hymnody. When the first edition of the <i>Pilgrim Hymnal</i> was published -in 1910 it listed both the nationality and the church membership -of the authors included, which led to the disclosure that nearly -half the American authors were Unitarians who had contributed considerably -more than half the hymns of American authorship. In -answer to critics Dr. Washington Gladden replied that this was due -to the simple fact that the Unitarians had written a larger number -of the best hymns than had the American writers in other denominations.</p> -<p>Canon Dearmer in England observed the same fact and was -puzzled to explain it. The explanation, however, is a simple one. -<span class="pb" id="Page_10">10</span> -With the exception of a relatively small number of writers born -in other parts of the country and with different backgrounds, these -Unitarian authors were men brought up in the atmosphere of the so-called -“New England Renaissance,” that literary revival of which -Boston, Cambridge and Concord were the chief centres in the 19<sup>th</sup> -century, and they belonged by blood, by education and by social -ties to the New England literary group. The majority were also -graduates of Harvard College or Harvard Divinity School, or both, -in a period when the spirit of the time was most favorable to the -stimulation of poetic gifts, and in a place where the intellectual -level was high and there was freedom from any dogmatic control.<a class="fn" id="fr_5" href="#fn_5">[5]</a> -Thus they had the culture and the warmth of atmosphere needed, and -the Divinity School had the admirable custom of encouraging students -to write a hymn for the annual graduation exercises or for the -School’s Christmas service, and so stimulated their poetic gifts.</p> -<p>Thanks to these favorable circumstances what has been called -“the Harvard school of hymnody” has had no equal in the English -speaking world, the only comparable institution being Trinity -College, Cambridge, England, which, for a much briefer period -(1820-1845) was the nursing mother of a notable succession of -Anglican hymn writers. It was this fact which led W. Garrett -Horder, an English Congregationalist who was also a highly competent -hymnologist, to write, “Harvard, like our English Cambridge, -<span class="pb" id="Page_11">11</span> -has been ‘a nest of singing birds’. I was struck by this when -editing <i>The Treasury of American Sacred Songs</i>. Harvard provided -the bulk —— of the verse I included.” And other orthodox authorities, -notably F. M. Bird and Louis F. Benson, already quoted, have -borne witness to the high achievements of both the editors of the -long succession of Unitarian hymn books and the authors of the -hymns which they included.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_12">12</div> -<h2 id="c2"><i>Catalogue of American Unitarian Hymn Books.</i> -<br /><span class="small">compiled by Henry Wilder Foote and reprinted (with revisions) from the Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, May, 1938, by permission.</span></h2> -<p>In the 17<sup>th</sup> century, and down to the middle of the 18<sup>th</sup>, -all churches of the Congregational order in New England used -the <i>Bay Psalm Book</i>, first printed in Cambridge in 1640, except -for the use of Ainsworth’s <i>Psalter</i> in the churches of the -Plymouth Plantation and in the First Church in Salem for a part -of the 17<sup>th</sup> century. In the latter part of the 18<sup>th</sup> century, -the <i>Bay Psalm Book</i> was gradually superseded by either the New -Version of the Psalms (Tate and Brady) or, more generally, by -one of the editions of <i>Watts and Select</i>, i.e. Isaac Watts’ <i>Psalms -and Hymns</i>, with a supplement of hymns selected from other authors.</p> -<p>The first steps away from the Psalm books in general use -were taken by two churches which were in the vanguard of the rising -liberalism of the last half of the 18<sup>th</sup> century. In 1782 the -West Church in Boston published <i>A Collection of Hymns, more particularly -designed for the Use of the West Society in Boston</i> <a href="#hbk1">(1)</a>,<a class="fn" id="fr_6" href="#fn_6">[6]</a> -and in 1788 the East Church in Salem published <i>A Collection of -Hymns for Publick Worship</i>, <a href="#hbk2">(2)</a>. These two books were of only -<span class="pb" id="Page_13">13</span> -local significance, but they clearly pointed the way which later -publications were to follow. In 1795 Rev. Jeremy Belknap brought -out his <i>Sacred Poetry</i> <a href="#hbk3">(3)</a>, which was an attempt to produce a book -which should be acceptable to both the liberal and the orthodox -wings of Congregationalism. In this purpose it failed, though -it was widely used by Unitarians. The succeeding books were more -definitely Unitarian in character and illustrate the changing -emphasis in religious thought and practice through five generations -of religious liberals. They form a notable series, for -most of them attained a literary standard and spiritual outlook -higher than that of other contemporary hymn books.</p> -<p>The earlier books in this series were very imperfectly -edited, judged by modern standards. Some of them contain no -preface and no indication as to the identity of the compiler. In -other cases, the compiler is indicated by initials. In some cases -the names of the authors of hymns are not given at all, in others -only the surname, when known, and there are frequent mistaken attributions. -Directions as to the music are usually lacking, the metre -of each hymn alone being indicated. In some cases the names of -suitable tunes are given, but only one book <a href="#hbk18">(18)</a> earlier than 1868 -included any music, in that case an appendix of twenty-one tunes -in two parts at the back of the book. The first American Unitarian -hymn book to be printed with a tune on each page was the American -Unitarian Association’s <i>Hymn and Tune Book</i> of 1868 <a href="#hbk34">(34)</a>. Thereafter -few books appeared without tunes, but half-a-dozen other -collections with music were published in the next forty years, each -of which had considerable use.</p> -<p>It will be noted that in the course of the 19<sup>th</sup> century no -<span class="pb" id="Page_14">14</span> -less than thirty-six different hymn-books appeared, a far larger -number than any other American denomination can show for the -same period, and illustrative of the extreme individualism of -the Unitarian churches. Throughout the middle third of the -century Greenwood’s <i>Collection</i> <a href="#hbk13">(13)</a>, the <i>Springfield Collection</i> -<a href="#hbk14">(14)</a>, and the <i>Cheshire Collection</i> <a href="#hbk20">(20)</a>, had the widest use, -followed in the last third of the century by the <i>Hymn and Tune -Books</i> <a href="#hbk34">(34)</a> and <a href="#hbk36">(36)</a> of the American Unitarian Association, but all -the other collections had some local vogue, in some cases only -for a brief period or only in those churches the ministers of which -had compiled the collections in question. As late, however, as -the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, at least eight different hymn-books -were in use in the Unitarian churches of the United States -and Canada. This diversity of usage declined rapidly after the -publication of <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i> <a href="#hbk45">(45)</a> in 1914, and had -practically disappeared by the time when that book’s successor, -<i>Hymns of the Spirit</i> <a href="#hbk48">(48)</a> was published in 1937.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_15">15</div> -<h2>BIBLIOGRAPHY</h2> -<blockquote> -<p>Copies of at least one edition of each of the following -books are in the Historical Library of the American -Unitarian Association, 25 Beacon Street, Boston, except -in the cases noted.</p> -</blockquote> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk1">1. <i>A Collection of Hymns, more particularly designed for the -Use of the West Society in Boston</i>—Boston, 1782; 2nd ed., -1803; 3rd ed., 1806; 4th ed., 1813.</p> -<p class="hbookc">The editor is said to have been Rev. Simeon Howard (1733-1804), -(See Bentley’s <i>Diary</i>, II, 371), Jonathan Mayhew’s -successor as minister of the West Church. Mayhew’s -congregation was notably liberal and this book represents the -first step away from psalm-books of the traditional type. It -contains 166 hymns, including a number of classics by Watts, -Barbauld, Addison, etc. The tone in general is ethical rather -than theological, and many of the hymns are moral precepts in -mediocre verse, some, at least, probably of local production, -but the authors cannot be identified as no author is named; -there is no preface, and the compiler’s name is not given.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>Note:—The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy. -There is one in the Congregational Library, 14 Beacon -Street, Boston.</p> -</blockquote> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk2">2. <i>A Collection of Hymns for Publick Worship</i>—Salem; -n.d. (1788)</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. William Bentley (1750-1819) of the East -Church, Salem, Mass., and used there until superseded in 1843 by -Flint’s <i>Collection</i> <a href="#hbk17">(17)</a>. There is no preface and the compiler’s -name is not given. There are no musical directions except the -metre of each hymn. The book consists of two parts, the first -<span class="pb" id="Page_16">16</span> -containing 40 psalms “according to Tate and Brady’s Version,” -arranged by metre; the second containing 163 hymns of high -quality, including many of the classics of the period. The -book is much superior to <a href="#hbk1">No. 1</a>, but had little use outside the -church for which it was intended, perhaps because Bentley, though -one of the earliest outspoken Unitarians, was <i>persona non grata</i> -in a Federalist stronghold on account of his political opinions.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>Note:—The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy. -There is one at The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.</p> -</blockquote> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk3">3. <i>Sacred Poetry: consisting of Psalms and Hymns adapted to -Christian devotion in publick and private. Selected from the -best authors, with variations and additions</i>—By Jeremy Belknap, -D.D., Boston, 1795.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Many editions. Some included a supplement of <i>Hymns for the -Lord’s Supper, selected and original</i>, <a href="#hbk7">(7)</a> prepared by Rev. -Thaddeus M. Harris, minister of the First Church in Dorchester, -1801. In 1812 an edition appeared with 28 additional hymns, -“Selected by the successor of the Rev. Author,” i.e. by W. E. -Channing.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Dr. Belknap (1744-1798) was the first Congregational minister -of the Federal Street Church (his predecessors having been Presbyterians), -and his immediate successor was William Ellery Channing. -Belknap endeavored to compile a collection which should serve both -the orthodox and the liberal wings of the New England Congregationalism -of his day. In his preface he says, “In this selection, those -Christians who do not scruple to sing praises to their Redeemer -and Sanctifier, will find materials for such a sublime enjoyment; -whilst others, whose tenderness of conscience may oblige them to -<span class="pb" id="Page_17">17</span> -confine their addresses to the Father only, will find no deficiency -of matter suited to their idea of the chaste and awful -spirit of devotion.” Belknap, however, failed in his attempt to -produce a compromise book, as it found favor only in the liberal -churches, which used it for some forty years.</p> -<p class="hbookc">The book contains 150 psalms, selected from versions by Tate -and Brady, Watts, and others, often “with variations”; and 300 -hymns, widely selected from English sources, including Pope’s -“Universal Prayer” (altered), Helen Maria Williams’ “While Thee -I seek, protecting Power,” hymns by Cowper, Newton, Doddridge, -Merrick, Addison, Anne Steele and others. Belknap introduced -Anne Steele’s hymns to Americans. There are no hymns by Charles -Wesley, and the only hymns of American authorship appear to be -Mather Byles’ “When wild confusion rends the air,” and a metrical -version of Psalm 65 by Jacob Kimball.</p> -<p class="hbookc">There are no musical directions save the metre of each hymn and -the key. “The characters denoting the sharp or flat key are prefixed -to each psalm or hymn, at my request, by the Rev. Dr. Morse, -of Charlestown.”</p> -<p class="hbookc">The book was much the best of its period. When, in 1808, -the vestry of Trinity Church, Boston, impatient at the delay of -the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in -getting out a hymnal, issued one for their own use, they drew -heavily on Belknap’s, saying in their preface, “In this selection -we are chiefly indebted to Dr. Belknap, whose book unquestionably -contains the best specimens of sacred poetry extant.”</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk4">4. <i>A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for public worship.</i>—Boston, -1799; edited by Rev. James Freeman (1759-1825). 2nd ed., 1813.</p> -<p class="hbookc">This was the first of the hymn-books prepared for use in King’s -<span class="pb" id="Page_18">18</span> -Chapel, Boston, where it was used for 30 years until succeeded by -Greenwood’s <i>Collection</i> <a href="#hbk13">(13)</a>. No preface; no musical directions -except that the metre is indicated. The names of some authors -are given in the index of first lines. The book contains 155 -psalms, or parts of psalms, “selected principally from Tate -and Brady,” followed by 90 hymns and 8 doxologies. The collection -is decidedly inferior to that of Belknap <a href="#hbk3">(3)</a> in range and -quality.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>Note:—The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy, -but King’s Chapel does.</p> -</blockquote> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk5">5. <i>A Collection of Psalms and Hymns</i>—by William Emerson, -<span class="sc">A.M.</span>, Pastor of the First Church in Boston; Boston, 1808.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Rev. William Emerson (1769-1811) was the father of Ralph -Waldo Emerson. His book is more handsomely printed than most -hymn books of the period and contains 150 hymns. It was very -liberal in tone and was assailed by the orthodox for having -omitted hymns on several of “the most essential doctrines of -Christianity.” Its most notable feature was its endeavor to -improve the singing by “prefixing to each psalm and hymn the -name of a tune, well composed and judicially chosen” as “a -valuable auxiliary to musical bands. No American hymn-book has -hitherto offered this aid to the performers of psalmody.” The -key in which the tune is set and the metre are also indicated -at the head of each hymn. There is also an interesting “Index -of Tunes, and Musical Authors,” with references to the various -collections in which the recommended tunes may be found. As this -list of collections of tunes was prepared by a person particularly -interested in promoting good music it is here reprinted as indicating -the best available sources at the time:</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_19">19</div> -<p class="hbookc">Mass. Com., Massachusetts Compiler; Sal. Coll., Salem -Collection; Lock H. Coll., Lock’s Hospital Collection; Sac. -Min., Sacred Minstrel; B.C.M., Beauties of Church Music; Psal. -Evan., Psalmodia Evangelica; F. C. Coll., First Church Collection; -Suff. Selec., Suffolk Selection; Bos. Selec., Boston Selection; -Newb’t Coll., Newburyport Collection; Mus. Olio, Musical Olio; -Col. Repos., Columbian Repository; B. Coll., Bridgewater Collection.</p> -<p class="hbookc">While this book thus made the selection of tunes easier than -did most of its contemporaries, it is needless to point out how -inconvenient it was not to have the tunes in the same book with -the words. With all its excellencies the book had small use, -being rather too far in advance of its time.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk6">6. <i>A Selection of Sacred Poetry consisting of Psalms and Hymns -from Watts, Doddridge, Merrick, Scott, Cowper, Barbauld, Steele -and others</i>—Philadelphia, 1812; 2nd ed., 1818; 3rd ed., 1828; -4th ed., 1846.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Ralph Eddowes (1751-1833) and James Taylor (1769-1844) -two laymen of the church in Philadelphia in which Joseph Priestley -had preached after coming to America, but which remained without a settled minister -until Rev. W. H. Furness was installed in 1825. A good collection -of 606 psalms and hymns, from varied English sources, as indicated -by the following quotation from preface:—“The Society of Unitarian -Christians in Philadelphia, from its first formation, has used, in -its public devotional exercises, the collection of hymns and psalms -made by the Rev. Doctors Kippis and Rees, and Messrs. Jervis and -Morgan.... A late collection by the Rev. Mr. Aspland, of Hackney, -has also afforded assistance, of which advantage has been freely -<span class="pb" id="Page_20">20</span> -taken; and by resorting to another, published in 1789 by the -Rev. Messrs. Ash and Evans of Bristol, this work has been -enriched with several pieces of Mrs. Steele’s exquisitely beautiful -and highly devotional poetry.”</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk7">7. <i>Hymns for the Lord’s Supper</i>, Original and Selected. [edited] -by Thaddeus Mason Harris, D.D., Boston; printed by Sewall Phelps, -no. 5 Court Street, 1820; 2nd ed., 1821.</p> -<p class="hbookc">In 1801 Rev. Thaddeus M. Harris, minister of the First Church -in Dorchester, Mass., printed a few hymns for use at the Lord’s -Supper, and these formed the basis for this enlarged collection -published in 1820. This edition contains original hymns by Rev. -John Pierpont of Boston, Rev. Samuel Gilman of Charleston, S. C., -and others, none of them in use today. The booklet probably had -more circulation for private reading than for public use.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk8">8. <i>A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for social and private -worship</i>—New York, 1820; 2nd ed., 1827; 4th ed., 1845.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Compiled by Dr. Henry D. Sewall, one of the laymen who founded -the First Congregational Society of New York, now All Souls Church, -which was organized in 1819. Commonly called “the New York Collection.” -It contains 504 psalms and hymns arranged in three sections -in alphabetical order of first lines. There are no musical directions -except that the metre of each hymn is indicated. The Collection -is chiefly notable for the inclusion, without the author’s -name, of five original hymns by William Cullen Bryant, a member -of the congregation, who had written them at the instance of Miss -Sedgwick.</p> -<p class="hbookc">The fourth edition, 1845, made some substitutions and added -146 hymns to the original number.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_21">21</div> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk9">9. <i>A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, for social and private -worship</i>—Andover, 1821; 2nd ed., Cambridge, 1824; 11th ed., -Boston, 1832.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Jonathan Peele Dabney (1793-1868), a graduate of -Harvard who had studied for the ministry but was never ordained. -The book was smaller, cheaper and better arranged than Sewall’s -<a href="#hbk8">(8)</a>, and had considerable use. It contains 385 hymns, and 21 -“Ascriptions and Occasional Pieces,” these last including Henry -Ware’s Easter hymn, “Lift your glad voices,” and Heber’s “From -Greenland’s icy mountains.” There are no musical instructions -beyond indication of metres.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk10">10. <i>A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and Private -Worship, compiled by a committee of the West Parish in Boston</i>—Boston; -printed by John B. Russell, 1823.</p> -<p class="hbookc">This book was a successor to <a href="#hbk1">No. 1</a>. No preface; no copyright; -no indication of the identity of the compilers. It -contains 320 psalms and hymns by Tate and Brady, Watts, Doddridge, -Barbauld, Steele and others. No hymn by Charles Wesley, but it -has John Wesley’s “Lo, God is here,” attributed to “Salisbury -Coll.” Also 6 communion hymns; 5 for Christmas, including Tate’s -“While shepherds watched their flocks by night,” attributed to -Dr. Patrick; Milton’s “Nor war nor battle’s sound,” altered -by Dr. Gardiner; and Sir Walter Scott’s “When Israel of the Lord -beloved”.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>Note:—The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy, -but there is one at the Congregational Library, 16 Beacon -Street, Boston, Mass.</p> -</blockquote> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk11">11. <i>A Selection from Tate and Brady’s Version of the Psalms: -with Hymns by various authors</i>—For the use of the church in Brattle -Square, Boston. Boston: Richardson & Lord, 1825.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_22">22</div> -<p class="hbookc">Compiled by a committee of that church. The church used -the <i>Bay Psalm Book</i> until 1753; then Tate and Brady’s <i>New Version</i> -of the Psalms, with an appendix of hymns selected by a committee. -In 1808 another committee published another appendix, entitled -<i>A Second Part of Hymns</i>. The book issued in 1825, by a committee -the membership of which is unknown, is a revision and enlargement -of the original Tate and Brady and the appendices. It contains -150 psalms and 363 hymns. No musical directions save indications -of metres.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk12">12. <i>Sacred Poetry and Music reconciled, or a Collection of Hymns -original and compiled</i>—by Samuel Willard, D.D., A.A.S. Boston: -L. C. Bowles, 1830.</p> -<p class="hbookc">This book, “adopted while in manuscript, by the Third Congregational -Society in Hingham,” had little use beyond that parish. -It contains 518 hymns, and 7 chants, the latter being a feature not -met with in any earlier book in this series. Tunes are indicated -for each hymn, but the editor had some peculiar theories about -the “reconciliation” of words and music. The editor, Rev. Samuel -Willard (1776-1859), had been minister at Deerfield but had retired -on account of blindness and was temporarily resident in Hingham -when this book was published.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk13">13. <i>A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship</i>—Boston: -Carter and Hendee, 1830.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1797-1843), -minister of King’s Chapel, Boston. <i>Greenwood’s Collection</i>, as it -was generally called, containing 560 psalms and hymns, superseded -Belknap’s <a href="#hbk3">(3)</a> as the hymn-book most widely used in Unitarian -churches in the first half of the 19<sup>th</sup> century. It ran to fifty -<span class="pb" id="Page_23">23</span> -editions and was used in King’s Chapel, for which it was prepared, -until superseded there by <i>Hymns of the Church Universal</i>, 1890, <a href="#hbk39">(39)</a>. -Based upon Watts, the book contains the then very recent hymns by -James Montgomery, Harriet Auber, Bowring and Heber, and practically -introduced Charles Wesley to American Unitarians. In <i>Young -Emerson Speaks</i>, edited by A. C. McGiffert, 1937, pages 145-150, -will be found a sermon on “Hymn Books” preached by R. W. Emerson in -1831, while still minister of the Second Church in Boston, in -which he recommends the church to adopt <i>Greenwood’s Collection</i> -in place of Belknap’s. Emerson, in his Journal for 1847, noted -that <i>Greenwood’s Collection</i> was “still the best.”</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk14">14. <i>The Springfield Collection of Hymns for sacred worship</i>, by -William B. O. Peabody—Springfield: Samuel Bowles, 1835.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Rev. William Oliver Bourne Peabody (1799-1847) was minister -at Springfield, Mass. His collection contains 509 hymns, admirably -chosen from the accepted classics of the period, Watts and Doddridge -predominant, but with an increasing number of the recent compositions -by Unitarian hymn-writers of the first third of the 19<sup>th</sup> -century. No musical instructions beyond indication of metres. -On its merits the <i>Springfield Collection</i> rightly shared with -<i>Greenwood’s Collection</i> <a href="#hbk13">(13)</a> and <i>The Cheshire Collection</i> <a href="#hbk20">(20)</a> the -largest measure of popularity and use among Unitarians in the -middle of the 19<sup>th</sup> century.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk15">15. <i>The Christian Psalter: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns -for social and private worship</i>—Boston, 1841.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. William Parsons Lunt (1805-1857), for use in -the First Church in Quincy, Mass. It contains 702 hymns and psalms and -represents a reversion to the older type of hymnody, “but, if old-fashioned, -<span class="pb" id="Page_24">24</span> -it was excellent and serviceable.” Lunt included -22 pieces by his parishioner, ex-President John Quincy Adams, -whose wife had put into his hands a complete metrical psalter -which Adams had composed. At least one of Adams’ psalms is -still to be found in some hymn-books.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk16">16. <i>A Manual of Prayer for public and private worship, with a -collection of hymns</i>—Boston, 1842.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot (1811-1887). Although -printed in Boston, this book was prepared for The First Congregational -Society of St. Louis, Missouri, of which the editor had -become minister in 1834. The Society was the earliest Unitarian -church in the Mississippi Valley, excepting that at New Orleans. -The book is primarily a collection of service materials followed -by 272 well-selected hymns from standard sources. It was the -earliest volume of the sort to be prepared for Unitarian use in -the Middle West.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk17">17. <i>A Collection of Hymns, for the Christian Church and Home</i>—Boston, -1843.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. James Flint (1779-1855). The editor was -minister of the East Church in Salem, Mass., and based his book -upon the 18<sup>th</sup> century collection of his predecessor, William -Bentley <a href="#hbk2">(2)</a>. He borrowed the title and much of the contents of -James Martineau’s book published in England in 1840. The book -contains 415 hymns.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>Note:—The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy -of this book. One is in the Congregational Library, -14 Beacon Street, Boston.</p> -</blockquote> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk18">18. <i>The Social Hymn Book; consisting of psalms and hymns for -social worship and private devotions</i>—Boston, 1843.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_25">25</div> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. Chandler Robbins (1810-1882), minister of -the Second Church in Boston. The book, which contains 350 psalms -and hymns, is based upon Watts and Doddridge, but it introduced -new hymns from various sources, among them about twenty of Bishop -Mant’s translations of “ancient hymns” from the Roman Breviary. -Dr. Robbins was one of the earliest American hymn-book editors -to avail himself of the English versions of Latin hymns which -were among the fruits of the Oxford Movement. His book has an -appendix of 21 tunes in two parts, the book being thus the first -in this series to include any printed music.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk19">19. <i>The Disciples’ Hymn Book; a collection of hymns and chants -for public and private devotions, prepared for the use of the -Church of the Disciples</i>—Boston, 1844.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) for use in -the Church of the Disciples, Boston, which had been organized in -1841 and of which he was the first minister. The first edition -is commonly bound up with <i>Service Book: for the use of the Church -of the Disciples</i>. A revised and enlarged edition appeared in 1852. -The collection contains 318 hymns and an appendix of chants. It -was notable for its freshness and progressive outlook, and drew -upon the most recent English sources. It introduced into American -use the hymn “Nearer, my God, to thee,” by Sarah Flower Adams, published -in England only three years earlier, and other hymns by the -same author. It also included some of Clarke’s own hymns, more of -which appeared in the second edition.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk20">20. <i>Christian Hymns for public and private worship. A Collection -compiled by a committee of the Cheshire Pastoral Association</i>—Boston, -1845.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_26">26</div> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. Abiel Abbott Livermore (1811-1892), Chairman; -Rev. Levi W. Leonard (1790-1864), Rev. William A. Whitwell -(1804-1865) and Rev. Curtis Cutler (1806-1874), ministers at -Keene, Dublin, Wilton, and Peterboro, New Hampshire, respectively. -The editorial work was chiefly done by Livermore, who also contributed -to it his communion hymn, “A holy air is breathing round.”</p> -<p class="hbookc">This book, commonly called <i>The Cheshire Collection</i>, ran -through sixty editions and was widely used. Its popularity was -due in part to its wide range—908 hymns—and to its provision -for special occasions, but more to the inclusion of fresh material -of high quality.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk21">21. <i>A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary</i>—Boston, -1845.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. George E. Ellis (1814-1894) for use in the -Harvard Church in Charlestown, Mass., of which he was then minister. -It contains 658 hymns and psalms, and is based on <i>Greenwood’s Collection</i> -<a href="#hbk13">(13)</a> and <i>The Springfield Collection</i> <a href="#hbk14">(14)</a>. A Selection from -the Psalms, apparently intended for responsive reading, is bound up -with the hymn-book, of which it is an unusual feature.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk22">22. <i>Hymns for Public Worship</i>—Boston, 1845.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. George W. Briggs (1810-1895), minister of the -First Church at Plymouth, Mass. (1838-1852). The book contains -601 hymns; no musical directions beyond indication of metres. There -is a strong emphasis on hymns of the inner life, the compiler having -sought “to bring together the most fervent expressions of a profound -spiritual life,” many of which “have never been in familiar use in -Unitarian churches.”</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk23">23. <i>Service Book: for the Church of the Saviour, with a Collection -of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship</i>—Boston, 1845.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_27">27</div> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. Robert Cassie Waterston (1812-1893), minister -of the Church of the Saviour, Boston. <i>The Collection of Psalms -and Hymns</i> bound up with the services is <i>Greenwood’s Collection</i> <a href="#hbk13">(13)</a> -with a supplement of 116 hymns selected by Waterston, so that the -book is more accurately described as one of the editions of Greenwood -than as an independent publication. The supplement, however, -is notable for the high proportion of good new hymns, not available -when <i>Greenwood’s Collection</i> first appeared. Among them are -hymns by Samuel F. Smith, G. W. Doane, the early and mid-century -Unitarian writers, and some taken from Breviary sources.</p> -<p class="hbookc">No musical instructions beyond indication of the metres.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk24">24. <i>A Book of Hymns for public and private devotion</i>—Cambridge: -Metcalf & Company, printers to the University. 1846.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892) and Samuel Johnson -(1822-1882). The editors were, at the time, students in the -Harvard Divinity School (class of 1846), and the book “grew out -of an offer to provide a new book for a minister who found even -the recent ones too antiquated.” It was marked by poetic excellence -and freshness, and introduced to American use “Lead, -Kindly Light,” and hymns by Whittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Jones -Very, Mrs. Stowe and others, besides hymns by the editors themselves. -First used in Church of the Unity, Worcester, Mass., of which -Edward Everett Hale was minister; then in the Music Hall congregation -of Theodore Parker, who is said, on receiving a copy, to have -remarked, “I see we have a new book of Sams.” It ran to a twelfth -edition in two years, but its greatest influence was as a source-book -for later editors. A somewhat enlarged edition appeared in -1848.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_28">28</div> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk25">25. <i>Hymns of the Sanctuary</i>—Boston, 1849.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. Cyrus A. Bartol (1813-1900), minister of the -West Church in Boston, assisted by Charles G. Loring, Joseph -Willard, and other laymen of the church. The book is a revised -and enlarged edition of the “West Boston Collection” <a href="#hbk10">(10)</a> of -which the original edition had been prepared by Rev. Simeon Howard -<a href="#hbk1">(1)</a>. It contains 643 hymns and a few chants. No musical directions -beyond indication of metres.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk26">26. <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>—Edited by Rev. Frederic H. -Hedge and Rev. Frederic D. Huntington, Boston, 1853.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890) later became a distinguished -professor in the Harvard Divinity School. Frederic Dan Huntington -(1819-1904) later joined the Episcopal Church, in which he attained -a bishopric.</p> -<p class="hbookc">The book contains 872 hymns,—no musical instructions beyond -indication of metres. It is conservative in tone but is marked by -high literary standards, and by a catholic inclusiveness beyond -that of most books in this series. It includes a number of translations -of Breviary hymns, and in it appears, for the first time, -Hedge’s translation of Luther’s “Ein’ feste Burg.” Better printed -than most contemporary hymn-books, it was hailed as “much the best -book of hymns yet published.” Many hymns are listed as “Anon.” and -some authors are given by surname only, making identification doubtful.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk27">27. <i>Services and Hymns for the use of the Unitarian Church of -Charleston</i>, S.C., 1854, 1867.</p> -<p class="hbookc">The preface to the first edition, dated “April, 1854,” was -signed by S. Gilman and C. M. Taggart, then joint ministers of the -church. No copy of this edition appears to be extant. A new and -enlarged edition, with an unsigned preface but reprinting the earlier -preface signed by Gilman and Taggart, appeared in 1867, “Printed -by Joseph Walker, Agt., Charleston.” “Hymns for Christian Worship,” -<span class="pb" id="Page_29">29</span> -171 in number, make up the second half of this volume. Almost -all of them are the standard English hymns in current use in the -first half of the 19<sup>th</sup> century, with 10 hymns by American authors, -three of which are by Dr. Gilman and two by his wife, Caroline -Gilman, all of which had appeared in earlier collections.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk28">28. <i>Hymn Book for Christian Worship</i>—Boston, 1854.</p> -<p class="hbookc">There is no preface and the name of the compiler nowhere -appears. It was, however, edited by Rev. Chandler Robbins (1810-1882), -minister of the Second Church in Boston, and is, in effect, -an enlargement of his earlier <i>Social Hymn Book</i>, <a href="#hbk18">(18)</a>, with 761 -hymns, better adapted to church use. Like its predecessor, it -contained chiefly the older type of hymns,—107 by Watts, 62 by -Doddridge, 40 by James Montgomery, 13 by C. Wesley, and 20 more -called “Wesleyan.”</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk29">29. <i>The Soldier’s Companion: Dedicated to the Defenders of their -Country in the Field, by their Friends at Home</i>, published as the -issue of <i>The Monthly Journal</i>, Boston, for October, 1861, vol. II, -No. 10.</p> -<p class="hbookc">This was a small paper bound collection of a few traditional -hymns, supplemented by a dozen anti-slavery or wartime songs by -living writers, including J. Pierpont, E. H. Sears, and J. R. Lowell, -with a supplement of devotional readings and prayers. Presumably -it had some use in the Army, but copies are now very rare.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk30">30. <i>Christian Worship</i>—New York, 1862.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. Samuel Osgood (1812-1880), then minister of -the Church of the Messiah, New York, and Rev. Frederic A. Farley -(1800-1892), minister of The First Unitarian Congregational Church, -Brooklyn, N. Y.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_30">30</div> -<p class="hbookc">A small collection of 159 hymns, bound up with a liturgical -type of service-book indicating the trend which later took -Osgood into the Episcopal Church.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk31">31. <i>The Soldier’s Hymn Book, containing a supplement of national -songs for the use of chaplains and soldiers in the army and navy -of the United States</i>—Prepared by J. G. Forman, Chaplain of the -3d Regiment Missouri Infantry, Army of the U. S., Alton, Illinois, -1863.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Rev. Jacob G. Forman (d. 1885), the compiler, was at the -time minister of the Unitarian Church at Alton. This little pocket -hymnal contains 99 hymns, and 26 additional patriotic songs.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk32">32. <i>The Soldier’s Hymn Book for Camp and Hospital</i>—Cambridge, -printed at the University Press, 1863.</p> -<p class="hbookc">There is no indication as to the source of this little book, -and the identity of its compiler has not been discovered. Its -contents, however, indicate that it came from a Unitarian source. -It is a pocket hymnal containing 150 familiar hymns and a few -prayers, somewhat larger and better printed than <a href="#hbk31">(31)</a>.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk33">33. <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>—Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1864.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892) and Samuel Johnson -(1822-1882). This is the second and more famous hymn-book compiled by -the editors. It contains 717 hymns and represents their later and -more radical trend of thought, the book being theistic rather than -explicitly Christian in its emphasis. It introduced many hymns by -the editors themselves, and made drastic adaptations or revisions -of hymns by other authors. Like their first book <a href="#hbk24">(24)</a>, it was more -generally drawn upon as a source-book by later editors than it was -used in the churches. In that respect it was one of the most important -books in this series.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_31">31</div> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk34">34. <i>Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and Home</i>—Boston, 1868.</p> -<p class="hbookc">This book was compiled by a committee appointed by the -American Unitarian Association, but the editorial work was -chiefly done by Rev. Leonard J. Livermore (1822-1886). It is -the first hymn-book to be issued by the Association and the first -American Unitarian hymn-book to be completely furnished with tunes. -It contained 740 hymns, about 30 chants, etc., and 299 tunes, a -large proportion of which have since dropped out of use. Regarded -as in some measure an authorized denominational hymn-book, it had -wide use, though it “marked no advance over its predecessors, but -its tunes were well up to the average level and gave it a great -advantage,” and stimulated congregational singing.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk35">35. <i>Hymns for the Christian Church, for the use of the First -Church of Christ in Boston</i>—Boston, 1869.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. Rufus Ellis (1819-1885), minister of the First -Church, Boston. It was based on Lunt’s conservative Christian Psalter <a href="#hbk15">(15)</a> -which had been in use in the First Church for 25 years. About 250 -hymns were retained from the earlier volume and enough more added -to bring the total to 469. The selections were well made, but, -without music, the book could not compete with the more inclusive -<i>Hymn and Tune Book</i> <a href="#hbk34">(34)</a> which the American Unitarian Association -had published the preceding year.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk36">36. <i>Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and Home</i>—Revised edition. -American Unitarian Association, Boston, 1877.</p> -<p class="hbookc">The compiler’s name nowhere appears in the book, which was -edited by Rev. Rush R. Shippen (1828-1911), then Secretary of the -American Unitarian Association. It is a thorough-going revision of -<a href="#hbk34">(34)</a>, virtually a new book. It contains 871 hymns, 14 chants, etc., -316 tunes, a much richer selection than its predecessor, although -<span class="pb" id="Page_32">32</span> -the music was still of the mid-century type, with only a few -examples of the newer English tunes which were being introduced -into America by the choirs of Episcopal churches. The book was -well adapted to the general needs of Unitarians and was the most -widely used book among the Unitarian churches for the ensuing -forty years.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk37">37. <i>Unity Hymns and Chorals</i>—Edited by W. C. Gannett, J. V. Blake, -F. L. Hosmer. Chicago, 1880.</p> -<p class="hbookc">A later and largely revised edition was published in 1911 by -Hosmer and Gannett. The editors, Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929), -William Channing Gannett (1840-1923), and James Vila Blake -(1842-1925), were hymn-writers and ministers in the Western Unitarian -Conference. This small book, noted for its “split-leaf” -arrangement, represented the point of view of the “left-wing” group -in the denomination. In its two editions it contained most of the -hymns by its editors, and a good many by other authors which appeared -for the first time within its covers. In this respect, as -in its radical character, it may be compared to the hymn-books by -Longfellow and Johnson (<a href="#hbk24">24</a> and <a href="#hbk33">33</a>). It was widely used in the -Western Unitarian Conference. Musically it was mediocre.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk38">38. <i>Sacred Songs for Public Worship: A Hymn and Tune Book</i>—Edited -by M. J. Savage and Howard M. Dow. Boston, 1883.</p> -<p class="hbookc">This small book contains 195 hymns and songs for popular use, -selected by Minot J. Savage (1841-1918), minister of Unity Church, -Boston, Mass., and set to music by Howard M. Dow. Forty-two items are -from Mr. Savage’s pen, the rest mostly from familiar sources. It -is much more of a “one-man book” and musically nearer akin to the -typical gospel song-book than any other collection in this series.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_33">33</div> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk39">39. <i>Hymns of the Church Universal</i>—Compiled by the Rev. Henry -Wilder Foote [I]: Revised and edited by Mary W. Tileston and -Arthur Foote. Boston, 1890.</p> -<p class="hbookc">This book was compiled for use in King’s Chapel, Boston, of -which Mr. Foote (1838-1889) was minister, but was not published -until after his death, the editorial work being completed by his -sister and brother. The book superseded <i>Greenwood’s Collection</i> <a href="#hbk13">(13)</a> -in King’s Chapel, and had considerable use elsewhere. It contained -647 hymns, a number of chants, and 299 tunes. It introduced -many hymns and tunes of the later 19<sup>th</sup> century English -authors and composers which were not found in any earlier American -Unitarian collections, and was influential in setting a -standard for later books.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk40">40. <i>Hymnal: Amore Dei</i>—Compiled by Mrs. Theodore C. Williams, -Boston, 1890. Revised, 1897.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Mrs. Williams in co-operation with her husband, -Rev. Theodore C. Williams (1855-1915), minister of All Souls’ -Church, New York.</p> -<p class="hbookc">It contained 382 hymns, about 25 chants and responses and -272 tunes. A collection similar to <i>Hymns of the Church Universal</i> -<a href="#hbk39">(39)</a> in utilizing the newer English hymns and tunes of the nineteenth -century, it had many excellencies and considerable use. The biographical -indexes of composers and authors are far more complete than -those of any earlier book in this series.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk41">41. <i>Hymns for Church and Home</i>—American Unitarian Association, -Boston, 1895.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Mary Wilder Tileston and Arthur Foote, it was in -effect a revised and enlarged edition of <i>Hymns for the Church Universal</i> -<span class="pb" id="Page_34">34</span> -<a href="#hbk39">(39)</a>, containing 801 hymns. It was an admirable compilation -but rather large and heavy for handling.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk42">42. <i>Hymns for Church and Home Abridged</i>—1902.</p> -<p class="hbookc">An edition of <a href="#hbk41">(41)</a> with the number of hymns reduced to 513.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk43">43. <i>Hymns of the Ages</i>—Cambridge: The University Press. 1904.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Louisa Putnam Loring (1854-1924). A book of high -literary and musical standards, based upon the (Harvard) <i>University -Hymn Book</i> (1895). It contained 316 hymns and 205 tunes, but it -represented a rather limited and individualistic point of view and -did not prove adaptable to general use.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk44">44. <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book and Candle Light Service</i>—The Isles -of Shoals Association, 1908.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by Rev. George H. Badger (1859-1954). Since the book -was intended for use at the summer meetings on the Isles of Shoals, -off Portsmouth, N. H., the religious interpretation of nature is -strongly emphasized. The book contains 219 hymns and 96 tunes, -mostly selected from <i>Hymns for Church and Home</i> <a href="#hbk41">(41)</a>, but nine of -them are original contributions to this book, some with lines -referring directly to the island setting or history. Both words -and music represent the highest standards at the time of publication, -and the book is an exceptional collection of hymns expressing -this aspect of religion.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk45">45. <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>—American Unitarian Association: -Boston, 1914.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by a commission: Rev. Samuel A. Eliot (1862-1950), -Chairman; Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, (II), (1875-____), Secretary; -Rev. Rush R. Shippen, (1828-1911), Rev. Lewis G. Wilson, (1858-1928).</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_35">35</div> -<p class="hbookc">Nominally a revision of the <i>Hymn and Tune Book</i> of 1877 <a href="#hbk36">(36)</a>, -it was in effect a new compilation, drawing largely upon <i>Hymns for -Church and Home</i> <a href="#hbk41">(41)</a>, <i>Amore Dei</i> <a href="#hbk40">(40)</a> and <i>Unity Hymns and Chorals</i> -<a href="#hbk37">(37)</a>. It contained 546 hymns, 28 chants, etc., and 268 tunes. It -also included a set of services and responsive readings, prepared -by another committee. It represented a great advance on earlier -books and was more widely adopted than any of them. In its music -it was less progressive than in its selection of hymns, representing -the musical standard and practice of about 1900.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk46">46. <i>Twenty-five Hymns for Use in Time of War</i>—The Beacon Press. -Boston, n. d. (1916).</p> -<p class="hbookc">A pamphlet of hymns, more than half of them reprinted from -the <i>Hymn and Tune Book</i> of 1914 <a href="#hbk45">(45)</a> for use during the Great War.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk47">47. <i>Songs and Readings</i>—compiled and edited by Jacob Trapp and -R. T. Porte. Salt Lake City, 1931.</p> -<p class="hbookc">This booklet contains 58 songs and hymns, without music, and -32 responsive readings for use in the First Unitarian Church in -Salt Lake City, of which Mr. Trapp (1899-____) was then minister. -Intended for ministers with “Humanist” leanings.</p> -<p class="hbook" id="hbk48">48. <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>—Beacon Press, 1937.</p> -<p class="hbookc">Edited by a Unitarian Commission: Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, (II) -(1875-____), Chairman; Rev. Edward P. Daniels (1891-____), Rev. -Curtis W. Reese (1887-____), Rev. Von Ogden Vogt (1879-____), working -in co-operation with a Universalist Commission: Rev. L. G. -Williams (1893-____), Chairman; Rev. Prof. Alfred S. Cole, -(1893-____), Rev. Prof. Edson R. Miles (1875-1958), and Rev. Tracy -M. Pullman (1904-____).</p> -<p class="hbookc">The title is borrowed from the second collection, edited by -<span class="pb" id="Page_36">36</span> -Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson, 1864, <a href="#hbk33">(33)</a>. The book is -printed with services and responsive readings prepared by the -same two commissions. It is an extensive revision of the <i>New -Hymn and Tune Book</i> <a href="#hbk45">(45)</a> of 1914, with special emphasis on “the -social gospel” and on hymns dealing with “man in the universe.” -Its most notable advance over its predecessors is in its music, -edited by E. P. Daniels and Robert L. Sanders. It contains -533 hymns, 42 chants, etc., 366 tunes.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_37">37</div> -<h2 id="c3"><i>Alphabetical List of Unitarian Hymn Writers In the Following Catalogue</i></h2> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, John Quincy</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Alcott_LM">Alcott, Louisa May</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Alger_WR">Alger, Wm. R.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Ames_CG">Ames, Chas. G.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Anonymous">Anonymous</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Appleton_FP">Appleton, Francis P.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Badger_GH">Badger, George H.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Ballou_A">Ballou, Adin</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Barber_HH">Barber, Henry H.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Barnard_J">Barnard, John</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Barrows_SJ">Barrows, Samuel J.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Bartol_CA">Bartol, Cyrus A.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Bartrum_JP">Bartrum, Joseph P.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Beach_SC">Beach, Seth Curtis</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Belknap_J">Belknap, Jeremy</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Blake_JV">Blake, James Vila</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Briggs_CA">Briggs, C. A.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Briggs_LR">Briggs, LeB. R.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Brooks_CT">Brooks, Charles T.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant, William Cullen</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch, Stephen G.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh, Wm. H.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt>Cabot, Eliza Lee, see <a href="#Follen_EL">Follen, Eliza Lee</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick, John W.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Chapman_M">Chapman, Mrs.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Cheney_ED">Cheney, Mrs. Edna D.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Church_EA">Church, Edward A.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Clapp_ET">Clapp, Eliza T.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Clarke_JF">Clarke, J. F.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Collyer_R">Collyer, Robert</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Clute_O">Clute, Oscar</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Dana_CA">Dana, Chas. A.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Dwight_JS">Dwight, John S.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Emerson_RW">Emerson, R. W.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Everett_W">Everett, Wm.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Fernald_WM">Fernald, W. M.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Flint_J">Flint, James</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Follen_EL">Follen, Eliza Lee</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Foote_HWI">Foote, H. W., I</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Foote_HWII">Foote, H. W., II</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Freeman_J">Freeman, James</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Frothingham_NL">Frothingham, N. L.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Frothingham_OB">Frothingham, Octavius B.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Fuller_SM">Fuller, Sarah Margaret</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Furness_WH">Furness, W. H.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett, W. C.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Gilman_C">Gilman, Caroline (Howard)</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Gilman_S">Gilman, Samuel</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Goldsmith_PH">Goldsmith, Peter H.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Greenough_JB">Greenough, James B.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Greenwood_HW">Greenwood, Helen W.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Hale_EE">Hale, Edw. Everett</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_38">38</dt> -<dt><a href="#Hale_MW">Hale, Mary W.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Hall_HW">Hall, Harriet W.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Ham_MF">Ham, M. F.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Harris_F">Harris, Florence</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Harris_TM">Harris, Thaddeus M.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Hedge_FH">Hedge, F. H.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Higginson_TW">Higginson, T. W.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Hill_T">Hill, Thomas</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Holland_JG">Holland, J. G.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Holmes_JH">Holmes, John Haynes</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Holmes_OW">Holmes, Oliver Wendell</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Horton_EA">Horton, Edw. A.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer, F. L.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Howe_J">Howe, Julia (Ward)</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Huntington_FD">Huntington, F. D.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Hurlburt_WH">Hurlburt, W. H.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson, Samuel</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Kimball_J">Kimball, Jacob</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Larned_A">Larned, Augusta</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Lathrop_JH">Lathrop, John Howland</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Livermore_AA">Livermore, A. A.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Livermore_SW">Livermore, Sarah W.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Long_JD">Long, John D.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, Henry W.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, Samuel</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Loring_LP">Loring, Louisa P.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Loring_WJ">Loring, W. J.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Lowell_JR">Lowell, J. R.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Lunt_WP">Lunt, W. P.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Mann_N">Mann, Newton</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Marean_E">Marean, Emma (Endicott)</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Mason_CA">Mason, Caroline A.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Miles_SE">Miles, Sarah E.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Mott_FB">Mott, F. B.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Newell_W">Newell, Wm.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Norton_A">Norton, Andrews</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt>Ossoli, Margaret, see <a href="#Fuller_SM">Fuller</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Parker_T">Parker, Theodore</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Peabody_E">Peabody, Ephraim</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Peabody_OW">Peabody, O. W. B.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Peabody_WB">Peabody, W. B. O.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Perkins_JH">Perkins, J. H.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont, John</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Pray_LG">Pray, Lewis G.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Prince_T">Prince, Thomas</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Putnam_AP">Putnam, A. P.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Robbins_C">Robbins, Chandler</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Robbins_SD">Robbins, S. D.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Sargent_LM">Sargent, L. M.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage, M. J.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Scudder_E">Scudder, Eliza</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Sears_EH">Sears, E. H.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Sewall_C">Sewall, C.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Sigourney_LH">Sigourney, Lydia H.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Sill_ER">Sill, E. R.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Silliman_VB">Silliman, V. B.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Spencer_AG">Spencer, Anna G.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Sprague_C">Sprague, Charles</a></dt> -</dl> -<div class="pb" id="Page_39">39</div> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Trapp_J">Trapp, Jacob</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Tuckerman_J">Tuckerman, J.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Very_J">Very, Jones</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Very_W">Very, Washington</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Ware_H">Ware, Henry</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Waterston_RC">Waterston, R. C.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Weir_RS">Weir, R. S.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Weiss_J">Weiss, John</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Wendte_CW">Wendte, Chas. W.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Westwood_H">Westwood, Horace</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Wile_FW">Wile, Frances W.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Wiley_HO">Wiley, Hiram O.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Willard_S">Willard, Samuel</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, Theodore C.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Williams_VC">Williams, Velma C.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Willis_LM">Willis, Love Maria</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Willis_NP">Willis, Nathaniel P.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Wilson_EH">Wilson, Edwin H.</a></dt> -<dt><a href="#Wilson_LG">Wilson, Lewis G.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl> -<dt><a href="#Young_GH">Young, George H.</a></dt> -</dl> -<div class="pb" id="Page_40">40</div> -<h2 id="c4">Biographical Sketches -<br /><span class="small">with Notes on Hymns</span></h2> -<div class="biography" id="Adams_JQ" title="Adams, Hon. John Quincy"> -<p><b>Adams, Hon. John Quincy</b>, Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, -July 11, 1767—February 21, 1848, Washington, D. C. He -graduated from Harvard in 1787. From 1794-1801 he was United -States Minister to England, the Netherlands and Prussia. In -1806 he was appointed Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard. In -1809 he became United States Minister to Russia, in 1817 he was -Secretary of State, and from 1824 to 1828 he was President of -the United States. In 1831 he was elected to the House of -Representatives, in which body he served until his death.</p> -<p>Most of his verse, both religious and secular, was written -after he had left the Presidency, but he remains the only hymn -writer who has ever been President of this country. In his -later years he composed a metrical version of the Psalms, best -described as a free rendering in fairly good verse of what he -felt was the essential idea of each Psalm. When his minister, -<a href="#Lunt_WP">Rev. William P. Lunt</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, of the First Parish, (Unitarian) -Quincy, Massachusetts, undertook the preparation of his hymn -book <i>The Christian Psalmist</i>, (1841), Mrs. Adams put the manuscript -of her husband’s metrical Psalms into Mr. Lunt’s hands, -and the latter included 17 of them in his book, and five other -hymns by his distinguished parishioner.</p> -<p>The effect on Adams is recorded in a moving entry in his -<i>Journal</i> which reveals an aspect of his character quite unknown -to those who regarded him as an opinionated and uncompromising -though sincere and upright politician. He wrote on June 29, 1845, -“Mr. Lunt preached this morning, Eccles. III, 1. For everything -<span class="pb" id="Page_41">41</span> -there is a season. He had given out as the first hymn to be -sung the 138<sup>th</sup> of the Christian Psalter, his compilation and -the hymn-book now used in our church. It was my version of -the 65<sup>th</sup> Psalm; and no words can express the sensations with -which I heard it sung. Were it possible to compress into one -pulsation of the heart the pleasure which, in the whole period -of my life, I have enjoyed in praise from the lips of mortal -man, it would not weigh a straw to balance the ecstasy of -delight which streamed from my eyes as the organ pealed and -the choir of voices sung the praise of Almighty God from the -soul of David, adapted to my native tongue by me.<span class="hst"> There</span> -was one drawback. In the printed book, the fifth line of the -second stanza reads,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">‘The morning’s dawn, the evening’s shade,’</p> -</div> -<p>and so it was sung, but the corresponding seventh line of the -same stanza reads,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">‘The fields from thee the rains receive,’</p> -</div> -<p>totally destroying the rhyme. I instantly saw that the fifth -line should read,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">‘The morning’s dawn, the shades of eve,’</p> -</div> -<p>but whether this enormous blunder was committed by the copyist -or the pressman I am left to conjecture.”</p> -<p>After Adams’ death his verses, both religious and secular, -were published in a small volume entitled <i>Poems of Religion and -Society</i>, New York, 1848, which ran to a fourth edition in 1854. -This collection included the five hymns and 17 metrical Psalms -printed in <i>The Christian Psalmist</i>, unchanged except that the -opening line of each psalm has been substituted for the number -<span class="pb" id="Page_42">42</span> -of the psalm as its heading. Nor was the misprint which Adams -lamented amended. Judged by the conventional standards of his -time Adams’ poetry was consistently respectable verse, but -without any notable distinction other than that lent to it by -the fame of the author.</p> -<p>His five hymns are,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Sure to the mansions of the blest</i>, <span class="hst">(Death of Children)</span></p> -<p>This is part of a piece of 20 stanzas, which appeared -in the <i>Monthly Anthology and Boston Review</i>, January 1807. -It is entitled “Lines addressed to a mother on the death -of two infants, 19th Sept. 1803, and 19th Decb. 1806.”</p> -<p>2. <i>Alas! how swift the moments fly</i>, <span class="hst">(The Hour-Glass)</span></p> -<p>Sometimes given as</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>How swift, alas, the moments fly</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>written for the 200<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the First Parish -Church in Quincy, September 20, 1839.</p> -<p>3. <i>Hark! ’tis the holy temple bell</i>, <span class="hst">(Sabbath morning) undated</span></p> -<p>4. <i>When, o’er the billow-heaving deep</i>,</p> -<p>“A Hymn for the twenty-second of December,” i.e., the -coming of the Pilgrim Fathers, undated.</p> -<p>5. <i>Lord of all worlds, let thanks and praise</i>,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">“Written in Sickness;” undated.</p> -</div> -</blockquote> -</div> -<p>His metrical versions of the Psalms follow:—</p> -<blockquote> -<p>6. <i>Blest is the mortal whose delight</i>, Ps. 1</p> -<p>7. <i>Come let us sing unto the Lord</i>, Ps. 95</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_43">43</div> -<p>8. <i>For thee in Zion there is praise</i>, Ps. 65</p> -<p>9. <i>My Shepherd is the Lord on high</i>, Ps. 23</p> -<p>10. <i>My soul, before thy Maker kneel</i>, Ps. 103</p> -<p>11. <i>O, all ye people, clap your hands</i>, Ps. 47</p> -<p>12. <i>O God, with goodness all thine own</i>, Ps. 67</p> -<p>13. <i>O heal me, Lord, for I am weak</i>, Ps. 6</p> -<p>14. <i>O, judge me, Lord, for thou art just</i>, Ps. 26</p> -<p>15. <i>O Lord my God! how great thou art</i>, Ps. 104</p> -<p>16. <i>O Lord, thy all-discerning eyes</i>, Ps. 139</p> -<p>17. <i>O that the race of men would raise</i>, Ps. 107</p> -<p>18. <i>Send forth, O God, thy truth and light</i>, Ps. 43</p> -<p>19. <i>Sing to Jehovah a new song</i>, Ps. 98</p> -<p>20. <i>Sing to the Lord a song of praise</i>, Ps. 149</p> -<p>21. <i>Turn to the stars of heaven thine eyes</i>, Ps. 19</p> -<p>22. <i>Why should I fear in evil days</i>, Ps. 49</p> -</blockquote> -<p>A few of these hymns and psalms found their way into other -collections. Nos. 2 and 3 were included in <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>; -no. 18 is in <i>Hymnal for American Youth</i> and the <i>American -Student Hymnal</i>; no. 16 is in the Jewish <i>Union Hymnal for -Worship</i>, 1914.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 16, 1647</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_44">44</div> -<div class="biography" id="Alcott_LM" title="Alcott, Louisa May"> -<p><b>Alcott, Louisa May</b>, Concord, Massachusetts, November 29, 1833—March -5, 1888, Concord. She was the author of widely -known books for children, <i>Little Women</i>, <i>Little Men</i>, and others. -Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i>, p. 1602, records her hymn,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>A little kingdom I possess</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>and cites Eva Munson Smith’s <i>Women in Sacred Song</i> as quoting -a note from Miss Alcott dated “Concord, Oct. 7, 1883,” in -which she says that this is “the only hymn I ever wrote. It -was composed at thirteen - - - and still expresses my soul’s -desire.” Notwithstanding this statement another hymn attributed -to her, apparently written for use by young people and -beginning,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>O the beautiful old story!</i></p> -</div> -<p>is included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J 1550, 1602</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_45">45</div> -<div class="biography" id="Alger_WR" title="Alger, Rev. William Rounsville"> -<p><b>Alger, Rev. William Rounsville</b>, Freetown, Massachusetts, -December 28, 1822—February 7, 1905, Boston, Massachusetts. -He graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1847 and in -the same year became minister of the Mount Pleasant Society, -Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1855 he was settled over the -Bulfinch Place Church, Boston. He was a popular lecturer -and the author of numerous articles and several books, the -most notable of which was his <i>History of the Doctrine of the -Future Life</i>, 1864, and later editions.</p> -<p>His Christmas hymn</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>Jesus has lived! and we would bring</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>written in 1845 while he was still a student, is included in -Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853.</p> -<p>Other poems by him, including a hymn for the graduation -of his class from the Divinity School in 1847 and another -for the ordination of Thomas Starr King, are included in -Putnam, <i>Singers and Songs</i>, but have had no further use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_46">46</div> -<div class="biography" id="Ames_CG" title="Ames, Rev. Charles Gordon"> -<p><b>Ames, Rev. Charles Gordon</b>, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1828—April -15, 1912, Boston, Massachusetts. He was ordained as -a Baptist minister in 1849 and spent some years as a home -missionary in Minnesota. In 1859 he joined the Unitarian -denomination and served several churches, his last pastorate -being with the Church of the Disciples, Boston. In 1905 he -wrote a hymn for the dedication of the new edifice of that -Society beginning,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>With loving hearts and hands we rear</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>which is included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914.</p> -<p>A hymn beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>Father in heaven, hear us today</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>is attributed to him in the Universalist <i>Church Harmonies</i>: -<i>Old and New</i>, 1898, but is not found elsewhere.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_47">47</div> -<div class="biography" id="Anonymous" title="Anonymous"> -<p><b>Anonymous</b></p> -<p>In Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of -Christ</i>, 1853, there is no Index of Authors, but in its Index of -First Lines the name of the author, (often only his or her surname) -is given in most instances. The Index also lists 57 hymns -as “Anon.” or, more often, with no word as to authorship. The -source of several of these hymns can be traced in Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i> -or in Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith</i>, but I have -been unable to identify the author or source of the following hymns, -or to check their later use, if any.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -<p><b><i>Hys. Ch. Ch.</i></b></p> -</div> -<dl class="undent"><dt><span class="cn">509</span> Abba, Father, hear thy child,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">758</span> Alas! how poor and little worth,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">602</span> Behold, the servant of the Lord,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">73</span> Blest is the hour when cares depart,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">510</span> Come, let us who in Christ believe</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">288</span> Come, O thou universal good!</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">581</span> Come to the morning prayer,</dt></dl> -<dl class="undent"><dt><span class="cn">707</span> Gently, Lord, O gently lead us,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">868</span> God of the mountain, God of the storm,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">437</span> God of the rolling year! to Thee</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">765</span> Go to thy rest, fair child!</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">305</span> Head of the church triumphant,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">860</span> Hear, Father, hear our prayer</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">691</span> He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">686</span> I cannot always trace the way</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">763</span> In the broad fields of heaven,</dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_48">48</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">37</span> “Let there be light!” When born on high</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">255</span> Lord, in thy garden agony,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">409</span> Lord, may the spirit of this feast,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">861</span> Meek and lowly, pure and holy,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">573</span> Meek hearts are by sweet manna fed,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">798</span> Mortal, the angels say,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">856</span> My feet are worn and weary with the march,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">481</span> O’er mountaintops, the mount of God,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">294</span> On earth was darkness spread,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">742</span> O speed thee, Christian, on thy way,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">506</span> O Thou, who hearest prayer,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">803</span> O why should friendship grieve for them</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">56</span> O wondrous depth of grace divine,</dt></dl> -<dl class="undent"><dt><span class="cn">307</span> Saviour and dearest friend,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">312</span> Saviour, source of every blessing,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">539</span> Sovereign of worlds! display thy power,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">757</span> Swift years, but teach me how to bear,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">611</span> Take my heart, O Father, take it,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">75</span> There is a world, and O how blest,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">276</span> Thou art the Way, and he who sighs,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">768</span> Thou must go forth alone, my soul!</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">155</span> ’Tis not Thy chastening hand I fear,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">247</span> Wake the song of jubilee.</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">528</span> When shall the voice of singing,</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">846</span> Why come not spirits from the realms of glory?</dt> -<dt><span class="cn">448</span> Why slumbereth, Lord, each promised sign?</dt></dl> -<div class="pb" id="Page_49">49</div> -<div class="biography" id="Hymns_A" title="Anonymous Hymns"> -<p><b>Anonymous Hymns</b></p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Come, Holy Spirit, hush my heart</i>,</p> -<p>C.M. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span> <span class="hst">3 <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908.</span></p> -<p><i>Come thou Almighty King!</i></p> -<p>The widely used hymn to the Trinity which begins with -this line was written about 1757 in England. It has -often been mistakenly attributed to Charles Wesley, and -research has failed to discover who its author was. -Perhaps he thought it prudent not to disclose his name -because both his words and the tune by Felice di Giardini -to which it was set in 1769 offered so marked a contrast -to the British national anthem, in the same unusual metre, -which had come into popular use about 1745 with the words -<i>God save our lord the King</i>. American Unitarians in the -19<sup>th</sup> century could sing the first stanza of the hymn, -addressed to the “Father all glorious,” but not the trinitarian -stanzas which followed. An unknown writer produced -two additional stanzas in a carefully revised version which -was included in Lunt’s <i>Christian Psalter</i>, 1841; in the 1851 -<i>Supplement</i> to Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846; -and in their <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864. This version, however, -was not satisfactory to later Unitarians and was again -largely rewritten in the form in which it has been included -in most of the Unitarian hymn books of more recent date. -This version will be found in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, -1914, and in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -</blockquote> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -<blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_50">50</div> -<p><i>For mercies past we praise thee, Lord</i>,</p> -<p>Given as Anonymous in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Book -of Hymns</i>, 1846, in 4 stas. of 4 l. It was repeated in -their <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, and in the (Unitarian) -<i>Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1868.</p> -</blockquote> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1564</span></p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>My life flows on in endless song</i>,</p> -<p>8.7.8.7.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span> <span class="hst"><i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908.</span></p> -<p><i>Now, when the dusky shades of night retreating</i>,</p> -<p>This is a free translation in five stanzas of the Latin -hymn, <i>Ecce jam noctis tenuatar umbra</i> by Gregory the Great, -c. 600, included in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the -Church of Christ</i>, 1853, as anonymous. It passed into -Beecher’s <i>Plymouth Collection</i>, 1855, and into many other -hymn books, British and American, often with the 3<sup>d</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> -stanzas omitted. There is no clue as to its author though -Julian (p. 320) points out that the first stanza appears to -be an altered form of W. J. Copeland’s translation from the -Latin, published in 1848. The three stanza form of the -hymn is included in the <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and in -<i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -</blockquote> -<p><span class="lr">J. 819</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>We follow, Lord, where thou dost lead</i>,</p> -<p>L.M. <span class="hst">5 stas.</span> <span class="hst">Attributed to “Book of Hymns,” in <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908.</span></p> -</blockquote> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_51">51</div> -<div class="biography" id="Appleton_FP" title="Appleton, Rev. Francis Parker"> -<p><b>Appleton, Rev. Francis Parker</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, August 9, -1822—June 14, 1903, Cohasset, Massachusetts. He graduated -from the Harvard Divinity School in 1845, and was minister to -the Unitarian church, in South Danvers, (now Peabody) Massachusetts -from 1846 to 1853. He then left the ministry for secular -occupations. His hymn,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Thirsting for a living spring</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>was included, anonymously, in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Book of -Hymns</i>, 1846, and, attributed to him, in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864. -It is included in the <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908; in <i>The -New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937. -His hymn,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>The past yet lives in all its truth, O God</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>was also included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, and in <i>The -New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, but has now dropped out of use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1551, 1606</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_52">52</div> -<div class="biography" id="Badger_GH" title="Badger, Rev. George Henry"> -<p><b>Badger, Rev. George Henry</b>, Charlestown, Massachusetts, -March 27, 1859—May 11, 1953, Orlando, Florida. He was -educated at Williams College, A.B. 1883, at Andover Theological -Seminary and the Harvard Divinity School, receiving the -degree of S.T.B. from the latter institution in 1886. He -served several Unitarian churches in New England. From -1912-1918 he was a minister in San Antonio, Texas; from -1919-1936 in Orlando, Florida. The preface to <i>The Isles of -Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908, is signed with his initials as editor. -That book contains three hymns of which he was author:—</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>God of the vastness of the far-spread sea</i>,</p> -<p>2. <i>Lord, I believe, and in my faith</i>,</p> -<p>3. <i>Thy way, O Lord, is in the sea</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>In 1910 he wrote a hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>4. <i>O Thou who art my King</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>which was included in The <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914. None -of these hymns have passed into later collections.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_53">53</div> -<div class="biography" id="Ballou_A" title="Ballou, Rev. Adin"> -<p><b>Ballou, Rev. Adin</b>, 1803-1890. Without much formal education, -but gifted in mind and spirit, he was ordained in 1827 -as a Universalist minister, but in 1831 joined the Unitarian -denomination in which he served a number of New England -parishes. He wrote a hymn beginning,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>Years are coming—speed them onward!</i></p> -<p class="t0"><i>When the sword shall gather rust</i></p> -</div> -<p>which was included in Universalist hymnbooks and in <i>Hymns of -the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Barber_HH" title="Barber, Rev. Henry Hervey"> -<p><b>Barber, Rev. Henry Hervey</b>, Warwick, Massachusetts, December 30, -1835—January 18, 1923, Jacksonville, Florida. He was educated -at Deerfield (Massachusetts) Academy, and at Meadville Theological -School from which he graduated in 1861. After pastorates in -two New England churches he became in 1881 a professor in Meadville -Theological School, a position from which he retired in -1904. His hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Far off, O God, and yet most near,</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>dated 1891, had considerable use and was included in <i>The New -Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_54">54</div> -<div class="biography" id="Barnard_J" title="Barnard, Rev. John"> -<p><b>Barnard, Rev. John</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, November 6, 1681—January -24, 1770, Marblehead, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard in 1700, and was installed as minister of the Congregational -Church in Marblehead in 1716, which he served with distinction -through the rest of his life. A number of his sermons -were printed, and in 1752 he published <i>A New Version of the -Psalms of David</i>, 278 pp., printed in Boston, the result of his -own endeavor to produce a fresh metrical translation. It is -listed in Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i>, p. 929, under <i>Psalters, English</i>. -His book was used in his own church, but not elsewhere, and is -now very rare. His own annotated copy is in the Harvard College -Library and the original ms. is in the Massachusetts Historical -Society.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Barrows_SJ" title="Barrows, Rev. Samuel June"> -<p><b>Barrows, Rev. Samuel June</b>, New York, New York, May 26, 1845—April -21, 1909, New York. He graduated from the Harvard Divinity -School in 1875 and in 1876 was ordained minister of Mount -Pleasant Church, Dorchester, Massachusetts, where he served -until 1881. He was editor of the <i>Christian Register</i> from 1881 -to 1897, and was a member of Congress, 1897-1899.</p> -<p>A hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Enkindling Love, eternal Flame</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>is attributed to him in the <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_55">55</div> -<div class="biography" id="Bartol_CA" title="Bartol, Rev. Cyrus Augustus"> -<p><b>Bartol, Rev. Cyrus Augustus</b>, D.D., Freeport, Maine, August 30, -1813—December 16, 1890, Boston. He graduated from Bowdoin -College in 1832 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1835. -After lay preaching for a year in Cincinnati he was ordained -in 1837 as successor to Rev. Charles Lowell (father of James -Russell Lowell) in the West Church (Unitarian) in Boston. He -retired in 1889. He was author of several books and of a large -number of printed sermons and addresses. He, with others, edited -<i>Hymns for the Sanctuary</i>, Boston, 1849, commonly called “Bartol’s -Collection”, in which was included an anonymous hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Be thou ready, fellow-mortal</i> <span class="hst">(Readiness for Duty)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>This hymn passed into the <i>Supplement</i> to Hedge and Huntington’s -<i>Hymns of the Church of Christ</i>, Boston, 1853, and into other -collections. Its authorship has never been disclosed, but its -theme and mode of expression suggest that it may have been -written by Bartol.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 120</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_56">56</div> -<div class="biography" id="Bartrum_JP" title="Bartrum, Joseph P"> -<p><b>Bartrum, Joseph P</b>., a Unitarian layman living in the 19<sup>th</sup> -century, who published <i>The Psalms newly Paraphrased for the -Service of the Sanctuary</i>, Boston, 1833, from which his version -of Psalm CVI,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>O from these visions, dark and drear</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>was taken for inclusion in several Unitarian collections in -Great Britain and America and in the Universalist <i>Church Harmonies, -New and Old</i>, 1895. His version of Psalm LXXXVII,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Amid the heaven of heavens</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>is included in Holland’s <i>Psalmists of Britain</i>, 1843, vol. II, -p. 339, with a critical note.</p> -<p>Neither hymn is found in use today.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 116</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_57">57</div> -<div class="biography" id="Beach_SC" title="Beach, Rev. Seth Curtis"> -<p><b>Beach, Rev. Seth Curtis</b>, D.D., near Marion, Wayne County, New York, -August 3, 1837—January 30, 1932, Watertown, Massachusetts. He -graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York in 1863, and -from the Harvard Divinity School in 1866. From 1867 to 1869 he -served the Unitarian Church in Augusta, Maine. Ill health then -led him to take up a farm in Minnesota for four years. In 1873 -he returned to New England, where his longest pastorates were at -Bangor, Maine, 1891-1901, and at Wayland, Massachusetts, 1901-1911, -when he retired to Watertown. His hymn,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Mysterious Presence! Source of all</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>was first printed in the “Order of Exercises at the Fiftieth -Annual Visitation of the Divinity School, July 17, 1866,” having -been written for that occasion.</p> -<p>In 1884 he wrote</p> -<blockquote> -<p>2. <i>Thou One in all, thou All in one</i> <span class="hst">(God in Nature)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>These two hymns were included in the Unitarian <i>New Hymn and Tune -Book</i>, 1914, and in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937. His third hymn</p> -<blockquote> -<p>3. <i>Kingdom of God! The day how blest</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>is included in the <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1581</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_58">58</div> -<div class="biography" id="Belknap_J" title="Belknap, Rev. Jeremy"> -<p><b>Belknap, Rev. Jeremy</b>, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, June 4, 1744—June -20, 1798, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in -1762; taught school for four years; in 1766 accepted a position -as assistant to Rev. Jonathan Cushing of Dover, New Hampshire, -and in 1767 was ordained, serving that parish until 1786. In -1787 he became minister of the Federal Street Church, (now the -Arlington Street Church) Boston, which he served until his death. -Harvard gave him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in -1792. He was the author of a three volume <i>History of New Hampshire</i>; -of a petition (1788) for the abolition of the slave trade; -and of other books and essays; and formed the plan for the Massachusetts -Historical Society, organized in 1791. He wrote no hymns -but made an important contribution to American hymnody in his -collection <i>Sacred Poetry: consisting of Psalms and Hymns adapted -to Christian devotion in public and private. Selected from the -best authors, with variations and additions</i>, by Jeremy Belknap, -D.D., Boston, 1795, which ran to many editions. His intention -was to provide a book acceptable to both the conservative and the -liberal wings of Congregationalism, to bridge the widening gap -which resulted in the formation of the Unitarian denomination a -generation later. In this he failed, for only the liberal -churches accepted it, though it was widely used by them for 40 -years, being much the best of the period. It includes 300 hymns -from the best English sources, and was the first to introduce to -Americans the hymns by Anne Steele. The only American hymns in -the collection are Jacob Kimball’s metrical version of Psalm 65 -and Mather Byles’ <i>When wild confusion rends the air</i>.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_59">59</div> -<div class="biography" id="Blake_JV" title="Blake, Rev. James Vila"> -<p><b>Blake, Rev. James Vila</b>, Brooklyn, New York, January 21, 1842—April -28, 1925, Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1862 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1866, -and served Unitarian churches in Massachusetts and Illinois, -his last and longest pastorate being at Evanston, Ill., 1892-1916. -Author of a number of books. He shared with <a href="#Gannett_WC">W. C. Gannett</a>, <i>q.v.</i> -and <a href="#Hosmer_FL">F. L. Hosmer</a>, <i>q.v.</i> in the compilation of the first edition -of <i>Unity Hymns and Chorals</i>, 1880, which included his hymn,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Father, Thou art calling, calling to us plainly</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>included also in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and in <i>Hymns -of the Spirit</i>, 1937. The latter book also includes his hymn of -the church universal,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>O sing with loud and joyful song</i>.</p> -</blockquote> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_60">60</div> -<div class="biography" id="Briggs_CA" title="Briggs, C. A."> -<p><b>Briggs, C. A.</b></p> -<p>A hymn beginning,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>God’s law demands one living faith</i> <span class="hst">(Law of God)</span></p> -</div> -<p>is attributed to a person with this name in Hedge and -Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853. It is -probable, but not certain, that the author was Rev. Charles -Briggs, Halifax, Massachusetts, January 17, 1791—December -1, 1873, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1815 and from the Divinity School in -1818, was minister of the First Church in Lexington, Massachusetts, -1818-1834, and secretary of the American Unitarian -Association, 1835-1848.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_61">61</div> -<div class="biography" id="Briggs_LR" title="Briggs, LeBaron Russell"> -<p><b>Briggs, LeBaron Russell</b>, LL.D., Salem, Massachusetts, December 11, -1855—April 24, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated -from Harvard College in 1875, A.M., 1882; served as tutor, -then as professor of English, and as dean from 1891-1925. Harvard -gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1900, as did Yale in 1917, and -Lafayette University gave him the degree of Litt.D. For the -celebration of the 300<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the landing of the -Pilgrims at Plymouth, December 21, 1920, he wrote a poem which -is introduced by a prayer in three stanzas, 11.10.11.10, offered -by “The Pilgrim”, beginning,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>God of our fathers, who hast safely brought us</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>It is a fine hymn of thanksgiving for religious freedom and -it was included in the program celebrating the 300<sup>th</sup> anniversary -of the “Cambridge Platform” in October 27, 1948. It deserves -wide use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_62">62</div> -<div class="biography" id="Brooks_CT" title="Brooks, Rev. Charles Timothy"> -<p><b>Brooks, Rev. Charles Timothy</b>, Salem, Massachusetts, June 20, -1813—June 14, 1883, Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated -from Harvard College in 1832 and from the Harvard Divinity -School in 1835. He was ordained as the first minister of the -Unitarian Church in Newport, Rhode Island, on January 1, 1837, -and served there until 1873. He was author of a number of -books, most of them translations from German poets and novelists. -After his death a volume entitled <i>Poems, Original and Translated</i>, -was published. The only hymn with which his name is associated -was in two stanzas beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>God bless our native land!</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>said to have been written while he was a student in the Divinity -School. Part of the first and almost the whole of the second -stanza were rewritten by <a href="#Dwight_JS">J. S. Dwight</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, and Putnam, in <i>Songs -of the Liberal Faith</i>, states that it was first published in this -form in one of Lowell Mason’s song books in 1844. It was included, -with further alterations, in Hedge and Huntington’s<i> Hymns of the -Church of Christ</i>, 1853, and with yet other changes in Longfellow -and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864. In the 20<sup>th</sup> century -collection also entitled <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, the hymn -appears in 3 stas. of which the first is by Brooks, the second -by Dwight, and a third, of which the first 3 lines are those -introduced by Longfellow and Johnson, the remaining four lines -from a later unknown source, and its authorship is attributed to -“Composite: based on Charles Timothy Brooks and John Sullivan -Dwight.” The complicated history of this hymn is traced in -Julian, 184, 1566, 1685.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_63">63</div> -<div class="biography" id="Bryant_WC" title="Bryant, William Cullen, Cummington"> -<p><b>Bryant, William Cullen, Cummington</b>, Massachusetts, November 3, -1794—June 12, 1878, New York, New York. He was a student at -Williams College for two years, then studied law, and was admitted -to the bar at Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1815, where he -practised until 1825 when he removed to New York. There he devoted -himself to journalism as editor of <i>The New York Review</i> and of the -<i>New York Evening Post</i>, reserving part of his time, especially in -later years, to literary pursuits at his retreat at Roslyn, Long -Island, where he wrote addresses, essays and reviews as well as -poems. In point of time he was the first of the famous group of -New England poets of the nineteenth century. He began writing -verses when a child and composed his noblest poem, <i>Thanatopsis</i>, -when only eighteen years of age. His first volume of poems, containing -one entitled <i>The Ages</i> delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa -Society at Harvard, and some others, was published in 1821. In -1832 a volume entitled <i>Poems</i>, complete to that date, was published, -for which Washington Irving secured republication in England, where -it brought him wide recognition. Many successive editions of Poems, -each with some additional items, were published in later years, and -after his death a complete edition of the <i>Poetical Works of William -Cullen Bryant</i> appeared in 1879. He also had privately printed a little -volume of his <i>Hymns</i>, 1869.</p> -<p>The following pieces by him have been included in various -collections of hymns, some of them having considerable use in Great -Britain as well as in this country.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>All praise to him of Nazareth</i> <span class="hst">(Communion)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1864. Included in Hatfield’s (British) <i>Church -Hymn Book</i>, 1874, in 3 stanzas, and in <i>Songs of the -Sanctuary</i> and in Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc. in -5 stanzas.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_64">64</div> -<p>2. <i>All that in this wide world we see</i> <span class="hst">(Omnipresence)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1836, but Beard, in his <i>Collection</i>, (British) -1837, gives it as an original contribution, thus -fixing the date of first publication. Putnam, <i>Singers -and Songs</i>, etc., notes that it was “Written, probably, -for some church in England,” information which sounds -like the aged poet’s vague recollection many years after -he had responded to Beard’s request. Included in Lunt’s -<i>Christian Psalter</i>, 1841.</p> -<p>3. <i>All things that are on earth</i>,<span class="hst">(Love of God)</span></p> -<p>Included in Beard’s <i>Collection</i>, 1837.</p> -<p>4. <i>Almighty! hear thy children raise</i>, <span class="hst">(Praise)</span></p> -<p>One of five hymns written by Bryant at the request -of Miss Sedgwick for inclusion (without the author’s -name) in Sewall’s <i>Collection</i>, 1820, compiled for use -in the First Congregational Society of New York (Unitarian), -now All Souls Church. In Beard’s <i>Collection</i>, 1837, the -first line is altered to read</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Almighty, listen while we praise</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>and in the Unitarian <i>Hymn and Tune Book</i>, Boston, 1868, -it is altered to</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Almighty, hear us while we praise</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>5. <i>As shadows cast by cloud and sun</i>,</p> -<p>Written for the Semi-Centennial of the Church of the -Messiah, Boston, March 19, 1875. Included in the -Methodist Episcopal <i>Hymnal</i>, New York, 1878.</p> -<p>6. <i>Close softly, fondly, while ye weep</i> <span class="hst">(Death)</span></p> -<p>Included in H. W. Beecher’s <i>Plymouth Collection</i>, 1855.</p> -<p>7. <i>Dear ties of mutual succor bind</i> <span class="hst">(Charity)</span></p> -<p>Putnam, <i>Singers and Songs</i>, 1874, p. 130, says, “Mr. -<span class="pb" id="Page_65">65</span> -Bryant has kindly sent us, as an additional contribution -to this volume, the following exquisite lines, -which were written about forty years since, for some -charitable occasion, and which he lately found among -some old papers. They are not among his published -poems.” Included in the Methodist Episcopal <i>Hymnal</i>, 1878.</p> -<p>8. <i>Deem not that they are blest alone</i> <span class="hst">(Mourning)</span></p> -<p>Written for Sewall’s <i>Collection</i>, 1820, <i>vide supra.</i> -Included in Beard’s <i>Collection</i>, 1837, and, the first -line altered to read,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>O deem not they are blest alone</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>in Martineau’s <i>Hymns of Prayer and Praise</i>, 1873, and -in <i>Songs for the Sanctuary</i>, New York, 1865-1872.</p> -<p>9. <i>Father, to thy kind love we owe</i>, <span class="hst">(God’s Loving Kindness)</span></p> -<p>One of the five hymns, written by Bryant for inclusion -in Sewall’s <i>Collection</i>, New York, 1820. Included in -the <i>Hymn and Tune Book</i>, Boston, 1868, and in Martineau’s -<i>Hymns</i>, 1873. In Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc. the -first line reads,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Our Father, to thy love we owe</i>.</p> -</div> -<p>10. <i>How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps?</i> <span class="hst">(Future life)</span></p> -<p>A memorial poem in 9 stanzas rather than a hymn, but -included in part in the supplement of devotional readings -in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of -Christ</i>, 1853. Complete text in Putnam’s <i>Singers and -Songs</i>, etc., pp. 125-126.</p> -<p>11. <i>Look from Thy sphere of endless day</i> <span class="hst">(Home missions)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1840. Included in <i>Songs for the Sanctuary</i>, -<span class="pb" id="Page_66">66</span> -New York, 1865; in Horder’s (British) <i>Congregational -Hymns</i>, 1884, and in the <i>Pilgrim Hymnal</i>, 1935.</p> -<p>12. <i>Lord, who ordainest for mankind</i> <span class="hst">(Thanks for Mother Love)</span></p> -<p>Written at the request of Rev. Samuel Osgood of -New York for inclusion in his <i>Christian Worship</i>, -1862, and included in Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, etc., 1873.</p> -<p>13. <i>Mighty One, before whose face</i> <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -<p>Dated c. 1820. It was included in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns</i>, etc. 1853, -H. W. Beecher’s <i>Plymouth Collection</i>, 1855, and elsewhere.</p> -<p>14. <i>Not in the solitude</i>, <span class="hst">(God in the city)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1836. Included in Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873.</p> -<p>15. O God, whose dread and dazzling brow <span class="hst">(God’s compassion)</span></p> -<p>Included in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns</i>, etc. 1853, and -in the <i>Hymn and Tune Book</i>, Boston, 1868.</p> -<p>16. <i>O North, with all thy vales of green!</i> <span class="hst">(Reign of Christ)</span></p> -<p>Included in the author’s privately printed <i>Hymns</i>, 1869, -undated. It passed into several British collections, e.g., -the Scotch <i>Church Hymnary</i>, 1898; <i>Worship Song</i>, 1905; <i>The -English Hymnal</i>, 1906; and is included in the American -Episcopal <i>Hymnal</i>, 1940.</p> -<p>17. <i>O Thou, whose love can ne’er forget</i> <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -<p>One of Bryant’s early hymns, perhaps written for the -ordination of Rev. William Ware, December, 1821, as -minister of the First Congregational Society of New -York, (now All Souls Church). Included in Beard’s -English <i>Collection</i>, 1837.</p> -<p>18. <i>O Thou Whose own vast temple stands</i> <span class="hst">(Opening of a house of worship)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1835 for the dedication of a Chapel in -Prince Street, New York. The building was soon -<span class="pb" id="Page_67">67</span> -afterwards destroyed by fire. This hymn is the most -widely used of all those written by Bryant. It was -included in Beard’s English <i>Collection</i> in 1837, and in -Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873. In Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs</i>, -etc., the opening line reads,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>and in this form it was included in -Lunt’s <i>Christian Psalter</i>, 1861, and in -the American Presbyterian -<i>Psalms and Hymns</i>, Richmond, 1867; in Horder’s <i>Congregational -Hymns</i>, London, 1884; and elsewhere.</p> -<p>19. <i>Standing forth in life’s rough way</i> <span class="hst">(On behalf of children)</span></p> -<p>Included in Dr. Allon’s (British) <i>Children’s Worship</i>, -1878; in Horder’s <i>Congregational Hymns</i>, 1884; and -elsewhere.</p> -<p>20. <i>Thou unrelenting past</i> <span class="hst">(The Past)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1836. A poem of 14 stanzas, a few of which were -included in Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873.</p> -<p>21. <i>When doomed to death the Apostle lay</i> <span class="hst">(On behalf of Drunkards)</span></p> -<p>Included in the Methodist Episcopal <i>Hymnal</i>, 1878.</p> -<p>22. <i>When he who from the scourge of wrong</i> <span class="hst">(Hope of Resurrection)</span></p> -<p>Written for Sewall’s <i>Collection</i>, 1820. Included in -<i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>, 1868.</p> -<p>23. <i>When this song of praise shall cease</i> <span class="hst">(Anticipation of Death)</span></p> -<p>Written for a collection of hymns printed at the end of -a <i>Sunday School Liturgy</i>, prepared by James Lombard, of -Utica, New York, in 1859. Included in Bryant’s privately -printed <i>Hymns</i>, 1869, and in Stevenson’s (British) <i>School -Hymnal</i>, 1889.</p> -<p>24. <i>When the blind suppliant in the way</i> <span class="hst">(Opening the eyes of the blind)</span></p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_68">68</div> -<p>Dated 1874. Included in the Methodist Episcopal -<i>Hymnal</i>, New York, 1878.</p> -<p>25. <i>Whither, midst falling dew</i>, <span class="hst">(Divine Guidance)</span></p> -<p>This is one of Bryant’s best known poems, entitled -“To a Waterfowl,” and dated 1836, and is in no sense -a hymn, although included in Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873.</p> -<p>26. <i>Wild was the day, the wintry sea</i>, <span class="hst">(The Pilgrim Fathers)</span></p> -<p>Included in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1864.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Putnam, <i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc., p. 123 reports a hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Ancient of Days! except Thou deign</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>“written for the dedication of Rev. R. C. Waterston’s church in -Boston,” and another hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Lord, from whose glorious presence came</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>written “at the request of a friend, Mr. Hiram Barney, for the opening -of an Orthodox Congregational Church,” but does not print the -text of either, and neither appears to have been included in any -Collection.</p> -<p>As indicated in the foregoing list, the text of several of -Bryant’s hymns is found with the opening line altered from the -original, either by the author himself, or, presumably, with his -consent, so that it is impossible to say which is the correct or -authorized form, and frequently no more than approximate date of -composition can be given.</p> -<p>The early flowering of Bryant’s gifts as a poet, promoted by -a fortunate combination of circumstances, quickly brought him widespread -recognition in both Great Britain and America, which deepened -<span class="pb" id="Page_69">69</span> -into respect for his fine character as he advanced in age. The -writings of no other American poet of his period were so eagerly -searched by compilers of hymn books, who sometimes included verses -which were meditative, poems rather than hymns, e.g., nos. 8, 10, -20 and 25 in the above list. Bryant’s mind was cool and meditative, -and his hymns are correct and smoothly flowing, but seldom touched -with lyric fire, and none of them quite reach the highest level. -They express an attitude towards religion characteristic of the -intellectual life of his time but now largely passed away. No. 16 -is still included in several leading hymn collections of the 20<sup>th</sup> -century; nos. 11 and 18 are in the Unitarian <i>New Hymn and Tune -Book</i>, 1914; and nos. 12 and 18 are in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 189-190, 1682</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_70">70</div> -<div class="biography" id="Bulfinch_SG" title="Bulfinch, Rev. Stephen Greenleaf, D.D."> -<p><b>Bulfinch, Rev. Stephen Greenleaf, D.D.</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, -June 18, 1809—October 12, 1870, Cambridge, Massachusetts. -He was son of Charles Bulfinch, a leading architect, and received -his early education in Washington, D.C., returning to Cambridge -to enter the Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in -1830. He was ordained in January, 1831, as assistant to -<a href="#Gilman_S">Rev. Samuel Gilman</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, of Charleston, South Carolina, and later -served Unitarian churches in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Washington, -D.C.; Nashua, New Hampshire; Dorchester, Massachusetts and East -Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a voluminous writer in both -prose and verse. Most of his hymns first appeared in his books -<i>Contemplations of the Saviour</i>, Boston, 1832; <i>Poems</i>, Charleston, -1834; and <i>Lays of the Gospel</i>, 1845. The first of these was reprinted -in England, where 19 of his hymns were included in Beard’s -<i>Collection</i>, 1837, and where they had widespread use.</p> -<p>His best known hymns are as follows:</p> -<blockquote> -<dl class="undent"><dt>1. <i>Benignant Saviour: ’twas not thine</i>, <span class="hst">(Compassion of Christ)</span></dt></dl> -<p>From his “Contemplations of the Saviour,” altered -in Horder’s <i>Congregational Hymns</i>, 1884, to read</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Most gracious Saviour: ’twas not thine</i>.</p> -</div> -<dl class="undent"><dt>2. <i>Burden of shame and woe</i>, <span class="hst">(The Crucifixion)</span></dt> -<dt>3. <i>Hail to the Sabbath day</i>, <span class="hst">(Sunday)</span></dt> -<dt>4. <i>Hath not thy heart within thee burned</i>, <span class="hst">(Evening)</span></dt> -<dt>5. <i>Holy Son of God most high</i>, <span class="hst">(Christ)</span></dt> -<dt>6. <i>How glorious is the hour</i>, <span class="hst">(The New Life)</span></dt> -<dt>7. <i>In the Saviour’s hour of death</i>, <span class="hst">(Good Friday)</span></dt> -<dt>8. <i>It is finished! Glorious word</i>, <span class="hst">(Good Friday)</span></dt> -<dt>9. <i>Lord, in this sacred hour</i>, <span class="hst">(Worship)</span></dt> -<dt>10. <i>O suffering friend of all mankind</i>, <span class="hst">(Passiontide)</span></dt> -<dt>11. <i>There is a strife we all must wage</i>, <span class="hst">(Life’s Duty)</span></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_71">71</dt> -<dt>12. <i>Toiling through the livelong night</i>, <span class="hst">(Miracle of fishes)</span></dt> -<dt>13. <i>What power unseen by mortal eye</i>, <span class="hst">(Miracle)</span></dt></dl> -</blockquote> -<p>These hymns are well written contemplations of gospel episodes, -as viewed by the conservative piety of the author’s period. -Several were included in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Book of Hymns</i>, -1846-1848; nos. 6 and 10 are in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns -for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853; and most of them in one and another -19<sup>th</sup> century collection. Only No. 4 has survived in present-day -use, being found in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and <i>Hymns -of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 191, 1555 revised</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_72">72</div> -<div class="biography" id="Burleigh_WH" title="Burleigh, William Henry"> -<p><b>Burleigh, William Henry</b>, Woodstock, Connecticut, February 12, -1812—March 18, 1871, Brooklyn, New York. He was an editor -and publisher working successively in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, -1837-1843; in Hartford, Connecticut, 1843-1849; in Syracuse, New -York, 1849-1854. From 1855-1870 he was Harbor Master of New -York. He was a member of the Second Unitarian Church in Brooklyn -and an ardent advocate of anti-slavery and temperance reforms. -Early in life he began writing hymns and other poems which were -printed in various periodicals, but for many of which the date -and occasion are impossible to determine. They were collected -for publication in a volume entitled <i>Poems</i>, Philadelphia, 1841, -and this book, enlarged with his later poems, was republished in -1871 after his death, with a biographical notice by his wife. -Some of the best were included in the British collection <i>Lyra -Sacra Americana</i>, 1868, the editor of which, Dr. Cleveland, said, -“Most of these beautiful hymns of Mr. Burleigh’s were given to -me in ms. by the author.” From this publication they were taken -for extensive use in British hymn books.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Abide not in the realm of dreams</i>, <span class="hst">(The Harvest Call)</span></p> -<p>Included in Putnam, <i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc., is -a poem of 10 stanzas from which a cento consisting of -the first two lines of stanza 1 combined with the -second two lines of stanza 2, followed by stanzas -3, 6, 7 and 10 are taken to form a hymn in the <i>New -Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1937.</p> -<p>2. <i>Fades from the west the farewell light</i> <span class="hst">(Night)</span></p> -<p>This poem, entitled “A Psalm of Night,” is given -in his <i>Poems</i>, New York, 1871. Although not in -<span class="pb" id="Page_73">73</span> -the first edition of <i>Poems</i>, 1841, stanzas selected -from it came into use as early as 1844. The original -is in 5 stanzas of 8 lines. From it the following -centos have come into use.</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">(a) <i>Day unto day uttereth speech</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>This consists of stanzas III-V, and is -given in the <i>Christian Hymns</i> of the Cheshire -Pastoral Association, 1844, as an “Evening -Hymn.”</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">(b) <i>O Holy Father, mid the calm</i></p> -</div> -<p>This cento consists of stanzas IV-V, and -is given in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Book -of Hymns</i>, 1846, and in their <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1864.</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">(c) <i>Not only doth the voiceful day</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>Composed of stanzas II-III, in Longfellow -and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864. -Another arrangement beginning with the same -stanza is in <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>.</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">(d) <i>The brightening dawn and voiceful day</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>In the British <i>Hymnary</i>, London, 1872, an -altered form of (c), with the addition of -a doxology.</p> -<p>In these various forms the use of this hymn was very -extensive.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_74">74</div> -<p>3. <i>Father, beneath thy sheltering wing</i>, <span class="hst">(Trust and Peace)</span></p> -<p>Printed in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1864, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. Included -in the British <i>Baptist Hymnal</i>, 1879; in Horder’s -<i>Congregational Hymns</i>, 1884; and others; and in many -American collections.</p> -<p>4. <i>Father, thy servant waits to do thy will</i> <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -<p>“Written for the ordination of Mr. J. W. Chadwick, -as pastor of the Second Unitarian Church, in -Brooklyn, New York, 1864.” -Included in Putnam, <i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc.</p> -<p>5. <i>For the dear love that kept us through the night</i> <span class="hst">(Morning)</span></p> -<p>Taken from the author’s <i>Poems</i>, 1871, for -inclusion in Horder’s <i>Congregational Hymns</i>, 1884.</p> -<p>6. <i>From the profoundest depths of tribulation</i> <span class="hst">(Lent)</span></p> -<p>A meditative poem rather than a hymn, included -in the Supplement to Hedge and Huntington’s -<i>Hymns of the Church of Christ</i>, 1853.</p> -<p>7. <i>Lead us, O Father, in the paths of peace</i> <span class="hst">(Divine Guidance)</span></p> -<p>In <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i> headed “A Prayer for -Guidance.” This is one of the author’s best -known and most widely used hymns. Included -in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p>8. Not in vain I poured my supplication <span class="hst">(Lent)</span></p> -<p>A continuation of the same thought as no. 6, -preceding, which it follows in the Supplement -to Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns</i>, etc.</p> -<p>9. <i>O deem not that earth’s crowning bliss</i>, <span class="hst">(Morning)</span></p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_75">75</div> -<p>In his <i>Poems</i>, 1871; in <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i> from -which it passed into the British <i>Baptist Hymnal</i>, -1879, and Horder’s <i>Congregational Hymns</i>, 1884, and -others. In the Methodist Episcopal <i>Hymnal</i>, New -York, 1878, the hymn beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>From lips divine the healing balm</i></p> -</div> -<p>is a cento from this poem.</p> -<p>10. <i>Still will we trust though earth seems dark and dreary</i>, <span class="hst">(Faith)</span></p> -<p>From <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i> this passed into many -non-conformist collections in Great Britain where -it was the most widely used of all of Burleigh’s -hymns. It had a much more limited use in this -country. Included in Putnam’s <i>Singers & Songs</i>, -etc.</p> -<p>11. <i>There is a beautiful land by the spoiler untrod</i>, <span class="hst">(Heaven)</span></p> -<p>Dr. Cleveland, editor of <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i> -says “This piece was first published in the -<i>Independent</i>, Jan. 18, 1866.”</p> -<p>12. <i>They who have kept their virgin whiteness</i>, <span class="hst">(Purity)</span></p> -<p>In <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>.</p> -<p>13. <i>Thou who look’st with pitying eye</i> <span class="hst">(Lent)</span></p> -<p>In <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>.</p> -<p>14. <i>Through the changes of the day</i> <span class="hst">(Evening)</span></p> -<p>From his Poems, 1841. In <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>; -in S.P.C.K.’s <i>Psalms and Hymns</i>, 1852; in Thring’s -<i>Collection</i>, and other British books.</p> -<p>15. <i>We ask not that our path be always bright</i>, <span class="hst">(Trust in God)</span></p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_76">76</div> -<p>From <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i> this passed into -Horder’s <i>Congregational Hymns</i>, 1884.</p> -<p>16. <i>When gladness gilds our prosperous day</i> <span class="hst">(Good in all)</span></p> -<p>From <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i> this passed into -Horder’s <i>Congregational Hymns</i>, 1884.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>The above hymns have had much less use in this country than -in Great Britain. Nos. 7 and 10 are in the Universalist <i>Church -Harmonies</i>, 1895; nos. 1 and 7 in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>. 1937, no. 7 -in <i>The Hymnal</i>, 1940; and no. 3 in the <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>. -The others, though very acceptable expressions of the religious -thought and feeling in the era in which the author lived, have -now dropped out of use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 195-6</span> -<span class="lr">Revised H.W.F</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_77">77</div> -<div class="biography" id="Chadwick_JW" title="Chadwick, Rev. John White"> -<p><b>Chadwick, Rev. John White</b>, Marblehead, Massachusetts, -October 19, 1840—December 11, 1904, Brooklyn, New York. -After two years of study at the Bridgewater Normal School, and -a shorter period at Phillips Exeter Academy, he entered the -Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1864. He -received the degree of A.M. 1888. In December, 1864, he was -ordained minister of the Second Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, -where he remained until his death. He was an influential -preacher and a prolific author in both prose and verse, his -principal publications being a <i>Book of Poems</i>, 1876, <i>Nazareth -Town</i>, 1883 (poems), the two being later combined and republished -in 1888 with the earlier title; <i>The Bible Today</i>, 1879: <i>Old and New -Unitarian Belief</i>, 1894; and first-rate biographies of <i>Theodore -Parker</i>, 1901, and <i>William Ellery Channing</i>, 1903. After his death -a small volume was published entitled <i>Later Poems</i>, 1905, and his -printed sermons have been collected in 14 volumes. As a young man -he became a close friend of <a href="#Gannett_WC">W. C. Gannett</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, and <a href="#Gannett_WC">F. L. Hosmer</a>, -<i>q.v.</i>, both of whom were also born in 1840, though not his classmates -in the Divinity School, and his hymns are expressions of a -theological outlook similar to theirs, notably in his endeavor to -give a religious interpretation to the then disputed doctrine of -evolution. Although several of his hymns are of exceptionally -fine quality, he often wrote in haste, lacking the patience with -which his two friends sought for the precise word to convey their -meaning, but he often abbreviated or re-wrote his verses at the -request of hymn-book editors, or willingly accepted their proposed -alterations. The result is that some of his hymns now appear in -forms which depart considerably from their original texts. His -<span class="pb" id="Page_78">78</span> -secular poems, mostly the utterances of a nature lover, are often -the too hastily written verse of a minor poet.</p> -<p>His <i>Book of Poems</i>, 1888, and <i>Later Poems</i>, 1905, include -all his hymns, three of which had little use, viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>A gentle tumult in the earth</i>, <span class="hst">(Easter) 1876</span></p> -<p>2. <i>Everlasting Holy One</i>, <span class="hst">(Invocation) 1875</span></p> -<p>3. <i>O God, we come not as of old</i>, <span class="hst">(Worship) 1874</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>His best known hymn was written for the Visitation Day exercises -at the Harvard Divinity School, 1864,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>4. <i>Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>It has been widely used in Great Britain and in this country. -Other hymns by him have had considerable use, as follows:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>5. <i>Another year of setting suns</i>, <span class="hst">(New Year’s) 1873</span></p> -<p>This was written in ten stanzas beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">“That this shall be a better year,”</p> -</div> -<p>but in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, only stas. 5, 6, 7, and 10 -are given, beginning as above.</p> -<p>6. <i>It singeth low in every heart</i>, <span class="hst">(Commemoration) 1876</span></p> -<p>Written for the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the dedication of -his church in Brooklyn, and widely used.</p> -<p>7. <i>Now sing we a song of the harvest</i>, <span class="hst">(Thanksgiving Day) 1871</span></p> -<p>8. <i>O Love Divine, of all that is</i>, <span class="hst">(A song of Trust) 1865</span></p> -<p>9. <i>O Thou, whose perfect goodness crowns</i>, <span class="hst">(Anniversary Hymn)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1889 for the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of his ordination.</p> -<p>10. <i>Thou glorious God, before whose face</i>, <span class="hst">(Anniversary Hymn)</span></p> -<p>Undated.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_79">79</div> -<p>11. <i>Thou whose spirit dwells in all</i>, <span class="hst">(Easter)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1890.</p> -<p>12. <i>Thy seamless robe conceals Thee not</i>, <span class="hst">(Jesus)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1876. Included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune -Book</i>, 1914, but not in later publications.</p> -<p>13. <i>What has drawn us thus apart</i>, <span class="hst">(Unity of Spirit)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1891.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Several of the above hymns, as printed in current -hymn-books, consist of selected stanzas, or have been slightly -altered from their original forms, in most cases by Gannett and -Hosmer, for inclusion in their collection <i>Unity Hymns and Chorals</i>, -1880, 1911. Two others included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, -were not written as hymns but have been quarried out of verses -in <i>Later Poems</i>, by permission of the author’s widow, viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>14. <i>Spirit of God, in thunder speak</i>, <span class="hst">(Summons to Duty)</span></p> -<p>This arrangement combines stanzas 13 and 16 in the poem -entitled “A Missionary Chant”, used as the first two -stanzas of the hymn, with stanzas 8 and 9 of the poem -to “William Cullen Bryant” as the third and fourth -stanzas of the hymn, both poems being found in <i>Later -Poems</i>, 1905.</p> -<p>15. <i>Thou mighty God, who didst of old</i>, <span class="hst">(Communion of Saints)</span></p> -<p>This is arranged from the same sources. Stanzas 1 and -2 are the first two stanzas in “William Cullen Bryant,” -the last three stanzas are stanzas 11, 7, and 8 in -“A Missionary Chant,” considerably altered. These arrangements -were made by H. W. Foote, with the coöperation of -<span class="pb" id="Page_80">80</span> -F. L. Hosmer and W. C. Gannett, for inclusion in -<i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of the hymns listed above <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937 -includes Nos. 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 216, 1619</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_81">81</div> -<div class="biography" id="Chapman_M" title="Chapman, Mrs."> -<p><b>Chapman, Mrs.</b> (No information available).</p> -<p>An anti-slavery hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>O God of freedom! Hear us pray</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>is attributed to “Mrs. Chapman” in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns -for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Cheney_ED" title="Cheney, Mrs. Ednah D."> -<p><b>Cheney, Mrs. Ednah D.</b> (<b>Dow</b>) Boston, Massachusetts, June 27, 1824—November -19, 1904, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She -married Seth Wells Cheney. She was the author of several -books, including <i>The Life and Letters of Louisa May Alcott</i>. -She wrote a hymn on “the larger prayer,” beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>At first I prayed for Light</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>in 4 stanzas of 10 lines each, printed in the <i>Riverside Record</i> -and reprinted in the <i>Boston Gazette</i>, February 4, 1882. Enough -lines have been taken from this hymn to make a much shorter -one in 5 stanzas of four lines each, C.M. for inclusion in -Unitarian hymn-books. It has also been considerably rewritten, -but since this revised form is not marked as “altered” it is -probable that the changes were made by the author or at least -with her permission. It is included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_82">82</div> -<div class="biography" id="Church_EA" title="Church, Edward Alonzo"> -<p><b>Church, Edward Alonzo</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, —— 1844—January -29, 1929, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a business -man who wrote in 1904, for the laying of the cornerstone of -a new edifice for the Church of the Disciples (Unitarian), -Boston, of which he was a member, a hymn beginning,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>Almighty Builder, bless, we pray,</i></p> -<p class="t0"><i>The cornerstone that here we lay,</i></p> -</div> -<p>The next year, for the final service in the old edifice -which the congregation was leaving, he wrote one beginning,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>O Thou to whom in prayer and praise</i></p> -<p class="t0"><i>We here have turned with constant heart.</i></p> -</div> -<p>Both hymns were included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, -and the first is also in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Clapp_ET" title="Clapp, Eliza Thayer"> -<p><b>Clapp, Eliza Thayer</b>, 1811-1888. She was a resident of -Dorchester, Massachusetts. She was author of <i>Words in a -Sunday School</i>, of <i>Studies in Religion</i>, New York, 1845, and -of later essays on religion and of poems posthumously collected -in a volume entitled <i>Essays, Letters and Poems</i>, -privately printed in Boston, 1888. At the request of her -friend R. W. Emerson she contributed three hymns and two poems -to The <i>Dial</i>, 1841. From one of the hymns in 9 stanzas of 4 -lines, published in The <i>Dial</i>, July, 1841, and entitled “The -future is better than the past,” is taken the hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>All before us is the way</i>, <span class="hst">(Onward with confidence)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>included in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of -Christ</i>, 1853, where it was erroneously attributed to Emerson, -an error which was repeated in several other collections -which included it.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 234</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_83">83</div> -<div class="biography" id="Clarke_JF" title="Clarke, Rev. James Freeman, D.D."> -<p><b>Clarke, Rev. James Freeman, D.D.</b>, Hanover, New Hampshire, -April 4, 1810—June 8, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts. He was -named for his step-grandfather, <a href="#Freeman_J">Rev. James Freeman</a>, <i>q.v.</i> He -graduated from Harvard College in 1829 and from the Harvard -Divinity School in 1833. He served as minister of the Unitarian -Church in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1833 to 1840. In 1841 he -returned to Boston where he gathered a group of persons interested -in the more radical social and religious reforms of the day into -a church which he named the Church of the Disciples (Unitarian) of -which he remained minister until his death. He became one of the -most distinguished ministers of his period in Boston, greatly -beloved and admired for his courage as well as his piety, his -wisdom as well as his wit. He was the author of several books -(and many short printed articles) the best known of which were -his <i>Orthodoxy: its Truths and Errors</i>, and <i>Ten Great Religions</i>. -The latter is an amplification of lectures on Comparative Religion -which he gave at the Harvard Divinity School as early as 1854, and -again for several years in the eighteen-seventies, the earliest course -in this field of study to be given in any American theological school. -In 1844 he published a <i>Service Book</i> for use by his congregation, -which included a small selection of hymns, among them Sarah Flower -Adams’ <i>Nearer my, God, to Thee</i>, which had appeared in England only -three years earlier and was now introduced for the first time to -an American congregation, whence it quickly passed into numerous -other collections. In 1852 a revised and enlarged edition of the -<i>Service Book</i> was published entitled the <i>Disciples Hymn Book</i>, which -included five hymns by the compiler. A few of his poems are included -in Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith</i>, and the -following hymns by him have come into some use.</p> -<blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_84">84</div> -<p>1. <i>Brother, hast thou wandered far?</i> <span class="hst">(The Prodigal)</span></p> -<p>First printed in the <i>Service Book</i>, 1844. It -appeared in abbreviated form as</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Hast thou wasted all the powers?</i></p> -</div> -<p>(beginning with the second stanza) in <i>Hymns for the -Church of Christ</i>, 1853; in Beecher’s <i>Plymouth Collection</i>, -1855, and in other American and British -books.</p> -<p>2. <i>Dear Friend, whose presence in the house</i>, <span class="hst">(Jesus at Cana)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1855. A tender poem rather than a hymn, -included in the British <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>.</p> -<p>3. <i>Father, to us Thy children humbly kneeling</i> <span class="hst">(Aspiration)</span></p> -<p>About 1833, after arrival in Louisville, Clarke wrote -a poem entitled “Hymn and Prayer” beginning <i>Infinite -Spirit, who art round us ever</i>, which was published in -<i>The Dial</i> for January, 1841. Five stanzas beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Unseen, yet not unfelt!—if any thought</i></p> -</div> -<p>were taken from this form of the poem for inclusion -in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of -Christ</i>, 1853, but already Clarke had taken from his -poem, and largely rewritten, three stanzas to make -the hymn beginning as above. In this later form it -was included in his <i>Service Book</i>, 1844, in Longfellow -and Johnson’s <i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846, in the <i>Disciples -Hymn Book</i>, 1852, and in many later collections down -to the present day.</p> -<p>4. <i>For all thy gifts we bless Thee, Lord</i></p> -<p>Written for a Unitarian Convention in New York City, -<span class="pb" id="Page_85">85</span> -held on October 22, 1845, and included in <i>Hymns for -the Church of Christ</i>, 1853.</p> -<p>5. <i>Hast thou wasted all the powers</i>,</p> -<p>Included in <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853.</p> -<p>6. <i>To him who children blessed</i> <span class="hst">(Christening)</span></p> -<p>7. <i>To Thee, O God in heaven</i> <span class="hst">(Christening)</span></p> -<p>Both of these tender and beautiful hymns for a christening -appeared in the <i>Service Book</i>, 1844, and have passed -into a good many other collections, although hymns are -now seldom sung at such a service.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of the above no. 3 was included in Longfellow and Johnson’s -<i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846, attributed to Clarke, and nos. 1, 5 and 6 -were included as Anonymous. In their <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, -these hymns were correctly attributed to Clarke. He was the author -of a limited quantity of pleasing religious verse acceptable to his -many friends rather than a hymn writer of distinction, his best ones -being nos. 3, 5 and 6. <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, includes -nos. 3 and 6; <i>The Pilgrim Hymnal</i>, 1935, includes nos. 3 and 5; -<i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, has only no. 3.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 235, 1556</span> -<span class="lr">Re-written, H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_86">86</div> -<div class="biography" id="Collyer_R" title="Collyer, Rev. Robert, D.D."> -<p><b>Collyer, Rev. Robert, D.D.</b>, Keighly, Yorkshire, England, -December 8, 1823—November 30, 1912, New York, New York. -His education in childhood was very limited, and in early -manhood he became a blacksmith, which had been his father’s -trade. He joined the Methodist Church in 1847 and three -years later sailed for America, settling at Shoemakertown, -Pennsylvania, where he was both a blacksmith and a preacher. -Having become acquainted with <a href="#Furness_WH">Dr. W. H. Furness</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, of -Philadelphia, he accepted Unitarian beliefs and left the -Methodist Church. His great intellectual abilities and -natural gifts as a preacher brought him an invitation in -1859 to go to Chicago to take charge of the newly organized -Unity Church in that city, which he served until 1879, when -he accepted a call to the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian), -New York. He was a widely popular lecturer and author of -many published sermons, other articles, and a few occasional -verses. The church of which he was minister was destroyed by -the great Chicago fire of 1870 but was soon rebuilt. For the -dedication of the new building in December 3, 1873, he wrote -his one fine hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>With thankful hearts, O God, we come</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>which altered to</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Unto thy temple, Lord, we come</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>has had wide use in Unitarian hymn books and is included in -the <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1623</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_87">87</div> -<div class="biography" id="Clute_O" title="Clute, Rev. Oscar"> -<p><b>Clute, Rev. Oscar</b>, Bethlehem, New York, March 11, 1837—January -27, 1902, Sawtelle, California. He took the degree -of M.S. at Michigan State College, and then studied at -Meadville Theological School, 1867-1868. In the latter year -he was ordained as minister of the Unitarian Church at -Vineland, New Jersey, where he remained for five years. He -served churches in Keokuk, Iowa, 1875-1878; Iowa City, 1878-1888; -and Pomona, California, 1888-1889. From 1889 to 1893 -he was president of Michigan State Agricultural College, and -president of Florida Agricultural College from 1893 to 1897, when -he moved to California.</p> -<p>He wrote a hymn beginning,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>O Love of God most full,</i></p> -<p class="t0"><i>O Love of God most free,</i></p> -</div> -<p>which is included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, in <i>Hymns -of the Spirit</i>, 1937, and in <i>The Hymnal</i> (Presbyterian), 1935, the -Handbook to which describes it as “a rhapsody of gratitude for -the love of God.”</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1682</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_88">88</div> -<div class="biography" id="Dana_CA" title="Dana, Charles Anderson"> -<p><b>Dana, Charles Anderson</b>, Hinsdale, New Hampshire, August 8, 1819—October -17, 1897, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. He was -one of the leaders in the Brook Farm Association, 1842; then -became a journalist and man of letters; on the staff of the New -York <i>Tribune</i>, 1847-1862; Assistant Secretary of War, 1863-1864; -editor of the New York <i>Sun</i>, 1868.</p> -<p>The hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Work, and thou shalt bless the day</i> <span class="hst">(Joy in Labor)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>which Hedge and Huntington included in their <i>Hymns for the -Church of Christ</i>, 1853, and attributed to “C. A. Dana” was -probably written while he was engaged in the Brook Farm experiment.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Dwight_JS" title="Dwight, Rev. John Sullivan"> -<p><b>Dwight, Rev. John Sullivan</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, May 13, 1812—September -5, 1893. He graduated from Harvard College and -from the Harvard Divinity School, and entered the Unitarian -ministry, but after six years turned to literary pursuits, and -was for nearly 50 years editor of the Journal of Music. A meditative -poem by him in seven stanzas, entitled “True Rest,” -beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Sweet is the pleasure</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>is included in the Supplement in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns -for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853, but it is not a hymn and his -only connection with hymnody was his part in re-writing the hymn -beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>God bless our native land!</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>by his friend, <a href="#Brooks_CT">C. T. Brooks</a>, <i>q.v.</i> In most versions of this much -altered hymn the second stanza is in the form given it by Dwight.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1560, 1631</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_89">89</div> -<div class="biography" id="Emerson_RW" title="Emerson, Ralph Waldo, LL.D."> -<p><b>Emerson, Ralph Waldo, LL.D.</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, May 25, 1803—April -27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts. He was the son of -<a href="#hbk5">Rev. William Emerson</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, minister of the First Church of Boston -(Unitarian) who, though not himself a hymn writer, published -in 1808 the excellent small collection entitled <i>A Collection of -Psalms and Hymns</i> <a href="#hbk5">(5)</a>.</p> -<p>R. W. Emerson graduated from Harvard College in 1821 and after -further study in the Harvard Divinity School took his A.M. in 1827. -He was ordained in 1829 as minister of the Second Church of Boston -(Unitarian). He served the church for three years but resigned -in 1832, feeling that his pastoral work was inadequate and that -he was not in accord with his parishioners’ views about the Communion -Service. A volume of his sermons, selected and edited by A. C. -McGiffert, Jr., was published in 1938 under the title <i>The Young Emerson -Speaks</i>. Although he preached occasionally for several years thereafter -he never held another pastorate, but retired to Concord and -devoted himself to lecturing and authorship. As an essayist and -poet he rose to great and lasting distinction. He published <i>Orations, -Lectures, and Addresses</i>, 1844; <i>Poems</i>, 1846; <i>Representative Men</i>, 1850; -<i>English Traits</i>, 1856; and a succession of later volumes. His <i>Collected -Works</i> were published after his death, in 12 volumes. Perhaps his most -famous essay was his epoch-making <i>Divinity School Address</i>, delivered -in 1838. In 1833 he wrote his hymn</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>We love the venerable house</i> <span class="hst">(The house of God)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>for the ordination of his successor, <a href="#Robbins_C">Rev. Chandler Robbins</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, -in the Second Church, though it is more a commemorative poem than an -ordination hymn. It was included in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns -of the Spirit</i>, 1864; in Martineau’s <i>Hymns of Praise and Prayer</i>, -printed in England in 1873; and in later Unitarian and other hymn -<span class="pb" id="Page_90">90</span> -books down to the present day. Four stanzas selected from this -poem, beginning with the second,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Here holy thoughts a light have shed</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>were included in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of -Christ</i>, 1853, though without the author’s name, and the same collection -erroneously attributed to Emerson a hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>All before us is the way</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>the author of which was <a href="#Clapp_ET">Eliza T. Clapp</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, an error which was -repeated in various other collections.</p> -<p>Part of Emerson’s poem entitled <i>The Problem</i>, beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Out of the heart of nature rolled</i> <span class="hst">(The Everlasting Word)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>originally printed in the <i>Dial</i>, July, 1840, and then in his <i>Poems</i>, -1846, was also included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, and in -Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, but has since dropped out of use.</p> -<p>Another poem of two stanzas beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Not gold, but only men can make</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>was attributed to Emerson in the later book called <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1937, probably mistakenly. These verses are listed as -Emerson’s in Granger’s <i>Index to Poetry and Recitations</i>, under <i>A -Nation’s Strength</i>, and Granger states that they are to be found -in a publication of The Penn Publishing Company of Philadelphia. -They are not to be found, however, in the <i>Centenary Edition of -Emerson’s Poems</i> nor in Hubbell’s <i>Concordance to the poems of -Emerson</i> (N. Y., Wilson, 1932). -It is therefore doubtful whether the attribution to Emerson is well-founded.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 329</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_91">91</div> -<div class="biography" id="Everett_W" title="Everett, William"> -<p><b>Everett, William</b>, Watertown, Massachusetts, October 10, 1839—February 16, -1910, Quincy, Massachusetts. Son of Hon. -Edward Everett. He graduated from Harvard College in 1859; -took the B.A. degree at Cambridge University, England, in 1863; -and the degrees of A.M. and LL. B. at Harvard in 1865. He -received the honorary degree of Litt.D. from Williams College -in 1889 and the degree of LL.D. from the same college in 1893 -and from Dartmouth in 1901. After graduation from the Harvard -Law School he did not enter the legal profession but served -the College as tutor and then Assistant Professor of Latin for -several years. In 1872 the Boston Association of Ministers -licensed him as a lay preacher and thereafter he spoke frequently -in Unitarian pulpits in New England, but he was never ordained -as a settled minister. He served Adams Academy in Quincy, -Massachusetts as headmaster from 1877 to 1907, with an interruption -of two years when in 1893 he was elected a member of the -House of Representatives in Washington. In 1866 <i>The Christian -Register</i> printed his hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Deal gently with us, Lord</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>and three years later he wrote “for the Unitarian Festival at -the Music Hall [Boston], May 27, 1869” a hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Almighty Father, Thou didst frame</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>These hymns, and four others by him, are included in Putnam’s -<i>Singers and Songs, Etc.</i></p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1634</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_92">92</div> -<div class="biography" id="Fernald_WM" title="Fernald, Woodbury Melcher"> -<p><b>Fernald, Woodbury Melcher</b>, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, -March 21, 1813—December 10, 1873, Boston, Massachusetts. -He entered the Universalist ministry in 1835 and served -churches of that denomination in Newburyport and Chicopee, -Massachusetts, and elsewhere, for a few years. He then -became a Unitarian, without entering the ministry of that -denomination, and eventually joined the Swedenborgian Church -of the New Jerusalem in Boston. He did some travelling on -behalf of this body, as far west as Wisconsin, in intervals -of employment at the Custom House and, later, at the Post Office -in Boston. He was author of books and essays, most of them expositions -of Swedenborgian doctrine, and of a small amount of occasional -verse, published in the periodicals of the day but never -collected in a printed volume. In his private collection of his -poems are a few hymns, only two of which appear to have had any -public use. One beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Great Source of being, truth and love</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>was written for the ordination of Rev. Thomas C. Adam as pastor -of the West Universalist Society in Boston, March 12, 1845. The -other,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>When Israel, humbled of the Lord</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>a protest against slavery published in the <i>Boston Journal</i>, in -July, 1861, was included, in part and considerably re-written, -in <i>The Soldier’s Companion: Dedicated to the Defenders of their -Country in the Field, by their Friends at Home</i>. This was published -as the Army Number of the <i>Monthly Journal</i>, Boston, October, -1861, vol. II, no. 10, a small Unitarian collection of hymns and -devotional readings. In this collection the hymn begins,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>When Israel’s foes, a numerous host</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_93">93</div> -<p>and is attributed to “Rev. W. M. Fernald,” though it is not -included in this form in the author’s private collection of -his verse. None of his hymns appear to have had any further -use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_94">94</div> -<div class="biography" id="Flint_J" title="Flint, Rev. James"> -<p><b>Flint, Rev. James</b>, D.D. Reading, Massachusetts, December 10, -1779—March 4, 1855. He graduated from Harvard College in -1802, and was ordained an orthodox Congregational minister -at East Bridgewater in 1806, where he soon adopted more liberal -beliefs, and carried most of his congregation with him. In 1821 -he accepted a call to the East Church (Unitarian) Salem, Massachusetts, -where he served until his death. In 1843 he published -<i>A Collection of Hymns for the Christian Church and Home</i>, to -replace the <a href="#hbk2">earlier collection (1788) by Rev. William Bentley</a>, -<i>q.v.</i>, for use in the East Church. Flint’s <i>Collection</i> included -several hymns by himself. One of them, “On leaving an old house -of worship,” beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Here to the high and holy One</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>was included in Lunt’s <i>Christian Psalter</i>, 1841, as was a second, -written in 1840 for the 200<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the incorporation -of the town of Quincy, Massachusetts, beginning,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>In pleasant lands have fallen the lines</i></p> -<p class="t0"><i>That bound our goodly heritage.</i></p> -</div> -<p>This second hymn has been included in a number of later hymnbooks, -among them <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 379</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_95">95</div> -<div class="biography" id="Follen_EL" title="Follen, Mrs. Eliza Lee"> -<p><b>Follen, Mrs. Eliza Lee</b> (<b>Cabot</b>), Boston, Massachusetts, August 15, -1787—January 26, 1860, Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1828 she -married Dr. Charles Follen, a German scholar who had sought -freedom in this country and who was then teaching German Literature -and Ecclesiastical History at Harvard. Later he was -minister of the Unitarian Church (now called the Follen Church -Society) at East Lexington, Massachusetts. Mrs. Follen both -before and after her marriage contributed verse and prose articles -to various periodicals and published a number of small books, -including <i>Hymns for Children</i>, Boston, 1825; <i>Poems</i>, 1839, and, -while she was in England in 1854, another small volume for -children, entitled <i>The Lark and the Linnet</i>. These books contain -some translations from the German and the versions of a few -Psalms.</p> -<p>Her best known hymns are</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>How sweet to be allowed to pray</i>, <span class="hst">(Resignation)</span></p> -<p>This first appeared in <i>The Christian Disciple</i>, -September 1818, then in her <i>Poems</i>, 1839, entitled -“Thy will be done.”</p> -<p>2. <i>How sweet upon this sacred day</i> <span class="hst">(Sunday)</span></p> -<p>In <i>The Christian Disciple</i>, September, 1828, and in -<i>Poems</i>, entitled “Sabbath Day.”</p> -<p>3. <i>Lord deliver, thou canst save</i>, <span class="hst">(Prayer for the Slave)</span></p> -<p>In <i>Songs of the Free</i>, 1836; in Adams and Chapin’s (Universalist) -<i>Hymns for Christian Devotion</i>, Boston, 1845; in Hedge -and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853; -and in other collections, but not included in her -<i>Poems</i>.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_96">96</div> -<p>4. <i>God, thou art good, each perfumed flower</i>, <span class="hst">(God In Nature)</span></p> -<p>This first appeared in <i>Hymns for Children</i>, Boston, -1825, beginning with a defective line (7s instead of 8s)</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">(a) <i>God is good! each perfumed flower</i></p> -</div> -<p>and altered as above in her <i>Poems</i> and in <i>The -Lark and the Linnet</i>.</p> -<p>This hymn underwent further transformations in -England. In Emily Taylor’s <i>Sabbath Recreations</i>, -1826, it was included as an original piece never -before printed, and signed “E.L.C.”, the initials -of Mrs. Follen’s maiden name. Possibly she sent -a ms. copy to Miss Taylor before it appeared in -Boston. In J. R. Beard’s British Unitarian <i>Collection -of Hymns</i>, 1837, it appears as</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">(b) <i>Yes, God is good! each perfumed flower</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>J. H. Gurney, the Anglican hymn writer and editor, -included it in his Lutterworth <i>Collection of Hymns -for Public Worship</i>, 1838, but, while retaining Mrs. -Follen’s opening stanza, rewrote about half of the -remaining four stanzas, and in his later <i>Marylebone -Collection</i>, 1851, rewrote it further, beginning it</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">(c) <i>Yes, God is Good.—in earth and sky,</i></p> -</div> -<p>and in a note appended to the Index of first lines -he wrote that he had found the hymn “in a small -American volume —— well conceived, but very imperfectly -executed,” and that because of “successive -<span class="pb" id="Page_97">97</span> -alterations—the writer has not scrupled to put -his name to it, J.H.G.” In these altered forms -the hymn had considerable use in England (For further -details see Julian, <i>Dictionary</i>, 1298).</p> -<p>5. <i>Will God, who made the earth and sea</i>, <span class="hst">(Child’s Prayer)</span></p> -<p>In <i>Poems</i>, 1839. In Dr. Allan’s (English) <i>Children’s -Worship</i> it is erroneously attributed to “H. Bateman.”</p> -</blockquote> -<p>The only one of Mrs. Follen’s hymns in present use is 4<i>c</i>, in <i>The -Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908, but several of her poems are included -in Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith</i>.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 380, 1298</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_98">98</div> -<div class="biography" title=""> -<p><b id="Foote_HWI">Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder</b> (<b>I</b>), Salem, Massachusetts, June 2, 1838—May -29, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts. Educated at Harvard, A.B. -1858; A.M. 1861; graduated at the Harvard Divinity School, 1861. -He was minister of King’s Chapel (Unitarian), Boston, from 1861 -until his death, and his book, <i>The Annals of King’s Chapel</i> -(vol. I, 1882, vol. II, 1896, completed by others) gives an -authoritative account of the religious controversies in Colonial -Boston. At the time of his death he had in preparation a hymnbook -to replace the <a href="#hbk13"><i>Collection of Psalms and Hymns</i></a> which his -predecessor, Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood, <i>q.v.</i>, had published in -1830. His hymnbook was completed by his widow, his sister -<a href="#hbk41">Mrs. Mary W. Tileston</a>, (<i>q.v.</i>) and his brother Arthur Foote, and -was published in 1891 as <i>Hymns of the Church Universal</i>. It was -notable for its scholarly catholicity and helped to introduce -to American congregations the then popular English hymn tunes -of the “cathedral school” by Barnby, Dykes, Stainer, Sullivan -and others. The book included the hymn which Mr. Foote had -written for the Visitation Day (graduation exercises) at the -Divinity School in 1861,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>O Thou with whom in sweet content</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>This hymn has also been included in <i>Hymns for Church and Home</i>, -1896, in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and in <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1604</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_99">99</div> -<div class="biography" title=""> -<p><b id="Foote_HWII">Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder</b> (<b>II</b>), D.D., Litt.D., Boston, Massachusetts, -February 2, 1875—still living. Son of the above; -educated at Harvard, A.B. 1897; A.M. 1900; S.T.B. 1902. He -entered the Unitarian ministry and has served churches in New -Orleans, Louisiana; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Belmont, Massachusetts -and Charlottesville, Virginia. From 1914-1924 he was an assistant -professor at the Harvard Divinity School where he gave a -course on the history of Christian hymnody. He was secretary -of the committee which edited <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, published -in 1914 by the American Unitarian Association, and was -chairman of the committee which edited <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -published in 1937 by the Beacon Press (to be distinguished -from the earlier <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i> by S. Johnson and S. Longfellow, -1864). This later book includes one hymn by Dr. Foote -beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Thou whose love brought us to birth</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Dr. Foote also edited the words in <i>The Concord Anthem Book</i>, -1924, and in <i>The Second Concord Anthem Book</i>, 1936, for which -Professor Archibald T. Davison selected and edited the music. -He is the author of several books and articles on the cultural -or religious aspects of American colonial history, one of which, -<i>Three Centuries of American Hymnody</i>, 1940, covers the period -from the publication of the <i>Bay Psalm Book</i> in 1640 to the late -nineteen-thirties.</p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_100">100</div> -<div class="biography" id="Freeman_J" title="Freeman, James"> -<p><b>Freeman, James</b>, D.D., Charlestown, Massachusetts, April 22, 1759—November -14, 1835, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Harvard College in 1777. In March, 1776, Rev. Henry Caner, rector -of King’s Chapel, Boston, left with the British troops when they -evacuated the town, accompanied by many of his leading parishioners. -The remaining members of the church in September, 1782, -engaged James Freeman as a lay “Reader” to conduct worship. The -prayers for the King and royal family of England had been dropped -and Freemen soon began to omit references to the Trinity, expecting -soon to be dismissed as Reader. Instead the congregation -voted to revise the liturgy in accordance with his beliefs and -in 1785 published the first edition of the “Book of Common Prayer -according to the Use of King’s Chapel.” This action led Bishop -Seabury, after his arrival in America, to refuse ordination to -Freeman, whereupon the congregation ordained him according to -Congregational usage. Freeman thus became “the first avowed -preacher of Unitarianism in the United States.” He remained -active pastor of the Chapel until 1826. He edited a <i>Collection -of Psalms and Hymns for public worship</i>, published in 1799. It -included 155 psalms “selected chiefly from Tate and Brady,” -followed by 90 hymns, and remained in use in the Chapel until -the publication in 1830 of the much better -<a href="#hbk13"><i>Collection</i> edited by his successor, Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood</a>, <i>q.v.</i> -Freeman wrote one hymn</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Lord of the worlds below</i> <span class="hst">(The Seasons)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>which first appeared in his <i>Collection</i>, from which it passed to -a number of later ones. It is an adaptation for congregational -use of Thomson’s “Hymn on the Seasons.” See Putnam, <i>Singers -and Songs of the Liberal Faith</i>.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 389</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_101">101</div> -<div class="biography" id="Frothingham_NL" title="Frothingham, Rev. Nathaniel Langdon"> -<p><b>Frothingham, Rev. Nathaniel Langdon</b>, D.D., Boston, -July 23, 1793—April 4, 1870, Boston. He graduated -from Harvard in 1811, and after a brief period of -further study and as tutor in the College, he entered -the Unitarian ministry and in 1815 was settled as minister -of the First Church in Boston, where he served until 1850, -when ill-health and approaching blindness caused his -resignation. He was one of the most distinguished Boston -ministers of his period, and the author of a good deal of -verse, published in his <i>Metrical Pieces, Translated and -Original</i>, 1855, and in a second volume with the same title -in 1870. In 1828 he wrote his finest hymn,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>O God, whose presence glows in all</i></p> -<p>for the ordination of his friend, <a href="#Lunt_WP">W. P. Lunt</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, -as minister of the Second Unitarian Congregational -Church, New York, on June 19, of that year.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>In 1835 he wrote</p> -<blockquote> -<p>2. <i>We meditate the day</i></p> -<p>for the installation of Mr. Lunt as Co-pastor -with Rev. Peter Whitney of the First Church at -Quincy, Massachusetts, and in 1839 he wrote</p> -<p>3. <i>O Lord of life and truth and grace</i>,</p> -<p>for the ordination of Henry Whitney Bellows -in New York.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>His later hymns were</p> -<blockquote> -<p>4. <i>O Saviour, whose immortal word</i>,</p> -<p>“Written for the Dedication of the Church -of the Saviour, Boston, November 16, 1847.”;</p> -<p>5. <i>Remember me, the Saviour said</i>, <span class="hst">(Communion Service)</span></p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_102">102</div> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">6. <i>The Lord gave the word,</i></p> -<p class="t"><i>’Twas the word of his truth.</i></p> -</div> -<p>7. <i>The patriarch’s dove, on weary wing</i>,</p> -<p>8. <i>They passed away from sight</i>, <span class="hst">(Death and Burial)</span></p> -<p>9. <i>When I am weak, I’m strong</i> <span class="hst">(Spiritual Strength)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of these hymns the first two were included in Lunt’s <i>Christian -Psalter</i>, 1841; nos. 1, 2, 6 and 7 were included in Hedge and -Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i> (1853); and all -but no. 8 are included in the author’s <i>Metrical Pieces</i>, 1855. -No. 5 had considerable use in the 19<sup>th</sup> century, but no. 1 -alone survives in 20<sup>th</sup> century Unitarian collections.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 400, 1564</span> -<span class="lr">Revised H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Frothingham_OB" title="Frothingham, Rev. Octavius Brooks"> -<p><b>Frothingham, Rev. Octavius Brooks</b>, son of -<a href="#Frothingham_NL">Rev. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, D.D.</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, Boston, November 26, 1822—November -27, 1895, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College -in 1843, and in 1846 from the Harvard Divinity School, where, -for the graduating exercises of his class, he wrote his fine, -and only, hymn,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Thou Lord of Hosts, whose guiding hand</i>, <span class="hst">(Soldiers of the Cross)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>which was included in the <i>Book of Hymns</i> prepared by his classmates, -Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson, published later -in the same year. He served as minister of the (Unitarian) -North Church, Salem, Massachusetts from 1847 to 1855, and -became minister of the Third Congregational Church in New York -City, resigning in 1879. He was a bold, outspoken, eloquent -speaker, and the author of many printed discourses and of -several important biographies.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 400, 1638</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_103">103</div> -<div class="biography" id="Furness_WH" title="Furness, Rev. William Henry"> -<p><b>Furness, Rev. William Henry</b>, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, -April 20, 1802—January 30, 1896, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -He graduated from Harvard College in 1820 and from the Harvard -Divinity School in 1823, and was given the degree of Doctor of -Divinity by Harvard in 1847. In 1825 he was ordained minister -of the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia where he served -for 50 years before becoming pastor emeritus, his connection -with the church covering a period of 71 years. He was an accomplished -scholar, and attained distinction as a preacher, an author -and a worker in social reforms. His publications include <i>Notes -on the Gospels</i>, 1836; <i>Jesus and his Biographers</i>, 1838; <i>The History -of Jesus</i>, 1850; <i>a Manual of Domestic Worship</i>, 1840, in which his -earlier hymns were printed; a translation of Schiller’s <i>Song of -the Bell</i>; and other translations from the German. His collected -<i>Verses, Translations and Hymns</i> appeared in 1886. The following -hymns by him have had considerable use.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Father in heaven, to Thee my heart</i>,</p> -<p>Appeared in The <i>Christian Disciple</i>, 1822. It was -printed in this form in several collections, including -the Unitarian <i>Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1868. In -Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846, it reads</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Father in heaven, to whom our hearts</i></p> -</div> -<p>and was reprinted in this form in their <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1864, and in Martineau’s <i>Hymns of Praise and -Prayer</i>, 1873.</p> -<p>This hymn has sometimes been attributed to “H. Ware,” -in error.</p> -<p>2. <i>Feeble, helpless, how shall I</i>,</p> -<p>Included on the Cheshire <i>Christian Hymns</i>, 1844, and in -later 19<sup>th</sup> century Unitarian publications; also in the -<span class="pb" id="Page_104">104</span> -British <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>, 1868, and Thring’s -<i>Collection</i>, 1882.</p> -<p>3. <i>Have mercy, O Father</i>,</p> -<p>Contributed to Martineau’s <i>Hymns of Praise and -Prayer</i>, 1873.</p> -<p>4. <i>Here in a world of doubt</i>, <span class="hst">(Psalm XLII)</span></p> -<p>Contributed to the New York Lutheran Coll., 1834, -and included in the author’s <i>Manual of Domestic -Worship</i>, 1840 and in Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873.</p> -<p>5. <i>Here in the broken bread</i>,</p> -<p>Included in the <i>Appendix</i> to the Philadelphia Unitarian -<i>Collection</i>, 1828; in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for -the Church of Christ</i>, 1853; and in a few later collections, -among them <i>The Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1868.</p> -<p>6. <i>Holy Father, Gracious art Thou</i>,</p> -<p>Contributed to Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873.</p> -<p>7. <i>I feel within a want</i>,</p> -<p>Included in the Cheshire <i>Christian Hymns</i>, 1844; in -Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, -1853; and in a few other collections.</p> -<p>8. <i>In the morning I will praise</i> <span class="hst">(pray)</span></p> -<p>In the author’s <i>Manual of Domestic Worship</i>, 1840, -this hymn began</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>In the morning I will raise</i></p> -</div> -<p>and was thus included in Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873, but -in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846, and -later American collections the first stanza is dropped -and the hymn begins</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>In the morning I will pray</i></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_105">105</div> -<p>9. <i>O for a prophet’s fire,</i></p> -<p>Included in the <i>Appendix</i> to the Philadelphia -Unitarian <i>Collection</i>, 1828, and in the Cheshire -<i>Christian Hymns</i>, 1844.</p> -<p>10. <i>Richly, O richly have I been</i>,</p> -<p>Written in 1823 and included in the author’s <i>Manual -of Domestic Worship</i>, 1840. In Longfellow and Johnson’s -<i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846, and in their <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1864, it is altered to begin</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>O richly, Father, have I been</i></p> -</div> -<p>In Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of -Christ</i>, 1853, and most later Unitarian and other -collections, the opening stanza is dropped and it -begins with the second stanza,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Unworthy to be called Thy son</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>11. <i>She is not dead, but sleepeth</i></p> -<p>Included in the author’s <i>Verses, Translations and -Hymns</i>, 1886.</p> -<p>12. <i>Slowly by Thy [God’s] hand unfurled</i></p> -<p>Written in 1825 and included in the author’s <i>Manual -of Domestic Worship</i>, 1840. In Hedge and Huntington’s -<i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853, the first line -was changed to read,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Slowly by God’s hand unfurled</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>and was thus printed in the Unitarian <i>Hymn and Tune -Book</i>, 1868. In Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873, and in most -later American Unitarian collections, the original -reading has been retained.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_106">106</div> -<p>13. <i>That God is Love, unchanging Love</i>,</p> -<p>Written in 1892 and included in <i>Hymns for Church -and Home</i>, 1896, and in <i>The Isles of Shoals Hymn -Book</i>, 1908.</p> -<p>14. <i>Thou only Living, only True</i>,</p> -<p>An ordination hymn, dated 1868, included in -Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873.</p> -<p>15. <i>Thou who dost all things give</i></p> -<p>Written in 1869. Included in the author’s <i>Verses, -Translations and Hymns</i>, 1886; in <i>The Pilgrim Hymnal</i>, -1904; and in Horder’s <i>Treasury of American Sacred -Song</i>, 1896.</p> -<p>16. <i>To the High and Holy One</i>,</p> -<p>This is printed in full in <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>, 1868. -In Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, -the first stanza is dropped and it begins with the -2<sup>nd</sup> stanza,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>To the truth that makes us free</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>17. <i>What is the world that it should share</i>,</p> -<p>Printed in the <i>Christian Disciple</i>, 1822, and in -Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873. It begins with the second -stanza of a hymn of which the opening line reads,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Here in Thy temple, Lord, we bow</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>In <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i> it is altered to read</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Oh, is there aught on earth to share</i></p> -</div> -<p>18. <i>What is this that stirs within</i>?</p> -<p>Printed in the author’s <i>Manual of Domestic Worship</i>, -1840; in the Cheshire <i>Christian Hymns</i>, 1844, in Hedge -and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, and -in a good many other American collections.</p> -</blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_107">107</div> -<p>Dr. Furness’s hymns, though creditable religious verse of -the period and widely esteemed because of the author’s distinction, -nowhere attain a very high level of poetic beauty, and -almost all of them have passed out of use. Only nos. 8, 10, -and 12 were included in the Unitarian <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, -1914, and only no. 12 survives in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 402, 1638</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Fuller_SM" title="Fuller, Sarah Margaret"> -<p><b>Fuller, Sarah Margaret</b>, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 23, 1810—July -16, 1850, in a shipwreck south of New York. In 1847 -she married the Marchese Ossoli in Rome. She did educational -work in Boston and in Providence, Rhode Island, edited <i>The -Dial</i> in 1840, and was noted locally for her intellectual -brilliance. Memorials of her by R. W. Emerson, W. H. Channing and -J. F. Clarke appeared in 1851, her <i>Works</i> in 1874.</p> -<p>Her hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Jesus, a child his course began</i>, <span class="hst">(Christ the Pattern of Childhood)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>from <i>Life Without and Life -Within</i>, 1859, p. 404, had some use in Great Britain as well -as in America.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1585</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_108">108</div> -<div class="biography" id="Gannett_WC" title="Gannett, Rev. William Channing"> -<p><b>Gannett, Rev. William Channing</b>, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, -March 13, 1840—December 15, 1923, Rochester, New York. He -graduated from Harvard College in 1860; taught school in -Newport, Rhode Island one year; and spent four years on St. -Helena Island, South Carolina, as agent for the New England -Freedmen’s Society doing relief and educational work with the -thousands of Negro refugees gathered there. In 1865 he studied -for a year in Europe, then entered the Harvard Divinity School -from which he graduated in 1868. His first pastorate was in -Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1868-1871. He then spent several years -writing a biography of his father, Ezra Stiles Gannett, who had -been William Ellery Channing’s successor as minister of the -Federal Street Church, Boston. He was minister of Unity Church -in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1877-1883; served the Western Unitarian -Conference for four years; was minister at Hinsdale, Illinois, -1887-1889; and of the Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York, -1889-1908, where he remained as minister-emeritus until his -death. Throughout his professional career he was closely associated -with Frederick Lucian Hosmer, <i>q.v.</i> Together they published -three small collections entitled <i>The Thought of God in -Hymns and Poems</i>, the first in 1885, the second in 1894, the -third in 1918; and together they also edited <i>Unity Hymns and -Chorals</i>, 1880, revised edition in 1911. <a href="#Blake_JV">James Vila Blake</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, -was co-editor of the first edition. This little hymn book is -a markedly individualistic production with many of the older -hymns altered to conform to the beliefs of the editors.</p> -<p>In these publications, in which most of their own hymns were -first published, and in the careful workmanship with which their -thought was brought to a perfection of poetic utterance, Gannett -<span class="pb" id="Page_109">109</span> -and Hosmer may be compared to Samuel Longfellow and -Samuel Johnson whose <i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846, and <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1864, had appeared a generation earlier.</p> -<p>Dr. Gannett’s hymns are listed, with annotations “based -upon ms. notes kindly supplied by the author” in Julian’s -<i>Dictionary of Hymnology</i>, pp. 1638-9, as follows:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Bring, O morn thy music! Night thy starlit silence!</i> <span class="hst">(God Everlasting)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1892, and printed in <i>A Chorus of Faith</i>, -being an account and resumé of the Parliament of -Religions, held in Chicago, 1893. Included in <i>The -Thought of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, 1894, and again in several -hymnals.</p> -<p>2. <i>Clear in memory’s silent reaches</i>, <span class="hst">(Memory)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1877 for a Free Religious Association -Festival, and published in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> -Series, 1885.</p> -<p>3. <i>From heart to heart, from creed to creed</i>, <span class="hst">(Faith)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1875 for 150<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the First -Religious Society of Newburyport, and given in <i>The -Thought of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885.</p> -<p>4. <i>He hides within the lily</i>, <span class="hst">(Divine Providence)</span></p> -<p>“Consider the lilies, how they grow.” Written in 1873, -and printed for use at the Free Religious Association -Festival, May 30, 1873. Published in <i>The Thought of -God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885, in 4 st. of 8 l. The most widely -used of the author’s hymns.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_110">110</div> -<p>5. <i>I hear it often in the dark</i>, <span class="hst">(The Voice of God)</span></p> -<p>Written at Milwaukee in 1870, and published in <i>The -Thought of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885. Sometimes it -begins with St. iii, “O God within, so close to me,” -as in <i>Hys. for Church and Home</i>, Boston, 1895.</p> -<p>6. <i>Praise to God and Thanksgiving</i>, <span class="hst">(Harvest)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1882 for a Harvest Festival at St. Paul, -Minnesota, where he was then a pastor, and included -in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885. In the Boston -<i>Pilgrim Hymnal</i>, 1904, and in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, it -begins</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Praise to God, and thanks we bring</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>7. <i>Sleep, my little Jesus</i>, <span class="hst">(Christmas Carol)</span></p> -<p>Written for the Sunday School, St. Paul, Minnesota, in -1882, and given in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, 1894, -as “Mary’s Manger Song.”</p> -<p>8. <i>The Lord is in His holy place</i> <span class="hst">(Dedication of a Place of Worship)</span></p> -<p>Written for the Dedication of the Rev. C. W. Wendte’s -Church, Chicago, April 24, 1873, and published in <i>The -Thought of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885. It is one of the most -popular and widely used of the author’s hymns.</p> -<p>9. <i>The morning hangs its signal</i>, <span class="hst">(Morning)</span></p> -<p>This is dated by the author “Chicago, July 30, 1886,” -and printed in <i>Love to God and Love to Man</i>, being no. 28 -of the Chicago “Unity Mission” series of hymns, n.d. -It is also included in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, -1894. Although a morning hymn it is -adapted for use in Advent. It is usually known as “The -Crowning Day.”</p> -</blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_111">111</div> -<p>Of the hymns thus listed in Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i> Nos. 1, -3, 4, 6, 8 and 9 have been widely used and are included in -<i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937. No. 1 was written to be set to -J. B. Dykes’ tune <i>Nicaea</i>, to which it is usually sung. No. 4 -is probably the earliest hymn in the English language to give -a religious interpretation of the then novel and controversial -doctrine of evolution. No. 9, as included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1937, is attributed to “William Channing Gannett and others”, -being an arrangement from one of his poems.</p> -<p>Another fine hymn by Dr. Gannett beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>10. <i>God laid his rocks in courses</i>,</p> -<p>is unaccountably missing from the above list in -Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i>. It is dated 1888 and was -written for the dedication of the church in Hinsdale -which was erected shortly before his pastorate there -came to an end.</p> -</blockquote> -<p><i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, also includes as a hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>11. <i>It sounds along the ages</i>,</p> -<p>an arrangement of stanzas from one of Dr. Gannett’s -poems entitled “The Word of God.”</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Finally, mention should be made of his part in giving form -to the great hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p>12. <i>Praise to the living God! All praiséd be his name!</i></p> -<p>This is a metrical version of the Yigdal, a summary of -the Jewish faith attributed to Daniel Ben Judah who -lived about the 14<sup>th</sup> century A.D. About 1760 Thomas -Olivers, a Methodist preacher visiting a Jewish synagogue -in London, heard it chanted in Hebrew by the -<span class="pb" id="Page_112">112</span> -cantor Leoni (Meyer Lyon) to a traditional melody. -Much impressed he secured a prose translation which -he turned into the hymn beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>The God of Abraham praise</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>to be sung to the same tune, to which he gave the name -Leoni. His version, however, did not follow the original -text at all closely, for he gave it a Christian interpretation. -(A detailed account of this episode will be -found in Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i>, pp. 1149-1151.) This hymn -soon became, and has remained, widely popular. In the -1880’s Rabbi Max Landsberg of Temple Berith Kodesh in -Rochester, New York, a friend of <a href="#Mann_N">Rev. Newton Mann</a>, <i>q.v.</i> -then minister of the Unitarian Church in Rochester, asked -Mr. Mann if he could not make a metrical version of the -Yigdal in English which would be a more exact translation. -Mr. Mann did so, but not in the metre of the tune -to which the Hebrew text was sung. After Dr. Gannett had -succeeded Mr. Mann in Rochester, Rabbi Landsberg asked -him to recast Mr. Mann’s version in the same metre as -the tune. Dr. Gannett did so, and his version in 5 stas. -was included in the Jewish <i>Union Hymnal</i>, 1910, from which, -with one stanza omitted and some other alterations which -in most cases are not improvements, it has come into a -number of Christian hymn books. The unchanged version -in 4 stas. will be found in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, -where it is recorded as “Revised version of the Yigdal of -Daniel Ben Judah” and the tune is called “Yigdal (Leoni)” -and is described as “Jewish Melody, arr. by Meyer Lyon.” -Dr. Gannett never claimed this version as his, and it is -<span class="pb" id="Page_113">113</span> -now impossible to discover how much of its wording is -due to Mr. Mann’s earlier verse, but its poetic perfection -is highly suggestive of Dr. Gannett’s craftsmanship, -which assuredly has contributed much to its present form.</p> -</blockquote> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="lr">H.W.F</p> -</div> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_114">114</div> -<div class="biography" id="Gilman_C" title="Gilman, Mrs. Caroline"> -<p><b>Gilman, Mrs. Caroline</b> (<b>Howard</b>), Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, -1794—September 18, 1888, Washington D. C. She married -<a href="#Gilman_S">Rev. Samuel Gilman</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, on October 14, 1819, and after his -death in 1858 lived for a time in Cambridge, Massachusetts, -and later in Tiverton, Long Island, New York.</p> -<p>She began to write stories and poems at an early age, -many of which were published in “The Rosebud,” later called -“The Southern Rose,” a juvenile weekly paper published in Charleston, -South Carolina, which she edited for several years, beginning in -1832. Her book entitled “Verses of a Lifetime” was published in -1854, as were a number of other books which gave her a considerable -reputation as an author. Five of her poems are included in Putnam’s -<i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc. Two of her hymns had considerable use,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Is there a lone and dreary hour</i>, <span class="hst">(Providence)</span></p> -<p>This was contributed to Sewall’s <i>Collection</i>, 1820, -in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, to which in 1867 she added -a fifth stanza for inclusion in the Charleston <i>Services -and Hymns</i>. This hymn had wide use in both British and -American collections in the 19<sup>th</sup> century.</p> -<p>2. <i>We bless Thee for this sacred day</i> <span class="hst">(Sunday)</span></p> -<p>Also contributed to Sewall’s <i>Collection</i>, 1820, in -4 stanzas of 4 lines, to which she added a fifth -stanza, when included in the Charleston <i>Services and -Hymns</i>, 1867.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Neither of these hymns is in current use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 423</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_115">115</div> -<div class="biography" id="Gilman_S" title="Gilman, Rev. Samuel"> -<p><b>Gilman, Rev. Samuel</b>, D.D., Gloucester, Massachusetts, February 16, -1791—February 9, 1858, Kingston, Massachusetts. He graduated -from Harvard College in 1811, served the College as tutor in -mathematics for two years, and studied in the Harvard Divinity School. -On December 1, 1819, he was ordained minister of the Unitarian -Church in Charleston, South Carolina, which he served with great -distinction until his death, which occurred while on a visit to -Massachusetts. His wife, <a href="#Gilman_C">Caroline Howard Gilman</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, was a -writer noted in her day. He wrote a good many poems and essays, -published in magazines; a book, “Memoirs of a New England Village -Choir,” 1829, which ran to three editions; and in 1856 a volume -of his miscellaneous essays, entitled “Contributions to Literature, -Descriptive, Critical, Humorous, Biographical, Philosophical and -Poetical.” His two best known songs were <i>The Union Ode</i>, composed -for the Union party of South Carolina and sung there on July 4, -1831, during the Nullification excitement, and later in the North -during the Civil War; and the college hymn <i>Fair Harvard</i>, which he -wrote in 1836. He had come to Cambridge for the twenty-fifth anniversary -of his graduation and the 200<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the founding -of the College. On the eve of the celebration, having already -an established reputation as a poet, he was asked to write a song -for the occasion and it was sung at the meeting on September 8, -1836, to a tune popular at the time, composed for the song “Believe -me, if all those endearing young charms.” Harvard gave him the -honorary degree of D.D. in 1837.</p> -<p>He wrote a number of hymns of minor importance.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>O God, accept this sacred hour</i> <span class="hst">(Communion)</span></p> -<p>was contributed to Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris’s -<i>Hymns for the Lord’s Supper</i>, 1820, and was republished -in Sewall’s New York Collection of the -<span class="pb" id="Page_116">116</span> -same year, in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for -the Church of Christ</i>, 1853, and other collections.</p> -<p>2. <i>This child we dedicate to Thee</i> <span class="hst">(Christening)</span></p> -<p>In Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of -Christ</i> the author’s name is not given and the piece -is attributed to the <i>West Boston Collection</i>, 1823. -Putnam, in <i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc., p. 73, gives -four of its original stanzas, and says that it is -a translation from the German, but the original has -not been traced.</p> -<p>3. <i>We sing Thy mercy, God of love</i>, <span class="hst">(Communion)</span></p> -<p>Contributed to <i>Hymns of the Lord’s Supper</i> and -included in Sewall’s New York <i>Collection</i>.</p> -<p>4. <i>Who would sever freedom’s shrine?</i></p> -<p>A song supporting the Union cause, of which Gilman -was a strong advocate, written at the time of the -Nullification agitation. Several stanzas from it, -beginning as above, were included in <i>The Soldier’s -Companion</i>, 1861.</p> -<p>5. <i>Yes, to the [that] last command</i> <span class="hst">(Communion)</span></p> -<p>Like no. 1 and 3 included in <i>Hymns for the Lord’s -Supper</i> and in Sewall’s <i>Collection</i>.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>All these hymns have long since passed out of use.</p> -<p>Gilman (with C. M. Taggart) edited the <i>Charleston Collection</i> -in 1854, under the title <i>Services and Hymns for the use of the -Unitarian Church of Charleston, S.C.</i>, a second and enlarged -edition of which appeared in 1867. It included three of his -hymns, nos. 1, 3 and 5, listed above, and the two by his wife, -<a href="#Gilman_C">Caroline Gilman</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, listed under her name.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 423, 1592</span> -<span class="lr">revised—H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_117">117</div> -<div class="biography" id="Goldsmith_PH" title="Goldsmith, Rev. Peter Hair"> -<p><b>Goldsmith, Rev. Peter Hair</b>, D.D. (1865-1926) was born in -Greenville, South Carolina. He was educated at the -Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, -and served several Baptist churches before transferring his -membership to the Unitarian denomination, after which he -served as minister to the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, -1903-1910, and to the church in Yonkers, New York, 1910-1917.</p> -<p>In 1912 he wrote a hymn beginning,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>Holy, holy Lord,</i></p> -<p class="t0"><i>We with one accord,</i></p> -</div> -<p>which was included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, but -has not passed into other collections.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_118">118</div> -<div class="biography" id="Greenough_JB" title="Greenough, James Bradstreet"> -<p><b>Greenough, James Bradstreet</b>, Portland, Maine, 1833-1901, -Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College -in 1856, was appointed tutor in 1865, assistant professor in -1873, and professor of Latin in 1883. In 1884 he wrote the -Latin hymn in four stanzas beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Deus omnium creator</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>for the tune <i>Harvard Hymn</i> which his friend, John Knowles Paine, -professor of music at Harvard, had composed in 1883 for use at -the Harvard Commencement dinner.</p> -<p>It is included in <i>The University Hymn Book</i>, 1896, and in -<i>The Harvard University Hymn Book</i>, 1926.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Greenwood_HW" title="Greenwood, Helen Woodward"> -<p><b>Greenwood, Helen Woodward</b>, Leominster, Massachusetts, April 18, -1880—April 2, 1959, Leominster. She was for many years -engaged in secretarial work for the General Alliance of -Unitarian Women at 25 Beacon Street, Boston. A hymn by her, -beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>As once again we gather here</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>is included in the <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_119">119</div> -<div class="biography" id="Hale_EE" title="Hale, Rev. Edward Everett"> -<p><b>Hale, Rev. Edward Everett</b>, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, April 3, -1822—June 10, 1909, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated -from Harvard College in 1839, the youngest member of his class. -He did not go to the Divinity School, but taught in the Boston -Latin School and studied for the ministry under the direction -of Rev. S. K. Lothrop and Rev. J. G. Palfrey. He was licensed to -preach by the Boston Association and in 1846 was ordained as -minister of the Church of the Unity (now the First Unitarian -Church), Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1856 he moved to Boston, -where he served the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) as -minister and minister emeritus until his death. He was a -voluminous writer. One of his stories entitled “A Man Without -A Country,” and another, “In His Name,” brought him wide reputation. -He was a distinguished preacher and a greatly beloved -pastor, an ardent advocate of peace who as early as 1871 proposed -a “United States of Europe,” and in 1889 outlined a plan for an -“International Tribunal.” In 1858 he wrote a hymn “For the dedication -of a Church” beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>O Father, take this new-built shrine</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>which was included in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1864, from which Martineau took it for his <i>Hymns of -Praise and Prayer</i>, London, 1873.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 481</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_120">120</div> -<div class="biography" id="Hale_MW" title="Hale, Mary Whitwell"> -<p><b>Hale, Mary Whitwell</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, January 29, 1810—November -17, 1862, Keene, New Hampshire. Most of her life she -was a school teacher in Boston, later in Taunton, Massachusetts, and, for -her last 20 years, in Keene. She wrote a good deal of verse. Two -of her poems, one on “Home,” and the second on “Music” were written -for a juvenile concert in the Unitarian Church at Taunton, April, -1834. A number of her later hymns and poems appeared in <i>The -Christian Register</i>, signed by Y.L.E. (the final letters of her -name), and in 1840 a volume entitled <i>Poems</i> was published in Boston. -Several of her poems are included in Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs</i>, -etc.</p> -<p>Four of her hymns were included in the <i>Cheshire Collection</i>, -1844, viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Praise for the glorious light</i>,</p> -<p>Written for a Temperance meeting.</p> -<p>2. <i>This day let grateful praise ascend</i> <span class="hst">(Sunday)</span></p> -<p>3. <i>Whatever dims the sense of truth</i></p> -<p>In Putnam, Singers and Songs, this is entitled -“A Mother’s Counsel,” with a quotation from John -Wesley’s mother.</p> -<p>4. <i>When in silence o’er the deep</i> <span class="hst">(Christmas)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of these nos. 2 and 3 were taken from her <i>Poems</i>, and nos. 1 -and 4 were written for the <i>Cheshire Collection</i>. No. 4 is in -<i>Church Harmonies</i>. 1895, but none of her hymns are in current use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 481</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_121">121</div> -<div class="biography" id="Hall_HW" title="Hall, Harriet Ware"> -<p><b>Hall, Harriet Ware</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1841—March -18, 1889, Boston. She was a lifelong resident of Boston, -a member of King’s Chapel. Two small books by her were privately -printed, one a collection of poems entitled <i>A Book for Friends</i>, -1888, the other entitled <i>Essays</i>, printed posthumously in 1890. -The first book contains a hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Lord, beneath thine equal hand</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>in three stanzas, 7.7.7.7.D., dated February 10, 1869, and written -for the installation of Rev. E. H. Hall at Worcester, Massachusetts, -in 1869. It is included in the <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908, -the first line altered to read,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Lord, beneath whose equal hand.</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_122">122</div> -<div class="biography" id="Ham_MF" title="Ham, Rev. Marion Franklin"> -<p><b>Ham, Rev. Marion Franklin</b>, D.D., Harveysburg, Ohio, February 18, -1867—July 23, 1956, Arlington, Massachusetts. He was educated -in the public schools at Harveysburg, but as a youth moved to -Chattanooga, Tennessee to find employment. There he joined the -Unitarian Church and, after serving it as a lay reader for several -years, was ordained in 1898 as its minister, serving it until 1904. -He later served Unitarian churches in Dallas, Texas, 1904-1909; in -Reading, Massachusetts, 1909-1934; and in Waverley, Massachusetts, -1934-1939. He began to write verse in 1888, and many of his poems -appeared in newspapers and periodicals, some of them being widely reprinted. -His collected poems were published in book form in 1896, -entitled <i>The Golden Shuttle</i>, which reached a fourth edition in 1910. -He then turned to hymn writing, and four of his earliest hymns were -included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, viz:—</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>I hear Thy voice, within the silence speaking</i>, <span class="hst">(1913)</span></p> -<p>2. <i>O Lord of life, Thy kingdom is at hand</i>, <span class="hst">(1912)</span></p> -<p>3. <i>O Thou whose gracious presence shone</i> <span class="hst">(Communion) (1912)</span></p> -<p>4. <i>Touch Thou mine eyes, the sombre shadows falling</i>, <span class="hst">(1911)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>These are also included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, as are five -later hymns by him, viz:—</p> -<blockquote> -<p>5. <i>As tranquil streams that meet and merge</i> <span class="hst">(1933)</span></p> -<p>6. <i>From Bethany the Master</i>, <span class="hst">(Palm Sunday) (1935)</span></p> -<p>7. <i>Heir of all the waiting ages</i>, <span class="hst">(Advent) (1937)</span></p> -<p>8. <i>Ring, O ring, ye Christmas bells</i> <span class="hst">(1932)</span></p> -<p>9. <i>The builders, toiling through the days</i> <span class="hst">(Church dedication) (1925)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>In April, 1936, he wrote an Easter hymn</p> -<blockquote> -<p>10. <i>Oh, who shall roll the stone away?</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>which first appeared in the Boston <i>Transcript</i>. It is included in -<i>The Hymnal</i>, 1940.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_123">123</div> -<p>In his later years he published, or had privately printed, -several small booklets containing these and other poems by him: -<i>Songs of the Spirit</i>, 1932; <i>Songs of Faith and Hope</i>, 1940; <i>Songs -at Sunset</i>, 1951; <i>Songs of a Lifetime</i>, 1953; and <i>In a Rose Garden</i>, -1956. Of these, <i>Songs of a Lifetime</i> contains what he regarded as -his best poems, as well as his latest hymns, among them one widely -used on United Nations Sunday, beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>11. <i>Freedom, thy holy light</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>and a fine national hymn,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>12. <i>O my country, land of promise</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>A number of his hymns have been included in the hymnals of several -denominations, and No. 2 was translated into Japanese.</p> -<p>Dr. Ham’s hymns manifest a deep spiritual insight expressed -with literary craftsmanship of a high order, which make them among -the most notable contributions to American hymnody in the first -half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_124">124</div> -<div class="biography" id="Harris_F" title="Harris, Florence"> -<p><b>Harris, Florence</b>, (Mrs. Robert G. Hooke) (1891-1933) wrote in -1907, for the tenth anniversary of Unity Church (Unitarian), -Montclair, New Jersey, of which she was a member a hymn entitled -“The Founders,” beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Like pilgrims sailing through the night</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>which was included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and -in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Harris_TM" title="Harris, Rev. Thaddeus Mason"> -<p><b>Harris, Rev. Thaddeus Mason</b>, D.D. (1768-1842). He graduated -from Harvard in 1787, entered the ministry and served the First -Church in Dorchester, Massachusetts (Unitarian) from 1793 until -his resignation in 1836. Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical -Society. In 1801 he printed a leaflet with a few hymns, -which formed the basis for a larger collection of <i>Hymns for the -Lord’s Supper, original and selected</i>, [edited] <i>by Thaddeus Mason -Harris. D.D. Boston; printed by Sewall Phelps, No. 5 Court Street, -1820</i>. A second edition was printed in 1821. This booklet contains -original hymns by <a href="#Pierpont_J">Rev. John Pierpont</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, -<a href="#Gilman_S">Rev. Samuel Gilman</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, and others, none of them in use today.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_125">125</div> -<div class="biography" id="Hedge_FH" title="Hedge, Rev. Frederic Henry"> -<p><b>Hedge, Rev. Frederic Henry</b>, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12, -1805—August 21, 1890, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Son of -Professor Levi Hedge of Harvard, he was a very precocious child, -ready to enter college at 12 years of age, but his father wisely -sent him to Germany, with a tutor, George Bancroft, later a noted -historian, where he studied in German schools for 5 years. He -then returned to Harvard College, graduating in 1825, followed by -a period of study in Harvard Divinity School, where he became an -intimate friend of R. W. Emerson. He was ordained minister of -the First Congregational Parish (Unitarian) in West Cambridge (now -Arlington) Massachusetts in 1829. In 1835 he moved to Bangor, -Maine, where he served the Independent Congregational Society until -1850, then serving the Westminster Congregational Church, Providence, -Rhode Island, 1850-1856. In the latter year he was called to the -First Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts, which he served until -1872. His removal to Brookline enabled him to serve as a nonresident -professor of ecclesiastical history in the Harvard Divinity -School. He retired from the ministry in 1872 and moved to Cambridge, -where he was appointed professor of German language and literature, retiring -in 1882. He was a man of extraordinary intellectual ability, one -of the most learned of his time, and a pioneer in bringing to this -country an acquaintance with German literature and metaphysics. -Harvard gave him the degree of D.D. in 1852, and that of LL.D. in -1886. He was one of the editors of the <i>Christian Examiner</i>, author -of <i>The Prose Writers of Germany</i>, 1848, of <i>Reason in Religion</i>, 1865, -of a volume of <i>Metrical Translations and Poems</i> in 1888, and of a -large number of essays and sermons. He was president of the -American Unitarian Association 1860-1863. He collaborated with -<a href="#Huntington_FD">Dr. F. D. Huntington</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, in editing <i>Hymns for the Church of -Christ</i>, Boston, 1853, to which he contributed three translations -from the German:</p> -<blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_126">126</div> -<p>1. <i>A mighty fortress is our God</i>, <span class="hst">(Ein’ feste Burg)</span></p> -<p>2. <i>Christ hath arisen!</i> <span class="hst">(Goethe’s Faust)</span></p> -<p>3. <i>The sun is still forever sounding</i> <span class="hst">(Goethe’s Faust)</span></p> -<p>The Unitarian <i>Hymn and Tune Book for Church and -Home</i>, 1868, includes his translation from the -Latin,</p> -<p>4. <i>Holy Spirit, Fire Divine</i>, <span class="hst">(Veni, Sancte Spiritus)</span></p> -<p>Translated 1862.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>His original hymns included in <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, -1853, are,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>5. <i>Beneath thine hammer, Lord, I lie</i>,</p> -<p>Undated but “Written at a time of severe trial -and deep depression.”</p> -<p>6. <i>Sovereign and Transforming Grace</i>,</p> -<p>Written for the ordination of H. D. Barlow at Lynn, -Massachusetts, December 9, 1829. This fine hymn is -appropriate to a service of worship and, with the -omission of one stanza, has been widely used.</p> -<p>7. <i>’Twas in the East, the mystic East</i>,</p> -<p>A Christmas hymn, written about 1853.</p> -<p>8. <i>’Twas the day when God’s anointed</i>,</p> -<p>Written for a service in Bangor, Maine, held on -Good Friday, 1843, in six stanzas, the last three -of which, beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>It is finished, Man of sorrows!</i></p> -</div> -<p>had considerable use in Great Britain and this -country. The whole six stanzas were included in -<span class="pb" id="Page_127">127</span> -Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846, as -“Anonymous.” The last three stanzas are in Martineau’s -<i>Hymns</i> and in many other collections.</p> -<p>He also wrote a hymn beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">9. <i>Lo! another offering,</i></p> -<p class="t"><i>To Thy courts this day we bring,</i></p> -</div> -<p>for his own ordination at West Cambridge in 1829, which -was also used at the ordination of F. A. Whitney, at -Brighton, Massachusetts, on February 24, 1844, but -which passed into no collections.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>All these hymns, and two other religious poems, -are included in Putnam’s Singers and <i>Songs of the Liberal Faith</i>. -Most of them had gone out of use by the end of the 19<sup>th</sup> century, -but nos. 1, 6 and 8 (beginning <i>It is finished, Man of sorrows</i>,) -are in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and in <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p>By far the best known of Hedge’s hymns is his fine and -accurate translation of Luther’s great chorale <i>Ein’ feste Burg</i> -(no. 1). This is the version accepted by almost all the Protestant -denominations in this country, whereas in Great Britain Thomas -Carlyle’s earlier translation (1831) is generally used, although -James Martineau included Hedge’s version in his <i>Hymns of Praise -and Prayer</i>, 1873, mistakenly attributing it to Samuel Longfellow. -Putnam, <i>op. cit.</i>, 214, says that it was first printed in W. H. -Furness’s <i>Gems of German Verse</i>, which appeared in Philadelphia, -without date but undoubtedly in the latter part of 1853, a second -edition following in 1859. That Hedge should have sent his translation -<span class="pb" id="Page_128">128</span> -of the chorale to Furness without delay was natural, -because the two men were close friends with a common interest -in German literature, and Putnam was the younger contemporary -of both, in a position to know that Furness’s little book had -appeared on the market a few days, or weeks, ahead of the collection -of hymns which Hedge and F. D. Huntington were editing -and which they published late in 1853 as <i>Hymns for the Church -of Christ</i>.</p> -<p>The earliest record of the hymn, however, is to be -found in the autograph letter (now in the Harvard University -Library) which Hedge wrote to Rev. Joseph H. Allen, his successor -in the pulpit at Bangor, Maine, asking him to recommend hymns for -inclusion in the book on which he and Huntington were working. -This letter is dated “Providence, March 27th, 1853.” In the -course of it Hedge wrote, “I have made a new translation of Luther’s -splendid psalm ‘Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott’ Carlyle’s translation -not being available.” This statement is followed by the -four stanzas of his translation. That book contained no printed -tunes, only citing the metre at the head of each hymn as a guide -to the organist, but in his letter Hedge goes on with the surprizing -statement, “The original is much sung in Germany and therefore -I suppose that it will not be difficult to find a tune for it.” -Since he must have become familiar with both the words and the -music of the famous chorale when he was a youthful student in -Germany this remark indicates that the tune was still unknown in -America, and that he took little interest in introducing it.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 504, 1647</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_129">129</div> -<div class="biography" id="Higginson_TW" title="Higginson, Thomas Wentworth"> -<p><b>Higginson, Thomas Wentworth</b>, Cambridge, Massachusetts, -December 12, 1822—May 9, 1911, Cambridge. He graduated -from Harvard College in 1841 and from the Harvard Divinity -School in 1847. Entering the Unitarian ministry he served -churches in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1847-1850, and in -Worcester, Massachusetts, 1852-1858. He was an ardent Abolitionist -and when the Civil War came he entered the Union Army, -in which he rose to the command of a Negro regiment. After the -war he became a man of letters and published several books and -numerous essays. While still a student in the Divinity School -he contributed to the <i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846, which his friends -Longfellow and Johnson were preparing, four hymns, which they -marked with an asterisk, viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>No human eyes Thy face may see</i> <span class="hst">(God known through love)</span></p> -<p>2. <i>The land our fathers left to us</i> <span class="hst">(American Slavery)</span></p> -<p>3. <i>The past is dark with sin and shame</i>, <span class="hst">(Hope)</span></p> -<p>4. <i>To thine eternal arms, O God</i>, <span class="hst">(Lent)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>The last two have had considerable use. Both express the pessimistic -mood with which the young man viewed the evils of the time.</p> -<p>One of his later poems of social justice has also had some -use as a hymn,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">5. <i>From street and square, from hill and glen,</i></p> -<p class="t"><i>Of this vast world beyond my door.</i></p> -</div> -<p>His four hymns in the <i>Book of Hymns</i>, with other poems by him, are -included in Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs, of the Liberal Faith</i>, 1875. -Of the above hymns those listed as 3 and 5 are included in <i>Hymns -of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 521, 1711</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_130">130</div> -<div class="biography" id="Hill_T" title="Hill, Rev. Thomas"> -<p><b>Hill, Rev. Thomas</b>, D.D., L.L.D., New Brunswick, New Jersey, -January 7, 1818—November 21, 1891, Portland, Maine.</p> -<p>He graduated from Harvard College in 1843 and from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1845. He served as minister of the -First Parish (Unitarian) in Waltham, Massachusetts from 1845 -to 1859; was president of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, -1859-1862; president of Harvard University, 1862-1868; and minister -of the First Parish of Portland, Maine, 1873 to 1891. He was distinguished -as a mathematician.</p> -<p>In the earlier part of his career he wrote or translated many -hymns which found publication in current periodicals, usually -anonymously or signed only with cryptic initials. One by him, -beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>All holy, ever living One,</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>was included in a few hymn books of the 19<sup>th</sup> century, but has -dropped out of use. A few others, mostly written for special -occasions, are in Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith</i>, -but none have found other use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 524</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Holland_JG" title="Holland, Joseph Gilbert"> -<p><b>Holland, Joseph Gilbert</b>, Belchertown, Massachusetts, July 24, 1819—October -12, 1881. A newspaper man on the staff of the <i>Springfield -Republican</i> who became editor of <i>Scribner’s Magazine</i> in 1870. -Author of several books and some poetical pieces. One of the -latter, beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>For summer’s bloom, and autumn’s blight</i>, <span class="hst">(Praise in and through all things)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>from his <i>Bitter Sweet</i>, 1858, was included in the Unitarian <i>Hymn -and Tune Book for Church and Home</i>, Boston, 1868.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 529</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_131">131</div> -<div class="biography" id="Holmes_JH" title="Holmes, Rev. John Haynes"> -<p><b>Holmes, Rev. John Haynes</b>, D.D.; Litt. D.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, -November 29, 1879—still living. He graduated from Harvard, <i>summa -cum laude</i> in 1902, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1904. -He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the -Jewish Institute of Religion in 1930, from St. Lawrence University -in 1931, and from Meadville Theological School in 1945; Doctor of -Letters from Benares Hindu University, India, in 1947, and Doctor -of Humanities from Rollins College, Florida, in 1951. He was installed -as minister of the Third Religious Society (Unitarian), -Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1904, and went to New York in 1907 as -associate and successor to <a href="#Collyer_R">Rev. Robert Collyer</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, minister of -the Second Congregational Unitarian Society, (Church of the Messiah, -now called the Community Church of New York) of which he became -pastor emeritus in 1949. He withdrew from the Unitarian fellowship -in 1919, not on theological grounds but because he preferred a position -independent of any denominational label. Throughout his career -in New York he has been an outspoken leader in many causes for social -betterment, and a prolific author in prose and verse who has published -a large number of books, religious and biographical, and of printed -sermons. No other American author of his period has written so many -fine hymns which have been widely used in this country, in England, -and in Japan.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Accept, O Lord, this precious gift</i></p> -<p>8.6.8.6. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written for dedication on October 31, 1943, of -Chapel in the rebuilt Community Church.</p> -<p>2. <i>Accept, O Lord, this temple</i>,</p> -<p>7.6.7.6.7.6. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written on the occasion of the rededication of -the Community Church, December 31, 1922.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_132">132</div> -<p>3. <i>All hail the pageant of the years</i>,</p> -<p>8.6.8.6.8.8. <span class="hst">5 stas.</span> <span class="hst">Undated</span></p> -<p>Included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p>4. <i>Almighty God, beneath whose eye</i></p> -<p>C.M.D. <span class="hst">4 stas.</span></p> -<p>An early hymn written for Labor Day -Sunday in 1910.</p> -<p>5. <i>Almighty God, to whom the dark</i></p> -<p>C.M.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span> <span class="hst">8 l.</span></p> -<p>A Vesper hymn written in 1906.</p> -<p>6. <i>America triumphant! Brave land of pioneers.</i></p> -<p>7.6.7.6.D. <span class="hst">5 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written during World War I, -in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p>7. <i>Behold, O God! our holy house</i>,</p> -<p>C.M. <span class="hst">5 stas.</span> <span class="hst">September, 1919</span></p> -<p>Written on the occasion of the burning of -the Community Church, September 11, 1919.</p> -<p>8. <i>Be with us, Father, in this place.</i></p> -<p>Dated 1945.</p> -<p>9. <i>Bless, thou, O God, this fellowship</i></p> -<p>8.6.8.6.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written for the Installation of -Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, B.D., D.D. -as President of the American Unitarian -Association on October 7, 1958.</p> -<p>10. <i>Bright visions glow across the sky</i>,</p> -<p>8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written by Mr. Holmes in 1947 on the -occasion of his 40<sup>th</sup> anniversary as -Minister of the Community Church.</p> -</blockquote> -<blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_133">133</div> -<p>11. <i>God of the nations, near and far.</i></p> -<p>C.M. <span class="hst">6 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written before this country entered World War I, -for a hymn contest sponsored by the Federal Council -of Churches of Christ in America, for use on Peace -Sunday. This hymn was widely sung in churches of -many denominations.</p> -<p>Included in <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and in -<i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, with alteration in 2<sup>nd</sup> sta.</p> -<p>12. <i>God save the people’s cause.</i></p> -<p>6.6.4.6.6.6.4. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written in 1939.</p> -<p>13. <i>Great Spirit of the speeding spheres</i>,</p> -<p>L.M. <span class="hst">6 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written in 1932 on the occasion of the 25<sup>th</sup> -anniversary of Mr. Holmes as minister of the -Community Church.</p> -<p>14. <i>Joy to our hearts! Again we meet!</i></p> -<p>8.6.8.8.6.6.6.4. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span> <span class="hst">8 l.</span></p> -<p>A Hymn of reunion, 1920, set to the tune of Antioch.</p> -<p>15. <i>O blessed isle of quiet</i>,</p> -<p>7.6.8.6.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written at the Isles of Shoals in the summer -of 1930, and set to an original tune by -Robert B. Buxton.</p> -<p>16. <i>O Father, Thou who givest all</i></p> -<p>L.M. <span class="hst">4 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written for <i>The Beacon Song and Service Book</i>, -Beacon, 1908; included in <i>New Hymn and Tune -Book</i>, 1914, and <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_134">134</div> -<p>17. <i>O God of field and city</i>,</p> -<p>7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span> -Prompted, in 1917, by the darkly unfolding -experiences of World War I.</p> -<p>18. <i>O God of light and darkness</i>,</p> -<p>7.6.7.6.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span> <span class="hst">8 l.</span> <span class="hst">Undated.</span></p> -<p>19. <i>O God, whose law from age to age</i></p> -<p>8.6.8.6.D. <span class="hst">4 stas.</span> <span class="hst">1910.</span></p> -<p>20. <i>O God, whose love is over all</i>,</p> -<p>8.6.8.6.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span> <span class="hst">1909.</span></p> -<p>21. <i>O God, whose smile is in the sky</i></p> -<p>8.6.8.6.D. <span class="hst">4 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written in 1907 for the <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, -1908, in 4 stas., C.M.D. Included in the <i>New Hymn -and Tune Book</i>, 1914, in 5 stas. of 4 l. with revisions -approved by the author, and in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p>22. <i>Old Jubal twanged the bow-string</i></p> -<p>7.6.7.6.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written for the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Clifford Demarest -as organist of the Community Church, May 10, 1936, -based on Genesis 4.21. “Jubal,—father of all such -as handle the harp and the pipe.” An interesting -<i>tour de force</i> on the rise of music in praise of God.</p> -<p>23. <i>Onward still and upward</i></p> -<p>6.5.6.5.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written in 1950, and dedicated to the American -Unitarian Association in celebration of the 125<sup>th</sup> -anniversary (1825-1950) of its founding.</p> -<p>24. <i>O Thou who in chaotic night</i>,</p> -<p>8.8.8.8.8.8. <span class="hst">4 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written in war time, 1918.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_135">135</div> -<p>25. <i>O Thou, whose presence moved before</i></p> -<p><span class="hst">C.M.D.</span> <span class="hst">6 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written for use on the 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary of his -installation as Minister of the Community Church, -February 4, 1917.</p> -<p>26. <i>O’er continent and ocean</i></p> -<p>7.6.8.6.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written for a “Service of Commemoration of a -Century of British American Peace,” held in the -Church of the Messiah, Montreal, Canada, at a -meeting of Unitarian General Conference on -September 25, 1917. In <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p>27. <i>Show us thy way, O God!</i></p> -<p>6.6.8.6. <span class="hst">4 stas.</span></p> -<p>Printed in <i>The Christian Century</i> in 1936, -included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, with -a correction by the author.</p> -<p>28. <i>The Bethlehem stars are dim tonight</i></p> -<p>8.6.8.6.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span> <span class="hst">Dated 1925</span></p> -<p>29. <i>The voice of God is calling</i></p> -<p>7.6.7.6.D. <span class="hst">4 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written in September, 1913 for the Young People’s -Religious Union of Boston. In <i>New Hymn and Tune -Book</i>, 1914. In <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937; widely -used in the United States, England, translated -into German, Japanese and Spanish.</p> -<p>30. <i>Thou God of all, whose presence dwells</i></p> -<p>8.8.8.8. <span class="hst">4 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written some time after World War I. Intended as -a protest against nationalistic theism which -induced both belligerent nations to claim a -monopoly of God.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_136">136</div> -<p>31. <i>Thou God of all, whose Spirit moves</i></p> -<p>8.6.8.6.D <span class="hst">3 stas.</span></p> -<p>Printed in <i>The Christian Century</i>, May 29, 1940 -and in <i>The Christian Register</i>, August, 1940.</p> -<p>32. <i>Thy voice, O God, in every age</i></p> -<p>8.6.8.6.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written for the Installation of Rev. Donald -Harrington at the Community Church of New York -on November 19, 1944.</p> -<p>33. <i>To earth’s remote horizons</i></p> -<p>7.6.7.6.D. <span class="hst">4 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written in 1949 and first sung on November 27th -of that year at a special service in commemoration -of the retirement of Mr. Holmes from the -active ministry.</p> -<p>34. <i>To Thee, O God, be homage</i></p> -<p>7.6.7.6.D. <span class="hst">3 stas.</span> <span class="hst">1945.</span></p> -<p>35. <i>When darkness, brooding o’er the deep</i></p> -<p>8.6.8.6.D. <span class="hst">4 stas.</span></p> -<p>Written in 1925 on the occasion of the 100<sup>th</sup> -anniversary of the founding of the Community -Church of New York.</p> -<p>36. <i>Why trust we not our God?</i></p> -<p>6.6.8.6. <span class="hst">5 stas.</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of the hymns listed above, Nos. 3, 6, 11, 18, 20, 23 and 29 -have had the most widespread use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F. in collaboration with J.H.H.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_137">137</div> -<div class="biography" id="Holmes_OW" title="Holmes, Oliver Wendell"> -<p><b>Holmes, Oliver Wendell</b>, M.D., LL.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts, -August 29, 1809—October 7, 1894, Boston, Massachusetts. He -graduated from Harvard College in the famous Class of 1829, -studied medicine and became a practitioner in Boston, and was -appointed Professor of Anatomy in the Harvard Medical School -in 1847. Although distinguished as a physician his fame is -that of a man of letters gifted with a sense of humor which -made him one of the wittiest men of his time. Besides important -medical treatises he wrote essays, novels, biographical -sketches, and poetry which brought him a great reputation in -this country and in Great Britain. Much of his poetry is occasional -verse, which he was often called upon to write, such -as his “International Ode” to be sung to the tune “America” -(“God Save the Queen”) on the occasion of the visit of the Prince -of Wales in 1860. Oxford University gave him the honorary degree -of D.C.L. in 1886. He was a member of Kings’ Chapel, (Unitarian) -Boston, and two of his poems are about that church. He contributed -The <i>Autocrat at the Breakfast Table</i> to the opening issues -of <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>, 1857-58, published <i>The Professor at -the Breakfast Table</i> in 1859, <i>The Poet at the Breakfast Table</i> in -1872. He wrote <i>Elsie Venner</i>, 1861, and two other novels. His -poetry was published in <i>Songs in Many Keys</i>, 1861; <i>Humorous Poems</i>, -1865; <i>Before the Curfew</i>, 1888; and in his <i>Complete Poetical Works</i>, -in 1895.</p> -<p>Although he made a greater contribution to American hymnody -than did any other of the “New England poets” of his era, except -Bryant and Whittier, his hymns were incidental literary by-products, -for he was not primarily a hymn writer. They include:</p> -<blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_138">138</div> -<p>1. <i>Angel of peace, thou hast tarried too long</i></p> -<p>Written in 1869.</p> -<p>2. <i>Father of mercies, heavenly Friend</i>,</p> -<p>A prayer in time of war. Undated but between -1861 and 1865.</p> -<p>3. <i>Lead where the banners wave last to the sea</i>,</p> -<p>Written as an American national anthem. It appeared -in his <i>Songs in Many Keys</i>, 1861, entitled “Freedom, -our Queen.”</p> -<p>4. <i>Lord of all being, throned afar</i>, <span class="hst">(God’s Omnipotence)</span></p> -<p>Included in <i>The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table</i>, -1848, under the title of “A Sun-day Hymn.” This is -his finest hymn and has had widespread use in many -collections.</p> -<p>5. <i>O Lord of hosts, Almighty King</i>,</p> -<p>Entitled “Army Hymn,” and published in <i>The Soldier’s -Companion</i>, a hand-book of hymns and scripture readings -issued in the fall of 1861, by the American Unitarian -Association, for use by soldiers in the Union Army. -It is a fine hymn, but with several lines directly -referring to the immediate situation which make it -unsuitable for present use and which cannot be altered -or dropped without mutilating the hymn. In the same -collection he wrote an “Additional Verse” appended to -“The Star-Spangled Banner,” beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>When our land is illumined with Liberty’s smile</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>6. <i>O Love Divine, that stooped to share</i>,</p> -<p>Written in 1859, a hymn of trust in time of doubt -and sorrow.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_139">139</div> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">7. <i>Our Father, while our hearts unlearn,</i></p> -<p class="t"><i>The creeds that wrong thy name,</i></p> -</div> -<p>Written for the 25<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the Boston -Young Men’s Christian Union, May 31, 1893.</p> -<p>8. <i>Thou gracious Power whose mercy lends</i>,</p> -<p>Written in 1869 for the 40<sup>th</sup> anniversary meeting -of the Harvard Class of 1829. In the Methodist -Hymn Book, 1904, altered to read</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Thou gracious God</i>, etc.</p> -</div> -</blockquote> -<p>Of these hymns nos. 4 and 6 have had the most widespread use. -Those two, and no. 1 are included in <i>The Pilgrim Hymnal</i>, 1935, -and nos. 4, 6, 7 and 8 are in the Unitarian <i>New Hymn and Tune -Book</i>, 1914, and In <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 530, 1649, 1713, rewritten by</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Horton_EA" title="Horton, Rev. Edward Augustus"> -<p><b>Horton, Rev. Edward Augustus</b>, Springfield, Massachusetts, -September 28, 1843—April 15, 1931, Toronto, Canada. -He studied at the University of Chicago and at Meadville Theological -School, from which he graduated in 1868. He served Unitarian -churches in Leominster, Massachusetts, 1868-1875; Hingham, Massachusetts, -1877-1880; and the Second Church in Boston, 1880-1892. -Thereafter he was active in the work of the Unitarian Sunday School -Society. In 1912 he wrote an “Anniversary Hymn” beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>We honor those whose work began</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>which was included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_140">140</div> -<div class="biography" id="Hosmer_FL" title="Hosmer, Rev. Frederick Lucian, D.D."> -<p><b>Hosmer, Rev. Frederick Lucian, D.D.</b>, Framingham, Massachusetts, -October 16, 1840—June 7, 1929, Berkeley, California. He -graduated from Harvard College in 1862, and from the Harvard -Divinity School in 1869. In October of that year he was ordained -minister of the First Congregational Church (Unitarian), Northborough, -Massachusetts, where he served for 3 years. He served -the Unitarian Church in Quincy, Illinois, 1872-1877; then spent -sixteen months in Europe, returning late in 1878 to serve the -First Unitarian Church of Cleveland, Ohio, 1878-1892; the Church -of the Unity, St. Louis, Missouri, 1894-1899; and the First Unitarian -Church, Berkeley, California, 1900-1915, where he remained -as minister-emeritus until his death. In 1887 Buchtel College -gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.</p> -<p>While in the Divinity School he formed a close life-long -friendship with <a href="#Gannett_WC">William C. Gannett</a>, <i>q.v.</i> Neither wrote any hymns -until early middle life, Dr. Gannett’s earliest having been written -in 1873, Dr. Hosmer’s in 1875, but thereafter they worked together -for nearly four decades to make a contribution to American hymnody -comparable to that made by <a href="#Longfellow_S">Samuel Longfellow</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, and -<a href="#Johnson_S">Samuel Johnson</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, a generation earlier. Of the two men it has been -well said that “Gannett was the better poet, Hosmer the better -hymn writer,” and many more of his hymns than of those by Gannett -have come into widespread use.</p> -<p>Working together they edited <i>Unity Hymns and Chorals</i>, published -in 1880, a revised edition of which appeared in 1911. -(<a href="#Blake_JV">J. V. Blake</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, was also an editor of the first, but not of -the revised edition). In 1885 they published a small collection -of their poems entitled <i>The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems</i>, -followed by later collections with the same title, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series 1894, -3<sup>rd</sup> Series 1918. In 1908 Dr. Hosmer gave a series of lectures -<span class="pb" id="Page_141">141</span> -on hymnody at the Harvard Divinity School, repeated at the -Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry, in Berkeley, California, -but these have not been published.</p> -<p>Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i>, pp. 1650-51, lists 27 hymns by Dr. Hosmer, -with “annotations—from ms. notes supplied—by the author,” -as follows:—</p> -<blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_142">142</div> -<p>1. <i>Father, to Thee we look in all our sorrow</i> <span class="hst">(Trust in God)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1881 upon the death of a member of the -author’s congregation, and published in <i>The Thought -of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885.</p> -<p>2. <i>From age to age how grandly rise</i> <span class="hst">(Unity)</span></p> -<p>Written for the annual festival of the Free Religious -Association, Boston, June 2, 1899, and first published -in <i>Souvenir Festival Hys.</i> 1899. Subsequently altered -by the author to “From age to age the prophet’s vision.”</p> -<p>3. <i>From age to age they gather, all the brave of heart and strong</i>, <span class="hst">(Victory of Truth)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1891 for the Dedication of Unity Church, -Decorah, Iowa, and published in <i>The Thought of God</i>, -2<sup>nd</sup> Series, 1894.</p> -<p>4. <i>From many ways and wide apart</i>, <span class="hst">(College or School Reunion)</span></p> -<p>Dated in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, 1894, as having -been written in 1890.</p> -<p>5. <i>Go not, my soul, in search of Him</i>, <span class="hst">(God within)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1879, printed in the Boston <i>Christian Register</i>, -May 31, 1879, and included in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> -Series, 1885, with the title “The Indwelling God.”</p> -<p>6. <i>I cannot think of them as dead</i> <span class="hst">(Eternal Life)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1882 and first published in <i>The Thought of -God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885, and entitled “My Dead.” In the -English collections it is usually given as “We cannot -think of them as dead.”</p> -<p>7. <i>I little see, I little know</i>, <span class="hst">(Trust)</span></p> -<p>“A Psalm of Trust” written in 1883, first appeared in -<span class="pb" id="Page_143">143</span> -the Boston <i>Christian Register</i>, and again in <i>The Thought -of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885.</p> -<p>8. <i>Immortal, by their deed and word</i> <span class="hst">(The Spirit of Jesus)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1880, and first published in <i>Unity Hys. and -Carols</i>, Chicago, Illinois, 1880, and then in <i>The Thought of -God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885.</p> -<p>9. <i>Many things in life, there are</i> <span class="hst">(Mystery in All Things)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1885 and first published in <i>The Thought of -God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885, with the title “Passing Understanding”, -and the quotation “the Peace of God which passeth -all understanding.”</p> -<p>10. <i>Not always on the Mount may we</i> <span class="hst">(On the Mount)</span></p> -<p>This lesson from the <i>Transfiguration</i> was written in 1882, -and published in the <i>Chicago Unity</i>, April 1, 1884. After -revision by the author, it was included in the 1<sup>st</sup> Series -of <i>The Thought of God</i>, 1885.</p> -<p>11. <i>Not when, with self dissatisfied</i>, <span class="hst">(Lent)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1891, and given in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> -Series, 1894, p. 33. It is in <i>The Public School Hymn -Book</i>, 1903, and others.</p> -<p>12. <i>O beautiful, my country</i>, <span class="hst">(National Hymn)</span></p> -<p>As “Our Country,” written in 1884, and published in -the <i>Chicago Unity Festivals</i>, 1884, and again in <i>The -Thought of God</i>, 1885.</p> -<p>13. <i>O Light, from age to age the same</i>,<span class="hst"> (Dedication Anniversary)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1890 for the fiftieth anniversary of the -Second Congregational Church (Unitarian), Quincy, -Illinois. Included in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, -<span class="pb" id="Page_144">144</span> -1894, and entitled “From Generation to Generation.”</p> -<p>14. <i>O Lord of Life, where’er they be</i>, <span class="hst">(Life in God)</span></p> -<p>“Written in 1888 for Easter service in Author’s own -church,” and first published in the <i>Chicago Unity</i>, -and again in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, 1894. The -“Alleluia” refrain, which is added in some collections -to each verse, is appended, in the original, to the -last verse only.</p> -<p>15. <i>O Name, all other names above</i>, <span class="hst">(Trust in God)</span></p> -<p>Under the title “Found. ‘They that know Thy name will -put their trust in Thee’,” this hymn, written in 1878, -was given in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885.</p> -<p>16. <i>O Prophet souls of all the years</i> <span class="hst">(Unity)</span></p> -<p>“Written in 1893 for, and sung at, the Unitarian -gathering in connection with The World’s Parliament of -Religions (World’s Fair) Chicago, Sep. 1893,” and included -in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, 1894, and -entitled “One Law, One Life, One Love.”</p> -<p>17. <i>O Thou, in all Thy might so far</i>, <span class="hst">(God All in All)</span></p> -<p>This hymn, given in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885, -with the title “The Mystery of God,” was written in 1876, -and first published in the <i>New York Inquirer</i>.</p> -<p>18. <i>O thou in lonely vigil led</i>,</p> -<p>This encouragement for lonely workers was written for -the “Emerson Commemoration, W.U.C. 1888,” and included -in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, 1894.</p> -<p>19. <i>O Thou, who art of all that is</i>, <span class="hst">(Divine Guidance)</span></p> -<p>Under the title “Through unknown paths,” this hymn -<span class="pb" id="Page_145">145</span> -was included in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885; -it was written in 1877.</p> -<p>20. <i>O Thou, whose Spirit witness bears</i>, <span class="hst">(Dedication of a Place of Worship)</span></p> -<p>Written for the Dedication of the First Unitarian -Church, Omaha, February 6, 1891, and published in -<i>The Thought of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, 1894, with the title -“The Inward Witness”, and the subscription “For T.K. -Omaha, 1891.”</p> -<p>21. <i>On eyes that watch through sorrow’s night</i> <span class="hst">(Easter)</span></p> -<p>A Carol for Easter Morn, written in 1890 for the -author’s congregation, and published in <i>The Thought -of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, 1894.</p> -<p>22. <i>One thought I have, my ample creed</i>, <span class="hst">(The Thought of God)</span></p> -<p>This is the initial hymn to the collection <i>The Thought -of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885, and supplies the title to the -work. It was written in 1880, and first published in -the <i>Chicago Unity Hymns and Carols</i>, 1880, and then in -<i>The Thought of God</i>, 1885.</p> -<p>23. <i>The rose is queen among the flowers</i>, <span class="hst">(Flower services)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1875, first published in <i>The Sunnyside</i>, a -songbook for Sunday Schools, and again in <i>The Thought -of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885, under the title “Flower Sunday.”</p> -<p>24. <i>Thy kingdom come—on bended knee</i>, <span class="hst">(Missions)</span></p> -<p>“Written in 1891 for the Commencement of the Meadville -Theological School (Meadville, Pa.) June 12, 1891, and -pub. in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, 1894.” under -the title “The Day of God,” and the subscription “M.T.S., -June 12, 1891.”</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_146">146</div> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">25. <i>We pray no more, made lowly wise</i></p> -<p class="t"><i>For miracle and sign.</i> <span class="hst">(Greater Faith Desired)</span></p> -</div> -<p>“Written in 1879, and first pub. in <i>The Christian -Register</i> (Boston) Mar. 22 of that year, under the title -‘The Larger Faith.’” Included under the same title in -<i>The Thought of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885. Sometimes given as -“Made lowly wise, we pray no more.”</p> -<p>26. <i>When courage fails, and faith burns low</i>, <span class="hst">(Victory of Truth)</span></p> -<p>Under the title “Loyalty,” this hymn was given in <i>The -Thought of God</i>, 1<sup>st</sup> Series, 1885. It was written in 1881.</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">27. <i>Where men on mounts of vision</i>,</p> -<p class="t"><i>Have passed the veil within</i>.<span class="hst"> (Dedication of a Place of Worship)</span></p> -</div> -<p>“Written in 1891 for the Dedication of First Unitarian -Church, Oakland, California.” Included in <i>The Thought -of God</i>, 2<sup>nd</sup> Series, 1894, entitled “Holy Place”, and -subscribed “For C.W.W., Oakland, Cal. 1891.”</p> -</blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_147">147</div> -<p>This account of Hosmer’s hymns, copied verbatim from -Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i>, may be accepted as authoritative as to -the date and occasion for each hymn listed, but Canon Julian -presumably added the descriptive notations in brackets, and fell -into minor inaccuracies, as when he wrote <i>Unity Hymns and Carols</i> -for <i>Unity Hymns and Chorals</i> (cf. nos. 3 and 22), and cited the -periodical <i>Unity</i>, published in Chicago, as <i>Chicago Unity</i>. By -way of further clarification it should be noted that the opening -line of no. 12, <i>O beautiful my country</i>, was taken from -J. R. Lowell’s great Commemoration Ode, and that Hosmer always -wanted it printed ‘<i>O Beautiful my Country</i>’, in recognition of -its source. No. 18 was written for the observance by the Western -Unitarian Conference of the fiftieth anniversary of Emerson’s -famous <i>Divinity School Address</i>. The person initialed as “T.K.” -for whom no. 20 was written on February 6, 1891, probably was -Thomas Kilpatrick, a layman who did much to make possible the -erection of the church in Omaha, which was not dedicated until -December 15 of that year. The person initialled “C.W.W.”, for -whom no. 27 was written, was Rev. Charles W. Wendte, then minister -of the First Unitarian Church in Oakland, California.</p> -<p>Julian’s account of Hosmer’s contribution to hymnody, though -no doubt as satisfactory as could be expected at the time it -was written, is incomplete in two respects. The latest hymn -listed is dated 1899, yet at least three earlier hymns by Hosmer -are unaccountably missing, (viz, nos. 32, 33, 41, noted below), -presumably because he neglected to send Julian any information -about them. More important than these are several later occasional -<span class="pb" id="Page_148">148</span> -hymns which he wrote in the last three decades of his life, -too late for any inclusion in Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i>, and which -form a notable addition to the earlier list. Some of them -were included in the revised edition of <i>Unity Hymns and Chorals</i>, -1911, and all of them in <i>The Thought of God</i>, 3<sup>rd.</sup> Series, 1918, as -follows:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>28. <i>Across a century’s border line</i>,</p> -<p>Written for the centennial commemoration of -W. E. Channing’s famous “Baltimore Sermon” at -the General Unitarian Conference, September 26, -1917.</p> -<p>29. <i>All hidden lie the future ways</i>,</p> -<p>Written as a hymn at the christening of -children. Not dated.</p> -<p>30. <i>Forward through the ages, in unbroken line</i>,</p> -<p>A hymn of the church universal, written in 1908 -for an Installation Service, set to Sullivan’s -tune St. Gertrude. In some collections it has -replaced Baring Gould’s <i>Onward, Christian Soldiers</i>.</p> -<p>31. <i>Hear, hear, O ye nations, and hearing obey</i>, <span class="hst">(Reign of Peace)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1909 and included in <i>New Hymn and Tune -Book</i>, 1914, and, with one word altered in the last -stanza, in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p>32. <i>I came not hither of my will</i>, <span class="hst">(Divine Providence)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1883.</p> -<p>33. <i>Lo, the day of days is here</i>, <span class="hst">(Easter)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1890.</p> -<p>34. <i>Lo, the Easter-tide is here</i>, <span class="hst">(Easter)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1914.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_149">149</div> -<p>35. <i>Now while the day in trailing splendor</i> <span class="hst">(Evening)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1902, published in Louisa Loring’s -<i>Hymns of the Ages</i>, 1904.</p> -<p>36.<i> O blest the souls that see and hear</i>,</p> -<p>Written for the National Conference of Unitarian -Churches, Chicago, September 27, 1909, in 5 stanzas, -beginning “From many ways and far apart.” In <i>The -New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1937, this first stanza has been dropped, and the -remaining four stanzas printed, beginning as above.</p> -<p>37. <i>O day of light and gladness</i> <span class="hst">(Easter)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1903, published in Louisa Loring’s -<i>Hymns of the Ages</i>, 1904, and, slightly revised, in -<i>Unity Hymns and Chorals</i>, 1911.</p> -<p>38. <i>The outward building stands complete</i>,</p> -<p>Written for the Dedication of Unity Church, -St. Louis, Missouri, October 7, 1917.</p> -<p>39. <i>Through willing heart and helping hand</i>,</p> -<p>Written in 1909 for the Dedication of the Parish -House of the First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, -California.</p> -<p>40. <i>Thy kingdom come, O Lord.</i></p> -<p>Written in 1905.</p> -<p>41. <i>Today be joy in every heart</i>, <span class="hst">(Christmas)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1877.</p> -<p>42. <i>Uplift the song of praise</i>,</p> -<p>The first two stanzas of this hymn were written -in 1904 and were included in Miss Louisa Loring’s -<span class="pb" id="Page_150">150</span> -<i>Hymns of the Ages</i>, published in that year. At -a later date Dr. Hosmer wrote two additional -stanzas and the hymn was thus printed in <i>The -Thought of God</i>, 3<sup>rd</sup> Series, 1918. In <i>The New -Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1937, it is set to the tune Yigdal.</p> -<p>43. <i>When shadows gather on our way</i>,</p> -<p>Written in 1904 and published in Miss Louisa Loring’s -<i>Hymns of the Ages</i>, 1904.</p> -<p>44. <i>When the constant sun returning</i>,</p> -<p>Reginald Heber in 1827 wrote a single stanza hymn -beginning, “God that madest earth and heaven.” In -1912 Hosmer wrote for <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, -1914, a second stanza, the first line of which is -quoted above, to complete the thought. This composite -two stanza hymn has since been included in <i>The Pilgrim -Hymnal</i>, 1935, and <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>The period of Dr. Hosmer’s hymn writing covered more than -40 years (1875-1917) and during the latter half of that time he -was widely recognized by hymn lovers as the most distinguished -hymn writer of his time. Many of his hymns found their way into -the collections of various denominations in both this country -and Great Britain. Canon Dearmer included 8 in the British collection -<i>Songs of Praise</i>, and in the accompanying handbook, <i>Songs of -Praise Discussed</i>, calls the hymn <i>O Thou, in all thy might so far</i>, -(no. 17) “this flawless poem, one of the completest expressions -of religious faith,” and the hymn <i>Thy kingdom come, on bended -knee</i>, (no. 24) “one of the noblest hymns in the language.”</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_151">151</div> -<p>All of Hosmer’s hymns in recent use will be found in both -the Unitarian collections—<i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, -and <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, except where initials indicate -one or the other book, as follows:—Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 (N.H.T.B.), -8, 10 (N.H.T.B.), 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, -24, 25, 26 (H.S.), 29 (H.S.), 30, 31, 32, 34 (H.S,), 35, 36, 37, -39, 40, 41, 42, 43. Nos. 10, 17, 24, 30 and 40 are included in -the Protestant Episcopal <i>Hymnal</i>, 1940.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1650</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_152">152</div> -<div class="biography" id="Howe_J" title="Howe, Mrs. Julia"> -<p><b>Howe, Mrs. Julia</b> (<b>Ward</b>), New York, New York, May 27, 1819—October 17, -1910, Boston, Massachusetts. Married Samuel Gridley Howe on -April 26, 1843. She was a woman with a distinguished personality -and intellect; an Abolitionist and active in social reforms; -author of several books in prose and verse. The latter include -<i>Passion Flower</i>, 1854; <i>Words of the Hour</i>, 1856; <i>Later Lyrics</i>, 1866; -and <i>From a Sunset Ridge</i>, 1896. She became famous as the author -of the poem entitled “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” beginning,</p> -<p><i>Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord</i>, -which, in spite of its title, was written as a patriotic song -and not as a hymn for use in public worship, but which has been -included in many American hymn books. It was written on November -19, 1861, while she and her husband, accompanied by their -pastor, <a href="#Clarke_JF">Rev. James Freeman Clarke</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, minister of the (Unitarian) -Church of the Disciples, Boston, were visiting Washington -soon after the outbreak of the Civil War. She had seen the -troops gathered there and had heard them, singing “John Brown’s -body lies a-mouldering in the grave” to a popular tune called -“Glory, Hallelujah” composed a few years earlier by William Steffe -of Charleston, South Carolina, for Sunday School use. Dr. Clarke -asked Mrs. Howe if she could not write more uplifting words for -the tune and as she awoke early the next morning she found the -verses forming in her mind as fast as she could write them down, -so completely that later she re-wrote only a line or two in the -last stanza and changed only four words in other stanzas. She -sent the poem to <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>, which paid her $4 and published -it in its issue for February, 1862. It attracted little -attention until it caught the eye of Chaplain C. C. McCabe (later -a Methodist bishop) who had a fine singing voice and who taught -it first to the 122d Ohio Volunteer Infantry regiment to which he -<span class="pb" id="Page_153">153</span> -was attached, then to other troops, and to prisoners in Libby -Prison after he was made prisoner of war. Thereafter it -quickly came into use throughout the North as an expression -of the patriotic emotion of the period.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1652</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_154">154</div> -<div class="biography" id="Huntington_FD" title="Huntington, Rt. Rev. Frederic Dan"> -<p><b>Huntington, Rt. Rev. Frederic Dan</b>, D.D., Hadley, Massachusetts, -May 23, 1819—July 11, 1904, Hadley, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Amherst College in 1839 and from the Harvard Divinity School -in 1842. He was minister of the South Congregational Church -(Unitarian), Boston, 1842-1855, and from 1855 to 1859 he was -Professor of Christian Morals and University Preacher at Harvard -College. In 1859 he was ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal -Church and served as rector of Emmanuel Church in Boston from 1860 -to 1869, when he was consecrated Bishop of Central New York. In -1853 he collaborated with <a href="#Hedge_FH">Rev. Frederic Henry Hedge</a>, -<i>q.v.</i>, in editing their Unitarian collection, -<i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, to -which he contributed three hymns,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>O Love Divine, lay on me burdens if Thou wilt</i> <span class="hst">(Supplication)</span></p> -<p>2. <i>O Thou, in whose Eternal Name</i> <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -<p>3. <i>O Thou that once on Horeb stood</i> <span class="hst">(God in Nature)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>The hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Father, whose heavenly kingdom lies</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, is a cento -taken from no. 2. <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i> also includes -a good many anonymous hymns, some of which may be by him, though -there is no proof that such is the case. Dr. Huntington also -collaborated with Dr. Hedge in editing a collection of sacred poetry -entitled <i>Elim: Hymns of Holy Refreshment</i>, Boston, 1865, which includes -a funeral hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>So heaven is gathering one by one</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>This hymn has been mistakenly attributed to Huntington, but is an -altered form of a hymn by E. H. Bickersteth beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Thus heaven is gathering one by one</i>.</p> -</blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_155">155</div> -<p>Although Dr. Huntington is known to have written occasional -verses in religious themes later in life for his own edification -he is not credited with any published hymns after his -resignation from his professorship at Harvard, and none of -the three listed above are in present use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 544, 1714</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Hurlburt_WH" title="Hurlburt"> -<p><b>Hurlburt</b>, (<b>Hurlbut, Hurlbert</b>) <b>William Henry</b>. Charleston, South -Carolina, July 3, 1827—September 4, 1895, Cadenabbia, Lake -Como, Italy. (His family name is spelled Hurlburt in records -at Charleston but at Harvard he was registered as Hurlbut, and -in later years he changed the spelling to Hurlbert). He graduated -from Harvard College in 1847 and from the Divinity School in 1849. -He preached in Unitarian pulpits for a few months but was never -ordained as a settled minister; then he studied in the Harvard -Law School for a year; then turned to journalism in New York City. -After 1883 he spent most of his time in Europe, his last few years -in Italy. As a student at Harvard he was a contemporary of Samuel -Longfellow and Samuel Johnson and contributed three hymns to their -<i>Book of Hymns</i>, edition of 1848, which they also included in their -<i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>My God, in life’s most doubtful hour</i>,</p> -<p>2. <i>We pray for truth and peace</i>,</p> -<p>3. <i>We will not weep, for God is standing by us</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>In both books his surname is spelled Hurlbut.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 545</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_156">156</div> -<div class="biography" id="Johnson_S" title="Johnson, Rev. Samuel"> -<p><b>Johnson, Rev. Samuel</b>, Salem, Massachusetts, October 10, 1822—February -19, 1882, North Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated -from Harvard College in 1842 and from the Harvard Divinity School -in 1846. He served from 1853-1870 as minister of the Independent -Church, Lynn, Massachusetts which he organized and which ceased -to exist when he resigned. He refused to identify himself with -any denomination, though in belief he was a Unitarian and in the -public mind was associated with the churches which adhered to the -liberal wing of the Congregational order. He was author of a -book on <i>Oriental Religions</i>, one of the earliest American studies -in the History of Religions. In 1846 he and his classmate in -the Divinity School, <a href="#Longfellow_S">Samuel Longfellow</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, while still students, -prepared their <i>Book of Hymns</i>, because they and some of their -friends thought the Unitarian hymn books then in use were too -traditional. This book appeared in enlarged edition in 1848, -and made a notable contribution to American hymnody in its freshness -of outlook and its inclusion of hymns by hitherto unrecognized -writers, notably John Greenleaf Whittier. Johnson contributed -7 hymns to the edition of 1846, viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Father [Savior] in Thy mysterious presence kneeling</i> <span class="hst">(Worship)</span></p> -<p>2. <i>Go, preach the gospel in my name</i> <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -<p>3. <i>Lord, once our faith in man no fear could move</i>, <span class="hst">(In Time of War)</span></p> -<p>4. <i>Onward, Christians, though the region</i> <span class="hst">(Conflict)</span></p> -<p>Altered in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, to</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Onward, onward though the region</i></p> -</div> -<p>5. <i>Thy servants’ sandals, Lord, are wet</i> <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>In the edition of 1848 he included</p> -<blockquote> -<p>6. <i>God of the earnest heart</i>,<span class="hst"> (Trust)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<div class="pb" id="Page_157">157</div> -<p>which he had “Written for the Graduating Exercises of the Class -of 1846, in Cambridge Divinity School.” In 1864 he and Longfellow -published their second and no less important collection, <i>Hymns -of the Spirit</i>, (not to be confused with the book of the same -title published in 1937 by the American Unitarian Association). -To this volume he contributed 7 more hymns, viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>7. <i>City of God, how broad, how far</i>,<span class="hst"> (The Church Universal)</span></p> -<p>8. <i>I bless Thee, Lord, for sorrows sent</i> <span class="hst">(Purification through suffering)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>This was “Written at the request of Dorothea L. Dix for a collection -made by her for the use of an asylum.” (Miss Dix was engaged -in a notable reform of institutions for the insane.)</p> -<blockquote> -<p>9. <i>Life of Ages, richly poured</i><span class="hst"> (Inspiration)</span></p> -<p>10. <i>Strong-souled Reformer, whose far-seeing faith</i> <span class="hst">(Jesus)</span></p> -<p>11. <i>The Will Divine that woke a waiting time</i> <span class="hst">(St. Paul)</span></p> -<p>12. <i>Thou whose glad summer yields</i>,<span class="hst"> (Worship)</span></p> -<p>13. <i>To light that shines in stars and souls</i>,<span class="hst"> (Dedication of a Place of Worship)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>A number of these hymns have had widespread and long-continued use. -Numbers 1, 4, 6, 7, and 9 are included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, -and stand out as some of the finest examples of American hymnody -in their lyrical quality and depth of religious feeling. A few -of Johnson’s hymns have found acceptance also in England, the -most notable example being No. 7, sung at the consecration of -the new Anglican cathedral at Liverpool in 1924, an occasion which -the words fitted to perfection. But, since even the existence of -the obscure minister in Lynn, Massachusetts, was quite unknown to -all but very few of those present, the Samuel Johnson to whom it -<span class="pb" id="Page_158">158</span> -was attributed was commonly supposed to be the famous 18<sup>th</sup> century -English lexicographer, and the hymn is mistakenly assigned to him -in the latest edition of Bartlett’s <i>Familiar Quotations</i>! Following -its use at Liverpool it was sung in Westminster Abbey at a -service for the League of Nations in 1935; at the jubilee service -for the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the coronation of George V; and was -one of seven hymns included in the special service prepared by -the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for use in parish churches -throughout England at the time of the coronation of George VI. -Probably no other hymn of American authorship is so widely known -or used in British dominions.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 604-5, 1583, 1681, 1711</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_159">159</div> -<div class="biography" id="Kimball_J" title="Kimball, Jacob"> -<p><b>Kimball, Jacob</b>, Topsfield, Massachusetts, February 15, 1761—July -24, 1826, Topsfield. He graduated from Harvard in 1780, -studied law, taught school, and tried to make a living at -various other occupations, with small success except in the -field of music where he was regarded as the outstanding singer, -teacher, and composer of his period. He edited <i>Rural Harmony</i>, -(Boston, 1793) which he followed with <i>Essex Harmony</i>, (1800) -and <i>Essex Harmony</i>, Part II, (1802), which included the only -tunes of his own composition which can now be identified as -his, except those in the popular <i>Village Harmony</i> (1795) the -later editions of which, down to 1821, were probably edited by -him. There is evidence that he also wrote poetry, including a -number of hymns, some of them perhaps the anonymous ones, otherwise -unknown, included in the above-mentioned song books. The -one hymn which can be attributed to him with assurance is his -excellent metrical version of Psalm 65 which Jeremy Belknap -included in his <i>Sacred Psalmody</i> (1795), entitled “A New Version” -and beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits.</i></p> -</div> -<p>The only other hymns by an American author in Belknap’s Collection -is Mather Byles’</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>When wild confusion wrecks the air</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>republished in 1760.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>See <i>Jacob Kimball: A Pioneer American Musician</i>, -Essex Institute Historical Collections, XCII, no. 4.</p> -</blockquote> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_160">160</div> -<div class="biography" id="Larned_A" title="Larned, Augusta"> -<p><b>Larned, Augusta</b>, Rutland, New York, April 16, 1835—1924. -Author of six volumes of stories for children and of one on -Greek mythology and another on Norse mythology. Contributor -to various periodicals and for 20 years correspondent and -editorial writer with <i>The Christian Register</i>, Boston. She published -in 1895 a book of poems entitled <i>In the Woods and Fields</i> -from which was taken her hymn on peace of mind,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>In quiet hours the tranquil soul</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>for inclusion in the <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn-Book</i>, 1908; <i>The New -Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914 and <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Lathrop_JH" title="Lathrop, Rev. John Howland"> -<p><b>Lathrop, Rev. John Howland</b>, D.D., Jackson, Michigan, June 6, 1880—still -living. He graduated from Meadville Theological School -in 1903, then entered Harvard where he took an A.B. in 1905. He -also studied at the University of Chicago, and the University of -Jena. He served as minister of the First Unitarian Church of -Berkeley, California, 1905-1911, and the First Unitarian Congregational -Church of Brooklyn, New York, 1911 to 1957, when he became -pastor emeritus. In 1935 he wrote a hymn for Palm Sunday beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Hosanna in the highest! Our eager hearts acclaim</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>which was included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, set to St. Theodulph.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_161">161</div> -<div class="biography" id="Livermore_AA" title="Livermore, Rev. Abiel Abbot"> -<p><b>Livermore, Rev. Abiel Abbot</b>, D.D., Wilton, New Hampshire, -October 26, 1811—November 28, 1892, Wilton, New Hampshire. -He graduated from Harvard College in 1833, and from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1836. He was ordained minister of -the Unitarian Church at Keene, New Hampshire, in November, -1836, and remained there until 1850, when he accepted a call -to Cincinnati, Ohio. After a period in New York he was elected -president of the Meadville Theological School in 1862, and served -in that capacity until 1890, when he retired to his ancestral -home at Wilton. He received the degree of D.D. from Harvard -in 1888. He was author of a number of books, and of several -hymns, printed in Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs</i>. He was the chief -editor of the Cheshire Pastoral Association’s <i>Christian Hymns</i>, -1844, one of the finest and most widely circulated American -Unitarian collections, to which he contributed his Communion -hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>A holy air is breathing round</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>This hymn was included in Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873, in most -American Unitarian collections, and appears in slightly altered -form in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 680</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_162">162</div> -<div class="biography" id="Livermore_SW" title="Livermore, Sarah White"> -<p><b>Livermore, Sarah White</b>, Wilton, New Hampshire, July 20, 1789—July -3, 1874, Wilton. She was an aunt of <a href="#Livermore_AA">A. A. Livermore</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, -and was a school teacher for most of her life. She contributed -two hymns to the <i>Cheshire Collection</i>, 1844, viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Glory to God, and peace on earth</i>,<span class="hst"> (Christmas)</span></p> -<p>2. <i>Our pilgrim brethren, dwelling far</i>,<span class="hst"> (Mission)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>These passed into a few other collections.</p> -<p>She wrote a number of others for various church occasions, -but they have never been collected for publication.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 680</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Long_JD" title="Long, Hon. John Davis"> -<p><b>Long, Hon. John Davis</b> (1838-1915) was born in Buckfield, -Maine, October 27, 1838, and died in Hingham, Massachusetts -on August 28, 1915. Harvard, A.B. 1857, L.L.D. 1880. He -was Governor of Massachusetts, 1880-1883, and Secretary of -the Navy, 1897-1902. A member of the First Parish (Unitarian) -in Hingham, he wrote one hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>The evening winds begin to blow</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>which was included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, but -which has not passed into other books.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_163">163</div> -<div class="biography" id="Longfellow_HW" title="Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth"> -<p><b>Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth</b>, D.C.L., Portland, Maine, February 27, -1807—March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated -from Bowdoin College in 1825. After four years of study in -Europe he was appointed to the Chair of Modern Languages at -Bowdoin, but removed to Harvard in 1835, upon his election as -professor of Modern Languages and Belles-Lettres in the latter -College. He retained that Professorship until 1854, when he -retired to give himself time for authorship in prose and verse. -He became one of the most widely read and beloved poets in the -English-speaking world, and after his death a marble bust commemorating -him was placed in Westminster Abbey. In the strict -sense of the term he was not a hymn-writer, his brother, -<a href="#Longfellow_S">Samuel Longfellow</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, twelve years his junior, far surpassing him in -this field, but hymn-book editors have culled selections from -his poems which they could use, as follows:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Ah, what a sound! The infinite fierce chorus</i>,</p> -<p>From his poem “The Arsenal at Springfield,” published -in <i>The Belfry of Bruges</i>, 1845. Four stanzas, beginning -as above, are included in <i>The Pilgrim Hymnal</i>, 1935. -In S. Longfellow’s and Johnson’s <i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1848, -the selected stanzas from this poem begin</p> -<p><i>Down the dark future through long generations</i>,</p> -<p>and the hymn appeared in this form in other collections.</p> -<p>2. <i>Alas, how poor and little worth</i>,</p> -<p>Tr. from the Spanish of Don Jorge Manrique, (d. 1479), -in Longfellow’s <i>Poetry of Spain</i>, 1833.</p> -<p>3. <i>All are architects of fate</i>,</p> -<p>The first three stanzas of Longfellow’s poem, “The Builders,” -written in 1846. Included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_164">164</div> -<p>4. <i>All is of God; If he but wave his hand.</i></p> -<p>From the poem “The Two Angels,” in his <i>Birds of -Passage</i>, 1858; included in S. Longfellow’s and Johnson’s -<i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864.</p> -<p>5. <i>Blind Bartimeus at the gate</i>,</p> -<p>From <i>Miscellaneous Poems</i>, 1841. Included in G. W. -Conder’s 1874 <i>Appendix</i> to the (British) <i>Leeds Hymn -Book</i>.</p> -<p>6. <i>Christ to the young man said, “Yet one thing more.”</i></p> -<p>Written in 1848 for the ordination of the poet’s -younger brother, Samuel Longfellow; published in -the author’s <i>Seaside and Fireside</i>, 1851, and in -H. W. Beecher’s <i>Plymouth Collection</i>, 1855, altered -to read,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>The Saviour said, “Yet one thing more”</i></p> -</div> -<p>In spite of the occasion for which it was written -it is not a hymn but a hortatory poem of five stanzas -in a most unusual 10.6.10.6 metre, for which it must -have been difficult to find any singable tune.</p> -<p>7. <i>I heard the bells on Christmas Day</i></p> -<p>This carol was written in 1864, for the Sunday School -of the Unitarian Church of the Disciples, Boston, of -which Rev. James Freeman Clarke was minister. The -entire poem, entitled “Christmas Bells,” has seven -stanzas, of which 1, 2, 6 and 7 are in <i>The New Hymn -and Tune Book</i>, 1914, in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, and -in <i>The Pilgrim Hymnal</i>, 1935. The omitted stanzas contain -references to the Civil War, in progress when the carol -was written.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_165">165</div> -<p>8. Into the silent land,</p> -<p>A translation from the German poem “Ins Stille Land! -Wer Leitet uns hinüber,” by J. G. Salis-Seewis, 1808. -Published by Longfellow in <i>Voices of the Night</i>, 1840. -Included in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church -of Christ</i>, 1853, and other American collections.</p> -<p>9. <i>Tell me not in mournful numbers</i>,</p> -<p>Published in <i>Voices of the Night</i>, 1839, as “A Psalm -of Life; What the heart of the Young Man said to the -Psalmist.” Included in several hymnals in Great -Britain and America. In some collections it begins -with the second stanza</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Life is real! Life is earnest</i></p> -</div> -<p>10. <i>There is no flock, however watched and tended</i></p> -<p>A cento from the author’s <i>Seaside and Fireside</i>, 1849.</p> -<p>11. <i>We have not wings: we may not soar.</i></p> -<p>In 1850 the poet wrote “The Ladder of St. Augustine,” -a poem in twelve stanzas, based upon a quotation from -Sermon III, De Ascensione, by St. Augustine of Hippo, -“De vitiis nostris scalam nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa -calcamus.” (We shall make a ladder out of our vices, -if we tread those vices under foot.) The three stanzas -of the hymn are, respectively, the seventh, tenth and -second stanzas of the poem.</p> -</blockquote> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_166">166</div> -<div class="biography" id="Longfellow_S" title="Longfellow, Rev. Samuel"> -<p><b>Longfellow, Rev. Samuel</b>, Portland, Maine, June 18, 1819—October -3, 1892, Portland, was the youngest of the eight -children of Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow. Stephen -Longfellow had graduated from Harvard and had become one of the -most prominent citizens of Portland. His son Samuel entered -Harvard with the Class of 1839, just after his brother, Henry -Wadsworth Longfellow, more than twelve years his senior, had -returned from Europe to begin his professorship at Harvard.</p> -<p>Samuel entered the Harvard Divinity School, from -which he graduated in 1846, and served as minister of the Unitarian -Church in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1848-51; the Second -Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, New York, 1853-1860; and the Unitarian -Church, Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1878-1883. In the -intervals between these pastorates he did much occasional -preaching, and, having independent means and no marital ties, -made several prolonged visits to Europe. He had an attractive -personality, was witty and highly intelligent, and was an acceptable -though outspoken preacher, but he is now remembered -for his contribution to American hymnody through the hymns -which he wrote and the books which he edited. His accomplishment -in this field was greater and more lasting than that of -any other American in the middle period of the 19<sup>th</sup> century. -Its development can best be traced in the books which he published.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_167">167</div> -<p>The first of these was <i>A Book of Hymns for Public and -Private Devotions</i>, which he and his classmate in the Divinity -School, Samuel Johnson, daringly compiled while still students -in the School. A not improbable story of the origin of the book -reports that their friend, Rev. Francis Parker Appleton, then a -young minister at Peabody, Massachusetts, had complained to them -about the antiquated hymn-book which he found in use in his church, -to which they replied that they would prepare a book for him which -would express the religious aspirations of the rising generation. -The book appeared in 1846, before either of the young editors had -been ordained, and was an immediate success. It was first used -in the First Unitarian Church at Worcester, Massachusetts, where -Longfellow’s classmate and lifelong friend, Edward Everett Hale, -had just been ordained at a service for which Longfellow wrote -the ordination hymn, and it was promptly adopted by Theodore Parker -for his congregation in Music Hall. The book was re-published in -somewhat revised and enlarged form in 1848, and ran to 12 editions. -It marked a new epoch in American hymnody because it was the product -of young and adventurous but well-trained minds seeking to give -utterance to the emotions stirred by the intellectual and political -ferment of the times, and because of the new sources to which they -turned. They were the first to see and make use of the hymnic possibilities -of the poems of John Greenleaf Whittier, and to include -in an American hymn-book Newman’s “Lead, kindly Light,” which they -had found printed in a newspaper without the author’s name, though -they altered the first line to read “Send kindly Light,” and another -line further down. From their book it passed into other collections, -with variant readings.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_168">168</div> -<p>In 1859 Longfellow published a little collection entitled -<i>Vespers</i>, hymns for use at the vesper services which he had instituted -in his church in Brooklyn. In 1860 he published <i>A Book -of Hymns and Tunes for the Sunday School, the Congregation, and -the Home</i>, and in 1864 he and Samuel Johnson brought out their -second notable book, <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, (not to be confused with -the hymn book with the same title published by the Beacon Press -in 1937). This book contained most of the later hymns written by -the two editors, and a good many new hymns by other authors who -were glad to contribute them. Its literary level was higher than -that of their first book, but it had less popular success, in part, -perhaps, because they failed to set the words to tunes, which had -become the common practice in the period since their earlier book -appeared. In 1876 he brought out <i>A Book of Hymns & Tunes for the -Congregation & the Home</i>, a revision of his earlier book with a -similar title, in which several of his earlier hymns appear in -revised form. In 1887 he printed privately <i>A Few Verses of Many -Years</i>.</p> -<p>After his death a small volume entitled <i>Hymns and Verses -by Samuel Longfellow</i> was published in 1894 with a very brief introductory -note by his niece, Miss Alice M. Longfellow. It included -41 hymns which she thought were his, followed by 30 short poems of -no outstanding excellence. Some of the “hymns” included seem never -to have come into use as such; some of her attributions were mistaken; -she omitted some hymns which he wrote or adapted but cited in his -books as “Anonymous” because based on the work of others; and she -did not always print the best of extant variant readings. This -book, therefore, must be used with caution in compiling the list -of Longfellow’s hymns, whether original or adapted.</p> -<p>Before listing his hymns it should be noted that he wrote -<span class="pb" id="Page_169">169</span> -or edited several other literary works. In 1853 he and his classmate -Thomas Wentworth Higginson published a beautiful collection -of sea-poems entitled <i>Thalatta</i>. He wrote a memoir of his friend, -Rev. Samuel Johnson, 1883; was the author of a <i>Life of Henry -Wadsworth Longfellow</i>, 1886; and edited <i>Final Memorials of Henry -Wadsworth Longfellow</i> in 1887. A volume of his own <i>Essays and -Sermons</i>, edited by Joseph May, was published in 1894.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_170">170</div> -<p class="center"><i>Alphabetical List of Hymns written or adapted by Samuel Longfellow</i></p> -<dl class="undent"><dt><i>Abbreviations</i>:</dt> -<dd>Bk. Hys. = The Book of Hymns, 1846 or 1848.</dd> -<dd>H. and V. = Hymns & Verses by Samuel Longfellow, 1894.</dd> -<dd>Hys. Sp. = Hymns of the Spirit, 1864.</dd> -<dd>J. (followed by page number) = Julian’s Dictionary of Hymnology.</dd> -<dd>S. L. = Samuel Longfellow</dd></dl> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>A voice by Jordan’s shore.</i> <span class="hst">(Advent)</span></p> -<p>Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864, under title of “John and -Jesus”; in H. & V., no date.</p> -<p>2. <i>Again as evening’s shadow falls.</i> <span class="hst">(Evening)</span></p> -<p>Published in <i>Vespers</i>, New York, 1860, headed “Nox et -tenebrae,” in 2 stas. of 8 l., and reprinted in Hys. -Sp. 1864, with the title “Vesper Hymn,” in 4 stas. -of 4 l.; also in H. & V. in which it is the fourth and -concluding hymn of a group called “Vesper Hymns,” and -dated 1859, the 3<sup>d</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> of which were -included in Hys. Sp., 1864.</p> -<p>3. <i>Beneath the shadow of the cross.</i> <span class="hst">(Sacrifice)</span></p> -<p>Written in Fall River, 1848, and published in the -<i>Supplement to A Book of Hymns, Second Edition</i>, Boston, -1848, with the title “The New Commandment,” in 3 stas. -of 4 l.; in H. & V.</p> -<p>4. <i>Eternal One, Thou living God.</i> <span class="hst">(Anniversary)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1875 for a church anniversary, possibly -for the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Preble Chapel in -<span class="pb" id="Page_171">171</span> -Portland, Maine; 5 stas. of 4 l. In H. & V. the -original reading of the last two lines,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">“Afloat upon its boundless sea,</p> -<p class="t">Who sails with God is safe indeed.”</p> -</div> -<p>are changed to the inferior reading,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">“That truth alone can make us free;</p> -<p class="t">Who goes with God is safe indeed.”</p> -</div> -<p>5. <i>Every bird that upward springs.</i></p> -<p>Included in <i>Supplement to Bk. Hys.</i>, 1848, attributed -to Neale, and also in Hys. Sp., 1864. It is in fact -S.L.’s adaptation of part of a hymn by Neale for St. -Andrew’s Day, included in his “Hymns for Children”, -1842; see pp. 360-1 of the <i>Collected Hymns, Sequences -and Carols of J. M. Neale</i>, 1914. S.L. used stas. 4, -5, 6 and 7 of Neale’s hymn in 8 stas. Of the 16 lines -in S.L.’s version 9 are taken unchanged from Neale, -6 contain part of Neale’s wording, and only 1 is -wholly S.L.’s. S.L. writing in 1880 said, “I may say -that hymn 585, [i.e. Every bird, etc.] is mine—I -did not put my name because two lines were not mine—“. -(see H. W. Foote, <i>The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow</i>, -Harv. Theol. Rev. Oct., 1917.) This letter -illustrates the fallibility of human memory. In the -32 years which had elapsed since he had adapted Neale’s -verses for the <i>Supplement to Bk. Hys.</i> his own contribution -to the final result had come to bulk much larger -than it really was. S.L. was right in ascribing the -hymn to Neale, as he did in 1848 and 1864, tho he might -properly have marked it as “Neale, altered.”</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_172">172</div> -<p>6. Father, give thy benediction. <span class="hst">(Dismissal)</span></p> -<p>One stanza, 8 lines, printed anonymously in Hys. -Sp.; described by S.L. as “of no importance”, -but included in his H. & V. Listed as “Anon.” in -the first edition of the <i>Pilgrim Hymnal</i>. Included -in the <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908. (H. W. -Foote, <i>The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow</i>, -Harv. Theol. Rev. October, 1917). See J. 1563.</p> -<p>7. <i>Go forth to life, O child of earth.</i> <span class="hst">(Life’s mission)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1859, included in his <i>Book of Hymns and -Tunes for the Sunday School</i>, and in Hys. Sp. 1864, -under title “Life’s Mission.” 4 stas. of 4 l.</p> -<p>8. <i>God of the earth, the sea, the sky.</i> <span class="hst">(Divine Immanence)</span></p> -<p>Printed anonymously in Hys. Sp. 1864, under title -“God, through all and in you all”; included in -H. & V. with l. 2 in sta. 1 altered; no date. -(H. W. Foote, <i>The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow</i>, -Harv. Theol. Rev. October, 1917).</p> -<p>9. <i>God of Truth! Thy sons should be</i>,</p> -<p>No. 550 in Hys. Sp. 1864, where it is listed as -“Anon,” because, as he later wrote, it was “founded -on a H. of Wesley” though “nearly all mine.” (H. W. -Foote, <i>The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow</i>, -Harv. Theol. Rev., October, 1917).</p> -<p>10. <i>God’s trumpet wakes the slumbering world.</i> <span class="hst">(Courage)</span></p> -<p>Printed anonymously in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title -“On the Lord’s Side”; in H. & V., no date. 5 stas. -of 4 l.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_173">173</div> -<p>11. <i>He, who himself and God would know.</i> <span class="hst">(Silent worship)</span></p> -<p>Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864 as “From Martineau” under -title of “Be still, and know that I am God.” This -is S.L.’s versification of a passage from Martineau’s -sermon, “Silence and Meditation”, no. 17 in “Endeavors -after the Christian Life,” in which Martineau paraphrased -a few sentences in Pascal’s “Thoughts”, no. 72. -Not dated; not included in H. & V. (H. W. Foote, -<i>The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow</i>, Harv. Theol. -Rev. October, 1917.)</p> -<p>12. <i>Holy Spirit, Truth [Light] Divine.</i></p> -<p>Included in Hys. Sp. under title “Prayer for Inspiration”; -also in H. & V., without date. In the introductory -note to H. & V. it is stated that this hymn -“bears some resemblance to one by Andrew Reed, but -after careful investigation they appear to be quite -distinct.” In spite of this disclaimer it is clear -that the theme of the hymn as a whole, and several -of its lines, are borrowed from the hymn, “Holy Ghost, -with light divine” by Andrew Reed, 1817. Furthermore, -S.L.’s arrangement of this hymn is found in two -different versions, the one in H. & V. beginning, “Holy -Spirit, Truth divine,” the other, and superior one, -beginning, “Holy Spirit, Light divine.” It will be -found in this latter form in <i>The New Hymn and Tune -Book</i>, 1914, and in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, in both -of which it is attributed to both Reed and Longfellow.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_174">174</div> -<p>13. <i>Holy Spirit, source of gladness.</i></p> -<p>S.L.’s adaptation of Jacobi and Toplady’s version -of Gerhardt’s “O du allersusste Freude”; included -in <i>Supplement to Bk. Hys.</i> 1848, and in altered form -in Hys. Sp. 1864; set down as “Anon.” in both; not -included in H. & V.</p> -<p>14. <i>I look to Thee in every need</i>, <span class="hst">(Trust)</span></p> -<p>In Hys. Sp., 1864, with title “Looking Unto God,” and -listed as “Anon.”, but included in H. & V. as Longfellow’s. -He had not claimed it because its opening -stanza was strongly reminiscent of a love-song by -Thomas Haynes Bayly, as indicated by S.L.’s pencilled -notation in his copy of Hys. Sp. now in the library -of Union Theological Seminary, New York, reading -“V. 1, T. H. Bayley, alt.” Bayly (not Baylēy) (1797-1839) -was an English composer of popular sentimental -songs one of which began,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">I turn to thee in time of need</p> -<p class="t2">And never turn in vain;</p> -<p class="t">I see thy fond and fearless smile</p> -<p class="t2">And hope revives again.</p> -<p class="t">It gives me strength to struggle on,</p> -<p class="t2">Whate’er the strife may be;</p> -<p class="t">And if again my courage fail</p> -<p class="t2">Again I turn to thee.</p> -</div> -<p>This song, though one of Bayly’s best, is not included -in his collected works, but a copy, with his name as -its author, is in the Harvard University Library. It -<span class="pb" id="Page_175">175</span> -was published by C. Bradlee, 107 Washington St., -Boston, n.d., the words set “to a favorite -Neapolitan melody”, and must have still been well -remembered when S.L. was inspired to transfigure -the thought of its opening stanza by giving it a -profoundly spiritual interpretation. He made no -use of Bayly’s second and third stanzas, and changed -the metre from 8.6.8.6. double to six line stanzas, -8.6.8.6.8.8., thus making sure that his words would -be sung to another tune than the “Neapolitan melody.”</p> -<p>15. <i>In the beginning was the word.</i> <span class="hst">(The Word of God)</span></p> -<p>This was printed in <i>The Liberty Bell</i>, Boston, 1851, -in 6 stanzas of 8 lines, and dated “Fall River, -Sept. 1850.” Two stanzas are included in Hys. Sp. -1864; also in H. & V., undated.</p> -<p>16. <i>Life of all that lives below.</i></p> -<p>An adaptation from Charles Wesley; not in Bk. Hys. -or Hys. Sp.</p> -<p>17. <i>Life of God, within my soul.</i> <span class="hst">(God in the soul)</span></p> -<p>Only found in H. & V., undated, entitled “A Prayer.” -4 stas. of 4 l.</p> -<p>18. <i>Light of ages and of nations.</i> <span class="hst">(Inspiration)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1860 in H. & V. in which it begins as above -with title “In all ages entering holy souls.” It -was first printed, however, in Hys. Sp. 1864 as -“God of ages,” under title “The word of the Lord -abideth forever.” 3 stas. of 8 l.</p> -<p>19. <i>Lo! the earth is risen again.</i> <span class="hst">(Easter)</span></p> -<p>In H. & V. the first line reads “Lo the earth again -<span class="pb" id="Page_176">176</span> -is risen,” with no date, but Dr. Louis F. Benson -owned a copy of the book in which a ms. note was -appended to this hymn reading</p> -<p class="center">“In memory of C.J. -<br />July 6, 1864 -<br />May 12, 1886. -<br />Written for the first anniversary of her death, May 12, 1887.”</p> -<p>Several other lines besides the opening one have -been re-written, presumably by S.L., to make the -later and improved version of the hymn included -in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p>20. <i>Love for all! and can it be?</i> <span class="hst">(The Prodigal Son)</span></p> -<p>Included in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title “Father, I -have sinned”; also in H. & V. without date. -6 stas. of 4 l.</p> -<p>21. <i>Now on land and sea descending.</i> <span class="hst">(Evening)</span></p> -<p>This is the 3<sup>d</sup> of the Vesper Hymns in H. & V. -2 stas. of 8 l. (See note under “Again as -evening’s shadow falls.”)</p> -<p>22. <i>Now while we sing our closing psalm.</i> <span class="hst">(Close of worship)</span></p> -<p>In H. & V., no date; not in Bk. Hys. or Hys. Sp.</p> -<p>23. <i>Now with creation’s morning song.</i> <span class="hst">(Morning)</span></p> -<p>In Hys. Sp. 1864, ascribed to “Breviary”; it is -S.L.’s adaptation of E. Caswall’s trans. of “Lux -ecce surgit aurea”, beginning “Now with the rising -golden dawn”; see Julian’s Dict. pp. 820-821.</p> -<p>24. <i>O church of freedom and of faith.</i> <span class="hst">(Installation)</span></p> -<p>Written in 1891, presumably for the installation -<span class="pb" id="Page_177">177</span> -of Rev. John Carroll Perkins as minister of -the First Parish in Portland in that year. -Included in H. & V. Not found elsewhere.</p> -<p>25. <i>O Father, fix this wavering will.</i></p> -<p>No. 368 in Hys. Sp. 1864, “Anon.” but later -acknowledged by S.L. as his though “of no -importance.” (H. W. Foote, <i>The Anonymous Hymns -of Samuel Longfellow</i>, Harv. Theol. Rev., Oct., -1917.)</p> -<p>26. <i>O God! a temple to thy name.</i></p> -<p>“Hymn for the dedication of the new chapel of -the First Parish, Haverhill.” Dated 1848 in -H. & V., but not found elsewhere. 5 stas. of -4 l.</p> -<p>27. <i>O God! Thy children gathered here.</i> <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -<p>“Hymn for the ordination of Edward Everett Hale” -at Worcester, Massachusetts in 1846. Bk. Hys. 1848; -H. & V. 1894. 6 stas. of 4 l.</p> -<p>28. <i>O God, thou giver of all good!</i> <span class="hst">(Gratitude)</span></p> -<p>Included in Hys. Sp. 1864, and in H. & V., without -date, under title “Give us this day our daily -bread.” 4 stas. of 4 l.</p> -<p>29. <i>O God unseen, but ever near.</i></p> -<p>S.L.’s adaptation of hymn by E. Osler, printed in -Hys. Sp. 1864, in 3 stas of 4 l., entitled “At the -fountain”. Anon, in index. “It is, in fact E. -Osler’s hymn rewritten, 7 of its 12 lines being -Osler’s.” The expanded form in later books is -<span class="pb" id="Page_178">178</span> -attributed to S.L., but should be “E. Osler alt. -by S.L.” See Julian’s Dict. pp. 1665, 1681, 833.</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">30. <i>O holy, holy, holy,</i></p> -<p class="t"><i>Art Thou, our God and Lord.</i> <span class="hst">(Praise)</span></p> -</div> -<p>This hymn in two stanzas, 8 lines, is found only -in C. W. Wendte’s book <i>The Carol: for Sunday School -and the Home</i> (1886), where it is attributed to -Samuel Longfellow and dated 1886.</p> -<p>31. <i>O Life that maketh all things new.</i></p> -<p>Written under the title “The light that lighteth -every man,” for the 2<sup>d</sup> Social Festival of the Free -Religious Association 1874, in 2 stas. of 8 l.; -afterwards published in <i>A Book of Hymns and Tunes -for the Congregation and the Home</i>, Cambridge, 1876, -with the title “Greeting”, in 4 stas. of 4 l.; -included in H. & V. under title “Behold, I make all -things new”, and there incorrectly dated 1878. -For use of first line see note under “O Thou whose -liberal sun and rain.”</p> -<p>32. <i>O still in accents sweet and strong.</i> <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -<p>Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title “Behold the -fields are white.” H. & V., no date. 4 stas. of -4 l.</p> -<p>33. <i>O Thou, in whom we live and move.</i></p> -<p>In Hys. Sp. 1864, this begins, “O God, in whom we -live and move,” 5 stas. of 4 l. headed “God’s Law -and Love.” In H. & V. it begins, “O Thou, in whom -we live and move,” the form in which the hymn has -passed into later use.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_179">179</div> -<p>34. <i>O Thou, whose liberal sun and rain.</i> <span class="hst">(Church anniversary)</span></p> -<p>Included in Hys. Sp. 1864, and in H. & V. no date. -3 stas. of 4 l. (Note the last line, “To Him who -maketh all things new”, used later for first line -of hymn “O Life that maketh all things new.”)</p> -<p>35. <i>One holy church of God appears.</i> <span class="hst">(The church universal)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1860 in H. & V.; included in Hys. Sp. -1864. 5 stas. of 4 l.</p> -<p>36. <i>Out of every clime and people.</i> <span class="hst">(Christmas)</span></p> -<p>This hymn in two stanzas, 8 lines, with chorus, -is found only in C. W. Wendte’s <i>The Carol: for -Sunday School and the Home</i> (1886) where it is -attributed to S.L. (except chorus).</p> -<p>37. <i>Out of the dark, the circling sphere.</i> <span class="hst">(Hope and courage)</span></p> -<p>Based on a hymn written in 1856 for the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary -of the American Anti-Slavery Society, with -the title “What of the night?” and beginning, “A -quarter of the circling sphere.” See H. & V. for -the original version, which S.L. rewrote for Hys. -Sp. 1864, in 5 stas. of 4 l. The misplaced comment -by Putnam in <i>Singers and Songs of the Liberal -Faith</i>, p. 429, that it was “founded on a passage -in one of Mr. Martineau’s sermons,” refers not to -this hymn but to “He who himself and God would -know,” cited earlier in this listing.</p> -<p>38. <i>Peace, peace on earth, the heart of man forever.</i> <span class="hst">(Peace on earth)</span></p> -<p>Included in Hys. Sp. 1864 and H. & V., no -date. 2 stas. of 4 l.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_180">180</div> -<p>39. <i>Sing forth his high eternal name.</i> <span class="hst">(Praise)</span></p> -<p>Written by request for words to tune “Coronation.” -In H. & V. under title “The Lord of all”, no -date, 6 stas. of 4 l.</p> -<p>40. <i>Spirit divine attend our prayer.</i></p> -<p>This hymn appeared in Hys. Sp. 1864, as “Anon.” -It is S.L.’s adaptation of a hymn by Andrew Reed, -1829, about half the lines having been re-written. -It should be credited to both writers as a joint -production.</p> -<p>41. <i>The loving Friend to all who bowed.</i> <span class="hst">(Jesus)</span></p> -<p>Included in Hys. Sp. under title “Jesus of Nazareth”; -no date in H. & V. 5 stas. of 4 l.</p> -<p>42. <i>The summer days are come again.</i></p> -<p>H. & V. includes a song in three 8-line stanzas -headed “Summer Rural Gathering”, dated 1859, each -stanza beginning, “The sweet June days are come -again.” In Hys. Sp. 1864, the second and third -stanzas of this song are taken to form a hymn for -summer, each beginning, “The summer days are come -again”, the concluding quatrain of the last stanza -re-written.</p> -<p>43. <i>’Tis winter now; the fallen snow.</i></p> -<p>Dated 1859 in H. & V. In Hys. Sp., 4 stas. of -4 l.</p> -<p>44. <i>Thou Lord of life, our saving health.</i> <span class="hst">(Dedication of hospital)</span></p> -<p>“Written for dedication of Cambridge Hospital.” -In H. & V., 4 stas. of 4 l., dated 1886.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_181">181</div> -<p>45. <i>We sowed a seed in faith and hope.</i></p> -<p>“Written for the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the first -meeting of the Second Unitarian Society of -Brooklyn”, included in H. & V. under title -“The truth shall make you free.” No further -use.</p> -<p>46. <i>When from the Jordan’s gleaming wave.</i> <span class="hst">(Baptism)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1848 in H. & V., but it was included in -Bk. Hys. 1846, 5 stas. of 4 l.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>There are also five hymns, composite in origin and listed -as “Anonymous” in Hys. Sp. 1864, which in style and sentiment -so closely resemble S.L.’s writings as to suggest that he gave -them the form in which they are there printed, viz:—</p> -<blockquote> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">47. <i>As darker, darker fall around</i></p> -<p class="t"><i>The shadows of the night.</i></p> -</div> -<p>This is printed in 6 stas., the first four of -which are taken from “The Hymn of the Calabrian -Shepherds,” printed in William Young’s <i>Catholic -Choralist</i>, 1842, but there beginning, “Darker and -darker fall around.” The 5<sup>th</sup> and 6<sup>th</sup> stas. may -be by S.L. since he referred to this hymn as it -appeared in Hys. Sp. as “founded upon the Hymn -of the Calabrian Shepherds,” tho he did not state -that he wrote them. (H. W. Foote, <i>The Anonymous -Hymns of Samuel Longfellow</i>; and Julian, <i>Dictionary</i>, -p. 1627.)</p> -<p>48. <i>Come, thou Almighty Will</i></p> -<p>This hymn in three stanzas was included as Anon. -in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -<span class="pb" id="Page_182">182</span> -1864. Its theme was obviously suggested by -Ray Palmer’s five stanza translation of the -12<sup>th</sup> century Latin hymn <i>Veni Sancte Spiritus</i>, -beginning <i>Come, Holy Ghost, in love</i>, published -in 1858, from which three lines are borrowed -intact, with as many more which only slightly -alter Palmer’s words. Since the religious -outlook expressed is characteristic of Samuel -Longfellow, and the hymn first appeared in <i>Hymns -of the Spirit</i>, it seems certain that he was the -author but listed it as <i>Anon</i>, because of its -composite form. It was included in several -later Unitarian hymn books, most recently in -<i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and in <i>Hymns -of the Spirit</i>, 1937. (J. 1623 H.W.F.)</p> -<p>49. <i>Give forth thine earnest cry.</i></p> -<p>Printed in three 4-line stas. There is no -evidence as to the authorship of this hymn, but -its sentiment is completely in line with Longfellow’s. -Included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, -and in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914.</p> -<p>50. <i>God is in his holy temple.</i></p> -<p>Printed in four 4-line stas. One line is almost -identical with one found in S.L.’s earlier hymn -“Written for the dedication of the New Chapel of -the First Parish, Haverhill, Mass.”, which had -had no use beyond the occasion for which it was -<span class="pb" id="Page_183">183</span> -written, but which Miss Longfellow included in -<i>Hymns and Verses</i>. The recurrence of this line -in the hymn here listed suggests the probability -that the whole hymn is by S.L. though he preferred -to cite it as “Anon.”</p> -<p>51. <i>Supreme disposer of the heart.</i></p> -<p>This appeared in the 1848 edition of the <i>Book of -Hymns</i>, where it is cited as from “Breviary”, and -was included by Miss Longfellow in <i>Hymns and Verses</i> -with the same citation. She probably assumed that -it was a translation by S.L. from a Latin hymn. -It is, however, a largely rewritten version of -John Chandler’s translation of the hymn <i>Supreme -motor cordium</i>, in his <i>Hymns of the Primitive Church</i>, -1837, p. 31. Longfellow retained the general pattern -of Chandler’s five stanzas, and kept a few of his -lines unchanged, or altered by only a word or two, -but rewrote the rest, the fourth and fifth stas. -being wholly S.L.’s, differing from Chandler’s in -both phrase and significance, and even further from -the Latin original.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>The <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908, contains a hymn in two -stanzas, 8.6.8.6.D., beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p>52. <i>The heavens thy praise are telling</i>,</p> -<p>Given as “Anon.” but <a href="#Marean_E">Mrs. Emma Marean</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, who -was exceptionally well informed about that book, -attributed it to “Spitta-Longfellow,” i.e., by -<span class="pb" id="Page_184">184</span> -S. Longfellow based on a German hymn by C. J. P. -Spitta. It is possible that this is the case but -the original by Spitta has not been traced and -Longfellow did not claim this arrangement.</p> -</blockquote> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_185">185</div> -<div class="biography" id="Loring_LP" title="Loring, Louisa Putnam"> -<p><b>Loring, Louisa Putnam</b> (1854-1924) of Boston and Pride’s -Crossing, Massachusetts, compiled <i>Hymns of the Ages</i>, published -in 1904. Her literary and musical standards were -high, and the book was handsomely printed, but its appeal -was limited and it had to compete with several other excellent -hymnbooks then on the market for use among Unitarians. -It included Miss Loring’s own morning hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>O Thou who turnest into morning</i>,<span class="hst"> (1902)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>also included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Loring_WJ" title="Loring, William Joseph"> -<p><b>Loring, William Joseph</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 1795—1841, -Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1813 -and went into business in Boston. He was a lay member of the -Unitarian denomination; was president of the Washington Benevolent -Society; and was a member of the Horticultural Society. -He was probably the author of the hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Why weep for those, frail child of woe</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>attributed to “W. J. Loring” in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns -for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_186">186</div> -<div class="biography" id="Lowell_JR" title="Lowell, James Russell"> -<p><b>Lowell, James Russell</b>, LL.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts, -February 22, 1819—August 12, 1891, Cambridge. Son of -Rev. Charles Lowell, minister of the West Church (Unitarian), -Boston, he graduated from Harvard College in 1838, and entered -upon a literary career as a poet, essayist and scholar. In 1855 -he succeeded H. W. Longfellow as Professor of Belles Lettres at -Harvard and spent the next two years in Europe to increase his -knowledge of southern European languages and literature. On -his return he was the first editor of <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>, -1857-1862, then editor of <i>The North American Review</i>, 1863-1872. -He was United States Minister to Spain, 1877-1880, and to Great -Britain, 1880-1885. He wrote many essays, addresses and poems. -These last were published in a succession of volumes, “A Year’s -Life,” 1841; “Poems,” 1844-1854; “The Vision of Sir Launfal,” -1845; “A Fable for Critics,” 1845; “The Biglow Papers,” 1848 and -1867; “The Commemoration Ode,” 1865; “Under the Willows,” 1868; -and later volumes, his “Complete Poems” appearing in 1895. Though -some of his poems show deep religious feeling he made only a slight -and indirect contribution to American hymnody, writing only one -hymn and one Christmas carol, although stanzas quarried out of -his poems have been used as hymns, as follows:—</p> -<blockquote> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">1. <i>Men who boast it is that ye</i></p> -<p class="t"><i>Come of fathers brave and free</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>The 1<sup>st</sup>, 3<sup>d</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> stanzas of his anti-slavery poem, -“Stanzas on Freedom,” written in 1844. It was included -in this form in <i>The Soldier’s Companion</i>, 1861, in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1864, and in part in <i>Songs of the Sanctuary</i>, -N. Y. 1865, beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>They are slaves who will not choose</i>,</p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_187">187</div> -<p>2. <i>Once to every man and nation</i>,</p> -<p>In December, 1844, Lowell wrote a poem in 18 stas. -of 5 l. entitled “The Present Crisis,” a protest -against the war with Mexico. The English hymnnologist, -Rev. V. Garrett Horder, took from this poem -a number of lines sufficient to make a hymn of -4 stas. which he included, with a few verbal alterations, -in his <i>Hymns Supplemental</i>, 1896, and then in -his <i>Treasury of Hymns</i>. The <i>English Hymnal</i> included -the hymn in 1906, and from this it passed into many -collections. In the form commonly used in this -country, stanza 1 is that of sta. 5 in the original -poem; sta. 2 is that of original sta. 11; sta. 3 is -no. 13, original; and sta. 4, part of sta. 6 and -part of sta. 8 original. In this form it has had -considerable use in this country.</p> -<p>3. <i>Our house, our God, we give to Thee</i>,</p> -<p>Hymn for the dedication of the First Church (Unitarian), -Watertown, Massachusetts, on August 3, 1842, -in a service in which Rev. Samuel Ripley made the -dedicatory prayer and the sermon was preached by -Rev. Convers Francis, who had recently left Watertown -to accept a professorship at the Harvard Divinity -School. Lowell’s Cambridge residence at “Elmwood” -was only a short distance from the Watertown line, -and Miss Maria White, whom he married in 1844, belonged -<span class="pb" id="Page_188">188</span> -to the Watertown parish, which suggests the possibility -that it was she who persuaded him to -write the hymn. It was not included in any of -his published works but has been found on the -only known copy of the printed program of the -service, now owned by the Huntington Library, -San Marino, Pasadena, California. It probably -was used only on the occasion for which it was -written.</p> -<p>4. <i>The ages one great minster seem</i>,</p> -<p>Taken from a poem “Godminster Chimes” which was -“Written in aid of a chime of bells for Christ -Church, Cambridge,” and published in “Under the -Willows,” 1868. From this poem of 7 stas. 8 l., -enough lines have been selected and arranged, with -a few verbal alterations, to make a hymn on the -theme of the Church Universal, in 4 stas. of 4 l.</p> -<p>5. <i>What means this glory round our feet?</i></p> -<p>A Christmas carol written in 1866 “For the children -of the Church of the Disciples”, Boston, (Unitarian), -of which <a href="#Clarke_JF">Rev. James Freeman Clarke</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, was minister. -Of the original 7 stas., five have come into considerable -use.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of the above listed hymns all except no. 3 are in current -use in various hymn books. Nos. 2 and 5 are in <i>The Pilgrim -Hymnal</i>, 1935; nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 in the <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, -<span class="pb" id="Page_189">189</span> -1914, and in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 698</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Lunt_WP" title="Lunt, Rev. William Parsons"> -<p><b>Lunt, Rev. William Parsons</b>, D.D., Newburyport, Mass., April 21, -1805—March 31, 1857, Akabah, Arabia. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1823, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1828. -On June 19, 1828 he was ordained as the first settled minister -of the Second Unitarian Congregational Society in New York, -where he served for five years. On June 3, 1835, he was installed -as associate minister of the First Church in Quincy, Mass., where -he became the sole minister in 1843 and served until his death -while on a journey to Palestine. After his death his hymns and -occasional poems were printed in a small volume entitled <i>Gleanings</i>, -but none of them have been included in later books. His -contribution to American hymnody was made by the publication of -his collection entitled <i>The Christian Psalter</i>, 1841, for his congregation -at Quincy, but its fine quality brought it into much -wider use. It is chiefly remembered today because it included -5 hymns and the metrical version of 17 psalms by his distinguished -parishioner, <a href="#Adams_JQ">John Quincy Adams</a>, <i>q.v.</i></p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 703</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_190">190</div> -<div class="biography" id="Mann_N" title="Mann, Rev. Newton"> -<p><b>Mann, Rev. Newton</b>, Cazenovia, New York, January 16, 1856—July -25, 1926, Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Cazenovia -Academy, and during the Civil War served as head of the Western -Sanitary Commission. He then entered the Unitarian ministry -and was ordained as pastor of the church in Kenosha, Wisconsin, -which he organized and served for three years. He later served -churches in Troy, New York, 1868-70; Rochester, New York, 1870-1888; -and Omaha, Nebraska, 1888-1908, after which he retired to -Chicago. His only connection with hymnody was his versification -of an English translation of the Jewish creedal statement known -as the Yigdal. His verse, which has not survived, was later -recast by <a href="#Gannett_WC">Rev. W. C. Gannett</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, to form the great hymn</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Praise to the living God! All praiséd be his name!</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>concerning which detailed information will be found under Dr. -Gannett’s name. In its present form the hymn is probably mostly -the work of Gannett, but Mann should be credited with having -drafted its earlier form. See also Foote, <i>Three Centuries of -American Hymnody</i>, 339-340.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_191">191</div> -<div class="biography" id="Marean_E" title="Marean, Mrs. Emma"> -<p><b>Marean, Mrs. Emma</b> (<b>Endicott</b>), Boston, Massachusetts, -January 20, 1854—October 17, 1936, Cambridge, Massachusetts. -She married Joseph Mason Marean January 20, 1876. Two hymns -by her were included in <i>The Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i> (Unitarian), -1908,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Grateful for another day</i>, <span class="hst">(An Island Morning)</span></p> -<p>2. <i>Set from the restless world apart</i> <span class="hst">(An Island Hymn)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>Neither has been included in later hymn books but both are in -her small volume of poems, <i>Now and Then</i>, Cambridge, 1928.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_192">192</div> -<div class="biography" id="Mason_CA" title="Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton"> -<p><b>Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton</b> (<b>Briggs</b>), Marblehead, Massachusetts, -July 27, 1823—June 13, 1890, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In -1853 she married Charles Mason, a lawyer living in Fitchburg. She -published in 1852 a volume of poems entitled <i>Utterance: or Private -Voices to the Public Heart</i>, and after her death another collection -was published, her <i>Lost Ring and Other Poems</i>, 1891.</p> -<p>Three of her hymns have had considerable use.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>I cannot walk in darkness long</i>, <span class="hst">(Evening)</span></p> -<p>This begins with stanza V of her poem on <i>Eventide</i>, -“At cool of day with God I walk,” in her <i>Lost Ring</i>, -p. 165.</p> -<p>2. <i>O God I thank Thee for each sight</i>, <span class="hst">(The Joy of Living)</span></p> -<p>A cento of 4 stanzas, from her poem “A Matin Hymn” -beginning “I lift the sash and gaze abroad,” in her -<i>Lost Ring</i>, p. 164.</p> -<p>3. <i>The changing years, eternal God</i>, <span class="hst">(Adoration)</span></p> -<p>Written for the Bicentennial of the First Congregational -Church, Marblehead, August 13, 1884. In her <i>Lost Ring</i> -it begins “The changing centuries, O God,”.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of these hymns no. 2 has had considerable use. It is included -in <i>Hymns of the Church Universal</i>, 1891; the <i>New Hymn and -Tune Book</i>, 1914; the <i>Pilgrim Hymnal</i>, 1935; <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1669</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_193">193</div> -<div class="biography" id="Miles_SE" title="Miles, Sarah Elizabeth"> -<p><b>Miles, Sarah Elizabeth</b> (<b>Appleton</b>) Boston, Massachusetts, -March 28, 1807—January 3, 1877, Brattleboro, Vermont. She -married Solomon P. Miles. In 1827 she printed in the <i>Christian -Examiner</i> a hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Thou, who didst stoop below</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>which passed into a number of hymn books of the period, and in -1828, in the same periodical she printed a poem in 4 stanzas, -C.M.D., which S. Longfellow and S. Johnson, in their second hymn-book, -<i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, divided into two hymns, of 2 -stanzas each, the first beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>The earth, all light and loveliness</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>the second</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>When, on devotion’s seraph wing.</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>They also included another of her hymns, consisting of the second, -fourth and fifth stanzas of her poem entitled “In Affliction,” -beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Thou, infinite in love.</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>These, and some other religious poems, are included in Putnam’s -<i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc. None of her hymns are now in use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_194">194</div> -<div class="biography" id="Mott_FB" title="Mott, Rev. Frederick B."> -<p><b>Mott, Rev. Frederick B.</b>, England, 1856-1941, England. When -a young man he emigrated to this country and on September 30, -1887 was ordained minister of the Barton Square Church (Unitarian) -in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1892 he became minister -of the Third Religious Society in Dorchester, Massachusetts, -which he served till 1903. In 1904 he returned to England and -was installed as minister of the Unitarian Chapel at Southport, -and later moved to London as editor of the periodical <i>Christian -Life</i>. Two hymns in the Universalist <i>Church Harmonies</i>, 1895, are -attributed to him, viz:—</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Take our pledge, eternal Father</i>,</p> -<p>2. <i>The spirit of the Lord has stirred</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>but appear to have had no further use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_195">195</div> -<div class="biography" id="Newell_W" title="Newell, Rev. William"> -<p><b>Newell, Rev. William</b>, D.D., Littleton, Massachusetts, February 25, -1804—October 28, 1881, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated -from Harvard College in 1824 and from the Harvard Divinity School -in 1829. He was ordained minister of the First Parish in Cambridge -on May 19, 1830, where he served until his retirement on March 31, -1868. He was author of many commemorative sermons and memoirs, -and received the honorary degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1853. A -number of his poems are included in Putnam, <i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc. -His hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>All hail, God’s angel, Truth</i> <span class="hst">(Thanksgiving)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>is included in G. Horder’s <i>Worship Song, with Tunes</i>, London, 1905, -but is not found in American collections.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1676</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_196">196</div> -<div class="biography" id="Norton_A" title="Norton, Prof. Andrews"> -<p><b>Norton, Prof. Andrews</b>, Hingham, Massachusetts, December 31, 1786—September -18, 1853, Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from -Harvard in 1804. In 1811 he was appointed tutor in the College, -in 1813 librarian and Lecturer on the Bible, and in 1819 Professor -of Sacred Literature in the Harvard Divinity School, a post which -he resigned in 1830 to devote himself to literary and theological -pursuits. In 1837 he published the first volume of his famous -book <i>The Genuineness of the Gospels</i>, followed in 1844 by the -second and third volumes. This was the earliest scholarly work -on the New Testament by an American author, and expressed the -conservative Unitarian thought of his period. He wrote several -other books, and numerous articles. His few poems were printed -in a small volume soon after his death, including six hymns, -some of which have had considerable use.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Another year, another year</i>, <span class="hst">(Close of the Year)</span></p> -<p>Appeared in the <i>Christian Examiner</i>, Nov.-Dec. 1827, -in 11 stas. of 4 l. In the Unitarian <i>Hymn and Tune -Book</i>, 1868, a cento from it begins with sta. 6,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>O what concerns it him whose way</i></p> -</div> -<p>2. <i>Faint not, poor traveller, though thy way</i>, <span class="hst">(Fortitude)</span></p> -<p>Printed in the <i>Christian Disciple</i>, July-Aug. 1822, -and included in the West Boston <i>Collection</i>, 1823.</p> -<p>3. <i>He has gone to his God, he has gone to his home</i> <span class="hst">(Burial)</span></p> -<p>Printed in the <i>Christian Examiner</i>, Jan.-Feb. 1824.</p> -<p>4. <i>My God, I thank Thee; may no thought</i> <span class="hst">(Submission)</span></p> -<p>Appeared in the <i>Monthly Anthology and Boston Review</i>, -Sept. 1809, and was included in Lunt’s <i>Christian -Psalter</i>, 1841, and in many later collections. This -was Norton’s earliest and best known hymn.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_197">197</div> -<p>5. <i>O stay thy tears; for they are blest</i>, <span class="hst">(Burial of the Young)</span></p> -<p>Printed in the <i>General Depository and Review</i>, -April, 1812, in 5 stas. of 4 l. In 1855, stas. III-V -were included in Beecher’s <i>Plymouth Coll.</i> no. 1094 as</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>How blest are they whose transient years</i></p> -</div> -<p>6. <i>Where ancient forests round us spread</i>,</p> -<p>Written in 1833 for the dedication of a church.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of the above nos. 1, 4, 5 were included in Martineau’s -<i>Hymns</i>, London, 1873. Nos. 4 and 6 are in the Unitarian <i>New -Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and no. 6 is in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1937. See Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith</i> for -the full text of all Norton’s hymns.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 810</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_198">198</div> -<div class="biography" id="Parker_T" title="Parker, Rev. Theodore"> -<p><b>Parker, Rev. Theodore</b>, was born on a farm in Lexington, -Massachusetts on August 24, 1810, and died in Florence, -Italy, on May 10, 1860. He entered Harvard College in -1830, but did most of his work at home, and studied in the -Harvard Divinity School, 1834-1836. In 1840 he was granted -the degree of A.M. from Harvard. Entering the ministry he -served the Unitarian Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, -1837-1846, and the 28<sup>th</sup> Congregational Society, Boston, -1846-1860. He was a famous preacher; author of numerous -printed discourses on social and religious problems; and -one of the earliest American translators of current German -theological literature. He wrote a few poems, none intended -for use as hymns, but Longfellow and Johnson took one of his -sonnets and, by eliminating two lines, transformed it into a -hymn of 3 stanzas of 4 lines each beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>O thou great Friend of all the sons of men</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>which they included in their <i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846. It has had -widespread and long continued use in American hymn-books and -to some extent in England. Twelve of Parker’s poetical pieces -are included in A. P. Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs of the Liberal -Faith</i>. Biographies of Parker have been written by John Weiss, -Octavius B. Frothingham, and other authors.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 882</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_199">199</div> -<div class="biography" id="Peabody_E" title="Peabody, Rev. Ephraim"> -<p><b>Peabody, Rev. Ephraim</b>, Wilton, New Hampshire, March 22, 1807—November -28, 1856, Boston, Massachusetts.</p> -<p>He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1827, and from the -Harvard Divinity School in 1830. After serving as a tutor in the -Huidekoper family in Meadville, Pennsylvania, he was ordained in -1832 as minister of a recently gathered Unitarian congregation in -Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1837 he joined Rev. John H. Morison in serving -the First Congregational Society of New Bedford, Massachusetts, -and in 1845 he accepted a call to King’s Chapel, Boston, where he -remained until his death, though ill-health prevented him from -preaching in the last year and a half of his life. An impressive -preacher, he also wrote some poetry, and a hymn for an ordination, -beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Lift aloud the voice of praise</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>is attributed to him in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church -of Christ</i>, 1853.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_200">200</div> -<div class="biography" id="Peabody_OW" title="Peabody, Rev. Oliver William Bourne"> -<p><b>Peabody, Rev. Oliver William Bourne</b>, Exeter, New Hampshire, -July 9, 1799—July 5, 1847, Burlington, Vermont. He was twin -brother of <a href="#Peabody_WB">W. B. O. Peabody</a>, <i>q.v.</i> He graduated from Harvard -College in 1817, practised law for a few years at Exeter, served -as professor of English Literature in Jefferson College, Louisiana -from 1842 to 1845, and in the latter year was licensed to preach -by the Boston Association and served as minister of the Unitarian -Church at Burlington, Vermont, until his death two years later.</p> -<p>A hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>God of the rolling orbs above</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>is attributed to him in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the -Church of Christ</i>, 1853, but does not appear to have had further -use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 887</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_201">201</div> -<div class="biography" id="Peabody_WB" title="Peabody, Rev. William Bourne Oliver, D.D."> -<p><b>Peabody, Rev. William Bourne Oliver, D.D.</b>, Exeter, New Hampshire, -July 9, 1799—May 28, 1847, Springfield, Massachusetts. Graduated -from Harvard College in 1817, taught for a year in Phillips -Exeter Academy, and studied for the ministry at the Harvard Divinity -School. He was ordained as the first minister of the Unitarian -Church in Springfield, Massachusetts, in October, 1820, and remained -there until his death. In 1823 he published a <i>Poetical -Catechism for the Young</i>, in which he included some original hymns. -He edited <i>The Springfield Collection of Hymns for Sacred Worship</i>, -Springfield, 1835, which was adopted for use in many parishes -besides his own, and several of his hymns were included in it. -A <i>Memoir</i> of him, written by his twin brother, O. W. B. Peabody, -was published in the 2<sup>d</sup> edition of his <i>Sermons</i>, 1849, and a collection -of his <i>Literary Remains</i> was published in 1850. He is -described as “a man of rare accomplishments, and consummate -virtue,” widely respected and admired.</p> -<p>The following hymns by him had considerable use in the 19<sup>th</sup> -century, but only the last survived in a hymn book of the 20<sup>th</sup>.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Behold the western evening light</i>; <span class="hst">(Death of the Righteous)</span></p> -<p>Published in his <i>Catechism</i>, 1823, and in <i>Springfield -Collections</i>, 1835, and elsewhere. It passed into use -in England; in altered form in the <i>Leeds Hymn Book</i>, -1853, and in George Rawson’s Baptist <i>Ps.</i> and <i>Hys.</i> 1858, -where it begins,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>How softly on the western hills.</i></p> -</div> -<p>2. <i>O when the hours of life are past</i> <span class="hst">(The Hereafter)</span></p> -<p>Published in his <i>Catechism</i> in answer to the question -“What do you learn of the future state of happiness?” -<span class="pb" id="Page_202">202</span> -It was included in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for -the Church of Christ</i>, 1853, and had some use in its -original form, and also altered to <i>When all the hours -of life are past</i>.</p> -<p>3. <i>The moon is up; how calm and slow</i>, <span class="hst">(Evening)</span></p> -<p>A poem rather than a hymn, in 6 stas. of 4 l., -appended to his <i>Catechism</i>, 1823.</p> -<p>4. <i>When brighter suns and milder skies</i>, <span class="hst">(Spring)</span></p> -<p>Appended to his <i>Catechism</i>, 1823, in 6 stas. of 4 l.</p> -<p>5. <i>Who is thy neighbor? He whom thou</i> <span class="hst">(The good neighbor)</span></p> -<p>Included in the <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>The full texts of Peabody’s hymns are printed in Putnam, -<i>Singers & Songs of the Liberal Faith</i>, Boston, 1874.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 887</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_203">203</div> -<div class="biography" id="Perkins_JH" title="Perkins, Rev. James Handasyde"> -<p><b>Perkins, Rev. James Handasyde</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, July 31, -1810—December 14, 1849, near Cincinnati, Ohio. He was educated -at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Round Hill School, Northampton, -Massachusetts. After a brief business experience in Boston he -moved to Cincinnati, where he was admitted to the bar in 1837, -but two years later he took up the Ministry-at-Large organized by -the First Congregational Society (Unitarian) of Cincinnati, and -later became pastor of the church. He was active in social reforms -and as a lecturer, and was author of a number of essays descriptive -of life in what was then the far west.</p> -<p>The hymn in 3 stanzas, C.M., beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>It is a faith sublime and sure</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>attributed to “J. H. Perkins” in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Book of -Hymns</i>, 1846-48, is presumably by him, although it is not included -with his poems printed in the <i>Memoir and Writings of James -Handasyde Perkins</i>, edited by W. H. Channing, Cincinnati, 1851. -It does not appear to have had any further use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_204">204</div> -<div class="biography" id="Pierpont_J" title="Pierpont, Rev. John"> -<p><b>Pierpont, Rev. John</b>, Litchfield, Connecticut, April 6, 1785—August -27, 1866, Medford, Massachusetts. He graduated from -Yale College in 1804, studied law, and in 1812 set up practice -in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but later turned to the ministry -and graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1818. That -fall he became minister of the Hollis Street Church (Unitarian) -in Boston, which he served till 1840, when a sharp controversy -over his outspoken attacks on intemperance, slavery and other -social evils led to his resignation. In the same year he published -his <i>Poems and Hymns</i>, which included his temperance and -anti-slavery poems and songs, and of which a later edition appeared -in 1854. He also wrote a number of excellent school -books. In 1845 he became minister of the Unitarian Church at -Troy, New York, and in 1849 of the First Parish in Medford, -Massachusetts, which he served until 1859, when he retired. -With the outbreak of the Civil War he became an Army chaplain -and was later employed in the Treasury Department at Washington. -He died suddenly while on a visit to Medford.</p> -<p>He was the maternal grandfather of J. Pierpont Morgan of -New York, who was named for him, but it would be hard to find -a greater contrast than that offered by the careers of the hymn-writing -reformer and his grandson, the financial magnate.</p> -<p>In his own day Pierpont’s hymns brought him a wide reputation. -Thus Putnam, in his <i>Singers and Songs of the Liberal -Faith</i>, 1873, says, “Mr. Pierpont was one of the best hymn writers -in America. He was a genuine poet, as well as a powerful preacher -and stern reformer.” Today he occupies a much more modest place -in American hymnody. None of his hymns attained a very high level -of excellence. Most of them are respectable verse, written in -<span class="pb" id="Page_205">205</span> -response to frequent requests for hymns for special occasions, -but they well illustrate the mood of the Unitarianism of his -period.</p> -<p>His hymns which have come into use are</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Another day its course hath run</i> <span class="hst">(Evening)</span></p> -<p>Appeared in <i>Hymns for Children</i>, Boston 1825; -in Greenwood’s <i>Chapel Liturgy</i>, 1827; in Lunt’s <i>Christian -Psalter</i>, 1841; and in the author’s <i>Poems and Hymns</i>, 1840.</p> -<p>2. <i>Break forth in song, ye trees</i> <span class="hst">(Public Thanksgiving)</span></p> -<p>Written for the celebration of the 200<sup>th</sup> anniversary -of the Settlement of Boston, Sept. 17, 1830. Included -in <i>Poems and Hymns</i>, 1840.</p> -<p>3. <i>Break the bread and pour the wine</i> <span class="hst">(Communion)</span></p> -<p>In Harris’s <i>Hymns for the Lord’s Supper</i>, 1820.</p> -<p>4. <i>Father, while we break the bread</i>,<span class="hst"> (Communion)</span></p> -<p>5. <i>God Almighty and All-seeing</i> <span class="hst">(Greatness of God)</span></p> -<p>Contributed to Elias Nason’s <i>Congregational Hymn -Book</i>, Boston, 1857.</p> -<p>6. <i>God of mercy, do Thou never</i> <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -<p>Written for the ordination of John B. P. Storer -at Walpole, Mass., Nov. 18, 1826. Included in the -author’s <i>Poems</i>, 1840, and in Hedge and Huntington’s -<i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853.</p> -<p>7. <i>God of our fathers, in Whose sight</i>,<span class="hst"> (Love of Truth)</span></p> -<p>This hymn is composed of stas. IX and X of a longer -hymn written for the Charlestown (Mass.) Centennial, -June 17, 1830. In this form it was included in -Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, -and elsewhere.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_206">206</div> -<p>8. <i>Gone are those great and good</i>,<span class="hst"> (Commemoration)</span></p> -<p>Part of no. 2, above, in <i>Church Harmonies</i>, 1895.</p> -<p>9. <i>I cannot make him dead</i> <span class="hst">(Memorial)</span></p> -<p>A part of an exquisitely touching and beautiful poem -of ten stanzas, originally printed in the <i>Monthly -Miscellany</i>, Oct. 1840.</p> -<p>10. <i>Let the still air rejoice</i>,<span class="hst"> (Praise)</span></p> -<p>This was headed “Temperance Hymn” in <i>The Soldier’s -Companion</i>, 1861, but is really a patriotic ditty.</p> -<p>11. <i>Mighty God, whose name is holy</i> <span class="hst">(Charitable Institutions)</span></p> -<p>Written for the anniversary of the Howard Benevolent -Society, Dec. 1826. Included in the author’s <i>Poems</i>, 1840.</p> -<p>12. <i>My God, I thank Thee that the night</i> <span class="hst">(Morning)</span></p> -<p>In the author’s Poems, 1840. In Lunt’s <i>Christian -Psalter</i>, 1841, and Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, 1873, it -begins</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>O God, I thank Thee</i>.</p> -</div> -<p>13. <i>O bow Thine ear, Eternal One</i> <span class="hst">(Opening of Worship)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1823, but not included in the author’s Poems. -It is given in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns</i>, etc. -1853.</p> -<p>14. <i>O Thou to Whom in ancient times</i> <span class="hst">(Worship)</span></p> -<p>“Written for the opening of the Independent Congregational -Church in Barton Square, Salem, Mass. Dec. 7, -1824,” and printed at the close of the sermon preached -by Henry Colman on that day. Included in the author’s -<span class="pb" id="Page_207">207</span> -<i>Poems</i>, 1840, and in many collections in this country -and in Great Britain.</p> -<p>15. <i>O Thou Who art above all height</i> <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -<p>“Written for the ordination of Mr. William Ware as -Pastor of the First Congregational Church in New York, -Dec. 18, 1821.” Included in <i>Poems</i>, 1840, and in -Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns</i>, etc.</p> -<p>16. <i>O Thou, Who on the whirlwind rides</i> <span class="hst">(Dedication of a Place of Worship)</span></p> -<p>Written for the opening of the Seamen’s Bethel in -Boston, Sept. 11, 1833. Sometimes used beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Thou Who on the whirlwind rides</i></p> -</div> -<p>17. <i>O’er Kedron’s stream, and Salem’s height</i>, <span class="hst">(Gethsemane)</span></p> -<p>Contributed to T. M. Harris’s <i>Hymns for the Lord’s -Supper</i>, 1820. Included in Martineau’s <i>Hymns</i>, London, -1873.</p> -<p>18. <i>On this stone, now laid with prayer</i> <span class="hst">(Foundation Stone)</span></p> -<p>Written for the laying of the cornerstone of Suffolk -Street Chapel, Boston, for the Ministry to the Poor, -May 23, 1839.</p> -<p>19. <i>With Thy pure dew and rain</i>, <span class="hst">(Against slavery)</span></p> -<p>Written for the African Colonization Society. Included -in Cheever’s <i>Common Place Book</i>, 1831, but not -in the author’s <i>Poems</i>, 1840.</p> -<p>20. <i>While with lips with praise that glow</i>, <span class="hst">(Communion)</span></p> -<p>Included in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns</i>, etc.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>All of the above hymns have passed out of use except nos. 1, -<span class="pb" id="Page_208">208</span> -8, 12, and 14 which are included in the <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, -1914, and nos. 8 and 14, included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 895, 1647</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Pray_LG" title="Pray, Lewis Glover"> -<p><b>Pray, Lewis Glover</b>, Quincy, Massachusetts, August 15, 1793—October -9, 1882, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a business man -in Boston, active in civic and church affairs. For 33 years he -was superintendent of the Sunday School in the Twelfth Congregational -Society of Boston. In 1833 he published a <i>Sunday School -Hymn Book</i>, the first book containing music published for Sunday -Schools in New England. It appeared in enlarged form in 1844 as -the <i>Sunday School Hymn and Service Book</i>. In 1847 he published -his <i>History of Sunday Schools</i>. His own hymns and poems were published -in 1862 as <i>The Sylphids’ School</i>, and in a second volume, -<i>Autumn Leaves</i>, 1873. Most of them are songs for Sunday School -use rather than hymns for the church service but one of them, -from <i>The Sylphids’ School</i>, beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>When God upheaved the pillared earth</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>was included in <i>Hymns of the Ages</i>. 3<sup>d</sup> Series, 1864.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 906</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_209">209</div> -<div class="biography" id="Prince_T" title="Prince, Rev. Thomas"> -<p><b>Prince, Rev. Thomas</b>, D.D., Sandwich, Massachusetts, -May 15, 1687—October 22, 1758, Boston, Massachusetts. -He graduated from -Harvard in 1707. After voyages to Barbadoes and a stay of -several years in England he returned to Boston and in 1717 was -ordained as colleague of Rev. Joseph Sewall, minister of the -Old South Church. His career was marked by frequent controversies -and by his <i>Chronological History of New England</i>, based on his -great collection of rare documents dating from the early years -of the Colony. This priceless collection was unfortunately -dispersed and much of it lost after his death. During his -ministry the Tate and Brady version of the Psalms was gradually -replacing the <i>Bay Psalm Book</i> in New England, but his parishioners -clung to the old book. He persuaded them to let him revise it, -which he did, improving or modernizing the verse and printing -after the Psalms “an addition of Fifty other Hymns on the most -important subjects of Christianity.” It included one hymn by -himself beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>With Christ and all his shining Train</i></p> -<p class="t0"><i>Of Saints and Angels, we shall rise</i><span class="hst"> (The Resurrection)</span></p> -</div> -</blockquote> -<p>His collection was published in 1758 and was first used in the -Old South Meeting House on the Sunday following his death. Its -use there continued for another 30 years, but it was not adopted -elsewhere, the <i>Bay Psalm Book</i> being by that time generally superseded -by collections of <i>Watts and Select</i>.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_210">210</div> -<div class="biography" id="Putnam_AP" title="Putnam, Rev. Alfred Porter"> -<p><b>Putnam, Rev. Alfred Porter</b>, D. D. Danvers, Massachusetts, -January 10, 1827—April 15, 1906, Salem, Massachusetts. He -was educated at Brown University, A.B. 1852, and graduated -from the Harvard Divinity School in 1855. Entering the Unitarian -ministry he served a church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, -1855-1864, and the Church of the Saviour, Brooklyn, New York, -1864-1886, when he retired. Brown University gave him the -degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1871. He wrote no hymns but -published in 1874 a book entitled <i>Singers and Songs of the -Liberal Faith: being selections of hymns and other sacred -poems of the Liberal Church in America, with biographical -sketches of the writers</i>. This book includes practically all -the hymns by American Unitarian authors which had come into -use prior to 1870, and the biographical sketches are generally -accurate and adequate in brief space. This useful reference -book is elsewhere referred to in this Dictionary as Putnam: -<i>Singers and Songs</i>.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_211">211</div> -<div class="biography" id="Robbins_C" title="Robbins, Rev. Chandler"> -<p><b>Robbins, Rev. Chandler</b>, D.D., Lynn, Massachusetts, February 14, -1810—September 12, 1882, Westport, Massachusetts. He -graduated from Harvard College in 1829 and from the Harvard -Divinity School in 1833. On December 4th of the same year he -was ordained minister of the Second Church (Unitarian), Boston, -in succession to Henry Ware, Jr. and R. W. Emerson. He received -the honorary degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1855. He was the -author of a number of books, essays and memorial discourses -dealing with local events and persons. In 1843 he published -<i>The Social Hymn Book</i>, intended for social gatherings rather than -for church services, and in 1854 an enlarged edition entitled -<i>Hymn Book for Christian Worship</i>, though this book does not give -his name as editor. He contributed two hymns to <i>A Collection -of Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary</i>, 1845, compiled by George -E. Ellis.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Lo! the day of rest declineth</i> <span class="hst">(Evening)</span></p> -<p>for which L. B. Barnes, then president of the -Handel and Haydn Society composed the tune, -Bedford Street, named for the location of Dr. -Robbins’ church.</p> -<p>2. <i>While thus [now] thy throne of grace we seek</i>, <span class="hst">(Voice of God)</span></p> -<p>The first of these is included in The <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, -1908, and in the <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914. The second is in -<i>Church Harmonies</i>, 1895.</p> -</blockquote> -<p><span class="lr">J. 966</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_212">212</div> -<div class="biography" id="Robbins_SD" title="Robbins, Rev. Samuel Dowse"> -<p><b>Robbins, Rev. Samuel Dowse</b>, Lynn, Massachusetts, March 7, 1812—<span class="u">?</span>1884, -Belmont, Massachusetts, he was a brother of -<a href="#Robbins_C">Chandler Robbins</a>, <i>q.v.</i> He graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in -1833 and on November 13 of the same year was ordained minister of -the Unitarian Church in Lynn. He subsequently held pastorates -in Chelsea (1840), Framingham (1859) and Wayland, Massachusetts, -1867-1873.</p> -<p>He wrote a good many poems on religious themes, which were -published in magazines and newspapers but were never collected -in a volume. The Unitarian <i>Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1868, included -four of his hymns, viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Down toward the twilight drifting</i>, <span class="hst">(Sunset)</span></p> -<p>2. <i>Saviour, when thy bread we break</i>, <span class="hst">(Communion)</span></p> -<p>3. <i>Thou art my morning, God of light</i>, <span class="hst">(Day)</span></p> -<p>4. <i>Thou art, O God! my East. In thee I dawned</i>,</p> -<p>In Putnam, <i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc., this is entitled -“The Compass,” with the statement, “Several mistakes -in this hymn, as it is printed in the Hymn and Tune -Book, are here corrected by Mr. Robbins.”</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i>, p. 967, also cites one beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p>5. <i>Thou art our father! thou of God the Son</i> <span class="hst">(Christ)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>but it is a religious poem rather than a hymn and -there is no evidence that it was included in any -hymn book.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 967</span> -<span class="lr">Revised H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_213">213</div> -<div class="biography" id="Sargent_LM" title="Sargent, Lucius Manlius"> -<p><b>Sargent, Lucius Manlius</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, -June 25, 1786—June -2, 1867, Boston. A layman of independent means, author -of many articles advocating temperance. His temperance hymn -beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Slavery and death the cup contains</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>“was written during the Washingtonian Temperance Revival” and -appeared in Adams’ and Chapin’s Unitarian <i>Hymns for Christian -Devotion</i>, Boston, 1846. In the American Methodist Episcopal -<i>Hymnal</i>, 1878 the first line is altered to read</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Bondage and death the cup contains</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>The hymn is included, with the original wording, in the Universalist -<i>Church Harmonies</i>, 1895.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1061</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Savage_MJ" title="Savage, Rev. Minot Judson"> -<p><b>Savage, Rev. Minot Judson</b>, D.D., Norridgewock, Maine, June 10, -1841—May 22, 1918, Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were -strictly orthodox Congregationalists whose resources were meagre, -but a generous benefactor made it possible for him to enter -Bangor Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1864. -He served as a Congregational minister in California, Massachusetts -and Missouri, but, having become acquainted with the works -of Darwin and Herbert Spencer, he transferred his membership to -the Unitarian denomination in 1872 and became minister of the -Third Unitarian Church in Chicago. Two years later he accepted -a call to Unity Church in Boston, which he served until 1896 -when he moved to New York as minister of the Church of the -<span class="pb" id="Page_214">214</span> -Messiah. He was one of the earliest advocates of a religious -interpretation of the doctrine of evolution, a bold thinker and -forceful speaker in great demand, and the author of many books -and printed sermons. In 1883 he published <i>Sacred Songs for -Public Worship; a Hymn and Tune Book</i>, with music arranged by -Howard M. Dow, for use in Unity Church. It contained 195 hymns -and songs, 42 of which were from his own pen. It had the shortcomings -of a “one-man book” and was musically nearer akin to the -typical gospel song-book than was usual in Unitarian hymn-books, -and it had little use outside his own congregation. Several of -his hymns passed into other collections in England and America, -viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Dost thou hear the bugle sounding</i>, <span class="hst">(Duty)</span></p> -<p>2. <i>Father, we would not dare to change thy purpose</i> <span class="hst">(Prayer)</span></p> -<p>3. <i>God of the glorious summer hours</i>, <span class="hst">(New Year)</span></p> -<p>4. <i>How shall come the kingdom holy</i> <span class="hst">(Coming of the kingdom)</span></p> -<p>5. <i>O God, whose law is in the sky</i> <span class="hst">(Consecration to Duty)</span></p> -<p>6. <i>O star of truth, down shining</i>, <span class="hst">(Devotion to Truth)</span></p> -<p>7. <i>Seek not afar for beauty</i>, <span class="hst">(God in Nature)</span></p> -<p>8. <i>The God that to our fathers revealed his holy will</i>,</p> -<p>9. <i>The very blossoms of our life</i>, <span class="hst">(Baptism)</span></p> -<p>10. <i>What purpose burns within our hearts</i>, <span class="hst">(Church Fellowship)</span></p> -<p>11. <i>When the gladsome day declineth</i>, <span class="hst">(Evening)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of these nos. 4, 6, 7 and 11 are included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1698</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_215">215</div> -<div class="biography" id="Scudder_E" title="Scudder, Eliza"> -<p><b>Scudder, Eliza</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, November 14, 1821—September -28, 1896, Weston, Massachusetts. She was a niece -of <a href="#Sears_EH">Rev. E. H. Sears</a>, <i>q.v.</i> Early in life she joined a Congregational -Church, throughout her middle years was a Unitarian, -and late in life entered the Episcopal Church. She wrote a -small number of poems which were published in Boston in 1880 -under the title <i>Hymns and Sonnets, by E.S.</i>, and again with her -two latest poems and a brief biographical sketch by Horace E. -Scudder, in 1897, but most of her hymns had appeared at earlier -dates in other places. They are characterized by a profound -mystical spirit expressed in terms of great literary beauty, -and some of them passed into a considerable measure of common -use.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>And wherefore should I seek above</i>,</p> -<p>This hymn, included in <i>The Isles of Shoals Hymnbook</i>, -1908, consists of the last three stanzas of a much longer -poem entitled “The New Heaven,” dated 1855.</p> -<p>2. <i>From past regret and present faithlessness</i>, <span class="hst">(Repentance)</span></p> -<p>written in August, 1871, and published in <i>Quiet Hours</i>, -Boston, 1875. This was altered in some hymnbooks to,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>From past regret and present feebleness</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>In most cases the opening stanza has been omitted -and the hymn has begun with the second stanza,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Thou Life within my life, than self more near</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>see no. 9, below.</p> -<p>3. <i>I cannot find Thee, still on restless pinion</i>, <span class="hst">(Seeking after God)</span></p> -<p>This first appeared in Longfellow and Johnson’s -<i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_216">216</div> -<p>4. <i>In Thee my powers and treasures live</i>, <span class="hst">(Faith and Joy)</span></p> -<p>This appeared in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864. It is -part of a hymn of 10 stanzas beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Let whosoever will inquire</i>, dated 1855.</p> -</div> -<p>In <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, another arrangement -of stanzas forms a hymn beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>My God, I rather look to Thee</i></p> -</div> -<p>5. <i>Life of our life, and light of all our seeing</i>, <span class="hst">(Prayer)</span></p> -<p>Written in August, 1870, it was included in -<i>Quiet Hours</i>, 1875.</p> -<p>6. <i>The day is done: the weary day of thought and toil is past</i>, <span class="hst">(Evening)</span></p> -<p>Included in <i>Sermons and Songs of the Christian -Life</i>, E. H. Sears, Boston, 2<sup>nd</sup> ed. 1878, p. 296, -entitled “Vesper Hymn,” dated “October, 1874.”</p> -<p>7. <i>Thou Grace divine, encircling all</i>, <span class="hst">(Divine Grace)</span></p> -<p>This appeared in E. H. Sears’ <i>Pictures of the Olden -Time, as shown in the Fortunes of a Family of Pilgrims</i>, -1857. Written in 1852, it was included in <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1864. In the Universalist <i>Psalms and Hymns</i>, -1865, it was mistakenly called “An Ancient Catholic -Hymn.”</p> -<p>8. <i>Thou hast gone up again</i> <span class="hst">(Ascension)</span></p> -<p>In <i>Hymns and Sonnets</i>, 1880.</p> -<p>9. <i>Thou Life within my life, than self more near</i>,</p> -<p>As noted above, this is part of No. 2, beginning -with the second stanza of that hymn. In this form -it is perhaps Miss Scudder’s most beautiful hymn.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_217">217</div> -<p>10. <i>Thou long disowned, reviled, opprest</i>,<span class="hst">(Spirit of Truth)</span></p> -<p>Written in January, 1860, it was included in -<i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864. A cento from this -hymn, altered to read,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Come Thou, with purifying fire</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>was included in Stryker’s <i>Church Song</i>, 1889.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of these hymns nos. 3, 4 (selected stanzas), 7, 9 and 10 are -included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and nos. 3, 7 -and 9 in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1035, 1589, 1700</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_218">218</div> -<div class="biography" id="Sears_EH" title="Sears, Rev. Edmund Hamilton"> -<p><b>Sears, Rev. Edmund Hamilton</b>; Sandisfield, Massachusetts -April 6, 1810—January 16, 1876, Weston, Massachusetts. -Studied at Union College, graduated from the Harvard Divinity -School in 1837. Ordained minister of the First Parish (Unitarian) -of Wayland, Massachusetts, on February 20, 1839. He -soon after went to Lancaster, Massachusetts; returned to Wayland, -1848-1864; and was minister of the First Parish, Weston, Massachusetts, -1866 until his death. He was author of many books and -printed sermons, and of a good many poems, often hymns supplementary -to his sermons. None of these, however, have come into -general use, and his reputation as a hymn writer is based on his -two widely used Christmas hymns, found in many hymn books. The -first,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Calm on the listening ear of night</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>was written in 1839. It was included as “Anon.” in <i>The Christian -Psalter</i>, published in 1841 by Sears’ friend, <a href="#Lunt_WP">Rev. W. P. Lunt</a>, <i>q.v.</i> -of Quincy, Massachusetts. In the <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, -the second line of sta. 6</p> -<blockquote> -<p>The Saviour now is born!</p> -</blockquote> -<p>was changed to read</p> -<blockquote> -<p>The Prince of Peace is born!</p> -</blockquote> -<p>but the original reading was restored in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937. -His second hymn,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>It came upon the midnight clear</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>was written in 1849. One tradition about it reports that it was -written at Mr. Lunt’s request and was first used at the Christmas -celebration of the Sunday School in Quincy in that year. Sta. 5 -of this hymn</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_219">219</div> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">For lo! the days are hastening on</p> -<p class="t">By prophet bards foretold,</p> -<p class="t0">When with the ever-circling years</p> -<p class="t">Comes round the age of gold;</p> -<p class="t0">When peace shall over all the earth</p> -<p class="t">Its ancient splendors fling,</p> -<p class="t0">And the whole world give back the song</p> -<p class="t">Which now the angels sing</p> -</div> -<p>has appeared in re-written forms more than once because its -“backward look” to a golden age is not Biblical but is derived -from the Fourth Eclogue of the poet Virgil. In the Episcopal -<i>Hymnal</i> of 1874 this is altered to read</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">For lo, the days are hastening on</p> -<p class="t">By prophets seen of old,</p> -<p class="t0">Till with the ever circling years</p> -<p class="t">Shall come the time foretold,</p> -<p class="t0">When the new heaven and earth shall own</p> -<p class="t">The Prince of Peace their King- - - -</p> -</div> -<p>and this version was reprinted in the Episcopal hymnals of 1892 -and 1916, and passed into other collections. In the <i>Hymnal</i>, 1940, -it was again altered to read</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0">For lo, the days are hastening on</p> -<p class="t">By prophets seen of old,</p> -<p class="t0">When with the ever circling years</p> -<p class="t">Shall come the time foretold</p> -</div> -<p>These alterations may have brought the hymn into closer accord -with orthodox theology, but at the expense of some of its poetic -<span class="pb" id="Page_220">220</span> -beauty.</p> -<p>Two patriotic songs by Sears were included in the army -hymn book, <i>The Soldier’s Companion</i>, 1861. One headed “A Psalm -of Freedom” begins,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Still wave our streamer’s glorious folds</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>The other is headed “Song of the Stars and Stripes,” and -begins,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>We see the gallant streamer yet</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Neither has any great merit, though both may have served the -purpose for which they were written.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1036</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Sewall_C" title="Sewall, C."> -<p><b>Sewall, C.</b></p> -<p>An anti-slavery hymn attributed to a person of this name -is included in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of -Christ</i>, 1853. It begins,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Lord, when thine ancient people cried</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>It is probable, but not certain, that the author was Rev. Charles -Chauncy Sewall, Marblehead, Massachusetts, May 10, 1802—November -22, 1886, Medfield, Massachusetts; who was a graduate of -Bowdoin College and who received the degree of Master of Arts -from Harvard in 1832. He was a Unitarian minister serving -churches in Peabody, Massachusetts, 1827-1841; Sharon, Massachusetts, -1857-1862; and Medfield, 1873-1377.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_221">221</div> -<div class="biography" id="Sigourney_LH" title="Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia Howard"> -<p><b>Sigourney, Mrs. Lydia Howard</b> (<b>Huntley</b>), Norwich, Connecticut, -September 1, 1791—June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut, wife -of Charles Sigourney. She was a prolific writer of prose and -verse contributed to many periodicals, and author of many books, -chiefly moral tales for young people. She became a very popular -writer and spent two years, 1840-1842, in England where -she met many celebrities. Two hymns by her were included in -Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853, viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Laborers of Christ, arise</i>,<span class="hst">(Brotherhood)</span></p> -<p>This was also included in <i>Church Harmonies</i>, 1895, with the first -line altered to read</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Servants of Christ, arise</i>.</p> -</div> -<p>2. <i>When adverse winds and waves arise</i><span class="hst">(Trust)</span></p> -<p>Neither hymn has had later use.</p> -</blockquote> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1057, 1589.</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_222">222</div> -<div class="biography" id="Sill_ER" title="Sill, Edward Rowland"> -<p><b>Sill, Edward Rowland</b>, Windsor, Connecticut, April 29, 1841—February -27, 1887, Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Yale -in 1861 and spent several months in the year 1866-1867 at -the Harvard Divinity School, writing his one fine hymn,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Send down thy truth, O God</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>for the School’s Visitation Day exercises in 1867. It was -included in his collection of poems, <i>The Hermitage</i>, published -the same year, and passed thence into many American hymnbooks. -Presumably he entered the Divinity School intending to prepare -for the Unitarian ministry, but he did not do so and neither -then nor later associated himself with any denomination. At -the end of the academic year 1867 he moved to California where -he was Professor of English Literature, 1874-1882 at the University -of California. He published several books of poems of superior -quality.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1703</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_223">223</div> -<div class="biography" id="Silliman_VB" title="Silliman, Rev. Vincent Brown, D.D."> -<p><b>Silliman, Rev. Vincent Brown, D.D.</b>, Hudson, Wisconsin, June 29, -1894—still living. He graduated from Meadville Theological -School in 1920 and from the University of Minnesota in 1925. -He has served Unitarian churches in Buffalo, New York; Portland, -Maine; Hollis, New York; and Chicago, Illinois. He was -a member of the committee which edited <i>The Beacon Song and Service -Book for Children and Young People</i>, 1935, and edited <i>We -Sing of Life</i>, 1955, an unusual collection of songs for children -and young people, with a strong ethical emphasis, some set to -familiar hymn tunes, others to interesting folk music. Mr. -Silliman contributed the words of several songs. One of them, -beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Morning, so fair to see</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>is also included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, set to St. Elizabeth -(Crusader’s Hymn).</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Spencer_AG" title="Spencer, Mrs. Anna Garlin"> -<p><b>Spencer, Mrs. Anna Garlin</b>, (wife of Rev. William H. Spencer), -Attleboro, Massachusetts, April 17, 1851—February 12, 1931, -New York. She was ordained as a Unitarian minister, and was a -lecturer and author of books on social problems. In 1896 in -her “Orders of Service for Public Worship” she included her -song entitled “The Marching Song of the Workers,” beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Hail the hero workers of the mighty past</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>set to St. Gertrude. It was included in <i>Hymns of the United -Church</i>, 1924, in <i>Songs of Work and Worship</i>, and in <i>Hymns of -the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_224">224</div> -<div class="biography" id="Sprague_C" title="Sprague, Charles"> -<p><b>Sprague, Charles</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1791—January -22, 1875, Boston. A Unitarian layman. Although a -business man without a college education he wrote much verse -which brought him a considerable reputation and requests for -poems to celebrate special occasions. One of them was read -before the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Cambridge in -1829, and was re-published, with minor alterations, a few years -later in Calcutta by a British officer, as his own work. A collection -of his poems was published in 1841, and an enlarged edition -in 1850. A number of his shorter poems are given in Putnam’s -<i>Singers and Songs</i>, and a hymn attributed to “C. Sprague” is included -in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, -1853, beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>O Thou, at whose dread name we stand</i>.</p> -</blockquote> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Trapp_J" title="Trapp, Rev. Jacob, S.T.D."> -<p><b>Trapp, Rev. Jacob, S.T.D.</b>, Muskegon, Michigan, April 12, 1899—still -living. He was educated at Valparaiso University and The -Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry (now called The Starr -King School for the Ministry). He was ordained in 1929 and has -served Unitarian churches in Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Colorado; -and Summit, New Jersey. In 1932 he wrote a hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Wonders still the world shall witness</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>which is included, with some revisions, in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_225">225</div> -<div class="biography" id="Tuckerman_J" title="Tuckerman, Rev. Joseph"> -<p><b>Tuckerman, Rev. Joseph</b>, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, January 18, -1778—April 20, 1840, Havana, Cuba. He graduated from Harvard -College in 1798, a classmate of Rev. William Ellery Channing, -whose close friend he remained through life. He was licensed to -preach by the Boston Association and in 1801 was ordained minister -of a church in Chelsea, Massachusetts, at that time a small farming -community, which he served for 25 years. He then moved to -Boston to begin his “ministry-at-large” to the unchurched elements -in the population, under the auspices of the American Unitarian -Association and later of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. -He attained wide reputation for his philanthropy and his wide -methods of social reform. Harvard gave him the honorary degree -of D.D. in 1824.</p> -<p>His hymn</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Father divine! This deadening power control</i> <span class="hst">(Aspiration)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>is attributed to “Tuckerman” in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the -Church of Christ</i>, 1853, and in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1864, but is not listed in Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i> or included -in later collections.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_226">226</div> -<div class="biography" id="Very_J" title="Very, Jones"> -<p><b>Very, Jones</b>, Salem, Massachusetts, August 28, 1813—May 8, 1880, -Salem, Massachusetts. He was brother of <a href="#Very_W">Washington Very</a>, <i>q.v.</i> -He graduated from Harvard College in 1836, and served as tutor -in Greek there for two years. Although Julian, <i>Dictionary</i>, -p. 1219, says that he entered the Unitarian ministry in 1843, he -was never ordained as a settled minister though he served frequently -as an occasional lay preacher. Most of his life was given to -literary pursuits. In 1839 he published <i>Essays and Poems</i>, and -thereafter was a frequent contributor in prose and verse to -periodicals, including <i>The Christian Register</i> and the <i>Monthly -Magazine</i>. The following hymns by him have passed into various -American Unitarian collections.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>Father! I wait Thy word</i>, <span class="hst">(Waiting upon God)</span></p> -<p>2. <i>Father, there is no change to live with Thee</i> <span class="hst">(Peace)</span></p> -<p>3. <i>Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand</i> <span class="hst">(The Spirit Land)</span></p> -<p>4. <i>Wilt Thou not visit me?</i> <span class="hst">(The Divine Presence)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>These four, from <i>Essays and Hymns</i>, were included in Longfellow -and Johnson’s <i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846, as were also three from other -sources:—</p> -<blockquote> -<p>5. <i>I saw on earth another light</i> <span class="hst">(The Light Within)</span></p> -<p>6. <i>The bud will soon become a flower</i> <span class="hst">(Sowing and Reaping)</span></p> -<p>7. <i>Turn not from him who asks of thee</i> <span class="hst">(Kind Words)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>Longfellow and Johnson’s second book, <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1864, also included</p> -<blockquote> -<p>8. <i>One saint to another I heard say, How long</i> <span class="hst">(The Future)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>Most of these hymns are in Lyra Sacra Americana and in Putnam’s -Singers and Songs, etc. Two other of his hymns have been published -in later collections, viz:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>9. <i>O heavenly gift of love divine</i>, <span class="hst">(Divine assistance)</span></p> -<p>from his <i>Essays and Poems</i> is included in the <i>Pilgrim -Hymnal</i>, 1904; and</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_227">227</div> -<p>10. <i>We go not on a pilgrimage</i> <span class="hst">(This earth as holy land)</span></p> -<p>is included in the <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914 and -in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of the hymns listed above nos. 2 and 3 are included in the -<i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, and in other publications. Another -hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>There is a world eye hath not seen</i> <span class="hst">(The Spirit World)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>included in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, -and there marked <i>Anon.</i>, is attributed to Very in Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i>. -The hymn is an abbreviated and mutilated version of the beautiful -poem beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t0"><i>There is a world we have not seen</i></p> -</div> -<p>in A. M. Buchanan’s <i>Folk Hymns of America</i>, pp. 80-81. (See H. W. -Foote, <i>Three Centuries of American Hymnody</i>, p. 173). The original -form is in three stanzas of eight lines, long metre. The very -inferior re-written form is in four stanzas, four lines, common -metre. Some of the lines are unchanged from the original, others -altered, and the last stanza is a didactic addition. It is altogether -improbable that this was done by Very.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1219, 1721</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_228">228</div> -<div class="biography" id="Very_W" title="Very, Washington"> -<p><b>Very, Washington</b>, Salem, Massachusetts, November 12, 1815—April -28, 1853, Salem. He graduated from Harvard College -in 1843, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1846. After -preaching for a year without settlement he opened a private -school in Salem, which he conducted until his death. He was -brother of <a href="#Very_J">Jones Very</a>, <i>q.v.</i> Putnam in <i>Singers and Songs of -the Liberal Faith</i> includes three of W. Very’s poetical pieces, -one of which</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>There cometh o’er the Spirit</i> <span class="hst">(Spring)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>appeared in Longfellow and Johnson’s Book of Hymns, 1846.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1219</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_229">229</div> -<div class="biography" id="Ware_H" title="Ware, Rev. Henry, Jr."> -<p><b>Ware, Rev. Henry, Jr.</b>, D.D., Hingham, Massachusetts, April 21, -1794—September 22, 1843, Framingham, Massachusetts. His -family was for three generations an outstanding one in the -liberal ministry; his father, Dr. Henry Ware, Sr., was called -in 1805 from a pastorate in Hingham to serve as Hollis Professor -of Divinity at Harvard; his younger brother, William Ware, was -the first minister of what is now All Souls Church, New York; and -his son, J. F. W. Ware, was later the minister of Arlington Street -Church, Boston. Henry Ware, Jr. graduated with high honors from -Harvard in 1812, and after teaching for two years at Phillips -Exeter Academy returned to Cambridge, to continue his theological -studies. He was licensed to preach on July 31, 1815, but was not -ordained as minister of the Second Church in Boston (Unitarian) -until January 1, 1817. Never vigorous in body, he offered his -resignation in 1829, but the congregation refused to accept it, -appointing R. W. Emerson to be assistant minister. In 1830, however, -he resigned, to accept an appointment as Professor of Pulpit -Eloquence and Pastoral Care at the Harvard Divinity School, a -position which he held till 1842. He then moved from Cambridge -to Framingham, Massachusetts, where he died a few months later. -Harvard gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1834. In -spite of ill health he wrote much, and he was a greatly beloved -teacher, whose saintly character commanded the highest respect. -For several years he edited the <i>Christian Disciple</i>, established -in 1813, and he was author of many printed books, addresses and -sermons, listed in the <i>Memoir</i> of him, published by his brother, -Dr. John Ware, in 1846. His collected works were published in -four volumes in 1847, the first volume including his occasional -poems and his hymns. Some of these last reached a high standard -<span class="pb" id="Page_230">230</span> -of excellence and brought him wide recognition in the liberal -churches of Great Britain as well as in this country. No less -than eight pieces of his verse were included in <i>Lyra Sacra -Americana</i>, published by the British Religious Tract Society in -1868. His hymns are some of the choicest poetical expressions -of liberal religious thought in the first period of American -Unitarian hymnody, but almost all have dropped out of present use. -Most of them will be found in Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>All nature’s works His praise declare</i>, <span class="hst">(Worship)</span></p> -<p>Headed “On Opening an Organ” and dated November 9, -1822. In view of the almost universal use of organs -in modern churches it is rather surprizing that this -should be a well-nigh unique example of a hymn for -the dedication of such an instrument. It is also a -good general hymn of worship. It was included in -Horder’s British <i>Congregational Hymns</i>, 1884, and in a -number of American Unitarian collections.</p> -<p>2. <i>Around the throne of God, the host angelic sings</i>,</p> -<p>A hymn of “Universal Praise,” based on Revelation IV, -2, 3; XV, 3. Dated 1823 and published in the <i>Christian -Disciple</i>, vol. V. A fine hymn of its type, but little -used, perhaps because of its metre, 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4.</p> -<p>3. <i>Father of earth and heaven, Whose arm upholds creation</i>, <span class="hst">(Thanksgiving for Divine Mercies)</span></p> -<p>Included in Cheever’s -<i>Common Place Book</i>, 1831, and in <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>.</p> -<p>4. <i>Father, Thy gentle chastisement</i> <span class="hst">(In sickness)</span></p> -<p>Dated March, 1836. In <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_231">231</div> -<p>5. <i>Great God, the followers of thy Son</i>, <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -<p>Written for the ordination of Jared Sparks, the -historian, as minister of the First Unitarian -Church, Baltimore, Maryland, May 5, 1819, but -suitable for any service of worship and perhaps the -most widely used of Ware’s hymns.</p> -<p>6. <i>In this glad hour when children meet</i> <span class="hst">(Family Gatherings)</span></p> -<p>Dated August 20, 1835. In <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>.</p> -<p>7. <i>Lift your glad voices in triumph on high</i> <span class="hst">(Easter)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1817, and published in the <i>Christian Disciple</i> -of that year, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. In <i>Lyra -Sacra Americana</i> and included in many 19<sup>th</sup> century -hymn books. In a few cases the second stanza alone -is given, beginning</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>Glory to God, in full anthems of joy!</i></p> -</div> -<p>8. <i>Like Israel’s hosts to exile driven</i> <span class="hst">(The God of our Fathers)</span></p> -<p>Written for the Centennial Celebration of the Boston -Thursday Lecture, October 17, 1833. It is a quasi-national -hymn in praise of the Pilgrim Fathers. Included in -Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i> -and in <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>.</p> -<p>9. <i>O Thou in whom alone is found</i> <span class="hst">(Laying Foundation Stone for a Place of Worship)</span></p> -<p>Not dated. In <i>Lyra Sacra Americana</i>, -and in Thring’s <i>Collection</i> (British) 1882.</p> -<p>10. <i>O Thou who on thy chosen Son</i>, <span class="hst">(Ordination)</span></p> -<p>Written “For an ordination, March, 1829.” Included -in Dale’s <i>English Hymn Book</i>, 1874.</p> -<p>11. <i>Oppression shall not always reign</i>, <span class="hst">(Anti-Slavery Song)</span></p> -<p>Dated March 15, 1843, it is the last of the author’s -<span class="pb" id="Page_232">232</span> -writings in verse. In its original form it was a -poem in several stanzas unsuited for use as a hymn, -but 3 stanzas, beginning as above, had been taken -from it, altered and transposed, and thus adapted -for worship. Stanzas one and two were included in -Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i> -and in Longfellow and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1864.</p> -<p>12. <i>To prayer, to prayer, for morning breaks</i>, <span class="hst">(Prayer)</span></p> -<p>In 1826 he wrote a poem of 10 stanzas, 6 lines each, -entitled “Seasons of Prayer,” printed in full in <i>Lyra -Sacra Americana</i> and in Putnam, <i>Singers and Songs</i>, -from which at least three variant centos were in use -in the 19<sup>th</sup> century. One beginning with the first -line, as above, adapting it for morning worship, was -included in Lunt’s <i>Christian Psalter</i>, 1841, and in -later collections. Another beginning with the second -stanza</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>To prayer, the glorious sun is gone</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>was adapted for evening worship. A third selection, -beginning with the third stanza of the poem,</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t"><i>To prayer! for the day that God hath blest</i>,</p> -</div> -<p>was included in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the -Church of Christ</i>.</p> -<p>13. <i>We rear not a temple, like Judah of old</i>, <span class="hst">(Dedication of a</span> -Place of Worship)</p> -<p>“For the dedication of a church, April, 1839.”</p> -<p>14. <i>With praise and prayer our gifts we bring</i> <span class="hst">(Opening of a Place of Worship)</span></p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_233">233</div> -<p>In Dale’s <i>English Hymn Book</i>, 1874. Not in -Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>None of the hymns listed above are in current use -except nos. 1 and 5, both of which are included in <i>The New Hymn -and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1233, 1595</span> -<span class="lr">Revised by H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_234">234</div> -<div class="biography" id="Waterston_RC" title="Waterston, Rev. Robert Cassie"> -<p><b>Waterston, Rev. Robert Cassie</b>, Kennebunk, Maine, 1812—February -21, 1893, Boston, Massachusetts. He studied for a -time at the Harvard Divinity School. In 1844 Harvard gave him -the degree of Master of Arts, following the publication of his -book on <i>Moral and Spiritual Culture</i>. In 1839 he was ordained -to the ministry-at-large (Unitarian) in Boston, in charge of -the Pitts Street Chapel, where he remained till 1845. From 1845 -to 1852 he served as minister of the Church of the Saviour, Boston, -and from 1854 to 1856 he was minister of the First Religious -Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Thereafter he gave himself -to educational and literary pursuits. He was a member of the -Massachusetts Historical Society and was long active on the -Boston School Committee. He wrote many essays, addresses and -poems, the most important of which are listed in Putnam’s <i>Singers -and Songs</i>, etc., pp. 390-410. He contributed one hymn to the -Cheshire Pastoral Association’s <i>Christian Hymns</i>, 1844, and eight -to his own <i>Supplement</i> to Greenwood’s <i>Psalms and Hymns</i>, 1845.</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>God of the soul</i> <span class="hst">(The soul and God)</span></p> -<p>2. <i>Great God, in heaven above</i>,</p> -<p>Written for a Sunday School.</p> -<p>3. <i>Great Source of Good, our God and Friend</i> <span class="hst">(Worship)</span></p> -<p>4. <i>In ages past, majestic prophets</i>, <span class="hst">(The Coming of Jesus)</span></p> -<p>5. <i>Nature with eternal youth</i></p> -<p>Written before 1853 and included in Hedge and -Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, published -in that year. It is a selection of 4 stanzas, -numbers 4 to 7, from a longer poem entitled <i>Nature and -the Soul</i>, printed in full in Putnam.</p> -<p>6. <i>Lord of all, we bow before Thee</i></p> -<p>Entitled “Christian Benevolence.”</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_235">235</div> -<p>7. <i>O God of Light and Love</i>,</p> -<p>Written for the annual meeting of the American -Unitarian Association, Boston, 1845.</p> -<p>8. <i>O Lord of Life! to Thee we pray</i>,</p> -<p>Written for the dedication of a church.</p> -<p>9. <i>One sweet flower has drooped and faded</i>,</p> -<p>Included in the Cheshire <i>Collection</i>, 1844, entitled -“Death of a Pupil.” In Putnam the opening line reads</p> -<div class="verse"> -<p class="t">“<i>One bright flower has drooped</i>”, etc.</p> -</div> -<p>and the hymn is entitled “On the Death of a Child”, -with a note, “Sung by her classmates.”</p> -<p>10. <i>Theories, which thousands cherish</i>, <span class="hst">(Truth)</span></p> -<p>Published in <i>The Religious Monthly</i>, Boston, and -included in several collections.</p> -<p>11. <i>Thou who didst aid our sires</i> <span class="hst">(On leaving an old house of worship)</span></p> -<p>Written for the last service of worship held -in the Federal Street Meeting House, Boston, -March 13, 1859.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>All of these hymns, and a number of other poems by -Waterston, are included in Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs</i>, etc., but -few of them are dated or annotated as to use. The author was a -popular writer of verses which were respectable expressions of -the religious thought and feeling of his community, in which they -had considerable vogue, but they rarely rise above mediocrity and -have long since dropped out of use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1235, 1724</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_236">236</div> -<div class="biography" id="Weir_RS" title="Weir, Hon. Robert Stanley"> -<p><b>Weir, Hon. Robert Stanley</b>, D.C.L. 1856-1926. Judge in -Admiralty of the Exchequer Court of Canada. He translated, -from the original French by Calixa Lavallée, the hymn -beginning, in his English version,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>O Canada, our home, our native land</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>which was adopted by the Canadian government as Canada’s -national hymn. It is included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune -Book</i>, 1914. He was a member of the Church of the Messiah -(Unitarian), Montreal.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_237">237</div> -<div class="biography" id="Weiss_J" title="Weiss, Rev. John"> -<p><b>Weiss, Rev. John</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 1828—March -9, 1879, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837, and -from the Harvard Divinity School in 1843. He was ordained minister -of the First Church, (Unitarian) Watertown, Massachusetts in 1843; -was minister of the First Church, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1847-1858; -and served the church at Watertown again 1862-1869. He was -a leader in the anti-slavery movement and a prolific author of books -and essays. For Visitation Day at the Divinity School, 1843, he -wrote a hymn beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>A wondrous star our pioneer</i>,</p> -<p>which was included in the <i>Book of Hymns</i>, 1846, compiled by S. Longfellow -and S. Johnson, and in their later book, <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, -1864. The <i>Book of Hymns</i> also included a hymn “For a Summer Festival” -beginning,</p> -<p>2. <i>Beneath thy trees we meet today</i>,</p> -<p>which is in the Universalist <i>Church Harmonies</i>, 1895.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>His hymn</p> -<blockquote> -<p>3. <i>The world throws wide its brazen gates</i></p> -<p>was included in Hedge and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for -the Church of Christ</i>, 1853.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Three other hymns by him, which have not found their way into -any hymn books, are printed in Putnam’s <i>Singers and Songs</i>.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_238">238</div> -<div class="biography" id="Wendte_CW" title="Wendte, Rev. Charles William"> -<p><b>Wendte, Rev. Charles William</b>, Boston, Massachusetts, June 11, -1844—September 9, 1911, San Francisco, California. He -graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1869 and served -Unitarian churches in Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; and -Newport, Rhode Island. From 1885 to 1900 he was engaged in -denominational work on the Pacific Coast and thereafter was -Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the American Unitarian Association, -Boston, spending a part of each year in Europe. Long -interested in Sunday Schools he published in 1886 <i>The Carol, for -Sunday School and Home</i>; a book of songs for use by children and -young people entitled <i>Jubilate Deo</i> in 1900; and another in 1908 -entitled <i>Heart and Voice, a Collection of Songs and Services for -the Sunday-School and Home</i>. In 1907 he wrote a hymn on “The City -of God” beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Not given to us from out the sky</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>which was included in <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and in -<i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, (with a slight alteration by the -author).</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_239">239</div> -<div class="biography" id="Westwood_H" title="Westwood, Rev. Horace"> -<p><b>Westwood, Rev. Horace</b>, D.D., Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, -August 17, 1884—December 24, 1956, Clearwater, Florida. -Emigrating to the United States, he served in the Methodist -ministry for several years, and after 1910 served as minister -in Unitarian churches in Youngstown, Ohio; Winnipeg, Canada; -Toledo, Ohio; and extensively as a mission preacher. His -hymn in one stanza,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power</i>, <span class="hst">(1922)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>was included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, and he privately -printed a small collection, <i>Some Hymns and Verses</i>, n.d., a few -of which appeared in periodicals, but have not had wider use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Wile_FW" title="Wile, Mrs. Frances Whitmarsh"> -<p><b>Wile, Mrs. Frances Whitmarsh</b>, Bristol Centre, New York, December -2, 1878—July 31, 1939, Rochester, New York. Married A. J. -Wile in 1901. Her lovely hymn for use in winter, beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>All beautiful the march of days</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>was written about 1907 while she was a parishioner of -<a href="#Gannett_WC">Rev. William C. Gannett</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, in Rochester, New York, in consultation -with him, and was included in Gannett and Hosmer’s revised edition -of <i>Unity Hymns and Chorals</i>, 1911, from which it passed into -<i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_240">240</div> -<div class="biography" id="Wiley_HO" title="Wiley, Hiram Ozias"> -<p><b>Wiley, Hiram Ozias</b>, Middlebury, Vermont, -May 20, 1831—January -28, 1873, Peabody, [Danvers] Massachusetts. He was -a Unitarian layman who practised law in Peabody from 1855 -until his death, and was the author of occasional verse contributed -to local newspapers. On May 17, 1865, the <i>South -Danvers Wizard</i> published his hymn beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>He leads us on by paths we did not know</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>and republished it on May 8, 1867, with a note reading “Some -years ago we published the following poem, which was written -for our columns by H. O. Wiley, Esq. Since then it has traversed -the country in all directions, without any credit being given -either to our paper or to the author. We reproduce it from a -Western paper in order to correct several errors that have crept -into it. Ed.” It is the only hymn included in the small volume -of Wiley’s poems published as a memorial to him soon after his -death. Its earliest appearance in a hymn book was in the 1873 -Supp. to the Unitarian <i>Sunday School Hymn Book</i>, with the first -line changed to</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>God leads us on, etc.</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>About the same time it reached England, where it passed into a -number of collections without the name of the author. In Julian’s -<i>Dictionary</i>, p. 1647, “J.M.” states that it appears as <i>Anon.</i> in -<i>Our Home beyond the Tide</i>, Glasgow, 1878, and that in <i>Meth. Free. -Ch. Hys.</i>, 1889, it is attributed to “Count Zinzendorf, about -1750. Tr. H.L.L.” (Jane Borthwick) although that attribution is -questioned because the hymn could not be found in any of Miss -Borthwick’s translations. The mistaken attribution persisted, -however, long enough to be included in the second edition of -<span class="pb" id="Page_241">241</span> -the <i>Pilgrim Hymnal</i>, in the first decade of this century. Since -then the hymn has passed, in its original form and rightly attributed -to Wiley, into various other collections, among them -the <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Willard_S" title="Willard, Rev. Samuel"> -<p><b>Willard, Rev. Samuel</b>, 1776-1859. He graduated from Harvard College -in 1803, served the First Church (Unitarian) in Deerfield, Massachusetts -1807 to 1829, when he resigned on account of blindness. -In 1823 he published a collection of 158 songs, composed by himself, -and in 1830 a compilation entitled “<i>Sacred Music and Poetry -Reconciled</i>,” a hymnbook containing 518 hymns by various authors, -about 180 of them written by himself. This book was adopted for -use in the Third Parish in Hingham, Massachusetts where Willard -was then living, but had little circulation elsewhere, and none -of his hymns came into general use.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Williams_VC" title="Williams, Velma Curtis"> -<p><b>Williams, Velma Curtis</b> (<b>Wright</b>), East Boston, Massachusetts, -July 29, 1852—January 22, 1941, Boston, Massachusetts. Wife -of <a href="#Williams_TC">Rev. Theodore C. Williams</a>, <i>q.v.</i> Her <i>Hymnal: Amore Dei, compiled -by Mrs. Theodore C. Williams</i>, was published in Boston in -1890, revised edition 1897. It was edited with the assistance -of her husband, then minister of All Souls’ Church, New York, -where it was used, and in many other churches as well. Mrs. -Williams herself wrote no hymns.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1604</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_242">242</div> -<div class="biography" id="Williams_TC" title="Williams, Rev. Theodore Chickering"> -<p><b>Williams, Rev. Theodore Chickering</b>, Brookline, Massachusetts, -July 2, 1855—May 6, 1915, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated -from Harvard College in 1876, and from the Harvard Divinity -School in 1882. He was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church -in Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1882, but became minister of -All Souls’ Church, New York in 1883. He resigned in 1896, and -spent two years in Europe. After his return he served as headmaster -of Hackley School, Tarrytown, New York, 1899-1905. A -classical scholar, and gifted as a poet, he published a fine -metrical translation of Virgil’s <i>Aeneid</i>, wrote a number of hymns -which are religious poetry of a high order, and assisted his wife, -<a href="#Williams_VC">Velma C. Williams</a>, <i>q.v.</i>, in compiling her <i>Hymnal: Amore Dei</i>, 1890, -revised edition 1897. A few of his hymns appeared in this book -and, with others of later date, are included in <i>The New Hymn and -Tune Book</i>, 1914, and <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937, as follows:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>As the storm retreating</i>, <span class="hst">(Peace after storm)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1888.</p> -<p>2. <i>By law from Sinai’s clouded steep</i>, <span class="hst">(Sabbath rest)</span></p> -<p>3. <i>God be with thee! Gently o’er thee</i> <span class="hst">(Inward Peace)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1889.</p> -<p>4. <i>Hast thou heard it, O my brother?</i> <span class="hst">(The Challenge of Life)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1902.</p> -<p>5. <i>In the lonely midnight</i> <span class="hst">(Christmas)</span></p> -<p>6. <i>Lord, who dost the voices bless</i></p> -<p>Written for the ordination of Rev. Benjamin R. Bulkeley -at Concord, Massachusetts, 1882.</p> -<p>7. <i>My country, to thy shore</i>, <span class="hst">(Hymn for the Nation)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1912.</p> -<div class="pb" id="Page_243">243</div> -<p>8. <i>Thou rulest, Lord, the lights on high</i> <span class="hst">(Universal Praise)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1911.</p> -<p>9. <i>To hold thy glory, Lord of all</i>, <span class="hst">(Dedication of a Church)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1911.</p> -<p>10. <i>When the world around us throws</i>, <span class="hst">(Lent)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1899.</p> -<p>11. <i>When thy heart, with joy o’erflowing</i> <span class="hst">(Brotherhood)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1891.</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Three other hymns by him, included in <i>Amore Dei</i>, have not -come into general use, viz.:</p> -<blockquote> -<p>12. <i>Glory be to God on high</i>, <span class="hst">(Universal Worship)</span></p> -<p>Dated 1889.</p> -<p>13. <i>I long did roam afar from home</i>,</p> -<p>Dated 1889.</p> -<p>14. <i>My heart of dust was made</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>Of the above all from nos. 1 to 11 are included in the <i>New -Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, and, except no. 9, in <i>Hymns of the -Spirit</i>, 1937, which also includes no. 12. Nos. 5, 11 and 12 are -in the <i>Pilgrim Hymnal</i>, 1934.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1728</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_244">244</div> -<div class="biography" id="Willis_LM" title="Willis, Love Maria"> -<p><b>Willis, Love Maria</b> (<b>Whitcomb</b>), Hancock, New Hampshire, -June 9, 1824—November 26, 1908, Elmira, New York. She -married Frederick L. E. Willis, M.D., of Boston, in 1858. -She was for some years one of the editors of <i>The Banner of -Light</i>, Boston, and of <i>Tiffany’s Monthly Magazine</i>, and was -a frequent contributor to these and other periodicals. She -wrote a number of hymns, one of which, beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Father, hear the Prayer I offer</i> <span class="hst">(Aspiration)</span></p> -</blockquote> -<p>was published in <i>Tiffany’s Monthly</i> in 1859. In Longfellow -and Johnson’s <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1864, it was considerably -rewritten, with the opening line changed to read,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Father, hear the prayer we offer</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>and was cited as “Anon.” This 1864 text came into considerable -use in various collections in England, and was included in <i>The -English Hymnal</i> as late as 1906. It has also had wide use in -America and will be found in almost all Unitarian hymn books -since 1864, most recently in the <i>New Hymn and Tune Book</i>, 1914, -and in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1728</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_245">245</div> -<div class="biography" id="Willis_NP" title="Willis, Nathaniel Parker"> -<p><b>Willis, Nathaniel Parker</b>, Portland, Maine, January 20, 1807—January -29, 1867. He graduated from Yale College in 1826. A -journalist and editor, he wrote for the <i>American Monthly</i> and -the <i>New York Mirror</i>. From 1831 to 1837 he was in Europe attached -to the American Legation at the French Court. On his return he -became, in 1839, one of the editors of <i>The Corsair</i>. His works -are numerous and include <i>Sacred Poems</i>, 1843. His hymn</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>The perfect world by Adam trod</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>was “Written to be sung at the Consecration of Hanover Street -[Unitarian] Church, Boston,” in 1826. It was included in Hedge -and Huntington’s <i>Hymns for the Church of Christ</i>, 1853, and in a -good many other collections, although of no exceptional merit.</p> -<p><span class="lr">J. 1285</span> -<span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_246">246</div> -<div class="biography" id="Wilson_EH" title="Wilson, Rev. Edwin Henry"> -<p><b>Wilson, Rev. Edwin Henry</b>, D.D. Chester Park, Long Island, New -York, August 23, 1898—still living. He graduated from Boston -University, 1922; from Meadville Theological School, 1926; and -took the degree of M.A. at the University of Chicago, 1928. He -has served as minister of Unitarian churches in Chicago, Illinois; -Schenectady, New York; and Salt Lake City, Utah. Since 1949 he -has been Director of the American Humanist Association. His hymn -beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>Where is our holy church?</i></p> -</blockquote> -<p>written in 1928, is included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="biography" id="Wilson_LG" title="Wilson, Rev. Lewis Gilbert"> -<p><b>Wilson, Rev. Lewis Gilbert</b>, Southboro, Massachusetts, February 19, -1858—April 24, 1928, Floral City, Florida. He studied at Dartmouth, -Harvard and Meadville Theological School, and in 1883 was -ordained minister of the Unitarian Church at Leicester, Massachusetts. -Later he served the Unitarian church at Hopedale, Massachusetts, -and from 1907-1915 was Secretary in the American Unitarian -Association. While there he was a member of the committee -which edited <i>The New Hymn and Tune Book</i> published in 1914 by the -Association. This book included three of his hymns, beginning</p> -<blockquote> -<p>1. <i>O God, our dwelling place</i>,</p> -<p>2. <i>O troubled sea of Galilee</i>,</p> -<p>3. <i>The works, O Lord, our hands have wrought</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>all three of which were written in 1912. The first of these is -also included in <i>Hymns of the Spirit</i>, 1937.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_247">247</div> -<div class="biography" id="Young_GH" title="Young, George H."> -<p><b>Young, George H.</b> <span class="hst">(No information available)</span></p> -<p>A hymn of 4 stanzas, L.M., beginning,</p> -<blockquote> -<p><i>With heart’s glad song, dear Lord, we come</i>,</p> -</blockquote> -<p>is attributed to him in the <i>Isles of Shoals Hymn Book</i>, 1908.</p> -<p><span class="lr">H.W.F.</span></p> -</div> -<h2>FOOTNOTES</h2> -<div class="fnblock"><div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_1" href="#fr_1">[1]</a>Frederic M. Bird, an Episcopalian clergyman, -then professor at Lehigh University, in his day the leading authority -on American hymnody. -</div><div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_2" href="#fr_2">[2]</a>Louis F. Benson, a -Presbyterian clergyman, the successor of F. M. Bird as the foremost -American hymnologist in the first third of this century. -</div><div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_3" href="#fr_3">[3]</a>See <a href="#c2">accompanying Catalogue of American Unitarian Hymn Books</a>. -</div><div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_4" href="#fr_4">[4]</a>Julian’s <i>Dictionary</i>, p. 60, lists Huntington, with Eliza -Scudder and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as Episcopalian. It is -true that Huntington joined the Episcopal church in 1859, -as did Miss Eliza Scudder in her old age, but all the hymns -produced by either of them were written while they were -still Unitarians in belief, and Harriet Beecher Stowe was -a life long Congregationalist. -</div><div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_5" href="#fr_5">[5]</a>A few graduates of Harvard College (or Divinity School), belonging -to other denominations have also written hymns, the most -notable being Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895), the greatest -hymn writer of the 19<sup>th</sup> century in the Baptist denomination; -Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) with his one famous Christmas hymn; -and, in the present century, Rev. Walter Russell Bowie (1882-<i><span class="u">1969</span></i>), -but the total number of their hymns is a very small percentage -of the number by Unitarian graduates at Harvard. -</div><div class="fndef"><a class="fn" id="fn_6" href="#fr_6">[6]</a>The numbers in brackets refer to the books listed in this -catalogue. -</div> -</div> -<div class="pb" id="Page_248">248</div> -<h2 id="c5"><i>Index of First Lines of American Unitarian Hymns</i> -<br /><span class="small">which have been included in one or more published Hymn Books, with names of their authors, to facilitate reference to the preceding Biographical Sketches for further information. Verses by these authors printed elsewhere than in some Hymn Book are there noted, but have not been indexed.</span></h2> -<p class="center"><a class="ab" href="#index_A">A</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_B">B</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_C">C</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_D">D</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_E">E</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_F">F</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_G">G</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_H">H</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_I">I</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_J">J</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_K">K</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_L">L</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_M">M</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_N">N</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_O">O</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_P">P</a> <span class="ab">Q</span> <a class="ab" href="#index_R">R</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_S">S</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_T">T</a> <a class="ab" href="#index_U">U</a> <span class="ab">V</span> <a class="ab" href="#index_W">W</a> <span class="ab">X</span> <a class="ab" href="#index_Y">Y</a> <span class="ab">Z</span></p> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_A">A</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">A holy air is breathing round—</span> <a href="#Livermore_AA">Livermore, A. A.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">A little kingdom I possess,—</span> <a href="#Alcott_LM">Alcott</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">A mighty fortress is our God—</span> <a href="#Hedge_FH">Hedge</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">A voice by Jordan’s shore—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">A wondrous star our pioneer—</span> <a href="#Weiss_J">Weiss</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Abba, Father, hear—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Abide not in the realm of dreams,—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Across a century’s border line—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Again as evening’s shadow falls—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Alas! how poor and little worth—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Alas! how swift—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All are architects of fate—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All beautiful the march of days—</span> <a href="#Wile_FW">Wile</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All before us is the way—</span> <a href="#Clapp_ET">Clapp</a>, see also <a href="#Clapp_ET">Emerson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All hail, God’s angel, Truth—</span> <a href="#Newell_W">Newell</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All hail the pageant of the years—</span> <a href="#Holmes_JH">Holmes, J. H.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All hidden lie the future ways—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All holy, ever living One—</span> <a href="#Hill_T">Hill</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_249">249</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All is of God: if he but wave his hand—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All nature’s works His praise declare—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All praise to him of Nazareth—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All that in this wide world—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">All things that are on earth—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Almighty Builder, bless, we pray—</span> <a href="#Church_EA">Church</a></dt> -<dd>Almighty! hear thy children raise—</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">Almighty, listen while we praise—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">America triumphant! Brave land of pioneers—</span> <a href="#Holmes_JH">Holmes, J. H.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Amid the heaven of heavens—</span> <a href="#Bartrum_JP">Bartrum</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">And wherefore should I seek above—</span> <a href="#Scudder_E">Scudder</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Angel of peace, thou hast tarried—</span> <a href="#Holmes_OW">Holmes, O. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Another day its course hath run—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Another year of setting suns—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Around the throne of God, the host—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">As darker, darker fall around—</span> See: <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">As once again we gather here—</span> <a href="#Greenwood_HW">Greenwood</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">As shadows cast by sun and cloud—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">As the storm retreating—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">As tranquil streams that meet—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">At first I prayed for light—</span> <a href="#Cheney_ED">Cheney</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_B">B</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Be thou ready, fellow-mortal—</span> <a href="#Bartol_CA">Bartol</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Behold, the servant of the Lord—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Behold the western evening light—</span> <a href="#Peabody_WB">Peabody, W. B. O.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Beneath the shadow of the cross—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Beneath thine hammer, Lord—</span> <a href="#Hedge_FH">Hedge</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Beneath thy trees we meet today—</span> <a href="#Weiss_J">Weiss</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_250">250</dt> -<dd>Benignant Saviour: ’twas not thine,</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">Most gracious Saviour: ’twas not thine—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Blest is the hour when—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Blest is the mortal—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Blind Bartimeus at the gate—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Bondage and death the cup contains—</span> <a href="#Sargent_LM">Sargent</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Break the bread and pour the wine—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Bring, O morn, thy music—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Brother, hast thou wandered far—</span> <a href="#Clarke_JF">Clarke</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Burden of shame and woe—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">By law from Sinai’s clouded steep—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_C">C</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Calm on the listening ear of night—</span> <a href="#Sears_EH">Sears</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Christ hath arisen—</span> <a href="#Hedge_FH">Hedge</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Christ to the young man said—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">City of God, how broad, how far—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Clear in memory’s silent reaches—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Close softly, fondly, while ye weep—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Come, Holy Spirit, hush my heart—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Come, let us sing—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Come, let us who in Christ—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Come, O thou universal good—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Come, Thou Almighty King—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Come, Thou Almighty Will—</span> See: <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Come to the morning prayer—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -</dl> -<div class="pb" id="Page_251">251</div> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_D">D</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Day unto day uttereth speech—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Dear ties of mutual succor—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Deem not that they are blest alone—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Deus omnium creator—</span> <a href="#Greenough_JB">Greenough</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Down the dark future thro long generations—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Down toward the twilight drifting—</span> <a href="#Robbins_SD">Robbins, S. D.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_E">E</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Enkindling Love, eternal Flame—</span> <a href="#Barrows_SJ">Barrows</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Eternal One, Thou living God—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Every bird that upward springs—</span> Neale, but see <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_F">F</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Faint not, poor traveller, though—</span> <a href="#Norton_A">Norton</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Far off, O God, and yet most near—</span> <a href="#Barber_HH">Barber</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, beneath thy sheltering wing—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father divine! This deadening power control—</span> <a href="#Tuckerman_J">Tuckerman</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, give thy benediction—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, hear the prayer we offer—</span> <a href="#Willis_LM">Willis, L. M.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father! I wait Thy word—</span> <a href="#Very_J">Very, J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father in heaven, hear us—</span> <a href="#Ames_CG">Ames</a></dt> -<dd>Father in heaven, to Thee my heart—</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">Father in heaven, to whom our hearts—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, in thy mysterious presence kneeling—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, there is no change to live with Thee—</span> <a href="#Very_J">Very, J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, Thou art calling—</span> <a href="#Blake_JV">Blake</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_252">252</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, thy servant waits—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand—</span> <a href="#Very_J">Very, J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, to thee we look—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, to thy kind love—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, to us thy children—</span> <a href="#Clarke_JF">Clarke</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, we would not dare—</span> <a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Father, whose heavenly kingdom lies—</span> <a href="#Huntington_FD">Huntington</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Feeble, helpless, how shall I—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">For all thy gifts we bless Thee, Lord—</span> <a href="#Clarke_JF">Clarke</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">For mercies past we praise thee—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">For summer’s bloom, and autumn’s—</span> <a href="#Holland_JG">Holland</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">For the dear love that kept us—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">For Thee in Zion—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Forward through the ages—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Freedom, thy holy light—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">From age to age how grandly rise—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">From age to age they gather, all the—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">From Bethany the Master—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">From heart to heart, from creed—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">From lips divine the healing balm—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">From many ways and wide apart—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dd>From past regret and present faithlessness—</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">From past regret and present feebleness—</span> <a href="#Scudder_E">Scudder</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">From street and square, from hill—</span> <a href="#Higginson_TW">Higginson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">From the profoundest depths—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -</dl> -<div class="pb" id="Page_253">253</div> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_G">G</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Gently, Lord, O gently lead—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Give forth thine earnest cry—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Glory be to God on high—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Glory to God, and peace on earth—</span> <a href="#Livermore_SW">Livermore, S. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Go forth to life, O child of earth—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Go not, my soul, in search of Him—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Go, preach the gospel in my name—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Go to thy rest, fair child—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God almighty and All-seeing—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God be with thee! Gently o’er thee—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God bless our native land—</span> <a href="#Brooks_CT">Brooks</a> and <a href="#Brooks_CT">Dwight</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God is good: each perfumed flower—</span> <a href="#Follen_EL">Follen</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God is in his holy temple—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God laid his rocks in courses—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God leads us on by paths—</span> <a href="#Wiley_HO">Wiley</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of mercy, do Thou never—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of our fathers, in Whose sight—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of our fathers, who hast—</span> <a href="#Briggs_LR">Briggs, L. R.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of the earnest heart—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of the earth, the sea, the sky—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of the glorious summer hours—</span> <a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of the mountain—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of the nations, near and far—</span> <a href="#Holmes_JH">Holmes, J. H.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of the rolling orbs above—</span> <a href="#Peabody_OW">Peabody, O. W. B.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of the rolling year—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of the soul—</span> <a href="#Waterston_RC">Waterston</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of the vastness—</span> <a href="#Badger_GH">Badger</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God of Truth! Thy sons should be—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God’s law demands one living faith—</span> <a href="#Briggs_CA">Briggs, C. A.</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_254">254</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">God’s trumpet wakes the slumbering world—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Gone are those great and good—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Grateful for another day—</span> <a href="#Marean_E">Marean</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Great God, in heaven above—</span> <a href="#Waterston_RC">Waterston</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Great God, the followers of thy Son—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Great Source of Good, our God—</span> <a href="#Waterston_RC">Waterston</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_H">H</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Hail the hero workers—</span> <a href="#Spencer_AG">Spencer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Hail to the Sabbath day—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Hark! ’tis the holy temple bell—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Hast thou heard it, O my brother?—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Hast thou heard the bugle sounding—</span> <a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Hast thou wasted all the powers—</span> <a href="#Clarke_JF">Clarke</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Hath not thy heart within thee burned—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Have mercy, O Father—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">He hides within the lily—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">He leads us on by paths we did not know—</span> <a href="#Wiley_HO">Wiley</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">He sendeth sun, he sendeth—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">He who himself and God would know—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Head of the church triumphant—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Hear, Father, hear our prayer—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Hear, hear, O ye nations—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Heir of all the waiting ages—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Here holy thoughts a light have shed—</span> <a href="#Emerson_RW">Emerson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Here in a world of doubt—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Here in the broken bread—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Here to the high and holy One—</span> <a href="#Flint_J">Flint</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_255">255</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Holy Father, gracious art Thou—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Holy, holy Lord—</span> <a href="#Goldsmith_PH">Goldsmith</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Holy Son of God most high—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Holy Spirit, Fire divine—</span> <a href="#Hedge_FH">Hedge</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Holy Spirit, source of gladness—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dd>Holy Spirit, Truth Divine—</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">Holy Spirit, Light Divine—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Hosanna in the highest!—</span> <a href="#Lathrop_JH">Lathrop</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">How blest are they whose transient years—</span> <a href="#Norton_A">Norton</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">How glorious is the hour—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">How shall come the kingdom holy—</span> <a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">How shall I know thee—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">How softly on the western hills—</span> <a href="#Peabody_WB">Peabody, W. B. O.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_I">I</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I bless Thee, Lord, for sorrows sent—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I came not hither of my will—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I cannot always trace the way—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I cannot find Thee, still on restless pinion—</span> <a href="#Scudder_E">Scudder</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I cannot think of them as dead—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I cannot walk in darkness long—</span> <a href="#Mason_CA">Mason</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I feel within a want—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I hear it often in the dark—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I hear Thy voice, within the silence—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I heard the bells on Christmas Day—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I little see, I little know—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I long did roam afar—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I look to Thee in every need—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_256">256</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">I saw on earth another light—</span> <a href="#Very_J">Very, J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Immortal by their deed and word—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">In ages past majestic prophets—</span> <a href="#Waterston_RC">Waterston</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">In pleasant lands have fallen—</span> <a href="#Flint_J">Flint</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">In quiet hours the tranquil soul—</span> <a href="#Larned_A">Larned</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">In the beginning was the word—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">In the broad fields of heaven—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">In the lonely midnight—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dd>In the morning I will praise—</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">In the morning I will pray—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">In the Saviour’s hour of death—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">In Thee my powers and treasures—</span> <a href="#Scudder_E">Scudder</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Into the silent land—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Is there a lone and dreary hour—</span> <a href="#Gilman_C">Gilman, C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">It came upon the midnight clear—</span> <a href="#Sears_EH">Sears</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">It is a faith sublime and sure—</span> <a href="#Perkins_JH">Perkins</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">It is finished! Glorious word—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">It is finished, Man of sorrows—</span> <a href="#Hedge_FH">Hedge</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">It singeth low in every heart—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">It sounds along the ages—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_J">J</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Jesus, a child his course began—</span> <a href="#Fuller_SM">Fuller</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Jesus has lived! and we—</span> <a href="#Alger_WR">Alger</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_K">K</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Kingdom of God, the day how blest—</span> <a href="#Beach_SC">Beach</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_L">L</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Laborers of Christ, arise—</span> <a href="#Sigourney_LH">Sigourney</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lead us, O Father, in the paths of peace—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_257">257</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Let the still air rejoice—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">“Let there be light!” when—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Let whosoever will inquire—</span> <a href="#Scudder_E">Scudder</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Life is real! Life is earnest—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Life of Ages, richly poured—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Life of all that lives below—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Life of God, within my soul—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lift aloud the voice of praise—</span> <a href="#Peabody_E">Peabody, E.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lift your glad voices in triumph on high—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Light of ages and of nations—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Like Israel’s host to exile driven—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Like pilgrims sailing through the night—</span> <a href="#Harris_F">Harris, F.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lo, the day of days is here—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lo! the day of rest declineth—</span> <a href="#Robbins_C">Robbins, C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lo, the earth is risen again—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lo, the Easter-tide is here—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Look from Thy sphere—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dd>Lord, beneath thine equal hand—</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord, beneath whose equal hand—</span> <a href="#Hall_HW">Hall</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord deliver, thou canst save—</span> <a href="#Follen_EL">Follen</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord, I believe, and in my faith—</span> <a href="#Badger_GH">Badger</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord, in this sacred hour—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord, in thy garden agony—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord, may the spirit of this feast—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord of all being, throned afar—</span> <a href="#Holmes_OW">Holmes, O. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord of all, we bow before Thee—</span> <a href="#Waterston_RC">Waterston</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord of all worlds—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_258">258</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord of the worlds below—</span> <a href="#Freeman_J">Freeman</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord, once our faith in man—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord, when thine ancient people cried—</span> <a href="#Sewall_C">Sewall</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord, who dost the voices bless—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Lord, who ordainest for mankind—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Love for all! and can it be—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_M">M</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Many things in life there are—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Meek and lowly, pure and holy—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Meek hearts are by sweet manna fed—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Men whose boast it is that ye—</span> <a href="#Lowell_JR">Lowell</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Mighty One, before whose face—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Mine eyes have seen the glory—</span> <a href="#Howe_J">Howe</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Morning, so fair to see—</span> <a href="#Silliman_VB">Silliman</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Mortal, the angels say—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">My country, to thy shore—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">My feet are worn and weary—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">My God, I rather look to Thee—</span> <a href="#Scudder_E">Scudder</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">My God, I thank Thee: may no thought—</span> <a href="#Norton_A">Norton</a></dt> -<dd>My God, I thank Thee that the night—</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">O God, I thank Thee—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">My God, in life’s most doubtful hour—</span> <a href="#Hurlburt_WH">Hurlburt</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">My heart of dust was made—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">My life flows on in endless song—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">My Shepherd is the Lord—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">My soul, before thy Maker—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Mysterious Presence, Source of all—</span> <a href="#Beach_SC">Beach</a></dt> -</dl> -<div class="pb" id="Page_259">259</div> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_N">N</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Nature with eternal youth—</span> <a href="#Waterston_RC">Waterston</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">No human eyes Thy face may see—</span> <a href="#Higginson_TW">Higginson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Not always on the Mount may we—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Not given to us from out the sky—</span> <a href="#Wendte_CW">Wendte</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Not gold, but only men can make—</span> See under <a href="#Emerson_RW">Emerson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Not in the solitude—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Not in vain I poured my supplication—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Not only doth the voiceful day—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Not when, with self dissatisfied—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Now on land and sea descending—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Now sing we a song of the harvest—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Now with creation’s morning song—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Now while the day in trailing splendor—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Now while we sing our closing hymn—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_O">O</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O, all ye people—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">“O beautiful, my country”—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O blest the souls that see and hear—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O bow Thine ear, Eternal One—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O church of freedom and of faith—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O day of light and gladness—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O deem not that earth’s crowning bliss—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Father, fix this wavering will—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Father, take this new-built shrine—</span> <a href="#Hale_EE">Hale, E. E.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Father, Thou who givest all—</span> <a href="#Holmes_JH">Holmes, J. H.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Father, while I live, I pray—</span> <a href="#Holmes_JH">Holmes, J. H.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O for a prophet’s fire—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_260">260</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O from these visions, dark—</span> <a href="#Bartrum_JP">Bartrum</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God! a temple to thy name—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God, accept this sacred hour—</span> <a href="#Gilman_S">Gilman, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God, I thank Thee for each sight—</span> <a href="#Mason_CA">Mason</a></dt> -<dd>O God, in whom we live and move—</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou, in whom we live and move—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God of freedom! Hear us pray—</span> <a href="#Chapman_M">Chapman</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God of Light and Love—</span> <a href="#Waterston_RC">Waterston</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God, our dwelling-place—</span> <a href="#Wilson_LG">Wilson, L. G.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God, thou giver of all good—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God! thy children gathered here—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God unseen, but ever near—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God, whose dread and dazzling brow—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God, whose law is in the sky—</span> <a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God, whose presence glows in all—</span> <a href="#Frothingham_NL">Frothingham, N. L.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God, whose smile is in the sky—</span> <a href="#Holmes_JH">Holmes, J. H.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O God, with goodness all thine own—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O heal me, Lord—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O heavenly gift of love divine—</span> <a href="#Very_J">Very, J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Holy Father, mid the calm—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O holy, holy, holy, art Thou—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O, judge me, Lord—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Life that maketh all things new—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Light, from age to age the same—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Lord my God! how great—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Lord of hosts, Almighty King—</span> <a href="#Holmes_OW">Holmes, O. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Lord of life, thy kingdom is at hand—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Lord of Life, where’er they be—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_261">261</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Lord, thy all-discerning—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Love Divine, lay on me burdens—</span> <a href="#Huntington_FD">Huntington</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Love Divine, of all that is—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Love Divine, that stooped to share—</span> <a href="#Holmes_OW">Holmes, O. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Love of God most full—</span> <a href="#Clute_O">Clute</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O my country, land of promise—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Name, all other names above—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O North, with all thy vales—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Prophet souls of all the years—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O sing with loud and joyful song—</span> <a href="#Blake_JV">Blake</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O speed thee, Christian—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O star of truth, down shining—</span> <a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O stay thy tears; for they are blest—</span> <a href="#Norton_A">Norton</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O still in accents sweet and strong—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O suffering Friend of all mankind—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O that the race of men—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O the beautiful old story—</span> <a href="#Alcott_LM">Alcott</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou, at whose dread name we stand—</span> <a href="#Sprague_C">Sprague</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O thou great Friend to all the sons—</span> <a href="#Parker_T">Parker</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou, in all thy might so far—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O thou in lonely vigil led—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou in whom alone is found—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou, in whom we live and move—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou, in whose Eternal Name—</span> <a href="#Huntington_FD">Huntington</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou that once on Horeb stood—</span> <a href="#Huntington_FD">Huntington</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou to Whom in ancient times—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou to whom in prayer and praise—</span> <a href="#Church_EA">Church</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou who art above all height—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_262">262</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou who art my King—</span> <a href="#Badger_GH">Badger</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou, who art of all that is—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou, who hearest prayer—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou who on the whirlwind rides—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou who on thy chosen Son—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou who turnest into morning—</span> <a href="#Loring_LP">Loring, L. P.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O thou whose gracious presence—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou, whose liberal sun and rain—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou, whose love can ne’er forget—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dd>O Thou whose own vast temple stands—</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou, whose perfect goodness crowns—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou, whose Spirit witness bears—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O Thou with whom in sweet content—</span> <a href="#Foote_HWI">Foote, H. W., I</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O troubled sea of Galilee—</span> <a href="#Wilson_LG">Wilson, L. G.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O what concerns it him whose way—</span> <a href="#Norton_A">Norton</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O when the hours of life are past—</span> <a href="#Peabody_WB">Peabody, W. B. O.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O why should friendship grieve—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O wondrous depth of grace—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O’er continent and ocean—</span> <a href="#Holmes_JH">Holmes, J. H.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O’er Kedron’s stream and Salem’s—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">O’er mountaintops, the mount—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Oh, who shall roll the stone away—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">On earth was darkness spread—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">On eyes that watch through sorrow’s night—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Once to every man and nation—</span> <a href="#Lowell_JR">Lowell</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">One holy church of God appears—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_263">263</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">One saint to another I heard say—</span> <a href="#Very_J">Very, J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">One sweet flower has drooped and faded—</span> <a href="#Waterston_RC">Waterston</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">One thought I have, my ample creed—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Onward, onward, through the region—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Oppression shall not always reign—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Our Father, while our hearts unlearn—</span> <a href="#Holmes_OW">Holmes, O. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Our house, our God, we give to Thee—</span> <a href="#Lowell_JR">Lowell</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Our pilgrim brethren, dwelling far—</span> <a href="#Livermore_SW">Livermore, S. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Out of every clime and people—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Out of the dark, the circling sphere—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Out of the heart of nature rolled—</span> <a href="#Emerson_RW">Emerson</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_P">P</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Peace, peace on earth! The heart—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Praise for the glorious light—</span> <a href="#Hale_MW">Hale, M. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Praise to God and thanksgiving—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Praise to the living God—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a> and <a href="#Gannett_WC">Mann</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_R">R</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Remember me, the Saviour said—</span> <a href="#Frothingham_NL">Frothingham, N. L.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Richly, O richly have I been—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Ring, O ring, ye Christmas bells—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_S">S</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Saviour and dearest friend—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Saviour, and source of every blessing—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Saviour, when thy bread we break—</span> <a href="#Robbins_SD">Robbins, S. D.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Seek not afar for beauty—</span> <a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Send down thy truth, O God—</span> <a href="#Sill_ER">Sill</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_264">264</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Send forth, O God, thy truth—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Servants of Christ, arise—</span> <a href="#Sigourney_LH">Sigourney</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Set from the restless world apart—</span> <a href="#Marean_E">Marean</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Show us thy way, O God—</span> <a href="#Holmes_JH">Holmes, J. H.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Sing forth his high eternal name—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Sing to Jehovah a new song—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Sing to the Lord a song—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Slavery and death the cup contains—</span> <a href="#Sargent_LM">Sargent</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Sleep, my little Jesus—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a></dt> -<dd>Slowly, by Thy hand unfurled—</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">Slowly by God’s hand unfurled—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Sovereign and transforming Grace—</span> <a href="#Hedge_FH">Hedge</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Sovereign of worlds! display—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Spirit Divine! attend our prayer—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Spirit of God, in thunder speak—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power—</span> <a href="#Westwood_H">Westwood</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Standing forth in life’s rough way—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Still wave our streamer’s glorious folds—</span> <a href="#Sears_EH">Sears</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Still will we trust, though earth—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Strong-souled Reformer, whose—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Supreme Disposer of the heart—</span> See: <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Sure to the mansions of the blest—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Swift years, but teach me—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_T">T</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Take my heart, O Father—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Take our pledge, eternal Father—</span> <a href="#Mott_FB">Mott</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Tell me not in mournful numbers—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_265">265</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">That God is Love, unchanging Love—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The ages one great minster seem—</span> <a href="#Lowell_JR">Lowell</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The brightening dawn and—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The bud will soon become a flower—</span> <a href="#Very_J">Very, J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The builders, toiling through the days—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The changing years, Eternal God—</span> <a href="#Mason_CA">Mason</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The earth, all light and loveliness—</span> <a href="#Miles_SE">Miles</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The evening wind begins to blow—</span> <a href="#Long_JD">Long</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The God that to our fathers—</span> <a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The heavens thy praise are telling—</span> See: <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The land our fathers left to us—</span> <a href="#Higginson_TW">Higginson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The Lord gave the word—</span> <a href="#Frothingham_NL">Frothingham, N. L.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The Lord is in his holy place—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The loving Friend to all who bowed—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The morning hangs its signal—</span> <a href="#Gannett_WC">Gannett</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The outward building stands complete—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The past is dark with sin and shame—</span> <a href="#Higginson_TW">Higginson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The past yet lives in all its truth—</span> <a href="#Appleton_FP">Appleton</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The patriarch’s dove, on weary wing—</span> <a href="#Frothingham_NL">Frothingham, N. L.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The perfect world by Adam trod—</span> <a href="#Willis_NP">Willis, N. P.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The rose is queen among the flowers—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The Saviour said “Yet one thing more”—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The spirit of the Lord has stirred—</span> <a href="#Mott_FB">Mott</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The summer days are come again—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The sun is still forever sounding—</span> <a href="#Hedge_FH">Hedge</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The very blossoms of our life—</span> <a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The voice of God is calling—</span> <a href="#Holmes_JH">Holmes, J. H.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The Will Divine that woke a waiting time—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_266">266</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The works, O Lord, our hands—</span> <a href="#Wilson_LG">Wilson, L. G.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">The world throws wide its brazen gates—</span> <a href="#Weiss_J">Weiss</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Theories, which thousands cherish—</span> <a href="#Waterston_RC">Waterston</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">There cometh o’er the spirit—</span> <a href="#Very_W">Very, W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">There is a beautiful land—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">There is a strife we all must wage—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">There is a world, and O how blest—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">There is a world eye hath not seen—</span> Attributed to <a href="#Very_J">Very, J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">There is no flock, however watched—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">They are slaves who will not choose—</span> <a href="#Lowell_JR">Lowell</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thirsting for a living spring—</span> <a href="#Appleton_FP">Appleton</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">This child we dedicate—</span> <a href="#Gilman_S">Gilman, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">This day let grateful praise ascend—</span> <a href="#Hale_MW">Hale, M. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou art my morning, God of light—</span> <a href="#Robbins_SD">Robbins, S. D.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou art, O God! my East—</span> <a href="#Robbins_SD">Robbins, S. D.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou art the Way, and he—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou, infinite in love—</span> <a href="#Miles_SE">Miles</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou glorious God, before whose face—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou Grace Divine, encircling all—</span> <a href="#Scudder_E">Scudder</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou gracious Power, whose mercy—</span> <a href="#Holmes_OW">Holmes, O. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou Life within my life, than self—</span> <a href="#Scudder_E">Scudder</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou Lord of hosts, whose guiding hand—</span> <a href="#Frothingham_OB">Frothingham, O. B.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou Lord of life, our saving health—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou mighty God, who didst of old—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou One in all, thou All in one—</span> <a href="#Beach_SC">Beach</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou only Living, only True—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou must go forth alone—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_267">267</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou rulest, Lord, the lights on high—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou unrelenting past—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou, who didst stoop below—</span> <a href="#Miles_SE">Miles</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou who dost all things give—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou whose glad summer yields—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dd>Thou whose love didst give us birth—</dd> -<dd class="t">altered to</dd> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou whose love brought us to birth—</span> <a href="#Foote_HWII">Foote, H. W., II.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thou whose spirit dwells in all—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Through the changes of the day—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Through willing heart and helping hand—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thy kingdom come, O Lord—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thy kingdom come, on bended knee—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits—</span> <a href="#Kimball_J">Kimball</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thy seamless robe conceals Thee not—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thy servants’ sandals, Lord—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Thy way, O Lord, is in the sea—</span> <a href="#Badger_GH">Badger</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">’Tis not Thy chastening hand—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">’Tis winter now; the fallen snow—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">To him who children blessed—</span> <a href="#Clarke_JF">Clarke</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">To hold thy glory, Lord of all—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">To light that shines in stars and souls—</span> <a href="#Johnson_S">Johnson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">To prayer! for the day that God hath blest—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">To prayer, the glorious sun is gone—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">To prayer, to prayer, for morning breaks—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">To the High and Holy One—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">To the truth that makes us free—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">To Thee, O God in heaven—</span> <a href="#Clarke_JF">Clarke</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_268">268</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">To thine eternal arms, O God—</span> <a href="#Higginson_TW">Higginson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Today be joy in every heart—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Toiling through the livelong night—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Touch Thou mine eyes—</span> <a href="#Ham_MF">Ham</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Turn not from him who asks of thee—</span> <a href="#Very_J">Very, J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Turn to the stars of heaven—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">’Twas in the East, the mystic East—</span> <a href="#Hedge_FH">Hedge</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">’Twas the day when God’s anointed—</span> <a href="#Hedge_FH">Hedge</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_U">U</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Unto thy temple, Lord, we come—</span> <a href="#Collyer_R">Collyer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Unworthy to be called thy son—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Uplift the song of praise—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_W">W</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We ask not that our path—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We bless Thee for this sacred day—</span> <a href="#Gilman_C">Gilman, C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We follow, Lord, where thou—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We go not on a pilgrimage—</span> <a href="#Very_J">Very, J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We have not wings; we may not soar—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_HW">Longfellow, H. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We honor those whose work began—</span> <a href="#Horton_EA">Horton</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We love the venerable house—</span> <a href="#Emerson_RW">Emerson</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We meditate the day—</span> <a href="#Frothingham_NL">Frothingham, N. L.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We pray for truth and peace—</span> <a href="#Hurlburt_WH">Hurlburt</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We pray no more, made lowly wise—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We see the gallant streamer yet—</span> <a href="#Sears_EH">Sears</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We sowed a seed in faith and hope—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">We will not weep, for God is standing by—</span> <a href="#Hurlburt_WH">Hurlburt</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_269">269</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">What has drawn us thus apart—</span> <a href="#Chadwick_JW">Chadwick</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">What is the world that it should share—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">What is this that stirs within—</span> <a href="#Furness_WH">Furness</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">What means this glory round our feet—</span> <a href="#Lowell_JR">Lowell</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">What power unseen by mortal eye—</span> <a href="#Bulfinch_SG">Bulfinch</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">What purpose burns within our hearts—</span> <a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Whatever dims the sense of truth—</span> <a href="#Hale_MW">Hale, M. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When adverse winds and waves arise—</span> <a href="#Sigourney_LH">Sigourney</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When Christ with all his shining train—</span> <a href="#Prince_T">Prince</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When courage fails, and faith burns low—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When doomed to death the Apostle lay—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When from the Jordan’s gleaming wave—</span> <a href="#Longfellow_S">Longfellow, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When gladness gilds our prosperous day—</span> <a href="#Burleigh_WH">Burleigh</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When God upheaved the pillared earth—</span> <a href="#Pray_LG">Pray</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When he who from the scourge of wrong—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When in silence o’er the deep—</span> <a href="#Hale_MW">Hale, M. W.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When Israel’s foes, a numerous host—</span> <a href="#Fernald_WM">Fernald</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When, o’er the billow-heaving—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When, on devotion’s seraph wing—</span> <a href="#Miles_SE">Miles</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When shadows gather on our way—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When shall the voice of singing—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When the blind suppliant—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When the constant sun returning—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When the gladsome day declineth—</span> <a href="#Savage_MJ">Savage</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When the world around us throws—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When this song of praise shall cease—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">When thy heart, with joy o’erflowing—</span> <a href="#Williams_TC">Williams, T. C.</a></dt> -<dt class="pb" id="Page_270">270</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Where ancient forests round us spread—</span> <a href="#Norton_A">Norton</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Where is our holy church?—</span> <a href="#Wilson_EH">Wilson, E. H.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Where men on mounts of vision—</span> <a href="#Hosmer_FL">Hosmer</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">While thus [now] thy throne of grace—</span> <a href="#Robbins_C">Robbins, C.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">While with lips with praise that glow—</span> <a href="#Pierpont_J">Pierpont</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Whither, midst falling dew—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Who is thy neighbor? He whom thou—</span> <a href="#Peabody_WB">Peabody, W. B. O.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Who would sever freedom’s shrine?—</span> <a href="#Gilman_S">Gilman, S.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Why come not spirits—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Why should I fear—</span> <a href="#Adams_JQ">Adams, J. Q.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Why slumbereth, Lord, each—</span> <a href="#Anonymous">Anon.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Why weep for those, frail child—</span> <a href="#Loring_WJ">Loring, W. J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Wild was the day, the wintry sea—</span> <a href="#Bryant_WC">Bryant</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Will God, who made the earth—</span> <a href="#Follen_EL">Follen</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Wilt Thou not visit me?—</span> <a href="#Very_J">Very, J.</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">With heart’s glad song, dear Lord—</span> <a href="#Young_GH">Young</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">With loving hearts and hands—</span> <a href="#Ames_CG">Ames</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">With praise and prayer our gifts we bring—</span> <a href="#Ware_H">Ware</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Wonders still the world shall witness—</span> <a href="#Trapp_J">Trapp</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Work, and thou shalt bless the day—</span> <a href="#Dana_CA">Dana</a></dt> -</dl> -<dl class="index"> -<dt class="center b" id="index_Y">Y</dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Years are coming, speed them—</span> <a href="#Ballou_A">Ballou</a></dt> -<dt><span class="lj">Yes, to the last command—</span> <a href="#Gilman_S">Gilman, S.</a></dt> -</dl> -<h2>Transcriber’s Notes</h2> -<ul> -<li>This eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.</li> -<li>Corrected a few palpable typographical errors.</li> -<li>Restored a book name, <i>Hymns of the Ages</i>, that had apparently dropped out of page 149 of the typescript.</li> -<li>Added a heading “Biographical Sketches” for consistency with the Table of Contents.</li> -<li>Tweaked the form of some personal names to be consistent; and added links where possible.</li> -<li>Created a Book Cover Image, released for free and unrestricted use with this eBook.</li> -<li>In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.</li> -</ul> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of American Unitarian Hymn Writers and -Hymns, by Henry Wilder Foote - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN UNITARIAN HYMN WRITERS *** - -***** This file should be named 53833-h.htm or 53833-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/8/3/53833/ - -Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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