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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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