{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_53833/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_53833","id":"gutenberg_53833","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53833","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Music","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Hymn writers","Hymns, English -- History and criticism","Unitarian Universalist churches -- Hymns -- History and criticism"],"text":"American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns\n\n\n   Compiled by Henry Wilder Foote for the Hymn Society of America for\n publication in the Society\u2019s proposed Dictionary of American Hymnology\n\n\n\n\n                              _Contents_:\n\n\n  (1) Historical Sketch of American Unitarian Hymnody.      (Pages 1-11)\n  (2) Catalogue of American Unitarian Hymn Books.          (Pages 12-36)\n  (3) Alphabetical List of Writers.                        (Pages 37-39)\n  (4) Biographical Sketches, with Notes on Hymns.         (Pages 40-247)\n  (5) Index of First Lines of Published Hymns.           (Pages 248-270)\n\n\n                                                Cambridge, Massachusetts\n                                                           January, 1959\n\n\nI gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Misses Ruth and Orlo\nMcCormack in the preparation of this compilation.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\n\n\n                      _AMERICAN UNITARIAN HYMNODY_\n\n\nIn the first edition of Julian\u2019s _Dictionary of Hymnology_ (1891) F. M.\nBird[1] wrote, \u201cThe Unitarians\u2014possessing a large share of the best\nblood and brain of the most cultivated section of America\u2014exhibit a long\narray of respectable hymnists whose effusions have often won the\nacceptance of other bodies,\u201d (pp. 58-59). And in this century Louis F.\nBenson[2] in his classic book _The English Hymn_ (p. 460) wrote, \u201cIt is\nnot surprizing that a body including the best blood and highest culture\nof Massachusetts shared in the Literary Movement [of the 19^th century]\nand succeeded in imparting to its hymn books a freshness of interest in\ngreat contrast to those of the orthodox churches\u201d and that \u201cfrom their\n[the compilers\u2019] hands there proceeded \u2014\u2014 a series of hymn books whose\nliterary interest was very notable\u201d (p. 462).\n\nThis succession of Unitarian hymn writers over a period of approximately\n150 years can best be traced in the nearly 50 hymn books compiled by\nindividuals or committees for use in Unitarian churches.[3] The editors\nof these books were among the best educated men of their time, who knew\nwhere to look for fresh lyrical utterances of a living faith. The\nearliest of them lived in the period when the traditional metrical\npsalms which, for more than two centuries, had been almost the only\nworship-song of the English speaking world, were being slowly superseded\nby the songs of a new age. These songs they chiefly found in the various\nhymn-books published for use in English Non-conformist chapels when the\nChurch of England still generally adhered to the Old or New Versions of\nthe Psalms. It was from these sources that Jeremy Belknap first\nintroduced to Americans the hymns of Anne Steele, and included in his\n_Sacred Poetry_ (1795) hymns by Addison, Cowper, Newton, Doddridge and\nother English contemporaries. When, in 1808, the vestry of Trinity\nChurch, Boston, impatient at the delay of the General Convention of the\nProtestant Episcopal Church in getting out a hymnal, issued one for\ntheir own use, they drew heavily upon Belknap\u2019s collection, saying in\ntheir preface \u201cIn this selection we are chiefly indebted to Dr. Belknap,\nwhose book unquestionably contains the best expressions of sacred poetry\nextant.\u201d\n\nMany of the later collections in this series of Unitarian hymn books\nhave been no less notable for their introduction to use in this country\nof new English hymns, such as Pope\u2019s \u201cFather of all, in every age;\u201d Sir\nWalter Scott\u2019s \u201cWhen Israel of the Lord beloved;\u201d translations of hymns\nin the Roman Breviary; Sarah Flower Adams\u2019 \u201cNearer, my God, to Thee\u201d\n(only three years after its publication in England); and Newman\u2019s \u201cLead,\nkindly Light;\u201d and for the ability of their compilers to discover fresh\nmaterials near at hand, as when Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson\nwere the first to notice the hymnic possibilities of Whittier\u2019s poems.\n\nThe story of American Unitarian hymnody begins with the publication in\n1783 of the _Collection of Hymns\u2014designed for the use of the West\nSociety of Boston._ This church belonged to the liberal wing of New\nEngland Congregationalism, destined to become known as Unitarian a\ngeneration later. The book contained a small selection of traditional\npsalms and hymns by British authors and a number of quaintly didactic\nmoral ditties in doggerel, presumably contributed by Boston versifiers\nwho cannot now be identified.\n\nThe first group of Unitarian hymn-writers whose names are known and\nwhose productions have survived did not begin to write until the opening\ndecades of the 19^th century. Of this group the earliest born was John\nQuincy Adams, (1767-1848), best remembered as the sixth President of the\nUnited States. That he was also a hymn writer, and the only president of\nthe country who was one, has generally been forgotten. Two or three\nhymns by him were written earlier but most of them came from the period\nfollowing his retirement from the presidency in 1829. Soon after that\nevent he wrote one for the 200^th anniversary of the First Church in\nQuincy, of which he was a member, and later in life he composed a\nmetrical paraphrase of the whole Book of Psalms. When Dr. Lunt, minister\nof the Quincy church, was preparing his _Christian Psalter_, 1841, Mrs.\nAdams put into his hands the mss. of her husband\u2019s poems, and Lunt\nincluded in his book five hymns and seventeen psalms by his\ndistinguished parishioner. None of them rose above the level of\nrespectable verse but his version of Psalm 43 survived in one or more\nhymn books 100 years later.\n\nRev. John Pierpont (1785-1866) was a poet of considerable abilities\nwhose verses were in demand for special occasions and whose hymns were\nthe best lyrical expressions of the developing new thought in religion.\nW. Garrett Horder, the English hymnologist, wrote that Pierpont\u2019s hymn\nof universal praise was \u201cthe earliest really great hymn I have found by\nan American author.\u201d It is still in use, as are two others by him.\n\nProf. Andrews Norton (1786-1853) of the Harvard Divinity School,\npublished a hymn as early as 1809 and a good deal of verse in later\nyears, much of it in a rather sombre introspective mood, but with one\nfine hymn still in use. He was followed by Rev. Nathaniel Langdon\nFrothingham (1793-1870) who wrote a good many hymns for special\noccasions, one of which survives today, and by Rev. Henry Ware, Jr.\n(1794-1843) who wrote a number of hymns highly valued as utterances of\nthe religious idealism of the period, but long since dropped from use,\nexcept for an excellent one for the dedication of an organ, probably the\nonly hymn in the English language written expressly for such an\noccasion. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), a lay man of letters, was\nanother of the elder members of the famous group of New England poets of\nthe 19^th century, and as early as 1820 he contributed 5 hymns to\nSewall\u2019s _New York Collection_, published in that year, and he later\nwrote others.\n\nThe latest born of this first group who attained memorable distinction\nin this field was Rev. Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890), whose earliest\nhymn, still in use, was written in 1829, but who is best known for his\ngreat translation of Luther\u2019s \u201cEin\u2019 feste Burg,\u201d and for a fine Good\nFriday hymn. He collaborated with Rev. Frederic Dan Huntington[4]\n(1819-1904) then the college preacher at Harvard, in compiling _Hymns\nfor the Church of Christ_, (1853), to which Huntington contributed five\nhymns, none now in use. Their book was the last and best of the various\n_Collections_ published up to the middle of the century by editors who\nbelonged to what was becoming the conservative wing of the denomination,\nto whom Emerson\u2019s _Divinity School Address_ of 1838 seemed dangerously\nradical.\n\nBut meantime a new era in Unitarian hymnody was opening with the\npublication in 1846 of the _Book of Hymns_ edited by Samuel Longfellow\n(1819-1891) and Samuel Johnson (1822-1882), while they were still\nstudying in the Harvard Divinity School. Both had come under the\ninfluence of the Transcendentalist movement which was liberalizing\nUnitarian thought and they eagerly sought out hymns which were fresh\nexpressions of their youthful outlook on religion. The book was notable\nfor the new sources of hymns which they discovered, among them the poems\nof John Greenleaf Whittier, which they were the first to introduce into\na hymn book.\n\nTheir _Book of Hymns_ was followed in 1864 by their larger and even more\ninfluential _Hymns of the Spirit_, which includes most of their own\nhymns and many by other Unitarian writers of the period, too numerous to\nname here, but whose hymns are listed in the catalogue of writers\nappended to this introductory sketch. Samuel Johnson wrote only half a\ndozen hymns, but they are among the finest in the language. Samuel\nLongfellow wrote many more, the best of which are quite equal to\nJohnson\u2019s, and together they made a more important contribution to\nAmerican Unitarian hymnody than that of any other writers in the middle\nof the 19^th century.\n\nThis was the period of \u201cthe flowering of New England literature\u201d and two\nof its poets, besides those already named, made their contribution to\nhymnody. The more important of the two was Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes,\n(1809-1894) with half a dozen fine and widely used hymns, and Prof.\nJames Russell Lowell (1819-1891) who, strictly speaking, was hardly a\nhymn writer at all, but from whose poems two or three have been\nquarried. Two other writers of this period were Rev. Edmund Hamilton\nSears (1810-1876) and his niece, Miss Eliza Scudder (1819-1896). Sears\nwrote two Christmas hymns widely used throughout the English speaking\nworld. Miss Scudder wrote half a dozen hymns in a mystical vein of the\nhighest quality, but in temperament and outlook both writers belong more\nto the earlier period of Unitarian thought than to that prevalent in\ntheir later lifetime.\n\nIn this mid-century period should also be included the famous war-time\nhymn by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), \u201cMine eyes have seen the glory\nof the coming of the Lord,\u201d written in 1861 to provide worthier words\nthan \u201cJohn Brown\u2019s body\u201d for the popular tune \u201cGlory, Hallelujah\u201d, which\nhad been composed a few years earlier for a Sunday School in Charleston,\nSouth Carolina.\n\nA third period in Unitarian hymnody began with the appearance of hymns\nby three good friends, Rev. John White Chadwick (1840-1906), Rev.\nFrederic Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) and Rev. William Channing Gannett\n(1840-1923), who carried forward in the last third of the century the\nbroadly theistic interpretation of a universal religion to which\nLongfellow and Johnson had given utterance. Chadwick\u2019s first hymn was\nwritten in 1864 for the graduation of his class from the Harvard\nDivinity School, a great hymn of brotherhood, widely used in England as\nwell as here. A half-dozen others of fine quality have survived. Hosmer\nand Gannett worked together in bringing out their book _The Thought of\nGod in Hymns and Poems_, 1885, 1894, and _Unity Hymns and Chorals_,\n1880, 1911. Neither wrote any hymns while in the Divinity School, but\nboth began to do so soon after. In 1873 Gannett wrote a fine one which\nis probably the earliest in the language to give a religious\ninterpretation to the then controversial doctrine of evolution, and\nlater a half dozen others to which deep feeling is expressed in\nbeautiful lyrical verse. Hosmer, however, was a much more prolific\nwriter, producing more than 40 hymns which have had some use. He was a\nmeticulous craftsman who studied the technique of hymn-writing, and\nseveral of his hymns are among the finest in the language. Canon\nDearmer, a leading authority on hymnody in the Church of England,\nincluded seven of them in his _Songs of Praise_ and calls one of them\n\u201cthis flawless poem, one of the completest expressions of religious\nfaith,\u201d and says another is \u201cone of the noblest hymns in the language.\u201d\nFor approximately 40 years, c. 1880-1920, Hosmer was the outstanding\nhymn writer in the English speaking world, and he left no successor who\nwas his equal in the perfection of his finest hymns.\n\nA smaller but important contribution to the Unitarian hymnody of this\nperiod was made by Rev. Theodore Chickering Williams (1855-1915) who,\nwhile still a student in the Harvard Divinity School wrote one of the\nbest ordination hymns in the language, and, in later years, eight\nothers, still in use, which are religious poetry of a high order.\n\nThe latest period in Unitarian hymnody, covering the last half-century,\nis notable for the productions of two writers, Rev. Marion Franklin Ham\n(1867-1957) and Rev. John Haynes Holmes, (1879-still living). Although\nhe had published a volume of poems in 1896 Dr. Ham did not begin to\nwrite hymns until 1911, but thereafter he produced a succession of\nbeautiful religious lyrics, eight or ten of which have come into use.\nSome of them are utterances of a profound mystical insight akin to that\nof Eliza Scudder, but others are expressions of a world-wide theism, and\none has been translated into Japanese.\n\nRev. John Haynes Holmes has been a more prolific writer, author of about\n45 hymns, many written for special occasions, but 10 or 15 others have\ncome into general and widespread use. His hymns are in a quite different\nkey from those of Dr. Ham\u2019s quiet mysticism, generally being stirring\ncalls to social justice and the service of mankind, though a few are\nhymns of gratitude for the simple joys of life. While he has\ninfrequently attained the felicity of phrasing which results in a\nmemorable line his hymns are cast in vigorous and often stirring verse,\nexpressing a noble altruism and a wholesome attitude towards life.\n\nM. F. Ham and J. H. Holmes are the latest notable figures in this era of\n150 years since the beginning of American Unitarian hymnody, throughout\nwhich scores of lesser writers have also contributed their offerings to\nthe main stream. These writers are far too numerous to name in this\noutline sketch but their thumbnail biographies and notations as to their\nhymns will be found in the following catalogue. A survey of this whole\nera discloses the evolution in liberal religious thought from the period\nwhen the emphasis was on the sinfulness of man and the redemptive\nfunction of the Christian Church, to the vision of a world wide religion\ntaking in many forms, and manifested in that service of mankind which\nfound expression in the \u201csocial gospel\u201d in the first half of this\ncentury.\n\nThe production of so great a number of fine hymns (and of a long series\nof hymn books of a superior type) over so long a period, by persons\nbelonging to one of the smallest Protestant denominations, commonly\nconsidered coldly intellectual rather than emotional in its approach to\nreligion, is a phenomenon unique in the history of hymnody. When the\nfirst edition of the _Pilgrim Hymnal_ was published in 1910 it listed\nboth the nationality and the church membership of the authors included,\nwhich led to the disclosure that nearly half the American authors were\nUnitarians who had contributed considerably more than half the hymns of\nAmerican authorship. In answer to critics Dr. Washington Gladden replied\nthat this was due to the simple fact that the Unitarians had written a\nlarger number of the best hymns than had the American writers in other\ndenominations.\n\nCanon Dearmer in England observed the same fact and was puzzled to\nexplain it. The explanation, however, is a simple one. With the\nexception of a relatively small number of writers born in other parts of\nthe country and with different backgrounds, these Unitarian authors were\nmen brought up in the atmosphere of the so-called \u201cNew England\nRenaissance,\u201d that literary revival of which Boston, Cambridge and\nConcord were the chief centres in the 19^th century, and they belonged\nby blood, by education and by social ties to the New England literary\ngroup. The majority were also graduates of Harvard College or Harvard\nDivinity School, or both, in a period when the spirit of the time was\nmost favorable to the stimulation of poetic gifts, and in a place where\nthe intellectual level was high and there was freedom from any dogmatic\ncontrol.[5] Thus they had the culture and the warmth of atmosphere\nneeded, and the Divinity School had the admirable custom of encouraging\nstudents to write a hymn for the annual graduation exercises or for the\nSchool\u2019s Christmas service, and so stimulated their poetic gifts.\n\nThanks to these favorable circumstances what has been called \u201cthe\nHarvard school of hymnody\u201d has had no equal in the English speaking\nworld, the only comparable institution being Trinity College, Cambridge,\nEngland, which, for a much briefer period (1820-1845) was the nursing\nmother of a notable succession of Anglican hymn writers. It was this\nfact which led W. Garrett Horder, an English Congregationalist who was\nalso a highly competent hymnologist, to write, \u201cHarvard, like our\nEnglish Cambridge, has been \u2018a nest of singing birds\u2019. I was struck by\nthis when editing _The Treasury of American Sacred Songs_. Harvard\nprovided the bulk \u2014\u2014 of the verse I included.\u201d And other orthodox\nauthorities, notably F. M. Bird and Louis F. Benson, already quoted,\nhave borne witness to the high achievements of both the editors of the\nlong succession of Unitarian hymn books and the authors of the hymns\nwhich they included.\n\n\n\n\n             _Catalogue of American Unitarian Hymn Books._\n compiled by Henry Wilder Foote and reprinted (with revisions) from the\n     Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, May, 1938, by\n                              permission.\n\n\nIn the 17^th century, and down to the middle of the 18^th, all churches\nof the Congregational order in New England used the _Bay Psalm Book_,\nfirst printed in Cambridge in 1640, except for the use of Ainsworth\u2019s\n_Psalter_ in the churches of the Plymouth Plantation and in the First\nChurch in Salem for a part of the 17^th century. In the latter part of\nthe 18^th century, the _Bay Psalm Book_ was gradually superseded by\neither the New Version of the Psalms (Tate and Brady) or, more\ngenerally, by one of the editions of _Watts and Select_, i.e. Isaac\nWatts\u2019 _Psalms and Hymns_, with a supplement of hymns selected from\nother authors.\n\nThe first steps away from the Psalm books in general use were taken by\ntwo churches which were in the vanguard of the rising liberalism of the\nlast half of the 18^th century. In 1782 the West Church in Boston\npublished _A Collection of Hymns, more particularly designed for the Use\nof the West Society in Boston_ (1),[6] and in 1788 the East Church in\nSalem published _A Collection of Hymns for Publick Worship_, (2). These\ntwo books were of only local significance, but they clearly pointed the\nway which later publications were to follow. In 1795 Rev. Jeremy Belknap\nbrought out his _Sacred Poetry_ (3), which was an attempt to produce a\nbook which should be acceptable to both the liberal and the orthodox\nwings of Congregationalism. In this purpose it failed, though it was\nwidely used by Unitarians. The succeeding books were more definitely\nUnitarian in character and illustrate the changing emphasis in religious\nthought and practice through five generations of religious liberals.\nThey form a notable series, for most of them attained a literary\nstandard and spiritual outlook higher than that of other contemporary\nhymn books.\n\nThe earlier books in this series were very imperfectly edited, judged by\nmodern standards. Some of them contain no preface and no indication as\nto the identity of the compiler. In other cases, the compiler is\nindicated by initials. In some cases the names of the authors of hymns\nare not given at all, in others only the surname, when known, and there\nare frequent mistaken attributions. Directions as to the music are\nusually lacking, the metre of each hymn alone being indicated. In some\ncases the names of suitable tunes are given, but only one book (18)\nearlier than 1868 included any music, in that case an appendix of\ntwenty-one tunes in two parts at the back of the book. The first\nAmerican Unitarian hymn book to be printed with a tune on each page was\nthe American Unitarian Association\u2019s _Hymn and Tune Book_ of 1868 (34).\nThereafter few books appeared without tunes, but half-a-dozen other\ncollections with music were published in the next forty years, each of\nwhich had considerable use.\n\nIt will be noted that in the course of the 19^th century no less than\nthirty-six different hymn-books appeared, a far larger number than any\nother American denomination can show for the same period, and\nillustrative of the extreme individualism of the Unitarian churches.\nThroughout the middle third of the century Greenwood\u2019s _Collection_\n(13), the _Springfield Collection_ (14), and the _Cheshire Collection_\n(20), had the widest use, followed in the last third of the century by\nthe _Hymn and Tune Books_ (34) and (36) of the American Unitarian\nAssociation, but all the other collections had some local vogue, in some\ncases only for a brief period or only in those churches the ministers of\nwhich had compiled the collections in question. As late, however, as the\nbeginning of the 20^th century, at least eight different hymn-books were\nin use in the Unitarian churches of the United States and Canada. This\ndiversity of usage declined rapidly after the publication of _The New\nHymn and Tune Book_ (45) in 1914, and had practically disappeared by the\ntime when that book\u2019s successor, _Hymns of the Spirit_ (48) was\npublished in 1937.\n\n\n\n\n                              BIBLIOGRAPHY\n\n\n    Copies of at least one edition of each of the following books are\n    in the Historical Library of the American Unitarian Association,\n    25 Beacon Street, Boston, except in the cases noted.\n\n1. _A Collection of Hymns, more particularly designed for the Use of\nthe West Society in Boston_\u2014Boston, 1782; 2nd ed., 1803; 3rd ed.,\n1806; 4th ed., 1813.\n\nThe editor is said to have been Rev. Simeon Howard (1733-1804), (See\nBentley\u2019s _Diary_, II, 371), Jonathan Mayhew\u2019s successor as minister\nof the West Church. Mayhew\u2019s congregation was notably liberal and this\nbook represents the first step away from psalm-books of the\ntraditional type. It contains 166 hymns, including a number of\nclassics by Watts, Barbauld, Addison, etc. The tone in general is\nethical rather than theological, and many of the hymns are moral\nprecepts in mediocre verse, some, at least, probably of local\nproduction, but the authors cannot be identified as no author is\nnamed; there is no preface, and the compiler\u2019s name is not given.\n\n    Note:\u2014The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy.\n    There is one in the Congregational Library, 14 Beacon Street,\n    Boston.\n\n2. _A Collection of Hymns for Publick Worship_\u2014Salem; n.d. (1788)\n\nEdited by Rev. William Bentley (1750-1819) of the East Church, Salem,\nMass., and used there until superseded in 1843 by Flint\u2019s _Collection_\n(17). There is no preface and the compiler\u2019s name is not given. There\nare no musical directions except the metre of each hymn. The book\nconsists of two parts, the first containing 40 psalms \u201caccording to\nTate and Brady\u2019s Version,\u201d arranged by metre; the second containing\n163 hymns of high quality, including many of the classics of the\nperiod. The book is much superior to No. 1, but had little use outside\nthe church for which it was intended, perhaps because Bentley, though\none of the earliest outspoken Unitarians, was _persona non grata_ in a\nFederalist stronghold on account of his political opinions.\n\n    Note:\u2014The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy.\n    There is one at The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.\n\n3. _Sacred Poetry: consisting of Psalms and Hymns adapted to Christian\ndevotion in publick and private. Selected from the best authors, with\nvariations and additions_\u2014By Jeremy Belknap, D.D., Boston, 1795.\n\nMany editions. Some included a supplement of _Hymns for the Lord\u2019s\nSupper, selected and original_, (7) prepared by Rev. Thaddeus M.\nHarris, minister of the First Church in Dorchester, 1801. In 1812 an\nedition appeared with 28 additional hymns, \u201cSelected by the successor\nof the Rev. Author,\u201d i.e. by W. E. Channing.\n\nDr. Belknap (1744-1798) was the first Congregational minister of the\nFederal Street Church (his predecessors having been Presbyterians),\nand his immediate successor was William Ellery Channing. Belknap\nendeavored to compile a collection which should serve both the\northodox and the liberal wings of the New England Congregationalism of\nhis day. In his preface he says, \u201cIn this selection, those Christians\nwho do not scruple to sing praises to their Redeemer and Sanctifier,\nwill find materials for such a sublime enjoyment; whilst others, whose\ntenderness of conscience may oblige them to confine their addresses to\nthe Father only, will find no deficiency of matter suited to their\nidea of the chaste and awful spirit of devotion.\u201d Belknap, however,\nfailed in his attempt to produce a compromise book, as it found favor\nonly in the liberal churches, which used it for some forty years.\n\nThe book contains 150 psalms, selected from versions by Tate and\nBrady, Watts, and others, often \u201cwith variations\u201d; and 300 hymns,\nwidely selected from English sources, including Pope\u2019s \u201cUniversal\nPrayer\u201d (altered), Helen Maria Williams\u2019 \u201cWhile Thee I seek,\nprotecting Power,\u201d hymns by Cowper, Newton, Doddridge, Merrick,\nAddison, Anne Steele and others. Belknap introduced Anne Steele\u2019s\nhymns to Americans. There are no hymns by Charles Wesley, and the only\nhymns of American authorship appear to be Mather Byles\u2019 \u201cWhen wild\nconfusion rends the air,\u201d and a metrical version of Psalm 65 by Jacob\nKimball.\n\nThere are no musical directions save the metre of each hymn and the\nkey. \u201cThe characters denoting the sharp or flat key are prefixed to\neach psalm or hymn, at my request, by the Rev. Dr. Morse, of\nCharlestown.\u201d\n\nThe book was much the best of its period. When, in 1808, the vestry of\nTrinity Church, Boston, impatient at the delay of the General\nConvention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in getting out a hymnal,\nissued one for their own use, they drew heavily on Belknap\u2019s, saying\nin their preface, \u201cIn this selection we are chiefly indebted to Dr.\nBelknap, whose book unquestionably contains the best specimens of\nsacred poetry extant.\u201d\n\n4. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for public worship._\u2014Boston,\n1799; edited by Rev. James Freeman (1759-1825). 2nd ed., 1813.\n\nThis was the first of the hymn-books prepared for use in King\u2019s\nChapel, Boston, where it was used for 30 years until succeeded by\nGreenwood\u2019s _Collection_ (13). No preface; no musical directions\nexcept that the metre is indicated. The names of some authors are\ngiven in the index of first lines. The book contains 155 psalms, or\nparts of psalms, \u201cselected principally from Tate and Brady,\u201d followed\nby 90 hymns and 8 doxologies. The collection is decidedly inferior to\nthat of Belknap (3) in range and quality.\n\n    Note:\u2014The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy, but\n    King\u2019s Chapel does.\n\n5. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns_\u2014by William Emerson, A.M., Pastor\nof the First Church in Boston; Boston, 1808.\n\nRev. William Emerson (1769-1811) was the father of Ralph Waldo\nEmerson. His book is more handsomely printed than most hymn books of\nthe period and contains 150 hymns. It was very liberal in tone and was\nassailed by the orthodox for having omitted hymns on several of \u201cthe\nmost essential doctrines of Christianity.\u201d Its most notable feature\nwas its endeavor to improve the singing by \u201cprefixing to each psalm\nand hymn the name of a tune, well composed and judicially chosen\u201d as\n\u201ca valuable auxiliary to musical bands. No American hymn-book has\nhitherto offered this aid to the performers of psalmody.\u201d The key in\nwhich the tune is set and the metre are also indicated at the head of\neach hymn. There is also an interesting \u201cIndex of Tunes, and Musical\nAuthors,\u201d with references to the various collections in which the\nrecommended tunes may be found. As this list of collections of tunes\nwas prepared by a person particularly interested in promoting good\nmusic it is here reprinted as indicating the best available sources at\nthe time:\n\nMass. Com., Massachusetts Compiler; Sal. Coll., Salem Collection; Lock\nH. Coll., Lock\u2019s Hospital Collection; Sac. Min., Sacred Minstrel;\nB.C.M., Beauties of Church Music; Psal. Evan., Psalmodia Evangelica;\nF. C. Coll., First Church Collection; Suff. Selec., Suffolk Selection;\nBos. Selec., Boston Selection; Newb\u2019t Coll., Newburyport Collection;\nMus. Olio, Musical Olio; Col. Repos., Columbian Repository; B. Coll.,\nBridgewater Collection.\n\nWhile this book thus made the selection of tunes easier than did most\nof its contemporaries, it is needless to point out how inconvenient it\nwas not to have the tunes in the same book with the words. With all\nits excellencies the book had small use, being rather too far in\nadvance of its time.\n\n6. _A Selection of Sacred Poetry consisting of Psalms and Hymns from\nWatts, Doddridge, Merrick, Scott, Cowper, Barbauld, Steele and\nothers_\u2014Philadelphia, 1812; 2nd ed., 1818; 3rd ed., 1828; 4th ed.,\n1846.\n\nEdited by Ralph Eddowes (1751-1833) and James Taylor (1769-1844) two\nlaymen of the church in Philadelphia in which Joseph Priestley had\npreached after coming to America, but which remained without a settled\nminister until Rev. W. H. Furness was installed in 1825. A good\ncollection of 606 psalms and hymns, from varied English sources, as\nindicated by the following quotation from preface:\u2014\u201cThe Society of\nUnitarian Christians in Philadelphia, from its first formation, has\nused, in its public devotional exercises, the collection of hymns and\npsalms made by the Rev. Doctors Kippis and Rees, and Messrs. Jervis\nand Morgan.... A late collection by the Rev. Mr. Aspland, of Hackney,\nhas also afforded assistance, of which advantage has been freely\ntaken; and by resorting to another, published in 1789 by the Rev.\nMessrs. Ash and Evans of Bristol, this work has been enriched with\nseveral pieces of Mrs. Steele\u2019s exquisitely beautiful and highly\ndevotional poetry.\u201d\n\n7. _Hymns for the Lord\u2019s Supper_, Original and Selected. [edited] by\nThaddeus Mason Harris, D.D., Boston; printed by Sewall Phelps, no. 5\nCourt Street, 1820; 2nd ed., 1821.\n\nIn 1801 Rev. Thaddeus M. Harris, minister of the First Church in\nDorchester, Mass., printed a few hymns for use at the Lord\u2019s Supper,\nand these formed the basis for this enlarged collection published in\n1820. This edition contains original hymns by Rev. John Pierpont of\nBoston, Rev. Samuel Gilman of Charleston, S. C., and others, none of\nthem in use today. The booklet probably had more circulation for\nprivate reading than for public use.\n\n8. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, for social and private\nworship_\u2014New York, 1820; 2nd ed., 1827; 4th ed., 1845.\n\nCompiled by Dr. Henry D. Sewall, one of the laymen who founded the\nFirst Congregational Society of New York, now All Souls Church, which\nwas organized in 1819. Commonly called \u201cthe New York Collection.\u201d It\ncontains 504 psalms and hymns arranged in three sections in\nalphabetical order of first lines. There are no musical directions\nexcept that the metre of each hymn is indicated. The Collection is\nchiefly notable for the inclusion, without the author\u2019s name, of five\noriginal hymns by William Cullen Bryant, a member of the congregation,\nwho had written them at the instance of Miss Sedgwick.\n\nThe fourth edition, 1845, made some substitutions and added 146 hymns\nto the original number.\n\n9. _A Selection of Psalms and Hymns, for social and private\nworship_\u2014Andover, 1821; 2nd ed., Cambridge, 1824; 11th ed., Boston,\n1832.\n\nEdited by Jonathan Peele Dabney (1793-1868), a graduate of Harvard who\nhad studied for the ministry but was never ordained. The book was\nsmaller, cheaper and better arranged than Sewall\u2019s (8), and had\nconsiderable use. It contains 385 hymns, and 21 \u201cAscriptions and\nOccasional Pieces,\u201d these last including Henry Ware\u2019s Easter hymn,\n\u201cLift your glad voices,\u201d and Heber\u2019s \u201cFrom Greenland\u2019s icy mountains.\u201d\nThere are no musical instructions beyond indication of metres.\n\n10. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Social and Private Worship,\ncompiled by a committee of the West Parish in Boston_\u2014Boston; printed\nby John B. Russell, 1823.\n\nThis book was a successor to No. 1. No preface; no copyright; no\nindication of the identity of the compilers. It contains 320 psalms\nand hymns by Tate and Brady, Watts, Doddridge, Barbauld, Steele and\nothers. No hymn by Charles Wesley, but it has John Wesley\u2019s \u201cLo, God\nis here,\u201d attributed to \u201cSalisbury Coll.\u201d Also 6 communion hymns; 5\nfor Christmas, including Tate\u2019s \u201cWhile shepherds watched their flocks\nby night,\u201d attributed to Dr. Patrick; Milton\u2019s \u201cNor war nor battle\u2019s\nsound,\u201d altered by Dr. Gardiner; and Sir Walter Scott\u2019s \u201cWhen Israel\nof the Lord beloved\u201d.\n\n    Note:\u2014The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy, but\n    there is one at the Congregational Library, 16 Beacon Street,\n    Boston, Mass.\n\n11. _A Selection from Tate and Brady\u2019s Version of the Psalms: with\nHymns by various authors_\u2014For the use of the church in Brattle Square,\nBoston. Boston: Richardson & Lord, 1825.\n\nCompiled by a committee of that church. The church used the _Bay Psalm\nBook_ until 1753; then Tate and Brady\u2019s _New Version_ of the Psalms,\nwith an appendix of hymns selected by a committee. In 1808 another\ncommittee published another appendix, entitled _A Second Part of\nHymns_. The book issued in 1825, by a committee the membership of\nwhich is unknown, is a revision and enlargement of the original Tate\nand Brady and the appendices. It contains 150 psalms and 363 hymns. No\nmusical directions save indications of metres.\n\n12. _Sacred Poetry and Music reconciled, or a Collection of Hymns\noriginal and compiled_\u2014by Samuel Willard, D.D., A.A.S. Boston: L. C.\nBowles, 1830.\n\nThis book, \u201cadopted while in manuscript, by the Third Congregational\nSociety in Hingham,\u201d had little use beyond that parish. It contains\n518 hymns, and 7 chants, the latter being a feature not met with in\nany earlier book in this series. Tunes are indicated for each hymn,\nbut the editor had some peculiar theories about the \u201creconciliation\u201d\nof words and music. The editor, Rev. Samuel Willard (1776-1859), had\nbeen minister at Deerfield but had retired on account of blindness and\nwas temporarily resident in Hingham when this book was published.\n\n13. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship_\u2014Boston:\nCarter and Hendee, 1830.\n\nEdited by Rev. Francis William Pitt Greenwood (1797-1843), minister of\nKing\u2019s Chapel, Boston. _Greenwood\u2019s Collection_, as it was generally\ncalled, containing 560 psalms and hymns, superseded Belknap\u2019s (3) as\nthe hymn-book most widely used in Unitarian churches in the first half\nof the 19^th century. It ran to fifty editions and was used in King\u2019s\nChapel, for which it was prepared, until superseded there by _Hymns of\nthe Church Universal_, 1890, (39). Based upon Watts, the book contains\nthe then very recent hymns by James Montgomery, Harriet Auber, Bowring\nand Heber, and practically introduced Charles Wesley to American\nUnitarians. In _Young Emerson Speaks_, edited by A. C. McGiffert,\n1937, pages 145-150, will be found a sermon on \u201cHymn Books\u201d preached\nby R. W. Emerson in 1831, while still minister of the Second Church in\nBoston, in which he recommends the church to adopt _Greenwood\u2019s\nCollection_ in place of Belknap\u2019s. Emerson, in his Journal for 1847,\nnoted that _Greenwood\u2019s Collection_ was \u201cstill the best.\u201d\n\n14. _The Springfield Collection of Hymns for sacred worship_, by\nWilliam B. O. Peabody\u2014Springfield: Samuel Bowles, 1835.\n\nRev. William Oliver Bourne Peabody (1799-1847) was minister at\nSpringfield, Mass. His collection contains 509 hymns, admirably chosen\nfrom the accepted classics of the period, Watts and Doddridge\npredominant, but with an increasing number of the recent compositions\nby Unitarian hymn-writers of the first third of the 19^th century. No\nmusical instructions beyond indication of metres. On its merits the\n_Springfield Collection_ rightly shared with _Greenwood\u2019s Collection_\n(13) and _The Cheshire Collection_ (20) the largest measure of\npopularity and use among Unitarians in the middle of the 19^th\ncentury.\n\n15. _The Christian Psalter: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for\nsocial and private worship_\u2014Boston, 1841.\n\nEdited by Rev. William Parsons Lunt (1805-1857), for use in the First\nChurch in Quincy, Mass. It contains 702 hymns and psalms and\nrepresents a reversion to the older type of hymnody, \u201cbut, if\nold-fashioned, it was excellent and serviceable.\u201d Lunt included 22\npieces by his parishioner, ex-President John Quincy Adams, whose wife\nhad put into his hands a complete metrical psalter which Adams had\ncomposed. At least one of Adams\u2019 psalms is still to be found in some\nhymn-books.\n\n16. _A Manual of Prayer for public and private worship, with a\ncollection of hymns_\u2014Boston, 1842.\n\nEdited by Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot (1811-1887). Although printed\nin Boston, this book was prepared for The First Congregational Society\nof St. Louis, Missouri, of which the editor had become minister in\n1834. The Society was the earliest Unitarian church in the Mississippi\nValley, excepting that at New Orleans. The book is primarily a\ncollection of service materials followed by 272 well-selected hymns\nfrom standard sources. It was the earliest volume of the sort to be\nprepared for Unitarian use in the Middle West.\n\n17. _A Collection of Hymns, for the Christian Church and Home_\u2014Boston,\n1843.\n\nEdited by Rev. James Flint (1779-1855). The editor was minister of the\nEast Church in Salem, Mass., and based his book upon the 18^th century\ncollection of his predecessor, William Bentley (2). He borrowed the\ntitle and much of the contents of James Martineau\u2019s book published in\nEngland in 1840. The book contains 415 hymns.\n\n    Note:\u2014The American Unitarian Association does not own a copy of\n    this book. One is in the Congregational Library, 14 Beacon Street,\n    Boston.\n\n18. _The Social Hymn Book; consisting of psalms and hymns for social\nworship and private devotions_\u2014Boston, 1843.\n\nEdited by Rev. Chandler Robbins (1810-1882), minister of the Second\nChurch in Boston. The book, which contains 350 psalms and hymns, is\nbased upon Watts and Doddridge, but it introduced new hymns from\nvarious sources, among them about twenty of Bishop Mant\u2019s translations\nof \u201cancient hymns\u201d from the Roman Breviary. Dr. Robbins was one of the\nearliest American hymn-book editors to avail himself of the English\nversions of Latin hymns which were among the fruits of the Oxford\nMovement. His book has an appendix of 21 tunes in two parts, the book\nbeing thus the first in this series to include any printed music.\n\n19. _The Disciples\u2019 Hymn Book; a collection of hymns and chants for\npublic and private devotions, prepared for the use of the Church of\nthe Disciples_\u2014Boston, 1844.\n\nEdited by Rev. James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) for use in the Church\nof the Disciples, Boston, which had been organized in 1841 and of\nwhich he was the first minister. The first edition is commonly bound\nup with _Service Book: for the use of the Church of the Disciples_. A\nrevised and enlarged edition appeared in 1852. The collection contains\n318 hymns and an appendix of chants. It was notable for its freshness\nand progressive outlook, and drew upon the most recent English\nsources. It introduced into American use the hymn \u201cNearer, my God, to\nthee,\u201d by Sarah Flower Adams, published in England only three years\nearlier, and other hymns by the same author. It also included some of\nClarke\u2019s own hymns, more of which appeared in the second edition.\n\n20. _Christian Hymns for public and private worship. A Collection\ncompiled by a committee of the Cheshire Pastoral Association_\u2014Boston,\n1845.\n\nEdited by Rev. Abiel Abbott Livermore (1811-1892), Chairman; Rev. Levi\nW. Leonard (1790-1864), Rev. William A. Whitwell (1804-1865) and Rev.\nCurtis Cutler (1806-1874), ministers at Keene, Dublin, Wilton, and\nPeterboro, New Hampshire, respectively. The editorial work was chiefly\ndone by Livermore, who also contributed to it his communion hymn, \u201cA\nholy air is breathing round.\u201d\n\nThis book, commonly called _The Cheshire Collection_, ran through\nsixty editions and was widely used. Its popularity was due in part to\nits wide range\u2014908 hymns\u2014and to its provision for special occasions,\nbut more to the inclusion of fresh material of high quality.\n\n21. _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary_\u2014Boston, 1845.\n\nEdited by Rev. George E. Ellis (1814-1894) for use in the Harvard\nChurch in Charlestown, Mass., of which he was then minister. It\ncontains 658 hymns and psalms, and is based on _Greenwood\u2019s\nCollection_ (13) and _The Springfield Collection_ (14). A Selection\nfrom the Psalms, apparently intended for responsive reading, is bound\nup with the hymn-book, of which it is an unusual feature.\n\n22. _Hymns for Public Worship_\u2014Boston, 1845.\n\nEdited by Rev. George W. Briggs (1810-1895), minister of the First\nChurch at Plymouth, Mass. (1838-1852). The book contains 601 hymns; no\nmusical directions beyond indication of metres. There is a strong\nemphasis on hymns of the inner life, the compiler having sought \u201cto\nbring together the most fervent expressions of a profound spiritual\nlife,\u201d many of which \u201chave never been in familiar use in Unitarian\nchurches.\u201d\n\n23. _Service Book: for the Church of the Saviour, with a Collection of\nPsalms and Hymns for Christian Worship_\u2014Boston, 1845.\n\nEdited by Rev. Robert Cassie Waterston (1812-1893), minister of the\nChurch of the Saviour, Boston. _The Collection of Psalms and Hymns_\nbound up with the services is _Greenwood\u2019s Collection_ (13) with a\nsupplement of 116 hymns selected by Waterston, so that the book is\nmore accurately described as one of the editions of Greenwood than as\nan independent publication. The supplement, however, is notable for\nthe high proportion of good new hymns, not available when _Greenwood\u2019s\nCollection_ first appeared. Among them are hymns by Samuel F. Smith,\nG. W. Doane, the early and mid-century Unitarian writers, and some\ntaken from Breviary sources.\n\nNo musical instructions beyond indication of the metres.\n\n24. _A Book of Hymns for public and private devotion_\u2014Cambridge:\nMetcalf & Company, printers to the University. 1846.\n\nEdited by Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892) and Samuel Johnson\n(1822-1882). The editors were, at the time, students in the Harvard\nDivinity School (class of 1846), and the book \u201cgrew out of an offer to\nprovide a new book for a minister who found even the recent ones too\nantiquated.\u201d It was marked by poetic excellence and freshness, and\nintroduced to American use \u201cLead, Kindly Light,\u201d and hymns by\nWhittier, Longfellow, Lowell, Jones Very, Mrs. Stowe and others,\nbesides hymns by the editors themselves. First used in Church of the\nUnity, Worcester, Mass., of which Edward Everett Hale was minister;\nthen in the Music Hall congregation of Theodore Parker, who is said,\non receiving a copy, to have remarked, \u201cI see we have a new book of\nSams.\u201d It ran to a twelfth edition in two years, but its greatest\ninfluence was as a source-book for later editors. A somewhat enlarged\nedition appeared in 1848.\n\n25. _Hymns of the Sanctuary_\u2014Boston, 1849.\n\nEdited by Rev. Cyrus A. Bartol (1813-1900), minister of the West\nChurch in Boston, assisted by Charles G. Loring, Joseph Willard, and\nother laymen of the church. The book is a revised and enlarged edition\nof the \u201cWest Boston Collection\u201d (10) of which the original edition had\nbeen prepared by Rev. Simeon Howard (1). It contains 643 hymns and a\nfew chants. No musical directions beyond indication of metres.\n\n26. _Hymns for the Church of Christ_\u2014Edited by Rev. Frederic H. Hedge\nand Rev. Frederic D. Huntington, Boston, 1853.\n\nFrederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890) later became a distinguished\nprofessor in the Harvard Divinity School. Frederic Dan Huntington\n(1819-1904) later joined the Episcopal Church, in which he attained a\nbishopric.\n\nThe book contains 872 hymns,\u2014no musical instructions beyond indication\nof metres. It is conservative in tone but is marked by high literary\nstandards, and by a catholic inclusiveness beyond that of most books\nin this series. It includes a number of translations of Breviary\nhymns, and in it appears, for the first time, Hedge\u2019s translation of\nLuther\u2019s \u201cEin\u2019 feste Burg.\u201d Better printed than most contemporary\nhymn-books, it was hailed as \u201cmuch the best book of hymns yet\npublished.\u201d Many hymns are listed as \u201cAnon.\u201d and some authors are\ngiven by surname only, making identification doubtful.\n\n27. _Services and Hymns for the use of the Unitarian Church of\nCharleston_, S.C., 1854, 1867.\n\nThe preface to the first edition, dated \u201cApril, 1854,\u201d was signed by\nS. Gilman and C. M. Taggart, then joint ministers of the church. No\ncopy of this edition appears to be extant. A new and enlarged edition,\nwith an unsigned preface but reprinting the earlier preface signed by\nGilman and Taggart, appeared in 1867, \u201cPrinted by Joseph Walker, Agt.,\nCharleston.\u201d \u201cHymns for Christian Worship,\u201d 171 in number, make up the\nsecond half of this volume. Almost all of them are the standard\nEnglish hymns in current use in the first half of the 19^th century,\nwith 10 hymns by American authors, three of which are by Dr. Gilman\nand two by his wife, Caroline Gilman, all of which had appeared in\nearlier collections.\n\n28. _Hymn Book for Christian Worship_\u2014Boston, 1854.\n\nThere is no preface and the name of the compiler nowhere appears. It\nwas, however, edited by Rev. Chandler Robbins (1810-1882), minister of\nthe Second Church in Boston, and is, in effect, an enlargement of his\nearlier _Social Hymn Book_, (18), with 761 hymns, better adapted to\nchurch use. Like its predecessor, it contained chiefly the older type\nof hymns,\u2014107 by Watts, 62 by Doddridge, 40 by James Montgomery, 13 by\nC. Wesley, and 20 more called \u201cWesleyan.\u201d\n\n29. _The Soldier\u2019s Companion: Dedicated to the Defenders of their\nCountry in the Field, by their Friends at Home_, published as the\nissue of _The Monthly Journal_, Boston, for October, 1861, vol. II,\nNo. 10.\n\nThis was a small paper bound collection of a few traditional hymns,\nsupplemented by a dozen anti-slavery or wartime songs by living\nwriters, including J. Pierpont, E. H. Sears, and J. R. Lowell, with a\nsupplement of devotional readings and prayers. Presumably it had some\nuse in the Army, but copies are now very rare.\n\n30. _Christian Worship_\u2014New York, 1862.\n\nEdited by Rev. Samuel Osgood (1812-1880), then minister of the Church\nof the Messiah, New York, and Rev. Frederic A. Farley (1800-1892),\nminister of The First Unitarian Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.\n\nA small collection of 159 hymns, bound up with a liturgical type of\nservice-book indicating the trend which later took Osgood into the\nEpiscopal Church.\n\n31. _The Soldier\u2019s Hymn Book, containing a supplement of national\nsongs for the use of chaplains and soldiers in the army and navy of\nthe United States_\u2014Prepared by J. G. Forman, Chaplain of the 3d\nRegiment Missouri Infantry, Army of the U. S., Alton, Illinois, 1863.\n\nRev. Jacob G. Forman (d. 1885), the compiler, was at the time minister\nof the Unitarian Church at Alton. This little pocket hymnal contains\n99 hymns, and 26 additional patriotic songs.\n\n32. _The Soldier\u2019s Hymn Book for Camp and Hospital_\u2014Cambridge, printed\nat the University Press, 1863.\n\nThere is no indication as to the source of this little book, and the\nidentity of its compiler has not been discovered. Its contents,\nhowever, indicate that it came from a Unitarian source. It is a pocket\nhymnal containing 150 familiar hymns and a few prayers, somewhat\nlarger and better printed than (31).\n\n33. _Hymns of the Spirit_\u2014Boston, Ticknor & Fields, 1864.\n\nEdited by Samuel Longfellow (1819-1892) and Samuel Johnson\n(1822-1882). This is the second and more famous hymn-book compiled by\nthe editors. It contains 717 hymns and represents their later and more\nradical trend of thought, the book being theistic rather than\nexplicitly Christian in its emphasis. It introduced many hymns by the\neditors themselves, and made drastic adaptations or revisions of hymns\nby other authors. Like their first book (24), it was more generally\ndrawn upon as a source-book by later editors than it was used in the\nchurches. In that respect it was one of the most important books in\nthis series.\n\n34. _Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and Home_\u2014Boston, 1868.\n\nThis book was compiled by a committee appointed by the American\nUnitarian Association, but the editorial work was chiefly done by Rev.\nLeonard J. Livermore (1822-1886). It is the first hymn-book to be\nissued by the Association and the first American Unitarian hymn-book\nto be completely furnished with tunes. It contained 740 hymns, about\n30 chants, etc., and 299 tunes, a large proportion of which have since\ndropped out of use. Regarded as in some measure an authorized\ndenominational hymn-book, it had wide use, though it \u201cmarked no\nadvance over its predecessors, but its tunes were well up to the\naverage level and gave it a great advantage,\u201d and stimulated\ncongregational singing.\n\n35. _Hymns for the Christian Church, for the use of the First Church\nof Christ in Boston_\u2014Boston, 1869.\n\nEdited by Rev. Rufus Ellis (1819-1885), minister of the First Church,\nBoston. It was based on Lunt\u2019s conservative Christian Psalter (15)\nwhich had been in use in the First Church for 25 years. About 250\nhymns were retained from the earlier volume and enough more added to\nbring the total to 469. The selections were well made, but, without\nmusic, the book could not compete with the more inclusive _Hymn and\nTune Book_ (34) which the American Unitarian Association had published\nthe preceding year.\n\n36. _Hymn and Tune Book for the Church and Home_\u2014Revised edition.\nAmerican Unitarian Association, Boston, 1877.\n\nThe compiler\u2019s name nowhere appears in the book, which was edited by\nRev. Rush R. Shippen (1828-1911), then Secretary of the American\nUnitarian Association. It is a thorough-going revision of (34),\nvirtually a new book. It contains 871 hymns, 14 chants, etc., 316\ntunes, a much richer selection than its predecessor, although the\nmusic was still of the mid-century type, with only a few examples of\nthe newer English tunes which were being introduced into America by\nthe choirs of Episcopal churches. The book was well adapted to the\ngeneral needs of Unitarians and was the most widely used book among\nthe Unitarian churches for the ensuing forty years.\n\n37. _Unity Hymns and Chorals_\u2014Edited by W. C. Gannett, J. V. Blake, F.\nL. Hosmer. Chicago, 1880.\n\nA later and largely revised edition was published in 1911 by Hosmer\nand Gannett. The editors, Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929), William\nChanning Gannett (1840-1923), and James Vila Blake (1842-1925), were\nhymn-writers and ministers in the Western Unitarian Conference. This\nsmall book, noted for its \u201csplit-leaf\u201d arrangement, represented the\npoint of view of the \u201cleft-wing\u201d group in the denomination. In its two\neditions it contained most of the hymns by its editors, and a good\nmany by other authors which appeared for the first time within its\ncovers. In this respect, as in its radical character, it may be\ncompared to the hymn-books by Longfellow and Johnson (24 and 33). It\nwas widely used in the Western Unitarian Conference. Musically it was\nmediocre.\n\n38. _Sacred Songs for Public Worship: A Hymn and Tune Book_\u2014Edited by\nM. J. Savage and Howard M. Dow. Boston, 1883.\n\nThis small book contains 195 hymns and songs for popular use, selected\nby Minot J. Savage (1841-1918), minister of Unity Church, Boston,\nMass., and set to music by Howard M. Dow. Forty-two items are from Mr.\nSavage\u2019s pen, the rest mostly from familiar sources. It is much more\nof a \u201cone-man book\u201d and musically nearer akin to the typical gospel\nsong-book than any other collection in this series.\n\n39. _Hymns of the Church Universal_\u2014Compiled by the Rev. Henry Wilder\nFoote [I]: Revised and edited by Mary W. Tileston and Arthur Foote.\nBoston, 1890.\n\nThis book was compiled for use in King\u2019s Chapel, Boston, of which Mr.\nFoote (1838-1889) was minister, but was not published until after his\ndeath, the editorial work being completed by his sister and brother.\nThe book superseded _Greenwood\u2019s Collection_ (13) in King\u2019s Chapel,\nand had considerable use elsewhere. It contained 647 hymns, a number\nof chants, and 299 tunes. It introduced many hymns and tunes of the\nlater 19^th century English authors and composers which were not found\nin any earlier American Unitarian collections, and was influential in\nsetting a standard for later books.\n\n40. _Hymnal: Amore Dei_\u2014Compiled by Mrs. Theodore C. Williams, Boston,\n1890. Revised, 1897.\n\nEdited by Mrs. Williams in co-operation with her husband, Rev.\nTheodore C. Williams (1855-1915), minister of All Souls\u2019 Church, New\nYork.\n\nIt contained 382 hymns, about 25 chants and responses and 272 tunes. A\ncollection similar to _Hymns of the Church Universal_ (39) in\nutilizing the newer English hymns and tunes of the nineteenth century,\nit had many excellencies and considerable use. The biographical\nindexes of composers and authors are far more complete than those of\nany earlier book in this series.\n\n41. _Hymns for Church and Home_\u2014American Unitarian Association,\nBoston, 1895.\n\nEdited by Mary Wilder Tileston and Arthur Foote, it was in effect a\nrevised and enlarged edition of _Hymns for the Church Universal_ (39),\ncontaining 801 hymns. It was an admirable compilation but rather large\nand heavy for handling.\n\n42. _Hymns for Church and Home Abridged_\u20141902.\n\nAn edition of (41) with the number of hymns reduced to 513.\n\n43. _Hymns of the Ages_\u2014Cambridge: The University Press. 1904.\n\nEdited by Louisa Putnam Loring (1854-1924). A book of high literary\nand musical standards, based upon the (Harvard) _University Hymn Book_\n(1895). It contained 316 hymns and 205 tunes, but it represented a\nrather limited and individualistic point of view and did not prove\nadaptable to general use.\n\n44. _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book and Candle Light Service_\u2014The Isles of\nShoals Association, 1908.\n\nEdited by Rev. George H. Badger (1859-1954). Since the book was\nintended for use at the summer meetings on the Isles of Shoals, off\nPortsmouth, N. H., the religious interpretation of nature is strongly\nemphasized. The book contains 219 hymns and 96 tunes, mostly selected\nfrom _Hymns for Church and Home_ (41), but nine of them are original\ncontributions to this book, some with lines referring directly to the\nisland setting or history. Both words and music represent the highest\nstandards at the time of publication, and the book is an exceptional\ncollection of hymns expressing this aspect of religion.\n\n45. _The New Hymn and Tune Book_\u2014American Unitarian Association:\nBoston, 1914.\n\nEdited by a commission: Rev. Samuel A. Eliot (1862-1950), Chairman;\nRev. Henry Wilder Foote, (II), (1875-____), Secretary; Rev. Rush R.\nShippen, (1828-1911), Rev. Lewis G. Wilson, (1858-1928).\n\nNominally a revision of the _Hymn and Tune Book_ of 1877 (36), it was\nin effect a new compilation, drawing largely upon _Hymns for Church\nand Home_ (41), _Amore Dei_ (40) and _Unity Hymns and Chorals_ (37).\nIt contained 546 hymns, 28 chants, etc., and 268 tunes. It also\nincluded a set of services and responsive readings, prepared by\nanother committee. It represented a great advance on earlier books and\nwas more widely adopted than any of them. In its music it was less\nprogressive than in its selection of hymns, representing the musical\nstandard and practice of about 1900.\n\n46. _Twenty-five Hymns for Use in Time of War_\u2014The Beacon Press.\nBoston, n. d. (1916).\n\nA pamphlet of hymns, more than half of them reprinted from the _Hymn\nand Tune Book_ of 1914 (45) for use during the Great War.\n\n47. _Songs and Readings_\u2014compiled and edited by Jacob Trapp and R. T.\nPorte. Salt Lake City, 1931.\n\nThis booklet contains 58 songs and hymns, without music, and 32\nresponsive readings for use in the First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake\nCity, of which Mr. Trapp (1899-____) was then minister. Intended for\nministers with \u201cHumanist\u201d leanings.\n\n48. _Hymns of the Spirit_\u2014Beacon Press, 1937.\n\nEdited by a Unitarian Commission: Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, (II)\n(1875-____), Chairman; Rev. Edward P. Daniels (1891-____), Rev. Curtis\nW. Reese (1887-____), Rev. Von Ogden Vogt (1879-____), working in\nco-operation with a Universalist Commission: Rev. L. G. Williams\n(1893-____), Chairman; Rev. Prof. Alfred S. Cole, (1893-____), Rev.\nProf. Edson R. Miles (1875-1958), and Rev. Tracy M. Pullman\n(1904-____).\n\nThe title is borrowed from the second collection, edited by Samuel\nLongfellow and Samuel Johnson, 1864, (33). The book is printed with\nservices and responsive readings prepared by the same two commissions.\nIt is an extensive revision of the _New Hymn and Tune Book_ (45) of\n1914, with special emphasis on \u201cthe social gospel\u201d and on hymns\ndealing with \u201cman in the universe.\u201d Its most notable advance over its\npredecessors is in its music, edited by E. P. Daniels and Robert L.\nSanders. It contains 533 hymns, 42 chants, etc., 366 tunes.\n\n\n\n\n    _Alphabetical List of Unitarian Hymn Writers In the Following\n                              Catalogue_\n\n\n  Adams, John Quincy\n  Alcott, Louisa May\n  Alger, Wm. R.\n  Ames, Chas. G.\n  Anonymous\n  Appleton, Francis P.\n\n  Badger, George H.\n  Ballou, Adin\n  Barber, Henry H.\n  Barnard, John\n  Barrows, Samuel J.\n  Bartol, Cyrus A.\n  Bartrum, Joseph P.\n  Beach, Seth Curtis\n  Belknap, Jeremy\n  Blake, James Vila\n  Briggs, C. A.\n  Briggs, LeB. R.\n  Brooks, Charles T.\n  Bryant, William Cullen\n  Bulfinch, Stephen G.\n  Burleigh, Wm. H.\n\n  Cabot, Eliza Lee, see Follen, Eliza Lee\n  Chadwick, John W.\n  Chapman, Mrs.\n  Cheney, Mrs. Edna D.\n  Church, Edward A.\n  Clapp, Eliza T.\n  Clarke, J. F.\n  Collyer, Robert\n  Clute, Oscar\n\n  Dana, Chas. A.\n  Dwight, John S.\n\n  Emerson, R. W.\n  Everett, Wm.\n\n  Fernald, W. M.\n  Flint, James\n  Follen, Eliza Lee\n  Foote, H. W., I\n  Foote, H. W., II\n  Freeman, James\n  Frothingham, N. L.\n  Frothingham, Octavius B.\n  Fuller, Sarah Margaret\n  Furness, W. H.\n\n  Gannett, W. C.\n  Gilman, Caroline (Howard)\n  Gilman, Samuel\n  Goldsmith, Peter H.\n  Greenough, James B.\n  Greenwood, Helen W.\n\n  Hale, Edw. Everett\n  Hale, Mary W.\n  Hall, Harriet W.\n  Ham, M. F.\n  Harris, Florence\n  Harris, Thaddeus M.\n  Hedge, F. H.\n  Higginson, T. W.\n  Hill, Thomas\n  Holland, J. G.\n  Holmes, John Haynes\n  Holmes, Oliver Wendell\n  Horton, Edw. A.\n  Hosmer, F. L.\n  Howe, Julia (Ward)\n  Huntington, F. D.\n  Hurlburt, W. H.\n\n  Johnson, Samuel\n\n  Kimball, Jacob\n\n  Larned, Augusta\n  Lathrop, John Howland\n  Livermore, A. A.\n  Livermore, Sarah W.\n  Long, John D.\n  Longfellow, Henry W.\n  Longfellow, Samuel\n  Loring, Louisa P.\n  Loring, W. J.\n  Lowell, J. R.\n  Lunt, W. P.\n\n  Mann, Newton\n  Marean, Emma (Endicott)\n  Mason, Caroline A.\n  Miles, Sarah E.\n  Mott, F. B.\n\n  Newell, Wm.\n  Norton, Andrews\n\n  Ossoli, Margaret, see Fuller\n\n  Parker, Theodore\n  Peabody, Ephraim\n  Peabody, O. W. B.\n  Peabody, W. B. O.\n  Perkins, J. H.\n  Pierpont, John\n  Pray, Lewis G.\n  Prince, Thomas\n  Putnam, A. P.\n\n  Robbins, Chandler\n  Robbins, S. D.\n\n  Sargent, L. M.\n  Savage, M. J.\n  Scudder, Eliza\n  Sears, E. H.\n  Sewall, C.\n  Sigourney, Lydia H.\n  Sill, E. R.\n  Silliman, V. B.\n  Spencer, Anna G.\n  Sprague, Charles\n\n  Trapp, Jacob\n  Tuckerman, J.\n\n  Very, Jones\n  Very, Washington\n\n  Ware, Henry\n  Waterston, R. C.\n  Weir, R. S.\n  Weiss, John\n  Wendte, Chas. W.\n  Westwood, Horace\n  Wile, Frances W.\n  Wiley, Hiram O.\n  Willard, Samuel\n  Williams, Theodore C.\n  Williams, Velma C.\n  Willis, Love Maria\n  Willis, Nathaniel P.\n  Wilson, Edwin H.\n  Wilson, Lewis G.\n\n  Young, George H.\n\n\n\n\n                        Biographical Sketches\n                         with Notes on Hymns\n\n\nAdams, Hon. John Quincy, Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, July\n11, 1767\u2014February 21, 1848, Washington, D. C. He graduated from\nHarvard in 1787. From 1794-1801 he was United States Minister to\nEngland, the Netherlands and Prussia. In 1806 he was appointed\nProfessor of Rhetoric at Harvard. In 1809 he became United States\nMinister to Russia, in 1817 he was Secretary of State, and from 1824\nto 1828 he was President of the United States. In 1831 he was elected\nto the House of Representatives, in which body he served until his\ndeath.\n\nMost of his verse, both religious and secular, was written after he\nhad left the Presidency, but he remains the only hymn writer who has\never been President of this country. In his later years he composed a\nmetrical version of the Psalms, best described as a free rendering in\nfairly good verse of what he felt was the essential idea of each\nPsalm. When his minister, Rev. William P. Lunt, _q.v._, of the First\nParish, (Unitarian) Quincy, Massachusetts, undertook the preparation\nof his hymn book _The Christian Psalmist_, (1841), Mrs. Adams put the\nmanuscript of her husband\u2019s metrical Psalms into Mr. Lunt\u2019s hands, and\nthe latter included 17 of them in his book, and five other hymns by\nhis distinguished parishioner.\n\nThe effect on Adams is recorded in a moving entry in his _Journal_\nwhich reveals an aspect of his character quite unknown to those who\nregarded him as an opinionated and uncompromising though sincere and\nupright politician. He wrote on June 29, 1845, \u201cMr. Lunt preached this\nmorning, Eccles. III, 1. For everything there is a season. He had\ngiven out as the first hymn to be sung the 138^th of the Christian\nPsalter, his compilation and the hymn-book now used in our church. It\nwas my version of the 65^th Psalm; and no words can express the\nsensations with which I heard it sung. Were it possible to compress\ninto one pulsation of the heart the pleasure which, in the whole\nperiod of my life, I have enjoyed in praise from the lips of mortal\nman, it would not weigh a straw to balance the ecstasy of delight\nwhich streamed from my eyes as the organ pealed and the choir of\nvoices sung the praise of Almighty God from the soul of David, adapted\nto my native tongue by me.    There was one drawback. In the printed\nbook, the fifth line of the second stanza reads,\n\n  \u2018The morning\u2019s dawn, the evening\u2019s shade,\u2019\n\nand so it was sung, but the corresponding seventh line of the same\nstanza reads,\n\n  \u2018The fields from thee the rains receive,\u2019\n\ntotally destroying the rhyme. I instantly saw that the fifth line\nshould read,\n\n  \u2018The morning\u2019s dawn, the shades of eve,\u2019\n\nbut whether this enormous blunder was committed by the copyist or the\npressman I am left to conjecture.\u201d\n\nAfter Adams\u2019 death his verses, both religious and secular, were\npublished in a small volume entitled _Poems of Religion and Society_,\nNew York, 1848, which ran to a fourth edition in 1854. This collection\nincluded the five hymns and 17 metrical Psalms printed in _The\nChristian Psalmist_, unchanged except that the opening line of each\npsalm has been substituted for the number of the psalm as its heading.\nNor was the misprint which Adams lamented amended. Judged by the\nconventional standards of his time Adams\u2019 poetry was consistently\nrespectable verse, but without any notable distinction other than that\nlent to it by the fame of the author.\n\nHis five hymns are,\n\n    1. _Sure to the mansions of the blest_,    (Death of Children)\n\n    This is part of a piece of 20 stanzas, which appeared in the\n    _Monthly Anthology and Boston Review_, January 1807. It is\n    entitled \u201cLines addressed to a mother on the death of two infants,\n    19th Sept. 1803, and 19th Decb. 1806.\u201d\n\n    2. _Alas! how swift the moments fly_,    (The Hour-Glass)\n\n    Sometimes given as\n\n      _How swift, alas, the moments fly_,\n\n    written for the 200^th anniversary of the First Parish Church in\n    Quincy, September 20, 1839.\n\n    3. _Hark! \u2019tis the holy temple bell_,    (Sabbath morning) undated\n\n    4. _When, o\u2019er the billow-heaving deep_,\n\n    \u201cA Hymn for the twenty-second of December,\u201d i.e., the coming of\n    the Pilgrim Fathers, undated.\n\n    5. _Lord of all worlds, let thanks and praise_,\n\n    \u201cWritten in Sickness;\u201d undated.\n\nHis metrical versions of the Psalms follow:\u2014\n\n    6. _Blest is the mortal whose delight_, Ps. 1\n\n    7. _Come let us sing unto the Lord_, Ps. 95\n\n    8. _For thee in Zion there is praise_, Ps. 65\n\n    9. _My Shepherd is the Lord on high_, Ps. 23\n\n    10. _My soul, before thy Maker kneel_, Ps. 103\n\n    11. _O, all ye people, clap your hands_, Ps. 47\n\n    12. _O God, with goodness all thine own_, Ps. 67\n\n    13. _O heal me, Lord, for I am weak_, Ps. 6\n\n    14. _O, judge me, Lord, for thou art just_, Ps. 26\n\n    15. _O Lord my God! how great thou art_, Ps. 104\n\n    16. _O Lord, thy all-discerning eyes_, Ps. 139\n\n    17. _O that the race of men would raise_, Ps. 107\n\n    18. _Send forth, O God, thy truth and light_, Ps. 43\n\n    19. _Sing to Jehovah a new song_, Ps. 98\n\n    20. _Sing to the Lord a song of praise_, Ps. 149\n\n    21. _Turn to the stars of heaven thine eyes_, Ps. 19\n\n    22. _Why should I fear in evil days_, Ps. 49\n\nA few of these hymns and psalms found their way into other\ncollections. Nos. 2 and 3 were included in _Lyra Sacra Americana_; no.\n18 is in _Hymnal for American Youth_ and the _American Student\nHymnal_; no. 16 is in the Jewish _Union Hymnal for Worship_, 1914.\n\n                                                             J. 16, 1647\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nAlcott, Louisa May, Concord, Massachusetts, November 29, 1833\u2014March 5,\n1888, Concord. She was the author of widely known books for children,\n_Little Women_, _Little Men_, and others. Julian\u2019s _Dictionary_, p.\n1602, records her hymn,\n\n  _A little kingdom I possess_,\n\nand cites Eva Munson Smith\u2019s _Women in Sacred Song_ as quoting a note\nfrom Miss Alcott dated \u201cConcord, Oct. 7, 1883,\u201d in which she says that\nthis is \u201cthe only hymn I ever wrote. It was composed at thirteen - - -\nand still expresses my soul\u2019s desire.\u201d Notwithstanding this statement\nanother hymn attributed to her, apparently written for use by young\npeople and beginning,\n\n  _O the beautiful old story!_\n\nis included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914.\n\n                                                            J 1550, 1602\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nAlger, Rev. William Rounsville, Freetown, Massachusetts, December 28,\n1822\u2014February 7, 1905, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the\nHarvard Divinity School in 1847 and in the same year became minister\nof the Mount Pleasant Society, Roxbury, Massachusetts. In 1855 he was\nsettled over the Bulfinch Place Church, Boston. He was a popular\nlecturer and the author of numerous articles and several books, the\nmost notable of which was his _History of the Doctrine of the Future\nLife_, 1864, and later editions.\n\nHis Christmas hymn\n\n  _Jesus has lived! and we would bring_,\n\nwritten in 1845 while he was still a student, is included in Hedge and\nHuntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853.\n\nOther poems by him, including a hymn for the graduation of his class\nfrom the Divinity School in 1847 and another for the ordination of\nThomas Starr King, are included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, but\nhave had no further use.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nAmes, Rev. Charles Gordon, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1828\u2014April 15,\n1912, Boston, Massachusetts. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in\n1849 and spent some years as a home missionary in Minnesota. In 1859\nhe joined the Unitarian denomination and served several churches, his\nlast pastorate being with the Church of the Disciples, Boston. In 1905\nhe wrote a hymn for the dedication of the new edifice of that Society\nbeginning,\n\n  _With loving hearts and hands we rear_,\n\nwhich is included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914.\n\nA hymn beginning\n\n  _Father in heaven, hear us today_,\n\nis attributed to him in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_: _Old and\nNew_, 1898, but is not found elsewhere.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nAnonymous\n\nIn Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853,\nthere is no Index of Authors, but in its Index of First Lines the name\nof the author, (often only his or her surname) is given in most\ninstances. The Index also lists 57 hymns as \u201cAnon.\u201d or, more often,\nwith no word as to authorship. The source of several of these hymns\ncan be traced in Julian\u2019s _Dictionary_ or in Putnam\u2019s _Singers and\nSongs of the Liberal Faith_, but I have been unable to identify the\nauthor or source of the following hymns, or to check their later use,\nif any.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n_Hys. Ch. Ch._\n\n  509   Abba, Father, hear thy child,\n  758   Alas! how poor and little worth,\n  602   Behold, the servant of the Lord,\n  73   Blest is the hour when cares depart,\n  510   Come, let us who in Christ believe\n  288   Come, O thou universal good!\n  581   Come to the morning prayer,\n\n  707   Gently, Lord, O gently lead us,\n  868   God of the mountain, God of the storm,\n  437   God of the rolling year! to Thee\n  765   Go to thy rest, fair child!\n  305   Head of the church triumphant,\n  860   Hear, Father, hear our prayer\n  691   He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower\n  686   I cannot always trace the way\n  763   In the broad fields of heaven,\n  37   \u201cLet there be light!\u201d When born on high\n  255   Lord, in thy garden agony,\n  409   Lord, may the spirit of this feast,\n  861   Meek and lowly, pure and holy,\n  573   Meek hearts are by sweet manna fed,\n  798   Mortal, the angels say,\n  856   My feet are worn and weary with the march,\n  481   O\u2019er mountaintops, the mount of God,\n  294   On earth was darkness spread,\n  742   O speed thee, Christian, on thy way,\n  506   O Thou, who hearest prayer,\n  803   O why should friendship grieve for them\n  56   O wondrous depth of grace divine,\n\n  307   Saviour and dearest friend,\n  312   Saviour, source of every blessing,\n  539   Sovereign of worlds! display thy power,\n  757   Swift years, but teach me how to bear,\n  611   Take my heart, O Father, take it,\n  75   There is a world, and O how blest,\n  276   Thou art the Way, and he who sighs,\n  768   Thou must go forth alone, my soul!\n  155   \u2019Tis not Thy chastening hand I fear,\n  247   Wake the song of jubilee.\n  528   When shall the voice of singing,\n  846   Why come not spirits from the realms of glory?\n  448   Why slumbereth, Lord, each promised sign?\n\n\nAnonymous Hymns\n\n    _Come, Holy Spirit, hush my heart_,\n\n    C.M.    3 stas.    3 _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908.\n\n    _Come thou Almighty King!_\n\n    The widely used hymn to the Trinity which begins with this line\n    was written about 1757 in England. It has often been mistakenly\n    attributed to Charles Wesley, and research has failed to discover\n    who its author was. Perhaps he thought it prudent not to disclose\n    his name because both his words and the tune by Felice di Giardini\n    to which it was set in 1769 offered so marked a contrast to the\n    British national anthem, in the same unusual metre, which had come\n    into popular use about 1745 with the words _God save our lord the\n    King_. American Unitarians in the 19^th century could sing the\n    first stanza of the hymn, addressed to the \u201cFather all glorious,\u201d\n    but not the trinitarian stanzas which followed. An unknown writer\n    produced two additional stanzas in a carefully revised version\n    which was included in Lunt\u2019s _Christian Psalter_, 1841; in the\n    1851 _Supplement_ to Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Book of Hymns_,\n    1846; and in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. This version,\n    however, was not satisfactory to later Unitarians and was again\n    largely rewritten in the form in which it has been included in\n    most of the Unitarian hymn books of more recent date. This version\n    will be found in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns\n    of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n    _For mercies past we praise thee, Lord_,\n\n    Given as Anonymous in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Book of Hymns_,\n    1846, in 4 stas. of 4 l. It was repeated in their _Hymns of the\n    Spirit_, 1864, and in the (Unitarian) _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868.\n\n                                                                 J. 1564\n\n    _My life flows on in endless song_,\n\n    8.7.8.7.D.    3 stas.    _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908.\n\n    _Now, when the dusky shades of night retreating_,\n\n    This is a free translation in five stanzas of the Latin hymn,\n    _Ecce jam noctis tenuatar umbra_ by Gregory the Great, c. 600,\n    included in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of\n    Christ_, 1853, as anonymous. It passed into Beecher\u2019s _Plymouth\n    Collection_, 1855, and into many other hymn books, British and\n    American, often with the 3^d and 4^th stanzas omitted. There is no\n    clue as to its author though Julian (p. 320) points out that the\n    first stanza appears to be an altered form of W. J. Copeland\u2019s\n    translation from the Latin, published in 1848. The three stanza\n    form of the hymn is included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_,\n    1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  J. 819\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n    _We follow, Lord, where thou dost lead_,\n\n    L.M.    5 stas.    Attributed to \u201cBook of Hymns,\u201d in _Isles of\n    Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908.\n\n\nAppleton, Rev. Francis Parker, Boston, Massachusetts, August 9,\n1822\u2014June 14, 1903, Cohasset, Massachusetts. He graduated from the\nHarvard Divinity School in 1845, and was minister to the Unitarian\nchurch, in South Danvers, (now Peabody) Massachusetts from 1846 to\n1853. He then left the ministry for secular occupations. His hymn,\n\n    _Thirsting for a living spring_,\n\nwas included, anonymously, in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Book of\nHymns_, 1846, and, attributed to him, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864.\nIt is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908; in _The New\nHymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. His\nhymn,\n\n    _The past yet lives in all its truth, O God_,\n\nwas also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in _The New Hymn\nand Tune Book_, 1914, but has now dropped out of use.\n\n                                                           J. 1551, 1606\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBadger, Rev. George Henry, Charlestown, Massachusetts, March 27,\n1859\u2014May 11, 1953, Orlando, Florida. He was educated at Williams\nCollege, A.B. 1883, at Andover Theological Seminary and the Harvard\nDivinity School, receiving the degree of S.T.B. from the latter\ninstitution in 1886. He served several Unitarian churches in New\nEngland. From 1912-1918 he was a minister in San Antonio, Texas; from\n1919-1936 in Orlando, Florida. The preface to _The Isles of Shoals\nHymn Book_, 1908, is signed with his initials as editor. That book\ncontains three hymns of which he was author:\u2014\n\n    1. _God of the vastness of the far-spread sea_,\n\n    2. _Lord, I believe, and in my faith_,\n\n    3. _Thy way, O Lord, is in the sea_,\n\nIn 1910 he wrote a hymn beginning,\n\n    4. _O Thou who art my King_,\n\nwhich was included in The _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. None of\nthese hymns have passed into later collections.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBallou, Rev. Adin, 1803-1890. Without much formal education, but\ngifted in mind and spirit, he was ordained in 1827 as a Universalist\nminister, but in 1831 joined the Unitarian denomination in which he\nserved a number of New England parishes. He wrote a hymn beginning,\n\n  _Years are coming\u2014speed them onward!_\n  _When the sword shall gather rust_\n\nwhich was included in Universalist hymnbooks and in _Hymns of the\nSpirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBarber, Rev. Henry Hervey, Warwick, Massachusetts, December 30,\n1835\u2014January 18, 1923, Jacksonville, Florida. He was educated at\nDeerfield (Massachusetts) Academy, and at Meadville Theological School\nfrom which he graduated in 1861. After pastorates in two New England\nchurches he became in 1881 a professor in Meadville Theological\nSchool, a position from which he retired in 1904. His hymn beginning,\n\n    _Far off, O God, and yet most near,_\n\ndated 1891, had considerable use and was included in _The New Hymn and\nTune Book_, 1914.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBarnard, Rev. John, Boston, Massachusetts, November 6, 1681\u2014January\n24, 1770, Marblehead, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in\n1700, and was installed as minister of the Congregational Church in\nMarblehead in 1716, which he served with distinction through the rest\nof his life. A number of his sermons were printed, and in 1752 he\npublished _A New Version of the Psalms of David_, 278 pp., printed in\nBoston, the result of his own endeavor to produce a fresh metrical\ntranslation. It is listed in Julian\u2019s _Dictionary_, p. 929, under\n_Psalters, English_. His book was used in his own church, but not\nelsewhere, and is now very rare. His own annotated copy is in the\nHarvard College Library and the original ms. is in the Massachusetts\nHistorical Society.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBarrows, Rev. Samuel June, New York, New York, May 26, 1845\u2014April 21,\n1909, New York. He graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1875\nand in 1876 was ordained minister of Mount Pleasant Church,\nDorchester, Massachusetts, where he served until 1881. He was editor\nof the _Christian Register_ from 1881 to 1897, and was a member of\nCongress, 1897-1899.\n\nA hymn beginning\n\n    _Enkindling Love, eternal Flame_\n\nis attributed to him in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBartol, Rev. Cyrus Augustus, D.D., Freeport, Maine, August 30,\n1813\u2014December 16, 1890, Boston. He graduated from Bowdoin College in\n1832 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1835. After lay preaching\nfor a year in Cincinnati he was ordained in 1837 as successor to Rev.\nCharles Lowell (father of James Russell Lowell) in the West Church\n(Unitarian) in Boston. He retired in 1889. He was author of several\nbooks and of a large number of printed sermons and addresses. He, with\nothers, edited _Hymns for the Sanctuary_, Boston, 1849, commonly\ncalled \u201cBartol\u2019s Collection\u201d, in which was included an anonymous hymn\nbeginning\n\n    _Be thou ready, fellow-mortal_    (Readiness for Duty)\n\nThis hymn passed into the _Supplement_ to Hedge and Huntington\u2019s\n_Hymns of the Church of Christ_, Boston, 1853, and into other\ncollections. Its authorship has never been disclosed, but its theme\nand mode of expression suggest that it may have been written by\nBartol.\n\n                                                                  J. 120\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBartrum, Joseph P., a Unitarian layman living in the 19^th century,\nwho published _The Psalms newly Paraphrased for the Service of the\nSanctuary_, Boston, 1833, from which his version of Psalm CVI,\n\n    _O from these visions, dark and drear_,\n\nwas taken for inclusion in several Unitarian collections in Great\nBritain and America and in the Universalist _Church Harmonies, New and\nOld_, 1895. His version of Psalm LXXXVII,\n\n    _Amid the heaven of heavens_,\n\nis included in Holland\u2019s _Psalmists of Britain_, 1843, vol. II, p.\n339, with a critical note.\n\nNeither hymn is found in use today.\n\n                                                                  J. 116\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBeach, Rev. Seth Curtis, D.D., near Marion, Wayne County, New York,\nAugust 3, 1837\u2014January 30, 1932, Watertown, Massachusetts. He\ngraduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York in 1863, and from\nthe Harvard Divinity School in 1866. From 1867 to 1869 he served the\nUnitarian Church in Augusta, Maine. Ill health then led him to take up\na farm in Minnesota for four years. In 1873 he returned to New\nEngland, where his longest pastorates were at Bangor, Maine,\n1891-1901, and at Wayland, Massachusetts, 1901-1911, when he retired\nto Watertown. His hymn,\n\n    1. _Mysterious Presence! Source of all_,\n\nwas first printed in the \u201cOrder of Exercises at the Fiftieth Annual\nVisitation of the Divinity School, July 17, 1866,\u201d having been written\nfor that occasion.\n\nIn 1884 he wrote\n\n    2. _Thou One in all, thou All in one_    (God in Nature)\n\nThese two hymns were included in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune\nBook_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. His third hymn\n\n    3. _Kingdom of God! The day how blest_,\n\nis included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908.\n\n                                                                 J. 1581\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBelknap, Rev. Jeremy, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, June 4, 1744\u2014June\n20, 1798, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1762; taught\nschool for four years; in 1766 accepted a position as assistant to\nRev. Jonathan Cushing of Dover, New Hampshire, and in 1767 was\nordained, serving that parish until 1786. In 1787 he became minister\nof the Federal Street Church, (now the Arlington Street Church)\nBoston, which he served until his death. Harvard gave him the honorary\ndegree of Doctor of Divinity in 1792. He was the author of a three\nvolume _History of New Hampshire_; of a petition (1788) for the\nabolition of the slave trade; and of other books and essays; and\nformed the plan for the Massachusetts Historical Society, organized in\n1791. He wrote no hymns but made an important contribution to American\nhymnody in his collection _Sacred Poetry: consisting of Psalms and\nHymns adapted to Christian devotion in public and private. Selected\nfrom the best authors, with variations and additions_, by Jeremy\nBelknap, D.D., Boston, 1795, which ran to many editions. His intention\nwas to provide a book acceptable to both the conservative and the\nliberal wings of Congregationalism, to bridge the widening gap which\nresulted in the formation of the Unitarian denomination a generation\nlater. In this he failed, for only the liberal churches accepted it,\nthough it was widely used by them for 40 years, being much the best of\nthe period. It includes 300 hymns from the best English sources, and\nwas the first to introduce to Americans the hymns by Anne Steele. The\nonly American hymns in the collection are Jacob Kimball\u2019s metrical\nversion of Psalm 65 and Mather Byles\u2019 _When wild confusion rends the\nair_.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBlake, Rev. James Vila, Brooklyn, New York, January 21, 1842\u2014April 28,\n1925, Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard College in 1862 and\nfrom the Harvard Divinity School in 1866, and served Unitarian\nchurches in Massachusetts and Illinois, his last and longest pastorate\nbeing at Evanston, Ill., 1892-1916. Author of a number of books. He\nshared with W. C. Gannett, _q.v._ and F. L. Hosmer, _q.v._ in the\ncompilation of the first edition of _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1880,\nwhich included his hymn,\n\n    _Father, Thou art calling, calling to us plainly_,\n\nincluded also in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of\nthe Spirit_, 1937. The latter book also includes his hymn of the\nchurch universal,\n\n    _O sing with loud and joyful song_.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBriggs, C. A.\n\nA hymn beginning,\n\n  _God\u2019s law demands one living faith_    (Law of God)\n\nis attributed to a person with this name in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s\n_Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. It is probable, but not\ncertain, that the author was Rev. Charles Briggs, Halifax,\nMassachusetts, January 17, 1791\u2014December 1, 1873, Roxbury,\nMassachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1815 and from the\nDivinity School in 1818, was minister of the First Church in\nLexington, Massachusetts, 1818-1834, and secretary of the American\nUnitarian Association, 1835-1848.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBriggs, LeBaron Russell, LL.D., Salem, Massachusetts, December 11,\n1855\u2014April 24, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from Harvard\nCollege in 1875, A.M., 1882; served as tutor, then as professor of\nEnglish, and as dean from 1891-1925. Harvard gave him the degree of\nLL.D. in 1900, as did Yale in 1917, and Lafayette University gave him\nthe degree of Litt.D. For the celebration of the 300^th anniversary of\nthe landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, December 21, 1920, he wrote a\npoem which is introduced by a prayer in three stanzas, 11.10.11.10,\noffered by \u201cThe Pilgrim\u201d, beginning,\n\n  _God of our fathers, who hast safely brought us_,\n\nIt is a fine hymn of thanksgiving for religious freedom and it was\nincluded in the program celebrating the 300^th anniversary of the\n\u201cCambridge Platform\u201d in October 27, 1948. It deserves wide use.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBrooks, Rev. Charles Timothy, Salem, Massachusetts, June 20, 1813\u2014June\n14, 1883, Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from Harvard College in\n1832 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1835. He was ordained as\nthe first minister of the Unitarian Church in Newport, Rhode Island,\non January 1, 1837, and served there until 1873. He was author of a\nnumber of books, most of them translations from German poets and\nnovelists. After his death a volume entitled _Poems, Original and\nTranslated_, was published. The only hymn with which his name is\nassociated was in two stanzas beginning,\n\n    _God bless our native land!_\n\nsaid to have been written while he was a student in the Divinity\nSchool. Part of the first and almost the whole of the second stanza\nwere rewritten by J. S. Dwight, _q.v._, and Putnam, in _Songs of the\nLiberal Faith_, states that it was first published in this form in one\nof Lowell Mason\u2019s song books in 1844. It was included, with further\nalterations, in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s_ Hymns of the Church of\nChrist_, 1853, and with yet other changes in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s\n_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. In the 20^th century collection also\nentitled _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, the hymn appears in 3 stas. of\nwhich the first is by Brooks, the second by Dwight, and a third, of\nwhich the first 3 lines are those introduced by Longfellow and\nJohnson, the remaining four lines from a later unknown source, and its\nauthorship is attributed to \u201cComposite: based on Charles Timothy\nBrooks and John Sullivan Dwight.\u201d The complicated history of this hymn\nis traced in Julian, 184, 1566, 1685.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBryant, William Cullen, Cummington, Massachusetts, November 3,\n1794\u2014June 12, 1878, New York, New York. He was a student at Williams\nCollege for two years, then studied law, and was admitted to the bar\nat Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1815, where he practised until\n1825 when he removed to New York. There he devoted himself to\njournalism as editor of _The New York Review_ and of the _New York\nEvening Post_, reserving part of his time, especially in later years,\nto literary pursuits at his retreat at Roslyn, Long Island, where he\nwrote addresses, essays and reviews as well as poems. In point of time\nhe was the first of the famous group of New England poets of the\nnineteenth century. He began writing verses when a child and composed\nhis noblest poem, _Thanatopsis_, when only eighteen years of age. His\nfirst volume of poems, containing one entitled _The Ages_ delivered\nbefore the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard, and some others, was\npublished in 1821. In 1832 a volume entitled _Poems_, complete to that\ndate, was published, for which Washington Irving secured republication\nin England, where it brought him wide recognition. Many successive\neditions of Poems, each with some additional items, were published in\nlater years, and after his death a complete edition of the _Poetical\nWorks of William Cullen Bryant_ appeared in 1879. He also had\nprivately printed a little volume of his _Hymns_, 1869.\n\nThe following pieces by him have been included in various collections\nof hymns, some of them having considerable use in Great Britain as\nwell as in this country.\n\n    1. _All praise to him of Nazareth_    (Communion)\n\n    Dated 1864. Included in Hatfield\u2019s (British) _Church Hymn Book_,\n    1874, in 3 stanzas, and in _Songs of the Sanctuary_ and in\n    Putnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs_, etc. in 5 stanzas.\n\n    2. _All that in this wide world we see_    (Omnipresence)\n\n    Dated 1836, but Beard, in his _Collection_, (British) 1837, gives\n    it as an original contribution, thus fixing the date of first\n    publication. Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., notes that it was\n    \u201cWritten, probably, for some church in England,\u201d information which\n    sounds like the aged poet\u2019s vague recollection many years after he\n    had responded to Beard\u2019s request. Included in Lunt\u2019s _Christian\n    Psalter_, 1841.\n\n    3. _All things that are on earth_,   (Love of God)\n\n    Included in Beard\u2019s _Collection_, 1837.\n\n    4. _Almighty! hear thy children raise_,    (Praise)\n\n    One of five hymns written by Bryant at the request of Miss\n    Sedgwick for inclusion (without the author\u2019s name) in Sewall\u2019s\n    _Collection_, 1820, compiled for use in the First Congregational\n    Society of New York (Unitarian), now All Souls Church. In Beard\u2019s\n    _Collection_, 1837, the first line is altered to read\n\n      _Almighty, listen while we praise_,\n\n    and in the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, Boston, 1868, it is\n    altered to\n\n      _Almighty, hear us while we praise_,\n\n    5. _As shadows cast by cloud and sun_,\n\n    Written for the Semi-Centennial of the Church of the Messiah,\n    Boston, March 19, 1875. Included in the Methodist Episcopal\n    _Hymnal_, New York, 1878.\n\n    6. _Close softly, fondly, while ye weep_    (Death)\n\n    Included in H. W. Beecher\u2019s _Plymouth Collection_, 1855.\n\n    7. _Dear ties of mutual succor bind_    (Charity)\n\n    Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, 1874, p. 130, says, \u201cMr. Bryant has\n    kindly sent us, as an additional contribution to this volume, the\n    following exquisite lines, which were written about forty years\n    since, for some charitable occasion, and which he lately found\n    among some old papers. They are not among his published poems.\u201d\n    Included in the Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, 1878.\n\n    8.  _Deem not that they are blest alone_    (Mourning)\n\n    Written for Sewall\u2019s _Collection_, 1820, _vide supra._ Included in\n    Beard\u2019s _Collection_, 1837, and, the first line altered to read,\n\n      _O deem not they are blest alone_,\n\n    in Martineau\u2019s _Hymns of Prayer and Praise_, 1873, and in _Songs\n    for the Sanctuary_, New York, 1865-1872.\n\n    9.  _Father, to thy kind love we owe_,    (God\u2019s Loving Kindness)\n\n    One of the five hymns, written by Bryant for inclusion in Sewall\u2019s\n    _Collection_, New York, 1820. Included in the _Hymn and Tune\n    Book_, Boston, 1868, and in Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, 1873. In Putnam\u2019s\n    _Singers and Songs_, etc. the first line reads,\n\n      _Our Father, to thy love we owe_.\n\n    10. _How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps?_    (Future\n    life)\n\n    A memorial poem in 9 stanzas rather than a hymn, but included in\n    part in the supplement of devotional readings in Hedge and\n    Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. Complete text\n    in Putnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs_, etc., pp. 125-126.\n\n    11.  _Look from Thy sphere of endless day_    (Home missions)\n\n    Dated 1840. Included in _Songs for the Sanctuary_, New York, 1865;\n    in Horder\u2019s (British) _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, and in the\n    _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935.\n\n    12. _Lord, who ordainest for mankind_    (Thanks for Mother Love)\n\n    Written at the request of Rev. Samuel Osgood of New York for\n    inclusion in his _Christian Worship_, 1862, and included in\n    Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, etc., 1873.\n\n    13. _Mighty One, before whose face_    (Ordination)\n\n    Dated c. 1820. It was included in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns_,\n    etc. 1853, H. W. Beecher\u2019s _Plymouth Collection_, 1855, and\n    elsewhere.\n\n    14. _Not in the solitude_,    (God in the city)\n\n    Dated 1836. Included in Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, 1873.\n\n    15. O God, whose dread and dazzling brow    (God\u2019s compassion)\n\n    Included in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns_, etc. 1853, and in the\n    _Hymn and Tune Book_, Boston, 1868.\n\n    16. _O North, with all thy vales of green!_    (Reign of Christ)\n\n    Included in the author\u2019s privately printed _Hymns_, 1869, undated.\n    It passed into several British collections, e.g., the Scotch\n    _Church Hymnary_, 1898; _Worship Song_, 1905; _The English\n    Hymnal_, 1906; and is included in the American Episcopal _Hymnal_,\n    1940.\n\n    17. _O Thou, whose love can ne\u2019er forget_    (Ordination)\n\n    One of Bryant\u2019s early hymns, perhaps written for the ordination of\n    Rev. William Ware, December, 1821, as minister of the First\n    Congregational Society of New York, (now All Souls Church).\n    Included in Beard\u2019s English _Collection_, 1837.\n\n    18. _O Thou Whose own vast temple stands_    (Opening of a house\n    of worship)\n\n    Written in 1835 for the dedication of a Chapel in Prince Street,\n    New York. The building was soon afterwards destroyed by fire. This\n    hymn is the most widely used of all those written by Bryant. It\n    was included in Beard\u2019s English _Collection_ in 1837, and in\n    Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, 1873. In Putnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs_, etc.,\n    the opening line reads,\n\n    _Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands_,\n\n    and in this form it was included in Lunt\u2019s _Christian Psalter_,\n    1861, and in the American Presbyterian _Psalms and Hymns_,\n    Richmond, 1867; in Horder\u2019s _Congregational Hymns_, London, 1884;\n    and elsewhere.\n\n    19. _Standing forth in life\u2019s rough way_    (On behalf of\n    children)\n\n    Included in Dr. Allon\u2019s (British) _Children\u2019s Worship_, 1878; in\n    Horder\u2019s _Congregational Hymns_, 1884; and elsewhere.\n\n    20. _Thou unrelenting past_    (The Past)\n\n    Dated 1836. A poem of 14 stanzas, a few of which were included in\n    Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, 1873.\n\n    21. _When doomed to death the Apostle lay_    (On behalf of\n    Drunkards)\n\n    Included in the Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, 1878.\n\n    22. _When he who from the scourge of wrong_    (Hope of\n    Resurrection)\n\n    Written for Sewall\u2019s _Collection_, 1820. Included in _Lyra Sacra\n    Americana_, 1868.\n\n    23. _When this song of praise shall cease_    (Anticipation of\n    Death)\n\n    Written for a collection of hymns printed at the end of a _Sunday\n    School Liturgy_, prepared by James Lombard, of Utica, New York, in\n    1859. Included in Bryant\u2019s privately printed _Hymns_, 1869, and in\n    Stevenson\u2019s (British) _School Hymnal_, 1889.\n\n    24. _When the blind suppliant in the way_    (Opening the eyes of\n    the blind)\n\n    Dated 1874. Included in the Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, New\n    York, 1878.\n\n    25.  _Whither, midst falling dew_,    (Divine Guidance)\n\n    This is one of Bryant\u2019s best known poems, entitled \u201cTo a\n    Waterfowl,\u201d and dated 1836, and is in no sense a hymn, although\n    included in Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, 1873.\n\n    26.  _Wild was the day, the wintry sea_,    (The Pilgrim Fathers)\n\n    Included in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864.\n\nPutnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., p. 123 reports a hymn beginning\n\n    _Ancient of Days! except Thou deign_,\n\n\u201cwritten for the dedication of Rev. R. C. Waterston\u2019s church in\nBoston,\u201d and another hymn beginning\n\n    _Lord, from whose glorious presence came_,\n\nwritten \u201cat the request of a friend, Mr. Hiram Barney, for the opening\nof an Orthodox Congregational Church,\u201d but does not print the text of\neither, and neither appears to have been included in any Collection.\n\nAs indicated in the foregoing list, the text of several of Bryant\u2019s\nhymns is found with the opening line altered from the original, either\nby the author himself, or, presumably, with his consent, so that it is\nimpossible to say which is the correct or authorized form, and\nfrequently no more than approximate date of composition can be given.\n\nThe early flowering of Bryant\u2019s gifts as a poet, promoted by a\nfortunate combination of circumstances, quickly brought him widespread\nrecognition in both Great Britain and America, which deepened into\nrespect for his fine character as he advanced in age. The writings of\nno other American poet of his period were so eagerly searched by\ncompilers of hymn books, who sometimes included verses which were\nmeditative, poems rather than hymns, e.g., nos. 8, 10, 20 and 25 in\nthe above list. Bryant\u2019s mind was cool and meditative, and his hymns\nare correct and smoothly flowing, but seldom touched with lyric fire,\nand none of them quite reach the highest level. They express an\nattitude towards religion characteristic of the intellectual life of\nhis time but now largely passed away. No. 16 is still included in\nseveral leading hymn collections of the 20^th century; nos. 11 and 18\nare in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914; and nos. 12 and\n18 are in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                        J. 189-190, 1682\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBulfinch, Rev. Stephen Greenleaf, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, June\n18, 1809\u2014October 12, 1870, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was son of\nCharles Bulfinch, a leading architect, and received his early\neducation in Washington, D.C., returning to Cambridge to enter the\nHarvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1830. He was\nordained in January, 1831, as assistant to Rev. Samuel Gilman, _q.v._,\nof Charleston, South Carolina, and later served Unitarian churches in\nPittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; Nashua, New Hampshire;\nDorchester, Massachusetts and East Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a\nvoluminous writer in both prose and verse. Most of his hymns first\nappeared in his books _Contemplations of the Saviour_, Boston, 1832;\n_Poems_, Charleston, 1834; and _Lays of the Gospel_, 1845. The first\nof these was reprinted in England, where 19 of his hymns were included\nin Beard\u2019s _Collection_, 1837, and where they had widespread use.\n\nHis best known hymns are as follows:\n\n      1. _Benignant Saviour: \u2019twas not thine_,    (Compassion of\n              Christ)\n\n    From his \u201cContemplations of the Saviour,\u201d altered in Horder\u2019s\n    _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, to read\n\n      _Most gracious Saviour: \u2019twas not thine_.\n\n      2. _Burden of shame and woe_,    (The Crucifixion)\n      3. _Hail to the Sabbath day_,    (Sunday)\n      4. _Hath not thy heart within thee burned_,    (Evening)\n      5. _Holy Son of God most high_,    (Christ)\n      6. _How glorious is the hour_,    (The New Life)\n      7. _In the Saviour\u2019s hour of death_,    (Good Friday)\n      8. _It is finished! Glorious word_,    (Good Friday)\n      9. _Lord, in this sacred hour_,    (Worship)\n      10. _O suffering friend of all mankind_,    (Passiontide)\n      11. _There is a strife we all must wage_,    (Life\u2019s Duty)\n      12.  _Toiling through the livelong night_,    (Miracle of\n              fishes)\n      13.  _What power unseen by mortal eye_,    (Miracle)\n\nThese hymns are well written contemplations of gospel episodes, as\nviewed by the conservative piety of the author\u2019s period. Several were\nincluded in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Book of Hymns_, 1846-1848; nos.\n6 and 10 are in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of\nChrist_, 1853; and most of them in one and another 19^th century\ncollection. Only No. 4 has survived in present-day use, being found in\n_The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                    J. 191, 1555 revised\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nBurleigh, William Henry, Woodstock, Connecticut, February 12,\n1812\u2014March 18, 1871, Brooklyn, New York. He was an editor and\npublisher working successively in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1837-1843;\nin Hartford, Connecticut, 1843-1849; in Syracuse, New York, 1849-1854.\nFrom 1855-1870 he was Harbor Master of New York. He was a member of\nthe Second Unitarian Church in Brooklyn and an ardent advocate of\nanti-slavery and temperance reforms. Early in life he began writing\nhymns and other poems which were printed in various periodicals, but\nfor many of which the date and occasion are impossible to determine.\nThey were collected for publication in a volume entitled _Poems_,\nPhiladelphia, 1841, and this book, enlarged with his later poems, was\nrepublished in 1871 after his death, with a biographical notice by his\nwife. Some of the best were included in the British collection _Lyra\nSacra Americana_, 1868, the editor of which, Dr. Cleveland, said,\n\u201cMost of these beautiful hymns of Mr. Burleigh\u2019s were given to me in\nms. by the author.\u201d From this publication they were taken for\nextensive use in British hymn books.\n\n    1. _Abide not in the realm of dreams_,    (The Harvest Call)\n\n    Included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., is a poem of 10\n    stanzas from which a cento consisting of the first two lines of\n    stanza 1 combined with the second two lines of stanza 2, followed\n    by stanzas 3, 6, 7 and 10 are taken to form a hymn in the _New\n    Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n    2. _Fades from the west the farewell light_    (Night)\n\n    This poem, entitled \u201cA Psalm of Night,\u201d is given in his _Poems_,\n    New York, 1871. Although not in the first edition of _Poems_,\n    1841, stanzas selected from it came into use as early as 1844. The\n    original is in 5 stanzas of 8 lines. From it the following centos\n    have come into use.\n\n      (a) _Day unto day uttereth speech_,\n\n    This consists of stanzas III-V, and is given in the _Christian\n    Hymns_ of the Cheshire Pastoral Association, 1844, as an \u201cEvening\n    Hymn.\u201d\n\n      (b) _O Holy Father, mid the calm_\n\n    This cento consists of stanzas IV-V, and is given in Longfellow\n    and Johnson\u2019s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, and in their _Hymns of the\n    Spirit_, 1864.\n\n      (c) _Not only doth the voiceful day_,\n\n    Composed of stanzas II-III, in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of\n    the Spirit_, 1864. Another arrangement beginning with the same\n    stanza is in _Lyra Sacra Americana_.\n\n      (d) _The brightening dawn and voiceful day_,\n\n    In the British _Hymnary_, London, 1872, an altered form of (c),\n    with the addition of a doxology.\n\n    In these various forms the use of this hymn was very extensive.\n\n    3. _Father, beneath thy sheltering wing_,    (Trust and Peace)\n\n    Printed in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864,\n    in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. Included in the British _Baptist Hymnal_,\n    1879; in Horder\u2019s _Congregational Hymns_, 1884; and others; and in\n    many American collections.\n\n    4. _Father, thy servant waits to do thy will_    (Ordination)\n\n    \u201cWritten for the ordination of Mr. J. W. Chadwick, as pastor of\n    the Second Unitarian Church, in Brooklyn, New York, 1864.\u201d\n    Included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc.\n\n    5. _For the dear love that kept us through the night_    (Morning)\n\n    Taken from the author\u2019s _Poems_, 1871, for inclusion in Horder\u2019s\n    _Congregational Hymns_, 1884.\n\n    6. _From the profoundest depths of tribulation_    (Lent)\n\n    A meditative poem rather than a hymn, included in the Supplement\n    to Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns of the Church of Christ_, 1853.\n\n    7. _Lead us, O Father, in the paths of peace_    (Divine Guidance)\n\n    In _Lyra Sacra Americana_ headed \u201cA Prayer for Guidance.\u201d This is\n    one of the author\u2019s best known and most widely used hymns.\n    Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n    8. Not in vain I poured my supplication    (Lent)\n\n    A continuation of the same thought as no. 6, preceding, which it\n    follows in the Supplement to Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns_, etc.\n\n    9. _O deem not that earth\u2019s crowning bliss_,    (Morning)\n\n    In his _Poems_, 1871; in _Lyra Sacra Americana_ from which it\n    passed into the British _Baptist Hymnal_, 1879, and Horder\u2019s\n    _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, and others. In the Methodist\n    Episcopal _Hymnal_, New York, 1878, the hymn beginning\n\n      _From lips divine the healing balm_\n\n    is a cento from this poem.\n\n    10. _Still will we trust though earth seems dark and dreary_,\n       (Faith)\n\n    From _Lyra Sacra Americana_ this passed into many non-conformist\n    collections in Great Britain where it was the most widely used of\n    all of Burleigh\u2019s hymns. It had a much more limited use in this\n    country. Included in Putnam\u2019s _Singers & Songs_, etc.\n\n    11. _There is a beautiful land by the spoiler untrod_,    (Heaven)\n\n    Dr. Cleveland, editor of _Lyra Sacra Americana_ says \u201cThis piece\n    was first published in the _Independent_, Jan. 18, 1866.\u201d\n\n    12. _They who have kept their virgin whiteness_,    (Purity)\n\n    In _Lyra Sacra Americana_.\n\n    13. _Thou who look\u2019st with pitying eye_    (Lent)\n\n    In _Lyra Sacra Americana_.\n\n    14. _Through the changes of the day_    (Evening)\n\n    From his Poems, 1841. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_; in S.P.C.K.\u2019s\n    _Psalms and Hymns_, 1852; in Thring\u2019s _Collection_, and other\n    British books.\n\n    15. _We ask not that our path be always bright_,    (Trust in God)\n\n    From _Lyra Sacra Americana_ this passed into Horder\u2019s\n    _Congregational Hymns_, 1884.\n\n    16. _When gladness gilds our prosperous day_    (Good in all)\n\n    From _Lyra Sacra Americana_ this passed into Horder\u2019s\n    _Congregational Hymns_, 1884.\n\nThe above hymns have had much less use in this country than in Great\nBritain. Nos. 7 and 10 are in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_,\n1895; nos. 1 and 7 in _Hymns of the Spirit_. 1937, no. 7 in _The\nHymnal_, 1940; and no. 3 in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_. The\nothers, though very acceptable expressions of the religious thought\nand feeling in the era in which the author lived, have now dropped out\nof use.\n\n                                                                J. 195-6\n                                                           Revised H.W.F\n\n\nChadwick, Rev. John White, Marblehead, Massachusetts, October 19,\n1840\u2014December 11, 1904, Brooklyn, New York. After two years of study\nat the Bridgewater Normal School, and a shorter period at Phillips\nExeter Academy, he entered the Harvard Divinity School, from which he\ngraduated in 1864. He received the degree of A.M. 1888. In December,\n1864, he was ordained minister of the Second Unitarian Church,\nBrooklyn, where he remained until his death. He was an influential\npreacher and a prolific author in both prose and verse, his principal\npublications being a _Book of Poems_, 1876, _Nazareth Town_, 1883\n(poems), the two being later combined and republished in 1888 with the\nearlier title; _The Bible Today_, 1879: _Old and New Unitarian\nBelief_, 1894; and first-rate biographies of _Theodore Parker_, 1901,\nand _William Ellery Channing_, 1903. After his death a small volume\nwas published entitled _Later Poems_, 1905, and his printed sermons\nhave been collected in 14 volumes. As a young man he became a close\nfriend of W. C. Gannett, _q.v._, and F. L. Hosmer, _q.v._, both of\nwhom were also born in 1840, though not his classmates in the Divinity\nSchool, and his hymns are expressions of a theological outlook similar\nto theirs, notably in his endeavor to give a religious interpretation\nto the then disputed doctrine of evolution. Although several of his\nhymns are of exceptionally fine quality, he often wrote in haste,\nlacking the patience with which his two friends sought for the precise\nword to convey their meaning, but he often abbreviated or re-wrote his\nverses at the request of hymn-book editors, or willingly accepted\ntheir proposed alterations. The result is that some of his hymns now\nappear in forms which depart considerably from their original texts.\nHis secular poems, mostly the utterances of a nature lover, are often\nthe too hastily written verse of a minor poet.\n\nHis _Book of Poems_, 1888, and _Later Poems_, 1905, include all his\nhymns, three of which had little use, viz:\n\n    1. _A gentle tumult in the earth_,    (Easter) 1876\n\n    2. _Everlasting Holy One_,    (Invocation) 1875\n\n    3. _O God, we come not as of old_,    (Worship) 1874\n\nHis best known hymn was written for the Visitation Day exercises at\nthe Harvard Divinity School, 1864,\n\n    4. _Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round_,\n\nIt has been widely used in Great Britain and in this country. Other\nhymns by him have had considerable use, as follows:\n\n    5. _Another year of setting suns_,    (New Year\u2019s) 1873\n\n    This was written in ten stanzas beginning\n\n      \u201cThat this shall be a better year,\u201d\n\n    but in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, only stas. 5, 6, 7, and 10 are\n    given, beginning as above.\n\n    6. _It singeth low in every heart_,    (Commemoration) 1876\n\n    Written for the 25^th anniversary of the dedication of his church\n    in Brooklyn, and widely used.\n\n    7. _Now sing we a song of the harvest_,    (Thanksgiving Day) 1871\n\n    8. _O Love Divine, of all that is_,    (A song of Trust) 1865\n\n    9. _O Thou, whose perfect goodness crowns_,    (Anniversary Hymn)\n\n    Written in 1889 for the 25^th anniversary of his ordination.\n\n    10. _Thou glorious God, before whose face_,    (Anniversary Hymn)\n\n    Undated.\n\n    11. _Thou whose spirit dwells in all_,    (Easter)\n\n    Written in 1890.\n\n    12. _Thy seamless robe conceals Thee not_,    (Jesus)\n\n    Written in 1876. Included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914,\n    but not in later publications.\n\n    13. _What has drawn us thus apart_,    (Unity of Spirit)\n\n    Written in 1891.\n\nSeveral of the above hymns, as printed in current hymn-books, consist\nof selected stanzas, or have been slightly altered from their original\nforms, in most cases by Gannett and Hosmer, for inclusion in their\ncollection _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1880, 1911. Two others included\nin _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, were not written as hymns but have\nbeen quarried out of verses in _Later Poems_, by permission of the\nauthor\u2019s widow, viz:\n\n    14. _Spirit of God, in thunder speak_,    (Summons to Duty)\n\n    This arrangement combines stanzas 13 and 16 in the poem entitled\n    \u201cA Missionary Chant\u201d, used as the first two stanzas of the hymn,\n    with stanzas 8 and 9 of the poem to \u201cWilliam Cullen Bryant\u201d as the\n    third and fourth stanzas of the hymn, both poems being found in\n    _Later Poems_, 1905.\n\n    15. _Thou mighty God, who didst of old_,    (Communion of Saints)\n\n    This is arranged from the same sources. Stanzas 1 and 2 are the\n    first two stanzas in \u201cWilliam Cullen Bryant,\u201d the last three\n    stanzas are stanzas 11, 7, and 8 in \u201cA Missionary Chant,\u201d\n    considerably altered. These arrangements were made by H. W. Foote,\n    with the co\u00f6peration of F. L. Hosmer and W. C. Gannett, for\n    inclusion in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914.\n\nOf the hymns listed above _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937 includes Nos. 4,\n5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15.\n\n                                                            J. 216, 1619\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nChapman, Mrs. (No information available).\n\nAn anti-slavery hymn beginning\n\n    _O God of freedom! Hear us pray_,\n\nis attributed to \u201cMrs. Chapman\u201d in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for\nthe Church of Christ_, 1853.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nCheney, Mrs. Ednah D. (Dow) Boston, Massachusetts, June 27,\n1824\u2014November 19, 1904, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She married Seth\nWells Cheney. She was the author of several books, including _The Life\nand Letters of Louisa May Alcott_. She wrote a hymn on \u201cthe larger\nprayer,\u201d beginning\n\n    _At first I prayed for Light_,\n\nin 4 stanzas of 10 lines each, printed in the _Riverside Record_ and\nreprinted in the _Boston Gazette_, February 4, 1882. Enough lines have\nbeen taken from this hymn to make a much shorter one in 5 stanzas of\nfour lines each, C.M. for inclusion in Unitarian hymn-books. It has\nalso been considerably rewritten, but since this revised form is not\nmarked as \u201caltered\u201d it is probable that the changes were made by the\nauthor or at least with her permission. It is included in _Hymns of\nthe Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nChurch, Edward Alonzo, Boston, Massachusetts, \u2014\u2014 1844\u2014January 29,\n1929, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a business man who wrote in 1904,\nfor the laying of the cornerstone of a new edifice for the Church of\nthe Disciples (Unitarian), Boston, of which he was a member, a hymn\nbeginning,\n\n  _Almighty Builder, bless, we pray,_\n  _The cornerstone that here we lay,_\n\nThe next year, for the final service in the old edifice which the\ncongregation was leaving, he wrote one beginning,\n\n  _O Thou to whom in prayer and praise_\n  _We here have turned with constant heart._\n\nBoth hymns were included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and\nthe first is also in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nClapp, Eliza Thayer, 1811-1888. She was a resident of Dorchester,\nMassachusetts. She was author of _Words in a Sunday School_, of\n_Studies in Religion_, New York, 1845, and of later essays on religion\nand of poems posthumously collected in a volume entitled _Essays,\nLetters and Poems_, privately printed in Boston, 1888. At the request\nof her friend R. W. Emerson she contributed three hymns and two poems\nto The _Dial_, 1841. From one of the hymns in 9 stanzas of 4 lines,\npublished in The _Dial_, July, 1841, and entitled \u201cThe future is\nbetter than the past,\u201d is taken the hymn beginning\n\n    _All before us is the way_,    (Onward with confidence)\n\nincluded in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_,\n1853, where it was erroneously attributed to Emerson, an error which\nwas repeated in several other collections which included it.\n\n                                                                  J. 234\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nClarke, Rev. James Freeman, D.D., Hanover, New Hampshire, April 4,\n1810\u2014June 8, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts. He was named for his\nstep-grandfather, Rev. James Freeman, _q.v._ He graduated from Harvard\nCollege in 1829 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1833. He\nserved as minister of the Unitarian Church in Louisville, Kentucky,\nfrom 1833 to 1840. In 1841 he returned to Boston where he gathered a\ngroup of persons interested in the more radical social and religious\nreforms of the day into a church which he named the Church of the\nDisciples (Unitarian) of which he remained minister until his death.\nHe became one of the most distinguished ministers of his period in\nBoston, greatly beloved and admired for his courage as well as his\npiety, his wisdom as well as his wit. He was the author of several\nbooks (and many short printed articles) the best known of which were\nhis _Orthodoxy: its Truths and Errors_, and _Ten Great Religions_. The\nlatter is an amplification of lectures on Comparative Religion which\nhe gave at the Harvard Divinity School as early as 1854, and again for\nseveral years in the eighteen-seventies, the earliest course in this\nfield of study to be given in any American theological school. In 1844\nhe published a _Service Book_ for use by his congregation, which\nincluded a small selection of hymns, among them Sarah Flower Adams\u2019\n_Nearer my, God, to Thee_, which had appeared in England only three\nyears earlier and was now introduced for the first time to an American\ncongregation, whence it quickly passed into numerous other\ncollections. In 1852 a revised and enlarged edition of the _Service\nBook_ was published entitled the _Disciples Hymn Book_, which included\nfive hymns by the compiler. A few of his poems are included in\nPutnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, and the following\nhymns by him have come into some use.\n\n    1. _Brother, hast thou wandered far?_     (The Prodigal)\n\n    First printed in the _Service Book_, 1844. It appeared in\n    abbreviated form as\n\n      _Hast thou wasted all the powers?_\n\n    (beginning with the second stanza) in _Hymns for the Church of\n    Christ_, 1853; in Beecher\u2019s _Plymouth Collection_, 1855, and in\n    other American and British books.\n\n    2. _Dear Friend, whose presence in the house_,    (Jesus at Cana)\n\n    Dated 1855. A tender poem rather than a hymn, included in the\n    British _Lyra Sacra Americana_.\n\n    3. _Father, to us Thy children humbly kneeling_    (Aspiration)\n\n    About 1833, after arrival in Louisville, Clarke wrote a poem\n    entitled \u201cHymn and Prayer\u201d beginning _Infinite Spirit, who art\n    round us ever_, which was published in _The Dial_ for January,\n    1841. Five stanzas beginning\n\n      _Unseen, yet not unfelt!\u2014if any thought_\n\n    were taken from this form of the poem for inclusion in Hedge and\n    Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, but already\n    Clarke had taken from his poem, and largely rewritten, three\n    stanzas to make the hymn beginning as above. In this later form it\n    was included in his _Service Book_, 1844, in Longfellow and\n    Johnson\u2019s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, in the _Disciples Hymn Book_,\n    1852, and in many later collections down to the present day.\n\n    4. _For all thy gifts we bless Thee, Lord_\n\n    Written for a Unitarian Convention in New York City, held on\n    October 22, 1845, and included in _Hymns for the Church of\n    Christ_, 1853.\n\n    5. _Hast thou wasted all the powers_,\n\n    Included in _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853.\n\n    6. _To him who children blessed_    (Christening)\n\n    7. _To Thee, O God in heaven_    (Christening)\n\n    Both of these tender and beautiful hymns for a christening\n    appeared in the _Service Book_, 1844, and have passed into a good\n    many other collections, although hymns are now seldom sung at such\n    a service.\n\nOf the above no. 3 was included in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Book of\nHymns_, 1846, attributed to Clarke, and nos. 1, 5 and 6 were included\nas Anonymous. In their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, these hymns were\ncorrectly attributed to Clarke. He was the author of a limited\nquantity of pleasing religious verse acceptable to his many friends\nrather than a hymn writer of distinction, his best ones being nos. 3,\n5 and 6. _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, includes nos. 3 and 6;\n_The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935, includes nos. 3 and 5; _Hymns of the\nSpirit_, 1937, has only no. 3.\n\n                                                            J. 235, 1556\n                                                      Re-written, H.W.F.\n\n\nCollyer, Rev. Robert, D.D., Keighly, Yorkshire, England, December 8,\n1823\u2014November 30, 1912, New York, New York. His education in childhood\nwas very limited, and in early manhood he became a blacksmith, which\nhad been his father\u2019s trade. He joined the Methodist Church in 1847\nand three years later sailed for America, settling at Shoemakertown,\nPennsylvania, where he was both a blacksmith and a preacher. Having\nbecome acquainted with Dr. W. H. Furness, _q.v._, of Philadelphia, he\naccepted Unitarian beliefs and left the Methodist Church. His great\nintellectual abilities and natural gifts as a preacher brought him an\ninvitation in 1859 to go to Chicago to take charge of the newly\norganized Unity Church in that city, which he served until 1879, when\nhe accepted a call to the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian), New York.\nHe was a widely popular lecturer and author of many published sermons,\nother articles, and a few occasional verses. The church of which he\nwas minister was destroyed by the great Chicago fire of 1870 but was\nsoon rebuilt. For the dedication of the new building in December 3,\n1873, he wrote his one fine hymn beginning,\n\n    _With thankful hearts, O God, we come_,\n\nwhich altered to\n\n    _Unto thy temple, Lord, we come_,\n\nhas had wide use in Unitarian hymn books and is included in the _New\nHymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                 J. 1623\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nClute, Rev. Oscar, Bethlehem, New York, March 11, 1837\u2014January 27,\n1902, Sawtelle, California. He took the degree of M.S. at Michigan\nState College, and then studied at Meadville Theological School,\n1867-1868. In the latter year he was ordained as minister of the\nUnitarian Church at Vineland, New Jersey, where he remained for five\nyears. He served churches in Keokuk, Iowa, 1875-1878; Iowa City,\n1878-1888; and Pomona, California, 1888-1889. From 1889 to 1893 he was\npresident of Michigan State Agricultural College, and president of\nFlorida Agricultural College from 1893 to 1897, when he moved to\nCalifornia.\n\nHe wrote a hymn beginning,\n\n  _O Love of God most full,_\n  _O Love of God most free,_\n\nwhich is included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, in _Hymns of\nthe Spirit_, 1937, and in _The Hymnal_ (Presbyterian), 1935, the\nHandbook to which describes it as \u201ca rhapsody of gratitude for the\nlove of God.\u201d\n\n                                                                 J. 1682\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nDana, Charles Anderson, Hinsdale, New Hampshire, August 8,\n1819\u2014October 17, 1897, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. He was one of\nthe leaders in the Brook Farm Association, 1842; then became a\njournalist and man of letters; on the staff of the New York _Tribune_,\n1847-1862; Assistant Secretary of War, 1863-1864; editor of the New\nYork _Sun_, 1868.\n\nThe hymn beginning\n\n    _Work, and thou shalt bless the day_    (Joy in Labor)\n\nwhich Hedge and Huntington included in their _Hymns for the Church of\nChrist_, 1853, and attributed to \u201cC. A. Dana\u201d was probably written\nwhile he was engaged in the Brook Farm experiment.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nDwight, Rev. John Sullivan, Boston, Massachusetts, May 13,\n1812\u2014September 5, 1893. He graduated from Harvard College and from the\nHarvard Divinity School, and entered the Unitarian ministry, but after\nsix years turned to literary pursuits, and was for nearly 50 years\neditor of the Journal of Music. A meditative poem by him in seven\nstanzas, entitled \u201cTrue Rest,\u201d beginning\n\n    _Sweet is the pleasure_,\n\nis included in the Supplement in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the\nChurch of Christ_, 1853, but it is not a hymn and his only connection\nwith hymnody was his part in re-writing the hymn beginning\n\n    _God bless our native land!_\n\nby his friend, C. T. Brooks, _q.v._ In most versions of this much\naltered hymn the second stanza is in the form given it by Dwight.\n\n                                                           J. 1560, 1631\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nEmerson, Ralph Waldo, LL.D., Boston, Massachusetts, May 25, 1803\u2014April\n27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts. He was the son of Rev. William\nEmerson, _q.v._, minister of the First Church of Boston (Unitarian)\nwho, though not himself a hymn writer, published in 1808 the excellent\nsmall collection entitled _A Collection of Psalms and Hymns_ (5).\n\nR. W. Emerson graduated from Harvard College in 1821 and after further\nstudy in the Harvard Divinity School took his A.M. in 1827. He was\nordained in 1829 as minister of the Second Church of Boston\n(Unitarian). He served the church for three years but resigned in\n1832, feeling that his pastoral work was inadequate and that he was\nnot in accord with his parishioners\u2019 views about the Communion\nService. A volume of his sermons, selected and edited by A. C.\nMcGiffert, Jr., was published in 1938 under the title _The Young\nEmerson Speaks_. Although he preached occasionally for several years\nthereafter he never held another pastorate, but retired to Concord and\ndevoted himself to lecturing and authorship. As an essayist and poet\nhe rose to great and lasting distinction. He published _Orations,\nLectures, and Addresses_, 1844; _Poems_, 1846; _Representative Men_,\n1850; _English Traits_, 1856; and a succession of later volumes. His\n_Collected Works_ were published after his death, in 12 volumes.\nPerhaps his most famous essay was his epoch-making _Divinity School\nAddress_, delivered in 1838. In 1833 he wrote his hymn\n\n    _We love the venerable house_    (The house of God)\n\nfor the ordination of his successor, Rev. Chandler Robbins, _q.v._, in\nthe Second Church, though it is more a commemorative poem than an\nordination hymn. It was included in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of\nthe Spirit_, 1864; in Martineau\u2019s _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_,\nprinted in England in 1873; and in later Unitarian and other hymn\nbooks down to the present day. Four stanzas selected from this poem,\nbeginning with the second,\n\n    _Here holy thoughts a light have shed_,\n\nwere included in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of\nChrist_, 1853, though without the author\u2019s name, and the same\ncollection erroneously attributed to Emerson a hymn beginning,\n\n    _All before us is the way_,\n\nthe author of which was Eliza T. Clapp, _q.v._, an error which was\nrepeated in various other collections.\n\nPart of Emerson\u2019s poem entitled _The Problem_, beginning\n\n    _Out of the heart of nature rolled_    (The Everlasting Word)\n\noriginally printed in the _Dial_, July, 1840, and then in his _Poems_,\n1846, was also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in\nMartineau\u2019s _Hymns_, but has since dropped out of use.\n\nAnother poem of two stanzas beginning\n\n    _Not gold, but only men can make_\n\nwas attributed to Emerson in the later book called _Hymns of the\nSpirit_, 1937, probably mistakenly. These verses are listed as\nEmerson\u2019s in Granger\u2019s _Index to Poetry and Recitations_, under _A\nNation\u2019s Strength_, and Granger states that they are to be found in a\npublication of The Penn Publishing Company of Philadelphia. They are\nnot to be found, however, in the _Centenary Edition of Emerson\u2019s\nPoems_ nor in Hubbell\u2019s _Concordance to the poems of Emerson_ (N. Y.,\nWilson, 1932). It is therefore doubtful whether the attribution to\nEmerson is well-founded.\n\n                                                                  J. 329\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nEverett, William, Watertown, Massachusetts, October 10, 1839\u2014February\n16, 1910, Quincy, Massachusetts. Son of Hon. Edward Everett. He\ngraduated from Harvard College in 1859; took the B.A. degree at\nCambridge University, England, in 1863; and the degrees of A.M. and\nLL. B. at Harvard in 1865. He received the honorary degree of Litt.D.\nfrom Williams College in 1889 and the degree of LL.D. from the same\ncollege in 1893 and from Dartmouth in 1901. After graduation from the\nHarvard Law School he did not enter the legal profession but served\nthe College as tutor and then Assistant Professor of Latin for several\nyears. In 1872 the Boston Association of Ministers licensed him as a\nlay preacher and thereafter he spoke frequently in Unitarian pulpits\nin New England, but he was never ordained as a settled minister. He\nserved Adams Academy in Quincy, Massachusetts as headmaster from 1877\nto 1907, with an interruption of two years when in 1893 he was elected\na member of the House of Representatives in Washington. In 1866 _The\nChristian Register_ printed his hymn beginning\n\n    _Deal gently with us, Lord_,\n\nand three years later he wrote \u201cfor the Unitarian Festival at the\nMusic Hall [Boston], May 27, 1869\u201d a hymn beginning\n\n    _Almighty Father, Thou didst frame_\n\nThese hymns, and four others by him, are included in Putnam\u2019s _Singers\nand Songs, Etc._\n\n                                                                 J. 1634\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nFernald, Woodbury Melcher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, March 21,\n1813\u2014December 10, 1873, Boston, Massachusetts. He entered the\nUniversalist ministry in 1835 and served churches of that denomination\nin Newburyport and Chicopee, Massachusetts, and elsewhere, for a few\nyears. He then became a Unitarian, without entering the ministry of\nthat denomination, and eventually joined the Swedenborgian Church of\nthe New Jerusalem in Boston. He did some travelling on behalf of this\nbody, as far west as Wisconsin, in intervals of employment at the\nCustom House and, later, at the Post Office in Boston. He was author\nof books and essays, most of them expositions of Swedenborgian\ndoctrine, and of a small amount of occasional verse, published in the\nperiodicals of the day but never collected in a printed volume. In his\nprivate collection of his poems are a few hymns, only two of which\nappear to have had any public use. One beginning\n\n    _Great Source of being, truth and love_,\n\nwas written for the ordination of Rev. Thomas C. Adam as pastor of the\nWest Universalist Society in Boston, March 12, 1845. The other,\n\n    _When Israel, humbled of the Lord_,\n\na protest against slavery published in the _Boston Journal_, in July,\n1861, was included, in part and considerably re-written, in _The\nSoldier\u2019s Companion: Dedicated to the Defenders of their Country in\nthe Field, by their Friends at Home_. This was published as the Army\nNumber of the _Monthly Journal_, Boston, October, 1861, vol. II, no.\n10, a small Unitarian collection of hymns and devotional readings. In\nthis collection the hymn begins,\n\n    _When Israel\u2019s foes, a numerous host_,\n\nand is attributed to \u201cRev. W. M. Fernald,\u201d though it is not included\nin this form in the author\u2019s private collection of his verse. None of\nhis hymns appear to have had any further use.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nFlint, Rev. James, D.D. Reading, Massachusetts, December 10,\n1779\u2014March 4, 1855. He graduated from Harvard College in 1802, and was\nordained an orthodox Congregational minister at East Bridgewater in\n1806, where he soon adopted more liberal beliefs, and carried most of\nhis congregation with him. In 1821 he accepted a call to the East\nChurch (Unitarian) Salem, Massachusetts, where he served until his\ndeath. In 1843 he published _A Collection of Hymns for the Christian\nChurch and Home_, to replace the earlier collection (1788) by Rev.\nWilliam Bentley, _q.v._, for use in the East Church. Flint\u2019s\n_Collection_ included several hymns by himself. One of them, \u201cOn\nleaving an old house of worship,\u201d beginning\n\n    _Here to the high and holy One_\n\nwas included in Lunt\u2019s _Christian Psalter_, 1841, as was a second,\nwritten in 1840 for the 200^th anniversary of the incorporation of the\ntown of Quincy, Massachusetts, beginning,\n\n  _In pleasant lands have fallen the lines_\n  _That bound our goodly heritage._\n\nThis second hymn has been included in a number of later hymnbooks,\namong them _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the\nSpirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  J. 379\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nFollen, Mrs. Eliza Lee (Cabot), Boston, Massachusetts, August 15,\n1787\u2014January 26, 1860, Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1828 she married\nDr. Charles Follen, a German scholar who had sought freedom in this\ncountry and who was then teaching German Literature and Ecclesiastical\nHistory at Harvard. Later he was minister of the Unitarian Church (now\ncalled the Follen Church Society) at East Lexington, Massachusetts.\nMrs. Follen both before and after her marriage contributed verse and\nprose articles to various periodicals and published a number of small\nbooks, including _Hymns for Children_, Boston, 1825; _Poems_, 1839,\nand, while she was in England in 1854, another small volume for\nchildren, entitled _The Lark and the Linnet_. These books contain some\ntranslations from the German and the versions of a few Psalms.\n\nHer best known hymns are\n\n    1. _How sweet to be allowed to pray_,    (Resignation)\n\n    This first appeared in _The Christian Disciple_, September 1818,\n    then in her _Poems_, 1839, entitled \u201cThy will be done.\u201d\n\n    2. _How sweet upon this sacred day_    (Sunday)\n\n    In _The Christian Disciple_, September, 1828, and in _Poems_,\n    entitled \u201cSabbath Day.\u201d\n\n    3. _Lord deliver, thou canst save_,    (Prayer for the Slave)\n\n    In _Songs of the Free_, 1836; in Adams and Chapin\u2019s (Universalist)\n    _Hymns for Christian Devotion_, Boston, 1845; in Hedge and\n    Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; and in other\n    collections, but not included in her _Poems_.\n\n    4. _God, thou art good, each perfumed flower_,    (God In Nature)\n\n    This first appeared in _Hymns for Children_, Boston, 1825,\n    beginning with a defective line (7s instead of 8s)\n\n      (a) _God is good! each perfumed flower_\n\n    and altered as above in her _Poems_ and in _The Lark and the\n    Linnet_.\n\n    This hymn underwent further transformations in England. In Emily\n    Taylor\u2019s _Sabbath Recreations_, 1826, it was included as an\n    original piece never before printed, and signed \u201cE.L.C.\u201d, the\n    initials of Mrs. Follen\u2019s maiden name. Possibly she sent a ms.\n    copy to Miss Taylor before it appeared in Boston. In J. R. Beard\u2019s\n    British Unitarian _Collection of Hymns_, 1837, it appears as\n\n      (b) _Yes, God is good! each perfumed flower_,\n\n    J. H. Gurney, the Anglican hymn writer and editor, included it in\n    his Lutterworth _Collection of Hymns for Public Worship_, 1838,\n    but, while retaining Mrs. Follen\u2019s opening stanza, rewrote about\n    half of the remaining four stanzas, and in his later _Marylebone\n    Collection_, 1851, rewrote it further, beginning it\n\n      (c) _Yes, God is Good.\u2014in earth and sky,_\n\n    and in a note appended to the Index of first lines he wrote that\n    he had found the hymn \u201cin a small American volume \u2014\u2014 well\n    conceived, but very imperfectly executed,\u201d and that because of\n    \u201csuccessive alterations\u2014the writer has not scrupled to put his\n    name to it, J.H.G.\u201d In these altered forms the hymn had\n    considerable use in England (For further details see Julian,\n    _Dictionary_, 1298).\n\n    5. _Will God, who made the earth and sea_,    (Child\u2019s Prayer)\n\n    In _Poems_, 1839. In Dr. Allan\u2019s (English) _Children\u2019s Worship_ it\n    is erroneously attributed to \u201cH. Bateman.\u201d\n\nThe only one of Mrs. Follen\u2019s hymns in present use is 4_c_, in _The\nIsles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, but several of her poems are\nincluded in Putnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_.\n\n                                                            J. 380, 1298\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nFoote, Rev. Henry Wilder (I), Salem, Massachusetts, June 2, 1838\u2014May\n29, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts. Educated at Harvard, A.B. 1858; A.M.\n1861; graduated at the Harvard Divinity School, 1861. He was minister\nof King\u2019s Chapel (Unitarian), Boston, from 1861 until his death, and\nhis book, _The Annals of King\u2019s Chapel_ (vol. I, 1882, vol. II, 1896,\ncompleted by others) gives an authoritative account of the religious\ncontroversies in Colonial Boston. At the time of his death he had in\npreparation a hymnbook to replace the _Collection of Psalms and Hymns_\nwhich his predecessor, Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood, _q.v._, had published\nin 1830. His hymnbook was completed by his widow, his sister Mrs. Mary\nW. Tileston, (_q.v._) and his brother Arthur Foote, and was published\nin 1891 as _Hymns of the Church Universal_. It was notable for its\nscholarly catholicity and helped to introduce to American\ncongregations the then popular English hymn tunes of the \u201ccathedral\nschool\u201d by Barnby, Dykes, Stainer, Sullivan and others. The book\nincluded the hymn which Mr. Foote had written for the Visitation Day\n(graduation exercises) at the Divinity School in 1861,\n\n    _O Thou with whom in sweet content_\n\nThis hymn has also been included in _Hymns for Church and Home_, 1896,\nin _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_,\n1937.\n\n                                                                 J. 1604\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nFoote, Rev. Henry Wilder (II), D.D., Litt.D., Boston, Massachusetts,\nFebruary 2, 1875\u2014still living. Son of the above; educated at Harvard,\nA.B. 1897; A.M. 1900; S.T.B. 1902. He entered the Unitarian ministry\nand has served churches in New Orleans, Louisiana; Ann Arbor,\nMichigan; Belmont, Massachusetts and Charlottesville, Virginia. From\n1914-1924 he was an assistant professor at the Harvard Divinity School\nwhere he gave a course on the history of Christian hymnody. He was\nsecretary of the committee which edited _The New Hymn and Tune Book_,\npublished in 1914 by the American Unitarian Association, and was\nchairman of the committee which edited _Hymns of the Spirit_,\npublished in 1937 by the Beacon Press (to be distinguished from the\nearlier _Hymns of the Spirit_ by S. Johnson and S. Longfellow, 1864).\nThis later book includes one hymn by Dr. Foote beginning,\n\n    _Thou whose love brought us to birth_,\n\nDr. Foote also edited the words in _The Concord Anthem Book_, 1924,\nand in _The Second Concord Anthem Book_, 1936, for which Professor\nArchibald T. Davison selected and edited the music. He is the author\nof several books and articles on the cultural or religious aspects of\nAmerican colonial history, one of which, _Three Centuries of American\nHymnody_, 1940, covers the period from the publication of the _Bay\nPsalm Book_ in 1640 to the late nineteen-thirties.\n\n\nFreeman, James, D.D., Charlestown, Massachusetts, April 22,\n1759\u2014November 14, 1835, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from\nHarvard College in 1777. In March, 1776, Rev. Henry Caner, rector of\nKing\u2019s Chapel, Boston, left with the British troops when they\nevacuated the town, accompanied by many of his leading parishioners.\nThe remaining members of the church in September, 1782, engaged James\nFreeman as a lay \u201cReader\u201d to conduct worship. The prayers for the King\nand royal family of England had been dropped and Freemen soon began to\nomit references to the Trinity, expecting soon to be dismissed as\nReader. Instead the congregation voted to revise the liturgy in\naccordance with his beliefs and in 1785 published the first edition of\nthe \u201cBook of Common Prayer according to the Use of King\u2019s Chapel.\u201d\nThis action led Bishop Seabury, after his arrival in America, to\nrefuse ordination to Freeman, whereupon the congregation ordained him\naccording to Congregational usage. Freeman thus became \u201cthe first\navowed preacher of Unitarianism in the United States.\u201d He remained\nactive pastor of the Chapel until 1826. He edited a _Collection of\nPsalms and Hymns for public worship_, published in 1799. It included\n155 psalms \u201cselected chiefly from Tate and Brady,\u201d followed by 90\nhymns, and remained in use in the Chapel until the publication in 1830\nof the much better _Collection_ edited by his successor, Rev. F. W. P.\nGreenwood, _q.v._ Freeman wrote one hymn\n\n    _Lord of the worlds below_    (The Seasons)\n\nwhich first appeared in his _Collection_, from which it passed to a\nnumber of later ones. It is an adaptation for congregational use of\nThomson\u2019s \u201cHymn on the Seasons.\u201d See Putnam, _Singers and Songs of the\nLiberal Faith_.\n\n                                                                  J. 389\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nFrothingham, Rev. Nathaniel Langdon, D.D., Boston, July 23, 1793\u2014April\n4, 1870, Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1811, and after a brief\nperiod of further study and as tutor in the College, he entered the\nUnitarian ministry and in 1815 was settled as minister of the First\nChurch in Boston, where he served until 1850, when ill-health and\napproaching blindness caused his resignation. He was one of the most\ndistinguished Boston ministers of his period, and the author of a good\ndeal of verse, published in his _Metrical Pieces, Translated and\nOriginal_, 1855, and in a second volume with the same title in 1870.\nIn 1828 he wrote his finest hymn,\n\n    1. _O God, whose presence glows in all_\n\n    for the ordination of his friend, W. P. Lunt, _q.v._, as minister\n    of the Second Unitarian Congregational Church, New York, on June\n    19, of that year.\n\nIn 1835 he wrote\n\n    2. _We meditate the day_\n\n    for the installation of Mr. Lunt as Co-pastor with Rev. Peter\n    Whitney of the First Church at Quincy, Massachusetts, and in 1839\n    he wrote\n\n    3. _O Lord of life and truth and grace_,\n\n    for the ordination of Henry Whitney Bellows in New York.\n\nHis later hymns were\n\n    4. _O Saviour, whose immortal word_,\n\n    \u201cWritten for the Dedication of the Church of the Saviour, Boston,\n    November 16, 1847.\u201d;\n\n    5. _Remember me, the Saviour said_,    (Communion Service)\n\n    6. _The Lord gave the word,_\n      _\u2019Twas the word of his truth._\n\n    7. _The patriarch\u2019s dove, on weary wing_,\n\n    8. _They passed away from sight_,    (Death and Burial)\n\n    9. _When I am weak, I\u2019m strong_    (Spiritual Strength)\n\nOf these hymns the first two were included in Lunt\u2019s _Christian\nPsalter_, 1841; nos. 1, 2, 6 and 7 were included in Hedge and\nHuntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ (1853); and all but no.\n8 are included in the author\u2019s _Metrical Pieces_, 1855. No. 5 had\nconsiderable use in the 19^th century, but no. 1 alone survives in\n20^th century Unitarian collections.\n\n                                                            J. 400, 1564\n                                                          Revised H.W.F.\n\n\nFrothingham, Rev. Octavius Brooks, son of Rev. Nathaniel Langdon\nFrothingham, D.D., _q.v._, Boston, November 26, 1822\u2014November 27,\n1895, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1843, and in 1846\nfrom the Harvard Divinity School, where, for the graduating exercises\nof his class, he wrote his fine, and only, hymn,\n\n    _Thou Lord of Hosts, whose guiding hand_,    (Soldiers of the\n    Cross)\n\nwhich was included in the _Book of Hymns_ prepared by his classmates,\nSamuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson, published later in the same\nyear. He served as minister of the (Unitarian) North Church, Salem,\nMassachusetts from 1847 to 1855, and became minister of the Third\nCongregational Church in New York City, resigning in 1879. He was a\nbold, outspoken, eloquent speaker, and the author of many printed\ndiscourses and of several important biographies.\n\n                                                            J. 400, 1638\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nFurness, Rev. William Henry, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, April 20,\n1802\u2014January 30, 1896, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from\nHarvard College in 1820 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1823,\nand was given the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Harvard in 1847. In\n1825 he was ordained minister of the First Unitarian Church in\nPhiladelphia where he served for 50 years before becoming pastor\nemeritus, his connection with the church covering a period of 71\nyears. He was an accomplished scholar, and attained distinction as a\npreacher, an author and a worker in social reforms. His publications\ninclude _Notes on the Gospels_, 1836; _Jesus and his Biographers_,\n1838; _The History of Jesus_, 1850; _a Manual of Domestic Worship_,\n1840, in which his earlier hymns were printed; a translation of\nSchiller\u2019s _Song of the Bell_; and other translations from the German.\nHis collected _Verses, Translations and Hymns_ appeared in 1886. The\nfollowing hymns by him have had considerable use.\n\n    1. _Father in heaven, to Thee my heart_,\n\n    Appeared in The _Christian Disciple_, 1822. It was printed in this\n    form in several collections, including the Unitarian _Hymn and\n    Tune Book_, 1868. In Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Book of Hymns_,\n    1846, it reads\n\n      _Father in heaven, to whom our hearts_\n\n    and was reprinted in this form in their _Hymns of the Spirit_,\n    1864, and in Martineau\u2019s _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873.\n\n    This hymn has sometimes been attributed to \u201cH. Ware,\u201d in error.\n\n    2. _Feeble, helpless, how shall I_,\n\n    Included on the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844, and in later\n    19^th century Unitarian publications; also in the British _Lyra\n    Sacra Americana_, 1868, and Thring\u2019s _Collection_, 1882.\n\n    3. _Have mercy, O Father_,\n\n    Contributed to Martineau\u2019s _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873.\n\n    4. _Here in a world of doubt_,    (Psalm XLII)\n\n    Contributed to the New York Lutheran Coll., 1834, and included in\n    the author\u2019s _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840 and in Martineau\u2019s\n    _Hymns_, 1873.\n\n    5. _Here in the broken bread_,\n\n    Included in the _Appendix_ to the Philadelphia Unitarian\n    _Collection_, 1828; in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the\n    Church of Christ_, 1853; and in a few later collections, among\n    them _The Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868.\n\n    6. _Holy Father, Gracious art Thou_,\n\n    Contributed to Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, 1873.\n\n    7. _I feel within a want_,\n\n    Included in the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844; in Hedge and\n    Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; and in a few\n    other collections.\n\n    8. _In the morning I will praise_    (pray)\n\n    In the author\u2019s _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840, this hymn\n    began\n\n      _In the morning I will raise_\n\n    and was thus included in Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, 1873, but in\n    Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, and later American\n    collections the first stanza is dropped and the hymn begins\n\n      _In the morning I will pray_\n\n    9. _O for a prophet\u2019s fire,_\n\n    Included in the _Appendix_ to the Philadelphia Unitarian\n    _Collection_, 1828, and in the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844.\n\n    10. _Richly, O richly have I been_,\n\n    Written in 1823 and included in the author\u2019s _Manual of Domestic\n    Worship_, 1840. In Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Book of Hymns_, 1846,\n    and in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, it is altered to begin\n\n      _O richly, Father, have I been_\n\n    In Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853,\n    and most later Unitarian and other collections, the opening stanza\n    is dropped and it begins with the second stanza,\n\n      _Unworthy to be called Thy son_,\n\n    11. _She is not dead, but sleepeth_\n\n    Included in the author\u2019s _Verses, Translations and Hymns_, 1886.\n\n    12. _Slowly by Thy [God\u2019s] hand unfurled_\n\n    Written in 1825 and included in the author\u2019s _Manual of Domestic\n    Worship_, 1840. In Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of\n    Christ_, 1853, the first line was changed to read,\n\n      _Slowly by God\u2019s hand unfurled_,\n\n    and was thus printed in the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868.\n    In Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, 1873, and in most later American Unitarian\n    collections, the original reading has been retained.\n\n    13. _That God is Love, unchanging Love_,\n\n    Written in 1892 and included in _Hymns for Church and Home_, 1896,\n    and in _The Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908.\n\n    14. _Thou only Living, only True_,\n\n    An ordination hymn, dated 1868, included in Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_,\n    1873.\n\n    15. _Thou who dost all things give_\n\n    Written in 1869. Included in the author\u2019s _Verses, Translations\n    and Hymns_, 1886; in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1904; and in Horder\u2019s\n    _Treasury of American Sacred Song_, 1896.\n\n    16. _To the High and Holy One_,\n\n    This is printed in full in _Lyra Sacra Americana_, 1868. In\n    Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, the first\n    stanza is dropped and it begins with the 2^nd stanza,\n\n      _To the truth that makes us free_,\n\n    17. _What is the world that it should share_,\n\n    Printed in the _Christian Disciple_, 1822, and in Martineau\u2019s\n    _Hymns_, 1873. It begins with the second stanza of a hymn of which\n    the opening line reads,\n\n      _Here in Thy temple, Lord, we bow_,\n\n    In _Lyra Sacra Americana_ it is altered to read\n\n      _Oh, is there aught on earth to share_\n\n    18. _What is this that stirs within_?\n\n    Printed in the author\u2019s _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840; in the\n    Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844, in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns\n    for the Church of Christ_, and in a good many other American\n    collections.\n\nDr. Furness\u2019s hymns, though creditable religious verse of the period\nand widely esteemed because of the author\u2019s distinction, nowhere\nattain a very high level of poetic beauty, and almost all of them have\npassed out of use. Only nos. 8, 10, and 12 were included in the\nUnitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and only no. 12 survives in\n_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                            J. 402, 1638\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nFuller, Sarah Margaret, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 23, 1810\u2014July\n16, 1850, in a shipwreck south of New York. In 1847 she married the\nMarchese Ossoli in Rome. She did educational work in Boston and in\nProvidence, Rhode Island, edited _The Dial_ in 1840, and was noted\nlocally for her intellectual brilliance. Memorials of her by R. W.\nEmerson, W. H. Channing and J. F. Clarke appeared in 1851, her _Works_\nin 1874.\n\nHer hymn beginning\n\n    _Jesus, a child his course began_,    (Christ the Pattern of\n    Childhood)\n\nfrom _Life Without and Life Within_, 1859, p. 404, had some use in\nGreat Britain as well as in America.\n\n                                                                 J. 1585\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nGannett, Rev. William Channing, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, March 13,\n1840\u2014December 15, 1923, Rochester, New York. He graduated from Harvard\nCollege in 1860; taught school in Newport, Rhode Island one year; and\nspent four years on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, as agent for\nthe New England Freedmen\u2019s Society doing relief and educational work\nwith the thousands of Negro refugees gathered there. In 1865 he\nstudied for a year in Europe, then entered the Harvard Divinity School\nfrom which he graduated in 1868. His first pastorate was in Milwaukee,\nWisconsin, 1868-1871. He then spent several years writing a biography\nof his father, Ezra Stiles Gannett, who had been William Ellery\nChanning\u2019s successor as minister of the Federal Street Church, Boston.\nHe was minister of Unity Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1877-1883;\nserved the Western Unitarian Conference for four years; was minister\nat Hinsdale, Illinois, 1887-1889; and of the Unitarian Church in\nRochester, New York, 1889-1908, where he remained as minister-emeritus\nuntil his death. Throughout his professional career he was closely\nassociated with Frederick Lucian Hosmer, _q.v._ Together they\npublished three small collections entitled _The Thought of God in\nHymns and Poems_, the first in 1885, the second in 1894, the third in\n1918; and together they also edited _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1880,\nrevised edition in 1911. James Vila Blake, _q.v._, was co-editor of\nthe first edition. This little hymn book is a markedly individualistic\nproduction with many of the older hymns altered to conform to the\nbeliefs of the editors.\n\nIn these publications, in which most of their own hymns were first\npublished, and in the careful workmanship with which their thought was\nbrought to a perfection of poetic utterance, Gannett and Hosmer may be\ncompared to Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson whose _Book of\nHymns_, 1846, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, had appeared a\ngeneration earlier.\n\nDr. Gannett\u2019s hymns are listed, with annotations \u201cbased upon ms. notes\nkindly supplied by the author\u201d in Julian\u2019s _Dictionary of Hymnology_,\npp. 1638-9, as follows:\n\n    1. _Bring, O morn thy music! Night thy starlit silence!_    (God\n    Everlasting)\n\n    Written in 1892, and printed in _A Chorus of Faith_, being an\n    account and resum\u00e9 of the Parliament of Religions, held in\n    Chicago, 1893. Included in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series,\n    1894, and again in several hymnals.\n\n    2. _Clear in memory\u2019s silent reaches_,    (Memory)\n\n    Written in 1877 for a Free Religious Association Festival, and\n    published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885.\n\n    3. _From heart to heart, from creed to creed_,    (Faith)\n\n    Written in 1875 for 150^th anniversary of the First Religious\n    Society of Newburyport, and given in _The Thought of God_, 1^st\n    Series, 1885.\n\n    4. _He hides within the lily_,    (Divine Providence)\n\n    \u201cConsider the lilies, how they grow.\u201d Written in 1873, and printed\n    for use at the Free Religious Association Festival, May 30, 1873.\n    Published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885, in 4 st. of\n    8 l. The most widely used of the author\u2019s hymns.\n\n    5. _I hear it often in the dark_,    (The Voice of God)\n\n    Written at Milwaukee in 1870, and published in _The Thought of\n    God_, 1^st Series, 1885. Sometimes it begins with St. iii, \u201cO God\n    within, so close to me,\u201d as in _Hys. for Church and Home_, Boston,\n    1895.\n\n    6. _Praise to God and Thanksgiving_,    (Harvest)\n\n    Written in 1882 for a Harvest Festival at St. Paul, Minnesota,\n    where he was then a pastor, and included in _The Thought of God_,\n    1^st Series, 1885. In the Boston _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1904, and in\n    _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, it begins\n\n      _Praise to God, and thanks we bring_,\n\n    7. _Sleep, my little Jesus_,    (Christmas Carol)\n\n    Written for the Sunday School, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1882, and\n    given in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894, as \u201cMary\u2019s\n    Manger Song.\u201d\n\n    8. _The Lord is in His holy place_    (Dedication of a Place of\n    Worship)\n\n    Written for the Dedication of the Rev. C. W. Wendte\u2019s Church,\n    Chicago, April 24, 1873, and published in _The Thought of God_,\n    1^st Series, 1885. It is one of the most popular and widely used\n    of the author\u2019s hymns.\n\n    9. _The morning hangs its signal_,    (Morning)\n\n    This is dated by the author \u201cChicago, July 30, 1886,\u201d and printed\n    in _Love to God and Love to Man_, being no. 28 of the Chicago\n    \u201cUnity Mission\u201d series of hymns, n.d. It is also included in _The\n    Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894. Although a morning hymn it is\n    adapted for use in Advent. It is usually known as \u201cThe Crowning\n    Day.\u201d\n\nOf the hymns thus listed in Julian\u2019s _Dictionary_ Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8\nand 9 have been widely used and are included in _Hymns of the Spirit_,\n1937. No. 1 was written to be set to J. B. Dykes\u2019 tune _Nicaea_, to\nwhich it is usually sung. No. 4 is probably the earliest hymn in the\nEnglish language to give a religious interpretation of the then novel\nand controversial doctrine of evolution. No. 9, as included in _Hymns\nof the Spirit_, 1937, is attributed to \u201cWilliam Channing Gannett and\nothers\u201d, being an arrangement from one of his poems.\n\nAnother fine hymn by Dr. Gannett beginning,\n\n    10. _God laid his rocks in courses_,\n\n    is unaccountably missing from the above list in Julian\u2019s\n    _Dictionary_. It is dated 1888 and was written for the dedication\n    of the church in Hinsdale which was erected shortly before his\n    pastorate there came to an end.\n\n_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, also includes as a hymn beginning,\n\n    11. _It sounds along the ages_,\n\n    an arrangement of stanzas from one of Dr. Gannett\u2019s poems entitled\n    \u201cThe Word of God.\u201d\n\nFinally, mention should be made of his part in giving form to the\ngreat hymn beginning\n\n    12. _Praise to the living God! All prais\u00e9d be his name!_\n\n    This is a metrical version of the Yigdal, a summary of the Jewish\n    faith attributed to Daniel Ben Judah who lived about the 14^th\n    century A.D. About 1760 Thomas Olivers, a Methodist preacher\n    visiting a Jewish synagogue in London, heard it chanted in Hebrew\n    by the cantor Leoni (Meyer Lyon) to a traditional melody. Much\n    impressed he secured a prose translation which he turned into the\n    hymn beginning\n\n      _The God of Abraham praise_,\n\n    to be sung to the same tune, to which he gave the name Leoni. His\n    version, however, did not follow the original text at all closely,\n    for he gave it a Christian interpretation. (A detailed account of\n    this episode will be found in Julian\u2019s _Dictionary_, pp.\n    1149-1151.) This hymn soon became, and has remained, widely\n    popular. In the 1880\u2019s Rabbi Max Landsberg of Temple Berith Kodesh\n    in Rochester, New York, a friend of Rev. Newton Mann, _q.v._ then\n    minister of the Unitarian Church in Rochester, asked Mr. Mann if\n    he could not make a metrical version of the Yigdal in English\n    which would be a more exact translation. Mr. Mann did so, but not\n    in the metre of the tune to which the Hebrew text was sung. After\n    Dr. Gannett had succeeded Mr. Mann in Rochester, Rabbi Landsberg\n    asked him to recast Mr. Mann\u2019s version in the same metre as the\n    tune. Dr. Gannett did so, and his version in 5 stas. was included\n    in the Jewish _Union Hymnal_, 1910, from which, with one stanza\n    omitted and some other alterations which in most cases are not\n    improvements, it has come into a number of Christian hymn books.\n    The unchanged version in 4 stas. will be found in _Hymns of the\n    Spirit_, 1937, where it is recorded as \u201cRevised version of the\n    Yigdal of Daniel Ben Judah\u201d and the tune is called \u201cYigdal\n    (Leoni)\u201d and is described as \u201cJewish Melody, arr. by Meyer Lyon.\u201d\n    Dr. Gannett never claimed this version as his, and it is now\n    impossible to discover how much of its wording is due to Mr.\n    Mann\u2019s earlier verse, but its poetic perfection is highly\n    suggestive of Dr. Gannett\u2019s craftsmanship, which assuredly has\n    contributed much to its present form.\n\n                                                                   H.W.F\n\n\nGilman, Mrs. Caroline (Howard), Boston, Massachusetts, October 8,\n1794\u2014September 18, 1888, Washington D. C. She married Rev. Samuel\nGilman, _q.v._, on October 14, 1819, and after his death in 1858 lived\nfor a time in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later in Tiverton, Long\nIsland, New York.\n\nShe began to write stories and poems at an early age, many of which\nwere published in \u201cThe Rosebud,\u201d later called \u201cThe Southern Rose,\u201d a\njuvenile weekly paper published in Charleston, South Carolina, which\nshe edited for several years, beginning in 1832. Her book entitled\n\u201cVerses of a Lifetime\u201d was published in 1854, as were a number of\nother books which gave her a considerable reputation as an author.\nFive of her poems are included in Putnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs_, etc.\nTwo of her hymns had considerable use,\n\n    1. _Is there a lone and dreary hour_,    (Providence)\n\n    This was contributed to Sewall\u2019s _Collection_, 1820, in 4 stanzas\n    of 4 lines, to which in 1867 she added a fifth stanza for\n    inclusion in the Charleston _Services and Hymns_. This hymn had\n    wide use in both British and American collections in the 19^th\n    century.\n\n    2. _We bless Thee for this sacred day_    (Sunday)\n\n    Also contributed to Sewall\u2019s _Collection_, 1820, in 4 stanzas of 4\n    lines, to which she added a fifth stanza, when included in the\n    Charleston _Services and Hymns_, 1867.\n\nNeither of these hymns is in current use.\n\n                                                                  J. 423\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nGilman, Rev. Samuel, D.D., Gloucester, Massachusetts, February 16,\n1791\u2014February 9, 1858, Kingston, Massachusetts. He graduated from\nHarvard College in 1811, served the College as tutor in mathematics\nfor two years, and studied in the Harvard Divinity School. On December\n1, 1819, he was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church in\nCharleston, South Carolina, which he served with great distinction\nuntil his death, which occurred while on a visit to Massachusetts. His\nwife, Caroline Howard Gilman, _q.v._, was a writer noted in her day.\nHe wrote a good many poems and essays, published in magazines; a book,\n\u201cMemoirs of a New England Village Choir,\u201d 1829, which ran to three\neditions; and in 1856 a volume of his miscellaneous essays, entitled\n\u201cContributions to Literature, Descriptive, Critical, Humorous,\nBiographical, Philosophical and Poetical.\u201d His two best known songs\nwere _The Union Ode_, composed for the Union party of South Carolina\nand sung there on July 4, 1831, during the Nullification excitement,\nand later in the North during the Civil War; and the college hymn\n_Fair Harvard_, which he wrote in 1836. He had come to Cambridge for\nthe twenty-fifth anniversary of his graduation and the 200^th\nanniversary of the founding of the College. On the eve of the\ncelebration, having already an established reputation as a poet, he\nwas asked to write a song for the occasion and it was sung at the\nmeeting on September 8, 1836, to a tune popular at the time, composed\nfor the song \u201cBelieve me, if all those endearing young charms.\u201d\nHarvard gave him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1837.\n\nHe wrote a number of hymns of minor importance.\n\n    1. _O God, accept this sacred hour_    (Communion)\n\n    was contributed to Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris\u2019s _Hymns for the\n    Lord\u2019s Supper_, 1820, and was republished in Sewall\u2019s New York\n    Collection of the same year, in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for\n    the Church of Christ_, 1853, and other collections.\n\n    2. _This child we dedicate to Thee_    (Christening)\n\n    In Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ the\n    author\u2019s name is not given and the piece is attributed to the\n    _West Boston Collection_, 1823. Putnam, in _Singers and Songs_,\n    etc., p. 73, gives four of its original stanzas, and says that it\n    is a translation from the German, but the original has not been\n    traced.\n\n    3. _We sing Thy mercy, God of love_,    (Communion)\n\n    Contributed to _Hymns of the Lord\u2019s Supper_ and included in\n    Sewall\u2019s New York _Collection_.\n\n    4. _Who would sever freedom\u2019s shrine?_\n\n    A song supporting the Union cause, of which Gilman was a strong\n    advocate, written at the time of the Nullification agitation.\n    Several stanzas from it, beginning as above, were included in _The\n    Soldier\u2019s Companion_, 1861.\n\n    5. _Yes, to the [that] last command_    (Communion)\n\n    Like no. 1 and 3 included in _Hymns for the Lord\u2019s Supper_ and in\n    Sewall\u2019s _Collection_.\n\nAll these hymns have long since passed out of use.\n\nGilman (with C. M. Taggart) edited the _Charleston Collection_ in\n1854, under the title _Services and Hymns for the use of the Unitarian\nChurch of Charleston, S.C._, a second and enlarged edition of which\nappeared in 1867. It included three of his hymns, nos. 1, 3 and 5,\nlisted above, and the two by his wife, Caroline Gilman, _q.v._, listed\nunder her name.\n\n                                                            J. 423, 1592\n                                                          revised\u2014H.W.F.\n\n\nGoldsmith, Rev. Peter Hair, D.D. (1865-1926) was born in Greenville,\nSouth Carolina. He was educated at the Southern Baptist Theological\nSeminary, Louisville, Kentucky, and served several Baptist churches\nbefore transferring his membership to the Unitarian denomination,\nafter which he served as minister to the First Church in Salem,\nMassachusetts, 1903-1910, and to the church in Yonkers, New York,\n1910-1917.\n\nIn 1912 he wrote a hymn beginning,\n\n  _Holy, holy Lord,_\n  _We with one accord,_\n\nwhich was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, but has not\npassed into other collections.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nGreenough, James Bradstreet, Portland, Maine, 1833-1901, Cambridge,\nMassachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1856, was\nappointed tutor in 1865, assistant professor in 1873, and professor of\nLatin in 1883. In 1884 he wrote the Latin hymn in four stanzas\nbeginning\n\n    _Deus omnium creator_,\n\nfor the tune _Harvard Hymn_ which his friend, John Knowles Paine,\nprofessor of music at Harvard, had composed in 1883 for use at the\nHarvard Commencement dinner.\n\nIt is included in _The University Hymn Book_, 1896, and in _The\nHarvard University Hymn Book_, 1926.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nGreenwood, Helen Woodward, Leominster, Massachusetts, April 18,\n1880\u2014April 2, 1959, Leominster. She was for many years engaged in\nsecretarial work for the General Alliance of Unitarian Women at 25\nBeacon Street, Boston. A hymn by her, beginning\n\n    _As once again we gather here_\n\nis included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHale, Rev. Edward Everett, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, April 3,\n1822\u2014June 10, 1909, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard\nCollege in 1839, the youngest member of his class. He did not go to\nthe Divinity School, but taught in the Boston Latin School and studied\nfor the ministry under the direction of Rev. S. K. Lothrop and Rev. J.\nG. Palfrey. He was licensed to preach by the Boston Association and in\n1846 was ordained as minister of the Church of the Unity (now the\nFirst Unitarian Church), Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1856 he moved to\nBoston, where he served the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) as\nminister and minister emeritus until his death. He was a voluminous\nwriter. One of his stories entitled \u201cA Man Without A Country,\u201d and\nanother, \u201cIn His Name,\u201d brought him wide reputation. He was a\ndistinguished preacher and a greatly beloved pastor, an ardent\nadvocate of peace who as early as 1871 proposed a \u201cUnited States of\nEurope,\u201d and in 1889 outlined a plan for an \u201cInternational Tribunal.\u201d\nIn 1858 he wrote a hymn \u201cFor the dedication of a Church\u201d beginning,\n\n    _O Father, take this new-built shrine_,\n\nwhich was included in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the Spirit_,\n1864, from which Martineau took it for his _Hymns of Praise and\nPrayer_, London, 1873.\n\n                                                                  J. 481\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHale, Mary Whitwell, Boston, Massachusetts, January 29, 1810\u2014November\n17, 1862, Keene, New Hampshire. Most of her life she was a school\nteacher in Boston, later in Taunton, Massachusetts, and, for her last\n20 years, in Keene. She wrote a good deal of verse. Two of her poems,\none on \u201cHome,\u201d and the second on \u201cMusic\u201d were written for a juvenile\nconcert in the Unitarian Church at Taunton, April, 1834. A number of\nher later hymns and poems appeared in _The Christian Register_, signed\nby Y.L.E. (the final letters of her name), and in 1840 a volume\nentitled _Poems_ was published in Boston. Several of her poems are\nincluded in Putnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs_, etc.\n\nFour of her hymns were included in the _Cheshire Collection_, 1844,\nviz:\n\n    1. _Praise for the glorious light_,\n\n    Written for a Temperance meeting.\n\n    2. _This day let grateful praise ascend_    (Sunday)\n\n    3. _Whatever dims the sense of truth_\n\n    In Putnam, Singers and Songs, this is entitled \u201cA Mother\u2019s\n    Counsel,\u201d with a quotation from John Wesley\u2019s mother.\n\n    4. _When in silence o\u2019er the deep_    (Christmas)\n\nOf these nos. 2 and 3 were taken from her _Poems_, and nos. 1 and 4\nwere written for the _Cheshire Collection_. No. 4 is in _Church\nHarmonies_. 1895, but none of her hymns are in current use.\n\n                                                                  J. 481\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHall, Harriet Ware, Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1841\u2014March\n18, 1889, Boston. She was a lifelong resident of Boston, a member of\nKing\u2019s Chapel. Two small books by her were privately printed, one a\ncollection of poems entitled _A Book for Friends_, 1888, the other\nentitled _Essays_, printed posthumously in 1890. The first book\ncontains a hymn beginning\n\n    _Lord, beneath thine equal hand_,\n\nin three stanzas, 7.7.7.7.D., dated February 10, 1869, and written for\nthe installation of Rev. E. H. Hall at Worcester, Massachusetts, in\n1869. It is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, the\nfirst line altered to read,\n\n    _Lord, beneath whose equal hand._\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHam, Rev. Marion Franklin, D.D., Harveysburg, Ohio, February 18,\n1867\u2014July 23, 1956, Arlington, Massachusetts. He was educated in the\npublic schools at Harveysburg, but as a youth moved to Chattanooga,\nTennessee to find employment. There he joined the Unitarian Church\nand, after serving it as a lay reader for several years, was ordained\nin 1898 as its minister, serving it until 1904. He later served\nUnitarian churches in Dallas, Texas, 1904-1909; in Reading,\nMassachusetts, 1909-1934; and in Waverley, Massachusetts, 1934-1939.\nHe began to write verse in 1888, and many of his poems appeared in\nnewspapers and periodicals, some of them being widely reprinted. His\ncollected poems were published in book form in 1896, entitled _The\nGolden Shuttle_, which reached a fourth edition in 1910. He then\nturned to hymn writing, and four of his earliest hymns were included\nin _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, viz:\u2014\n\n    1. _I hear Thy voice, within the silence speaking_,    (1913)\n\n    2. _O Lord of life, Thy kingdom is at hand_,    (1912)\n\n    3. _O Thou whose gracious presence shone_    (Communion) (1912)\n\n    4. _Touch Thou mine eyes, the sombre shadows falling_,    (1911)\n\nThese are also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, as are five\nlater hymns by him, viz:\u2014\n\n    5. _As tranquil streams that meet and merge_    (1933)\n\n    6. _From Bethany the Master_,    (Palm Sunday) (1935)\n\n    7. _Heir of all the waiting ages_,    (Advent) (1937)\n\n    8. _Ring, O ring, ye Christmas bells_    (1932)\n\n    9. _The builders, toiling through the days_    (Church dedication)\n    (1925)\n\nIn April, 1936, he wrote an Easter hymn\n\n    10. _Oh, who shall roll the stone away?_\n\nwhich first appeared in the Boston _Transcript_. It is included in\n_The Hymnal_, 1940.\n\nIn his later years he published, or had privately printed, several\nsmall booklets containing these and other poems by him: _Songs of the\nSpirit_, 1932; _Songs of Faith and Hope_, 1940; _Songs at Sunset_,\n1951; _Songs of a Lifetime_, 1953; and _In a Rose Garden_, 1956. Of\nthese, _Songs of a Lifetime_ contains what he regarded as his best\npoems, as well as his latest hymns, among them one widely used on\nUnited Nations Sunday, beginning,\n\n    11. _Freedom, thy holy light_,\n\nand a fine national hymn,\n\n    12. _O my country, land of promise_,\n\nA number of his hymns have been included in the hymnals of several\ndenominations, and No. 2 was translated into Japanese.\n\nDr. Ham\u2019s hymns manifest a deep spiritual insight expressed with\nliterary craftsmanship of a high order, which make them among the most\nnotable contributions to American hymnody in the first half of the\n20^th century.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHarris, Florence, (Mrs. Robert G. Hooke) (1891-1933) wrote in 1907,\nfor the tenth anniversary of Unity Church (Unitarian), Montclair, New\nJersey, of which she was a member a hymn entitled \u201cThe Founders,\u201d\nbeginning,\n\n    _Like pilgrims sailing through the night_,\n\nwhich was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in\n_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHarris, Rev. Thaddeus Mason, D.D. (1768-1842). He graduated from\nHarvard in 1787, entered the ministry and served the First Church in\nDorchester, Massachusetts (Unitarian) from 1793 until his resignation\nin 1836. Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1801 he\nprinted a leaflet with a few hymns, which formed the basis for a\nlarger collection of _Hymns for the Lord\u2019s Supper, original and\nselected_, [edited] _by Thaddeus Mason Harris. D.D. Boston; printed by\nSewall Phelps, No. 5 Court Street, 1820_. A second edition was printed\nin 1821. This booklet contains original hymns by Rev. John Pierpont,\n_q.v._, Rev. Samuel Gilman, _q.v._, and others, none of them in use\ntoday.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHedge, Rev. Frederic Henry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12,\n1805\u2014August 21, 1890, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Son of Professor Levi\nHedge of Harvard, he was a very precocious child, ready to enter\ncollege at 12 years of age, but his father wisely sent him to Germany,\nwith a tutor, George Bancroft, later a noted historian, where he\nstudied in German schools for 5 years. He then returned to Harvard\nCollege, graduating in 1825, followed by a period of study in Harvard\nDivinity School, where he became an intimate friend of R. W. Emerson.\nHe was ordained minister of the First Congregational Parish\n(Unitarian) in West Cambridge (now Arlington) Massachusetts in 1829.\nIn 1835 he moved to Bangor, Maine, where he served the Independent\nCongregational Society until 1850, then serving the Westminster\nCongregational Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 1850-1856. In the\nlatter year he was called to the First Parish in Brookline,\nMassachusetts, which he served until 1872. His removal to Brookline\nenabled him to serve as a nonresident professor of ecclesiastical\nhistory in the Harvard Divinity School. He retired from the ministry\nin 1872 and moved to Cambridge, where he was appointed professor of\nGerman language and literature, retiring in 1882. He was a man of\nextraordinary intellectual ability, one of the most learned of his\ntime, and a pioneer in bringing to this country an acquaintance with\nGerman literature and metaphysics. Harvard gave him the degree of D.D.\nin 1852, and that of LL.D. in 1886. He was one of the editors of the\n_Christian Examiner_, author of _The Prose Writers of Germany_, 1848,\nof _Reason in Religion_, 1865, of a volume of _Metrical Translations\nand Poems_ in 1888, and of a large number of essays and sermons. He\nwas president of the American Unitarian Association 1860-1863. He\ncollaborated with Dr. F. D. Huntington, _q.v._, in editing _Hymns for\nthe Church of Christ_, Boston, 1853, to which he contributed three\ntranslations from the German:\n\n    1. _A mighty fortress is our God_,    (Ein\u2019 feste Burg)\n\n    2. _Christ hath arisen!_    (Goethe\u2019s Faust)\n\n    3. _The sun is still forever sounding_    (Goethe\u2019s Faust)\n\n    The Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book for Church and Home_, 1868,\n    includes his translation from the Latin,\n\n    4. _Holy Spirit, Fire Divine_,    (Veni, Sancte Spiritus)\n\n    Translated 1862.\n\nHis original hymns included in _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853,\nare,\n\n    5. _Beneath thine hammer, Lord, I lie_,\n\n    Undated but \u201cWritten at a time of severe trial and deep\n    depression.\u201d\n\n    6. _Sovereign and Transforming Grace_,\n\n    Written for the ordination of H. D. Barlow at Lynn, Massachusetts,\n    December 9, 1829. This fine hymn is appropriate to a service of\n    worship and, with the omission of one stanza, has been widely\n    used.\n\n    7. _\u2019Twas in the East, the mystic East_,\n\n    A Christmas hymn, written about 1853.\n\n    8. _\u2019Twas the day when God\u2019s anointed_,\n\n    Written for a service in Bangor, Maine, held on Good Friday, 1843,\n    in six stanzas, the last three of which, beginning\n\n      _It is finished, Man of sorrows!_\n\n    had considerable use in Great Britain and this country. The whole\n    six stanzas were included in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Book of\n    Hymns_, 1846, as \u201cAnonymous.\u201d The last three stanzas are in\n    Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_ and in many other collections.\n\n    He also wrote a hymn beginning\n\n    9. _Lo! another offering,_\n      _To Thy courts this day we bring,_\n\n    for his own ordination at West Cambridge in 1829, which was also\n    used at the ordination of F. A. Whitney, at Brighton,\n    Massachusetts, on February 24, 1844, but which passed into no\n    collections.\n\nAll these hymns, and two other religious poems, are included in\nPutnam\u2019s Singers and _Songs of the Liberal Faith_. Most of them had\ngone out of use by the end of the 19^th century, but nos. 1, 6 and 8\n(beginning _It is finished, Man of sorrows_,) are in _The New Hymn and\nTune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\nBy far the best known of Hedge\u2019s hymns is his fine and accurate\ntranslation of Luther\u2019s great chorale _Ein\u2019 feste Burg_ (no. 1). This\nis the version accepted by almost all the Protestant denominations in\nthis country, whereas in Great Britain Thomas Carlyle\u2019s earlier\ntranslation (1831) is generally used, although James Martineau\nincluded Hedge\u2019s version in his _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873,\nmistakenly attributing it to Samuel Longfellow. Putnam, _op. cit._,\n214, says that it was first printed in W. H. Furness\u2019s _Gems of German\nVerse_, which appeared in Philadelphia, without date but undoubtedly\nin the latter part of 1853, a second edition following in 1859. That\nHedge should have sent his translation of the chorale to Furness\nwithout delay was natural, because the two men were close friends with\na common interest in German literature, and Putnam was the younger\ncontemporary of both, in a position to know that Furness\u2019s little book\nhad appeared on the market a few days, or weeks, ahead of the\ncollection of hymns which Hedge and F. D. Huntington were editing and\nwhich they published late in 1853 as _Hymns for the Church of Christ_.\n\nThe earliest record of the hymn, however, is to be found in the\nautograph letter (now in the Harvard University Library) which Hedge\nwrote to Rev. Joseph H. Allen, his successor in the pulpit at Bangor,\nMaine, asking him to recommend hymns for inclusion in the book on\nwhich he and Huntington were working. This letter is dated\n\u201cProvidence, March 27th, 1853.\u201d In the course of it Hedge wrote, \u201cI\nhave made a new translation of Luther\u2019s splendid psalm \u2018Eine feste\nBurg ist unser Gott\u2019 Carlyle\u2019s translation not being available.\u201d This\nstatement is followed by the four stanzas of his translation. That\nbook contained no printed tunes, only citing the metre at the head of\neach hymn as a guide to the organist, but in his letter Hedge goes on\nwith the surprizing statement, \u201cThe original is much sung in Germany\nand therefore I suppose that it will not be difficult to find a tune\nfor it.\u201d Since he must have become familiar with both the words and\nthe music of the famous chorale when he was a youthful student in\nGermany this remark indicates that the tune was still unknown in\nAmerica, and that he took little interest in introducing it.\n\n                                                            J. 504, 1647\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nHigginson, Thomas Wentworth, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12,\n1822\u2014May 9, 1911, Cambridge. He graduated from Harvard College in 1841\nand from the Harvard Divinity School in 1847. Entering the Unitarian\nministry he served churches in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1847-1850,\nand in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1852-1858. He was an ardent\nAbolitionist and when the Civil War came he entered the Union Army, in\nwhich he rose to the command of a Negro regiment. After the war he\nbecame a man of letters and published several books and numerous\nessays. While still a student in the Divinity School he contributed to\nthe _Book of Hymns_, 1846, which his friends Longfellow and Johnson\nwere preparing, four hymns, which they marked with an asterisk, viz:\n\n    1. _No human eyes Thy face may see_    (God known through love)\n\n    2. _The land our fathers left to us_    (American Slavery)\n\n    3. _The past is dark with sin and shame_,    (Hope)\n\n    4. _To thine eternal arms, O God_,    (Lent)\n\nThe last two have had considerable use. Both express the pessimistic\nmood with which the young man viewed the evils of the time.\n\nOne of his later poems of social justice has also had some use as a\nhymn,\n\n  5. _From street and square, from hill and glen,_\n    _Of this vast world beyond my door._\n\nHis four hymns in the _Book of Hymns_, with other poems by him, are\nincluded in Putnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs, of the Liberal Faith_, 1875.\nOf the above hymns those listed as 3 and 5 are included in _Hymns of\nthe Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                            J. 521, 1711\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHill, Rev. Thomas, D.D., L.L.D., New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 7,\n1818\u2014November 21, 1891, Portland, Maine.\n\nHe graduated from Harvard College in 1843 and from the Harvard\nDivinity School in 1845. He served as minister of the First Parish\n(Unitarian) in Waltham, Massachusetts from 1845 to 1859; was president\nof Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1859-1862; president of\nHarvard University, 1862-1868; and minister of the First Parish of\nPortland, Maine, 1873 to 1891. He was distinguished as a\nmathematician.\n\nIn the earlier part of his career he wrote or translated many hymns\nwhich found publication in current periodicals, usually anonymously or\nsigned only with cryptic initials. One by him, beginning,\n\n    _All holy, ever living One,_\n\nwas included in a few hymn books of the 19^th century, but has dropped\nout of use. A few others, mostly written for special occasions, are in\nPutnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, but none have found\nother use.\n\n                                                                  J. 524\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHolland, Joseph Gilbert, Belchertown, Massachusetts, July 24,\n1819\u2014October 12, 1881. A newspaper man on the staff of the\n_Springfield Republican_ who became editor of _Scribner\u2019s Magazine_ in\n1870. Author of several books and some poetical pieces. One of the\nlatter, beginning\n\n    _For summer\u2019s bloom, and autumn\u2019s blight_,    (Praise in and\n    through all things)\n\nfrom his _Bitter Sweet_, 1858, was included in the Unitarian _Hymn and\nTune Book for Church and Home_, Boston, 1868.\n\n                                                                  J. 529\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHolmes, Rev. John Haynes, D.D.; Litt. D.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,\nNovember 29, 1879\u2014still living. He graduated from Harvard, _summa cum\nlaude_ in 1902, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1904. He\nreceived the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Jewish\nInstitute of Religion in 1930, from St. Lawrence University in 1931,\nand from Meadville Theological School in 1945; Doctor of Letters from\nBenares Hindu University, India, in 1947, and Doctor of Humanities\nfrom Rollins College, Florida, in 1951. He was installed as minister\nof the Third Religious Society (Unitarian), Dorchester, Massachusetts\nin 1904, and went to New York in 1907 as associate and successor to\nRev. Robert Collyer, _q.v._, minister of the Second Congregational\nUnitarian Society, (Church of the Messiah, now called the Community\nChurch of New York) of which he became pastor emeritus in 1949. He\nwithdrew from the Unitarian fellowship in 1919, not on theological\ngrounds but because he preferred a position independent of any\ndenominational label. Throughout his career in New York he has been an\noutspoken leader in many causes for social betterment, and a prolific\nauthor in prose and verse who has published a large number of books,\nreligious and biographical, and of printed sermons. No other American\nauthor of his period has written so many fine hymns which have been\nwidely used in this country, in England, and in Japan.\n\n    1. _Accept, O Lord, this precious gift_\n\n    8.6.8.6.    3 stas.\n\n    Written for dedication on October 31, 1943, of Chapel in the\n    rebuilt Community Church.\n\n    2. _Accept, O Lord, this temple_,\n\n    7.6.7.6.7.6.    3 stas.\n\n    Written on the occasion of the rededication of the Community\n    Church, December 31, 1922.\n\n    3. _All hail the pageant of the years_,\n\n    8.6.8.6.8.8.    5 stas.    Undated\n\n    Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n    4. _Almighty God, beneath whose eye_\n\n    C.M.D.    4 stas.\n\n    An early hymn written for Labor Day Sunday in 1910.\n\n    5. _Almighty God, to whom the dark_\n\n    C.M.D.    3 stas.    8 l.\n\n    A Vesper hymn written in 1906.\n\n    6. _America triumphant! Brave land of pioneers._\n\n    7.6.7.6.D.    5 stas.\n\n    Written during World War I, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n    7. _Behold, O God! our holy house_,\n\n    C.M.    5 stas.    September, 1919\n\n    Written on the occasion of the burning of the Community Church,\n    September 11, 1919.\n\n    8. _Be with us, Father, in this place._\n\n    Dated 1945.\n\n    9. _Bless, thou, O God, this fellowship_\n\n    8.6.8.6.D.    3 stas.\n\n    Written for the Installation of Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, B.D.,\n    D.D. as President of the American Unitarian Association on October\n    7, 1958.\n\n    10. _Bright visions glow across the sky_,\n\n    8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6.    3 stas.\n\n    Written by Mr. Holmes in 1947 on the occasion of his 40^th\n    anniversary as Minister of the Community Church.\n\n    11. _God of the nations, near and far._\n\n    C.M.    6 stas.\n\n    Written before this country entered World War I, for a hymn\n    contest sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in\n    America, for use on Peace Sunday. This hymn was widely sung in\n    churches of many denominations.\n\n    Included in _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the\n    Spirit_, 1937, with alteration in 2^nd sta.\n\n    12. _God save the people\u2019s cause._\n\n    6.6.4.6.6.6.4.    3 stas.\n\n    Written in 1939.\n\n    13. _Great Spirit of the speeding spheres_,\n\n    L.M.    6 stas.\n\n    Written in 1932 on the occasion of the 25^th anniversary of Mr.\n    Holmes as minister of the Community Church.\n\n    14. _Joy to our hearts! Again we meet!_\n\n    8.6.8.8.6.6.6.4.    3 stas.    8 l.\n\n    A Hymn of reunion, 1920, set to the tune of Antioch.\n\n    15. _O blessed isle of quiet_,\n\n    7.6.8.6.D.    3 stas.\n\n    Written at the Isles of Shoals in the summer of 1930, and set to\n    an original tune by Robert B. Buxton.\n\n    16. _O Father, Thou who givest all_\n\n    L.M.    4 stas.\n\n    Written for _The Beacon Song and Service Book_, Beacon, 1908;\n    included in _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the\n    Spirit_, 1937.\n\n    17. _O God of field and city_,\n\n    7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6.    3 stas. Prompted, in 1917, by the darkly\n    unfolding experiences of World War I.\n\n    18. _O God of light and darkness_,\n\n    7.6.7.6.D.    3 stas.    8 l.    Undated.\n\n    19. _O God, whose law from age to age_\n\n    8.6.8.6.D.    4 stas.    1910.\n\n    20. _O God, whose love is over all_,\n\n    8.6.8.6.D.    3 stas.    1909.\n\n    21. _O God, whose smile is in the sky_\n\n    8.6.8.6.D.    4 stas.\n\n    Written in 1907 for the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, in 4\n    stas., C.M.D. Included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, in 5\n    stas. of 4 l. with revisions approved by the author, and in _Hymns\n    of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n    22. _Old Jubal twanged the bow-string_\n\n    7.6.7.6.D.    3 stas.\n\n    Written for the 25^th anniversary of Clifford Demarest as organist\n    of the Community Church, May 10, 1936, based on Genesis 4.21.\n    \u201cJubal,\u2014father of all such as handle the harp and the pipe.\u201d An\n    interesting _tour de force_ on the rise of music in praise of God.\n\n    23. _Onward still and upward_\n\n    6.5.6.5.D.    3 stas.\n\n    Written in 1950, and dedicated to the American Unitarian\n    Association in celebration of the 125^th anniversary (1825-1950)\n    of its founding.\n\n    24. _O Thou who in chaotic night_,\n\n    8.8.8.8.8.8.    4 stas.\n\n    Written in war time, 1918.\n\n    25. _O Thou, whose presence moved before_\n\n       C.M.D.    6 stas.\n\n    Written for use on the 10^th anniversary of his installation as\n    Minister of the Community Church, February 4, 1917.\n\n    26. _O\u2019er continent and ocean_\n\n    7.6.8.6.D.    3 stas.\n\n    Written for a \u201cService of Commemoration of a Century of British\n    American Peace,\u201d held in the Church of the Messiah, Montreal,\n    Canada, at a meeting of Unitarian General Conference on September\n    25, 1917. In _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n    27. _Show us thy way, O God!_\n\n    6.6.8.6.    4 stas.\n\n    Printed in _The Christian Century_ in 1936, included in _Hymns of\n    the Spirit_, 1937, with a correction by the author.\n\n    28. _The Bethlehem stars are dim tonight_\n\n    8.6.8.6.D.    3 stas.    Dated 1925\n\n    29. _The voice of God is calling_\n\n    7.6.7.6.D.    4 stas.\n\n    Written in September, 1913 for the Young People\u2019s Religious Union\n    of Boston. In _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. In _Hymns of the\n    Spirit_, 1937; widely used in the United States, England,\n    translated into German, Japanese and Spanish.\n\n    30. _Thou God of all, whose presence dwells_\n\n    8.8.8.8.    4 stas.\n\n    Written some time after World War I. Intended as a protest against\n    nationalistic theism which induced both belligerent nations to\n    claim a monopoly of God.\n\n    31. _Thou God of all, whose Spirit moves_\n\n    8.6.8.6.D    3 stas.\n\n    Printed in _The Christian Century_, May 29, 1940 and in _The\n    Christian Register_, August, 1940.\n\n    32. _Thy voice, O God, in every age_\n\n    8.6.8.6.D.    3 stas.\n\n    Written for the Installation of Rev. Donald Harrington at the\n    Community Church of New York on November 19, 1944.\n\n    33. _To earth\u2019s remote horizons_\n\n    7.6.7.6.D.    4 stas.\n\n    Written in 1949 and first sung on November 27th of that year at a\n    special service in commemoration of the retirement of Mr. Holmes\n    from the active ministry.\n\n    34. _To Thee, O God, be homage_\n\n    7.6.7.6.D.    3 stas.    1945.\n\n    35. _When darkness, brooding o\u2019er the deep_\n\n    8.6.8.6.D.    4 stas.\n\n    Written in 1925 on the occasion of the 100^th anniversary of the\n    founding of the Community Church of New York.\n\n    36. _Why trust we not our God?_\n\n    6.6.8.6.    5 stas.\n\nOf the hymns listed above, Nos. 3, 6, 11, 18, 20, 23 and 29 have had\nthe most widespread use.\n\n                                     H.W.F. in collaboration with J.H.H.\n\n\nHolmes, Oliver Wendell, M.D., LL.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts, August\n29, 1809\u2014October 7, 1894, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from\nHarvard College in the famous Class of 1829, studied medicine and\nbecame a practitioner in Boston, and was appointed Professor of\nAnatomy in the Harvard Medical School in 1847. Although distinguished\nas a physician his fame is that of a man of letters gifted with a\nsense of humor which made him one of the wittiest men of his time.\nBesides important medical treatises he wrote essays, novels,\nbiographical sketches, and poetry which brought him a great reputation\nin this country and in Great Britain. Much of his poetry is occasional\nverse, which he was often called upon to write, such as his\n\u201cInternational Ode\u201d to be sung to the tune \u201cAmerica\u201d (\u201cGod Save the\nQueen\u201d) on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Wales in 1860.\nOxford University gave him the honorary degree of D.C.L. in 1886. He\nwas a member of Kings\u2019 Chapel, (Unitarian) Boston, and two of his\npoems are about that church. He contributed The _Autocrat at the\nBreakfast Table_ to the opening issues of _The Atlantic Monthly_,\n1857-58, published _The Professor at the Breakfast Table_ in 1859,\n_The Poet at the Breakfast Table_ in 1872. He wrote _Elsie Venner_,\n1861, and two other novels. His poetry was published in _Songs in Many\nKeys_, 1861; _Humorous Poems_, 1865; _Before the Curfew_, 1888; and in\nhis _Complete Poetical Works_, in 1895.\n\nAlthough he made a greater contribution to American hymnody than did\nany other of the \u201cNew England poets\u201d of his era, except Bryant and\nWhittier, his hymns were incidental literary by-products, for he was\nnot primarily a hymn writer. They include:\n\n    1. _Angel of peace, thou hast tarried too long_\n\n    Written in 1869.\n\n    2. _Father of mercies, heavenly Friend_,\n\n    A prayer in time of war. Undated but between 1861 and 1865.\n\n    3. _Lead where the banners wave last to the sea_,\n\n    Written as an American national anthem. It appeared in his _Songs\n    in Many Keys_, 1861, entitled \u201cFreedom, our Queen.\u201d\n\n    4. _Lord of all being, throned afar_,    (God\u2019s Omnipotence)\n\n    Included in _The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table_, 1848, under the\n    title of \u201cA Sun-day Hymn.\u201d This is his finest hymn and has had\n    widespread use in many collections.\n\n    5. _O Lord of hosts, Almighty King_,\n\n    Entitled \u201cArmy Hymn,\u201d and published in _The Soldier\u2019s Companion_,\n    a hand-book of hymns and scripture readings issued in the fall of\n    1861, by the American Unitarian Association, for use by soldiers\n    in the Union Army. It is a fine hymn, but with several lines\n    directly referring to the immediate situation which make it\n    unsuitable for present use and which cannot be altered or dropped\n    without mutilating the hymn. In the same collection he wrote an\n    \u201cAdditional Verse\u201d appended to \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner,\u201d\n    beginning\n\n      _When our land is illumined with Liberty\u2019s smile_,\n\n    6. _O Love Divine, that stooped to share_,\n\n    Written in 1859, a hymn of trust in time of doubt and sorrow.\n\n    7. _Our Father, while our hearts unlearn,_\n      _The creeds that wrong thy name,_\n\n    Written for the 25^th Anniversary of the Boston Young Men\u2019s\n    Christian Union, May 31, 1893.\n\n    8. _Thou gracious Power whose mercy lends_,\n\n    Written in 1869 for the 40^th anniversary meeting of the Harvard\n    Class of 1829. In the Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, altered to read\n\n      _Thou gracious God_, etc.\n\nOf these hymns nos. 4 and 6 have had the most widespread use. Those\ntwo, and no. 1 are included in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935, and nos. 4,\n6, 7 and 8 are in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and In\n_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                        J. 530, 1649, 1713, rewritten by\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHorton, Rev. Edward Augustus, Springfield, Massachusetts, September\n28, 1843\u2014April 15, 1931, Toronto, Canada. He studied at the University\nof Chicago and at Meadville Theological School, from which he\ngraduated in 1868. He served Unitarian churches in Leominster,\nMassachusetts, 1868-1875; Hingham, Massachusetts, 1877-1880; and the\nSecond Church in Boston, 1880-1892. Thereafter he was active in the\nwork of the Unitarian Sunday School Society. In 1912 he wrote an\n\u201cAnniversary Hymn\u201d beginning,\n\n    _We honor those whose work began_,\n\nwhich was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHosmer, Rev. Frederick Lucian, D.D., Framingham, Massachusetts,\nOctober 16, 1840\u2014June 7, 1929, Berkeley, California. He graduated from\nHarvard College in 1862, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1869.\nIn October of that year he was ordained minister of the First\nCongregational Church (Unitarian), Northborough, Massachusetts, where\nhe served for 3 years. He served the Unitarian Church in Quincy,\nIllinois, 1872-1877; then spent sixteen months in Europe, returning\nlate in 1878 to serve the First Unitarian Church of Cleveland, Ohio,\n1878-1892; the Church of the Unity, St. Louis, Missouri, 1894-1899;\nand the First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, California, 1900-1915, where\nhe remained as minister-emeritus until his death. In 1887 Buchtel\nCollege gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.\n\nWhile in the Divinity School he formed a close life-long friendship\nwith William C. Gannett, _q.v._ Neither wrote any hymns until early\nmiddle life, Dr. Gannett\u2019s earliest having been written in 1873, Dr.\nHosmer\u2019s in 1875, but thereafter they worked together for nearly four\ndecades to make a contribution to American hymnody comparable to that\nmade by Samuel Longfellow, _q.v._, and Samuel Johnson, _q.v._, a\ngeneration earlier. Of the two men it has been well said that \u201cGannett\nwas the better poet, Hosmer the better hymn writer,\u201d and many more of\nhis hymns than of those by Gannett have come into widespread use.\n\nWorking together they edited _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, published in\n1880, a revised edition of which appeared in 1911. (J. V. Blake,\n_q.v._, was also an editor of the first, but not of the revised\nedition). In 1885 they published a small collection of their poems\nentitled _The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems_, followed by later\ncollections with the same title, 2^nd Series 1894, 3^rd Series 1918.\nIn 1908 Dr. Hosmer gave a series of lectures on hymnody at the Harvard\nDivinity School, repeated at the Pacific Unitarian School for the\nMinistry, in Berkeley, California, but these have not been published.\n\nJulian\u2019s _Dictionary_, pp. 1650-51, lists 27 hymns by Dr. Hosmer, with\n\u201cannotations\u2014from ms. notes supplied\u2014by the author,\u201d as follows:\u2014\n\n    1. _Father, to Thee we look in all our sorrow_    (Trust in God)\n\n    Written in 1881 upon the death of a member of the author\u2019s\n    congregation, and published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series,\n    1885.\n\n    2. _From age to age how grandly rise_    (Unity)\n\n    Written for the annual festival of the Free Religious Association,\n    Boston, June 2, 1899, and first published in _Souvenir Festival\n    Hys._ 1899. Subsequently altered by the author to \u201cFrom age to age\n    the prophet\u2019s vision.\u201d\n\n    3. _From age to age they gather, all the brave of heart and\n    strong_,    (Victory of Truth)\n\n    Written in 1891 for the Dedication of Unity Church, Decorah, Iowa,\n    and published in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894.\n\n    4. _From many ways and wide apart_,    (College or School Reunion)\n\n    Dated in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894, as having been\n    written in 1890.\n\n    5. _Go not, my soul, in search of Him_,    (God within)\n\n    Written in 1879, printed in the Boston _Christian Register_, May\n    31, 1879, and included in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885,\n    with the title \u201cThe Indwelling God.\u201d\n\n    6. _I cannot think of them as dead_    (Eternal Life)\n\n    Written in 1882 and first published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st\n    Series, 1885, and entitled \u201cMy Dead.\u201d In the English collections\n    it is usually given as \u201cWe cannot think of them as dead.\u201d\n\n    7. _I little see, I little know_,    (Trust)\n\n    \u201cA Psalm of Trust\u201d written in 1883, first appeared in the Boston\n    _Christian Register_, and again in _The Thought of God_, 1^st\n    Series, 1885.\n\n    8. _Immortal, by their deed and word_    (The Spirit of Jesus)\n\n    Written in 1880, and first published in _Unity Hys. and Carols_,\n    Chicago, Illinois, 1880, and then in _The Thought of God_, 1^st\n    Series, 1885.\n\n    9. _Many things in life, there are_    (Mystery in All Things)\n\n    Written in 1885 and first published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st\n    Series, 1885, with the title \u201cPassing Understanding\u201d, and the\n    quotation \u201cthe Peace of God which passeth all understanding.\u201d\n\n    10. _Not always on the Mount may we_    (On the Mount)\n\n    This lesson from the _Transfiguration_ was written in 1882, and\n    published in the _Chicago Unity_, April 1, 1884. After revision by\n    the author, it was included in the 1^st Series of _The Thought of\n    God_, 1885.\n\n    11. _Not when, with self dissatisfied_,    (Lent)\n\n    Written in 1891, and given in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series,\n    1894, p. 33. It is in _The Public School Hymn Book_, 1903, and\n    others.\n\n    12. _O beautiful, my country_,    (National Hymn)\n\n    As \u201cOur Country,\u201d written in 1884, and published in the _Chicago\n    Unity Festivals_, 1884, and again in _The Thought of God_, 1885.\n\n    13. _O Light, from age to age the same_,    (Dedication\n    Anniversary)\n\n    Written in 1890 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Second\n    Congregational Church (Unitarian), Quincy, Illinois. Included in\n    _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894, and entitled \u201cFrom\n    Generation to Generation.\u201d\n\n    14. _O Lord of Life, where\u2019er they be_,    (Life in God)\n\n    \u201cWritten in 1888 for Easter service in Author\u2019s own church,\u201d and\n    first published in the _Chicago Unity_, and again in _The Thought\n    of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894. The \u201cAlleluia\u201d refrain, which is added\n    in some collections to each verse, is appended, in the original,\n    to the last verse only.\n\n    15. _O Name, all other names above_,    (Trust in God)\n\n    Under the title \u201cFound. \u2018They that know Thy name will put their\n    trust in Thee\u2019,\u201d this hymn, written in 1878, was given in _The\n    Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885.\n\n    16. _O Prophet souls of all the years_    (Unity)\n\n    \u201cWritten in 1893 for, and sung at, the Unitarian gathering in\n    connection with The World\u2019s Parliament of Religions (World\u2019s Fair)\n    Chicago, Sep. 1893,\u201d and included in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd\n    Series, 1894, and entitled \u201cOne Law, One Life, One Love.\u201d\n\n    17. _O Thou, in all Thy might so far_,    (God All in All)\n\n    This hymn, given in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885, with\n    the title \u201cThe Mystery of God,\u201d was written in 1876, and first\n    published in the _New York Inquirer_.\n\n    18. _O thou in lonely vigil led_,\n\n    This encouragement for lonely workers was written for the \u201cEmerson\n    Commemoration, W.U.C. 1888,\u201d and included in _The Thought of God_,\n    2^nd Series, 1894.\n\n    19. _O Thou, who art of all that is_,    (Divine Guidance)\n\n    Under the title \u201cThrough unknown paths,\u201d this hymn was included in\n    _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885; it was written in 1877.\n\n    20. _O Thou, whose Spirit witness bears_,     (Dedication of a\n    Place of Worship)\n\n    Written for the Dedication of the First Unitarian Church, Omaha,\n    February 6, 1891, and published in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd\n    Series, 1894, with the title \u201cThe Inward Witness\u201d, and the\n    subscription \u201cFor T.K. Omaha, 1891.\u201d\n\n    21. _On eyes that watch through sorrow\u2019s night_    (Easter)\n\n    A Carol for Easter Morn, written in 1890 for the author\u2019s\n    congregation, and published in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series,\n    1894.\n\n    22. _One thought I have, my ample creed_,    (The Thought of God)\n\n    This is the initial hymn to the collection _The Thought of God_,\n    1^st Series, 1885, and supplies the title to the work. It was\n    written in 1880, and first published in the _Chicago Unity Hymns\n    and Carols_, 1880, and then in _The Thought of God_, 1885.\n\n    23. _The rose is queen among the flowers_,    (Flower services)\n\n    Written in 1875, first published in _The Sunnyside_, a songbook\n    for Sunday Schools, and again in _The Thought of God_, 1^st\n    Series, 1885, under the title \u201cFlower Sunday.\u201d\n\n    24. _Thy kingdom come\u2014on bended knee_,    (Missions)\n\n    \u201cWritten in 1891 for the Commencement of the Meadville Theological\n    School (Meadville, Pa.) June 12, 1891, and pub. in _The Thought of\n    God_, 2^nd Series, 1894.\u201d under the title \u201cThe Day of God,\u201d and\n    the subscription \u201cM.T.S., June 12, 1891.\u201d\n\n    25. _We pray no more, made lowly wise_\n      _For miracle and sign._    (Greater Faith Desired)\n\n    \u201cWritten in 1879, and first pub. in _The Christian Register_\n    (Boston) Mar. 22 of that year, under the title \u2018The Larger\n    Faith.\u2019\u201d Included under the same title in _The Thought of God_,\n    1^st Series, 1885. Sometimes given as \u201cMade lowly wise, we pray no\n    more.\u201d\n\n    26. _When courage fails, and faith burns low_,    (Victory of\n    Truth)\n\n    Under the title \u201cLoyalty,\u201d this hymn was given in _The Thought of\n    God_, 1^st Series, 1885. It was written in 1881.\n\n    27. _Where men on mounts of vision_,\n      _Have passed the veil within_.    (Dedication of a Place of\n                Worship)\n\n    \u201cWritten in 1891 for the Dedication of First Unitarian Church,\n    Oakland, California.\u201d Included in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd\n    Series, 1894, entitled \u201cHoly Place\u201d, and subscribed \u201cFor C.W.W.,\n    Oakland, Cal. 1891.\u201d\n\nThis account of Hosmer\u2019s hymns, copied verbatim from Julian\u2019s\n_Dictionary_, may be accepted as authoritative as to the date and\noccasion for each hymn listed, but Canon Julian presumably added the\ndescriptive notations in brackets, and fell into minor inaccuracies,\nas when he wrote _Unity Hymns and Carols_ for _Unity Hymns and\nChorals_ (cf. nos. 3 and 22), and cited the periodical _Unity_,\npublished in Chicago, as _Chicago Unity_. By way of further\nclarification it should be noted that the opening line of no. 12, _O\nbeautiful my country_, was taken from J. R. Lowell\u2019s great\nCommemoration Ode, and that Hosmer always wanted it printed \u2018_O\nBeautiful my Country_\u2019, in recognition of its source. No. 18 was\nwritten for the observance by the Western Unitarian Conference of the\nfiftieth anniversary of Emerson\u2019s famous _Divinity School Address_.\nThe person initialed as \u201cT.K.\u201d for whom no. 20 was written on February\n6, 1891, probably was Thomas Kilpatrick, a layman who did much to make\npossible the erection of the church in Omaha, which was not dedicated\nuntil December 15 of that year. The person initialled \u201cC.W.W.\u201d, for\nwhom no. 27 was written, was Rev. Charles W. Wendte, then minister of\nthe First Unitarian Church in Oakland, California.\n\nJulian\u2019s account of Hosmer\u2019s contribution to hymnody, though no doubt\nas satisfactory as could be expected at the time it was written, is\nincomplete in two respects. The latest hymn listed is dated 1899, yet\nat least three earlier hymns by Hosmer are unaccountably missing,\n(viz, nos. 32, 33, 41, noted below), presumably because he neglected\nto send Julian any information about them. More important than these\nare several later occasional hymns which he wrote in the last three\ndecades of his life, too late for any inclusion in Julian\u2019s\n_Dictionary_, and which form a notable addition to the earlier list.\nSome of them were included in the revised edition of _Unity Hymns and\nChorals_, 1911, and all of them in _The Thought of God_, 3^rd. Series,\n1918, as follows:\n\n    28. _Across a century\u2019s border line_,\n\n    Written for the centennial commemoration of W. E. Channing\u2019s\n    famous \u201cBaltimore Sermon\u201d at the General Unitarian Conference,\n    September 26, 1917.\n\n    29. _All hidden lie the future ways_,\n\n    Written as a hymn at the christening of children. Not dated.\n\n    30. _Forward through the ages, in unbroken line_,\n\n    A hymn of the church universal, written in 1908 for an\n    Installation Service, set to Sullivan\u2019s tune St. Gertrude. In some\n    collections it has replaced Baring Gould\u2019s _Onward, Christian\n    Soldiers_.\n\n    31. _Hear, hear, O ye nations, and hearing obey_,    (Reign of\n    Peace)\n\n    Written in 1909 and included in _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914,\n    and, with one word altered in the last stanza, in _Hymns of the\n    Spirit_, 1937.\n\n    32. _I came not hither of my will_,    (Divine Providence)\n\n    Written in 1883.\n\n    33. _Lo, the day of days is here_,    (Easter)\n\n    Written in 1890.\n\n    34. _Lo, the Easter-tide is here_,    (Easter)\n\n    Written in 1914.\n\n    35. _Now while the day in trailing splendor_    (Evening)\n\n    Written in 1902, published in Louisa Loring\u2019s _Hymns of the Ages_,\n    1904.\n\n    36._ O blest the souls that see and hear_,\n\n    Written for the National Conference of Unitarian Churches,\n    Chicago, September 27, 1909, in 5 stanzas, beginning \u201cFrom many\n    ways and far apart.\u201d In _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and\n    _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, this first stanza has been dropped,\n    and the remaining four stanzas printed, beginning as above.\n\n    37. _O day of light and gladness_    (Easter)\n\n    Written in 1903, published in Louisa Loring\u2019s _Hymns of the Ages_,\n    1904, and, slightly revised, in _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1911.\n\n    38. _The outward building stands complete_,\n\n    Written for the Dedication of Unity Church, St. Louis, Missouri,\n    October 7, 1917.\n\n    39. _Through willing heart and helping hand_,\n\n    Written in 1909 for the Dedication of the Parish House of the\n    First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, California.\n\n    40. _Thy kingdom come, O Lord._\n\n    Written in 1905.\n\n    41. _Today be joy in every heart_,    (Christmas)\n\n    Written in 1877.\n\n    42. _Uplift the song of praise_,\n\n    The first two stanzas of this hymn were written in 1904 and were\n    included in Miss Louisa Loring\u2019s _Hymns of the Ages_, published in\n    that year. At a later date Dr. Hosmer wrote two additional stanzas\n    and the hymn was thus printed in _The Thought of God_, 3^rd\n    Series, 1918. In _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of\n    the Spirit_, 1937, it is set to the tune Yigdal.\n\n    43. _When shadows gather on our way_,\n\n    Written in 1904 and published in Miss Louisa Loring\u2019s _Hymns of\n    the Ages_, 1904.\n\n    44. _When the constant sun returning_,\n\n    Reginald Heber in 1827 wrote a single stanza hymn beginning, \u201cGod\n    that madest earth and heaven.\u201d In 1912 Hosmer wrote for _The New\n    Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, a second stanza, the first line of\n    which is quoted above, to complete the thought. This composite two\n    stanza hymn has since been included in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935,\n    and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\nThe period of Dr. Hosmer\u2019s hymn writing covered more than 40 years\n(1875-1917) and during the latter half of that time he was widely\nrecognized by hymn lovers as the most distinguished hymn writer of his\ntime. Many of his hymns found their way into the collections of\nvarious denominations in both this country and Great Britain. Canon\nDearmer included 8 in the British collection _Songs of Praise_, and in\nthe accompanying handbook, _Songs of Praise Discussed_, calls the hymn\n_O Thou, in all thy might so far_, (no. 17) \u201cthis flawless poem, one\nof the completest expressions of religious faith,\u201d and the hymn _Thy\nkingdom come, on bended knee_, (no. 24) \u201cone of the noblest hymns in\nthe language.\u201d\n\nAll of Hosmer\u2019s hymns in recent use will be found in both the\nUnitarian collections\u2014_The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns\nof the Spirit_, 1937, except where initials indicate one or the other\nbook, as follows:\u2014Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 (N.H.T.B.), 8, 10 (N.H.T.B.),\n12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 (H.S.), 29\n(H.S.), 30, 31, 32, 34 (H.S,), 35, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43. Nos.\n10, 17, 24, 30 and 40 are included in the Protestant Episcopal\n_Hymnal_, 1940.\n\n                                                                 J. 1650\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHowe, Mrs. Julia (Ward), New York, New York, May 27, 1819\u2014October 17,\n1910, Boston, Massachusetts. Married Samuel Gridley Howe on April 26,\n1843. She was a woman with a distinguished personality and intellect;\nan Abolitionist and active in social reforms; author of several books\nin prose and verse. The latter include _Passion Flower_, 1854; _Words\nof the Hour_, 1856; _Later Lyrics_, 1866; and _From a Sunset Ridge_,\n1896. She became famous as the author of the poem entitled \u201cBattle\nHymn of the Republic,\u201d beginning,\n\n_Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord_, which, in\nspite of its title, was written as a patriotic song and not as a hymn\nfor use in public worship, but which has been included in many\nAmerican hymn books. It was written on November 19, 1861, while she\nand her husband, accompanied by their pastor, Rev. James Freeman\nClarke, _q.v._, minister of the (Unitarian) Church of the Disciples,\nBoston, were visiting Washington soon after the outbreak of the Civil\nWar. She had seen the troops gathered there and had heard them,\nsinging \u201cJohn Brown\u2019s body lies a-mouldering in the grave\u201d to a\npopular tune called \u201cGlory, Hallelujah\u201d composed a few years earlier\nby William Steffe of Charleston, South Carolina, for Sunday School\nuse. Dr. Clarke asked Mrs. Howe if she could not write more uplifting\nwords for the tune and as she awoke early the next morning she found\nthe verses forming in her mind as fast as she could write them down,\nso completely that later she re-wrote only a line or two in the last\nstanza and changed only four words in other stanzas. She sent the poem\nto _The Atlantic Monthly_, which paid her $4 and published it in its\nissue for February, 1862. It attracted little attention until it\ncaught the eye of Chaplain C. C. McCabe (later a Methodist bishop) who\nhad a fine singing voice and who taught it first to the 122d Ohio\nVolunteer Infantry regiment to which he was attached, then to other\ntroops, and to prisoners in Libby Prison after he was made prisoner of\nwar. Thereafter it quickly came into use throughout the North as an\nexpression of the patriotic emotion of the period.\n\n                                                                 J. 1652\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nHuntington, Rt. Rev. Frederic Dan, D.D., Hadley, Massachusetts, May\n23, 1819\u2014July 11, 1904, Hadley, Massachusetts. He graduated from\nAmherst College in 1839 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1842.\nHe was minister of the South Congregational Church (Unitarian),\nBoston, 1842-1855, and from 1855 to 1859 he was Professor of Christian\nMorals and University Preacher at Harvard College. In 1859 he was\nordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church and served as\nrector of Emmanuel Church in Boston from 1860 to 1869, when he was\nconsecrated Bishop of Central New York. In 1853 he collaborated with\nRev. Frederic Henry Hedge, _q.v._, in editing their Unitarian\ncollection, _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, to which he contributed\nthree hymns,\n\n    1. _O Love Divine, lay on me burdens if Thou wilt_\n       (Supplication)\n\n    2. _O Thou, in whose Eternal Name_    (Ordination)\n\n    3. _O Thou that once on Horeb stood_    (God in Nature)\n\nThe hymn beginning\n\n    _Father, whose heavenly kingdom lies_,\n\nin Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, is a cento\ntaken from no. 2. _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ also includes a\ngood many anonymous hymns, some of which may be by him, though there\nis no proof that such is the case. Dr. Huntington also collaborated\nwith Dr. Hedge in editing a collection of sacred poetry entitled\n_Elim: Hymns of Holy Refreshment_, Boston, 1865, which includes a\nfuneral hymn beginning\n\n    _So heaven is gathering one by one_,\n\nThis hymn has been mistakenly attributed to Huntington, but is an\naltered form of a hymn by E. H. Bickersteth beginning\n\n    _Thus heaven is gathering one by one_.\n\nAlthough Dr. Huntington is known to have written occasional verses in\nreligious themes later in life for his own edification he is not\ncredited with any published hymns after his resignation from his\nprofessorship at Harvard, and none of the three listed above are in\npresent use.\n\n                                                            J. 544, 1714\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nHurlburt, (Hurlbut, Hurlbert) William Henry. Charleston, South\nCarolina, July 3, 1827\u2014September 4, 1895, Cadenabbia, Lake Como,\nItaly. (His family name is spelled Hurlburt in records at Charleston\nbut at Harvard he was registered as Hurlbut, and in later years he\nchanged the spelling to Hurlbert). He graduated from Harvard College\nin 1847 and from the Divinity School in 1849. He preached in Unitarian\npulpits for a few months but was never ordained as a settled minister;\nthen he studied in the Harvard Law School for a year; then turned to\njournalism in New York City. After 1883 he spent most of his time in\nEurope, his last few years in Italy. As a student at Harvard he was a\ncontemporary of Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson and contributed\nthree hymns to their _Book of Hymns_, edition of 1848, which they also\nincluded in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, viz:\n\n    1. _My God, in life\u2019s most doubtful hour_,\n\n    2. _We pray for truth and peace_,\n\n    3. _We will not weep, for God is standing by us_\n\nIn both books his surname is spelled Hurlbut.\n\n                                                                  J. 545\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nJohnson, Rev. Samuel, Salem, Massachusetts, October 10, 1822\u2014February\n19, 1882, North Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard\nCollege in 1842 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1846. He\nserved from 1853-1870 as minister of the Independent Church, Lynn,\nMassachusetts which he organized and which ceased to exist when he\nresigned. He refused to identify himself with any denomination, though\nin belief he was a Unitarian and in the public mind was associated\nwith the churches which adhered to the liberal wing of the\nCongregational order. He was author of a book on _Oriental Religions_,\none of the earliest American studies in the History of Religions. In\n1846 he and his classmate in the Divinity School, Samuel Longfellow,\n_q.v._, while still students, prepared their _Book of Hymns_, because\nthey and some of their friends thought the Unitarian hymn books then\nin use were too traditional. This book appeared in enlarged edition in\n1848, and made a notable contribution to American hymnody in its\nfreshness of outlook and its inclusion of hymns by hitherto\nunrecognized writers, notably John Greenleaf Whittier. Johnson\ncontributed 7 hymns to the edition of 1846, viz:\n\n    1. _Father [Savior] in Thy mysterious presence kneeling_\n       (Worship)\n\n    2. _Go, preach the gospel in my name_    (Ordination)\n\n    3. _Lord, once our faith in man no fear could move_,    (In Time\n    of War)\n\n    4. _Onward, Christians, though the region_    (Conflict)\n\n    Altered in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, to\n\n      _Onward, onward though the region_\n\n    5. _Thy servants\u2019 sandals, Lord, are wet_    (Ordination)\n\nIn the edition of 1848 he included\n\n    6. _God of the earnest heart_,    (Trust)\n\nwhich he had \u201cWritten for the Graduating Exercises of the Class of\n1846, in Cambridge Divinity School.\u201d In 1864 he and Longfellow\npublished their second and no less important collection, _Hymns of the\nSpirit_, (not to be confused with the book of the same title published\nin 1937 by the American Unitarian Association). To this volume he\ncontributed 7 more hymns, viz:\n\n    7. _City of God, how broad, how far_,    (The Church Universal)\n\n    8. _I bless Thee, Lord, for sorrows sent_    (Purification through\n    suffering)\n\nThis was \u201cWritten at the request of Dorothea L. Dix for a collection\nmade by her for the use of an asylum.\u201d (Miss Dix was engaged in a\nnotable reform of institutions for the insane.)\n\n    9. _Life of Ages, richly poured_    (Inspiration)\n\n    10. _Strong-souled Reformer, whose far-seeing faith_    (Jesus)\n\n    11. _The Will Divine that woke a waiting time_    (St. Paul)\n\n    12. _Thou whose glad summer yields_,    (Worship)\n\n    13. _To light that shines in stars and souls_,    (Dedication of a\n    Place of Worship)\n\nA number of these hymns have had widespread and long-continued use.\nNumbers 1, 4, 6, 7, and 9 are included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937,\nand stand out as some of the finest examples of American hymnody in\ntheir lyrical quality and depth of religious feeling. A few of\nJohnson\u2019s hymns have found acceptance also in England, the most\nnotable example being No. 7, sung at the consecration of the new\nAnglican cathedral at Liverpool in 1924, an occasion which the words\nfitted to perfection. But, since even the existence of the obscure\nminister in Lynn, Massachusetts, was quite unknown to all but very few\nof those present, the Samuel Johnson to whom it was attributed was\ncommonly supposed to be the famous 18^th century English\nlexicographer, and the hymn is mistakenly assigned to him in the\nlatest edition of Bartlett\u2019s _Familiar Quotations_! Following its use\nat Liverpool it was sung in Westminster Abbey at a service for the\nLeague of Nations in 1935; at the jubilee service for the 25^th\nanniversary of the coronation of George V; and was one of seven hymns\nincluded in the special service prepared by the Archbishops of\nCanterbury and York for use in parish churches throughout England at\nthe time of the coronation of George VI. Probably no other hymn of\nAmerican authorship is so widely known or used in British dominions.\n\n                                              J. 604-5, 1583, 1681, 1711\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nKimball, Jacob, Topsfield, Massachusetts, February 15, 1761\u2014July 24,\n1826, Topsfield. He graduated from Harvard in 1780, studied law,\ntaught school, and tried to make a living at various other\noccupations, with small success except in the field of music where he\nwas regarded as the outstanding singer, teacher, and composer of his\nperiod. He edited _Rural Harmony_, (Boston, 1793) which he followed\nwith _Essex Harmony_, (1800) and _Essex Harmony_, Part II, (1802),\nwhich included the only tunes of his own composition which can now be\nidentified as his, except those in the popular _Village Harmony_\n(1795) the later editions of which, down to 1821, were probably edited\nby him. There is evidence that he also wrote poetry, including a\nnumber of hymns, some of them perhaps the anonymous ones, otherwise\nunknown, included in the above-mentioned song books. The one hymn\nwhich can be attributed to him with assurance is his excellent\nmetrical version of Psalm 65 which Jeremy Belknap included in his\n_Sacred Psalmody_ (1795), entitled \u201cA New Version\u201d and beginning\n\n  _Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits._\n\nThe only other hymns by an American author in Belknap\u2019s Collection is\nMather Byles\u2019\n\n  _When wild confusion wrecks the air_,\n\nrepublished in 1760.\n\n    See _Jacob Kimball: A Pioneer American Musician_, Essex Institute\n    Historical Collections, XCII, no. 4.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nLarned, Augusta, Rutland, New York, April 16, 1835\u20141924. Author of six\nvolumes of stories for children and of one on Greek mythology and\nanother on Norse mythology. Contributor to various periodicals and for\n20 years correspondent and editorial writer with _The Christian\nRegister_, Boston. She published in 1895 a book of poems entitled _In\nthe Woods and Fields_ from which was taken her hymn on peace of mind,\n\n    _In quiet hours the tranquil soul_,\n\nfor inclusion in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn-Book_, 1908; _The New Hymn\nand Tune Book_, 1914 and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nLathrop, Rev. John Howland, D.D., Jackson, Michigan, June 6,\n1880\u2014still living. He graduated from Meadville Theological School in\n1903, then entered Harvard where he took an A.B. in 1905. He also\nstudied at the University of Chicago, and the University of Jena. He\nserved as minister of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley,\nCalifornia, 1905-1911, and the First Unitarian Congregational Church\nof Brooklyn, New York, 1911 to 1957, when he became pastor emeritus.\nIn 1935 he wrote a hymn for Palm Sunday beginning,\n\n    _Hosanna in the highest! Our eager hearts acclaim_,\n\nwhich was included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, set to St.\nTheodulph.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nLivermore, Rev. Abiel Abbot, D.D., Wilton, New Hampshire, October 26,\n1811\u2014November 28, 1892, Wilton, New Hampshire. He graduated from\nHarvard College in 1833, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1836.\nHe was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church at Keene, New\nHampshire, in November, 1836, and remained there until 1850, when he\naccepted a call to Cincinnati, Ohio. After a period in New York he was\nelected president of the Meadville Theological School in 1862, and\nserved in that capacity until 1890, when he retired to his ancestral\nhome at Wilton. He received the degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1888.\nHe was author of a number of books, and of several hymns, printed in\nPutnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs_. He was the chief editor of the Cheshire\nPastoral Association\u2019s _Christian Hymns_, 1844, one of the finest and\nmost widely circulated American Unitarian collections, to which he\ncontributed his Communion hymn beginning,\n\n    _A holy air is breathing round_,\n\nThis hymn was included in Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, 1873, in most American\nUnitarian collections, and appears in slightly altered form in _The\nNew Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  J. 680\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nLivermore, Sarah White, Wilton, New Hampshire, July 20, 1789\u2014July 3,\n1874, Wilton. She was an aunt of A. A. Livermore, _q.v._, and was a\nschool teacher for most of her life. She contributed two hymns to the\n_Cheshire Collection_, 1844, viz:\n\n    1. _Glory to God, and peace on earth_,    (Christmas)\n\n    2. _Our pilgrim brethren, dwelling far_,    (Mission)\n\nThese passed into a few other collections.\n\nShe wrote a number of others for various church occasions, but they\nhave never been collected for publication.\n\n                                                                  J. 680\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nLong, Hon. John Davis (1838-1915) was born in Buckfield, Maine,\nOctober 27, 1838, and died in Hingham, Massachusetts on August 28,\n1915. Harvard, A.B. 1857, L.L.D. 1880. He was Governor of\nMassachusetts, 1880-1883, and Secretary of the Navy, 1897-1902. A\nmember of the First Parish (Unitarian) in Hingham, he wrote one hymn\nbeginning,\n\n    _The evening winds begin to blow_\n\nwhich was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, but which\nhas not passed into other books.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nLongfellow, Henry Wadsworth, D.C.L., Portland, Maine, February 27,\n1807\u2014March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from\nBowdoin College in 1825. After four years of study in Europe he was\nappointed to the Chair of Modern Languages at Bowdoin, but removed to\nHarvard in 1835, upon his election as professor of Modern Languages\nand Belles-Lettres in the latter College. He retained that\nProfessorship until 1854, when he retired to give himself time for\nauthorship in prose and verse. He became one of the most widely read\nand beloved poets in the English-speaking world, and after his death a\nmarble bust commemorating him was placed in Westminster Abbey. In the\nstrict sense of the term he was not a hymn-writer, his brother, Samuel\nLongfellow, _q.v._, twelve years his junior, far surpassing him in\nthis field, but hymn-book editors have culled selections from his\npoems which they could use, as follows:\n\n    1. _Ah, what a sound! The infinite fierce chorus_,\n\n    From his poem \u201cThe Arsenal at Springfield,\u201d published in _The\n    Belfry of Bruges_, 1845. Four stanzas, beginning as above, are\n    included in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935. In S. Longfellow\u2019s and\n    Johnson\u2019s _Book of Hymns_, 1848, the selected stanzas from this\n    poem begin\n\n    _Down the dark future through long generations_,\n\n    and the hymn appeared in this form in other collections.\n\n    2. _Alas, how poor and little worth_,\n\n    Tr. from the Spanish of Don Jorge Manrique, (d. 1479), in\n    Longfellow\u2019s _Poetry of Spain_, 1833.\n\n    3. _All are architects of fate_,\n\n    The first three stanzas of Longfellow\u2019s poem, \u201cThe Builders,\u201d\n    written in 1846. Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n    4. _All is of God; If he but wave his hand._\n\n    From the poem \u201cThe Two Angels,\u201d in his _Birds of Passage_, 1858;\n    included in S. Longfellow\u2019s and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the Spirit_,\n    1864.\n\n    5. _Blind Bartimeus at the gate_,\n\n    From _Miscellaneous Poems_, 1841. Included in G. W. Conder\u2019s 1874\n    _Appendix_ to the (British) _Leeds Hymn Book_.\n\n    6. _Christ to the young man said, \u201cYet one thing more.\u201d_\n\n    Written in 1848 for the ordination of the poet\u2019s younger brother,\n    Samuel Longfellow; published in the author\u2019s _Seaside and\n    Fireside_, 1851, and in H. W. Beecher\u2019s _Plymouth Collection_,\n    1855, altered to read,\n\n      _The Saviour said, \u201cYet one thing more\u201d_\n\n    In spite of the occasion for which it was written it is not a hymn\n    but a hortatory poem of five stanzas in a most unusual 10.6.10.6\n    metre, for which it must have been difficult to find any singable\n    tune.\n\n    7. _I heard the bells on Christmas Day_\n\n    This carol was written in 1864, for the Sunday School of the\n    Unitarian Church of the Disciples, Boston, of which Rev. James\n    Freeman Clarke was minister. The entire poem, entitled \u201cChristmas\n    Bells,\u201d has seven stanzas, of which 1, 2, 6 and 7 are in _The New\n    Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, and in\n    _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935. The omitted stanzas contain references\n    to the Civil War, in progress when the carol was written.\n\n    8. Into the silent land,\n\n    A translation from the German poem \u201cIns Stille Land! Wer Leitet\n    uns hin\u00fcber,\u201d by J. G. Salis-Seewis, 1808. Published by Longfellow\n    in _Voices of the Night_, 1840. Included in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s\n    _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, and other American\n    collections.\n\n    9. _Tell me not in mournful numbers_,\n\n    Published in _Voices of the Night_, 1839, as \u201cA Psalm of Life;\n    What the heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist.\u201d Included in\n    several hymnals in Great Britain and America. In some collections\n    it begins with the second stanza\n\n      _Life is real! Life is earnest_\n\n    10. _There is no flock, however watched and tended_\n\n    A cento from the author\u2019s _Seaside and Fireside_, 1849.\n\n    11. _We have not wings: we may not soar._\n\n    In 1850 the poet wrote \u201cThe Ladder of St. Augustine,\u201d a poem in\n    twelve stanzas, based upon a quotation from Sermon III, De\n    Ascensione, by St. Augustine of Hippo, \u201cDe vitiis nostris scalam\n    nobis facimus, si vitia ipsa calcamus.\u201d (We shall make a ladder\n    out of our vices, if we tread those vices under foot.) The three\n    stanzas of the hymn are, respectively, the seventh, tenth and\n    second stanzas of the poem.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nLongfellow, Rev. Samuel, Portland, Maine, June 18, 1819\u2014October 3,\n1892, Portland, was the youngest of the eight children of Stephen and\nZilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow. Stephen Longfellow had graduated from\nHarvard and had become one of the most prominent citizens of Portland.\nHis son Samuel entered Harvard with the Class of 1839, just after his\nbrother, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, more than twelve years his\nsenior, had returned from Europe to begin his professorship at\nHarvard.\n\nSamuel entered the Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in\n1846, and served as minister of the Unitarian Church in Fall River,\nMassachusetts, 1848-51; the Second Unitarian Church, Brooklyn, New\nYork, 1853-1860; and the Unitarian Church, Germantown, Pennsylvania,\n1878-1883. In the intervals between these pastorates he did much\noccasional preaching, and, having independent means and no marital\nties, made several prolonged visits to Europe. He had an attractive\npersonality, was witty and highly intelligent, and was an acceptable\nthough outspoken preacher, but he is now remembered for his\ncontribution to American hymnody through the hymns which he wrote and\nthe books which he edited. His accomplishment in this field was\ngreater and more lasting than that of any other American in the middle\nperiod of the 19^th century. Its development can best be traced in the\nbooks which he published.\n\nThe first of these was _A Book of Hymns for Public and Private\nDevotions_, which he and his classmate in the Divinity School, Samuel\nJohnson, daringly compiled while still students in the School. A not\nimprobable story of the origin of the book reports that their friend,\nRev. Francis Parker Appleton, then a young minister at Peabody,\nMassachusetts, had complained to them about the antiquated hymn-book\nwhich he found in use in his church, to which they replied that they\nwould prepare a book for him which would express the religious\naspirations of the rising generation. The book appeared in 1846,\nbefore either of the young editors had been ordained, and was an\nimmediate success. It was first used in the First Unitarian Church at\nWorcester, Massachusetts, where Longfellow\u2019s classmate and lifelong\nfriend, Edward Everett Hale, had just been ordained at a service for\nwhich Longfellow wrote the ordination hymn, and it was promptly\nadopted by Theodore Parker for his congregation in Music Hall. The\nbook was re-published in somewhat revised and enlarged form in 1848,\nand ran to 12 editions. It marked a new epoch in American hymnody\nbecause it was the product of young and adventurous but well-trained\nminds seeking to give utterance to the emotions stirred by the\nintellectual and political ferment of the times, and because of the\nnew sources to which they turned. They were the first to see and make\nuse of the hymnic possibilities of the poems of John Greenleaf\nWhittier, and to include in an American hymn-book Newman\u2019s \u201cLead,\nkindly Light,\u201d which they had found printed in a newspaper without the\nauthor\u2019s name, though they altered the first line to read \u201cSend kindly\nLight,\u201d and another line further down. From their book it passed into\nother collections, with variant readings.\n\nIn 1859 Longfellow published a little collection entitled _Vespers_,\nhymns for use at the vesper services which he had instituted in his\nchurch in Brooklyn. In 1860 he published _A Book of Hymns and Tunes\nfor the Sunday School, the Congregation, and the Home_, and in 1864 he\nand Samuel Johnson brought out their second notable book, _Hymns of\nthe Spirit_, (not to be confused with the hymn book with the same\ntitle published by the Beacon Press in 1937). This book contained most\nof the later hymns written by the two editors, and a good many new\nhymns by other authors who were glad to contribute them. Its literary\nlevel was higher than that of their first book, but it had less\npopular success, in part, perhaps, because they failed to set the\nwords to tunes, which had become the common practice in the period\nsince their earlier book appeared. In 1876 he brought out _A Book of\nHymns & Tunes for the Congregation & the Home_, a revision of his\nearlier book with a similar title, in which several of his earlier\nhymns appear in revised form. In 1887 he printed privately _A Few\nVerses of Many Years_.\n\nAfter his death a small volume entitled _Hymns and Verses by Samuel\nLongfellow_ was published in 1894 with a very brief introductory note\nby his niece, Miss Alice M. Longfellow. It included 41 hymns which she\nthought were his, followed by 30 short poems of no outstanding\nexcellence. Some of the \u201chymns\u201d included seem never to have come into\nuse as such; some of her attributions were mistaken; she omitted some\nhymns which he wrote or adapted but cited in his books as \u201cAnonymous\u201d\nbecause based on the work of others; and she did not always print the\nbest of extant variant readings. This book, therefore, must be used\nwith caution in compiling the list of Longfellow\u2019s hymns, whether\noriginal or adapted.\n\nBefore listing his hymns it should be noted that he wrote or edited\nseveral other literary works. In 1853 he and his classmate Thomas\nWentworth Higginson published a beautiful collection of sea-poems\nentitled _Thalatta_. He wrote a memoir of his friend, Rev. Samuel\nJohnson, 1883; was the author of a _Life of Henry Wadsworth\nLongfellow_, 1886; and edited _Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth\nLongfellow_ in 1887. A volume of his own _Essays and Sermons_, edited\nby Joseph May, was published in 1894.\n\n _Alphabetical List of Hymns written or adapted by Samuel Longfellow_\n\n  _Abbreviations_:\n\n    Bk. Hys. = The Book of Hymns, 1846 or 1848.\n\n    H. and V. = Hymns & Verses by Samuel Longfellow, 1894.\n\n    Hys. Sp. = Hymns of the Spirit, 1864.\n\n    J. (followed by page number) = Julian\u2019s Dictionary of Hymnology.\n\n    S. L. = Samuel Longfellow\n\n    1. _A voice by Jordan\u2019s shore._    (Advent)\n\n    Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864, under title of \u201cJohn and Jesus\u201d; in H. &\n    V., no date.\n\n    2. _Again as evening\u2019s shadow falls._    (Evening)\n\n    Published in _Vespers_, New York, 1860, headed \u201cNox et tenebrae,\u201d\n    in 2 stas. of 8 l., and reprinted in Hys. Sp. 1864, with the title\n    \u201cVesper Hymn,\u201d in 4 stas. of 4 l.; also in H. & V. in which it is\n    the fourth and concluding hymn of a group called \u201cVesper Hymns,\u201d\n    and dated 1859, the 3^d and 4^th of which were included in Hys.\n    Sp., 1864.\n\n    3. _Beneath the shadow of the cross._    (Sacrifice)\n\n    Written in Fall River, 1848, and published in the _Supplement to A\n    Book of Hymns, Second Edition_, Boston, 1848, with the title \u201cThe\n    New Commandment,\u201d in 3 stas. of 4 l.; in H. & V.\n\n    4. _Eternal One, Thou living God._    (Anniversary)\n\n    Written in 1875 for a church anniversary, possibly for the 25^th\n    anniversary of the Preble Chapel in Portland, Maine; 5 stas. of 4\n    l. In H. & V. the original reading of the last two lines,\n\n      \u201cAfloat upon its boundless sea,\n      Who sails with God is safe indeed.\u201d\n\n    are changed to the inferior reading,\n\n      \u201cThat truth alone can make us free;\n      Who goes with God is safe indeed.\u201d\n\n    5. _Every bird that upward springs._\n\n    Included in _Supplement to Bk. Hys._, 1848, attributed to Neale,\n    and also in Hys. Sp., 1864. It is in fact S.L.\u2019s adaptation of\n    part of a hymn by Neale for St. Andrew\u2019s Day, included in his\n    \u201cHymns for Children\u201d, 1842; see pp. 360-1 of the _Collected Hymns,\n    Sequences and Carols of J. M. Neale_, 1914. S.L. used stas. 4, 5,\n    6 and 7 of Neale\u2019s hymn in 8 stas. Of the 16 lines in S.L.\u2019s\n    version 9 are taken unchanged from Neale, 6 contain part of\n    Neale\u2019s wording, and only 1 is wholly S.L.\u2019s. S.L. writing in 1880\n    said, \u201cI may say that hymn 585, [i.e. Every bird, etc.] is mine\u2014I\n    did not put my name because two lines were not mine\u2014\u201c. (see H. W.\n    Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol.\n    Rev. Oct., 1917.) This letter illustrates the fallibility of human\n    memory. In the 32 years which had elapsed since he had adapted\n    Neale\u2019s verses for the _Supplement to Bk. Hys._ his own\n    contribution to the final result had come to bulk much larger than\n    it really was. S.L. was right in ascribing the hymn to Neale, as\n    he did in 1848 and 1864, tho he might properly have marked it as\n    \u201cNeale, altered.\u201d\n\n    6. Father, give thy benediction.    (Dismissal)\n\n    One stanza, 8 lines, printed anonymously in Hys. Sp.; described by\n    S.L. as \u201cof no importance\u201d, but included in his H. & V. Listed as\n    \u201cAnon.\u201d in the first edition of the _Pilgrim Hymnal_. Included in\n    the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908. (H. W. Foote, _The\n    Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev. October,\n    1917). See J. 1563.\n\n    7. _Go forth to life, O child of earth._    (Life\u2019s mission)\n\n    Written in 1859, included in his _Book of Hymns and Tunes for the\n    Sunday School_, and in Hys. Sp. 1864, under title \u201cLife\u2019s\n    Mission.\u201d 4 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    8. _God of the earth, the sea, the sky._    (Divine Immanence)\n\n    Printed anonymously in Hys. Sp. 1864, under title \u201cGod, through\n    all and in you all\u201d; included in H. & V. with l. 2 in sta. 1\n    altered; no date. (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel\n    Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev. October, 1917).\n\n    9. _God of Truth! Thy sons should be_,\n\n    No. 550 in Hys. Sp. 1864, where it is listed as \u201cAnon,\u201d because,\n    as he later wrote, it was \u201cfounded on a H. of Wesley\u201d though\n    \u201cnearly all mine.\u201d (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel\n    Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev., October, 1917).\n\n    10. _God\u2019s trumpet wakes the slumbering world._    (Courage)\n\n    Printed anonymously in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title \u201cOn the Lord\u2019s\n    Side\u201d; in H. & V., no date. 5 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    11. _He, who himself and God would know._    (Silent worship)\n\n    Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864 as \u201cFrom Martineau\u201d under title of \u201cBe\n    still, and know that I am God.\u201d This is S.L.\u2019s versification of a\n    passage from Martineau\u2019s sermon, \u201cSilence and Meditation\u201d, no. 17\n    in \u201cEndeavors after the Christian Life,\u201d in which Martineau\n    paraphrased a few sentences in Pascal\u2019s \u201cThoughts\u201d, no. 72. Not\n    dated; not included in H. & V. (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns\n    of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev. October, 1917.)\n\n    12. _Holy Spirit, Truth [Light] Divine._\n\n    Included in Hys. Sp. under title \u201cPrayer for Inspiration\u201d; also in\n    H. & V., without date. In the introductory note to H. & V. it is\n    stated that this hymn \u201cbears some resemblance to one by Andrew\n    Reed, but after careful investigation they appear to be quite\n    distinct.\u201d In spite of this disclaimer it is clear that the theme\n    of the hymn as a whole, and several of its lines, are borrowed\n    from the hymn, \u201cHoly Ghost, with light divine\u201d by Andrew Reed,\n    1817. Furthermore, S.L.\u2019s arrangement of this hymn is found in two\n    different versions, the one in H. & V. beginning, \u201cHoly Spirit,\n    Truth divine,\u201d the other, and superior one, beginning, \u201cHoly\n    Spirit, Light divine.\u201d It will be found in this latter form in\n    _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_,\n    1937, in both of which it is attributed to both Reed and\n    Longfellow.\n\n    13. _Holy Spirit, source of gladness._\n\n    S.L.\u2019s adaptation of Jacobi and Toplady\u2019s version of Gerhardt\u2019s \u201cO\n    du allersusste Freude\u201d; included in _Supplement to Bk. Hys._ 1848,\n    and in altered form in Hys. Sp. 1864; set down as \u201cAnon.\u201d in both;\n    not included in H. & V.\n\n    14. _I look to Thee in every need_,    (Trust)\n\n    In Hys. Sp., 1864, with title \u201cLooking Unto God,\u201d and listed as\n    \u201cAnon.\u201d, but included in H. & V. as Longfellow\u2019s. He had not\n    claimed it because its opening stanza was strongly reminiscent of\n    a love-song by Thomas Haynes Bayly, as indicated by S.L.\u2019s\n    pencilled notation in his copy of Hys. Sp. now in the library of\n    Union Theological Seminary, New York, reading \u201cV. 1, T. H. Bayley,\n    alt.\u201d Bayly (not Bayl\u0113y) (1797-1839) was an English composer of\n    popular sentimental songs one of which began,\n\n      I turn to thee in time of need\n        And never turn in vain;\n      I see thy fond and fearless smile\n        And hope revives again.\n      It gives me strength to struggle on,\n        Whate\u2019er the strife may be;\n      And if again my courage fail\n        Again I turn to thee.\n\n    This song, though one of Bayly\u2019s best, is not included in his\n    collected works, but a copy, with his name as its author, is in\n    the Harvard University Library. It was published by C. Bradlee,\n    107 Washington St., Boston, n.d., the words set \u201cto a favorite\n    Neapolitan melody\u201d, and must have still been well remembered when\n    S.L. was inspired to transfigure the thought of its opening stanza\n    by giving it a profoundly spiritual interpretation. He made no use\n    of Bayly\u2019s second and third stanzas, and changed the metre from\n    8.6.8.6. double to six line stanzas, 8.6.8.6.8.8., thus making\n    sure that his words would be sung to another tune than the\n    \u201cNeapolitan melody.\u201d\n\n    15. _In the beginning was the word._    (The Word of God)\n\n    This was printed in _The Liberty Bell_, Boston, 1851, in 6 stanzas\n    of 8 lines, and dated \u201cFall River, Sept. 1850.\u201d Two stanzas are\n    included in Hys. Sp. 1864; also in H. & V., undated.\n\n    16. _Life of all that lives below._\n\n    An adaptation from Charles Wesley; not in Bk. Hys. or Hys. Sp.\n\n    17. _Life of God, within my soul._    (God in the soul)\n\n    Only found in H. & V., undated, entitled \u201cA Prayer.\u201d 4 stas. of 4\n    l.\n\n    18. _Light of ages and of nations._    (Inspiration)\n\n    Dated 1860 in H. & V. in which it begins as above with title \u201cIn\n    all ages entering holy souls.\u201d It was first printed, however, in\n    Hys. Sp. 1864 as \u201cGod of ages,\u201d under title \u201cThe word of the Lord\n    abideth forever.\u201d 3 stas. of 8 l.\n\n    19. _Lo! the earth is risen again._    (Easter)\n\n    In H. & V. the first line reads \u201cLo the earth again is risen,\u201d\n    with no date, but Dr. Louis F. Benson owned a copy of the book in\n    which a ms. note was appended to this hymn reading\n\n                            \u201cIn memory of C.J.\n                               July 6, 1864\n                              May 12, 1886.\n      Written for the first anniversary of her death, May 12, 1887.\u201d\n\n    Several other lines besides the opening one have been re-written,\n    presumably by S.L., to make the later and improved version of the\n    hymn included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n    20. _Love for all! and can it be?_    (The Prodigal Son)\n\n    Included in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title \u201cFather, I have sinned\u201d;\n    also in H. & V. without date. 6 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    21. _Now on land and sea descending._    (Evening)\n\n    This is the 3^d of the Vesper Hymns in H. & V. 2 stas. of 8 l.\n    (See note under \u201cAgain as evening\u2019s shadow falls.\u201d)\n\n    22. _Now while we sing our closing psalm._    (Close of worship)\n\n    In H. & V., no date; not in Bk. Hys. or Hys. Sp.\n\n    23. _Now with creation\u2019s morning song._    (Morning)\n\n    In Hys. Sp. 1864, ascribed to \u201cBreviary\u201d; it is S.L.\u2019s adaptation\n    of E. Caswall\u2019s trans. of \u201cLux ecce surgit aurea\u201d, beginning \u201cNow\n    with the rising golden dawn\u201d; see Julian\u2019s Dict. pp. 820-821.\n\n    24. _O church of freedom and of faith._    (Installation)\n\n    Written in 1891, presumably for the installation of Rev. John\n    Carroll Perkins as minister of the First Parish in Portland in\n    that year. Included in H. & V. Not found elsewhere.\n\n    25. _O Father, fix this wavering will._\n\n    No. 368 in Hys. Sp. 1864, \u201cAnon.\u201d but later acknowledged by S.L.\n    as his though \u201cof no importance.\u201d (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous\n    Hymns of Samuel Longfellow_, Harv. Theol. Rev., Oct., 1917.)\n\n    26. _O God! a temple to thy name._\n\n    \u201cHymn for the dedication of the new chapel of the First Parish,\n    Haverhill.\u201d Dated 1848 in H. & V., but not found elsewhere. 5\n    stas. of 4 l.\n\n    27. _O God! Thy children gathered here._    (Ordination)\n\n    \u201cHymn for the ordination of Edward Everett Hale\u201d at Worcester,\n    Massachusetts in 1846. Bk. Hys. 1848; H. & V. 1894.   6 stas. of 4\n    l.\n\n    28. _O God, thou giver of all good!_    (Gratitude)\n\n    Included in Hys. Sp. 1864, and in H. & V., without date, under\n    title \u201cGive us this day our daily bread.\u201d   4 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    29. _O God unseen, but ever near._\n\n    S.L.\u2019s adaptation of hymn by E. Osler, printed in Hys. Sp. 1864,\n    in 3 stas of 4 l., entitled \u201cAt the fountain\u201d. Anon, in index. \u201cIt\n    is, in fact E. Osler\u2019s hymn rewritten, 7 of its 12 lines being\n    Osler\u2019s.\u201d The expanded form in later books is attributed to S.L.,\n    but should be \u201cE. Osler alt. by S.L.\u201d See Julian\u2019s Dict. pp. 1665,\n    1681, 833.\n\n    30. _O holy, holy, holy,_\n      _Art Thou, our God and Lord._    (Praise)\n\n    This hymn in two stanzas, 8 lines, is found only in C. W. Wendte\u2019s\n    book _The Carol: for Sunday School and the Home_ (1886), where it\n    is attributed to Samuel Longfellow and dated 1886.\n\n    31. _O Life that maketh all things new._\n\n    Written under the title \u201cThe light that lighteth every man,\u201d for\n    the 2^d Social Festival of the Free Religious Association 1874, in\n    2 stas. of 8 l.; afterwards published in _A Book of Hymns and\n    Tunes for the Congregation and the Home_, Cambridge, 1876, with\n    the title \u201cGreeting\u201d, in 4 stas. of 4 l.; included in H. & V.\n    under title \u201cBehold, I make all things new\u201d, and there incorrectly\n    dated 1878. For use of first line see note under \u201cO Thou whose\n    liberal sun and rain.\u201d\n\n    32. _O still in accents sweet and strong._    (Ordination)\n\n    Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title \u201cBehold the fields are\n    white.\u201d H. & V., no date. 4 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    33. _O Thou, in whom we live and move._\n\n    In Hys. Sp. 1864, this begins, \u201cO God, in whom we live and move,\u201d\n    5 stas. of 4 l. headed \u201cGod\u2019s Law and Love.\u201d In H. & V. it begins,\n    \u201cO Thou, in whom we live and move,\u201d the form in which the hymn has\n    passed into later use.\n\n    34. _O Thou, whose liberal sun and rain._    (Church anniversary)\n\n    Included in Hys. Sp. 1864, and in H. & V. no date. 3 stas. of 4 l.\n    (Note the last line, \u201cTo Him who maketh all things new\u201d, used\n    later for first line of hymn \u201cO Life that maketh all things new.\u201d)\n\n    35. _One holy church of God appears._    (The church universal)\n\n    Dated 1860 in H. & V.; included in Hys. Sp. 1864. 5 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    36. _Out of every clime and people._    (Christmas)\n\n    This hymn in two stanzas, 8 lines, with chorus, is found only in\n    C. W. Wendte\u2019s _The Carol: for Sunday School and the Home_ (1886)\n    where it is attributed to S.L. (except chorus).\n\n    37. _Out of the dark, the circling sphere._    (Hope and courage)\n\n    Based on a hymn written in 1856 for the 25^th anniversary of the\n    American Anti-Slavery Society, with the title \u201cWhat of the night?\u201d\n    and beginning, \u201cA quarter of the circling sphere.\u201d See H. & V. for\n    the original version, which S.L. rewrote for Hys. Sp. 1864, in 5\n    stas. of 4 l. The misplaced comment by Putnam in _Singers and\n    Songs of the Liberal Faith_, p. 429, that it was \u201cfounded on a\n    passage in one of Mr. Martineau\u2019s sermons,\u201d refers not to this\n    hymn but to \u201cHe who himself and God would know,\u201d cited earlier in\n    this listing.\n\n    38. _Peace, peace on earth, the heart of man forever._    (Peace\n    on earth)\n\n    Included in Hys. Sp. 1864 and H. & V., no date. 2 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    39. _Sing forth his high eternal name._    (Praise)\n\n    Written by request for words to tune \u201cCoronation.\u201d In H. & V.\n    under title \u201cThe Lord of all\u201d, no date, 6 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    40. _Spirit divine attend our prayer._\n\n    This hymn appeared in Hys. Sp. 1864, as \u201cAnon.\u201d It is S.L.\u2019s\n    adaptation of a hymn by Andrew Reed, 1829, about half the lines\n    having been re-written. It should be credited to both writers as a\n    joint production.\n\n    41. _The loving Friend to all who bowed._    (Jesus)\n\n    Included in Hys. Sp. under title \u201cJesus of Nazareth\u201d; no date in\n    H. & V. 5 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    42. _The summer days are come again._\n\n    H. & V. includes a song in three 8-line stanzas headed \u201cSummer\n    Rural Gathering\u201d, dated 1859, each stanza beginning, \u201cThe sweet\n    June days are come again.\u201d In Hys. Sp. 1864, the second and third\n    stanzas of this song are taken to form a hymn for summer, each\n    beginning, \u201cThe summer days are come again\u201d, the concluding\n    quatrain of the last stanza re-written.\n\n    43. _\u2019Tis winter now; the fallen snow._\n\n    Dated 1859 in H. & V. In Hys. Sp., 4 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    44. _Thou Lord of life, our saving health._    (Dedication of\n    hospital)\n\n    \u201cWritten for dedication of Cambridge Hospital.\u201d In H. & V., 4\n    stas. of 4 l., dated 1886.\n\n    45. _We sowed a seed in faith and hope._\n\n    \u201cWritten for the 25^th anniversary of the first meeting of the\n    Second Unitarian Society of Brooklyn\u201d, included in H. & V. under\n    title \u201cThe truth shall make you free.\u201d No further use.\n\n    46. _When from the Jordan\u2019s gleaming wave._    (Baptism)\n\n    Dated 1848 in H. & V., but it was included in Bk. Hys. 1846, 5\n    stas. of 4 l.\n\nThere are also five hymns, composite in origin and listed as\n\u201cAnonymous\u201d in Hys. Sp. 1864, which in style and sentiment so closely\nresemble S.L.\u2019s writings as to suggest that he gave them the form in\nwhich they are there printed, viz:\u2014\n\n    47. _As darker, darker fall around_\n      _The shadows of the night._\n\n    This is printed in 6 stas., the first four of which are taken from\n    \u201cThe Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds,\u201d printed in William Young\u2019s\n    _Catholic Choralist_, 1842, but there beginning, \u201cDarker and\n    darker fall around.\u201d The 5^th and 6^th stas. may be by S.L. since\n    he referred to this hymn as it appeared in Hys. Sp. as \u201cfounded\n    upon the Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds,\u201d tho he did not state\n    that he wrote them. (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel\n    Longfellow_; and Julian, _Dictionary_, p. 1627.)\n\n    48. _Come, thou Almighty Will_\n\n    This hymn in three stanzas was included as Anon. in Longfellow and\n    Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. Its theme was obviously\n    suggested by Ray Palmer\u2019s five stanza translation of the 12^th\n    century Latin hymn _Veni Sancte Spiritus_, beginning _Come, Holy\n    Ghost, in love_, published in 1858, from which three lines are\n    borrowed intact, with as many more which only slightly alter\n    Palmer\u2019s words. Since the religious outlook expressed is\n    characteristic of Samuel Longfellow, and the hymn first appeared\n    in _Hymns of the Spirit_, it seems certain that he was the author\n    but listed it as _Anon_, because of its composite form. It was\n    included in several later Unitarian hymn books, most recently in\n    _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_,\n    1937. (J. 1623 H.W.F.)\n\n    49. _Give forth thine earnest cry._\n\n    Printed in three 4-line stas. There is no evidence as to the\n    authorship of this hymn, but its sentiment is completely in line\n    with Longfellow\u2019s. Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in\n    _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914.\n\n    50. _God is in his holy temple._\n\n    Printed in four 4-line stas. One line is almost identical with one\n    found in S.L.\u2019s earlier hymn \u201cWritten for the dedication of the\n    New Chapel of the First Parish, Haverhill, Mass.\u201d, which had had\n    no use beyond the occasion for which it was written, but which\n    Miss Longfellow included in _Hymns and Verses_. The recurrence of\n    this line in the hymn here listed suggests the probability that\n    the whole hymn is by S.L. though he preferred to cite it as\n    \u201cAnon.\u201d\n\n    51. _Supreme disposer of the heart._\n\n    This appeared in the 1848 edition of the _Book of Hymns_, where it\n    is cited as from \u201cBreviary\u201d, and was included by Miss Longfellow\n    in _Hymns and Verses_ with the same citation. She probably assumed\n    that it was a translation by S.L. from a Latin hymn. It is,\n    however, a largely rewritten version of John Chandler\u2019s\n    translation of the hymn _Supreme motor cordium_, in his _Hymns of\n    the Primitive Church_, 1837, p. 31. Longfellow retained the\n    general pattern of Chandler\u2019s five stanzas, and kept a few of his\n    lines unchanged, or altered by only a word or two, but rewrote the\n    rest, the fourth and fifth stas. being wholly S.L.\u2019s, differing\n    from Chandler\u2019s in both phrase and significance, and even further\n    from the Latin original.\n\nThe _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, contains a hymn in two stanzas,\n8.6.8.6.D., beginning\n\n    52. _The heavens thy praise are telling_,\n\n    Given as \u201cAnon.\u201d but Mrs. Emma Marean, _q.v._, who was\n    exceptionally well informed about that book, attributed it to\n    \u201cSpitta-Longfellow,\u201d i.e., by S. Longfellow based on a German hymn\n    by C. J. P. Spitta. It is possible that this is the case but the\n    original by Spitta has not been traced and Longfellow did not\n    claim this arrangement.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nLoring, Louisa Putnam (1854-1924) of Boston and Pride\u2019s Crossing,\nMassachusetts, compiled _Hymns of the Ages_, published in 1904. Her\nliterary and musical standards were high, and the book was handsomely\nprinted, but its appeal was limited and it had to compete with several\nother excellent hymnbooks then on the market for use among Unitarians.\nIt included Miss Loring\u2019s own morning hymn beginning,\n\n    _O Thou who turnest into morning_,    (1902)\n\nalso included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nLoring, William Joseph, Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 1795\u20141841,\nBoston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1813 and went into\nbusiness in Boston. He was a lay member of the Unitarian denomination;\nwas president of the Washington Benevolent Society; and was a member\nof the Horticultural Society. He was probably the author of the hymn\nbeginning,\n\n    _Why weep for those, frail child of woe_,\n\nattributed to \u201cW. J. Loring\u201d in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the\nChurch of Christ_, 1853.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nLowell, James Russell, LL.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22,\n1819\u2014August 12, 1891, Cambridge. Son of Rev. Charles Lowell, minister\nof the West Church (Unitarian), Boston, he graduated from Harvard\nCollege in 1838, and entered upon a literary career as a poet,\nessayist and scholar. In 1855 he succeeded H. W. Longfellow as\nProfessor of Belles Lettres at Harvard and spent the next two years in\nEurope to increase his knowledge of southern European languages and\nliterature. On his return he was the first editor of _The Atlantic\nMonthly_, 1857-1862, then editor of _The North American Review_,\n1863-1872. He was United States Minister to Spain, 1877-1880, and to\nGreat Britain, 1880-1885. He wrote many essays, addresses and poems.\nThese last were published in a succession of volumes, \u201cA Year\u2019s Life,\u201d\n1841; \u201cPoems,\u201d 1844-1854; \u201cThe Vision of Sir Launfal,\u201d 1845; \u201cA Fable\nfor Critics,\u201d 1845; \u201cThe Biglow Papers,\u201d 1848 and 1867; \u201cThe\nCommemoration Ode,\u201d 1865; \u201cUnder the Willows,\u201d 1868; and later\nvolumes, his \u201cComplete Poems\u201d appearing in 1895. Though some of his\npoems show deep religious feeling he made only a slight and indirect\ncontribution to American hymnody, writing only one hymn and one\nChristmas carol, although stanzas quarried out of his poems have been\nused as hymns, as follows:\u2014\n\n    1. _Men who boast it is that ye_\n      _Come of fathers brave and free_,\n\n    The 1^st, 3^d and 4^th stanzas of his anti-slavery poem, \u201cStanzas\n    on Freedom,\u201d written in 1844. It was included in this form in _The\n    Soldier\u2019s Companion_, 1861, in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of\n    the Spirit_, 1864, and in part in _Songs of the Sanctuary_, N. Y.\n    1865, beginning\n\n      _They are slaves who will not choose_,\n\n    2. _Once to every man and nation_,\n\n    In December, 1844, Lowell wrote a poem in 18 stas. of 5 l.\n    entitled \u201cThe Present Crisis,\u201d a protest against the war with\n    Mexico. The English hymnnologist, Rev. V. Garrett Horder, took\n    from this poem a number of lines sufficient to make a hymn of 4\n    stas. which he included, with a few verbal alterations, in his\n    _Hymns Supplemental_, 1896, and then in his _Treasury of Hymns_.\n    The _English Hymnal_ included the hymn in 1906, and from this it\n    passed into many collections. In the form commonly used in this\n    country, stanza 1 is that of sta. 5 in the original poem; sta. 2\n    is that of original sta. 11; sta. 3 is no. 13, original; and sta.\n    4, part of sta. 6 and part of sta. 8 original. In this form it has\n    had considerable use in this country.\n\n    3. _Our house, our God, we give to Thee_,\n\n    Hymn for the dedication of the First Church (Unitarian),\n    Watertown, Massachusetts, on August 3, 1842, in a service in which\n    Rev. Samuel Ripley made the dedicatory prayer and the sermon was\n    preached by Rev. Convers Francis, who had recently left Watertown\n    to accept a professorship at the Harvard Divinity School. Lowell\u2019s\n    Cambridge residence at \u201cElmwood\u201d was only a short distance from\n    the Watertown line, and Miss Maria White, whom he married in 1844,\n    belonged to the Watertown parish, which suggests the possibility\n    that it was she who persuaded him to write the hymn. It was not\n    included in any of his published works but has been found on the\n    only known copy of the printed program of the service, now owned\n    by the Huntington Library, San Marino, Pasadena, California. It\n    probably was used only on the occasion for which it was written.\n\n    4. _The ages one great minster seem_,\n\n    Taken from a poem \u201cGodminster Chimes\u201d which was \u201cWritten in aid of\n    a chime of bells for Christ Church, Cambridge,\u201d and published in\n    \u201cUnder the Willows,\u201d 1868. From this poem of 7 stas. 8 l., enough\n    lines have been selected and arranged, with a few verbal\n    alterations, to make a hymn on the theme of the Church Universal,\n    in 4 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    5. _What means this glory round our feet?_\n\n    A Christmas carol written in 1866 \u201cFor the children of the Church\n    of the Disciples\u201d, Boston, (Unitarian), of which Rev. James\n    Freeman Clarke, _q.v._, was minister. Of the original 7 stas.,\n    five have come into considerable use.\n\nOf the above listed hymns all except no. 3 are in current use in\nvarious hymn books. Nos. 2 and 5 are in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935;\nnos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in\n_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864.\n\n                                                                  J. 698\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nLunt, Rev. William Parsons, D.D., Newburyport, Mass., April 21,\n1805\u2014March 31, 1857, Akabah, Arabia. He graduated from Harvard College\nin 1823, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1828. On June 19,\n1828 he was ordained as the first settled minister of the Second\nUnitarian Congregational Society in New York, where he served for five\nyears. On June 3, 1835, he was installed as associate minister of the\nFirst Church in Quincy, Mass., where he became the sole minister in\n1843 and served until his death while on a journey to Palestine. After\nhis death his hymns and occasional poems were printed in a small\nvolume entitled _Gleanings_, but none of them have been included in\nlater books. His contribution to American hymnody was made by the\npublication of his collection entitled _The Christian Psalter_, 1841,\nfor his congregation at Quincy, but its fine quality brought it into\nmuch wider use. It is chiefly remembered today because it included 5\nhymns and the metrical version of 17 psalms by his distinguished\nparishioner, John Quincy Adams, _q.v._\n\n                                                                  J. 703\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nMann, Rev. Newton, Cazenovia, New York, January 16, 1856\u2014July 25,\n1926, Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Cazenovia Academy, and\nduring the Civil War served as head of the Western Sanitary\nCommission. He then entered the Unitarian ministry and was ordained as\npastor of the church in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which he organized and\nserved for three years. He later served churches in Troy, New York,\n1868-70; Rochester, New York, 1870-1888; and Omaha, Nebraska,\n1888-1908, after which he retired to Chicago. His only connection with\nhymnody was his versification of an English translation of the Jewish\ncreedal statement known as the Yigdal. His verse, which has not\nsurvived, was later recast by Rev. W. C. Gannett, _q.v._, to form the\ngreat hymn\n\n    _Praise to the living God! All prais\u00e9d be his name!_\n\nconcerning which detailed information will be found under Dr.\nGannett\u2019s name. In its present form the hymn is probably mostly the\nwork of Gannett, but Mann should be credited with having drafted its\nearlier form. See also Foote, _Three Centuries of American Hymnody_,\n339-340.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nMarean, Mrs. Emma (Endicott), Boston, Massachusetts, January 20,\n1854\u2014October 17, 1936, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She married Joseph\nMason Marean January 20, 1876. Two hymns by her were included in _The\nIsles of Shoals Hymn Book_ (Unitarian), 1908,\n\n    1. _Grateful for another day_,    (An Island Morning)\n\n    2. _Set from the restless world apart_    (An Island Hymn)\n\nNeither has been included in later hymn books but both are in her\nsmall volume of poems, _Now and Then_, Cambridge, 1928.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nMason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton (Briggs), Marblehead, Massachusetts,\nJuly 27, 1823\u2014June 13, 1890, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1853 she\nmarried Charles Mason, a lawyer living in Fitchburg. She published in\n1852 a volume of poems entitled _Utterance: or Private Voices to the\nPublic Heart_, and after her death another collection was published,\nher _Lost Ring and Other Poems_, 1891.\n\nThree of her hymns have had considerable use.\n\n    1. _I cannot walk in darkness long_,    (Evening)\n\n    This begins with stanza V of her poem on _Eventide_, \u201cAt cool of\n    day with God I walk,\u201d in her _Lost Ring_, p. 165.\n\n    2. _O God I thank Thee for each sight_,    (The Joy of Living)\n\n    A cento of 4 stanzas, from her poem \u201cA Matin Hymn\u201d beginning \u201cI\n    lift the sash and gaze abroad,\u201d in her _Lost Ring_, p. 164.\n\n    3. _The changing years, eternal God_,    (Adoration)\n\n    Written for the Bicentennial of the First Congregational Church,\n    Marblehead, August 13, 1884. In her _Lost Ring_ it begins \u201cThe\n    changing centuries, O God,\u201d.\n\nOf these hymns no. 2 has had considerable use. It is included in\n_Hymns of the Church Universal_, 1891; the _New Hymn and Tune Book_,\n1914; the _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935; _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                 J. 1669\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nMiles, Sarah Elizabeth (Appleton) Boston, Massachusetts, March 28,\n1807\u2014January 3, 1877, Brattleboro, Vermont. She married Solomon P.\nMiles. In 1827 she printed in the _Christian Examiner_ a hymn\nbeginning,\n\n    _Thou, who didst stoop below_,\n\nwhich passed into a number of hymn books of the period, and in 1828,\nin the same periodical she printed a poem in 4 stanzas, C.M.D., which\nS. Longfellow and S. Johnson, in their second hymn-book, _Hymns of the\nSpirit_, 1864, divided into two hymns, of 2 stanzas each, the first\nbeginning\n\n    _The earth, all light and loveliness_,\n\nthe second\n\n    _When, on devotion\u2019s seraph wing._\n\nThey also included another of her hymns, consisting of the second,\nfourth and fifth stanzas of her poem entitled \u201cIn Affliction,\u201d\nbeginning\n\n    _Thou, infinite in love._\n\nThese, and some other religious poems, are included in Putnam\u2019s\n_Singers and Songs_, etc. None of her hymns are now in use.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nMott, Rev. Frederick B., England, 1856-1941, England. When a young man\nhe emigrated to this country and on September 30, 1887 was ordained\nminister of the Barton Square Church (Unitarian) in Salem,\nMassachusetts. In 1892 he became minister of the Third Religious\nSociety in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which he served till 1903. In\n1904 he returned to England and was installed as minister of the\nUnitarian Chapel at Southport, and later moved to London as editor of\nthe periodical _Christian Life_. Two hymns in the Universalist _Church\nHarmonies_, 1895, are attributed to him, viz:\u2014\n\n    1. _Take our pledge, eternal Father_,\n\n    2. _The spirit of the Lord has stirred_,\n\nbut appear to have had no further use.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nNewell, Rev. William, D.D., Littleton, Massachusetts, February 25,\n1804\u2014October 28, 1881, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from\nHarvard College in 1824 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1829.\nHe was ordained minister of the First Parish in Cambridge on May 19,\n1830, where he served until his retirement on March 31, 1868. He was\nauthor of many commemorative sermons and memoirs, and received the\nhonorary degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1853. A number of his poems\nare included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc. His hymn beginning,\n\n    _All hail, God\u2019s angel, Truth_    (Thanksgiving)\n\nis included in G. Horder\u2019s _Worship Song, with Tunes_, London, 1905,\nbut is not found in American collections.\n\n                                                                 J. 1676\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nNorton, Prof. Andrews, Hingham, Massachusetts, December 31,\n1786\u2014September 18, 1853, Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from\nHarvard in 1804. In 1811 he was appointed tutor in the College, in\n1813 librarian and Lecturer on the Bible, and in 1819 Professor of\nSacred Literature in the Harvard Divinity School, a post which he\nresigned in 1830 to devote himself to literary and theological\npursuits. In 1837 he published the first volume of his famous book\n_The Genuineness of the Gospels_, followed in 1844 by the second and\nthird volumes. This was the earliest scholarly work on the New\nTestament by an American author, and expressed the conservative\nUnitarian thought of his period. He wrote several other books, and\nnumerous articles. His few poems were printed in a small volume soon\nafter his death, including six hymns, some of which have had\nconsiderable use.\n\n    1. _Another year, another year_,    (Close of the Year)\n\n    Appeared in the _Christian Examiner_, Nov.-Dec. 1827, in 11 stas.\n    of 4 l. In the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868, a cento from\n    it begins with sta. 6,\n\n      _O what concerns it him whose way_\n\n    2. _Faint not, poor traveller, though thy way_,    (Fortitude)\n\n    Printed in the _Christian Disciple_, July-Aug. 1822, and included\n    in the West Boston _Collection_, 1823.\n\n    3. _He has gone to his God, he has gone to his home_    (Burial)\n\n    Printed in the _Christian Examiner_, Jan.-Feb. 1824.\n\n    4. _My God, I thank Thee; may no thought_    (Submission)\n\n    Appeared in the _Monthly Anthology and Boston Review_, Sept. 1809,\n    and was included in Lunt\u2019s _Christian Psalter_, 1841, and in many\n    later collections. This was Norton\u2019s earliest and best known hymn.\n\n    5. _O stay thy tears; for they are blest_,    (Burial of the\n    Young)\n\n    Printed in the _General Depository and Review_, April, 1812, in 5\n    stas. of 4 l. In 1855, stas. III-V were included in Beecher\u2019s\n    _Plymouth Coll._ no. 1094 as\n\n      _How blest are they whose transient years_\n\n    6. _Where ancient forests round us spread_,\n\n    Written in 1833 for the dedication of a church.\n\nOf the above nos. 1, 4, 5 were included in Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_,\nLondon, 1873. Nos. 4 and 6 are in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune\nBook_, 1914, and no. 6 is in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. See Putnam\u2019s\n_Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_ for the full text of all\nNorton\u2019s hymns.\n\n                                                                  J. 810\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nParker, Rev. Theodore, was born on a farm in Lexington, Massachusetts\non August 24, 1810, and died in Florence, Italy, on May 10, 1860. He\nentered Harvard College in 1830, but did most of his work at home, and\nstudied in the Harvard Divinity School, 1834-1836. In 1840 he was\ngranted the degree of A.M. from Harvard. Entering the ministry he\nserved the Unitarian Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1837-1846,\nand the 28^th Congregational Society, Boston, 1846-1860. He was a\nfamous preacher; author of numerous printed discourses on social and\nreligious problems; and one of the earliest American translators of\ncurrent German theological literature. He wrote a few poems, none\nintended for use as hymns, but Longfellow and Johnson took one of his\nsonnets and, by eliminating two lines, transformed it into a hymn of 3\nstanzas of 4 lines each beginning,\n\n    _O thou great Friend of all the sons of men_,\n\nwhich they included in their _Book of Hymns_, 1846. It has had\nwidespread and long continued use in American hymn-books and to some\nextent in England. Twelve of Parker\u2019s poetical pieces are included in\nA. P. Putnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_. Biographies\nof Parker have been written by John Weiss, Octavius B. Frothingham,\nand other authors.\n\n                                                                  J. 882\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nPeabody, Rev. Ephraim, Wilton, New Hampshire, March 22, 1807\u2014November\n28, 1856, Boston, Massachusetts.\n\nHe graduated from Bowdoin College in 1827, and from the Harvard\nDivinity School in 1830. After serving as a tutor in the Huidekoper\nfamily in Meadville, Pennsylvania, he was ordained in 1832 as minister\nof a recently gathered Unitarian congregation in Cincinnati, Ohio. In\n1837 he joined Rev. John H. Morison in serving the First\nCongregational Society of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and in 1845 he\naccepted a call to King\u2019s Chapel, Boston, where he remained until his\ndeath, though ill-health prevented him from preaching in the last year\nand a half of his life. An impressive preacher, he also wrote some\npoetry, and a hymn for an ordination, beginning\n\n    _Lift aloud the voice of praise_\n\nis attributed to him in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church\nof Christ_, 1853.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nPeabody, Rev. Oliver William Bourne, Exeter, New Hampshire, July 9,\n1799\u2014July 5, 1847, Burlington, Vermont. He was twin brother of W. B.\nO. Peabody, _q.v._ He graduated from Harvard College in 1817,\npractised law for a few years at Exeter, served as professor of\nEnglish Literature in Jefferson College, Louisiana from 1842 to 1845,\nand in the latter year was licensed to preach by the Boston\nAssociation and served as minister of the Unitarian Church at\nBurlington, Vermont, until his death two years later.\n\nA hymn beginning\n\n    _God of the rolling orbs above_\n\nis attributed to him in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church\nof Christ_, 1853, but does not appear to have had further use.\n\n                                                                  J. 887\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nPeabody, Rev. William Bourne Oliver, D.D., Exeter, New Hampshire, July\n9, 1799\u2014May 28, 1847, Springfield, Massachusetts. Graduated from\nHarvard College in 1817, taught for a year in Phillips Exeter Academy,\nand studied for the ministry at the Harvard Divinity School. He was\nordained as the first minister of the Unitarian Church in Springfield,\nMassachusetts, in October, 1820, and remained there until his death.\nIn 1823 he published a _Poetical Catechism for the Young_, in which he\nincluded some original hymns. He edited _The Springfield Collection of\nHymns for Sacred Worship_, Springfield, 1835, which was adopted for\nuse in many parishes besides his own, and several of his hymns were\nincluded in it. A _Memoir_ of him, written by his twin brother, O. W.\nB. Peabody, was published in the 2^d edition of his _Sermons_, 1849,\nand a collection of his _Literary Remains_ was published in 1850. He\nis described as \u201ca man of rare accomplishments, and consummate\nvirtue,\u201d widely respected and admired.\n\nThe following hymns by him had considerable use in the 19^th century,\nbut only the last survived in a hymn book of the 20^th.\n\n    1. _Behold the western evening light_;    (Death of the Righteous)\n\n    Published in his _Catechism_, 1823, and in _Springfield\n    Collections_, 1835, and elsewhere. It passed into use in England;\n    in altered form in the _Leeds Hymn Book_, 1853, and in George\n    Rawson\u2019s Baptist _Ps._ and _Hys._ 1858, where it begins,\n\n      _How softly on the western hills._\n\n    2. _O when the hours of life are past_    (The Hereafter)\n\n    Published in his _Catechism_ in answer to the question \u201cWhat do\n    you learn of the future state of happiness?\u201d It was included in\n    Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, and\n    had some use in its original form, and also altered to _When all\n    the hours of life are past_.\n\n    3. _The moon is up; how calm and slow_,    (Evening)\n\n    A poem rather than a hymn, in 6 stas. of 4 l., appended to his\n    _Catechism_, 1823.\n\n    4. _When brighter suns and milder skies_,    (Spring)\n\n    Appended to his _Catechism_, 1823, in 6 stas. of 4 l.\n\n    5. _Who is thy neighbor? He whom thou_    (The good neighbor)\n\n    Included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914.\n\nThe full texts of Peabody\u2019s hymns are printed in Putnam, _Singers &\nSongs of the Liberal Faith_, Boston, 1874.\n\n                                                                  J. 887\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nPerkins, Rev. James Handasyde, Boston, Massachusetts, July 31,\n1810\u2014December 14, 1849, near Cincinnati, Ohio. He was educated at\nPhillips Exeter Academy and at Round Hill School, Northampton,\nMassachusetts. After a brief business experience in Boston he moved to\nCincinnati, where he was admitted to the bar in 1837, but two years\nlater he took up the Ministry-at-Large organized by the First\nCongregational Society (Unitarian) of Cincinnati, and later became\npastor of the church. He was active in social reforms and as a\nlecturer, and was author of a number of essays descriptive of life in\nwhat was then the far west.\n\nThe hymn in 3 stanzas, C.M., beginning\n\n    _It is a faith sublime and sure_,\n\nattributed to \u201cJ. H. Perkins\u201d in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Book of\nHymns_, 1846-48, is presumably by him, although it is not included\nwith his poems printed in the _Memoir and Writings of James Handasyde\nPerkins_, edited by W. H. Channing, Cincinnati, 1851. It does not\nappear to have had any further use.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nPierpont, Rev. John, Litchfield, Connecticut, April 6, 1785\u2014August 27,\n1866, Medford, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1804,\nstudied law, and in 1812 set up practice in Newburyport,\nMassachusetts, but later turned to the ministry and graduated from the\nHarvard Divinity School in 1818. That fall he became minister of the\nHollis Street Church (Unitarian) in Boston, which he served till 1840,\nwhen a sharp controversy over his outspoken attacks on intemperance,\nslavery and other social evils led to his resignation. In the same\nyear he published his _Poems and Hymns_, which included his temperance\nand anti-slavery poems and songs, and of which a later edition\nappeared in 1854. He also wrote a number of excellent school books. In\n1845 he became minister of the Unitarian Church at Troy, New York, and\nin 1849 of the First Parish in Medford, Massachusetts, which he served\nuntil 1859, when he retired. With the outbreak of the Civil War he\nbecame an Army chaplain and was later employed in the Treasury\nDepartment at Washington. He died suddenly while on a visit to\nMedford.\n\nHe was the maternal grandfather of J. Pierpont Morgan of New York, who\nwas named for him, but it would be hard to find a greater contrast\nthan that offered by the careers of the hymn-writing reformer and his\ngrandson, the financial magnate.\n\nIn his own day Pierpont\u2019s hymns brought him a wide reputation. Thus\nPutnam, in his _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, 1873, says,\n\u201cMr. Pierpont was one of the best hymn writers in America. He was a\ngenuine poet, as well as a powerful preacher and stern reformer.\u201d\nToday he occupies a much more modest place in American hymnody. None\nof his hymns attained a very high level of excellence. Most of them\nare respectable verse, written in response to frequent requests for\nhymns for special occasions, but they well illustrate the mood of the\nUnitarianism of his period.\n\nHis hymns which have come into use are\n\n    1. _Another day its course hath run_    (Evening)\n\n    Appeared in _Hymns for Children_, Boston 1825; in Greenwood\u2019s\n    _Chapel Liturgy_, 1827; in Lunt\u2019s _Christian Psalter_, 1841; and\n    in the author\u2019s _Poems and Hymns_, 1840.\n\n    2. _Break forth in song, ye trees_    (Public Thanksgiving)\n\n    Written for the celebration of the 200^th anniversary of the\n    Settlement of Boston, Sept. 17, 1830. Included in _Poems and\n    Hymns_, 1840.\n\n    3. _Break the bread and pour the wine_    (Communion)\n\n    In Harris\u2019s _Hymns for the Lord\u2019s Supper_, 1820.\n\n    4. _Father, while we break the bread_,    (Communion)\n\n    5. _God Almighty and All-seeing_    (Greatness of God)\n\n    Contributed to Elias Nason\u2019s _Congregational Hymn Book_, Boston,\n    1857.\n\n    6. _God of mercy, do Thou never_    (Ordination)\n\n    Written for the ordination of John B. P. Storer at Walpole, Mass.,\n    Nov. 18, 1826. Included in the author\u2019s _Poems_, 1840, and in\n    Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853.\n\n    7. _God of our fathers, in Whose sight_,    (Love of Truth)\n\n    This hymn is composed of stas. IX and X of a longer hymn written\n    for the Charlestown (Mass.) Centennial, June 17, 1830. In this\n    form it was included in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the\n    Spirit_, 1864, and elsewhere.\n\n    8. _Gone are those great and good_,    (Commemoration)\n\n    Part of no. 2, above, in _Church Harmonies_, 1895.\n\n    9. _I cannot make him dead_    (Memorial)\n\n    A part of an exquisitely touching and beautiful poem of ten\n    stanzas, originally printed in the _Monthly Miscellany_, Oct.\n    1840.\n\n    10. _Let the still air rejoice_,    (Praise)\n\n    This was headed \u201cTemperance Hymn\u201d in _The Soldier\u2019s Companion_,\n    1861, but is really a patriotic ditty.\n\n    11. _Mighty God, whose name is holy_    (Charitable Institutions)\n\n    Written for the anniversary of the Howard Benevolent Society, Dec.\n    1826. Included in the author\u2019s _Poems_, 1840.\n\n    12. _My God, I thank Thee that the night_    (Morning)\n\n    In the author\u2019s Poems, 1840. In Lunt\u2019s _Christian Psalter_, 1841,\n    and Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, 1873, it begins\n\n      _O God, I thank Thee_.\n\n    13. _O bow Thine ear, Eternal One_    (Opening of Worship)\n\n    Dated 1823, but not included in the author\u2019s Poems. It is given in\n    Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns_, etc. 1853.\n\n    14. _O Thou to Whom in ancient times_    (Worship)\n\n    \u201cWritten for the opening of the Independent Congregational Church\n    in Barton Square, Salem, Mass. Dec. 7, 1824,\u201d and printed at the\n    close of the sermon preached by Henry Colman on that day. Included\n    in the author\u2019s _Poems_, 1840, and in many collections in this\n    country and in Great Britain.\n\n    15. _O Thou Who art above all height_    (Ordination)\n\n    \u201cWritten for the ordination of Mr. William Ware as Pastor of the\n    First Congregational Church in New York, Dec. 18, 1821.\u201d Included\n    in _Poems_, 1840, and in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns_, etc.\n\n    16. _O Thou, Who on the whirlwind rides_     (Dedication of a\n    Place of Worship)\n\n    Written for the opening of the Seamen\u2019s Bethel in Boston, Sept.\n    11, 1833. Sometimes used beginning\n\n      _Thou Who on the whirlwind rides_\n\n    17. _O\u2019er Kedron\u2019s stream, and Salem\u2019s height_,     (Gethsemane)\n\n    Contributed to T. M. Harris\u2019s _Hymns for the Lord\u2019s Supper_, 1820.\n    Included in Martineau\u2019s _Hymns_, London, 1873.\n\n    18. _On this stone, now laid with prayer_    (Foundation Stone)\n\n    Written for the laying of the cornerstone of Suffolk Street\n    Chapel, Boston, for the Ministry to the Poor, May 23, 1839.\n\n    19. _With Thy pure dew and rain_,    (Against slavery)\n\n    Written for the African Colonization Society. Included in\n    Cheever\u2019s _Common Place Book_, 1831, but not in the author\u2019s\n    _Poems_, 1840.\n\n    20. _While with lips with praise that glow_,    (Communion)\n\n    Included in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns_, etc.\n\nAll of the above hymns have passed out of use except nos. 1, 8, 12,\nand 14 which are included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and\nnos. 8 and 14, included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                            J. 895, 1647\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nPray, Lewis Glover, Quincy, Massachusetts, August 15, 1793\u2014October 9,\n1882, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a business man in Boston, active\nin civic and church affairs. For 33 years he was superintendent of the\nSunday School in the Twelfth Congregational Society of Boston. In 1833\nhe published a _Sunday School Hymn Book_, the first book containing\nmusic published for Sunday Schools in New England. It appeared in\nenlarged form in 1844 as the _Sunday School Hymn and Service Book_. In\n1847 he published his _History of Sunday Schools_. His own hymns and\npoems were published in 1862 as _The Sylphids\u2019 School_, and in a\nsecond volume, _Autumn Leaves_, 1873. Most of them are songs for\nSunday School use rather than hymns for the church service but one of\nthem, from _The Sylphids\u2019 School_, beginning\n\n    _When God upheaved the pillared earth_,\n\nwas included in _Hymns of the Ages_. 3^d Series, 1864.\n\n                                                                  J. 906\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nPrince, Rev. Thomas, D.D., Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 15,\n1687\u2014October 22, 1758, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from\nHarvard in 1707. After voyages to Barbadoes and a stay of several\nyears in England he returned to Boston and in 1717 was ordained as\ncolleague of Rev. Joseph Sewall, minister of the Old South Church. His\ncareer was marked by frequent controversies and by his _Chronological\nHistory of New England_, based on his great collection of rare\ndocuments dating from the early years of the Colony. This priceless\ncollection was unfortunately dispersed and much of it lost after his\ndeath. During his ministry the Tate and Brady version of the Psalms\nwas gradually replacing the _Bay Psalm Book_ in New England, but his\nparishioners clung to the old book. He persuaded them to let him\nrevise it, which he did, improving or modernizing the verse and\nprinting after the Psalms \u201can addition of Fifty other Hymns on the\nmost important subjects of Christianity.\u201d It included one hymn by\nhimself beginning\n\n    _With Christ and all his shining Train_\n    _Of Saints and Angels, we shall rise_    (The Resurrection)\n\nHis collection was published in 1758 and was first used in the Old\nSouth Meeting House on the Sunday following his death. Its use there\ncontinued for another 30 years, but it was not adopted elsewhere, the\n_Bay Psalm Book_ being by that time generally superseded by\ncollections of _Watts and Select_.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nPutnam, Rev. Alfred Porter, D. D. Danvers, Massachusetts, January 10,\n1827\u2014April 15, 1906, Salem, Massachusetts. He was educated at Brown\nUniversity, A.B. 1852, and graduated from the Harvard Divinity School\nin 1855. Entering the Unitarian ministry he served a church in\nRoxbury, Massachusetts, 1855-1864, and the Church of the Saviour,\nBrooklyn, New York, 1864-1886, when he retired. Brown University gave\nhim the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1871. He wrote no hymns but\npublished in 1874 a book entitled _Singers and Songs of the Liberal\nFaith: being selections of hymns and other sacred poems of the Liberal\nChurch in America, with biographical sketches of the writers_. This\nbook includes practically all the hymns by American Unitarian authors\nwhich had come into use prior to 1870, and the biographical sketches\nare generally accurate and adequate in brief space. This useful\nreference book is elsewhere referred to in this Dictionary as Putnam:\n_Singers and Songs_.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nRobbins, Rev. Chandler, D.D., Lynn, Massachusetts, February 14,\n1810\u2014September 12, 1882, Westport, Massachusetts. He graduated from\nHarvard College in 1829 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1833.\nOn December 4th of the same year he was ordained minister of the\nSecond Church (Unitarian), Boston, in succession to Henry Ware, Jr.\nand R. W. Emerson. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from\nHarvard in 1855. He was the author of a number of books, essays and\nmemorial discourses dealing with local events and persons. In 1843 he\npublished _The Social Hymn Book_, intended for social gatherings\nrather than for church services, and in 1854 an enlarged edition\nentitled _Hymn Book for Christian Worship_, though this book does not\ngive his name as editor. He contributed two hymns to _A Collection of\nPsalms and Hymns for the Sanctuary_, 1845, compiled by George E.\nEllis.\n\n    1. _Lo! the day of rest declineth_    (Evening)\n\n    for which L. B. Barnes, then president of the Handel and Haydn\n    Society composed the tune, Bedford Street, named for the location\n    of Dr. Robbins\u2019 church.\n\n    2. _While thus [now] thy throne of grace we seek_,    (Voice of\n    God)\n\n    The first of these is included in The _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_,\n    1908, and in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. The second is in\n    _Church Harmonies_, 1895.\n\n                                                                  J. 966\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nRobbins, Rev. Samuel Dowse, Lynn, Massachusetts, March 7, 1812\u2014?1884,\nBelmont, Massachusetts, he was a brother of Chandler Robbins, _q.v._\nHe graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1833 and on November\n13 of the same year was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church in\nLynn. He subsequently held pastorates in Chelsea (1840), Framingham\n(1859) and Wayland, Massachusetts, 1867-1873.\n\nHe wrote a good many poems on religious themes, which were published\nin magazines and newspapers but were never collected in a volume. The\nUnitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868, included four of his hymns, viz:\n\n    1. _Down toward the twilight drifting_,    (Sunset)\n\n    2. _Saviour, when thy bread we break_,    (Communion)\n\n    3. _Thou art my morning, God of light_,    (Day)\n\n    4. _Thou art, O God! my East. In thee I dawned_,\n\n    In Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc., this is entitled \u201cThe\n    Compass,\u201d with the statement, \u201cSeveral mistakes in this hymn, as\n    it is printed in the Hymn and Tune Book, are here corrected by Mr.\n    Robbins.\u201d\n\nJulian\u2019s _Dictionary_, p. 967, also cites one beginning\n\n    5. _Thou art our father! thou of God the Son_    (Christ)\n\nbut it is a religious poem rather than a hymn and there is no evidence\nthat it was included in any hymn book.\n\n                                                                  J. 967\n                                                          Revised H.W.F.\n\n\nSargent, Lucius Manlius, Boston, Massachusetts, June 25, 1786\u2014June 2,\n1867, Boston. A layman of independent means, author of many articles\nadvocating temperance. His temperance hymn beginning\n\n    _Slavery and death the cup contains_\n\n\u201cwas written during the Washingtonian Temperance Revival\u201d and appeared\nin Adams\u2019 and Chapin\u2019s Unitarian _Hymns for Christian Devotion_,\nBoston, 1846. In the American Methodist Episcopal _Hymnal_, 1878 the\nfirst line is altered to read\n\n    _Bondage and death the cup contains_,\n\nThe hymn is included, with the original wording, in the Universalist\n_Church Harmonies_, 1895.\n\n                                                                 J. 1061\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nSavage, Rev. Minot Judson, D.D., Norridgewock, Maine, June 10,\n1841\u2014May 22, 1918, Boston, Massachusetts. His parents were strictly\northodox Congregationalists whose resources were meagre, but a\ngenerous benefactor made it possible for him to enter Bangor\nTheological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1864. He served as a\nCongregational minister in California, Massachusetts and Missouri,\nbut, having become acquainted with the works of Darwin and Herbert\nSpencer, he transferred his membership to the Unitarian denomination\nin 1872 and became minister of the Third Unitarian Church in Chicago.\nTwo years later he accepted a call to Unity Church in Boston, which he\nserved until 1896 when he moved to New York as minister of the Church\nof the Messiah. He was one of the earliest advocates of a religious\ninterpretation of the doctrine of evolution, a bold thinker and\nforceful speaker in great demand, and the author of many books and\nprinted sermons. In 1883 he published _Sacred Songs for Public\nWorship; a Hymn and Tune Book_, with music arranged by Howard M. Dow,\nfor use in Unity Church. It contained 195 hymns and songs, 42 of which\nwere from his own pen. It had the shortcomings of a \u201cone-man book\u201d and\nwas musically nearer akin to the typical gospel song-book than was\nusual in Unitarian hymn-books, and it had little use outside his own\ncongregation. Several of his hymns passed into other collections in\nEngland and America, viz:\n\n    1. _Dost thou hear the bugle sounding_,    (Duty)\n\n    2. _Father, we would not dare to change thy purpose_    (Prayer)\n\n    3. _God of the glorious summer hours_,    (New Year)\n\n    4. _How shall come the kingdom holy_    (Coming of the kingdom)\n\n    5. _O God, whose law is in the sky_    (Consecration to Duty)\n\n    6. _O star of truth, down shining_,    (Devotion to Truth)\n\n    7. _Seek not afar for beauty_,    (God in Nature)\n\n    8. _The God that to our fathers revealed his holy will_,\n\n    9. _The very blossoms of our life_,    (Baptism)\n\n    10. _What purpose burns within our hearts_,    (Church Fellowship)\n\n    11. _When the gladsome day declineth_,    (Evening)\n\nOf these nos. 4, 6, 7 and 11 are included in _Hymns of the Spirit_,\n1937.\n\n                                                                 J. 1698\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nScudder, Eliza, Boston, Massachusetts, November 14, 1821\u2014September 28,\n1896, Weston, Massachusetts. She was a niece of Rev. E. H. Sears,\n_q.v._ Early in life she joined a Congregational Church, throughout\nher middle years was a Unitarian, and late in life entered the\nEpiscopal Church. She wrote a small number of poems which were\npublished in Boston in 1880 under the title _Hymns and Sonnets, by\nE.S._, and again with her two latest poems and a brief biographical\nsketch by Horace E. Scudder, in 1897, but most of her hymns had\nappeared at earlier dates in other places. They are characterized by a\nprofound mystical spirit expressed in terms of great literary beauty,\nand some of them passed into a considerable measure of common use.\n\n    1. _And wherefore should I seek above_,\n\n    This hymn, included in _The Isles of Shoals Hymnbook_, 1908,\n    consists of the last three stanzas of a much longer poem entitled\n    \u201cThe New Heaven,\u201d dated 1855.\n\n    2. _From past regret and present faithlessness_,    (Repentance)\n\n    written in August, 1871, and published in _Quiet Hours_, Boston,\n    1875. This was altered in some hymnbooks to,\n\n      _From past regret and present feebleness_,\n\n    In most cases the opening stanza has been omitted and the hymn has\n    begun with the second stanza,\n\n      _Thou Life within my life, than self more near_,\n\n    see no. 9, below.\n\n    3. _I cannot find Thee, still on restless pinion_,    (Seeking\n    after God)\n\n    This first appeared in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the\n    Spirit_, 1864.\n\n    4. _In Thee my powers and treasures live_,    (Faith and Joy)\n\n    This appeared in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. It is part of a hymn\n    of 10 stanzas beginning\n\n      _Let whosoever will inquire_, dated 1855.\n\n    In _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, another arrangement of\n    stanzas forms a hymn beginning\n\n      _My God, I rather look to Thee_\n\n    5. _Life of our life, and light of all our seeing_,    (Prayer)\n\n    Written in August, 1870, it was included in _Quiet Hours_, 1875.\n\n    6. _The day is done: the weary day of thought and toil is past_,\n       (Evening)\n\n    Included in _Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life_, E. H.\n    Sears, Boston, 2^nd ed. 1878, p. 296, entitled \u201cVesper Hymn,\u201d\n    dated \u201cOctober, 1874.\u201d\n\n    7. _Thou Grace divine, encircling all_,    (Divine Grace)\n\n    This appeared in E. H. Sears\u2019 _Pictures of the Olden Time, as\n    shown in the Fortunes of a Family of Pilgrims_, 1857. Written in\n    1852, it was included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. In the\n    Universalist _Psalms and Hymns_, 1865, it was mistakenly called\n    \u201cAn Ancient Catholic Hymn.\u201d\n\n    8. _Thou hast gone up again_    (Ascension)\n\n    In _Hymns and Sonnets_, 1880.\n\n    9. _Thou Life within my life, than self more near_,\n\n    As noted above, this is part of No. 2, beginning with the second\n    stanza of that hymn. In this form it is perhaps Miss Scudder\u2019s\n    most beautiful hymn.\n\n    10. _Thou long disowned, reviled, opprest_,   (Spirit of Truth)\n\n    Written in January, 1860, it was included in _Hymns of the\n    Spirit_, 1864. A cento from this hymn, altered to read,\n\n      _Come Thou, with purifying fire_,\n\n    was included in Stryker\u2019s _Church Song_, 1889.\n\nOf these hymns nos. 3, 4 (selected stanzas), 7, 9 and 10 are included\nin _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and nos. 3, 7 and 9 in _Hymns\nof the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                     J. 1035, 1589, 1700\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nSears, Rev. Edmund Hamilton; Sandisfield, Massachusetts April 6,\n1810\u2014January 16, 1876, Weston, Massachusetts. Studied at Union\nCollege, graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1837. Ordained\nminister of the First Parish (Unitarian) of Wayland, Massachusetts, on\nFebruary 20, 1839. He soon after went to Lancaster, Massachusetts;\nreturned to Wayland, 1848-1864; and was minister of the First Parish,\nWeston, Massachusetts, 1866 until his death. He was author of many\nbooks and printed sermons, and of a good many poems, often hymns\nsupplementary to his sermons. None of these, however, have come into\ngeneral use, and his reputation as a hymn writer is based on his two\nwidely used Christmas hymns, found in many hymn books. The first,\n\n    _Calm on the listening ear of night_,\n\nwas written in 1839. It was included as \u201cAnon.\u201d in _The Christian\nPsalter_, published in 1841 by Sears\u2019 friend, Rev. W. P. Lunt, _q.v._\nof Quincy, Massachusetts. In the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, the\nsecond line of sta. 6\n\n    The Saviour now is born!\n\nwas changed to read\n\n    The Prince of Peace is born!\n\nbut the original reading was restored in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\nHis second hymn,\n\n    _It came upon the midnight clear_,\n\nwas written in 1849. One tradition about it reports that it was\nwritten at Mr. Lunt\u2019s request and was first used at the Christmas\ncelebration of the Sunday School in Quincy in that year. Sta. 5 of\nthis hymn\n\n  For lo! the days are hastening on\n    By prophet bards foretold,\n  When with the ever-circling years\n    Comes round the age of gold;\n  When peace shall over all the earth\n    Its ancient splendors fling,\n  And the whole world give back the song\n    Which now the angels sing\n\nhas appeared in re-written forms more than once because its \u201cbackward\nlook\u201d to a golden age is not Biblical but is derived from the Fourth\nEclogue of the poet Virgil. In the Episcopal _Hymnal_ of 1874 this is\naltered to read\n\n  For lo, the days are hastening on\n    By prophets seen of old,\n  Till with the ever circling years\n    Shall come the time foretold,\n  When the new heaven and earth shall own\n    The Prince of Peace their King- - - -\n\nand this version was reprinted in the Episcopal hymnals of 1892 and\n1916, and passed into other collections. In the _Hymnal_, 1940, it was\nagain altered to read\n\n  For lo, the days are hastening on\n    By prophets seen of old,\n  When with the ever circling years\n    Shall come the time foretold\n\nThese alterations may have brought the hymn into closer accord with\northodox theology, but at the expense of some of its poetic beauty.\n\nTwo patriotic songs by Sears were included in the army hymn book, _The\nSoldier\u2019s Companion_, 1861. One headed \u201cA Psalm of Freedom\u201d begins,\n\n    _Still wave our streamer\u2019s glorious folds_,\n\nThe other is headed \u201cSong of the Stars and Stripes,\u201d and begins,\n\n    _We see the gallant streamer yet_,\n\nNeither has any great merit, though both may have served the purpose\nfor which they were written.\n\n                                                                 J. 1036\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nSewall, C.\n\nAn anti-slavery hymn attributed to a person of this name is included\nin Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. It\nbegins,\n\n    _Lord, when thine ancient people cried_,\n\nIt is probable, but not certain, that the author was Rev. Charles\nChauncy Sewall, Marblehead, Massachusetts, May 10, 1802\u2014November 22,\n1886, Medfield, Massachusetts; who was a graduate of Bowdoin College\nand who received the degree of Master of Arts from Harvard in 1832. He\nwas a Unitarian minister serving churches in Peabody, Massachusetts,\n1827-1841; Sharon, Massachusetts, 1857-1862; and Medfield, 1873-1377.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nSigourney, Mrs. Lydia Howard (Huntley), Norwich, Connecticut,\nSeptember 1, 1791\u2014June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut, wife of\nCharles Sigourney. She was a prolific writer of prose and verse\ncontributed to many periodicals, and author of many books, chiefly\nmoral tales for young people. She became a very popular writer and\nspent two years, 1840-1842, in England where she met many celebrities.\nTwo hymns by her were included in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for\nthe Church of Christ_, 1853, viz:\n\n    1. _Laborers of Christ, arise_,   (Brotherhood)\n\n    This was also included in _Church Harmonies_, 1895, with the first\n    line altered to read\n\n      _Servants of Christ, arise_.\n\n    2. _When adverse winds and waves arise_   (Trust)\n\n    Neither hymn has had later use.\n\n                                                          J. 1057, 1589.\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nSill, Edward Rowland, Windsor, Connecticut, April 29, 1841\u2014February\n27, 1887, Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Yale in 1861 and spent\nseveral months in the year 1866-1867 at the Harvard Divinity School,\nwriting his one fine hymn,\n\n    _Send down thy truth, O God_,\n\nfor the School\u2019s Visitation Day exercises in 1867. It was included in\nhis collection of poems, _The Hermitage_, published the same year, and\npassed thence into many American hymnbooks. Presumably he entered the\nDivinity School intending to prepare for the Unitarian ministry, but\nhe did not do so and neither then nor later associated himself with\nany denomination. At the end of the academic year 1867 he moved to\nCalifornia where he was Professor of English Literature, 1874-1882 at\nthe University of California. He published several books of poems of\nsuperior quality.\n\n                                                                 J. 1703\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nSilliman, Rev. Vincent Brown, D.D., Hudson, Wisconsin, June 29,\n1894\u2014still living. He graduated from Meadville Theological School in\n1920 and from the University of Minnesota in 1925. He has served\nUnitarian churches in Buffalo, New York; Portland, Maine; Hollis, New\nYork; and Chicago, Illinois. He was a member of the committee which\nedited _The Beacon Song and Service Book for Children and Young\nPeople_, 1935, and edited _We Sing of Life_, 1955, an unusual\ncollection of songs for children and young people, with a strong\nethical emphasis, some set to familiar hymn tunes, others to\ninteresting folk music. Mr. Silliman contributed the words of several\nsongs. One of them, beginning,\n\n    _Morning, so fair to see_,\n\nis also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, set to St. Elizabeth\n(Crusader\u2019s Hymn).\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nSpencer, Mrs. Anna Garlin, (wife of Rev. William H. Spencer),\nAttleboro, Massachusetts, April 17, 1851\u2014February 12, 1931, New York.\nShe was ordained as a Unitarian minister, and was a lecturer and\nauthor of books on social problems. In 1896 in her \u201cOrders of Service\nfor Public Worship\u201d she included her song entitled \u201cThe Marching Song\nof the Workers,\u201d beginning,\n\n    _Hail the hero workers of the mighty past_,\n\nset to St. Gertrude. It was included in _Hymns of the United Church_,\n1924, in _Songs of Work and Worship_, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_,\n1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nSprague, Charles, Boston, Massachusetts, October 22, 1791\u2014January 22,\n1875, Boston. A Unitarian layman. Although a business man without a\ncollege education he wrote much verse which brought him a considerable\nreputation and requests for poems to celebrate special occasions. One\nof them was read before the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in\nCambridge in 1829, and was re-published, with minor alterations, a few\nyears later in Calcutta by a British officer, as his own work. A\ncollection of his poems was published in 1841, and an enlarged edition\nin 1850. A number of his shorter poems are given in Putnam\u2019s _Singers\nand Songs_, and a hymn attributed to \u201cC. Sprague\u201d is included in Hedge\nand Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, beginning\n\n    _O Thou, at whose dread name we stand_.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nTrapp, Rev. Jacob, S.T.D., Muskegon, Michigan, April 12, 1899\u2014still\nliving. He was educated at Valparaiso University and The Pacific\nUnitarian School for the Ministry (now called The Starr King School\nfor the Ministry). He was ordained in 1929 and has served Unitarian\nchurches in Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Colorado; and Summit, New\nJersey. In 1932 he wrote a hymn beginning,\n\n    _Wonders still the world shall witness_,\n\nwhich is included, with some revisions, in _Hymns of the Spirit_,\n1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nTuckerman, Rev. Joseph, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, January 18,\n1778\u2014April 20, 1840, Havana, Cuba. He graduated from Harvard College\nin 1798, a classmate of Rev. William Ellery Channing, whose close\nfriend he remained through life. He was licensed to preach by the\nBoston Association and in 1801 was ordained minister of a church in\nChelsea, Massachusetts, at that time a small farming community, which\nhe served for 25 years. He then moved to Boston to begin his\n\u201cministry-at-large\u201d to the unchurched elements in the population,\nunder the auspices of the American Unitarian Association and later of\nthe Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. He attained wide reputation for\nhis philanthropy and his wide methods of social reform. Harvard gave\nhim the honorary degree of D.D. in 1824.\n\nHis hymn\n\n    _Father divine! This deadening power control_     (Aspiration)\n\nis attributed to \u201cTuckerman\u201d in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the\nChurch of Christ_, 1853, and in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the\nSpirit_, 1864, but is not listed in Julian\u2019s _Dictionary_ or included\nin later collections.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nVery, Jones, Salem, Massachusetts, August 28, 1813\u2014May 8, 1880, Salem,\nMassachusetts. He was brother of Washington Very, _q.v._ He graduated\nfrom Harvard College in 1836, and served as tutor in Greek there for\ntwo years. Although Julian, _Dictionary_, p. 1219, says that he\nentered the Unitarian ministry in 1843, he was never ordained as a\nsettled minister though he served frequently as an occasional lay\npreacher. Most of his life was given to literary pursuits. In 1839 he\npublished _Essays and Poems_, and thereafter was a frequent\ncontributor in prose and verse to periodicals, including _The\nChristian Register_ and the _Monthly Magazine_. The following hymns by\nhim have passed into various American Unitarian collections.\n\n    1. _Father! I wait Thy word_,    (Waiting upon God)\n\n    2. _Father, there is no change to live with Thee_    (Peace)\n\n    3. _Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand_    (The Spirit Land)\n\n    4. _Wilt Thou not visit me?_    (The Divine Presence)\n\nThese four, from _Essays and Hymns_, were included in Longfellow and\nJohnson\u2019s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, as were also three from other\nsources:\u2014\n\n    5. _I saw on earth another light_    (The Light Within)\n\n    6. _The bud will soon become a flower_    (Sowing and Reaping)\n\n    7. _Turn not from him who asks of thee_    (Kind Words)\n\nLongfellow and Johnson\u2019s second book, _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864,\nalso included\n\n    8. _One saint to another I heard say, How long_    (The Future)\n\nMost of these hymns are in Lyra Sacra Americana and in Putnam\u2019s\nSingers and Songs, etc. Two other of his hymns have been published in\nlater collections, viz:\n\n    9. _O heavenly gift of love divine_,    (Divine assistance)\n\n    from his _Essays and Poems_ is included in the _Pilgrim Hymnal_,\n    1904; and\n\n    10. _We go not on a pilgrimage_    (This earth as holy land)\n\n    is included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914 and in _Hymns of\n    the Spirit_, 1937.\n\nOf the hymns listed above nos. 2 and 3 are included in the _Isles of\nShoals Hymn Book_, and in other publications. Another hymn beginning\n\n    _There is a world eye hath not seen_     (The Spirit World)\n\nincluded in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and\nthere marked _Anon._, is attributed to Very in Julian\u2019s _Dictionary_.\nThe hymn is an abbreviated and mutilated version of the beautiful poem\nbeginning\n\n  _There is a world we have not seen_\n\nin A. M. Buchanan\u2019s _Folk Hymns of America_, pp. 80-81. (See H. W.\nFoote, _Three Centuries of American Hymnody_, p. 173). The original\nform is in three stanzas of eight lines, long metre. The very inferior\nre-written form is in four stanzas, four lines, common metre. Some of\nthe lines are unchanged from the original, others altered, and the\nlast stanza is a didactic addition. It is altogether improbable that\nthis was done by Very.\n\n                                                           J. 1219, 1721\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nVery, Washington, Salem, Massachusetts, November 12, 1815\u2014April 28,\n1853, Salem. He graduated from Harvard College in 1843, and from the\nHarvard Divinity School in 1846. After preaching for a year without\nsettlement he opened a private school in Salem, which he conducted\nuntil his death. He was brother of Jones Very, _q.v._ Putnam in\n_Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_ includes three of W. Very\u2019s\npoetical pieces, one of which\n\n    _There cometh o\u2019er the Spirit_    (Spring)\n\nappeared in Longfellow and Johnson\u2019s Book of Hymns, 1846.\n\n                                                                 J. 1219\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWare, Rev. Henry, Jr., D.D., Hingham, Massachusetts, April 21,\n1794\u2014September 22, 1843, Framingham, Massachusetts. His family was for\nthree generations an outstanding one in the liberal ministry; his\nfather, Dr. Henry Ware, Sr., was called in 1805 from a pastorate in\nHingham to serve as Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard; his\nyounger brother, William Ware, was the first minister of what is now\nAll Souls Church, New York; and his son, J. F. W. Ware, was later the\nminister of Arlington Street Church, Boston. Henry Ware, Jr. graduated\nwith high honors from Harvard in 1812, and after teaching for two\nyears at Phillips Exeter Academy returned to Cambridge, to continue\nhis theological studies. He was licensed to preach on July 31, 1815,\nbut was not ordained as minister of the Second Church in Boston\n(Unitarian) until January 1, 1817. Never vigorous in body, he offered\nhis resignation in 1829, but the congregation refused to accept it,\nappointing R. W. Emerson to be assistant minister. In 1830, however,\nhe resigned, to accept an appointment as Professor of Pulpit Eloquence\nand Pastoral Care at the Harvard Divinity School, a position which he\nheld till 1842. He then moved from Cambridge to Framingham,\nMassachusetts, where he died a few months later. Harvard gave him the\ndegree of Doctor of Divinity in 1834. In spite of ill health he wrote\nmuch, and he was a greatly beloved teacher, whose saintly character\ncommanded the highest respect. For several years he edited the\n_Christian Disciple_, established in 1813, and he was author of many\nprinted books, addresses and sermons, listed in the _Memoir_ of him,\npublished by his brother, Dr. John Ware, in 1846. His collected works\nwere published in four volumes in 1847, the first volume including his\noccasional poems and his hymns. Some of these last reached a high\nstandard of excellence and brought him wide recognition in the liberal\nchurches of Great Britain as well as in this country. No less than\neight pieces of his verse were included in _Lyra Sacra Americana_,\npublished by the British Religious Tract Society in 1868. His hymns\nare some of the choicest poetical expressions of liberal religious\nthought in the first period of American Unitarian hymnody, but almost\nall have dropped out of present use. Most of them will be found in\nPutnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs_, etc.\n\n    1. _All nature\u2019s works His praise declare_,    (Worship)\n\n    Headed \u201cOn Opening an Organ\u201d and dated November 9, 1822. In view\n    of the almost universal use of organs in modern churches it is\n    rather surprizing that this should be a well-nigh unique example\n    of a hymn for the dedication of such an instrument. It is also a\n    good general hymn of worship. It was included in Horder\u2019s British\n    _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, and in a number of American\n    Unitarian collections.\n\n    2. _Around the throne of God, the host angelic sings_,\n\n    A hymn of \u201cUniversal Praise,\u201d based on Revelation IV, 2, 3; XV, 3.\n    Dated 1823 and published in the _Christian Disciple_, vol. V. A\n    fine hymn of its type, but little used, perhaps because of its\n    metre, 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4.\n\n    3. _Father of earth and heaven, Whose arm upholds creation_,\n       (Thanksgiving for Divine Mercies)\n\n    Included in Cheever\u2019s _Common Place Book_, 1831, and in _Lyra\n    Sacra Americana_.\n\n    4. _Father, Thy gentle chastisement_    (In sickness)\n\n    Dated March, 1836. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_.\n\n    5. _Great God, the followers of thy Son_,    (Ordination)\n\n    Written for the ordination of Jared Sparks, the historian, as\n    minister of the First Unitarian Church, Baltimore, Maryland, May\n    5, 1819, but suitable for any service of worship and perhaps the\n    most widely used of Ware\u2019s hymns.\n\n    6. _In this glad hour when children meet_    (Family Gatherings)\n\n    Dated August 20, 1835. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_.\n\n    7. _Lift your glad voices in triumph on high_    (Easter)\n\n    Dated 1817, and published in the _Christian Disciple_ of that\n    year, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_ and\n    included in many 19^th century hymn books. In a few cases the\n    second stanza alone is given, beginning\n\n      _Glory to God, in full anthems of joy!_\n\n    8. _Like Israel\u2019s hosts to exile driven_    (The God of our\n    Fathers)\n\n    Written for the Centennial Celebration of the Boston Thursday\n    Lecture, October 17, 1833. It is a quasi-national hymn in praise\n    of the Pilgrim Fathers. Included in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns\n    for the Church of Christ_ and in _Lyra Sacra Americana_.\n\n    9. _O Thou in whom alone is found_    (Laying Foundation Stone for\n    a Place of Worship)\n\n    Not dated. In _Lyra Sacra Americana_, and in Thring\u2019s _Collection_\n    (British) 1882.\n\n    10. _O Thou who on thy chosen Son_,    (Ordination)\n\n    Written \u201cFor an ordination, March, 1829.\u201d Included in Dale\u2019s\n    _English Hymn Book_, 1874.\n\n    11. _Oppression shall not always reign_,    (Anti-Slavery Song)\n\n    Dated March 15, 1843, it is the last of the author\u2019s writings in\n    verse. In its original form it was a poem in several stanzas\n    unsuited for use as a hymn, but 3 stanzas, beginning as above, had\n    been taken from it, altered and transposed, and thus adapted for\n    worship. Stanzas one and two were included in Hedge and\n    Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ and in Longfellow\n    and Johnson\u2019s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864.\n\n    12. _To prayer, to prayer, for morning breaks_,    (Prayer)\n\n    In 1826 he wrote a poem of 10 stanzas, 6 lines each, entitled\n    \u201cSeasons of Prayer,\u201d printed in full in _Lyra Sacra Americana_ and\n    in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, from which at least three variant\n    centos were in use in the 19^th century. One beginning with the\n    first line, as above, adapting it for morning worship, was\n    included in Lunt\u2019s _Christian Psalter_, 1841, and in later\n    collections. Another beginning with the second stanza\n\n      _To prayer, the glorious sun is gone_,\n\n    was adapted for evening worship. A third selection, beginning with\n    the third stanza of the poem,\n\n      _To prayer! for the day that God hath blest_,\n\n    was included in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of\n    Christ_.\n\n    13. _We rear not a temple, like Judah of old_,    (Dedication of a\n    Place of Worship)\n\n    \u201cFor the dedication of a church, April, 1839.\u201d\n\n    14. _With praise and prayer our gifts we bring_    (Opening of a\n    Place of Worship)\n\n    In Dale\u2019s _English Hymn Book_, 1874. Not in Putnam\u2019s _Singers and\n    Songs_, etc.\n\nNone of the hymns listed above are in current use except nos. 1 and 5,\nboth of which are included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and\n_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                           J. 1233, 1595\n                                                       Revised by H.W.F.\n\n\nWaterston, Rev. Robert Cassie, Kennebunk, Maine, 1812\u2014February 21,\n1893, Boston, Massachusetts. He studied for a time at the Harvard\nDivinity School. In 1844 Harvard gave him the degree of Master of\nArts, following the publication of his book on _Moral and Spiritual\nCulture_. In 1839 he was ordained to the ministry-at-large (Unitarian)\nin Boston, in charge of the Pitts Street Chapel, where he remained\ntill 1845. From 1845 to 1852 he served as minister of the Church of\nthe Saviour, Boston, and from 1854 to 1856 he was minister of the\nFirst Religious Society of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Thereafter he\ngave himself to educational and literary pursuits. He was a member of\nthe Massachusetts Historical Society and was long active on the Boston\nSchool Committee. He wrote many essays, addresses and poems, the most\nimportant of which are listed in Putnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs_, etc.,\npp. 390-410. He contributed one hymn to the Cheshire Pastoral\nAssociation\u2019s _Christian Hymns_, 1844, and eight to his own\n_Supplement_ to Greenwood\u2019s _Psalms and Hymns_, 1845.\n\n    1. _God of the soul_    (The soul and God)\n\n    2. _Great God, in heaven above_,\n\n    Written for a Sunday School.\n\n    3. _Great Source of Good, our God and Friend_    (Worship)\n\n    4. _In ages past, majestic prophets_,    (The Coming of Jesus)\n\n    5. _Nature with eternal youth_\n\n    Written before 1853 and included in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns\n    for the Church of Christ_, published in that year. It is a\n    selection of 4 stanzas, numbers 4 to 7, from a longer poem\n    entitled _Nature and the Soul_, printed in full in Putnam.\n\n    6. _Lord of all, we bow before Thee_\n\n    Entitled \u201cChristian Benevolence.\u201d\n\n    7. _O God of Light and Love_,\n\n    Written for the annual meeting of the American Unitarian\n    Association, Boston, 1845.\n\n    8. _O Lord of Life! to Thee we pray_,\n\n    Written for the dedication of a church.\n\n    9. _One sweet flower has drooped and faded_,\n\n    Included in the Cheshire _Collection_, 1844, entitled \u201cDeath of a\n    Pupil.\u201d In Putnam the opening line reads\n\n      \u201c_One bright flower has drooped_\u201d, etc.\n\n    and the hymn is entitled \u201cOn the Death of a Child\u201d, with a note,\n    \u201cSung by her classmates.\u201d\n\n    10. _Theories, which thousands cherish_,    (Truth)\n\n    Published in _The Religious Monthly_, Boston, and included in\n    several collections.\n\n    11. _Thou who didst aid our sires_    (On leaving an old house of\n    worship)\n\n    Written for the last service of worship held in the Federal Street\n    Meeting House, Boston, March 13, 1859.\n\nAll of these hymns, and a number of other poems by Waterston, are\nincluded in Putnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs_, etc., but few of them are\ndated or annotated as to use. The author was a popular writer of\nverses which were respectable expressions of the religious thought and\nfeeling of his community, in which they had considerable vogue, but\nthey rarely rise above mediocrity and have long since dropped out of\nuse.\n\n                                                           J. 1235, 1724\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWeir, Hon. Robert Stanley, D.C.L. 1856-1926. Judge in Admiralty of the\nExchequer Court of Canada. He translated, from the original French by\nCalixa Lavall\u00e9e, the hymn beginning, in his English version,\n\n    _O Canada, our home, our native land_,\n\nwhich was adopted by the Canadian government as Canada\u2019s national\nhymn. It is included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. He was a\nmember of the Church of the Messiah (Unitarian), Montreal.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWeiss, Rev. John, Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 1828\u2014March 9, 1879,\nBoston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837, and from the\nHarvard Divinity School in 1843. He was ordained minister of the First\nChurch, (Unitarian) Watertown, Massachusetts in 1843; was minister of\nthe First Church, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1847-1858; and served\nthe church at Watertown again 1862-1869. He was a leader in the\nanti-slavery movement and a prolific author of books and essays. For\nVisitation Day at the Divinity School, 1843, he wrote a hymn\nbeginning,\n\n    1. _A wondrous star our pioneer_,\n\n    which was included in the _Book of Hymns_, 1846, compiled by S.\n    Longfellow and S. Johnson, and in their later book, _Hymns of the\n    Spirit_, 1864. The _Book of Hymns_ also included a hymn \u201cFor a\n    Summer Festival\u201d beginning,\n\n    2. _Beneath thy trees we meet today_,\n\n    which is in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_, 1895.\n\nHis hymn\n\n    3. _The world throws wide its brazen gates_\n\n    was included in Hedge and Huntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of\n    Christ_, 1853.\n\nThree other hymns by him, which have not found their way into any hymn\nbooks, are printed in Putnam\u2019s _Singers and Songs_.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWendte, Rev. Charles William, Boston, Massachusetts, June 11,\n1844\u2014September 9, 1911, San Francisco, California. He graduated from\nthe Harvard Divinity School in 1869 and served Unitarian churches in\nChicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Newport, Rhode Island. From\n1885 to 1900 he was engaged in denominational work on the Pacific\nCoast and thereafter was Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the American\nUnitarian Association, Boston, spending a part of each year in Europe.\nLong interested in Sunday Schools he published in 1886 _The Carol, for\nSunday School and Home_; a book of songs for use by children and young\npeople entitled _Jubilate Deo_ in 1900; and another in 1908 entitled\n_Heart and Voice, a Collection of Songs and Services for the\nSunday-School and Home_. In 1907 he wrote a hymn on \u201cThe City of God\u201d\nbeginning,\n\n    _Not given to us from out the sky_,\n\nwhich was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in\n_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, (with a slight alteration by the author).\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWestwood, Rev. Horace, D.D., Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, August 17,\n1884\u2014December 24, 1956, Clearwater, Florida. Emigrating to the United\nStates, he served in the Methodist ministry for several years, and\nafter 1910 served as minister in Unitarian churches in Youngstown,\nOhio; Winnipeg, Canada; Toledo, Ohio; and extensively as a mission\npreacher. His hymn in one stanza,\n\n    _Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power_,    (1922)\n\nwas included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, and he privately printed\na small collection, _Some Hymns and Verses_, n.d., a few of which\nappeared in periodicals, but have not had wider use.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWile, Mrs. Frances Whitmarsh, Bristol Centre, New York, December 2,\n1878\u2014July 31, 1939, Rochester, New York. Married A. J. Wile in 1901.\nHer lovely hymn for use in winter, beginning,\n\n    _All beautiful the march of days_,\n\nwas written about 1907 while she was a parishioner of Rev. William C.\nGannett, _q.v._, in Rochester, New York, in consultation with him, and\nwas included in Gannett and Hosmer\u2019s revised edition of _Unity Hymns\nand Chorals_, 1911, from which it passed into _The New Hymn and Tune\nBook_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWiley, Hiram Ozias, Middlebury, Vermont, May 20, 1831\u2014January 28,\n1873, Peabody, [Danvers] Massachusetts. He was a Unitarian layman who\npractised law in Peabody from 1855 until his death, and was the author\nof occasional verse contributed to local newspapers. On May 17, 1865,\nthe _South Danvers Wizard_ published his hymn beginning\n\n    _He leads us on by paths we did not know_,\n\nand republished it on May 8, 1867, with a note reading \u201cSome years ago\nwe published the following poem, which was written for our columns by\nH. O. Wiley, Esq. Since then it has traversed the country in all\ndirections, without any credit being given either to our paper or to\nthe author. We reproduce it from a Western paper in order to correct\nseveral errors that have crept into it. Ed.\u201d It is the only hymn\nincluded in the small volume of Wiley\u2019s poems published as a memorial\nto him soon after his death. Its earliest appearance in a hymn book\nwas in the 1873 Supp. to the Unitarian _Sunday School Hymn Book_, with\nthe first line changed to\n\n    _God leads us on, etc._,\n\nAbout the same time it reached England, where it passed into a number\nof collections without the name of the author. In Julian\u2019s\n_Dictionary_, p. 1647, \u201cJ.M.\u201d states that it appears as _Anon._ in\n_Our Home beyond the Tide_, Glasgow, 1878, and that in _Meth. Free.\nCh. Hys._, 1889, it is attributed to \u201cCount Zinzendorf, about 1750.\nTr. H.L.L.\u201d (Jane Borthwick) although that attribution is questioned\nbecause the hymn could not be found in any of Miss Borthwick\u2019s\ntranslations. The mistaken attribution persisted, however, long enough\nto be included in the second edition of the _Pilgrim Hymnal_, in the\nfirst decade of this century. Since then the hymn has passed, in its\noriginal form and rightly attributed to Wiley, into various other\ncollections, among them the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns\nof the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWillard, Rev. Samuel, 1776-1859. He graduated from Harvard College in\n1803, served the First Church (Unitarian) in Deerfield, Massachusetts\n1807 to 1829, when he resigned on account of blindness. In 1823 he\npublished a collection of 158 songs, composed by himself, and in 1830\na compilation entitled \u201c_Sacred Music and Poetry Reconciled_,\u201d a\nhymnbook containing 518 hymns by various authors, about 180 of them\nwritten by himself. This book was adopted for use in the Third Parish\nin Hingham, Massachusetts where Willard was then living, but had\nlittle circulation elsewhere, and none of his hymns came into general\nuse.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWilliams, Velma Curtis (Wright), East Boston, Massachusetts, July 29,\n1852\u2014January 22, 1941, Boston, Massachusetts. Wife of Rev. Theodore C.\nWilliams, _q.v._ Her _Hymnal: Amore Dei, compiled by Mrs. Theodore C.\nWilliams_, was published in Boston in 1890, revised edition 1897. It\nwas edited with the assistance of her husband, then minister of All\nSouls\u2019 Church, New York, where it was used, and in many other churches\nas well. Mrs. Williams herself wrote no hymns.\n\n                                                                 J. 1604\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWilliams, Rev. Theodore Chickering, Brookline, Massachusetts, July 2,\n1855\u2014May 6, 1915, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard\nCollege in 1876, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1882. He was\nordained minister of the Unitarian Church in Winchester,\nMassachusetts, in 1882, but became minister of All Souls\u2019 Church, New\nYork in 1883. He resigned in 1896, and spent two years in Europe.\nAfter his return he served as headmaster of Hackley School, Tarrytown,\nNew York, 1899-1905. A classical scholar, and gifted as a poet, he\npublished a fine metrical translation of Virgil\u2019s _Aeneid_, wrote a\nnumber of hymns which are religious poetry of a high order, and\nassisted his wife, Velma C. Williams, _q.v._, in compiling her\n_Hymnal: Amore Dei_, 1890, revised edition 1897. A few of his hymns\nappeared in this book and, with others of later date, are included in\n_The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937,\nas follows:\n\n    1. _As the storm retreating_,    (Peace after storm)\n\n    Dated 1888.\n\n    2. _By law from Sinai\u2019s clouded steep_,    (Sabbath rest)\n\n    3. _God be with thee! Gently o\u2019er thee_    (Inward Peace)\n\n    Dated 1889.\n\n    4. _Hast thou heard it, O my brother?_    (The Challenge of Life)\n\n    Dated 1902.\n\n    5. _In the lonely midnight_    (Christmas)\n\n    6. _Lord, who dost the voices bless_\n\n    Written for the ordination of Rev. Benjamin R. Bulkeley at\n    Concord, Massachusetts, 1882.\n\n    7. _My country, to thy shore_,    (Hymn for the Nation)\n\n    Dated 1912.\n\n    8. _Thou rulest, Lord, the lights on high_    (Universal Praise)\n\n    Dated 1911.\n\n    9. _To hold thy glory, Lord of all_,    (Dedication of a Church)\n\n    Dated 1911.\n\n    10. _When the world around us throws_,    (Lent)\n\n    Dated 1899.\n\n    11. _When thy heart, with joy o\u2019erflowing_    (Brotherhood)\n\n    Dated 1891.\n\nThree other hymns by him, included in _Amore Dei_, have not come into\ngeneral use, viz.:\n\n    12. _Glory be to God on high_,    (Universal Worship)\n\n    Dated 1889.\n\n    13. _I long did roam afar from home_,\n\n    Dated 1889.\n\n    14. _My heart of dust was made_,\n\nOf the above all from nos. 1 to 11 are included in the _New Hymn and\nTune Book_, 1914, and, except no. 9, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937,\nwhich also includes no. 12. Nos. 5, 11 and 12 are in the _Pilgrim\nHymnal_, 1934.\n\n                                                                 J. 1728\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWillis, Love Maria (Whitcomb), Hancock, New Hampshire, June 9,\n1824\u2014November 26, 1908, Elmira, New York. She married Frederick L. E.\nWillis, M.D., of Boston, in 1858. She was for some years one of the\neditors of _The Banner of Light_, Boston, and of _Tiffany\u2019s Monthly\nMagazine_, and was a frequent contributor to these and other\nperiodicals. She wrote a number of hymns, one of which, beginning,\n\n    _Father, hear the Prayer I offer_    (Aspiration)\n\nwas published in _Tiffany\u2019s Monthly_ in 1859. In Longfellow and\nJohnson\u2019s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, it was considerably rewritten,\nwith the opening line changed to read,\n\n    _Father, hear the prayer we offer_,\n\nand was cited as \u201cAnon.\u201d This 1864 text came into considerable use in\nvarious collections in England, and was included in _The English\nHymnal_ as late as 1906. It has also had wide use in America and will\nbe found in almost all Unitarian hymn books since 1864, most recently\nin the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_,\n1937.\n\n                                                                 J. 1728\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWillis, Nathaniel Parker, Portland, Maine, January 20, 1807\u2014January\n29, 1867. He graduated from Yale College in 1826. A journalist and\neditor, he wrote for the _American Monthly_ and the _New York Mirror_.\nFrom 1831 to 1837 he was in Europe attached to the American Legation\nat the French Court. On his return he became, in 1839, one of the\neditors of _The Corsair_. His works are numerous and include _Sacred\nPoems_, 1843. His hymn\n\n    _The perfect world by Adam trod_,\n\nwas \u201cWritten to be sung at the Consecration of Hanover Street\n[Unitarian] Church, Boston,\u201d in 1826. It was included in Hedge and\nHuntington\u2019s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, and in a good\nmany other collections, although of no exceptional merit.\n\n                                                                 J. 1285\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWilson, Rev. Edwin Henry, D.D. Chester Park, Long Island, New York,\nAugust 23, 1898\u2014still living. He graduated from Boston University,\n1922; from Meadville Theological School, 1926; and took the degree of\nM.A. at the University of Chicago, 1928. He has served as minister of\nUnitarian churches in Chicago, Illinois; Schenectady, New York; and\nSalt Lake City, Utah. Since 1949 he has been Director of the American\nHumanist Association. His hymn beginning,\n\n    _Where is our holy church?_\n\nwritten in 1928, is included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nWilson, Rev. Lewis Gilbert, Southboro, Massachusetts, February 19,\n1858\u2014April 24, 1928, Floral City, Florida. He studied at Dartmouth,\nHarvard and Meadville Theological School, and in 1883 was ordained\nminister of the Unitarian Church at Leicester, Massachusetts. Later he\nserved the Unitarian church at Hopedale, Massachusetts, and from\n1907-1915 was Secretary in the American Unitarian Association. While\nthere he was a member of the committee which edited _The New Hymn and\nTune Book_ published in 1914 by the Association. This book included\nthree of his hymns, beginning\n\n    1. _O God, our dwelling place_,\n\n    2. _O troubled sea of Galilee_,\n\n    3. _The works, O Lord, our hands have wrought_,\n\nall three of which were written in 1912. The first of these is also\nincluded in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\nYoung, George H.    (No information available)\n\nA hymn of 4 stanzas, L.M., beginning,\n\n    _With heart\u2019s glad song, dear Lord, we come_,\n\nis attributed to him in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908.\n\n                                                                  H.W.F.\n\n\n\n\n                              FOOTNOTES\n\n\n[1]Frederic M. Bird, an Episcopalian clergyman, then professor at\n   Lehigh University, in his day the leading authority on American\n   hymnody.\n\n[2]Louis F. Benson, a Presbyterian clergyman, the successor of F. M.\n   Bird as the foremost American hymnologist in the first third of\n   this century.\n\n[3]See accompanying Catalogue of American Unitarian Hymn Books.\n\n[4]Julian\u2019s _Dictionary_, p. 60, lists Huntington, with Eliza Scudder\n   and Harriet Beecher Stowe, as Episcopalian. It is true that\n   Huntington joined the Episcopal church in 1859, as did Miss Eliza\n   Scudder in her old age, but all the hymns produced by either of\n   them were written while they were still Unitarians in belief, and\n   Harriet Beecher Stowe was a life long Congregationalist.\n\n[5]A few graduates of Harvard College (or Divinity School), belonging\n   to other denominations have also written hymns, the most notable\n   being Samuel Francis Smith (1808-1895), the greatest hymn writer of\n   the 19^th century in the Baptist denomination; Phillips Brooks\n   (1835-1893) with his one famous Christmas hymn; and, in the present\n   century, Rev. Walter Russell Bowie (1882-_1969_), but the total\n   number of their hymns is a very small percentage of the number by\n   Unitarian graduates at Harvard.\n\n[6]The numbers in brackets refer to the books listed in this\n   catalogue.\n\n\n\n\n          _Index of First Lines of American Unitarian Hymns_\n  which have been included in one or more published Hymn Books, with\n   names of their authors, to facilitate reference to the preceding\nBiographical Sketches for further information. Verses by these authors\n  printed elsewhere than in some Hymn Book are there noted, but have\n                          not been indexed.\n\n\n                                  A\n  A holy air is breathing round\u2014                    Livermore, A. A.\n  A little kingdom I possess,\u2014                                Alcott\n  A mighty fortress is our God\u2014                                Hedge\n  A voice by Jordan\u2019s shore\u2014                          Longfellow, S.\n  A wondrous star our pioneer\u2014                                 Weiss\n  Abba, Father, hear\u2014                                          Anon.\n  Abide not in the realm of dreams,\u2014                        Burleigh\n  Across a century\u2019s border line\u2014                             Hosmer\n  Again as evening\u2019s shadow falls\u2014                    Longfellow, S.\n  Alas! how poor and little worth\u2014                             Anon.\n  Alas! how swift\u2014                                      Adams, J. Q.\n  All are architects of fate\u2014                      Longfellow, H. W.\n  All beautiful the march of days\u2014                              Wile\n  All before us is the way\u2014                  Clapp, see also Emerson\n  All hail, God\u2019s angel, Truth\u2014                               Newell\n  All hail the pageant of the years\u2014                   Holmes, J. H.\n  All hidden lie the future ways\u2014                             Hosmer\n  All holy, ever living One\u2014                                    Hill\n  All is of God: if he but wave his hand\u2014          Longfellow, H. W.\n  All nature\u2019s works His praise declare\u2014                        Ware\n  All praise to him of Nazareth\u2014                              Bryant\n  All that in this wide world\u2014                                Bryant\n  All things that are on earth\u2014                               Bryant\n  Almighty Builder, bless, we pray\u2014                           Church\n  Almighty! hear thy children raise\u2014\n      altered to\n  Almighty, listen while we praise\u2014                           Bryant\n  America triumphant! Brave land of pioneers\u2014          Holmes, J. H.\n  Amid the heaven of heavens\u2014                                Bartrum\n  And wherefore should I seek above\u2014                         Scudder\n  Angel of peace, thou hast tarried\u2014                   Holmes, O. W.\n  Another day its course hath run\u2014                          Pierpont\n  Another year of setting suns\u2014                             Chadwick\n  Around the throne of God, the host\u2014                           Ware\n  As darker, darker fall around\u2014                 See: Longfellow, S.\n  As once again we gather here\u2014                            Greenwood\n  As shadows cast by sun and cloud\u2014                           Bryant\n  As the storm retreating\u2014                           Williams, T. C.\n  As tranquil streams that meet\u2014                                 Ham\n  At first I prayed for light\u2014                                Cheney\n\n\n                                    B\n  Be thou ready, fellow-mortal\u2014                               Bartol\n  Behold, the servant of the Lord\u2014                             Anon.\n  Behold the western evening light\u2014                Peabody, W. B. O.\n  Beneath the shadow of the cross\u2014                    Longfellow, S.\n  Beneath thine hammer, Lord\u2014                                  Hedge\n  Beneath thy trees we meet today\u2014                             Weiss\n  Benignant Saviour: \u2019twas not thine,\n      altered to\n  Most gracious Saviour: \u2019twas not thine\u2014                   Bulfinch\n  Blest is the hour when\u2014                                      Anon.\n  Blest is the mortal\u2014                                  Adams, J. Q.\n  Blind Bartimeus at the gate\u2014                     Longfellow, H. W.\n  Bondage and death the cup contains\u2014                        Sargent\n  Break the bread and pour the wine\u2014                        Pierpont\n  Bring, O morn, thy music\u2014                                  Gannett\n  Brother, hast thou wandered far\u2014                            Clarke\n  Burden of shame and woe\u2014                                  Bulfinch\n  By law from Sinai\u2019s clouded steep\u2014                 Williams, T. C.\n\n\n                                    C\n  Calm on the listening ear of night\u2014                          Sears\n  Christ hath arisen\u2014                                          Hedge\n  Christ to the young man said\u2014                    Longfellow, H. W.\n  City of God, how broad, how far\u2014                           Johnson\n  Clear in memory\u2019s silent reaches\u2014                          Gannett\n  Close softly, fondly, while ye weep\u2014                        Bryant\n  Come, Holy Spirit, hush my heart\u2014                            Anon.\n  Come, let us sing\u2014                                    Adams, J. Q.\n  Come, let us who in Christ\u2014                                  Anon.\n  Come, O thou universal good\u2014                                 Anon.\n  Come, Thou Almighty King\u2014                                    Anon.\n  Come, Thou Almighty Will\u2014                      See: Longfellow, S.\n  Come to the morning prayer\u2014                                  Anon.\n\n\n                                    D\n  Day unto day uttereth speech\u2014                             Burleigh\n  Dear ties of mutual succor\u2014                                 Bryant\n  Deem not that they are blest alone\u2014                         Bryant\n  Deus omnium creator\u2014                                     Greenough\n  Down the dark future thro long generations\u2014      Longfellow, H. W.\n  Down toward the twilight drifting\u2014                  Robbins, S. D.\n\n\n                                    E\n  Enkindling Love, eternal Flame\u2014                            Barrows\n  Eternal One, Thou living God\u2014                       Longfellow, S.\n  Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round\u2014                     Chadwick\n  Every bird that upward springs\u2014      Neale, but see Longfellow, S.\n\n\n                                    F\n  Faint not, poor traveller, though\u2014                          Norton\n  Far off, O God, and yet most near\u2014                          Barber\n  Father, beneath thy sheltering wing\u2014                      Burleigh\n  Father divine! This deadening power control\u2014             Tuckerman\n  Father, give thy benediction\u2014                       Longfellow, S.\n  Father, hear the prayer we offer\u2014                    Willis, L. M.\n  Father! I wait Thy word\u2014                                  Very, J.\n  Father in heaven, hear us\u2014                                    Ames\n  Father in heaven, to Thee my heart\u2014\n      altered to\n  Father in heaven, to whom our hearts\u2014                      Furness\n  Father, in thy mysterious presence kneeling\u2014               Johnson\n  Father, there is no change to live with Thee\u2014             Very, J.\n  Father, Thou art calling\u2014                                    Blake\n  Father, thy servant waits\u2014                                Burleigh\n  Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand\u2014                  Very, J.\n  Father, to thee we look\u2014                                    Hosmer\n  Father, to thy kind love\u2014                                   Bryant\n  Father, to us thy children\u2014                                 Clarke\n  Father, we would not dare\u2014                                  Savage\n  Father, whose heavenly kingdom lies\u2014                    Huntington\n  Feeble, helpless, how shall I\u2014                             Furness\n  For all thy gifts we bless Thee, Lord\u2014                      Clarke\n  For mercies past we praise thee\u2014                             Anon.\n  For summer\u2019s bloom, and autumn\u2019s\u2014                          Holland\n  For the dear love that kept us\u2014                           Burleigh\n  For Thee in Zion\u2014                                     Adams, J. Q.\n  Forward through the ages\u2014                                   Hosmer\n  Freedom, thy holy light\u2014                                       Ham\n  From age to age how grandly rise\u2014                           Hosmer\n  From age to age they gather, all the\u2014                       Hosmer\n  From Bethany the Master\u2014                                       Ham\n  From heart to heart, from creed\u2014                           Gannett\n  From lips divine the healing balm\u2014                        Burleigh\n  From many ways and wide apart\u2014                              Hosmer\n  From past regret and present faithlessness\u2014\n      altered to\n  From past regret and present feebleness\u2014                   Scudder\n  From street and square, from hill\u2014                       Higginson\n  From the profoundest depths\u2014                              Burleigh\n\n\n                                    G\n  Gently, Lord, O gently lead\u2014                                 Anon.\n  Give forth thine earnest cry\u2014                       Longfellow, S.\n  Glory be to God on high\u2014                           Williams, T. C.\n  Glory to God, and peace on earth\u2014                 Livermore, S. W.\n  Go forth to life, O child of earth\u2014                 Longfellow, S.\n  Go not, my soul, in search of Him\u2014                          Hosmer\n  Go, preach the gospel in my name\u2014                          Johnson\n  Go to thy rest, fair child\u2014                                  Anon.\n  God almighty and All-seeing\u2014                              Pierpont\n  God be with thee! Gently o\u2019er thee\u2014                Williams, T. C.\n  God bless our native land\u2014                       Brooks and Dwight\n  God is good: each perfumed flower\u2014                          Follen\n  God is in his holy temple\u2014                          Longfellow, S.\n  God laid his rocks in courses\u2014                             Gannett\n  God leads us on by paths\u2014                                    Wiley\n  God of mercy, do Thou never\u2014                              Pierpont\n  God of our fathers, in Whose sight\u2014                       Pierpont\n  God of our fathers, who hast\u2014                        Briggs, L. R.\n  God of the earnest heart\u2014                                  Johnson\n  God of the earth, the sea, the sky\u2014                 Longfellow, S.\n  God of the glorious summer hours\u2014                           Savage\n  God of the mountain\u2014                                         Anon.\n  God of the nations, near and far\u2014                    Holmes, J. H.\n  God of the rolling orbs above\u2014                   Peabody, O. W. B.\n  God of the rolling year\u2014                                     Anon.\n  God of the soul\u2014                                         Waterston\n  God of the vastness\u2014                                        Badger\n  God of Truth! Thy sons should be\u2014                   Longfellow, S.\n  God\u2019s law demands one living faith\u2014                  Briggs, C. A.\n  God\u2019s trumpet wakes the slumbering world\u2014           Longfellow, S.\n  Gone are those great and good\u2014                            Pierpont\n  Grateful for another day\u2014                                   Marean\n  Great God, in heaven above\u2014                              Waterston\n  Great God, the followers of thy Son\u2014                          Ware\n  Great Source of Good, our God\u2014                           Waterston\n\n\n                                    H\n  Hail the hero workers\u2014                                     Spencer\n  Hail to the Sabbath day\u2014                                  Bulfinch\n  Hark! \u2019tis the holy temple bell\u2014                      Adams, J. Q.\n  Hast thou heard it, O my brother?\u2014                 Williams, T. C.\n  Hast thou heard the bugle sounding\u2014                         Savage\n  Hast thou wasted all the powers\u2014                            Clarke\n  Hath not thy heart within thee burned\u2014                    Bulfinch\n  Have mercy, O Father\u2014                                      Furness\n  He hides within the lily\u2014                                  Gannett\n  He leads us on by paths we did not know\u2014                     Wiley\n  He sendeth sun, he sendeth\u2014                                  Anon.\n  He who himself and God would know\u2014                  Longfellow, S.\n  Head of the church triumphant\u2014                               Anon.\n  Hear, Father, hear our prayer\u2014                               Anon.\n  Hear, hear, O ye nations\u2014                                   Hosmer\n  Heir of all the waiting ages\u2014                                  Ham\n  Here holy thoughts a light have shed\u2014                      Emerson\n  Here in a world of doubt\u2014                                  Furness\n  Here in the broken bread\u2014                                  Furness\n  Here to the high and holy One\u2014                               Flint\n  Holy Father, gracious art Thou\u2014                            Furness\n  Holy, holy Lord\u2014                                         Goldsmith\n  Holy Son of God most high\u2014                                Bulfinch\n  Holy Spirit, Fire divine\u2014                                    Hedge\n  Holy Spirit, source of gladness\u2014                    Longfellow, S.\n  Holy Spirit, Truth Divine\u2014\n      altered to\n  Holy Spirit, Light Divine\u2014                          Longfellow, S.\n  Hosanna in the highest!\u2014                                   Lathrop\n  How blest are they whose transient years\u2014                   Norton\n  How glorious is the hour\u2014                                 Bulfinch\n  How shall come the kingdom holy\u2014                            Savage\n  How shall I know thee\u2014                                      Bryant\n  How softly on the western hills\u2014                 Peabody, W. B. O.\n\n\n                                    I\n  I bless Thee, Lord, for sorrows sent\u2014                      Johnson\n  I came not hither of my will\u2014                               Hosmer\n  I cannot always trace the way\u2014                               Anon.\n  I cannot find Thee, still on restless pinion\u2014              Scudder\n  I cannot think of them as dead\u2014                             Hosmer\n  I cannot walk in darkness long\u2014                              Mason\n  I feel within a want\u2014                                      Furness\n  I hear it often in the dark\u2014                               Gannett\n  I hear Thy voice, within the silence\u2014                          Ham\n  I heard the bells on Christmas Day\u2014              Longfellow, H. W.\n  I little see, I little know\u2014                                Hosmer\n  I long did roam afar\u2014                              Williams, T. C.\n  I look to Thee in every need\u2014                       Longfellow, S.\n  I saw on earth another light\u2014                             Very, J.\n  Immortal by their deed and word\u2014                            Hosmer\n  In ages past majestic prophets\u2014                          Waterston\n  In pleasant lands have fallen\u2014                               Flint\n  In quiet hours the tranquil soul\u2014                           Larned\n  In the beginning was the word\u2014                      Longfellow, S.\n  In the broad fields of heaven\u2014                               Anon.\n  In the lonely midnight\u2014                            Williams, T. C.\n  In the morning I will praise\u2014\n      altered to\n  In the morning I will pray\u2014                                Furness\n  In the Saviour\u2019s hour of death\u2014                           Bulfinch\n  In Thee my powers and treasures\u2014                           Scudder\n  Into the silent land\u2014                            Longfellow, H. W.\n  Is there a lone and dreary hour\u2014                        Gilman, C.\n  It came upon the midnight clear\u2014                             Sears\n  It is a faith sublime and sure\u2014                            Perkins\n  It is finished! Glorious word\u2014                            Bulfinch\n  It is finished, Man of sorrows\u2014                              Hedge\n  It singeth low in every heart\u2014                            Chadwick\n  It sounds along the ages\u2014                                  Gannett\n\n\n                                    J\n  Jesus, a child his course began\u2014                            Fuller\n  Jesus has lived! and we\u2014                                     Alger\n\n\n                                    K\n  Kingdom of God, the day how blest\u2014                           Beach\n\n\n                                    L\n  Laborers of Christ, arise\u2014                               Sigourney\n  Lead us, O Father, in the paths of peace\u2014                 Burleigh\n  Let the still air rejoice\u2014                                Pierpont\n  \u201cLet there be light!\u201d when\u2014                                  Anon.\n  Let whosoever will inquire\u2014                                Scudder\n  Life is real! Life is earnest\u2014                   Longfellow, H. W.\n  Life of Ages, richly poured\u2014                               Johnson\n  Life of all that lives below\u2014                       Longfellow, S.\n  Life of God, within my soul\u2014                        Longfellow, S.\n  Lift aloud the voice of praise\u2014                        Peabody, E.\n  Lift your glad voices in triumph on high\u2014                     Ware\n  Light of ages and of nations\u2014                       Longfellow, S.\n  Like Israel\u2019s host to exile driven\u2014                           Ware\n  Like pilgrims sailing through the night\u2014                Harris, F.\n  Lo, the day of days is here\u2014                                Hosmer\n  Lo! the day of rest declineth\u2014                         Robbins, C.\n  Lo, the earth is risen again\u2014                       Longfellow, S.\n  Lo, the Easter-tide is here\u2014                                Hosmer\n  Look from Thy sphere\u2014                                       Bryant\n  Lord, beneath thine equal hand\u2014\n      altered to\n  Lord, beneath whose equal hand\u2014                               Hall\n  Lord deliver, thou canst save\u2014                              Follen\n  Lord, I believe, and in my faith\u2014                           Badger\n  Lord, in this sacred hour\u2014                                Bulfinch\n  Lord, in thy garden agony\u2014                                   Anon.\n  Lord, may the spirit of this feast\u2014                          Anon.\n  Lord of all being, throned afar\u2014                     Holmes, O. W.\n  Lord of all, we bow before Thee\u2014                         Waterston\n  Lord of all worlds\u2014                                   Adams, J. Q.\n  Lord of the worlds below\u2014                                  Freeman\n  Lord, once our faith in man\u2014                               Johnson\n  Lord, when thine ancient people cried\u2014                      Sewall\n  Lord, who dost the voices bless\u2014                   Williams, T. C.\n  Lord, who ordainest for mankind\u2014                            Bryant\n  Love for all! and can it be\u2014                        Longfellow, S.\n\n\n                                    M\n  Many things in life there are\u2014                              Hosmer\n  Meek and lowly, pure and holy\u2014                               Anon.\n  Meek hearts are by sweet manna fed\u2014                          Anon.\n  Men whose boast it is that ye\u2014                              Lowell\n  Mighty One, before whose face\u2014                              Bryant\n  Mine eyes have seen the glory\u2014                                Howe\n  Morning, so fair to see\u2014                                  Silliman\n  Mortal, the angels say\u2014                                      Anon.\n  My country, to thy shore\u2014                          Williams, T. C.\n  My feet are worn and weary\u2014                                  Anon.\n  My God, I rather look to Thee\u2014                             Scudder\n  My God, I thank Thee: may no thought\u2014                       Norton\n  My God, I thank Thee that the night\u2014\n      altered to\n  O God, I thank Thee\u2014                                      Pierpont\n  My God, in life\u2019s most doubtful hour\u2014                     Hurlburt\n  My heart of dust was made\u2014                         Williams, T. C.\n  My life flows on in endless song\u2014                            Anon.\n  My Shepherd is the Lord\u2014                              Adams, J. Q.\n  My soul, before thy Maker\u2014                            Adams, J. Q.\n  Mysterious Presence, Source of all\u2014                          Beach\n\n\n                                    N\n  Nature with eternal youth\u2014                               Waterston\n  No human eyes Thy face may see\u2014                          Higginson\n  Not always on the Mount may we\u2014                             Hosmer\n  Not given to us from out the sky\u2014                           Wendte\n  Not gold, but only men can make\u2014                 See under Emerson\n  Not in the solitude\u2014                                        Bryant\n  Not in vain I poured my supplication\u2014                     Burleigh\n  Not only doth the voiceful day\u2014                           Burleigh\n  Not when, with self dissatisfied\u2014                           Hosmer\n  Now on land and sea descending\u2014                     Longfellow, S.\n  Now sing we a song of the harvest\u2014                        Chadwick\n  Now with creation\u2019s morning song\u2014                   Longfellow, S.\n  Now while the day in trailing splendor\u2014                     Hosmer\n  Now while we sing our closing hymn\u2014                 Longfellow, S.\n\n\n                                    O\n  O, all ye people\u2014                                     Adams, J. Q.\n  \u201cO beautiful, my country\u201d\u2014                                  Hosmer\n  O blest the souls that see and hear\u2014                        Hosmer\n  O bow Thine ear, Eternal One\u2014                             Pierpont\n  O church of freedom and of faith\u2014                   Longfellow, S.\n  O day of light and gladness\u2014                                Hosmer\n  O deem not that earth\u2019s crowning bliss\u2014                   Burleigh\n  O Father, fix this wavering will\u2014                   Longfellow, S.\n  O Father, take this new-built shrine\u2014                  Hale, E. E.\n  O Father, Thou who givest all\u2014                       Holmes, J. H.\n  O Father, while I live, I pray\u2014                      Holmes, J. H.\n  O for a prophet\u2019s fire\u2014                                    Furness\n  O from these visions, dark\u2014                                Bartrum\n  O God! a temple to thy name\u2014                        Longfellow, S.\n  O God, accept this sacred hour\u2014                         Gilman, S.\n  O God, I thank Thee for each sight\u2014                          Mason\n  O God, in whom we live and move\u2014\n      altered to\n  O Thou, in whom we live and move\u2014                   Longfellow, S.\n  O God of freedom! Hear us pray\u2014                            Chapman\n  O God of Light and Love\u2014                                 Waterston\n  O God, our dwelling-place\u2014                           Wilson, L. G.\n  O God, thou giver of all good\u2014                      Longfellow, S.\n  O God! thy children gathered here\u2014                  Longfellow, S.\n  O God unseen, but ever near\u2014                        Longfellow, S.\n  O God, whose dread and dazzling brow\u2014                       Bryant\n  O God, whose law is in the sky\u2014                             Savage\n  O God, whose presence glows in all\u2014             Frothingham, N. L.\n  O God, whose smile is in the sky\u2014                    Holmes, J. H.\n  O God, with goodness all thine own\u2014                   Adams, J. Q.\n  O heal me, Lord\u2014                                      Adams, J. Q.\n  O heavenly gift of love divine\u2014                           Very, J.\n  O Holy Father, mid the calm\u2014                              Burleigh\n  O holy, holy, holy, art Thou\u2014                       Longfellow, S.\n  O, judge me, Lord\u2014                                    Adams, J. Q.\n  O Life that maketh all things new\u2014                  Longfellow, S.\n  O Light, from age to age the same\u2014                          Hosmer\n  O Lord my God! how great\u2014                             Adams, J. Q.\n  O Lord of hosts, Almighty King\u2014                      Holmes, O. W.\n  O Lord of life, thy kingdom is at hand\u2014                        Ham\n  O Lord of Life, where\u2019er they be\u2014                           Hosmer\n  O Lord, thy all-discerning\u2014                           Adams, J. Q.\n  O Love Divine, lay on me burdens\u2014                       Huntington\n  O Love Divine, of all that is\u2014                            Chadwick\n  O Love Divine, that stooped to share\u2014                Holmes, O. W.\n  O Love of God most full\u2014                                     Clute\n  O my country, land of promise\u2014                                 Ham\n  O Name, all other names above\u2014                              Hosmer\n  O North, with all thy vales\u2014                                Bryant\n  O Prophet souls of all the years\u2014                           Hosmer\n  O sing with loud and joyful song\u2014                            Blake\n  O speed thee, Christian\u2014                                     Anon.\n  O star of truth, down shining\u2014                              Savage\n  O stay thy tears; for they are blest\u2014                       Norton\n  O still in accents sweet and strong\u2014                Longfellow, S.\n  O suffering Friend of all mankind\u2014                        Bulfinch\n  O that the race of men\u2014                               Adams, J. Q.\n  O the beautiful old story\u2014                                  Alcott\n  O Thou, at whose dread name we stand\u2014                      Sprague\n  O thou great Friend to all the sons\u2014                        Parker\n  O Thou, in all thy might so far\u2014                            Hosmer\n  O thou in lonely vigil led\u2014                                 Hosmer\n  O Thou in whom alone is found\u2014                                Ware\n  O Thou, in whom we live and move\u2014                   Longfellow, S.\n  O Thou, in whose Eternal Name\u2014                          Huntington\n  O Thou that once on Horeb stood\u2014                        Huntington\n  O Thou to Whom in ancient times\u2014                          Pierpont\n  O Thou to whom in prayer and praise\u2014                        Church\n  O Thou who art above all height\u2014                          Pierpont\n  O Thou who art my King\u2014                                     Badger\n  O Thou, who art of all that is\u2014                             Hosmer\n  O Thou, who hearest prayer\u2014                                  Anon.\n  O Thou who on the whirlwind rides\u2014                        Pierpont\n  O Thou who on thy chosen Son\u2014                                 Ware\n  O Thou who turnest into morning\u2014                     Loring, L. P.\n  O thou whose gracious presence\u2014                                Ham\n  O Thou, whose liberal sun and rain\u2014                 Longfellow, S.\n  O Thou, whose love can ne\u2019er forget\u2014                        Bryant\n  O Thou whose own vast temple stands\u2014\n      altered to\n  Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands\u2014                       Bryant\n  O Thou, whose perfect goodness crowns\u2014                    Chadwick\n  O Thou, whose Spirit witness bears\u2014                         Hosmer\n  O Thou with whom in sweet content\u2014                 Foote, H. W., I\n  O troubled sea of Galilee\u2014                           Wilson, L. G.\n  O what concerns it him whose way\u2014                           Norton\n  O when the hours of life are past\u2014               Peabody, W. B. O.\n  O why should friendship grieve\u2014                              Anon.\n  O wondrous depth of grace\u2014                                   Anon.\n  O\u2019er continent and ocean\u2014                            Holmes, J. H.\n  O\u2019er Kedron\u2019s stream and Salem\u2019s\u2014                         Pierpont\n  O\u2019er mountaintops, the mount\u2014                                Anon.\n  Oh, who shall roll the stone away\u2014                             Ham\n  On earth was darkness spread\u2014                                Anon.\n  On eyes that watch through sorrow\u2019s night\u2014                  Hosmer\n  Once to every man and nation\u2014                               Lowell\n  One holy church of God appears\u2014                     Longfellow, S.\n  One saint to another I heard say\u2014                         Very, J.\n  One sweet flower has drooped and faded\u2014                  Waterston\n  One thought I have, my ample creed\u2014                         Hosmer\n  Onward, onward, through the region\u2014                        Johnson\n  Oppression shall not always reign\u2014                            Ware\n  Our Father, while our hearts unlearn\u2014                Holmes, O. W.\n  Our house, our God, we give to Thee\u2014                        Lowell\n  Our pilgrim brethren, dwelling far\u2014               Livermore, S. W.\n  Out of every clime and people\u2014                      Longfellow, S.\n  Out of the dark, the circling sphere\u2014               Longfellow, S.\n  Out of the heart of nature rolled\u2014                         Emerson\n\n\n                                    P\n  Peace, peace on earth! The heart\u2014                   Longfellow, S.\n  Praise for the glorious light\u2014                         Hale, M. W.\n  Praise to God and thanksgiving\u2014                            Gannett\n  Praise to the living God\u2014                         Gannett and Mann\n\n\n                                    R\n  Remember me, the Saviour said\u2014                  Frothingham, N. L.\n  Richly, O richly have I been\u2014                              Furness\n  Ring, O ring, ye Christmas bells\u2014                              Ham\n\n\n                                    S\n  Saviour and dearest friend\u2014                                  Anon.\n  Saviour, and source of every blessing\u2014                       Anon.\n  Saviour, when thy bread we break\u2014                   Robbins, S. D.\n  Seek not afar for beauty\u2014                                   Savage\n  Send down thy truth, O God\u2014                                   Sill\n  Send forth, O God, thy truth\u2014                         Adams, J. Q.\n  Servants of Christ, arise\u2014                               Sigourney\n  Set from the restless world apart\u2014                          Marean\n  Show us thy way, O God\u2014                              Holmes, J. H.\n  Sing forth his high eternal name\u2014                   Longfellow, S.\n  Sing to Jehovah a new song\u2014                           Adams, J. Q.\n  Sing to the Lord a song\u2014                              Adams, J. Q.\n  Slavery and death the cup contains\u2014                        Sargent\n  Sleep, my little Jesus\u2014                                    Gannett\n  Slowly, by Thy hand unfurled\u2014\n      altered to\n  Slowly by God\u2019s hand unfurled\u2014                             Furness\n  Sovereign and transforming Grace\u2014                            Hedge\n  Sovereign of worlds! display\u2014                                Anon.\n  Spirit Divine! attend our prayer\u2014                   Longfellow, S.\n  Spirit of God, in thunder speak\u2014                          Chadwick\n  Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power\u2014                       Westwood\n  Standing forth in life\u2019s rough way\u2014                         Bryant\n  Still wave our streamer\u2019s glorious folds\u2014                    Sears\n  Still will we trust, though earth\u2014                        Burleigh\n  Strong-souled Reformer, whose\u2014                             Johnson\n  Supreme Disposer of the heart\u2014                 See: Longfellow, S.\n  Sure to the mansions of the blest\u2014                    Adams, J. Q.\n  Swift years, but teach me\u2014                                   Anon.\n\n\n                                    T\n  Take my heart, O Father\u2014                                     Anon.\n  Take our pledge, eternal Father\u2014                              Mott\n  Tell me not in mournful numbers\u2014                 Longfellow, H. W.\n  That God is Love, unchanging Love\u2014                         Furness\n  The ages one great minster seem\u2014                            Lowell\n  The brightening dawn and\u2014                                 Burleigh\n  The bud will soon become a flower\u2014                        Very, J.\n  The builders, toiling through the days\u2014                        Ham\n  The changing years, Eternal God\u2014                             Mason\n  The earth, all light and loveliness\u2014                         Miles\n  The evening wind begins to blow\u2014                              Long\n  The God that to our fathers\u2014                                Savage\n  The heavens thy praise are telling\u2014            See: Longfellow, S.\n  The land our fathers left to us\u2014                         Higginson\n  The Lord gave the word\u2014                         Frothingham, N. L.\n  The Lord is in his holy place\u2014                             Gannett\n  The loving Friend to all who bowed\u2014                 Longfellow, S.\n  The morning hangs its signal\u2014                              Gannett\n  The outward building stands complete\u2014                       Hosmer\n  The past is dark with sin and shame\u2014                     Higginson\n  The past yet lives in all its truth\u2014                      Appleton\n  The patriarch\u2019s dove, on weary wing\u2014            Frothingham, N. L.\n  The perfect world by Adam trod\u2014                      Willis, N. P.\n  The rose is queen among the flowers\u2014                        Hosmer\n  The Saviour said \u201cYet one thing more\u201d\u2014           Longfellow, H. W.\n  The spirit of the Lord has stirred\u2014                           Mott\n  The summer days are come again\u2014                     Longfellow, S.\n  The sun is still forever sounding\u2014                           Hedge\n  The very blossoms of our life\u2014                              Savage\n  The voice of God is calling\u2014                         Holmes, J. H.\n  The Will Divine that woke a waiting time\u2014                  Johnson\n  The works, O Lord, our hands\u2014                        Wilson, L. G.\n  The world throws wide its brazen gates\u2014                      Weiss\n  Theories, which thousands cherish\u2014                       Waterston\n  There cometh o\u2019er the spirit\u2014                             Very, W.\n  There is a beautiful land\u2014                                Burleigh\n  There is a strife we all must wage\u2014                       Bulfinch\n  There is a world, and O how blest\u2014                           Anon.\n  There is a world eye hath not seen\u2014         Attributed to Very, J.\n  There is no flock, however watched\u2014              Longfellow, H. W.\n  They are slaves who will not choose\u2014                        Lowell\n  Thirsting for a living spring\u2014                            Appleton\n  This child we dedicate\u2014                                 Gilman, S.\n  This day let grateful praise ascend\u2014                   Hale, M. W.\n  Thou art my morning, God of light\u2014                  Robbins, S. D.\n  Thou art, O God! my East\u2014                           Robbins, S. D.\n  Thou art the Way, and he\u2014                                    Anon.\n  Thou, infinite in love\u2014                                      Miles\n  Thou glorious God, before whose face\u2014                     Chadwick\n  Thou Grace Divine, encircling all\u2014                         Scudder\n  Thou gracious Power, whose mercy\u2014                    Holmes, O. W.\n  Thou Life within my life, than self\u2014                       Scudder\n  Thou Lord of hosts, whose guiding hand\u2014         Frothingham, O. B.\n  Thou Lord of life, our saving health\u2014               Longfellow, S.\n  Thou mighty God, who didst of old\u2014                        Chadwick\n  Thou One in all, thou All in one\u2014                            Beach\n  Thou only Living, only True\u2014                               Furness\n  Thou must go forth alone\u2014                                    Anon.\n  Thou rulest, Lord, the lights on high\u2014             Williams, T. C.\n  Thou unrelenting past\u2014                                      Bryant\n  Thou, who didst stoop below\u2014                                 Miles\n  Thou who dost all things give\u2014                             Furness\n  Thou whose glad summer yields\u2014                             Johnson\n  Thou whose love didst give us birth\u2014\n      altered to\n  Thou whose love brought us to birth\u2014             Foote, H. W., II.\n  Thou whose spirit dwells in all\u2014                          Chadwick\n  Through the changes of the day\u2014                           Burleigh\n  Through willing heart and helping hand\u2014                     Hosmer\n  Thy kingdom come, O Lord\u2014                                   Hosmer\n  Thy kingdom come, on bended knee\u2014                           Hosmer\n  Thy praise, O God, in Zion waits\u2014                          Kimball\n  Thy seamless robe conceals Thee not\u2014                      Chadwick\n  Thy servants\u2019 sandals, Lord\u2014                               Johnson\n  Thy way, O Lord, is in the sea\u2014                             Badger\n  \u2019Tis not Thy chastening hand\u2014                                Anon.\n  \u2019Tis winter now; the fallen snow\u2014                   Longfellow, S.\n  To him who children blessed\u2014                                Clarke\n  To hold thy glory, Lord of all\u2014                    Williams, T. C.\n  To light that shines in stars and souls\u2014                   Johnson\n  To prayer! for the day that God hath blest\u2014                   Ware\n  To prayer, the glorious sun is gone\u2014                          Ware\n  To prayer, to prayer, for morning breaks\u2014                     Ware\n  To the High and Holy One\u2014                                  Furness\n  To the truth that makes us free\u2014                           Furness\n  To Thee, O God in heaven\u2014                                   Clarke\n  To thine eternal arms, O God\u2014                            Higginson\n  Today be joy in every heart\u2014                                Hosmer\n  Toiling through the livelong night\u2014                       Bulfinch\n  Touch Thou mine eyes\u2014                                          Ham\n  Turn not from him who asks of thee\u2014                       Very, J.\n  Turn to the stars of heaven\u2014                          Adams, J. Q.\n  \u2019Twas in the East, the mystic East\u2014                          Hedge\n  \u2019Twas the day when God\u2019s anointed\u2014                           Hedge\n\n\n                                    U\n  Unto thy temple, Lord, we come\u2014                            Collyer\n  Unworthy to be called thy son\u2014                             Furness\n  Uplift the song of praise\u2014                                  Hosmer\n\n\n                                    W\n  We ask not that our path\u2014                                 Burleigh\n  We bless Thee for this sacred day\u2014                      Gilman, C.\n  We follow, Lord, where thou\u2014                                 Anon.\n  We go not on a pilgrimage\u2014                                Very, J.\n  We have not wings; we may not soar\u2014              Longfellow, H. W.\n  We honor those whose work began\u2014                            Horton\n  We love the venerable house\u2014                               Emerson\n  We meditate the day\u2014                            Frothingham, N. L.\n  We pray for truth and peace\u2014                              Hurlburt\n  We pray no more, made lowly wise\u2014                           Hosmer\n  We see the gallant streamer yet\u2014                             Sears\n  We sowed a seed in faith and hope\u2014                  Longfellow, S.\n  We will not weep, for God is standing by\u2014                 Hurlburt\n  What has drawn us thus apart\u2014                             Chadwick\n  What is the world that it should share\u2014                    Furness\n  What is this that stirs within\u2014                            Furness\n  What means this glory round our feet\u2014                       Lowell\n  What power unseen by mortal eye\u2014                          Bulfinch\n  What purpose burns within our hearts\u2014                       Savage\n  Whatever dims the sense of truth\u2014                      Hale, M. W.\n  When adverse winds and waves arise\u2014                      Sigourney\n  When Christ with all his shining train\u2014                     Prince\n  When courage fails, and faith burns low\u2014                    Hosmer\n  When doomed to death the Apostle lay\u2014                       Bryant\n  When from the Jordan\u2019s gleaming wave\u2014               Longfellow, S.\n  When gladness gilds our prosperous day\u2014                   Burleigh\n  When God upheaved the pillared earth\u2014                         Pray\n  When he who from the scourge of wrong\u2014                      Bryant\n  When in silence o\u2019er the deep\u2014                         Hale, M. W.\n  When Israel\u2019s foes, a numerous host\u2014                       Fernald\n  When, o\u2019er the billow-heaving\u2014                        Adams, J. Q.\n  When, on devotion\u2019s seraph wing\u2014                             Miles\n  When shadows gather on our way\u2014                             Hosmer\n  When shall the voice of singing\u2014                             Anon.\n  When the blind suppliant\u2014                                   Bryant\n  When the constant sun returning\u2014                            Hosmer\n  When the gladsome day declineth\u2014                            Savage\n  When the world around us throws\u2014                   Williams, T. C.\n  When this song of praise shall cease\u2014                       Bryant\n  When thy heart, with joy o\u2019erflowing\u2014              Williams, T. C.\n  Where ancient forests round us spread\u2014                      Norton\n  Where is our holy church?\u2014                           Wilson, E. H.\n  Where men on mounts of vision\u2014                              Hosmer\n  While thus [now] thy throne of grace\u2014                  Robbins, C.\n  While with lips with praise that glow\u2014                    Pierpont\n  Whither, midst falling dew\u2014                                 Bryant\n  Who is thy neighbor? He whom thou\u2014               Peabody, W. B. O.\n  Who would sever freedom\u2019s shrine?\u2014                      Gilman, S.\n  Why come not spirits\u2014                                        Anon.\n  Why should I fear\u2014                                    Adams, J. Q.\n  Why slumbereth, Lord, each\u2014                                  Anon.\n  Why weep for those, frail child\u2014                     Loring, W. J.\n  Wild was the day, the wintry sea\u2014                           Bryant\n  Will God, who made the earth\u2014                               Follen\n  Wilt Thou not visit me?\u2014                                  Very, J.\n  With heart\u2019s glad song, dear Lord\u2014                           Young\n  With loving hearts and hands\u2014                                 Ames\n  With praise and prayer our gifts we bring\u2014                    Ware\n  Wonders still the world shall witness\u2014                       Trapp\n  Work, and thou shalt bless the day\u2014                           Dana\n\n\n                                    Y\n  Years are coming, speed them\u2014                               Ballou\n  Yes, to the last command\u2014                               Gilman, S.\n\n\n\n\n                           Transcriber\u2019s Notes\n\n\n--This eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.\n\n--Corrected a few palpable typographical errors.\n\n--Restored a book name, _Hymns of the Ages_, that had apparently dropped\n  out of page 149 of the typescript.\n\n--Added a heading \u201cBiographical Sketches\u201d for consistency with the Table\n  of Contents.\n\n--Tweaked the form of some personal names to be consistent; and added\n  links where possible.\n\n--Created a Book Cover Image, released for free and unrestricted use\n  with this eBook.\n\n--In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by\n  _underscores_.","title":"American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":56870}