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and three years later he wrote “for the Unitarian Festival at the Music Hall [Boston], May 27, 1869” a hymn beginning

_Almighty Father, Thou didst frame_

These hymns, and four others by him, are included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs, Etc._

J. 1634
H.W.F.

Fernald, Woodbury Melcher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, March 21, 1813—December 10, 1873, Boston, Massachusetts. He entered the Universalist ministry in 1835 and served churches of that denomination in Newburyport and Chicopee, Massachusetts, and elsewhere, for a few years. He then became a Unitarian, without entering the ministry of that denomination, and eventually joined the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem in Boston. He did some travelling on behalf of this body, as far west as Wisconsin, in intervals of employment at the Custom House and, later, at the Post Office in Boston. He was author of books and essays, most of them expositions of Swedenborgian doctrine, and of a small amount of occasional verse, published in the periodicals of the day but never collected in a printed volume. In his private collection of his poems are a few hymns, only two of which appear to have had any public use. One beginning

_Great Source of being, truth and love_,

was written for the ordination of Rev. Thomas C. Adam as pastor of the West Universalist Society in Boston, March 12, 1845. The other,

_When Israel, humbled of the Lord_,

a protest against slavery published in the _Boston Journal_, in July, 1861, was included, in part and considerably re-written, in _The Soldier’s Companion: Dedicated to the Defenders of their Country in the Field, by their Friends at Home_. This was published as the Army Number of the _Monthly Journal_, Boston, October, 1861, vol. II, no. 10, a small Unitarian collection of hymns and devotional readings. In this collection the hymn begins,

_When Israel’s foes, a numerous host_,

and is attributed to “Rev. W. M. Fernald,” though it is not included in this form in the author’s private collection of his verse. None of his hymns appear to have had any further use.

H.W.F.

Flint, Rev. James, D.D. Reading, Massachusetts, December 10, 1779—March 4, 1855. He graduated from Harvard College in 1802, and was ordained an orthodox Congregational minister at East Bridgewater in 1806, where he soon adopted more liberal beliefs, and carried most of his congregation with him. In 1821 he accepted a call to the East Church (Unitarian) Salem, Massachusetts, where he served until his death. In 1843 he published _A Collection of Hymns for the Christian Church and Home_, to replace the earlier collection (1788) by Rev. William Bentley, _q.v._, for use in the East Church. Flint’s _Collection_ included several hymns by himself. One of them, “On leaving an old house of worship,” beginning

_Here to the high and holy One_

was included in Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, 1841, as was a second, written in 1840 for the 200^th anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Quincy, Massachusetts, beginning,

_In pleasant lands have fallen the lines_
_That bound our goodly heritage._

This second hymn has been included in a number of later hymnbooks, among them _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.

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H.W.F.

Follen, Mrs. Eliza Lee (Cabot), Boston, Massachusetts, August 15, 1787—January 26, 1860, Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1828 she married Dr. Charles Follen, a German scholar who had sought freedom in this country and who was then teaching German Literature and Ecclesiastical History at Harvard. Later he was minister of the Unitarian Church (now called the Follen Church Society) at East Lexington, Massachusetts. Mrs. Follen both before and after her marriage contributed verse and prose articles to various periodicals and published a number of small books, including _Hymns for Children_, Boston, 1825; _Poems_, 1839, and, while she was in England in 1854, another small volume for children, entitled _The Lark and the Linnet_. These books contain some translations from the German and the versions of a few Psalms.

Her best known hymns are

1. _How sweet to be allowed to pray_, (Resignation)

This first appeared in _The Christian Disciple_, September 1818,
then in her _Poems_, 1839, entitled “Thy will be done.”

2. _How sweet upon this sacred day_ (Sunday)

In _The Christian Disciple_, September, 1828, and in _Poems_,
entitled “Sabbath Day.”

3. _Lord deliver, thou canst save_, (Prayer for the Slave)

In _Songs of the Free_, 1836; in Adams and Chapin’s (Universalist)
_Hymns for Christian Devotion_, Boston, 1845; in Hedge and
Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; and in other
collections, but not included in her _Poems_.

4. _God, thou art good, each perfumed flower_, (God In Nature)

This first appeared in _Hymns for Children_, Boston, 1825,
beginning with a defective line (7s instead of 8s)

(a) _God is good! each perfumed flower_

and altered as above in her _Poems_ and in _The Lark and the
Linnet_.

This hymn underwent further transformations in England. In Emily
Taylor’s _Sabbath Recreations_, 1826, it was included as an
original piece never before printed, and signed “E.L.C.”, the
initials of Mrs. Follen’s maiden name. Possibly she sent a ms.
copy to Miss Taylor before it appeared in Boston. In J. R. Beard’s
British Unitarian _Collection of Hymns_, 1837, it appears as

(b) _Yes, God is good! each perfumed flower_,

J. H. Gurney, the Anglican hymn writer and editor, included it in
his Lutterworth _Collection of Hymns for Public Worship_, 1838,
but, while retaining Mrs. Follen’s opening stanza, rewrote about
half of the remaining four stanzas, and in his later _Marylebone
Collection_, 1851, rewrote it further, beginning it

(c) _Yes, God is Good.—in earth and sky,_

and in a note appended to the Index of first lines he wrote that
he had found the hymn “in a small American volume —— well
conceived, but very imperfectly executed,” and that because of
“successive alterations—the writer has not scrupled to put his
name to it, J.H.G.” In these altered forms the hymn had
considerable use in England (For further details see Julian,
_Dictionary_, 1298).

5. _Will God, who made the earth and sea_, (Child’s Prayer)

In _Poems_, 1839. In Dr. Allan’s (English) _Children’s Worship_ it
is erroneously attributed to “H. Bateman.”

The only one of Mrs. Follen’s hymns in present use is 4_c_, in _The Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, but several of her poems are included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_.

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H.W.F.

Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder (I), Salem, Massachusetts, June 2, 1838—May 29, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts. Educated at Harvard, A.B. 1858; A.M. 1861; graduated at the Harvard Divinity School, 1861. He was minister of King’s Chapel (Unitarian), Boston, from 1861 until his death, and his book, _The Annals of King’s Chapel_ (vol. I, 1882, vol. II, 1896, completed by others) gives an authoritative account of the religious controversies in Colonial Boston. At the time of his death he had in preparation a hymnbook to replace the _Collection of Psalms and Hymns_ which his predecessor, Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood, _q.v._, had published in 1830. His hymnbook was completed by his widow, his sister Mrs. Mary W. Tileston, (_q.v._) and his brother Arthur Foote, and was published in 1891 as _Hymns of the Church Universal_. It was notable for its scholarly catholicity and helped to introduce to American congregations the then popular English hymn tunes of the “cathedral school” by Barnby, Dykes, Stainer, Sullivan and others. The book included the hymn which Mr. Foote had written for the Visitation Day (graduation exercises) at the Divinity School in 1861,

_O Thou with whom in sweet content_

This hymn has also been included in _Hymns for Church and Home_, 1896, in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.

J. 1604
H.W.F.

Foote, Rev. Henry Wilder (II), D.D., Litt.D., Boston, Massachusetts, February 2, 1875—still living. Son of the above; educated at Harvard, A.B. 1897; A.M. 1900; S.T.B. 1902. He entered the Unitarian ministry and has served churches in New Orleans, Louisiana; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Belmont, Massachusetts and Charlottesville, Virginia. From 1914-1924 he was an assistant professor at the Harvard Divinity School where he gave a course on the history of Christian hymnody. He was secretary of the committee which edited _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, published in 1914 by the American Unitarian Association, and was chairman of the committee which edited _Hymns of the Spirit_, published in 1937 by the Beacon Press (to be distinguished from the earlier _Hymns of the Spirit_ by S. Johnson and S. Longfellow, 1864). This later book includes one hymn by Dr. Foote beginning,

_Thou whose love brought us to birth_,

Dr. Foote also edited the words in _The Concord Anthem Book_, 1924, and in _The Second Concord Anthem Book_, 1936, for which Professor Archibald T. Davison selected and edited the music. He is the author of several books and articles on the cultural or religious aspects of American colonial history, one of which, _Three Centuries of American Hymnody_, 1940, covers the period from the publication of the _Bay Psalm Book_ in 1640 to the late nineteen-thirties.

Freeman, James, D.D., Charlestown, Massachusetts, April 22, 1759—November 14, 1835, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1777. In March, 1776, Rev. Henry Caner, rector of King’s Chapel, Boston, left with the British troops when they evacuated the town, accompanied by many of his leading parishioners. The remaining members of the church in September, 1782, engaged James Freeman as a lay “Reader” to conduct worship. The prayers for the King and royal family of England had been dropped and Freemen soon began to omit references to the Trinity, expecting soon to be dismissed as Reader. Instead the congregation voted to revise the liturgy in accordance with his beliefs and in 1785 published the first edition of the “Book of Common Prayer according to the Use of King’s Chapel.” This action led Bishop Seabury, after his arrival in America, to refuse ordination to Freeman, whereupon the congregation ordained him according to Congregational usage. Freeman thus became “the first avowed preacher of Unitarianism in the United States.” He remained active pastor of the Chapel until 1826. He edited a _Collection of Psalms and Hymns for public worship_, published in 1799. It included 155 psalms “selected chiefly from Tate and Brady,” followed by 90 hymns, and remained in use in the Chapel until the publication in 1830 of the much better _Collection_ edited by his successor, Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood, _q.v._ Freeman wrote one hymn

_Lord of the worlds below_ (The Seasons)

which first appeared in his _Collection_, from which it passed to a number of later ones. It is an adaptation for congregational use of Thomson’s “Hymn on the Seasons.” See Putnam, _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_.

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Revised by H.W.F.

Frothingham, Rev. Nathaniel Langdon, D.D., Boston, July 23, 1793—April 4, 1870, Boston. He graduated from Harvard in 1811, and after a brief period of further study and as tutor in the College, he entered the Unitarian ministry and in 1815 was settled as minister of the First Church in Boston, where he served until 1850, when ill-health and approaching blindness caused his resignation. He was one of the most distinguished Boston ministers of his period, and the author of a good deal of verse, published in his _Metrical Pieces, Translated and Original_, 1855, and in a second volume with the same title in 1870. In 1828 he wrote his finest hymn,

1. _O God, whose presence glows in all_

for the ordination of his friend, W. P. Lunt, _q.v._, as minister
of the Second Unitarian Congregational Church, New York, on June
19, of that year.

In 1835 he wrote

2. _We meditate the day_

for the installation of Mr. Lunt as Co-pastor with Rev. Peter
Whitney of the First Church at Quincy, Massachusetts, and in 1839
he wrote

3. _O Lord of life and truth and grace_,

for the ordination of Henry Whitney Bellows in New York.

His later hymns were

4. _O Saviour, whose immortal word_,

“Written for the Dedication of the Church of the Saviour, Boston,
November 16, 1847.”;

5. _Remember me, the Saviour said_, (Communion Service)

6. _The Lord gave the word,_
_’Twas the word of his truth._

7. _The patriarch’s dove, on weary wing_,

8. _They passed away from sight_, (Death and Burial)

9. _When I am weak, I’m strong_ (Spiritual Strength)

Of these hymns the first two were included in Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, 1841; nos. 1, 2, 6 and 7 were included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ (1853); and all but no. 8 are included in the author’s _Metrical Pieces_, 1855. No. 5 had considerable use in the 19^th century, but no. 1 alone survives in 20^th century Unitarian collections.

J. 400, 1564
Revised H.W.F.

Frothingham, Rev. Octavius Brooks, son of Rev. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, D.D., _q.v._, Boston, November 26, 1822—November 27, 1895, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1843, and in 1846 from the Harvard Divinity School, where, for the graduating exercises of his class, he wrote his fine, and only, hymn,

_Thou Lord of Hosts, whose guiding hand_, (Soldiers of the
Cross)

which was included in the _Book of Hymns_ prepared by his classmates, Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson, published later in the same year. He served as minister of the (Unitarian) North Church, Salem, Massachusetts from 1847 to 1855, and became minister of the Third Congregational Church in New York City, resigning in 1879. He was a bold, outspoken, eloquent speaker, and the author of many printed discourses and of several important biographies.

J. 400, 1638
H.W.F.

Furness, Rev. William Henry, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, 1802—January 30, 1896, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1820 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1823, and was given the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Harvard in 1847. In 1825 he was ordained minister of the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia where he served for 50 years before becoming pastor emeritus, his connection with the church covering a period of 71 years. He was an accomplished scholar, and attained distinction as a preacher, an author and a worker in social reforms. His publications include _Notes on the Gospels_, 1836; _Jesus and his Biographers_, 1838; _The History of Jesus_, 1850; _a Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840, in which his earlier hymns were printed; a translation of Schiller’s _Song of the Bell_; and other translations from the German. His collected _Verses, Translations and Hymns_ appeared in 1886. The following hymns by him have had considerable use.

1. _Father in heaven, to Thee my heart_,

Appeared in The _Christian Disciple_, 1822. It was printed in this
form in several collections, including the Unitarian _Hymn and
Tune Book_, 1868. In Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_,
1846, it reads

_Father in heaven, to whom our hearts_

and was reprinted in this form in their _Hymns of the Spirit_,
1864, and in Martineau’s _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873.

This hymn has sometimes been attributed to “H. Ware,” in error.

2. _Feeble, helpless, how shall I_,

Included on the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844, and in later
19^th century Unitarian publications; also in the British _Lyra
Sacra Americana_, 1868, and Thring’s _Collection_, 1882.

3. _Have mercy, O Father_,

Contributed to Martineau’s _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873.

4. _Here in a world of doubt_, (Psalm XLII)

Contributed to the New York Lutheran Coll., 1834, and included in
the author’s _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840 and in Martineau’s
_Hymns_, 1873.

5. _Here in the broken bread_,

Included in the _Appendix_ to the Philadelphia Unitarian
_Collection_, 1828; in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the
Church of Christ_, 1853; and in a few later collections, among
them _The Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868.

6. _Holy Father, Gracious art Thou_,

Contributed to Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873.

7. _I feel within a want_,

Included in the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844; in Hedge and
Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; and in a few
other collections.

8. _In the morning I will praise_ (pray)

In the author’s _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840, this hymn
began

_In the morning I will raise_

and was thus included in Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873, but in
Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, and later American
collections the first stanza is dropped and the hymn begins

_In the morning I will pray_

9. _O for a prophet’s fire,_

Included in the _Appendix_ to the Philadelphia Unitarian
_Collection_, 1828, and in the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844.

10. _Richly, O richly have I been_,

Written in 1823 and included in the author’s _Manual of Domestic
Worship_, 1840. In Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846,
and in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, it is altered to begin

_O richly, Father, have I been_

In Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853,
and most later Unitarian and other collections, the opening stanza
is dropped and it begins with the second stanza,

_Unworthy to be called Thy son_,

11. _She is not dead, but sleepeth_

Included in the author’s _Verses, Translations and Hymns_, 1886.

12. _Slowly by Thy [God’s] hand unfurled_

Written in 1825 and included in the author’s _Manual of Domestic
Worship_, 1840. In Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of
Christ_, 1853, the first line was changed to read,

_Slowly by God’s hand unfurled_,

and was thus printed in the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868.
In Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873, and in most later American Unitarian
collections, the original reading has been retained.

13. _That God is Love, unchanging Love_,

Written in 1892 and included in _Hymns for Church and Home_, 1896,
and in _The Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908.

14. _Thou only Living, only True_,

An ordination hymn, dated 1868, included in Martineau’s _Hymns_,
1873.

15. _Thou who dost all things give_

Written in 1869. Included in the author’s _Verses, Translations
and Hymns_, 1886; in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1904; and in Horder’s
_Treasury of American Sacred Song_, 1896.

16. _To the High and Holy One_,

This is printed in full in _Lyra Sacra Americana_, 1868. In
Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, the first
stanza is dropped and it begins with the 2^nd stanza,

_To the truth that makes us free_,

17. _What is the world that it should share_,

Printed in the _Christian Disciple_, 1822, and in Martineau’s
_Hymns_, 1873. It begins with the second stanza of a hymn of which
the opening line reads,

_Here in Thy temple, Lord, we bow_,

In _Lyra Sacra Americana_ it is altered to read

_Oh, is there aught on earth to share_

18. _What is this that stirs within_?

Printed in the author’s _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840; in the
Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844, in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns
for the Church of Christ_, and in a good many other American
collections.

Dr. Furness’s hymns, though creditable religious verse of the period and widely esteemed because of the author’s distinction, nowhere attain a very high level of poetic beauty, and almost all of them have passed out of use. Only nos. 8, 10, and 12 were included in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and only no. 12 survives in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.

J. 402, 1638
Revised by H.W.F.

Fuller, Sarah Margaret, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 23, 1810—July 16, 1850, in a shipwreck south of New York. In 1847 she married the Marchese Ossoli in Rome. She did educational work in Boston and in Providence, Rhode Island, edited _The Dial_ in 1840, and was noted locally for her intellectual brilliance. Memorials of her by R. W. Emerson, W. H. Channing and J. F. Clarke appeared in 1851, her _Works_ in 1874.

Her hymn beginning

_Jesus, a child his course began_, (Christ the Pattern of
Childhood)

from _Life Without and Life Within_, 1859, p. 404, had some use in Great Britain as well as in America.

J. 1585
H.W.F.

Gannett, Rev. William Channing, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, March 13, 1840—December 15, 1923, Rochester, New York. He graduated from Harvard College in 1860; taught school in Newport, Rhode Island one year; and spent four years on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, as agent for the New England Freedmen’s Society doing relief and educational work with the thousands of Negro refugees gathered there. In 1865 he studied for a year in Europe, then entered the Harvard Divinity School from which he graduated in 1868. His first pastorate was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1868-1871. He then spent several years writing a biography of his father, Ezra Stiles Gannett, who had been William Ellery Channing’s successor as minister of the Federal Street Church, Boston. He was minister of Unity Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1877-1883; served the Western Unitarian Conference for four years; was minister at Hinsdale, Illinois, 1887-1889; and of the Unitarian Church in Rochester, New York, 1889-1908, where he remained as minister-emeritus until his death. Throughout his professional career he was closely associated with Frederick Lucian Hosmer, _q.v._ Together they published three small collections entitled _The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems_, the first in 1885, the second in 1894, the third in 1918; and together they also edited _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, 1880, revised edition in 1911. James Vila Blake, _q.v._, was co-editor of the first edition. This little hymn book is a markedly individualistic production with many of the older hymns altered to conform to the beliefs of the editors.

In these publications, in which most of their own hymns were first published, and in the careful workmanship with which their thought was brought to a perfection of poetic utterance, Gannett and Hosmer may be compared to Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson whose _Book of Hymns_, 1846, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, had appeared a generation earlier.

Dr. Gannett’s hymns are listed, with annotations “based upon ms. notes kindly supplied by the author” in Julian’s _Dictionary of Hymnology_, pp. 1638-9, as follows:

1. _Bring, O morn thy music! Night thy starlit silence!_ (God
Everlasting)

Written in 1892, and printed in _A Chorus of Faith_, being an
account and resumé of the Parliament of Religions, held in
Chicago, 1893. Included in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series,
1894, and again in several hymnals.

2. _Clear in memory’s silent reaches_, (Memory)

Written in 1877 for a Free Religious Association Festival, and
published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885.

3. _From heart to heart, from creed to creed_, (Faith)

Written in 1875 for 150^th anniversary of the First Religious
Society of Newburyport, and given in _The Thought of God_, 1^st
Series, 1885.

4. _He hides within the lily_, (Divine Providence)

“Consider the lilies, how they grow.” Written in 1873, and printed
for use at the Free Religious Association Festival, May 30, 1873.
Published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885, in 4 st. of
8 l. The most widely used of the author’s hymns.

5. _I hear it often in the dark_, (The Voice of God)

Written at Milwaukee in 1870, and published in _The Thought of
God_, 1^st Series, 1885. Sometimes it begins with St. iii, “O God
within, so close to me,” as in _Hys. for Church and Home_, Boston,
1895.

6. _Praise to God and Thanksgiving_, (Harvest)

Written in 1882 for a Harvest Festival at St. Paul, Minnesota,
where he was then a pastor, and included in _The Thought of God_,
1^st Series, 1885. In the Boston _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1904, and in
_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, it begins

_Praise to God, and thanks we bring_,

7. _Sleep, my little Jesus_, (Christmas Carol)

Written for the Sunday School, St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1882, and
given in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894, as “Mary’s
Manger Song.”

8. _The Lord is in His holy place_ (Dedication of a Place of
Worship)

Written for the Dedication of the Rev. C. W. Wendte’s Church,
Chicago, April 24, 1873, and published in _The Thought of God_,
1^st Series, 1885. It is one of the most popular and widely used
of the author’s hymns.

9. _The morning hangs its signal_, (Morning)

This is dated by the author “Chicago, July 30, 1886,” and printed
in _Love to God and Love to Man_, being no. 28 of the Chicago
“Unity Mission” series of hymns, n.d. It is also included in _The
Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894. Although a morning hymn it is
adapted for use in Advent. It is usually known as “The Crowning
Day.”

Of the hymns thus listed in Julian’s _Dictionary_ Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 9 have been widely used and are included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. No. 1 was written to be set to J. B. Dykes’ tune _Nicaea_, to which it is usually sung. No. 4 is probably the earliest hymn in the English language to give a religious interpretation of the then novel and controversial doctrine of evolution. No. 9, as included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, is attributed to “William Channing Gannett and others”, being an arrangement from one of his poems.

Another fine hymn by Dr. Gannett beginning,

10. _God laid his rocks in courses_,

is unaccountably missing from the above list in Julian’s
_Dictionary_. It is dated 1888 and was written for the dedication
of the church in Hinsdale which was erected shortly before his
pastorate there came to an end.

_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, also includes as a hymn beginning,

11. _It sounds along the ages_,

an arrangement of stanzas from one of Dr. Gannett’s poems entitled
“The Word of God.”

Finally, mention should be made of his part in giving form to the great hymn beginning

12. _Praise to the living God! All praiséd be his name!_

This is a metrical version of the Yigdal, a summary of the Jewish
faith attributed to Daniel Ben Judah who lived about the 14^th
century A.D. About 1760 Thomas Olivers, a Methodist preacher
visiting a Jewish synagogue in London, heard it chanted in Hebrew
by the cantor Leoni (Meyer Lyon) to a traditional melody. Much
impressed he secured a prose translation which he turned into the
hymn beginning

_The God of Abraham praise_,

to be sung to the same tune, to which he gave the name Leoni. His
version, however, did not follow the original text at all closely,
for he gave it a Christian interpretation. (A detailed account of
this episode will be found in Julian’s _Dictionary_, pp.
1149-1151.) This hymn soon became, and has remained, widely
popular. In the 1880’s Rabbi Max Landsberg of Temple Berith Kodesh
in Rochester, New York, a friend of Rev. Newton Mann, _q.v._ then
minister of the Unitarian Church in Rochester, asked Mr. Mann if
he could not make a metrical version of the Yigdal in English
which would be a more exact translation. Mr. Mann did so, but not
in the metre of the tune to which the Hebrew text was sung. After
Dr. Gannett had succeeded Mr. Mann in Rochester, Rabbi Landsberg
asked him to recast Mr. Mann’s version in the same metre as the
tune. Dr. Gannett did so, and his version in 5 stas. was included
in the Jewish _Union Hymnal_, 1910, from which, with one stanza
omitted and some other alterations which in most cases are not
improvements, it has come into a number of Christian hymn books.
The unchanged version in 4 stas. will be found in _Hymns of the
Spirit_, 1937, where it is recorded as “Revised version of the
Yigdal of Daniel Ben Judah” and the tune is called “Yigdal
(Leoni)” and is described as “Jewish Melody, arr. by Meyer Lyon.”
Dr. Gannett never claimed this version as his, and it is now
impossible to discover how much of its wording is due to Mr.
Mann’s earlier verse, but its poetic perfection is highly
suggestive of Dr. Gannett’s craftsmanship, which assuredly has
contributed much to its present form.

H.W.F

Gilman, Mrs. Caroline (Howard), Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 1794—September 18, 1888, Washington D. C. She married Rev. Samuel Gilman, _q.v._, on October 14, 1819, and after his death in 1858 lived for a time in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later in Tiverton, Long Island, New York.

She began to write stories and poems at an early age, many of which were published in “The Rosebud,” later called “The Southern Rose,” a juvenile weekly paper published in Charleston, South Carolina, which she edited for several years, beginning in 1832. Her book entitled “Verses of a Lifetime” was published in 1854, as were a number of other books which gave her a considerable reputation as an author. Five of her poems are included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc. Two of her hymns had considerable use,

1. _Is there a lone and dreary hour_, (Providence)

This was contributed to Sewall’s _Collection_, 1820, in 4 stanzas
of 4 lines, to which in 1867 she added a fifth stanza for
inclusion in the Charleston _Services and Hymns_. This hymn had
wide use in both British and American collections in the 19^th
century.

2. _We bless Thee for this sacred day_ (Sunday)

Also contributed to Sewall’s _Collection_, 1820, in 4 stanzas of 4
lines, to which she added a fifth stanza, when included in the
Charleston _Services and Hymns_, 1867.

Neither of these hymns is in current use.

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Gilman, Rev. Samuel, D.D., Gloucester, Massachusetts, February 16, 1791—February 9, 1858, Kingston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1811, served the College as tutor in mathematics for two years, and studied in the Harvard Divinity School. On December 1, 1819, he was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church in Charleston, South Carolina, which he served with great distinction until his death, which occurred while on a visit to Massachusetts. His wife, Caroline Howard Gilman, _q.v._, was a writer noted in her day. He wrote a good many poems and essays, published in magazines; a book, “Memoirs of a New England Village Choir,” 1829, which ran to three editions; and in 1856 a volume of his miscellaneous essays, entitled “Contributions to Literature, Descriptive, Critical, Humorous, Biographical, Philosophical and Poetical.” His two best known songs were _The Union Ode_, composed for the Union party of South Carolina and sung there on July 4, 1831, during the Nullification excitement, and later in the North during the Civil War; and the college hymn _Fair Harvard_, which he wrote in 1836. He had come to Cambridge for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his graduation and the 200^th anniversary of the founding of the College. On the eve of the celebration, having already an established reputation as a poet, he was asked to write a song for the occasion and it was sung at the meeting on September 8, 1836, to a tune popular at the time, composed for the song “Believe me, if all those endearing young charms.” Harvard gave him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1837.

He wrote a number of hymns of minor importance.

1. _O God, accept this sacred hour_ (Communion)

was contributed to Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris’s _Hymns for the
Lord’s Supper_, 1820, and was republished in Sewall’s New York
Collection of the same year, in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for
the Church of Christ_, 1853, and other collections.

2. _This child we dedicate to Thee_ (Christening)

In Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_ the
author’s name is not given and the piece is attributed to the
_West Boston Collection_, 1823. Putnam, in _Singers and Songs_,
etc., p. 73, gives four of its original stanzas, and says that it
is a translation from the German, but the original has not been
traced.

3. _We sing Thy mercy, God of love_, (Communion)

Contributed to _Hymns of the Lord’s Supper_ and included in
Sewall’s New York _Collection_.

4. _Who would sever freedom’s shrine?_

A song supporting the Union cause, of which Gilman was a strong
advocate, written at the time of the Nullification agitation.
Several stanzas from it, beginning as above, were included in _The
Soldier’s Companion_, 1861.

5. _Yes, to the [that] last command_ (Communion)

Like no. 1 and 3 included in _Hymns for the Lord’s Supper_ and in
Sewall’s _Collection_.

All these hymns have long since passed out of use.

Gilman (with C. M. Taggart) edited the _Charleston Collection_ in 1854, under the title _Services and Hymns for the use of the Unitarian Church of Charleston, S.C._, a second and enlarged edition of which appeared in 1867. It included three of his hymns, nos. 1, 3 and 5, listed above, and the two by his wife, Caroline Gilman, _q.v._, listed under her name.

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Goldsmith, Rev. Peter Hair, D.D. (1865-1926) was born in Greenville, South Carolina. He was educated at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, and served several Baptist churches before transferring his membership to the Unitarian denomination, after which he served as minister to the First Church in Salem, Massachusetts, 1903-1910, and to the church in Yonkers, New York, 1910-1917.

In 1912 he wrote a hymn beginning,

_Holy, holy Lord,_
_We with one accord,_

which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, but has not passed into other collections.

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Greenough, James Bradstreet, Portland, Maine, 1833-1901, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1856, was appointed tutor in 1865, assistant professor in 1873, and professor of Latin in 1883. In 1884 he wrote the Latin hymn in four stanzas beginning

_Deus omnium creator_,

for the tune _Harvard Hymn_ which his friend, John Knowles Paine, professor of music at Harvard, had composed in 1883 for use at the Harvard Commencement dinner.

It is included in _The University Hymn Book_, 1896, and in _The Harvard University Hymn Book_, 1926.

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Greenwood, Helen Woodward, Leominster, Massachusetts, April 18, 1880—April 2, 1959, Leominster. She was for many years engaged in secretarial work for the General Alliance of Unitarian Women at 25 Beacon Street, Boston. A hymn by her, beginning

_As once again we gather here_

is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908.

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Hale, Rev. Edward Everett, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, April 3, 1822—June 10, 1909, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1839, the youngest member of his class. He did not go to the Divinity School, but taught in the Boston Latin School and studied for the ministry under the direction of Rev. S. K. Lothrop and Rev. J. G. Palfrey. He was licensed to preach by the Boston Association and in 1846 was ordained as minister of the Church of the Unity (now the First Unitarian Church), Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1856 he moved to Boston, where he served the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) as minister and minister emeritus until his death. He was a voluminous writer. One of his stories entitled “A Man Without A Country,” and another, “In His Name,” brought him wide reputation. He was a distinguished preacher and a greatly beloved pastor, an ardent advocate of peace who as early as 1871 proposed a “United States of Europe,” and in 1889 outlined a plan for an “International Tribunal.” In 1858 he wrote a hymn “For the dedication of a Church” beginning,

_O Father, take this new-built shrine_,

which was included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, from which Martineau took it for his _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, London, 1873.

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Hale, Mary Whitwell, Boston, Massachusetts, January 29, 1810—November 17, 1862, Keene, New Hampshire. Most of her life she was a school teacher in Boston, later in Taunton, Massachusetts, and, for her last 20 years, in Keene. She wrote a good deal of verse. Two of her poems, one on “Home,” and the second on “Music” were written for a juvenile concert in the Unitarian Church at Taunton, April, 1834. A number of her later hymns and poems appeared in _The Christian Register_, signed by Y.L.E. (the final letters of her name), and in 1840 a volume entitled _Poems_ was published in Boston. Several of her poems are included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc.

Four of her hymns were included in the _Cheshire Collection_, 1844, viz:

1. _Praise for the glorious light_,

Written for a Temperance meeting.

2. _This day let grateful praise ascend_ (Sunday)

3. _Whatever dims the sense of truth_

In Putnam, Singers and Songs, this is entitled “A Mother’s
Counsel,” with a quotation from John Wesley’s mother.

4. _When in silence o’er the deep_ (Christmas)

Of these nos. 2 and 3 were taken from her _Poems_, and nos. 1 and 4 were written for the _Cheshire Collection_. No. 4 is in _Church Harmonies_. 1895, but none of her hymns are in current use.

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Hall, Harriet Ware, Boston, Massachusetts, September 15, 1841—March 18, 1889, Boston. She was a lifelong resident of Boston, a member of King’s Chapel. Two small books by her were privately printed, one a collection of poems entitled _A Book for Friends_, 1888, the other entitled _Essays_, printed posthumously in 1890. The first book contains a hymn beginning

_Lord, beneath thine equal hand_,

in three stanzas, 7.7.7.7.D., dated February 10, 1869, and written for the installation of Rev. E. H. Hall at Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1869. It is included in the _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, the first line altered to read,

_Lord, beneath whose equal hand._

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Ham, Rev. Marion Franklin, D.D., Harveysburg, Ohio, February 18, 1867—July 23, 1956, Arlington, Massachusetts. He was educated in the public schools at Harveysburg, but as a youth moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee to find employment. There he joined the Unitarian Church and, after serving it as a lay reader for several years, was ordained in 1898 as its minister, serving it until 1904. He later served Unitarian churches in Dallas, Texas, 1904-1909; in Reading, Massachusetts, 1909-1934; and in Waverley, Massachusetts, 1934-1939. He began to write verse in 1888, and many of his poems appeared in newspapers and periodicals, some of them being widely reprinted. His collected poems were published in book form in 1896, entitled _The Golden Shuttle_, which reached a fourth edition in 1910. He then turned to hymn writing, and four of his earliest hymns were included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, viz:—

1. _I hear Thy voice, within the silence speaking_, (1913)

2. _O Lord of life, Thy kingdom is at hand_, (1912)

3. _O Thou whose gracious presence shone_ (Communion) (1912)

4. _Touch Thou mine eyes, the sombre shadows falling_, (1911)

These are also included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, as are five later hymns by him, viz:—

5. _As tranquil streams that meet and merge_ (1933)

6. _From Bethany the Master_, (Palm Sunday) (1935)

7. _Heir of all the waiting ages_, (Advent) (1937)

8. _Ring, O ring, ye Christmas bells_ (1932)

9. _The builders, toiling through the days_ (Church dedication)
(1925)

In April, 1936, he wrote an Easter hymn

10. _Oh, who shall roll the stone away?_

which first appeared in the Boston _Transcript_. It is included in _The Hymnal_, 1940.

In his later years he published, or had privately printed, several small booklets containing these and other poems by him: _Songs of the Spirit_, 1932; _Songs of Faith and Hope_, 1940; _Songs at Sunset_, 1951; _Songs of a Lifetime_, 1953; and _In a Rose Garden_, 1956. Of these, _Songs of a Lifetime_ contains what he regarded as his best poems, as well as his latest hymns, among them one widely used on United Nations Sunday, beginning,

11. _Freedom, thy holy light_,

and a fine national hymn,

12. _O my country, land of promise_,

A number of his hymns have been included in the hymnals of several denominations, and No. 2 was translated into Japanese.

Dr. Ham’s hymns manifest a deep spiritual insight expressed with literary craftsmanship of a high order, which make them among the most notable contributions to American hymnody in the first half of the 20^th century.

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Harris, Florence, (Mrs. Robert G. Hooke) (1891-1933) wrote in 1907, for the tenth anniversary of Unity Church (Unitarian), Montclair, New Jersey, of which she was a member a hymn entitled “The Founders,” beginning,

_Like pilgrims sailing through the night_,

which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.

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Harris, Rev. Thaddeus Mason, D.D. (1768-1842). He graduated from Harvard in 1787, entered the ministry and served the First Church in Dorchester, Massachusetts (Unitarian) from 1793 until his resignation in 1836. Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1801 he printed a leaflet with a few hymns, which formed the basis for a larger collection of _Hymns for the Lord’s Supper, original and selected_, [edited] _by Thaddeus Mason Harris. D.D. Boston; printed by Sewall Phelps, No. 5 Court Street, 1820_. A second edition was printed in 1821. This booklet contains original hymns by Rev. John Pierpont, _q.v._, Rev. Samuel Gilman, _q.v._, and others, none of them in use today.

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Hedge, Rev. Frederic Henry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12, 1805—August 21, 1890, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Son of Professor Levi Hedge of Harvard, he was a very precocious child, ready to enter college at 12 years of age, but his father wisely sent him to Germany, with a tutor, George Bancroft, later a noted historian, where he studied in German schools for 5 years. He then returned to Harvard College, graduating in 1825, followed by a period of study in Harvard Divinity School, where he became an intimate friend of R. W. Emerson. He was ordained minister of the First Congregational Parish (Unitarian) in West Cambridge (now Arlington) Massachusetts in 1829. In 1835 he moved to Bangor, Maine, where he served the Independent Congregational Society until 1850, then serving the Westminster Congregational Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 1850-1856. In the latter year he was called to the First Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts, which he served until 1872. His removal to Brookline enabled him to serve as a nonresident professor of ecclesiastical history in the Harvard Divinity School. He retired from the ministry in 1872 and moved to Cambridge, where he was appointed professor of German language and literature, retiring in 1882. He was a man of extraordinary intellectual ability, one of the most learned of his time, and a pioneer in bringing to this country an acquaintance with German literature and metaphysics. Harvard gave him the degree of D.D. in 1852, and that of LL.D. in 1886. He was one of the editors of the _Christian Examiner_, author of _The Prose Writers of Germany_, 1848, of _Reason in Religion_, 1865, of a volume of _Metrical Translations and Poems_ in 1888, and of a large number of essays and sermons. He was president of the American Unitarian Association 1860-1863. He collaborated with Dr. F. D. Huntington, _q.v._, in editing _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, Boston, 1853, to which he contributed three translations from the German:

1. _A mighty fortress is our God_, (Ein’ feste Burg)

2. _Christ hath arisen!_ (Goethe’s Faust)

3. _The sun is still forever sounding_ (Goethe’s Faust)

The Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book for Church and Home_, 1868,
includes his translation from the Latin,

4. _Holy Spirit, Fire Divine_, (Veni, Sancte Spiritus)

Translated 1862.

His original hymns included in _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, are,

5. _Beneath thine hammer, Lord, I lie_,

Undated but “Written at a time of severe trial and deep
depression.”

6. _Sovereign and Transforming Grace_,

Written for the ordination of H. D. Barlow at Lynn, Massachusetts,
December 9, 1829. This fine hymn is appropriate to a service of
worship and, with the omission of one stanza, has been widely
used.

7. _’Twas in the East, the mystic East_,

A Christmas hymn, written about 1853.

8. _’Twas the day when God’s anointed_,

Written for a service in Bangor, Maine, held on Good Friday, 1843,
in six stanzas, the last three of which, beginning

_It is finished, Man of sorrows!_

had considerable use in Great Britain and this country. The whole
six stanzas were included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of
Hymns_, 1846, as “Anonymous.” The last three stanzas are in
Martineau’s _Hymns_ and in many other collections.

He also wrote a hymn beginning

9. _Lo! another offering,_
_To Thy courts this day we bring,_

for his own ordination at West Cambridge in 1829, which was also
used at the ordination of F. A. Whitney, at Brighton,
Massachusetts, on February 24, 1844, but which passed into no
collections.

All these hymns, and two other religious poems, are included in Putnam’s Singers and _Songs of the Liberal Faith_. Most of them had gone out of use by the end of the 19^th century, but nos. 1, 6 and 8 (beginning _It is finished, Man of sorrows_,) are in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.

By far the best known of Hedge’s hymns is his fine and accurate translation of Luther’s great chorale _Ein’ feste Burg_ (no. 1). This is the version accepted by almost all the Protestant denominations in this country, whereas in Great Britain Thomas Carlyle’s earlier translation (1831) is generally used, although James Martineau included Hedge’s version in his _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873, mistakenly attributing it to Samuel Longfellow. Putnam, _op. cit._, 214, says that it was first printed in W. H. Furness’s _Gems of German Verse_, which appeared in Philadelphia, without date but undoubtedly in the latter part of 1853, a second edition following in 1859. That Hedge should have sent his translation of the chorale to Furness without delay was natural, because the two men were close friends with a common interest in German literature, and Putnam was the younger contemporary of both, in a position to know that Furness’s little book had appeared on the market a few days, or weeks, ahead of the collection of hymns which Hedge and F. D. Huntington were editing and which they published late in 1853 as _Hymns for the Church of Christ_.

The earliest record of the hymn, however, is to be found in the autograph letter (now in the Harvard University Library) which Hedge wrote to Rev. Joseph H. Allen, his successor in the pulpit at Bangor, Maine, asking him to recommend hymns for inclusion in the book on which he and Huntington were working. This letter is dated “Providence, March 27th, 1853.” In the course of it Hedge wrote, “I have made a new translation of Luther’s splendid psalm ‘Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott’ Carlyle’s translation not being available.” This statement is followed by the four stanzas of his translation. That book contained no printed tunes, only citing the metre at the head of each hymn as a guide to the organist, but in his letter Hedge goes on with the surprizing statement, “The original is much sung in Germany and therefore I suppose that it will not be difficult to find a tune for it.” Since he must have become familiar with both the words and the music of the famous chorale when he was a youthful student in Germany this remark indicates that the tune was still unknown in America, and that he took little interest in introducing it.

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Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12, 1822—May 9, 1911, Cambridge. He graduated from Harvard College in 1841 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1847. Entering the Unitarian ministry he served churches in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1847-1850, and in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1852-1858. He was an ardent Abolitionist and when the Civil War came he entered the Union Army, in which he rose to the command of a Negro regiment. After the war he became a man of letters and published several books and numerous essays. While still a student in the Divinity School he contributed to the _Book of Hymns_, 1846, which his friends Longfellow and Johnson were preparing, four hymns, which they marked with an asterisk, viz:

1. _No human eyes Thy face may see_ (God known through love)

2. _The land our fathers left to us_ (American Slavery)

3. _The past is dark with sin and shame_, (Hope)

4. _To thine eternal arms, O God_, (Lent)

The last two have had considerable use. Both express the pessimistic mood with which the young man viewed the evils of the time.

One of his later poems of social justice has also had some use as a hymn,

5. _From street and square, from hill and glen,_
_Of this vast world beyond my door._

His four hymns in the _Book of Hymns_, with other poems by him, are included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs, of the Liberal Faith_, 1875. Of the above hymns those listed as 3 and 5 are included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.

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Hill, Rev. Thomas, D.D., L.L.D., New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 7, 1818—November 21, 1891, Portland, Maine.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1843 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1845. He served as minister of the First Parish (Unitarian) in Waltham, Massachusetts from 1845 to 1859; was president of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1859-1862; president of Harvard University, 1862-1868; and minister of the First Parish of Portland, Maine, 1873 to 1891. He was distinguished as a mathematician.

In the earlier part of his career he wrote or translated many hymns which found publication in current periodicals, usually anonymously or signed only with cryptic initials. One by him, beginning,

_All holy, ever living One,_

was included in a few hymn books of the 19^th century, but has dropped out of use. A few others, mostly written for special occasions, are in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, but none have found other use.

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Holland, Joseph Gilbert, Belchertown, Massachusetts, July 24, 1819—October 12, 1881. A newspaper man on the staff of the _Springfield Republican_ who became editor of _Scribner’s Magazine_ in 1870. Author of several books and some poetical pieces. One of the latter, beginning

_For summer’s bloom, and autumn’s blight_, (Praise in and
through all things)

from his _Bitter Sweet_, 1858, was included in the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book for Church and Home_, Boston, 1868.

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Holmes, Rev. John Haynes, D.D.; Litt. D.; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1879—still living. He graduated from Harvard, _summa cum laude_ in 1902, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1904. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Jewish Institute of Religion in 1930, from St. Lawrence University in 1931, and from Meadville Theological School in 1945; Doctor of Letters from Benares Hindu University, India, in 1947, and Doctor of Humanities from Rollins College, Florida, in 1951. He was installed as minister of the Third Religious Society (Unitarian), Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1904, and went to New York in 1907 as associate and successor to Rev. Robert Collyer, _q.v._, minister of the Second Congregational Unitarian Society, (Church of the Messiah, now called the Community Church of New York) of which he became pastor emeritus in 1949. He withdrew from the Unitarian fellowship in 1919, not on theological grounds but because he preferred a position independent of any denominational label. Throughout his career in New York he has been an outspoken leader in many causes for social betterment, and a prolific author in prose and verse who has published a large number of books, religious and biographical, and of printed sermons. No other American author of his period has written so many fine hymns which have been widely used in this country, in England, and in Japan.

1. _Accept, O Lord, this precious gift_

8.6.8.6. 3 stas.

Written for dedication on October 31, 1943, of Chapel in the
rebuilt Community Church.

2. _Accept, O Lord, this temple_,

7.6.7.6.7.6. 3 stas.

Written on the occasion of the rededication of the Community
Church, December 31, 1922.

3. _All hail the pageant of the years_,

8.6.8.6.8.8. 5 stas. Undated

Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.

4. _Almighty God, beneath whose eye_

C.M.D. 4 stas.

An early hymn written for Labor Day Sunday in 1910.

5. _Almighty God, to whom the dark_

C.M.D. 3 stas. 8 l.

A Vesper hymn written in 1906.

6. _America triumphant! Brave land of pioneers._

7.6.7.6.D. 5 stas.

Written during World War I, in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.

7. _Behold, O God! our holy house_,

C.M. 5 stas. September, 1919

Written on the occasion of the burning of the Community Church,
September 11, 1919.

8. _Be with us, Father, in this place._

Dated 1945.

9. _Bless, thou, O God, this fellowship_

8.6.8.6.D. 3 stas.

Written for the Installation of Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, B.D.,
D.D. as President of the American Unitarian Association on October
7, 1958.

10. _Bright visions glow across the sky_,

8.6.8.6.8.6.8.6. 3 stas.

Written by Mr. Holmes in 1947 on the occasion of his 40^th
anniversary as Minister of the Community Church.

11. _God of the nations, near and far._

C.M. 6 stas.

Written before this country entered World War I, for a hymn
contest sponsored by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in
America, for use on Peace Sunday. This hymn was widely sung in
churches of many denominations.

Included in _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the
Spirit_, 1937, with alteration in 2^nd sta.

12. _God save the people’s cause._

6.6.4.6.6.6.4. 3 stas.

Written in 1939.

13. _Great Spirit of the speeding spheres_,

L.M. 6 stas.

Written in 1932 on the occasion of the 25^th anniversary of Mr.
Holmes as minister of the Community Church.

14. _Joy to our hearts! Again we meet!_

8.6.8.8.6.6.6.4. 3 stas. 8 l.

A Hymn of reunion, 1920, set to the tune of Antioch.

15. _O blessed isle of quiet_,

7.6.8.6.D. 3 stas.

Written at the Isles of Shoals in the summer of 1930, and set to
an original tune by Robert B. Buxton.

16. _O Father, Thou who givest all_

L.M. 4 stas.

Written for _The Beacon Song and Service Book_, Beacon, 1908;
included in _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the
Spirit_, 1937.