Part 11

S.L.’s adaptation of hymn by E. Osler, printed in Hys. Sp. 1864, in 3 stas of 4 l., entitled “At the fountain”. Anon, in index. “It is, in fact E. Osler’s hymn rewritten, 7 of its 12 lines being Osler’s.” The expanded form in later books is attributed to S.L., but should be “E. Osler alt. by S.L.” See Julian’s Dict. pp. 1665, 1681, 833.

30. _O holy, holy, holy,_ _Art Thou, our God and Lord._ (Praise)

This hymn in two stanzas, 8 lines, is found only in C. W. Wendte’s book _The Carol: for Sunday School and the Home_ (1886), where it is attributed to Samuel Longfellow and dated 1886.

31. _O Life that maketh all things new._

Written under the title “The light that lighteth every man,” for the 2^d Social Festival of the Free Religious Association 1874, in 2 stas. of 8 l.; afterwards published in _A Book of Hymns and Tunes for the Congregation and the Home_, Cambridge, 1876, with the title “Greeting”, in 4 stas. of 4 l.; included in H. & V. under title “Behold, I make all things new”, and there incorrectly dated 1878. For use of first line see note under “O Thou whose liberal sun and rain.”

32. _O still in accents sweet and strong._ (Ordination)

Printed in Hys. Sp. 1864 under title “Behold the fields are white.” H. & V., no date. 4 stas. of 4 l.

33. _O Thou, in whom we live and move._

In Hys. Sp. 1864, this begins, “O God, in whom we live and move,” 5 stas. of 4 l. headed “God’s Law and Love.” In H. & V. it begins, “O Thou, in whom we live and move,” the form in which the hymn has passed into later use.

34. _O Thou, whose liberal sun and rain._ (Church anniversary)

Included in Hys. Sp. 1864, and in H. & V. no date. 3 stas. of 4 l. (Note the last line, “To Him who maketh all things new”, used later for first line of hymn “O Life that maketh all things new.”)

35. _One holy church of God appears._ (The church universal)

Dated 1860 in H. & V.; included in Hys. Sp. 1864. 5 stas. of 4 l.

36. _Out of every clime and people._ (Christmas)

This hymn in two stanzas, 8 lines, with chorus, is found only in C. W. Wendte’s _The Carol: for Sunday School and the Home_ (1886) where it is attributed to S.L. (except chorus).

37. _Out of the dark, the circling sphere._ (Hope and courage)

Based on a hymn written in 1856 for the 25^th anniversary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, with the title “What of the night?” and beginning, “A quarter of the circling sphere.” See H. & V. for the original version, which S.L. rewrote for Hys. Sp. 1864, in 5 stas. of 4 l. The misplaced comment by Putnam in _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, p. 429, that it was “founded on a passage in one of Mr. Martineau’s sermons,” refers not to this hymn but to “He who himself and God would know,” cited earlier in this listing.

38. _Peace, peace on earth, the heart of man forever._ (Peace on earth)

Included in Hys. Sp. 1864 and H. & V., no date. 2 stas. of 4 l.

39. _Sing forth his high eternal name._ (Praise)

Written by request for words to tune “Coronation.” In H. & V. under title “The Lord of all”, no date, 6 stas. of 4 l.

40. _Spirit divine attend our prayer._

This hymn appeared in Hys. Sp. 1864, as “Anon.” It is S.L.’s adaptation of a hymn by Andrew Reed, 1829, about half the lines having been re-written. It should be credited to both writers as a joint production.

41. _The loving Friend to all who bowed._ (Jesus)

Included in Hys. Sp. under title “Jesus of Nazareth”; no date in H. & V. 5 stas. of 4 l.

42. _The summer days are come again._

H. & V. includes a song in three 8-line stanzas headed “Summer Rural Gathering”, dated 1859, each stanza beginning, “The sweet June days are come again.” In Hys. Sp. 1864, the second and third stanzas of this song are taken to form a hymn for summer, each beginning, “The summer days are come again”, the concluding quatrain of the last stanza re-written.

43. _’Tis winter now; the fallen snow._

Dated 1859 in H. & V. In Hys. Sp., 4 stas. of 4 l.

44. _Thou Lord of life, our saving health._ (Dedication of hospital)

“Written for dedication of Cambridge Hospital.” In H. & V., 4 stas. of 4 l., dated 1886.

45. _We sowed a seed in faith and hope._

“Written for the 25^th anniversary of the first meeting of the Second Unitarian Society of Brooklyn”, included in H. & V. under title “The truth shall make you free.” No further use.

46. _When from the Jordan’s gleaming wave._ (Baptism)

Dated 1848 in H. & V., but it was included in Bk. Hys. 1846, 5 stas. of 4 l.

There are also five hymns, composite in origin and listed as “Anonymous” in Hys. Sp. 1864, which in style and sentiment so closely resemble S.L.’s writings as to suggest that he gave them the form in which they are there printed, viz:—

47. _As darker, darker fall around_ _The shadows of the night._

This is printed in 6 stas., the first four of which are taken from “The Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds,” printed in William Young’s _Catholic Choralist_, 1842, but there beginning, “Darker and darker fall around.” The 5^th and 6^th stas. may be by S.L. since he referred to this hymn as it appeared in Hys. Sp. as “founded upon the Hymn of the Calabrian Shepherds,” tho he did not state that he wrote them. (H. W. Foote, _The Anonymous Hymns of Samuel Longfellow_; and Julian, _Dictionary_, p. 1627.)

48. _Come, thou Almighty Will_

This hymn in three stanzas was included as Anon. in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. Its theme was obviously suggested by Ray Palmer’s five stanza translation of the 12^th century Latin hymn _Veni Sancte Spiritus_, beginning _Come, Holy Ghost, in love_, published in 1858, from which three lines are borrowed intact, with as many more which only slightly alter Palmer’s words. Since the religious outlook expressed is characteristic of Samuel Longfellow, and the hymn first appeared in _Hymns of the Spirit_, it seems certain that he was the author but listed it as _Anon_, because of its composite form. It was included in several later Unitarian hymn books, most recently in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. (J. 1623 H.W.F.)

49. _Give forth thine earnest cry._

Printed in three 4-line stas. There is no evidence as to the authorship of this hymn, but its sentiment is completely in line with Longfellow’s. Included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914.

50. _God is in his holy temple._

Printed in four 4-line stas. One line is almost identical with one found in S.L.’s earlier hymn “Written for the dedication of the New Chapel of the First Parish, Haverhill, Mass.”, which had had no use beyond the occasion for which it was written, but which Miss Longfellow included in _Hymns and Verses_. The recurrence of this line in the hymn here listed suggests the probability that the whole hymn is by S.L. though he preferred to cite it as “Anon.”

51. _Supreme disposer of the heart._

This appeared in the 1848 edition of the _Book of Hymns_, where it is cited as from “Breviary”, and was included by Miss Longfellow in _Hymns and Verses_ with the same citation. She probably assumed that it was a translation by S.L. from a Latin hymn. It is, however, a largely rewritten version of John Chandler’s translation of the hymn _Supreme motor cordium_, in his _Hymns of the Primitive Church_, 1837, p. 31. Longfellow retained the general pattern of Chandler’s five stanzas, and kept a few of his lines unchanged, or altered by only a word or two, but rewrote the rest, the fourth and fifth stas. being wholly S.L.’s, differing from Chandler’s in both phrase and significance, and even further from the Latin original.

The _Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_, 1908, contains a hymn in two stanzas, 8.6.8.6.D., beginning

52. _The heavens thy praise are telling_,

Given as “Anon.” but Mrs. Emma Marean, _q.v._, who was exceptionally well informed about that book, attributed it to “Spitta-Longfellow,” i.e., by S. Longfellow based on a German hymn by C. J. P. Spitta. It is possible that this is the case but the original by Spitta has not been traced and Longfellow did not claim this arrangement.

H.W.F.

Loring, Louisa Putnam (1854-1924) of Boston and Pride’s Crossing, Massachusetts, compiled _Hymns of the Ages_, published in 1904. Her literary and musical standards were high, and the book was handsomely printed, but its appeal was limited and it had to compete with several other excellent hymnbooks then on the market for use among Unitarians. It included Miss Loring’s own morning hymn beginning,

_O Thou who turnest into morning_, (1902)

also included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914.

H.W.F.

Loring, William Joseph, Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 1795—1841, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1813 and went into business in Boston. He was a lay member of the Unitarian denomination; was president of the Washington Benevolent Society; and was a member of the Horticultural Society. He was probably the author of the hymn beginning,

_Why weep for those, frail child of woe_,

attributed to “W. J. Loring” in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853.

H.W.F.

Lowell, James Russell, LL.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 22, 1819—August 12, 1891, Cambridge. Son of Rev. Charles Lowell, minister of the West Church (Unitarian), Boston, he graduated from Harvard College in 1838, and entered upon a literary career as a poet, essayist and scholar. In 1855 he succeeded H. W. Longfellow as Professor of Belles Lettres at Harvard and spent the next two years in Europe to increase his knowledge of southern European languages and literature. On his return he was the first editor of _The Atlantic Monthly_, 1857-1862, then editor of _The North American Review_, 1863-1872. He was United States Minister to Spain, 1877-1880, and to Great Britain, 1880-1885. He wrote many essays, addresses and poems. These last were published in a succession of volumes, “A Year’s Life,” 1841; “Poems,” 1844-1854; “The Vision of Sir Launfal,” 1845; “A Fable for Critics,” 1845; “The Biglow Papers,” 1848 and 1867; “The Commemoration Ode,” 1865; “Under the Willows,” 1868; and later volumes, his “Complete Poems” appearing in 1895. Though some of his poems show deep religious feeling he made only a slight and indirect contribution to American hymnody, writing only one hymn and one Christmas carol, although stanzas quarried out of his poems have been used as hymns, as follows:—

1. _Men who boast it is that ye_ _Come of fathers brave and free_,

The 1^st, 3^d and 4^th stanzas of his anti-slavery poem, “Stanzas on Freedom,” written in 1844. It was included in this form in _The Soldier’s Companion_, 1861, in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in part in _Songs of the Sanctuary_, N. Y. 1865, beginning

_They are slaves who will not choose_,

2. _Once to every man and nation_,

In December, 1844, Lowell wrote a poem in 18 stas. of 5 l. entitled “The Present Crisis,” a protest against the war with Mexico. The English hymnnologist, Rev. V. Garrett Horder, took from this poem a number of lines sufficient to make a hymn of 4 stas. which he included, with a few verbal alterations, in his _Hymns Supplemental_, 1896, and then in his _Treasury of Hymns_. The _English Hymnal_ included the hymn in 1906, and from this it passed into many collections. In the form commonly used in this country, stanza 1 is that of sta. 5 in the original poem; sta. 2 is that of original sta. 11; sta. 3 is no. 13, original; and sta. 4, part of sta. 6 and part of sta. 8 original. In this form it has had considerable use in this country.

3. _Our house, our God, we give to Thee_,

Hymn for the dedication of the First Church (Unitarian), Watertown, Massachusetts, on August 3, 1842, in a service in which Rev. Samuel Ripley made the dedicatory prayer and the sermon was preached by Rev. Convers Francis, who had recently left Watertown to accept a professorship at the Harvard Divinity School. Lowell’s Cambridge residence at “Elmwood” was only a short distance from the Watertown line, and Miss Maria White, whom he married in 1844, belonged to the Watertown parish, which suggests the possibility that it was she who persuaded him to write the hymn. It was not included in any of his published works but has been found on the only known copy of the printed program of the service, now owned by the Huntington Library, San Marino, Pasadena, California. It probably was used only on the occasion for which it was written.

4. _The ages one great minster seem_,

Taken from a poem “Godminster Chimes” which was “Written in aid of a chime of bells for Christ Church, Cambridge,” and published in “Under the Willows,” 1868. From this poem of 7 stas. 8 l., enough lines have been selected and arranged, with a few verbal alterations, to make a hymn on the theme of the Church Universal, in 4 stas. of 4 l.

5. _What means this glory round our feet?_

A Christmas carol written in 1866 “For the children of the Church of the Disciples”, Boston, (Unitarian), of which Rev. James Freeman Clarke, _q.v._, was minister. Of the original 7 stas., five have come into considerable use.

Of the above listed hymns all except no. 3 are in current use in various hymn books. Nos. 2 and 5 are in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935; nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864.

J. 698 H.W.F.

Lunt, Rev. William Parsons, D.D., Newburyport, Mass., April 21, 1805—March 31, 1857, Akabah, Arabia. He graduated from Harvard College in 1823, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1828. On June 19, 1828 he was ordained as the first settled minister of the Second Unitarian Congregational Society in New York, where he served for five years. On June 3, 1835, he was installed as associate minister of the First Church in Quincy, Mass., where he became the sole minister in 1843 and served until his death while on a journey to Palestine. After his death his hymns and occasional poems were printed in a small volume entitled _Gleanings_, but none of them have been included in later books. His contribution to American hymnody was made by the publication of his collection entitled _The Christian Psalter_, 1841, for his congregation at Quincy, but its fine quality brought it into much wider use. It is chiefly remembered today because it included 5 hymns and the metrical version of 17 psalms by his distinguished parishioner, John Quincy Adams, _q.v._

J. 703 H.W.F.

Mann, Rev. Newton, Cazenovia, New York, January 16, 1856—July 25, 1926, Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Cazenovia Academy, and during the Civil War served as head of the Western Sanitary Commission. He then entered the Unitarian ministry and was ordained as pastor of the church in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which he organized and served for three years. He later served churches in Troy, New York, 1868-70; Rochester, New York, 1870-1888; and Omaha, Nebraska, 1888-1908, after which he retired to Chicago. His only connection with hymnody was his versification of an English translation of the Jewish creedal statement known as the Yigdal. His verse, which has not survived, was later recast by Rev. W. C. Gannett, _q.v._, to form the great hymn

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

concerning which detailed information will be found under Dr. Gannett’s name. In its present form the hymn is probably mostly the work of Gannett, but Mann should be credited with having drafted its earlier form. See also Foote, _Three Centuries of American Hymnody_, 339-340.

H.W.F.

Marean, Mrs. Emma (Endicott), Boston, Massachusetts, January 20, 1854—October 17, 1936, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She married Joseph Mason Marean January 20, 1876. Two hymns by her were included in _The Isles of Shoals Hymn Book_ (Unitarian), 1908,

1. _Grateful for another day_, (An Island Morning)

2. _Set from the restless world apart_ (An Island Hymn)

Neither has been included in later hymn books but both are in her small volume of poems, _Now and Then_, Cambridge, 1928.

H.W.F.

Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton (Briggs), Marblehead, Massachusetts, July 27, 1823—June 13, 1890, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1853 she married Charles Mason, a lawyer living in Fitchburg. She published in 1852 a volume of poems entitled _Utterance: or Private Voices to the Public Heart_, and after her death another collection was published, her _Lost Ring and Other Poems_, 1891.

Three of her hymns have had considerable use.

1. _I cannot walk in darkness long_, (Evening)

This begins with stanza V of her poem on _Eventide_, “At cool of day with God I walk,” in her _Lost Ring_, p. 165.

2. _O God I thank Thee for each sight_, (The Joy of Living)

A cento of 4 stanzas, from her poem “A Matin Hymn” beginning “I lift the sash and gaze abroad,” in her _Lost Ring_, p. 164.

3. _The changing years, eternal God_, (Adoration)

Written for the Bicentennial of the First Congregational Church, Marblehead, August 13, 1884. In her _Lost Ring_ it begins “The changing centuries, O God,”.

Of these hymns no. 2 has had considerable use. It is included in _Hymns of the Church Universal_, 1891; the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914; the _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935; _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.

J. 1669 H.W.F.

Miles, Sarah Elizabeth (Appleton) Boston, Massachusetts, March 28, 1807—January 3, 1877, Brattleboro, Vermont. She married Solomon P. Miles. In 1827 she printed in the _Christian Examiner_ a hymn beginning,

_Thou, who didst stoop below_,

which passed into a number of hymn books of the period, and in 1828, in the same periodical she printed a poem in 4 stanzas, C.M.D., which S. Longfellow and S. Johnson, in their second hymn-book, _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, divided into two hymns, of 2 stanzas each, the first beginning

_The earth, all light and loveliness_,

the second

_When, on devotion’s seraph wing._

They also included another of her hymns, consisting of the second, fourth and fifth stanzas of her poem entitled “In Affliction,” beginning

_Thou, infinite in love._

These, and some other religious poems, are included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc. None of her hymns are now in use.

H.W.F.

Mott, Rev. Frederick B., England, 1856-1941, England. When a young man he emigrated to this country and on September 30, 1887 was ordained minister of the Barton Square Church (Unitarian) in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1892 he became minister of the Third Religious Society in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which he served till 1903. In 1904 he returned to England and was installed as minister of the Unitarian Chapel at Southport, and later moved to London as editor of the periodical _Christian Life_. Two hymns in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_, 1895, are attributed to him, viz:—

1. _Take our pledge, eternal Father_,

2. _The spirit of the Lord has stirred_,

but appear to have had no further use.

H.W.F.

Newell, Rev. William, D.D., Littleton, Massachusetts, February 25, 1804—October 28, 1881, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1824 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1829. He was ordained minister of the First Parish in Cambridge on May 19, 1830, where he served until his retirement on March 31, 1868. He was author of many commemorative sermons and memoirs, and received the honorary degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1853. A number of his poems are included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc. His hymn beginning,

_All hail, God’s angel, Truth_ (Thanksgiving)

is included in G. Horder’s _Worship Song, with Tunes_, London, 1905, but is not found in American collections.

J. 1676 H.W.F.

Norton, Prof. Andrews, Hingham, Massachusetts, December 31, 1786—September 18, 1853, Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from Harvard in 1804. In 1811 he was appointed tutor in the College, in 1813 librarian and Lecturer on the Bible, and in 1819 Professor of Sacred Literature in the Harvard Divinity School, a post which he resigned in 1830 to devote himself to literary and theological pursuits. In 1837 he published the first volume of his famous book _The Genuineness of the Gospels_, followed in 1844 by the second and third volumes. This was the earliest scholarly work on the New Testament by an American author, and expressed the conservative Unitarian thought of his period. He wrote several other books, and numerous articles. His few poems were printed in a small volume soon after his death, including six hymns, some of which have had considerable use.

1. _Another year, another year_, (Close of the Year)

Appeared in the _Christian Examiner_, Nov.-Dec. 1827, in 11 stas. of 4 l. In the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868, a cento from it begins with sta. 6,

_O what concerns it him whose way_

2. _Faint not, poor traveller, though thy way_, (Fortitude)

Printed in the _Christian Disciple_, July-Aug. 1822, and included in the West Boston _Collection_, 1823.

3. _He has gone to his God, he has gone to his home_ (Burial)

Printed in the _Christian Examiner_, Jan.-Feb. 1824.

4. _My God, I thank Thee; may no thought_ (Submission)

Appeared in the _Monthly Anthology and Boston Review_, Sept. 1809, and was included in Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, 1841, and in many later collections. This was Norton’s earliest and best known hymn.

5. _O stay thy tears; for they are blest_, (Burial of the Young)

Printed in the _General Depository and Review_, April, 1812, in 5 stas. of 4 l. In 1855, stas. III-V were included in Beecher’s _Plymouth Coll._ no. 1094 as

_How blest are they whose transient years_

6. _Where ancient forests round us spread_,

Written in 1833 for the dedication of a church.

Of the above nos. 1, 4, 5 were included in Martineau’s _Hymns_, London, 1873. Nos. 4 and 6 are in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and no. 6 is in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. See Putnam’s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_ for the full text of all Norton’s hymns.

J. 810 Revised by H.W.F.

Parker, Rev. Theodore, was born on a farm in Lexington, Massachusetts on August 24, 1810, and died in Florence, Italy, on May 10, 1860. He entered Harvard College in 1830, but did most of his work at home, and studied in the Harvard Divinity School, 1834-1836. In 1840 he was granted the degree of A.M. from Harvard. Entering the ministry he served the Unitarian Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1837-1846, and the 28^th Congregational Society, Boston, 1846-1860. He was a famous preacher; author of numerous printed discourses on social and religious problems; and one of the earliest American translators of current German theological literature. He wrote a few poems, none intended for use as hymns, but Longfellow and Johnson took one of his sonnets and, by eliminating two lines, transformed it into a hymn of 3 stanzas of 4 lines each beginning,

_O thou great Friend of all the sons of men_,