Willard, Rev. Samuel, 1776-1859. He graduated from Harvard College in 1803, served the First Church (Unitarian) in Deerfield, Massachusetts 1807 to 1829, when he resigned on account of blindness. In 1823 he published a collection of 158 songs, composed by himself, and in 1830 a compilation entitled “_Sacred Music and Poetry Reconciled_,” a hymnbook containing 518 hymns by various authors, about 180 of them written by himself. This book was adopted for use in the Third Parish in Hingham, Massachusetts where Willard was then living, but had little circulation elsewhere, and none of his hymns came into general use. H.W.F. Williams, Velma Curtis (Wright), East Boston, Massachusetts, July 29, 1852—January 22, 1941, Boston, Massachusetts. Wife of Rev. Theodore C. Williams, _q.v._ Her _Hymnal: Amore Dei, compiled by Mrs. Theodore C. Williams_, was published in Boston in 1890, revised edition 1897. It was edited with the assistance of her husband, then minister of All Souls’ Church, New York, where it was used, and in many other churches as well. Mrs. Williams herself wrote no hymns. J. 1604 H.W.F. Williams, Rev. Theodore Chickering, Brookline, Massachusetts, July 2, 1855—May 6, 1915, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1876, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1882. He was ordained minister of the Unitarian Church in Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1882, but became minister of All Souls’ Church, New York in 1883. He resigned in 1896, and spent two years in Europe. After his return he served as headmaster of Hackley School, Tarrytown, New York, 1899-1905. A classical scholar, and gifted as a poet, he published a fine metrical translation of Virgil’s _Aeneid_, wrote a number of hymns which are religious poetry of a high order, and assisted his wife, Velma C. Williams, _q.v._, in compiling her _Hymnal: Amore Dei_, 1890, revised edition 1897. A few of his hymns appeared in this book and, with others of later date, are included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, as follows: 1. _As the storm retreating_, (Peace after storm) Dated 1888. 2. _By law from Sinai’s clouded steep_, (Sabbath rest) 3. _God be with thee! Gently o’er thee_ (Inward Peace) Dated 1889. 4. _Hast thou heard it, O my brother?_ (The Challenge of Life) Dated 1902. 5. _In the lonely midnight_ (Christmas) 6. _Lord, who dost the voices bless_ Written for the ordination of Rev. Benjamin R. Bulkeley at Concord, Massachusetts, 1882. 7. _My country, to thy shore_, (Hymn for the Nation) Dated 1912. 8. _Thou rulest, Lord, the lights on high_ (Universal Praise) Dated 1911. 9. _To hold thy glory, Lord of all_, (Dedication of a Church)