Clarke, Rev. James Freeman, D.D., Hanover, New Hampshire, April 4, 1810—June 8, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts. He was named for his step-grandfather, Rev. James Freeman, _q.v._ He graduated from Harvard College in 1829 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1833. He served as minister of the Unitarian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1833 to 1840. In 1841 he returned to Boston where he gathered a group of persons interested in the more radical social and religious reforms of the day into a church which he named the Church of the Disciples (Unitarian) of which he remained minister until his death. He became one of the most distinguished ministers of his period in Boston, greatly beloved and admired for his courage as well as his piety, his wisdom as well as his wit. He was the author of several books (and many short printed articles) the best known of which were his _Orthodoxy: its Truths and Errors_, and _Ten Great Religions_. The latter is an amplification of lectures on Comparative Religion which he gave at the Harvard Divinity School as early as 1854, and again for several years in the eighteen-seventies, the earliest course in this field of study to be given in any American theological school. In 1844 he published a _Service Book_ for use by his congregation, which included a small selection of hymns, among them Sarah Flower Adams’ _Nearer my, God, to Thee_, which had appeared in England only three years earlier and was now introduced for the first time to an American congregation, whence it quickly passed into numerous other collections. In 1852 a revised and enlarged edition of the _Service Book_ was published entitled the _Disciples Hymn Book_, which included five hymns by the compiler. A few of his poems are included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, and the following hymns by him have come into some use. 1. _Brother, hast thou wandered far?_ (The Prodigal) First printed in the _Service Book_, 1844. It appeared in abbreviated form as _Hast thou wasted all the powers?_ (beginning with the second stanza) in _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; in Beecher’s _Plymouth Collection_, 1855, and in other American and British books. 2. _Dear Friend, whose presence in the house_, (Jesus at Cana) Dated 1855. A tender poem rather than a hymn, included in the British _Lyra Sacra Americana_. 3. _Father, to us Thy children humbly kneeling_ (Aspiration) About 1833, after arrival in Louisville, Clarke wrote a poem entitled “Hymn and Prayer” beginning _Infinite Spirit, who art round us ever_, which was published in _The Dial_ for January, 1841. Five stanzas beginning _Unseen, yet not unfelt!—if any thought_