American Unitarian Hymn Writers and HymnsFoote, Henry Wilder
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American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns
Foote, Henry Wilder
Hymn writers; Hymns, English -- History and criticism; Unitarian Universalist churches -- Hymns -- History and criticism
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_.
J. 380, 1298
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.
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