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
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_,
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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