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
In _Lyra Sacra Americana_ it is altered to read
_Oh, is there aught on earth to share_
18. _What is this that stirs within_?
Printed in the author’s _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840; in the
Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844, in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns
for the Church of Christ_, and in a good many other American
collections.
Dr. Furness’s hymns, though creditable religious verse of the period
and widely esteemed because of the author’s distinction, nowhere
attain a very high level of poetic beauty, and almost all of them have
passed out of use. Only nos. 8, 10, and 12 were included in the
Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and only no. 12 survives in
_Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937.
J. 402, 1638
Revised by H.W.F.
Fuller, Sarah Margaret, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 23, 1810—July
16, 1850, in a shipwreck south of New York. In 1847 she married the
Marchese Ossoli in Rome. She did educational work in Boston and in
Providence, Rhode Island, edited _The Dial_ in 1840, and was noted
locally for her intellectual brilliance. Memorials of her by R. W.
Emerson, W. H. Channing and J. F. Clarke appeared in 1851, her _Works_
in 1874.
Her hymn beginning
_Jesus, a child his course began_, (Christ the Pattern of
Childhood)
from _Life Without and Life Within_, 1859, p. 404, had some use in
Great Britain as well as in America.
J. 1585
H.W.F.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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