6. _O Love Divine, that stooped to share_, Written in 1859, a hymn of trust in time of doubt and sorrow. 7. _Our Father, while our hearts unlearn,_ _The creeds that wrong thy name,_ Written for the 25^th Anniversary of the Boston Young Men’s Christian Union, May 31, 1893. 8. _Thou gracious Power whose mercy lends_, Written in 1869 for the 40^th anniversary meeting of the Harvard Class of 1829. In the Methodist Hymn Book, 1904, altered to read _Thou gracious God_, etc. Of these hymns nos. 4 and 6 have had the most widespread use. Those two, and no. 1 are included in _The Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935, and nos. 4, 6, 7 and 8 are in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and In _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. J. 530, 1649, 1713, rewritten by H.W.F. Horton, Rev. Edward Augustus, Springfield, Massachusetts, September 28, 1843—April 15, 1931, Toronto, Canada. He studied at the University of Chicago and at Meadville Theological School, from which he graduated in 1868. He served Unitarian churches in Leominster, Massachusetts, 1868-1875; Hingham, Massachusetts, 1877-1880; and the Second Church in Boston, 1880-1892. Thereafter he was active in the work of the Unitarian Sunday School Society. In 1912 he wrote an “Anniversary Hymn” beginning, _We honor those whose work began_, which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. H.W.F. Hosmer, Rev. Frederick Lucian, D.D., Framingham, Massachusetts, October 16, 1840—June 7, 1929, Berkeley, California. He graduated from Harvard College in 1862, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1869. In October of that year he was ordained minister of the First Congregational Church (Unitarian), Northborough, Massachusetts, where he served for 3 years. He served the Unitarian Church in Quincy, Illinois, 1872-1877; then spent sixteen months in Europe, returning late in 1878 to serve the First Unitarian Church of Cleveland, Ohio, 1878-1892; the Church of the Unity, St. Louis, Missouri, 1894-1899; and the First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, California, 1900-1915, where he remained as minister-emeritus until his death. In 1887 Buchtel College gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. While in the Divinity School he formed a close life-long friendship with William C. Gannett, _q.v._ Neither wrote any hymns until early middle life, Dr. Gannett’s earliest having been written in 1873, Dr. Hosmer’s in 1875, but thereafter they worked together for nearly four decades to make a contribution to American hymnody comparable to that made by Samuel Longfellow, _q.v._, and Samuel Johnson, _q.v._, a generation earlier. Of the two men it has been well said that “Gannett was the better poet, Hosmer the better hymn writer,” and many more of his hymns than of those by Gannett have come into widespread use.