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
Working together they edited _Unity Hymns and Chorals_, published in
1880, a revised edition of which appeared in 1911. (J. V. Blake,
_q.v._, was also an editor of the first, but not of the revised
edition). In 1885 they published a small collection of their poems
entitled _The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems_, followed by later
collections with the same title, 2^nd Series 1894, 3^rd Series 1918.
In 1908 Dr. Hosmer gave a series of lectures on hymnody at the Harvard
Divinity School, repeated at the Pacific Unitarian School for the
Ministry, in Berkeley, California, but these have not been published.
Julian’s _Dictionary_, pp. 1650-51, lists 27 hymns by Dr. Hosmer, with
“annotations—from ms. notes supplied—by the author,” as follows:—
1. _Father, to Thee we look in all our sorrow_ (Trust in God)
Written in 1881 upon the death of a member of the author’s
congregation, and published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series,
1885.
2. _From age to age how grandly rise_ (Unity)
Written for the annual festival of the Free Religious Association,
Boston, June 2, 1899, and first published in _Souvenir Festival
Hys._ 1899. Subsequently altered by the author to “From age to age
the prophet’s vision.”
3. _From age to age they gather, all the brave of heart and
strong_, (Victory of Truth)
Written in 1891 for the Dedication of Unity Church, Decorah, Iowa,
and published in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894.
4. _From many ways and wide apart_, (College or School Reunion)
Dated in _The Thought of God_, 2^nd Series, 1894, as having been
written in 1890.
5. _Go not, my soul, in search of Him_, (God within)
Written in 1879, printed in the Boston _Christian Register_, May
31, 1879, and included in _The Thought of God_, 1^st Series, 1885,
with the title “The Indwelling God.”
6. _I cannot think of them as dead_ (Eternal Life)
Written in 1882 and first published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st
Series, 1885, and entitled “My Dead.” In the English collections
it is usually given as “We cannot think of them as dead.”
7. _I little see, I little know_, (Trust)
“A Psalm of Trust” written in 1883, first appeared in the Boston
_Christian Register_, and again in _The Thought of God_, 1^st
Series, 1885.
8. _Immortal, by their deed and word_ (The Spirit of Jesus)
Written in 1880, and first published in _Unity Hys. and Carols_,
Chicago, Illinois, 1880, and then in _The Thought of God_, 1^st
Series, 1885.
9. _Many things in life, there are_ (Mystery in All Things)
Written in 1885 and first published in _The Thought of God_, 1^st
Series, 1885, with the title “Passing Understanding”, and the
quotation “the Peace of God which passeth all understanding.”
10. _Not always on the Mount may we_ (On the Mount)
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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