Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton (Briggs), Marblehead, Massachusetts, July 27, 1823—June 13, 1890, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1853 she married Charles Mason, a lawyer living in Fitchburg. She published in 1852 a volume of poems entitled _Utterance: or Private Voices to the Public Heart_, and after her death another collection was published, her _Lost Ring and Other Poems_, 1891. Three of her hymns have had considerable use. 1. _I cannot walk in darkness long_, (Evening) This begins with stanza V of her poem on _Eventide_, “At cool of day with God I walk,” in her _Lost Ring_, p. 165. 2. _O God I thank Thee for each sight_, (The Joy of Living) A cento of 4 stanzas, from her poem “A Matin Hymn” beginning “I lift the sash and gaze abroad,” in her _Lost Ring_, p. 164. 3. _The changing years, eternal God_, (Adoration) Written for the Bicentennial of the First Congregational Church, Marblehead, August 13, 1884. In her _Lost Ring_ it begins “The changing centuries, O God,”. Of these hymns no. 2 has had considerable use. It is included in _Hymns of the Church Universal_, 1891; the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914; the _Pilgrim Hymnal_, 1935; _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. J. 1669 H.W.F. Miles, Sarah Elizabeth (Appleton) Boston, Massachusetts, March 28, 1807—January 3, 1877, Brattleboro, Vermont. She married Solomon P. Miles. In 1827 she printed in the _Christian Examiner_ a hymn beginning, _Thou, who didst stoop below_, which passed into a number of hymn books of the period, and in 1828, in the same periodical she printed a poem in 4 stanzas, C.M.D., which S. Longfellow and S. Johnson, in their second hymn-book, _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, divided into two hymns, of 2 stanzas each, the first beginning _The earth, all light and loveliness_, the second _When, on devotion’s seraph wing._ They also included another of her hymns, consisting of the second, fourth and fifth stanzas of her poem entitled “In Affliction,” beginning _Thou, infinite in love._ These, and some other religious poems, are included in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_, etc. None of her hymns are now in use. H.W.F. Mott, Rev. Frederick B., England, 1856-1941, England. When a young man he emigrated to this country and on September 30, 1887 was ordained minister of the Barton Square Church (Unitarian) in Salem, Massachusetts. In 1892 he became minister of the Third Religious Society in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which he served till 1903. In 1904 he returned to England and was installed as minister of the Unitarian Chapel at Southport, and later moved to London as editor of the periodical _Christian Life_. Two hymns in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_, 1895, are attributed to him, viz:—