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Be not dismayed, thou little flock Clarke, James Freeman [1810-1888], son of Samuel Clarke: born at Hanover, New Hampshire: Boston Latin School; then Harvard, A. B., 1829, Divinity School, 1833, S. T. D., 1863, professor of natural religion and Christian doctrine, 1867-1871, overseer, 1863-1888,| lecturer in the Divinity School, 1876-1877 :| minister of the Church of the Disciples, Boston, 1841-1850, and 1853-1888: wrote while in Kentucky, 1833, and published in No. III. of the Dial, January, 1841, in 10 stanzas of 4 lines, "Infinite Spirit, who art round us ever." Stanzas 3, 4, 10 of this he rewrote for his Disciples Hymn Book, Boston, 1856 edition, and they are here given as there printed. Father, to us thy children, humbly kneeling. . 62 For the first edition of The Disciples Hymn Book, 1844, he wrote, and repeated unchanged in the 1856 edition, as here given, To thee, O God in heaven

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Claudius, Matthias [1740-1815], son of pastor Matthias Claudius: born at Reinfeld, Hol stein: University of Jena: published in Asmus omnia sua secum portans; oder sämmtliche Werke des Wandsbecker Bothen, 1774-1812, Part | IV., 1782, in 17 stanzas of 4 lines and a chorus of 4 lines, "Im Anfang war's auf Erden." The rendering of Jane Montgomery Campbell,| q.v., of a part of these stanzas is here given, beginning,

We plough the fields, and scatter

Collet, Samuel [circa 1763]. The following communication from Dr. James Martineau gives all that has yet been discovered as regards Mr. Collet, to whom, in his Hymns of Praise and Prayer, Dr. Martineau assigned the hymn the first line of which follows. "The hymn, about which Dr. Peabody inquired, first appeared anonymously in A Form of Prayer and a New Collection af Psalms for the Use of a Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Liverpool, 1763. This congregation was not either of the two Presbyterian Societies meeting respectively in Ben's Garden and in Kaye street, but was composed of some seceders from the former, with some liberal Church of England people who preferred a liturgical service. It met in an octagonal building in Temple Court; but after a few years was broken up, the ma. jority returning to Ben's Garden, and taking with them their pastor, Dr. Clayton, to the pulpit there. From that Form of Prayer, lent me by an aged Liverpool friend, I took the hymn and the date, but not the author's name, which it does not give. As it remains 'anon.' in Kippis, in Dr. Enfield's and later Norwich collections, and in the subsequent Liverpool and other books consulted in my work, I have asked myself' Whence have I got it,' and I am convinced, on close selfscrutiny, that I learned it from the old friend (Mr. Jos. Fletcher) who lent me the book, and who was an unfailing authority for all matters of congregational, and especially of hymnological, tradition. On learning the fact, I made an entry of the full name in notes which I still retain." Dr. Martineau writes further that in his belief Mr. Collet was the author of A Practical Paraphrase on the Epistles of St. Paul to the Romans and to the Galatians, and on the Epistle to the Hebrews, 1744, Svo. In a volume of this Paraphrase, now in Dr. Williams's library, London, where the author's name is given on the title-page simply as Samuel Collet, at the end, after the first five announcements of other publications, it reads: These five by Samuel Collet, Gent." Dr.

Conder, Josiah [1789-1855], son of Thomas Conder, engraver and bookseller: born at London: bookseller, publisher, journalist, author: published in his Star in the East with other Poems, 1824, and repeated with slight changes in Hymns of Praise, Prayer, and Devout Meditation, 1856, from whence stanzas 1, 4, 5 are here taken, his hymn in 5 stanzas of 6 lines, entitled "A Thought on the Sea Shore," and beginning,

Beyond, beyond that boundless sea

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In the Choir and the Oratory, 1837, as one of six hymns "On the Lord's Prayer" to the words "Give us this day our daily bread," appeared the hymn the first line of which is given below. It was repeated in Hymns, etc., as above, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, stanzas 1, 2, 3, 4 here used.

Day by day the manna fell

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Cotterill, Jane [1790-1825], daughter of the Rev. John Boak and mother of Henry Cotterill, bishop of Edinburgh: contributed anonymously to the Appendix to the 6th edition of Cotterill's Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Use (1st edition, 1810, 6th edition, 1815), and afterwards republished in Montgomery's Christian Psalmist, 1825, over her name, and with the title "For Submission to the Divine Will," in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, stanzas 1, 2, 3, 6 here used, O thou who hast at thy command

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Cowper, William [1731-1800], son of the Rev. John Cowper, chaplain to George II.: born in his father's rectory at Great Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire: educated at Westmin

and in Olney Hymns, Book I., No. 65, with the title "The Future Peace and Glory of the Church," in 3 stanzas of 8 lines, stanzas I and 3 here used,

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Hear what God, the Lord, hath spoken Dix, William Chatterton [1837of John Dix, surgeon: born at educated there in the grammar school: published in The People's Hymnal, 1867, and in Church Hymns, 1871, in 4 stanzas of 8 lines, all here used,

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Come unto me, ye weary Doane, George Washington [1799-1859], son of Jonathan Doane, master-builder: born at Trenton A. B., Union, 1818; S. T. D., Columbia, 1833, Trinity, 1833; LL. D., St. John's, Annapolis, 1841; president of Burlington College, 1846-1859. He was assistant minister of Trinity Church, New York, and when Washington, now Trinity, College was founded in Hartford, 1824, was appointed professor of rhetoric and belleslettres, serving till 1828. In 1828 he was assistant minister, and in 1830 rector, of Trinity Church, Boston. In 1832 he became bishop of New Jersey. In his Songs by the Way,

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Doddridge, Philip [1702-1751], son of Daniel Doddridge: born at London: educated at the Grammar School, Kingston-upon-Thames, at St. Albans, and at Kibworth; D. D., Aberdeen, 1736. He refused a university course, and was selected by a general meeting of nonconformist ministers, 1829, to conduct their newly established school at Market Harborough, where he taught, preaching meanwhile at Northampton, till 1751, when his lack of health made necessary a voyage to Lisbon, where he died. He wrote over 500 hymns. In Hymns founded on Various Texts in the Holy Scripture. By the late Reverend Philip Doddridge, D. D. Published from the Author's Manuscript by Job Orton, Salop., MDCCLV., was published, with the title "God's Care a Rhemedy for ours," and text I Peter v. 7, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, here given unchanged,

How gentle God's commands

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and with the title "Acting as seeing him who is invisible," and text Heb. xi. 27, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, here given unchanged, Eternal and immortal King

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George Ebenezer Doudney: born at Portsmouth, Hampshire: wrote at Lovedean, Hampshire, and published in her Psalms of Life, London, 1871, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, and afterward revised for Horder's Hymns Sup plemental to Existing Collections, London, 1894, stanzas 1, 2, 5, 7 here used, Now that our holy day is done

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Ellerton John [1826-1893], son of George Ellerton born at London: King William's College, then Trinity College, Cambridge, B. A., 1849, M. A., 1854: curate of Eastbourne, Sussex, 1850; curate at Brighton and lecturer at St. Peter's, Brighton, 1852; vicar of Crewe Green and chaplain to Lord Crewe, 1860; rector of Hinstock, 1872, of Barnes, 1876, of White Roding, 1886: was one of the editors of the S. P. C. K., Church Hymns, writing the notes. Matthew Arnold said "he was the greatest hymn-writer of his time." From his Hymns Original and Translated, 1888, have been here taken all but the last stanza of his translation of "Alleluia piis edite laudibus" (see Latin Hymns), in 9 stanzas of 2 lines, with a refrain, first published in the Churchman's Family Magazine, 1865, revised for the Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1868, again revised for Church Hymns, 1871, beginning,

Sing alleluia forth in duteous praise

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4 stanzas of 4 lines which he made for the 1868 Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern, from the hymn in 5 stanzas of 4 lines which he wrote for a Festival of Parochial Choirs, Nantwich, 1866, beginning,

Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise . . 256 and all but stanza 4 of the 5 stanzas of 6 lines, enlarged from the 3 stanzas of 4 lines which he wrote and first published in his Hymns for Schools and Bible Classes, 1858, beginning, God of the living, in whose eyes and all of the 5 stanzas in 4 lines written for Church Hymns, 1871, beginning,

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O Lord of life and death, we come Elliott, Charlotte [1789-1871], daughter of Charles Elliott of Clapham and Brighton: born at Brighton: published in the Invalid's Hymn Book, 1834, and again in her brother's, Rev. H. V. Elliott's, Psalms and Hymns, 1835, and again in Hours of Sorrow, 1836, different versions of her hymn the first line of which follows. From the Hours of Sorrow, stanzas 1, 4, 6, 7, of the 7 stanzas in 4 lines, have been here taken.

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My God and Father, while I stray Emerson, Ralph Waldo [1803-1882], son of the Rev. William Emerson: born at Boston: Boston Latin School; Harvard, A. B., 1821, A. M., 1827, LL. D., 1866, overseer, 18671879: wrote for the ordination of the Rev. Chandler Robbins, at the Second Church, Boston, 1833, and first published in A Book of Hymns, Boston, 1846, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, and again, revised, in his Selected Poems, 1882, from which stanzas 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 have been here taken, beginning,

We love the venerable house.

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Faber, Frederick William [1814-1863], son of the Rev. Thomas Henry Faber, secretary to the bishop of Durham: born at Calverley vicarage, Yorkshire: Shrewsbury and Harrow; then Balliol College, Oxford, B. A., 1836, M. A., 1839, Newdigate prize for English

He published in Oratory Hymns, 1854, and again in Hymns, 1862, with the title "The Pilgrims of the Night," in 7 stanzas of 4 lines with a refrain, stanzas 1, 4, 3, 7 and refrain here used,

Hark, hark, my soul! angelic songs are swelling 274 Fawcett, John [1740-1817], born at Lidget Green, Yorkshire: converted under George Whitefield first a Methodist; then ordained a Baptist minister, 1765: is thought to have written and published about 1779, in various non-conformist collections, in 3 stanzas of 6. lines, the hymn the first line of which follows. Here is used the first 4 lines of stanza I and of stanza 2, beginning,

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Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing Franck, Johann [1618-1677], son of Johann Franck, advocate and councillor, Guben, Brandenburg: born at Guben: University of Königsberg: first published in C. Peter's AndachtsZymbeln, Freiburg, 1655, in 8 stanzas of 4 lines, then in his Geistliches Sion, 1674, his hymn beginning "Dreieinigkeit der Gottheit wahrer Spiegel." A translation of stanzas 1-3, 7, 8, by Miss Winkworth, q. v., was published in the 2nd series of her Lyra Germanica, 1858, and of these are here used stanzas 2, 7, 8, beginning,

We praise thee with the earliest morning ray

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chant, of Boston: born at Boston: Boston Latin School; Harvard, A. B., 1811, A. M., in course, S. T. D., 1836, instructor in rhetoric and oratory, 1812-1815, overseer, 1819-1850: minister of First Church, Boston, 1815-1850: wrote for the ordination of William P. Lunt as minister of the Second Unitarian Congregational Society, New York, 1828, and afterwards published in his Metrical Pieces, 1855 and 1870, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, stanzas 1, 2, 3, 5 here used,

O God, whose presence glows in all

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Frothingham, Octavius Brooks [1822-1895] son of the Rev. Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, noted above: born at Boston: Boston Latin School; Harvard, A. B., 1843, A. M., in course, Divinity School, 1846: wrote for the graduating exercises of his class in the Divinity School, 1846; published in The Book of Hymns the same year; afterwards revised for this book, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, stanzas 1, 2, 5, 6 here used,

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Thou Lord of hosts, whose guiding hand Furness, William Henry [1802-1896], son of William Furness: born at Boston: Boston Latin School; Harvard, A. B., 1820, A. M., in course, Divinity School, 1823, S. T. D., 1847: 1825-1896 minister of First Congregational Unitarian Church, Philadelphia: wrote August, 1892, with the title The Life Divine," in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and first published in this book, stanzas 1, 2, 3, 6 here used,

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Gaskell, William [1805-1884], son of William Gaskell, sail-canvas maker: born at Latchford, Cheshire: M. A., University of Glasgow, 1825; then Manchester New College, York; secretary of Manchester New College, 1840-1846, then professor of English history and literature, 1846-1853: minister of Cross Street Chapel, Manchester, 1828-1884: contributed to Beard's Collection of Hymns for Public and Private Worship, London and Manchester, 1837, 79 hymns. From this collection have been here taken stanzas 1, 2, 3, 5 of the 5 stanzas of 4 lines beginning, Father, we humbly would repose and all of the 5 stanzas of 4 lines beginning, Mighty God, the first, the last . 173

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