Other poems by him, including a hymn for the graduation of his class from the Divinity School in 1847 and another for the ordination of Thomas Starr King, are included in Putnam, Singers and Songs, but have had no further use.
H.W.F.
Ames, Rev. Charles Gordon, Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1828—April 15, 1912, Boston, Massachusetts. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1849 and spent some years as a home missionary in Minnesota. In 1859 he joined the Unitarian denomination and served several churches, his last pastorate being with the Church of the Disciples, Boston. In 1905 he wrote a hymn for the dedication of the new edifice of that Society beginning,
With loving hearts and hands we rear,
which is included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914.
A hymn beginning
Father in heaven, hear us today,
is attributed to him in the Universalist Church Harmonies: Old and New, 1898, but is not found elsewhere.
H.W.F.
Anonymous