Badger, Rev. George Henry, Charlestown, Massachusetts, March 27, 1859—May 11, 1953, Orlando, Florida. He was educated at Williams College, A.B. 1883, at Andover Theological Seminary and the Harvard Divinity School, receiving the degree of S.T.B. from the latter institution in 1886. He served several Unitarian churches in New England. From 1912-1918 he was a minister in San Antonio, Texas; from 1919-1936 in Orlando, Florida. The preface to The Isles of Shoals Hymn Book, 1908, is signed with his initials as editor. That book contains three hymns of which he was author:—
1. God of the vastness of the far-spread sea,
2. Lord, I believe, and in my faith,
3. Thy way, O Lord, is in the sea,
In 1910 he wrote a hymn beginning,
4. O Thou who art my King,
which was included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914. None of these hymns have passed into later collections.
H.W.F.
Ballou, Rev. Adin, 1803-1890. Without much formal education, but gifted in mind and spirit, he was ordained in 1827 as a Universalist minister, but in 1831 joined the Unitarian denomination in which he served a number of New England parishes. He wrote a hymn beginning,
Years are coming—speed them onward!
When the sword shall gather rust
which was included in Universalist hymnbooks and in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937.