in 4 stanzas of 10 lines each, printed in the Riverside Record and reprinted in the Boston Gazette, February 4, 1882. Enough lines have been taken from this hymn to make a much shorter one in 5 stanzas of four lines each, C.M. for inclusion in Unitarian hymn-books. It has also been considerably rewritten, but since this revised form is not marked as “altered” it is probable that the changes were made by the author or at least with her permission. It is included in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937.
H.W.F.
Church, Edward Alonzo, Boston, Massachusetts, —— 1844—January 29, 1929, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a business man who wrote in 1904, for the laying of the cornerstone of a new edifice for the Church of the Disciples (Unitarian), Boston, of which he was a member, a hymn beginning,
Almighty Builder, bless, we pray,
The cornerstone that here we lay,
The next year, for the final service in the old edifice which the congregation was leaving, he wrote one beginning,
O Thou to whom in prayer and praise
We here have turned with constant heart.
Both hymns were included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, and the first is also in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937.
H.W.F.