which altered to
Unto thy temple, Lord, we come,
has had wide use in Unitarian hymn books and is included in the New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, and in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937.
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Clute, Rev. Oscar, Bethlehem, New York, March 11, 1837—January 27, 1902, Sawtelle, California. He took the degree of M.S. at Michigan State College, and then studied at Meadville Theological School, 1867-1868. In the latter year he was ordained as minister of the Unitarian Church at Vineland, New Jersey, where he remained for five years. He served churches in Keokuk, Iowa, 1875-1878; Iowa City, 1878-1888; and Pomona, California, 1888-1889. From 1889 to 1893 he was president of Michigan State Agricultural College, and president of Florida Agricultural College from 1893 to 1897, when he moved to California.
He wrote a hymn beginning,
O Love of God most full,
O Love of God most free,
which is included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937, and in The Hymnal (Presbyterian), 1935, the Handbook to which describes it as “a rhapsody of gratitude for the love of God.”
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