Dana, Charles Anderson, Hinsdale, New Hampshire, August 8, 1819—October 17, 1897, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. He was one of the leaders in the Brook Farm Association, 1842; then became a journalist and man of letters; on the staff of the New York Tribune, 1847-1862; Assistant Secretary of War, 1863-1864; editor of the New York Sun, 1868.
The hymn beginning
Work, and thou shalt bless the day (Joy in Labor)
which Hedge and Huntington included in their Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, and attributed to “C. A. Dana” was probably written while he was engaged in the Brook Farm experiment.
H.W.F.
Dwight, Rev. John Sullivan, Boston, Massachusetts, May 13, 1812—September 5, 1893. He graduated from Harvard College and from the Harvard Divinity School, and entered the Unitarian ministry, but after six years turned to literary pursuits, and was for nearly 50 years editor of the Journal of Music. A meditative poem by him in seven stanzas, entitled “True Rest,” beginning
Sweet is the pleasure,
is included in the Supplement in Hedge and Huntington’s Hymns for the Church of Christ, 1853, but it is not a hymn and his only connection with hymnody was his part in re-writing the hymn beginning
God bless our native land!
by his friend, [C. T. Brooks], q.v. In most versions of this much altered hymn the second stanza is in the form given it by Dwight.