is included in the Isles of Shoals Hymn Book, 1908.
H.W.F.
Hale, Rev. Edward Everett, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, April 3, 1822—June 10, 1909, Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1839, the youngest member of his class. He did not go to the Divinity School, but taught in the Boston Latin School and studied for the ministry under the direction of Rev. S. K. Lothrop and Rev. J. G. Palfrey. He was licensed to preach by the Boston Association and in 1846 was ordained as minister of the Church of the Unity (now the First Unitarian Church), Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1856 he moved to Boston, where he served the South Congregational Church (Unitarian) as minister and minister emeritus until his death. He was a voluminous writer. One of his stories entitled “A Man Without A Country,” and another, “In His Name,” brought him wide reputation. He was a distinguished preacher and a greatly beloved pastor, an ardent advocate of peace who as early as 1871 proposed a “United States of Europe,” and in 1889 outlined a plan for an “International Tribunal.” In 1858 he wrote a hymn “For the dedication of a Church” beginning,
O Father, take this new-built shrine,
which was included in Longfellow and Johnson’s Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, from which Martineau took it for his Hymns of Praise and Prayer, London, 1873.
J. 481 H.W.F.
Hale, Mary Whitwell, Boston, Massachusetts, January 29, 1810—November 17, 1862, Keene, New Hampshire. Most of her life she was a school teacher in Boston, later in Taunton, Massachusetts, and, for her last 20 years, in Keene. She wrote a good deal of verse. Two of her poems, one on “Home,” and the second on “Music” were written for a juvenile concert in the Unitarian Church at Taunton, April, 1834. A number of her later hymns and poems appeared in The Christian Register, signed by Y.L.E. (the final letters of her name), and in 1840 a volume entitled Poems was published in Boston. Several of her poems are included in Putnam’s Singers and Songs, etc.
Four of her hymns were included in the Cheshire Collection, 1844, viz:
1. Praise for the glorious light,
Written for a Temperance meeting.
2. This day let grateful praise ascend (Sunday)
3. Whatever dims the sense of truth
In Putnam, Singers and Songs, this is entitled “A Mother’s Counsel,” with a quotation from John Wesley’s mother.
4. When in silence o’er the deep (Christmas)
Of these nos. 2 and 3 were taken from her Poems, and nos. 1 and 4 were written for the Cheshire Collection. No. 4 is in Church Harmonies. 1895, but none of her hymns are in current use.