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| Short Name: | Edward Everett Hale |
| Full Name: | Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 |
| Birth Year: | 1822 |
| Death Year: | 1909 |
Hale, Edward Everett, M.A., b. at Boston, 1822, and graduated at Harvard. From 1846 to 1856 he was pastor of an Unitarian Church at Worcester; and from 1856 he has had the charge of South Church, Boston. He has published several prose works of merit. His hymn, "O Father, take the new-built shrine" (Dedication of a Church), is dated 1858. It was published in Longfellow & Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, No. 223, in 2 stanzas of 4 lines; and was repeated in Martineau's Hymns of Praise & Prayer, Lon., 1873, No. 725. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
Texts by Edward Everett Hale (3) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| From city and from prairie | Edward Everett Hale (Author) | English | 2 |
| O Father, take the new built shrine | Rev. Edward Everett Hale (1822- ) (Author) | English | 7 |
| The ploughing of the Lord is deep | Edward Everett Hale (Author) | 3 |
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