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Charles Gordon Ames

1828 - 1912 Hymnal Number: 497a Author of "With loving hearts and hands we rear" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book Ames, Charles Gordon. (Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1828-April 15, 1912, Boston, Massachusetts). He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1849 and spent some years as a home missionary in Minnesota. In 1859, he joined the Unitarian denomination and served several churches, his last pastorate being with the Church of the Disciples, Boston. In 1905, he wrote a hymn for the dedication of the new edifice of that Society, beginning "With loving hearts and hands we rear," which is included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914. A hymn beginning "Father in heaven, hear us today," is attributed to him in the Universalist Church Harmonies: Old and New, 1898, but is not found elsewhere. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

John Frederick Bridge

Hymnal Number: 39 Composer of "OLRIG GRANGE" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book See Bridge, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1924

Henry H. Barber

1835 - 1923 Person Name: Henry Hervey Barber Hymnal Number: 508 Author of "Far off, O God, and yet most near" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book BARBER, HENRY HERVEY: Unitarian; b. at Warwick, Mass., Dec. 30, 1835. He was educated at Deerfield (Mass.) Academy and Meadville Theological School (1861). He held successive pastorates at Harvard, Mass. (1861-66), Somerville, Mass. (1866-84), and Meadville, Pa. (1884-90), while from 1884 to 1904 he was professor of philosophy and theology at Meadville Theological School. Since 1904 he has been professor emeritus. He is a member of the American Historical Association and of the American Economic Association, and from 1875 to 1884 was editor of the Unitarian Review. New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge