Edmund Hamilton Sears

Born:  April 6, 1810, Sandisfield, Massachusetts.

Died: January 14, 1876, Weston, Massachusetts.

    Sears attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, and Harvard Divinity School. He served at Unitarian churches in Wayland, Lancaster, and Weston, Massachusetts. He also helped edit the Monthly Religious Magazine. His works include:

• Regeneration (Boston, Massachusetts: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1854)
• Pictures of the Olden Time, as Shown in the Fortunes of a Family of Pilgrims, 1857
• Athanasia, or Foregleams of Immortality, 1857
• The Fourth Gospel, the Heart of Christ, 1872
• Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life, 1875

Hymns

1. Calm on the Listening Ear of Night
2. It Came upon the Midnight Clear