Frederic Henry Hedge

Born:  December 12, 1805, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Died:  August 21, 1890, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Hedge attended Harvard University and Divinity School, then pastored in Arlington, Massachusetts (1829-1835); Bangor, Maine (1835-1850); Providence, Rhode Island (1850-1856); and Brookline, Massachusetts (1856-1872). He edited The Christian Examiner (1857-1861), and served as president of the American Unitarian Association (1859-1862). He went on to teach ecclesiastical history (1857-1878) and German literature (1872-1882) at Harvard. His works include:

• Christian Liturgy for the Use of the Church (Boston, Massachusetts: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1853)
• Hymns for the Church of Christ (Boston, Massachusetts: 1853) (with Frederic Huntington)
• Reason in Religion (Boston, Massachusetts: Walker, Fuller and Company, 1865)
• Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition
• Ways of the Spirit and Other Essays (Boston, Massachusetts: Roberts Brothers, 1877s)

Hymns

1. Beneath Thine Hammer, Lord, I Lie
2. Sovereign and Transforming Grace
3. ’Twas in the East, the Mystic East
4. ’Twas the Day when God Anointed
   • It is Finished! Man of Sorrows

Translations

1. Christ Hath Arisen!
2. Holy Spirit, Fire Divine
3. A Mighty Fortress is Our God
4. Sun Is Still Forever Sounding, The