Henry Ware, Jr.

Born:  April 21, 1794, Hingham, Massachusetts.

Died: September 25, 1843, Framingham, Massachusetts.

Buried:  Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Son of a Unitarian minister, Ware attended Harvard and became an assistant teacher at Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. In 1815, the Boston Unitarian Association licensed him to preach, and in 1817, he was ordained and became pastor of the Second Church in Boston, Massachusetts. He was Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral Care at the Harvard Divinity School, 1829-1842. He also edited the Christian Disciple (later renamed the Christian Examiner), and ran the Society for Religious Improvement at Harvard University (his father was on the faculty there, as well). A two volume Memoir and a four volume Works were published three years after his death.

Hymns

1. All Nature's Works His Praise Declare
2. Around the Throne of God
3. Father of Earth and Heaven, Whose Arm Upholds Creation
4. Father, Thy Gentle Chastisement
5. Great God, the Followers of Thy Son
6. Happy the Home When God Is There
7. In This Glad Hour When Children Meet
8. Lift Your Glad Voices in Triumph on High
9. Like Israel’s Hosts to Exile Driven
10. O Thou in Whom Alone Is Found
11. O Thou Who on Thy Chosen Son
12. Oppression Shall Not Always Reign
13. To Prayer, to Prayer
14. We Rear Not a Temple
15. With Praise and Prayer Our Gifts We Bring