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Hedge, Frederick Henry, D.D., son of Professor Hedge of Harvard College, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1805, and educated in Germany and at Harvard. In 1829 he became pastor of the Unitarian Church, West Cambridge. In 1835 he removed to Bangor, Maine; in 1850 to Providence, and in 1856 to Brookline, Mass. He was appointed in 1857, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge (U.S.), and in 1872, Professor of German Literature at Harvard. Dr. Hedge is one of the editors of the Christian Examiner, and the author of The Prose Writers of Germany, and other works. In 1853 he edited, with Dr. F. D. Huntington, the Unitarian Hymns for the Church of Christ, Boston Crosby, Nichols & Co. To that collection and the supplement (1853) he contributed the following translations from the German:—
1. A mighty fortress is our God. (Ein feste Burg.)
2. Christ hath arisen! joy to, &c. (Goethe's Faust.)
3. The sun is still for ever sounding. (Goethe's Faust.)
There is also in the Unitarian Hymn [& Tune] Book for The Church & Home, Boston, 1868, a translation from the Latin.
4. Holy Spirit, Fire divine. (“Veni Sancte Spiritus.")
Dr. Hedge's original hymns, given in the Hymns for the Church, 1853, are:—
5. Beneath Thine hammer, Lord, I lie. Resignation.
6. Sovereign and transforming grace. Ordination. Written for the Ordination of H. D. Barlow at Lynn, Mass., Dec. 9, 1829. It is given in several collections.
7. 'Twas in the East, the mystic East. Christmas.
8. 'Twas the day when God's anointed. Good Friday. Written originally for a Confirmation at Bangor, Maine, held on Good Friday, 1843. The hymn "It is finished, Man of Sorrows! From Thy cross, &c," in a few collections, including Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873, is composed of st. iv.-vi. of this hymn. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Hymn Texts by Frederick Henry Hedge	As
A mighty fortress is our God (294)	Frederic Henry Hedge
A single star how bright (2)	Frederic Henry Hedge
All things are thine: no gift have we	Frederic Henry Hedge
All things bright and beautiful	Frederic Henry Hedge
All to Jesus I surrender, All to Him I freely give	Frederic Henry Hedge
Beneath thine [thy] hammer, Lord, I lie (9)	Frederic Henry Hedge
Christ hath arisen! joy to our buried Head (4)	Frederic Henry Hedge
Ein nerth a'n cadarn Dwr yw Duw (2)	Frederic Henry Hedge
Holy Father, great Creator	Frederick Henry Hedge (Translator)
Holy Spirit, Fire divine (2)	Frederic Henry Hedge
In love to God and love to man	Frederic Henry Hedge
Lo another offering to thy courts	Frederic Henry Hedge
Sovereign and transforming grace (35)	Frederic Henry Hedge
The sun is still forever sounding (2)	Frederic Henry Hedge
'Twas in the east, the mystic east (2)	Frederic Henry Hedge
'Twas the day when God's Anointed (16)	Frederic Henry Hedge

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