Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-09 | Page 30 | Historic Hyms

1 r Historic HI H- H i. i Hymns 11 i I I 1 I I BY FREDE FREDERIC RIO REDD ALL t New York Board I It Staff Lecturer of Education I II t 1 Copyright C 1913 by the Press Publish In log company the New cw World t I I NEARER MY GOD TO THEE 0 few ow of ot our hymns with a history T TO has hns so o great general ral approval al been accorded as ns to Nearer My y God to Thee with at the tame came time f so o much adverse criticism at the hands of certain Christian critics The reproach consists in the fact that Its author Sarah Fuller Flower Flo Adams was a Unitarian And because the tho name of Christ does not appear In the original version It Is classed ITS s a Unitarian hymn Yet It has has' been boon sUn sung b by every ery Christian denomination to the fino fine b by Lowell composed melody Bethany I Mason Mas Mrs Irs Adams Adam was Vas the second daughter of ot Benjamin Flower Flow r. r editor und and proprietor proprietor pro pro- ri tor of oC the Cambridge In England land In In- In While she Is reckoned as a poet of or no little ability It Is as th thIS the theauthor author of this h hymn mn that sho she Is be best t remembered She Sho was born In 1805 and ut Sit at an nn early arh a age atre e showed a a taste for tor lit lit as ns n a writer of oC pro prose p. p and ander er verse Mr 11 Flower Fower being a liberal in poll politics lies and religion his children partook partook partook par par- took of oC his opinions and so are arc always alwa's reckoned among among- Unitarians She married William VilIam B. B Adams In 1834 and died in 1848 18 She was wag an anEn En Englishwoman and not an American as has been erroneously l stat stated d. d Nearer My Iy God to Thee Thep has been tho the comfort and guide of more hearts than titan any other one hymn A stanza has been added b by the He Rev Arthur t T. T HU Russell to remedy the omission of the Saviors Savior's name I Christ alone aone me me Where hero Thou dost shine Joint heir He lie me Of or the divine In Christ m my soul shall be Nearest m my God to Thee Nearest to Thee Theet