Son of an en­grav­er and book­sell­er, Con­der lost his right eye at age five, due to a bad small­pox vac­cin­a­tion. How­ever, his na­tive talents led him to be a suc­cess­ful au­thor, ed­i­tor and pub­lish­er. He ed­it­ed The Ec­lec­tic Re­pub­lic and The Pa­tri­ot, and wrote books on a wide va­ri­e­ty of sec­u­lar and re­li­gious sub­jects. A mem­ber of the Con­gre­ga­tion­al­ist de­nom­in­a­tion, his Con­gre­ga­tion­al Hymn-Book sold 90,000 co­pies in its first se­ven years. His other works in­clude:

• The Wi­thered Oak, 1805
• The Re­ver­ie, 1811
• The Star in the East, with Other Po­ems Chief­ly Re­li­gious and Do­mes­tic, 1824
• Sacred Po­ems, Do­mes­tic Po­ems, and Mis­cel­lan­e­ous Po­ems, 1824
• The Choir and the Or­a­to­ry, 1836
• Hymns of Praise, Pray­er, and De­vout Me­di­ta­tion, 1856

• Hatfield, pp. 151-54
• Julian, pp. 256, 1557, 1574

1. Baptized in­to Our Sav­ior’s Death
2. Be Mer­ci­ful, O God of Grace
3. Beyond, Be­yond That Bound­less Sea
4. Blessed Be God, He Is Not Strict
5. Bread of Hea­ven, on Thee We Feed
6. Comrades of the Hea­ven­ly Call­ing
7. Day by Day the Man­na Fell
8. Followers of Christ of Ev­ery Name
9. Forever Will I Bless the Lord
10. Grant Me, Hea­ven­ly Lord, to Feel
11. Grant, O Sav­ior, to Our Pray­ers
12. Hallelujah! Raise, O Raise
13. Head of the Church, Our Ris­en Lord
14. Heavenly Fa­ther, to Whose Eye
15. Heavens De­clare His Glo­ry, The
16. Holy, Ho­ly, Ho­ly, Lord, in the High­est Hea­ven
17. How Hon­ored, How Dear
18. How Shall I Fol­low Him I Serve?
19. I Am Thy Work­man­ship, O Lord
20. In the Day of My Dis­tress
21. Jehovah’s Praise Sub­lime
22. Leave Us Not Com­fort­less
23. Lord, for Thy Name’s Sake!
24. Lord Is King!, The
25. My Lord, I Did Not Choose You
26. Now with An­gels Round the Throne
27. O Be Joy­ful in the Lord
28. O Breathe up­on This Lan­guid Frame
29. O Com­fort to the Drea­ry
30. O Give Thanks to Him Who Made
31. O God, Pro­tec­tor of the Low­ly
32. O God, to Whom the Hap­py Dead
33. O God, Who Didst an Equal Mate
34. O God, Who Didst Thy Will Un­fold
35. O God, Who Dost Thy Sov­er­eign Might
36. O God Whose All Cre­at­ing Might
37. O Ho­ly, Ho­ly, Ho­ly Lord
38. O How Feeble Flesh and Blood
39. O How Should Those Be Clean Who Bear
40. O Lord, Hadst Thou Been Here!
41. O Say Not, Think Not in Thy Heart
42. O Show Me Not My Sav­ior Dy­ing
43. O Thou Di­vine High Priest
44. O Thou God Who Hear­est Pray­er
45. O Thou Who Giv­est All Their Food
46. O Thou Whose Co­ve­nant Is Sure
47. Praise on Thee, in Zi­on Gates
48. Praise the God of All Cre­a­tion
49. See the Ran­somed Mill­ions Stand
50. Thou Art the Ev­er­last­ing Word
51. Thy Hands Have Made and Fash­ioned Me
52. ’Tis Not that I Did Choose Thee
    • My Lord, I Did Not Choose You
53. To All Thy Faith­ful Peo­ple, Lord
54. To His Own World He Came
55. To Our God Loud Prais­es Give
56. Upon a World of Guilt and Night
57. Welcome, Wel­come!
58. When in the Hour of Lone­ly Woe
59. Wheresoever Two or Three