Hunter em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1817, and en­tered Mad­i­son Coll­ege in 1830. For some time he ed­it­ed the Con­fer­ence Jour­nal and the Chris­tian Ad­vo­cate. In 1855, he be­came Pro­fess­or of He­brew at Al­le­ghe­ny Coll­ege. He la­ter be­came min­is­ter of the Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church in Al­li­ance, Ohio. He wrote some 125 hymns, and ed­it­ed:

• Select Mel­o­dies (Pitts­burgh, Penn­syl­van­ia: 1838-51)
• Minstrel of Zi­on, 1845
• Songs of De­vo­tion, 1859

• Hughes, P. 443
• Julian, P. 543

1. Ah Ne­ver Was Sor­row Like Mine
2. Ah Tell Me Not of Gold or Trea­sure
3. An Old Sol­dier I Stand
4. And May I Still Get There
5. As a Sol­dier I Stand with My Sword in My Hand
6. Awake, My Faith, and Bring to View
7. Away from His Home and the Friends of His Youth
8. Beautiful Forms in Mel­low Light
9. Blissful Hours, When First I Knew Him
10. Broad Is the Road That Leads to Death
11. Cease, Fond Na­ture, Cease This Cling­ing
12. Child, the Child, the King Old Pro­phet Said, The
13. Christian Sail­ors, Strike the Chor­us
14. Come, Child­ren, Let Your Voic­es Rise
15. Come, Come, Come, Come for the Fa­ther Waits
16. Come, Ghast­ly Death, and Lay Me Low
17. Come, Tell of Your Ves­sel
18. Dark Was That Day in Na­ture
19. Death Has No Sting
20. Father in Hea­ven, How Great the Grace
21. Firmly, Breth­ren, Firm­ly Stand
22. From This Ter­rene and Mor­tal Shore
23. Give Me but Some Hum­ble Spot
24. Go, Bring Me, Said the Dy­ing Fair
25. God Be Praised in Eve­ry Land
26. God of Our Fa­thers, Whose Right Hand
27. God of the For­ests, Fields, and Floods
28. Great Phy­si­cian, The
29. Hail, Hap­py Day, When Christ, the Son
30. Hail, Hap­py Morn, I Glad­ly Rise
31. Hail the Day That Brought Our Free­dom
32. Hallowed Spot, The
33. Happy Are Our Days Be­low
34. Happy the Day, Di­vine­ly Sweet
35. Happy the Spir­it Re­leased from Its Clay
36. Haste, Haste, the Clouds Arise
37. Home in Hea­ven, A
38. How Blest the Place Where Je­sus Is
39. How Bright­ly Beams the Day of Grace
40. How Hap­py Are the Fa­vored Few
41. I Am Dwell­ing on the Moun­tain
42. I Am Fad­ing Away to the Land of the Blest
43. I Left My Hea­ven­ly Fa­ther
44. I Seek a Place Which Is Out of Sight
45. If Some Kind Wealthy Friend Should Wait
46. I’ll Meet Thee at the Hour of Pray­er
47. I’m Go­ing Home
48. In Er­ror’s Ways You Vain­ly Roam
49. In Sea­sons of Grief to My God I’ll Re­pair
50. In That Bright World of Joy Above
51. In the Chris­tian’s Home in Glo­ry
52. In This Glad Em­ploy
53. Jerusalem, Thy Man­sions Fair
54. Joyfully, Joy­ful­ly On­ward I Move
55. Let Others Choose the Place of Mirth
56. Light of Truth Is Break­ing, The
57. Look Not on the Wine Be­come Red
58. Many Souls on Life’s Dark Ocean
59. Mourn, My Harp, the Soon De­part­ed
60. Music of His Steps Was Sought, The
61. My Hope Hath Found a Rest­ing Place
62. My Lord, My Life, at Last to Thee
63. My Soul Is Hap­py in Its Choice
64. No, I Can­not, Can­not Yet
65. Now Send­est Thou Thine Au­tumn, Lord
66. O Bless­ed Lord, Be Near Us
67. O Give Me the Flow­ers That Ne­ver De­cay
68. O Had I the Wings of a Dove
69. O Hap­py the Day He Was Born
70. O How Can I For­get the Hour
71. O How Shall I Praise My Ador­a­ble Sav­ior
72. O Je­sus, Im­ma­cu­late Lamb
73. O Meet Me at the Throne of Grace
74. O No, I Ne­ver Can For­get
75. O Praise the Lord, He Dwells on High
76. O Who Would Re­main in This Pri­son of Clay
77. O Yes, I’ll Join the Un­ion Band
78. Of All the Bright En­signs
79. O Give Me the Riche­s That Ne­ver De­cay
80. O Sing to Me of Hea­ven
81. Our Fa­ther, God, and King
82. Our Gra­cious Sav­ior and Our Lord
83. Our Hea­ven­ly Fa­ther, Let Thy Name
84. Our Kin­dred Dear to Hea­ven Have Gone
85. Pilgrim and a Stran­ger Here, A
86. Pilgrim and Stran­ger, Where Dost Thou Stray?
87. Pray Breth­ren Pray, the Pray­er of Faith
88. Review the Pal­sied Sinn­er’s Case
89. Rise, Sin­ner, Rise, the Mas­ter Call­eth for Thee
90. Safe, Safe With­in the Ark
91. Saints Ex­ult Adieu to Tears
92. Saints of God, What Glor­ies Meet Ye?
93. Sinners, the Ci­ty Where You Dwell
94. Soon Shall We See the Glor­i­ous Morn­ing
95. Shades of Night Are Gone, The
96. Shepherd of Souls, The
97. Vernal Flow­ers Their Beau­ties Spread, The
98. Tearfully Lay Her Down to Rest
99. There Are Mo­ments When Mu­sic’s Soft Num­bers En­chant
100. There Comes a Day, a Fear­ful Day
101. There Is a God, Awe­struck, I Feel
102. There Is a Land, Sur­pass­ing Fair
103. There Is a Place Where All My Hopes Are Stayed
104. There Is a Place Where I Hope to Live
105. There Is a Place Where My Hope Is Stayed
106. There Is a Place Where the An­gels Dwell
107. This Earth Has Ma­ny a Plea­sant Sweet
108. This May Be Thy Lat­est Call
109. Though Flow­ers of Hope So Ear­ly Fade
110. Though Poor My Con­di­tion, and Low My De­gree
111. Though to a Dis­tant Re­gion
112. To Jor­dan’s Banks Our Hosts Are Come
113. To the Prom­ised Home in Glo­ry
114. ’Twas in the Days of Ver­nal Prime
115. Up, the Voice from Hea­ven Is Sound­ing
116. Wake, Chris­tian Sol­diers, Wake
117. We Are Joy­ous­ly Voy­ag­ing
118. We’re Bound for the Land of Pure De­light
119. We’re Bound for the Land of the Pure and the Ho­ly
120. We’re March­ing to the Pro­mised Land
121. What a Won­der of Mer­cy Is This
122. When Day First Dawned up­on My Soul
123. When I Set Out for Hea­ven
124. When the Ho­ly Fire Des­cend­ed
125. Where Ba­bel’s Droop­ng Wil­lows Stood
126. While in This Hos­tile Re­gion
127. While Wan­der­ing to and Fro
128. Who Shall For­bid Our Grate­ful Woe!
129. Who Would Mourn, and Pine, and Lan­guish
130. Why Wand­er­est Thou So Far from Home?
131. Why, Weep­est Thou and Sigh­est?
132. With Fac­es Turned for Zi­on’s Hill
133. Woe, Woe to the Sin­ner Who Lives in His Sin
134. Ye Err­ing Souls That Wild­ly Roam
135. You May Sing of the Beau­ties of the Moun­tains and Dale