Introduction

Biography

A gra­du­ate of Will­iams Col­lege (MA 1861) and the Ge­ne­ral Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry, New York Ci­ty (DD 1865), Hut­chins be­came an Epis­co­pal min­is­ter in 1865.

He served as rec­tor of Saint John’s, Low­ell, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1867); as­sist­ant pas­tor at St. Paul’s Ca­thed­ral, Buf­fa­lo, New York (1869–72); and rec­tor of Grace Church, Med­ford, Mas­sa­chu­setts (1872–90).

He al­so served as as­sist­ant sec­re­ta­ry of the Ge­ne­ral Con­ven­tion (1871 & 1874) and Sec­re­ta­ry of the Con­ven­tion (1877), and ed­it­ed the week­ly pub­li­ca­tion The Par­ish Choir from 1874 to short­ly be­fore his death.

Works

Hutchins put out ma­ny books, but so far we have not seen any ly­rics or mu­sic that he wrote. His pub­li­ca­tions in­clude:

• Sunday School Hymn­al (Buf­falo, New York: Breed, Lent, 1871)
• Annotations of the Hym­nal (Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut: M. H. Mal­lo­ry, 1872)
• The Can­ti­cles (Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut: 1872
• Church Hym­nal (Med­ford, Mas­sa­chu­setts: 1879)
• Sunday School Hym­nal and Ser­vice Book (Med­ford, Mas­sa­chu­setts: 1871, 1881, 1892)
• Voices of Praise (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Dit­son, 1883)
• The Church Hymn­al (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Par­ish Choir, 1892)
• A Hym­nal and Ser­vice-Book (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Par­ish Choir, cir­ca 1893)
• The Chant and Ser­vice Book (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Par­ish Choir, ci­rca 1894)
• Carols Old and Car­ols New (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Par­ish Choir, 1916)
• The Church Hym­nal Re­vised (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Par­ish Choir, 1920)
• The Church Psal­ter
• The Point­ed Pray­er Book
• The Ech­oes of Pine­brook (The Young Peo­ples Church of the Air)