1812–1893

Introduction

Born: 1812, Ken­ne­bunk, Maine.

Died: 1893, Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Buried: Mount Au­burn Ce­me­te­ry, Cam­bridge, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Biography

Robert was the son of Ro­bert Wa­ter­ston and Heph­zi­bah Lord, and hus­band of An­na Ca­bot Low­ell Quin­cy.

He stu­died theo­lo­gy at Cam­bridge, and for five years had charge of a Sun­day school for sea­men’s child­ren. He was as­so­ci­at­ed for se­ver­al years with the Pitts Street Uni­ta­ri­an Cha­pel, Bos­ton; and then pas­tor for se­ven years of the Uni­ta­ri­an Church of the Sav­iour in Bos­ton.

Much of his time was given to li­te­ra­ture, and a long list of his pa­pers of va­ri­ous kinds is giv­en in Put­nam’s Singe­rs and Songs of the Li­ber­al Faith, 1874. He al­so in­ter­est­ed him­self in edu­ca­tion­al mat­ters.

Works

He con­trib­ut­ed one hymn to the Am­eri­can Uni­ta­ri­an Che­shire Pas­tor­al As­so­cia­tion Chris­tian Hymns, 1844; to his own po­pu­lar Sup­ple­ment to Green­wood’s Psalms and Hymns, 1845; and oth­ers to va­ri­ous works.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Ceaseless As­pir­ations
  2. Crown of Life, The
  3. Genius for Us Has Wrought
  4. Glorious That Faith Which Prompts to Deeds
  5. God of the Soul, Help Us to Re­vere
  6. Great God in Hea­ven Above
  7. Great Source of Good, Our God and Friend
  8. Here and Now
  9. I Stand Be­tween the Fu­ture and the Past
  10. In Ag­es Past, Ma­jes­tic Pro­phets Came
  11. In Dark­est Hours I Hear a Voice
  12. In Each Breeze That Wan­ders Free
  13. Lord of All, We Bow Be­fore Thee
  14. Nature with Eter­nal Youth
  15. O God of Light and Love
  16. O Lord of Life, to Thee We Pray
  17. One Bright Flow­er Has Drooped and Fad­ed
  18. Soul Does Its Own Life to Na­ture Give, The
  19. Theories Which Thou­sands Cher­ish
  20. Thou Who Didst Aid Our Sires to Raise
  21. When Is­ra­el’s Host, in Days of Old

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