Hymns for Christian Devotion

Rev. John Greenleaf Adams (1810-1897) was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was ordained in 1833 in Rumney, New Hampshire. Adams was coeditor with Dr. E. H. Chapin of the Universalist Hymns for Christian Devotion (1846) and alone for the Gospel Psalmist (1861). Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814-1880), was born in New York, to Beulah Hubbell and Alpheus Chapin. E. H. Chapin was a Universalist minister, author, lecturer, and social reformer, and was one of the most popular speakers in America from the 1840's until his death. He was revered for his eloquent tongue and passionate pleas for tolerance and justice. Amongst his works are: Might and Right (1846), Humanity in the City (1854), The American Idea, and What Grows Out of it (1854), Moral Aspects of City Life (1856), A Discourse on Shameful Life (1859), Discourses on the Beatitudes (1860), Living Words (1861) and The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing (1860).