RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Hasmoneans Hatch
HASSE, FRIEDRICH RUDOLF: German theologian; b. at Dresden June 29, 1808; d. at Bonn Oct. 14, 1862. He was educated at Leipsic and Berlin, and in 1834 was appointed lecturer in church history at the university of the latter city. In 1836 he was called to Greifswald as assistant professor of church history, and in 1841 he was appointed to a similar office at the University of Bonn. There he completed the first volume of his Anselm von Canterbury (2 vols., Leipsic, 1843-52; Eng. transl. of vol. i. The Life of Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, London, 1850), containing the biography of the great English primate; the second part reproduced Anselm's theological system. (W. KrafptI.) Bibliography: W. Krafft, F. R. Hasse, eine Lebensskizze,
Bonn, 1865.
HASTINGS, JAMES: United Free Church; b. at Huntly (33 m. n. w. of Aberdeen) , Scotland, about 1860; educated at Aberdeen, became pastor of St. Cyrus, Montrose, Kincardineshire, 1901. He edited the Dictionary of the Bible, 5 vols., Edinburgh and New York, 1898-1904; Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, 2 vols., 1906-07 ; Dictionary of the Bible, 1 vol., 1908; and Dictionary of Religion arid Ethics, 1908 sqq. He is the editor of The Expository Times.
HASTINGS, THOMAS : Composer of sacred music ; b. in Washington, Conn., Oct. 15, 1784; d. in New York City May 15, 1872. In early youth he taught himself music, and began his career as a teacher in singing-schools in 1806, and as an editor in 1816. With Prof. Seth Norton, of Hamilton College, he published two pamphlets (1816), afterward enlarged, and united with the Springfield Collection in a volume entitled Musica Sacra. From 1823 to 1832 he was the editor of The Western Recorder, a religious paper published at Utica. In 1832, at the call of twelve churches, he removed to the city of New York. Before leaving Utica he had begun to write hymns, impelled by the lack of variety, especially in meter, in those then current, and by the need of adapting suitable words to the music he arranged. In the Spiritual Songs (1832) there are more than thirty of his hymns published anonymously. Among these are some of the best that he wrote; such as, How calm and beautiful the morn! ; Gently, Lord, oh gently lead us; Child of sin and sorrow. The popularity of these first attempts led him to continue and cultivate the habit thus early begun. About two hundred of his hymns are in current use, and he left in manuscript about four hundred more. His music, with that of Lowell Mason, did important service in the Church, and marks in America the transition period between the crude and the more cultured periods of psalmody. His cardinal principle was that in church music the artistic must be strictly subordinated to the devotional. In 1858 the University of the City of New York conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Music.
The following is a list of his publications: Musica Sacra (Utica, 1816-22); The Musical Reader (1819); A Dissertation on Musical Taste (Albany, 1822; revised and republished, New York, 1853); Spiritual Songs (Lowell Mason coeditor, Utica, 1832-36);
Prayer (1831 ) ; The Christian Psalmist (William Patton coeditor, New York, 1836); Anthems, Motets, and Sentences (1836); Musical Magazine (24 numbers, 1837-38); The Manhattan Collection (1837); Elements of Vocal Music (1839); Nursery Songs, The Mother's Hymn-book, The Sacred Lyre (1840); Juvenile Songs (1842); The Crystal Fount (1847); The Sunday-school Lyre (1848). With William B. Bradbury as joint editor from 1844 to 1851: The Psalmodist (1844); The Choralist (1847); The Mendelssohn Collection (1849); The Psalmista (1851); Devotional Hymns and Poems (1850); The History of Forty Choirs (1854); (Sacred Praise, The Selah (1856); Church Melodies (1858); Hastings' Church Music (1860); Introits, or Short Anthems (1865). He also edited, for the American Tract Society, Sacred Songs (1855) and Songs of Zion (1856), and for the Presbyterian Church, The Presbyterian Psalmodist (1852) and The Juvenile Psalmodist.
Thomas S. Hastings.
HASTINGS, THOMAS SAMUEL: Presbyterian; b. at Utica, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1827. He was educated at Hamilton College (B.A., 1848) and Union Theological Seminary (1851). He then held pastorates at Mendham, N. J. (1852-56), and West Presbyterian Church, New York City (1856-81). From 1881 to 1904 he was professor of sacred rhetoric in Union Theological Seminary, of which he had already been a trustee since 1864, and president from 1888 to 1897. In 1904 he became emeritus professor, but continued to lecture on pastoral theology. He collaborated with his father, Thomas Hastings, in the preparation of Church Melodies : Psalms and Hymns, with Music for Congregations (New York, 1858).
HATCH, ABRAM: Mormon bishop; b. at Lincoln, Vt., Jan. 3, 1830. He was educated in the public schools of Lincoln and Bristol, but while still a boy went to Nauvoo, 111., where the entire family embraced Mormonism. He studied Mormon theology at Utah with Brigham Young, and from 1864 to 1867 was in Great Britain, working in the interests of Mormonism. Shortly after his return to the United States he was appointed bishop, with his residence at Heber City, Utah, and held this office until his resignation in 1900. He was for four years a probate judge, and for twenty-three years a member of the Utah Legislature. Since 1900 he has been engaged in farming and in business.
HATCH, EDWIN: English theologian; b. at Derby Sept. 4, 1835; d. at Oxford Nov. 10, 1889. He was graduated at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1857, was classical professor in Trinity College, Toronto, Canada, rector of a high school at Quebec, and fellow of McGill University, Montreal, during the years 1859-66. From 1881 to 1885 he was vice-principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, and in 1883 became rector of Purleigh, Essex, though he continued to reside at Oxford. In 1884 he was appointed secretary of the boards of the faculties; for some years before his death he was the editor of the University Gazette ; and in 1881 he published the official Students' Handbook to the University and Colleges of Oxford. In 1880 the university appointed him Greenfield lecturer on the Septuagint,
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