WARE, HENRY: One of the founders of Unitarianism in America; b. at Sherburne, Mass., Apr. 1, 1764; d. at Cambridge July 12, 1845. He was graduated from Harvard College (1785); was pastor of the First Church, Hingham, Mass. (1787-1805); was Hollis professor of divinity in Harvard College, 1805-16, and then in the divinity school, which was that year organized, until, in 1840, loss of sight compelled his resignation, though he continued to give instruction in pulpit eloquence till 1842. His significance historically, altogether apart from his own pleasing personality and scholarly attainments, lies in the fact that his election to the chair of divinity evoked a controversy which led to the separation of Unitarians from Congregationalists. His election was opposed on the ground of his "liberal" leanings, but the opposition was unsuccessful. The Rev. Dr. Jedediah Morse then published his True Reasons on which the Election of a Hopis Professor of Divinity was opposed at the Board of Overseers, which may be regarded as the commencement of the Unitarian controversy. Ware took no part in this controversy until 1820, when he wrote Letters to Trinitarians and Calvinists, occasioned by the Rev. Dr. Leonard Woods's Letters to Unitarians (Andover, 1820). This involved him in a controversy with Dr. Woods. Dr. Ware also published An Inquiry into the Foundation, Evidences, and Truths of Religion (2 vols., Cambridge, 1842).

Bibliography: W. B. Sprague, Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit, pp. 199-205, New York, 1865; J. H. Allen, in American Church History Serves, s. 187 sqq., ib. 1894.

WARE, HENRY, JUN.: Unitarian, son of the preceding; b. at Hingham, Mass., Apr. 21, 1794; d. at Framingham, Mass., Sept. 22, 1843. He was graduated from Harvard College (1812); taught at Phillips Academy, Exeter (1812-14); took postgraduate studies and acted as sublibrarian at Harvard (1814-16); was pastor of the Second Church in Boston (1817-30); and Parkman professor of pulpit eloquence in the divinity school at Cambridge, 1830-42. He edited The Christian Disciple, the first Unitarian organ (1819-22); and published Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching (1824), On the Formation of the Christian Character (1831), and a considerable number of poems and occasional aer-

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mona. Four volumes of selections from his writings were issued by C. Robbins (1846-47). He wrote a considerablenumber of hymns, of which perhaps the best known are, "All nature's works His praise declare," and "Lift your glad voices in triumph on high."

Bibliography: J. Ware, Memoirs of Henry Ware, Jun., 2 vols., Boston, 1845 (by his brother); W. B. Sprague, Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit, pp. 472-484, New York, 1885; J. H. Allen, in American Church History Series, a. 199-207, ib. 1894; Julian, Hymnology, p . 1233.