Sebastian Streeter
Sebastian Streeter (1783-1867) was a Universalist minister born in North Adams, Massachusetts. He became pastor of the First Universalist Church in Boston in 1824 and served that congregation for three decades, becoming one of the city's best-known Universalist clergymen. He contributed hymns to early Universalist collections and, with his brother Russell Streeter, compiled The New Hymn Book, Designed for Universalist Societies (1829), which saw wide use in the denomination. He died in Newtonville, Massachusetts, in 1867.
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The new hymn book, designed for Universalist societies (1829)
The most widely used Universalist hymnbook of its generation, compiled by the brothers Sebastian and Russell Streeter. A words-only collection 'compiled from approved authors,' it served the societies from the 1820s until Adams and Chapin's Hymns for Christian Devotion displaced it in the late 1840s, and it went through many printings — this is the first edition.
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