Father of men, in whom are one

Father of men, in whom are one. Henry Cary Shuttleworth* (1850-1900). Shuttleworth published for his own church an appendix to the SPCK Church Hymns (1871, Church Hymns with Tunes, 1874), entitled The St Nicholas Cole Abbey Hymnal Appendix (1897), in which this hymn appeared. It was reprinted, with music by Shuttleworth himself, in the Church Monthly (1898). It was included, together with another of Shuttleworth’s hymns, ‘Father, ere yet another day is ended’, in the 1903 edition of Church Hymns; and it became very popular in the early part of the 20th century, perhaps because of its emphasis on fellowship, and its provenance in the world of the Christian Social Union. In EH, for example,...