Upon removal to Shirley, Mr. Bancroft became the organist and choir leader of the First Congregational (Unitarian) Church, rendering that service for 45 years.

Beatley's mother, Mary Park Morse,[3] was a native of Shirley and the descendant of Unitarian parents and grandparents.

while teaching in Cambridge, at the age of 25, she went for the first time to the Church of the Disciples on West Brookline Street, Boston, to hear the preacher, Rev.

[2] Beatley was a familiar presence to many churches and branch alliances through New England and the Middle States, for she was in great demand as a speaker.

The booklet contained half a dozen poems and four brief chapters on "The Mood of Power", "Reverence", "The Things we need", and "The Joys of Responsibility".

[2] It contained verse gathered from many well-known sources, the poets Lowell, Emerson, Longfellow, Tennyson, Bryant, Whittier, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and the Brownings being liberally drawn upon.

Beatley's aim was to gather under convenient topical heads, such as "Progress", "Nature", "Duty", "Truth and Freedom", "Self-control", twenty in all.

Charles Gordon Ames as successor to James Freeman Clarke, and participated actively in the church work of that leader.