Gilman grad­u­at­ed from Har­vard Coll­ege in 1811, and was a tu­tor there from 1817 to 1819. In 1819, he be­came pas­tor of a Un­i­tar­i­an con­gre­ga­tion in Charles­town, South Car­o­li­na, where he stayed un­til his death. He made con­tri­bu­tions to the Christ­ian Ex­am­in­er, the North Amer­i­can Re­view, and the South­ern Quar­ter­ly, and al­so wrote:

• Memoirs of a New Eng­land Choir
• Sermons Prac­ti­cal and Doc­trin­al, com­piled post­hu­mous­ly by Charles J. Bow­en (Charles­ton, South Car­o­li­na: Ev­ans & Cogs­well, 1860)

Sources

Hymns

1. O God, Accept The Sac­red Hour
2. This Child We Ded­i­cate to Thee
3. We Sing Thy Mer­cy, God of Love