A poem rather than a hymn, in 6 stas. of 4 l., appended to his _Catechism_, 1823. 4. _When brighter suns and milder skies_, (Spring) Appended to his _Catechism_, 1823, in 6 stas. of 4 l. 5. _Who is thy neighbor? He whom thou_ (The good neighbor) Included in the _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914. The full texts of Peabody’s hymns are printed in Putnam, _Singers & Songs of the Liberal Faith_, Boston, 1874. J. 887 Revised by H.W.F. Perkins, Rev. James Handasyde, Boston, Massachusetts, July 31, 1810—December 14, 1849, near Cincinnati, Ohio. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Round Hill School, Northampton, Massachusetts. After a brief business experience in Boston he moved to Cincinnati, where he was admitted to the bar in 1837, but two years later he took up the Ministry-at-Large organized by the First Congregational Society (Unitarian) of Cincinnati, and later became pastor of the church. He was active in social reforms and as a lecturer, and was author of a number of essays descriptive of life in what was then the far west. The hymn in 3 stanzas, C.M., beginning _It is a faith sublime and sure_, attributed to “J. H. Perkins” in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846-48, is presumably by him, although it is not included with his poems printed in the _Memoir and Writings of James Handasyde Perkins_, edited by W. H. Channing, Cincinnati, 1851. It does not appear to have had any further use. H.W.F. Pierpont, Rev. John, Litchfield, Connecticut, April 6, 1785—August 27, 1866, Medford, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1804, studied law, and in 1812 set up practice in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but later turned to the ministry and graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1818. That fall he became minister of the Hollis Street Church (Unitarian) in Boston, which he served till 1840, when a sharp controversy over his outspoken attacks on intemperance, slavery and other social evils led to his resignation. In the same year he published his _Poems and Hymns_, which included his temperance and anti-slavery poems and songs, and of which a later edition appeared in 1854. He also wrote a number of excellent school books. In 1845 he became minister of the Unitarian Church at Troy, New York, and in 1849 of the First Parish in Medford, Massachusetts, which he served until 1859, when he retired. With the outbreak of the Civil War he became an Army chaplain and was later employed in the Treasury Department at Washington. He died suddenly while on a visit to Medford.