He was the maternal grandfather of J. Pierpont Morgan of New York, who was named for him, but it would be hard to find a greater contrast than that offered by the careers of the hymn-writing reformer and his grandson, the financial magnate. In his own day Pierpont’s hymns brought him a wide reputation. Thus Putnam, in his _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_, 1873, says, “Mr. Pierpont was one of the best hymn writers in America. He was a genuine poet, as well as a powerful preacher and stern reformer.” Today he occupies a much more modest place in American hymnody. None of his hymns attained a very high level of excellence. Most of them are respectable verse, written in response to frequent requests for hymns for special occasions, but they well illustrate the mood of the Unitarianism of his period. His hymns which have come into use are 1. _Another day its course hath run_ (Evening) Appeared in _Hymns for Children_, Boston 1825; in Greenwood’s _Chapel Liturgy_, 1827; in Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, 1841; and in the author’s _Poems and Hymns_, 1840. 2. _Break forth in song, ye trees_ (Public Thanksgiving) Written for the celebration of the 200^th anniversary of the Settlement of Boston, Sept. 17, 1830. Included in _Poems and Hymns_, 1840. 3. _Break the bread and pour the wine_ (Communion) In Harris’s _Hymns for the Lord’s Supper_, 1820. 4. _Father, while we break the bread_, (Communion) 5. _God Almighty and All-seeing_ (Greatness of God) Contributed to Elias Nason’s _Congregational Hymn Book_, Boston, 1857. 6. _God of mercy, do Thou never_ (Ordination) Written for the ordination of John B. P. Storer at Walpole, Mass., Nov. 18, 1826. Included in the author’s _Poems_, 1840, and in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. 7. _God of our fathers, in Whose sight_, (Love of Truth) This hymn is composed of stas. IX and X of a longer hymn written for the Charlestown (Mass.) Centennial, June 17, 1830. In this form it was included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and elsewhere. 8. _Gone are those great and good_, (Commemoration) Part of no. 2, above, in _Church Harmonies_, 1895. 9. _I cannot make him dead_ (Memorial) A part of an exquisitely touching and beautiful poem of ten stanzas, originally printed in the _Monthly Miscellany_, Oct. 1840. 10. _Let the still air rejoice_, (Praise) This was headed “Temperance Hymn” in _The Soldier’s Companion_, 1861, but is really a patriotic ditty. 11. _Mighty God, whose name is holy_ (Charitable Institutions) Written for the anniversary of the Howard Benevolent Society, Dec. 1826. Included in the author’s _Poems_, 1840. 12. _My God, I thank Thee that the night_ (Morning)