Weiss, Rev. John, Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 1828—March 9, 1879, Boston. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1843. He was ordained minister of the First Church, (Unitarian) Watertown, Massachusetts in 1843; was minister of the First Church, New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1847-1858; and served the church at Watertown again 1862-1869. He was a leader in the anti-slavery movement and a prolific author of books and essays. For Visitation Day at the Divinity School, 1843, he wrote a hymn beginning, 1. _A wondrous star our pioneer_, which was included in the _Book of Hymns_, 1846, compiled by S. Longfellow and S. Johnson, and in their later book, _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864. The _Book of Hymns_ also included a hymn “For a Summer Festival” beginning, 2. _Beneath thy trees we meet today_, which is in the Universalist _Church Harmonies_, 1895. His hymn 3. _The world throws wide its brazen gates_ was included in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853. Three other hymns by him, which have not found their way into any hymn books, are printed in Putnam’s _Singers and Songs_. H.W.F. Wendte, Rev. Charles William, Boston, Massachusetts, June 11, 1844—September 9, 1911, San Francisco, California. He graduated from the Harvard Divinity School in 1869 and served Unitarian churches in Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Newport, Rhode Island. From 1885 to 1900 he was engaged in denominational work on the Pacific Coast and thereafter was Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the American Unitarian Association, Boston, spending a part of each year in Europe. Long interested in Sunday Schools he published in 1886 _The Carol, for Sunday School and Home_; a book of songs for use by children and young people entitled _Jubilate Deo_ in 1900; and another in 1908 entitled _Heart and Voice, a Collection of Songs and Services for the Sunday-School and Home_. In 1907 he wrote a hymn on “The City of God” beginning, _Not given to us from out the sky_, which was included in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, (with a slight alteration by the author). H.W.F. Westwood, Rev. Horace, D.D., Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, August 17, 1884—December 24, 1956, Clearwater, Florida. Emigrating to the United States, he served in the Methodist ministry for several years, and after 1910 served as minister in Unitarian churches in Youngstown, Ohio; Winnipeg, Canada; Toledo, Ohio; and extensively as a mission preacher. His hymn in one stanza, _Spirit of Truth, of Life, of Power_, (1922) was included in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937, and he privately printed a small collection, _Some Hymns and Verses_, n.d., a few of which appeared in periodicals, but have not had wider use.