Bulfinch, Rev. Stephen Greenleaf, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, June 18, 1809—October 12, 1870, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was son of Charles Bulfinch, a leading architect, and received his early education in Washington, D.C., returning to Cambridge to enter the Harvard Divinity School, from which he graduated in 1830. He was ordained in January, 1831, as assistant to Rev. Samuel Gilman, _q.v._, of Charleston, South Carolina, and later served Unitarian churches in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; Nashua, New Hampshire; Dorchester, Massachusetts and East Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a voluminous writer in both prose and verse. Most of his hymns first appeared in his books _Contemplations of the Saviour_, Boston, 1832; _Poems_, Charleston, 1834; and _Lays of the Gospel_, 1845. The first of these was reprinted in England, where 19 of his hymns were included in Beard’s _Collection_, 1837, and where they had widespread use. His best known hymns are as follows: 1. _Benignant Saviour: ’twas not thine_, (Compassion of Christ) From his “Contemplations of the Saviour,” altered in Horder’s _Congregational Hymns_, 1884, to read _Most gracious Saviour: ’twas not thine_. 2. _Burden of shame and woe_, (The Crucifixion) 3. _Hail to the Sabbath day_, (Sunday) 4. _Hath not thy heart within thee burned_, (Evening) 5. _Holy Son of God most high_, (Christ) 6. _How glorious is the hour_, (The New Life) 7. _In the Saviour’s hour of death_, (Good Friday) 8. _It is finished! Glorious word_, (Good Friday) 9. _Lord, in this sacred hour_, (Worship) 10. _O suffering friend of all mankind_, (Passiontide) 11. _There is a strife we all must wage_, (Life’s Duty) 12. _Toiling through the livelong night_, (Miracle of fishes) 13. _What power unseen by mortal eye_, (Miracle) These hymns are well written contemplations of gospel episodes, as viewed by the conservative piety of the author’s period. Several were included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846-1848; nos. 6 and 10 are in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; and most of them in one and another 19^th century collection. Only No. 4 has survived in present-day use, being found in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. J. 191, 1555 revised H.W.F.