which was included in the _Book of Hymns_ prepared by his classmates, Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson, published later in the same year. He served as minister of the (Unitarian) North Church, Salem, Massachusetts from 1847 to 1855, and became minister of the Third Congregational Church in New York City, resigning in 1879. He was a bold, outspoken, eloquent speaker, and the author of many printed discourses and of several important biographies. J. 400, 1638 H.W.F. Furness, Rev. William Henry, D.D., Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, 1802—January 30, 1896, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1820 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1823, and was given the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Harvard in 1847. In 1825 he was ordained minister of the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia where he served for 50 years before becoming pastor emeritus, his connection with the church covering a period of 71 years. He was an accomplished scholar, and attained distinction as a preacher, an author and a worker in social reforms. His publications include _Notes on the Gospels_, 1836; _Jesus and his Biographers_, 1838; _The History of Jesus_, 1850; _a Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840, in which his earlier hymns were printed; a translation of Schiller’s _Song of the Bell_; and other translations from the German. His collected _Verses, Translations and Hymns_ appeared in 1886. The following hymns by him have had considerable use. 1. _Father in heaven, to Thee my heart_, Appeared in The _Christian Disciple_, 1822. It was printed in this form in several collections, including the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868. In Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, it reads _Father in heaven, to whom our hearts_ and was reprinted in this form in their _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1864, and in Martineau’s _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873. This hymn has sometimes been attributed to “H. Ware,” in error. 2. _Feeble, helpless, how shall I_, Included on the Cheshire _Christian Hymns_, 1844, and in later 19^th century Unitarian publications; also in the British _Lyra Sacra Americana_, 1868, and Thring’s _Collection_, 1882. 3. _Have mercy, O Father_, Contributed to Martineau’s _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873. 4. _Here in a world of doubt_, (Psalm XLII) Contributed to the New York Lutheran Coll., 1834, and included in the author’s _Manual of Domestic Worship_, 1840 and in Martineau’s _Hymns_, 1873. 5. _Here in the broken bread_, Included in the _Appendix_ to the Philadelphia Unitarian _Collection_, 1828; in Hedge and Huntington’s _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853; and in a few later collections, among them _The Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868. 6. _Holy Father, Gracious art Thou_,