Written for a service in Bangor, Maine, held on Good Friday, 1843, in six stanzas, the last three of which, beginning _It is finished, Man of sorrows!_ had considerable use in Great Britain and this country. The whole six stanzas were included in Longfellow and Johnson’s _Book of Hymns_, 1846, as “Anonymous.” The last three stanzas are in Martineau’s _Hymns_ and in many other collections. He also wrote a hymn beginning 9. _Lo! another offering,_ _To Thy courts this day we bring,_ for his own ordination at West Cambridge in 1829, which was also used at the ordination of F. A. Whitney, at Brighton, Massachusetts, on February 24, 1844, but which passed into no collections. All these hymns, and two other religious poems, are included in Putnam’s Singers and _Songs of the Liberal Faith_. Most of them had gone out of use by the end of the 19^th century, but nos. 1, 6 and 8 (beginning _It is finished, Man of sorrows_,) are in _The New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. By far the best known of Hedge’s hymns is his fine and accurate translation of Luther’s great chorale _Ein’ feste Burg_ (no. 1). This is the version accepted by almost all the Protestant denominations in this country, whereas in Great Britain Thomas Carlyle’s earlier translation (1831) is generally used, although James Martineau included Hedge’s version in his _Hymns of Praise and Prayer_, 1873, mistakenly attributing it to Samuel Longfellow. Putnam, _op. cit._, 214, says that it was first printed in W. H. Furness’s _Gems of German Verse_, which appeared in Philadelphia, without date but undoubtedly in the latter part of 1853, a second edition following in 1859. That Hedge should have sent his translation of the chorale to Furness without delay was natural, because the two men were close friends with a common interest in German literature, and Putnam was the younger contemporary of both, in a position to know that Furness’s little book had appeared on the market a few days, or weeks, ahead of the collection of hymns which Hedge and F. D. Huntington were editing and which they published late in 1853 as _Hymns for the Church of Christ_.