1. _Take our pledge, eternal Father_, 2. _The spirit of the Lord has stirred_, but appear to have had no further use. H.W.F. Newell, Rev. William, D.D., Littleton, Massachusetts, February 25, 1804—October 28, 1881, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1824 and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1829. He was ordained minister of the First Parish in Cambridge on May 19, 1830, where he served until his retirement on March 31, 1868. He was author of many commemorative sermons and memoirs, and received the honorary degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1853. A number of his poems are included in Putnam, _Singers and Songs_, etc. His hymn beginning, _All hail, God’s angel, Truth_ (Thanksgiving) is included in G. Horder’s _Worship Song, with Tunes_, London, 1905, but is not found in American collections. J. 1676 H.W.F. Norton, Prof. Andrews, Hingham, Massachusetts, December 31, 1786—September 18, 1853, Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated from Harvard in 1804. In 1811 he was appointed tutor in the College, in 1813 librarian and Lecturer on the Bible, and in 1819 Professor of Sacred Literature in the Harvard Divinity School, a post which he resigned in 1830 to devote himself to literary and theological pursuits. In 1837 he published the first volume of his famous book _The Genuineness of the Gospels_, followed in 1844 by the second and third volumes. This was the earliest scholarly work on the New Testament by an American author, and expressed the conservative Unitarian thought of his period. He wrote several other books, and numerous articles. His few poems were printed in a small volume soon after his death, including six hymns, some of which have had considerable use. 1. _Another year, another year_, (Close of the Year) Appeared in the _Christian Examiner_, Nov.-Dec. 1827, in 11 stas. of 4 l. In the Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book_, 1868, a cento from it begins with sta. 6, _O what concerns it him whose way_ 2. _Faint not, poor traveller, though thy way_, (Fortitude) Printed in the _Christian Disciple_, July-Aug. 1822, and included in the West Boston _Collection_, 1823. 3. _He has gone to his God, he has gone to his home_ (Burial) Printed in the _Christian Examiner_, Jan.-Feb. 1824. 4. _My God, I thank Thee; may no thought_ (Submission) Appeared in the _Monthly Anthology and Boston Review_, Sept. 1809, and was included in Lunt’s _Christian Psalter_, 1841, and in many later collections. This was Norton’s earliest and best known hymn. 5. _O stay thy tears; for they are blest_, (Burial of the Young)