Printed in the _General Depository and Review_, April, 1812, in 5 stas. of 4 l. In 1855, stas. III-V were included in Beecher’s _Plymouth Coll._ no. 1094 as _How blest are they whose transient years_ 6. _Where ancient forests round us spread_, Written in 1833 for the dedication of a church. Of the above nos. 1, 4, 5 were included in Martineau’s _Hymns_, London, 1873. Nos. 4 and 6 are in the Unitarian _New Hymn and Tune Book_, 1914, and no. 6 is in _Hymns of the Spirit_, 1937. See Putnam’s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_ for the full text of all Norton’s hymns. J. 810 Revised by H.W.F. Parker, Rev. Theodore, was born on a farm in Lexington, Massachusetts on August 24, 1810, and died in Florence, Italy, on May 10, 1860. He entered Harvard College in 1830, but did most of his work at home, and studied in the Harvard Divinity School, 1834-1836. In 1840 he was granted the degree of A.M. from Harvard. Entering the ministry he served the Unitarian Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1837-1846, and the 28^th Congregational Society, Boston, 1846-1860. He was a famous preacher; author of numerous printed discourses on social and religious problems; and one of the earliest American translators of current German theological literature. He wrote a few poems, none intended for use as hymns, but Longfellow and Johnson took one of his sonnets and, by eliminating two lines, transformed it into a hymn of 3 stanzas of 4 lines each beginning, _O thou great Friend of all the sons of men_, which they included in their _Book of Hymns_, 1846. It has had widespread and long continued use in American hymn-books and to some extent in England. Twelve of Parker’s poetical pieces are included in A. P. Putnam’s _Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith_. Biographies of Parker have been written by John Weiss, Octavius B. Frothingham, and other authors. J. 882 H.W.F. Peabody, Rev. Ephraim, Wilton, New Hampshire, March 22, 1807—November 28, 1856, Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1827, and from the Harvard Divinity School in 1830. After serving as a tutor in the Huidekoper family in Meadville, Pennsylvania, he was ordained in 1832 as minister of a recently gathered Unitarian congregation in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1837 he joined Rev. John H. Morison in serving the First Congregational Society of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and in 1845 he accepted a call to King’s Chapel, Boston, where he remained until his death, though ill-health prevented him from preaching in the last year and a half of his life. An impressive preacher, he also wrote some poetry, and a hymn for an ordination, beginning _Lift aloud the voice of praise_