a Congregational minister and professor, was born at West Brookfield, Massachusetts, January 7, 1820. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1837; and was pastor of Pine Street Church, Boston, 1842- 48; and professor of sacred rhetoric in Andover Theological Seminary, 1848-79. He died at Bar Harbor, Maine, October 13, 1890. He was the author of The Still Hour (1859): — Hymns and Choirs (1860): — The New Birth (1867): — Sabbath Hours (1870): — Studies of the Old Testament (1879): — The Theory of Preaching (1881): — Men and Books (1882): — My Portfolio (eod.): — English Style (1883): — My Study (1885): — My Note Book (1890). See Appletons' Cyclop. of Amer. Biography.