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bocker,&quot; February 14th, 1836, he published a poem written be hind Cape Matapan, and called &quot; A Sunday Night at Sea.&quot;

In 1840, Mr. Pierpont suffered from an unhappy controversy with a number of his congregation at Hollis Street. He was requested by a committee of the congregation to resign, which he, in his own defence, refused to do. After ineffectual attempts at mediation, the whole matter came before an Ecclesiastical Council. Various charges were investigated, and there was much discus sion as to whether Mr. Pierpont wrote a prologue at the opening of a new theatre, and as to whether his earnest advocacy of various public movements interfered with his pastoral work. After a long trial, the Council decided, in 1841, that some of the charges were not proved, and that those that were proved, were not such as to necessitate his resignation of his pulpit. The whole account of this tedious and unhappy controversy is given in a volume, entitled &quot; Proceedings of an Ecclesiastical Council in the case of the Hollis Street Meeting and the Kev. J. Pierpont,&quot; by Samuel K. Lothrop.

Mr. Pierpont is the author of &quot; Airs of Palestine, and other Poems and Hymns,&quot; Boston, 1840. He also published a very remarkable sermon on Acts xix. 19, 20, called &quot; The Burniug of the Ephesian Letters,&quot; 1834, directed against the trade in wines and spirits ; a production both ingenious and courageous, and attended with a good deal of inconvenience in its effects upon him self. Other popular works by him are -&quot; The American First Class Book,&quot; 2th edition, 1835 ; &quot; The National Beadcr,&quot; 29th edition, 1885 ; &quot;An Introduction to the National Pieader,&quot; 1831 ; and some fcermons. lie is still living (1866), and a daughter of his is the wife of Mr. Morgan, one of the Peabody Trustees, and partner in the great house of Peabody, in London.

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