200 History of Hingham. 



J. M. Brewster. 



Fidelity and Usefulness. Life of William Burr, Dover, N. H. F. Baptist 

 Printing establishment. Boston. D. Lothrop & Co. 1871. 208 pp. 

 12mo. cloth, with portrait. 



Charles Brooks. 



A Family Prayer-book: containiug Forms of morning and evening 

 Prayers for a fortnight. With those for Religious Societies and In- 

 dividuals. Cambridge. Printed by Ililliard and Metcalf. 1821. 



The name of the author does not appear in any part of the 

 volume. In a preparatory note it is addressed as follows : — 



To the Families composing the Third Church and Society in Hingham: 



My Friends and People. — It is equally the dictate of duty and 

 inclination, in your Pastor, to dedicate to you the volume of prayers com- 

 posed and selected for your benefit. As I have prepared it during the last 

 month, amidst all the duties of my office, I must ask from you that candour 

 on which I have so often relied. Accept it as a part of my ministerial 

 labours, and as an expression of my earnest wish to advance the spirit of 

 true devotion and pure Christianity. 



Hingham, August, 1821. 



Solomon Lincoln, in his " Memoir " of Mr. Brooks, says, — 



" During the first year of his ministry (1821) he wrote a Family 

 Prayer Book, intended for his people, which was afterwards published in 

 Hingham. It soon went to a second edition, and the demand for it was so 

 great that in 1833 he rewrote the whole work, made a large addition to it, 

 and the first stereotype edition was published. Eighteen editions have 

 been issued, many having 4,000 copies each. A wealthy merchant of 

 Boston gave away 20,000 copies, for which he paid Mr. Brooks a liberal 

 price." 



A Discourse delivered in Cohasset, on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1835. At the 

 Interment of the Rev. Jacob Flint, Pastor of the First Church in that 

 Town. Published by request of the hearers. Hingham. Jedidiah 

 Farmer. 1835. 



Mr. Brooks also published a " History of Medford," " The Daily 

 Monitor," and a large number of other books and pamphlets. 

 " He was quite a voluminous writer." 



John Brown. 



In what Sense the Heart is Deceitful and Wicked. A Discourse from 

 Jer. xvii. 9. By John Brown, A.M., Pastor of the Second Church in 

 Hingham. Published at the General Request and Expense of his 

 Parishioners. 12mo. pp.22. "Boston. Printed by Fowle in Queen 

 Street. 1754." 



A Discourse delivered at the West-Church in Boston, Aug. 24, 1766, six 

 weeks after the death of the Reverend Dr. Mayhew. By John Brown, 

 A.M., Pastor of the Second Church in Hingham. " The Lord Reigneth." 



