March, Daniel, an American Congregational minister, was born at Millbury, Mass., in 1816. He graduated at Yale in 1843, was ordained in the Presbyterian ministry in 1845, and joined the Congregational Church 424 later. He was a pastor in Philadelphia in 1868 at the time he wrote the hymn found in this volume. He is the author of a widely circulated volume titled Night Scenes in the Bible, 1869, and of other popular prose works. He died at Woburn, Mass., March 2, 1909.