WORCESTER, Noah, American theolo gian: b. Hollis, N. H., 25 Nov. 1758; d Brighton. Mass.. 31 Oct. 1837. He was a lifer in the Continental army in 1775. and entered the service again for a short time as fife-eriayor in 1777. In 1786 he was licensed to preach by a Congregational association, and in 1787 or dained pastor of the church in Thornton, N. H. where he had held local offices and been elected representative to the General COMM In 1862 he was employed as the first missionary of the New Hampshire Missionary Society, and as that capacity traveled and preached widely to the northern portion of the State In 1810 be removed to Salisbury and took charge of the congregation, and in 1813 settled at Brighton, Mass. His work on the doctrine of the Trinity, entitled 'Bible News of the Father. Son, and Holy Ghost' (1810), soon became the subject of severe criticism, the Hopkinton asso ciation, of which he was a member, passing a formal sentence of condemnation against the book_ From 1813 to 1818 he edited The Chris time Disciple, a periodical published in Boston, and in 1814 published his tract, 'A Solemn Re..
view of the Custom of War,' once well known, and translated into several languages. Shortly after this the Massachusetts peace society was formed, and in 1819 he began The Friend of Peace, which continued in quarterly num bers for 10 years, nearly the whole of it being written by himself. In 1829 he published 'The Atoning Sacrifice, a Display of Love, not of Wrath' ; in 1831, 'The Causes and Evils of Contention among Christians': and in 1833, 'Last Thoughts on Important Subjects.' Among his further writings is a 'Respectful Address to the Trinitarian Clergy' (1812). Consult Ware, Henry, 'Memoirs of Noah Webster, (Boston 1844).