OBITUARY.

Rev. Octavius Brooks Frothingham of the class of 1843 died at his home in Boston on Wednesday morning at the age of seventy-three.

Dr. Frothingham was the son of Nathaniel Lengdon Frothingham and was born in Boston on Nov. 26, 1822. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1843, and after three years in the divinity school was ordained pastor of the North Church (Unitarian) at Salem, Mass., on March 10, 1847. He preached in Jersey City, N. J., in 1855-'59, then removed to New York, and became pastor of a congregation that in 1860 was organized as "The Third Unitarian Congregational Church," and represented the most radical branch of his denomination. He dissolved this society in 1879, and went to Europe, and on his return in 1881 formally withdrew from specific connection with any church, and devoted himself to literature in Boston. He had been a leader in the movement that has for its object the promotion of rationalist ideas in theology, and had contributed largely to various journals and reviews. In 1867 he became the first president of the Free Religious Society. He was for a time art critic for the New York Tribune.

Mr. Frothingham had published more than 150 sermons, and was the author of the following works: "Stories From the Lips of the Teacher" (1863), "Stories from the Old Testament" (1864), "Child's Book of Religion (1866), "The Religion of Humanity" (1873), "Life of Theodore Parker" (1874), "Transcendentalism in New England" (1876), "The Cradle of the Christ" (1877), "Life of Gerrit Smith" (1878), "Life of George Ripley" (1882), "Memoir of William Henry Channing" (1886).

"Christ of the Jews," "Christ of the Gentiles," "The Christ of the Apocrypha," "Scientific Criticism," "Unitarianism, Past, Present and Future," "Imagination in Theology," in the Christian examiner; "The New Religion of Nature," in the Friend of Progress. He also published "The Parables: Stories From the Lips of the Teacher, Retold by a Disciple"; "Stories of the Patriarchs," books for children; a manual for Sunday school and home use; besides a translation of the Critical Essays of Renan.