have been taken stanzas 1 and 2, beginning,

1871 with others, compiled Psalms and
Hymns for Christian Use and Worship, pub-
lished by the General Association of Con-
necticut, 1845. To this he contributed an
abbreviated and altered version of his hymn
"The Sabbath morn is as bright and calm,"
made for the bi-centenary of New Haven,
1838. This revised version is here given,
omitting the 3d stanza.

Come, ye thankful people, come .
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Ambrosius (St. Ambrose) [340-397], son of
Ambrosius, prefect of the Gauls: born in
Gaul: educated at Rome: bishop of Milan :
"Father of Church Song." The hymn "Jam
lucis orto sidere," given in Newman's Hymni
Ecclesia, 1838 and 1865, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines,
which is certainly ancient, and possibly as old
as the 5th century, has often been assigned to
St. Ambrose, but the evidence is not satisfac-Baker, Sir Henry Williams, Bart. [1821-
tory. Stanzas 1, 2, 4 of the translation in 6
stanzas of 4 lines made by John Henry New-
man, q. v., from the Paris Breviary text and
published in his Verses, 1868, are here given.
Now that the day-star glimmers bright . . . 228

Eternal Love, whose law doth sway.
Auber, Harriet [1773-1862], daughter of James
Auber: born at London: published in her
Spirit of the Psalms, London, 1829, for Whit-
sunday, in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, stanzas 1, 4, 5,
6, 7 here used,

Our blest Redeemer, ere he breathed

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O God! beneath thy guiding hand

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1877], son of Admiral Sir Henry Loraine
Baker: born at London: Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, B. A., 1844, M. A., 1850: editor of
Hymns Ancient and Modern, to which he con-
tributed 33 hymns. In the 1868 Appendix to
that book was first published his version of
Psalm xxiv. The 3d stanza, "Perverse and
foolish oft I strayed," was repeated by the
dying lips of the author. This version is here
given unchanged.

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The King of love my shepherd is
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia [1743–1825], daugh-
ter of the Rev. John Aikin, D. D.: born at
Kibworth-Harcourt, Leicestershire : published
in Dr. Enfield's Hymns for Public Worship,
1772, reprinted in her Works. With a Memoir,
1826, in 9 stanzas of 4 lines, stanzas 1, 4, 5, 8, 9
here used,

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Praise to God, immortal praise
Baring-Gould, Sabine [1834-
], son of
Edward Baring-Gould: born at Exeter: Clare
College, Cambridge, B. A., 1857, M. A., 1860:
rector of Lew Trenchard, Devon: published in
the Church Times, Oct. 15, 1864, in 6 stanzas
of 8 lines and a chorus, stanzas 1, 3, 6 and
chorus here used,

Onward, Christian soldiers

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and wrote, 1865, for the children of St. John's
Mission Church, Horbury Bridge, Yorkshire,
where he was then curate, and published in
the same paper, Feb. 16, 1867, in 8 stanzas
of 4 lines, stanzas 2, 4, 8 here omitted,

Bacon, Leonard [1802-1881], son of David
Bacon, missionary to the Indians: born at
Detroit: Yale, B. A., 1820, M. A., 1823, pro-
fessor of theology, 1866-1871, lecturer on
Church history, 1871-1881; Andover, 1824;
D.D., Hamilton, 1842; LL. D., Harvard, 1870:
minister of First Church, New Haven, 1825-Now the day is over

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Barton, Bernard [1784-1849], of Quaker par entage: born at Carlisle: educated at a Quaker school at Ipswich: friend of Southey and Lamb: published in his Devotional Verses, 1826, with the title "Walking in the light," and text I John i. 7, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, stanzas 2 and 5 here omitted,

Walk in the light! so shalt thou know

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Beach, Seth Curtis [1837- ], son of Luther
Markham Beach: born at Marion, New York:
A. B., Union College, 1863; Harvard Divinity
School, 1866: minister of the Independent
Congregational Society, Bangor, Maine: wrote
for Visitation Day, Harvard Divinity School,
1866, and first published in The Hymn and
Tune Book of the American Unitarian Asso-
ciation, Boston, 1868, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines,
here given unchanged,

Bathurst, William Hiley [1796-1877], son of
the Rt. Hon. Charles Bragge [afterwards
Bathurst]: born at Clevedale, near Bristol: Mysterious Presence, source of all.

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Winchester; then Christ Church, Oxford, Belknap, Jeremy [1744-1798], son of Joseph

B. A., 1818, M. A., 1822: published in Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Use, 1831, with the title "The Power of Faith," and reference to Luke xviii. 5, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, stanzas 4 and 5 here omitted,

O for a faith that will not shrink.

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and with the title "For an increase of Grace," in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, stanza 2 here omitted, O for that flame of living fire 225 Baxter, Richard [1615-1691], son of Richard Baxter, yeoman: born at Rowton, Shropshire: educated at Wroxeter School: holy orders, 1638; curate of Kidderminster, 1640; chaplain to one of Cromwell's regiments about 1645; chaplain to Charles II., 1660; refused bishopric of Hereford; became a nonconformist minister after the Act of Uniformity: published in POETICAL FRAGMENTS: Heart Imployment with God and Itself; The Concordant Discord of a Broken-healed Heart; London, at the Door of Eternity. Richard Baxter, 1681, a poem of 16 stanzas of 8 lines, with the title "A Psalm of Praise to the tune of 148th Psalm." From this have been here taken stanzas 1, 8, 13, 15.

Belknap, merchant: born at Boston: Harvard, A. B., 1762, S. T. D., 1792, overseer, 1792: founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society; author of a History of New Hampshire, 1784-92: published in his Sacred Poetry, consisting of Psalms and Hymns adapted to Public Worship, Boston, 1795, his version of Psalm lxxviii. This is made up of the first 3 stanzas in 4 lines of Tate and Brady's translation - the first line of the first stanza altered by Dr. Belknap from "Hear, O my people, to my law," to "Give ear, my people, to my law," -and stanzas 1, 3, 4 of Dr. Watts' translation in 4 stanzas of 4 lines. This version has been sung at the Commencement dinner at Harvard certainly since 1830, and may have been sung earlier. The practice before that date is described by the Rev. Dr. John Pierce, in his record of Harvard Commencement exercises, which he attended from 1813 to 1848, published in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for 1890. He there says "at the Commencement dinner it has been the invariable practice, since the foundation of the College, to sing some version of a portion of Psalm lxxviii. This version has varied with the taste of the times, from that of Sternhold and Hopkins, appended to the Geneva Bible, so called; next, to that of the New England version of 1639, by Weld, Eliot, and Mather, the 26th edition of which was published in 1744; then, Tate and Brady's version; then, Dr. Watts';

and published in From Year to Year, for
the sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, with text
Ephesians iii. 14-15, in I stanza of 6 lines
and 2 stanzas of 8 lines, the last stanza only
here used and divided into 4 stanzas of 4
lines,

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Bell, Alfred [1832-1895], son of Jeremiah
Bell: born at Silton, Dorsetshire: pupil of Thus heaven is gathering, one by one
Sir Gilbert Scott, architect: then a member Blomfield, Dorothy Frances [1858- 1,
of the firm of Clayton & Bell, glass and mural daughter of the Rev. Frederick George Blom-
painters: architect, painter, musician. Sir
field, and granddaughter of Charles James
Joseph Barnby says of him, "He was the
Blomfield, bishop of London: born at Lon-
nearest to heaven of any man I ever knew." don wrote in 1883, for the wedding of her
He translated the "Stille Nacht! heilige sister at Ambleside, the hymn the first line of
Nacht," of Joseph Mohr, q. v., for Sir Joseph which follows. It was published in the Sup
Barnby, who published it in his Original Tunes plemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient and Mod-
to Popular Hymns, 1869, in 5 stanzas of 5 lines, ern, 1889, in 3 stanzas of 4 lines, afterwards set
stanzas 1, 2, 4, 5 here used, beginning,
by Sir Joseph Barnby, q. v., and is here given
unchanged, beginning,
Holy night! peaceful night.
Bernard of Morlaix [circa 1125], monk of
Cluny of English parentage: about 1145
wrote "De Contemptu Mundi," a poem of
about 3000 lines. From the beginning of
this John Mason Neale, q. v., translated and
published in Mediaval Hymns, 1851, 96 lines,
and in the Rhythm of Bernard de Morlaix on
the Celestial Country, 1858, 218 lines. These
were reprinted in Medieval Hymns, 2d edition,
1863, whence has been here taken a cento
beginning,

Jerusalem the golden.

and a cento beginning,
Brief life is here our portion

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],

Bickersteth, Edward Henry [1825-
son of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth: born
at Islington: Trinity College, Cambridge, chan-
cellor's medalist, 1844, 1845 and 1846, B. A.,
with honors, 1847, M. A., 1850, Seatonian
prize, 1854: dean of Gloucester 1855; bishop

O perfect Love, all human thought transcending 283
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus [475-
525], son of Flavius Manlius Boethius: phi-
losopher, statesman, man of letters; consul
510: wrote, while imprisoned in Pavia by The-
odoric, De Consolatione Philosophiae. From
Book III., Metrum IX., Dr. Johnson, q. V.,
quoted 6 lines as a motto for No. of the
Rambler, and below the quotation gave a
translation in 2 stanzas of 4 lines, which is
here given unchanged.

O thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides 21
Bonar, Horatius [1808-1889], son of James
Bonar, solicitor: born at Edinburgh: High
School and University of Edinburgh; D.D.,
University of Aberdeen, 1853: minister of
Chalmer's Memorial Church, Edinburgh: pub-
lished in the second series of Hymns of Faith
and Hope, 1861, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, stanza
4 here omitted,

Come. mighty Spirit, penetrate

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