306 OUR HYMNS :
GEORGE CLAYTON.
17831862.
THE subject of this sketch was the son and brother of distin guished Congregational ministers, and himself not less eminent in that capacity. He was born in London, and after pious training, early became a decided Christian. Having enjoyed considerable educational advantages, the young student went to Hoxton Academy, to prepare for the ministry. At the age of nineteen he became co-pastor with Mr. Kingsbury, at South ampton, and two years after entered upon the pastorate of a Con gregational Church at Walwortk. In that position he continued for more than half a century, labouring with continued and growing usefulness and success. He gave himself wholly to his popular and evangelical ministry, and at the same time used his talents and position for the advocacy of those Institutions that are for the furtherance of the Gospel in the world.
Full of years he at length departed in peace and in Jesus. On his last Sabbath he said, " I know the hand of the Lord is upon me, but I would not wish to raise my little finger to alter any of His dispensations, for I feel that it is love, and I know I have a home prepared for me above."
There is one hymn by Mr. Clayton in the " New Congre gational Hymn Book"
" From yon delusive scene." No. 9G9.
It is in T. Russell s Selection. Twelfth Edition, 1827; where it is No. 153.
��BERNARD BARTON.
17841849.
THIS hymn-writer is known as the " Quaker poet." His parents and himself lived and died faithful members of the Society of
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