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Church at Xewbury, Berks, where the climate was better suited to his health, and where he had " a path of peace and comforting success, so that he remained there for twenty years, at the end of which he retired from the ministry, having arrived at his sixty-ninth year." Mr. March afterwards resided for family reasons for a time at Rochdale, and more recently at Southamp ton, to be near his son, the Rev. Septimus March, B.A., minister of Albion Chapel. " At the close of a long life," says Mr. March, " my confession of faith you will find in Watts s hymn
No more, my God, I boast no more. " No. 543.
- Mr. March is the author of several works. While at Bungay, he published, " Sabbaths at Home ; or, Help to their Right Improvement, founded on the 42nd and 43rd Psalms ; Con templations and Reflections ; with a few Hymns." The proceeds of the first edition were given towards the cost of erecting the new chapel. This work had reached a third edition in 1826. To use the words of the author, " the hymn at the close of each chapter in that book is a kind of collect of the contents of the chapter." The one hymn contributed by Mr. March to the "New Congregational Hyma Book"
" send Thy light, Thy truth, my God," No. 771,
is on page 227 of this work, and first appeared there.
While at Mill Hill, Mr. March published, " The Early Life of Christ an Example to the Young." He has also printed several sermons at different times ; and he is the author of " Hymns for the Closet of the Christian Minister:" London, 1839.
HENRY HART MILMAN, D.D.
BORN 1791.
DEAN MILMAN is the youngest son of Sir Francis Milman, physician to George III. He was born in London, February
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