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mother, and his own private reflections upon it. It has made me love him more, and has given me a lesson of tenderness, in visiting the afflicted, that I trust will not be in vain. 1
Hodnet is still a pretty, old-fashioned place, neither town nor village, as Leyland called it. Its rambling street of timber or red sandstone houses has a quaint lock-up at one end and the churchyard at the other. The rectory, standing on high ground above the church, was built by Heber, though it has since been added to. The church of St. Luke originally belonged to Shrewsbury Abbey, and its chief interest is the monument to Bishop Heber, for which Southey wrote the inscription. It says, He performed his humblest as well as his highest duties cheerfully, with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his strength. His widow died at Hodnet, and is buried in the churchyard. His half-brother by his father s first marriage, Richard Heber, one of the founders of the Athenaeum Club, who left eight houses full of books said to have cost . 1 00,000, and to have numbered 147,000 volumes, was also buried in the churchyard in 1833. He was unmarried, and his property eventually passed to the bishop s eldest daughter, who married, in 1839, Algernon Percy, son of the Bishop of Carlisle.
��Hymn 29. We give immortal praise. ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).
Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1709, 2nd edition. It is in Book 3, Prepared for the Holy Ordinance of the Lord s Supper, and headed A song of praise to the Blessed Trinity. The first as the I48th Psalm. 1 I give is changed to We give.
Hymn 30. Infinite God, to Thee we raise,
CHARLES WESLEY (r).
Hymns for those that seek and those that have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ, 1747 ; Works, iv. 224. The first five of fourteen verses on the 75? Deum.
The Rev. F. W. Macdonald says, Amongst metrical versions there is none superior to Charles Wesley s ; hardly any other, indeed, which has taken, or retains, hold on Christian congre gations.
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