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Biber


'Church Review,' the 'Colonial Church Chronicles,' the 'John Bull,' of which, for a period of eight years, 1848-1856, he acted as editor, and to the 'English Churchman.' Early in 1872 Biber was promoted by Lord Chancellor Hatherley to the rectory of West Allington, near Grantham. There Biber died 19 Jan. 1874. He published amongst many works, twenty-one 'Sermons for Saints' Days,' 8vo, London, 1846; 'The Seven Voices of the Spirit,' 8vo, London, 1857, a commentary on the Apocalypse; 'Royalty of Christ and the Church and Kingdom of England,' 8vo, London, 1857; Twenty-four Tales of the English Church,' 8vo, London, 1832; 'The Supremacy Question, or Justice to the Church of England,' 8vo, London, 1847, expanded in the following year into 'The Royal Supremacy over the Church, considered as to its Origin and its Constitutional Limits,' 8vo, London, 1848; 'The Supremacy Question considered in its successive Phases, Theocratic, Imperial, or Royal, Papal, and Popular,' 8vo, London, 1865; 'Life of St. Paul,' 8vo, London, 1849; 'The Communion of the Faithful essential to the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist,' 8vo, London, 1863; and 'The Veracity and Divine Authority of the Pentateuch vindicated,' 8vo, London, 1863.

[Men of the Time, 1872; Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1874. John Bull, 24 Jan. 1874; English Churchman and Clerical Journal, 23 and 29 Jan. 1874.]

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