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letter, having the signature " D. R.," complaining of the defects in existing Church Hymns, such as the too familiar epithets applied to the Divine Being, and similar blemishes, and asking suggestions for improvement. Hymn 417 is not given, in the " New Congregational" as Heber wrote it, but in the altered form in which it appeared in Cotterill s Collection, fifth edition, 1815. In November of the same year others were sent to the same periodical, including
" Lord of mercy and of might/ No. 332,
and some others were sent in the year 1812. After Bishop Heber s death, his widow, Mrs. Amelia Heber, published, in 1827, " Hymns written and adapted to the Weekly Church Service of the Year. 1 This was intended for general adoption, and was to have been published in India, but the Bishop s early death prevented. It included hymns by Jeremy Taylor, Addison, Sir Walter Scott, Dean Milman, and others, and several by Heber himself, composed at different intervals of leisure, during his parochial ministry in Shropshire. This book includes the four hymns already mentioned, and the other three given in the " New Congregational Hymn Book."
" The Lord of might from Sinai s brow." No. 416. This is his second hymn for the " Sixth Sunday in Lent."
" Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty." No. 455. This is his " Hymn for Trinity Sunday." "Thou art gone to the grave ! but we will not deplore thee." No. 733.
This justly admired piece is found on page 150 of the last- mentioned Hymn Book, and is written to be sung "At a Funeral."
In Heber s Works, 1842, there are fifty-seven hymns by him. There are two or three others that were published on broadsides that are not given.
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