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Bishop Heber is a man of liberal principles and catholic spirit. Soon after his arrival in the country he wrote me a very friendly letter, expressing his wish to maintain all the friendship with us which our respective circumstances would allow. I was then confined, but Brother Marshman called on him. As soon as I could walk without crutches I did the same, and had much free conversation with him.
Though sailors are excellent singers especially of hymn tunes I never before heard a hymn rendered so effectively on board a man-of-war as that beautiful composition by Bishop Heber, commencing "What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle," and which was one of the appropriate hymns for our morning Service. October 8th.
Pendennis's knee, and listening to Pen reading out to her of nights without comprehending one word of what he read. But as for Bishop Heber, and Mrs. Hemans above all, this lady used to melt right away, and be absorbed into her pocket-handkerchief, when Pen read those authors to her in his kind boyish voice. The 'Christian Year' was a book which appeared about that time.
Newman, consul general to all the world had a discussion with Elder Heber of Kimball, or some such wretch in Utah whether the bible sustains polygamy, and the Mormons have printed that discussion as a campaign document. Read the order of Moses in the 31st chapter of Numbers. A great many chapters I dare not read to you. They are too filthy. I leave all that to the clergy.
As she floated out gently into the harbor the vast crowd on shore commenced singing the hymn of Bishop Heber, "From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand." This hymn was scarcely finished, and the last echo was yet upon the air, when from the ship was heard another song.
Another Archbishop of York, William Thomson, was preacher here, and was promoted in 1862. The greatest of the list was, perhaps, Reginald Heber, though he was only here for a year before he was appointed Bishop of Calcutta.
He spent his millions in public enterprises and benefactions; and the Church had benefited in the sum of many thousands by his subscriptions to its funds and institutions. Apostle Heber J. Grant, a Republican by sentiment but a Democrat by pretension, was selected by President Snow to barter the Senatorship to McCune. There can be no doubt of it. Everyone immediately suspected it.
The Church of England contributed two admirable verse writers of this period in Henry Cary and Reginald Heber. Cary, who was born in 1772 and was a Christ Church man, was long an assistant librarian in the British Museum.
Calcutta was the first English colony to receive a Bishop, in the year 1814. The second Bishop was Reginald Heber, whose beautiful hymns seem the birthright of our Church, like those of Bishop Ken, one hundred and fifty years before.
That's all." "You were quite right." "You really think so?" "I certainly do. A rather similar action, under far less provocation, once made Jael the wife of Heber the most popular woman in Israel." "I wish I could think so too," she murmured. "At the moment, you know, I was conscious of nothing but an awful elation. But but oh, he was such a darling before he got this dreadful affliction.
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