Hark! 'tis her voice: Alleluia, she sings, Choir answers choir, where the song has no end, All the saints raise hosannas on high, WILLIAM CHATTERTON Dix. 1865. ECCLESIA DEI. AUBREY DE VERE, third son of the late Sir Aubrey de Vere, was born in County Limerick, Ireland, Dec. 16, 1814, and educated in the University of Dublin. He has written several volumes of poetry and prose, among which are "The Legends of St. Patrick," "Alexander the Great," "St. Thomas of Canterbury," "The Infant Brida!,' ""Antar and Zara, "The Fall of Rora," "Legends of the Saxon Saints,' and other poems. Aubrey de Vere now lives at Curragh Chase, Adare, Ireland, the home of his ancestors. " GOD'S WORD. THE BOOK. THE WORD. VOICE of the Holy Spirit, making known JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. Which Faith has suffered, Heaven could Transcendent boon! noblest that earthly king With bigotry shall tread the offering Beneath their feet, detested and defiled. THE VASTNESS OF THE GOSPEL FROM end to end we glance; from Adam's fall By man are known but scantly, if at all: eyes, While purer beings, angel minds that know AUBREY DE VERE. WITH A BIBLE, ON A WEDDINGDAY. REV. NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM was born in Boston, July 23. 1793. He graduated at Harvard College, in 1811, with distinguished honor, in the class with Edward Everett, Samuel Gilman, and others of subsequent fame. In 1812, at the age of nineteen, he became Instructor in Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College, and in 1815 he was ordained pastor of the First Congregational Church in Boston, of which he continued the minister for thirty-five years. He died April 4, 1870. Some of his hymns were written after he had become blind. |