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more for its learning than for its poetic merit. For some of these particulars we are indebted to Walter Wilson s valuable MS. record, deposited at Dr. Williams s Library.

��JAMES FANCH,

1764. Vide under the following name.

DANIEL TURNER, M.A.

17101798.

DANIEL TURNER was born March 1st, 1710. He was originally a schoolmaster, but in 1748 he became pastor of the Baptist Church at Abingdon, Berkshire. He was the author of a work on the subject of full Christian communion among the churches of his own denomination, and of a work entitled &quot; A Compendium of Social Religion. &quot; His &quot;Divine Songs, Hymns, and other Poems &quot; bears date 1747. And his work &quot;Poems Devotional and Moral &quot; was privately printed in 1794.

&quot; Jesus, full of all compassion,&quot; No. 551,

is an ardent, impassionate Bernard-like hymn. It is altered from the original. And there is another hymn by Turner in the &quot; New Congregational Hymn Book,&quot; sufficient by itself to establish a reputation

&quot; Beyond the glittering starry skies. Mo. 389.

It is somewhat altered, and erroneously attributed to Grigg. The authorship is proved in a note dated February 22nd, 1791, and inserted in the &quot;Baptist Register.&quot; It is from Mr. Turner to Dr. Rippon, the editor, and is as follows : &quot; As to your inquiry concerning the hymn, Jesus seen of Angels,&quot; it is true, as you were told by our good brother Medley, that one part of it

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