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 236 OUR HYMNS :

gational &quot; almost exactly as in the original. The hymn stands in her works immediately before her twelve hymns.

��OTTIWELL HEGINBOTHAM.

17441768.

&quot; God of our life ! Thy various praise.&quot; No. 957.

THIS hymn is found in the &quot;Protestant Dissenters Magazine,&quot; for December, 1794. It is entitled, &quot;A Hymn for New Year s Day.&quot; In the same Magazine, other hymns by the same author were published. The following two additional verses are given :

&quot; This year, perhaps, the hand of death

May snatch my soul away ; That awful hand may stop my breath Before the opening day.

&quot; Father in heaven, Thy will be done,

I cheerfully resign ; 31ake me in life, in death, Thine own, This year, for ever Thine.&quot;

Mr. Heginbotham s hymns were privately printed in London, 1799. In Dr. Collyer s collection, 1812, ten are given. They are hymns of promise. If the talented author had been spared, he might have taken a prominent place amongst hymn-writers.

The librarian of Dr. Williams s library has kindly supplied the following account of Mr. Heginbotham, from &quot; Walter Wilson s MS. Account of Various Congregations in England,&quot; which is preserved there. The name is spelt differently, and in order to understand the account it is necessary to bear in mind that there were two hostile parties in the church at Sudbury, to which Mr. Heginbotham was invited. The account is believed to be the fullest extant of the short career of its subject. It is as follows :

&quot; Ottiwell Heginbotham, a student of Daventry, was invited (in 1762 or 3) by the society at Sudbury, to preach as a candi-

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