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numerous hymns about the year 1828, and appended some of them to the chapters in his works on the Apostles and on Christ s life. In 18^2 he sent forth &quot; The Gospel Miracles, in a Series of Poetical Sketches, &c.&quot; This work consists of conversations and poems. In 1835 he published &quot; The British Months,&quot; a poem in two volumes. He is also the author of &quot; Ancient Hymns, from the Eoman Breviary, with Original Hymns,&quot; 1837. Bishop Mant s hymns are not free from the defects that usually mark works produced in haste, in a life crowded with conflicting duties, and erring in excess of literary production.

&quot; Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore Him.&quot; -No. 215.

This is his rendering of Psalm 148, and is a favourable specimen of his psalms. It first appeared in a Dublin collection during his episcopate in Ireland. His other hymns in the &quot; New Congregational Hymn Book &quot; are 322 and 637.

��THOMAS COTTEKILL, M.A.

17791823.

THIS excellent clergyman was born December 4th, 1779, at Cannock, in Staffordshire. After some previous education he studied at St. John s College, Cambridge, and graduated M.A. He was afterwards a fellow of the same college. In 1806 he was ordained, and entered upon his parochial work at Tutbury. After two years of useful labour there, ho removed to Lane End, in the Staffordshire Potteries, where he remained for about nino years. He found the people in a morally dead condition, and was the means of reviving amongst them religious life. In 1817 Mr. Cotterill became perpetual curate of St. Pauls, Sheffield, where his evangelical zeal was still maintained, though not without opposition on the part of some of his congregation. While in the prime of life, and in the midst of his labours at Sheffield, he was cut down, after a short illness, on the 29th December, 1823, aged forty-four, leaving a wife and five children to lament his loss.

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