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His principal work was his &quot; Sermons,&quot; in two volumes, pub lished in 1842. He also published separate sermons ; and a pamphlet, in 1831, enlarged from an article in the forty-eighth number of the &quot;British Review,&quot; 1825, and entitled &quot;The Church and Dissent.&quot; It is an attack on the Rev. J. A. James s &quot; Church Member s Guide.&quot; Mr. Cawood did not publish any volume of hymns or poems, but he wrote a few hymns on various occasions. Some have &quot;found their way into collections : one is in the &quot; New Congregational Hymn Book.&quot;

&quot; Almighty God ! Thy word is cast.&quot; No. 790.

This is found in Montgomery s &quot; Christian Psalmist,&quot; with an added fourth verse of less poetic merit, but useful as recognizing the sinner s responsibility in rejecting the Gospel. Montgomery s book was sent forth in 1825, so that this hymn must have been written before that date. Few hymns are more often used. I am indebted to the son of the poet, the Rev, John Cawood, rector of Pensax, Tenbury, Worcestershire, for a copy of the MS. The added verse is in the original. It is as follows :

&quot;Let not Thy word so kindly sent

To raise us to Thy throne,

Return to Thee, and sadly tell

That we reject Thy Son ! &quot;

The original differs also in a few words from the hymn as it is given in the &quot; Xew Congregational Hymn Book.&quot; I am indebted also to the poet s son for the following information. He says : &quot; My father composed about thirteen hymns, which have one by one got into print, though never published by himself or any one representing him. I do not know the occasion of the hymn No. 790, further than that it was meant to be sung after sermon. I think it must have been written about 1815, but there is no date to it, though there is to several of his hymns in the MS. collection of them.&quot;

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