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 818 OUR HYMNS :

ANDKEW KEED, D.D.

17871862.

THE subject of this sketch was born in London, and trained for the ministry at Hackney College. He owed much to the piety and earnest Christian activity of his parents. They trained him up in the way he should go, and when he was old he did not depart from it, but continued for fifty years the devoted and successful pastor of the Congregational Church of which he him self and his parents before him were members. It assembled first at the New Road Chapel, St. George s-in-the-East, and atterwards at Wycliffe Chapel, which was built in 1830 by Dr. Reed s exertions.

The sameness of his long pastoral course was broken by the visit he paid to America in 1834. He went in company wita Dr. Matheson as a deputation from the Congregational Union of England to the churches in America. There he saw the work of the religious revival ; and on his return a similar spiritual quickening was experienced in his own congregation. This subject is treated in his works a &quot;Narrative of the Revival of Religion in Wycliffe Chapel,&quot; and the &quot; Advancement of Religion the Claim of the Times,&quot; 1843; and a &quot; Narrative of the Visit to the American Churches,&quot; of which Dr. Reed wrote the greater part, was also published in two volumes, 1835. His writings on the subject of religious revivals were of great spiritual service, not only to his own congregation, but also to other churches in different parts of the country. Dr. Reed was also the author of a very popular book, entitled &quot; No Fiction.&quot; It was written in the author s thirty- second year, 1819, and long before his theo logical works were produced. It had reached an eighth edition in 1835. The affecting facts upon which it is founded produced so deep an impression on the mind of Dr. Reed, that he felt almost compelled to put them on record for the benefit of others ; and several of his sermons and charges were published : in 1861

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