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the "Asylum for Fatherless Children." He is also honorary secretary of the Irish Evangelical Society. Besides several sermons and lectures, Mr. Aveling is the author of "The Irish Scholar, a narrative, 1841:" "Naaman; or, Life's Shadows and Sunshine, 1853:" " Voices of Many Waters; or, Travels in the Lands of the Tiber, the Jordan, and the Nile, 1855," written after a tour in the East: and "The Service of the Sanctuary, &c., 1859."

Before reaching the age of nineteen, Mr. Aveling had published, in 1834, a small volume of poems containing some of his hymns. During his ministry, he has for many years written annually hymns to he sung with the New Year's sermon to the young; and on other occasions he has written hymns that have been printed in magazines and annuals, but which have not been published in a collected form. They were not of sufficient merit to demand it, but some of them justly take a place in our collection. There are three hymns by him in the "New Congregational Hymn Book."

"On! towards Zion, on!" No. 626.

This hymn was first published in the "Evangelical Magazine," and copied into the "Sunday at Home."

"Hail! Thou God of grace and glory!" No. 816.

This was one of four hymns given on the occasion of the jubilee of the Old Congregational Chapel, Kingsland, which was held on June 16, 1844.

"Lord of the lofty and the low." No. 976.

This was written for a ragged school anniversary held in Kingsland Congregational Church, under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury, in the year 1856 or 1857.