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that the hymn, and the story of &quot; Poor Dick &quot; in which it occurs, are both her own, that the hymn had not appeared before, and that she is not the author of other hymns.

Several works of fiction written under the nom de plume of &quot; Holme Lee,&quot; are by Miss Parr. She is the author of &quot; Kattie Brande,&quot; &quot; Sylvan Holt s Daughter,&quot; &quot; Against Wind and Tide,&quot; &quot; In the Silver Age,&quot; and &quot; The Life and Death of Jeanne d Arc.&quot;

ELIZA FANNY MORRIS. BORN 1821.

&quot; God of pity, God of grace.&quot; No 533.

THIS hymn is found at page G3 of a work entitled &quot; The Voice and the Reply.&quot; Worcester, 1858. The work consists of two parts. The first, &quot; The Voice, &quot;consists of eighteen pieces, giving expres sion to God s utterances, whether in the &quot; still small voice &quot; of con science, or in invitation, warning, or pity. The second part, &quot; The Reply,&quot; consists of sixty-eight pieces, and gives expression to man s reply. This hymn is found in the second part; it is entitled &quot; The Prayer in the Temple.&quot; The author of it says &quot; There is a regular progression of Christian experience running through the volume. The Prayer in the Temple came in due course, as one of the noblest circumstances of the godly life ; it was written on the 4th September, 1857.&quot; In the &quot; New Congregational &quot; one verse of this is omitted, and another is changed in position. The pieces in this volume are easy in versification, and pious in sentiment, and the first piece, &quot; The Voice, &quot; especially strikes the reader as having a pleasing vein of poetry running through it.

Mrs. Morris, whose maiden name was Goffe, was born in London, in 1821. Owing to delicate health she was brought up in the country. Familiarity with the works of nature produced in her an enthusiastic interest therein, and early called forth her latent poetic talent. Before publishing &quot; The Voice &quot; and &quot; The Reply &quot;in 1858, she had received a prize from the &quot;Band of Hope&quot; for a poem on &quot; Kindness to Animals.&quot; This recognition of

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