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burying him, his .attendants saluted the opening day with the strains of his &quot;Morning Hymn.&quot;

During ten years of severe affliction the poet wrote his &quot;Anodynes&quot; to relieve the tedium of his sufferings. Another of his poems is called &quot; Hymnotheo, or the Penitent.&quot; It is a piece founded on a story of apostolic times, given in Eusebius Ecclesiastical History. His hymns and poems have been pub lished in four small volumes. Ken was also the author of some prose works.

&quot;Bishop Ken,&quot; says Montgomery, &quot;has laid the Church of Christ under abiding obligations by his three hymns, Morning, Evening, and Midnight. Had he endowed three hospitals he might have been less a benefactor to posterity.&quot;

The &quot; Morning Hymn&quot; is given in the &quot;New Congregational Hymn Book&quot; (No. 929), with six verses omitted. The &quot; Evening Hymn &quot; is No. 938

&quot; Glory to Thee my God this night.&quot; It is given with the omission of five verses.* The Doxology, No. 458

&quot; Praise God from whom all blessings flow,&quot;

is also the last verse of the Morning and Evening hymns. The author at first wrote the third line

&quot; Praise Him above, ye angelic host.&quot;

Of this verse Montgomery says : &quot; The well-known doxology, &quot; Praise God from whom all blessings flow/ &c.,

&quot; is a master-piece at once of amplification and compression: amplification, on the burthen, Praise God, repeated in each line ; compression, by exhibiting God as the object of praise in every view in which we can imagine praise due to Him ; praise,

work (1709), with the Bishop s latest corrections, which proves the genuineness of the text of the three hymns as it is now given.
 * Sir Koundell Palmer has in his possession an edition of Ken s

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