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Hymn 749. When Thy soldiers take their swords.

FRANCES MARY OWEN.

Mrs. Owen, daughter of Mr. Syne, of Glanmore Castle, co. Wicklow, was born in 1842, and married in 1870 the Rev. J. A. Owen, M.A., late Fellow of University College, Oxford, and assistant master at Cheltenham College, 1870-96. Mrs. Owen was proud of her Irish blood. She was devoted to her two children and to the boys of her husband s boarding-house, for whom she held a weekly Bible-class. She gave much of her strength to Friendless Girls, whose life she thought the saddest on earth. She died very suddenly on June 19, 1883. Her friends established at Cheltenham a Home for Friendless Girls in her memory, which is known as the Frances Owen Home. The hymn was written for the boys of her husband s boarding-house about 1872. It will be of great value in the Service for the Public Recognition of New Members.

Hymn 750. The Saviour, when to heaven He rose. PHILIP DODDRIDGE (95).

Tublishcd in 1755, headed The Institution of a Gospel Ministry from Christ. Eph. iv. 11-12. For an Ordination.

Ver. i, Father of mercies, in Thine house, and ver. 4 are here omitted.

Hymn 751. Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire. JOHN COSIN, D.D.

John Cosin was born at Norwich in 1594; educated at Norwich Grammar School and Caius College, Cambridge ; Master of Peterhouse, 1634 ; Vice- Chancellor of Cambridge University and Dean of Peterborough, 1640. Cosin was one of the most acute theologians of his time, and was deeply im pressed with the possibilities of the Church of England, whose position and orders he was one of the first to uphold. The Puritans complained of his bowings and genuflexions, and of the crucifix set over the altar of his chapel. He was ejected from his living by Parliament in 1644, and went to Paris. After the Restoration he was made Dean and then Bishop of Durham,

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