Saturday, April 18, 2015

Christian Music : "From Greenland's icy mountains" Reginald Heber, 1783-1826


BISHOP REGINALD HEBER, after years of longing for the spread of the gospel in India, crowned his career with a few years of most useful service as Bishop of Calcutta. He made extensive visitations among the struggling missions nearly a century ago and ordained the first Christian native, Christian David. At last he laid down his life, a victim of fever, as a result of his labors in that benighted land. During the years of his life as rector of Hodnet, while longing for a career in India, he wrote many hymns, as well as other forms of literary productions, and won the respect and friendship of Milman, Southey, and other litterateurs.
http://christianmusicandhymns.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/from-greenlands-icy-mountains-reginald.html

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