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...which was to become one of the great hymns of all time (George Bernard Shaw even suggested that the early Christians anticipated it on their way to face the lions). The curate who wrote the famous words* in such a hurry was the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, an extraordinary squarson-one of the last of that strange amalgam of squire and parson bred by the 19th century Church of England. Now published in England is Baring-Gould's biography, Onward Christian Soldiers, by Anglican Clergyman William Purcell (no kin to 17th century Composer Henry Purcell). It is the story...
...years at Lew Tren-chard, a manorial estate on the western edge of Dartmoor, on which he inherited the position of squire from his father. The Trenchard vicarage was at the squire's disposal, and Baring-Gould nominated himself .for' the job. As squarson, he combined physical and spiritual responsibility for his tenants in a delicate balance of despotism and love. Most mornings he made calls on his parishioners, among whom, says Author Purcell. "there was not a house he did not know, nor one in which he was not loved . . . And then he would pass through...
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