Bisbee daily review., 1910-03-13
Missionary Hymn That Has Swayed Many Tho1sandS Came 10 Reginald Heber as an Inspiration.

From many palmy plain, They call as 10 deliver
 Their land from errors chain. Wha. though the spicy breczes
 Blow soft OCT Ceylon isle. Though every prospect pleases.
 And only man is vile;
 p vain vi In lavish kindness
 The sits of God are strewn; The heather in his blindness
 Bows down 10 wood and stone. Can we, whose souls are lighted
 With wisdom from on high. Can we to men benighted
 The lamp of life deny?
 Salvation, O salvation,
 The joyful sound proclaim. Till each remotest nation
 Has learned Messiah's name. Wait, wait ye winds His story,
 And you, ye wa CTS. roll,
 Till like a sea Of glory
 It spreads from pole to pole. Till OCT our ransomed nature
 The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King. Creator,
 In bliss returns to reign.
 Reginald Heber.
 The circumstances under which this well-known missionary hymn was written in Ts19 by Reginal Heber, then rector of Hodnel, England, are well authenticated. Mr Heber was visiting his father-in-law. Dean Shir ley. vicar of Wrexham, jus before Whit-Sunday, on which particular day collections were to be made in the churches. in compliance with a royal request. in behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. MT Shirley asked h's sonin-law, with whose poetic faculty he was. of course familiar to prepare some verses to be sung mex, day at close of the morn 1 ing service. Going over to a window of the vicarage Mir. Heber sat dowT there, and in a short time handed MT i Shirley the manuscript. of this hymn all except the lines beginning Wait wait. ye winds, his story" and these were added immediately afterwafd MT. Heber was indeed disposed o stil | further increase the lines, but NIT 1 Shirley thought the sense and har mony of the poem now complete, witl the addition. and that anything mor' would be detrimental. So the cop was allowed 70 stand as written, excep that heather" wal substituted foi savage" nations. and in this shap' it went to the printer The manu script was preserved, and quite likel, is stiH in existence. i S last know owner being Rev. Dr. Rallies. of Liver nes. alojglcfmhLdsNng etaoin shrdlr pool It waz on exhibition ct th. London worlds fair in 1851. Being clear and beautiful bit of pea work Mir. Hughes of Wrexham lithographe' it as a memorial cf it's original pro duction in WreEham church on Whi sunday 1919.
 In 1893 Rev. Heber was made bisho : ofCaicutta. where three years later h diced cf apoplczy while in the bat tub-was found dead bzv a servant His distinction was the outgrowth c heredity. environment and education All his life he was surrounded by cu
 ura and refinement His father. Rev : Reg, ,nalr Heber, Of MaI1as. after whoT she author vas named. was a man c wealth and learning. and co-TecJor c Mallas with Dr. Townson. Richar ] Hebeer. his older brother. was so ion of books that he had accumulate I50. 900 of them, and while o~s wor ders what he could really want wit 70 many. and Is quite certain tha neither he nor Reginald could mazte ! more than a comparative few of then it shows the literary atmosphere which the Hebers lived. At Oxford 1900 young Hebef took first prize fc best La in poem, first prize for En- lish poetry and oa graduation thir prize for English prose. Followin his rectorship ofHodnot 1907 to 1s2 he preached during the later year Iincoln's Inn. London. gong froi there a year later to India. He wa born at Ma'pas. which Is in Ches'r April 21. 17S3. and throughout bis mi isterial career was no ed fer his mi sionsry zeal. "By Cool Siioam's Shac , Rill" is another of h's great hymn 1, 4 remarkable for its simplicity an isweetnes ess.