11. Notes and Biographical Sketches
11. Notes and Biographical Sketches of Ministers and Hymn Writers mentioned by John Warburton
Acknowledgment must be made to the help received in compiling the biographical notes. They are hut brief comments intended to arouse a desire to read the comprehensive Memoirs and other source material from which these outlines have been culled. Especial mention must be made of John Gadsby’s Memoirs of Hymn Writers, Julian’s Dictionary of Hymnology, Hazelton’s ``Holdfast’, the Dictionary of National Biography, and the various individual biographies of the men referred to. Those who seek or possess a religion that will stand them in good stead both in life and in a dying hour and have not read the biographies of these men have a feast awaiting them. Let them not lie with the precious things spoken of by Thomas Gray in his Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air