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EEMIKISCEXCES 
 
 PERSONAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL 
 
 OF 
 
 THOMAS HARTWELL HOPiM, B.D. F.S.A. 
 
 D.D. OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA; RECTOR OF 
 THE UNITED PARISHES OF ST. EDMUND THE KING AND MARTYR, 
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 SAEAH AXNE CHEYNE 
 
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 THE EEV. JOSEPH B. M'CAUL, 
 
 CHAPLAIX TO THE LORD BISHOP OF HOCHESTER, 
 ONE OF THE ASSISTANTS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, AND 
 TWICE CURATE TO MR. HORNE AT ST. EDMUND'S. 
 
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ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 During the last twelve montlis of Ms life my departed 
 father partially occupied his time in writing what he 
 termed his Reminiscences. This beinof known to some 
 of his friends, a wish has been expressed for their 
 publication. The narrative, however, as he left it, 
 was too incomplete to appear alone. In tliis volume it 
 has been attempted to supply the deficiency, from 
 general recollection, from the information of friends, 
 and from letters. Comparatively few of ^Ir. Home's 
 own letters are come to hand, because much of his 
 confidential correspondence was carried on with the 
 mutual agreement that letters should be destroyed. 
 Those which are inserted are given, not as epistolary 
 compositions, but as showing the activity of his mind, 
 his persevering diligence, and the unseen influence 
 which he exercised over the biblical literature of liis 
 day. 
 
 Thanks are due to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop 
 
vi 
 
 ADVERTISEMEXT. 
 
 of Winchester, the Venerable the Archdeacon of 
 Sarum, the Rev. S. C. Wilks, the Rev. J. Allport, the 
 Rev. J. Hambleton, Charles Roberts, Esq., and other 
 friends, who have kindly assisted in procuring informa- 
 tion towards completing this Memoir. 
 
 THE EDITOR. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The orrealest acliievements of Imman o^enius and in- 
 dustryhave sprung gradually into preeminence from very 
 hmnble beginnings. The palace, whose turrets serve as 
 landmarks to the pilgrim, is founded in the dust. The 
 towering headland, which is conspicuous many a league 
 across the waters, can boast no loftier commencement 
 than the wave-beaten strand, where the fickle tides rejoice 
 in asserting their obliterating supremacy. So it happens 
 that our representative men, the worthies of every age, 
 whose very name is a pillar of streng-th, have most 
 commonly laid the foundations of their greatness in the 
 obscurity of ne2:lect, and have oraduallv emero-ed into 
 fame, after successive years of patient and ill-requited 
 labour. But where the will and honesty of purpose are 
 present, it rarely happens that eminence is denied to the 
 truly meritorious. Such was he, whose memorable 
 career is briefly sketched in these few unpretending 
 pages. Thomas Hartwell Horne was one of those 
 men who leave their mark upon the literature of their 
 
viii 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 times. It is an accompaniment of human infirmity 
 that benefactors are forgotten centuries before the 
 benefits which they have conferred upon their fellows 
 cease to be appreciated. Too many of the best of 
 mankind meet with no recognition from their con- 
 temporaries until after they have passed away from the 
 scene of their labours. It is reserved for future genera- 
 tions to admire their persevering resolution, and to 
 confess the inestimable quality of the services which 
 they have rendered. 
 
 The venerable subject of these memorial pages w^as 
 in some measure more favoured than his fellow-workers 
 for the good of mankind. He lived long enough to 
 know that he could never be wholly forgotten. He 
 was permitted in some degree to behold the fruits of 
 his unwearied efforts in the cause of religious truth, 
 and for the honour of his God. When he began his 
 studies, and first took his pen in hand to demonstrate 
 the sure foundations upon which our most holy faith is 
 built up and established, he was well nigh, if not 
 altogether, alone in the field. The publication of that 
 signal monument of patient industry, the Introduction 
 to the Study of the Holy Scriptures, took the Church of 
 England by joyful surprise. Men beheld with gratitude, 
 that the race of giants in biblical lore was not wholly 
 extinct, and that God could at any time and in any age 
 raise up instruments meet for His own work. From 
 
IXTKODUCTIOX. 
 
 IX 
 
 the hour that these volumes first issued from the press, 
 Thomas Hartwell Horne took his place as one of the 
 champions of that pure reformed branch of the Church 
 universal, which has effected more abiding triumphs in 
 the cause of morality and truth than any other, 
 perhaps not excepting the churches of the apostolic 
 times. This in itself was an honour that might well 
 have turned the head of any ordinary man. But repu- 
 tation did not spoil our venerated friend. Of prodigious 
 memory, of undaunted resolution, of unfaltering courage 
 in the defence of what he felt to be right, i\Ir. Home 
 was yet a very child in simple faith in God's providen- 
 tial goodness, a child in contrite acknowledgment of his 
 own utter insufficiency without the grace of Christ. 
 It has been my happy lot to be intimately connected 
 with him for sixteen years. I have often wondered at 
 his unfeigned goodness of heart, and how little he par- 
 took of the self-seeking worldly wisdom of ordinary 
 men. Hhnself a man of strictest integrity, he seemed 
 habitually to look upon those around him as equally 
 disinterested in their motives. He lived " in the world " 
 for fourscore and two years without being "o/* the 
 worldj^ and those who knew him best will always re- 
 member him as one of the most o-uileless men with 
 whom they have been ever brouglit into contact. To 
 the young beginner, the commencing student, he was 
 always delighted to have an opportunity of imparting 
 
X 
 
 IXTRODUCTIOX. 
 
 some of the treasures of his well-stored mind. No 
 such applicant ever approached him, without feeling 
 that Mr. Horne was a truly kind as well as a great 
 man. 
 
 It is a matter of regret that Mr. Horne has left so 
 meagre a record of his life and labours. On the one 
 hand, it marks the modesty of the man and his Christian 
 humility ; but on the other, we cannot but feel conscious 
 that much that is instructive and interesting has been 
 for ever lost to the world. He outlived almost all his 
 youthful contemporaries. Few, if any, survive that 
 can supply the information which he has withholden. 
 Those with whom he was brought into contact in later 
 years, knew him after his reputation was made, and can 
 furnish little or nothing respecting his early struggles 
 and labours. 
 
 Those who ran the morning run of life side by side 
 with him are almost, without exception, gathered to their 
 fathers. But although Mr. Horne outlived his fellows, he 
 did not survive the alfectionate reverence of all that were 
 privileged to know him. His parishioners will long en- 
 tertain a grateful remembrance of their departed pastor 
 and friend. His colleao^ues in the British Museum will 
 ever cherish a filial respect for his memory. His ven- 
 erable appearance — his cheery, cordial, unaffected 
 manner, his condescension to the subordinate members 
 of that establishment, will ever remain embalmed in 
 
IXTRODUCTIOX. 
 
 xi 
 
 their recollections. Unlike most distinguished men, 
 Mr. Home's reputation was never the mark of the invi- 
 dious shafts of hostile criticism. He lived to a ripe old 
 age, beyond the span usually assigned to mortals, with- 
 out knowing what it was either to be envied as a rival, 
 or to be feared as a competitor. 
 
 Since Home began to write, our Church can 
 boast many eminent men, who have followed success- 
 fully in the path which his patient industry opened out 
 to them, but as the nursino;.father of modern Enoiish 
 biblical criticism, he has conferred a benefit upon his 
 nation and the Church at large, which will continue to be 
 felt as -long as the "Word of God continues to be precious 
 in the land of a Wycliffe and a Coverdale, of a Tindal 
 and a Cranmer. 
 
 JOSEPH B. M-CAUL. 
 
 LiBRAET, Beitish Museum : 
 May 22, 1862. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER 1. 
 
 Early Years — Dame School at Eversley — School in Town — Christ's 
 Hospital — Coleridge ..... Page 1 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Leaving School — First Situation — Studies French — Brief View — 
 Dr. TVillich — Snares of Romanism — Conversion — Essay on Scep- 
 ticism — Volunteer Corps — Dr. Hamilton — Mr. Crewes — Working 
 for the Booksellers ..... .7 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Becomes Clerk to l^Ir. Butterworth — Sunday Schools — First Plan of 
 the "Introduction" — Consults Dr. Bunting — Indexes for Govern- 
 ment — Love of Music . . . . .18 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Surrey Institution — ]Mr. Jay — Marriage — Introduction to Biblio- 
 graphy — American Correspondence — Publishes his great Work — 
 Reviewers — Deism refuted. . . , . .28 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Ordination — ]Mr. Crowther — Dr. Mason Good — Infidel Challenge — 
 Mr. Hone — Treatise on the Trinity — Queen's College Catalogue — 
 Letters — Bishop of Limerick . . . . .35 
 
 CHAPTER VL 
 
 Eclectic Society— Surrey Institution closes — Beveridge's Works — 
 Bishop Chase— Dr. Turner— British Museum— Lord Colchester 45 
 
XIV 
 
 CONTEXTS. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Illuess of Mr. Crowther — Readership at Welbeck Chapel — Piracies — 
 Compendious Introduction — Romanism — Queen's College Catalogue 
 
 — Dr. Wiseman — Academical Degree — Psalmody — Lord Col- 
 chester's Death — Literary Society . . . Page 54 
 
 CHAPTER Vm. 
 
 Prebendal Stall — Tract against Infidelity — Bishop Doane on Romish 
 Influence — Protestant Journal — Manual for the Aflflicted — Ame- 
 rican Supplement — Book of Jasher — Presentation to St. Edmund's 
 
 — Illness and Death of a Daughter — Usefulness of the " Intro- 
 duction " in Greece . . . . . .64 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Tercentenary of the Reformation — Coverdale's Bible — Presbyter's 
 Letter — Bishop of Salisbury's Circular — Protestant Memorial — 
 Letters from the Rev. C. Simeon, the Rev. Dr. Chalmers, and the 
 King's Librarian — Observance of the Day — Bishop of Winchester's 
 Sermon — Birmingham Testimonial , . . .99 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Bishop Chase's second Visit — Letters to the Rev. J. Allport, from 
 Bishop Chase, from Bishop Ives — "Socieias Hagana" . .116 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 Chaplaincy to the Mayoralty — Corporation Sermons — Part of the "In- 
 troduction " abridged at Calcutta — Letter to the Rev. S. C. Wilks — 
 Coronation Sermon — Copy presented to the Queen — Eighth Edition 
 of the " Introduction " — Letters from the Bishop of London and the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury . . . . .126 
 
 CHAPTER XH. 
 
 Appeal for Jubilee College — Usefulness of the " Introduction " — 
 Spanish Translation of Romanism — Mariolatry — Williams's Cate- 
 chism — Letters from Mr. Leeves, Prof. Bambas, Rev. C. CEconomus, 
 a converted Sceptic, and the Bishop of Exeter . . .137 
 
 CHAPTER XHI. 
 
 Letters on November 5, and Elliot's delineation of Roman Catholicism 
 
 — Popery the Enemy and Falsifier of Scripture — Case of Count La 
 Guidara — Letter from the Bishop of Llandaflf— Letters to the Rev. J. 
 
COXTEXTS. 
 
 XV 
 
 Allport — Ninth Edition of the " Introduction" — Notices on Psalmody 
 
 — Letter from Professor Bambas — Popery delineated — Death of the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury — Letter from Dr. Tischendorf. Page 150 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 Usefuhiess of the "Introduction" — Letter from the Rev. Dawson 
 Massy — Tract Society's Prize Essays — Failing Health — Letter 
 from Alderman Kelly — Death of the Duke of Wellington — Gresley 
 on Confession — Communicant's Companion — Dr. Davidson . 167 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 Attention to the Parish — The Young — The Afflicted — Letter from 
 Dr. Van Heugel — Loss of his ^Yife — Removal from the Rectory — 
 Letters from Dr. Turner — Resigns the British ]\Iuseum — Scottish 
 Tercentenary — Failing Health — Letters to the Rev. S. C. Wilks 
 
 — Pastoral Address — Letter to a Grandson — Conclusion of the 
 Reminiscences — Last Illness . . . . .179 
 
*^* The passages marked with inverted commas are 
 verbatim extracts from Mr. Home's own autograph 
 MS. Those not so distinguished contain the Editor's 
 additions &c. 
 
REMINISCENCES, PERSONAL AND BIOGEAPHICAL, 
 
 OP 
 
 THOMAS HARTWELL HOENE, B.D. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Early Years — Dame-School at Eversley — School in Town — Christ's 
 Hospital — Coleridge. 
 
 " Ix looking back from my long career, I cannot but 
 " see and feel, how true ' Almighty God the Father of 
 "all mercies' has been to His word, and how faithful 
 " to His promises. ^ Xot one thing hath failed of all 
 " that the Lord hath promised. All are come to pass ' 
 " (Josh, xxiii. 14). His ' grace hath been sufficient 
 " for me ; ' and His ^ strength hath been made perfect 
 " in my weakness ' (2 Cor. xii. 9). ^ As my day, my 
 " strength has been ' (Deut. xxxiii. 25)." 
 
 " The memorial of Thine abundant kindness shall 
 be showed " (Psalm cxlv. 7). "0 what great 
 troubles and adversities hast Thou showed unto me I 
 And yet didst Thou turn and refresh me. 
 Thou, O God J hast taught me from my youth up 
 
REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 until now : therefore will I tell of Thy wondrous 
 works " (Psalm Ixxi. 18, 15, Prayer-Book version). 
 
 I was " poor and needy, but the Lord cared for 
 me " (Psalm xl. 20). So that, Hterally, my " bread 
 did not fail," and my " water was sm^e " (Isa. 
 xxxiii. 16). 
 
 " In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord, 
 and He heard me, and delivered me from all my 
 fears " (Psalm Ixxvii. 2 ; xxxiv. 4). 
 
 " He that spared not His own Son, but dehvered 
 Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also 
 freely give us all things" which are needful and 
 profitable to us ? (Rom. viii. 32.) Therefore, 
 
 Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His 
 righteousness; and all these things shall be added 
 unto you " (Matt. vi. 33). For, " God so loved the 
 world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that 
 whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but 
 have everlasting hfe. For God sent not His Son 
 into the world to condemn the world ; but that the 
 world through Him might be saved " (John iii. 16, 
 17). " Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift" 
 (2 Cor. ix. 15). 
 
 " 0 ! make but trial of His love, 
 Experience will decide ; 
 How blest are they and only they. 
 Who in the Lord confide ! " 
 
 " I was born on October 20, 1780. I can boast of no 
 pride of ancestry. My honoured father, Mr. William 
 Horne, was the youngest son of a village tradesman 
 at Eversley in Hampshire. At the time of my birth 
 he was the confidential clerk of the eminent barrister, 
 Robert Graham, Esq., who was subsequently one of 
 the Barons of the Court of Exchequer. My father 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HOENE, B.D. 
 
 3 
 
 " having struggled hard to procure for himself what, 
 " a hundred years ago, was considered to be a good 
 education, was naturally solicitous that his eldest son 
 " should have the best education he could obtain for 
 " hun. 
 
 " I learned to read at a dame-school, where our lady- 
 " like mistress took particular pains to make her young 
 " pupils read and spell distinctly. From her I was 
 " transferred to a superior day-school for boys." 
 
 The Horne family had been settled at Eversley since 
 the year 1700, Avhen one of them was parish clerk. 
 All that I know of my grandfather is, that he was the 
 favourite pupil of a clergyman in his native \dllage, 
 was fond of mathematics, and Avas considered to be a 
 man of integrity and right principle. 
 
 At the time of my father's birth he lived in Chancery 
 Lane, according to the parish register of St. Dunstan's- 
 in-the-West, where my father was baptised. It was 
 only four months after Lord George Gordon's riots ; 
 and it is said that, by a remarkable coincidence, my 
 grandfather's window-shutters still bore the motto xo 
 POPERY, which had been inscribed on them for fear of 
 the rioters. The family afterwards removed to Serle 
 Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. The dame-school where 
 my father learned to read was at Eversley, where he 
 was placed for the benefit of his health, under the care 
 of an aunt. The pleasant fields and green lanes of 
 that vicinity made an indelible impression on his mind. 
 He had also a pleasing recollection of standing up in 
 the church on Sundav afternoons, with other villao;e 
 children, to say the Catechism, and of receiving an 
 
 B 2 
 
4 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 approving smile from the curate. My father had even 
 then a passion for reading, which he was obliged to 
 content with the scanty juvenile literature of that day. 
 Yet from one of these little books he learned a lesson 
 which he did not afterwards forget ; that of unshaken 
 trust in God's providence. When between six and 
 seven years of age he was removed to a boy's school in 
 London. Here he began to learn Latin, and went 
 once through Lily's grammar. His father took an 
 interest in his studies ; and assisted him with his 
 lessons, during their early morning walks together in 
 the Foundling Fields. 
 
 " My next remove was into the Royal and Ancient 
 " Foundation of Christ's Hospital, on the presentation 
 " of Mr. Graham's intimate friend, the celebrated bar- 
 " rister and dramatic author, Arthur Murphy, Esq.* 
 
 Here I received the rudiments of a classical education 
 " between the years 1789 and 1795. During two years 
 " I was contemporary with the subsequently eminent 
 
 poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, at that time head- 
 " Grecian or senior scholar ; who evinced his gratitude 
 " for my father's hospitalities to him by giving me 
 " private instruction in the summer school vacation of 
 " 1790. 
 
 " This enabled me to attain such proficiency, that I 
 " was removed many months earlier than I otherwise 
 " could have been, from the under grammar school into 
 " the upper school, which was then under the able 
 *^ superintendence of the devoted head-master, the Rev. 
 
 * Arthur Murphy, Esq., was a popular dramatist, and translator of 
 Tacitus. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 5 
 
 "James Boyer, M.A., of whose scholastic discipline 
 " and peculiarities Mr. Coleridge has given a graphic 
 " delineation in the first volume of his ' Biographia 
 " Literaria.'" 
 
 Much of the barbarism of former times was then still 
 clino^ino' to the ^' Roval and Ancient Foundation of 
 Christ's Hospital." The younger boys were fearfully 
 intimidated by the elder ones, the aiTangements for 
 their personal comfort were imperfect, and the system 
 of education defective. Those who entered the gram- 
 mar school learned neither writingr nor arithmetic. 
 The only instruction which my father had in these 
 branches, after entering Christ's Hospital, was from 
 the voluntary lessons of a writing- school boy during a 
 vacation. The head-master of that day is termed by 
 Coleridge a very sensible, but a very severe man." 
 He appears to have been wanting in that prime requi- 
 site of a good teacher — an equable temper. Yet my 
 father always cherished a grateful recollection of the 
 advantages which he enjoyed, and felt to the last a 
 deep interest in the recent improvements, and the 
 extended usefulness of this asylum of his youth. In 
 proof of this, we may state, that only two months before 
 his decease, he presented a handsomely-bound copy of 
 the last edition of the Introduction to the library of 
 Christ's Hospital. 
 
 It was not unusual for the Grecians to give private 
 lessons to younger boys, whose friends showed them 
 kindness in return ; and, as Coleridge was himself an 
 orphan with scarcely any connections in London, my 
 grandfather's invitations could not have been unaccept- 
 
6 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 able. The late matron of Christ's Hospital, Mrs. Green, 
 who resided more than fifty years within its walls, 
 recollected frequently giving " Little Horne " a ticket 
 of leave to accompany Coleridge to my grandfather's 
 house on holidays. Among other things, Coleridge 
 taught my father the Greek alphabet. At that early 
 period the future poet evinced his prevailing taste by 
 declaiming verses as he went about the school- 
 grounds. 
 
 Mr. Barnes, the late editor of the " Times," was also 
 among my father's schoolfellows ; and, though his 
 juniors by several years, the Rev. Dr. Greenwood, 
 afterwards head-master of Christ's Hospital, and the 
 Rev. J. R. Pitman, the well-known tutor and editor of 
 classical works, and some time preacher of the Mag- 
 dalen and Foundling Hospitals. 
 
 Mr, Pitman continued to keep up an acquaintance 
 with my father, and in a letter dated February 15, 
 1861, says, speaking of school-days: "My memory 
 faithfully retains our former position beneath the window, 
 and your initiation of me into Homer and Sapphic 
 verse." 
 
 Mr. Pitman died at Bath a few months after. 
 
THOMAS HART WELL HOKXE, B.D. 
 
 7 
 
 CHAPTER 11. 
 
 Leaving School — First Situation — Studies French — Brief View — 
 Dr. Willich — Snares of Romanism — Conversion — Essay on Scep- 
 ticism — Volunteer Corps — Dr. Hamilton — Mr, Crewes — Vrorkiug 
 for the Booksellers. 
 
 "My father having died iu June 1793, just as 
 " favourable prospects were opening to him, I became 
 " the eldest of six orphans. Small of stature and not 
 " robust, I was unfit for any employment requiring 
 " physical strength ; and eight years of my life were 
 " spent in the humble situation of a clerk to barristers." 
 
 My grandfather died at the early age of thirty-six ; 
 my grandmother had died two years before, shortly 
 after giving birth to her sixth child. Allien my fother 
 left school he returned to the house in Serle Street, 
 where a relative had undertaken, for a time, to keep a 
 home for some of the younger children by letting 
 lodgings. My father had, as he has said, a vague con- 
 sciousness of what it was to have the world all before 
 him. Some stranger, to whom he had shown a civility, 
 made him a trifling present, with which he bought a 
 pen and some paper ; and his first employment was copy- 
 ing precedents for gentlemen of the lavr, who might 
 require such assistance. 
 
 " As I had a good deal of time at my command 
 
8 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " during the first four years of my career, I endeavoured 
 to improve myself by solitary but desultory study, 
 for I had no one to counsel me, or guide me to a suit- 
 able course of reading. But, with the Divine blessing 
 upon my humble efforts, I was enabled to make my- 
 self master of the French language, partly through 
 " the medium of Rolle's Norman-French Abridgement 
 " of the Law of England, portions of which I trans- 
 " lated into English with the aid of Mr. Kelham's 
 " Norman and English Dictionary, and partly by 
 " translating some modern French Historical xlnec- 
 " dotes ; going to the French bookseller of whom I 
 " had purchased the volume, to request the explanation 
 " of some grammatical and idiomatical difficulties, 
 which he kindly solved for me. I then ventured to 
 " undertake a translation of Beaujour's * View of the 
 " Commerce of Greece,' a topic which at that time was 
 "* exciting some attention." 
 
 My father's first permanent situation was with 
 Mr. Toller, a barrister, who afterwards obtained an 
 appointment in India, and died there. One evidence 
 of his diligent study of French during this period, is 
 to be found in a manuscript translation of the private 
 life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, neatly tran- 
 scribed as if for the press. That he was also desirous 
 of keeping up the Latin language is evident from a 
 Latin grammar, copied out in a legible hand, but 
 evidently belonging to an early period. 
 
 " The very narrow income I was then receiving 
 " (twenty pounds a year, with coarse brown bread, at 
 eighteenpence the qviartern loaf) early led me to 
 
THOMAS HARTTTELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 9 
 
 " direct my attention to literature, as an auxiliary 
 " means of support. My first publication was A 
 " Brief Vieio of the Necessity and Truth of the Chris- 
 " tian Revelation ; the result of notes and enquiries 
 " undertaken in the hope of confirming my faith in 
 
 the Gospel, which had been shaken by reading an 
 " infidel novel of French origin. This little essay 
 " was written when I was only eighteen years old ; 
 " and it was published in my twentieth year, in 1800. 
 " I obtained two guineas for the copyright.'' 
 
 Mr. Toller was the son of a dissenting minister, and 
 had a good library. My father went to his house 
 early, and before office hours eagerly read his books. 
 He also subscribed a small sum to a circulating library, 
 where he obtained the infidel novel above referred to. 
 In Mr. Toller's library he found an antidote. My 
 father said one day, " Leland on the State of Religion in 
 " the Heathen World was the first book that set me 
 
 thinking. I saw a copy in my employer's library, and 
 
 was attracted to it by the beauty of the classical quo- 
 " tations. I read it, made notes of it at leisure hours, 
 " and said to myself — If this is right, I am wrong ! " 
 These notes from Leland form the first section of the 
 Brief View, entitled ' The Xecessity of the Christian 
 Revelation, as shown from a short View of the State of 
 Religion in the Antient Heathen World.' The second 
 section is headed : ' The Existence of our SaA'iour 
 proved from the united Testimonies of Authors both 
 friendly and inimical to the Christian Revelation.' An 
 extract from the Advertisement to the first edition 
 will show the young author's feelings in giving his first 
 
10 
 
 EEMIXISCEXCSS OF 
 
 work to the world : — In submittino- his little work to 
 " the candour of the public, he cannot but feel some 
 " degree of anxiety ; yet he means not to deprecate the 
 " severity of criticism, or to urge his youth as an apology 
 " for the errors that may be detected. He has stepped 
 " forward in the defence of our common faith, and to 
 " oppose the rapid progress which the disciples of infi- 
 " delity are making, by disseminating their pernicious 
 " principles, particularly among the junior part of the 
 " present generation. Should his endeavours be crowned 
 " with the least success, he will be amply compensated ; 
 " and the recollection of it will cheer him amidst all the 
 " vicissitudes of life." 
 
 After leaving Mr. Toller, my father Avas for some 
 time amanuensis to Dr. Willich, a physician, who was 
 preparing a work entitled, " The Domestic Encyclo- 
 paedia," which appeared in 1802, in three vols., 8vo. 
 My father copied out the doctor's articles, and under 
 his superintendence compiled many more. My father 
 at this time resided with Dr. Willich. He rose early, 
 and, before the time when he was required to work, 
 read such books as wer;e within his reach ; and among 
 them the volumes of the " IMonthly Review." He was 
 thus laying the foundation of his future bibliographical 
 knowledge. 
 
 My father has dwelt with thankfulness on the fact 
 that want of time and means kept him from many of 
 the snares and follies of youth. He did not frequent 
 gay company ; and never in his life entered a theatre. 
 
 But," he said once, in reference to this time, "it is one 
 " thing to be speculatively convinced of the truth of 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HOE^'E, B.D. 
 
 11 
 
 Clu'istianity, and another to have it in the heart. I 
 " was like a bird without a nest, and, allured by the 
 beauty of the music, frequently wandered into the 
 Romish chapel. A Roman Catholic neighbour, a law 
 stationer, who was kind to me, lent me a book wliich 
 they consider unanswerable — ^ Challoner's Grounds 
 ^' and Reasons of the Old Religion.' I sent him three 
 " foolscap sheets in reply ; very desultory, no doubt, 
 " but it prevented his troubling me any farther, though 
 " we still continued on friendly terms together. I 
 " never again entered a Romish chapel." 
 
 "In 1801, adored be the mercy of God my Saviour I 
 " my mind experienced a most salutary and unportant 
 " change. The perusal of an eccentric volume which 
 "had excited much and most undeserved ridicule of 
 ^' the AYesleyan Methodists, awakened my curiosity, and 
 " I thouo'ht I would oo and hear what thev had to sav. 
 "' Like other fools who went to scoff, I remained to pray. 
 " A most powerful and persuasive discourse by the Rev. 
 
 and learned J oseph Benson,* on the folly and danger 
 "' of irresolution in the momentous concerns of the soul, 
 "' effectually arrested me. The subsequent perusal of 
 
 * The Rev. Joseph Benson was born in 1748, and died in 1821. 
 Although of slender figure and weak voice, he was a great preacher. 
 ''Distinct and accurate in his representations of Divine trlith, powerful 
 in argument, inflamed with the love of Christ, and full of compassion 
 for the perishing souls of unconverted men, he frequently appeared in 
 the puli)it like a messenger from the eternal world. His applications at 
 the close of his sermons were energetic and impressive almost beyond 
 example. Few ministers in modern times have been so successful in 
 the conversion of sinners to God ; and many spiritual children will be 
 his joy and the crown of his rejoicing in the day of the Lord." — 
 Smith's History of Wesleyan Methodism, iii. 60 ; Life of Dr. Bunting^ 
 i. 31. 
 
12 
 
 EEMIMSCE^^CES OF 
 
 ^' the Kev. J. W. Fletclier's (of Madeley) logical and 
 " unanswerable ^ Appeal to Matters of Fact and Com- 
 
 mon Sense ; or, a Rational Demonstration of Man's 
 " Corrupt and Lost Estate ' brought me a humble 
 " penitent to the throne of grace, where I embraced 
 " the atonement, found peace, and gave myself to 
 " the service of God my Saviour." 
 
 My father once gave the following account of this 
 circumstance : — " It pleased God to apprehend me by 
 " the preaching of the venerable Joseph Benson. I 
 
 went one Wednesday evening to Queen Street, and 
 " heard the latter part of a sermon by him on ' Christ in 
 " you the hope of glory.' It attracted me. I went again 
 
 on the first Sunday evening in the year 1801. ' How 
 «f long halt ye between two opinions ? ' That was the 
 
 sermon which fixed me. One or two Sundays after I 
 
 heard another, on ^ Her ways are Avays of pleasant- 
 " ness,' by a Mr. Edwards.* He was not an accredited 
 
 preacher, but was equal to it. I do not know what 
 " they s^w ; I only remember the texts ; but these 
 " two sermons made the impression." " Mr. Benson," 
 he added, " had studied at Oxford, but was refused his 
 
 Mr. John Edwards resided at Lambeth, and was an architect by 
 profession. In early life he was known to Wesley, and the leading 
 preachers of his time. He httcd up a building adjoining his house as a 
 chapel, and was enrolled as a local preacher. Although much engaged 
 in business, he cultivated his mind with great diligence, and was agree- 
 able and effective in his pulpit addresses. Within a year after the 
 sermon above alluded to, Mr. Edwards was seized with paralysis, and 
 died early in 1803. Mr. Joseph Benson, Avho knew him well, closes 
 the account of his life Avith the following aspiration : " May I follow 
 him as he followed Christ, and, being faithful unto death, receive with 
 him the crown of life in the kingdom of our Father ! " — Smith's History 
 of Wesleijan Methodism, ii. 377—79. 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 ]3 
 
 " degree for the offence of visiting poor neglected 
 " prisoners in Oxford jail. He was still a friend to the 
 " Church, and educated his two sons for clergymen. 
 " Mr. Benson was at that time literary editor of the 
 " 'Wesley an ^Magazine,' and preached on Sundays, some- 
 " times at Queen Street and sometimes at Lambeth." 
 
 In 1802 my father wrote an Essay entitled Con- 
 siderations on the Probable Causes of the Increase of 
 Scepticism and Lifidelit}/ ; including Observations on the 
 Influence of Religion upon Society, After expressing 
 regret at the rapid progress with which the disciples of 
 infidelity were propagating their tenets, he goes on to 
 allege three causes, viz. : — 
 
 I. An innate propensity to reject, as being either totally 
 or partially founded in error, those principles which 
 militate against our preconceived opinions. 
 
 II. The vanity or affectation of being thought superior 
 to vulgar prejudices. 
 
 III. The false system of education prevailing among 
 professing Christians. 
 
 The Essay concludes thus : — " Those circumstances 
 " have been specified, which appear to be the more mi- 
 " mediate causes of the infidelity and scepticism now pre- 
 " valent among so large a portion of the community; and 
 " the most probably effectual antidote been pointed out. 
 " All controversy, and whatever may tend to widen the 
 " breach subsisting between Christians of different per- 
 " suasions, has been sedulously avoided. The Christian 
 " religion, we may be assured, will eventually triumph 
 " over all its adversaries ; and though there will, perhaps, 
 " ever be some difference of opinion in matters of religion. 
 
14 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " yet, as its first and grand principle is universal love, 
 " * if we are taught mutual forbearance by our difficulties, 
 " the principal difference will be at an end :' we may 
 " then look forward to that period, when controversy and 
 
 discord will be no more ; trusting humbly in the merits 
 " of 'God our Saviour,' who '^is the Author and Finisher 
 " of our Faith ' — ' hath brought life and immortality to 
 " light through the Gospel ' — and ' who is able to save to 
 " the uttermost all that come unto God through Him.'"* 
 This Essay did not find a purchaser. 
 
 My father participated in the enthusiasm of the time 
 for the preservation of the land from a threatened 
 foreign invasion ; and in his latest years, when the 
 movement was revived, felt pleasure in the thought 
 that he had once been a volunteer. He had periodical 
 drills in the square of Lyon's Inn, which doubtless 
 benefited his health, for he was ever after a very active 
 walker. My father was among those on duty at Nel- 
 son's funeral, and at the great Review in the presence 
 of King George III. He had also a vivid recollection 
 of Rowland Hill's sermon to the volunteers in 1803. 
 The whole of Surrey Chapel was filled with the youth- 
 ful defenders of their country, and we are told that 
 many more were unable to gain admittance. The 
 preacher's impression of this scene has been preserved. 
 Mr. Hill remarks : " The respectable appearance of the 
 volunteers, their becoming deportment in the house of 
 God, and especially the truly animated manner in which 
 they all stood up to sing the high praises of our God, 
 filled me with solemn surprise, and exhibited before me 
 
 * Monthly Review, Ixx. 387, old series. 
 
THOMAS HAETTVELL HOKXE, B.D. 
 
 15 
 
 one of the most affecting scenes I ever beheld."* The 
 service began by singing the hundredth psahn, and 
 before the sermon the following hymn, composed by 
 Mr. Hill for the occasion, was sung to the tune of 
 " God save the King : " — 
 
 Come, thou incarnate "Word, 
 Gird on Thy mighty sword. 
 
 Our prayer attend : 
 Come, and Thy people bless, 
 And give Thy word success, 
 Spirit of holiness, 
 
 On us descend. 
 
 O may Thy servant be 
 Fill'd with sweet liberty, 
 
 Clothed with power ! 
 Bid, Lord, the dead arise, 
 By Thy almighty voice ; 
 May we in Thee rejoice, 
 
 In this glad hour I 
 
 The text was from Psalm xx. 7, 8 — " Some trust in 
 chariots, and some in horses ; but we will remember 
 the name of the Lord our God. They are brought low 
 and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright." The 
 service was closed by singing another hymn, adapted to 
 the national air, " Eule, Britannia." 
 
 When Dr. Willich's Encyclopsedia was completed, 
 my father was for some time without a situation. He 
 went one Sunday morning in a depressed state of mind 
 to Queen Street Chapel. Dr. Hamilton,! a physician, 
 
 * Sermon to the Volunteers, p. 4. 
 
 f Dr. James Hamilton, a physician, first in Leeds, and afterwards in 
 London, died in 1827, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. He was 
 an intimate friend of Wesley. Dr. Hamilton was very kind to the poor, 
 and " practised not more as a physician than as a preacher and 
 
16 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 preached. His text was one that came home to my 
 father's chxumstances : " Seek ye first the kingdom of 
 God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall 
 be added unto you " (Matt. vi. 33). He was afterwards 
 taking a solitary walk in Lincoln's Inn Fields, when 
 he was met by a gentleman who had some slight know- 
 ledge of him, and who, enquiring into his circumstances, 
 promised to recommend him to a situation. This was 
 my father's introduction to Mr. Crewes, a Roman 
 Catholic barrister. He was writing a book entitled 
 " A Digest of the Laws of England." My father stayed 
 with him till the work was finished, wrote at Mr. 
 CreAves's dictation, who composed walking about the 
 room, transcribed the fifth and sixth volumes for the 
 press, and made the index. My father also employed 
 some of his spare hours at that time in assisting Mr. 
 Charles Butler, the learned Roman Catholic historian, 
 to edit some of his publications. 
 
 " In 1805, I had specially to provide for a younger 
 " brother [on his leaving Christ's Hospital]. The 
 " salary which I was then receiving, as clerk to a bar- 
 " rister, was scarcely sufficient for my own maintenance. 
 " Having endeavoured, but in vain, to procure literary 
 " work from the booksellers, I was one day telling my 
 " disappointments to a successful author to whom I 
 " was slightly known, when he offered to give me an 
 " effectual introduction to a respectable bookseller and 
 
 evangelist/' — Life of Dr. Bunting, i. 174. In a plan for the preachers 
 in the London circuit, during a part of the year 1803, given in Smith's 
 History of Wesleyan Methodism, ii, 392, the name of Dr. Hamilton ap- 
 pears among the preachers at Queen Street Chapel. 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 17 
 
 " publisher in Paternoster Row, but upon the hard 
 " condition of his having one-half of all I might receive 
 " from that bookseller for my literary work. I accepted 
 *^ these severe terms. The introduction took place. 
 " ]VIr. Crosby, of Stationers' Court, Paternoster Row, 
 " immediately offered me fifty pounds for a treatise of 
 " 400 pages, on the ^Management of Grazing Farms, 
 " to be called ^ The Complete Grazier.' Many of 
 " jVIr. Crosby's early years had been spent on such a 
 " farm in the county of Lincoln, so that he was well 
 " acquainted with its details. He had also a flourishing 
 " book-trade in that county, and was well acquainted 
 " with what was wanting to its local literature. Ac- 
 " cordingly, I was furnished with a huge mass of 
 " materials, which I had to examine and analyse. In 
 " the course of nine months the volume was written 
 " and printed ; but, as I was preparing my Introduction 
 " to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy 
 " Scriptures (which work, however, was not published 
 " for many years afterwards), I refused to print my 
 ^' name as the author of * The Complete Grazier.' " 
 
 My father was now occupying a little cottage in a 
 garden at Lambeth, which the deterioration of that 
 neighbourhood would now make it impossible to identify. 
 When he reached home in the evening he would take 
 half an hour's repose, and then, after some strong tea, 
 would recommence his labours, which extended far 
 into the night. This he would often tell us ; and it was 
 indeed the way by which, with small variation, he ac- 
 complished much private literary work, correspondence, 
 &C.5 during the larger portion of his life. 
 
 C 
 
18 
 
 KEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Becomes Clerk to Mr. Butterworth — Sunday Schools — First Plan of 
 the "Introduction" — Consults Dr. Bunting — Indexes for Govern- 
 ment — Love of Music. 
 
 " For many years I had the privilege and comfort of 
 "being in communion with the Wesleyan Method- 
 " ists, among whom I found many kind friends, who 
 " counselled me in the difficulties and trials to which I 
 " was exposed, while they edified me by their Christian 
 " conversation. 
 
 " I quitted that Society, only when the ecclesiastical 
 " regulations of the Church of England rendered my 
 " retirement from them necessary, previously to my 
 " preparing for ordination in that section of the Church 
 " Universal. But I had the privilege of keeping up a 
 " Christian correspondence with many of them ; and I 
 " have been favoured with the successive friendships of 
 " their most eminent ministers to the present time." 
 
 In the year 1806, Mr. Crewes's work being nearly 
 completed, my father projected the plan of a " Treatise 
 on Ecclesiastical Law," and submitted it to the inspec- 
 tion of Joseph Butterworth, Esq. M.P., the law 
 bookseller. He approved the design, but dissuaded 
 my father from going on with it, as his name was not 
 known. At the same time, he offered my father the 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HOKXE, B.D. 
 
 19 
 
 situation of clerk to himself, at twice the salary Mr. 
 Crewes had given, and a recommendation to literary 
 work for the evening. A cordial friendship sprang up 
 between them, which continued until Mr. Butterworth's 
 death. 
 
 My father was treated with uniform kindness, and 
 chiefly employed as his private secretary. Mr. 
 Butterworth was a liberal as well as a wealthy man, 
 giving away in charity no less than 2,000/. per annum. 
 In many private cases my father had the privilege of 
 being his almoner. A Society was formed for the 
 relief of the distressed Germans in this country, many 
 of whom had suffered 2:reat reverses throug^h the 
 tyranny of the first Xapoleon. Mr. Butterworth was 
 treasurer, and my father the acting secretary, without 
 the name. He attended the committees, and thus 
 became acquainted with many good men ; among them 
 Dr. Steinkopf and the Pastor Latrobe. This Society 
 was afterwards merged in that for the Belief of 
 Foreigners in Distress. After my father had joined 
 the Wesleyans, he became Superintendent of Lambeth 
 Chapel Sunday School, and a Visitor of the Strangers' 
 Friend Society ; he also founded the first Bible As- 
 sociation in Lambeth. During a term of years, when- 
 ever the preachers desired that assistance, my father 
 read the prayers* at Lambeth Chapel. At the request 
 of a lady whom he met walking in Westminster one 
 Sunday afternoon, and who pitied the neglected state 
 of the children in her neighbourhood, my father 
 
 * From the Book of Common Prayer, adapted to the use of the 
 "Wesleyan Methodists. 
 
 c 2 
 
20 
 
 EEMINISCEXCES OF 
 
 organised the first Sunday School there, in connection 
 with St. Margaret's Episcopal Chapel, since included 
 in Christ Church district. 
 
 " The publication of my Brief View of the Necessity 
 " and Truth of the Christian Revelation, together with 
 ^^the salutary change of my sentiments through the 
 " ^ saving grace of God,' led me to the anxious reading 
 
 of the Holy Scriptures ; and eventually to undertake 
 " the work by which I am best known in British litera- 
 
 ture, the ' Introduction to the Critical Study and 
 " Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures.' The first edition 
 '^of it was the result of seventeen years' prayerful, 
 " solitary, unassisted, and not unfrequently midnight 
 " labour." 
 
 My father once told me, that as early as the last 
 Sunday in February 1801, he began to form the plan 
 of the Introduction. The course of reading^ which it 
 required occupied liim till 1812, when he began to write. 
 
 A long letter addressed by my father, towards the 
 close of 1806, to the Rev. Dr. Bunting, with whom he 
 was on terms of friendship, gives a full statement of 
 the various plans at that time floating in his mind, and 
 also alludes to the interest which he took in Lambeth 
 Chapel and Sunday School: — 
 
 " With this I forward for your consideration a copy 
 of the plan adverted to in my last note. You will, 
 perhaps, tliink my design too bold — too comprehensive 
 to be successfully executed by an individual layman. 
 Keferring you to my views and motives, as expressed 
 in my note of the 25 th ultimo, I would only add that, 
 having meditated upon the subject, I have sometimes 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 21 
 
 thouo^lit that I had sketched out too much for one 
 person to execute. Mr. Edwards,* who is convinced 
 of the practical utility of the plan, has, in fact, sug- 
 ijested that so extensive an undertakino* mio^ht be 
 achieved better by the united exertions of two indi- 
 viduals ; and who so fit as yourself, if you can command 
 sufficient time for such a pursuit ? I should rejoice in 
 such a co-labourer in a work which, I am persuaded, is 
 calculated to be of permanent utility to the Christian 
 Church. When you have fully weighed the matter, 
 may I beg the favour of a few remarks, addressed to 
 me, either under cover at Mr. Edwards's, or directly to 
 me at Mr. Butterworth's ? I have, in fact, abandoned 
 the law (as I think I intimated when you were lately 
 in town), and have taken a confidential appointment 
 with an estimable friend, which is of a multifarious 
 nature ; but to me it is certainly most agreeable, and 
 it leaves me some hours every day for literary pursuits. 
 I have nothing that I can offer worthy of your perusal. 
 My time has of late been closely occupied in finishing- 
 two or three laborious indexes (one of them a Latin 
 one to some records for Government). I have, however, 
 much — very much — cause for gratitude that I have been 
 preserved, with some slight exceptions, in health and 
 strength of mind and body, amid some very severe 
 domestic vexations, and that I am enabled to encounter 
 severe nocturnal exertions. I have the pleasure to 
 inform you that, at length, the lease has this evening 
 
 * Mr. Edwards was a publisher in Crane Court, Fleet Street, and at 
 that time a leading member of the Lambeth Methodist Society ; but he 
 does not appear to have been related to the Mr. John Edwards, men- 
 tioned in page 12, supra. 
 
22 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 been signed, by the landlord and trustees of an eligible 
 spot of ground, on which to erect a chapel for our 
 Lambeth congregation and society. It offers a prospect 
 of extensive usefulness. To-morrow evenino: the ser- 
 vice will commence at half-past six ; after which such 
 of the trustees as are present will be called upon to 
 confirm their subscriptions ; and the members and 
 other friends, of whom by no means an inconsiderable 
 number have been invited by letter, will be called 
 upon to give according to their ability. We do hope 
 and trust they will do liberally towards this 'great 
 work.' Our Sunday School consists of about 230 
 children, of whom it is intended to take the whole to 
 the chapel, when erected ; a more grateful office to 
 teachers, as well as children, than the taking a small 
 number, at alternate periods, to Lambeth Church, where 
 they are unavoidably but indifferently accommodated. 
 We are encouraged greatly in our work by the re- 
 formed conduct of the unruly, and the orderly deport- 
 ment, in general, of the rest ; but, what is of infinitely 
 greater moment, Ave have reason to believe that some 
 of them have received good impressions to good 
 purpose." * 
 
 It appears that when Mr. T. P. Bunting asked mj 
 father's permission to print the above letter, my father, 
 in his reply, gave him some additional information 
 explanatory of the previous letter. Although this 
 partially refers to circumstances which occurred long 
 after, it cannot be better inserted than in this place : — 
 
 " Previously to my undertaking the Introduction, I 
 * Life of Dr. Bunting, i. 286—288. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 23 
 
 had sketched a prospectus for an edition of the English 
 Bible, in which the books of the Old and New Testa- 
 ment should be inserted chronologically, and with a 
 biblical commentary ; that is, one in the very words of 
 Scripture. A general Introduction was to be prefixed ; 
 which, growing in my hands, I finally dropped the idea 
 of a biblical commentary, and bent all my efforts to the 
 Introduction to the Critical Study of the Holy Scrip- 
 tures, the first edition of which was published in 
 June 1818. Towards the close of the first volume, I 
 sketched a plan for arranging the books of the Old 
 and New Testament chronologically. This arrested 
 the attention of a young and vigorous scholar, the 
 late Dr. Townsend, Canon of Durham. Ha\ing been 
 educated at Christ's Hospital, Mr. Townsend called 
 upon me, as an old ' Blue,' for my counsel, as he pro- 
 posed to undertake such a work. Being at that time 
 deeply engaged in combating the efforts of infidelity, I 
 was too happy to give him my best advice, and also 
 the materials I had collected for an improved harmony 
 of the four Gospels. In due time Mr. Townsend pro- 
 duced his truly valuable ' Harmonies of the New and 
 Old Testaments,' with learned notes, in four volumes 
 8vo., the whole, I am persuaded, much better done 
 than I could myself have done it. And, just now, the 
 Bible, wdth a strictly biblical commentary, has been 
 published in three handsome quarto volumes, w^ith maps, 
 &c., by Messrs. Bagster. It appears to me most admir- 
 ably done. I do not know who the editors are. No 
 one person could have accomplished such a work. 
 
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 REMINISCENCES OP 
 
 In fact, it supersedes every work whicli has been 
 published, containing parallel references at length."* 
 
 My father was fond of music, and had begun to learn 
 the violoncello, but as the idea of the Introduction as- 
 sumed a definite form, he found music so great a rival to 
 study that he gave it up. " I looked at my instrument," 
 he said, " every day for a month without touching it, and 
 then sent it away." Yet the little musical knowledge 
 he had gained proved useful, as it enabled him after- 
 wards efficiently to direct the psalmody of his church. 
 
 My father's situation with Mr. Butterworth intro- 
 duced him to the acquaintance of Dr. Adam Clarke, 
 the brother-in-law of the former, who took a deep 
 interest in his welfare. Mr. Butterworth was applied 
 to by John Caley, Esq., Keeper of the Records at the 
 Chapter House, Westminster, to recommend a person 
 to make an Index to the Catalogue of the Harleian 
 Manuscripts in the British Museum, j My father's 
 
 * Life of Dr. Bunting, i. 288. 
 
 t By the kindness of Charles Roberts, Esq., Clerk to the Record 
 OflSce, we have been favoured with the following particulars respecting 
 the indexes, and my father's subsequent appointment at the Chapter 
 House. In May 1808, the compilation of the indexes to the three 
 volumes of the " Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts in the feritish 
 Museum, was placed by the Commissioners on Public Records in the 
 hands of Mr. Home." It is stated, " The faithful execution of the 
 indexes to these volumes, particularly the 'Index Rerum,' will be a 
 laborious and difficult task ; but Mr, Home, to whom it is intrusted, 
 has entered upon it with spirit, and appears quite adequate to the 
 undertaking." 
 
 Towards the close of 1811 Mr. Home is said to be "deserving of much 
 commendation for the industry he has lately exerted." 
 
 In November 1816, Mr. Home was "proceeding with the 'Index 
 Rotuli Scotiae in turri Londinensi et in domo Capitulari Westmonas- 
 teriensi asservati afterwards published in two vols. And in January 
 1817 is stated to be 'sedulously engaged in compiling the " Indexes of 
 Persons and Places," a work of much labour and time.' " 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 25 
 
 name was proposed. We may remark that this work 
 brought him under the notice of his future patron, Mr. 
 Speaker Abbot, afterwards Lord Colchester. Mr. 
 Abbot bestowed particular attention on the state of 
 the Record Office, Westminster, and also of the British 
 Museum, of which he was an official trustee. He gave 
 his advice respecting the arrangement of the Harleian 
 Catalogue. 
 
 In afterwards re\4ewing these circumstances, my 
 father would thankfully acknowledge that every appoint- 
 ment which he held prepared him for something better 
 which was to follow. 
 
 From the "statement of progress" of the Record Commissioners 
 between March 25 and May 1, 1817, we learn that the Right Hon. 
 George Rose had, on the recommendation of the Record Commissioners, 
 appointed Mr. Thomas Hartwell Horne to be third or junior clerk. 
 
 Again in June 1817, Mr. Horne is stated to be continuing the said 
 indexes " with his accustomed care and diligence." 
 
 The work was published in 1819, and the preface is signed, " T. H. 
 Horne, Chapter House, Westminster, March 1, 1819." 
 
 In the " statement of progress " of the Record Commissioners, from 
 June 24 to Sept. 29, 1819, it is stated that Mr. Thomas Hartwell Horne, 
 third clerk at the Chapter House, " having been ordained in Holj 
 Orders, has resigned his situation" in the Chapter House. — Minute 
 Book of the Record Commissioners, ii. 364, 432; v. 34; vi. 135, 190, 
 194, 202; vii. 223. 
 
26 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 CHAPTEE ly. 
 
 Surrey Institution — Mr, Jay — Marriage — Introduction to Biblio- 
 graphy — . American Correspondence — Publishes his great Work. — 
 lieviewers — Deism refuted. 
 
 "In May 1809 I was elected sub-librarian of the 
 " Surrey Institution ; which office I held until the Insti- 
 "tution was dissolved in 1823, from exhaustion of the 
 " funds originally subscribed." 
 
 * Mr. Butterworth felt an interest in this establish- 
 ment, and was very anxious that the library of this new 
 Institution should be formed under the influence of the 
 highest bibliographical knowledge, and with a due re- 
 £^ard to the interests of relioion. He therefore induced 
 Dr. Adam Clarke to accept the office of librarian.' * 
 The influence of these gentlemen procured the appoint- 
 ment of my father as sub-librarian. 
 
 This office was well suited to his taste. He had 
 access to a good library, and in the interval of paying 
 attention to members, was at liberty to follow his own 
 pursuits. The scientific lectures also, which were de- 
 livered there twice a week during the winter, were a 
 source of gratification and improvement to him. Many 
 agreeable acquaintances were formed there, some of 
 which ripened into lasting friendship. 
 
 * Smith's History of Wesleyan Methodism, ii. 459. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 27 
 
 My father had a high esteem for Mr. J ay of Bath. 
 It was Mr. Jay's practice during many years to come 
 to town every summer for a month, and to take Row- 
 land Hill's place at Surrey Chapel. At these times my 
 father took great pleasure in attending his week-day 
 evening lectures. In later years he frequently alluded 
 to this circumstance, and expressed a high opinion of 
 Mr. Jay's published sermons. 
 
 "In 1812 [Sept. 12] I received from the hands of 
 " John Millard, Esq. of Cordwainers' Hall in the city 
 " of London, his eldest daughter Sarah, my best earthly 
 " treasure. Lovely, prudent, and truly pious, she was 
 " indeed a helpmeet for me during the forty-six years 
 " of singularly happy wedded life that she was lent to me 
 " by ' Almighty God, the Father of all Mercies.' The 
 " sympathising and considerate friend of the fatherless, 
 "the friendless, and the destitute, she was my con- 
 " scientiously prudent and upright counsellor in diffi- 
 " culties, my comforter in sorrow, and my most affec- 
 " tionate nurse in sickness, while she edified me by her 
 " consistently pious and benevolent example. 
 
 " It pleased God to give us two dear daughters." 
 
 My mothers bright intellect and cultivated mind 
 well fitted her to be an improving companion, while the 
 energy with which she superintended my father's affairs 
 freed him from every anxiety. Among my earliest re- 
 collections is that of seeing my mother with her right 
 hand eno-ao-ed in domestic work, while her left held a 
 proof of the " Introduction," at which she was glancing 
 with a view to the correction of its style. My mother's 
 devoted serwes were requited with an affection that 
 
28 
 
 EEMINISCEXCES OF 
 
 seemed to increase with years. Her husband's heart 
 could safely trust in her, and her children's children 
 now rise up and call her blessed. 
 
 Previously to my mother's marriage, she had been 
 residing for four years in Gloucestershire, where she 
 was for the first time brought under the influence of 
 an evangelical ministry. The preaching of the Kev. 
 Edward Mansfield, Vicar of Bisley,* was made the 
 means of her conversion. Mr. M. lent my mother to 
 read treatises of the old divines, and took much pains 
 in her religious instruction. 
 
 On leaving Mr. Mansfield's pastoral care he gave 
 her a letter of introduction to his friend, the Kev. 
 Samuel Crowther, of Christ Church, Newgate Street. 
 This brought my father also under Mr. Crowther's 
 notice. 
 
 The years intervening between 1812 and 1819, while 
 he was still steadily writing the Introduction, were 
 passed in a regular attendance at the Surrey Institution ; 
 and also during a part of the time, on certain days, at the 
 Chapter House, Westminster. 
 
 * The Rev. Edward Mansfield, Vicar of Bisley, Gloucestershire, 
 second son of Sir James Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 
 was educated at Westminster School, and afterwards became Fellow of 
 St. Peter's College, Cambridge. " Mr. Mansfield's sentiments as a 
 divine were orthodox, spiritual, and practical ; as a public instructor 
 he was commanding and impressive, and all he said produced the 
 greater effect because he was known to feel its influence on his own 
 heart. It is said that in his intercourse with the poor he resembled the 
 description of the patriarch Job (xxix. 11 — 17), and that in general 
 society fewer idle words escaped his lips than those of almost any man 
 living." Mr. Mansfield was twenty years vicar of Bisley, and died in 
 1826, in consequence of a fall from his chaise, at the early age of forty- 
 seven. — Rev. J. Smith's Memoir of the liev, E. Mansfield. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 29 
 
 His literary recreation between 1812 and 1814 seems 
 to have been writing the Introduction to the Study of 
 Bibliography. Several letters of thanks for presenta- 
 tion copies are preserved. The Bishop of London 
 (Dr. Howley) writes : " It contains much of curious 
 and much of useful information, and brino^s too:ether 
 in a short compass what must otherwise be sought with 
 trouble and uncertainty in different books." 
 
 Dr. Dibdin, author of " Bibliomania," &c. writes : 
 "Peignot (Rep. Bibl. Univ.) has been of very great 
 service to you. His work was published the year 
 after that of the ^ Bibliomania,' or I should have foraged 
 pretty actively in the same field. It is a good thing to 
 have the best parts of it presented to an English reader, 
 and I rejoice that you have done so." 
 
 Dr. John Mason Good writes : " I think the public 
 ought to be indebted to you, and will not fail to encou- 
 rage the labour, ingenuity, and useful as well as elegant 
 research which the volumes contain." 
 
 My father afterwards compiled several topographical 
 and other publications, which appear in the list of his 
 works. He also edited between the years 1815 and 
 1817 a monthly periodical entitled the "Literary 
 Panorama and National Register ; comprising a Review 
 of Books, a Register of Events, and a Magazine of 
 Varieties." This work some years later was merged 
 in the " Xew Monthly Magazine." 
 
 During this time a letter fell into my father's hands 
 from Dr. James Mease, a physician, and afterwards 
 leader of the literary circles of Philadelphia, IT. S. 
 The letter had been addressed to some person in 
 
30 
 
 EEMINISCEA^CES OF 
 
 England wlio died before it came to hand. My 
 father replied ; Dr. Mease rejoined ; and thus the 
 foundation was laid of his future extensive American 
 correspondence. Dr. Mease sent my father a variety 
 of printed intelligence, which he published in the 
 Panorama," under the title of " Americana." 
 
 The first edition of the " Introduction " was published 
 June 4, 1818, in two vols. 8vo. ; and at the close of 
 the year, a third volume was added by way of supple- 
 ment. My father had dedicated the work to his kind 
 friend and patron Lord Colchester, himself a person 
 of no mean biblical acquirements. 
 
 With the view of making the work extensively known, 
 he gave away no fewer than seventy copies, presenting 
 them to the bishops and other influential persons, 
 together with the editors of the principal Reviews. 
 Yery gratifying letters of thanks were sent to him 
 from the highest quarters, some of which are sub- 
 joined : — 
 
 From the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London 
 (Dr. Howley). 
 
 "London, July 16, 1818. 
 
 " SlE, 
 
 " I request you to accept my best acknow- 
 ledgements for your attention in sending me a copy of 
 your very comprehensive and laborious work, the 
 Introduction to the Critical Study of the Bible. It con- 
 tains, I believe, more than any other work in our 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 31 
 
 language on the subject, with much information drawn 
 from sources not accessible to ordinary scholars. 
 
 " I remain, sir, 
 " Your obedient faithful servant, 
 
 "W. LOXDOX." 
 
 From the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester 
 {Dr. Laic). 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 " I am ao^ain oblio^ed bv vour kindness in 
 sending a copy of your book to the ' Clerical Institu- 
 tion at St. Bees.' I will take the first opportunity of 
 forwarding it to the Rev. Mr. Ainger, the superintendent 
 of the Institution. Your work is admirably calculated 
 to be of service to young men who are preparing 
 themselves for Holv Orders. Sincerely thanking; you 
 for the benefit you have conferred upon the cause of 
 religion by your very useful ' Introduction,' 
 
 " I am, sir, 
 
 " Your obliged and faithful humble servant, 
 " Geo. H. Chester. 
 
 "Palace, Chester, Aug. 7, 1818." 
 
32 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 From the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Raphoe 
 {Dr. Magee). 
 
 ''Raphoe, Aug. 19, 1820. 
 
 " Rev. Sir, 
 
 " I beg to offer you my best thanks for 
 tlie very acceptable present of your two volumes,* 
 which I have just received — both most important and 
 seasonable ; the larger one, particularly, abounding 
 with valuable facts and authorities judiciously and 
 ably applied. 
 
 " It is a moment when the exertions of all are wanted 
 against the Socinian and the Infidel ; and you have 
 done good service against both. I am glad to see that 
 a new edition is preparing for the press of your very 
 excellent '' Introduction to the Study of the Holy Scrip- 
 tures.' From the full satisfaction which I received 
 from the perusal of that work on its first coming out, 
 I placed it in the hands of my sons, who are preparing 
 for Holy Orders, and I have recommended it to others 
 similarly engaged .... 
 
 " I remain. Rev. Sir, with much respect, 
 
 " Your obliged and obedient servant, 
 
 " W. Raphoe. 
 
 " The Rev. Thos. H. Home, 
 Surrey Institution, near Blackfriars' Road, Loudon." 
 
 * It is uncertain whether the Introduction to Bibliography or the 
 Critical Introduction is here referred to. 
 
THOMAS H^iRTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 33 
 
 From His Grace the Archbishop of York. 
 
 " Bishopthorpe, Jan. 5 (1822). 
 
 "Rev. Sir, 
 
 " I beg you to accept my best acknowledge- 
 ments for your very obliging attention in sending me 
 a copy of the Supplement to the first edition of the 
 ' Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of 
 the Holy Scriptures : ' a book truly valuable in itself, 
 and of the highest utility to every biblical student. 
 
 " I am, Rev. Sir, 
 
 " With true regard, 
 
 " Faithfully yours, 
 
 " E. Ebok." 
 
 Some of the reviewers were severe : my father 
 profited by their strictures in liis next edition, and 
 afterwards reckoned the writers as his truest friends. 
 Among these was Josiah Conder, Esq., editor of the 
 "Eclectic Review." The Rev. S. C. Wilks, who has 
 recently favoured me with a letter on the subject, thus 
 writes : " I had known your venerable father for more 
 than forty years. My first acquaintance with him was 
 in 1818, and I believe I was the first reviewer of his 
 great work. Mr. Zachary ]Macaulay, who had been 
 editor of the ' Christian Observer ' for many years, till 
 he resigned that charge to me, forwarded to me 
 Mr. Home's * Introduction,' which he had received 
 from the author (who supposed that he was still editor 
 of the ^ Christian Observer '), and he suggested that it 
 was a work of great labour and research, and that the 
 
 D 
 
34 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 author, who meant it as a passport to Holy Orders, 
 ^ ought to be encouraged.' Upon perusing the work, I 
 felt so strongly its great utility that I wrote the most 
 zealous review I could pen in the ' Christian Observer ' 
 for 1819, p. 723; commencing with an assertion that, 
 ' These volumes constitute the most important theolo- 
 gical publication of their kind which has appeared in 
 this, or any other country, for some years ; ' and with 
 a prediction that ' The Avork must eventually make its 
 way to publicity : — no well-assorted theological library 
 could be long without it, if only on the score of economy,' 
 as it embraced in its compilations and references the 
 pith and marrow of innumerable volumes." 
 
 In the early part of the year 1819, while yet a lay- 
 man, my father brought out a little treatise entitled 
 Deism Refuted, or Plain Reasons for being a Christian. 
 The first edition was published at a time when the press 
 Avas deluged with cheap Infidel tracts of the deadliest 
 tendency. Four thousand five hundred copies were 
 disposed of at cost price within the short space of six 
 weeks. It numbered five editions of eight thousand copies 
 within twelve months, and was reprinted in America 
 in 1820. A seventh edition, considerably enlarged, 
 appeared in 1826. The Bishop of London thus referred 
 to it ; "I have read your tract with great pleasure, and 
 think it well calculated for the use of such young and 
 inexperienced persons as may desire to be acquainted 
 with the grounds of their belief, and for the instruction 
 of the middle classes in general." This little work 
 has contributed five tracts to the series published by 
 the "Religious Tract Society:" viz., Nos. 316,318, 
 319, 321, and 701. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 35 
 
 CHAPTEK V. 
 
 Ordination — Mr. Crowther — Dr. Mason Good — Infidel Challenge — 
 Mr. Hone — Treatise on the Trinity — Queen's College Catalogue — 
 Letters — Bishop of Limerick. 
 
 " The publication of my ' Introduction to the Critical 
 " Study of the Holy Scriptures ' eventually led to the 
 " realising of my long-cherished and prayerful wish, in 
 " conjunction with that of my honoured father, to de- 
 " vote myself to the ministry in the Church of England. 
 " His decease having prevented me from prosecuting 
 "my studies at either of the Universities, the Rev. Dr. 
 " Howley, at that time Bishop of London, disregarded 
 " my want of an English academical degree ; and con- 
 " sidering my ^ Introduction ' as an appropriate and 
 " honourable passport to Holy Orders, ordained me in 
 " 1819." 
 
 The University of Aberdeen had during the pre- 
 ceding year conferred on my father the honorary degree 
 of M. A. ; and immediately on his ordination, in accord- 
 ance with the wishes of the Bishop of London, he 
 placed his name on the books of St. John's College, 
 Cambridge, where he ultimately proceeded to the 
 degree of B.D. 
 
 " I was ordained to the Curacy of Christ Church, 
 " Newgate Street, in the City of London [on Trinity 
 
 P 2 
 
36 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " Sunday, 1819], wltliin which parish Christ's Hospital 
 " is situated ; — a most agreeable appointment to a 
 " * True Blue,' and grateful alumnus of that Royal 
 " and Ancient Foundation. Here I continued six 
 
 happy years, until the eventually fatal illness of the 
 " truly pious, and, by his affectionate parishioners, 
 
 much-beloved Rector and Yicar, the Rev. Samuel 
 " Crowther,* M.A., devolved upon me more laborious 
 
 pastoral duties than I was equal to undertake, so that 
 
 I necessarily resigned my charge in 1825." 
 
 My father's duties at Christ Church were generally 
 confined to reading prayers ; he did, however, occa- 
 sionally preach. After one of his sermons he received 
 from Dr. Mason Good,! a member of the congregation, 
 the following note, accompanied by some verses ; — 
 
 * The Rev. Samuel Crowther, born Jan. 9, 1769, and educated at 
 Winchester School, afterwards became Fellow of New College, Oxford. 
 He was elected Vicar of Christ Church, Newgate Street, in the year 
 1800, and died Sept. 28, 1829. The Rev. D. AVilson, afterwards Bishop 
 of Calcutta, says in his funeral sermon for Mr. Crowther: "His ministry 
 was most fruitful. The number of souls converted or impressed with 
 the importance of religion ; the number of thoughtless youths stopped 
 in their career of sin ; the number of those who were edified and bene- 
 fited by his public instructions ; the number whom he instrumentally 
 saved by his visits, his labours, his pastoral care; will never be known 
 till the last trump shall sound at the great revelation of the day of 
 judgement. ... He was an ornament of the Church of England." 
 Mr. Crowther's name will be perpetuated in Africa, by the well-known 
 native Missionary who bears his name, and who, when young, was 
 redeemed from slavery by contributions from the Church Missionary 
 Association of Christ Church, Newgate Street. 
 
 f John Mason Good, M.D., a learned physician, was born in 1764. 
 He is chiefly known by his " Song of Songs, or Sacred Idyls, translated 
 from the Hebrew, with Notes," 1803. Dr. Good died in 1827. 
 
THOMAS HARTTTELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 37 
 
 " My dear Friend, 
 
 " The best proof I can give you of mj obligation 
 to you for your labour of last night is by sending you 
 the enclosed, the outline of which occurred to me on my 
 return home. Were it more worthy of the subject it 
 would be more w^orthy of your acceptance, as well as 
 more gratifying to 
 
 " Yours very faithfully, 
 
 "T. M. Good. 
 
 " Guilford Street, Friday afternoon." 
 
 THE NAME OF JESUS. 
 
 " And thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His 
 people from their sins." 
 
 " Jesus ! Saviour ! " yet again, 
 Messenger of heavenly love, 
 O, repeat th' angelic sti'ain : 
 Strike that name, all names above. 
 
 " Jesus ! Saviour ! " at the soimd 
 Can there be a heart asleep ? 
 Through creation's utmost bound 
 Let the thrilling music sweep. 
 
 Lo ! He comes His name t' attest ; 
 
 Mighty Saviour of mankind. 
 Wide as guilt has spread his pest. 
 
 Healing, here, the guilty find. 
 
 Prince of Peace ! Desire of all ! 
 
 All the nations wait for Thee. 
 Mount Thy chariot — rule the ball ; 
 
 Captive lead captivity. 
 
38 
 
 KEMINISCEXCES OF 
 
 Save us by Thy promised birth : 
 
 By Thy present Spirit save : 
 By Thy toils, Thy pangs on earth : 
 
 By Thy conquest o'er the grave. 
 
 i When in heahh temptations throng ; 
 
 When in sickness, gloomy fear ; 
 In life, in death, be Thou my song ; 
 Jesus ! mighty Saviour ! hear. 
 
 In tlie first edition of my ^ Introduction,' as stated 
 " in the preface to the second and subsequent editions, 
 " * I had given only a very brief Outline of the 
 " Evidences for the Genuineness and Inspiration of 
 
 the Old Testament ; and a somewhat more extended 
 " view of the Genuineness, Credibility, and Inspiration 
 " of the New Testament ; and being unwilling to 
 " augment unnecessarily the number of treatises extant 
 " on these subjects, I referred my readers to a few 
 " which are accounted the most valuable. In preparing 
 " the second edition for the press, it was my intention 
 " to continue these remarks, and to subjoin a few addi- 
 " tional considerations. But I was induced to deviate 
 " from that design by the extensive circulation of infidel 
 
 works and tracts.' ' Called upon by name 
 
 " from the press* to consider the objections to Di^dne 
 " Revelation, I felt it my duty not to shrink from the 
 
 * In No. 19 of the Republican, Friday, March 17, 1820, ii. 299, is 
 the following: The Challenge Accepted ; or, A Reply to the Fifth Edition 
 of the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Home's Pamphlet, entitled, '■Deism Refuted^ 
 or Plain Reasons for being a Christian.' By R. Carlile. This is the 
 commencement of a seriatim examination of my father's work, which is 
 carried on in several numbers of the Republican, and is doubtless the 
 call to which my father alludes. Carlile was afterwards imprisoned for 
 his blasphemous writings, which put a stop to the publication. 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HOKXE, B.D. 
 
 39 
 
 "task;' and as these infidel objections are still re- 
 " iterated, the arguments and evidences contained in 
 " my first volume have been carefully re-examined and 
 " confirmed, and brought down to the present time. 
 
 Among the topics alleged in 1820 by infidel writers 
 " against the New Testament, were the so-called 
 " ^ Apocryphal Books of the Xew Testament,' an 
 " English translation of which was published in that 
 " year, in an octavo volume. To this publication I 
 " devoted a special examination. 
 
 " ^Yhile I was most anxiously engaged on this 
 " subject, during the summer of 1820, a tall person 
 
 of grave aspect entered the library of the Surrey 
 " Institution, to make some theologico-critical re- 
 " searches. I gaA^e hhn the information desired, which 
 " he courteously acknowledged, and remarked that I 
 "' seemed to be very busy. I replied that I was at 
 " press with a second edition of my ' Introduction,' 
 " and that it had been just before asserted in a weekly 
 "infidel journal, — 'Buy Mr. Hone's "Apocryphal 
 " Xew Testament;" he will tell you all about it.' I 
 " further added that I was then at work on the 
 " ^ Apocryphal Xew Testament,' which I should 
 " critically examine, and show that it could do no harm. 
 " If there were no genuine coin there would be no 
 " counterfeits. 
 
 " The stranger then acknowledged that his name ivas 
 " Hone. Thanking me for my candour in stating in 
 " what spirit and manner I purposed to review and 
 " criticise his book, he most solemnly disclaimed any 
 " design of attacking the New Testament, which some 
 
40 
 
 REMIIS'ISCENCES OP 
 
 " of his critics had imputed to him in no measured 
 " terms ; and assured me, that his sole object in pub- 
 " lishing the ' Apocryphal New Testament,' was that 
 stated in the preface — viz., to explain the subjects of 
 " pictures and prints, which are without explanation 
 " from any other source. 
 
 " A few months afterwards Mr. Hone informed me 
 " that he was about to publish an answer to all his 
 " assailants, and requested that I would allow him to 
 " see what I was printing. Conscious that I had ex- 
 " amined his work both fairly and honourably, I sent 
 " him the proof sheets of my Critique, which has 
 " been retained in every subsequent edition of my work. 
 
 Shortly after, Mr. Hone printed a letter to Mr. John 
 " Murray, senior, the publisher of the ^ Quarterly 
 " Keview,' in which journal he had been fiercely 
 " attacked. Mr. Hone took no notice of my critical 
 " examination of the ' Apocryphal New Testament ; ' 
 " but in May 1823, when he published his ' Ancient 
 " Mysteries Described,' from manuscripts in the British 
 " Museum, he sent me a copy of that curious volume, 
 " with the following inscription : — 
 
 " ^ To the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne, who, in 
 his " Introduction to a Critical Knowledge of 
 the Scriptures," had power to do me an injury ; 
 " and believing, as was the fact, that he would 
 " have done me wrong, did me justice. 
 
 " ' Most respectfully from 
 
 "'W. Hone.'"* 
 
 * William Hone, the bookseller, once too well known for his low 
 political, and at least semi-infidel, opinions, afterwards became a truly 
 
THOMAS HARTTTELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 41 
 
 In the year 1820 my father published The Scrip- 
 ture Doctrine of the Trinity, briefly stated and defended ; 
 and the Church of England vindicated from the charge of 
 uncharitableness in retaining the Athanasian Creed* 
 This little work contains the substance of two sermons, 
 written at the request of Mr. Crowther, and preached 
 at Christ Church on Trinity Sunday 1820. The 
 immediate occasion of them was an attack upon the 
 Church of England, made in some of the newspapers 
 of that day. The book was, as usual, highly com- 
 mended. 
 
 In 1821 my father was applied to by the President 
 and Fellows of Queen's College, Cambridge, to make 
 a classed catalogue of their library. For this pur- 
 pose he visited Cambridge in October, and again in 
 the following June. Queen's library was at that time 
 in a neglected state. The book-worm might be seen 
 there doing its work of destruction ; and the place was 
 little frequented except by spiders and moths. With 
 the help of assistants, the books were arranged and the 
 titles copied, while my father was at Cambridge. The 
 classification of the catalogue was afterwards prosecuted 
 in London. 
 
 My father's most important occupation, however, 
 until the close of the year, was the preparation of the 
 
 religious man. He published an account of his conversion in 1841, and 
 died the following year, aged 63. My father deposited his copy of the 
 Ancient Mysteries Described, with Hone's inscription, in the library of 
 the British Museum. 
 
 * A second edition was published in 1826. On Trinity Sunday in 
 that year Dr. Blomfield, then Bishop of Chester and Rector of Bishops- 
 gate, recommended this work to his parishioners from the pulpit. 
 
42 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 second edition of the " Introduction," which came out 
 shortly before Christmas, recast, corrected, and in great 
 part rewritten. 
 
 Many were the gratifying letters received on the 
 occasion. Most of the bishops placed the work in their 
 list of books recommended to candidates for ordination. 
 Archdeacon Wrangham, at that time Examining Chap- 
 lain to the Archbishop of York, on seeing the second edi- 
 tion advertised, wrote my father an unsolicited note, to 
 say that he had felt it his duty to recommend the work 
 to the Archbishop's candidates for ordination. He 
 shortly after wrote again as follows : — 
 
 " Dear Sir, 
 
 " Accept my best thanks for four volumes, 
 which I shall class among the most valuable on my 
 crowded shelves. They have only this moment reached 
 me, for I left Bishopthorpe the day after the ordination, 
 but I shall immediately set about reading them through 
 with my little leisure. I shall necessarily have the 
 mortification of being frequently interrupted in my 
 gratification. I will not fail to convey to the Arch- 
 bishop your supplementary volume, and can venture 
 a priori to return you his Grace's thanks ; for we were 
 conversing on the subject of the work during my last 
 visit. 
 
 " I am threatened, it seems, in return for a passage 
 in my late Charge, with the anti- visitation of a Socinian 
 Controversy. But I feel ^ thrice armed ' in my cause. 
 
 " I trust on my next visit to town to be able to put 
 Bome little work of mine into your hands, as an excuse 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORJS^E, B.D. 
 
 43 
 
 for seeking the pleasure of your personal acquaintance, 
 both as theologian and bibliographer. 
 
 " I remain, your much obliged and faithful, 
 
 " Frs. Wrangham. 
 
 '^Multos etfelices. 
 "Hunmanby, Jan. 1, 1822." 
 
 Dr. Graves, Divinity Professor at Dublin, wrote as 
 follows : — 
 
 "Dublin, Eeb. 16, 1822. 
 
 " Dear Sir, 
 
 " I have within these few days received your very 
 valuable present of a copy of the second edition of your 
 ^ Introduction to the Scriptures,' and have read over as 
 much of it (particularly of th6 additional parts) as the 
 time would permit. I have found it, as I expected, a 
 store of most varied and important information, judi- 
 ciously selected, and most excellently well-arranged and 
 condensed — sound in doctrine and strong in argument. I 
 consider it as a treasure to the young theological student, 
 and shall most strongly recommend it to the young men 
 attending my Divinity lectures. I beg to assure you 
 I feel myself higlily honoured, and am most truly 
 grateful for the notice you have been so kind as to 
 take of my works; and that I shall always remain, 
 with the sincerest respect and regard, Rev. and dear 
 sir, your most obliged and most faithful humble servant, 
 
 "Richard Graves. 
 
 " To the Rev. Hartwell Horne, &c., &c., &c." 
 
44 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 My father's acquaintance Avitli the Rev. John Jebb, 
 afterwards Bishop of Limerick, commenced about this 
 period. When Mr. Jebb visited London in 1820, pre- 
 viously to publishing his " Sacred Literature," he had 
 an interview with my father. They were mutually 
 pleased. In the second edition of the " Introduction " 
 there appeared a copious analysis of Mr. Jebb's new 
 book, which the author felt to be a gratifying indication 
 of the place which " Sacred Literature " had already 
 taken among standard works of Scripture criticism. 
 His friend and correspondent, Mr. Alexander Knox, 
 was deeply impressed and interested by this lasting 
 tribute. He thus writes : — 
 
 " I suppose there has scarcely been an instance of 
 such a testimony, so prompt and so practical, as that 
 in Horne to your book. I assure you I saw it with the 
 sincerest satisfaction."* The acquaintance thus happily 
 begun continued through the remainder of the Bishop's 
 life, and my father ever regarded his memory with the 
 highest respect. 
 
 * Forster's Life of Bishop Jebb, p. 201. 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 45 
 
 CHAPTER yi. 
 
 Eclectic Society — Surrey Institution closes — Beveridge's Works — 
 Bishop Chase — Dr. Turner — British Museum — Lord Colchester. 
 
 In October 1822, my father, on the recommendation of 
 Mr. Crowther, was admitted into the Eclectic Society.* 
 Of the members of that day very few yet remain ; but 
 among those who are departed, besides Mr. Crowther, 
 we may mention the names of Bickersteth, Budd, Goode, 
 Hawtrey, Jerram, Mortimer, Pratt, Pritchett, Sheppard, 
 Simeon, Watkins, D. Wilson, and Basil Woodd. The 
 Eclectic meetings were to my father for many years 
 seasons of most delightful intercourse, and he attended 
 them as regularly as his engagements would permit. 
 
 In November 1822, the third edition of the "Intro- 
 duction " appeared. On this occasion Lord Colchester 
 writes ; — 
 
 * The Eclectic Society was instituted early in the year 1783, by a 
 few of the London Clergy, for mutual religious intercourse and im- 
 provement, and for the investigation of religious truth. The first 
 meeting was held at the Castle and Falcon Inn, Aldersgate Street. Jan. 
 16, 1783, and consisted of the Rev. John Newton, the Rev. Henry Foster, 
 the Rev. Richard Cecil, and Eli Bates, Esq. Its members were sub- 
 sequently increased to twelve or fourteen, besides as many country 
 members or occasional visitors. The meetings were afterwards held 
 once a fortnight at the Vestry Room of St. John's Chapel, Bedford 
 Row; and the Society comprehended, according to the original design, 
 two or three Laymen and Dissenting Ministers." — Archdeacon Pratt's 
 Eclectic Notes, London, 1856. 
 
46 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 18 Spring Gardens, Nov. 19, 1822. 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 " I am very much obliged to you for sending 
 me a copy of the third edition of your learned and 
 valuable work, which I have just received. And I 
 have turned to the passage in the preface to the first 
 volume which fully accounts for the labour which you 
 have so justly deemed it right to bestow upon the Evi- 
 dences of Divine Revelation. But I cannot observe 
 without sincere regret that the author of so meritorious 
 a work as that which has reached its third edition in so 
 short a space of time should have only to describe him- 
 self in his title-page as a curate. I should have hoped 
 that suitable means had been provided, by those who 
 have the power to mark their approbation of your 
 labours, by obliging you to superadd to your name 
 some farther designation; and I am still willing to 
 persuade myself that what has been long deferred is 
 nevertheless still borne in mind. 
 
 " I remain, sir, 
 " Ever very faithfully yours, 
 
 " Colchester. 
 
 " To the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Home." 
 
 In 1823 the Surrey Institution ceased to exist, and 
 my father prosecuted his literary labours at home. In 
 this year he began to write articles for the " Encyclo- 
 paedia Metropolitana," and edited a complete edition of 
 the Works of the Right Rev. William Beveridge, D.D., 
 Bishop of St, Asaph; with a Memoir of the Author, 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORJfE, B.D. 
 
 47 
 
 and a Critical Examination of his Writings, in nine 
 vols. 8vo. Of this work my father writes : — 
 
 " Dr. Beveridge was highly esteemed for his piety, 
 " and for his devout attention to his pastoral duties, 
 " both as a minister and as a bishop. His ' Practical 
 
 Writings,' published by himself, deservedly com- 
 " manded an extensive sale. After his decease his 
 
 executors seem to have turned into money everything 
 
 of his composition which they could find. The 
 " result was, that many of his English works (now 
 " for the first time collected together) were incorrectly 
 " printed. This circumstance not a little augmented 
 " my editorial labours ; but, by patient comparison of 
 " different editions, I was enabled to present a tolerably 
 " correct text of all that had been printed. It was no 
 " easy task to write the life of a voluminous author 
 " nearly a hundred and fifty years after his decease. 
 " A copious General Index completed my edition of 
 " Bishop Beveridge's works." 
 
 In reference to these " Works " the Bishop of London 
 writes : — 
 
 " Dear Sir, 
 
 " I have to thank you for the two con- 
 cluding volumes of Bishop Beveridge's works, and to 
 offer my congratulations on the completion of your 
 task. I observe with satisfaction the cautions you 
 have given respecting the ' Private Thoughts ' — a work 
 which, with many excellencies, has some defects, and 
 would not, I apprehend, have been published by the 
 Bishop himself without considerable alterations and 
 
48 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 omissions. The spirit of piety whicli pervades all the 
 Bishop's writings makes them very valuable, and I am 
 glad to see them collected in a convenient form for 
 public use. 
 
 " I remain, dear sir, 
 
 " Your faithful servant, 
 
 ^'W. London. 
 
 "London, March 8, 1824." 
 
 When in 1817 my father published information in 
 the " Literary Panorama " respecting the United States 
 of America, and especially noticed the religious destitu- 
 tion in the newly-settled State of Ohio, he little knew 
 the ultimate effect of his communications. Some 
 numbers of the " Panorama" were carried to the far west, 
 and read by him on whom devolved the care of these 
 scattered churches. The apostolic Bishop Chase, when 
 sinking under his overwhelming labours, was cheered 
 with the thought that friends in England were ready 
 to offer him their sympathy.* The Bishop ever 
 
 * In a letter addressed to Dr. White, Bishop of Philadelphia, Bishop 
 Chase gives the following sketch of the formation of the diocese of Ohio, 
 and the establishment of the bishopric: — 
 
 "On the third day of March 1817, I left my beloved parish of 
 Christ Church, Hartford, Connecticut, and bade adieu to many of the 
 comforts, and nearly all the refinements, of well-regulated Christian 
 society. My motives for going were those expressed in my ordination 
 vows — ' to seek for Christ's sheep that were dispersed abroad, and for 
 his children who are in the midst of this naughty world, that they might 
 be saved through Christ for ever.' Assisted by the exertions of a 
 fellow-labourer, the Rev. Mr. Searle, the State was, during the spring 
 and summer, for the most part traversed, parishes were formed, and 
 little societies of Christian worshippers were gathered in many places. 
 Delegates from these attended a Convention, previously appointed 
 in Columbus, in the following winter, where the constitution of the 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 49 
 
 regarded my father as the first person who had turned 
 his attention towards this country. Consequently, he 
 
 Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States was adopted, a dioce- 
 san constitution was formed, and all things regulated acccrding to the 
 usages of our primitive church. The succeeding June being the time 
 specified by the constitution for the meeting of the Convention, it was very 
 generally attended ; and a bishop was unanimously elected. His con- 
 secration took place in the following February, A.D. 1819. From this 
 time a new era commenced of labour and care. The newly-formed 
 parishes were nearly all visited. Other members of our communion 
 were sought out, and found in our woods ; and considerable num- 
 bers, who had never possessed any sense of religion, were disposed, by 
 the grace of God, in the preaching of the word and the administration of 
 the ordinances, to forsake their sins and join the body of the faithful." 
 
 Including the Bishop's son, who was ordained in 1820, there were five 
 clergymen in Ohio. Some idea may be formed of the labours in this 
 infant diocese from the following fact quoted from the journal of the Ohio 
 Convention. Bishop Chase, in the course of the year 1820, travelled on 
 horseback 1,271 miles, and performed Divine service and preached 
 eighty-two times, besides attending the sick, the dying, and the afflicted. 
 
 In consequence of the pressing spiritual wants of the diocese, the 
 Convention authorised the Bishop to transmit to the several Bishops of 
 the United States an appeal for missionaries. This powerful appeal 
 enabled the Bishop's son, the Rev. P. Chase, to collect about 3,000 
 dollars towards the support of such clergymen as might be disposed to 
 exercise their ministry in the wilds of Ohio. "Various disappointments 
 however occurred, and in June 1823 there were still only six clergymen 
 in the State. Under these circumstances Bishop Chase turned his eyes 
 towards the land of his fathers, travelled to New York, and sailed for 
 England, being the bearer of the following memorial from his clergy; — 
 
 " We, the presbyters and deacons of the diucese of Ohio, North 
 America, having at our annual Convention, in communion with our 
 apostolic head, contemplated with sorrow the gloomy condition and 
 more gloomy prospects of the Church in the States west of the Alleghany 
 Mountains, unanimously resolved that some effort should be made 
 under God to insure her preservation and extend her borders. In 
 lookin^anxiously around for relief, our eyes involuntarily turned to the 
 Church and land of our fathers. Here, thought we, if anywhere, the 
 Lord hath appointed us succour: their benefi cence is proverbial, and 
 we are their brethren. At the impulse of hard necessity, therefore, 
 and from a conviction that nothing of an ordinary nature can con- 
 tinue to succeeding ages our apostolic ministry and doctrines, we have 
 
 E 
 
50 
 
 REMINISCENCES OP 
 
 felt bound to use all the influence of his pen to aid the 
 Bishop's plans. 
 
 The Bishop's design was to build a college for the 
 education of clergymen from among the natives of 
 Ohio. 
 
 Many noble friends were gradually enlisted in the 
 cause ; among the principal were Lord Gambler, Avhose 
 name was given to the town where the college was to 
 be situated; Lord Kenyon, after whom the college 
 itself was named ; and Lady Bosse, whose name was 
 given to the college chapel. More than 5,000 guineas 
 were collected in about six months, and at least one 
 young clergyman was induced to cast in his lot with 
 Bishop Chase. So entirely devoted was this modern 
 apostle to his Master's work, that he dedicated an estate, 
 his whole worldly property, to the foundation of 
 Kenyon College. 
 
 This year also my father made the acquaintance of 
 the earnest and zealous Bishop Hobart of New York. 
 The immediate object of the Bishop's tour in Europe, 
 where he sojourned for two years, was to recruit his 
 health, which was seriously impaired by over-exertion. 
 ^Vliile in London, however, he endeavoured to create 
 
 determined to lay our wants before them. And, beholding in our ve- 
 nerated and beloved diocesan a zeal which prompts him to sacrifice to 
 the good of Christ's mystical body private interest, domestic comfort, 
 and the tranquillity required by advancing age, we would humbly in- 
 troduce him as the messenger of these our wants to that venerable 
 Church, whence by God's good providence we derive our name and 
 existence. By him the precarious condition and needy circumstances 
 will be set forth ; for he best knows, having longest felt them. We 
 wait therefore, anxiously, but submissively, the sentence of the Lord on 
 the destiny of our infant church." (Signed by the Presbyters and 
 Deacons.) — See the Christian Observer for 1824, pp. 52 — 58. 
 
THOMAS IL\RT^LL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 51 
 
 an interest in favour of the General Theological 
 Seminary at Kew York. Of this Institution he was 
 the principal founder, and, while his strength permitted, 
 one of its most indefatigable Professors. 
 
 The Theological Seminary was languishing for want 
 of funds and its library needed increasing. My father 
 endeavoured to recommend this object also, and on his 
 return to Xew York Bishop Hobart sent him some 
 publications with a friendly note, promising the plea- 
 sure of a correspondence. The Bishop's many engage- 
 ments, and his lamented death in 1830, prevented his 
 realising this intention. 
 
 Soon after this time several other distinguished men 
 in the United States sought my father's correspondence : 
 the Rev. George Washington Doane, afterwards 
 Bishop of New J ersey, the Rev. Dr. Jarvis of Boston, 
 and the Rev. Dr. Turner, Theological Professor at the 
 Theological Seminary, Kew York. An extract from 
 Dr. Turner's first letter, dated May 18, 1824, gives a 
 pleasing view of the writer's character : — 
 
 " There are differences of opinion existing among us.* 
 In so extended a body it were folly to expect it other- 
 wise ; but if we would all take the pains to understand 
 each other's sentiments before we condemn them, it 
 would be found that the differences are less than they 
 had been supposed to be. The abandonment of aU 
 party names, the relinquishment of all cant phraseology, 
 by whatever party it may be used, and free and 
 brotherly intercourse, would go very far to destroy 
 
 The clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 
 E 2 
 
52 
 
 EEMmSCENCES OF 
 
 party spirit and distinction. I do sincerely believe, 
 that nothing will tend more effectually to produce this 
 result than one uniform extended and liberal system of 
 theological instruction ; and I hope I do not transgress 
 the bounds of propriety when I say, that I believe such 
 a system will be pursued in the Seminary of which I 
 have the honour of being an officer." 
 
 In the course of 1824 was published the fourth 
 edition of the " Introduction." 
 
 " In 1824 I was applied to, and eventually engaged 
 " by the Trustees of the British Museum, to undertake 
 " a classed catalogue of the printed books then in that 
 " National Library. For their consideration I drew up 
 " the ^ Outlines for the Classification of a Library,' 
 
 which were printed in 1825." 
 
 The library Committee then consisted of Archbishop 
 Sutton, Bishop Howley, and Lord Colchester, the two 
 latter of whom were my father's friends. A note from 
 Lord Colchester will show the interest which his 
 Lordship took in the projected plan of the catalogue : — 
 
 " Spring Gardens, Saturday, Dec. 4, 1824. 
 
 Dear Sir, 
 
 " I thank you for the opportunity of seeing your 
 proposed alterations in the classed catalogue of Laio 
 Books, which appear to me to be quite right, and very 
 useful, but with some additions. 
 
 " The ^ Suggestions ' I think should be prefixed to the 
 heads of the classed catalogue, and the whole printed 
 by order of the Trustees, to serve for a fixed set of 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 53 
 
 instructions to those who are engaged in the work at 
 present, and throughout its execution. 
 
 " There are, however, a few remarks which I should 
 be very glad to have the opportunity of making to you 
 before the MS. is put together for the Trustees, who 
 meet on Saturday next, and I should wish, therefore, to 
 have the pleasure of seeing you here, either on Monday 
 or Tuesday morning next, between ten and twelve, as 
 may best suit your convenience. 
 
 " Very truly yours, 
 " C." 
 
 In January 1825, my father was enrolled among the 
 Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. 
 
54 
 
 KEMINISCENCES OP 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Ulness of Mr. Crowther — Readership at Welbeck Chapel — Piracies — 
 Compendious Introduction — Eomanism — Queen's College Catalogue 
 — Dr. Wiseman — Academical Degree — Psalmody — Lord Col- 
 chester's Death — Literary Society. 
 
 On Sunday morning, Marcli 27, 1825, my father's 
 friend and rector, the Rev. Samuel Crowther, was 
 seized with apoplexy while in the act of reading prayers. 
 As a collection sermon was to be preached by another 
 clergyman, my father was by special permission absent, 
 which was afterwards a source of great grief to hun. 
 After resigning the curacy of Christ Church, my father 
 constantly attended the parish church of Islington, where 
 he resided, and where his friend, the Rev. D. Wilson, had 
 been recently appointed Vicar. Here he occasionally 
 assisted the parish clergy, if through sudden emergency 
 they needed aid. 
 
 In the beginning of November was published the 
 fifth edition of the " Introduction." 
 
 From 1826 until 1833 I was reader or assistant 
 *^ minister at Welbeck or St. James's Chapel, Mary- 
 " lebone, where my kind and eloquent friend, the Rev. 
 " Dr. Jennings, afterwards Archdeacon of Norfolk, by 
 " his faithful and evangelical discourses instructed and 
 
 edified large and attentive congregations." 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 55 
 
 The most serious portion of the aristocracy were at 
 that tune attendants at AVelbeck Chapel. Among them 
 were Lord Teignmouth, President of the Bible Society, 
 Mr. Wilberforce, and, for a tune. Sir Edward Parry. 
 
 In 1826 appeared a seventh and much enlarged 
 edition of " Deism Refuted." In this improved form 
 it was in fact an abridgement of the first volume of the 
 " Introduction." 
 
 During this year my father was much annoyed by 
 three attempted piracies on the " Introduction." The 
 most serious of these finally induced him to make an 
 abridgement of his larger work, entitled a Compendious 
 Introduction to the Study of the Bible ; being an Analysis 
 of the ^'Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge 
 of the Holy Scriptures.'^ Of this afiair he gives the 
 following account : — 
 
 This little manual was published, partly in con- 
 " sequence of numerous requests for an epitome of my 
 " larger ^ Introduction,' for the use of general readers 
 " who could not purchase that work, and also to 
 " counteract repeatedly attempted piracies of it. One, 
 " in particular, so closely copied its type and form (my 
 " bona-fide quotations from some extremely rare 
 " treatises being reprinted verbatun, and in the very 
 " manner in which I had given them), that the more 
 " respectable booksellers in London voluntarily refused 
 " to keep the piracy in stock. 
 
 " On laying a marked copy of it * and of my ^ In- 
 " troduction' before two most experienced copyright 
 
 * This copy was marked by my mother, ray father being unable to 
 give the subject Ms undivided attention. 
 
56 
 
 KEMINISCETsCES OF 
 
 " lawyers, they were unanimously of opinion that, 
 " though the Lord Chancellor would cause an Injunc- 
 " tion to be issued ex parte, yet, when the piracy (of 
 " which there could be no doubt) should come to be 
 
 argued upon the form and actual contents of the 
 " volume, it would prove to be so adroitly executed 
 
 that no Injunction would be granted. My only pro- 
 " tection, therefore, they were of opinion, would be to 
 " bring out an Analysis or Abridgement of my work, to 
 " be sold for half the price of the piracy. In carrying 
 " this advice into effect I worked seventeen hours a 
 
 day. Not a line was sent to the printers until two- 
 
 thirds of the volume were ready, when a strong force of 
 ** their best compositors was set to work ; so that on the 
 " thirty-first day after my counsel had delivered their 
 " opinion, I was enabled to present a copy to each of 
 " them, to their surprise as well as gratification. The 
 " ' Compendious Introduction' was sold for half the 
 " price of the piracy, the greater part of which I was 
 " subsequently informed was sent to the United States 
 " of America." 
 
 From the letters received on the publication of the 
 *^ Compendious Introduction" we select two: — 
 
 From the Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of London. 
 
 "Pulham, Jan. 16, 1827. 
 
 "Deak Sik, 
 
 " I thank you for your obliging attention in send- 
 ing me a copy of your Analysis. I trust it will have the 
 effect of protecting the property which is the fruit of 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORNE, B.D. 
 
 57 
 
 SO much labour^ and disappointing the views of the 
 literary robbers who have invaded it. I have not seen 
 the ' Christian Remembrancer ' for some time, but when 
 I get my numbers I shall not fail to turn to your 
 article on Romanism, which will be unlike your other 
 works if it is not well executed and instructive. 
 
 " I remain, dear sir, 
 
 " Your faithful servant, 
 
 "W. London." 
 
 From the Rev. Dr. Henderson. 
 
 " Mission College, Feb. 28, 1S27. 
 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " I beg to return you my warmest thanks for the 
 kind present you have sent me of the ' Compendious 
 Introduction ' you have just published, and would have 
 acknowledged it before now, had I not been much 
 absent of late, to attend Missionary ordinations in the 
 country. I consider it a valuable work, not merely for 
 those who cannot be expected to make much use of 
 your larger work, but also for those who are in posses- 
 sion of that inestimable production. Your cautions 
 respecting German Neologism are very necessary, and 
 will, I hope, produce the desired effect. That you may 
 long be spared to furnish fresh accessions to our stores 
 of biblical literature, and generally to benefit the 
 kingdom toO XpLarov koX ©eou, is, my dear sir, the 
 earnest prayer of your grateful and devoted servant, 
 
 "E. Henderson." 
 
58 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 The articles in the " Christian Remembrancer " * 
 alluded to in the Bishop of London's letter, were pub- 
 lished in November and December 1826 and January 
 1827. They were soon after reprinted as a separate 
 treatise, entitled Romanism contradictory to the Bible ; or, 
 the Peculiar Tenets of the Church of Rome, as exhibited 
 in her accredited formularies, contrasted with the 
 Holy Scriptures. 
 
 Ten thousand copies of this little manual were dis- 
 tributed in Ireland at a very low price, at the expense 
 of some gentlemen who took a deep and benevolent 
 interest in the moral and religious welfare of that 
 country. 
 
 In 1827 the long-expected Queen's College Catalogue 
 was finished. It was entitled, A Catalogue of the 
 Library of the College of St. Margaret and St. Bernard, 
 commonly called Queen^s College, in the University of 
 Cambridge, methodically arranged. 
 
 Of this work my father writes : " This Catalogue 
 "was printed at the expense of the President and 
 " Fellows of Queen's College, as a grateful memorial of 
 " the munificence of many eminent benefactors to their 
 " Library, whose names are honourably mentioned in 
 " the Historical Preface. The Catalogue is classified 
 " according to the principles developed in the Outlines 
 "for the Classification of a Library ; and it is upon a 
 " small scale what the classed Catalogue of the old 
 
 library in the British Museum would have been, had 
 
 * My father was an occasional contributor to the Christian Remem- 
 brancer while it was under the editorship of the late Rev. W. J. Hall. 
 
THOMAS HART WELL HORXE, B.D. 59 
 
 " it not been superseded by the new [Alphabetical] 
 " Catalogue now in progress." 
 
 On receiving a copy of the Queen's Catalogue the 
 Bishop of London wrote thus : — 
 
 "London, June 5, 1827. 
 
 " Dear Sir, 
 
 " I thank you for your present of the Catalogue 
 of Queen's College Library, which appears to me, as far 
 as I am capable of judging, to be admirably executed, 
 and con\inces me that the greater work wliicli you 
 have now in hand will, when finished, be of inestimable 
 benefit, both to the collector and the student in every 
 branch of literature. 
 
 " I remain, dear sir, 
 
 " Your faithful servant, 
 
 "W. London." 
 
 In March 1828 my father became one of the members 
 of the Society of Antiquaries. In the month of June 
 appeared the sixth edition of the " Introduction." 
 
 During portions of 1828 and 1829 my father resided 
 at Cambridge to perform the exercises for the B. D. 
 degree. The Latin sermon was preached Oct. 18, 1828, 
 on the words, Hoc est corpus meum (Luke xxiii. 
 19); the English sermon on the day before or the 
 day after the 5th of November, on a subject in unison 
 with that day.* The Act was kept during Lent Term 
 
 * The text is not recorded. 
 
60 
 
 EEMINISCET^CES OF 
 
 in the following year. The subject was — I. The Doc- 
 trine of St. Paul on Predestination, in Rom. viii. and 
 ix. and Eph. i., refers entirely to the calling of the 
 Gentiles. II. The depravity of nature derived from 
 Adam to his posterity remains even in the Regenerate. 
 
 My father's thoughts had long been turned towards 
 the subject of Psalmody. The new version of the 
 Psalms was used at Welbeck Chapel, and Dr. Jennings 
 always delegated to my father the task of choosing 
 suitable portions. The inconvenience of giving out 
 verses not consecutive suo^g-ested the idea of a selection 
 from the old and new versions. To these were 
 added the most favourite congregational hymns,* ar- 
 ranged for the various festivals in the year. Such an 
 arrangement was then new, though it has since been 
 employed in many selections. In January 1829, my 
 father published the Manual of Parochial Psalmody ; 
 comprising select portions from the old and new ver- 
 sions of the Psalms, together ivith Hymns for the principal 
 festivals, ^c, of the Church of England ; revised and 
 adapted to the service of the Church for every Sunday, 
 8fc., throughout the year. The work was dedicated to 
 Dr. Howley, who was then Archbishop of Canterbury. 
 
 Several of the Bishops expressed their approbation 
 of the " Manual of Parochial Psalmody," and it was 
 adopted in many churches throughout the kingdom. 
 
 This Avork was accompanied by a selection of Psalm 
 
 * Four Hymns by Bishop Doane were here for the first time intro- 
 duced into this country : viz., No. 22, " When darkness once by God's 
 command ; " No. 64, "My God ! when nature's frame shall sink ; *' 
 No. 69, " Creator of the starry frame ; " No. 77, " Thou art the Way, 
 to Thee alone." 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 61 
 
 and Hymn tunes, arranged by an experienced musician, 
 Thomas Henshaw, Esq., Organist of St. Pancras ^ew 
 Church. About tliis time also appeared a new edition 
 of the " Compendious Introduction." 
 
 One of those unaccountable rumours which some- 
 times appoint clergymen to stations which they are 
 never destined to fill, had for years designated my 
 father as the future Incumbent of a certain suburban 
 parish in the gift of the Bishop of London. T\Tiether 
 Bishop Howley ever intended it for him is more than 
 can be said, but when the vacancy actually occurred 
 the Bishop was already translated to Canterbury. 
 However, my father ventured to request Lord Col- 
 chester to make an application on his behalf to Bishop 
 Blomfield. 
 
 Lord Colchester wrote him the following kind 
 reply : — 
 
 " Spring Gardens, May 7, 1829. 
 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " You know full well my earnest wishes for your 
 success in all your views. What I can do to forward 
 them I have done immediately upon the receipt of 
 your letter. To receive the news of your appointment, 
 if it should take place, would be a most sincere gratifi- 
 cation to 
 
 " My dear sir, 
 
 " Yours most truly, 
 
 "C. 
 
 " The Rev. T. H. Home." 
 
62 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 The next morning at six o'clock Lord Colchester 
 had passed away from this world. Although the appli- 
 cation was not successful, my father had a melancholy 
 pleasure in knowing that almost the last effort of his 
 friend's life was made in his favour. He felt it a sacred 
 duty to be present in Westminster Abbey at the time 
 of the funeral, and then recorded his feelings by writing 
 the following inscription on the back of a favourite 
 engraving of " The Right Hon. Charles Abbot, Speaker 
 of the House of Commons," which hung over the 
 mantelpiece: — 
 
 Created Baron Colchester, May 3, 1817. 
 " Died May 8, 1829, 
 " Aged 72 years. 
 
 " Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit, 
 Nulli flebilior quam mihi. 
 
 " T. H. HORNE." 
 
 Although my father was always fully engaged, he 
 enjoyed literary society, and would work with redoubled 
 diligence in order to spare a few hours for his friends. 
 Some would receive him at breakfast, as Sir Robert 
 Inglis, with whom he met a select clerical circle ; or 
 George Marriott, Esq., the Queen Square magistrate,* 
 at whose house he had the pleasure of seeing one who 
 was said to have more theological learning than many 
 divines — the late yice-Chancellor Shadwell. A day 
 
 * Mr. Marriott died in 1833. He had been a warm friend to Bishop 
 Chase. In a letter to a friend my father says of him : " His memory 
 " will long live in the hearts of all who knew him intimately." 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. G3 
 
 spent with Bishop J ebb and his Chaplain, the E.ev. C. 
 Forster, at East Hill, Wandsworth, was a source of 
 real delight. The annual dinners of the corporation of 
 the Sons of the Clergy furnished opportunities of meet- 
 ing old friends. A dinner-party at Sir Henry Ellis's 
 was also a pleasing relaxation ; and finally the conversa- 
 ziones of H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex, held at the 
 house of the Duke's private librarian, Mr. Pettigrew, 
 in Saville Row. 
 
 Here my father met the principal celebrities of the 
 day, both British and foreign, and among them his 
 early friend. Dr. Adam Clark. 
 
64 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 CHAPTER yill. 
 
 Prebendal Stall — Tract against Infidelity — Bishop Doane on Romish 
 Influence — Protestant Journal — Manual for the Afflicted — Ame- 
 rican Supplement — Book of Jasher. 
 
 " In 1831 Dr. Blomfield, Bishop of London, collated 
 " me to the small prebend of Sneating, in the Cathedral 
 " of Saint Paul (it was all that he could offer me), 
 " ^ as a mark of the esteem he entertained of the value 
 " of my services to the cause of Christianity by my 
 different publications, especially to my " Introduction 
 " to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy 
 " Scriptures." ' " 
 
 The emolument of this stall was little indeed — 11/. 
 per annum — and the dues of various kinds on entrance 
 amounted to 100/. It would appear that the Bishop 
 did not expect it to be quite so small. He spoke of 
 the probability of a fine of 300Z. or 400/. the next year. 
 It was, however, many years before any fine fell in, and 
 then not so large a one. My father always appro- 
 priated his prebendal income towards the payment of 
 annual subscriptions ; and when, about two years before 
 his decease, he accepted a commutation of 200/. in lieu of 
 any further stipend, he divided the money in portions 
 of 5/. or 10/. between the various societies to which he 
 had been used to contribute. During this year the 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
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 Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian 
 Knowledge, being desirous of producing new tracts 
 against Infidelity, requested my father to assist in the 
 undertaking, and he wrote the tract entitled, The 
 Conversion of St. Paul a proof of the Truth of the 
 Christian Revelation. 
 
 My father had for several years been a corre- 
 spondent of the Rev. George Washington Doane, 
 afterwards Bishop of New Jersey. An extract from 
 a letter of his about this time has an intensity of 
 meaning, when viewed in reference to subsequent 
 cu'cumstances in his life : — 
 
 "Boston, March 23, 1832. 
 
 " From Sir Humphrey Lynde's book I anticipate 
 much satisfaction. I am not without my fears of Romish 
 influence in some parts, at least, of our country. In this 
 region they can effect but very little, and that among 
 the lowest of the people .... But their harvest, if 
 anywhere, is to be away at the West ; though even 
 there I have thought that their influence would be 
 short-lived. The truth is, the dissemination of the 
 Scriptures and a general education of the people eats 
 the heart out of their system. / am fully aware, how- 
 ever, of the necessity of being well armed. Bishop 
 Gibson's great work I had long desired to have, and 
 your information of its scarcity determines me. I 
 wish your prebend were as valuable as your American 
 friends, if they could, would make it. I am well aware 
 how much misrepresentation there has been on that 
 subject. The common remark when I mentioned your 
 
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 appointment was — I am glad of it; a good fat 
 living ! I have but little room left to assure you how 
 gratefully and faithfully I am your friend and 
 brother, 
 
 " G. W. DOANE." 
 
 My father became a frequent contributor to the 
 " Protestant Journal," * a new periodical undertaken 
 at Birmingham, under the editorship of the Rev. J. 
 Allport. It was intended as a " corrective " to the so- 
 called " Catholic Magazine," which had been started 
 there during the previous year. 
 
 The following note has reference to some of my 
 father's articles : — 
 
 " British Museum, Thursday, July 26, 1832. 
 
 " My dear Friend, 
 
 " Last night I read in my paper the first para- 
 " graph on the other side, and on ferreting out some of 
 
 * The following extract of a letter from the Eev. J. Allport to the 
 editor is printed by his permission : — " For twenty years, at least, I had 
 the happiness and the high privilege of an acquaintance with him, and 
 enjoyed his very friendly services; and whilst conducting the Protestant 
 Journal scarcely a number was issued without a valuable contribution 
 among the leading articles from his pen and the stores of learning with 
 which his mind was furnished ; all sweetened and sanctified by his 
 heavenly temper and distinguished piety. I was greatly indebted, too, 
 for his help in compiling the many biographical sketches and notes 
 which enrich the volumes of my translations of Bishop Davenant's 
 writings ; and never did I apply to him, but his aid in supplying 
 articles imparting information, or hunting out names and dates, and 
 authorities of fathers, councils, schoolmen, and events, was cheerfully 
 and promptly given to my every application, whatever might be his own 
 engagements : and, moreover, I never had occasion to wait in sus- 
 pense on any application that could be met within the compass of an 
 ordinary letter. His frequent motto for such promptitude was— 
 dat, cito dat ; but many contributions from his pen for the Protestant 
 Journal filled closely-written large demy sheets, supplied in a few 
 days." 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HOKXE, B.D. 
 
 67 
 
 " my books, I found a notice of the pseudo-reliques at 
 " Aix la Chapelle ; but unhappily it wanted the proper 
 " alteration.. This morning, through the kindness of one 
 " of the gentlemen in the King's Library, I have found a 
 " French description of Aix la Chapelle, from which I 
 have translated the needful. I have written in great 
 " haste, in the hope that Dr. Pidduck maybe able to get it 
 " franked to-day. If you receive it to-morrow, perhaps 
 you could get it into the last page or so of your next 
 " number. But if it should be too late now, keep it for 
 " next month. I hear to-day that the ravages of the 
 " Asiatic scourge have subsided a little in some parts of 
 " London. In the midst of life we are in death ; but of 
 * " whom may we seek for succour, but of Thee, 0 Lord ? 
 
 " Very sincerely yours, 
 
 " Thos. Hartwell Horxe. 
 
 " Alter or add to my extract from 2 Thess. precisely 
 " as you judge best. Say, if you can, something about 
 " the moral impossibility of such things being preserved 
 " so long. I can't get on with Mary- Worship to my 
 " mind ; but I have ordered from Paris a most capital 
 " Christian letter to his French ex-parishioners, by a 
 " Spanish priest, who has become a Protestant. It is a 
 " truly Christian document, and will form an admirable 
 " contrast to Haller's falsehoods and calumnies. I will 
 " (D.Y.) translate it the moment I receive it." 
 
 In 1832 appeared the little work entitled — A 
 Manual for the Afflicted', comprising a Practical tlssay 
 on Affliction, and a series of Meditations and Prayers for 
 
68 
 
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 those tvho are in sorrow, trouble, need, sickness, or any 
 other adversity. My father's thoughts had been 
 directed to this subject in consequence of his own do- 
 mestic sorrow. Tedious attacks of illness had for some 
 years blighted the health of my younger sister. This 
 dear girl was the object of his tenderest affection. 
 Her bright and joyous character made her a favourite 
 with everyone, and Avhen she was smitten, a shade 
 seemed cast over all his other prosperity. 
 
 My father sent a copy of the " Manual " to his 
 friend, Mr. Doane. It was on a subject deeply interest- 
 ing to both, for to the communion of friendship was 
 now added the communion of sorrow. 
 
 "Boston, March 18, 1833. 
 
 "My dear and excellent Friend, 
 
 " You have doubtless wondered greatly at my 
 long silence. Meanwhile I have been constantly fa- 
 voured with your kind letters and generous presents. 
 For all these my heart has thanked you, though my pen 
 has failed to express its gratitude. I proceed as nearly 
 as I can to bring up my long arrears, and render what 
 you will allow to be a reasonable apology for their ex- 
 istence. Wlien I last wrote to you, I was in the en- 
 joyment of as much happiness, I believe, as often falls to 
 the lot of man. My dear wife was apparently recovering 
 from a long debility, and my sweet children were well 
 and happy, and the sources to us of happiness. Early 
 in -the month of September, however, a cloud came 
 over our prospects, which has since involved them in 
 the blackness of darkness. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 69 
 
 "Just after the 1st of October, by a singular pro- 
 vidence, I was elected, without the slightest previous 
 expectation, to the Episcopate of Xew Jersey. The 
 General Convention was to sit in Xew York on the 
 16th of October, during which the Consecration of 
 Bishops was to take place ; and I was thus called upon 
 to decide within a fortnight the most eventful question 
 which ever can occur to any Christian man. The 
 concurrent voices of all my friends, including four 
 of the Bishops, and the evident call of Divine Pro- 
 vidence, as interpreted by the peculiar circumstances 
 of the case, constrained me to accept the offered 
 charge, and, leaving home on the 14th of October, I 
 was on the 31st consecrated (all unworthy as I am) 
 
 to that high and holy office Though 
 
 sorely tried, let it not be thought that I have been 
 meanwhile forsaken. I have experienced most 
 abundantly the consolations which our holy religion 
 alone can afford, and in more ways than one can see 
 that it is good for me that I have been afflicted. My 
 children, in my desolation, have been preserved in 
 almost uninterrupted health, and now, by the lo\dng- 
 kindness of the Lord, I am authorised to hope, so the 
 physicians say, that in one month from this time the 
 delight of my eyes will be restored, and on her way to 
 my new residence. You, my dear friend, I am well 
 assured, will praise the Lord with me, and we will 
 magnify His name together. Little could you think, 
 when you were writing to me of your projected 
 * Consolations for the Afflicted,' how truly it was to be 
 
70 
 
 REMIMSCEXCES OF 
 
 adapted to my case. What will you say when I tell you 
 that, by some strange mishap, the copy destined by your 
 kindness has never reached me ? What will you say 
 when I tell you that, notwithstanding this failure, an 
 edition of it is in press here, with a preface and ap- 
 pendix by myself ? The case is this: — On returning 
 from the primary visitation of my diocese, I found that 
 my bookseller had received, during my absence, one copy 
 from Mr. Kennett, which a bookseller here had bought, 
 designing to reprint. I immediately called on him, 
 and found that he had not positively determined, and 
 meant, if he declined, to take it for that purpose myself. 
 My enquiry decided him. I then proposed to prefix 
 a brief introduction, and to add a small selection of de- 
 votional poetry; as seems to have been (from your 
 letters to me) your original design. He very readily 
 consented. It is now in the press : it will be very neatly 
 printed, and I am in hopes to send you a copy of my 
 edition before I receive yours. I wish that some ad- 
 vantage from the reprint could have been secured. But 
 there is no sense of that sort of obligation among our 
 publishers. You will have the satisfaction of knoAving 
 that it is in wide circulation here, as I am sure it will 
 be. It is the best work of the kind that I have seen, 
 and fills a gap which has been long lamented. May 
 the blessing of them to whom you thus administer con- 
 solation descend upon your head ! 
 
 " My removal from this diocese has disconnected all 
 my plans connected with it. Among the rest, the 
 ' Banner of the Church ' has been discontinued, or 
 rather merged in the ' Churchman,' printed at New 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 71 
 
 York. My bosom friend, and associated editor, the 
 Rev. Mr. Croswell, Rector of Christ Church in this 
 city, has just been invited to become its editor. If he 
 accepts I shall become a frequent contributor. If you 
 do not receive it I will see that you do. 
 
 " My diocese, though not large in extent, as you will 
 see by the map, has great advantages of situation, lying 
 between New York on the one hand, and Philadelphia 
 on the other, and in the immediate vicinity of the 
 Theological Seminary, and all our general institutions. 
 It is, however, quite large enough for comfort and 
 ' usefulness, and offers great capabilities for improvement. 
 In one respect it is decidedly primitive. It offers me, 
 literally, no salary. Arrangements, however, are in 
 progress for an Episcopal fund. But it must be very 
 small. Had I been free to please myself, I certainly 
 should have declined the charge. But I am not my 
 own, and may not live for myself. Pray for me, dear 
 brother, that I may live, and, while I live, labour, for 
 the Church, for Christ, for immortality. 
 
 " The afflictions and occupations of the six months 
 past have greatly interrupted my studies. And now 
 for two or three months I shall be occupied with my 
 removal, the visitation of the diocese, and the Convo- 
 cation which sits on the 29th day of May. After that, 
 should life and health be spared, I look forward to a 
 term of quiet industry and homefelt enjoyment. For 
 though in some respects my labours are increased, in 
 others they will not be ; and in the seclusion of a rural 
 village I shall be free from the distracting interruptions 
 {pulverem strepitumqiie) of a city residence. I shall 
 
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 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 probably establish myself at Burlington, a very de- 
 lightful village on the Delaware, two hours by steam 
 from Philadelphia, and six from New York. It is 
 a fact, not a little curious, that when efforts were in 
 train, early in the last century, for the establishment of 
 an American Episcopate, the site of the more northerly 
 of the two dioceses, into which the British colonies on 
 this continent were to be divided, was fixed at Bur- 
 lington, New Jersey, and an expense of five or six 
 hundred pounds sterling incurred in the purchase of an 
 Episcopal residence. I must find the spot if I can, and 
 reclaim it for its orio-inal desig-n. I would that the 
 purchase could be held as valid, and the right trans- 
 ferred. 
 
 " And now, my dear friend, to close a long letter, 
 which I have filled too exclusively with myself, let me 
 assure you that, in all the changes of life, I shall con- 
 tinue to value and to desire your friendship and corre- 
 spondence. It has been productive to me of great 
 and increasing satisfaction, and I only regret that I 
 can aflford you so inadequate a return. That is the 
 fault, however, not of my will, but of my position. In 
 the intercourse of mind we must consent to be receivers, 
 but heart to heart we claim to be upon a par. Let me 
 again ask your prayers for me in my great charge, and 
 be assured of mine for you, and that I am most grate- 
 fully and affectionately your friend and brother, 
 
 " G. W. DOANE." 
 
 My father considered Bishop Doane's " Appendix of 
 Devotional Poetry " to be an important addition to the 
 
THOMAS ELAKTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 73 
 
 " Manual for the Afflicted." He accordingly reprinted 
 it in his second edition. In this selection are five pieces 
 by the Bishop liunself.* 
 
 In the course of 1833 my father piinted his Biblio- 
 graphical Notes on the Book of Jasher. He thus de- 
 scribes tliis strange production : — 
 
 " ' The Book of Jasher .... translated into Ens^hsh 
 " from the Hebrew by Alcuin of Britain, who went a 
 " pilgrunage to the Holy Land,' is the title of an 
 " anonymous pamphlet in quarto, which is now known 
 " to have been composed, printed (it is said by night 
 " in his bed-room), and published for two shillings and 
 " sixpence, by Jacob Iliye, a non-sane infidel printer 
 " at London, in the year 1751. It was reprinted at 
 " Bristol in 1829, in a tliin quarto volume, at the modest 
 " price of one guinea, and with a list of nearly one 
 " thousand credulous subscribers ; the editor of which 
 " publication appears to have believed that it really was 
 " the long-lost ' Book of Jasher.' My ' Bibliograpliical 
 " Xotes ' were undertaken at the urgent request of a 
 " friend, a woollen-manufacturer in Gloucestershire, 
 " who, as well as many other neighbouring manufac- 
 turers, had literally been taken in to purchase a copy 
 " of this literary forgerv, as beino- the s^enuine ' Book 
 " of Jasher ; ' and also in the hope of preventing un- 
 " wary readers from being imposed upon by a second 
 " edition, for which a prospectus was extensively cir- 
 
 * No. 32, "Within the Church a fountain springs ;" No. 33, "Be- 
 loved, it is well;" No. 34, "Broken-hearted, weep no more ;" No. 35, 
 
 Lift not thou the wailing voice ; " No. 36, Dove, whom the Lord hath 
 wounded." 
 
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 REMINISCENCES OP 
 
 " culated. These ' Xotes ' contain a history of the 
 " forgery, and a detection of its falsehoods, anachro- 
 " nisms, and contradictions of the Holy Scriptures. 
 " They were incorporated in the fifth, or bibliogra- 
 " phical volume of the ^ Introduction.' 
 
 " In November 1833, the venerable Dr. Howley, 
 " then Archbishop of Canterbury, presented me to the 
 " Rectory of the united parishes of St. Edmund the 
 " King and Martyr and St. Nicholas Aeons in the 
 " City of London." 
 
 The first pages of my father's Ecclesiastical Register 
 give a detailed account of this transaction : — 
 
 " November 18, 1833.— This day (the God of all 
 " grace and mercy be praised for all his benefits ! ) 
 " I received by post a letter from His Grace the 
 " Archbishop of Canterbury, of which the following 
 " is a copy : — 
 
 " ' Addington, Nov. 16, 1833. 
 
 " ' Dear Sir, 
 
 " ' It has long been my wish to give you the 
 " charge of a cure, of which you might perform the 
 " duties, without interrupting those literary pursuits in 
 " which you are engaged with so much benefit to the 
 " learned world. An opportunity has at length pre- 
 " sented itself. I am enabled to offer you the Rectory 
 " of St. Edmund the King, which has become vacant 
 " by the death of Mr. Lendon. The clear value is 
 " stated, in the return lately made to the Commis- 
 " sioners, to be 305/. a year. I wish it were better. 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 75 
 
 " The Rectory house is in Nicholas Lane, Lombard 
 " Street, and the present curate, son of the late rector, 
 " is at present residing in it. 
 
 " ' I trust you will consider this offer as a small token 
 " of my esteem for your personal worth, and my sense 
 
 of the services which you have rendered by your 
 " works to the theological and biblical student. 
 
 " ' I remain, dear sir, 
 
 " ' Your faithful humble servant, 
 
 " ' ^Y, Caxtuar.' " 
 
 " On the following day, November 19, I waited on 
 " His Grace, and was very kindly received. In returning 
 " my grateful thanks for this mark of His Grace's un- 
 " solicited kindness, I took an opportunity of stating 
 " that I had sometimes cherished a wish that, if it pleased 
 " God, I might be appointed to some cure — such 
 " as that to which he had collated me — to which my 
 " strength would be equal, so that, without neglecting 
 " any parochial duty, I might devote to future works 
 " for the Church those hours of study which an indus- 
 " trious literary student can always make, without any 
 " dereliction of duty. The Archbishop replied that my 
 " remark reminded him of the Apostle's observation, — 
 " Having food and raiment, let us he therewith content. 
 " Raiment — a-AcsTracryLfcara was the original word, Avhich 
 " signified any kind of covering — a house, therefore, 
 " among the rest. I withdrew soon after. 
 
 " N.B. There is a rectory house, wliich, having 
 " for many years been let into counting-houses, &c., is 
 " in a very dirty and dilapidated condition. 
 
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 " November 25.— This day I was instituted by the 
 " Bishop of London. Paid for stamp duties on the 
 " presentations (50/.^, these being two united parishes, 
 " each above 10/. in the King's books), fees, and man- 
 " date for induction — altogether 57/. 
 
 " Dec. 4. — This day I was inducted by my kind 
 " friend, the Rev. Josiah Pratt, senior, in the presence 
 " of the churchwardens of both parishes, the vestry 
 " clerk, and others of the most respectable inhabitants. 
 " Previously to tolling the bell, I knelt down in the 
 " belfry, and implored the Divine blessing on my 
 " future pastoral labours in this church and in these 
 " united parishes. 
 
 " I account it a peculiar mercy that the parishioners 
 " are disposed to receive me kindly for my Avork's sake. 
 " O Lord, vouchsafe unto me grace to be faithful in 
 " preaching the unsearchable riches of Christ ! Amen. 
 
 Dec. 15. — This day the church was reopened (after 
 " repairs) with a sermon in the morning by the Bishop of 
 " London (in behalf of the Langbourn Ward Schools), 
 " who took an opportunity of introducing me hand- 
 " somely and kindly to my parishioners ; assuring them 
 " that my past zeal and ability in the defence of Gospel 
 " truth was a pledge of my future fidelity as their 
 " minister. 
 
 "In the evening I preached from Eph. ii. 19, 20,* 
 " on the Conformity of our Reformed Protestant 
 " Episcopal Church to the Apostolic Precept and 
 " Pattern, in her ministry, in the doctrines professed 
 " by her, and in her liturgy. 
 
 * My father was induced to select this subject in consequence of 
 some then recent attacks upon the Church of England. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 77 
 
 " Dec. 22, 1833, ^th Sunday in Advent, Morning. — 
 " In the course of the service I read the thirty-nine 
 " articles, prefacing them with a short address. Text, 
 " 2 Cor. iv. 7. Evening text, Isa. Ix. 1 — 3. 
 
 " Dec. 25, Christmas-day. — ' Thanks be to God for 
 " His unspeakable gift.' Morning text, Isa. ix. 6. 
 " Evening text, John iii. 16. 
 
 ''^ Dec. 29, \st Sunday after Christmas. — Morning 
 " text. Acts xxii. 28. Evening text. Rev. iii. 20. 
 
 " Jan. 2, 1834. — A joint vestry of both parishes 
 " held this day, unanimously requested me to print the 
 " first sermon I delivered on Sunday evening, Dec. 15, 
 " 1833, and the address delivered on Sunday morning, 
 " Dec. 22, previously to reading the thirty-nine articles. 
 " This was subsequently published, with an appendix 
 " of proofs and illustrations. 
 
 " At this joint vestry the following resolution was 
 " unanimously passed : — ' That the sincere thanks of 
 " this vestry be given to His Grace the Most Reverend 
 " the Archbishop of Canterbury for having presented 
 " the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne, B.D., to the 
 " Incumbency of the united parishes of St. Edmund 
 " the King and Martyr and St. Nicholas Aeons, 
 " vacant by the death of the Rev. Richard Lendon. 
 
 " ' (Signed) " ' Thos. Collixsox, 
 
 " • Walter Etty, 
 
 " ' Churchwardens, St. Edmund the King. 
 
 "^J. S. Salt, 
 
 " ' Fredk. Whitmore, 
 
 " ' Churchwardens, St. Nicholas Aeons.' " 
 
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 " Lord, give me grace to be faithful, that I may 
 " not forfeit the present friendly regards of my 
 " parishioners ! " 
 
 In the beginning of 1834 was first instituted the 
 Translation Committee of the Christian Knowledge 
 Society. My father was appointed one of the members, 
 and, in order to be able to attend, was accustomed to 
 begin his work at the British Museum an hour earlier 
 than usual on Committee days. 
 
 From a fragment of a note to the Rev. S. C. Wilks, 
 we learn that my father was now much engaged in 
 editing the seventh edition of the " Introduction ; " be- 
 sides compiling notes to accompany the " Sermon and 
 Address," which the parishioners of St. Edmund had 
 requested him to print. 
 
 Among the letters received on the publication of 
 this Sermon were the following: — 
 
 From His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. 
 
 " Addington, Jan. 25, 1834. 
 
 "Dear Sir, 
 
 " I have read your ' Sermon and Address ' with 
 great satisfaction. They contain much important 
 instruction, too much needed, alas ! in these times, with 
 great simplicity and clearness ; and conceiving, as I do, 
 that the interests of pure Christianity are deeply con- 
 cerned in the maintenance of our National Church, 
 not merely as a legal establishment, but as a holy 
 institution, possessing as well as deserving the reveren- 
 
THOMAS HART^ELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 79 
 
 tial and dutiful affection of the people, I trust these 
 two short compositions will be extensiyely circulated 
 and read. 
 
 " I remain, dear sir. 
 
 Your faithful servant, 
 
 ''^y. Caxtuar. 
 
 " Eev. T. H. Home." 
 
 F?'om the Rev. Charles Simeon. 
 
 "K. C. Cam. Jan. 28, 1834. 
 
 "My dear Feiexd, 
 
 " Tliis morning I received your kind and valuable 
 present — your sermon on Conformity to the Church of 
 Eno^land : and without the loss of an hour I have o-one 
 through it, much delighted with the sermon, and much 
 edified with your notes. I hope it will be of substan- 
 tial benefit, not to your parishioners only, but to the 
 
 public at large Of all the friends that you 
 
 have got, not one has rejoiced more unfeignedly than I 
 
 at the appointment of my friend to a living 
 
 I hope God will long preserve you to be a blessing to 
 many, many souls. 
 
 " Of all persons in the world, there is not one who 
 feels his obligations to you more than I, for the 
 luminous and incomparable index you have made to 
 my work. I say, half in joke and half in earnest, to 
 my friends, if you would form a favourable opinion of 
 my work, look at the index, and then close the book. 
 To say that you have doubled the value of the book is 
 
80 EEMINISCEXCES OF 
 
 to say nothing. I not only thank you, but most truly 
 and faithfully thank God for you. 
 
 " I am, my dear friend, 
 
 " Most affectionately yours, 
 
 " C. Simeon." 
 
 From the eminent critic, Dr. Moses Stuart. 
 
 "Anclover (Massachusetts), March 3, 1834. 
 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " I have an unexpected opportunity of sending 
 out to England, but one that allows me only a few 
 minutes to write to my friends. Your little ' Manual 
 for the Afflicted,' oXiyov ts (fxXovrs, I received by I know 
 not whose hands. It is a beautiful and excellent little 
 book, and I thank you for it. I send you in return 
 an ^ Essay on Baptism,' and another on ' Future Punish- 
 ment.' They have cost me, as you will perceive, not a 
 little hard labour; I would hope they may do some 
 good. 
 
 " We have here at present no direct communication 
 with London, which gives us a coup-d'oeil of what is 
 passing in your literature. What magazine or other 
 publication will do this most effectually ? How are the 
 ' Oriental Translations ' proceeding ? I have as yet 
 only No. 1, but we have orders out for the rest, on ac- 
 count of our library, and hope soon to receive them. 
 
 " I regret deeply that I am obliged to close this letter 
 in haste, in order to avail myself of the conveyance 
 
THOMAS HART WELL HOIl]S^E, B.D. 
 
 81 
 
 proffered, and cannot unbosom myself to you about 
 various matters, which I long to do. 
 
 " I have opportunity only to subscribe myself, 
 
 " With great respect and affection, 
 " Yours truly, 
 
 " Moses Stuart." 
 
 From the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Llandaff 
 (^Dr. Coplestoii). 
 
 "Deanery, St. Paul's, March 24, 1834. 
 
 "Dear Sir, 
 
 " I feel much indebted to you for the present of 
 your Sermon and Address. They are both full of valu- 
 able information, admirably arranged and commented 
 upon. The notes indeed will be extensively useful, 
 and will serve as a compendious magazine to every 
 clergyman and friend to the Church, who may be 
 called upon to defend the existing establishment. 
 
 " The Rev. Robert Meek's book I had seen and 
 recommended ; but Mr. Brittain's was quite new to me. 
 It might be worth the consideration of some society 
 friendly to our National Church, to reprint it here. 
 I should conceive, from the extract you have given, that 
 it is written in an interesting and engaging style. 
 
 " I remain, dear sir, 
 
 " Your obliged and faithful servant, 
 " E. Llandaff. 
 
 " Rev. T. H. Home." 
 
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 Soon after tliis the followins^ letters were also 
 received : — 
 
 From the Right Rev. the Bishop of New Jersey, 
 
 "Philadelphia, Feb. 26, 1S34. 
 
 " Eey. and dear Friexd, 
 
 " . . . Most sincerely do I rejoice in your pre- 
 ferment. I congratulate you, and I congratulate the 
 Church. It is a new instance of the judicious and faith- 
 ful exercise of the right of patronage. jMay you see 
 many and happy years of increasing honour and useful- 
 ness in the ser\ice of our blessed Master, and then be 
 taken to the rest and reward of His faithful servants ! 
 I shall think of you in the rectory house (in Lombard 
 Street ?), and shall hope at no very distant day to find 
 you there 
 
 " I spent the last evening with our venerable patri- 
 arch, Bishop ^Vhite. ^ly lodgings for the winter are 
 near him, and, as he is kind enough to receive and 
 treat me as a son, I see him very familiarly every week. 
 I mentioned to him your preferment, on which he de- 
 sired me to offer you liis congratulations. He also said 
 that he would be glad to send you a copy of his 
 admirable little volume on the ^ Ordination Ser^dces.' 
 I offered to convey it, and ventured to suggest his 
 sending a copy also to the Archbishop of Canterbury. 
 This, with his characteristic child-like modesty, he 
 declined, but said that he would put a copy at my dis- 
 posal. This morning he sent me two copies, with the 
 note which I enclose in the bundle. It is an admirable 
 illustration of his peculiar character, and you will value 
 
THOMAS HART WELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 83 
 
 it as his autograph. He also sent me two copies of a 
 little pamplilet and appendix, for which he feels, I 
 believe, a peculiar interest. I ventui'e to ask that you 
 send one of each to the Archbishop, from their 
 venerated author (now in the eighty-sixth year of his 
 age and forty-seventh of his episcopate, vigorous in 
 mind and body, and preaching every Sunday), and 
 account myself happy in being one of the links 
 between two of the persons whom I most reverence on 
 earth. The Bishop loves unfeignedly the Church of 
 Eno-land. A review of his little book in some of the 
 magazines I know would gratify him. The likeness 
 is but tolerable. I have not yet received your parcel, 
 and look with interest for your notes on ^ Jasher.' May 
 God prosper you in your zealous championship of His 
 truth ! I rejoice to hear that Messrs. Hale and 
 
 Lonsdale are o-oins; on in earnest Let 
 
 me hear from you as often as your many laboui's 
 permit, and believe me ever and truly your friend and 
 brother in the Lord, 
 
 " G. Vr. DOAXE." 
 
 The note from Bishop White, above alluded to, is 
 not preserved, but a letter from him of rather a later 
 date may be inserted here : — 
 
 From the Right Rev. the Bishop of Pennsylvania. 
 
 "Philadelphia, Oct. 15, 1S34. 
 
 " EEyEEEXD AND DEAR SlR, 
 
 " I have received your letter of y^ 1st of 
 August, with y^ valuable Present accompanying it of 
 
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84 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 Books issued from your Pen. It has been only witliin 
 these few Days that they came to Hand : and although 
 it is but a small Portion of them that I have read ; yet I 
 perceive enough to induce y^ Expectation of Pleasure 
 and Edification from an entire Perusal. It is very 
 gratifying to me to learn from you that there are in y® 
 Mother Church many of her Members, who take an In- 
 terest in y® Concerns of her Progeny in this Country. 
 
 " It appears from your Letter that my Friend Bishop 
 Doane transmitted to you Copies of my Publication 
 concerning y® Questions in y^ Ordinal. One of them, 
 it seems, was sent by you to his Grace y® Archbishop 
 of Canterbury, whose Condescension in noticing it, as 
 mentioned in your Request to Bp. Doane, was re- 
 ceived with due Sensibility by him who is y^ only 
 remaining Portion of y® visible Link which framed 
 y® Connection between y® Mother and y^ Daughter 
 Churches. When that Link shall be entirely gone, 
 there will remain, it is to be hoped, an imperishable 
 Tie in the Community of their Institutions. 
 
 " It is to manifest a Symptom of the cherishing of 
 such a Sentiment on our Part, that I enclose to you a 
 Charge, delivered by me at our last Diocesan Convention. 
 That there are sent two Copies, is from y® Thought of 
 y® Possibility that you may judge it to be not obtrusive 
 to present one of them to his Grace of Canterbury, 
 with y^ profound Veneration of y® Author. His Grace 
 was not on y® Bench, nor were any of its present Right 
 Rev. Occupants, when I was consecrated by one of his 
 Grace's Predecessors, Archbishop Moore, of whose 
 Character and Attentions I cherish y® Recollection. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, B.D. 
 
 85 
 
 " In preparing for their Envelope two Copies of 
 my Charge, there caught my Eye a Bundle of small 
 Publications, lately edited by me for Distribution ; on a 
 Point held by me to be very important. I shall lodge 
 two Copies within the Envelope. 
 
 " With my Wishes for the Success of your useful 
 Labours, and with much Respect and Esteem, I am, 
 Rev. and dear Sir, 
 
 " Your Brother and very humble Servant, 
 
 "Wm. White.* 
 
 " Rev. Thomas Hartwell Home." 
 
 The repairs of the^ rectory house proved to be of so 
 extensive a nature that it was not ready for occupation 
 till the month of May 1834. 
 
 At this time my father printed a little tract entitled 
 A Concise History and Analysis of the Athanasian 
 Creed; with select Scripture Proofs, and Ansicers to 
 
 * The Right Rev. William White, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church in the State of Pennsylvania, was born in 1747. His 
 father, a citizen of London, had emigrated to America in early youth. He 
 was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and visited England for 
 ordination in 1770. He was at one time the only clergyman in all 
 Pennsylvania. After the Declaration of Independence Dr. White was 
 instrumental in drawing up the Constitution of the Episcopal Church in 
 the United States. After a successful correspondence with the prelates 
 of the English Church, he repaired to England for consecration as 
 Bishop elect of the Church in Pennsylvania ; being accompanied by 
 Dr. Provoost, who was charged with a similar commission from New 
 York- On February 4, 1787, the American divines were consecrated at 
 Lambeth by Dr. John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by 
 three other Bishops. Dr. White discharged the duties of the Episcopate 
 for forty-nine years, and died, in the enjoyment of the respect and 
 esteem of all classes, July 17, 1836. 
 
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 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 some common Objections. This was abridged from his 
 larger work on the " Trinity," published many years 
 before. It was dedicated to the parishioners, each of 
 whom was presented with a copy. 
 
 The draft of a letter to the Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury, besides describing the seventh edition of the 
 " Introduction," alludes to this tract ; — 
 
 "British Museum, May 13, 1834. 
 
 " My Lord, 
 
 " I have the honour to enclose for your Grace's 
 " acceptance a little tract on the ^ Athanasian Creed,' 
 " which I have had printed, primarily for distribution 
 " among my very kind and considerate parishioners, as 
 " I found that I could not well compress into a single 
 " sermon all the requisite details and proofs on that 
 " subject : and I was further induced to undertake the 
 " present tract, as the Christian Knowledge Society 
 " has not one extant on this topic. I have also to an- 
 " nounce to your Grace, that a seventh edition of the 
 " ' Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge 
 " of the Holy Scriptures ' is nearly ready for publica- 
 " tion. Besides giving it a most careful revision 
 "throughout, I have particularly endeavoured to 
 "strengthen all those parts which are designed to 
 " caution the inexperienced student against Romish 
 " Glosses, as well as Neologian and Kantian theories of 
 " interpretation. A chapter has also been written on 
 " the literary history of the text of Scripture, together 
 " with a copious account of Prof. Scholz's ' Theory of 
 "Recensions' (drawn up from his Biblico-Critical 
 
THOMAS HART WELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 87 
 
 " Travels, and his Prolegomena to the T.), and a 
 " cataloo;ue of all the MSS. of the entire Xew Tes- 
 " tamentjof the Four Gospels, and of the Evangelisteria, 
 " hitherto known to be collected. 
 
 " I have troubled your Grace with these details, as 
 " I am anxious to offer to the world some memorial of 
 " my gratitude for the various kindnesses which your 
 " Grace has conferred upon me, by dedicating my work 
 " to your Grace in its present improved state. I have 
 " taken the liberty of enclosing the draft of a dedication, 
 " which I should deem myself hoijoured in being per- 
 " mitted to prefix to my work. 
 
 " Awaiting your Grace's commands, I have the 
 " honour to be, 
 
 " Your Grace's much obliged and obedient servant, 
 " Thomas Hartw^ell Horne." 
 
 The Archbishop's reply was as follows : — 
 
 "Lambeth, May 22, 1834. 
 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " My occupations and interruptions have been 
 so incessant as to prevent me from returning an earlier 
 answer to your communication. The additions which 
 you propose to make to your new edition of the ' In- 
 troduction to the Critical Study of the Scriptures ' will 
 add much to the value of a work, which decidedly and 
 deservedly takes place, of all other Avorks of the kind 
 in this country, in the public estimation. I do not 
 generally accept of dedications, but I cannot refuse 
 
88 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 myself tlie pleasure of receiving this offering of respect 
 from you. I must however observe, that the attentions 
 which I have been enabled to pay you have been over 
 and over again repaid by the services which you have 
 rendered by your publications to the Church. 
 
 " I remain, my dear sir, 
 
 Your faithful servant, 
 
 " W. Cantuae. 
 
 " Since writing this note, I have received your 
 valuable American packet. I beg you to return my 
 best and most respectful acknowledgements to that ex- 
 cellent man. Bishop Doane. I have also to thank you 
 for your little treatise on the Athanasian Creed." 
 
 In a letter dated Nov. 19, 1834, my father gives the 
 following account of his parish, after one year's In- 
 cumbency : — 
 
 " I have very great pleasure and encouragement in 
 " stating that I continue to receive from the parishioners 
 " every mark of kind consideration ; and that those 
 " who are actually resident (a very few quiet Dissenters 
 
 excepted) have returned from the neighbouring 
 " churches, which they had attended for some years. 
 " As the Sunday evening congregations comprise many 
 " clerks and servants, besides families, I have on their 
 " account adopted the plan of preparing short series of 
 " lectures on given subjects. At present I am 
 " engaged on a course on Public Worship and its 
 " several Parts." 
 
 Previously to his appointment to St. Edmund's, my 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HOENE, B.D. 
 
 89 
 
 father was under an eng^ao^ement to Messrs. Finden to 
 write descriptions to their " Landscape Illustrations of 
 the Bible from Sketches taken on the Spot." This 
 work appeared in two vols, folio, and also 8vo. at 
 Christmas 1834. " The Biblical Keepsake," 1835— 
 1837, was a new edition of this work in three volumes 
 8vo., with corrections and additions. 
 
 A letter from a friend dated Sept. 13, 1834, has the 
 following paragraph: — 
 
 " I congratulate you on having accomplished your 
 establishment in your own parsonage, and on its con- 
 veniences and pleasures. May you and yours richly 
 enjoy your rus in urhe* and be daily prepared in it 
 for a better country^ a city which hath foundations, 
 whose builder and maker is God ! " 
 
 Very soon a cloud was permitted to overshadow this 
 pleasant prospect. My only sister, who had for some 
 time appeared to have overcome her former ailments, 
 and to be enjoying a fair share of health, was this 
 winter struck with consumption. 
 
 The following fragment respecting her has been 
 found in my father's handwriting : — 
 
 " Memorials of dear S. E. H. — Our dear child was 
 " confirmed at St. Pancras New Church in the spring 
 " of 1834. From that time her character received a 
 " new turn ; and she became more earnest in prayer. 
 " Single-heartedness, tenderness of conscience, gene- 
 " rosity towards others, deep sympathy for the poor 
 " and fatherless (especially to one over whom she 
 
 * Alluding to the adjoining churchyard, laid down with fresh green 
 turf, and shaded by trees. 
 
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 " watched with deep interest), deep convictions of sin, 
 " and a humble and prayerful spirit, were the decided 
 " features of her character, blended with the tenderest 
 " filial affection. Oct. 5, 1834, Sunday. — This day our 
 " dear Susan for the first (and last !) time partook of 
 " the Lord's Supper. Oct. 19. — The last time dear 
 " S. E. H. was able to attend di\dne worship. March 
 " 21, 1835. — This day our dear child entered into rest, 
 " aged 15 years. March 24. — Kissed for the last time 
 " the cold remains of our darling ! March 28. — This 
 " day our darling was interred ! " 
 
 The folloAving inscription to her memory was after- 
 wards placed in the Church: — 
 
 SACRED 
 TO THE MEMORY 
 OF 
 
 SlISAN ELIZABETH HORNE, 
 
 WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 21, MDCCCXXXV. 
 IN THE SIXTEENTH YEAR OF HER AGE, 
 WITH REPENTANCE TOWARD GOD AND FAITH TOWARD OUR 
 LORD JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 " Come unto me, all ye that laboiir and are heavy laden, 
 and I wiU give you rest." — Matt. xi. 28. 
 
 " We which have believed do enter into rest." — Heb. iv. 3. 
 
 This Tablet was erected by her affectionate parents, the Rev. 
 Thomas Hartwell Horne, B.D., Rector of the United 
 Parishes, and Sarah his wife. 
 
 My father received the cordial sympathy of his friends 
 during this severe trial. From a long letter of the Rev. 
 Dr. Jar vis we subjoin some portions : — 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HOEXE, B.D. 91 
 
 " St. Mary's Parsonage, Burlington, 
 " May 16, 1835, 
 
 " My dear Friend, 
 
 " Being on a visit to my clear Bishop Doane, he 
 has just put into my hands your letter of April 1, 
 by which I learn that our darling Susan has gone to her 
 rest ! I trust that before this reaches you the anguish 
 which such a bloAV must have given to your alFectionate 
 hearts will have been mitigated by time and the holy 
 comforts of our faith. I know Mrs. Horne and your- 
 self so well that I see you both bowing in meek resig- 
 nation under the chastising rod. Your lovely child has 
 only preceded you a short space in the path of existence, 
 and, though no longer visible to the eye of the body, is 
 still a member of that same community of which you 
 are members. She is one of that cloud of witnesses by 
 which you are compassed about, and, as I firmly believe, 
 she will hereafter hail your admission with joy into the 
 same blessed company of saints and angels. Although 
 so many years have elapsed since I saw her, I have 
 a most distinct remembrance of what she then was, and 
 when I received in Paris the sad account you gave me 
 of her situation, though I still hoped she would be 
 spared to you, I felt my own sorrows revived in sharing 
 yours. Alas, my dear friend ! no one but a parent who 
 has been called to weep over the grave of a child can 
 tell what a parent suffers under such a bereavement. 
 But I am siu'e we can all say. It is good for me that I 
 have been afflicted. I feel that my faith is stronger, 
 and I think I can yield, not only without a murmur, but 
 
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 with entire submissiveness to the will of God, persuaded 
 that every trial proceeds from His infinite love and 
 mercy. And yet it is not from any confidence in my 
 own streno^th, but from the conviction that His streno-th 
 is perfected in my weakness. May you, my beloved 
 friends, have the like peace and joy in believing, and 
 may the God of all peace and consolation fill your 
 hearts .with those comforts which His right hand alone 
 can bestow ! .... I am perfectly astonished at 
 the improvements which have taken place in the course 
 of nine years in this country. Bishop Doane is doing 
 wonders, and exceeds the expectations of the most 
 sanojuine of his friends. I am sure it would deli<?ht 
 you to see with your own eyes and hear with your own 
 ears what I am daily seeing and hearing. My heart 
 rises of praise to our Heavenly Father who is pouring 
 out His benefits upon us, and enabling us to rejoice in 
 the light of His countenance. 
 
 " Never was our Church so flourishing. Bishops, 
 clergy, and laity seem to be striving together for the 
 furtherance of the Gospel 
 
 " Adieu, and believe me truly yours, 
 
 « S. F. Jarvis." 
 
 From a letter of Bishop Doane, written soon after 
 this time, we extract the following passage: — 
 
 " It seems to be quite too bad that a reply to yours 
 of April 1 should bear date in August. But it did 
 not come to hand till near the middle of May, and 
 
THOMAS HART WELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 93 
 
 since that time I have been almost entirely away from 
 home. By our excellent friend Dr. Jarvis, I gave 
 assurance of the tenderness and truth of my sympathy 
 with yourself and Mrs. Horne, in the death of your 
 sweet child. Both of our hearts were w^ell jDrepared 
 by the chastening of our heavenly Father to enter 
 deeply into your domestic sorrow. Both of us, while 
 we wept with you that your darling was no more by 
 your side, could also rejoice w4th you in the sure and 
 certain hope that she is ^ not lost but gone before ' — 
 entered early into that blessed rest towards which we 
 yet must toil. With what prevailing power do such 
 bereavements bring home that beautiful beatitude — 
 ' Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord I ' Dr. Jarvis 
 remembered Susan well, and spoke of her with tears of 
 love, confirming all that you had written of her, and 
 blessing God with me that for her who sleeps in Jesus 
 we need not sorrow as those who have no hope. May 
 we all, dear brother, with all we love, meet her bright 
 with immortal youth at the resurrection of the just! 
 And meanwhile, may you and your dear wife richly 
 experience, in all the trials of your pilgrimage, the 
 abounding grace of Him, who comforteth us in all our 
 tribulation, and of whose sustaining goodness, even in 
 the darkest hour, and under the heaviest burthens, I 
 have been, for ever blessed be His holy name I so freely 
 the partaker." 
 
 In the course of this year my father was cheered by 
 the information of the usefulness of the " Introduction " 
 in Greece. 
 
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 KEMINISCEXCES OF 
 
 Of this Greek translation he gives the followino^ 
 account : — 
 
 " Part of my first volume on the ^ Internal Evidences 
 " of the Inspiration of the Scriptures ' was translated 
 " into the Roman, or modern Greek language, by 
 " Professor Nicholas Bambas, Principal of the Gym- 
 " nasium or University of Hermopolis, on the island of 
 " Syra, in the Levant (afterwards of the University 
 " of Athens), and published at Hermopolis in 1834. 
 " This translation was entitled ^EawrspLKal ^EvdpysLac 
 
 rrjs ^ E/jL7rvsvcr£(09 rcov Tpa(f)(ov. Sscopla oj^skifJbwraTT] 
 '"^ sis Travra avOpayirov, sic rod ^Aj<yXLKOv fjbsra(f>paa6£taa 
 " vTTo N. l^afjL^a. 'Ey 'Fip/jLOVTroXsc. latoXB^ That is, 
 " ' Internal Proofs of the Inspiration of the Scriptures. 
 " A very profitable Contemplation [or Essay] for every 
 " man. Translated from the English by N. Bambas, 
 " Hermopolis, 1834,' in octavo." 
 
 The following interesting particulars respecting this 
 translation were communicated to my father by the 
 Rev. J. J. Robertson, a Presbyter of the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church in the United States of America, who 
 then had charge of the Mission-Press of that Church 
 on the island of Syra : — 
 
 " Syra (Cyclades), March 13, 1835. 
 
 "Rev. and dear Sir, 
 
 " You will doubtless be surprised at receiving 
 a letter from this little isle of the ^gaean, and I trust 
 you will excuse the freedom of a stranger writing to 
 
THOMAS HAETTTELL HOKXE, B.D. 95 
 
 you. I feel indeed that I am not writing to a stranger, 
 as it is long since I made acquaintance with you in the 
 very valuable work which you have published for the 
 Illustration and Defence of the Oracles of God. The 
 first edition of this I purchased during a visit to 
 London in 1820, and I have been happy to see the 
 improvements and additions in the successive reprints 
 since. It is in regard to a portion of tliis work that I 
 now write to you. As a missionary to the Greeks 
 from the Domestic and Foreign ]\Iissionary Society of 
 the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, 
 I have the charge of a printing establishment here. 
 Among other books which I have published, and which 
 are widely circulated, and I trust through the Divine 
 blessing doing much good, is the chapter in your 
 ' Critical Introduction ' on the Internal Evidence of the 
 Inspiration of the Scriptures. The edition consists of 
 2,000 copies, and a large portion of it has already gone 
 forth from our depository. I have felt that it would 
 gratify you to know that your work was thus becoming 
 still more extensively useful, and that it was but due 
 to you to receive a specimen of the translation. You 
 will do me the favour, therefore, to accept the two 
 copies which I forward with the present. They are 
 very rudely bound, as we are at this moment without a 
 competent workman. The translation is from the pen 
 of the excellent Professor Bambas, who formerly taught 
 chemistry in the college of his native island, Scio, and 
 was afterwards called to the chair of Moral Theology 
 in the Ionian University of Corfu. His desire to be 
 with his fellow-countrymen and to labour for their 
 
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 EEMINISCEXCES OF 
 
 especial benefit, induced him to remove to this ragged 
 rock, where the larger portion of them had sought refuge 
 after the desolation of their beautiful isle, and where 
 they have built the city of Hermopolis, of 10,000 in- 
 habitants, and caused the commerce of Greece to enter. 
 He is here at the head of the Gymnasium, which had 
 its origin in missionary exertions, but is now maintained 
 by the community. For the benefit of the classes in 
 this Institution the translation was undertaken, and it 
 was made the basis of a very interesting course of 
 lectures. The Professor's habit was to read a few 
 sentences of the work, and then proceed to illustrate 
 and develope the ideas at length ; and it was delightful 
 to witness with what attention a large body of youth 
 hung upon his lips during these sacred exercises, and 
 how they flocked around him at the close of the lectures 
 to get resolved any difficulties. You will perceive that 
 I have printed all the Scripture quotations at length, 
 and that for this purpose the Septuagint has been used. 
 The reason of the former is, that as the work forms 
 quite a little body of scriptural divinity, calculated to 
 be very useful for general circulation, it was thought 
 desirable that the Scripture passages, in support of every 
 position, should be present to the eye without further 
 reference. In respect to the latter, we could not well 
 do otherwise, as we had no other means of giving uni- 
 formity to the quotations. The new translation from 
 the Hebrew, executed by Bambas, under the direction 
 and with the aid of the Rev. Mr. Leeves, is not yet 
 finished, and of the printed portion we had received 
 only the Pentateuch, Joshua, and the Psalms. As it 
 
THOMAS HART WELL HORXE, B.D. 97 
 
 is, however, it will find its way more readily into 
 schools, and also be more acceptable to the clergy. It 
 has already been used for the class of young females 
 preparing to become teachers, under the care of my 
 valuable brother Hildner, of the Church ^Missionary 
 Society, who has also the charge of a school here of 
 about' 600 pupils — and in the schools of Mr. Jetter of 
 the same Society in Smyrna. The hand of Pro^'idence 
 may be thus recognised in extending the usefulness of 
 the work (the ' Introduction '). A copy of it was given 
 several years since to Bambas by the Rev. Mr. Hartley, 
 now at Geneva, as a mark of his regard. This act of 
 friendly liberality has been the means of making an 
 important portion of it known to Greece. Bambas 
 proposes to translate other portions when liis leisure 
 will allow, and it will be a privilege to me to publish 
 them. Unfortunately his copy of the work is one of 
 the older editions, and mine I had parted with to a 
 brother missionary at a distance. AVe have printed, 
 among other works, large editions of the ^ Apology and 
 Gorgias' of Plato, the ^ Memorabilia' of Xenophon, of a 
 translation of ^ Robinson's Scripture Characters ' to the 
 end of Joseph, and of ^ Coray's Synopsis of Scripture 
 History,' and we have now at press a Modern Greek 
 Grammar by Bambas, and also one of the ancient 
 tongue. Allow me to ask your prayers, my dear sir 
 and brother, in behalf of the cause in which we are 
 engaged, and for the diffusion of pure Scripture light 
 and truth throughout the borders of tliis venerable but 
 decayed portion of the Church of Christ. Once more 
 I beg you to excuse the liberty I have thus taken with 
 
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 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 you ; and, assuring you of the pleasure it would give 
 me to hear from you, 
 
 " I remain, with warm Christian regard, your brother 
 and servant in Christ, 
 
 " J. J. Robertson." 
 
 {( *^* Professor Bambas has for some years past been, 
 " and now is, Professor of Rhetoric and of Ethics in 
 " the University of Athens."— (Mem. by T. H. Home.)* 
 
 Jun9 1, 1854. 
 
 * Professor Bambas is since dead. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 99 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Tercentenary of the Reformation — Coverdale's Bible — Presbyter's Letter 
 — Bishop of Salisbury's Circular — Protestant Memorial— Letters 
 from the Rev. C. Simeon, the Rev. Dr. Chalmers, and the King's 
 Librarian — Observance of the Day — Bishop of "Winchester's Sermon — 
 Birmingham Testimonial. 
 
 One of the strongest proofs of the influence of my 
 father's pen is to be found in the Tercentenary of the 
 Reformation, which he was instrumental in procuring 
 on October 4, 1835. 
 
 On the origin of the Tercentenary my father writes 
 thus : — 
 
 " Towards the close of September 1834, some one 
 
 had left the copy of the venerable Bishop Myles 
 " Coverdale's English version of the entire Bible, 
 
 belonging to the British Museum, lying in a window 
 " in the Old Library. Before I reverently replaced it, 
 " my eye rested on the imprint in the last page, viz. 
 " « Prynted in the yeare of our Lord mdxxxv., and 
 " fynished the fourth day of October.' 
 
 " ^ The fourth day of October 1535 I ' I exclaimed to 
 " myself. ' Why, this is 1834. On what day will the 
 "fourth day of October 1535 fall?' A reference to 
 " the almanack proved that it would be on a Sunday. 
 " * Then, please God, we will have a jubilee I ' I 
 
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 " immediately suggested the propriety of such a com- 
 " memoration to a few friends. But the proximate 
 " cause of my little publication was an article in the 
 " ^ St. James's Chronicle,' occasioned by an invitation in 
 the spring of 1835 from the company of pastors of 
 " the Protestant Church at Geneva to all the Protes- 
 " tant Churches in Europe, to cooperate with them in 
 " their third centenary commemoration of the Kefor- 
 " mation in that year. This called forth some eloquent 
 " remarks by the editor of the ' St. James's Chronicle ' 
 *^ (Dr. Gifford), who enquired why there had been no 
 " national commemoration of the Reformation in Eng- 
 " land. In reply to this question I sent a communication, 
 " in which it was suggested that, from the gradual 
 " manner in which the Keformation had been accom- 
 " plished, there had hitherto been no definite period 
 " that could be fixed upon for commemorating that 
 " great event." 
 
 We reprint this communication entire : — 
 
 JUBILEE OF THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 "To the Editor of the 'St. James's Chronicle.'' 
 
 " London, April 25, 1835. 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 " I have just read, with the deepest interest, 
 " the address of the company of pastors to the Re- 
 " formed Church at Geneva, on the subject of their 
 "'Jubilee of the Reformation, August 23, 1835,' 
 " which appeared in your journal of the 23rd instant. 
 " Fully concurring with you (as every consistent 
 
THOMAS 11 ART WELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 101 
 
 " Protestant must painfully concur) in the forcible 
 " remonstrance with which you accompanied that im- 
 " portant document, on the neglect of commemorating 
 
 the Reformation in tliis country, I now trespass on 
 " your valuable columns — first, to account for the non- 
 " commemoration of that great religious blessing in 
 " Great Britain and Ireland ; and secondly, to apprise 
 " your readers, and I trust, through your widely-cir- 
 " culated journal, every Protestant in the United 
 " Kingdom, that tliis present year, 1835, is also a 
 " Jubilee of the Reformation with us ; and I indulge 
 " the humble hope that, when your readers have given 
 " a candid perusal to this communication, and to the 
 " comments with which I trust your powerful pen will 
 " enforce it, they will be animated with devout gratitude 
 " to celebrate our glorious and blessed Refomiation 
 " from the doctrinal errors and tyranny of Popery. 
 
 " I. As to the cause of the non-commemoration of 
 " the Reformation in Great Britain and Ireland. This 
 " may briefly be referred to the gradual manner in 
 " which the Reformation was accomplished. It was 
 " the work of many years ; so that in fact there has 
 " hitherto been no definite period or year which could 
 " be fixed upon for such commemoration. Our Protes- 
 " tant bretlu'en on the continent are, in this respect, 
 " more favoured than we have been. Geneva celebrates 
 " her third centenary of the Reformation in the present 
 " year ; France, I believe, next year. The Lutheran 
 " churches in Germany (whose ministers statedly 
 " preach once a quarter against the soul-destroying 
 " dogmas of Popery) have not fewer than three com- 
 
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 memorations in each century ; viz. 1. In the year 17, 
 " Luther's burning the Papal bull for liis excommuni- 
 " cation, and the publication of his ' Theses,' which are 
 " regarded as the commencement of the Reformation. 
 " 2. In the year 30, the publication of the admirably 
 " written ' Confession of Augsburg ; ' and in the year 34, 
 " the publication of the entire version of the Bible in 
 " the German language, by the learned and venerable 
 Dr. Martin Luther. On the 21st November 1834, 
 " all the Lutheran churches in Germany celebrated the 
 last-mentioned centenary commemoration with great 
 " solemnity, as also did the Reformed Protestant 
 " Episcopal Moravian Church in this country. At 
 " Berlin a medal was struck in honour of the event, 
 having the bust of Luther on one side, with appropri- 
 ate inscriptions on the other. I now come, sir, to — 
 " 11. The commemoration of the Reformation of 
 " the United Kingdom, and in all other countries 
 where British language is spoken or read. This 
 " present year, 1835, completes the third centenary 
 " since the publication of the first entire English 
 " Protestant version of the Holy Scriptures at Zurich, 
 " by Myles Coverdale (Bishop of Exeter during the 
 " reign of King Edward YL), in the year 1535. The 
 " last page of that extremely rare volume has these 
 words : ' Prynted in the yeare of our Lorde 
 " MDXXXV., fynished the fourth day of October.' 
 " The fourth day of October 1835 falls on a 
 Sunday. Such a conjuncture cannot happen again 
 for centuries. What is there to prevent all con- 
 sistent Protestants from celebrating a third centenary 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 103 
 
 " Jubilee of the Reformation ? particularly as, such a 
 " commemoration would only be a fulfilment of the 
 " strict letter of the ecclesiastical regulations now in 
 " force both in Scotland and in England. Besides 
 " various injunctions and intimations of the National 
 " Church of Scotland, which are to be found in the 
 
 sederunts of her General Assembly from 1560 to 1780, 
 " inclusive, on the duty of her clergy to watch and 
 " report the progress of Popery &c. in the respective 
 " parishes, by a special act of the General Assembly, 
 " passed in 1749, the Scottish clergy are enjoined to 
 " preach at least four tunes a year on the evils of Popery 
 
 and the good effects of our blessed Reformation. With 
 " regard to the Church of England, ' it is decreed and 
 
 ordained ' by the first of her constitutions and canons 
 " ecclesiastical (which has not been set aside or in- 
 " validated by any act of parliament for the alleged 
 " relief of Romanists), ' that all ecclesiastical persons 
 " having the cure of souls, and all other preachers and 
 " readers of Divinity lectures shall, to the uttermost of 
 " their wit, knowledge, and learning, purely and 
 " sincerely, without any colour or dissimulation, teach, 
 " manifest, open, and declare, four times every year at 
 " the least, in their sermons, and other collations and 
 " lectures, that all usurped and foreign power — 
 " forasmuch as the same hath no establishment nor 
 " ground by the law of God — is for just causes taken 
 " away and abolished ; and that therefore no manner 
 " of obedience or subjection, within His Majesty^s 
 " realms and dominions, is due unto any such foreign 
 " power, but that the King's power within his realms 
 
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 of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and all other his 
 " dominions and countries, is the highest power under 
 " God, to whom all men, as well inhabitants as born 
 " within the same, do by God's law owe most loyalty 
 " and obedience, afore and above all other princes and 
 " potentates in earth.' Such, sir, are the existing 
 *• ecclesiastical laws of Scotland and England. What 
 " now (I repeat) should prevent the clergy of these 
 " two countries, and may I be permitted to add, all 
 " loyal and consistent Protestant dissenting ministers, 
 " from celebrating with devout gratitude the Jubilee 
 " of the Reformation in the United Kingdom, on 
 " Sunday the fourth day of October 1835, on occasion 
 " of the completion of the third centenary since the 
 " publication of the first entire English Protestant 
 " version of the Holy Scriptures ? Those learned 
 
 gentlemen can be at no loss for suitable topics on 
 " such an anniversary ; and for one part of the day, 
 " the clergy of the United Church of England have 
 " an admirably appropriate text furnished them in one 
 " of the Psalms for the morning service — viz. Psalm 
 " xix. 7, ' The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the 
 " soul : the testimony of the law is sure, making wise 
 " the simple.' The morning's discourse I would re- 
 " spectfully suggest might treat on the perfection of 
 " Scripture as the only rule of faith, to the utter 
 " exclusion of all unauthorised human traditions, and 
 " on the inalienable right, duty, and privilege of every 
 
 person to ' search the Scriptures ' for himself, that 
 " he may ' prove all things, and hold fast that which is 
 " good.' The afternoon or evening discourse or 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL IIORXE, B.D. 
 
 105 
 
 " lecture miorlit contain a oreneral statement and vindi- 
 " cation of the leading doctrines of the pure and 
 " unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ, as professed 
 " by our own and by all other orthodox Protestant 
 " churches. The late eminently learned and munifi- 
 " cent Bishop Barrington justly remarked — ' That if 
 " the Reformation was worth establishing, it is worth 
 " maintaining' (Sermons and Charges, p. 437). And 
 " at a time like the present, when the advocates of 
 " Popery are leaving no effort unattempted to pervert 
 " unwary Protestants from their pure and holy faith, 
 " it surely does become every Protestant shepherd to 
 " exert himself to the utmost to * banish and drive 
 " away ' all error and heresy from the fold intrusted 
 " to his care, for which he must ^ give account ' at the 
 " last day to the great Shepherd and Bishop of souls. 
 
 " I remain, sir, yours, &c., 
 
 " A Presbyter of the Eeformed 
 " Protestant Episcopal United 
 " Church of England and 
 " Ireland." 
 
 This letter, slightly condensed and with the signature 
 T. H. H., appeared in the " Christian Observer " for the 
 following June, and was reprinted in various periodicals. 
 My father read a paper on the subject at one of the 
 meetings of the Eclectic Society,* the substance 
 
 * The followino; hints, elicited from another member, are so applicable 
 to every period, that they are respectfully transcribed from my father's 
 note-book : — 
 
106 
 
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 of which was afterwards embodied in the " Protestant 
 Memorial. " He also wrote letters on the subject to all 
 his friends. 
 
 The Bishop of Salisbury (Dr. Burgess) responded 
 warmly to the appeal, as will appear from the following 
 notes : — 
 
 " Beacon Lodge, Christ Church, 
 *' May 4, 1835. 
 
 " Dear Sir, 
 
 " The duty of commemorating events intimately 
 connected with the Reformation continues to interest 
 and to occupy my mind. I shall be glad therefore to 
 hear how far * Presbyter's ' letter has been responded 
 to, either in the newspapers or your private correspon- 
 dence. 
 
 " I am, dear sir, 
 " Yours very truly, 
 
 " T. Sarum. 
 
 " The Rev. T. H. Home." 
 
 1. Preach the great doctrines of the Reformation. 
 
 2. Increase the circulation of the Scriptures. 
 
 3. Promote the due religions instruction of the young. 
 
 4. Greater union among all true Protestants. 
 
 5. Prayer for the coming of the spiritual kingdom of Christ. 
 
 6. Deeper sense of the benefits of the Reformation. 
 
 7. Greater gratitude for God's instrumentality in promoting the Re- 
 formation. 
 
 8. Stir up ourselves by their example. 
 
 9. Protest mildly yet firmly against all error in doctrine. 
 
 10. Humiliation at the thought that the Reformation has made no 
 further progress. 
 
THOMAS IIARTWELL HORNE, B.D. 
 
 107 
 
 "Palace, Salisbury, July 10, 1835. 
 
 " Dear Sir, 
 
 " In the enclosed circular * [To the Clergy 
 of the Diocese of Salisbury] I have endeavoured to 
 
 * We give the Bishop of Salisburj-'s Pastoral Letter entire: — 
 
 " To the Clergy of the Diocese of Salisbury. 
 
 " Reverend Brethren, 
 
 "Most cordially and readily do I assent to the justice 
 of the call which has lately been made upon us, as ministers and 
 members of the Church of England, by some zealous friends of the Re- 
 formation, to cooperate with the members of a foreign Protestant 
 Church in expressing our gratitude to God, by commemorating the 
 blessings of the Reformation, and especially by distinguishing and 
 celebrating, on our part, the completion and publication of the first 
 English translation of the Bible on Oct. 4, 1535. 
 
 " There is another day which eminently deserves to be celebrated by 
 us as the birthday of our Reformation — the day on which was com- 
 pleted our emancipation by law from the foreign supremacy of the 
 Pope — March 20, 1534, on which the Act passed by which the power 
 of the Pope in this country, and all connection with Rome, 'were forever 
 abolished, and the supremacy of the King in all causL-s, ecclesiastical 
 and civil within his dominions, was re-established. I say re-established, 
 because before the eleventh century the English sovereigns rejected with 
 indignation the jurisdiction of the Church of Rome. The supremacy of 
 the King you are required by the first canon of our Church publicly to 
 declare and maintain to your congregations four times at least in 
 every year. October 4 and March 20 may well be appropriated as 
 two of the days for our observance of the canon. There are, besides, 
 two other days in the year distinguished by events intimately connected 
 with the great Protestant interests of our country, and consecrated in 
 our Liturgy by special forms of prayer. The King's accession and 
 November 5 — the former relating to the commencement of our pre- 
 sent Protestant dynasty, and the latter to an indelible evidence of 
 the hostility of Popery to our Protestant religion and Establishment — 
 that religion and Establishment which the three powers of the realm are 
 bound by the most solemn oaths and engagements to protect and main- 
 tain. There are, therefore, four days in the year on which you may so 
 fulfil the first canon of our Church as to combine with the observance 
 of it, in your discourses, subjects of the deepest interest to us, as 
 Christians, as Protestants, as ministers of the Church of England, and 
 
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 realise my wish to promote the commemoration of the 
 Keformation. The letters are not yet distributed, nor 
 have I sent a copy to any one, except to the Arch- 
 bishop the day before yesterday. 
 
 " I shall be glad to hear what progress you find 
 making to effect the object of ' Presbyter's ' letter. 
 
 " I am, dear Sir, 
 " Yours very truly, 
 
 "T. Sarum. 
 
 " The Rev. T. H. Home." 
 
 as loyal subjects, by inculcating to your congregations the truth of 
 Scripture, and the vanity of traditions — the deliverance of our country 
 from a Popish dynasty — the inextinguishable hostility of Popery to 
 our national institutions — and the emancipation of our Church from 
 subjection to a foreign Bishop — and from the idolatry, apostacy, and 
 anti-Christianity of his Church. 
 
 "The Protestant religion, the Protestant people, and Protestant wealth 
 (whatever Papists may assert), are still the ascendants in the empire; 
 and nothing but indifference to the blessings we enjoy in the profession 
 of our Protestant faith, and ingratitude to that gracious Providence which 
 restored it in the sixteenth century, can ever enable Popery to regain in 
 this country the domination which it once possessed here. Let com- 
 memorative and conservative associations multiply ; be active, coopera- 
 tive, and united, and it will never regain it. Let us be true to the Pro- 
 testant faith that we profess, and faithful to the Church of which we are 
 members, ' and the gates of hell,' with all the powers of darkness, of 
 error, and idolatry, ' shall not prevail against it ' or its doctrine. 
 " I am. Reverend brethren, 
 
 " Your faithful friend and brother in Christ, 
 
 " T. Sarum. 
 
 "Palace, Salisbury, July 1, 1835. 
 
 "At the commencement of every Parliament the members are sum- 
 moned to their legislative duty by the King's writ, and are expressly 
 convened to 'defend the Church ' as well as ' the State ' against 'im- 
 minent perils.' If certain persons are now by a very strange anomaly 
 admitted into Parliament, from whom ' peril ' to the Church is es- 
 pecially to be apprehended, they must feel themselves bound in con- 
 science (if they consult their conscience), by the tenor of the King's writ, 
 to 'defend the Church' of England and Ireland, and, by their own 
 declaration, to do nothing to its detriment or loss ! ! " 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, B.D. 
 
 109 
 
 My father's proposal was raost favourably received, 
 and towards the end of July 1835 he was requested 
 from various quarters to prepare a little Manual for 
 the Commemoration. This was the origin of the Pro- 
 testant Memorial. 
 
 " The * Protestant Memorial ' was the result of 
 " one month's severe application, chiefly during hours 
 " abstracted from my pillow, wliich caused a fit of iil- 
 " ness. But I was mercifully recovered sufficiently to 
 " take my part in the religious commemoration through- 
 "out the country on the fourth of October. The 
 " Memorial was received with great favour, fourteen 
 
 thousand copies being circulated in the course of 
 " three months, besides being reprinted in the United 
 " States of America." 
 
 Among the many letters received by my father on 
 this subject are the following from the Rev. Charles 
 Simeon and the Rev. Dr. Chalmers : — 
 
 "K. C. Camb. Aug. 27, 1835. 
 
 " My dear Sie, 
 
 " A thousand thanks for your kind and most 
 acceptable present. I sent the second C02)y to the 
 Vice-Chancellor without delay ; but said nothing of 
 his appointing either a preacher or a subject for Oct. 
 4th, as he has no power to do either. 
 
 " You will see over-leaf the reason of this note below. 
 [Here followed a cheque for 10/.] 
 
 " I should be sorry indeed if you should lose by this 
 pamphlet; and that I may either prevent or share 
 
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 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 your loss, I beg your acceptance of the enclosed note, 
 and remain, 
 
 " My dear friend, 
 
 " Most truly yours, 
 
 " C. Simeon." 
 
 "Edinburgh, Aug. 20, 1835. 
 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " I feel myself much honoured and gratified by 
 your communication, to which I should have replied 
 much earlier, but I have been from home, and it is 
 only to-day that I have had the opportunity of perusing 
 it. 
 
 " I had a letter on the same subject from Geneva, an- 
 nouncing an invitation to our General Assembly to send 
 a deputation who might be present at their celebration 
 of the Centenary. We feel serious difficulties in com- 
 plying with this proposal, coming as it does from a 
 Church that has departed so grievously from the faith 
 and pure orthodoxy of the fathers of the Reformation. 
 But there is no such objection to your proposition, 
 which I think most fit and seasonable ; and, though not 
 a member of Assembly myself, I shall endeavour to re- 
 commend it to the acceptance of my brethren, as being 
 indeed a most desirable substitute for the one which 
 there is every disposition amongst us to reject. The 
 parcel you have so kindly sent has not yet reached me. 
 
 " I have made every enquiry, but without success, 
 for the book whose title I take the liberty of enclosing. 
 I do not know whether a copy of it is in the British 
 
THOMAS HARTTTELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
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 Museum, or whether if so I could obtain the use of it. 
 Should this be possible I shall take all care of it, and 
 undertake for its being safely returned. 
 
 " I have read with great pleasure your letters on the 
 subject of the proposed commemoration, and have ex- 
 pressed myself a great deal too feebly on its behalf in the 
 annexed page, for I feel it to have strong and positive 
 claims on the acceptance and cooperation of all true 
 Christians. 
 
 " Ever believe me, my dear sir, 
 
 " Yours with greatest respect and regard, 
 
 " Thos. Chalmers.* 
 
 " The Rev. Hartwell Home." 
 
 My father presented a copy of the Protestant 
 Memorial to His Majesty King William lY., of which 
 he afterwards received the followino^ acknowleds^e- 
 ment : — 
 
 " Windsor Casile, March 15, 1836. 
 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 I take great blame to myself for not having 
 coromunicated to you sooner the gracious manner in 
 which His Majesty was pleased to receive the ' Pro- 
 testant Memorial,' and to express his approbation of the 
 very appropriate manner in which you had comme- 
 morated the event. 
 
 " His Majesty made many enquiries and observations 
 
 * Although there was in Scotland no general commemoration of the 
 Reformation, or of the translation of the Bible on Oct. 4, 1835, the 
 result of recent enquiries renders it probable that many individual 
 clergymen took up the idea, and preached sermons suitable to the 
 occasion. 
 
112 
 
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 relative to the subject, and was evidently mucli pleased 
 at your dutiful attention. 
 
 " Ever, my dear sir, 
 
 " Most faithfully yours, 
 
 " J. H. Glover, 
 
 » H. M. Lib. 
 
 •*The Eev. T. H. Home." 
 
 By special appointment, the Bishop of Winchester 
 preached before the King and Queen at Windsor Castle, 
 on October 4, 1835. His Lordship's subject was 
 "The free course of the Word," from 2 Thess. iii. 1. 
 The sermon was published by. His Majesty's command.* 
 
 * The following passage is extracted from the above-mentioned 
 Sermon: — 
 
 " Three hundred years ago, there was a famine of the worrl of the 
 Lord throughout the land. No Englishman could read in his own tongue 
 the whole of the wonderful works of God. Men hungered after the 
 bread of life, and were fed with chaff and husks, instead of the solid and 
 nutritious truths of the Gospel. They asked for all the words of the 
 BOOK, and their teachers bade them be contented with a portion. 
 They enquired what they should do to be saved, and they, whose lips 
 should have kept knowledge, made ' the word of God of none effect 
 through their tradition,' and ' taught for doctrines the commandments 
 of men' (Mark vii. 7, 13). The listeners in the Temple were sent 
 empty away. True it was that the fountain had been opened, and over 
 it was written that gracious inscription — ' Ho, every one that thirsteth, 
 come ye to the waters ' — 'If any man thirst, let him come unto me 
 and drink' (Isa. Iv. 1; John vii. 37) — but the hand-writing was 
 blotted out, and a great stone was rolled over the top of the well of living 
 waters, and the stone was sealed, and a watch was set; so as to verify, as 
 it were, a second time the declaration of the prophet, that ' in that day 
 should the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst ' (Amos viii. 13). 
 True it was that Christ had rent away the veil which hid from view the 
 holy of holies ; but it had been obscured again with a cloud yet more 
 impenetrable. The casket lay on the altar, but none, save the learned and 
 the wise, were skilled to unlock the jewel. For the great mass of the 
 
THOMAS HAHTWELL HORXE, B.D. 113 
 
 My father's own sermons on this day were, in the 
 morning, " The Perfection and Sufficiency of Scripture 
 as the only Rule of Faith and Practice," from Psalm 
 xix. 7, " The Law of the Lord is perfect," &c. ; in the 
 evening, " The Afflictions and Triumphs of the Church 
 
 people revelation was shrouded in mystery — the light of truth was 
 quenched — the word of life had become a dead letter. 
 
 " And then it was that God raised up his instrument, and put it into 
 the heart of one of his servants — a stranger, through fear of persecu- 
 tion, in a foreign land, an exile for religion's sake — to print, for the 
 first time in the English tongue, a version of the entire Bible. He said 
 that ^ It was neither his labour, nor his desire, to have this work put into 
 his hand ; but (hat being instantly required to undertake it, and the Holy 
 Ghost moving other men to do the work thereof, he was the more bold to 
 take it in hand.' Memorable was the dedication of his work to his 
 royal master, and his pious hope that the honoured title of ' defender 
 OF THE FAITH ' — givcu Originally in a very different sense — might prove 
 prophetical ; ' that by the righteous administralion of his Grace, the faith 
 should he so defended, that God's word, the mother of faith, s'louldhave its 
 free course thorow all Christendome, but especialiy in his Grace's realme* 
 And no less memorable was the subsequent declaration of the royal 
 pleasure, on receiving an assurance that, though the translation had. 
 many faults, there were no heresies that could be found in it. ' If there 
 be no heresies,' said the King, ' then, in God's name, let it go abroad among 
 our people.' In God's name it went, and God prospered it in that 
 whereto he sent it. 
 
 " Three centuries have since elapsed, and what is now the result ? 
 Truly a ' free course ' has been given to the word of the Lord. It runs 
 to and fro, and knowledge is increased (Dan. xii. 4). The waters of 
 life no longer flow through a narrow channel, as if escaping with dif- 
 ficulty from some scanty and exhausted rill ; but in the very wilderness 
 have waters broken out, and streams in the desert ; the parched ground 
 has become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water (Isa. xxxv. 6, 
 7). The sacred Scriptures have gone out through the length and breadth 
 of the land — accessible to the cottage as to the palace — the birthright 
 of the lowest equally with the highest — the manual of infancy and the 
 consolation of old age — the book alike of the unlearned and of the 
 wise — so that 'there is no speech nor language where their voice is 
 not heard ; their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words 
 to the end of the world ' (Ps. xix. 3, 4). 
 
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 of Christ," from Psalm cxxix. 1,2, " Many a time have 
 they afflicted me from my youth," &c. 
 
 It is stated in the journals of the following week, 
 that in and near London, on October 4, the at- 
 tendance at public worship was unusually large, and 
 the reference to the occasion general. Accounts from 
 Birmingham, Brighton, Liverpool, and other parts 
 are of the same description. " The Dublin Evening 
 Mail" of October 5 has the following passage: — 
 " The Third Centenary of the Reformation was so- 
 lemnised yesterday in every church in this metropolis. 
 We are quite certain that much good and great edi- 
 fication have arisen from this commemoration ; that so 
 far from narrowing the heart by sectarian prejudices, 
 it has greatly enlarged the boundaries of Christian 
 charity ; and that its effects will be visibly seen in the 
 increased piety of the Protestant community, and in 
 the increasing enquiry after gospel truth by the Poman 
 Catholics." 
 
 " The Tercentenary Commemoration of the Printing 
 " of the First English Bible was very generally cele- 
 " brated throughout Great Britain ; also in many 
 " churches in Ireland, and in the United States of 
 " America. Numerous valuable sermons were delivered 
 
 and published ; and the medallists of Birmingham 
 
 " ' Here is wisdom. This is the royal law. These are the 
 
 LIVELY oracles OP GoD. BlESSED IS HE THAT READETH, AND THEY 
 THAT HEAR THE WORDS OF THIS BOOK ; THAT KEEP AND DO THE 
 THINGS CONTAINED IN IT ; FOR THESE ARE THE WORDS OF ETERNAL 
 LIFE, ABLE TO MAKE MAN WISE AND HAPPY IN THIS WORLD, NAY WISE 
 UNTO SALVATION, AND SO HAPPY FOR EVERMORE, THROUGH FAITH THAT 
 
 IS IN Christ Jesus.' " — Bishop of Winchester's Sermon before their 
 Majesties, pp. 5 — 14, 18. 
 
THOMAS HAKTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 115 
 
 " lent their powerful artistic aid to the devout solemnity 
 " by striking numerous well-executed medals, contain- 
 " ing portraits of the venerable Myles Coverdale, with 
 " suitable devices, which had a very extensive circula- 
 " tion. On this occasion the clergy of Birmingham 
 " presented me with a set of six of the finest medals 
 " in silver, with the following inscription on the red 
 " morocco case : — 
 
 " * This Case of Medals, being specimens of 
 " those which were struck in Birmingham to com- 
 " memorateon Sunday, October iy. mdcccxxxy., 
 " the Tercentenary of the Publication of the 
 " Protestant English Bible, by Myles Coverdale, 
 " sometime Bishop of Exeter, is presented .by the 
 " Clergy of Birmingham to the Rev. Thomas 
 " Hartwell Home, B.D., Eector of St. Edmund 
 " the King and Martyr and St. Nicholas Aeons, 
 " London, as a trivial acknowledgement of his 
 " great services to the Christian Cause, and 
 " especially of his zealous exertions in directing 
 " the attention of Protestants to the devout 
 " public observance of an event so important to 
 " the establishment of pure Scriptural Religion.'" 
 
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 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Bishop Chase's second Visit — Letter to the Rev. J. Allport — From 
 Bishop Chase — From Bishop Ives — "Societas Hagana." 
 
 Towards the close of 1835 Bishop Chase was again 
 in England to plead the cause of his new diocese. The 
 venerable man appeared considerably worn with age 
 since his former visit, for he was now sixty years old, 
 and had endured many hardships and privations. He, 
 however, still possessed much physical power, and fully 
 believed that God would spare his life to accomplish 
 that for Illinois which he had already done for Ohio. 
 As before, my father lent him all the assistance in his 
 power. 
 
 The Rev. J. Allport, to whom the following letter 
 is addressed, was also a friend of Bishop Chase : — 
 
 "Nov. 4, 1835. 
 
 " My dear Friend, 
 
 The venerable Bishop Chase spent Sunday 
 last with me. In the afternoon he went over his 
 " proposed Memorial, to which I added a summary 
 " recapitulation. It will be subjected to the critical 
 " distillation of our friend Josiah Pratt, and then 
 " be published and circulated. The Bishop drinks 
 nothing but water, and is as abstemious in our land 
 
THOMAS HART^ELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 117 
 
 " of plenty as he would be in a destitute American 
 prairie, that he may not unfit himself for hard fare and 
 
 " harder labour on his return. Yesterday (Tuesday) 
 he dined at the Mansion House by invitation of the 
 
 " Lord Mayor, who, struck with his appearance, came 
 
 " into the vestry after Sunday evening service,* when 
 I introduced him to his Lordship. The notice in the 
 Religious Intelligence of the ' Christian Observer ' 
 was inserted partly at my suggestion. Lords Kenyon 
 and Bexley, and the good Bishop of Sodor and Man, 
 have severally assured him of their unshaken regard, 
 and will do something for him. The subscription 
 for our clerical brethren in Ireland has been re- 
 opened. This day, 137 years ago. King William III. 
 landed. How few now-a-days regard him as an 
 instrument in the hands of God of our deliverance 
 from Popery and arbitrary tyranny. To-morrow I 
 have the 5th November service, with a short sermon 
 on the epistle for the day. The parishioners have had 
 no such service for nearly, if not more than, thirty 
 years. Two courses of lectures against Popery are 
 now being delivered — 1, by the Rev. Mr. Young at 
 Albion Chapel, Moorfields, twice every Sunday ; and, 
 2, every Thursday evening by the Rev. Mr. Cum- 
 ming (Sec. of Reformation Society) at the Scottish 
 Church, Crown Court, Drury Lane. Fearful as 
 things look, let us ^ thank God and take courage.' 
 
 " Yours most truly, 
 
 " Tho. H. Horne." 
 
 * Several Lord Mayors were in the habit of attending St. Edmund's 
 in private on a Sunday evening. 
 
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 We now give a letter from Bishop Chase : — 
 
 "Ham's Hall, Colehill, Dec. 7, 1835. 
 
 " Eev. and very dear Sir, 
 
 " I owe it to your kindness and the interest you 
 have taken in the cause which I am pleading to let you 
 know where I am and what I am about. 
 
 " My visit to Oxford and neighbourhood was exceed- 
 ingly pleasant, and would have been prolonged, had I 
 not received a letter from Lady Kosse, franked by her 
 son-in-law. Lord Lorton, inviting me to spend a few 
 days at this her Ladyship's residence. 
 
 " Nothing can exceed the kind manner in wliich I was 
 received and am treated by this noble family. I pray 
 God to reward them many fold in spiritual and tem- 
 poral blessings. 
 
 " How interesting it is to me especially to see Lady 
 Kosse, now above ninety years of age, engaging in pious 
 and cheerful converse, and zealously persevering in 
 family worship and in attendance on the divine services 
 of the Church ! This latter she did yesterday, joining 
 in the prayers, and kneeling in prayers and rising in 
 praise to the heavenly Saviour, who seems so visibly 
 fitting her by these means for His presence above. 
 With Lord Lorton I became more pleased as I see the 
 more of him, and hear his pious attachment to the 
 cause of true religion. Lady L. inherits the generous 
 spirit of her mother. Lady Isabella, the sister of Lady 
 Kosse, is a great friend and benefactress of the Bishop 
 of Sodor and Man's diocese. With these and other 
 relatives my time has been spent with much profit. 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 119 
 
 To-morrow I go, if the Lord will, to Birmingham and 
 see the good and Rev. Mr. jNIarsh ; and thence I shall 
 set off for London to meet Lord Bexlev, accordino' to 
 his request, on the 10th or 11th, before he goes to Foot's 
 Cray. 
 
 " May I not hope to receive a note from you when I 
 arrive at 50 Harley Street, telling me how you are, and 
 when I can most conveniently see you and where ? 
 
 " Ever your grateful and faitliful, 
 " Phil. Chase. 
 
 " Rev. T. H. Home." 
 
 Fro7)i the Rev. T. H. Home to the Rev. J. AUport. 
 
 " 4 Nicholas Lane, Dec. 17, 1835. 
 
 " My dear Friexd, 
 
 ***** 
 
 " I have just reprinted my induction sermon. Do 
 " me the favour to accept the accompanying copy. The 
 
 paragraph ^ Although the Church of England ' &c. 
 " (p. 41), to the end is almost entii'ely new matter, 
 " inserted purposely to obviate a notion which has got 
 " abroad among some exemplary dissenting ministers, 
 
 that the Church of England puts out of the pale of 
 " the Universal Church all who have not episcopal 
 " ordination. But I must stop, having other notes to 
 " write. Upon the whole my health is better ; but I 
 " find that I now want double the time I used to require 
 " for evervthino; I undertake. I am withdrawino- as 
 
 much as possible from all literary work and associa- 
 " tion &c. to devote myself exclusively to my pastoral 
 
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 duties^ and to the two little works which you will see 
 " announced on the last page of my sermon.* Last 
 " Sunday evening I gave my congregation a lecture on 
 
 the History and Necessity of Missionary Exertion. 
 " Next Sunday morning I preach for the King's letter. 
 
 " Ever affectionately and truly yours, 
 
 " Tho. Hartwell Horne." 
 
 From the Same to the Same. 
 
 " 4 Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street, 
 "Jan. 7, 1836. 
 
 " My dear Friend^ 
 
 " I lose not a single post that I may announce 
 " the safe arrival of the ' Birmingham Testimonial/ 
 " with Avhich Dr. Pidduck unexpectedly surprised me 
 " to-day at the British Museum. When you next 
 meet your (I ought rather to say my) clerical friends, I 
 " shall be greatly obliged to you to express my grateful 
 " acknowledgements for this very kind mark of their 
 " esteem, and also to request their acceptance of a 
 " copy of the ^ Protestant Memorial,' printed, ex- 
 " clusively for presents, on royal paper, and bound in 
 " morocco, in the same style (with the exception of 
 " royal ornaments) as a small paper copy [i. e. of the 
 " first edition] was bound for the King — who I rejoice 
 " to say from private information is a Protestant king. 
 " But for want of time I would have written to each 
 " of the gentlemen who have so kindly subscribed for 
 
 * One of these was the Communicani's Companion, which, however, 
 did not appear for many years ; the other was never written. 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 121 
 
 the medals. Such a testimonial, though they term 
 ''^ it a ' trivial acknowledgement,' is to me inestimable, 
 
 because I feel that I could have no claim to it. 
 " I have dated the inscription in each copy Oct. 20, 
 " 1835 — first, because it was about that tune I received 
 " intelligence of their kind intention ; secondly, because 
 " Oct. 20 is given in the Martyrological Calendar 
 " prefixed to Fox's ^ Acts and Monuments,' to the 
 " martyr Latimer ; and thirdly, because it is my birth- 
 " day. I shall hope to hear that the Birmingham 
 " meeting is a good one, in every sense of the word — 
 " good in eliciting devout Protestant sentiments, and 
 
 good in its pecuniary results for our Protestant con- 
 " fession in Ireland. 
 
 " I remain, in haste for post, 
 
 My dear friend, most truly yours, 
 
 " Tho. H. Horne." 
 
 In the course of 1835 my father had shown some 
 attentions to Dr. L. S. Ives, Bishop of North Carolina, 
 who was travelling to recruit his health. On his 
 return the Bishop writes thus : — 
 
 " Raleigh, North Carolina, 
 "March 23, 1836. 
 
 " My very dear Friexd axd Brother, 
 
 " The present is the first leisure moment I have 
 found since emerging from the press of engagements 
 
122 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 consequent upon a return to my diocese, to inform you 
 of my safe arrival in my own country ; and that I am 
 again in the active discharge of duty, with a good 
 store of health and a fair prospect of enjoying it for 
 many years. This is a mercy which, six months ago, I 
 as little expected as deserved. But that kind interposi- 
 tion of Providence so signal in the early part of my life 
 still attends me, calling for more grateful love, and a 
 more entire dedication of myself to the service of so 
 good a God. Pray, my dear friend, that I may have 
 power from above to e^dnce a zeal and fidelity in some 
 good degree answerable to my solemn obligations, and 
 to the great account I must one day give to Him who 
 has invested me with so high a trust. 
 
 "As I turn with delighted thoughts to the dear 
 friends I left in England, it sometimes makes me sad to 
 recollect that an ocean rolls between us, and that I can 
 have little hope of ever again taking you by the hand. 
 Still the fact that I have seen you, and know from an 
 actual interchange of views and feelings how deeply 
 you sympathise with our infant Church, and how nobly 
 and successfully you are contending for the faith once 
 delivered to the saints, cheers me greatly under the 
 burthens of an arduous office, and adds brightness and 
 joy to the prospect of being one day united to you all 
 in bonds of holy fellowship above. O, my brother, let 
 us pray and strive for the glorious consummation, to be 
 vouchsafed through the blood of the covenant to the 
 faithful and the pure in heart ! 
 
 " I send the journal of our last general Convention. 
 Should you have one, do me the favour of sending it 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, B.D. 
 
 123 
 
 to my good friend, Lonsdale, with my very best regards. 
 When my Convention Journal is out, I will send you it ; 
 you may be interested in knowing something of my 
 labours. 
 
 " Present me affectionately to my good friend, Mrs. 
 Home. With affectionate regards, 
 
 " Your friend and brother in Christ, 
 
 "L. S. Ives. 
 
 " Please direct anything to me to the care of Bishop 
 Doane, Burlington, New Jersey. Do let me know, as 
 you can find time, the changes that may take place 
 relating to Church or State. Our eyes are now turned 
 with painful interest to glorious Old England. 
 
 « L. S .1." 
 
 Bishop Chase remained in tliis country about six 
 months. By his own wish he passed Easter Sunday 
 with my father. " I shall have great pleasure," he 
 wrote, " in being allowed to spend Easter with you, to- 
 morrow, and receive the blessed Sacrament at your 
 hands." 
 
 The following is his letter on leaving England : — 
 
 " Portsmouth, April 21, 1836. 
 
 " Very dear Friend, 
 
 " The present is almost the first moment of 
 leisure I have enjoyed since I received your kind part- 
 ino; note in London. To the sentiments of Christian 
 love expressed in it, my heart has, amidst all the 
 
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 REMIXISCEXCES OF 
 
 hurry of getting off, continually responded. How 
 could it be otherwise ? when I know you to be the 
 first who welcomed me to dear old Enoland, and amono; 
 the last who linger on her shores, to lift up the hands in 
 prayer for blessings on me as I take my last leave of 
 the white cliffs of Britain. Sweet to my grateful 
 bosom will be the remembrance of your many favours ; 
 and sweeter still is the hope that we shall meet again 
 in a better world. 
 
 I am waiting the arrival of the vessel from 
 London, which is to take me to my native land and 
 beloved diocese. She was to be here yesterday, but 
 the wind which blew hard from the west prevented. 
 This morning it is nearly a calm, and uncommonly 
 pleasant. Perhaps there may spring up in a few hours 
 a favouring breeze. If so, I may be called 'on at a 
 moment to be ready. How emblematical this to what 
 will take place at the close of life ! May the hope 
 which I now indulge of soon seeing the face of those 
 dear to me incite me to pray for that hope, which, when 
 founded on Him who, in the great deep is able to save, 
 is sure and stedfast ! 
 
 " Farewell, farewell, dear brother, 
 
 " Philander Chase." 
 
 On Sept. 20, 1836, Dr. Van Hengel,* as president 
 
 * Dr. Van Hengel is Professor of Theology in the University of 
 Leyden. A work of his, entitled Annotata in Loca nonnulla Novi Testa- 
 menti, was referred to as early as 1 834 in the seventh edition of the 
 Introduction. It is there stated to be a grammatical commentary on 
 seventeen of the most difficult passages in the New Testament. His 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 125 
 
 of the " Societas Hagana pro vindicanda Religione 
 Christiana/' notified to my father his election to be 
 a corresponding member of that society. Shortly after, 
 a frequent correspondence sprang up between them, 
 kept alive by the interchange of their several publica- 
 tions, which form the cliief subject of their letters. 
 A specimen of this correspondence will be given on a 
 future i^age. 
 
 chief other publications are Latin commentaries on the Epistles to the 
 E^mans and the Philippians. in which he says he has endeavoured to 
 preserve more elegance of style than is usual with theologians. 
 
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 EEMINISCEXCES OF 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 Chaplaincy to the Mayoralty — Corporation Sermons — Part of the "In- 
 troduction" abridged at Calcutta — Letter to the Rev. S. C. Wilks — 
 Coronation Sermon — Copy presented to the Queen — Eighth Edition 
 of the " Introduction " — Letters from the Bishop of London ^nd the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury. 
 
 "In 1836 — 7 I was Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, 
 " my revered friend the late Mr. Alderman Thomas 
 " Kelly." 
 
 My father's engagements did not allow him to 
 reside at the Mansion House, nor to dine there except 
 on public occasions ; he was, hoAvever, invariably present 
 at breakfast, when he conducted family worship for the 
 household ; availing himself of the assistance of Arch- 
 bishop's Sumner's " Exposition of the Gospels." My 
 father preached the sermons usually devolving on the 
 Chaplain to the Mayoralty. 
 
 These were, the Spital Sermon, preached on Easter 
 Tuesday, March 28, 1837, on " The Character and 
 Conduct of the First Christian Church," from Acts ii. 42, 
 " And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' 
 doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and 
 in prayers." 
 
 A sermon preached before the Judges, in the Cathe- 
 dral Church of St. Paul, April 16, 1837, being the 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 127 
 
 first Sunday in Easter Term, on " Jewish and Christian 
 Privileges compared," from Dent. iv. 7 — 9, "AMiat 
 nation is there so gTeat,*' &c. 
 
 A sermon preached before the Judges, in the Cathe- 
 di-al Church of St. Paul, on Sunday, May 28, 1837, 
 being the first Sunday in Trinity term, on " Christian 
 Diligence," from John ix. 4, " I must work the works 
 of him that sent me, while it is day ; the night cometh, 
 when no man can work." 
 
 A sermon preached before the Corporation in the 
 Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, September 29, 1837. 
 Of this sermon my father has left the following 
 account : — 
 
 " The sermon on ' Patriotism a Christian Duty ' 
 " was delivered on ]Michaelmas Day, 1837, pre^^ously 
 " to the election of a Lord flavor for the ensuino- 
 " year. As it was expected that much party-spirit 
 " would be elicited at the then approaching election, it 
 " was no easy task to select an appropriate topic ; the 
 " reciprocal obligations and duties of magistrates and 
 " citizens having become not merely trite, but distaste- 
 " ful, from the great frequency with which they had 
 " been produced on such occasions. As I had accepted 
 " the Chaplaincy to the Mayoralty upon the express 
 " condition that there should be no manifestation of 
 " political or party feeling, after mature consideration, 
 " I selected for the theme of my election sermon 
 " ' Patriotism,' or the love of our country, considered 
 " as ^ A Christian Duty.' Text, Luke xix. 41, 42— 
 " * ^^^len he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept 
 " over it,' &c. Having remarked in the introductory 
 
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 KEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " paragraph, that a patriotic spirit may glow with 
 " equal fervour and sincerity in the breast of a 
 " mechanic, a labourer, or a servant, as in that of a 
 " commercial man, a manufacturer, or a magistrate of 
 " the highest rank, I proceeded to develope the con- 
 " stituent principles of true Christian patriotism — viz., 
 " generous disinterestedness, combined with undaunted 
 " firmness, reverence for the laws, obedience to the 
 " civil authorities, and sincere piety. The illustration 
 " of these principles was followed by a statement of the 
 " powerful motives which we Englishmen in particular 
 " have to urge us to become patriots, or true lovers of 
 " our country — viz., the perfect equity of the duties 
 " incumbent on everyone, and the obligations we owe 
 " to our country, the distinguished civil and religious 
 " liberties we enjoy, and the authority of Almighty 
 " God presented to us in the Holy Scriptures. In 
 " conclusion, I adverted to the moral responsibility of 
 " the citizens of London in choosing a fit and proper 
 " person for their chief magistrate. 
 
 " Mr. Alderman Kelly is an eminent illustration of 
 " the truth of the Divine declarations — ' Them that 
 " honour me, I will honour ' (1 Sam. ii. 30) ; and, 
 
 " ^ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart 
 
 " In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He will 
 " direct thy paths ' * (Prov. iii. 5, 6). 
 
 An abridgement of the first volume of the 
 
 * Alderman Kelly rose from humble origin, and was distinguished 
 through life by his Christian integrity of character. See an account of 
 his life entitled Passages from the Private and Official Life of Alderman 
 Kelly. London 1856. 
 
THOMAS HARTTVELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 129 
 
 "Introduction" was printed at Calcutta in 1837, in a 
 duodecimo volume, entitled, " Manual of the Christian 
 Evidences." Edited by the Rev. J. Haeberlin and 
 the Rev. S. Mackey. This little book has been very 
 useful among native students at Bishop's College, 
 Calcutta.* 
 
 VTe give the following hastily- written letter from my 
 father to his particular friend, the Rev. S. C. AVilks, 
 in order to illustrate the minute care which the former 
 was accustomed to bestow on everything which he 
 took in hand: — 
 
 *' 4 Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street, 
 "Sept. 25, 1837. 
 
 " My dear Friend, 
 
 " Early in February last I received from 
 " America an early copy of Dr. Robinson's most 
 " valuable (I believe it to be the best extant) Lexicon 
 " to the X. T. As the American proprietors (who two 
 
 years and a half before had been entreated to send 
 " an extra number of copies for the London market 
 
 cheap, as their only security against reprinting here) 
 " disregarded my suggestion made to them through 
 " Dr. R., I early in March gave up my copy 
 " literally gratis to Longman and Co., to be reprinted 
 " for the benefit of English students. They have 
 " presented me with a few copies for presents to my 
 " friends. I have put a copy in sheets into my binder's 
 " hands, with orders to cold-press it, extra board it in 
 " cloth, and letter it, trimming the top edges &c. 
 
 * A native clergyman addressed to my father in broken English a 
 letter to this effect. 
 
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 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " because it ^vill not admit of binding for the next 
 " twelve months, and to send it home by the end of 
 " this week. And now, my friend, after this long preface 
 " comes the point. I wish to present this auxiliary to 
 " the study of the N. T. to your son, the theological 
 " and classical prizeman of King's College, as a small 
 " memorial of regard from his father's friend. So, 
 " have the goodness to favour me with his Christian 
 " name or names, and I will leave or send the book on 
 " ]\Ionday to Mr. Ellerton, to be forwarded to you 
 immediately : you shall then have the pleasure of 
 " surprising him by presenting the book to him. And 
 " may the great Head of the Church fit him to be an 
 " eminent and useful minister of the glorious Gospel 
 " of the Blessed God our Saviour ! 
 
 " The London reprint of Robinson has been executed 
 " under the critically correct eye of Mr. W. Rivington, 
 " a learned classical scholar as well as printer; and 
 " under the editorial care of Dr. Bloomfield, whose 
 additions are honourably distinguished by being 
 " printed between brackets [ ]. Dr. Robinson's 
 " account of his book is as honest as it is modest ; so 
 " that, mutatis mutandis, it w^ould serve you for the 
 " basis of an article. I compared with him some of 
 " Bloomfield's addenda. They are of no great moment, 
 " but Bloomfield has (Dr. R. says) bestowed very great 
 " faith as an editor. I do not agree with that part of 
 " Bloomfield's preface in which he says that Dr. R.'s 
 references to texts of N.T. under important w^ords, so 
 " as to supply in some degree the lack of a concordance, 
 is a failure. (These are not his words, but I believe 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 131 
 
 " the substance of them.) If Dr. E. had printed at 
 " length every passage referred to, the book would have 
 " been too large and too costly. AMiile Dr. E. has 
 " consulted all the best foreign commentators, critics, 
 " and lexicographers, he has steered clear of all their 
 " neologism. See, for instance, the word nrvevfjua. 
 " He particularly excels in gi^^ng the shades of 
 " meaning ; his geographical and historical notices, 
 " though brief, are most accurate, and di-awn from the 
 " best sources. 
 
 " Dr. E. has lately been appointed Biblical Professor 
 " at the newly-founded Theological Seminary (Con- 
 " gregationalist) at New York. He is just gone to 
 " Gottingen (where he studied four years) to leave 
 " Mrs. E. (a German lady) and his two children, with 
 " her family ; and then he is going to study the 
 " geography of the Bible for six or nine months in the 
 " Holy Land itself, in order (as he told me) that he 
 " may be the better prepared to lecture his future 
 " pupils in the Holy Scriptures. He has promised 
 " (D.Y.) to spend an evening with me on his return, 
 " and, if I have notice enough, I should rejoice to have 
 " the editor of the far-famed C. O. to meet so learned, 
 " candid, and devout a scholar. 
 
 " Best remembrances to Mrs. AYilks. Write to me 
 " here, as I do not reappear at the Museum until 
 " ]Monday next. 
 
 " Yours affectionately, 
 
 " Tho. H. Horne." 
 
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 On the Sunday after the Queen's coronation, July 1, 
 1838, my father preached his sermon on The Sovereign's 
 Prayer and the People's Duty, from 1 Kings iii. 7 — 10 : 
 
 And now, 0 Lord my God . . . give therefore thy 
 servant an understanding heart," &c. 
 
 My father felt a loyal affection for the young Queen. 
 Many years before, he had seen the little Princess 
 Victoria, when living in retirement near Broadstairs, 
 and delighted to observe her gathering pebbles by the 
 sea-shore ; and when preaching at St. Peter's for the 
 Sea-bathing Infirmary, he was pleased to receive her 
 contribution and to notice her quiet and attentive 
 behaviour in church. His interest was increased by 
 accompanying his friend the Lord Mayor to attend 
 Her Majesty's first Council ; when, although as chap- 
 lain he was not admitted to the Royal presence, he yet 
 had a sight of the Queen, dressed in deep mourning, 
 on her leaving the Council Chamber at the close of 
 the ceremonial. 
 
 When the Coronation Sermon was printed, it was a 
 source of pleasure to my father to have a few copies 
 worked off in quarto, with ornamented borders, and a 
 title-page printed in gold, and to present one of them 
 handsomely bound to the Royal Library at Windsor. 
 A copy of his letter on the occasion to Her Majesty's 
 Librarian, the late J. H. Glover, Esq., has been 
 preserved : — 
 
 "Rectory House, Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street, 
 " Aug. 18, 1838. 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 " I have the honour to offer to Her Majesty's 
 " gracious acceptance, with my most dutiful respects. 
 
THOMAS HAKTWELL HOEXE, B.D. 133 
 
 " a copy of a Discourse delivered on occasion of Her 
 " jNIajesty's Coronation. Having the happiness to be 
 " the Minister of a Parish, whose inhabitants are ani- 
 " mated by the best sentiments of Loyalty to Her 
 " Majesty, and of reverence for the laws, I most gladly 
 " availed myself of that auspicious event to draw more 
 " closely together those Sacred Ties, which unite the 
 " Throne, the Altar, and the People." 
 
 " I have the honour to be, sir, 
 
 " Your very obedient servant, 
 
 " Thomas Hartwell Horne." 
 
 A few days after the following reply was received : — 
 
 "Windsor Castle, Aug. 23, 183S. 
 
 " Sir, 
 
 " I have had the honour to submit the Sermon 
 wliich you preached on the occasion of Her Majesty's 
 Coronation to the Queen, who has been pleased most 
 graciously to accept it. 
 
 " Her Majesty was at the same time pleased to com- 
 mand me to convey to you her entire approbation of 
 the manner in which you have treated the subject, and 
 to state how very sensible Her Majesty is of your 
 attention. 
 
 " I am, sir, 
 
 " Your most obedient servant, 
 
 " J. H. Glover, 
 
 " H. Libr." 
 
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 EEMIMSCE^fCES OP 
 
 In the spring of 1839 my father published the eighth 
 edition of the " Introduction." 
 
 The following letter from the Bishop of London was 
 received on the occasion : — 
 
 "London House, March 1, 1839. 
 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " I am very much obliged to you for your kind 
 attention in sending me a copy of the new edition of 
 your ^ Introduction to the Study of the Scriptures,' a 
 work which has done great service to the Church, and 
 for which the younger clergy have had great reason to be 
 thankful to you. I speak more particularly of them, 
 from having had opportunities of knowing how greatly 
 they have been profited by your labours ; but I would 
 not be understood as implying that the clergy alone 
 have benefited by them. 
 
 " Believe me, my dear sir, 
 " With much esteem, 
 
 " Yours very faithfully, 
 " C. J. London. 
 
 " The Eev. T. Hartwell Home." 
 
 In the eio^hth. edition of the " Introduction " the 
 Bibliographical Index was considerably enlarged, and 
 formed a fifth or additional volume. It was published 
 separately, under the title of " A Manual of Biblical 
 Bibliography." We subjoin a letter from the Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury which illustrates more than one 
 branch of my father's labours at this time : — 
 
THOMAS HARTTTELL HORXE, B.D. 135 
 
 " Addiugton, Dec. 31, 1839. 
 
 " My dear Sie, 
 
 " I always have pleasure in receiving any new 
 publication of yours, in the conviction that the intention 
 will always be good, and the execution able. It appears 
 to me that in the Review which I received at this place 
 on Saturday, you have proved your point against all 
 gainsayers. I look upon you as a rare pattern of in- 
 dustry : among all my acquaintance I know no one who 
 makes so much use of time, and turns it to such good 
 purpose. 
 
 " Your report of your parochial labours gives me much 
 satisfaction ; there can be no doubt that real good is 
 effected by plain discourses addressed to the understand- 
 ing and feelings of the working classes, on the subjects 
 which you have enumerated, and at a time more parti- 
 cularly when such pains are taken, by writers not 
 wanting in ability, to pervert their faith and corrupt 
 their morals. 
 
 " I am glad to find that your parishioners have con- 
 tributed so handsomely to the Society for Building 
 Churches and Chapels : if only half the parishes in 
 England would exert their liberality in equal propor- 
 tion to their means, our great associations for pious 
 purposes would be nobly supported. 
 
 "I trust that many returns of this season, which 
 awakens serious thouo'hts in the minds of all o-ood 
 Christians, will find you in full enjoyment of health. 
 
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 KEMIXISCENCES OF 
 
 with undiminished exertion of your energies in the 
 best of causes. 
 
 " I remain, my dear sir, 
 
 " Your faithful servant, 
 
 " W. Cantuar." 
 
 The " discourses " above referred to were an ex- 
 tended course of lectures on Christian duties, delivered 
 on Sunday evenings, and continued, with the exception 
 of festivals, for nearly nine months. 
 
 The " Review " was an article in the Church of 
 England Quarterly Review, entitled The Principles of 
 Popery developed in a Juridical and Historical Investig a- 
 Hon of the Gunpowder Conspiracy. It was afterwards 
 reprinted. Another learned friend writes in reference 
 to this Review : " You have done good service by 
 your article on Popery ; in which there are many im- 
 portant facts well brought together and ably dis- 
 cussed." 
 
 At the formation of the Parker Society my father 
 joined the Committee, of which he continued an active 
 member till the completion of the series. 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HOKXE, B.D. 
 
 137 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 Appeal for Jubilee College — Usefulness of the "Introduction " — Spanish 
 Translation of Romanism — Mariolatry — Williams's Catechism — 
 Letters from Mr. Leeves, Professor Bambas, Rev. C. CEconomus, 
 A convened Sceptic, and the Bishop of Exeter. 
 
 DuRiXG the year 1840 my father received the follow- 
 ing appeal for help from Bishop Chase : — 
 
 Savannah, Georgia, U.S. 
 " April 2, 1840. 
 
 " Rev. axd very dear Sir, 
 
 " As it was through you the first idea of found- 
 ins: Kenvon CoUesfe for the benefit of Ohio came into 
 my head, even so by you I hope to succeed in found- 
 ing and building up another equally necessary Institu- 
 tion in Illinois, 600 miles still farther westward, in the 
 almost immeasurable regions of the Mississippi YaUey, 
 
 " It will, I trust, give you pleasure to read the ac- 
 companying printed Hues. If from what I have said, 
 and what you from other sources know, of my sacrifices 
 and trials, you can frame an article in aid of the good 
 work, you would make me still more 
 
 " Your grateful friend 
 
 " And faitliful servant, 
 
 " Philander Chase.* 
 
 " The Rev. Tho. Hartwell Home." 
 
 * The printed lines " were entitled " A Plea for Jubilee College, 
 established bj- Bishop Chase, in Peoria County, Illinois, for the education 
 
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 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 Many were the applications received by my father 
 at different times, from poor ministers and students, 
 
 of ministers of Christ, and youth of both sexes, in the Primitive Faith 
 and Worship." 
 
 We cannot forbear extracts from this document: — 
 
 " The undersigned has reason to be very grateful to his friends and 
 former pupils in Mississippi and Louisiana, and to the friends of religion 
 and learning, whose hospitality he is now enjoying in South Carolina 
 and Georgia, for their donations to Jubilee College; and if the friends 
 of the Church of Christ in the Middle and Northern States would be 
 equally munificent, that Institution would begin immediately to flourish." 
 
 " For all these manifold and very great favours, the undersigned feels 
 indebted solely to the undeserved mercy and good providence of God." 
 
 " God enabled him under circumstances of very great discouragement 
 [in 1817], at his own expense to go westward to seek for Christ's sheep 
 that were scattered abroad and wandering without a shepherd. God 
 enabled him. to found the first diocese of a Protestant Church beyond 
 the Alleghany Mountains, and to overcome the most powerful obstacles in 
 the great work of obtaining means to found a Theological Seminary 
 in Ohio." 
 
 "To crown this plan, God enabled him to purchase, at a low rate, 
 eight thousand acres of land, and by placing the Institution thereon, to 
 enhance its value, and thus lay the foundation of an ample revenue. To 
 carry this great design into effect, God enabled him, by mortgaging his 
 own estate, to establish a credit, to hire hands, to erect mills, to purchase 
 goods, and personally to superintend and direct the whole, and, when 
 funds were exhausted, to appeal to his countrymen for aid." 
 
 " Thus, by the labours of faith, God enabled him to found the Ohio 
 Seminary, Kenyon College, Ross Chapel, and other buildings on ' Gam- 
 bier Hill,' Ohio; and while doing so, God enabled him and his family to 
 live in cabins and the meanest apartments, that the professors and teachers 
 might occupy better dwellings, as he could erect them for their benefit." 
 
 " The undersigned, in 1834, was called by Providence to take charge 
 of another new diocese, not for a rich salary, or even a competent sup- 
 port, but, as in Ohio, for the pleasure only of labouring />ro Ecchsia Dei, 
 for the Church of the living God, without the promise or even expecta- 
 tion of any earthly recompense. This call God enabled him to accept, 
 and the vast state of Illinois was committed to his spiritual charge. 
 Great as was the work, yet the promise stood on record, ' Jehovah 
 Jireh,' God will provide. And God did provide! The domain was 
 purchased, and for joy and gladness the nascent College was named 
 Jubilee.'" . , . . 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 139 
 
 both at home and abroad, for the gift of a copy of the 
 " Introduction." 
 
 These requests he generally granted. Some of the 
 letters that passed on such occasions are preserved, 
 and were highly valued by my father. The following 
 extract of a letter from Guernsey, received this year, 
 will serve as a specimen : — 
 
 "I am a poor preacher of the Gospel of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, labouring statedly with a small con- 
 gregation of poor people, ^\dthout making any claim on 
 them for support, and providing for myself by the labour 
 of my hands. I am very fond of the study of God's 
 word, and have spent Vvdiat I could save in my trade 
 in the purchase of books to assist me in it. Some time 
 since, I procured your ' Protestant Memorial,' and have 
 read it with much pleasure and profit." 
 
 The writer goes on to request a copy of the " Intro- 
 duction " at a reduced rate, saying that he had saved 
 eighteen shillings towards the price. Keferences to 
 character were added. The letter of thanks for the 
 presentation of a copy concludes thus : — "I love the 
 work of the Lord Jesus, and would rather be entirely 
 engaged in it, had I but fifty pounds per annum, than 
 be deprived of it and live upon thousands. He has 
 crowned my feeble efforts in the conversion of souls in 
 every place where I have been stationed. In returning 
 
 "May God pardon the past, and give grace to do His will in future, 
 and thus save our beloved country, for Jesus Christ's sake ! Amen. 
 
 « (Signed) P. CHASE, 
 
 " Bishop of Hlinois. 
 
 " Savannah (Georgia), March 25, 1840." 
 
140 eemixiscejStes of 
 
 my sincere thanks to you for your invaluable work, 
 I beg to say you have done more than I expected. 
 And while I feel grateful to the Father of all mercies, 
 who has disposed you to confer so great a favour on me, 
 may He fulfil His word : ' The liberal soul shall be 
 made fat : and he that watereth shall be watered also 
 himself. ' " 
 
 In 1840 my father's little work, entitled Romanism 
 contradictory to the Bible, was translated into Spanish 
 by the Rev. William Harris Rule, D.D. (who was then 
 residing at Gibraltar as a Wesleyan Methodist Mis- 
 sionary), for the benefit of the Spanish members of his 
 cong-reo^ation. It was also circulated in the South of 
 Spain. The Spanish title is as follows: — "El Ro- 
 manismo Enemigo de la Santa Biblia. Obrita escrita 
 in Ingles por el Rev. T. H. Horne, M.A., y traducida 
 al Espanol por el Rev. Gr. H. Rule.* En la qui se 
 demuestra que el Dogma de la Iglesia Romana, segun 
 ne halla en los documentos mas autenticos de la dicha 
 Iglesia, esta diametralmente opuesto a la Doctrina de 
 la Divina Revelacion. En la Imprenta de la Biblioteca 
 Militar de Gibraltar, a Costa de la Sociedad de los Es- 
 tados Unidos de America. 1840." My father much 
 prized his copy of this Spanish translation, and deposited 
 it in the library of the British Museum. 
 
 Towards the close of this year he wrote an article 
 
 * Mr. (now Dr.) Rule, was then labouring with great energy, tempered 
 with prudence, not only among the English, but also among the Spanish 
 population of Gibraltar and its vicinity, as may be seen by his work en- 
 titled. Memoir of a Mission to Gibraltar and Spain. London 1844. 
 
 My father sent him fifty copies of the Protestant Memorial for distribu- 
 tion among the English population. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 J41 
 
 for the Church of England Quarterly, of which he thus 
 speaks in a letter to the Rev. J. Allport, dated Decem- 
 ber 15, 1840: — 
 
 " I have been very deeply engaged in the worship 
 " of the Virgin Mary in and by the Romish 
 " Church. ]My documentary article will appear in 
 " the January number of the ^ Church of England 
 " Quarterly Review.' I have purposely made it docu- 
 mentary for the use of those who are engaged 
 " in the Popish controversy. They may quote my 
 " extracts with perfect safety, as I have most scrupu- 
 " lously given chapter and verse for everything I have 
 " stated. I have also grafted on my article some 
 " curious evidence of the Divine titles of our adorable 
 " Saviour, which have been given to the Popes." 
 
 This article was reprinted under the title of 
 " Mariolatry,* or Facts and Evidences demonstrating 
 the Worship of the Virgin jNIary by the Church of 
 Rome." 
 
 The late Rev. H. H. Norris, of Hackney, thus writes 
 respecting " Mariolatry : " — 
 
 " It contains a body of evidence which no sophistry 
 can invalidate, and which I hope will convince those 
 English Churchmen who indulge the pleasing dream of 
 peace with Rome, that the breach is irremediable, and 
 the very thought of healing it a dangerous delusion." 
 
 An eminent scholar who is yet among us writes 
 thus : — 
 
 * It is right to state that my father, in his articles on Popery, wrote 
 from a sense of duty, and neither received nor desired compensation. 
 The profit, if any, of the reprints belonged to the publisher. 
 
142 
 
 REMINISCEXCES OF 
 
 " It is of vast importance that the doctrines and 
 practices of the Church of Kome should be exhibited 
 by documentary evidence. There must be ' line upon 
 line ' on this subject before the minds of men can be 
 duly impressed with the abominations which have pre- 
 vailed, and do still prevail, in that Church. I most 
 sincerely hope that your valuable contribution to this 
 department of * useful knowledge ' will do good." 
 
 " Mariolatry " was again reprinted at Hartford, Con- 
 necticut, in 1841, with additions and corrections com- 
 municated by my father to the American Editor, the 
 Rev. Samuel Farmar Jarvis, D.D. 
 
 The subject of catechetical instruction at different 
 times much occupied my father's mind. Several small 
 manuscript catecliisms are preserved which appear to 
 have been written during his early years. He had 
 long expressed the intention of writing an " Exposition 
 of the Church Catechism," when his attention was 
 drawn to that of Bishop Williams, of which he pub- 
 lished an edition in 1841, with corrections and addi- 
 tions. 
 
 On this subject my father writes — 
 
 " Dr. Williams published his 'Exposition' in 1688, 
 " while he was Rector of the parish of St. Mildred in 
 " the Poultry, in the City of London. Twelve years 
 " afterwards, his publisher denounced a gross plagiarism 
 " of it by ' John Lewis, Minister of Margate,' in the 
 
 County of Kent, whom he charged with ' changing 
 " it for the worse.' For more than half a century Dr. 
 " Williams's * Exposition ' was one of the publications 
 " of the Society for the Promotion of Christian 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 143 
 
 Knowledge ; but it ceased to be in demand forty or 
 " fifty years since. Having met with a copy of an 
 
 early edition, I was struck with its value as a truly 
 " Scriptural Exposition of the Catechism of the Church 
 " of England ; and I hoped that I might render some 
 " little service by revising it, and supplying such 
 " additional information as might contribute to render 
 " it more extensively useful. 
 
 " Besides collating and correcting Dr. Williams's 
 " Scripture Proofs, numerous supplementary questions 
 " and answers were added, that the youthful catechumen 
 " might fully understand every part of the Catechism 
 " as he proceeded. An Appendix contains brief cate- 
 " chisms on Confirmation and on the Church Festivals 
 " &c. together with a Selection of Prayers for the use 
 " of young persons. 
 
 " This little Manual was dedicated to my parishioners, 
 " in the hope that, with the Divine blessing, it might 
 " aid them in bringing up their children in the nurture 
 " and admonition of the Lord ; and copies were pre- 
 " sented to the (at that time numerous) heads of families 
 " having children, by whom they were most gratefully 
 " accepted. I subsequently introduced this * Exposi- 
 " tion' into the Catechetical Exercises of the children 
 " of our ward schools, which I carried on at St. 
 " Edmund's Church for fourteen years on Sunday 
 " evenings after the second lesson, during the seasons 
 " of Advent or of Lent. The children answered in 
 " little groups of half a dozen, so that no one faltered 
 " from timidity. The congregations listened with deep 
 " interest, especially the parents of the children. 
 
144 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " Arclibishop Howley, in acknowledging the receipt 
 " of a copy of the Catechism, says — ' I thank you for 
 " your attention in presenting me with a copy of your 
 " improved edition of Bishop Williams's Catechism, 
 " and thus making me acquainted with a very valuable 
 " little work, which I do not remember to have seen 
 " before.'" 
 
 At this time my father received a letter from Phila- 
 delphia, notifying to him that at the annual commence- 
 ment of the University of Pennsylvania, he had received 
 the honorary degree of D.D. 
 
 We subjoin a communication from Greece: — 
 
 "Athens, Dec. 16, 1841. 
 
 Rev. and dear Sir, 
 
 " I hope you will not think I have entirely for- 
 gotten your letter, dated so long ago as Jan. 29 of the 
 present year, and the little commission you therein 
 charge me with. I waited, however, for the reception 
 of the parcel you wished to be transmitted to the Rev. 
 Constantino CEconomus, together with the volumes of 
 your own books you with so much kindness destined for 
 myself. These reached me with some case from Eng- 
 land, not long ago, and your parcel having been 
 delivered to CEconomus, he has charged me with the 
 enclosed letter for you in reply. AIIoav me to offer you 
 at the same time my best thanks for the Compendium 
 of your ^ Introduction to the Study of the Scriptures,' 
 and the other productions of your pen, which you are 
 so good as to send me, and which I accept with pleasure 
 and thankfulness. The ^ Compendious Introduction ' is 
 
THOMAS H.\RTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 145 
 
 calculated to be extensively useful, and I hope may 
 proye so in my own family, for which you intend it. 
 I am glad to see it has reached the sixth edition, and 
 Avish the time may come when we may see a translation 
 of it in modern Greek. 
 
 I saw Professor Bambas the other day, and asked 
 him whether he had received the copy of your ' Introduc- 
 tion ' which you sent to him. He said that it had safely 
 come to hand, but said that from his multiplied avoca- 
 tions he had not hitherto acknowledged the receipt of 
 it, as he ought to have done. I hope, however, before I 
 close this, to receive and enclose to you a letter which 
 he said he would take the occasion of forwarding under 
 my cover. In this case you will receive at the same 
 time the acknowleds^ement of the two antasfonists in 
 the controversy which has been carried on in Greece 
 respecting the translation and general use of the 
 Scriptures in the modern tongue. Our church at, 
 Athens is now almost finished, and I hope will be ready 
 for consecration by the time a Bishop appears among us. 
 At present our Sunday services are conducted in the 
 British Minister's house. 
 
 " With my renewed thanks for the volumes of your 
 publications which you have kindly sent me, and my 
 prayers that you may see increasing usefulness, arising 
 both from your literary and ministerial labours, I remain. 
 Rev. and dear sir, with respect and regard, 
 
 " Your faithful servant, 
 
 " Henry Daniel Leeves. 
 
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146 
 
 EEMINISCE.\CES OF 
 
 " P. S. I am happy to say that, since writing the 
 above, Bambas's letter to you, which I now enclose, has 
 come to hand. I think you will be pleased both with 
 its composition and with the picture of the good Pro- 
 fessor's mind therein presented. He is a man most in- 
 defatigable in his calling, and lives but to teach, after 
 having taken the chief part in a translation of the 
 Bible, which, though a stone of stumbling and a rock 
 of offence to the chief priests and scribes of the Greek 
 Church, will certainly form an sera in the history of 
 the latter : and when OEconomus is forgotten, Bambas's 
 name will live." 
 
 The Greek letters above referred to are too curious 
 to be omitted. 
 
 'Ef 'A67]uais- Trj i6'. A(KefjL€piov' awfxa. 
 
 Tw ^spaajim 0. A. "Opvrj '^(alpuv, 
 
 'E/c iroXkov rjSrj ')(^p6vov to gov KOfiLcrdfisvos /xiya 
 iTovrjiia, T7)V sis rrjv KpL7LKr)v cnrovZrjv rs koX yvcoatv rwv 
 Ispodv Tpa(j)(ov slaay(ojr)v, oviro) rrjv 6(^£l\o/jl£V7]v 
 aTrsBcoKa aoi 77)9 Bcopsds' Koi vvv Xaws klvSvvsvco KaraKpi- 
 dijvat 0)9 irapa/jLSfjbTjXotys rov KadrjKovros ' si yap airoXoyij- 
 aaadac fiovXrjdsLrjv, ovBsv av srspov sIttslv E')(^oi/jLi, rj 0)9 
 
 aVVs/37J KCL/Jbol T^STTOvOsvaL TOVT aVTO, OTTSp SLCoOs 7roWdKL9 
 
 yvyvzaOai roh dv6p(O7r0L9, sh Tr)v siTLovaav asl Bia to vvv 
 KarSTTSvyov dva^aWofMsvot9 irpa^al tl tcov 8s6vtq)v, \av- 
 OdvsLV kavT0V9 Kara jJUKpov sh TrapdXojov ^paSvTTjra 
 sic^spofjb£VOV9, XvyyvcoOi ovVf ei tl dvOpcoireLov rrrsTTovdat 
 /cat /mot TTLo-TSvcrat d^lwaov, cos, el koI firj tots TrapavTLKa 
 aoi sypa-ylra, co9 irsp S^ttov 7' sxP'^^i t^^^ fispTOL 7' svyvo)- 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 147 
 
 /jlovm, Kal ovhiiTOTS iravaoiJbaL tl/jlojv ts kol az^oficvos 
 avSpa Lspbv koI ao(f)ov, 09 virsp tcov fisylarcov oXtjOslcov 
 TOLavTa Kal roaavra irsTrovrjKS, Koi KariXiTrs tov 
 ^pKTTOV £KK\7}ala dfjaaupov alcovLOV. 
 
 N. Bdfifias. 
 
 Ta^ TTavatSsaLfjiW Kal aocpo) Kvplo) /jLOV, QcofjLa 'ApTvrjWq) 
 "Opv(D, Ka)V(TTavTLVos OiKovofMos )(a[psLV £v ILvpiw. 
 
 Me7aX?; %apts alhsalfiw AoKTcopL Kvpio) AtJ/Ss", oltto- 
 
 BoVTL fjLOL TW^SCOS TTJV TTap' V/JLCOV STTLaToXrjV Kal TCOV IToXv- 
 
 Ti/jLOTarcov ^l^Xlcov tov (^clksXXov. "H/to) Kal irpos 
 T7]V v/jLsrspav yspapav Kopv<^riv tovt avro BrjXa^v, Kal ra9 
 irpovrfKovaas svyapLaria^ svyvco/xovcos clttoSl^ov^. 'Ettt;- 
 vsas TOV ALO[xrjhr]v 6 T\oLrjTr]S, ore ra T£V')(t] 7rpo9 TXavKOV 
 CLfJLsl^wv, sis hftyiia (f)LXi'a9 Kal OLKSLcoascoSy avrsXafis 
 " yjpvcjza yakKZLOdv^ SKaTOfJufioL svvza^olcov.'^ Ilovto to 
 S7T0S ZiKalcDS av, ol/jLai, 7rapo)Br]crai/XL, ajxLKpov viraXXd' 
 ^as, Kal 6 TXavKOS iyco Trpos as tov ALO/xrjhrjv, w cro- 
 (j)(t)TaTS dvBpa)v, fiiKpa fisv Kal ovS* oaov rj/jui^oia t£V')(7J 
 
 TTEfl'^aS, /jLVpLO/Soia Bs Kal TTOXXOV ')(pvaLOV TlfJLLCOTSpa 
 
 Trap* vfioiv dvTLXa^oiv. 'AXX' eVro) Kal Trap i)iuv, ttoXv 
 /jLoXXov 7) Trap* eksIvois, rj avTaXXa^ts (piXias ts SsljfMa 
 Kal Tr]s KaTCL Ssov dydirrjs fxapTvpiov. Et hs Kal "to 
 Zthovai fiaXXov rj Xafi^dvSLV fiaKapiov " 6 O&ios dirscjirjvaTO 
 XoyoSf ToaovTOV vjisls i/iov [xaKapicoTSpOL, oacp Kal yuiKpd 
 Kal /JLTjhsv axs^ov Xa(36vTS9 dvTsEcoKaTS fisydXa. Kal 
 ravra fisv ravTrj. 8g Kal Trptprjv ivTv^cov iQyaad/jirjv 
 
 TTjv (TO(^r)v 2 Of avjypa(f)r]v, Kal vvv hi ttoXv fxaXKov 6av- 
 
 /xd^CO KaTCL TTjV VSC0TdT7]V SK^OaLV SLSp-XpflSVOS, OVTCOS 
 
 dppdv ovaav, Kal irXovTcp iroXv/jLadsias KOficoaav, Kal 
 
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 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 fJLs6oBlKC09 S^r]aK7]fl£V7]Vf Kol TToWo) Tft) /^STpQ) TOLS TOLaVTaS 
 
 {oaas lafxsv) Trpay/jiaTslas tmv vscoTspcov virspTSpovaav, 
 Kal iroXv TO ')(^pr}(TLiJiov toIs fjLSTLovai Traps^ovaav, sv ys 
 T019 KOLVcos ofioXoyovfMsvoLS. K^aXXiaTT) Bs Kal r) ^vvo^jris, 
 £V aiMLKpo) TO fxsya Btaypdcpovaa, olov avBplavros fisyaXou 
 XsTTTOv KOL ')(apLsv aTTSLKovKTfjLa. ToiavTa Xo(j)La Bcopstrat 
 T0L9 spacrrais ! 'AXXa X^^P^' '^^^^ sppcocro, oirdpraVf rjv 
 sXa^ss, £vB6^(os Koa/jLCOv. Kal rov alBsaifjLOP kol kolvov 
 <j)lXov KvpLov TscopyLov TopXtcroova TrpoasLfrs irap ip,ov 
 IJLSTCL iroOov, irapaKaXo). 
 
 Tp tor.'. NoefiSp. aoofxa. 
 
 With the date August 29, 1842, my fatlier received 
 a letter from a stranger, acknowledging the benefit he 
 had received from a perusal of the " Introduction." We 
 subjoin an extract : — 
 
 " Many years ago I read your ^ Introduction to the 
 Study of the Holy Scriptures,' as I would read any 
 other publication. If I recollect rightly, it was chiefly 
 with a view to bibliographical notices that I perused 
 it, as likely to add to my information on that which 
 was then a favourite study. 
 
 Years passed away. I cannot say that I neglected 
 the culture of my mind ; but as regarded religion, I 
 contented myself with a decent observance of its forms, 
 and the cold shade of mere morality. 
 
 " At length in this my forty-third year, the thought 
 that I ouffht no lonorer to leave it to chance whether I 
 believed in Divine Revelation or not pressed on me so, 
 that I determined to examine for myself whether the 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 149 
 
 Gospel of our Saviour Jesus Christ was a truth or a 
 fiction. 
 
 " My enquiries into this being at least honest, as were 
 Lord Lyttleton's, have ended, like his, in conviction : 
 and towards this conviction your work has chiefly con- 
 tributed. 
 
 " I have therefore now, next to God, who desireth not 
 that any should perish, to render to you my thanks for 
 my conversion ; and may He who saw and pitied me 
 when I was, like the prodigal son, afar off, reward with 
 every blessing my earthly guide ' into the ways of 
 pleasantness and paths of peace.' " 
 
 In 1842 my father produced another article in the 
 " Church of England Quarterly Review," an historical 
 sketch of the explaining-away system of Interpretation 
 adopted by Romanists, and by Romanising Tractarians. 
 
 The following note from the Bishop of Exeter occurs 
 here : — 
 
 " Bishopstone, Torquay, April 19, 1843. 
 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " You must not suppose (though my long silence 
 might justify the supposition) that I have been indif- 
 ferent to the value of your ' Mariolatry,' a copy of 
 which you were so good as to send to me. Accept my 
 hearty thanks for it, and be assured of my high respect 
 for your talents, and your employment of them. 
 
 " I am, my dear sir, 
 " Yours sincerely, 
 " H. Exeter." 
 
150 
 
 KEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 Letters on November 5, and Elliott's Delineation of Roman Catholicism 
 — Popery the Enemy and Falsifier of Scripture — Case of Count 
 La Guidara — Letter from the Bishop of Llandaff — Letters to the 
 Rev. J. Allport — Ninth Edition of the "Introduction" — Notices on 
 Psalmody — Letter from Professor Bambas — Popery delineated — 
 Death of Archbishop of Canterbury — Letter from Dr. Tischendorf. 
 
 The observance of N^ovember 5 as a day of national 
 thanksgiving had always received my father's most 
 strenuous support. A communication of his in the 
 " Birmingham Advertiser " is alluded to in the follow- 
 ing letter to the Rev. J. Allport : — 
 
 "British Museum, Nov. 8, 1843. 
 
 " My dear Friend, 
 
 " .... I suppose you read my letter on Nov. 5 
 " in the ' Birmingham Advertiser ' of October 26. It 
 " cost me much time and more labour. I hope it did 
 " good. My text last Sunday morning was Psalm 
 " xliv. 1 (N. B. Act read), ' Israel's deliverance typical 
 " of the greater deliverance by the Lord Jesus Christ,' 
 " which was briefly sketched. 
 
 " Then a brief review of the works wrought by God 
 "in our behalf; 1. In originally sending the Gospel 
 " to our once barbarous, sanguinary, and idolatrous fore- 
 " fathers — perhaps even by Paul himself. 2. Restora- 
 
THOMAS HAKTWELL HOKXE, B.D. 
 
 1.51 
 
 tion of true religion at the Reformation. 3. Detectior. 
 " of conspiracies (not fewer than ten) against Elizabeth. 
 " Armada, and implements of torture now in the Tower 
 " of London. 4. Gunpowder treason. 5. So-called 
 " revolution of 1688. I had a good collection after- 
 " wards for our Charity School. Closing Voluntary, 
 *^ Handel's Coronation Anthem, on a magnificently 
 
 fine-toned organ. 
 
 " In the evening wholly practical, from Rom. viii. 32. 
 " Mr. Mendham gave me two minutes' call yesterday ; 
 " he is looking very well indeed considering his years. 
 
 " Yours most truly, 
 
 "Tho. H. Horne." 
 
 The followino- letter illustrates my father's constant 
 endeavour to promote the circulation of works tending 
 to facilitate the study of the Romish controversy : — 
 
 " 4 Nicholas Lane, Dec. 13, 1843. 
 
 " My dear Friexd, 
 
 " I have a faint recollection that when you 
 " undertook the ' Protestant Joiu*nal,' you did me the 
 " favour of accepting a copy of Dr. John Patrick's vol. 
 " on the ' Devotions of the Romish Church.' If you 
 " have the book, you will render a service to our Holy 
 " Protestant cause by lending it to ]Mr. Stamp [Rev. 
 " T. S. Stamp], the Wesleyan Editor of Elliott's la- 
 " boriously compiled and most comprehensive ' Delinea- 
 " tion of Roman Catholicism.' Drop me a line, that I 
 
152 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " may inform Mr. Stamp (whose work is noticed with 
 deserved commendation in the ' Birmingham Adver- 
 
 " tiser and also say how it can be sent 
 
 " And now a few words about Dr. Elliott's book, 
 " which was printed at New York. Seeing it recom- 
 " mended in a North American Review, I procured 
 " it in the spring of 1842, and at intervals went 
 " through at least tln-ee-fourths of it. The author 
 " wrote it twenty years ago, in the state of Illinois, 
 " where he was surrounded by Papists. After it lay 
 " by him for eight years, he revised and rewrote it, 
 " and finally published it. Like all American books 
 " where many quotations abound, it is replete with 
 " blunders of names, &c. But these are mere specks 
 " on the surface. I enquired who was the editor of 
 " the ^ Wesleyan Methodist Magazine,' and lent the 
 " work to him for a review. An able critique appeared, 
 " I think, in Jan. 1843, which was followed up by a 
 " prospectus (as a feeler) for a reprint. It was en- 
 " couraged. I gave up my copy for the press ; and 
 " having found out two or tln-ee erroneous references, 
 " I urged the imperative necessity of verifying every 
 " quotation, and giving the original of every passage 
 " which is cited — a laborious task, which ^Ir. Stamp 
 " has performed with great industry and success, so 
 that anyone engaged in controversy may confidently 
 " use his quotations ! Of course I have been his privy 
 *^ counsellor, and have lent him whatever I had that 
 " could aid his important task. I rejoice to say that 
 " 3,000 copies of each monthly part are sold 1 The 
 " whole will not, I expect, exceed sixteen or eighteen 
 
THOMAS HAKTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 153 
 
 *^ shillings. He has added various important quota- 
 tions between brackets from the best English writers 
 on particular topics, so as to render Dr. Elliott's 
 work as complete as industry can make it. I valued 
 the American edition, with all its defects, very 
 higlily ; and am thankful . that I have been instru- 
 mental in brino-ins^ so valuable a work before the 
 English public. I have a sketch of the liistory of 
 " the French Protestants to the present time in 
 " the next * Church of England Quarterly.' It is 
 chiefly the peg on which I suspend a few important 
 " facts and evidences, showing the assumptions of the 
 " present Pontiff, and how he carries them out. I 
 " hope it will not prove parturiens mons. In the shorter 
 " notices I have three or four pages on the Lough- 
 " borough and Ashby-de-la-Zouch Protestant Church 
 of England Tract Society, and the new confraternity 
 " of the living rosary. What think you of Papists now 
 " calling their mass-houses parish churches ! ! ! 
 
 " I have also a short critique on the new edition of 
 " Pullen's rare work on the ' Moderation of the Church 
 of England.' ' The Christian's Magazine and ]Monthly 
 "Review,' announced to appear on Jan. 1, 1844, is 
 an uncompromising anti-tractariali journal. The 
 superintending editor is a clergyman ; the sub-editor 
 " a very talented layman, author of various approved 
 " publications. By the way, have you read the account 
 of Sclater's reconversion in the last number, or last 
 "but one, of the C. O. in 1690? I did not write 
 " the article. I only pointed out the materials, and 
 " suggested how it might be done ; and wrote the note 
 
154 
 
 EEMIXISCEXCES OF 
 
 " signed Inquirer. But I must stop. It is fast verg- 
 " ing towards midniglit, and I have been of late 
 " keeping very late hours while at work on Popery, 
 " for which I am somewhat the worse. 
 
 " Yours most sincerely, 
 
 "Tho. H. Horne. 
 
 " The Rev. J. Allport." 
 
 In 1844 appeared two anti-Romish treatises. The 
 one was an article entitled " The Identity of Popery 
 and Tractarianism." It was published in the " Chris- 
 tian's Monthly Magazine and Universal Review " for 
 April 1844, and privately circulated in a separate form. 
 
 The other was entitled " Popery the Enemy and 
 Falsifier of Scripture, or Facts and Evidences illustra- 
 tive of the Modern Church of Rome, in prohibiting 
 the Reading and Circulation of the Holy Scriptures in 
 the Yulo^ar Tono;ue, and also of the Falsification of the 
 Sacred Text in Translations executed by Romanists." 
 It was reprinted in the " Church of England Quarterly 
 Review " for October 1844, and reached a second 
 edition in 1845. 
 
 While my father's pen was thus actively employed 
 against the erroBS of Rome, he was called upon to 
 sympathise with one of its victims, the Count La 
 Guidara,* who is mentioned in the following letters to 
 the Rev. J. Allport : — 
 
 * The Coimt La Guidara, an Italian exile, had for nearly ten years 
 been resident in this country, where he for a time obtained a comfortable 
 maintenance by teaching. Lingering illness, however, had reduced him 
 to extreme poverty, and at the time my father became acquainted with 
 hi» situation, he had exhausted the charities of those Christian friends 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 155 
 
 "4 Nicholas Lane, Oct. 2, 1844. 
 
 " My dear Friend, 
 
 " From the account which Miss Allport gave 
 " you on her return home, you will be prepared to 
 " learn that La Guidara is no more. He entered into 
 " rest last Sunday morning at ten o'clock : and his poor 
 " wife is ill with fatigue and grief. He is to be interred 
 " next Saturday, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I purpose 
 " following him to the grave. Mr. Faulkner, the Rector 
 " of Clerkenwell, generously gave up his fees, and will 
 " officiate in person. He had seen La Guidara repeat- 
 " edly, and assured Mrs. Horne that he had no doubt 
 whatever of his pious and Christian character. While 
 " he was able to converse with Mrs. H., La Guidara 
 " said repeatedly that he prayed to his Saviour to take 
 " him, and that God would give him strength to bear 
 " his pains (which were very acute) without repining. 
 " This evening, a gentleman called on me who had 
 " known Guidara for some time. He assured me that 
 " he had no doubt of the reality of his conversion. 
 " This gentleman will try what he can do to help me 
 " in raising the needful. He further promised to go to 
 " Pentonville to the funeral. Messrs. Nisbet and Co. 
 " have been very kind in consenting to sell (and actually 
 
 of whom he had any knowledge. All that he possessed was a con- 
 siderable number of copies of two little works which he had written on 
 the errors of the Church of Rome, and for which he could not procure 
 any further sale. My father had no time to bestow, and the poor man 
 lived at a distance ; but my mother was his willing almoner, and visited 
 La Guidara constantly during the last few weeks of his life. My father 
 endeavoured to interest all his acquaintance in purchasing the little 
 books, and otherwise materially assisted him. 
 
156 
 
 KEMINISCENCES OP 
 
 " selling, I believe, three or four) copies of La Guidara's 
 " volumes. Seeley also agreed to sell without com- 
 " mission, and Mr. Painter, proprietor of the * Church 
 " of England Quarterly Review.' He reprinted in 
 " the ^ Church and State Gazette ' the advertisement 
 " which I put into the ^ Record ' last week. I also wrote 
 " a little notice, which he printed in the same paper. 
 
 " My article in the ' Church of England Quarterly ' has 
 " been printed as a separate tract. I have sent one to 
 " Mr. Ragg, in the hope that he may cull some pithy 
 " extracts from it. And now, I think, I must have done 
 " with Popery. I have gone through all the topics on 
 " which I was possessed of authentic and documentary 
 " information. They required so much time as mate- 
 " rially to interfere with my other engagements. This 
 " article cost me upwards of three weeks, from seven in 
 " the evening till one in the morning, and I now find 
 " out that I cannot work so long and so late as I used 
 " to do. But it is a blessed cause to labour in. I have 
 " now two sets of winter evening discourses to prepare : 
 " one for Advent, and the other on the private means of 
 " grace (the public means were the subject of last winter's 
 " course). Lent will fall early next year, and I must 
 " bethink myself of a set of subjects for Lent lectures. 
 " Happy if I am but the honoured instrument of any 
 " good to immortal souls. 
 
 " Yours most truly, 
 
 " Thomas Hartwell Horne. 
 
 The article on ' New England Missions ' in this 
 month's ' Christian's Monthly Magazine ' is mine." 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 157 
 
 A few days later mj father writes thus to the Rev. 
 J. Allport : — 
 
 " 4 Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street, 
 " Oct. 5, 1844. 
 
 " My dear Friexd, 
 
 " I returned home from La Guidara's funeral 
 " too late to be able to write by to-day's post. Signor 
 
 Sorelli, who has been established in London as 
 " teacher of languages for twenty years, a truly Chris- 
 " tian gentleman, walked with Mrs. La G. ; an Italian 
 " friend and his wife followed ; Mrs. H. and myself were 
 " next, and the rear was brought up by Mr. Smither 
 " (an Italian merchant, who had known La G. about 
 " three months, and witnessed his growing piety), and 
 " by an Italian friend.* Mr. Faulkner performed the 
 " burial service in a very devout and edifying 
 " manner. I never felt the beauty of it more than I 
 
 did to-day. I was following a Christian brother to 
 " that home, whence he will arise on the morning of 
 " the resurrection to be for ever with the Lord. ]\Irs. 
 " Horne brought Mrs. La G. home w^ith her in the 
 " evening, after settling her affairs at Pentonville. 
 
 " Mrs. La G. is so much exhausted by anxiety and 
 " fatigue that we have taken medical advice for her, 
 " and Mrs. Horne intends to nurse her for a week or a 
 " fortnight, until she is sufficiently restored to under- 
 " take so long a journey. It will indeed be very kind 
 " of you to let her rest a night at your house on the 
 
 way. In the meantime we will endeavour to promote 
 
 * Signor Ferretti, since well known for his exertions in behalf of 
 Italian Female Education. 
 
158 
 
 REMmiSCENCES OF 
 
 " the sale of her late husband's little work to defray 
 
 " the funeral expenses, &c We think 
 
 "it an honour to be instruments in the hand of our 
 " Heavenly Father in contributing to Mrs. La G.'s 
 " necessities and comfort. 
 
 " I remain, my dear friend, 
 " Very sincerely yours, 
 
 " Tho. Haetwell Hokne." 
 
 We add a letter from the Rev. Chancellor Raikes : — 
 
 (No date.) 
 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " I cannot but acknowledge with special thanks 
 the last and not least seasonable service which you have 
 conferred on the Church, by the tract proving the 
 Identity of Popery and Tractarianism : and in convey- 
 ing my acknowledgements for this kind token of recol- 
 lection, let me ask you to take some means for securing 
 the circulation of the Tract itself in the University 
 where these errors chiefly prevail. 
 
 " I cannot but fear that influential persons in that 
 University are deeply imbued with these notions, and 
 covertly but assiduously are at work in disseminating 
 them among the younger members. 
 
 "It is necessary that the persons exposed to this subtle 
 influence should be early made aware of its tendency and 
 real character, and I know few publications more likely 
 to answer this purpose than that which you have sup- 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HOKXE, B.D. 
 
 159 
 
 plied. I rejoice to see that your health and strength 
 continue equal to exertions which never were more 
 necessary than at present. 
 
 " Your very grateful and attached, 
 
 " H. Eaikes." 
 
 The following letter from the Bishop of LlandafF refers 
 to " Popery the Enemy and Falsifier of Scripture : " — 
 
 "Deanery, St. Paul's, Dec. 24, 1844. 
 
 " My dear Sir, 
 
 " I will not defer my acknowledgement of your 
 present until I shall have perused the treatise, wliich 
 I shall certainly do the first moment of leisure I have. 
 Together with my thanks for the personal favour, I 
 must express my gratification at finding you are an active 
 opponent of the mischievous and insidious practices 
 which tend to throw our national church into a state 
 of discord, distracted by controversies frivolous and at 
 best unedifying, and serious only on account of the evils 
 and corruption of doctrine likely to flow from them. 
 
 " I remain, my dear sir, 
 
 " Your obliged and faithful servant, 
 "E. Llandaff. 
 
 " Rev. Thos. Hartwell Home." 
 
 We must bear in mind that, during the long 
 term of years we are now re^dewing, my father was 
 employed five days every week at the British Museum, 
 and that he had to produce two sermons every Sunday 
 
160 
 
 KEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 at St. Edmund's. There is no trace of any new pro- 
 duction during the year 1845, but the following letter 
 to the Rev. J. Allport shows how he was employed : — 
 
 «♦ 4 Nicholas Lane, June 7, 1845. 
 
 My deae Friend, 
 
 " Many thanks for your manly protest which 
 " you sent me in the Birmingham paper some time 
 
 " since The call of Peter to the Apostolate 
 
 " is commemorated on June 29 by our Church. This 
 " year it falls on a Sunday. Do take up your ready pen 
 " in the * Birmingham Advertiser,' and remind the clergy 
 " that they are severally bound by the first canon (which 
 " has never been set aside by any subsequent Act of 
 " Parliament) to preach once a quarter against the Papal 
 " supremacy. 
 
 " Matt. xvi. 13 — 19 is the proper gospel for that day. 
 " What an appropriate text ! I mean to preach upon it 
 " in the forenoon. I have my hands brim full. Messrs. 
 " Longman and Co. have become the proprietors of my 
 " ^ Introduction,' and have requested me to prepare a new 
 " edition immediately. In addition to this I have com- 
 " menced a series of Sunday Evening discourses on the 
 " Acts of the Apostles. I have been cogitating this for 
 
 two years. It will enable me incidentally to refute 
 " Popery and Tractarianism, as well as to bring out the 
 " cardinal doctrines of the gospel. To-morrow Acts iv. 12 
 " is my text. I incidentally attack the Popish and 
 
 Tractarian doctrines of merit and austerities and 
 " penances. 
 
 " Yours most truly, 
 
 " Tho. H. Horne. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 IGl 
 
 " P. S. Archdeacon Hale spoke out most nobly in 
 his Charge this year." 
 
 At this period my father's name headed an address of 
 353 clergymen to the Archbishop of Canterbury against 
 the Maynooth endowment, although he could not be 
 one of the deputation who presented it. 
 
 From another letter to the Rev. J. Allport we 
 learn the progress of the new edition of the " Intro- 
 duction : " — 
 
 Nov. 15, '45. 
 
 " I have just got through the revision of my bibliogra- 
 " phical volume of the ' Introduction.' Xext week I ap- 
 " proach the Apocrypha, not without apprehension from 
 
 the magnitude and importance of the subject. May He 
 " who giveth to all liberally, vouchsafe to me the wisdom 
 
 which is profitable to direct. The mass of evidence 
 
 which I have to sift and marshal before I can write is 
 " very great. I am just going to begin my sermon for 
 " to-morrow evening. 
 
 " Yours affectionately, 
 « Tho. H. Horne. 
 
 " 3 o'clock Saturday Afternoon- 
 " I have not put out my lamp till one or two in the 
 " morning for many weeks, and must not for many 
 " more to come." 
 
 Again : — 
 
 "Feb. 16, '46. 
 
 " Now that I have sent copy to the printer, I must 
 " prepare for Lent Lectures on Wednesday evening. 
 
 M 
 
162 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " How do I wish that some one having leisure, and 
 " money to pay for paper and print, would bring out anew 
 " edition of Cosin's ' Scholastical History of the Canon 
 " of Scripture,' with all the proofs at length, corrected, 
 " and with notes refuting Popish objections; also a new 
 " edition of Sir Humphrey Lynde's ' Via Devia and Via 
 " Tuta,' to be edited in like manner. Though written in 
 " the time of James I., and by a layman, it is one of the 
 " best general treatises against Popery which I ever saw. 
 " But I cannot do either. In fact, entre nous, I am 
 " beginning to feel that my working days, or rather 
 " nights, are drawing to a close. I feel double time to 
 " be necessary for all I do." 
 
 The ninth edition of the " Introduction " appeared in 
 the spring of 1846. 
 
 We here insert a note from the Bishop of Calcutta : — 
 
 "Tuesday Morning, May 5, 1846. 
 
 " My dear Brother, 
 
 "After being delivered of my sermon of eighty- 
 five minutes in an atmosphere ten thousand times worse, 
 though not hotter, than that of India, I hasten to re- 
 turn you my warmest thanks for the copy of your mag- 
 nificent work which India is beginning to appreciate.* 
 May God bless you ! 
 
 " I am your affectionate 
 
 " D. Calcutta. 
 
 « Rev. Hartwell Home," 
 
 * The copy of the "Introduction ' was probably intended for Bishop's 
 College. 
 
THOMAS H,\RTWELL HOEXE. B.D. 
 
 163 
 
 It is almost needless to say that the "Introduction" 
 had long been in the "Index Expurgatorius." A copy of 
 the third edition was however in the Vatican library, as 
 my father was at tliis time told by a friend who had seen 
 it. It was even said that Cardinal Mai had spoken well 
 of some parts of it, and himself possessed a copy of the 
 seventh edition. 
 
 In 1847 my father prepared an article on the 
 " Critical Sources of the Complutensian Polyglott/' 
 published in the fifteenth number of the " Biblical 
 Review," and circulated privately among friends. It 
 appears to have particularly excited the interest of 
 Bishop Kaye of Lincoln, and Dr. Turton, Bishop of 
 Ely. 
 
 During the summer my father also wrote " Historical 
 Notices on Psajmody," which appeared in the " Christian 
 Observer" for October 1847, and was also privately 
 circulated. In the same number he inserted some de- 
 tails respecting the earliest English Missionary Society, 
 "the New England company," in 1649. 
 
 The Bishop of London considered the " ' Notices on 
 Psalmody ' to contain much interesting and useful in- 
 formation ; " and Chevalier Bunsen praises "' the candid 
 spirit and the charity which run through the whole of 
 the Essay." 
 
 At the close of the year my father received a letter 
 from Professor Bambas : — 
 
164 
 
 KEMINISCEXCES OF 
 
 Al^scri/JLS KvpLS, 
 
 'Hf/a)(7ay /us kol t?}j ivvdTr]9 EKhoa-Eoys tov <tov 
 pusydXov Tw TS fisysOst Koi rfj d^ia Trov^/Jbaros' crvva- 
 fyayoov yap ev avro) dTrsrajuLLSvaci) irdaav 6s lav aX'qOsLav, 
 
 TU^SL 'ypCOfJLSVOS SVjJbsOohw, KoX SpfJLTjVELa aa(f)SL, Kal OLTTO- 
 
 hsL^saLV dvavTiXsKTots roL9 ys 0ov\o/jlevols ttjv dXrjBELav 
 dTraOsai rrjs "^vxv^ (X^OaXfiols Kadopav, kol 7rapsBa)Ka9 
 oIoveI aKEVcoTOV Orjaavpov kolvov Travrl rw tov Xpt(7ToO 
 7r\rjp(o/JLaTi. ^Ftvvocov S' sycoyE ifjv sk tov tolovtov ttov^- 
 jiaros ci)(j)E\ELav, ocrj dv Eirj kol avTols tols WvlkoIs, 
 
 ECTTEp SvVaTOV EL9 TaS TOVTGOV y\(t)(Jaa9 /JLEdEpfJLTJVEvOrjVaif 
 
 ^v')(OIJiaL TO) ®sa>, crov etl ^mvtos, sfjLirvsvaat rah KapZiais 
 T(ov BvvajjJvMV Koi rovTO to /xsya sy')(^ELp7jfia, OvBsv yap 
 dhwaTEL irapd tw 0£w tc3 ^ovXo/jleuo) iravras acoOrivaLy 
 Kal Eis sirvyvcao'iv dXrjdslas sXOsiv. 
 
 ^vyvco/JLovcjv aoL ovv sk ^y^^Jp Kal tov BsvTspov virsp- 
 tI/jlov tovtov hcDprjixaTos svSKa, sv)(o/jLat tu> Kvplo) svhvva- 
 fjbovv <TS TTEpl T0V9 Ispovs dy(ova9 fJi'S')(^pL /3lov /jbaKpaloovos 
 £19 Bo^av TOV 6v6/jLaT09 avTOv, Kal (ocjjsXsiav tov irXr^aiovl 
 
 'O <T09 SVyVCOfWVCOV (j)LX09 
 
 N. Bdfi/Sas. 
 
 'El/ 'AOt^vais, 
 
 I A€KefjL€piov [1847]. 
 
 In the " Church of England Quarterly " for January 
 1848, my father printed his "Popery delineated in a 
 brief Examination and Confutation of the Unscriptural 
 and Anti-scriptural Doctrines and Practices maintained 
 and inculcated by the Modern Church of Rome." 
 
 This work was also published separately, and reached 
 a second edition. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, B.D. 
 
 16o 
 
 On February 11 in this year, my father had to 
 mourn the loss of his old and kind friend, Archbishop 
 Howley.* He was among the members present at the 
 next meeting of the Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel on the occasion of passing a resolution of 
 respect to the memory of the Archbishop ; and many 
 years after, when visiting Canterbury Cathedral, the 
 first object of his attention was the Archbishop's 
 tomb. 
 
 We add a letter from the great palaeographer. 
 Dr. Tischendorf : — 
 
 "Leipzig, le 16 mars 1851. 
 
 " Monsieur, 
 
 " Yoila de nouveau un travail que je m'empresse 
 de placer sous votre protection. J'ai cru que ce serait un 
 veritable merite que de composer une telle Synopse 
 Evangelique qui pourrait satisfaire en meme temps aux 
 exigences de la science de la critique, et a la croyance 
 evangelique. Vous verrez facilement la tendance et 
 
 * The following passage is taken from the Speech of the late Bishop 
 cf London, in seconding the Resolutions: — "There is one feature which 
 I think deserves to be spoken of at greater length. ' The courteous 
 attention and considerate kindness uniformly received at his hands.' 
 This is well known to all. And why was it so? It was because he was 
 imbued with the deepest and truest spirit of Christian humility. At 
 my last interview with him, three weeks ago, when there was a temporary 
 improvement in His Grace's health, which inspired others with some 
 hope, but did not, I think, deceive him, — on that occasion I was speak- 
 ing to him of the benefits he had conferred upon the Church, and 
 assured him that the prayers of thousands were offered up on his behalf 
 for his continuance amongst us. He replied, 'I do not know what I have 
 done for the Church. I have done my best. But what am I, a poor 
 sinful creature, that I should be chosen to do anything for the Church 
 of Christ?'"— Co/oriza/ Church Chronicle, March 1848. 
 
166 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 le caractere de la mienne : puisse-t-elle trouver votre 
 assentiment. 
 
 " Yous m'avez beaucoup oblige par votre lettre gra- 
 eieuse du 13 Janvier. Recevez mille remercimeiis pour 
 tous les efforts que vous avez bien voulu faire pour 
 faire apprecier chez vous mes publications bibliques. 
 Yous J avez bien reussi ; I'Angleterre savante occupe 
 une place eminente dans les comptes de mes libraires. 
 Aussi ne pourrions-nous plus rien faire de pareil sans 
 compter sur la liberalite des savans Anglais. 
 
 " Je continuerai a travailler beaucoup ; continuez, 
 monsieur, a j porter votre interet, votre faveur. 
 
 *^Agreez, monsieur, Fhommage du profond respect 
 avec lequel j'ai I'honneur d'etre votre tres-devoue 
 serviteur, 
 
 " C. TiSCHENDORF. 
 
 " Mes compllmens empresses a M. Cureton. Je 
 suis fache qu'il me laisse sans un mot de ses nou- 
 velles." 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 167 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 Usefulness of the " Introduction"- — Letter from the Rev. Dawson Massey — 
 Tract Society's Prize Essays — Failing Health — Letter from Alderman 
 Kelly — Death of the Duke of Wellington — Gresley on Confession — 
 Communicant's Companion — Dr. Davidson. 
 
 Among the many testimonies to the usefulness of the 
 " Introduction " we subjoin two of the most remark- 
 able. 
 
 The following extract was copied by my father; — 
 
 Testimony of William Wirt, Esq., Attorney- General 
 of the United States of America. 
 
 " To Home's ' Introduction,' particularly, he was 
 accustomed to express his obligations, for the comiction 
 of his own mind ; and he never lost an opportunity of 
 commending it to a friend." 
 
 In liis letters to his children, among other books 
 on the subject of religion, he " urged them to the care- 
 ful perusal of Home's ^ Introduction to the Critical 
 Study of the Scriptures.' " * 
 
 * Kennedy's ^Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, Attorney-General 
 of the United States, ii. 388. Philadelphia, 1850. 8vo. 
 
168 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 Extract from a letter of the Rev. Dawson Massey^ 
 Rector of Killeshin, dated June 27, 1851. 
 
 " Permit me to mention a few facts which have 
 fallen under my own eye as testimonies to your great 
 work being owned of God. In 1827 my mind was 
 greatly disturbed by Stackhouse's ' History of the 
 Bible,' in which several infidel arguments are sophisti- 
 cally given and feebly replied to. In a happy hour I 
 met your work, and was more than convinced of the 
 truth and inspiration of the Bible. I was led to prize 
 it above all things, and by the study of it I was 
 induced to forsake the Bar for the Church. 
 
 "In 1829 a clever fellow-collegian of mine one day 
 scoffed at the Bible, and denied its inspiration. I made 
 him read over the table of contejits of your book. He 
 was dreadfully alarmed, and borrowed it to read. 
 Soon after I left for a continental tour, and the night 
 before my departure the young man acknowledged that 
 his scepticism was cured, begged the loan of my large 
 reference Bible, and is now a zealous and successful 
 minister of our Church. 
 
 " At Geneva I met, at the Hotel de la Couronne, a 
 most abandoned Englishman, who on a wet day asked 
 the waiter for a Bible, that he might find amusement 
 from it. After an argument of several hours, in which 
 from your work I answered every one of Voltaire's 
 infidel objections, which the gentleman read from that 
 miserable man's works, the scoffer yielded to the force 
 of truth, and confessed himself vanquished. He then 
 produced a poisoned dagger, with which he said he 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORNE, B.D. 
 
 169 
 
 had intended to finish his miserable existence 
 
 and declared that on the next day it should be consigned 
 for ever to the waters of the lake. That young man 
 nobly and openly confessed his sceptical folly on many 
 occasions. Whilst remaining at Geneva he regularly 
 frequented the church of M. Malan, to whom I gave 
 him a letter, and afterwards became a ' preacher of the 
 faith which once he destroyed.' He now sleeps in 
 Jesus. 
 
 " Very lately the mother of one of our highest 
 nobles consulted me, with many tears, upon her clever 
 son's infidelity. I placed the first volume of your 
 work in her ladyship's hands, and she was consoled : 
 not doubting the efficacy of your work to bring by 
 grace her son to ' his rio-ht mind.' 
 
 " A converted R. C. priest lately declared that the 
 happiest Sunday of his life was that upon which he 
 first met your book, which showed him that the in- 
 spiration of the Bible could be proved independently 
 of the apostate Church of Rome. 
 
 " Ever faithfully 
 
 " Yours in Christ, 
 
 " Dawson M asset." 
 
 During the winter of 1851 — 2 my father suffered 
 more than ever from asthmatic bronchitis, which with 
 little intermission confined him to the house till the 
 spring. 
 
 The following letters to the Rev. J. Hambleton, 
 Incumbent of the Chapel of Ease, Islington, while 
 
170 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF 
 
 they allude to his indisposition, illustrate the manner 
 in which he still endeavoured to prosecute his literary 
 labours : — 
 
 "4 Nicholas Lane, Lombard Street, 
 "March 19, 1852. 
 
 " My dear Friend, 
 
 " Spared once more to take up my pen, — after 
 " some necessary letters of business, and contributing 
 " a short notice or two of valuable works on Popery, — 
 " how can I better employ a few minutes than in 
 " offering to you my best thanks for all your kind and 
 " punctual transmissions of Eclectic Questions during 
 " the winter months, when my health for years has 
 " prohibited me from attending the meetings. For 
 " two days and two nights the doctors all but gave me 
 " over, with an attack of inflammation of the bronchial 
 " tubes of more than usual extent and malignity. But 
 " God graciously blessed their skilful treatment and 
 " Mrs. Home's most assiduous and aflectionate nursing 
 " (night and day for nearly a fortnight), to the injury 
 " of her own health, which, I am thankful to say, is 
 
 now a trifle better. I am now very slowly convales- 
 " cing. Though not yet permitted entirely to leave 
 " my bed-room, I am allowed to go into another room 
 " for three or four hours in the day ; and I am looking 
 " forward in the hope that some time next week I 
 " may be permitted to descend a story lower, and 
 " re-enter my study for a few hours in the day, after 
 " nearly a month's absence. But until milder weather 
 
 comes I must not think of going out. 
 
 " Under these circumstances, as my visits to the 
 
TIIOM.\S HART WELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 171 
 
 " Eclectic must necessarily be uncertain — not to say 
 " ^ few and far between' — I thinlc the time is arrived 
 " when it is my duty to become an emeritus associate, 
 " and make room for some more worthy brother, who 
 
 will feel it a privilege to attend. I have come to this 
 " conclusion after long consideration; and in an- 
 
 nouncing my retirement to the brethren, add to the 
 " favour by presenting to them my Christian regards 
 " and best thanks for all their kindnesses. 
 
 " During my thii'ty years' membership of the Eclectic 
 " Society, it has been a source of much instruction 
 
 and enjoyment, besides that the sight of Christian 
 
 brethren is most enlivening. Assure them that I 
 " shall not cease (as I have specially done every 
 " Saturday morning since I have been a member) to 
 
 oifer fervent supplications for the Divine blessing on 
 " their pastoral labours, studies, duties, and Eclectic 
 " Meetings. 
 
 " What a mercy it is that, when tugging for breath, 
 " incapable of speech, the mind can at least rest — if 
 " only for a minute or two — on those great truths and 
 " promises of the Gospel, which, the great and good 
 " Dr. Watts remarked to his consolation, are to be 
 " found in short and single verses I The great lesson 
 " which I wish to learn from this visitation is, ^ Be ye 
 " ready,' and ' Be thou faithful unto death.' Though 
 " I can no longer rob my pillow to work for our 
 " Reformed faith, I hope to do a little, with the Divine 
 " blessino;, before I sro hence and be no more seen. 
 " Hoping to hear that you are mercifully restored to 
 " somewhat, at least, of your wonted health and useful- 
 
172 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " ness, I remain, my dear friend — such an one as Paul 
 " the aged, and sincerely and affectionately yours, 
 
 " Thomas Hartwell Horne, ^t. 72." 
 
 " P.S. [This only for yourself, as co-secretary of 
 " Religious Tract Society.] I thankfully add that, 
 " just before I was taken ill, I completed the adjudi- 
 " catory reading of the competing Essays for the 
 " Society's prize of lOOZ. I gave my little flock some 
 " old sermons, that I might devote the evenings of three 
 " weeks (lamp-light) from six till twelve or half-past. 
 " It was a labour of love, but in part a real labour ; for 
 " so minute was the handwriting of the successful 
 " Essayist, and so frightfully crabbed that of the second 
 " best, that my more than septuagenarian eyes were 
 " most sadly tried. I sent one author four well-filled 
 " pages and the other eight well-filled pages of minute 
 " remarks. You can have no conception how writers 
 " against Popery draw at second or third hand instead 
 " of going to original authorities." 
 
 The following letter was written by Alderman Kelly 
 in his eighty -first year: — 
 
 " Streatham Hill, March 20, 1852. 
 
 " Rev. and dear Friend, 
 
 " Your cheering letter on being so mercifully 
 restored as to attend ' a little to business' (be careful) 
 afforded me much satisfaction, and gratitude to our 
 Heavenly Father. He has indeed, in mercy, spared us 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 173 
 
 both of His good pleasure. Non nobis, Domine, — but 
 unto His name give glory, for His loving-kindness 
 vouchsafed to us. He has preserved us to a good old 
 age. The youngest to threescore years and ten, and 
 the oldest even to fourscore years. I trust by the 
 influence of the Holy Spirit I may heartily exclaim, 
 in the words of the Royal penitent, ^ Cast me not off 
 in the time of my old age ; forsake me not when my 
 strength faileth.' And may I also fully realise those 
 heavenly sentiments which you have so pointedly and 
 beautifully expressed in your Christian letter now 
 before me. I pray it may please God to spare you, as 
 His chosen, faithful servant, for many more years of 
 usefulness in His vineyard ; and that we may calmly 
 conclude our pilgrimage in good old Simeon's words, 
 ' Lord, now lettest thou thy servants depart in peace,' 
 &c. 
 
 " My dear friend, with my best wishes and kind 
 regards to your well-beloved and dear wife, 
 
 " Believe me ever, 
 
 " Yours affectionately, 
 
 " Thos. Kelly. 
 
 "Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne, B.D." 
 
 In a letter from my father to the Rev. J. Hambleton, 
 dated September 29, 1852, is the following passage: — 
 
 " I have been doing a little against the hydra-headed 
 " Popery in the forthcoming ' Church of England 
 " Quarterly,' to which I have given ten pages on 
 " Archinard's ' Origines de I'Eglise de Rome.' It is 
 " purely an historical work, but tells well against 
 
174 
 
 KEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " Popery. It has aiForded me materials for proofs that 
 " the boasted unity of the Romish Church is discord, 
 " and her pretended sanctity absolute immorality." 
 
 In another letter to the same, dated November 20, 
 1852, my father thus speaks of the death of the Duke 
 of Wellington, for whose character he had a high 
 regard : — 
 
 " I shall (D.V.) dwell chiefly on the public services 
 " of the late Duke, and conclude my tribute to him with 
 " calling upon my little flock devoutly and gratefully 
 " to remember that it was God alone who raised him 
 " up when his services were most needed, and bestowed 
 " upon him those qualities which enabled him to achieve 
 " and secure such great benefits to our country. Not 
 " unto us, O Lord,' &c. ' For Thy right hand, O Lord, 
 
 " hath dashed in pieces the enemy.' My 
 
 " physician forbade me to be present at St. Paul's 
 
 Cathedral.* Besides my ordinary and confirmed 
 " bronchitis, I have lately been attacked with spasmodic 
 " asthma. The pegs of my tabernacle appear to be 
 " loosening, so that I am but very poorly. I expect to be 
 " a good deal engaged (besides rewriting and correcting 
 " an Advent sermon) in exposing Mr. Gresley's treatise 
 " * On the Ordinance of Confession,' Avhich should 
 " rather have been called auricular confession. I cannot, 
 " for want of time, examine all his catence of quotations 
 " from Church of England authors ; but I think I can 
 " convict him of garbling five or six authors, besides 
 
 wilfully omitting a fine passage in the Homily on 
 
 * "I was on duty, as sergeant of a volunteer corps in the Strand, at 
 the public funeral of Lord Nelson in 1806." 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 175 
 
 " Repentance. He gives qualifications for a good con- 
 " fessor, &c. I think — at least, I hope — I can trace 
 " him to Saint Alphonso Liguori, whose profligately im- 
 " moral teaching has been shown up by ]\Ir. Blakeney." 
 
 From another letter to the same, Jan. 7, 1853, we 
 gather the following : — 
 
 " My first thought with the present new year was 
 
 that it might prove a year of special blessings to the 
 " Eclectic brethren and all other faithful preachers of 
 " the Gospel. I trust this will be your portion. I 
 " hear incidentally of our brother Cadman's most useful 
 " and indefatigable labours in St. George's parish, 
 " Borough. May he have strength equal to his day ! 
 " I consider myself as all but laid aside. I can only 
 " do a little now and then against Popery and Roman- 
 " ising Tractarianism.* With regard to the next Ques- 
 " tion. What lessons may we learn from . . . departed 
 " fathers in Christ ? if I could be present, I should 
 " perhaps say — 
 
 " 1. Learn to imitate their Doctrine ; the Gospel of 
 " our salvation, rightly divided ; Christ the only founda- 
 " tion, and all other grounds of dependence annihilated. 
 
 " 2. Imitate their example, giving no offence, that 
 " the Gospel be not blamed. 
 
 " 3. Imitate their faithfulness in warnino; everv man 
 " as well as teaching every man, that he may present 
 " him perfect in Christ Jesus. 
 
 * The article on Gresler, of which my father ^oke in a former 
 letter, appealed in the Church of England Quarterly for January 
 1853. 
 
176 
 
 KEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " 4. Pray for grace that we may be their followers 
 " who are now inheriting the promises. 
 
 " I remain, my dear friend, 
 
 " Very sincerely yours, 
 
 "Tho. H. Horne." 
 
 In another letter we learn the following : — 
 
 " The account of the Christian Knowledge Society's 
 " biblical labours in this month's (Aug. 1853) * Chris- 
 " tian Observer ' is mine ; it cost me a month's labour 
 " last spring. I have endeavoured to make it as 
 " entertaining as I could." 
 
 During the winter of 1854 — 5 my father was 
 again much confined to the house. He employed his 
 time in preparing for publication " The Communicant's 
 Companion : comprising an Historical Essay on the 
 Lord's Supper, with Meditations and Prayers for the 
 use of Communicants." This little work had been 
 in contemplation for more than twenty years, but want 
 of time had prevented my father from executing his 
 plan. The " Historical Essay " was rewritten from the 
 article Eucharist in the " Encyclopsedia Metropolitana." 
 
 In a letter written during the preparation of this little 
 work, my father thus alludes to his circumstances : — 
 
 " My own health has been failing for the last few 
 " years. I am now somewhat more than seventy-four 
 " and a half years old, and cannot expect to see many 
 " more years. Indeed I think it likely that my little 
 " piece on the ' Lord's Supper,' and perhaps the tenth 
 " edition of my ' Introduction ' (now at press), will be 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HOEXE, B.D. 177 
 
 " my last literary productions. May I be found ready 
 " whenever our ^ Master is come and calleth ' for me." 
 The work appeared in 1855. 
 
 " The tenth edition of my ^ Introduction ' appeared 
 " in 1856. In consequence of representations made to 
 " the proprietors and publishers of my work, that my 
 " very far advanced years, and impaired health, might 
 " render me unequal to the labour of examining and 
 " dio^estino- the great accessions to biblical literature, 
 " made on the Continent since the publication of the 
 " ninth edition ; the revising and editing of the second 
 " volume of the tenth edition was confided to the Eev. 
 " Dr. Samuel Davidson (author of several treatises on 
 " sacred literature) : who altogether ignoring my pre- 
 " vious labours in his preface, instead of editing that 
 " volume with the really requisite additions and correc- 
 " tions, produced a very large and learned volume of his 
 " ovv^n ; in which his views on the inspiration of the 
 " Holy Scriptures, were xot in harmony with my 
 " printed sentiments. Much public dissatisfaction hav- 
 " ing been expressed at this sad dissonance. Dr. David- 
 " son's volume was severed from my ' Introduction,' and 
 " was sold with a separate title-page to those who 
 " approved of his views : and the revising and editing 
 " of another second volume were confided to the Rev. 
 " John Ayre, M.A., who had previously evinced his 
 " competency for the undertaking by his learned and 
 " accurate researches on an important work, which 
 " Messrs. Longman & Co., my publishers, had con- 
 " fided to him ; and whose devout and reverential 
 " sentiments on the Divine authority and inspiration 
 
 N 
 
178 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " of the Holy Scriptures, I rejoice to say, are quite in 
 " unison with my own." 
 
 We need scarcely say that the grief and vexation 
 caused by Dr. Davidson's affair deeply affected my 
 father at this time, and did much to aggravate the 
 disease from which he was suffering. He had often 
 called the " Introduction " " his favourite child," and the 
 mischief which now befel that work was perhaps the 
 greatest misfortune he had ever yet experienced. 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, B.D. 179 
 
 CHAPTEK XY. 
 
 Attention to the Parish — The Young — The Afflicted — Letter from Dr. 
 Van Hengel — Loss of his Wife — Removal from the Rectory — Letters 
 from Dr. Turner — Resigns the British IMuseum — Scottish Ter- 
 centenary — Failing Health — Letters to the Rev. S. C. TVilks — Pastoral 
 Address — Letter to a Grandson — Conclusion of the Reminiscences — 
 Last Illness 
 
 During my father's incumbency at St. Edmund's, he 
 endeavoured to seek the good of the people. On every 
 marriage and baptism, he presented a book or tract 
 suited to the occasion. The Ward School also had a 
 large share of his attention ; and he allowed no engage- 
 ment, however attractive, to interfere with his attendance 
 at its committees. 
 
 To the young people who were confirmed was given 
 a volume of select tracts, bound up with an introduc- 
 tory address, written by my father, and printed for the 
 purpose. 
 
 For the large number of clerks, and others whom he 
 termed his "Daylight parishioners," my father also 
 made some effort, by distributing occasionally a tract to 
 each of them. Whenever he became aware of a case of 
 continued illness, he offered his visits. One poor infirm 
 man he visited every Sunday afternoon, when not ab- 
 
 N 2 
 
180 
 
 REMINISCENCES OP 
 
 solutely confined to the house, during the last five years 
 of his ministry. He also gave a short religious service, 
 to every family who accepted the offer, on the first 
 Sunday after a death. At these times he presented 
 books or tracts suited to the circumstances. Some- 
 times he sent a letter of sympathy to the afflicted 
 family, accompanied with a prayer of his own composition. 
 
 From a copy of one of these we transcribe the fol- 
 lowing. The occasion was the accidental death of an 
 eldest son : — 
 
 " That I have not called on you has been because I 
 " have been unwilling to trespass on your sorrows. 
 
 " Mrs. and yourself have our sincere sympathy. 
 
 " Mrs. Horne and myself know what it is to have lost 
 " a beloved and affectionate child. 
 
 " In your present circumstances, human consolations 
 " are vain ; but let me direct you to the only source of 
 " consolation — the throne of Grace. Think of the 
 " precious promises given by the Father of mercies and 
 " God of all comfort in His Holy Word : ' Call upon Me 
 " in the day of trouble, and I will hear thee.' Think 
 " what encouragements you have to approach the throne 
 " of Grace. Jesus Christ, our blessed Saviour, knew what 
 " sorrow was ; for as man His heart bled, and He wept at 
 " the grave of His beloved friend Lazarus : and thus He 
 " has sanctioned the tears of those who mourn the loss 
 " of beloved relatives and friends. J esus Christ, our 
 "blessed Redeemer, ever liveth to make intercession 
 " for all that come unto God through Him ; and He 
 " has said : ' Ask, and ye shall receive ; seek, and ye 
 " shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.' 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORXE, B.D. 181 
 
 " Let me entreat jou to pour out your sorrows 
 "before God, our heavenly Father. He does not 
 " willingly grieve nor afflict the cliildren of men : all 
 " His chastisements are desio;ned for our good — ' to 
 " humble us and to prove us, and to know what is in 
 " our heart ; whether we will serve Him or not, and 
 " finally to do us good at our latter end.' To help you 
 " in making known your requests to Almighty God, 
 " through Jesus Christ His Son, and our ^Mediator and 
 " Advocate, I enclose a prayer which I have prepared 
 " for you. Do me the favour to accept it ; and may 
 " the Divine blessing attend you both in the use of it. 
 " I remain 
 
 " Very sincerely your friend and minister, 
 
 "Thomas Hartwell Horxe." 
 
 " O Father of mercies, and God of all consolation, 
 " look down with compassion, we beseech Thee, upon 
 " us Thy servants in this our tune of trouble. 
 
 " Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts, and pour 
 " into them the consolations of Thy Holy Spirit. 
 
 " It is indeed of Thy mercies that we are not con- 
 " sumed, because Thy compassions fail not. To Thee, 
 " O Lord, belong mercies and forgiveness, though we 
 " have rebelled against Thee. Thou, O God, knowest 
 " the secrets of our hearts : shut not Thy merciful ears 
 " to our prayers, but spare us, O Lord most holy I O 
 
 God most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour ; 
 " deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death. 
 
182 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " O Thou Lord of All, teach us while we mourn to 
 " bow with submission to Thy hand, which has deprived 
 " us of this earthly comfort. Thou hast encouraged us 
 " in Thy Word to call upon Thee in the day of 
 " trouble, and Thou wilt hear. O Lord, this is our 
 " day of trouble : we plead Thy promise. For Thy 
 " Name's sake, 0 Lord, have mercy upon us, and 
 " enable us to say, with meek submission, Thy will 
 " be done. And though we are bereft of him whom 
 " we loved, yet may we find in Thee, who art the 
 " Father of mercies, infinitely more than in all our 
 " earthly friends and comforts. 
 
 " O Thou great Disposer of all events, give us grace 
 " to hear that warning voice, which solemnly speaks 
 " to us this day : Be ye also ready ; and whenever our 
 "time shall come, may we depart in peace, and fall 
 
 asleep in Jesus. We humbly ask these great mercies 
 " for ourselves, and for the dear children whom Thou 
 " hast given to us, in the name and through the media- 
 " tion of our only Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. 
 " Amen." 
 
 We here insert a letter, the latest which has been 
 preserved, from Dr. van Hengel, who, like my father, 
 had grown old in sacred studies — 
 
 Viro Doctissimo, Plurimum Venerando Thomce 
 Hartwell Home, S.P.D., W. A. van Hengel. 
 
 " Ante dies aliquot, Vir Clarissime, quartam, quam 
 in lucem edideram, Interpretationis Epistol^e ad 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, B.D. 
 
 183 
 
 Romanos partem, seu Fasciculi IV. octo denuo 
 exempla Roterodamum misi, ut ad te pervenirent. 
 Dicere nequeo, quantum Divinse debeam benignitati, 
 quce mihi, septimum et septuagesimum astatis annum 
 jam emenso corporis usque animique vires prsebet ad 
 persequendum laborem, quo me Literis, ad quas nullum 
 aliud Pauli scriptum aequiparari potest nonnibil certe 
 lucis afferre confido. Tibi gratias ago ob officia erga 
 me prjestita, quum duos viros doctissimos excitares ad 
 indicium hoc de labore publice faciendum, quo ille 
 popularibus tuis innotesceret. Et novum hunc Fasci- 
 culum percurrens oculis, me assiduum videbis in 
 operibus Angiorum sermone scriptis pretio suo sta- 
 tuendo : quod si per continentem a Literarum Sacrarum 
 interpretibus raro fieri solet, non iniquum me esse 
 opinor petendo, ut in Britannia mei quoque ratio 
 habeatur. Quo magis vero lectoribus Pliilologiae, id 
 est. Critics et Exegeticje studium curse cordique est, 
 eo plura spero iis placitura esse. In hac enim tanquam 
 res^ione totus babitans omnia alia mitto, ut religiose et 
 candide ad interpretandi regulas exigam quidquid ab 
 antiquo Viri Docti commentati sunt ad mentem inclyti 
 auctoris explicandam. * * * 
 
 " Gratulor tibi, tetate quoque jam provecto, singu- 
 larem fortunam, vel potius studium a Deo inditum 
 tali scriptorum genere popularibus tuis consulendi. 
 Sed in novum juvenilis vigoris documentum incidi, 
 quum te nuper ad lisec tempora perduxisse intelligebam 
 prteclarum tuum Introitum in Literas Sacras, cujus 
 octavam editionem me munificenti^e tu^ debere 
 
184 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 nunquam obliviscar. Tii vero hac incolumltate asqua- 
 libus et posteris saluberrima ut quam diutissime 
 gaudeas, cum omnibus bonis exoptare non desinam. 
 
 *' Scrips! Leidffi, 16 Martii, 1857.'* 
 
 My fatlier's severest earthly sorrow was noAV to 
 come, in the loss of my mother. Her health had for 
 some time been gradually declining; but to spare his 
 feelings she had always concealed her weakness, and 
 my father appeared scarcely conscious of her critical 
 state. The last illness was mercifully short, and when 
 she was gone I never heard him complain. Of my 
 mother he wrote thus : — 
 
 " The friend of the fatherless, the friendless, and the 
 " destitute, she was my prudent and upright counsellor 
 " in difficulties ; my comforter in sorrow ; and my most 
 " aifectionate nurse in sickness, while she edified me by 
 " her consistently pious and upright example. Know- 
 " ing in whom she believed, she entered into that rest 
 " which remaineth for the people of God, July 7, 1858, 
 
 and in the 75th year of her age. ' Blessed are the 
 " dead that die in the Lord ! ' 
 
 " I cherish the memory of my departed treasure 
 " with fond and grateful affection ; and I am looking 
 " forward in humble hope, that I may be reunited with 
 " her in that blessed state of joy and felicity which is 
 " reserved for all believers, who are delivered from the 
 " burden of the flesh." 
 
 My father deposited her remains at Nunhead Ceme- 
 tery, and placed the following inscription over her 
 grave : — 
 
THOMAS HARTTTELL HORXE, B.D. 185 
 
 SACRED 
 TO THE MEMORY OF 
 
 SARAH 
 
 THE BELOVED WIFE OF 
 THE REV. T. H. HORNE 
 WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 
 JULY 7, 1858, AGED 74 YEARS. 
 
 " Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord." 
 
 After my mother's departure, the charm of the 
 Rectorv-House was o^one. Believino- that his health 
 would be improved by removing to another part of the 
 town, my father accepted the offer of a parishioner to 
 occupy the house in Nicholas Lane. In a letter to the 
 Eev. S. C. Wilks, he thus speaks of his removal. 
 
 " 47 Bloomsbury Square, Sept. 21, 1849. 
 
 " My dear old Friend, 
 
 " You will be surprised to see my change of 
 " address, as above. After twenty-five years' residence 
 " in the Rectory-House, I have the kind, prompt, and 
 " cordial consent of the parishioners to my removal, ac- 
 " companied by their best wishes for my better health in 
 
 " any house I might select INIy next remove I 
 
 " expect will be my final remove to the house appointed 
 " for all living. 
 
 " Happy if — with my latest breath 
 
 " I may but gasp His name, 
 " And when my voice is lost in death, 
 
 " Exclaim — Behold the Lamb ! " 
 
186 
 
 EEMIXISCEXCES OF 
 
 " I am now witHn four weeks of completing my 79th 
 " year. What a pilgrim age ! ... . My kindest re- 
 " membrances. 
 
 I remain, my dear friend, 
 
 " Very sincerely yours, 
 
 " Tho. H. Horne." 
 
 We here add part of a letter from the Rev. Dr. 
 Turner,* nearly the only one which has been pre- 
 served. 
 
 "Seminary (New York), Jan. 4, 1860. 
 
 " Rev. and dear Sir, 
 
 " I thank you very cordially for your kind and 
 friendly letter, and also for your valuable volume in- 
 troductory to the Old and Kew Testaments, edited by 
 the Rev. Mr. Ayre. I am very glad that your book 
 has come out again under a different form from that in 
 which it was presented by Dr. Davidson. Its useful- 
 ness (especially to students and young clergymen), by 
 which it has been so long characterised, will no doubt 
 continue and increase. It is earnestly to be hoped that 
 
 * The Rev. Samuel H. Turner, D. D., died after a short illness, Dec. 2 1 , 
 1861. He had completed a fifty years' ministry, and had been forty- 
 three years a Professor at the General Theological Seminary, New York. 
 Dr. Turner was the author of many Theological works. In a letter in- 
 tended to announce his decease, but which arrived after my father's 
 death, it is said: " He built up that Institution, and his name was to it 
 a tower of strength hard to replace. The church in this country con- 
 siders his death a great calamity, and those who mourn for him are not 
 confined to our communion. Though he had very nearly obtained the 
 age of seventy-two years, his eye was not dimmed nor his natural force 
 abated, and he went to his home a true soldier of God." 
 
THOMAS HART WELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 187 
 
 the Scriptures, especially the New Testament, will be 
 more and more studied, and by the aid afforded from 
 the books themselves. If the principle implied in the 
 last remark were more thoroughly acted on, readers 
 would get a clearer view of the inspired writer's mean- 
 ing, and what seems obscure or extreme in one place 
 would become clear or rightly modified by associating 
 it Avith another. I have constantly endeavoured in my 
 course of scriptural instruction to impress this senti- 
 ment on theological students. More than a year ago I 
 published a little book intended for all thoughtful 
 readers of Scripture, in order to apply and illustrate 
 the principle. And I do believe that a careful study 
 of it, which would comprise an examination of all 
 the texts referred to, would convey sound scriptural 
 doctrine on the true protestant principal, theoretically 
 admitted, however imperfectly acted on, that scripture, 
 not pope, or church, or human authority, is the sole rule 
 
 of faith With many recollections of your kind 
 
 friendship, and best wishes for your comfort and happi- 
 ness, 
 
 " I remain. Rev. and dear Sir, 
 " Most truly and respectfully yours, 
 
 " Samuel H. Turner. 
 
 " The Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne, D.D." 
 
 My father retained his habits of activity till the last. 
 He hoped that by residing near the British Museum he 
 would be able to continue his attendance there; but 
 his strength failed, and at last he was compelled to 
 resign. In taking a retrospect of the period since 
 
188 
 
 EEMINISCEXCES OF 
 
 tlie commencement of the New Catalogue, he writes 
 thus : — 
 
 " On tliis New Catalogue I was engaged as senior 
 " Assistant Librarian during the remainder of my 
 " much-loved employment at the British Museum, 
 " where I had ample means of testing the accuracy of 
 " Mr. Panizzi's plan. During upwards of thirty-six 
 " years I had the happiness to enjoy the friendship of 
 " all the officers in the library. And on Michaelmas- 
 " day 1855, the junior assistant-librarians presented me 
 " with a handsome silver inkstand, ^ as a mark of affec- 
 " tion and esteem by his colleagues in the department 
 " of printed books, on his entering the thirtieth year of 
 " his services in the British Museum.' 
 
 " At length, failing health and far advancing years 
 " rendered it my duty to tender to the trustees my 
 " resignation of the office at Christmas 1860. 
 
 " I have been happy (in regard to the parish) in the 
 " assistance of my valued friend and curate, the Rev. 
 " Joseph Benjamin M^Caul, whose assiduous pastoral 
 " efforts have been and are highly acceptable to the 
 
 parishioners. May our adorable Redeemer, the great 
 " Head of the Church Universal, vouchsafe his con- 
 " tinned and most gracious blessing to all his studies 
 " and labours ! " 
 
 Subjects connected with the Reformation were still 
 near my father's heart. He was gratified at receiving 
 an invitation to be present at the Tercentenary of the 
 Scottish Reformation, celebrated at Edinburgh in 
 August 1860. Although too feeble to be present, he 
 gave his hearty concurrence, and was interested in 
 tracing the order of proceedings from day to day. 
 
THOMAS HAKTAYELL HORXE, B.D. 
 
 189 
 
 The last sermon my father was able to preach was 
 on Sunday morning, September 23, 1860. It was on 
 the occasion of the death of a parishioner. The text 
 was Matt. xxiv. 44 : " Be ye also ready, for in such an 
 hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh." 
 Significant subject! Although he fondly hoped to 
 preach again, and sometimes on a Saturday purposed 
 going to church, when the following day came, he 
 always felt unable to venture out. He, however, pre- 
 pared a sermon weekly, and made it a request that his 
 friend and curate the Rev. J. B. M'Caul would deliver 
 the discourse, as an affectionate message from their 
 aged minister to his flock. This practice was persevered 
 in for many months. When at Herne Bay in July and 
 August 1861, he was several times able to be present 
 at j)ublic worship, which he much enjoyed, and, as it 
 proved, for the last time to receive the Lord's Supper. 
 The country air revived him, but not so much as in 
 former years. His critical works were now exchanged 
 for hymn books, and large type devotional manuals, 
 which were chiefly valuable on account of the precious 
 texts which they brought to view in portable form. 
 
 My father often grieved to think that he was no 
 longer able to take up his pen in defence of Christi- 
 anity. 
 
 Some notes written to his friend, the Rev. S. C. Wilks, 
 illustrate his state of feeling at this time. 
 
 " Sept. 13, 1861. 
 
 " My deae, dear Friend, 
 
 " You will be glad to hear that Mr. Ayre's 
 " edition of my second volume is well spoken of in all 
 
190 
 
 REMIXISCEXCES OF 
 
 " our best theological journals. The eleventh edition 
 " is now on sale. If you turn to any edition of my 
 " first volume, in the chapter on Prophecy (Messianic 
 " Prophecies), which was published only forty years ago, 
 " in a note I have refuted the infidel application of 
 " Isa. liii. to Jeremiah, which Dr. Williams has 
 " revived in the so-called * Essays and Reviews.' 
 " Baden Powell's revival of Hume's ' Objection to 
 " Miracles ' was (by anticipation) refuted in the same 
 " volume and at the same time." 
 
 On September 19, he writes to the same : — 
 Many thanks for your brotherly letter .... 
 " By book-post, I send you Smith's ' Better Land,' a 
 " little book, but great on account of its subject. 
 " When I am very weak, and gasping for breath at 
 " times, I can read one of his short papers in this book 
 " or in other of his publications. I have given away 
 " many copies of his ' Welcome to Jesus.' His books 
 " are all well printed, and sell for fourpence a copy. 
 " He is a Baptist minister at Cheltenham, but there is 
 " no sectarianism in his precious little books. Best 
 
 and Christian remembrances to Miss Wilks. 
 
 " I remain, my dear friend, 
 
 " Affectionately yours, 
 
 " Thos. Hartwell Horne." 
 
 Two days later he added : — 
 
 " I cannot help thinking my doctor's sentence is but 
 " too true. ' Yes ! you must consider your public work 
 " as done.' My only hope is that I may sometimes be of 
 
THOMAS HAKTWELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 191 
 
 a little use as a sort of ^ chamber counsel.' I am 
 " very poorly, and I can't conceal it. My breath is 
 " very short, though I sometimes get a little relief 
 " from chlorodyne." 
 
 Then, in reference to a projected change of abode, he 
 adds : — 
 
 " I shall not remove this winter from this house, 
 unless 0117' heavenly Father should call me hence.'''' 
 As my father was no longer able to address his people 
 from the pulpit, he had long resolved in his mind the 
 plan of sending them a pastoral letter.* He now 
 executed his design. With the date of October 21, 
 1861, he printed an address, accompanied with a short 
 sermon on 1 Tim. i. 15. A copy was sent to every 
 occupant of a house or part of a house in the united 
 parishes. 
 
 My father's solicitude for the welfare of all his 
 family was undiminished. 
 
 We add a letter to one of his grandsons. 
 
 * " Methinks your late pastor being dead, yet speaketh. It is but a 
 few months ago, having completed the twenty-eighth year of his ministry 
 among you, he addressed to you a pastoral letter. He expressed him- 
 self very grateful for your courtesy to him, your liberality, your brotherly 
 love, and he summed up in earnest language the Gospel truths he had 
 been accustomed to deliver to you from this pulpit. It was a 'faithful 
 saying,' he said, and ' worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came 
 into the world to save sinners.' He demonstrated the sure ground on 
 which the message rested, and he implored you not to be satisfied with 
 admitting its truth, but yet more, to avail yourselves of its gracious offer- 
 He pointed out the danger of neglect, and described the ineffable glory 
 to which Christ's faithful servants will be admitted. Surely you will keep 
 this word of admonition in lasting remembrance." — Rev. J. Ayre's 
 Memorial Sermon. 
 
192 
 
 EEMINISCE^^CES OF 
 
 " 47 Bloomsbury Square, Oct. 22, 1861. 
 
 " Many thanks, dear K ,for your kind note on 
 
 " the 19th inst. I have been very ill, and to-day 
 " am almost too poorly to write. 
 
 " I often think of you, and pray that your health 
 " may be strengthened, and the Divine blessing may 
 " be vouchsafed to your academical studies. Remember 
 "Luther's advice. — 'Bene ordsse est bene studuisse.^ 
 " Daily and fervently implore the Divine blessing, and 
 " ' THEN continue in these things,' as St. Paul wrote 
 " to his son Timothy. It was by the union of prayer, 
 " faith, and study, under every disadvantage that I 
 " was enabled to produce my ^ Introduction.' I have 
 " just printed a pastoral letter to the parishioners. I 
 " purpose to send you a copy next week by book- 
 " post. 
 
 " ' The Lord be with thee, and with thy spirit.' 
 " I remain your affectionate grandfather, 
 " Thos. H. Horne." 
 
 The concluding paragraph of his reminiscences is as 
 follows : — 
 
 " I have now (November 1861) entered on my 
 " eighty-second year. My greatly impaired health, 
 " and far advanced years, tell me to arise and depart 
 " for this is not my rest (Micah ii. 10), and that I 
 " am living only from day to day. During my long 
 " career I have found the Christian Life to be a war- 
 " fare : yet I desire to record it to the praise of Divine 
 " grace, that, ' In the multitude of sorrows ' — per- 
 
THOMAS HART WELL HORXE, B.D. 193 
 
 " sonal, relative, literary, and pastoral. — ' Thy comforts ' 
 " (0 Lord !) 'have refreshed my soul ' (Psalm xciv.). 
 " Yes : ' I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and 
 " delivered me from all my fears ' (Psalm xxxiv. 4) ; 
 " wherefore ' My song shall be of the loving-kindness 
 " of the Lord ' (Psalm Ixxxix. 1). 
 
 " I am now ' waiting all the days of my appointed 
 " time, until my change come ' (Job xiv. 14). 
 
 Little remains to be added. My father's cough and 
 shortness of breath made silence necessary to him, but 
 at intervals he enjoyed his favourite little books, and 
 after casting his eye on a page, his upward glance told 
 the mental aspiration within. " I am in the Lord's 
 " hands, I am living from day to day," was his constant 
 remark to those who visited him. He would regret his 
 inability for connected reading or continuous thought. 
 One day he said, " I have only been able to collect my 
 " thoughts for a few minutes ; so I prayed that God 
 " would have mercy upon me ; and then for all the 
 
 " ]\I 's and H 's, and all their dependencies, 
 
 " that God would make them the subjects of His 
 " Kjngdom of Grace here, and of His Glory hereafter ; 
 " and then for the spread of the Redeemer's Kingdom 
 
 upon earth." Another time he said, " I have been 
 " reviewing my life, what I have written. I trusted 
 " that I was sincere in my efforts to do good, in 
 " attempting to stem the progress of Popery and 
 
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194 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF 
 
 " infidelity. I trust God will accept me for the sake 
 " of Jesus Christ. 
 
 " ' Other refuge have I none, 
 
 Hangs my helpless soul on thee ; 
 Leave, ah ! leave me not alone, 
 Still support and comfort me.' " 
 
 Verses of this his favourite hymn my father 
 frequently repeated during his last few weeks on 
 earth. His nurse often heard him in the ni^ht. 
 
 These nights had been for many months times of 
 distressing restlessness. For years he had, from diffi- 
 culty of breathing, been unable to bear a recumbent 
 position. Frequently every effort to give relief was 
 unavailing ; but he was always sensible of the attemj)t, 
 and thankful for every attention. 
 
 Although my father had been for months in a state 
 of great debility, his last illness was less than a fort- 
 night. He persevered in the habit of calling his little 
 household together for family prayer every night, 
 whenever he had breath to speak. His last effort was 
 on Sunday evening, January 19, though too weak to 
 kneel in prayer. The following day he took up his 
 pen for the last time to write a short note of business. 
 Every remedy failed in arresting the progress of this 
 final attack. The last day he rose from his bed was 
 Wednesday the 22nd. It was already past noon when 
 the task of dressing was accomplished. 
 
 He said, " I pray God to forgive me for spending so 
 " many hours in bed," enquired after one of his grand- 
 children who had been ill, but noticed little else 
 
THOMAS HARTWELL HOEXE, B.D. 
 
 19o 
 
 during the day. The last effort he made to attend to 
 any worldly affair was on Friday the 24th, when, in an 
 incoherent manner, he gave directions for sending off a 
 monthly remittance of a benevolent nature, which lay 
 near his heart. His eyes were continually closed. 
 
 AYhen Sunday came he was not conscious of the day. 
 In the evening he was with difficulty made aware 
 of Mr. M'Caul's presence. He faintly articulated a 
 blessing. These w^ere his last intellio:ible words ; 
 though he lingered here till the middle of the day 
 on Monday, January 27, when he departed to be with 
 Christ. 
 
 On Monday, February 3, my dear father's remains 
 were deposited in the cemetery at Nunhead, where my 
 mother was already laid. My sister's remains had also 
 been removed tliither on the final closino^ of the vaults 
 at St. Edmund's. The service was read by our friend 
 the Eev. J. B. M'Caul; and my father's unmediate 
 associates at the British Museum, as a mark of respect, 
 joined the family in following him to the grave. 
 
 Two memorial sermons were preached the following 
 Sunday, February 9, at St. Edmund's; in the morning 
 by the Bev. John Ayre, the editor of the last edition 
 of the " Introduction," on Things to be remembered, from 
 2 Peter, i. 15 : " Moreover, I will endeavour that ye 
 may be able after my decease to have these things 
 always in remembrance ; " and in the evening by the 
 Bev. J. B. M^Caul, on "a faithful pastor," from 
 Hebrews xiii. 7, 8 : " Bemember them which have the 
 rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of 
 God : whose faith follow, considering the end of theii- 
 
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106 
 
 KEMIXISCENCES OF 
 
 conversation : Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and 
 to-day, and for ever." * 
 
 The wise old man is gone ! 
 
 His honoured head lies low, 
 And his thoughts of power are done, 
 
 And his voice's manly flow. 
 And the pen that for truth like a sword was dra^\Ti, 
 
 Is still and soulless now. 
 
 The brave old man is gone ! 
 
 With his armour on he fell; 
 Not a groan nor a sigh was drawn, 
 
 When his spirit fled to tell. 
 For mortal sufferings keen and long 
 
 Had no power his heart to quell. 
 
 The good old man is gone ! 
 
 He is gone to his saintly rest. 
 Where no sorrows can be known, 
 
 And no trouble can molest. 
 For his crown of life is won. 
 
 And the dead in the Lord are blest. 
 
 Bishop Doane. 
 
 On Monday, February 10, the first meeting of the 
 Eclectic Society after my father's death; the subject 
 for consideration was "Death under the two Cove- 
 nants." The closing observations of the Rev. John 
 Hambleton are printed by special permission. 
 
 " Yet again, our subject is comforting, under the 
 loss of Christian friends. Here in our Eclectic Society, 
 
 * These Sermons are preserved in the Pulpit " for Feb. 13, 1862. 
 
THOMAS HAETWELL HORNE, B.D. 
 
 197 
 
 since our last meeting, we have lost an old and valued 
 member, our friend and father in Christ, Thomas 
 Hartwell Home. He loved our Society ; he used to 
 attend as regularly as his health and engagements 
 permitted ; he contributed usefully, very specially out 
 of his copious stores of theological knowledge. He 
 was like a living index to books of theology, especially 
 on the Protestant or Trinitarian subjects. As to 
 Popery, he felt that he owed an immense debt of grati- 
 tude to God for preserving him, when a young man, 
 from falling into its trammels, being attracted by his 
 love of sacred music to attend some of their ser\dces. 
 
 " But he discovered his danger, he thoroughly studied 
 their system, and became so convinced of its anti- 
 christian and soul-destroying character, that he would 
 at any time sit up for more than half the night to write 
 an article or book to expose its machinations. He 
 would do the same against Socinianism. He has left a 
 void place amongst our theologians. 
 
 " Then there was always in his contributions to our 
 Society that which was sound and practical, showing 
 the man of piety, the faithful and godly servant of 
 Christ. 
 
 " Only a short time before his death he sent us his 
 brotherly reminiscences. Thus ^the faithful are 
 minished from among the children of men.' ' Your 
 fathers, where are they ? ' Soon we shall follow, but 
 ' to die is gain.' Death will introduce us to the 
 Eclectic Society of heaven, the elect of God, of all 
 ages of time, and of all countries of the world. There 
 
198 REMIXISCENCES OF THOMAS H. HORNE, B.D. 
 
 what sacred fellowship ! There what glorious commu- 
 nion ! To be with Jesus — ' whom having not seen ye 
 love; in whom though now ye see Him not, yet 
 believing ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of 
 glory.'" 
 
 " MARK THE PERFECT MAN, AND BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT : FOR 
 THE END OF THAT MAN IS PEACE." Psal. XXXvli. 37. 
 
 ^' THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING, SHALL 
 KEEP YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS THROUGH CHRIST JESUS." 
 
 Phil. iv. 7. 
 
A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST 
 
 or 
 
 THE EET. T. H. HOEXE'S WOEKS 
 
 INCLUDING ARTICLES IN THE REVIEWS, ETC., AS FAR AS THEY 
 COULD BE ASCERTAINED. 
 
 The unnumbered sermons or essays appeared in 
 periodicals, or, if printed separately, were only for 
 private circulation. 
 
 It may be stated, in addition, that in 1805 Mr. Home 
 commenced, and for nine months edited, " The Trades- 
 man, or Commercial Magazine." Between 1815 and 
 1817 he edited " The Literary Panorama." Between 
 1824 and 1835 he contributed numerous Historico- 
 ecclesiastical Articles to the " Encyclopeedia Metropoli- 
 tana," to which his name is appended in the table of 
 contents to that work ; besides compiling numerous 
 long indexes. 
 
 All the publications in the following List were printed and pub- 
 lished in Loudon, unless specified to the contrary. 
 
 1. A Brief View of the Necessitj^ and Truth of the Christian 
 Eevelation. 1800. — Second edition, 1802. Small 8 vo. 
 
 2. A View of the Commerce of Greece. By Felix Beau- 
 jour. Translated from the French. 1800. 8vo. 
 
200 
 
 CHROIS^OLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS. 
 
 3. An Essay on Privateers, Captures, and Recaptures, 
 according to the Laws, Treaties, and Usages of the Maritime 
 Powers of Europe. By M. de Martens. To which is sub- 
 joined a Discourse, in which the Rights and Duties of Neutral 
 PoAvers are briefly stated. Translated from the French. 1801. 
 8vo. 
 
 4. A Compendium of the Statute Laws and Regulations of 
 the Court of Admiralty, relative to Ships of War, Privateers, 
 Prizes, Recaptures, and Prize-money; with an Appendix of 
 Precedents. 1803. 12mo. 
 
 5. Wallis's Pocket Itinerary ; being a New and Accurate 
 Guide to all the Principal Direct and Cross-Roads throughout 
 England, Wales, and Scotland. 1803. 18mo. Pseudonymous. 
 
 6. A Treatise on Captures in War. By Richard Lee, Esq. 
 Second edition. Corrected, with Additional Notes, by T. H. 
 Horne. 1803. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 7. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer. By Richard 
 Burn, LL.D. Twentieth edition. Continued by William 
 Woodfall, Esq. (but completed and edited by T. H. Horne). 
 1805. 4 vols. 8vo. 
 
 8. The Complete Grazier ; or. Farmer's and Cattle-dealer's 
 Assistant. Together with a Synoptical Table of the Different 
 Breeds of Neat Cattle, Sheep, and Swine. Illustrated by 
 engravings. 1805. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 9. Hints on the Formation and Management of Sunday- 
 schools. 1807. 12mo. Anonymous. 
 
 10. The Holy Bible for the Use of Families. Illustrated 
 from the Works of the most approved Commentators, British 
 and Foreign. Together with appropriate Tables of Weights, 
 Measures, &c. By James Wallis and T. H. Horne. 1809. 
 Crown 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 Mr. Horne took up Mr. Wallis's unfinished work, and compiled the Notes on the 
 Prophets and on the New Testament. 
 
 11. A Reading upon the Statute of Sewers. By Robert 
 CaUis, Serjeant-at-Law. Fourth edition. Corrected and 
 enlarged by T. H. Horne. 1810. Royal 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
CIIKOXOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS. 
 
 201 
 
 12. Bibliotheca Legum ; or, a Complete Catalogue of the 
 Common and Statute Law-books of the United Kingdom, 
 arranged in a new manner. By John Clarke. 1810. 8vo. 
 
 The materials were collected by the publisher, Mr. Clarke ; but the whole were 
 arranged, corrected, and edited by T. H. Home. 
 
 13. A Catalogue of the Library of the Surrey Institution, 
 methodically arranged. 1811. — Second edition, 1812. 8vo. 
 Anonymous. 
 
 14. Librorum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecse Harleianae 
 Catalogus. Edited by T. H. Home. 1812. Folio. 
 
 This Catalogue forms the fourth volume of the Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. in the 
 British Museum, published bv the Commissioners on Public Reconis. The satisfactory 
 execution of the work afterwards led to iNIr. Home's being engaged upon a Classed 
 Catalogue of the Printed Books in the British Museum Library. 
 
 15. An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography; to 
 which is prefixed a Memoir on the Pubhc Libraries of the 
 Antients. 1814. 2 vols. 8vo. 
 
 16. A Compendious Law Dictionary. By Thomas Pott. 
 A new edition, carefully revised, corrected, and enlarged. By 
 T. H. Horne. 1815. 8vo. and 12mo. Anonymous. 
 
 17. An Illustrated Eecord of Important Events in the 
 Annals of Europe dui-ing the years 1812, 1813, 1814, and 
 1815. Folio. Anonymous. 
 
 18. The Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumber- 
 land, delineated in Forty-three Engravings, after the Drawings 
 of Joseph Farington, R.A. ; with Descriptions, Historical, 
 Topographical, and Pictm-esque — the result of a Tour made 
 by T. H. Horne in the year 1816. 1816. Folio. 
 
 19. The History of the Mohammedan Empire in Spain; 
 designed as an Introduction to the " Ai^abian Antiquities of 
 Spain, by James Cavanagh Murphy." 1816. 4to. 
 
 This volume was written in conjunction with John Gillies, LL.D., and John Shaks- 
 peare, Esq., Professor at the East India College. The latter half of this volume was 
 contributed by T. H. Horne, who also edited Mr. Murpny's Arabian Antiquities of 
 Spain, 1816. folio: Mr. M. having died without leaving any materials for the de- 
 scriptions of the engravings. 
 
 20. An Analysis of the Picture of the Transfiguration, by 
 Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino. Translated from the French of 
 S. C. Croze Maignan, by T. H. Horne ; with the Remarks and 
 
,202 
 
 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS. 
 
 Observations of Vasari, Mengs, Reynolds, Fuseli, and other 
 distinguished Artists. 1817. Folio. Anonymous. 
 
 21. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge 
 of the Holy Scriptures ; with Maps and Facsimiles of Biblical 
 Manuscripts. 1818. 3 vols. 8vo. 
 
 The ninth edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. 1846. 
 5 vols. 8vo. 
 
 The tenth edition, by the Author, with the assistance of 
 Samuel Davidson, LL.D., and Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, 
 LL.D. 1856. 4 vols. 8vo. 
 
 In the tenth edition the fifth or bibliographical volume was reluctantly omitted in 
 order to make room for new critical matter. 
 
 The eleventh edition, with the assistance of John Ayre, 
 M.A., and Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, LL.D. 1860. 
 4 vols. 8vo. 
 
 Part of the first volume of the " Introduction " on the Internal 
 Evidences of the Inspiration of the Scriptures, was translated into 
 Romaic, or Modern Greek, by Professor Nicholas Bambas (afterwards 
 of the University of Athens), and published in 1834, at Hermopolis, in 
 the island of Syra, and was largely circulated in Greece. This transla- 
 tion is entitled, 'EawTepiKol 'Evepyeiai rrjs 'Efiiruevcreoos ruu rpacpHv. 
 &€wpia w<^eA£/xcoTaT7j els irdvTa civOpuirov, eK rod 'AyyXiKov fxeTa(ppaa6€7aa 
 vnh N. Bdfx^a, i. e. Internal Proofs of the Inspiration of the Scriptures. 
 A very profitable contemplation for every man. Translated from 
 the English by N. Bambas. Hermopolis, 1834. 8vo. 
 
 Part of the first volume of the "Introduction " was also abridged at Cal- 
 cutta, under the title of A Manual of the Christian Evidences. Edited 
 by the Rev. J. Haeberlin and the Rev. S. Mackay. 1837. 12mo. 
 
 A Welsh translation of the '« Introduction " is intended shortly to be executed under 
 the direction of Mr. T. Williams, Llanidloes, Montgomery. 
 
 22. Deism Refuted ; or, Plain Reasons for being a 
 Christian. 1819. 18mo. — Reprinted at Philadelphia. 1820. 
 12mo. — Seventh edition 1826. 12mo. 
 
 This little volume, with Mr. Home's permission, contributed five tracts to the 
 series published by the London Religious Tract Society, viz. Nos. 316, 318, 319, 321, 
 and 701. 
 
 23. The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity briefly stated 
 and defended, and the Church of England vindicated from 
 
CHROXOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS. 
 
 203 
 
 the Cliarge of Uncharitableness in retaining the Athanasian 
 Creed. 1820. Second edition, corrected, 1826. 12mo. 
 
 24. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law. By Simon 
 van LeeuTven, LL.D. Translated from the Dutch by a 
 Cingalese INIodeliar, or Native Magistrate : collated tliroughout 
 "with Van Leeuwen's " Censura Forensis," and edited, with 
 numerous additional references to the Text-books on the 
 Roman Civil Law, by T. H. Home. 1820. Royal 8vo. 
 Anonymous. 
 
 Nearly the whole edition of this work was sent to the island of Ceylon, where it is of 
 the highest authority. 
 
 25. The Works of WiUiam Hogarth (including the Analysis 
 of Beauty), elucidated by Descriptions, Critical, Moral, and 
 Historical : to which is prefixed some Account of his Life. 
 By Thomas Clerk. 1821. 2 vols, large 8vo. Pseudonymous. 
 
 The engravings were executed by Mr. Clerk, an engraver at Edinburgh ; the Ana- 
 lysis of Beauty edited, and the Life, &c., written, by T. H. Home. 
 
 26. The Works of the Right Rev. William Beveridge, D.D. 
 Bishop of St. Asaph. Edited, Avith a Memoir of the Author 
 and a Critical Examination of his Writings, by T. H. Horne. 
 1824. 9 vols. 8vo. 
 
 27. Outlines for the Classification of a Library, respectfully 
 submitted to the consideration of the Trustees of the British 
 Museum. By T. H. Horne. 1825. Large 4to. 
 
 28. A Catalogue of the Library of the College of St. Ber- 
 nard and St. Margaret, commonly called Queen's College, in 
 the University of Cambridge ; methodically arranged. 1827. 
 2 vols. 8vo. 
 
 This Catalogue is classified according to the principles and order developed in the 
 preceding Outlines for the Classification of a Library. 
 
 29. Romanism Contradictory to the Bible ; or, the PecuHar 
 Tenets of the Church of Rome, as exhibited in her Accredited 
 Formularies, contrasted with the Holy Scriptures. 1827. 
 Translated into Spanish by the Rev. W. H. Rule, and printed 
 at Gibraltar in 1840. 
 
 30. A Compendious Introduction to the Study of the Bible; 
 being an Analysis of the Introduction to the Critical Study 
 
204 
 
 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WOEKS. 
 
 and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. 1827. 12mo. — Re- 
 printed at Boston, Massachusetts, 1827. 12mo. — The tenth 
 London edition, with the assistance of the Eev. John Ayre, 
 M.A. 1862. 
 
 31. A Manual of Parochial Psalmody; comprising Select 
 Portions from the Old and New Versions of the Psalms, to- 
 gether with Hymns for the Principal Festivals, etc., of 
 the Church of England : adapted to the Service of the 
 Church for every Sunday, etc., throughout the year. 1829. 
 12mo. and 18mo. — Forty-first edition, 1861. 18mo. and 
 32mo. 
 
 32. A Selection (by T. H. Home) of Psalm and Hymn 
 Tunes, by the Best Composers, antient and modern ; the 
 whole harmonised and arranged for the Manual of Parochial 
 Psalmody. By Thomas Henshaw. 1829. New edition, 
 1860. Ob. 8vo. 
 
 33. The Conversion of St. Paul a Proof of the Truth of the 
 Christian Revelation. 1831. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 This Tract was written for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 
 
 A Sketch of the History of the Persecutions of the Protestants in 
 Hungary. Extracted fi:oni the Protestant Journal for June and July 
 
 1831. 1831. 8vo. 
 
 A Review of HaUer's Letter on his Conversion to the Catholic 
 Church. Extracted from the Protestant Journal for February and March 
 
 1832. 1832. 8vo. 
 
 The Antiquity of the Eeligion of Protestants, a Sermon on Acts xxiv. 
 14, 15. Extracted from the Protestant Journal for October 1832. 
 1832. 8vo. 
 
 The Nature and Signs of our Lord's Second Advent. An Essay in the 
 Christian Observer for July 1832. 1832. 8vo. 
 
 34. A Manual for the Afflicted; comprising a Practical 
 Essay on Affliction, and a Series of Meditations and Prayers 
 for those who are in sorrow, trouble, need, sickness, or any 
 other adversity. 1832.— Third edition, 1842. 18mo. — Re- 
 printed at Boston, Massachusetts, 1833. 18mo. 
 
CHROXOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS. 
 
 205 
 
 35. Bibliographical Notes on the Book of Jaslier. 1833. 8vo. 
 
 This detection of a gross literary forgery was subsequently inrorporated in the 
 fifrh or bibliographical volume of "the " Introduction to the Critical Study of the 
 Scriptures." 
 
 36. A Concise History and Analysis of the Athanasian 
 Creed, with Select Scripture Proofs, and Answers to some 
 Common Objections. 1834. — Second edition, 1837. 18mo. 
 
 37. The Conformity of the Church of England, in her 
 Ministry, Doctrine, and Liturgy, to the Apostolic Precept and 
 Pattern ; to which is added an Address on the Origin and Use 
 of Confessions of Faith generally, and of the Confession of 
 Faith of the United Church of England and Ireland in 
 particular. 1834. Third edition, corrected and enlarged, 
 1835. 8vo. 
 
 A Sermon on the Excellency of the Liturgy. Published in the 
 Preacher for October 23, 1834. 
 
 A Sermon on the Institution of the Festival of the Xatirity of our 
 Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Pubhshed in the Church of England 
 Magazine, vol, i. 1834. 
 
 38. A Protestant Memorial; comprising — 1. A Concise 
 Historical Sketch of the Reformation ; II. The Antiquity of 
 the Religion of Protestants Demonstrated ; III. The Safety of 
 adhering to the Protestant Church, and the Danger of con- 
 tinuing in the Chui'ch of Rome ; IV. Romanism, or the 
 System of Doctrine and Precepts maintained and inculcated 
 by the Church of Rome, contradictory to the Bible. 1835. 
 — Tenth edition, eighteenth thousand, 1850. 12mo. 
 
 The Afilictions and Triumphs of the Church of Christ. Tercentenary 
 Sermon for October 4, 1835. Pubhshed in the Protestant Preacher, 
 vol. i. 1835. 
 
 39. Landscape Illustrations of the Bible ; from Original 
 Sketches taken on the Spot, and engraved by W. and E. 
 Finden, with Descriptions by T. H. Home. 1836. 2 vols. 
 8vo. and folio. — The Biblical Keepsake; a new edition of the 
 preceding work, with additions and corrections. 1835 — 37. 
 3 vols. 8vo. 
 
206 
 
 CimONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS. 
 
 The Character and Conduct of the First Christian Church. A Spital 
 Sermon preached on Easter Tuesday, 1837. Published in the Protes- 
 tant Preacher, voL iii. 1837. 
 
 40. Jewish and Cliristian Privileges Compared ; Christian 
 Diligence ; Patriotism a Religious Duty : Three Sermons 
 preached before the Lord-Mayor, Judges, and Members of 
 the Corporation of the City of London, in the year 1837. 
 
 1837. 4to. 
 
 41. The Sovereign's Prayer and the People's Duty ; a 
 Sermon on occasion of the Coronation of Queen Victoria. 
 
 1838. 8vo. 
 
 42. A Manual of Biblical Bibliography. 1839. 8vo. 
 
 This is a separate edition of the fifth or bibliographical volume of the eighth edition 
 of the " Introduction to the Study of the Scriptures," and was published by request. 
 
 43. The Principles of Popery developed, in a Juridical and 
 Historical Investigation of the Gunpowder Conspiracy. (Re- 
 printed from the Church of England Quarterly Review). 
 1840. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 44. Mariolatry ; or, Facts and Evidences demonstrating the 
 Worship of the Virgin Mary by the Chiu-ch of Rome. 1840. 
 8vo. Anonymous. Reprinted, with additions and corrections 
 furnished by Mr. Horne to the American editor, the Rev. S. 
 F. Jarvis, D.D., Hartford, Conn. 1844. 8vo. 
 
 45. A new edition, wdth corrections and additions, of Dr. 
 J. Williams's (Bishop of Chichester) Brief Exposition of the 
 Church Catechism, with Scripture Proofs. 1841. 12mo. 
 
 The Redemption of Time. A Sermon pubhshed in the Church of 
 England Magazine. 
 
 The Happiness of the Christian Believer in a Future State. A 
 Funeral Sermon. Private Impression, 1842, 4to. 
 
 An Historical Sketch of the Explaining-away System of Interpreta- 
 tion adopted by Romanists and by Romanising Tractarians. Extracted 
 from the Church of England Quarterly Review for January 1842, 1842. 
 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 Christ Crucified, the great Theme of the Christian Ministry. A 
 Sermon extracted from the Christian Observer for January 1843. 1843. 
 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
CHROXOLOGICAL LIST OF TTORKS. 
 
 207 
 
 The Identity of Popery and Tractarianism. Observations extracted 
 from the Christian's Monthly Magazine and Universal Eeview for April 
 1844. 1844. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 The Liturgy of the Church of England, a Manual of Christian Doc- 
 trine and Spiritual Devotion. A Sermon extracted from the Christian 
 Observer for July 1844. 1844. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 Sketch of the History of French Protestants to the present time. In 
 the Church of England Quarterly Review, 1844. 
 
 An Account of the New England Missions. In the Cliristian's 
 3Ionthly 3Iagazine for October 1844. 
 
 46. Popeiy the Enemy and Falsifier of Scriptm-e ; or. Facts 
 and Evidences illustrative of the Conduct of the Modern 
 Church of Eome, in prohibiting the Reading and Circulation 
 of the Holy Scriptures in the Vulgar Tongue, and also of the 
 Falsification of the Sacred Text in Translations executed by 
 Romanists. 1844. 8vo. Anonymous. — Second edition, cor- 
 rected and enlarged, 1845. 18mo. 
 
 On the Critical Sources of the Complutensian Polyglott. Reprinted 
 from the BibHcal Review, Xo. 15. 1847. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 Historical Notices of Psalmody, extracted from the Christian Ob- 
 server for October 1847. 1847. 8vo. Anon\Tnous. 
 
 47. Popery Delineated; or, a Brief Examination and Con- 
 futation of the Unscriptiu'al and Anti-scriptural Doctrines 
 and Practices maintained and inculcated by the Modern 
 Church of Rome. 1848. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 48. Diplomacy; a Compendious Treatise on the Rights, 
 Privileges, Duties, and Functions of Diplomatic Agents. A 
 new edition. 1848. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 This Treatise originally appeared in the Encyclopasdia Metropolitana, and in the 
 present edition is annexed to Poison's Principles of the Law ot Nations. 
 
 The Duty of Gratitude for National Deliverances. A Fifth of No- 
 vember Sermon. Published in the Pulpit for November 9, 1848. 1848. 
 8vo. 
 
 Christian Missions. A Jubilee Sermon for the Society for the Pro- 
 pagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. PubHshed in the Pulpit, June 
 1851. 
 
 The Statistics and Doings of Popery. An Article in the Church of 
 England Quarterly Review, 1851. 
 
208 
 
 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS. 
 
 The Deaths of Socrates and of Jesus Christ contrasted. A Sermon 
 for Good Friday. Published in the Pulpit, No. 1627. 1852. 
 
 Review of Archinaud, Origines de I'Eglise de Rome. In the Church 
 of England Quarterly Review for October 1852. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 A Review of Gresley on Confession. In the Church of England 
 Quarterly Review for January 1853. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 An Account of the Christian Knowledge Society's Biblical Labours. 
 In the Christian Observer for August, 1853. 8vo. Anonymous. 
 
 49. National Piety and National Prosperity inseparably 
 connected : a Fast-day Sermon. Published by request. 
 1854. 8vo. 
 
 50. The Communicant's Companion ; comprising an His- 
 torical Essay on the Lord's Supper, with Meditations and 
 Prayers for the Use of Communicants. 1855. 32mo. 
 
 Messiah the Light of the World. An Epiphany Sermon. Pubhshed 
 in the Pulpit, No. 1832. 1856. 8vo. 
 
 The Duty of Prayer for the Sovereign. An Accession-day Sermon. 
 Published in the Church of England Magazine for July 17, 1858. 
 
 A Pastoral Letter to the Parishioners of St. Edmund the King and 
 Martyr, and St. Nicholas Aeons (accompanied with a Meditation on the 
 Faithful Saying, 1 Tim. i. 15), from their aged Rector Thomas Hart- 
 well Horne. 1861. Royal 12mo. 
 
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