John mason neale biography of donald

British cleric, hymn writer, and translator.

Neale, John Mason, D.D., was born in Conduit Street, London, on Jan. 24, He inherited intellectual power on both sides: his father, the Rev.

He was a man with whom I have always felt a great affinity, because for twenty years he lived and worked in my home town, East Grinstead in Sussex.

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One of the most wonderful and distinctive features of our worship here at St Bride’s fryst vatten of course the outstanding quality of our choral music. The whole function of Christian worship is to enable us to commune with the living God in ways that are creative and life-giving. And human beings have long recognised that one of the most powerful and effective ways of doing that is through music.

One of my great heroes, the Elizabethan präst and writer Richard Hooker, who in the late s was Master of the Temple Church just a few hundred yards away from here, wrote powerfully about the extraordinary capacity that music has to affect our emotions, to change our mood, and to bring us into touch with God in his words:

to ‘carryeth as it were into ecstasies, filling the minde with an heavenlie joy and for the time in a maner severing it from the bodie.’

John and Charles Wesley, the heroes of Methodism also recognised the extraordinary power of music – particularly hymnody – in connecting pe

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London: SPCK,
First published London: J. Masters,

Chapter XX.

WEARIED out by their long march, sadly thinned by their two hundred battles, fettered by the charge of the women and children, strangers in a strange nation, the Catholic army, late on an autumnal evening, was quartered in the little town of Dol. As an attack was hourly expected from the pursuing, for it cannot be called the victorious, army, the wounded and the women were arranged under the walls--the long street being occupied by those capable of bearing arms. The place was not defensible: barriers were formed at the entrance of the town from the side of Dinan, and also from Pontorson; the patrols were vigilant and active; the officers, dem la Rochejacquelein, De Donnissan, Duchenier, Stofflet, made up by increased labour for diminished numbers, and seemed--to use the common expression--to be everywhere.

Rose Le Grand had, since her arrival in the army, attached herself to Madame de Lescure, who still followed it

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John Neale

Birth: London, England
Death: East Grinstead, Sussex

John Mason Neale was born in London, England, the son of a clergyman. He was very interested in the church history. And when he became a High Churchman, he developed a fascination with church architecture.

Neale, with some friends, formed the Cambridge Camden Society, which addressed the dilapidated condition of many English Church buildings. Their recommendations were very influential in Victorian church construction. Neale campaigned against unsightly stoves placed in churches to heat them. And he especially spoke out against box pews where the wealthy families would sit during services, reclining on sofas if they so chose.

Though he'd been ordained in , ill health kept Neale from remaining a parish priest. This allowed him time for his antiquarian and scholarly pursuits, including his writing. He wrote history, theology, travel books, poems, hymns, and