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place ; and lie therefore reluctantly sent in his resigna- 

 tion, which was as reluctantly accepted. 



He had done much in his seven years of office. He 

 had secured at least outward reverence before, during, 

 and after the service. He had raised the general 

 standard of the music. He had greatly improved the 

 performance of that music. He had introduced the 

 processional hymn, and the brass instruments. He had 

 brought up the numbers of the choir from four hundred 

 to three times that number. And, incidentally, he had 

 raised the tone of choral music throughout the diocese, 

 and indirectly facilitated its introduction in parishes 

 where it had never been known before. In relinquishing 

 his baton, therefore, he could feel that he had done his 

 work ; but I am sure that he deeply regretted the 

 necessity of doing so, and that he would have been only 

 too glad to continue that work if such a course had 

 been at all possible. 



