288 FRANCIS ORPEN MORRIS 



after his bereavement in renewing his many-sided 

 labours with something at least of his old force 

 and vigour. Whether suggested by the circum- 

 stances connected with this time of sorrow or not I 

 cannot say, but before the close of April 1877 he 

 had compiled a small " Hand-Book of Hymns for 

 the Sick Bedside/' which in after-years he found 

 most valuable in visiting the sick in his parish. It 

 included many of those hymns which were his own 

 favourites, among which may be named, " Art thou 

 weary, art thou languid ; " " O let him whose sorrow ; " 

 " Lead, kindly light ; " " Abide with me ; fast falls the 

 eventide ; " " Rock of Ages, cleft for me ; " " O Lord, 

 how happy should we be ; " " O God, our help in ages 

 past ; " " My life's a shade, my days apace to death 

 decline," the last-named being one which he speci- 

 ally valued. As with nearly all his works, both great 

 and small, he inscribed a motto on the title-page, 

 so in this little compilation also he did the same ; in 

 this case he chose the appropriate words from the 

 89th Psalm " Misericordias Domini in aeternum 

 cantabo." He always in after-years kept a small 

 stock of this " Hand-Book of Hymns " by him, and 

 frequently gave them away in his own parish, and 

 to many outside it also ; they were always much 

 appreciated by the sick. 



At no period did he carry on his crusade against 

 the heartless practices of the vivisectionists more 

 persistently than in the last decade of his life. His 

 greater literary works being then accomplished, he 

 no doubt felt himself freer to agitate for a more 



