1 68 MINISTRY AT WARRINGTON, [Chap. IV. 



over. . . . They sang far better than last year, indeed very 

 well, both as regards time, tune, point, expression, etc., and the 

 music was far more difficult. For a choir of seventy children 

 to sing the entire Kyrie and Gloria of the Twelfth Mass, with 

 all the orchestral accompaniments which they had never heard 

 before, and the altos with no leader, in a crowded hot room, 

 and do it correctly all through, is not what every one hears in 

 a common school. But there was no fun this year, and the 

 Quakers complained that it was too much like psalm-singing — 

 no catches. I fancy I had no heart for fun-making. [His 

 mother had died that year.] Our third concert (inauguration 

 of our Philharmonic Society) comes off with the 6 Messiah 7 next 

 Tuesday. In this I have only a subordinate responsibility, 

 with the altos, whom I have been working up at the har- 

 monium." The next year, when reporting his Christmas Day, 

 he says, " We had the morning service [seven a.m. !], and at 

 it baptised one of our youths after a year's probation. I break- 

 fasted with them, and went to Mass, to help in singing Mozart's 

 Seventh, as an acknowledgment for their helping at our 

 concert." 



In 1857 he published two editions (one " four-part," the 

 other "for two trebles only") of his "Songs of Progress and 

 Affection, etc.," viz. sixty-two melodies for the popular little 

 song-book already mentioned (p. 108). Some of these were 

 copied by permission from Hickson's "Singing Master" and 

 Mainzer's Choruses. A few were his own composition. Others 

 were adapted from popular glees : — " Here's a health to all 

 good lasses " continued " Vainly sought in brimming glasses ! " 



1 ' We sober men are met again 

 To sing in cheerful measures " 



was sung to the tune of " Mynheer VanDunck," * etc. In the 



* This is not printed in his Tune-book, perhaps because of the copyright. 

 It is related in a Warrington paper (May 13, 1879) that a glee-party 

 had arranged to sing 1 6 Mynheer Van Dunck " at a Christmas dinner of 

 workmen, but found that they had not a copy of the glee. Knowing that 

 Philip had it, Mr. H. (one of the party) went to ask him to lend it. 

 After some hesitation he said that he could not consistently encourage the 

 singing of those bacchanalian words. Mr. H. offered to sing his tem- 



