. Edward Hodges, doctor in music of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge; organist ... Bristol, England, 1819-1838; organist and director in Trinity Parish, New York, 1839-1859;. s twice twelvehours, I happened to glance at the heavens, andthere his favourite sign was written : for I instantlysaw the three stars, the chief ones, of the Constel-lation Aqziila. Never has my eye lit upon those three starssince, but the memory of that calm Septembernight, with its threefold tone of grandeur, solemnity,and grief, has come back to me afresh: so near mein that bitter realization of the wonderful unbroken
. Edward Hodges, doctor in music of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge; organist ... Bristol, England, 1819-1838; organist and director in Trinity Parish, New York, 1839-1859;. s twice twelvehours, I happened to glance at the heavens, andthere his favourite sign was written : for I instantlysaw the three stars, the chief ones, of the Constel-lation Aqziila. Never has my eye lit upon those three starssince, but the memory of that calm Septembernight, with its threefold tone of grandeur, solemnity,and grief, has come back to me afresh: so near mein that bitter realization of the wonderful unbrokenrepose ; so far from me—the dawning of his im-mortality ! How Mendelssohns lovely solo comes floatingback to the memory when time, so Divinely or-dered, has dulled the edge of grief, Then shallthe righteous shine—shine—as the stars in theirheavenly Fathers realm. At early morning, Sunday morning, he left us. Let me go ! for the day breaketh ! 220 Edward Hodges His last words, written with his own hand in hisDiary, at Clifton, in July, 1865, were : Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all thedays of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lordfor CHAPTER XVIII. THE CHURCHYARD AT STANTON DREW. Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither have entered into theheart of man the things which GOD hath prepared for them that loveHim. THE retired village of Stanton Drew in thisneighbourhood was, on Friday last, thescene of a solemnity of somewhat more than usualimpressiveness, on the occasion of the funeral of thelate Dr. Hodges, several of whose ancestors lie inthe burial-ground of its Church. There is alwayssomething peculiarly touching when one, longseparated from early connections, who has achievedreputation in the course of a life, is brought, per-chance, from distant regions, to join them in theancestral grave. But in this case the feeling washeightened by the additional circumstance that, asa tribute of respect to the memory of the deceasedand to the hig
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