Biography of john mason neale christmas
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John Mason Neale
1818-1866
John Mason Neale, an eminent English clergyman and author, the son of Rev. Cornelius Neale, was born in London on Conduit Street January 24, 1818.
His father died when he was five years old. As a boy of fourteen, he began a translation (published in 1833-34) of the poetical writings of Coelius Sedulius, who flourished about 450 AD, and was counted among the founders of Christian hymnody.
Biography of john mason neale christmas
1 Here are two significant lines from one of his compositions—
Great things are they I ask, Thou giv'st great things;
And more he angers Thee, who trifles craves.
As a student books were his passion; he read at meals, read walking, read driving, read everything that came to hand, and what he read he never forgot.
Simeon 2 was still alive when Neale entered Cambridge, and he used to attend his sermons, feeling profound reverence for the great evangelical divine, though the bent of his own mind was already set towards another school.
When Simeon was on