from the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1882.

[Illustration: Joseph Haydn]


"CROWN HIS HEAD WITH ENDLESS BLESSING."

The writer of this hymn was William Goode, who helped to found the
English Church Missionary Society, and was for twenty years the
Secretary of the "Society for the Relief of Poor Pious Clergymen." For
celebrating the praise of the Saviour, he seems to have been of like
spirit and genius with Perronet. He was born in Buckingham, Eng., April
2, 1762; studied for the ministry and became a curate, successor of
William Romaine. His spiritual maturity was early, and his habits of
thought were formed amid associations such as the young Wesleys and
Whitefield sought. Like them, even in his student days he proved his
aspiration for purer religious life by an evangelical zeal that cost him
the ridicule of many of his school-fellows, but the meetings for
conference and prayer which he organized among them were not unattended,
and were lasting and salutary in their effect.

Jesus was the theme of his life and song, and was his last word. He died
in 1816.

Crown His head with endless blessing
Who in God the Father's name
With compassion never ceasing
Comes salvation to proclaim.
Hail, ye saints who know His favor,
Who within His gates are found.