musical conventions, and published manuals, to form and organize the
choral branch of divine worship, has no parallel, unless it is Noah
Webster's service to the English language.

Dr. Mason died in Orange, N.J., in 1872.


"SWEET IS THE WORK, MY GOD, MY KING."

This is one of the hymns that helped to give its author the title of
"The Seraphic Watts."

Sweet is the work, my God, my King
To praise Thy name, give thanks and sing
To show Thy love by morning light,
And talk of all Thy truth at night.


_THE TUNE._

No nobler one, and more akin in spirit to the hymn, can be found than
"Duke Street," Hatton's imperishable choral.

Little is known of the John Hatton who wrote "Duke St." He was earlier
by nearly a century than John Liphot Hatton of Liverpool (born in 1809),
who wrote the opera of "Pascal Bruno," the cantata of "Robin Hood" and
the sacred drama of "Hezekiah." The biographical index of the
_Evangelical Hymnal_ says of John Hatton, the author of "Duke St.":
"John, of Warrington; afterwards of St. Helens, then resident in Duke
St. in the township of Windle; composed several hymn-tunes; died in