Heber, Reginald
Reginald (1783-1826), an English bishop. He was a graduate of Oxford, and held various pastorates in England. In 1822 he was made bishop of Calcutta. His diocese included all India. He interested himself in providing educational facilities, especially the College of Bishops at Calcutta. He was a man of industry and unaffected piety, with a poetic turn of mind. He is best known to the western world as a writer of hymns, over fifty of which appear in modern collections. The most noted of his hymns are Holy, Holy, Holy, and the well known missionary hymn, beginning:
From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand.
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand,
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.
From India's coral strand.
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand,
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.
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