According to, a Wellington tetegiam,.Cap- I ■ tain Reid ibae, been appointed .Acting Ad> jutant of the Auckland volunteer district. -, THE THREEPENNY-BIT" IN THE ;. PLATE. As showing the popularity of the thre* ' penny piece as church money, the Rev. Vi < j A. Sinclair "mentionediin. the Dunedin Gw l . rison Hail on feunday that an anaiyeia of the ' collection of the Sunday evening befot* showed that there were 652 threepenny. • pieces; 190 sixpences. 108 coppers, 60 shil lings, one half-crown! and two florins j- of a total of 1003 oohm HOW A WELL-KNOWN HYMN WAS n COMPOSED. There died , in December, at ihia liofcie is ' New "jersey, the Rev. Dr. Bobert Lowty*. who, apart from the fact that he wae & v«y t , prombeDt Baptist minister, will ever be} .remembcstsdi by tiha 'hymn "Shall We Gftfcher- ' at the Kiver, of which lie was the ttuthol , . One frot day in the summer of 1864, at which timo un epidemic was sweeping through the City of Brooklyn, J)r. Lowly, ihein living at that place, , was sitting in his study think- ~ ing of 4is toany friends and ftcquaintanott • wno tad recently died, when the question , occurred to Ihim, "Shall we sneet again. We are paHing at fhe nvei , of dfc&tih. ' Bhal,l / = we meet at the river of life?" "Seating ; •'■ myself at tiro organ," Dr. Lowry once said, t "simply to give vsnfc to the pent-up emotion* • of the heart, the words and the music of the hymn began to flow out, ds if by in , spiration," and «i t'he following year the j hymn and tn'uuic were given to the world.
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