A Beloved Dominie and His Hymns
More than two hundred years have passed since Dr. Philip Doddridge was a preacher in the Calvinist church at Northampton, England. His hearers were composed mostly of humble shoemakers in the town's mills, and not many could read or write. But they listened attentively to their beloved dominie, and after the sermon he would repeat, line by line, a hymn he had just written, which they would sing with devout fervor.