Rudyard Kipling, famous English writer, was born in Bombay, India, and died in Sussex, England. After receiving his education in England, he returned to India to engage in journalism and became widely known for his short stories, novels, children’s books, histories, and books of travel. The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded him in 1907, and he received honorary degrees from universities all over the world. His _Jungle Book_, _Just-So Stories_, _Puck of Pook’s Hill_, _Rewards and Fairies_ made him beloved of all children. His writings extol the virtues of clean living and manly duty which make a nation great. However, his passionate patriotism made him pen the unfortunate lines: “O East is East and West is West And ne’er the twain shall meet” a prophecy completely discredited by the world events of recent years. _MUSIC._ HEBRON. For comments on Lowell Mason, the composer of this tune, see Hymn 12. 402. Lord, through changing days, unchanging _W. Russell Bowie_, 1882— This hymn was written originally for the hymn book of the Hill School, of Pottstown, Pa., from which the author graduated as a boy in 1900, and where he afterward taught for a year. The motto of the school is “Whatsoever things are true” (Phil. 4:8). The hymn is built around that theme. W. Russell Bowie was born in Richmond, Va. After taking an A.B. and an A.M. at Harvard and teaching for a year at the Hill School, he spent most of three years at the Theological Seminary of Virginia, near Alexandria, graduating with the B.D. degree in 1908. Part of his senior year was spent in special study at Union Theological Seminary in New York. For many years he was rector of Grace Church (Episcopal) in New York, a post he resigned in 1939 to become Jesup Graduate Professor of Practical Theology and Dean of Students at Union Seminary. He is the author of a number of books, the most widely known of which is the _Story of the Bible_, published by the Abingdon-Cokesbury Press. Among his other volumes are _The Children’s Year_, _The Inescapable Christ_, _The Master: A Life of Christ_ (1928) and _Which Way Ahead_ (1943). In the late 1920’s he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Pennsylvania, but did not accept. _MUSIC._ REGENT SQUARE. For comments on this tune see Hymn 81. BOOK II Hymns for Children 403. A gladsome hymn of praise we sing _Ambrose N. Blatchford_, 1842-1924 Written by the pastor of the Lewin’s Mead Unitarian Church, Bristol, England, for use in a Sunday school anniversary, 1876, in his church. The hymn is suitable for adults as well as for children.