The _Holy Year_ was a distinct contribution to the literature of the Anglican Revival. Very inferior in strength and beauty to the _Christian Year_, it was more useful to editors of hymn-books, and it helped to concentrate interest upon the selection of hymns suited to the Church year. Bishop Wordsworth kept closely to the Prayer-book ideal of devotion, and some of his less-known poems are illustrative of its special teaching. A good example is the hymn for the Second Sunday in Advent, which he inscribed, ‘Christ ever coming in Holy Scripture.’ Lord, who didst the Prophets teach To prepare Thy way of old; And by Thine Apostles preach Truths of wisdom manifold; Teach us to behold Thee, Lord, Present in the sacred page, Living Word in written word Coming thus to every age. Coming in King David’s Psalms, In Isaiah’s trumpet-call, Coming in St. John’s deep calms, Coming in the fires of Paul. Coming brightly from afar To the lands with darkness dim, On the Evangelic car Of Thy fourfold cherubim. Thus, O blessèd Lord, when we On Thy Holy Scriptures look, May we ever worship Thee, Coming in Thy sacred Book. So, when as a scroll is past Heaven, and earth with all its strife, We may see our names at last Written in the Book of Life. But the Anglican hymn-writers of the nineteenth century are too many for detailed comment in my fast-failing space. It is a glorious choir, including Joseph Anstice, who had so powerful an influence over Mr. Gladstone in his Oxford days;[179] Dean Alford, Dr. Monsell, Sir H. W. Baker, Dean Stanley, Bishops Mant, How, and Bickersteth, Canon Bright, Godfrey Thring, Canon Ellerton, S. J. Stone, Canon Twells, Laurence Tuttiett, S. Baring-Gould, among the clergy; Mrs. Alexander, Charlotte Elliott, Frances Ridley Havergal, Sir R. Grant, W. Chatterton Dix, among the laity. Sir Henry Williams Baker (1821-77) wrote the lovely sacramental version of Ps. xxiii.: ‘The King of love my Shepherd is.’ One verse he repeated with his dying breath— Perverse and foolish oft I strayed, But yet in love He sought me, And on His shoulder gently laid, And home, rejoicing, brought me. He is one of the simplest and most attractive of hymn-writers, and the inclusion of his hymns in Nonconformist hymnals is a great gain. His greatest service to Anglican hymnody was the editing of _Hymns Ancient and Modern_—a truly epoch-making (or perhaps epoch-marking) book.