Jeremiah Ingalls was born in Andover, Mass., March 1, 1764. A natural fondness for music increased with his years, but opportunities to educate it were few and far between, and he seemed like to become no more than a fairly good bass-viol player in the village choir. But his determination carried him higher, and in time his self-taught talent qualified him for a singing-school master, and for many years he travelled through Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, training the raw vocal material in the country towns, and organizing choirs. Between his thirtieth and fortieth years, he composed a number of tunes, and, in 1804 published a two hundred page collection of his own and others' music, which he called the _Christian Harmony_. His home was for some time in Newberry, Vt., but he subsequently lived at Rochester and at Hancock in the same state. Among the traditions of him is this anecdote of the origin of his famous tune "Northfield," which may indicate something of his temper and religious habit. During his travels as a singing-school teacher he stopped at a tavern in the town of Northfield and ordered his dinner. It was very slow in coming, but the inevitable "how long?" that formulated itself in his hungry thoughts, instead of sharpening into profane complaint, fell into the rhythm of Watts' sacred line--and the tune came with it. To call it "Northfield" was natural enough; the place where its melody first beguiled him from his bodily wants to a dream of the final Fruition Day. Ingalls died in Hancock, Vt., April 6, 1828. CHAPTER XIV. HYMNS OF HOPE AND CONSOLATION. "JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN." _Urbs Sion Aurea._ "The Seven Great Hymns" of the Latin Church are: Laus Patriae Coelestis,--(Praise of the Heavenly Country). Veni, Sancte Spiritus,--(Come, Holy Spirit) Veni, Creator Spiritus,--(Come, Creator Spirit) Dies Irae,--(The Day of Wrath) Stabat Mater,--(The Mother Stood By) Mater Speciosa,--(The Fair Mother.) Vexilla Regis.--(The Banner of the King.) Chief of these is the first named, though that is but part of a religious poem of three thousand lines, which the author, Bernard of Cluny, named "De Contemptu Mundi" (Concerning Disdain of the World.) Bernard was of English parentage, though born at Morlaix, a seaport town in the north of France. The exact date of his birth is unknown, though it was probably about A.D. 1100. He is called Bernard of Cluny because he lived and wrote at that place, a French town on the Grone where he was abbot of a famous monastery, and also to distinguish him from Bernard of Clairvaux.