Sabine Baring-Gould

thumb| The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) was an English antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography lists more than 1240 separate publications, and continues to grow. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and "Now the Day Is Over". Quotes Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;Forward into battle see His banners go! "Onward, Christian Soldiers", st. 1 (1871) We are not divided, all one body we,One in hope and doctrine, one in charity. "Onward, Christian Soldiers", st. 3 Jesus, give the wearyCalm and sweet repose.With Thy tend'rest blessingMay our eyelids close. "Now the Day Is Over", reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 614 The Book of Were-Wolves (1865) Startling though the assertion may be, it is a matter of fact, that man, naturally, in common with other carnivora, is actuated by an impulse to kill, and by a love of destroying life. ... The propensity, however, exists in different degrees. In some it is manifest simply as indifference to suffering, in others it appears as simple pleasure in seeing killed, and in others again it is dominant as an irresistible desire to torture and destroy. Ch. 9, pp. 131–2 A child will gloat over the sufferings of a wounded animal till his mother bids him "put it out of its misery." An unsophisticated child would not dream of terminating the poor creature's agonies abruptly, any more than he would swallow whole a bon-bon till he had well sucked it. Ch. 9, p. 133 An old soldier, who had been in Waterloo, informed me that to his mind there was no pleasure equal to running a man through the body, and that he could lie awake at night musing on the pleasurable sensations afforded him by that act. Ch. 9, p. 136 I have seen an accomplished young woman of considerable refinement and of a highly strung nervous temperament, string flies with her needle on a piece of thread, and watch complacently their flutterings. Ch. 9, p. 138 External links Sabine Baring-Gould Biography and hymns of Sabine Baring-Gould at Hymnary.org 'Songs of the West' - Sabine Baring-Gould and the Folk Songs of South-West England Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, by Sabine Baring-Gould Sabine_Baring-Gould Sabine Baring-Gould Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation Society Biography from Devon Discovering Devon by the BBC Category:1834 births Category:1924 deaths Category:Novelists from England Category:Biographers from the United Kingdom Category:Hymnwriters from England Category:Historians from England Category:Anglicans from the United Kingdom Category:Clergy