William How - Hymns

Hymns

How is represented in The Church Hymn book 1872 with three hymns:

• Jesus! name of wondrous love (n. 794), 1854
• Soldiers of the cross, arise (n. 1212), 1854
• We give thee but thine own (n. 1264), 1854;

and in Hymns Ancient and Modern, Revised with a several others

• Lord Jesus, when we stand afar (n. 109),
• O Jesu, thou art standing (n. 355),
• O my Saviour, lifted from the earth for me (n. 360),
• It is a thing most wonderful (n. 435),
• For all the Saints, who from their labours rest (n. 527),
• "Thou art the Christ, O Lord" (n. 555),
• To Thee, Our God, we fly (n. 606).

See his Life by his son, FD How (1898).

Bishop How burnt a copy of Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure. The burning took place during the summer and Hardy, noted for his thrift, was said to have been outraged that the bishop wasted the firewood rather than waiting until the winter when the fire would be needed anyway. However, as "the Bishop of Wakefield announced that he had thrown "such garbage" onto his fire", and this is recorded as happening in May (when it might have been cold in Wakefield), the firewood may not have been needed for burning the book only, but for warming his house.