Introduction

Biography

Horne at­tend­ed the Ci­ty of Lon­don School, and in 1862 en­tered Ches­hunt Col­lege as a stu­dent for the Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­try.

He served pas­tor­ates in St. Hel­en’s, Lan­ca­shire (1866); Ab­bey Road, Tor­quay (1869–73); Wood Green (1873–93); Col­lege Cha­pel, Brad­ford (1893–96); and Eal­ing (1896–1922).

Works

• The Book of Praise for Child­ren, 1875
• The Po­et’s Bi­ble, New Tes­ta­ment, 1881
• Intimations of Im­mor­tal­i­ty, 1883
• Congregational Hymns: A Hym­nal for the Free Church­es, 1884
• The Home Sanc­tu­ary: Hymns for Those De­tained from Pub­lic Wor­ship, 1885
• Worship-Song: A Hym­nal (Lon­don: El­li­ot Stock, 1885, 1910)
• The Hymn Lov­er: An Ac­count of the Rise and Growth of Eng­lish Hym­no­dy (Lon­don: John Cur­wen, 1889)
• The Si­lent Voice and Oth­er Dis­cours­es, 1890
• Hymns Sup­ple­ment­al to Ex­ist­ing Col­lect­ions, 1896
• Quaker Wor­thies (Lon­don: Head­ley Bro­thers, 1896)
• The Trea­su­ry of Am­er­ican Sac­red Song (Lon­don: Hen­ry Frowde, 1896)
• The Am­bi­tions of St. Paul (Lon­don: Alex­an­der & Shep­heard, 1897)
• The Su­preme Ar­gu­ment for Chris­ti­an­ity: An Ap­peal to Facts (James Clarke, 1899)
• Why, 1901
• The Po­et­ic­al Works of John Green­leaf Whit­tier (Lond­on: Hen­ry Frowde, 1904)
• Worship Song (No­vel­lo, 1905)
• The Par­nas­sus of Eng­lish Verse: An An­thol­o­gy of An­thol­o­gies, 1907
• The Oth­er-World (Lon­don: Mac­mil­lan, 1908)
• An Eth­ic­al Di­a­ry (Lon­don: J. M. Dent, 1910)
• The God that Je­sus Saw
• The New­ly-Found Words of Je­sus
• The Po­et’s Bi­ble: Old Tes­ta­ment
• Is There a Fu­ture Life? (Lon­don: El­li­ot Stock)