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About Sabine Baring-Gould

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Sabine Baring-Gould (/ˈseɪbɪn ˈbɛərɪŋ ˈɡuːld/ SAY-bin BAIR-ing GOOLD; 28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers", "Sing Lullaby", and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from the Basque language to English.

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'Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and hymn writer, the best known of which is "Onward, Christian Soldiers"'

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At this rather strange time in politics, both at home and abroad, I cannot resist sharing this short article, written by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1891, and syndicated to several newspapers worldwide.

The professional politician is a man who lives by politics, as the professional chess-player lives by chess. His profession has to fill his pockets and find bread for his children, and politics must be kept going to do it. The chess-player sacrifices pawns to gain his end. The stoker shovels on coals into the furnace to make his engine gallop; and the electrician pours vitriol into the battery to produce a current in his wires. They have none of them the slightest scruple in doing these things – they belong to the business, and the professional politician has no scruple in playing with facts, and throwing them away as pawns in his game, or of exciting the passions and prejudice of men, and of using the most biting and corroding acid in his efforts to evoke a current of feeling. When an organist desires to produce a noise, he pulls out the stop diapason and dances on the pedals. The professional politician deals with the public in the same way; this is his instrument. What in the organ are the pedals for but to be kicked, and the keys but to be struck, and the stops but to be drawn out, and what are the social classes but the manuals, and the individuals composing them the keys, and the grudges, greed, ambition, envy and prejudice but the stops, which a clever player understands how to manipulate?

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Sabine Baring-Gould's Timeline

1834
January 28, 1834
Lew Trenchard, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
1861
1861
Age 26
Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, England
1869
April 20, 1869
Dalton, Yorkshire, England
1870
August 9, 1870
1871
November 17, 1871
East Mersea, Essex, England, United Kingdom
November 17, 1871
Essex, England, United Kingdom
1871
Dalton Topcliffe, Yorkshire, England
1874
1874
1875
August 14, 1875
E Warsea, Essex, England