Daniel Herbert (1751-1833) was for many years Pastor of the Church at Sudbury, Suffolk; he was a faithful and laborious preacher, but is best known by his three volumes of hymns; the majority of them are not of high poetical merit, but they are all of real value in encouraging the seeker, and confirming the faith of the tried and burdened pilgrim. Perhaps two of the most useful are: "What is this point you long to know?" in the second book, and "This is my never-failing Bank" in the third book; but there is a fulness of doctrinal and experimental truth in all the hymns which give them a place in the hearts of believers. He writes: "From the ungodly world who make no profession,…

On  August 29th, 1833, departed this life, aged eighty-two years, Mr. Daniel Herbert, servant of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and occasional Independent Minister of the everlasting Gospel, Sudbury, Suffolk. He was one whom his Lord had made valiant for the truth, independent of that alloy which is attached to many who, at this day, tend only to tarnish and eclipse the glory of a free-grace salvation; and, being taught by God the Holy Ghost, he was enabled to rejoice in the merits, blood, and righteousness of his dear Lord and Master.

Daniel Herbert was born about the year 1751. He had to wade through a long series of losses and crosses, that bore down upon him like a torrent, and so shattered his nerves that he never finally recovered. But though God tried him in the furnace of temporal affliction, he balanced his stroke, when the barrel of meal and cruse of oil had been nearly spent, by raising him up some friendly aid; so that he often said. "How good is God to me, a poor, discontented, murmuring, rebellious worm!" The editor of the "Gospel Magazine," 1833, says of him, "He was a plain, unadorned, though faithful and honest, messenger to dispense the word of eternal life to the helpless family of Zion. In early…