PHILIP DODDRIDGE, one of the most celebrated theologians of the eighteenth century, was born in 1702, the youngest of a family of twenty children. His father, a London merchant, educated him at the best private schools, and he studied for the ministry under the impulse of a fondness for the Bible derived from stories told him by his mother in explanation of the meaning of the Scriptural scenes in Dutch tiles, which had attracted his attention. His principal prose work is “The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul.” His hymns are still favorites wherever English is spoken.