THOMAS RUSSELL POTTER.

_Addison and Watts._--Can any of your numerous readers inform me whether

the hymn "When rising from the bed of death," so generally ascribed to

Addison, and taken from the chapter on death and judgment in his _Evidences

of the Christian Religion_, is his own composition, or that of the

"excellent man in holy orders;" and whether this is Dr. Isaac Watts?

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