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FROM THE LIBRARY OF

REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON. D. D.

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HYMN STUDIES:

AN ILLUSTRATED AND ANNOTATED EDITION

OF THE

HYMKAL

OF THE

yVLETHODIST ^PISCOPAL JChURCH.

by * 1

REV. CHARLES S. NUT

REVISED EDITION.

NEW YORK: HUNT &» EATON.

CINCINNA TI: CRANSTON & STOIVE.

1891.

GRATEFULLY DEDICATED

MINISTERS AND MEMBERS

(Qethodisw Gpisgopal (@HU^GH5

BY THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE.

This Hymnal is intended for the home, the pastor's study, and the layman's
center-table.

I have undertaken to give :

First. A biographical sketch of each author and translator — of whom
there are more than three hundred.

Second. The origin and history of the hymn, with such reliable matters of
interest concerning it as could be gathered.

Third. The original title and text, where the hymn has been altered.

Fourth. The passage of Scripture upon which the hymn is based.

Fifth. The book, paper, or magazine in which the hymn first appeared,
with the date of its publication.

Information has been chiefly derived from original sources by reference to
the published works of the authors, many of which are rare and difficult to
find; and by correspondence with writers who are still living. Where in-
formation has been obtained from other sources, the author or book relied
upon has received due credit.

The authorship of a few of the "unknown" hymns has not been discovered.
The personal history of some hymn-writers is very meager, indeed, and
doubtless some interesting historic facts have wholly escaped the editor's
notice.

I dare not say that there are no mistakes in this work, but neither care nor
labor has been spared to avoid them. Hundreds of books have been exam-
ined, and much time has been spent in its preparation.

The lover of devotional poetry is in the most delightful company. Val-
uable hymns are the product of genius, piety, and learning. It is safe to say
that no good hymn was ever written by an author who did not possess at
least one of these talents. Many writers are favored with two of them, and
some with all three. The student of hymns is, therefore, cultivating head,
heart, and tongue at the same time. It is to be feared that this most valuable

iiymx studies.

Btady is too much neglected, and, if this book -shall stimulate to greater ap-
preciation and love for this department of literature, one great object of the
work will be accomplished.

I desire to express my great obligation to the many editors and authors
who have so kindly replied to my letters of inquiry ; and especially to Mr.
David Creamer, of Baltimore; and Professor F. M. Bird, of Lehigh Univer-
sity ; also to the Rev. James Martineau, D.D., George J. Stevenson, M.A.,
ami Mr. W. T. Brooke, of London, for valuable assistance.

I wish also to mention the name of a man no longer living, but wrhose work
remains, and will always be a help to the student of hymnology, Mr. Daniel
Sedgwick, of London.

I trust that this work will be of some service to the cause of God among
men.

CHARLES S. NUTTER.

Tiltox, N. H., Feb. 15, 1884.

The author has received many letters from scholarly and devout men
testifying to their high appreciation of Hymn Studies. The gratitude of
pious hearts is indeed precious.

The work has been carefully revised, and a brief but important History
of the Official Hymn Book appended. See page 476.

C. S. N.

Haverhill, Mass., July, 1888.

CONTENTS,

WORSHIP. Hymns

General Hymns 1-71

Sabbath 73-92

Morning and Evening 93-117

GOD.

Being and Attributes 118-153

Providence 154-180

CHRIST.

Incarnation and Birth 181-195

Life and Character 196-203

Sufferings and Death 204-234

Resurrection, Priesthood, and Reign 225-261

TBE HOLY SPIRIT 362-287

THE SCRIPTURES 288-301

THE SINNER.

Lost Condition 302-311

Provisions of the Gospel 312-334

Warning and Inviting 335-376

Repentance 377-417

THE CHRISTIAN.

Justification, Regeneration, Adoption 418-455

Consecration 456-475

Entire Sanctiflcation and Christian Growth . .476-545
Unfaithfulness and Backsliding Lamented. . .546-562

Christian Activity 563-609

Trial, Suffering, and Submission 610-683

Prayer, Praise, and Communion with God. . .684-762

THE CHURCH.

General Hymns 763-779

Fellowship and Unity 780-807

The Ministry 808-825

Ordinances— Hymn*

Baptism 826-832

The Lord's Supper 833-856

Church Work—

Erection of Churches 856-871

Children and Youth 873-889

Charities and Reforms •. 890-907

Missions 908-944

TIME AND ETERNITY.

Watch Night and New Year 945-950

Brevity and Uncertainty of Life 957-966

Death and Resurrection 967-1012

Judgment and Retribution 1013-1029

Heaven 1030-1079

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Seasons 1080-1088

National Occasions 1089-1105

Marriage 1106-1107

Mariners 1108-1115

[Last Hymns of C. Wesley] 1116-1117

Pnjyes

DOXOLOGIES 431-433

INDEXES.

Of First Lines of Hymns 435-445

Of Authors 446-451

Of Scripture Texts 452-455

Of Subjects .45^462

Of Hymns for Social Worship -462

Of First Lines of Stanzas , 463-468

RITUAL.

Baptism 469-472

Reception of Members 472-473

The Lord's Supper 473-475

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1 Exultant praise to the Redeemer. CM.

OPOR a thousand tougues, to sing
My great Redeemer's praise ;

The glories of my God and King,
The triumphs of his grace !

2 My gracious Master and my God,
Assist me to proclaim,

To spread through all the earth abroad,
The honors of thy name.

3 Jesus ! the name that charms our fears,
That bids our sorrows cease;

'Tis music in the sinner's ears,
'Tis life, and health, and peace.

4 He breaks the power of canceled sin,
He sets the prisoner free;

His blood can make the foulest clean;
His blood availed for me.

5 He speaks, and, listening to his voice,
New life the dead receive;

The mournful, broken hearts rejoice;
The humble poor believe.

6 Hear him, ye deaf ; his praise, ye dumb,
Your loosened tongues employ;

Ye blind, behold your Saviour come;
And leap, ye lame, for joy.

CHARLES WrESLEV.

The author's title was : For the Anniversary Day
of One's Conversion. It was written in 1739 to
celebrate the first anniversary of his spiritual birth,
and was published in Hymns and Sacred Porms,
1740. One word only has been changed. Wesley
wrote the second line, " My dear Redeemer's
praise."

The hymn is part of a poem of eighteen stanzas
which is here given ; it was taken out bodily where
the asterisks are inserted.

The rapture of the first verse, " O for a thousand
tongues to sing," is explained by what goes before,
especially verses two and five.

1 Glory to God, and praise and love,

Be ever, ever given ;
By BointH below and saints above,

The Church in earth and heaven.

!2 On this glad day the glorious Sun
Of righteousness arose,
On my benighted soul he shone,
And filled it with repose.

3 Sudden expired the legal strife ;
'Twas then I ceased to grieve.

My second, real, living lite,
I then began to live.

4 Then with my heart I first believed,
Believed with faith divine ;

Power with the Holy Ghost received
To call the Saviour mine.

15 I felt my Lord's atoning blood
Close to my soul applied ;
Me, me he loved — the Son of God
For me, for me he died !

6 I found; and owned his promise true,

Ascertained of my part,
My pardon passed in heaven I knew,

When written on my heart.
******

13 Look unto him, ye nations ; own
Your God, ye fallen race ;

Look, and be saved through faith alone,
Be justified by grace.

14 See all your sins on Jesus laid :
The Lainb of God was slain ;

His soul was once an offering made
For every soul of man.

15 Harlots, and publicans, and thieves,
In holy triumph join !

Saved is the sinner that believes,
From crimes as great as mine.

16 Murderers, and all ye hellish crew,
Ye sons of lust and pride,

Believe the Saviour died for you ;
For me the Saviour died.

17 Awake from guilty nature's sleep,
And Christ shall give you light;

Cast all your sins into the deep,
And wash the Ethiop white.

18 With me, your chief, ye then shall know,
Shall feel your sins fonriven ;

Anticipate your heaven below,
And own that love is heaven.

The Be v. Charles Wesley, A.M., the poet or
Methodism, was born at the Epworth parsonage

HYMN STUDIES.

in 17<>7. He was piously and studiously trained,
and took his first degree at Oxford in 1728, when
twenty-one years of aire. It was while a student
at Christ Church College that Wesley and a few
friends, by Btrict attention to duty and correct de-
portment, won the derisive epithet of " Methodist."

In 1735 lie was ordained, and accompanied his
brother John to Georgia as a missionary. Soon
afterward he returned to England. In 1738 he and
his brother became acquainted with Peter Bonier, a
Moravian preacher, who" expounded unto them the
way of God more perfectly." It was <m Whitsunday,
May 21, 1738, that Charles Wesley beheved to the
saving of his soul, and received the witness ot par-
don and adoption. He was an earnest and success-
ful itinerant minister for more than twenty years,
after which his labors were chiefly confined to
London and its vicinity. He died in 1788.

As a hymnist Charles Wesley has few equals and
no superiors. The exact number of his hymns
cannot be ascertained, for the reason that several
volumes of poems were published conjointly by
himself and his brother John, and in many cases
it is impossible to say positively which was the
author ot a particular hymn.

The Wesleyan Conference published the Poetical
Works of J. and C. Wesley— 1868-1872— in thirteen
volumes. In such a mass of writing the wonder is
not that all is not excellent, but that so much is val-
uable. The poets of the eighteenth century did not
rewrite and refine their works as those of the nine-
teenth have done. Wesley partook of the charac-
teristic of the age, and instead of correcting and
polishing what he had written, wrote more. Noth-
ing but a consummate genius saved him from the
perdition of voluminous authors.

2 Worshiping the Lamb. C. M.

(^OME, let us join our cheerful songs
J With angels round the throne;
Ten thousand thousand are their tongues,
But all their joys are one.

2 " Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry,
"To be exalted thus!"

" Worthy the Lamb ! " our hearts reply,
"For he was slain for us."

3 Jesus is worthy to receive
Honor and power divine;

And blessings more than we can give,
Be, Lord, forever thine.

4 The whole creation join in one,
To bless the sacred name

Of him that, sits upon the throne.
And to adore the Lamb.

ISAAC WATTS.

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book i, 1707.

The author's title was: Christ Jesus, the Lamb
of God, worshiped by all the Creation.

The scriptural basis of this favorite hvmn is Rev.
v, 11-13:

" And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many
angels round about the throne, and the beasts, and

the elders : and the number of them was ten thou-
sand times ten thousand, and thousands of thou-
sands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthv is the Lamb
that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wis-
dom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and bless-
ing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on
the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the
sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Bless-
ing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto him
that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb
for ever and ever."

Watts wrote "lips" instead of "hearts" in the
third line of the second stanza. The following
stanza has been omitted ; its place is between the
thiid and fourth verses of the hymn :

" Let all that dwell above the sky,

And air, and earth, and seas,
Conspire to lift thy glories high,

And speak thine endless praise."

The Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D., was born in South-
ampton, in 1674; he was a precocious child, very
quiet and studious ; and was sent, in 1690, to an
academy in London, where he remained three years.
The next few years were spent in study and in
writing. Watts preached his fir-t sermon in 1698,
and in 1702 he became pastor of an Independent
church in London, a position which he held until
the time of his death, in 1748. Dr. Watts was small
of stature and of feeble health. Much of the act-
ual work of his parish was performed by an as-
sistant.

Many writers have compared the hymns of Watts
with those of Wesley, and have discussed their rel-
ative merits; some giving preference to one, and
some to the other, author. Such work is useless.
The two differ so widely as to be scarcely capable
of comparison. Watts excels Wesley and all oth-
ers in grandeur and sublimity. Wesley exceeds all
others in expressing the power of love and the joy
of salvation. He is, par excellence, the sweet singer
of Israel. These two writers grandly supplement
each other. They are both princes, ay, kings of
song; but each in his own realm.

The poetical works of Br. Watts are : Horoz Lyr-
ical, London, 1706; Hymns and Spiritual Songs,
in three books, 1707; The I^salms of David, Im-
itated in the Language of the A'ew Testament,
1719; and Divine and Moral Songs for Children,
1720.

3 The universal King. S. M.

f^OME, sound his praise abroad,
j And hymns of glory sing :
Jehovah is the sovereign God,
The universal King.

2 He formed the deeps unknown ;

He gave the seas their bound;
The watery worlds are all his own,

And all the solid ground.

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:? Come, worship at his throne,
Come, bow before the Lord;

We are his works, and not our own ;
He formed us by his word.

4 To-day attend his voice,
Nor dare provoke his rod;

Come, like t lie people of his choice,
And own your gracious God.

ISAAC WATTS.

The original contains two additional stanzas. Ti-
tle: .-i Ralm before Sermon. Date, 1719. The hymn
La an excellent paraphrase of part of Psalm xov :

"0 oome, let as sing unto the Lord : let us make
a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation. Let us
oome before his presence with thanksgiving,, and
make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For
the Lord is a great God, and a great Kins: above all
gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth :
the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his,
and he made it : and his hands formed the dry
land. O come, let us worship and bow down : let
us kneel before the Lord our maker."

The poet Montgomery says, that " Dr. Watts may
almost oe called the inventor of hymns in our lan-
guage." It is said that young watts found fault
with the hymns of his day in the hearing of some
ot the leading members of his lather's church, at
Southampton ; the reply was, "Young man, give us
something better." He did give something better,
and became the father of modern hymn writers.

4 Song of Moses and the Lamb. S. M.

AWAKE, and sing the song
Of Moses and the Lamb ;
Wake, every heart and every tongue,
To praise the Saviour's name.

2 Sing of his dying love;
Sing of his rising power;

Sing how he intercedes above
For those whose sins he bore.

3 Sing on your heavenly way,
Ye ransomed sinners, sing;

Sing on, rejoicing every day
In Christ, the eternal King.

4 Soon shall we hear him say,

" Y'e blessed children, come! "
Soon will he call us hence away,
To our eternal home.

5 There shall each raptured tongue
His endless praise proclaim ;

And sweeter voices tune the song
Of Moses and the Lamb.

WILLIAM HAMMOND, ALT.

The author's title was : Befor* singing of Hymns,
hi/ Way of Introduction

The hymn was evidently founded on Rev. xv,3:

" And they sing the song of Moses the servant of
God, and the song of the Lamb."

The original contains fourteen verses, and is
(piaiut and good. It was altered by Martin Madan
In 17W. Only one word is changed in the first
stanza. Hammond wrote, " Tunc every heart," ete.
The second stanza is not changed; the third and
tilth are entirely new ; the fourth is evidently sug-
gested by the author's last stanza :

" Sing till you hear Christ say,

Your sins are all forgiven ;
Go on rejoicing all the way,

And sing your souls to heaven."

From Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs. By
William Hammond, A.B., late of St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge, London, 1745.

Rev. William Hammond was a Moravian Method-
ist. Little is known of his personal history. He pub-
lished an original volume of Psulms, Hymns, and
Spiritual Songs, in 1745. Two of them, at least,
are still popular. The date of his birth is Jan-
uary 6, 171'J. He died in 1783.

O Praise and thanksgiving. S. M.

STAND up, and bless the Lord,
Ye people of his choice ;
Stand up, and bless the Lord your God.
With heart, and soul, and voice.

2 Though high above all praise,
Above all blessing high,

Who would not fear his holy name,
And laud, and magnify ?

3 O for the living flame
From his own altar brought,

To touch our lips, our souls inspire,
And wing to heaven our thought !

4 God is our strength and song,
And his salvation ours ;

Then be his love in Christ proclaimed
With all our ransomed powers.

5 Stand up, and bless the Lord;
The Lord your God adore;

Stand up, and bless his glorious name,
Henceforth, for evermore.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

From the author's Christian Psalmist. 1825.
The first part of this hymn is evidently founded
upon Neh. ix, 5 :

" Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever
and ever : and blessed be thy glorious name, which
is exalted above all blessing and praise."

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Original title : Exhortation to Praiseand Thanhs-
giving.

The author wrote " minds" instead of "souls"
in the third stanza.

The hymn has been improved by the omission
of one inferior stanza, the fourth, of the original,
which is not equal to its fellowa:

4 " There with benign regard,
Our hymns Be deigns to hear;

Though unrevealed to mortal sense,
The spirit feels Him near."

James Montgomery holds an enviable place
among English hymnists. He was the son of a
Moravian minister ; was born in Scotland in 1771 :
was religiously instructed at home, and while at-
tending a Moravian school, at Fulneck, Eng.. made
a public profession of religion by uniting with the
Moravian Church. As he grew up, however, the
pleasures of the world led him astray. The influence
of early education preserved him from gross sins,
but he was not at peace with God. After many
years of doubt and dissatisfaction, he was led to
look to the Saviour of his youth, and found rest.
At his own request he was re-admitted into the
Moravian congregation at Fulneck, when forty-three
years of age. He expressed his feelings at the time
in the following lines :

" People of the living God,

I have Bought the world around,
Paths of sin and sorrow trod,

Peace and comfort nowhere found.
Now to you my spirit turns —

Turns a fugitive unblest;
Brethren, where your altar burns,

O receive me into rest."

Montgomery was an editor by profession ; and,
for publishing what, were then called libelous arti-
cles, was twice fined and imprisoned in the Castle
of York : once, in 1795, for three months, and once,
in the following year, for six months. While im-
prisoned he wrote his first book of poems, entitled
Prison Am ust meats. In addition to several poetical
works, he published three, volumes of hymns : Sonus
qfZion: b^ mg Im Motions ofPsalms11822 ; The ( 7/ ns
man Psalmist, 1825; Original Hymns for Public,
Private, and Social Devotion, 1853. He died in 1854.

6 Invocation of the Trinity. 6, 4.

COME, thou almighty King,
Help ns thy name to sing,
Help us to praise:
Father all-glorious,
O'er all victorious,
Come, and reign over us,
Ancient of days !

2 Come, thou incarnate "Word,
Gird on thy mighty sword,

Our prayer attend;
Come, and thy people bless,
And give thy word success:
Spirit of holiness,

On us descend !

3 Come, holy Comforter,
Thy sacred witness bear

In this glad hour:
Thou who almighty art,
Now rule in every heart,
And ne'er from us depart,

Spirit of power!

4 To thee, great One and Three,
Eternal praises be

Hence, evermore:

Thy sovereign majesty
May we in glory sec.
And to eternity

Love and adore !

CHARLES WESLEY.

One stanza, the second, has been omitted :

" Jesus, our Lord, arise,
Scatter our enemies,

And make them fall ;
Let thine almighty aid
Our sure defense be made :
Our souls on thee be stayed* ;

Lord, hear our call."

It is somewhat doubtful that Wesley wrote this
hymn. It is found printed on a leaflet, dated
about 1757, together with two hymns that are un-
doubtedly Charles Wesley's. Therefore this is
supposed to be his also. If his, however, it is
strange that he never claimed it. and never pub-
lished it in any of his poetical works. The Rev.
Martin Madan published it in his collection, third
edition, 1763 ; and, it is said, gave Walter Shirley
permission to use it. Now, it it was Wesley's, how
was it that Madan claimed it ; and, it it was
Madan's, how happened it that Wesley printed it
six years previously? It probably belongs to nei-
ther of them. It Is an imitation of the English
national anthem, "God save the King; " author
unknown.

Met in Tlis name.

S. M.

JESUS, we look to thee,
Thy promised presence claim;
Thou in the midst of OS shalt be,
Assembled in thy name.

2 Thy name salvation is.
Which here we come to prove;

Thy name is life, and health, and peace

And everlasting love.

3 Not in the name of pride
Or selfishness, we meet ;

From nature's paths we turn aside,
And worldly thoughts forget.

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4 We meet the grace to take.
Which thou hast freely given;

We meet on earth for thy dear sake,
That we may meet in heaven.

5 Present we know thou art,
But 0 thyself reveal !

Now. Lord* let every bounding heart
The mighty comfort feel.

6 O may thy quickening voice

The death of sin remove;
And bid our inmost souls rejoice,
In hope of perfect love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Jlymna and Sacred Ibems, vol. ii. 1749.

Title: a <■/ Friends. Wesley wrote

"joy" instead of "health" in the second stanza :
. '. i ■■'I.' might" instead of "O may" in the
sixth verse.

The closing double stanza is omitted :

" Thou wilt to us make known

Thy Nature and thy Name,
Us, who our Utmost Saviour own

From every T inch of Blame,
From every Word and Deed,

From even' Thought unclean,
Our Jescs till our Souls are freed

From all Remains of Sin."

O General invitation to praise God. L. M.

FROM all that dwell below the skies,
Let the Creator's praise arise ;
Let the Redeemer's name be sung,
Through every land, by every tongue.

2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord;
Eternal truth attends thy word :

Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore.
Till suns shall rise and set no more.

3 Tour lofty themes, ye mortals, bring;
In songs of praise divinely sing;

The great salvation loud proclaim.
And shout for joy the Saviour's name.

4 In every land begin the song ;
To every land the strains belong:
In cheerful sounds all voices raise,
And fill the world with loudest praise.

isaac watts, (in part.)

This hymn is found entire in the York Pocket
Hi/ran &oik\ sixth edition, 1786.
The first two stanzas are founded on Psalm cxvii :

"O praise the Lord, all ye nations : praise him,
all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great

toward us : and the truth of the Lokd endureth for-
ever. Praise )e the Luki>."

The last two stanzas were not written by Watts;
the author is n<'t known. He has, however, suc-
ceeded wonderfully in imitating Watts'a style, and
has thus completed one of the finest hymns in the

English language.

Reverential adoration.

L. M.

BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne,
Ye nations bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create, and he destroy.

2 His sovereign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and formed us men ;

And when like wandering sheep we strayed,
He brought us to his fold again.

3 "We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs,
High as the heavens our voices raise ;

And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise.

4 Wide as the world is thy command ;
Vast as eternity thy love;

Firm as a rock thy truth shall stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.

ISAAC WATTS, ALT. BY J. WESLEY.

A paraphrase of Psalm c :

'• Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
Serve the Lord with gladness : come before his
presence with sinsrine. Know ye that the Lord he
is God : it is he that hath made us, and not we our-
selves ; we are his people, and the sheep of his pas-
ture. Enter into bis gates with thanksgiving, and
into his courts with praise : be thankful unto him,
and bless bis name. For the Lord is good ; his
mercy is everlasting ; and his truth endureth to all
generations."

Instead of the first couplet Watts wrote :

" Nations attend before his throne
With solemn fear, with sacred joy."

The first and fourth stanzas of the original are
omitted :

1 " Sing to the Lord with joyful voice ;

Let every land his name adore :
The British isles shall send the noise

Across the ocean to the shore.

4 " We are his people, we his care,
Our souls and all our mortal frame :

What lasting honors shall we rear,
Almighty Maker ! to thy name i 3

It was published in 1719.

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X 0 Universal adoration. L. M.

OIIOLY, holy, holv Lord !
Thou God of hosts, by all adored ;
Tin' earth and heavens are full of thee,
Thy light, thy power, thy majesty.

2 Loud hallelujahs to thy name,
Angels and seraphim proclaim:

By all the powers and thrones in heaven,
Eternal praise to thee is given.

3 Apostles join the glorious throng,
And swell the loud triumphant song :
Prophets and martyrs hear the sound,
And spread the hallelujah round.

4 Glory to thee, O God most high!
Father, we praise thy majesty!
The Son, the Spirit, we adore!
One Godhead, blest for evermore.

UNKNOWN.

A metrical translation of a part of Te Devm laud-
am/us. Mam' editions of the Hymnal attribute it to
Josiah Cornier, but the translator is not known.

1 1 Invitation to worship. — Psalm e. L. M.

ALL people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice:
Him Berve with fear, his praise forth tell,
Come ye before him, and rejoice.

2 The Lord, ye know, is God indeed,
Without our aid he did us make;

We are his flock, he doth us feed.
And for his sheep he doth us take.

3 O enter then his gates with praise,
Approach with joy his courts unto:

Praise, laud, and bless his name always,
For it is seemly so to do.

4 For why? the Lord our God is good,
His mercy is forever sure;

His truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure.

WIT.LIAM KETHE.

A translation of Psalm c. It pave the name
of "Old Hundred" to the tune in which it was
always song.

William Kethe was a Scotch clergyman of the
sixteenth century. There is some doubt whether
he was the author of this hymn. In the oldest
edition, 1561, ot the Old Version — Sternhold and
Hopkins— now extant, it is marked T. .>'., that is,
Thomas Sternhold. In most editions of tin- seven-
teenth century it is marked 1. II., that is, John
Hopkins. In the Scotch I&ilter, 1564, it is marked
W.K.

I'mise to the Saviour.

L. M.

JESUS, thou everlasting King,
Accept the tribute which we bring;
Accept thy well-deserved renown.
And wear our praises as thy crown.

2 Let every act of worship be
Like our espousals, Lord, to thee;
Like the blest hour when from above
We first received the pledge of love.

3 The gladness of that happy day,
() may it ever, ever stay !

Nor let our faith forsake its hold,
Nor hope decline, nor love grow cold.

4 Let every moment, as it flies,
Increase thy praise, improve our joys,
Till we are raised to sing thy name,
At the great supper of the Lamb.

ISAAC WATTS, ALT.

From Hymns and Spiritual Sor.t/s, hook i, 1707.
Author's title : The Coronation of Christ, and
Espousals of the Church.

" I will seek him whom my soul loveth." Sol.
Song, iii, 2.

The first and last stanzas of the original are
omitted :

1 " Daughters of Zion, come, behold
The crown of honor and of gold
Which the glad Church with joys unknown
Placed on the head of Solomon.

6 "O that the months would roll away
And bring that coronation day !
The King of grace shall till the throne
With all his Father's glories on."

The author wrote "the well- deserved " instead
of " thy " in the first verse, and "deaf" hour in
the second verse instead of " blest."

In the second line of the third verse the author
wrote " Our hearts would wish if long to stay" and
in the last line, "Nor comfort sink," instead oi
" hope decline."

The first line of the fourth verse was originally,
" Each following minute as it flies."

These changes may be improvement, but the
hymn ought not to be credited to the author with-
out being marked "altered."

13 The prosperity of the saints. L. M.

0 RENDER thanks to God above,
The fountain of eternal love,
Whose mercy firm through ages past
Hath stood, and shall forever last.

2 Who can his mighty deeds express,
Not only vast, but numberless?
What mortal eloquence can raise
His tribute of immortal praise?

HYMN STUDIES.

3 Extend to me that favor. Lord,
Thou to thy chosen dost afford;
When thou return'st to set them free,
Let thy salvation visit me.

4 O may I worthy prove to see
Thy saints in full prosperity,
That I the joyful choir may join,
And count thy people's triumph mine!

TATE AND BRADY.

Founded on Psalm cvi. The whole hymn con-
tains eleven stanzas. This is composed of verses
one, two, four, and five. The third stanza is so
true and quaint, withal, that we must quote it :

3 " Happy are they and only they,
Who from thv judgments never stray :
Who know what? 8 right, nor only so,

But always practice wfuit they know.1*

The original has" Has" stood, instead of " Hath,"
in the first stanza.

Tate and Bradv were the joint authors of A Nw
Version, of the i^abns, which was authorized for
use in the churches by an order of William and
Mary, in 1696. Nahuin Tate was poet laureate from
1690 to 1715. See No. 120.

The Rev. Nicholas Brady, D.D., was a native of
Ireland, and was born in 1659. He attended West-
minster School, and then entered Christ Church,
Oxford, but was graduated at Trinity College, Dub-
lin. Brady was a radical Protestant, and took an
active part in promoting the revolution in 1688-9.
He afterward settled in London, where he obtained
various preferments, and died in 1726. He published
some sermons and poetical works, but his reputa-
tion was made by the New Version.

14 Welcome to the King of glory. L. M.

LIFT up your heads, ye mighty gates !
Behold, the King of glory waits ;
The King of kings is drawing near,
The Saviour of the world is here.

2 The Lord is just, a helper tried;
Mercy is ever at his side ;

His kingly crown is holiness;
Hi> seepter, pity in distress.

3 O blest the land, the city blest,
Where Christ the ruler is confessed !
O happy hearts and happy homes

To whom this King of triumph comes!

4 Fling wide the portals of your heart;
Make it a temple, set apart

From earthly use for heaven's employ.
Adorned with prayer, and love, and joy.

."i Redeemer, come ! I open wide

My heart to thee: here. Lord, abide!
Let me thy inner presence feel,
Thy grace and love in me reveal!

6 So come, my Sovereign ! enter in,
Let new and nobler life begin ;
Thy Holy Spirit guide us on,
Until the glorious crown be won!

GEORG- WEISSEL.

This beautiful hymn was written in German,
about 1630. The first stanza, indeed, the whole
hymn, is founded on Psalm xxiv, 7 :

" Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates ; and be ye lift
up, ye everlasting doors ; and the King of glory
shall come in."

The translation, as found in Lyra Gcrmanica,
First Series, 1855, was made by Miss Catharine
Wink worth, and consists of five eight-lined stanzas.
T lie original, verse 6, line 1, read :

" So shall your Sovereign enter in ; "

Line 2 :

" And new and nobler life begin."

The Christian Church is greatly indebted to Miss
Winkworth for valuable translations. She lived
from 1829 until 1878.

The Rev. Georf( Weissel was born in Prussia in
1590. In 1623 he was appointed to a charge in Ko-
nigsberg, where he died in 1635.

1 O Longings for the house of God. II. M.

LORD of the worlds above,
How pleasant and how fair
The dwellings of thy love,
Thine earthly temples, are!
To thine abode my heart aspires,
With warm desires to see my God.

2 O happy souls that pray
Where God appoints to hear!

O happy men that pay

Their constant service there !
They praise thee still ; and happy they
That love the way to Zion's hill.

3 They go from strength to strength,
Through this dark vale of tears,

Till each arrives at length,
Till each in heaven appears :
O glorious seat ! thou, God, our King,
Shalt thither bring our willing feet.

ISAAC WATTS.

These are the first, third, and fourth verses, unal-
tered, of a hymn of seven stanzas, founded on
Psalm lxxxiv.

The author's title was : Longing for the House
of God. Late of publication, 1719.

HYMN STUDIES.

1 6 The universal King. H. M.

YOUNG men and maidens, raise
Your tuneful voices high ;
Old men and children, praise
The Lord of earth and sky ;
Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.

2 The universal King

Let all the world proclaim;
Let every creature sing

His attributes and name ;
Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.

3 In his great name alone
All excellences meet.

Who sits upon the throne,
And shall forever sit;
Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.

4 Glory to God belongs ;
Glory to God be given,

Above the noblest songs
Of all in earth and heaven;
Him Three in One, and One in Three,
Extol to all eternity.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns for Children, 17G3. Unaltered
and entire. It is evidently founded upon Psalm
cxlviii, 12, 13 :

"Young men, and maidens; old men, and chil-
dren : let them praise the name of the Lord ; for his
name alone is excellent ; hi* glory is above the earth
and heaven."

1 / The glory of His grace. C. P. M.

LET all on earth their voices raise,
To Bing the great Jehovah's praise,
And bless his holy name :
His glory let the heathen know,
His wonders to the nations show,
His saving grace proclaim.

2 Be framed the globe; he built the sky;
He made the shining worlds on high,

And reigns in glory there:
His beams are majesty and light;
Hi- beauties, how divinely bright !

His dwelling-place, how fair!

3 Come the great day. the glorious hour,
When earth shall feel his saving power,

All nations fear his name:
Then shall the race of men confess
The beauty of his holiness,

His saving grace proclaim.

ISAAC WATTS, ALT.

This grand hymn is founded on Psalm xevi.
The second stanza is omitted, and the others ale
altered to change the meter Date, 1719.

Original.
The God of the Gentiles.

1 " Let all the earth their voices raise
To sing the choicest psalm of praise ;

To sing and bliss Jehovah'' s name ;
His glory let the Heathens know,
His wonders to the nations show,

And all his saving works proclaim.

2 " The Heathens know thy glory. Lord !
The wond'ring nations read thy word.

In Britain is Jehovah known ;
Our worship shall no more be paid,
To gods which mortal hands have made;

Our Maker is our God alone.

3 "He framed the globe, he built the sky,
He made the shining worlds on high,

And reigns complete in glory there ;
His beams are majesty and light,
His beauties, how divinely bright!

His temple, how divinely fair!

4 " Come the great day, the glorious hour,
When earth shall feel his saving power,

And barVrmts nations tear his name:
Then shall the race of man confess
The beauty of his holiness.

And in his courts his grace proclaim."

lo GocPs glorious presence. ('.P.M.

TITOU God of power, thou God of love,
Whose glory libs the realms above,
Whose praise archangels sing,

And veil their fares while they cry,
" Thrice holy," to their God most high,
"Thrice holy," to their King;

2 Thee as our God we too would claim,
And bless the Saviour's precious name,

Through whom this grace is given:
lie bore the curse to sinners due.
He forms their ruined Boula amw.

And makes them heirs of heaven.

HYMN STUDIES.

3 The veil thai hides thy glory rend,
Ami here in Baving power descend,
And fix thy blesl abode;

Hen- to OUT heart- thyself reveal,

Ami let each waiting spirit feel
The presence of our God.

JOHN wai.kki:.

Tliis is a genuine hymn ; it was composed for the
opening of Bethesda I hapel, Dublin, June 22, 1794.
It was subsequently edited and appeared in A Se-
lection of Hymns used in Bethesda Chapel, Dublin,
1814. A few Blight changes have since been made.

The Rev. John Walker (1767-1883) was an Irish
clergyman, educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
About the \car 1800 he originated a new sect called
the GhurcA of God, but commonly known as
" Waikerites."

1 9 The praise of Jesus. C. P. M.

JESUS, thou soul of all our joys,
For whom we now lift up our voice,
And all our strength exert,
Vouchsafe the grace we humbly claim;
Compose into a thankful frame,
And tuue thy people's heart.

2 While iu the heavenly work we join,
Thy glory be our whole design,

Thy glory, not our own :
Still let us keep this end in view,
And still the pleasing task pursue,

To please our God alone.

3 Thee let us praise, our common Lord,
And sweetly join, with one accord,

Thy goodness to proclaim :
Jesus, thyself in us reveal,
And all our faculties shall feel

Thy harmonizing name.

4 With calmly reverential joy,
O let us all our lives employ

In setting forth thy love;
And raise in death our triumph higher,
And sing, with all the heavenly choir,

That endless song above.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Author's title : The True Use of Music.

" I will Bing with the spirit, and I will sing with
the understanding also." 1 Cor. xiv, 15.

This hymn is composed of the first two and la>t
two verses of a poem of eight stanzas.

Original.
Verse four, line two:
'; We tlitii shall all our lives employ."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, vol. ii, 1749.

20 Humble adoration. 7.

HEAVENLY Father, sovereign Lord,
Be thy glorious name adored |
Lord, thy mercies never fail;
Hail, celestial Goodness, hail !

2 Though unworthy of thine ear,
Deign our humble songs to hear;
Purer praise we hope to bring
When around thy throne we sing.

3 While on earth ordained to stay,
Guide our footsteps in thy way,
Till we come to dwell with thee,
Till we all thy glory see.

4 Then, with angel-harps again,
We will wake a noble strain;
There, in joyful songs of praise,
Our triumphant voices raise.

BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, ALT.

Praise and 77tankscjiving.

This is found in a Unitarian Collection, Salis-
bury, 1778, where it begins :

" Holy, holy, holy Lord."

Seven lines have been altered, and two stanzas
omitted. It is without name, but English hymnol-
ogists ascribe it to the Kev. Benj. Williams, min-
ister of a Presbyterian congregation at Salisbury.

2 1 Blessings implored. 7.

LORD, we come before thee now,
At thy feet we humbly bow ;
O do not our suit disdain ;
Shall we seek thee, Lord, in vain?

2 Lord, on thee our souls depend ;
In compassion now descend ;

Fill our hearts with thy rich grace,
Tune our lips to sing thy praise.

3 In thine own appointed way.
Now we seek thee, here we stay ;
Lord, we know not how to go,
Till a blessing thou bestow.

4 Send some message from thy word,
That may joy and peace afford ;

Let thy Spirit now impart
Full salvation to each heart.

5 Comfort those who weep and mourn;
Let the time of joy return ;

Those that are cast down lift up;
Make them strong in faith and hope,

IIYMN STUDIES.

6 Grant that all may seek and find
Thee, a gracious God and kind:
Heal the sick, the captive free;
Let us all rejoice in thee.

WILLIAM HAMMOND.

Author's title : A Hymn to be Sung at Public
Worship.

The original contains eight double stanzas. It
first appeared in the author's Rabat, Hymn*, and

Spiritual Songs, 1745. Lyra Britannic", London,
1866, also gives the original. Hammond wrote the
last line of the filth verse :

" Strong in faith, in love, and hope ; '

and in the first couplet of verse six :

" Grant that those who seek may find,
Thee a God sincere and kind."

For biographical sketch, see No. 4.

2 2 Tribute of praise at parting. 7.

CHRISTIANS, brethren, ere we part,
Every voice and every heart
Join, and to our Father raise
One last hymn of grateful praise.

2 Though we here should meet no more,
Yet there is a brighter shore ;

There, released from toil and pain,
There we all may meet again.

3 Now to thee, thou God of heaven,
Be eternal glory given :

Grateful for thy love divine,
May our hearts be ever thine.

H. KIEKE WHITE, ALT.

Original.

" Christians ! brethren ! ere we part,
Join every voice and every heart ;
One solemn hymn to God we i-ai-se,
One final song of grateful praise.

" Christians ! we here may meet no more,
But there is yet a happier shore :
And there, released from toil and pain,
Brethren, we shall meet again.

"Now to God, the three in One,
Be eternal yh>ry done ;
Raiti , ye saints, the sound again :
Ye nations, join the loud Amen."

It was first published in Hymn* fhrtly Collected
and Birth/ Original. Edited by William B. Coll-
yer, D.T).', London, 1812.

Henry Kirke White was born in humble circum-
stances at Nottingham, England, in 1785. When

fourteen years oldj he was apprenticed to a stock-
ing weaver. Leaving this occupation, he began
the study of law. Alter experiencing religion, he
resolved to enter the Church, but died before lie
had completed his studies, at the early age of
twenty years. His religious awakening was some-
what remarkable. An intimate friend became a
Christian, and — knowing that White was a skeptic,
and that he ridiculed religion— avoided his society.
On being asked the reason, he frankly told
the skeptic of his conversion, and purpose to
lead a new life. This cut White to the heart,
and the result was that he. too, became a Chris-
tian, lie died October 19, 1806,

23 Concluding prayer and thanksgiving. 7.

NOW may He who from the dead
Brought the Shepherd of the sheep,
Jesus Christ, our King and Head,
All our souls in safety keep.

2 May he teach us to fulfill
What is pleasing in his sight;

Make us perfect in his will,

And preserve us day and night.

3 To that great Redeemer's praise,
Who the covenant sealed with blood,

Let our hearts and voices raise
Loud thanksgivings to our God.

JOHN NEWTON.

From the Olney Hymns, 1779. A metrical ver-
sion of the familiar benediction, unaltered :

" Now the God of peace, that brought again from
the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of
the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting
covenant, make you perfect in every good work to
do his will, working in you that which is well-
pleasing in hi* Bight, through Jesus Christ; to
whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." Heb.
xiii, 20, 21.

John Newton was a native of London, born in
1725. His father wasaseaman, and John, formany
years, followed the same calling. He was a wild
and wicked youth ; and. after having been flogged
and expelled' from the navy tor desertion, Bhipped
in a merchantman. At length he entered the serv-
ice of an English slave-trader, and became ex-
ceedingly degraded, profane, and profligate. In
1748, on a voyage home from Africa, during a ter-
rific storm, lie became truly awakened, and was
ever afterward a changed man. In 1758 he began
to preach, and after six years of study entered the
ministry of the Church' of England. He was the
author of some prose works, and, in connection with
the poet Cowper, published the i 'dn> y Hymns, 1779.
Many of his hymns are very tame and ordinary :
some of them, however, are excellent, and are found
in all popular collections. He died in 1807.

HYMN STUDIES.

24: Saints and angels praising God. 7.

SONGS of praise the angels Bang,
Heaven with hallelujahs rang,
When Jehovah's work begun,
When he snake and it was done.

2 Songs of praise awoke the morn,
\V lien the Prince of peace was born:
Bongs of praise arose, when he
Captive led captivity.

3 Saints below, with heart and voice,
Still in son<;s of praise rejoice;
Learning here, by faith and love,
Songs of praise to sing above.

4 Borne upon their latest breath,
Sonu's of praise shall conquer death;
Then amid eternal joy,

S:»!i^s of praise their powers employ.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

1'naltered from the Christian Psalmist, 1S25.
Title- : Glory to God in the Highest. Luke ii, 14.
Two stanzas are omitted :

3 " Heaven and earth must pass away,
Songs of praise shall crown that day :
God will make new heavens and earth,
Songs of praise shall hail their birth.

4 " And will man alone be dumb,
Till that crlorious morning come ?
No; the Church delights to raise
Psalms, and hymns, and songs of praise."

2 O Let all the people praise Him. 7.

THANK and praise Jehovah's name;
For his mercies, firm and sure,
From eternity the same,
To eternity endure.

2 Let the ransomed thus rejoice,
(lathered out of every land,

As the people of his choice,

Plucked from the destroyer's hand.

3 Let the elders praise the Lord,
Him let all the people praise,

When they meet with one accord,
In his courts on holy days.

4 Praise him, ye who know his love;
Praise him from the depths beneath;

Praise him in the heights above;
Praise your Maker, all that breathe.
2

5 For his truth and mercy stand,
l'ast, and present, and to be,

Like the years of his right hand,
Like his own eternity.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

This hymn is made up of two or three fragments :
the first two verses are from the author's version
of Psalm cvii ; the last two are a part of Psalm
cxvii. The third stanza was written on Psalm
evii, 32.

From Songs of Zion, 1822.

For sketch of author, see No. 5.

26 Praise and prayer. 7.

GLORY be to God on high,
God, whose glory fills the sky !
Peace on earth to man forgiven,
Man, the well-beloved of Heaven.

2 Sovereign Father, heavenly King,
Thee we now presume to sing;
Thee with thankful hearts we prove
God of power, and God of love.

3 Christ our Lord and God we own,
Christ, the Father's only Son,
Lamb of God for sinners slain,
Saviour of offending man.

4 Bow thine ear, in mercy bow%
Hear, the world's atoaement, thou!
Jesus, in thy name we pray,
Take, O take our sins away.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Unaltered from Hymns and Sacred Poems, by
John and Charles Wesley, 1739.

Wiitten upon Luke ii, 14: "Glory to God,"
etc.

Part of a hymn of seven stanzas.

Omitted from verses two and three :

" Glad Thine attributes confess,
Glorious all and numberless."

" Hail ! by all Thy works adored,
Hail ! the everlasting Lord ! "

6 "Powerful Advocate with God,
Justify us by Thy bl<>od !

Bow thine ear in mercy bow,

Hear the World's Atonement, Thou.

7 " Hear for Thou, O Christ, alone
With Thv glorious Sire art One !
One the Holy Ghost with Thee,
One supreme Eternal Three."

HYMN STUDIES.

27 J 'rai.se the Lord. 7.

PRAISE the Lord, his glories show,
Saints within his courts below,
Angels round his throne above,
All that see and share his love.

2 Earth to heaven, and heaven to earth,
Tell his wonders, sing Ids worth;

Age to age, and shore to shore,
Praise him, praise him, evermore!

3 Praise the Lord, his mercies trace ;
Praise his providence and grace ;
All that he for man hath done;

All he sends us through his Son.

4 Strings and voices, hands and hearts,
In the concert bear your parts ;

All that breathe, your Lord adore,
Praise him. praise him, evermore !

HENRY F. LYTE, ALT.

Founded upon Psalm el.

From the author's Spirit of the Psalms, London,
1834.

The first three stanzas have been altered. The
last line of the first verse read :

" Praise Tlim all that share His love."

The first couplet of second verse :

" Earth to heaven exalt the strain,
Send it, heaven, to earth again."

The third verse read :

" Praise the Lrft-d, His goodness trace ;

All the wonders of His grace;

All that He hath borne and done," etc.

The fourth stanza would not have been admitted
into any hymn book by the early Methodists.
Instruments of music in the church, and especially
those with " strings," were an abomination to
them. Dr. Adam Clarke said : " Music as a science
I admire ; but instruments of music in the house
of God I abominate and abhor." John Wesley
said: *' I have no objection to instruments of
music in our chapels, provided they are neither
heard nor seen.'1''

The Rev. Henry Francis Lyte lived from 1793 to
1847 ; was educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; en-
tered the ministry while yet unconverted; but, in
» a dying brother clergymen and searching
the Scriptures together, they both found the way of
salvation by faith. Some of this author's hymns
are deservedly great favorites.

& O The heavenly Guest. C. M.

C< >ME, let us who in Christ believe,
Our common Saviour praise:
To him with joyful voices give
The glory of his grace.

2 He now stands knocking at the door
Of every sinner's heart :

The worst need keep him out no more,
Nor force him to depart.

3 Through grace we hearken to thy voice,
Yield to be saved from sin;

In sure and certain hope rejoice,
That thou wilt enter in.

4 Come quickly in, thou heavenly Guest,
Is or ever hence remove ;

But sup with us, and let the feast
Be everlasting love.

CHARLES "WESLEY.

From Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, 1741.
This is made of the first and last three verses,
unaltered, of a poem of fourteen stanzas.

In the Calvinistic controversy, that was so hotly
waged between the Wesleys, on the one hand, and
Whitefield, Cennick, and others, on the other, tin-
hymns with the above title were circulated as
tracts, and proved very effectual weapons of war-
fare. A glance at the hymn will show how un-
palatable it must have been to a strict Calvinist.
The stanzas omitted were still more so.

29 Blessing on worshipers. CM.

ONCE more we come before, our God ;
Once more Ids blessing ask :
O may not duty seem a load.
Nor worship prove a task.

2 Father, thy quickening Spirit send
From heaven, in Jesus' name.

And bid our wailing minds attend,
And put our souls in frame.

3 May we receive the word we hear,
Each in an hone-t heart ;

And keep the precious treasure there,
And never with it part.

4 To seek thee, all our hearts dispose;
To each thy blessing suit ;

And let the seed thy servant sows
Produce abundant fruit.

JOSEPH riART.

Title: "Before Preaching. From the Supplement
of Hymn* Composed on I - \gteU. By .!.

Han.' L762.

In the third verse the author wrote " Hoard >//■,"
instead of "And keep;" in the fourth verse he
wrote " " "</</".-.." instead of "abundant."

The original has two additional stanzas :

" Bid the refreshing north wind wake,

Say to the south wind, blow :
Let every plant the power partake,

And all the garden grow.

HYMN STUDIES.

"Revive the parched with heavenly ahowcra,
The cold with warmth divine;

And as the benefit is ours.
Be all the glory thine."

The Rev. Joseph Hart was born in London in
1712: was liberally educated, and in early manhood
Kd a life of praj er. He afterward became notori
ously skeptical and wicked ; but God's Spirit fol-
lowed him, and at length lie became a new man
and a minister of the Gospel. Some of his hymns
arc great favorites, lie died May 24, 1768.

30 Expecting the Messing. CM.

SEE, Jesus, thy disciples see,
The promised blessing give;
Met in thy name, we look to thee,
Expecting to receive.

2 Thee we expect, our faithful Lord,
"Who in thy name are joined ;

"We wait, according to thy word,
Thee in the midst to find.

3 With us thou art assembled here,
But O thyself reveal ;

Son of the living God, appear!
Let us thy presence feel.

4 Breathe on us, Lord, in this our day,
And these dry bones shall live ;

Speak peace into our hearts, and say,
"The Holy Ghost receive."

CnARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749. Un-
altered.

Title : At Meeting of Friends.
There arc four additional stanzas :

5 " Whom now we seek, 0 may we meet !
Jesus the Crucified.

Show us thy bleeding hands and feet,
Thou who for us hast died.

6 " Cause us the record to receive ;
Speak, and the tokens show :

0 be not faithless, but believe
In me who died for you.

7 "Lord, I believe for me, even me,
Thy wounds were opened wide ;

1 see "the prints, I more than see

Thy feet, thy hands, thy side.

8 "I cannot fear, I cannot doubt,
I feel the sprinkled blood;

Let every soul with mc cry out,
1 Thou art my Lord, my God.' "

3 1 Infinite grace. C. M.

INFINITE excellence is thine,
Thou glorious Prince of Grace !
Thy uncreated beauties shine
With never-fading rays. .

2 Sinners, from earth's remotest end,
Come bending at thy feet ;

To thee their prayers and songs ascend,
In thee their wishes meet.

3 Millions of happy spirits live
On thy exhaustless store;

From thee they all their bliss receive,
And still thou givest more.

4 Thou art their triumph and their joy ;
They find their all in thee ;

Thy glories will their tongues employ
Through all eternity.

JOHN FAWCETT.

Title : Jesus the Desire of all Nations.

The original contains twelve stanzas.

These are verses one, five, eight, and nine. The
author wrote "lovely" instead or "glorious" in
verse one, line two, and "vows" instead of
"songs" in verse two, line three.

From the author's hymn book, containing: ono
hundred and sixty-six pieces, entitled, Hymns
Adapted to the Circumstances of Public Worship
and Private Devotion, 1782.

The Rev. John Fawcett was awakened by the
preaching of George Whitefield ; joined the Baptist
Church at Bradford in 1758 ; after much prayer de-
cided to follow the advice of his friends and became
a preacher; was ordained minister of a Baptist
Church at Wainsgate, Eng., in 1765, and continued
in the work of the ministry for more than fifty years.
He died in Christian triumph, in 1817, at the age of
seventy -eight years.

32 The great and effectual door. C. M.

JESUS, thou all- redeeming Lord,
Thy blessing we implore;
Open the door to preach thy word.
The great, effectual door.

2 Gather the outcasts in, and save
From sin and Satan's power;

And let them now acceptance have,
And know their gracious hour.

3 Lover of souls! thou know'st to prize
"What thou hast bought so dear:

Come, then, and in thy people's eyes
With all thy wounds appear.

HYMN STUDIES.

4 The hardness of our hearts remove,
Thou who for all hast died ;

Show us the tokens of thy love,
Thy feet, thy hands, thy side.

5 Ready thou art the blood to apply,
And prove the record true ;

And all thy wounds to sinners cry,
"I suffered this for you."

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems. 1749.

The author's title is : Before Preaching to the
Colliers in Leicestershire.

This is composed of verses one, two, six, and
nine, of a hymn of eighteen stanzas. No. 367 is a
part of the same hymn.

The author wrote "stony" instead of "hard-
ness" in verse four.

Among the omitted stanzas are the following,
which contain great beauties and great defects :

" Thy feet were nailed to yonder tree

To trample down their sin ;
Thy hands they all stretched out may see,

To take the murderers in.

" Thy side an open fountain is,

Where all may freely go,
And drink the living streams of bliss,

And wash them white as snow."

33 God, the only .object of worship. CM.

OGOD, our strength, to thee our song
With grateful hearts we raise;
To thee, and thee alone, belong
All worship, love, and praise.

2 In trouble's dark and stormy hour
Thine ear hath heard our prayer;

And graciously thine arm of power
I lath saved us from despair.

3 And thou, O ever gracious Lord,
"Wilt keep thy promise still,

If, meekly hearkening to thy word,
We seek to do thy will.

4 Led by the light thy grace imparts,
Ne'er may we bow the knee

To idols, which our wayward hearts
Set up instead of thec.

5 So shall thy choicest gifts, O Lord,
Thy faithful people bless;

For them shall earth its stores afford,
And heaven its happiness.

HAKKIET AUBEU.

Founded upon passages of Psalm lxxxi. It is a
fine hymn, unaltered and complete.

Miss Harriet Auber lived to he eighty-nine years
old, (1773-1802.) She led a quiet and contented life;
writing much, but publishing only one volume.
The full title of this book was : The Spirit of the
Psalms: A Compressed Version of Select Portions
of the Palms qt David. It was published anony-
mously in 182!). It is not entirely original ; some
pieces were selected from well-known writers.

34: Vying with the angels. C. M.

A THOUSAND oracles divine
Their common beams unite,
That sinners may with angels join,
To worship God aright.

2 Triumphant host ! they never cease
To laud and magnify

The Triune God of holiness,
Whose glory fills the sky.

3 By faith the upper choir wc meet,
And challenge them to sing

Jehovah on his shining seat,
Our Maker and our King.

4 But God made flesh is wholly ours,
And asks our noblest strain;

The Father of celestial powers,
The Friend of earthborn man !

CIIAKLES WESLEY.

From Hymns on the Trinity, 1707.

Only half of the hymn is given here. The
thought of the last line is beautifully expressed by
Edward Young in his Kight Thoughts:

" 0 how Omnipotence
Is lost in love! thou great Philanthropist,
Father of angels, but {he friend of man."

Verse three, line four, the author wrote:
"Our Maker, God, and King."

The third verse of the hymn is a grand one.
The following omitted stanza is equally remark-
able:

" Ye neraphs nearest to the throne,

With rapturous amaze
On us poor ransomed worms look down,

For heaven's superior praise."

The thought is beautiful, yet it is not new, nor
original with Wesley, that redeemed men can and
ought to excel the angels in praise to God.

HYMN STUDIES.

35 Grace, pardon, and life. L. M.

FATHER of heaven, whose love profound
A ransom for our souls hath found,
Before thy throne we Banners bend;

To us thy pardoning love extend.

'J Almighty Son. incarnate Word,
Our Prophet, Priest, Redeemer, Lord,
Before thy throne we sinners bend;
To us thy saving grace extend.

:; Eternal Spirit, by whose breath
The soul is raised from sin and death,
Before thy throne we sinners bend ;
To us thy quickening power extend.

4 Jehovah! Father. Spirit, Son,
Mysterious Godhead! Three in One!
Before thy throne we sinners bend;
Grace, pardon, life to us extend.

JOHN COOPER.

This hymn is unaltered and entire, as found in
A Stkctlon, of Psalms and Hymns for Public and
Private Use, Adapted to the Services <>f the Church
of England. By the Rev. T. Cot'terill, A.M.,
Eighth Edition, considerably enlarged. Sheffield,
1819. It most probably appeared in the earlier
editions, which I have never seen. The first
edition was dated 1610.

Dp to the present time nothing is known of the
personal history of the author. It is claimed, how-
ever, that his name was Edward, not John, and
that he lived from 1770 to 1833.

3 6 True worship every-iohere accepted. L. M.

OTIIOU to whom, in ancient time,
The lyre of Hebrew bards was strung,
Whom kings adored in song sublime,
And prophets praised with glowing
tongue;

2 Not now on Zion's height alone
The favored worshiper may dwell,

Nor where, at sultry noon, thy Son
Sat weary by the patriarch's well.

3 From every place below the skies,
The grateful song, the fervent prayer,

The incense of the heart may rise

To heaven, and find acceptance there.

4 O thou to whom, in ancient time,
The holy prophet's harp was strung,

To thee at last in every clime,

Shall temples rise and praise he sung.

JOHN I'lEKPONT.

Author's title : I'nirersal Worship.

From Airs of Palestim and Other Poems. Bos-
ton, L841.

It was written for the opening of the Inde-
pendent Congregational Church in Salem, Muse.,
1824.

Verses two and three contain an elegant refer-
ence to the words of I Ihrist to the woman of Sama-
ria, John iv, 21-23. Two unimportant stanzas
are omitted. In the second line of the hist stanza
Pierpont wrote :

" The lyre of prophet bards was strung."

John Pierpont was born in Litchfield, Conn., in
1785; was graduated at Yale College in 1804; spent
several years as teacher, lawyer, and merchant;
and in 1818 began to study for the ministry. Soon
after that he was installed pastor of the Hollis
Street Unitarian Church, in Boston, where he re-
mained for twenty-five years. At the breaking out
of the war of the Rebellion, although seventy-five
years old, lie could not be contented to remain at
home, and Governor Andrew appointed him chap-
lain of a regiment. His failing strength wan not
equal to the dutiesof his position, and he resigned.
He was then appointed to a clerkship in Washing-
ton, and remained in the service of the govern-
ment until the time of his death, in 1866. Pierpont
was a scholar, orator, and poet, a radical temper-
ance advocate, and a bold antislavery leader.
Two of his hymns, both valuable, are found in this
collection.

3 7 Trembling aspiration. L. M.

OTHOU, whom all thy saints adore,
We now with all thy saints agree,
And bow our inmost souls before
Thy glorious, awful Majesty.

2 We come, great God, to seek thy face,
And for thy loving-kindness wait;

And O how dreadful is this place !

'Tis God's own house, 'tis heaven's gate.

3 Tremble our hearts to find thee nigh ;
To thee our trembling hearts aspire;

And lo! we see descend from high
The pillar and the flame of fire.

4 Still let it on the assembly stay.
And all the house with glory fill;

To Canaan's bounds point out the way,
And lead us to thy holy hill.

5 There let us all with Jesus stand,
And join the general Church above,

And take our seats at thy right hand,
And sing thine everlasting love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

HYMN STUDIES.

Title: Entering into the Congregation. Two
stanzas, the second and seventh, are omitted :

*' Thee, King of nations, we proclaim :
Who would not our great Sovereign fear 1

We long to experience all Thy name,
And now we come to meet Thee here.

" Come, Lord, our souls are on the wing,
Now on Thy great white throne appear,

And let my eyes behold my King,
And let me see my Saviour there."

Taken unaltered from lit/ inns and Sa-rcd Poems.
By John and Charles Wesley, 1742.

L. M.

3 O Solemn adoration.

ETERNAL Power, whose high abode
Becomes the grandeur of a God,
infinite lengths beyond the bounds
Where stars revolve their little rounds !

2 Thee while the first archangel sings,
lie hides his face behind his wings,
And ranks of shining thrones around
Fall worshiping, and spread the ground.

3 Lord, what shall earth and ashes do?
We would adore our Maker too;
From sin and dust to thee we cry,
The Great, the Holy, and the High.

4 Earth, from afar, hath heard thy fame,
And worms have learned to lisp thy name:
But O ! the glories of thy mind

Leave all our soaring thoughts behind.

5 God is in heaven, and men below :
Be short our tunes ; our words be few :
A solemn reverence checks our songs,
And praise sits silent on our tongues.

ISAAC WATTS.

From Mont Lyrico>, 17ot).

Author's title: The Conclusion — God Exalted
above all I'raise.

The second stanza is omitted :

"The lowest step beneath thy feet,

Rises too high for Gabriel's feet ;

In vain the tall archangel tries

To reach thine height with wondering eyes."

This stanza is extravagant, but it is poetic, ami
characteristic of its author.

The first line of the next stanza has been altered.
Watts wrote :

" Tlnj dazzling beauties whilst lie sings."

3 9 Living bread. L. M.

THY presence, gracious God, afford;
Prepare us to receive thy word:
Now let thy voice engage our ear.
And faith be mixed with what we hear.

2 Distracting thoughts and cares remove,
And fix our hearts and hopes above:
With food divine may we be fed,

And satisfied with living bread.

3 To us the sacred word apply
With sovereign power and energy;
And may we, in thy faith and fear,
Reduce to practice what Ave hear.

4 Father, in us thy Son reveal;
Teach us to know and do thy will:
Thy saving power and love display,
And guide us to the realms of day.

JOHN FAWCETT.

Title : Before Sermon.

The text of this hymn remains the snme as it.
read a century ago; except that the chorus has
been dropped :

Cho.

"Thus, Lord, thy waiting servants bless,
And crown thy Gospel with success."

From Hymns Adapted to the Circumstances of
Ihxblic Worship and J) irate Devotion. By John
Favvcett, Leeds, 1782. See No. 31.

40 God revealed to faith. L. M.

NOT here, as to the prophet's eye,
The Lord upon his throne appears;
Nor seraphim responsive cry,

" Holy ! thrice holy ! " in our ears:

2 Yet God is present in this place,
Veiled in serener majesty ;

So lull of glory, truth, and grace,
That, faith alone such light can see.

3 Nor, as lie in the temple taught,

Is Christ within these walls revealed,
When Mind, and deaf, and dumb were
brought,
Lepers and lame, and all were healed:

4 Yet here, when two or three shall meet,
Or thronging multitudes are found,

All may sit down at Jesus' feet,

And hear from him the joyful sound.

HYMN STUDIES.

5 Semi forth the seraphim, Q Lord,
To touch thy servants' lips with fire;

Saviour, give them thy faithful word;
Come, Holy Ghost, their hearts inspire.
JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title: For the Opmin§ of a Place of Worship.
In the second line of the third stanzu the author-
ized text is :

"Is Christ beneath this roof revealed."

From Sacnd I\*mx and Hymns for Public and
Private Devotion, 1853. This book the author

calls " the most serious work" of hie long lite. It
was edited the year previous to his death. See
No. .">.

4: 1 Glory begun below. S. M.

COME, ye that love the Lord,
And let your joys be known;
Join in a song with sweet accord,
"While ye surround his throne.

2 Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,

But servants of the heavenly King
May speak their joys abroad.

3 The God that rules on high,
That all the earth surveys,

That rides upon the stormy sky,
And calms the roaring seas ;

4 This awful God is ours,
Our Father and our Love ;

He will send down his heavenly powers,
To carry us above.

5 There we shall see his face,
And never, never sin;

There, from the rivers of his grace,
Drink endless pleasures in:

6 Yea, and before we rise
To that immortal state,

The thoughts of such amazing bliss
Should constant joys create.

7 The men of grace have found
Glory begun below;

Celestial fruit on earthly ground
From faith and hope may grow:

8 Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;

We're marching through Immanuel's
ground,
To fairer worlds on high.

ISAAC WATTS, ALT. 1JY J. WESLEY.

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.
Title: Heavenly Joy on Earth.

Stanzas two and nine are omitted :

2 " The sorrows of the mind
Be banished from the place !

Religion never was designed
To make our pleasures less.

9 "The hill of Zion yield.-,

A thousand sacred sweets,
Before wo reach the heavenly fields,

Or walk the golden streets."

The first stanza has been altered, yet some still
prefer it as Watts wrote it :

" Come, we that love the Lord,
And let our joys be known.

Join in a song with sweet accord.
And thus surround the throne."

In the second verse of the hymn we have
"servants." Watts wrote " fav'rites." Better than
either of these would be children.

The third verse has been greatly improved by
the changes made. Watts wrote :

" The God that rules on high,
And thunders wlien he pit <'•■<,

That rides upon the stormy sky,
And manages the seas."

It is no wonder that the author put this stanza in
brackets.

42 Creating love and redeeming grace. S. M.

FATHER, in whom we live,
In whom we are, and move,
The glory, power, and praise receive
Of thy creating love.

2 Let all the angel throng
Give thanks to God on high,

While earth repeats the joyful song,
And echoes to the sky.

3 Incarnate Deity,

Let all the ransomed race
Render in thanks their lives to thee,
For thy redeeming grace.

4 The grace to sinners showed,
Ye heavenly choirs proclaim,

And cry, " Salvation to our God,
Salvation to the Lamb ! "

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: To the Trinity.

From Hymns for Those that Seek, and Those that
Have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ.
London, 1747. Long titles were fashionable in
those 'lays. The book was usually called Redemp-
tion II 'iinns, and was wry popular. This is the
first half of the original poem, unaltered.

HYMN STUDIES.

43 The sacrifice of praise. S. M.

WITH joy we lift our eyes,
To those bright realms above,
That glorious temple in the skies,
Where dwells eternal Love.

2 Before thy throne we bow,
() thou almighty King;

Here we present the solemn vow,
And hymns of praise we sing.

3 While in thy house we kneel,
With trust and holy fear,

Thy mercy and thy truth reveal,
And leud a gracious ear.

4 Lord, teach our hearts to pray,
And tune our lips to sing;

Nor from thy presence cast away
The sacrifice we bring.

THOMAS JEIIVIS, ALT.

The author's title was : Homage and Devotion.
It has been changed from common to short meter.
Original of altered lines :

Verse one, line one :

" With sacred joy we lift our eyes."
Verse two, line one :

" Before the awful throne we bow."
Verse two, line two:

" Of Ionian's almighty King."
Verse three, line one :

'■ While in thy house of prayer we kneel."
Verse four, line one :

" With fervor teach our hearts to pray."
One stanza— the third — is omitted:

" Thee we adore ; and, Lord, to thee

Our filial duty pay ;
Thy Bervice, unconstrained and free,

Conducts to endless day."

From A Collection of Hymns <'>></ /'••aims for
Public and Privati Worship. A new edition, 1819.
(First edition, 1795. ) The Rev. Thomas Jervis
(1748-1833) was an English Unitarian minister.

44 The great Shepherd -with his flock. L. M.

JESUS, where'er thy people tin et,
There they behold thy mercy-seat ;
Where'er they seek thee, thou art found.
And every place is hallowed ground.

2 For thou, within no walls confined,
Dost dwell with those of humble mind;
Such ever bring thee where they come,
And, going, take thee to their home.

3 Great Shepherd of thy chosen few,
Thy former mercies here renew ;
Here, to our waiting hearts, proclaim
The sweetness of thy saving name.

4 Here may we prove the power of prayer
To strengthen faith and sweeten care;
To teach our faint desires to rise,

And bring all heaven before our eyes.

WILLIAM COWPER.

Title : On opening a place for Social Prayer.
From Olney llt/mus, 1779.
The author wrote :

Verse two, line two:

"Inhabited the humble mind."

Verse three, line one:

" Dear Shepherd of the chosen few."

There are two additional stanzas :

"Behold, at thy commanding word.
We stretch the curtain and the cord;
Come thou, and till this wider space,
And bless us with a large increase.

" Lord, we are few, but thou art near ;
Nor short thine arm, nor deaf thine ear;
Oh rend the heavens, come Quickly down,
And make a thousand hearts thine own."

William Cowper was the most distinguished poet
in the last half of the eighteenth century. His
father was a clergyman, and chaplain to George II.
Cow per was born in Hertfordshire in 1731 ; educated
at Westminster School ; rend law in London, and was
admitted to the bar, but always preferred literature
to law. He won fame by wiiting the "Task,"
which was published in 1785. C'owner was endowed
with poetic genius, and afflicted by tendency to
insanity. The latter increased as lie advanced in
years until his mind was overshadowed by the
deepest gloom. Death brought relief in his seven-
tieth year, 1S00.

45 Elest hour of prayer. L. M.

BLEST hour, when mortal man retires
To hold communion with his God;
To send to Heaven his warm desires,
And listen to the sacred word.

', Blest hour, when God himself draws nigh,
Well pleased his people's voice to hear;

To hush the penitential sigh,

And wipe away the mourner's tear.

IIYMN STUDIES.

3 Blest hour, for, where the Lord resorts,
Foretaste's of future bliss are given;

And mortals find his earthly courts
The house of God, the gate of heaven.

4 Hail, peaceful hour! supremely blest
A tniil the hours of worldly care;

The hour that yields the spirit rest,
That sacred hour, the hour of prayer.

5 And when my hours of prayer are past,
And this frail tenement decays,

Then may I spend in heaven at last
A never-endiug hour of praise.

THOMAS RAFFLES.

It is said that this hymn was contributed to Tlce
Amulet, 1S2S. 1 have not seen the original.

The Rev. Thomas Raffles, D.D.,an English Inde-
pendent divine and celebrated pulpit orator, was
born at London in lTsS; studied theology at Homer-
ton College ; in 1812 was called to the pastorate of a
Congregational church in Liverpool, held it until
I860, and died ill 1863. lie was the author of some
excellent prose works, and wrote a number of
hymns.

46 for Ziori 8 peace. L. M.

OTHOU. our Saviour, Brother, Friend,
Behold a cloud of incense rise;
The prayers of saints to heaven ascend,
Grateful, accepted sacrifice.

2 Regard our prayers for Zion's peace ;
Shed in our hearts thy love abroad;

Thy gifts abundantly increase;
Enlarge, and fill us all with God.

3 Before thy sheep, great Shepherd, go,
And guide into thy perfect will;

Cause us thy hallowed name to know ;
The work of faith in us fulfill.

4 Help us to make our calling sure;
O let us all be saints indeed,

And pure, as thou thyself art pure,
Conformed in all things to our Head.

5 Take the dear purchase of thy blood:
Thy blood shall wash us white as snow:

Present us sanctified to God,

And perfected in love below.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : H/mn of Intercession.

From "Hymn* and Sacred Poems, 1749. Some
verbal changes have b en made. In the first verse
Wesley wrote " Husband" instead of "Saviour,"

and •' unceasing " for " accepted " in the last line
of the third verso :

" The work of faith with power fulfill ; "

and in the third line of the fourth verse:

" And pure as God Himself \& pure."

There are four additional stanzas, but they are of
no particular value.

47 Lo ! God is here. L. M. 6 1.

LO! God is here ! let us adore,
And own how dreadful is this place:
Let all within us feel his power,

And silent bow before his face ;
Who know his power, his grace who prove,
Serve him with awe, with reverence love.

2 Lo! God is here! him day and night
United choirs of angels sing:

To him, enthroned above all height,

Heaven's host their noblest praises bring;
Disdain not, Lord, our meatier song,
Who praise thee with a stammering tongue.

3 Being of beings, may our praise

Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill ;
Still may we stand before thy face,

Still hear and do thy sovereign will ;
To thee may all our thoughts arise,
Ceaseless, accepted sacrifice.

GERHARD TERSTEEGEN.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

Title: Public Worship.

The first, second, and third stanzas, unaltered, of
a translation found in Hymns and Sacred Poems. By
John and Charles Wesley, 1739. The hymn was
evidently suggested bv the words of Jacob, Gen.
xxviii, 16, 17 :

" And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he
said, Surely the Lord is in this place ; and I knew
it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful
is this place ! tins is none other but the house of
God, and this is the gate of heaven."

Gerhard Tersteegen, the writer of this solemn lyric,
was born in humble life, in the town of .Mors. West-
phalia, in 1697. He experienced religion in early
years, and some time afterward consecrated him-
self entirely to the Lord and lived in intimate and
precious communion with God. It was doubtless
the author's reputation for saiutliness that attracted
the attention of Wesley to his hymns. He was, in
fact, a mystic of lofty and pure type. He devoted
himself to doing good, in a humble way, by private
conversation, and by holding meetings and making
addresses. In 1731 he published a volume, called
77/' Spiritual Flower-garden^ \\ bleb contained one
hundred and eleven hymns. Altogether, he was a
remarkable man, and a great religious poet. Died
1768.

HYMN STUDIES.

48 Holy, Jiohj, holy, Lord Godo/Saboath. L.M.6 1.

INFINITE God, to thee we raise
Our hearts in solemn songs of praise :
By all thy works on earth adored,
We worship thee, the common Lord;
The everlasting Father own,
And bow our souls before thy throne.

2 Thee all the choir of angels sings,
The Lord of hosts, the King of kings;
Cherubs proclaim thy praise aloud,
And seraphs shout the Triune God ;
And "Holy, holy, holy," cry,

" Thy glory fills both earth and sky."

3 Father of endless majesty,

All might and love we render thee ;
Thy true and ouly Son adore,
The same in dignity and power;
And God the Holy Ghost declare,
The saints' eternal Comforter.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Verses one, two, and five of a metrical paraphrase
of the Te Hewn Laudamus. The poem comprises
fourteen stanzas. The author wrote uthe" instead
of " thy" in the last line of the first verse. From
Hymns for those that Seek and Those that Have
Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ. Lon-
don, 1747.

49 Lift up our hearts to Thee. L. M.

0 CHRIST, who hast prepared a place
For us around thy throne of grace,
We pray thee, lift our hearts above,
And draw them with the cords of love.

2 Source of all good, thou, gracious Lord,
Art our exceeding great reward ;

How transient is our present pain,
How boundless our eternal gain !

3 With open face and joyful heart,
We then shall see thee as thou art:
Our love shall never cease to glow,
Our praise shall never cease to flow.

4 Thy never-failing grace to prove,
A surety of thine endless love,
Send down thy Holy Ghost, to be
The raiser of our souls to thee.

S.WTOl.irS YICTORINUS.
TH. BY J. CHANDLER.

Author's title : Nobis Olympo redditus.

Santolius Victorinus, whose French name was
Jean Baptiste Sarjteul, bona in 1630, was a celebrat-
ed scholar and poet, lie died in 1097-

Tbe Kev. John Chandler (18O0-ls7r,) was „
clergyman of the Church of England, and the
translator and editor of Hymns of tin; Primitive
Church. London, 1887. This translation is from
that valuable work, unaltered. The doxology,
verse five, is :

5 " O future Judge, Eternal Lord,
Thy name be hallowed and adored ;
To God the Father, King of heaven.
And Holy Ghost, like praise be uiven.
Amen."

OU Show mercy.

GOD, to show lis mercy,

7,6.

And bless us in thy grace;
Cause thou to shine upon us
The brightness of thy face :

2 That so throughout all nations
Thy way may be well known,

And unto every people

Thy saving health be shown.

3 O God, let people praise thee,
Let all the people praise;

O let the nations joyful

Their songs of gladness raise:

4 For thou shalt judge the people
In truth and righteousness;

And on the earth all nations
Shall thy just rule confess.

5 O God, let people praise thee;
Thy praises let them sing;

And then in rich abundance
The earth her fruit shall bring:

6 The Lord our God shall bless us,
God shall his blessing send;

And people all shall fear him
To earth's remotest end.

JOHN HOPKINS AND OTHERS.

This is a beautiful metrical version of Psalm
lxvii. We may safely say that this <jrand hymn
was never written ; it areic, and it has grown, at
length, to be nearly perfect.

The basis of the hymn is the version of the Rev.
John Hopkins, who. with Thomas Sternhold and
others, edited The WkoU Book if l^alms, col-
lected into English Metre, 1562.

It was slightly altered by Francis Kous for his
first edition of The Book of ftalmes in English
Meeter, 1041. It was again altered and improved
by the editors of t lie version approved DJ the
Church of Scotland. Since then it lias come
into its present shape. It was inspired of God,
and will live forever.

HYMN STUDIES.

51 Thanh.y<jh'lnij for iitjiniti luCi. 10,11.

"\7*E servants of God, your Master proclaim,
X And publish abroad his wonderful name;
The name all-victorious of Jesus extol;
His kingdom is glorious, and rules over all.

2 God ruleth on high, almighty to save;
A'id still hf is oigh; his presence we have:
Tin1 great congregation his triumph shall

Ascribing salvation to Jesus, our King.

:! '• Salvation to God, who sits on the

throne,"
T. •; all cry aloud, and honor the Son:
The praises of Jesus the angels proclaim.
Fall down on their faces, and worship the
Lamb.

4 Then let us adore, and give him his

right,
All glory and power, all wisdom and

might,
All honor and blessing, with angels above,
And thanks never ceasing for infinite love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : To be Suny in a Tumult.
Two stanza*, the second and third of the original,
arc omitted :

"The waves of the sea Have lift up thoir voice,
Sore troubled that we In Jesus rejoice ;
The floods they are roaring, But Jesus is here,
While we are adoring He always Ls near.

" When devils engaqre, The billows arise,
And horribly rage, And threaten the skies :
Their fury shall never Our steadfastness shock,
The weakest believer Is built on a rock."

Verse three, line three, the author wrote :
" Our Jesus' 's praises" etc.

The year 1744 was a time of great opposition to,
aid persecution of, the Meth (lists in England. The
country was at war with France. An invasion for
the purpose of dethroning George II. and crowning
the exiled repi fthe House of Stuart was

expected. The Methodists were represented as
Papists in disguise, working for the Pretender.
Their meetings were broken up by mobs, and many
of their preachers were impressed into the army.
Even the Wesleys were brought before the magis-
trates for examination. In the midst of these per-
secutions they publish 1 a pamphlet, containing
thirty-three pieces, and entitled Hymns for Times of
Trouble and Persecution, 1744. This hymn was
first published in that pamphlet.

5 3 For tlu fullness of peace and joy. 8, 7, 4.

LORD, dismiss us with thy blessing,
Fill our hearts with joy and peace;
Let us each, thy love possessing,
Triumph in redeeming grace;

O refresh us,
Traveling through this wilderness.

2 Thanks we give, and adoration,
For thy gospel's joyful sound;

May the fruits of thy salvation
In our hearts and lives abound;

May thy presence
With us evermore be found.

3 So, when'er the signal's given
Us from earth to call away,

Borne on angels' wings to heaven,
Glad the summons to obey,

May we ever
Reign with Christ in endless day.

WALTER SHIRLEY. (?)

A very appropriate and widely used closing
hymn. It is found in the Kev. John Harris's
Collection of Hymns for Public Worship, 1774.
There it has the name of John Fawcett. It
is not among his original hym.is, 17S2. The
hymn is the same as it is found in Lady Hunting-
don's Collection, edited hy Walter Shirley, with tho
exception of one line. The filth line of verse three
reads :

" We shall surely."

English hymnologists now attribute this hymn to
Fawcett, instead of Shirlev.

The Hon. and Rev. Walter Shirlev was born in
1725, of a noble family ; was brother to Earl Fer-
rars, and cousin of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.
He was a very useful and successful clergyman of
the Church of England. He died in 1756.

53 The apostolic benedidion. 8,7.

MAY the grace of Christ our Saviour,
And the Fathers boundless love,
With the Holy Spirit's favor,

Rest upon us from above :
Thus may we abide in union

With each other and the Lord ;

And possess, in sweet communion,

Joys which earth cannot afford.

JOHX SEWTOX.

From Olney Hymns, 1779. A metrical version
of the apostolic benediction, unaltered :

" The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
love of God, and the communion of the Holy
Ghost, be with you all. Amen. 2 Cor. xiii, 14.

HYMN STUDIES.

04 Heavenly Joy anticipated. 8,7,4.

IN thy name, () Lord, assembling,
We, thy people, now draw near:
Teach us to rejoice with trembling;

Speak, and let thy servants hear :

Hear with meekness,
Hear thy word with godly fear.

2 While our days on earth are lengthened,
May we give them, Lord, to thee:

Cheered by hope, and daily strengthened,
May we run, nor weary be,

_ Till thy glory
Without cloud in heaven we see.

8 There, in worship purer, sweeter,

All thy people shall adore;
Sharing then in rapture greater

Than they could conceive before:
Full enjoyment,

Full and pure, (or evermore.

THOMAS KELLY.

" Speak ; for thy servant heareth." 1 Sam. iii, 10.

The last stanza is somewhat altered.

Thomas Kelly, son of the Bight Hon. B;iron
Kelly, was born at Dublin in 1769. After gradu-
ating at Dublin University he studied law; but
gave up law for theology, and was ordained a
clergyman of the Established Church in 1793. He
was subsequently an Independent minister, a
wealthy ami learned man, and a very popular and
useful preaeht-r. He labored in the city of Dublin
more than sixty years.

In 1804 he published a small volume containing
ninety six original hymns. This volume increased
in successive editions until it numbered seven hun-
dred and sixty-five hymns. This was entitled
Hymns on Variovs Passages of Scripture. Dublin,
1853. Many of them are of little value ; hut some,
like this, ore desi rvedly popular. This hymn ap-
peared in 1S15. Mr. Kelly died in 1S54.

O O For a blessing on the word. 8, 7, 4.

COME, thou soul-transforming Spirit,
Bless the sower and the seed;
Let each heart thy grace inherit ;
Raise the weak, the hungry feed;

From the gospel
Now supply thy people's need.

2 O may all enjoy the blessing

Which thy word's designed to give;

Let us all. thv love possessing,
Joyfully the truth receive,

And forever
To thy praise and glory live.

JONATHAN- EVANS.

Title: .-1 Blessing 'Requested.

It is found in George Burder's Collection of
Hymns, 1764. It is unaltered and entire.

The Bev. Jonathan Evans was born in 1749. In
early life he was very wicked; hut, when about
thirty years of age, became a Christian and a mem-
ber of the Congregational Church. lie subsequently
became pastor of a church at Foleshill, England,
and died in 1809.

56 Isaiah's virion. 8,7.

ROLXD the Lord, in glory seated,
Cherubim and seraphim
Filled his temple, and repeated
Each to each the alternate hymn:

2 "Lord, thy glory fills the heaven ;
Earth is with its fullness .stored;

Unto thee be glory give;:.
Holy, holy, holy Lord."

3 Heaven is still with glory ringing;
Earth takes up the angels1 cry,

"Holy, holy, holy,'' singing,

"Lord of host, Lord God most high."

4 With his seraph train before him,
With his holy Church below,

Thus unite we to adore him :
Bid we thus our anthem flow :

5 " Lord, thy glory fills the heaven ;
Earth is with its fullness stored;

Unto thee be glory given.
Holy, holy, holy Lord."

RICHARD MANT.

Title: Hymn Commemorative of the Thrice Holy.

The original has eight stanzas : the Bret, fifth, and
eighth are omitted. Only one word has been
changed; the author wrote, verse four, line three :

" Thus conspire we to adore Him."

From the Author's Original Hymns added tQ
Ancient Hymns from //,. /, . man Breviary^ 1887.

The Rev. Richard Mant, 1 ».!>.. was born at South-
ampton in 177'j : was graduo ■ ■ i al < >xford in IT'.1? :
and was appointed curat- in 1802. In 1816 he
was made Rector of St Bi t Iph's, London, a>d
was consecrated Bishop in 1820. He died in 184ts.
Ho published several prose works3 and was ihe
author of many hymns and translations,

57 Exhortation to praise God. 6, 7.

PRAISE the Lord ! ye heavens, adore him ;
Praise him. angels, in hi-- height ;
Sun and moon, rejoice before him;

Praise him, all ye star- of light.

HYMN STUDIES.

■J Praise the Lord, for he hath spoken;

w >rlds bis mighty voice obeyed;

- which never shall be broken,

For their guidance he hath made.

3 Praise the Lord, for he is glorious;
Never Bhall hia promise rail ;

I hath made his saints victorious;
Sin and death .-hall not prevail.

I Praise the God of our salvation;

Hosts on nigh his power proclaim;
Heaven and earth, and all creation,

Laud and magnify his name.

US KNOWN.

A successful rendering of the first three \
Psalm oxlviii :

•• Praise ye the Lor 1. Praise ye the Lord from
wens: praise him in the heights. Praise ye
him, all bis angels: praise ye him, all his

ye him, sun and moon : praise ye him, all
ye >tars of light."

It was attributed to the Rev. John Kempthorne,
1775-1888,) an English clergyman, on the author-
iry of Daniel Sedgwick. Kempthorne published
it. with others, in Select Portions of Psalms and
Hymns, 1810, but he made no claim to the author -
- . Thehynmis taken, unaltered and entire, from
. Hymns, and Anthems For the Fan
. London, 1796. It must be marked Un-
known.

58 Glory to the Lamb. B, 7.

HARK! the notes of angels, singing,
" Glory, glory to the Lamb! "
All in heaven their tribute bringing,
liaising high the Saviour's name.

2 Ye for whom his life was given,

Sacred themes to you belong :
Come, assist the choir of heaven;

Join the everlasting song.

:; See! the angelic host have crowned him,

Jesus fills the throne on high;
Countless myriads, hovering round him,

With his praises rend the sky.

4 Filled with holy emulation.
Let ns vie with those above :

I the theme, a free salvation,
Fruit of everlasting love.

"i Endless life in him possessing,
Let us praise his precious name;

(dory, honor, power, and blessing,
Be forever to the Lamb.

THOMAS KELLY.

Taken unaltered from the Author's Hymns on
Various 1+usages oj - 1806. The

prefixed to this hwnu is, " Worthy is the Lamb?'
Bev. \, 12.

One stanza, the third of the original, has been
left out :

"Saints and amrels thus anil

Z8 imperfect still must raise;
Tho _'h despised on earth and slighted
Jesus is above all prab .

The subject of this hymn is a common one with
hymn writers. The author has put it into a new
and pleasing form. For a brief sketch of the Kev.
1 liomaa Kelly, see No. 54.

O 9 Dismission. 8, 7.

LORD, dismiss us with thy blessing,
Bid us now depart in peace;
Still on heavenly manna feeding,
Let our faith and love increase :
Fill each breast with consolation;
Up to thee our hearts we raise :
When we reach our blissful -tation,
Then wedl give thee nobler praise.

ROBERT HAWKER.

The original text of this short closing hymn can-
not be ascertained ; nor can the authorship be pos-
itively settled. Some collections attribute it to
Edwin Smyihe, some to Walter Shirley, some to
Burder, some to Robert Hawker.

The last is probably correct : although it is not
certain that he wrote it. The Rev. Robert Hawker
(1753-1828) was a Church of England clergyman,
noted for his extreme Calvinism. He was the au-
thor of numerous sermons, and of a commentary on
tiie Bible.

60 Confession, prayer, and praise. CM.

LORD, when we bend before thy throne,
And our confessions pour,
0 may we feel the sins we own,
And hate what we deplore.

2 Our contrite spirits pitying see;
True penitence impart ;

And let a healing ray from thee
Beam peace into each heart.

3 When we disclose our wants in prayer,
May we our wills resign :

And not a thought our bo=om share
Which is not wholly thine.

4 And when, with heart and voice, we strive
Our grateful hymns to raise,

Let love divine within us live.
And fill our souls with praise.

HYMN STUDIES.

5 Then, on thy glories while we dwell,

Thy mercies we'll review;
With love divine transported, tell —

Thou, God, art Father too!

JOSEPH D. CARLYLE, ALT.

This hymn is so altered that we ;;ive the original
from Poems Suggested Chiefly by Scenes in Asia
Minor, 1805.

Title: A Hymn Before Public Worship:

1 The first stanza is copied verbatim.

2 "Our broken spirits pitying see,
And penitence impart

Then let a kindling glance from thee,
Beam HOPE upon the heart.

3 " When our responsive tongues essay,
Their grateful hymns to raise;

Grant that our souls may join the lay,
And mount to Tine in praise.

4 " Then, on thy glories while we dwell,
Thy mercies we'll renew,

Till t()VE divine transported tell,
Our GooVs our Father too."

5 Same as third verse of hymn.

6 " Let FAITH each weak petition fill,
And waft it to the skies;

And teach our hearts 'tis goodness still,
That grants it or denies."

The Rev. Joseph Dacre Carlyle was the son of an
English physician ; was born at Carlisle in 1759,
and died in 1S04. He was graduated at Cambridge
in 1779, and in 1794 was appointed Professor of
Arabic in the same university. He made a special
study of Oriental literature.

6 1 Divine guidance, and rest. C. M.

BEFORE thy mercy-seat, O Lord,
Behold thy servants stand,
To ask the knowledge of thy word,
The guidance of thy hand.

2 Let thy eternal truths, we pray,
Dwell richly in each heart ;

That from the safe and narrow way
We never may depart.

3 Lord, from thy word remove the seal,
Unfold its hidden store;

And, as we read, O may we feel
Its value more and more.

4 ITelp us to see the Saviour's love
Beaming from every page;

And let the thoughts of joys above
Our inmost souls engage.

5 Thus while thy word our footsteps guides,

Shall we be truly blest;
And sale arrive where love provides

An everlasting rest.

WILLIAM H. BATHURST.

From Psalms and Hymns for Public and PrivaU
Use. London, 1881.

Title: For an Understanding of the Sirinluns.
Text: Col. Hi, 1G:

" Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in
all wisdom ; teaching and admonishing one another
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, Bulging
with grace in your hearts to the Lord.''

In the third line of third stanza the author wrote :
" And teach us as we read to fed /"

and in the last three lines of the last stanza:

" 0 may we safely go
To those fair realms where love provides
A final rest from woe."

The Rev. William Hiley Bathurst, an Englinh
clergyman and poet, was born in 1796; was grntl-
uated at Christ Church College, Oxford, and took
holy orders in 1819. He is the author of two vol
urncs of hymns — the one given above, and Metrical
Thoughts'in Verse, 1849. He died Nov. 25, lsTT.

6/3 For a benediction on the truth. C. M.

OGOD, by whom the seed is given,
By whom the harvest blesl :
Whose word, like manna showered from
heaven,
Is planted in our breast;

2 Preserve it from the passing feet,

And plunderers of the air,
The sultry sun's intenser heat,

And weeds of worldly care.

?> Though buried deep, or thinly strown.

Do thou thy grace supply:
The hope in earthly furrows sown

Shall ripen in the sky.

REGINALD ITEBER.

From Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekiy
Church Service of th< Fear, 1827*.
Notice the scriptural allusions to the parable of

the BOWer, Matt. xiii. It has DOt heeli altered.

Bishop Reginald Heber wax born at Malpas,
Cheshire, in 1783: was educated at Brazenose Col-
lege, Oxford, and ordained in 1S07. In 1823 he
was appointed Bishop of Calcutta, and received the
degree of D.D. from Oxford just before Bailing for
India. Bishop Heber was a man of learning, piety,
and energv ; and a voluminous author. His fame
rcst3 mainly upon his hymns. He died in 1828.

I7YMN STUDIES.

63 ■ries of tfit . C. M.

COME, ye that love the Saviour's name,
And joy tn make it known,
Tin' Sovereign of your hearts proclaim,
And l>'>\. before his throne.

9 Behold your Lord, your Master, crowned

With glories all divine:
And tell the wondering nations round

How bright those glories shine.

3 When, in his earthly courts, we view
The glories of our King,

We long to love as angels do,
And wish like them to sing.

4 And shall we long and wish in vain?
Lord, teach our Bongs to rise:

Thy love can animate the strain,
And bid it reach the skies.

AN.NE STEELE.

Title: TJie Elng of Savntg.

From .'•/' "its Pieces in Verse and Prose.

London, 17S0. The original has eight utanzas. The
author wrote, verse two, line one :

"Behold your King your Saviour crown'd."

Miss Anne Steele (1717—1778) was the daughter
of the Rev. William Steele, a Baptist minister in
Hampshire, England. She was a very talented
lady; although a permanent invalid and a great suf-
ferer, her life was useful and happy. Her published
hymns are found in nearly all collections, and have
been a blessing to many people. Many of them arc
good, and a few deserve the highest praise. The
following appropriate lines are inscribed upon her
tomb :

" Silent the lyre, and dumb the tuneful tongue,
That sung on earth her great Redeemer's praise ;

But now in heaven she joins the angelic song,
In more harmonious, more exalted lays."

64 The Desire of all nations. C. M.

C^OME, thou Desire of all thy saints,
J Our humble strains attend,
While, with our praises and complaints,
Low at thy feet we bend.

2 How should our songs, like those above,
With warm devotion rise!

How should our souls, on wings of love,
Mount upward to the skies!

3 Come, Lord, thy love alone can raise
In us the heavenly flame;

Then shall our lips resound thy praise,
Our hearts adore thy name.

1 Now, Saviour, let thy glory shine,

And till thy dwellings here,
Till life, and love, and joy divine,

A heaven on earth appear.

5 Then shall our hearts, enraptured, say,
" Come, great Redeemer, come,

And bring the bright, the glorious day,
That calls thy children borne."

ANNE STEELE.

Title:
< fiwch.

Entreating the Presence of Christ in hit

" The Desire of all nations shall come

One word only has been altered
wrote, verse four, line one:

The author
" Dear Saviour, let thy glory shine."

The original has seven stanzas.

From the author's Puems on Subjects CJdejly De-
votional. London, 1760.

Miss Steele published two volumes in 1760, under
the assumed name of " Theodosia." A third vol-
ume was published in 1780, soon after her death, lw
her friend, Dr. Caleb Evans, of Bristol. In the
Boston edition, 1808, the three books were pub-
lished in two volumes. See No. 63.

65 Invoking divine blessings. CM.

WITHIN thy house, 0 Lord our God,
In majesty appear;
Make this a place of thine abode,
And shed thy blessings here.

2 As we thy mercy-seat surround,
Thy Spirit, Lord, impart ;

And let thy gospel's joyous sound,
With power reach every heart.

3 Here let the blind their sight obtain;
Here give the mourner rest ;

Let Jesus here triumphant reign,
Enthroned in every breast.

4 Here let the voice of sacred joy
And fervent prayer arise,

Till higher strains our tongues employ,
In realms beyond the skies.

UNKNOWN.

This anonymous hymn has been traced to ffwnn*
Adapted to the Public Yfornhbp of the Christian
Chvrch, Princeton, N. J., 1820, where it is a long
meter hymn. It was rewritten about 1830, and
bus found its way into many collections.

HYMN STUDIES.

CD Jesus reigns. L. M.

(^OME. let us tune our loftiest song.
J And raise to Christ our joyful strain;
Worship and thanks to him belong,
Who reignsj and shall forever reign.

2 His sovereign power our bodies made ;

Our souls are Ins immortal breath;
And when his creatures sinned, he bled,
To save us from eternal death.

3 Burn every breast with Jesus' love;
Bound every heart with rapturous joy;

And saints on earth, with saints above,
Your voices in his praise employ.

4 Extol the Lamb with loftiest song,
Ascend for him our cheerful strain ;

Worship and thanks to him belong,
Who reigns, and shall forever reign.

KOBERT A. WEST.

Robert Athow West, an editor and author, was
born in England in ISO!) ; came to America in 1843 ;
was the ofiicial reporter of the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844; and
published the debates of that famous session. Mr.
West was one of a Committee of seven men, ap-
pointed by the General Conference of 1844, to pie-
pare a standard edition of the Methodist Hymn
Book. This excellent hymn was contributed to
that edition, 1849. He died in Georgetown, D. C,
February 1, 1SG5.

67 The bond of love. L. M.

PRAISE waits in Zion, Lord, for thee:
Thy saints adore thy holy name ;
Thy creatures bend the obedient knee.
And humbly now thy presence claim.

2 Eternal Source of truth and light,
To thee we look, on thee we call;

Lord, we are nothing in thy sight,
But thou to us art all in all.

?* Still may thy children in thy word
Their common trust and refuge see;

() bind us to each other, Lord,

By one great bond, — the love of thee.

4 Here at the portal of thy house,

We leave our mortal hopes and fears;
Accept our prayers, and bless our vows, •
And dry our penitential tears.

5 So shall our sun of hope arise
With brighter still and brighter ray,

Till thou shalt bless our longing eyes
With beams of everlasting day.

Silt J. E. SMITU.

Written for Hymns for Public Worship, Selected
for the I se of the Congregation Assembling in the
Octagon < 'hapi /, Norwich, 1814.
In \erse one, line four, the original is:

" And humbly thy protection claim."

In verse three, line four, the author wrote "tie"
instead of " bond."

The second stanza is omitted :

" Thy hand has raised us from the dust :
The breath of life thy Spirit gave :

Where but in thee can mortals trust?
Who but our God has power to save?"

Sir James Edward Smith, M.D., was born at
Norwich, England, in 1759; was graduated at a

medical school in Leyden ; was a great lover and
student of botany, one of the founders of the
Linneean Society, London, and its first president;
ami was knighted by the Prince Regent in 1814.
lie was a member and officer in the Unitarian
Church, Norwich. He died in 1828.

6 8 The praises of Jehovah. L. M.

SERVANTS of God, in joyful lays,
Sing ye the Lord Jehovah's praise;
His glorious name let all adore,
From age to age, for evermore.

2 Blest be that name, supremely blest,
From the sun's rising to its rest;
Above the heavens his power is known,
Through all the earth his goodness shown.

3 Who is like God ? so great, so high,
He bows himself to view the sky;
And yet, with condescending grace,
Looks down upon the human race.

4 He hears the uncomplaining nioan
Of those who sit and weep alone;
He lifts the mourner from the dust;
In him the poor may safely trust.

5 O then, aloud, in joyful lays,
Sing to the Lord Jehovah's praise;
His saving name let all adore,
From age to age, for evermore.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

An exhortation to praise God for his excellency,
and his mercy.

A tine metrical version of Psalm exiii :

"Praise ye the Lord. Praise, 0 ye servants of
the Lord, praise the name of the Lord. Blessed

be the name of the Lord from this time forth and
for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the
going down of the same the Lord's name is to be
praised. The Lord is high above all nations, and
his glory above the heavens. Who is like unto the

HYMN STUDIES.

Lord our Qod, who dwelleth on high, who hum-
Met h himself to behold the things thai arc in heaven.

and ill the earth ! lie laiseth up the p • OUt 01

the dust, and liiteth the needy out ..I' the dunghill ;
that he may set him with princes, even with the
princes of his pe -pie. lie niaketh tlie liarren wom-
an to keep house) and to he a joyful mother of chil-
dren. Praise ye the Lord."

Verse four, line four, the author wrote:
•■ And sates the poor*n him that trust."

The first two lines of the fifth stanza were the
same as the first.

It is interesting to trace the resemblance of this
hymn to the psalm upon which it is founded.

From Songs of Zion, 1^-2-2.

6 9 Joy of public worship. L. M.

G1 REAT God, attend, while Zion sings
X The joy that from thy presence springs ;
To spend one day with thee on earth
Exceeds a thousand days of mirth.

•J Might I enjoy the meanest place
Within thy house, O God of grace,
Not tents of ease, nor thrones of power,
Should tempt my feet to leave thy door.

3 God is our sun, he makes our day ;
God is our shield, he guards our way
From all assaults of hell and sin.
From foes without, and foes within.

4 All needful grace will God bestow,
And crown that grace with glory too;-
He gives us all things, and withholds
Xo real good from upright souls.

5 O God, our King, whose sovereign sway
The glorious hosts of heaven obey,

And devils at thy presence flee;
Blest is the man that trusts in thee.

ISAAC WATTS.

The original title to this grand old hymn is; God
and Ills Church; or, Grace and Glory. It is founded
on the last part of Psalm lxxxiv:

" O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer : give
ear, 0 God of Jacob. Selah. Behold, 0 God our
shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.
I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my
God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For
the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will
-jive grace and glory: no good thing will he with-
hold from them that walk uprightly. 0 Lord of
hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee."

/ 0 The eternal God exalted. L. M.

ETERNAL God, celestial King,
Exalted be thy glorious name ;
Let hosts in heaven thy praises sing,
And saints on earth thy love proclaim.

2 My heart is fixed on thee, my God;
• I rest my hope on thee alone ;

I'll spread thy sacred truths abroad,
To all mankind thy love make known.

3 Awake, my tongue; awake, my lyre;
With morning's earliest dawn arise;

To songs of joy my soul inspire.
And swell your music to the skies.

4 With those who in thy grace abound,
To thee I'll raise my thankful voice;

Till every land, the earth around,
Shall hear, and in thy name rejoice.

WILLIAM WRANGHAM.

The four stanzas of this hymn were suggested by
Psalm lvii, 5, 7, 8, 9:

"Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let
thy glory be above all the earth. My heart is fixed,
0 God, my heart is fixed: 1 will sing and give
praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and
harp : I myself will awake early. I will praise thee,
0 Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee
among the nations."

From A New Metrical Version of the Psalms,
Adapted to Devotional Purposes. London, 1829.

Miller, in his Singers and Songs of the Church,
says that Wrangham was an Englishman, and by
trade, a jeweler. Verse two, line two, the authoz
wrote :

" And rests its hope on Thee alone."

Date, 1719.
3

It is unaltered and complete.

/ 1 Hosanna to the living Lord. L. M.

HOSANNA to the living Lord !
Hosanna to the incarnate Word !
To Christ, Creator, Saviour. King,
Let earth, let heaven, hosanna sing.

2 " Hosanna, Lord! " thine angels cry,
"Hosanna, Lord! " thy saints reply;
Above, beneath us, and around,

The dead and living swell the sound.

3 O Saviour, with protecting care,
Return to this, thy house of prayer.
Assembled in thy sacred name,
Where we thy parting promise claim.

HYMN STUDIES.

4 But chiefest in our cleansed breast,
Eternal, bid thy Spirit rest,

And make our secret soul to be
A temple pure, and worthy thee.

5 So, in the last and dreadful day,
When earth and heaven shall melt away,
Thy flock, redeemed from sinful slain,
Shall swell the sound of praise again.

REGINALD HEBER.

Title: Advent Sunday. This is the first compo-
sition in the author's Hymns Written and Adapted
to the Weekly Church Service of the Year, 1827.

In that book each stanza clo.-es with this refrain :

" Hosanna ! Lord ! Ilosanna in the highest ! "

Otherwise it is not altered. It was first published
in the Christian Observer, 1811. See No. 02.

72 Day of red and gladness. 7,6.

ODAY of rest and gladness,
O day of joy and light,
O balm of care and sadness,

Most beautiful, most bright:
On thee, the high and lowly,

Through ages joined in tune,
Sing "Holy, holy, holy,"
To the great God Triune.

2 On thee, at the creation,
The light first had its birth;

On thee, for our salvation,

Christ rose from depths of earth ;

On thee, our Lord, victorious
The Spirit sent from heaven ;

And thus on thee, most glorious,
A triple light was given.

3 To-day on weary nations
The heavenly manna falls;

To holy convocations

The silver trumpet calls,
Where gospel light is glowing

With pure and radiant beams,
And living water flowing

With soul-refreshing streams.

4 New graces ever gaining
From this our day of rest,

We reach the rest remaining

To spirits of the blest ;
To Holy Ghost be praises,

To Father, and to Son;
The Church her voice apraises

To thee, blest Three in One.

CHRISTOPHER WOBD8WOBTH.

Title : Sunday. From the author's book, The
Holy Year; or, Hymns for Sunday 'sand Bolydays,
1862.

Each stanza of this hymn is very fine. The two
omitted are even more poetical than those given.
They are too good to be left out:

3 " Thou art a port, protected
From storms that round us rise;

A garden, intersected

With streams of Paradise ;
Thou art a cooling fountain,

In life's dry, dreary sand,
From thee, like Pisgah's mountain,

We view the promised land.

4 " Thou art a holy ladder,
Where Angels go and come;

Each Sunday finds us gladder,

Nearer to Heaven, our home.
A day of sweet reflection

Thou art, a tiny of love,
A day of Resurrection

From earth to things above."

It is unaltered.

Christopher Wordsworth was born in 1807 ; was
graduated at Trinity College. Cambridge, in 1830 ;
was ordained in l!>35, and made Bishop of Lincoln
in 18G8. He is a nephew of William Wordsworth,
the poet. He died March 20, L885.

/3 Joyful homage. II. M.

AWAKE, ye saints, awake!
And hail this sacred day:
In loftiest songs of praise
Your joyful homage psy:
Come, bless the day that God hath blest,
The type of heaven's eternal rest.

2 On this auspicious morn
The Lord of life arose;

He burst the bars of death,
And vanquished all our foes;
And now he pleads our cause above,
And reaps the fruit of all his love.

3 All hail, triumphant Lord!
Heaven with hosannas lings,

And earth, in humbler strains.
Thy praise responsive sings:
Worthy the Lamb, that once was slain,
Through endless years to live and reign.
ELIZABETH SCOTT.
ALT. BY T. COTTERILL.

The original hymn, six stanzas, is found in the
author's manuscript vol ime of poems, which has
been preserved for more than a hundred years in

the Library of Yale College.

TTYMN STUDIES.

This hymn is made by changes in the first three
\ .'Ms. Here is the manuscript copy. The author' a
title is: A Jlymnfor a Lord's Day Morning.

1 Awake our drowsy Souls;
Shake off earth's slothful Band:
The wonders of this Day

Our Noblest Songs demand.
Auspicious Morn !
Thy blissful Kays
Harmonious songs
Of Seraphs grace.

2 At thy approaching Dawn,
Reluctant Death resign'd

The Glorious Prince of Life
Jlis dark Domains confin'd.

Tlie Angelick Host

Around aim bends :

Amidst their shouts

The God ascends.

8 All Hail, triumphant Lord !
Heav'n with Hosannas rings:
While Earth in humbler strains,
Thy Praise Responsive Sings :

Worthy art Thou,

Who Once was Slain,

Thro' Endless years

To Live and Keign.

It was altered by the Rev. Thomas Cotterill for
his Sheffield Collection.

Miss Elizabeth Scott, daughter of a Dissenting
minister, was born at Norwich, England, in 1708.
The Rev. Elisha Williams, president of Yale College
from 1726 to 1739, while traveling in England, was
introduced to Miss Scott by Dr. Doddridge. They
were married in 1751, and the year following came
to America. Three years later Mr. Williams died,
and in 17»>1 Mrs. Williams married the Hon. Will-
iam Smith, of New York. He died in 1769, and
his widow returned to Connecticut to live among
the friends of her first husband. She died at
Wethersfield, Conn., in 1776. Her epitaph cele-
brates her as " a lady of great reading and knowl-
edge, extensive acquaintance, a penetrating mind,
and good judgment ; of abounding charity, and un-
affected piety and devotion, adorned with every
recommending excellency. Few lived more es-
teemed and loved or died more lamented.11

74 Sabbath and sanctuary joys. CM.

WITH joy we hail the sacred day,
Which God has called his own ;
With joy the summons we obey
To worship at his throne.

2 Thy chosen temple, Lord, how fair!

As here thy servants throng
To breathe the humble, fervent prayer,

And pour the grateful song.

I) Spirit of grace! O deign to dwell

Within thy Church below;
Make her in holiness excel,

With pure devotion glow.

4 Let peace within her walls be found;
Lei all her suns unite,

To spread with holy zeal around
His clear and shiniug light.

5 Great God, we hail the sacred day,
Which thou hast called thine own;

With joy the summons we obey
To worship at thy throne.

HARRIET AUBER.

Psalm exxii :

" 1 was glad when they said unto me, Let us go
into the house of the Lord," etc.

Three lines have been altered.

Original.
Verse two, line two :

" Where willing votaries throng."

Verse two, line four :

'' And pour the choral song."

Verse four, line three:

" To spread with grateful zeal around.'

From The Spirit of the Psalms, 1829.
See No. 33.

"75 Easter Sunday. CM.

THE Lord of Sabbath let us praise,
In concert with the blest,
Who, joyful, in harmonious lays
Employ an endless rest.

2 Thus, Lord, while we remember thee,

We blest and pious grow ;
By hymns of praise we learn to be

Triumphant here below.

?, On this glad day a brighter scene

Of glory was displayed
By the eternal Word, than when

This universe was made.

4 He rises, who mankind has bought

With grief and pain extreme:
'Twas great to speak the world from naught ;

'Twas greater to redeem.

SAMUEL WESLEY, .JR.

Title : On the Sabbath Dag.

Published by John Wesley in his Collection of
Raima and Hymns, 1741.

It was probably first published in the Author's
volume of poems in 1736. It is unaltered and en-
tire.

HYMN STUDIES.

'Samuel Wesley, Jr., was an elder brother of
John Wesley. In 1704, when fourteen years of
age, he was sent t>> the famous Westminster
School. In 1711 he entered Christ Church, Ox-
ford. After taking the degree of A.M. lie was ap-
pointed usher in Iris old sehool at Westminster.
While in this school he was ordaine I, but contin-
ued to teach. In 1732 he was elected Head Master
of a hire Grammar School in Tiverton, a position
which he held suecessfully until his sudden death
in 1739. In lT-'Jii lie published a volume of poems,
of which a second edition was issued in 1743.

76 We will njoi.ee, and be glad in it. C. M.

THIS is the day the Lord hath made:
O earth, rejoice and sing;
Let songs of triumph hail the morn;
Hosanna to our King!

2 The Stone the builders set at naught,
That Stone has now become

The sure foundation and the strength
Of Zion's heavenly dome.

3 Christ is that Stone, rejected once,
And numbered with the slain ;

Now raised in glory, o'er his Church
Eternally to reign.

4 This is the day the Lord hath made:
O earth, rejoice and sing;

With songs of triumph hail the morn;
Hosanna to our King!

HARRIET ATJBER.

Copied verbatim and entire from the Author's
Spirit of the Psalms, 18-29. The basis of the
hymn is Psalm exviii, 24, 22:

" This is the day which the Lord hath made ;
we will rejoice and be glad in it." "The stone
which the builders refused is become the head
fttone of the corner."

For biographical sketch of the author, see Xo. 33.

77 Sabbath light. CM.

AGAIN the Lord of life and light
Awakes the kindling ray.
Dispels the darkness of the night,
And pours increasing day.

"2 O what a night was that which wrapt

A guilty world in gloom 1
O what a sun. which broke this day

Triumphant from the tomb!

:'. This day be grateful homage paid,

And loud hosannas sung;
•Let gladness dwell in every heart,

And praise on every tongue.

4 Ten thousand thousand lips shall join

To hail this happy morn,
Which scatters blessings from its wings

On nations yet unborn.

MRS. ANNA L. RARBATJLD, ALT.

These are the first four verses of a hymn of
eleven stanzas, entitled For Eaxter Sunday, found
in the author's first volume of Poems. London,
1773.

Five lines have been altered.

Okioinai. Fobh.
Verse one, line three :

" Unseals the eyelids of the morn."

Verse two, line two:

" 'Die heathen world in gloom."

Verse four, line one :

" Ten thousand differing lips shall join."

Verse four, line two :

" To hail this welcome morn."

Verse four, line four :

" To nations yet unborn."

Anna Letitia Barbauld was a daughter of tho
Rev. John Aikin, D.D., an English Dissenting
minister. Mi.--s Aikin was born in 17-iS, and early
in life gave evidence of poetic talenr. She had a
great desire for a classical education, to which her
father strongly objected. At length she prevailed
in some measure, and was permitted t'> read Latin
and Greek. She published her first volume of
poems in 1773. In 1774 she married the Rev.
Rochemont Barbauld, a young man of French de-
sceut, who attended a school at Warrington, where
Miss Aikins's father was a eh Bsical instructor. Mr.
Barbauld had charge of a Dissenting congregation
at Palgrave. They also opened a boarding
which they carried" on successfully for eleven years.
Mr. Barbauld afterward held other pastoral rela-
tions, and died in 1808. Mis. Barbauld occupied
her time and mind in literary pursuits, editing
various works, and contributing to the press. She
died in 1825.

78 Ardent hope of heavenly rest. L. M.

LORD of the Sabbath, bear our vows,
On this thy day. in this thy house;
And own, as grateful sacrifice,
The songs which from thy servants rise.

2 Thine earthly Babbaths, Lord, wc love;
But there's a nobler rest above;
To that our laboring souls aspire
With ardent hope and strong desire.

/M'.l/.Y STUDIES.

3 Xi> mora fatigue, do more distress,
Nor sin nor hell, shall reach the place;
No sighs shall mingle with the songs.

Which warble from immortal tongues.

4 No rude alarms of raging foes,
No cares to break the long repose;
No midnight shade, no clouded sun,
But sacred, high, eternal noon.

5 O long-expected day, begin!
Dawn on these realms of voe and sin:
Fain would we leave this weary road.
An 1 sleep in death, to rest with God.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title : The Eternal Sabbath.

Written tn be Bung at the dose of a sermon
preached June 2, 17;;i>. Text: " There remaineth
therefore a rest to the people of God." Heb. iv, 9.

It is found in Hymns Founded on Various Texts
in the Holy Scriptures. By L\ Doddridge, edited
by .lob Orton, 3755.

A few verbal changes have been made. In the
last line of the first stanza the author wrote:

" The songs which from the Desert rise."

In the last line of the second stanza we have, in
the original :

" With ardent Pangs of strong Desire."

The third line of the third stanza originally read :
" No Groans to mingle with the Songs."

The Rev. Philip Doddridge was born in London
in 1702; he was piously brought up, and well edu-
cated, and in 1729 he became pastor of a Congrega-
tional church in Northampton. In the same year
hi' was elected head of an institution for educating
youn,' men for the Dissenting ministry. In 1736
the University of Aberdeen gave him the degree
of D.D. Dr. Doddridge was the author of several
valuable works, of which the best known are the
Rise and Progress of L'ellgion in the Soul, and The
Family Expositor. He died in 1751.

7y Sabbath evening : Thy kingdom come. L.M.

MILLIONS within thy courts have met,
Millions this day before thee bowed;
Their faces Zionward were set,

Vows with their lips to thee they vowed.

2 But thou, soul-searching God ! hast known
The hearts of all that bent the knee;

And hasl accepted those alone,

Who in the spirit worshiped thee.

3 People of many a tribe and tongue, "
Of various languages and lands,

Have heard thy truth, thy glory sung,
And offered prayer with holy hands.

•1 And not a prayer, a tear, a sigh,

Hath failed this day some suit to gain;

To those in trouble thou will nigh;
Not one hath sought thy face in vain.

5 Yet one prayer more; — and be it one,
In which both heaven and earth accord ; —

Fulfill thy promise to thy Son:

Let all that breathe call Jesus Lord !

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title: Evening Song for the Sabbath Pay.

There are ten stanzas in all. This is composed of
the first three, the eighth, and the last. The last
line of the second stanza his been corrected. The
writer published it in this lame fashion :

" In spirit and truth that worshiped Thee."

In the second line of the third stanza the author,
wrote :

" Men of strange colors, climates, lands."

From A Poet's Portfolio.
See No. 5.

London, 1835.

O 0 Sabbath evening rest. L. M.

SWEET is the light of Sabbath eve,
And soft the sunbeams lingering there;
For these blest hours the world I leave,
Wafted on wings of faith and prayer.

2 The time howr lovely and how still !
Peace shines and smiles on all below ;

The plain, the stream, the wood, the hill,
All fair with evening's setting glow.

3 Season of rest! the tranquil soul
Feels the sweet calm, and melts to love;

And while these sacred moments roll,
Faith sees the smiling heaven above.

4 Nor will our days of toil be long;
Our pilgrimage will soon be trod ;

And we shall join the ceaseless song,
The endless Sabbath of our God.

JAMES EDMESTON.

Title: The Cottager's Reflections won the Sab-
bath Evening. From Tloe Cottage Minstrel, 1821.

Original Lines :
Verse one, line two :

" And soft the sunbeam lingering there."
Verse one, line three:

" Tliose sacred hours this loiv earth, leave."
Verse two, line one :

" This time how lovely and how still I "

HYMN STUDIES.

Verse three, line four :

''Faith sees a sniilinjj heaven above."
Verse five, line one :

" Yet will our journey not be long."

One stanza, the fourth, is omitted.

James Edmeston (1791-1867) was a London
architect, and the son of an Independent minister.
Edmeston, however, became a member of the
Church of England. He was the author of a hymn
book entitled, The Cottage Minstrel, and also of a
volume of Hymns fur Sunday-Schools.

81 Delights of the Sabbath. L. M.

SWEET is thy work, my God, my King,
To praise thy name, give thanks, and
sing;
To show thy love by morning light,
And talk of all thy truth by night.

2 Sweet is the day of sacred rest ;

No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found,
Like David's harp of solemn sound.

3 When grace has purified my heart,
Then I shall share a glorious part ;
And fresh supplies of joy be shed,
Like holy oil, to cheer my head.

4 Then shall I see, and hear, and know
All I desired or wished below;

And every power find sweet employ
In that eternal world of joy.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: A Psalm for the Lord's Day.

This precious old hymn, which has helped multi-
tude to worship God, is a metrical version of the
first part of Psalm xcii. The third, fourth, and
sixth stanzas have been left out :

3 '" My heart shall triumph in my Lord,'
And bless his works, and bless bis word :
Thy works of grace how bright they shine!
How deep thy counsels ! how divine !

4 "Fools never raise their thoughts so high ;
Like brutes they live, like brutes they die;
Like grass they flourish till thy breath
Blasts them in everlasting death.

6 "Sin, my worst enemy before,
Shall vex my eyes and ears no more;
My inward Foes shall all be slain.

Nor Satan break my peace again."
The lines of the first couplet of the third stanza

of the. hymn have been transposed and changed.
Watts wrote :

" But I shall share a glorious part
When grace hath well refined my heart."

It is not otherwise altered. Date of publication,

1719.

82 Pledge of glorious rest. L.

ETURN, my soul, enjoy thy rest;

Improve the day thy God hath blest:
Another six days' work is done;
Another Sabbath is begun.

2 0 that our thoughts and thanks may rise,
As grateful incense to the skies,

And draw from Christ that sweet repose,
Which none but he that feels it knows!

3 This heavenly calm within the breast
Is the dear pledge of glorious rest,
Which for the Church of God remains;
The end of cares, the end of pains.

4 In holy duties, let the day,
In holy comforts, pass away,

How sweet a Sabbath thus to spend,
In hope of one that ne'er shall end!

JOSEPH STENKETT, ALT.

The author's title was : On the Sabbath.

The original has fourteen stanzas, of « Inch these
arc verses one. ten, eleven, and thirteen. All aro
altered except the third, (eleventh J

Original Fork.

1 " Another six days' work is done;
Another Sabbath is begun:

Bet urn, my soul, unto thy rest,
Revere the day thy God has blest.

2 " O that my thoughts and words may rise
As incense to propitious skies ;

And fetch from heaven that sweet repose
Which none but ho that feels it knows."

The first couplet of the last stanza read :

4 " In holy duties thus the day
In holy pleasures melts away," etc.

From Miscellaneous Poems. Author's works,
vol. iy. London, 1782.

The Rev. Joseph Stennett, an English Baptist
minister, was born in 16B8: ordained to the pas-
torate of a church in London in 1690, and held that
relation until his death, in 1713. He was a man of
ability, and much esteemed.

HYMN STUDIES.

83 "iM'.s return. I.. M.

"A f V opening eyes with rapture Bee
111. The dawn of this returning day;
My thoughts, O God, ascend to thee,
While thus my early tows I pay,

2 I yield my heart t<> thee alone,
Nor would receive another guest:

Eternal King, erect thy throne,
And reign sole monarch in my breast.

S <) hid tins trifling world retire.
And drive each carnal thought away;

Nor let me feel one vain de-ire.

One sinful thought, through all the day,

4 Then, to thy courts when I repair,
My soul shall rise on joyful wing;

The wonders of thy love declare,

And join the strains which angels sing.

JAMES HUTTON. ( i)

I have not verified the reputed authorship of this
hymn. It is found in a Boston Collection, edited
by Rev. John Cddmao, A.M., 1813. where it has
six stanzas. These arc- the last four, slightly altered.

Mr. James Hutton (1715-1705) was an English
Moravian, and was the author of a number of
hymns. This is not found in any of his works.
In the collection by Codman it is ascribed to
'• Evan. Ma_r."

84 Undisturbed devotion. L. M.

FAR from my thoughts, vain world, be
gone!
Let my religious hours alone:
Fain would mine eyes my Saviour see;

1 wait a visit, Lord, from thee.

2 O warm my heart with holy fire,
And kindle there a pure desire:
Come, sacred Spirit, from above,
And fill my soul with heavenly love.

3 Blest Saviour, what delicious fare!
How sweet thine entertainments are !
Never did angels taste above
Redeeming grace and dying love.

4 Hail, great Iminanucl, all divine!
In thee thy Father's glories shine;
Thy glorious name shall be adored,
And every tongue confess thee Lord.

ISAAC WATTS.

From Hymns and Spiritual Song

book

Watts called this hymn The Enjoyment of
Christ; >>r, Delight in. Worship. Two stanzas,

the third and fourth, have been omitted, and two
Others altered.

The author wrote the second stanza :

'• My heart grows warm with holy fire,
And kindles with a pure desire ;
Come, mij dear Jesus, from I
And feed my soul with heavenly love."

I cannot think that the changes made in this
stanza are for the better. I prefer the original. The
last two lines of the hymn are not the author's.
They have been substituted for his, and the stanza
is greatly improved by the change. Watts closed
the hymn with this awkward couplet:

"Thou brightest, sweetest, fairest one,
That eyes have seen, or angels known."

Omitted Verses.

3 " The trees of life immortal stand
In flourishing rows at thy right hand,
And in sweet murmurs by thy bide
Rivers of bliss perpetual glide.

4 " Haste, then, but with a smiling face,
And spread a table of thy grace,
Bring down a taste of truth divine.
And cheer my heart with sacred wine."

O O The Sabbath welcome. S. M.

WELCOME, sweet clay of rest,
That saw the Lord arise;
"Welcome to this reviving breast,
And these rejoicing eyes !

2 The King himself comes near,
And feasts his saints to-day;

Here we may sit, and see him here,
And love, and praise, and pray.

8 One day in such a place,

Where thou, my God, art seen,

Is sweeter than ten thousand clays
Of pleasurable sin.

4 My willing soul wrould stay

In such a frame as this,
And sit and sing herself away

To everlasting bliss.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: The Lord'' s Day; or, Delight in Ordinances.
From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

The first two lines of the third stanza have been
changed. Watts wrote :

'• One day amidst the place
Where my dear God hath been."

HYMN STUDIES.

8 6 Day of light, rest, peace, prayer. S. M.
rpilIS is the day of light:

X Let there be light to-day;
O Day-spring, rise upon our night,
And chase its gloom away.

2 This is the day of rest :
Our failing strength renew ;

On weary brain and troubled breast
Shed thou thy freshening dew.

3 This is the day of peace:
Thy peace our spirits fill;

Bid thou the blasts of discord cease,
The waves of strife be still.

4 This is the day of prayer:

Let earth to heaven draw near;
Lift up our hearts to seek thee there ;
Come down to meet us here.

5 This is the first of days:

Send forth thy quickening breath,
And wake dead souls to love and piaise,
O Vanquisher of death !

JOHN ELLERTON.

A fine new hymn. It was written in 1808, and
first appeared in the Selection of Hymnsfor u«< in
Chester Cathedral. It lias not been altered.

The Rev. John Ellerton is an English clergyman,

bom in 1826. lie is at this date (1883) Rector of
Barnes, Surrey, Eng.

8 7 The eternal Sabbath. S. M.

HAIL to the Sabbath day!
The day divinely given,
"When men to God their homage pay,
And earth draws near to heaven.

2 Lord, in this sacred hour,
Within thy courts we bend,

And bless thy love, and own thy power,
Our Father and our Friend.

3 But thou art not alone
In courts by mortals trod ;

Nor only is the day thine own
When man draws near to God:

4 Thy temple is the arch
Of yon unmeasured sky;

Thy Sabbath, the stupendous march
Of vast eternity.

5 Lord, may that holier day
Dawn on thy servants' sight;

And purer worship may we pay
In heaven's unclouded light.

8TEPHEN G. BULFINCH, ALT.

The author's title of this grand hymn is : The Sab-
bath Day.

It was published in Contemplation* of the Sav*
tour, 1832; in Poems by S. G. Bulfinch, 1834;
and in Lays of the Gospel, 1845. In this last
book the author added three stanzas, which are not
given in thin hymn. Seme changes appear in the
last three stanza-. In Lays of the Gospel, the clos-
ing line of the third stanza is :

" When crowds adore their God."

The last line of the fourth stanza is :
" Of grand eternity."

The closing couplet of the hymn is:

" And grant us in thy cowtn-to pray,
Of pure, unclouded light"

The Rev. Stephen Grcenleaf Bulfinch, D.D., was
horn in Boston in 1809. He was graduated at
Columbia College, Washington, in 1827, and at
Cambridge Divinity School in 1830. lie was
ordained in 1881, and was pastor of several
Unitarian chinches. He died suddenly in 1870.

83 Safely through another weekt 7,6 1.

SAFELY through another week,
God has brought us on our way;
Let us now a blessing seek,

Waiting in Ids courts to-day:
Day of all the week the best.
Emblem of eternal rest.

2 While we pray for pardoning grace,
Through the dear Redeemer's name,

Show thy reconciled face.

Take away our sin and shame;
From our worldly cares sit free,
May we rest this day in thee.

3 Here we come thy name to praise;
May we feel thy presence near:

May thy glory meet our eyes,

While we in thy house appear:
Here afford US, Lord, a taste
Of our everlasting feast.

4 May thy gospel's joyful sound
Conquer sinners, comfort saints;

Make the fruits of grace abound,
Bring relief for all complaints:
Thus may all our Sabbaths prove,
Till we join the Church above.

JOHN NBWTOW, ALT.

From oho ii Hymns, 177!».

The writers title was: Saturday Evening. Sev-
eral lines have been changed to adapt it to Sunday
tinging.

IIYMN STUDIES.

Oue stanza, the second, has been emitted :

"Mercies multiplied eaoh hour,
Through tho week our praise demand;

Guarded by Almighty power,
Fed and guided by his hand ;

Though ungrateful we have been,

Ouly made returns of sin."
For biographical sketch, see No. 23.

89 Gladness in the house of prayer. S. M.

GLAD was my heart to hear
My old companions say,
"Come, in the house of God appear,
For 'tis a holy day."

2 Thither the tribes repair,
Where all are wont to meet;

And, joyful in the house of prayer,
Bend at the mercy-seat.

3 Pray for Jerusalem,
The city of our God;

Lord, send thy blessing down to them
That love the dear abode.

4 Within these walls may peace
And harmony be found;

Zion, in all thy palaces,
Prosperity abound !

5 For friends and brethren dear,
Our prayer shall never cease:

Oft as they meet for worship here,
God send his people peace !

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

From Songs oj Zion, 1822.

This is the author's version of Psalm exxii :

" I wiis glad when they said unto me, Let us go
into the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand
within thy gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem is
budded as a eity that is compact together : whither
the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the
testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name
of the Lord. For there are set thrones of judgment,
the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the
peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper that love
thee. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity
within thy palaces. For my brethren and compan-
ions1 Bakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
Because of the house of the Lord our God 1 will
seek thy good."

Verses two, six, and seven are omitted.
The author wrote in verse three, line three:

" The Lord from Heaven be kind to them."

For biographical sketch of Montgomery, see
No. 5.

90 Immortality and Ha lit. 6

DAY of God, thou blessed day,
At thy dawn the grave gave. way
To the power of Him within,
Who had, sinless, bled for sin.

2 Thine the radiance to illume
First, for man, the dismal tomb,
When its bars their weakness owned,
There revealing death dethroned.

3 Then the Sun of righteousness
Pose, a darkened world to bless,
Bringing up from mortal night
Immortality and light.

4 Day of glory, day of power,
Sacred be thine every hour ;
Emblem, earnest, of the rest
That remaineth for the blest.

HANNAH F. GOULD.

A valuable hymn, cut out of a poem of nine
stanzas, entitled The Sabbath. It is composed of
verses four, five, six, and seven, verbatim, except
one word. The fourth stanza, first of the hymn,
begins :

" CJioice of God," etc.

From the author's Poems, vol. iii. Boston, 1841.
Vol. i was copyrighted in 1832, and vol. ii in 1835.

Most of Miss Gould's poems have already been
forgotten ; but this Sabbath hymn will preserve her
memory for a long time to come.

Miss Hannah Flagg (bmld was born in Lancas-
ter, Mass., in 1789. In her youth her father re-
moved to Newburyport, Mass., where she kept his
house, and was not ouly a devoted daughter, but a
constant companion up to the hour ot his death.
Miss Gould died September 5, 18G5, in Newbury-
port, Mass.

91 The first of days. 7.

ON this day, the first of days,
God the Father's name Ave praise;
Who, creation's Lord and Spring,
Did the world from darkness bring.

2 On this day the Eternal Son
Over death his triumph won;
On this day the Spirit came
With his gifts of living flame.

3 O that fervent love to-day
May in every heart have sway,
Teaching us to praise aright
God the source of life and light!

HYMN STUDIES.

4 God, the blessed Three in One,
Dwell within my heart alone;
Thou dost give thyself to me,
May I give myself to thee.

Sill IIENKY W. BAKER.

The Latin version of this hymn is found in L.
Man's Breviary. The first line is " Die parente
temporum." The translation was furnished tor
Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. .Stanzas four,
five, and six are left out:

4 " Father, who didst fashion me
Image of Thyself to be,

Fill me with Thy love divine,
Let my every thought be Thine.

5 " Holy Jesus, may I be

Dead and buried here with Thee :
And by love inflamed arise
Unto Thee a sacrifice.

6 " Thou who dost all gifts impart,
Shine, Sweet Spirit, in my heart;
Best of gifts Thyself bestow ;
Make me burn Thy love to know."

Sir Henry Williams Baker, a clergyman of the
Church of Fngland, was born in London in 1821,
and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, grad-
uating in 1S44. The* reverend baronet was one
of the editors of Hymns Ancient and Modem, 1S61.
He died in 1877.

93 Sabbath evening.

SOFTLY fades the twilight ray
Of the holy Sabbath day;
Gently as life's setting sun
When the Christian's course is run.

2 Night her solemn mantel spreads
O'er the earth as daylight fades ;
All things tell of calm repose,

At the holy Sabbath's close.

3 Peace is on the world abroad ;
'Tis the holy peace of God,
Symbol of the peace within
When the spirit rests from sin.

4 Still the Spirit lingers near,
Where the evening worshiper
Seeks communion with the skies,
Pressing onward to the prize.

5 Saviour, may our Sabbaths be
Days of joy and peace in thee,
Till in heaven our souls repose,
Where the Sabbath ne'er shall close

SAMUEL F. SMITH.

The Eev. Samuel Francis Smith is a Baptist
clergyman, born in 1808, and now living at New-
ton, Mass. Mr. Smith was one of the editors of
The Psalmist, a Baptist hymn hook published at
Boston in 1843. This beautiful little poem, and
several other hymns were contributed to that
excellent collection. It is unaltered and entire.

93 Abide with me. 10.

ABIDE with me ! Fast falls the eventide,
The darkness deepens — Lord, with me
abide !
When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me!

2 Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day ;
Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away ;
Change and decay in all around I see;

() thou, who changest not, abide with me!

3 I need thy presence every passing hour;
What but thy grace can foil the tempter's

power?
Who, like thyself, my guide and stay can

be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide

with me!

4 I fear no foe, with thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness;
Where is death's sting? where, grave, thy

victory?
I triumph still, if thou abide with me.

5 Hold thou thy cross before my closing

eyes ;
Shine through the gloom and point me to

the skies;
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain

shadow's flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me!

HENRY F. LYTE.

Sec No. 27. From Spirit of the Realms. Lon-
don, 1858.

The basis of this prayer-song is Luke xxiv, 29 :

" Abide with us ; for it is toward evening, and the
day is far spent."

The author was in delicate health and not expect-
ing to live; yet anxious to be of use and to be re-
membered. In a poem, entitled Declining Days, lie

offered this petition ;

"O Thou, whose touch can lend

Life to the dead, Thv quickening grace supply ;
And grant me, swan-like, my la.st breath to spend

In song that may not die.''

HYMN STUDIES.

That praver was answered. In the fall of 1847,
as he ■ ;is about t • taken journey in Bearoh of health,
he preached a good-bye discourse to his people, and
administered the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
The same eight lie presented to a friend this hymn,
and the music he had adapted to it. It proved to
Ik-, indeed, his "swan-song," and has become a
general favorite. Verses three, lour, and livo of
the original are omitted; tliose given are unal-
tered.

94 Parting hymn of praise. 10.

AVIOUIl, again to thy dear name we

With one accord, our parting hymn of praise ;
We stand to bless thee ere our worship cease,

Then, lowly kneeling, wait thy word of
peace.

9 Brant as thy peace upon our homeward

way ;
With thee began, with thee shall end the

day ;
Guard thou the lips from sin, the hearts

from shame,
That in this house have called upon thy name.

:j Grant us thy peace, Lord, through the

coming night,
Turn thou for us its darkness into light;
From harm and danger keep thy children

free,
For dark and light are both alike to thee.

4 Grant us thy peace throughout our earthly

life,
Our balm in sorrow, and our stay in strife :
Then, when thy voice shall bid our conflict

cease.
Call us, O Lord, to thine eternal peace.

JOHN ELLERTOX.

Written originally for a festival of parochial choirs,
:it Xantwicli, England, I860. This is a verbatim
copy of the hymn, as revised and abridged by tin-
author for the Appendix to Hymns Ancient and
Mixlern. 1868.

For sketch of author, see No. 86.

Renewed consecration.

C. M.

ONCE more, my soul, the rising day
Salutes thy waking eyes;
Once more, my voice, thy tribute pay
To Him that rules the skies.

2 Night unto night his name repeats,

The day renews the sound,
Wide as the heavens on which he sits,

To turn the seasons round.

3 'Tis he supports my mortal frame,

M\ tongue shall speak his praise;
My sins might rouse bis wrath to flame,
But yet his wrath delays.

4 Great God, let all my hours be thine,
Whilst I enjoy the light;

Then shall my sun in smiles decline.,
And bring a peaceful night.

ISAAC WATTS.

A Morning Song. From Hymn* and Spiritual
Songs, book ti, 1707. A few verbal changes nave
been made. In the first stanza Watts wrote :

" To Him that rolls the skies."

Only two letters are altered, yet the sense is
greatly modified. In the la>t stanza the author
wrote: ^ Dear God," and "pleasant night." Two

stanzas, the fourth and fifth of the original, are left
out :

" On a poor worm thy power might tread,

And 1 could ne'er withstand.
Thy justice might have crushed me dead,

But mercy held thine hand.

" A thousand wretched souls are fled,

Since tbe last setting sun,
And yet thou length' nest out my thread,

And yet my moments run."

9 6 Morning supplications. C. M.

AWAKE, my soul, to meet the day;
Unfold thy drowsy eyes,
And burst the heavy chain that binds
Thine active faculties.

2 God's guardian shield was round me

spread
In my defenseless sleep :
Let him have all my waking hours
Who doth my slumbers keep.

3 Pardon, O God, my former sloth,
And arm my soul with grace,

As, rising, now I seal my vows
To prosecute thy ways.

4 Bright Sun of righteousness, arise;
Thy radiant beams display;

And guide my dark, bewildered soul
To everlasting day.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title: A Morniny HyvM, to be used at Awakening
and Suing. It is said that Dr. Doddridge rose
every morning at five o'clock, and sung this hymn
as an act of devotion.

HYMN STUDIES.

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the
Holy Scriptures. London, 1755. The third line of
the first stanza, the author wrote:

" And burst the pond'rous Chain that loads.''''

Stanzas three, four, and live of the original are
omitted :

3 ["The Work of each immortal Soul —
Attentive Care demands ;

Think, then, what painful Labors wait
The faithful Pastor's Hands.]

4 "My moments fly with wing'ed Pace,
And swift my Hours are hurl'd;

And Death, with rapid March, comes on,
T' unveil th' eternal World.

5 " I for this Hour must give Account,
Before God's awful Throne :

Let not this Hour neglected pass,
As Thousands more have done."

For biographical sketch, see No. 78.

There is some doubt as to the authorship of thii

hymn, whether it be Charles Wesley's, John Wes-
ley's, or that of some unknown writer.

97 Angelic guardianship. C. M.

ALL praise to Him who dwells in bliss,
Who made both day and night ;
Whose throne is in the vast abyss
Of uncreated light.

2 Each thought and deed Ins piercing eyes,
With strictest search survey ;

The deepest shades no more disguise,
Than the full blaze of day.

•

3 Whom thou dost guard, 0 King of kings,
No evil shall molest :

Under the shadow of thy wings
Shall they securely rest.

4 Thy angels shall around their beds
Their constant stations keep:

Thy faith and truth shall shield their heads,
For thou dost never sleep.

5 May we with calm and sweet repose,
And heavenly thoughts refreshed,

Our eyelids with the morn unclose,
And bless thee, ever blest.

CHARLES WF.si.KV.

An Evening Hymn. From A Collection of
Ralms and Hymns, published by John Wesley,
M.A. London, 1711.

The third line of the first stanza originally read :

" Whose throne is darkness in the abyss,"

The last line of the hymn was:

"And bless the fccir-bleas'd,"

9 O Preparation for public worship. C. M.
ORD, in the morning thou shalt hear
My voice ascending high:
To thee will I direct my prayer,
To thee lift up mine eye :

2 Up to the hills where Christ is gone,
To plead for all his saints,

Presenting, at the Father's throne,
Our songs and our complaints.

3 Thou art a God before whose sight
The wicked shall not stand ;

Sinners shall ne'er be thy delight,
Nor dwell at thy right hand.

4 Now to thy house will I resort,
To taste thy mercies there;

I will frequent thy holy court,
And worship in thy fear.

5 O may thy Spirit guide my feet
In ways of righteousness;

Make every path of duty straight,
And plain before my face.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : For the Lord's Day Morning.
Watts's version of Psalm v, 3-8 :

" My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O
Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto
thee, and will look up. For thou art not a G"d that
hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil
dwell with thee. The foolish shall not stand in tl.y
sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Thou
shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord
will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. But »«
for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude
of thy mercy: and in thy tear will I worship to-
ward thy holy temple. Lead mc, 0 Lord, in thy
righteousness because of mine enemies ; make thy
way straight before my face."

From Tlie realms of DariK Imitated in the Lan-
guage of the New Testament, 171'j. It is unaltered.

99 Warmest thanks. C. M.

NOW from the altar of our hearts,
Let warmest thanks arise:
Assist us, Lord, to offer up
Our evening sacrifice.

2 This day (lod was our sun and shield,
Our keeper and our guide;

His care was on our weakness shown,
His mercies multiplied.

IIYMN STUDIES.

4.1

:; Minutes and mercies multiplied,

Have made up all this day ;
Minutes came quick, but mercies were

More swift and free than they.

4 New time, new favors, and new joys,

Do a in w Bong require:
Till we shall praise thee as we would,

Accept out hearts' desire.

JOHN MASON, ALT.

for the Evtning. Verses one
h"<1 two are taken from the finst two stanzas of the
I, with Blight changes:

1 " Now from the Altar of my Heart,

Let fncenst -Flames arise ;
A.->is; rru . Lord, to offer up

Mine Evening Sacrifice.
Awake, my Love; Awake, my Joy;

Awake my Heart and Tongue :
- ii not : when Mercies loudly call,

Break forth into a Song.

•J '' Man's L;fe's a Book of History,

The Leaves thereof are D.iys,
The Letters Mercies closely join'd,

The Title is thy Praise.
This Day God was my Sun and Shield,

My Keeper and my Guide,
His care was on my Frailty shewn,

His Mercies Muitiply'd."

The closing lines are as follows :

"Lord of my Time, whose Hand hath set

New Time upon my Score:
Then shall 1 praise for all my Time,

When Time shall be no more.':

The Rev. John Mason, M.A., was an earnest,
pious clergyman <>f the .-eventeenth century; and
was educae 1 at I ambridge. From 1U74 to 1694 he
was rector of Water-Stratford, in Buckingham-
shire. His Spiritual Songs ; or, Song* of Praise to
Almighty God, were first published anonymously
. and passed through many editions. It is
evident to tin; bymnologist that Watts and Wesley
were both familiar with these hymns and appre-
ciated them.

He died in 1694. His last words were: "lam
full of the loving-kindness of the Lord."

100 Grateful praise. CM.

LORD of my life, O may thy praise
Employ my noblest power-,
\\ hose goodness lengthens out my days,
And iills the circling hours.

2 While many spent the night in sighs,
And restless pains and woes,

In gentle sleep I closed my eyes,
And undisturbed repose.

3 O let the same almighty care

My waking hours attend;
From every danger, every snare,

My heedless steps defend.

ANNE STEELE.

A Morning Hymn. The original has six stanzas.

These are verses one, three, and five, verbatim.
Omitted >tanzas :

2 " Prcserv'd by the almighty arm,

I pass'd .the shades oi night,
Serene, and Bafe from every harm,

And see returning light.

4 " When sleep, death's semblance, o'er me spread,

And 1 unconscious lay,
Thy watchful care was round my bed,

To guard my feeble clay.

6 " Smile on my minutes as they roll,

And guide my future days ;
And let thy goodne-s till my soul,

With gratitude and praise."

From Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional. By
Thcodosia. Loudon, 1700. See No. (33.

101 The Christian home. C. M.

HAPPY the home when God is there,
And love fills every breast;
When one their wish, and one their prayer,
And one their heavenly rest.

2 Happy the home where Jesus' name
Is sweet to every ear ;

Where children early lisp his fame, •
And parents hold him dear.

3 ITappy the home where prayer is heard,
And praise is wont to rise;

Where parents love the sacred word,
And live but for the skies.

4 Lord, let us in our homes agree,
This blessed peace to gain ;

Unite our hearts in love to thee,
And love to all will reign.

UNKNOWN.

Original title : The Happy Home.

Tl is hymn is attributed to Mrs. W., in A Selec-
tion of Hymns and Poetry for the Use of Infant
and Juvenile Schools and Families. London.
Fourth edition, 184'J; first edition, 1838.

Only one word had been changed. Verse one,
line three is:

" Where one their wish," etc.

It is doubtful whether it will ever be discovered
who " Mis. W." was.

HYMN STUDIES.

102 Abide with us. L. M.

SUN of my soul, thou Saviour dear,
It is not night if thou be near:
O may no earthborn cloud arise
To hide thee from thy servant's eves.

2 When the soft dews of kindly sleep
My wearied eyelids gently steep,

Be my last thought, how sweet to rest
Forever on my Saviour's breast.

3 Abide with me from morn till eve,
For without thee I cannot live;
Abide with me when night is nigh,
For without thee I dare not die.

4 If some poor wandering child of thine
Have spurned, to-day, the voice divine,
Now, Lord, the gracious work begin;
Let him no more lie down in, sin.

5 Watch by the sick; enrich the poor
With blessing from thy boundless store ;
Be every mourner's sleep to-night,
Like infant's slumbers, pure and light.

6 Come near and bless us when we wake,
Ere through the world our way we take;
Till in the ocean of thy love,

We lose ourselves in heaven above.

JOHN KEBLE.

From The CJiristian Year. 1827. Part- of a poem
of fourteen stanzas, entitled Evening. This hymn
is made up of the third, seventh, eighth, and last
three verses, unaltered.

Text : "Abide with us; for it is toward evening,
and the day is far spent,7' Luke xxiv, 29.

The Rev. John Keble, born in 1792, was a hum-
hie clergyman of the Church of England. He
spent portions of several years in composing the
beautiful lyrical poems that were first published in
1827, under the above title. The Christian Year
is, without any doubt, the most popular volume of
religious poetry issued in the nineteenth century.
Ninety-six editions were published before the death
of the author in 1866.

1 03 Morning mercies, daily discipline. L. M.

NEW every morning is the love
Our wakening and uprising prove;

Through Sleep and darkness safely brought,
Restored to life, and power, and thought.

2 New mercies, each returning day,
Hover around us while we pray;
New perils past, new sins forgiven,

New thoughts of ( lod, new hopes of heaven.

3 If on our daily course our mind
!!c set to hallow all we find,

Xew treasures still of countless price
God will provide for sacrifice.

4 The trivial round, the common task,
Will furnish all we ought to ask, —
Boom to deny ourselves, a road

To bring us daily nearer God.

5 Only, O Lord, in thy dear love
Fit us for perfect rest above;
And help us this, and every day,
To live more nearly as we pray.

JOHN KEBLE.

Part of the first poem in Tlte Christian Year
1827. Title: Morning.

It is composed of verses six, seven, eight, four-
teen, and sixteen, verbatim.

Text: " His compassions fail not. They are new
every morning." Lam. iii, 22, 23.

104 Morning and evening mercies. L. M.

MY God, how endless is thy love!
Thy gifts are every evening new;
And morning mercies from above,
Gently distill like early dew.

2 Thou spread'st the curtains of the night,
Great Guardian of my sleeping hours;

Thy sovereign word restores the light.
And quickens all my drowsy powers.

3 I yield my powers to thy command;
To thee I consecrate my days;

Perpetual blessings from thy hand
Demand perpetual songs of praise.

ISAAC WATTS.

A Song for Morning and Evening, from Hymnt
end Spiritual Songs, book i, 17^'T.

The Scripture text of the first stanza is the same
as that of hymn No. 103 ; that of the second stanza
is [saiah xlv, 7 :

"I form the light and create darkness."
It is unaltered and entire.

10o Evening hymn. L. M.

GLORY to thee, my God, this night,
For all the blessings of the light :

Keep me, O keep me. King of kings,
Beneath the shadow of thv wings.

HYMN STUDIES.

2 Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son,

The ill which I this day have done;
That with the world, myself, aud thee,
I, ere 1 Bleep, at pi arc may be.

3 Teach me to live, that I may dread
The nave as little as my bed;
Teach me to die, that so 1 may

Rise glorious at the judgment-day.

4 0 let my SOU] on thee repose.

And may sweel sleep mine eyelids close:
Bleep, which shall me more vigorous make,
To serve my God, when I awake.

5 Lord, let my soul forever share
The bliss of thy paternal care:

'Tis heaven on earth, 'tis heaven above,
To see thy face, and sing thy love.

THOMAS KEN.

This is a part of Bishop Ken's famous Evening
Hymn; tin- original, including the doxology, con-
tained twelve stanzas. Several lines have been
altered :

Verse one, line four :

" Under T7ty own Almighty Wings."

Verse three, line four :

" Triumphing rise at the last day."

Verse four, line one :

" 0 may my soul on Thee repose."

Verse four, line two :

" And with sweet sleep mine eyelids close."

Verse four, line three :

"Sleep that may me more vigorous make."

From the author's Manual of Prayers for the Use
of the Scholars of Winchester College, edition of
1700. A few of the above changes were made by
Bishop Ken himself for the edition of 1709.

The last verse of the hymn was not written by
Ken, but was added by some editor, who attempted
to sum up the poem in a single stanza, and suc-
ceeded as well as could he expect< d.

Thomas Ken was born in 1637 ; was educated at
Oxford, and ordained about 1M6. In 16*4 he was
appointed chaplain to Charles II. and Bishop of
Bath and Wells in the same year. It is said that
the Bishop was faithful to the kincr, and that the
"merry monarch" had good sense enough to re-
spect and appreciate a chaplain who dared to tell
him his faults, lie died in 1710.

Three of this writer's hymns. Morning, Evening.
and Midnight, were first published in'l697 in an
Appendix to the author's Manual of Prayers for the
W%nch(±ter Scholars. The familiar and grand l"iiLr
meter doxology fir^t appeared at the close of each
of these hymns.

106 Morning hymn. L. M.

AWAKE, my soul, and with the sun
Thy daily stage of duty run;
Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise
To pay thy morning sacrifice.

2 Wake, and lift tip thyself, my heart,
And with the angels bear thy part,
Who all night long unwearied sing
High praises to the eternal King.

3 All praise to thee, who safe hast kept,
And hath refreshed me while 1 slept:
Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake,
I may of endless life partake.

4 Lord, I my vows to thee renew :
Disperse my sins as morning dew.

Guard my first springs of thought and will.
And with thyself my spirit fill.

5 Direct, control, suggest, this day,
All I design, or do. or say ;

That all my powers, with all their might,
In thy sole glory may unite.

THOMAS KEN.

A fine lyric made up of verses one, five, nine,
twelve, and thirteen of Bishop Ken's Morning
Hymn. The original has fourteen stanzas, including
the doxology. This is slightly altered from the
edition of 1700, but it agrees with the edition of 1709.

10/ Morning prayer. L. M.

NOW doth the sun ascend the sky,
And wTake creation with its ray;
Keep us from sin, O Lord most high,
Through all the actions of the day.

2 Curb thou for us the unruly tongue ;
Teach us the way of peace to prize ;

And close our eyes against the throng
Of earth's absorbing vanities,

3 O may our hearts be pure within:
No cherished madness vex the soul :

May abstinence the flesh restrain
And its rebellious pride control.

4 So when the evening stars appear.
And in their train the darkness bring,

May we, O Lord, with conscience clear.
Our praise to thy pure glory sing.

AMBROSE OP MILAN.
TR. BY E. CASWAIX.

The translation is found in Caswall's Hymns and
Poems, Original and Translated. London. Sec-
ond edition, 1873, and in Lyra O'atholica, 1848.

HYMN STUDIES.

Saint Ambrose was born about 340, and disd in
3!'?. In 374 he was unexpectedly chosen Bishop of
Milan by a unanimous vote of the people; although
he was only a layman and unbaptized. lie accepted
the position ana served in it with zeal and dignity.

The Rev. Edward Caswall was born in England
in 1S14 ; educated at l'> raze nose College, Oxford;
ordained in the Established Cliureh in 1839 ; and
in 1847 beeame a Romanist. He died in 1878.

XOo Evening meditations. L. M.

THUS far the Lord hath led me on,
Thus far his power prolongs my days;
And every evening shall make known
Some fresh memorial of his grace.

2 Much of my time has run to waste,
And I, perhaps, am near my home;

But he forgives my follies past,

And gives me strength for days to come.

3 I lay my body down to sleep;
Peace is the pillow for my head ;

While well-appointed angels keep
Their watchful stations round my bed.

4 Thus, when the night of death shall come,
My flesh shall rest beneath the ground,

And wait thy voice to rouse my tomb,
With sweet salvation in the sound.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: An Evening Tlymn, from Hymns and
Spiritual Songs, book i, 1707. Unaltered.

Two stanzas, the fourth and fifth, are left out:

4 " In vain the sons of earth and hell
Tell me a thousand frightful things;

My God in safety makes me dwell
Beneath the shadow of his wings.

5 " Faith in his name forbids my fear,
() may thy presence ne'er depart!

And in the morning make me hear
The love and kindness of thy heart."

1 0 y Evening prayer. L. M.

AGAIN as evening's shadow falls,
We gather in these hallowed walls:
And vesper hymn and vesper prayer
Rise mingling on the holy air.

0 May struggling hearts (hat seek release
Bere find the rest of God's own peace;
And, strengthened here by hymn ami prayer,
Lay down the burdens and "the oar".

:'> 0 God, our light! to thee we bow;
Within all shadows standest thou;
(iive deeper calm than nighi can bring;
Give sweeter songs than lips can sing.

4 Life's tumult we must meet again,
We cannot at the shrine remain;
But in the spirit's secret cell
May hymn and prayer forever dwell.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW.

Title : Vesper Hymn, unaltered and entire.

Written for the author's Vespers, published in
1859. It is a beautiful hymn. '" Spirit's," in the
last stanza should begin with a small letter. It
means, of course, the soul of the worshiper.

The Eev. Samuel Longfellow is a Unitarian min-
ister, and brother of the poet, Henry W. Longfel-
low. He was born in 181 '.». was graduated at Har-
vard in the class of 1839, and now resides (1884) in
Cambridge, Mass. In connection with the Kev.
Samuel Johnson, he edited A Bonk of Hymns,
184tj,and Hymns of the Spirit, 1SG4. To both of
these he made valuable original contributions.

110 The soul's Advocate. L. M. 61.

TTTIIEX, streaming from the eastern skies,
VV The morning light salutes mine eyes,
O Sun of righteousness divine!
On me with beams of mercy shine;
O chase the clouds of guilt away,
And turn my darkness into day.

2 And when to heaven's all-glorious King,
My morning sacrifice I bring,

And, mourning o'er my guilt and shame,
Ask mercy in my Saviour's name;
Then, Jesus, cleanse me with thy blood,
And be my Advocate with God.

3 When each day's scenes and labors close,
And wearied nature seeks repose,

With pardoning mercy richly blest,
Guard me, my Saviour, while I rest;
And, as each morning sun shall rise,
O lead me onward to the skies.

4 And at my life's last setting sun,
My conflicts o'er, my labors done,
Jesus, thy heavenly radiance shed,
To cheer and bless my dying bed.;
And, from death's gloom my spirit raise,
To see thy face, and sing thy praise.

WILLIAM BKKTJBSOLB, .Tit.

The original poem of eight stanzas, entitled Daily
iirst appeared in the Christian Observer in
1813. This hymn is composed of the lirst two and
last two Stanzas of the poem. One line, the first in
the second verse, has been changed ; the author
wrote it :

" When tc heaven's great and glorious King."

William Shrubsole, Jr., was born in Shecrness,
England, in 1769. He was a buriness man, and for
many years a clerk and secretary in the Bank oi

HYMN STUDIES.

England. He was also deeply interested in philan-
thropic movements, and wrote l»>th in prose an<l
•. er>e for the publications of the Keligious Tract
Society, lie died in L829.

Ill The Day-star. S. M.

WE lift our hearts to thee,
() Day-star from on high!
The sun itself is but thy shade,
Yet cheers both earth and sky.

2 O let thy rising beams

The night of sin disperse, —

The mists of error and of vice
Which shade the universe.

3 How beauteous nature now !
How dark and sad before!

With joy we view the pleasing change,
And nature's God adore.

4 O may no gloomy crime
Pollute the rising day ;

Or Jesus' blood, like evening dew,
Wash all the stains away.

5 May we this life improve,
To mourn for errors past ;

And live this short, revolving day
As if it were our last.

JOHN WESLEY.

Tide: A Morning Hymn, from A Collection of
Psalms and Hymns, published by John Wesley,
1741. This is one of the few original hymns ascribed
to John Wesley. One reason why it is thought to be
his, rather than Charles Wesley's, is that it is only
half-rhymed. Not a single known stanza ot Charles
Wesley has that peculiarity. The sublime thought
expressed in the third line of the first stanza is bor-
rowed from Plato : " Lumen est vmbra Dei.''' Dox-
ology No. 4 was appended to this hymn. The orig-
inal has "orient " instead of '"rising " in the sec-
ond stanza. There is some doubt about the author-
ship of this hymn.

The name of John Wesley is known and hon-
ored throughout the world. He was born in the rec-
tory of Epworth, in 1703, and was piously instructed
by his parents. In 1714 he was placed at the Char-
ter-house School, where he was a diligent and suc-
cessful student. In 1720, when seventeen yean
old, he was removed to Christ Church. Oxford.
Here he became an accomplished classical scholar.
In 1725 he was ordained deacon, and in the follow-
ing year was elected to a Fellowship in Lincoln Col-
lege. He received the decree of Master of Arts in
1727, and in 1728 was ordained a priest in the
Church of Eneland. In 1729 a few students at Ox-
ford banded together to attend the sacrament reg-
ularly every week, and to observe the method of
study prescribed by the university. This conduct
brought upon them the sneers of their fellow-stu-
dents, and tiie honorable name of " Methodists."

The band was organized by Charles Wesley, in tSe
absence of his brother; but, when John Wesley
returned, he became its acknowledged leader, ami
its membership soon increased. In 1735 John
Wesley and his brother Charles came to Georgia,
as ministers to the colonic*, and missionaries to the
natives: but, alter nearly two years of ui satisfac-
tory lal>or, returned to England. At this time
Wesley knew not the power of experimental relig-
ion. He said : '• 1 went to America to convert the
Indians; but, Ol who shall convert me? Who is
he that will deliver me from this evil heart of un-
belief? " He dated his spiritual lite from May 24,
1738. For a long time he had been seeking rest of
soul, and had been instructed in the way of faith
by pious Moravians. On the evening of this day
he attended a meeting in London, where one was
reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Ro-
mans. " About a quarter before nine, while he was
describing the cnange which God works in the heart
through faith in Christ, / felt my heart strangely
warmed ; I felt 1 did trust in Christ, Christ alone,
for salvation ; and an assurance was given me that
he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved
me from the law of sin and death."

From this time, for fifty-three years, until h's tri-
umphant death, in 1791, he was a tireless laborer in
the Master's vineyard. He was the first man who
had the holy audacity to say, " The world is
my parish." He was an apostle extraordinary —
raised up of God to head the reformation of the
eighteenth century, as was Martin Luther that of
the sixteenth.

113 Devoid gratitude. S. M.

SEE how the morning sun
Pursues his shining way,
And wide proclaims his Maker's praise,
With every brightening ray.

2 Thus would my rising soul
Its heavenly Parent sing,

And to its great Original
The humble tribute bring.

3 Serene I laid me down,
Beneath his guardian care ;

I slept, and I awoke, and found
My kind Preserver near.

4 My life I would anew
Devote, O Lord, to thee ;

And in thy service I would spend
A long eternity.

ELIZABETH SCOTT.

Title : A Morning Hymn.
The original has nine verses,
ond, third, fourth, and last.
The first stanza is as follow*) :

These are the sec-

" Awake, my drowsy Soul ;

These airy Visions chase ;
Awake my Active Pow'rs renew'd,

To run the Heav'nly Race."

HYMN STUDIES.

The author wrote, verse one, line one:

" See how the Moulding Sun."

And the first part of verse four :

" Thus, then, my Life anew,
Lord, 1 Devote to Thee."

From the author's manuseript volume of Poems.
The date of the preface is 1740.
It was dedicated as follows :

"To My much Revcr'd, much Lov'd Father."
For biographical sketch of author, see No. 73.

S. M.

113 Evening meditation.

THE day is past and gone,
The evening shades appear;
O may we all remember well
The night of death draws near.

2 We lay our garments by,
Upon our beds to rest ;

So death will soon disrobe us all
Of what we've here possessed.

3 Lord, keep us safe this night,
Secure from all our fears ;

May angels guard us while we sleep,
Till morning light appears.

4 And when we early rise.
And view the unwearied sun,

May we set out to win the prize,
And after glory run.

6 And when our days are pas*,

And we from time remove,
O may we in thy bosom rest,

The bosom of thy love.

JOHN LEI,AND.

Title : Evening Hymn. Published in 1792.

This is a favorite with many people. It is found,
with about twenty other compositions, in The Writ-
ings of the Late Elder John. Leland. Including
Sonus events in his life, written by himself. With
additional sketches by Miss L. F. Greene. New
York, 1845. Two words are altered. Verse three,
line one, has "«W" instead of "safe," and verse
tour, line one, "*/"" instead of " when."

John Leland was born in Massachusetts in 1754,
and lived until 1841. In youth he was vain and
wicked, but when about eighteen years old he be-
came a_ Christian. He labored in the ministry in
Virginia an<l in Massachusetts. Leland was the
Lorenzo Dow of the Baptist denomination.

114 Protection invoked.

IN mercy, Lord, remember me,
Through all the hours of night,
And grant to me most graciously
The safeguard of thy might.

C. M.

2 With cheerful heart I close mine eyes,
Since thou wilt not remove;

O in the morning let me rise
Rejoicing in thy love.

3 Or if this night should prove my last,
And end my transient days,

Lord, take me to thy promised rest,
Where I may sing thy praise.

JOHN F. IIERZOO.

This is a translation from the German of the au-
thor, and is found in Psalmodia Germanica ; or.
The German Pmlmody Translated from the High
German. London, 1760. The translation contains
ten stanzas ; this hymn is composed of verses three,
seven, and nine, somewhat altered. The translator
was John Christian Jacobi.

John Fred. Herzog was born in 1647 ; studied
law at Wittembcrg, and practiced in Dresden,
where he died in 1699. The hymn ffas originall.v
written about 1670.

1 1 0 Memories of the dead. 8, 7.

SILENTLY the shades of evening
Gather round my lowly door;
Silently they bring before me
Faces I shall see no more.

2 O the lost, the unforgotten,
Though the world be oft forgot!

O the shrouded and the lonely.
In our hearts they perish not !

3 Living in the silent hours.
Where our spirits only blend,

They, unlinked with earthly trouble,
We, still hoping for its end.

4 LTow such holy memories cluster,
Like the stars when storms are past,

Pointing up to that fair heaven
We may hope to gain at last.

c. c. cox.

Written and published in Wood/worth Musical
Cabintt, 1847. It soon found its way into hymn
collections, and lias been widely used.

Christopher Christian Cox, sun of Luther J. Cox,
a Methodist preacher, was born in Baltimore in
L816: was graduated at Yale College in 1835, and
at a Medical School in his native city in 1838. In
1S61 he was appointed brigade surgeon in the U. S.
Army. Died 18»:i.

116

Trust in God\t care.

8,7

SAVIOUR, breathe an evening blessing,
Ere repose our spirits seal;
Sin and want we come confessing;
Thou canst save and thou canst heal.

HYMN STUDIES.

2 Though destruction walk around us,
Though the arrows past us fly,

Angel guards from thee surround us;
We are safe, if thou art nigh.

3 Though the night be dark and dreary,
Darkness cannot hide from thee;

Thou art he who, never weary,
Watchest where thy people be.

4 Should swift death this night o'ertake us,
And our couch become our tomb,

May the morn in heaven awake us.
Clad in light and deathless bloom.

JAMES EDMESTON.

Published without title in Sacred Lyrict, by
James Edmeston. London, 1820. It has not been
changed- For sketch of author, see No. 80.

1X7 Communion with God. 7.

SOFTLY now the light of day
Fades upon our sight away;
Free from care, from labor free.
Lord, we would commune with thee.

2 Thou, whose all-pervading eye
Naught escapes, without, within,

Pardon each infirmity,

Open fault, and secret sin.

3 Soon from us the light of day
Shall forever pass away;

Then, from sin and sorrow free,
Take us, Lord, to dwell with thee.

GEORGE W. DOANE.

Author's title: Evening ; from Songsby th>e Way,
1824.

Text: "Let my prayer be set forth before thee
as incense : and the littinsr up of my hands as the
evening sacrifice." Psa. cxli, 2.

The writer used the first person singular in stan-
zas one and three. The hymn has been improved
by omitting the last verse. We give it, because it
completes the hymn as published by the author:

"Thou, who, sinless, yet hast known

All of man's infirmity ;
Then, from Thine eternal throne.

Jesus, look with pitying eye.*'

George "Washington Doanewas l>orn in Trenton,
K. J., in 1799; was graduated at Union Ollege in
1818; then studied theology, and was ordained in
1S21. In 1823 he was elected rector of Trinity

Church, Boston, In 1832 lie was consecrated
Bishop of the diocese of New Jersey. He di«'d
in 1859.

118 The Apostles' Creed. 8, 7, 7.

WE all believe in one true God,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Strong Deliverer in our need,

Praised by all the heavenly host,
By whose mighty power alone
All is made, and wrought, and done.

2 And we believe in Jesus Christ,
Son of man and Son of God ;

Who, to raise us up to heaven,

Left his throne and bore our load ;
By whose cross and death are we
Rescued from our misery.

3 And we confess the Holy Ghost,
Who from both forever flows;

Who upholds and comforts us

In the midst of fears and woes.
Blest and holy Trinity,
Praise shall aye be brought to thee !

T. CLAUSNITZEE.
TR. BY MISS C. WIXKWORTH.

This translation is from The Chorale-Book for
England. London, 1863. It is unaltered and en-
tire.

The Rev. Tobiah Clausnitzer lived from 1619 to
1684; and was educated at Leipsic. From 1644 to
the close of the "Thirty Years' War" he was a
chaplain to the Swedish forces. Only three hymn*
written by him are extant.

119 Divine condescension. L. P. M.

OGOD, of good the unfathomed sea!
Who would not give his heart to thee?
Who would not love thee with his might?
O Jesus, lover of mankind,
Who would not his whole soul and mind,
AVith all his strength, to thee unite?

2 Thou shin'st with everlasting rays;
Before the insufferable blaze

Angels with both wings veil their eyes;
Yet free as air thy bounty streams ;
On all thy works thy mercy's beams,

Diffusive as thy sun's, arise.

3 Astonished at thy frowning brow,
Earth, hell, and heaven's strong pillars bow :

Terrible majesty is thine !
Who then can that vast love express
Which bows thee down to me, — who less

Than nothing am, till thou art minel

HYMN STUDIES.

4 "High throned on heaven's eternal hill,
In number, weight, and measure, still

Thou sweetly orderest all that is;
And yet thou deign'st to come to me,
And guide my steps, that I, with thee

Enthroned, may reign in endless bliss.

JOIIANN A. SCIIEFFLER.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

Title: God's Love to Mankind.

This is the first half of the translation, from
Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739, and is not altered.

Johann Angel us Schettier was bom of Protestant
parents, in Breslau, Germany, in 1624. While yet
a young man, lie was greatly interested in the
writings of Jacob Bohme, and at length he became a
Mystic. In 1053 he entered the Roman Catholic
Church. In 1661 he was consecrated a priest, and
ever afterward was a bigoted champion of Roman-
ism. His fame rests chiefly upon his hymns, which
were first published in 1657. He died in 1677.

120 Te Deum laudamu-s. CM.

OGOD, we praise thee, and confess
That thou the only Lord
And everlasting Father art,
By all the earth adored.

2 To thee all angels cry aloud;

To thee the powers on high,
Both cherubim and seraphim,

Continually do cry.

8 '-* O holy, holy, holy Lord,
Whom heavenly hosts obey,

The world is with the glory rilled
Of thy majestic sway."

4 The apostles' glorious company,
And prophets crowned with light,

With all the martyrs' noble host,
Thy constant praise recite.

5 The holy Church throughout the world,
O Lord, confesses thee,

That thou eternal Father art,
Of boundless majesty.

NAIIUM TATE. (?)

The first part of an old and excellent metrical
version of the Te Deum. It is frequently ascribed
to Patrick, but its authorship is really unknown.
It is found in the Supplement to The New Version
of t fie Palms, 1703.

Nahum Tate was born at Dublin in 1652, and
was educated at the University of his native city ;
he was made l'oet Laureate in 1600, and held that
office to the time of his death in 1715. He is best
known as the author of a New Vernon of the
Psalms, which he executed jointly with the Rev.
Nicholas Brady, D.D., 1696.

1 /O 1 One God in Three Persons. C. M.

HAIL, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
One God in Persons Three;
Of thee we make our joyful boast,
And homage pay to thee.

2 Present alike in every place,
Thy Godhead we adore :

Beyond the bounds of time and space
Thou dwellest evermore,

3 In wisdom infinite thou art,
Thine eye doth all things see;

And every thought of every heart
Is fully known to thee.

4 Thou lov'st what'er thy hands have

made;
Thy goodness we rehearse,
In shining characters displayed
Throughout the universe.

5 Wherefore let every creature give
To thee the praise designed;

But chiefly, Lord, the thanks receive,
The hearts, of all mankind.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Of God.

The first piece in Humnsfor Children. Bristol.
1763. Three stanzas, the second, fifth, and seventh
of the original, are omitted :

2 " Thou neither canst be felt, or seen ;

Thou art a Spirit pure.
Who from Eternity hast been,

And always shalt endure.

5 " What'er Thou wilt, in earth below

Thou dost, in heaven above ;
But chiefly we rejoice to know

The Almighty God is l.ove.

7 " Mercy and love and endless grace
O'er all Thy works doth reign ;

But mostly Tnou delight'st t<> bless
Thy favorite creature man."

The author wrote "ew/y" boast, instead of
"joyful," in the first verse; and "our" universe,

instead of " the," in the fourth verse.

122 cm.

All Thy works shall praise thee. Psa. cxlv, 10.

THERE seems a voice in every gale,
A tongue in every flower,
Which tells, O Lord, the wondrous tale

Of thy almighty power;
The birds, that rise on quivering wing.

Proclaim their Maker's praise,
And all the mingling sounds of spring
To thee an anthem raise.

HYMN STUDIES.

2 Shall I be mute, great God, alone

'.Midst nature's loud acclaim?
Shall not my heart, with answering tone.

Breathe forth thy holy name?
All nature's debt is small to mine;

Nature shall cease to be;
Thou gavest — proof of love divine —

Immortal life to me.

MRS. AMELIA OPIE.

This hvnm has been altered from one of long
looter. The change was probably made by Dr.
• lames Floy, one of the editors of the hymn book,
1849 edition.

I have not been able to find the author's text.
Jlymns for DitriiU Worship, compiled for the use
of the Methodist New Connection, London, IStia,
gives six tour-lined stanzas, long meter.

Mrs. Amelia Opie was a daughter of James Al-
deison, M.D., and was born in Norwich, England,
in 1769. She very early showed a taste for writ-
ing, and contributed articles to some of the period-
icals of the day. In 1798 she married Jobn Opie,
a portrait painter, of London. Id lt>07 Mr. Opie
died, and she returned to Norwich. She wrote
many popular tales, and published a volume of
poems in 180:i, which went through several edi-
tions. Mrs. Opiu was brought up a Unitarian, but
in 1825 united herself with the Society of Friends.
Bhedied in 1853.

L. M.

123 Omniscience.

LORD, all T am is known to thee;
In vain my soul would try
To shun thy presence, or to flee
The notice of thine eye.

2 Thy all-surrounding sight surveys
My rising and my rest,

My public, walks, my private ways,
The secrets of my breast.

3 My thoughts lie open to thee, Lord,
Before they're formed within;

And ere my lips pronounce the word,
Thou know'st the sense I mean.

4 O wondrous knowledge, deep and high,
Where can a creature hide?

Within thy circling arms I lie,
Beset on every side.

5 So let thy grace surround me still,
And like a bulwark prove,

To guard my soul from every ill,
Secured by sovereign love.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : God is every-where.

Part of Watts'* version of Psalm exxxix. First
published in 1719 :

"0 Lord, thou hast searched me, and known

me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and uiin* up-
rising; thou understandest my thought afar on*.
Thou OOmpassest my path and my lying down, and
art acquainted with ad my ways. For there is not
a word in my tongue, but, lo. O Lord, thou know-
est it altogether. Thou hast set me behind and be-
fore, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowl-
edge is too wonderful for me ; it is high, 1 cannot
attain unto it."

124 The Author of every perfect gift. C. M.

FATHER, to thee my soul I lift;
My soul on thee depends ;
Convinced that every perfect gift
From thee alone descends.

2 Mercy and grace are thine alore,

And power and wisdom too:
Without the Spirit of thy Son,

We nothing good can do.

;} We cannot speak one useful word.

One holy thought conceive,
Unless, in answer to our Lord,

Thyself the blessing give.

4 His blood demands the purchased grace:
His blood's availing plea

Obtained the help for all our race,
And sends it down to me.

5 From thee, through Jesus, we receive
The power on thee to call,

In whom we are, and move, and live;
Our God is all in all.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Eymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.
Text : " It is God which worketh in you both tfl
will and to do." Phil, ii, 13.

Four lines, before the last stanza, are omitted:

" Thou all our works in us hath wrought,

Our good is all Divine,
The praise of every virtuous thought,

Or righteous work, is Thine."

It is not altered.

125 My Fatter. CM-

OGOD, thy power is wonderful,
Thy glory passing bright;
Thy wisdom, with its deep on deep,
A rapture to the sight.

2 I see thee in eternal years

In glory all alone,
Ere round thine uncreated fires

Created light had shone.

HYMN STUDIES.

3 I see thee walk in Eden's shade,
I see thee all through time ;

Thy patience and compassion seem
New attributes sublime.

4 I see thee when the doom is o'er,
And outworn time is done,

Still, still incomprehensible,
O God, not yet alone.

5 Angelic spirits, countless souls,
Of thee have drunk their fill ;

And to eternity will drink
Thy joy and glory still.

6 O little heart of mine ! shall pain
Or sorrow make thee moan,

When all this God is all for thee,
A Father all thine own?

FREDERICK W. FABER.

From the author's Hi/mns, London, 18(11. Six
stanzas have been omitted. Those given are not
altered.

Frederick William Faber was born in Yorkshire in
1814; he Btudied at Harrow School, and was gradu-
ated at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1836. He im-
mediately began the study of theology ; was or-
dained deacon in 1837, and priest in 1839. After
traveling about four years, he became rector of El-
ton, where he laborecl successfully for twelve years.
In 1845 he joined the Roman Catholic Church. He
died in 1863.

L. M.

FIRST PART.
1 2 D The Unsearchable

OGOD, thou bottomless abyss!
Thee to perfection who can know?
O height immense ! what words suffice
Thy countless attributes to show?

8 Greatness unspeakable is thine;

Greatness, whose undiminished ray,
When short-lived worlds are lost, shall

shine.
When earth and heaven are fled away.

8 Unchangeable, all-perfect Lord,
Essential life's unbounded sea,

What lives and moves, lives by thy word ;
It lives, and moves, and is, from thee.

4 High is thy power above all height:

Whate'er thy will decrees is done;
Thy wisdom, equal to thy might.
Only to thee. O God, is known!

ERNEST LARGE.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

SECOND PART.

127 Wisdom, love, power. L. M.

THINE, Lord, is wisdom, thine alone;
Justice and truth before thee stand :
Yet, nearer to thy sacred throne,
Mercy withholds thy lifted hand.

2 Each evening shows thy tender love,
Each rising morn thy plenteous grace:

Thy wakened wrath doth slowly move,
Thy willing mercy flies apace.

3 To thy benign, indulgent care,
Father, this light, this breath, we owe;

And all we have, and all we are,

From thee, great Source of being, flow.

4 Thrice Holy ! thine the kingdom is,
The power omnipotent is thine;

And when created nature dies,
Thy never-ceasing glories shine.

ERNEST LANGE.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

Title: God's Greatness.

These two hymns are made up from selected
stanzas of a poem containing twenty-four quatrains.
They are not altered.

The translation was first published in a Collection
of psalms and Hymns. Charles-Town. 1787. The
original is found in the Herrnhuth Collection.

Ernest Lange was a pious magistrate in Danzig,
where he was born in 1650. In 1711 he j>ubli>hcd
a volume containing sixty-one original hymns.
Onlv a few of them have been translated. He died
in 1727.

128 Immanvel, God with vs. L. M.

ETERNAL depth of love divine,
In Jesus, God with us, displayed;
How bright thy beaming glories shine 1
How wide thy healing streams are spread !

2 With whom dost thou delight to dwell?
Sinners, a vile and thankless race!

O God, what tongue aright can tell

How vast thy love, how great thy grace!

3 The dictates of thy sovereign will
With joy our grateful hearts receive;

All thy delight in us fulfill ;
Lo, all we are to thee we give.

4 To thy sure love, thy tender care,
Our flesh, soul, spirit, we resign;

() fix thy sacred presence there,
And seal the abode forever thine.

KICOI, .US L. ZINZENDORF.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

HYMN STUDIES.

Title: God it- it.'.

The first hult'ot' the translation, unaltered. Fn.n:
Hymns and Sacred Poetns, published by John and
Charles Wesley, 1789.

<Jount Nicholas Lewis de Zinzendorf. the founder
of the religious community of Hcrrnhut, and the
apostle of the United Brethren, was born at Dres-
den in 1700. It is n< «t often that noble blood and
worldly wealth are allied with true piety and mis-
sionary zeal. Such, however, was the ease with
Count Zinaandorf. Spener, the father of Pietism,
m his godfather ; and Franke. the founder of the
famous Orphan House in Halle, was for several
years hu tutor. In 1731 Zinzendorf re.-i;rned all
public duties, and devoted himself to missionary
work; he traveled extensively on the Conti
Great Britain, and in America, preaching " Christ
and him crucified,'' and organizing societies of
Moravian brethren. John Wesley is said to have
been under obligation to Zinzendorf for some ideas
of singing, organization of classes, and church gov-
ernment. Zinzendorf was the author of some two
thousand hymns. Many of them are worthless, or
worse, but some of them are very valuable^ full of
Gospel sweetness and holy fervor. He died in 1760.

129 For the grace of the Holy Trinity. L. M.

BLEST Spirit, one with God above,
Thou source of life and holy love,
O cheer us with thy sacred beams.
Refresh us with thy plenteous streams.

2 O may our lips confess thy name,
Our holy lives thy power proclaim;
With love divine our hearts inspire,
And fill us with thy holy fire.

S O holy Father, holy Son,
And Holy Spirit, Three in One,
Thy grace devoutly we implore ;
Thy name be praised for evermore.

FROM THE LATIN.
TR. BY J. CHANDLER.

Title : Xunc sonde nob-is Spiiitus.

The text is unaltered and entire. From the
translator's Hymns of the Primitive Church, Lon-
don. 1887.

No. 49.

:! Still rastless nature dies and grows;

From change to change the creatures run :
Thy being no succession knows,

And all thy vast designs are one.

1 A glance of thine runs through the globe,
Rules the bright worlds, and moves their
frame ;

Of light thou form'st thy dazzling robe;
Thy ministers are living flame.

o How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing thy glory or thy grace?

Beneath thy feet we lie afar,

And see but shadows of thy face.

6 Who can behold the blazing light?

Who can approach consuming llame?
None but thy wisdom knows thy might;
None but thy word can speak thy name.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: The Creator and Creatures.

From Horae Lyricct, 1709. Several verbal
changes have been made, and two stanzas omil-
ted, viz. :

2 " From thy great Self thy Being springs ;
Thou art thine own Original,

Made up of uncreated Things,

And. Self-sufficience bears them all.

3 "Thrones and Dominions round thee fall,

And worship in submissive Forms ;
Thy Presence shakes this lower Ball,
This little Dwelling-Piaco of Worms."

130 Incomprehensible glory. L. M.

G1 OD is the name my soul adores,
I" The almighty Three, the eternal One:
Nature and grace, with all their powers,
Confess the Infinite Unknown.

2 Thy voice produced the sea and spheres, |
Bade the waves roar, the planets shine ; ;

But nothing like thyself appears

Through all these spacious works of thine. .

131 Jehovah's holiness. L. M.

HOLY as thou, O Lord, is none ;
Thy holiness is all thine own;
A drop of that unbounded sea
Is ours, — a drop derived from thee :

2 And when thy purity we share,
Thine only glory we declare;
And, humbled into nothing, own,
Holy and pure is God alone.

3 Sole, self-existing God and Lord,
By all thy heavenly hosts adored.
Let all on earth bow down to thee,
And own thy peerless majesty.

4 Thy power unparalleled confess,
Established on the rock of peace;
The rock that never shall remove,
The rock of pure, almighty love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

HYMN STUDIES.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the
Holy Scriptures. By Charles Woley, M.A., and
Presbyter of the Church of England, 1762.

Text: "There is none holy as the Lord : for
there is none besides thee : neither is there any rock
like our God." 1 Sam. ii, 2.

In his preface the writer says: "Several of the
hymns are intended to prove, and several to guard,
the doctrine of Christian Perfection. I durst not
publish one without the other." lie doubtless in-
tended this to ''guard" the doctrine. The author
published the first line :

•' Holy as Thee, O Lord, is none."

132 From everlasting to everlasting. L. M.

ERE mountains reared their forms sub-
lime,
Or heaven and earth in order stood,
Before the birth of ancient time,
From everlasting thou art God.

2 A thousand ages, in their flight,
With thee are as a fleeting day ;

Past, prcseut, future, to thy sight
At once their various scenes display.

3 But our brief life's a shadowy dream,
A passing thought that soon is o'er,

That fades with morning's earliest beam,
And tills the musing mind no more.

4 To us, O Lord, the wisdom give
Each passing moment so to spend,

That we at length with thee may live
Where life and bliss shall never end.

HARRIET AUBER.
This hymn is founded on Psalm xc:

"Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all
generations. Before the mountains were brought
forth," etc.

Two lines have been altered.

Original Form.
Verse one, line two :

" Or the fair earth in order stood."

Verse four, line two :

" So ev'ry precious hour to spend."

From The Spirit of the. Psalms, 1S29.
For sketch of author, see No. 33.

X33 Omnipotence end wisdom. L. M.

COME, O my soul, in sacred lays,
Attempt thy great Creator's praise:
But O what tongue can speak his fame'
What mortal verse can reach the theme !

2 Enthroned amid the radiant spheres,
lie glory like a garment wears;

To form a robe of light divine,

Ten thousand suns around him shine.

3 In all our Maker's grand designs,
Omnipotence, with wisdom, shines;

His works, through all this wondrous frame,
Declare the glory of his name.

4 Raised on devotion's lofty wing,
Do thou, my soul, his glories sing;
And let his praise employ thy tongue.
Till listening worlds shall join the song.

THOMAS BLACKLOCK.

The Rev. Thomas Blacklock, O.D., was a native
of Scotland, born in 1721. lie lost his sight by
small-pox when an infant, but was nevertheless
well educated, and ordained a minister in 1762.
Two years later he retired to Edinburgh, and
spent his time in teaching and authorship. An
edition of his poems, which are characterized by
elegant mediocrity, was published in 1793. He
died in 1791. This hymn has had a wide circula-
tion. It can speak for itself. I cannot vouch for
the authorship, nor for the correctness of the text.
It is evidently founded on Psalm civ.

134: The. Lord is King. L. M.

THE Lord is King! lift up thy voice,
O earth, and all ye heavens, rejoice!
From world to world the joy shall ring,
The Lord omnipotent is King.

2 The Lord is King! child of the dust,
The Judge of all the earth is just;
Holy and true are all his ways:

Let every creature speak his praise.

3 He reigns! ye saints, exalt your strains;
Your God is King, your Father reigns;
And he is at the Father's side,

The Man of love, the Crucified.

4 Come, make your wants, your burdens

known,
He will present them at the throne;
And angel bands are waiting there
His messages of love to bear.

5 O when his wisdom can mistake,
I lis might decay, his love forsake,
Then may his children cease to sing,
The Lord omnipotent is King.

JOSIAn CONDER.

The Scripture text is Rev. xix, 6: "Alleluia:
for the Lord God omnipotent reigBeth."

It is a " means of grace " to read this grand

HYMN STUDIES.

hymn. Three stanzas, the Beoond, seventh, and
eighth, are omitted, which we give, in order that the
reader may have the whole ot it :

"The Lord is King! who then shall dare
Resist His will. distrust His care,
Or murmur at His wise decrees,
Or doubt His royal promises I

" Alike pervaded by His eye,
All ports of His dominion lie :

This world of ours, and worlds unseen;
And thin the boundary between.

" One Lord, one empire, nil secures;
He reigns, and lit.- and death are yours:
Through earth and heaven mie song shall ring,
The Lord Omnipotent is King."

From The Star in the East ; loith Otlver Poems.
By Josiah Conder. London, 1824.

136

Holy, holy, holy.

11, 12, 10.

13 O Omnipresence. L. M.

LORD of all being! throned afar,
Thy glory flames from sun and star;
Center and soul of every sphere,
Yet to each loving heart how near.

2 Sun of our life, thy quickening ray
Sheds on our path the glow of day;
Star of our hope, thy softened light
Cheers the long watches of the night.

3 Our midnight is thy smile withdrawn;
Our noontide is thy gracious dawn;
Our rainbow arch thy mercy's sign;

All, save the clouds of sin, are thine !

4 Lord of all life, below, above,

Whose light is truth, whose warmth is love,
Before thy ever-blazing throne
We ask no luster of our own.

5 Grant us thy truth to make us free,
And kindling hearts that burn for thee,
Till all thy living altars claim

One holy light, one heavenly flame.

OLIVER W. HOLMES.

Written in 1848.

Many valuable hymns are not, strictly speaking,
poems; and, of course, most poems are not hymns;
out this is both. It is a true hymn, full of worship ;
and a real poem, all alive with sublime imagery.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, author, physician, and
professor, was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1 8<>y ;
was graduated at Harvard College in 1829 ; Btudied
medicine in this country and in Europe, and re-
ceived the degree of M.D. in 1836. In 1837 he
was elected Professor of Anatomy and Physiology
in Dartmouth College, and accepted a call to the
same chair in Harvard University in 1847. Dr.
Holmes is a successful writer in various' styles both
of prose and poetry.

HOLY, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall
rise to thee;
Holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty,
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity !

2 Holy, holy, holy, all the saints adore thee,
Casting down their golden crowns around

the glassy sea ;
Cherubim and seraphim falling down before
thee,
Which wert, and art, and evermore shalt
be.

3 Holy, holy, holy! though the darkness

hide thee,
Though the eye of sinful man thy glory
may not see ;
Only thou art holy; there is none beside
thee,
Perfect in power, in love, and purity.

4 Holy, holy, holy ! Lord God Almighty !
All thy works shall praise thy name, in

earth, and sky, and sea;
Holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty;
God in Three Persons, blessed Trinity !

REGINALD IIEBEIt.

Title: Trinity Sunday. Unaltered.
From Hymns Written, and Adapted to theWeeily
Church Service of the Tear, 1827.
For biographical sketch, see No. 62.

137 The Trinity adored. L. M.

0HOLY, holy, holy Lord,
Bright in thy deeds and in thy name,
Forever be thy name adored,

Thy glories let the world proclaim.

2 O Jesus, Lamb once crucified
To take our load of sins away,

Thine be the hymn that rolls its tide
Along the realms of upper day.

3 O Holy Spirit from above,

In streams of light and glory given,
Thou source of ecstasy and love,

Thy praises ring through earth and
heaven.

4 O God Triune, to thee we owe
Our every thought, our every song;

And ever may thy praises flow

From saint and seraph's burning tongue.

JAMES W. EASTBURN. .

HYMN STUDIES.

Tliis beautiful Trinity livinn is from the Protest-
ant Episcopal Prayer fiook : Hymns Suited to the
Feast* and Fasts of the Church, and Other Occa-
sions of Public Worship, 1826.

It is unaltered and entire.

The liev. James Wallis Bastburn was an En-
glishman, born in London in 1797. He came to this
country in early life; was graduated at Columbia
College in 1816; and in 1818 became a rector in Vir-
ginia, lie died at sea in the following year while
on a voyage for his health.

138 The heavens declare His glory. L. M.

TflllE spacious firmament on high,
J_ With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim :
The unwearied sun, from day to day,
Does his Creator's power display,
And publishes to every land
The work of an almighty hand.

2 Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly, to the listening earth,
Repeats the story of her birth ;

While all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole.

3 What though in solemn silence all
Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
What though no real voice nor sound
Amid the radiant orbs be found?

In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice ;
Forever singing as they shine,
"The hand that made us is divine."

JOSEPH ADDISON.

This grand and familiarode is from the Spectator,
No. 465, 1712.
It is founded on Psalm xix, 1-4 :

" The heavens declare the glory of God ; and
the firmament sheweth his handy work. Day unto
day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweih
knowledge. There is no speech nor language,
where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone
out through all the earth, and their words to the
end of the world."

Joseph Addison, the son of an English clergy-
man, was born in 1672; educated at Oxford, and
soon after his graduation elected a fellow of Magda-
len College. He had an early reputation among
his contemporaries for learning and ability. It
was thought that he would enter the Church ; but
he turned his attention U> politics, and rose through
several public offices to be Secretary of State, a
position which he was soon compelled to resign

on account of ill health. Addison's fame rests
principally upon his essays in the Tatler and Spec-
tator. It is quite possible that his reputation as a
writer of hymns — though he wrote only five — may-
outlast his limie as an essayist, lie died in 171!*.
His last hours were perfectly serene. It is said
that he sent for his son-in-law, the Earl of War-
wick, to witness " in what peace a Christian can die."

139 Jehovah's sovereignty. L. M.

FATHER of all, whose powerful voice
Called forth this universal frame!
Whose mercies over all rejoice,

Through endless ages still the same;
Thou by thy word upholdest all;

Thy bounteous love to all is showed;
Thou hear'st thy every creature's call,
And fillest every mouth with good.

2 In heaven thou reign'st enthroned in light.
Nature's expanse before thee spread;

Earth, air, and sea, before thy sight,
And hell's deep gloom, are open laid :

Wisdom, and might, and love, are thine;
Prostrate before thy face we fall,

Confess thine attributes divine,

And hail thee sovereign Lord of all.

3 Blessing and honor, praise and love,
Co-equal, co-eternal Three,

In earth below, in heaven above,
By all thy works, be paid to thee.

Let all who owe to thee their birth,
In praises every hour employ ;

Jehovah reigns! be glad, O earth,

And shout, ye morning stars, for joy !

JOHN WESLEY.

A hymn of nine stanzas, entitled 77ie Lord's
Prayer Paraphrased, It was first published in
Hymns ami Sacred Poems, 1742. It may be found
complete in Wesley's Sermons, American edition,
vol. i, p. 243.

For biography, see No. 111.

140 Worshiping tli^ King. 10,11.

0 WORSHIP the King all-glorious above,
And gratefully sing his wonderful love ;
Our Shield and Defender, the Ancient of

days,
Pavilioned in splendor, and girded with
praise.

2 O tell of his might, and sing of his grace,
Whose robe is the light, whose canopy space;
His chariots of wrath the deep-thunder

clouds form,
And dark is his path on the wings of the

storm.

HYMN STUDIES.

3 Thy bountiful care what tongue can re-

cite?
It breathes in the air, it shines in the light,
It streams from the hills, it descends to the

plain,
And sweetly distills in the dew and the rain.

4 Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
In thee do we trust, nor find thee to fail;
Thy mercies how tender! how tirra to the

end!
Our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and
Friend !

SIR ROBERT GRANT.

This is one of twelve sacred lyrics written by
thia author, and collected by his brother, Lord
Glcnelg. Sacred Poems, ISC'j" It is founded on
l's.ilin civ.

Tin' second line of verse one, the author wrote:

M 0 gratefully sing his power and his love."

In verse two, line one, the original is u 0 sing,"
instead of " and sing."

Two stanzas, the third and sixth, of the original,
are omitted :

" The earth, with its stores of wonders untold,
Almighty, Thy power hath founded of old,
Hath stablishcd it fast by a changeless decree,
And round it hath cast, like a mantle, the sea.

" O measureless might, ineffable Love!
While angels delight to hymn Thee above,
The humble creation, though feeble their lays,
With true adoration shall lisp to Thy praise."

Sir Robert Grant was born in 1785 : was educat-
ed at Cambridge, graduating in 180(5, after which
he studied law. He entered Parliament in 1826,
and in 1834 was appointed Governor of Bombay.
He died in India in 18S8.

141

The Lord will provide. 10, 11.

rTlIIOUGII troubles assail, and dangers
J_ affright,

Though friends should all fail, and foes all

unite,
Vet one thing secures us, whatever betide.
The promise assures us, "The Lord will

provide."

2 The birds, without barn or store-house,
are fed ;

From them let us learn to trust for our bread :

His saints what is fitting shall ne'er be de-
nied,

So long as 'tis written, "The Lord will
provide."

'.) When Satan appears to stop up our path,
And fills us with fears, we triumph by

faith;
He cannot take from us, though oft he has

tried,
The heart-cheering promise, "The Lord

will provide."

4 lie tells us we're weak, our hope is in

vain;

The good that we seek we ne'er shall ob-
tain :

But when such suggestions our graces have
tried,

This answers all questions, "The Lord will
provide."

5 No strength of our own, nor goodness we

claim ;
Our trust is all thrown on Jesus's name:
In this our strong tower for safety we

hide ;
The Lord is our power, "The Lord will

provide."

(3 When life sinks apace, and death is in

view.
The word of his grace shall comfort us

through :
Not fearing or doubting, with Christ on our

side,
We hope to die shouting, "The Lord will

provide."

JOHN NEWTON.

From the Olney Hymns, 1779. The title and re-
frain are found in Genesis xxii, 14.
The author wrote verse one, line four:

" The Scripture assures us," etc.

Verse four, line three, last part :

" Our spirits have ply1 d."

Verse five, line two:
" Yet since we have known the Saviour's great

Two stanzas are omitted, the first, perhaps on
account of its Calvinism ; the second, because there
are enough without it. We give them as a matter
of curiosity.

3 " We may like the ships,

By tempests be tost
On perilous deeps,

But cannot be lost :
Though Satan enrages

The wind and the tide,
The promise engages,

The Lord will provide.

HYMN STUDIES.

4 " His call we obey

Like Abni'ni of old,
Not knowing our way,

But faith makes us bold ;
For though we arc strangers

We have a good guide,
And trust in all dangers

The Lord will provide."

142 Wondrous condescension. II. M.

THE Lord Jehovah reigns,
I lis throne is built on high ;
The garments he assumes
Are light and majesty :
His glories shine with beams so bright,
No mortal eye can bear the sight.

2 The thunders of his hand
Keep the wide world in awe;

His wrath and justice stand
To guard his holy law ;
And where his love resolves to bless,
His truth confirms and seals the grace.

3 Through all his mighty works
Amazing wisdom shines:

Confounds the powers of hell,
•• And all their dark designs;
Strong is his arm, and shall fulfill
His great decrees and sovereign will.

4 And will this sovereign King
Of glory condescend,

And will he write his name,
My Father and my Friend?
I love his name, I love his word ;
Join all my powers to praise the Lord.

ISAAC WATTS.

Founded on Psalm xcvii.

The author's title is : The Divine Perfections.

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, hook ii.

Some verbal change* have been made in the last
part of the hymn by the hymn-book editors. The
third stanza Watts wrote :

" Through all his ancient works,

Surprising wisdom shines.
Confounds the powers of hell.

Ami breaks their cursed designs."

The first line of the last stanza in the authorized
text is :

"And can this mighty King."

143 TTie changeless Friend.

THIS God is the God we adore,
Our faithful, unchangeable friend,
Whose love is as great as his power,
And neither knows measure nor end:

2 'Tis Jesus, the first and the last,

Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home;

We'll praise him for all that is past,
And trust him for all that's to come.

JOSEPH HART.

These are the last lines of a long piece, beginning :
" No prophet or dreamer of dreams."

The title to Mr. Hart's book is a curious one, viz.:
l/i/tnns, <&c. Composed on Various Subjects : 1769.

This piece must be one of the "and so J'ort-hs."
It certainly is not a hymn. These stanzas are very
much superior to the rest, and are the only ones
worth preserving.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 29.

r^6L

144 Praise to the Trinity.

HOLY, holy, holy Lord,
God of hosts, eternal King,
By the heavens and earth adored;

Angels and archangels sing,
Chanting everlastingly
To the blessed Trinity.

2 Since by thee were all tilings made,
And in thee do all things nve,

Be to thee all honor paid ;

Praise to thee let all things give,
Singing everlastingly

To the blessed Trinity.

3 Thousands, tens of thousands, stand,
Spirits blest, before the throne,

Speeding thence at thy command,

And, when thy commands are done,
Singing everlastingly
To the blessed Trinity.

4 Cherubim and seraphim

Veil their faces with their wings;
Eyes of angels are too dim

To behold the King of kings,
While they sing eternally
To the blessed Trinity.

5 Thee apostles, prophets thee,
Thee the noble martyr band,

Praise with solemn Jubilee,

Thee, the Church in every land;

Singing everlastingly
To the blessed Trinity.

G Hallelujah ! Lord, to thee,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost;

Godhead One, and Persons Three;
Join us with the heavenly host,

Singing everlastingly
To the blessed Trinity.

CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH.

HYMN STUDIES.

Titie : Trinity Sunday.

Verse three, line two, the original has "Thy"
throue.

Verse three, lino four, tlio author wrote "behests"
instead of "commands."

Verses six and seven omitted :

6 "In Thy Name baptized are we.
With thy blessing are diainias'd;

And Tbrice-Holy chant to Thee

In the holy Eucharist ;
Lite is one Doxology
To the Blessed Trinity.

7 " To the Father, and the Son,
Who tor us did deign to die ;

And to God the Holy One,
. Who the Church doth sanctify,
Sing we with glad Jubilee,
Hallelujah ! Lord, to Thee.

From The Holy Tear; or, H'/mns for Sundays
and Holydays. London, 18(52.

For biographical sketch, see No. 72.

145 Worship the Creator. 7.

LET us with a gladsome mind
Praise the Lord, for he is kind,
For his mercies shall endure,
Ever faithful, ever sure.
Let us sound his name abroad,
For of gods he is the God,
Who by wisdom did create
Heaven's expanse and all its state ;

2 Did the solid earth ordain
How to rise above the main;
Who, by his commanding might,
Filled the new-made world with light:
•Caused the golden-tressed sun

All the day his course to run;
And the moon to shine by night,
'Mid her spangled sisters bright

3 All his creatures God doth feed.
His full hand supplies their need;
He hath with a pitying eye
Looked upon our misery:

Let us, therefore, warble forth
His high majesty and worth,
For his mercies shall endure,
Ever faithful, ever sure.

JOHN MILTON, ALT.

Part of the author's paraphrase of Psalm exxxvi.
Fifteen lines out of the twenty-four have been
in >re or less changed. It ought to be marked
nitered.

•lohn Milton was born in London in 1608, and
educated at Cambridge. After graduating he
traveled extensively, for those days. He was a
Puritan iu religion and a Republican in politics ;

was in public service under Cromwell, and nar-
rowly escaped death or banishment at the Resto-
ration. In 1652 he became totally blind; but his
poetic vision seemed to be only quickened thereby,
and he wrote in Paradise Lost :

" Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme."

It is said that this paraphrase was written when
the author was only fifteen years of age, (1623.)
This we can readily believe ; for it contains the ex-
cellences of genius, and, especially in its original
form, the imperfections of immaturity. He died 1674.

14:6 Glory, mercy, grace. C. M.

FATHER, how wide thy glory shines,
How high thy wonders rise!
Known through the earth by thousand signs,
By thousands through the skies.

2 Those mighty orbs proclaim thy power;
Their motions speak thy skill :

And on the wings of every hour
We read thy patience still.

3 Part of thy name divinely stands
On all thy creatures writ;

They show the labor of thy hands,
Or impress of thy feet :

4 But when we view thy strange design,
To save rebellious worms,

Where vengeance and compassion join
In their divinest forms ;

5 Here the whole Deity is known,
Nor dares a creature guess

Which of the glories brighter shone,
The justice or the grace.

6 Now the full glories of the Lamb
Adorn the heavenly plains;

Bright seraphs learn Immanucl's name,
And try their choicest strains.

7 O may I bear some humble part
In that immortal song!

Wonder and joy shall tune my heart,
And love command my tongue.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : God Glorious and Sinners Saved.

From f/orce Lyrical, book i, 1709.

Verse six, line three, the author wrote " Sweet
Cherubs," etc.

Two stanzas, the fifth and seventh, have been
omitted :

5 " Our Thoughts are lost in reverend Awe,

We love and wc adore ;
The first Arch- Angel never saw

So much of God before.

IIYMN STUDIES.

7 " When Sinners hroke the Father's Laws,

Thy dying Son atones;
Oh the dear Mysteries of his Cross,

The Triumph of his Groans! "

147 Majesty and love of God. CM.

MY God, how wonderful thou art,
Thy majesty how bright,
How beautiful thy mercy-seat
In depths of burning light!

2 How dread arc thine eternal years,
O everlasting Lord,

By prostrate spirits day and night
Incessantly adored!

3 How beautiful, how beautiful,
The sight of thee must be,

Thine endless wisdom, boundless power,
And awful purity !

4 O how I fear thee, living God,
With deepest, teuderest fears,

And worship thee with trembling hope
And penitential tears.

5 Yet I may love thee too, O Lord,
Almighty as thou art;

For thou hast stooped to ask of me
The love of my poor heart.

6 No earthly father loves like thee,
No mother half so mild

Bears and forbears, as thou hast done
With me, thy sinful child.

7 Father of Jesus, love's reward 1
What rapture will it be,

Prostrate before thy throne to lie,
And gaze, and gaze on thee!

FREDERICK W. FABER.

Title : Our Heavenly Father.

Written in 1849, and found in the author's
Hymn*, 1801. It is not altered. This lyric illus-
trates one characteristic beauty of Faher's poetry,
viz., jin intense adoration — a profound love of God.

Omitted stanzas :

6 " Oh then this worse than worthless heart

In pity deijm to take,
And make it love Thee, for Thyself

And for Thy glory's sake.

8 " Only to sit and think of God,

Oh what a joy it is !
To think the thought, to breathe the Name,

Earth has no higher bliss ! "

For biographical sketch, see No. 125.

148 8,7-

God's glory in creation and redemption.

MIGHTY God ! while angels bless thee,
May a mortal lisp thy name ?
Lord of men, as well as angels.

Thou art every creature's theme:
Lord of every land and nation,

Ancient of eternal days !
Sounded through the wide creation
By thy just and awful praise.

2 For the grandeur of thy nature,
Grand beyond a seraph's thought;

For the wonders of creation,

Works with skill and kindness wrought;
For thy providence, that governs

Through thine empire's wide domain,
Wings an angel, guides a sparrow;

Blessed be thy gentle reign !

3 For thy rich, thy free redemption,
Bright, though veiled in darkness long,

Thought is poor, and poor expression ;

Who can sing that wondrous song ?
Brightness of the Father's glory!

Shall thy praise unuttered lie?
Break, my tongue, such guilty silence,

Sing the Lord who came to die: —

4 From the highest throne of glory,
To the cross of deepest woe.

Came to ransom guilty captives:

Flow, my praise, forever flow !
Re-ascend, immortal Saviour;

Leave thy footstool, take thy throne;
Thence return and reign forever;

Be thy kingdom all thine own!

ROBERT ROBINSON.

Written in 1774.

This hymn is full of beauty and majesty. Rob*
inson did not publish any collection himself, but
contributed several hymns to White-field's collec-
tion. Some verbal changes have been made since
the death of the author.

In the first stanza he wrote "infant" instead of
"mortal;" and "lawful" instead of "awtuL"

The third line of the second stanza read:

" For created works of power."

The third stanza bejran :

" B'd thy rich, thy free redemption
Dark thro* brightness all along."

It also had " anfut '" instead of "wondrous"
in the fourth line. He wrote "<?", return" in-
stead of "Re-ascend.'' in the last stanza.

The refrain, "Hallelujah 1 Hallelujah! Halle-
lujah ! Amen ! " is omitted, anil also four line* ol
the hymn, as follows :

IITMN STUDIES.

" Did archangels Bins thy coming I

Did the shepherds learn their lay*!
Bhame would cover me ungrateful,

Should my tongue refuse to praise."

The Rev. Robert Robinson was a outite of En-
pland ; bom in 1735; a talented and versatile
preacher, but u unstable as water.'1 Be began his

ministry as a Calvinistio Methodist in one of
Lady uuntingdon's chapels; soon after that lie
formed tin Independent church ; then he joined the
Baptists. At length he strayed away from the
Evangelical Ruth and became an unhappy back-
slider "and Socinian. He died in 1790. Dr. Belcher,
in his 8tetche8of Hymns, .-ays that this hymn was
written for Benjamin Williams, who afterward he-
came deacon of a Baptist church. Williams was
sitting on the authors knee when he composed
the first couplet :

" Mighty God, while angels bless thee,
May an infant lisp thy name l. "

After completing the hymn he read it, and gave
it to the boy. Not in Whiterield's collection. A
Universalixt Hymn Boot, Boston, 1792, claims to
give the original.

149 The wideness of God's mercy. 8, 7.

THERE'S a wideness in God's mercy,
Like the wideness of the sea:
There's a kindness in his justice,
Which is more than liberty.

2 There is welcome for the sinner,
And more graces for the good ;

There is mercy with the Saviour ;
There is healing in his blood.

3 For the love of God is broader
Than the measure of man's mind;

And the heart of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind.

4 If our love were but more simple,
We should take him at his word;

And our lives would be all sunshine
In the sweetness of our Lord.

FREDERICK W. FABER.

This beautiful hymn is composed of the fourth,
nixth, eighth, and thirteenth stanzas, verbatim, of a
long poem, entitled Come to J*sv*.

The theology of the hymn is very agreeable to
Methodists. The whole piece can be found in
fiber's Hymns. London, 1862.

For biographical sketch, sec No. 125.

lOU Unchanging wisdom and love.

GOD is love ; his mercy brightens
All the path in which we rove;
Bliss he wakes, and woe he lightens;
God is wisdom, God is love.

8,7.

2 Chance and change are busy ever;

Man decays, and ages move;
But his mercy waneth never;

God is wisdom, God is love.

:! E'en the hour that darkest scemeth,
Will his changeless goodness prove;

From the gloom his brightness streameth,
God is wisdom, God is love.

4 He with earthly cares entwincth
Hope and comfort from above;

Every-where his glory shineth;
God is wisdom, God is love.

SIR JOIIX BOWRING.

The author's title is : God is Love.

From Hymns. London? 1825. One- word has
been changed. The original of verse three, line
diree, is :

" From the mist his brightness streameth."

The hymn closes by repeating the first stanza.

John Bowring was a native or Exeter, England:
born in 1792. He entered Parliament early in life ;
for many years held different official positions, and
was knighted in 1*54. The religious life of th'iH
author is recorded largely in his poems, Matin*
and Vespers. London, 1823 ; and in Hymns as a
Hequel to Matins and Vespers, 1825. He died 1872.

1 O 1 Majesty and providence. C. M.

THE Lord our God is clothed with might,
The winds obey his will ;
He speaks, and in his heavenly height
The rolling sun stands still.

2 Rebel, ye waves, and o'er the land
With threatening aspect roar;

The lord uplifts his awful hand,
And chains you to the shore.

3 Ye winds of night, your force combine:
Without his high behest,

Ye shall not, in the mountain pine,
Disturb the sparrow's nest.

4 His voice sublime is heard afar;
In distant peals it dies;

He yokes the whirlwind to his car,
And sweeps the howling skies.

5 Ye sons of earth, in reverence bend;
Ye nations, wait his nod ;

And bid the choral song ascend
To celebrate our God.

II. KIRKE WHITE.

Title: The Eternal Monarch.

This Is a genuine poem. It was first published

HYMN STUDIES.

by the Rev. William Bengo Collyer, D.D., in
Hymns Partly Collected and Partly Original.
Loudon, 181 2. Slight changes have been made in

tour lines.

Original.
Verse one, line one:
" The Lord our God is full of might."

Verse three, line one :
"Howl, winds of night, your force combine."

Verse five, line one:
" Ye nations bend, in reverence bend."

Verse five, line two :

" Ye monarch* wait his nod."

For sketch of author, see No. 22.

C. M.

152 Tlie Lord is King.

THE Lord descended from above,
And bowed the heavens most high,
And underneath his feet he cast
The darkness of the sky.

2 On cherubim and seraphim
Full royally he rode,

And on the wings of mighty winds
Came flying all abroad.

3 He sat serene upon the floods,
Their fury to restrain ;

And he, as sovereign Lord and King,
For evermore shall reign.

4 Give glory to his awful name,
And honor him alone;

Give Avorship to his majesty
Upon his holy throne.

THOMAS STEIINIIOLD, ALT.

The first three stanzas are founded on Psalm
xviii, 9-11 :

" He bowed the heavens also, and came down :
nnd darkness was under his feet. And he rode
upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon
the wings of the wind. He made darkness his
secret place ; his pavilion round about him were
dark waters and thick clouds of the skies."

Each stanza has been altered. The word "most"
has been added in the second line of the first verse ;
the first line of the second stanza was originally :

" On cherubs and on cherubims."

And the third line was :

" And on the wings of all the winds."

The third stanza is changed beyond all recog-
nition; yet the critic will see that it still retains a
thought of the original :

" And like a den most dark he made

his hid and secret place ;
With waters black, and airy clouds,

environed he was."

The last stanza was taken from Psalm xxix, 2 :

"Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his
name; worship the Lord in the beauty ot holi-
ness."

This, too, has been altered ; it was :

" Give glory to his holy Name,

and honor him alone ;
Worship him in his Majesty

within his holy throne."

Thomas Sternhold was an Englishman. The
time and place of his birth are not known. He
died in 1549, having held the office of Groom of
the Kohes to King Henry VIII. Sternhold verbi-
fied only a part of the Psalms, the rest were written
by John Hopkins and others. The completed ver-
sion was published in 1562.

lo3 Praise from all creation. CM.

PRAISE ye the Lord, ye immortal choirs
That fill the worlds above;
Praise him who formed you of his fires,
And feeds you with his love.

2 Shine to his praise, ye crystal skies,
The floor of his abode ;

Or veil in shades your thousand eyes
Before your brighter God.

3 Thou restless globe of golden light,
Whose beams create our days,

Join with the silver queen of night,
To own your borrowed rays.

4 Thunder and hail, and fire and storms,
The troops of his command,

Appear in all your dreadful forms,
And speak his awful hand.

.") Shout to the Lord, ye surging seas,

In your eternal roar;
Let wave to wave resound his praise,

And shore reply to shore.

G Thus while the meaner creatures sing,

Ye mortals, catch the sound;
Echo the glories of your King

Through all the nations round.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: T7<e Universal Ilallelujali. Part of a pa -a
phrase of Psalm cxlviii.

HTMN STUDIES.

From Horit, Lyricce, 170i>.

The tir.st stanza of the hymn is made by com-
tuning the first two of Watts's — aa can he Been :

" 1 Praise ye the Lord with joyful Tongue,

Y«- Powers that guard hit) throne ;
Jesus, the Man, aball lead the Song,

The God inspire the Tune.

"2 Gabriel, and all the immortal Choir

That till the Realms above.
6ii)Lr, for he tunned you of his Fire,

And feeds you with his Love."

The rest of the hymn is a copy of verses three,
four, seven, eight, and thirteen of the paraphrase.

154 Goodness and mercy. CM.

LET every tongue thy goodness speak,
Thou sovereign Lord of all ;
Thy strengthening hands uphold the weak.
And raise the poor that fall.

2 When sorrows bow the spirit down,
When virtue lies distressed,

Beneath the proud oppressor's frown,
Thou giv'st the mourner rest.

3 Thou know'st the pains thy servants feel,
Thou hear'st thy children's cry;

And their best wishes to fulfill,
Thy grace is ever nigh.

4 Thy mercy never shall remove
From men of heart sincere :

Thou sav'st the souls whose humble love
Is joined with holy fear.

5 My lips shall dwell upon thy praise,
And spread thy fame abroad;

Let all the sons of Adam raise
The honors of their God.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: Mercy to Sufferers; or, God hearing
prayer. A paraphrase of Psalm cxlv, 14-21.

Two stanzes are omitted, and each of the others,
except the first, slightly altered.

FublL-hed in 1719.

lOO The angelic guard. C M.

WHICH of the monarchs of the earth
Can boast a guard like ours,
Encircled from our second birth
With all the heavenly powers?

2 Myriads of bright, cherubic bands,

Bent by the King of kings,
Rejoice to bear us in their hands,

And shade us with their win<js.

3 Angels, where'er we go, attend
Our steps, whate'er betide;

With watchful care their charge defend,
And evil turn aside.

4 Our lives those holy angels keep
From every hostile power;

And, unconcerned, we sweetly sleep,
As Adam in his bower.

5 And when our spirits we resign,
On outstretched wings they bear,

And lodge us in the arms divine,
And leave us ever there.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

A beautiful hymn on a beautiful subject. The
text is Hebrew i, 14:

" Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth
to minister for thein who shall be heirs of sal-
vation? "

This was one of the many hymns that Charles
Wesley left in manuscript. The date of writing is
1786. The original has nine double stanzas, and
can be found complete in The Poetical Works of
John and Charles Wesley, vol. xiii. London, 1872.

The first line reads :

" Which of the petty kings of earth."

The word "monarchs" was substituted when
the hymn was introduced to our hymn book, in
1849 ; probably by Dr. James Floy, who made
many verbal changes, some of which were improve-
ments and some were not.

156

The twenty-third Ralm

CM.

THE Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want:
He makes me down to lie
In pastures green; he leadeth me
The quiet waters by.

2 My soul he doth restore again;
And me to walk doth make

Within the paths of righteousness,
E'en for his own name's sake.

3 Yea, though I walk through death's dark

vale,
Yet will I fear no ill ;
For thou art with me, and thy rod
And staff me comfort still.

4 A table thou hast furnished me
In presence of my foes ;

My head thou dost with oil anoint,
And my cup overflows.

«6

HYMN STUDIES.

5 Goodness and mercy all my life

Shall surely follow me ;
And in God's house for evermore

My dwelling-place shall be.

WILLIAM WHITTINGHAM AND OTHERS.

This most literal and valuable version of Psalm
xxiii is based upon the rendering of the Rev.
William Whittingham, who contributed fifteen
psalms to the version of Sternhokl and Hopkins,
1562. It is sometimes attributed to Francis Rous ;
but Rous — at least in his first edition, 1641 — only
substituted a few lines from the version of Stern-
hold for corresponding lines of Whittingham, and
altered a few other lines. Most of the changes are
of a later date, and were probably made by the
editors of the Scottish version of the Psalms.

158

The sure refuge.

C. M.

15/ Rejoicing in deliverance CM.

OTHOU, who, when we did complain,
Didst all our griefs remove,
O Saviour, do not now disdain
Our humble praise and love.

2 Since thou a pitying ear didst give,
And hear us when we prayed,

We'll call upon thee while we live,
And never doubt thy aid.

3 Pale death, with all his ghastly train,
Our souls encompassed round;

Anguish, and sin, and dread, aud pain,
On every side we found.

4 To thee, O Lord of life, we prayed,
And did for succor flee :

"O save," in our distress we said,
" The souls that trust in thee."

5 How good thou art ! how large thy grace !
How ready to forgive !

Thy mercies crown our fleeting days ;
And by thy love we live.

6 Our eyes no longer drowned in tears,
Our feet from falling free,

Redeemed from deatli and guilty fears,
O Lord, we'll live to thee.

SAMUEL WESLEY, ALT.

This hymn is the first part of a paraphrase of
Psalm cxvi. It was written in the first person,
singular; and there are chancres, mostly slight,
in all the lines except two. The Wesleys pub-
lished this in their Hymns and Sacred Poems,
1789. It was not written by Charles Wesley, but
bv Ins father, and published by him in The Pious
Communicant Rightly Prepared. By S. Wesley,
Sector of Spwortl), 1700.

For biography of Samuel Wesley, sec No. 215.

THERE is a safe and secret place
Beneath the wings divine,
Reserved for all the heirs of grace;
O be that refuge mine!

2 The least and feeblest there may bids,
Uninjured and unawed;

While thousands fall on every side,
He rests secure in God.

3 The angels watch him on his way,
And aid with friendly arm;

And Satan, roaring for his prey,
May hate, but cannot harm.

4 He feeds in pastures large and fair
Of love and truth divine :

O child of God, O glory's heir,
How rich a lot is thine !

5 A hand almighty to defend,
An ear for every call,

An honored life, a peaceful end,
And heaven to crown it all !

HENRY F. LYTE.

Founded on Psalm xci. Sir Roundcll Palmer,
in his Book of J 'raise, gives to it the date of 1834.
It is found in the author's Spirit of the J^alms.
London, 1858.

It is unaltered and entire.

For biographical sketch, sec No. 27.

159 Tl*-e only source of blessing. C. M.

JEHOVAH, God, thy gracious power
On every hand we see ;
O may the blessings of each hour
Lead all our thoughts to thee.

2 If on the wings of morn we speed,
To earth's remotest bound,

Thy hand will there our footsteps lead,
Thy love our path surround.

3 Thy power is in the ocean deeps,
And reaches to the skies;

Thine eye of mercy never sleeps,
Thy goodness never dies.

4 From morn till noon— till latest eye,
Thy hand, O God, we see;

And all the blessings we receive,
Proceed alone from thee.

JOHN THOMSON.

HYMN STUDIES.

Title: Omitipnuiiuv of God.

Three lines liavc been slightly altered.

Original.
Verse two, line three :

"Thy right hand will our footsteps lead."
Verse two, line four :

" Thine arm our path surround."
Verse four, line four:

"Ceaseless proceed from thee."
Tliere is one additional stanza :

5 " In all the varying scenes of time,

On thee our hopes depend ;
In every age, in every clime,

Our Fatner ami our Friend."

Tiiis first appeared in A Selection of Psalms and
Hymns for Unitarian Worship. By Kobert Ash-
land, 1*10.

Mr. Thomson was an English physician of em-
inence, and lived from 1782 to 1818.

160 Gratitude. C. M.

WHEN all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder, love, and praise.

2 O how can words with equal warmth
The gratitude declare,

That glows within my ravished heart?
But thou canst read it there.

3 To all my weak complaints and cries,
Thy mercy lent an ear,

Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learned
To form themselves in prayer.

4 When in the slippery paths of youth,
With heedless steps I ran,

Thine arm, unseen, conveyed me safe,
And led me up to man.

5 Through hidden dangers, toils, and

deaths,
It gently cleared my way;
And through the pleasing snares of vice,
More to be feared than they.

6 Through every period of my life
Thy goodness I'll pursue;

And after death, in distant worlds,
The pleasing theme renew.

7 Through all eternity to thee
A grateful song I'll raise;

But O, eternity's too short
To utter all thy praise.

JOSEPn ADDISON.

This favorite hymn contains, in all, thirteen
stanzas. The verses left out are equally good as
those retained. The whole poem is found in the
Spectator, No. 453, in which it was first published
in 1712.

Some doubt has recently been expressed by
hymnologists whether Ad'iison were the author
of this hymn. It will be seen that he does not ex-
pressly claim it. To do so was contrary to his
habit. Addison wrote "glorious" instead of
" pleasing '' in verse six, line four.

161 cm.

Verily, tliouarta God that hidest thyself. Isa. xlv,15;

GOD moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform ;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.

2 Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill,

He treasures up his bright designs,
And works his sovereign will.

3 Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take:
The clouds ye so much dread

Are big with mercy, and shall break •
In blessings on your head.

4 Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust him for his grace ;

Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.

5 His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour :

The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.

6 Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain :

God is his own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.

WILLIAM COWPER.

Title : Light Sliining Out of Darkness.

From Olney I/ymns,177(J. Unaltered and entire.

The Rev. Richard Watson, in his Life of John
Wesley, indulges in a sharp criticism of the fifth
stanza of this hymn. He says, " This is a figure, not
only not found in sacred inspired poetry, but which
has too much prettiness to be the vehicle of a su'o-
lime thought, and the verse has moreover the fault

UYMN STUDIES.

of an absurd antithesis, as well as a false rhyme."
This is certainly hypercritical. The stanza is
truly poetical in spite of the defective rhyme, and
Che sentiment is true and in perfect keeping with
the whole poem.

Montgomery calls this "a lyric of high tone and
character, and rendered awfully interesting by the
circumstances under which it was written : in the
twilight of departing reason."

Sec No. 44.

162 Crowning God with praise. L. M.

KINGDOMS and thrones to God belong;
Crown him, ye nations, in your song:
His wondrous names and powers rehearse;
His honors shall enrich your verse.

2 He shakes the heavens with loud alarms;
How terrible is God in arms!

In Israel are his mercies known,
Israel is his peculiar throne.

3 Proclaim him King, pronounce him blest ;
He's your defense, your joy, your rest :
When terrors ma and nations faint,

God is the strength of every saint.

ISAAC WATTS.

Founded on Psalm lxviii, 32-35 :

" Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; O
sing praises unto the Lord ; Belah : To him that
ridctli upon the heavens of heavens, which were of
old ; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a
naighty voice. Ascribe ye strength unto God : his
excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the
clouds. O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy
places: the God of Israel is he that giveth
strength and power unto his people. Blessed be
God."

First published in 1719. It is unaltered.

163 God's presence with his people. L. M.

WHEN Israel, of the Lord beloved,
Out from the land of bondage came,
Her fathers' God before her moved,
An awful guide, in smoke and name.

2 By day, along the astonished lands
The cloudy pillar glided slow;

By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands
Returned the fiery column's glow.

3 Thus present still, though now unseen,
"When brightly shines the prosperous day,

Be thoughts of thee a cloudy screen,
To temper the deceitful ray.

4 And O, when gathers on our path,
In shade and storm, the frequent night,

Be thou, long suffering, slow to wrath,
A burning and a shining light.

8IK WALTER SCOTT.

This is a part of the hymn with which the im-
prisoned Rebecca concludes her evening devotions.
From the author's romance, Ivanhue, 1820.

The original consists of four eight-lined stanzas.
This hymn is composed of the first and third. Tw 0
lines have been slightly changed.

Original Fokm.
Verse three, line one :

" But present still, though now unseen."

Verse four, line one :

" And oh, when stoops on Judahys path."

The Scripture reference, in the first part of the
hymn, is to Exodus xiii, 21 :

" And the Lord went before them by day in a
pillar of* a cloud, to lead them the way ; and by
night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by
day and night."

Sir Walter Scott, the " "Wizard of the North,"
was born in Edinburgh in 1771, and educated in
the High School and University of his native city.
His fatuous career as a poet and novelist need not
be recorded here. Two of his hymns appear in this
Hymnal, and are every way worthy of the genius of
tlie author. Scott died in 1832.

164 The great Provider. L. M.

PEACE, troubled soul, thou need'st not
fear;
Thy great Provider still is near ;
Who fed thee last, will feed thee still:
Be calm, and sink into his will.

2 The Lord, who built the earth and sky,
In mercy stoops to hear thy cry ;
His promise all may freely claim:
Ask and receive in Jesus' name.

;> Without reserve give Christ your heart;
Let him his righteousness impart;
Then all things else he'll freely give;
With him you all tilings shall receive.

4 Thus shall the soul be truly blest,
That seeks in God his only rest;
May I that happy person be,
In time and in eternity.

SAMUEL ECKING, ALT.

IIYMN 8TUDIF.S.

This is founded upon Matt, vi, 33:

" Rut mob ye first the kingdom of God. and his
righteousness ; and all these tilings shall be added
uuto you."

The original contained seven Btanztifi ; these are
the first two and the la-t two, somewhat altered.

The Rev. Samuel Ecking (1757-1786) was an
English Baptist minister who died quite young.
lie was the author of a volume o{ Essays on Grace,
fait A, and Experience, in which this hymn first
ajipeared, It is found in every edition of the hymn
book.

X 6 5 God our shield. L. M.

THE tempter to my soul hath said,
"There is no help in God for thee: "
Lord, lift thou up thy servant's head;
My glory, shield, and solace be.

3 Thus to the Lord I raised my cry,
He heard me from his holy hill;

At his command the waves rolled by;
He beckoned, and the winds were still.

3 I laid me down and slept, — I woke;
Thou, Lord, my spirit didst sustain ;

Bright from the east the morning broke.
Thy comforts rose on me again.

4 I will not fear, though armgd throngs
Surround my steps in all their wrath;

Salvation to the Lord belongs;

His presence guards his people's path.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

The reader will find it interesting to compare this
hymn with Psalm hi, upon which it is founded.
Unaltered from Songs of Zion, 1822.
For biographical sketch of Montgomery, see No. 5.

166 God a mighty fortress. 8,7,6.

A MIGHTY fortress is our God,
A bulwark never failing:
Our Helper he, amid the flood

Of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe
Doth seek to work us avoc;
His craft and power are great,
And, armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal.

2 Did we in our own strength confide,
Our striving would be losing;

Were not the right man on our side,
The man of God's own choosing.

Dust ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is lie;
Lord Sabaoth is his name,
From age to age the same,
And he must win the battle.

3 And though this world, with devils filled,
Should threaten to undo us;

We will not fear, for God hath willed
His truth to triumph through us.

The Prince of darkness grim —

We tremble not for him ;

1 1 is rage we can endure,

For lo ! his doom is sure,

One little word shall fell him.

4 That word above all earthly powers —
No thanks to them — abideth;

The Spirit and the gifts are ours
Through him who with us sideth.

Let goods and kindred go,

This mortal life also :

The body they may kill:

God's truth abideth still,
His kingdom is forever.

MARTIN LUTTIER.
TR. BY F. H. HEDGE.

This is the most famous of Luther's hymns. It
is the " Marseillaise of the Reformation," and is
founded on the first part of Psalm xlvi :

" God is our refuse and strength, a very present
help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear," etc.

The hymn is supposed to have heen written by
Luther while on his way to the Diet at Worms,
1521. This is a mistake; if it had been written at
that time it would, no doubt, have appeared in one
of Luther's first hymn books published in 1524, but
it do'-s not. It was probably written in 1529, just
before the Diet of Augsburg.

Martin Luther, the hero of the Reformation, was
born in the village of Eisleben in 1483, entered the
University at Erfurth in 1501, and was graduated
with honor, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philos-
ophy. In 1505 he entered an Augustinian monastery
at Erfurth, was consecrated to the priesthood in
1507, and was very faithful to all the regulations of
the order. lie afterward said, " If ever a monk
got to heaven by monkery, I was determined to get
there."

He was a diligent scholar, and in 1508 was called
to the chair of philosophy in the University of
Wittenberg. In 1512 he received the degree of
Doctor of Theology. In the meantime he made a
pilgrimage to Rome, where he saw much corruption
among the clergy ; but still his faith was strong in
the Roman Church. It was the shameless sale of
indulgences by Tetzel, authorized by Leo X., that
first opened his eyes and determined him to make
public opposition. On October 31, 1517, at midday,
Luther posted his ninety five Theses against lln>
Merits of ludulyences on the church door at Wit-

HYMN STUDIES.

ten berg. That clay was the birthday of the Refor-
mation.

The burning of the Pope's Bull of Excommuni-
cation in 152<>, the Diet at Worms in 1521, Luther's
concealment in the castle of Wartburg, and his
marriage in 1525, are matters of interest upon which
we cannot dwell. It was during his Wartburg cap-
tivity that he translated the New Testament, pub-
lished in 1522, into the mother-tongue of the Ger-
man people. Alter giving them tiie Scriptures, he
telt the need of psalms and hymns in the German
language, and employed others to supply them.
He, himself, translated psalms and wrote hymns,
to some of which he adapted tunes. Luther wove
the Gospel into these hymns. They were gladly
received and widely circulated. A Romanist of
the time wrote, "The whole people is singing itself
into this Lutheran doctrine." The first collection
of Luther's hymns was published in 1524. His
death occurred in 154(>.

The translator, the Rev. Frederic Henry Hedge,
D.D., was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1805 ; he
was graduated at Harvard College in 1825 ; and was
for many years a Unitarian minister. From 1872 to
1681 he was professor in Harvard University. A
translation first appeared in Gems of German Verne,
edited by Dr. William Henry Furness, (second
edition. 1859.) Here it is the same as that pub-
lished by Dr. Hedge in Hymns for the Church oj
Christ, 1853. Dr. Hedge died Aug. 21, 1890.

167 God's messengers of love. L. M.

THEY come, God's messengers of love,
They come from realms of peace above,
From homes of never-fading light,
From blissful mansions ever bright.

2 They come to watch around us here,
To soothe our sorrow, calm our fear:
Ye heavenly guides, speed not away,
God willeth you with us to stay.

3 But chiefly at its journey's end
Tis yours the spirit to befriend,
And whisper to the faithful heart,
"O Christian soul, in peace depart."

4 Blest Jesus, thou whose groans and tears
Have sanctified frail nature's fears,

To earth in bitter sorrow weighed,
Thou didst not scorn thine angel's aid.

f> An angel guard to us supply,
While on the bed of death we lie;
And by thine own almighty power
O shield us in the last dread hour.

ROBERT CAMPBELL. ALT.

The author's title was : Saint Michael and All
A nqt Is.

Verbal changes have been made in every stanzn,
except the third. The following doxology closes
the h vmii :

" To God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, Three in One,
From all above and all below
Let joyful praise unceasing flow."

Robert Campbell was by profession a lawyer.
He resided in Edinburgh, and was for several years
a member of the Episcopal Church of Scotland.
He contributed this hymn to Hymns and Anthems
for Use in the Holy Service of the Church, 1850,
of which he was one of the editors. He subse-
quently joined the Roman Catholic Church, and died
in that communion in 18t>8.

1 G 8 Security in God. L. M.

GOD is our refuge and defense;
In trouble our unfailing aid:
Secure in his omnipotence,

What foe can make our souls afraid?

2 Yea, though the earth's foundations rock,
And mountains down the gulf be hurled,

His people smile amid the shock :

They look beyond this transient world.

3 There is a river pure and bright,
Whose streams make glad the heaveuly

plains;
Where, in eternity of light,
The city of our God remains.

4 Built by the word of his command,
With his unclouded presence blest,

Firm as his throne the bulwarks stand;
There is our home, our hope, our rest.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

The first four verses of an excellent paraphrase of

Psalm xlvi, in Songs of Zion, 1822. It is interest-
ing to compare the metrical version with the au-
thorized text :

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present
help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though
the earth be removed, and I hough the mountains De
carried into the midst of tin: sea; though the
waters thereof roar and be troubled, though
the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Selah. There is a river, the Btr earns whereof shall
make glad the city of God, the holy place of the
tabernacles of the '.Most High. God is m the midst
of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help
her, and that right early."

169 The Saviour's tender care. L. M

GOD of my life, whose gracious power
Through varied deaths my soul hath
led.
Or turned aside the fatal hour,
Or lifted up my sinking head;

HYMN STUDIES.

2 In all my ways thy hand I own,
Thy ruling providence I see;

Assist me still my course to run,
And still direct my paths to thee.

3 Whither, O whither should I fly,
But to my Loving Saviour's hreast?

Secure within thine arms to lie,
And safe beneath thy wings to rest.

4 I have no skill the snare to shun,
But thou, O Christ, my wisdom art:

I ever into ruin run.

But thou art greater than my heart.

5 Foolish, and impotent, and blind,
Lead me a way I have not known;

Bring me where I my heaven may find,
The heaven of loving thee alone.

CUARLES WESLEY.

Composed of the first, second, ninth, eleventh,
and fourteenth verses of a poem of fifteen stanzas,
entitled At the Approach of Temptation. From
Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

In two of the omitted stanzas the writer alludes
to his providential preservation from death by
shipwreck and fever:

5 " Oft hath the sea confessed Thy power,
And gave me back to Thy command:

It could not, Lord, my life devour,
Safe in the hallow of Thy hand.

6 " Oft from the manrin of the grave,
Thou, Lord, hast lifted up my head ;

Sudden I found Thee near to save ;
The fever owned Thy touch and fled."

The author wrote, verse two, line three :
" 0 help me still my course to run."

170 Quietness and assurance. L. M.

HOW do Thy mercies close me round !
Forever be thy name adored ;

1 blush in all things to abound ;
The servant is above his Lord.

2 Inured to poverty and pain,

A suffering life my Master led ;
The Son of God, the Son of man,
He had not where to lay his head.

3 But lo! a place he hath prepared
For me, whom watchful angels keep;

Yea, he himself becomes my guard;

He smooths rny bed, and gives me sleep.

4 Jesus protects ; my fears, be gone :
What can the Rock of ages move ?

Safe in thy anus I lay me down,
Thine everlasting arms of love.

.*) While thou art intimately nigh,
Who, who shall violate my rest}

Sin, earth, and hell I now defy:
I lean upon my Saviour's breast.

G I rest beneath the Almighty's shade;

My griefs expire, my troubles cease;
Thou, Lord, on whom my soul is stayed,

Wilt keep me still in perfect peace.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Unaltered, from Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.
The author's title was : At Lying Down. The
whole hymn is Invested with new interest by this
fact. The original has four additional stanzas :

7 " Me for Thine own Thou lovest to take,
In time and in eternity;

Thou never, never wilt forsake

A helpless worm that trusts in Thee.

8 " Therefore in confidence I close
My eyes, for Thine are open still ;

My spirit lulled in calm repose,
Waits for the counsels of Thy will.

9 " After Thy likeness let me rise,

If here Thou will'st my longer stay ;
Or close in mortal sleep my eyes,
To open them in endless day.

10 " Still let me run or end my race;
I cannot choose, 1 all resign ;

Contract or lengthen out my days,
Come life or death ; for Christ is mine."

171 The pilgrim's Guide. 8, 7, 4.

GUIDE me, O thou great Jehovah,
Pilgrim through this barren land:

1 am weak, but thou art mighty;
Hold me with thy powerful hand:

Bread of heaven,
Feed me till I want no more.

2 Open now the crystal fountain^
Whence the healing waters flow ;

Let the fiery, cloudy pillar,

Lead me all my journey through:

Strong Deliverer,
Be thou still my strength and shield.

3 When I tread the verge of Jordan,
Bid my anxious fears subside;

Bear me through the swelling current;
Land me safe on Canaan's side :

Songs of praises
I will ever give to thee.

WILLIAM WILLIAMS.

The title of this hymn in George Wldtefield 's
Collection, 1774, is : Christ a Svre Guide.

HYMN STUDIES.

One line, the third in verse three, lias been
changed. In the original it is :

" Death of Deaths, and Hell's Destruction."

Few persons are aware that there ever was a
fourth stanza, the hymn is perfect without it:

4 " Musing on my Habitation,

Musing on my heav'nly Home,
Fills my Soul with Holy'Longing,

Come, my Jesus, quickly come:
Vanity is all I see,

Lord I long to be with Thee ! "

Williams composed the hymn in the Welsh lan-
guage. It is not certain that he translated it. It
appeared in English in 1774.

The Kev. William Williams has been called the
" Watts of Wales." He was born in 1717. His
"awakening" was due to an open-air sermon by
the famous Welsh preacher. Howell Harris. Will-
iams received deacon's orders in the Established
Church, but subsequently became a preacher in
the Calvinistic Methodist Connection. He lived
till 1791. '

jL4ti Infinite compassion. S. M.

MY soul, repeat His praise,
Whose mercies are so great ;
Whose anger is so slow to rise,
So ready to abate.

2 High as the heavens are raised
Above the ground we tread,

So far the riches of his grace
Our highest thoughts exceed.

3 His power subdues our sins;
And his forgiving love,

Far as the east is from the west,
Doth all our guilt remove.

4 The pity of the Lord,

To those that fear his name,
Is such as tender parents feel;
He knows our feeble frame.

5 Our days are as the grass,
Or like the morning flower:

If one sharp blast sweep o'er the field
It withers in an hour.

6 But thy compassions, Lord,
To endless years endure;

And children's children ever find
Thy words of promise sure.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: Abounding Compassion of God; or,
Mercy in the Midst of Judgment.

It is unaltered. Two stanzas, the second und
sixth, are omitted :

2 " God will not always chide.

And when his strokes are felt,
His strokes are fewer than our crimes

And lighter than our guilt.

6 " He knows we are but dust

Scattered by every breath •
His anger, like a rising wind,

Can send us swift to death."

It is an imitation of Psalm ciii, 8-18:

"The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to
anger, and plenteous in mercy. He will not
always chide: neither will he keep his anger for-
ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins ;
nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For
as the heaven is high above the earth, so gnat is
his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as
the east is from the west, so far hath he removed
our transgressions from us. Like as a father pitieth
his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear
him. For he knoweth our frame; hcremembereth
that we are dust. As for man, his days are as
grass: as a flower of the field, so he fiourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and
the place thereof shall know it no more. But the
mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlast-
ing upon them that fear him, and his righteousness
unto children's children ; to such as keep his
covenant, and to those that remember his com-
mandments to do them."

Published in 1719.

I/O Omnipotent goodness. S. M.

AWAY, my needless fears,
And doubts no longer mine;
A ray of heavenly light appears,
A messenger divine.

2 Thrice comfortable hope,

That calms my troubled breast;

My Father's hand prepares the cup,
And what he wills is best.

If what I wish is good,

And suits the will divine,
By earth and hell in vain withstood,
I know it shall be mine.

4 Still let them counsel take
To frustrate his decree;

They cannot keep a blessing back,
Be heaven designed for me.

5 Here then I doubt no more,
But in his pleasure rest,

Whose wisdom, love, and truth, and power,
Engage to make me blest.

CHARLES WESLEY.

HYMN STUDIES.

Pnrt of a long hymn consisting of ten double
stanzas. The author wrote '•stormy" instead of
"troubled" in verse two, line two.

From Jlymns and Sacred Ibems, 1749.

174 8.M.

Through a glass, darkly. 1 Cor. xiii, 12.

THY way is in the sea;
Thy paths we cannot trace;
Nor solve, 0 Lord, the mystery
Of thy uubounded grace.

2 Here the dark veils of sense
Our captive souls surround;

Mysterious deeps of providence

Our wondering thoughts confound.

3 As through a glass we see
The wonders of thy love;

How little do we know of thee,
Or of the joys above !

4 In part we know thy will,
And bless thee for the sight :

Soon will thy love the rest reveal
In glory's clearer light.

5 With joy shall we survey
Thy providence and grace;

And spend an everlasting day
In wonder, love, and praise.

JOHN FAWCETT, ALT.

From Hymns Adapted to the Circumstances of
Public Worship and Private Devotion. By John
Fawcett. Leeds, 1782. The first stanza refers to
Psalm Ixxvii, 19 :

" Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the
great waters, and thy footsteps are not known."

The text of the last part is 1 Cor. xiii, 9: "We
know in part."

Two stanzas have been left out. The hymn has
been altered in two ways: first, by a change in the
meter from common to short ; and, second, by-
changing the number. It is written in the first
person singular throughout. These changes were
probably made by Dr. James Floy, one of the
editors of the hvmu book of 1849.

Sec No. 31.

S. M.

175 Delight in God.

LORD. I delight in thee,
And on thy care depend ;
To thee in every trouble flee,
My best, my only Friend.

2 "When nature's streams are dried,
Thy fullness is the same;

With this will I be satisfied,
And glory in thy name.

3 Who made my heaven secure,
Will here all good provide:

While Christ is rich, can I be poor?
What can I want beside?

4 I cast my care on thee !
I triumph and adore :

Henceforth my great concern shall be
To love and please thee more.

JOHN KYLAND, ALT.

The author's date is December 3, 1777.

This hymn has been altered by changing it from
common to short meter. Three verses have been
omitted.

The Rev. John E.\ land, D.D.,an English Baptist,
was born in 1753. He was for some years president
of a Baptist school at Bristol ; and was also one of
the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society.
He died in 1825. Ry land's Hymns and Verses on
Sacred Subjects were reprinted by Daniel Sedgwick
in his Library of Spiritual Songs. London, 1862.

176 s.m.

Thy gentleness hath made me great. Psa. xviii, 35.

HOW gentle God's commands !
How kind his precepts are !
Come, cast your burdens on the Lovd,
And trust his constant care.

2 Beneath his watchful eye
His saints securely dwell;

That hand which bears all nature up
Shall guard his children well.

3 Why should this anxious load
Press down your weary mind?

Haste to your heavenly Father's throne,
And sweet refreshment find.

4 His goodness stands approved,
Unchanged from day to day :

I'll drop my burden at his feet,
And bear a song away.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

The author's title is : God's Care a Remedy for
Ours.

The text of the hymn (nearly all Doddridge's
hymns are written upon texts of Scripture) is:

" Casting all your care upon him, for he careth
for you." 1 Pet. v, 7.

Some slight changes have been made. The sec-
ond stanza begins :

" Wltile Providence supports
Let Saints securely dwell."

The second line of the fourth verse is:

" Dcnon to the present Day."

The last stanza would do credit to any poet ; to ex-
change a " burden" for a "song" is a happy thought.

HYMN STUDIES.

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the
Holy Scriptures. London. 1755.
For biography of Doddridge, see No. 78.

177 Afflictions blessed. S. M.

HOW tender is thy band,
O thou most gracious Lord!
Afflictions came at thy command,
And left us at thy word.

2 How gentle was the rod
That chastened us for sin !

How soon we found a smiling God
Where deep distress had been !

3 A Father's hand we felt,
A Father's love we knew :

'Mid tears of penitence we knelt,
And found his promise true.

4 Now will we bless the Lord,
And in his strength confide :

Forever be his name adored,
For there is none beside.

THOMAS HASTINGS.

In The Mothers Hymn Book, first edition, 1834.
The first 6tanza is :

" How tender is thy hand,

O thou beloved Lord,
Afflictions come at thy command,

And leave us at thy word."

One stanza, the fourth, is left out:

"We told him all our grief;

We thought of Jesus' love;
A sense of pardon brought relief,

And bade our pangs remove."

Thomas Hastings, editor, author, and Doctor of
Music, was born in Connecticut in 1784. In youth
he removed witli his father to northern New York,
and subsequently resided in New York city. He
edited and largely contributed to the following
works : Spiritual Sovqs, 1832 ; Christian Psalmi4,
1836; The Mother's Hymn. Book, 1849 ; and Devo-
tional Hymns and Religious Poems, 1850 ; and he
was also the editor of a number of music books.
Ho died in 1872.

17o All things in Christ. S. M.

THOU very-present Aid
In suffering and distress,
The mind which still on thee is stayed,
Is kept in perfect peace.

2 The soul by faith reclined

On the Redeemer's breast,
'Mid raging storms, exults to find,

An everlasting rest.

2 Sorrow and fear are gone,
Whene'er thy face appears ;

It stills the sighing orphan's moan,
And dries the widow's tears.

4 It hallows every cross;
It sweetly comforts me;

Makes me forget my every loss,
And lind my all in thee.

5 Jesus, to whom I fly,
Doth all my wishes fill;

"What though created streams are dry?
I have the fountain still.

6 Stripped of each earthly friend,
I find them all in one ;

And peace and joy which never end,
And heaven, in Christ alone.

CHARLES WESLEY.

One of several compositions that the writer
named Hymns for Widows. One double stanza,
following the fourth verse, is omitted:

"Peace to the troubled heart.

Health to the Bill -sick mind ;
The wounded spirits balm Thou art,

The Healer oi mankind :
In deep affliction blessed

With Thee I mount above,
And sing, triumphantly di.-tresscd,

Thine all-sufficient love."

A few verbal changes have been made in
hymn. From Hymns and Sacnd Poems, 1749.

this

179 The Lord is my Shepherd. 11.

THE Lord is my Shepherd, no want shall
I know;
I feed in green pastures, safe-folded I rest;
He leadeth my soul where the still waters
flow,
Restores me when wandering, redeems
when oppressed.

2 Through the valley and shadow of death

though I stray.
Since thou art my guardian, no evil I fear;
Thy rod shall defend me, thy .-tail be my

stay ;
No harm can befall, with my Comforter

near.

3 In the midst of affliction my table is

spread ;

With blessings unmeasured my cup run-
neth o'er;
With perfume and oil thou anointest my
head ;

O what shall I ask of thy providence
more?

HYMN STUDIES.

4 Let goodness and mercy, my bountiful
God,
Still follow in v steps till I meet thee
above ;
I seek — by the [Kith which my forefathers
trod.
Through the land <>f their sojourn — thy
kingdom of love.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Another of tin' many metrical versions of Psulm
wiii. Unaltered.
From Hongs of Zion, 1822.
For a brief biography of Montgomery, see No. 5.

180 T/ie Shepherd of Israel L. M. 6 1.

THE Lord my pasture shall prepare,
And feed me with a shepherd's care ;
His presence shall my wants supply,
And guard me with a watchful eye:
My noonday walks he shall attend,
And all my midnight hours defend.

2 When in the sultry glebe I faint,
Or on the thirsty mountain pant,
To fertile vales and dewy meads,
My weary, wandering steps he leads,
"Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow,
Amid the verdant landscape flow.

3 Though in a bare and rugged way,
Through devious, lonely wilds I stray,
Thy bounty shall my pains beguile;
The barren wilderness shall smile,

With sudden greens and herbage crowned,
And streams shall murmur all around.

4 Though in the paths of death I tread,
With gloomy horrors overspread.

My steadfast heart shall fear no ill,
For thou, O Lord, art with me still ;
Thy friendly crook shall give me aid,
And guide me through the dreadful shade.

JOSEPH ADDISON.

The real subject of the Spectator, No. 441, (1712,)
is : Trust in the Supreme Being.

At die close of the article the author says*, " David
has very beautifully represented this steady reliance
oh God Almighty in Psalm xxiii, which is a kind
of pastoral hymn, and tilled with those allusions
which are usual in that kiml of writing. As the
poetry is very exquisite, I shall present my reader
witli the following translation of it."

Addison's rendering is not so literal as the last
by Montgomery, but it is far more beautiful. Un-
altered, except that the order of the hist two
stanzas is reversed.

181 The (/lories of Christ's kiixjdom. 7, ♦>.

HAIL, to the Lord's Anointed,
Great David's greater Son!
Hail, in the time appointed,
His reign on earth begun!
lie comes to break oppression.

To set the captive free ;
To take away transgression,
And rule in equity.

2 lie comes with succor speedy
To those who suffer wrong;

To help the poor and needy,
And bid the weak be strong;

To give them songs for sighing,
Their darkness turn to light,

Whose souls, condemned and dying,
Were precious in his sight.

3 He shall descend like showers
Upon the fruitful earth,

And love and joy, like flowers,
Spring in his path to birth:

Before him, on the mountains,
Shall peace, the herald, go,

And righteousness, in fountains,
From hill to valley flow.

4 To him shall prayer unceasing,
And daily vows ascend ;

His kingdom still increasing,

A kingdom without end :
The tide of time shall never

His covenant remove ;
His name shall stand forever;

That name to us is Love.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

This beautiful hymiij eight stanzas in all, ia
founded upon Psalm lxxii.

Montgomery wrote '•'•come down'''' instead of
" descend " in verse three, line one. And " For
him" instead of "To him" in verse four, line
one.

The Psalms are a wonderful fountain of song,
from which our sacred poets have drawn inspira-
tion.

From Songs of Zion, 1822.

See No. 5.

182 The guiding star. 7, 6 1.

AS with gladness men of old
Did the guiding star behold;
As with joy they hailed its light,
Leading onward, beaming bright;
So, most gracious Lord, may we
Evermore be led to thee.

HYMN STUDIES.

2 As with joyful steps they 6ped,
To that lowly manger-bed.
There to bend the knee before
Him whom heaven and earth adore;
So may we with willing feet

Ever seek the mercy-seat.

3 As they offered gifts most rare
At that manger rude and bare;
So may we with holy joy,
Pure, and free from sin's alloy,
All our costliest treasures bring,
Christ, to thee, our heavenly King.

4 Holy Jesus, every day
Keep us in the narrow way;
And, when earthly things are past,
Bring our ransomed souls at last
Where they need no star to guide,
Where no clouds thy glory hide.

WILLIAM c. DIX.

Text: "When they saw the star, they rejoiced
with exceeding great joy." Matt, ii, 10.

This elegant hymn was contributed to Hymns
Ancient and Modern, 1861, in which it has this ad-
ditional stanza :

" In the heavenly country bright
Need they no created light;
Thou its Light, its Joy, its Crown,
Thou its Sun which goes not down ;
There forever may we sing
Alleluias to our King. Amen."

William Chatterton Dix, a layman in the Church
of England, was born in Bristol, Eng., in 1837.

183

Joy to the World.

C. M.

JOY to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King ;
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing.

2 Joy to the world ! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ ;

While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and
plains,
Repeat the sounding joy.

3 No more let sin and sorrow7 grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground ;

He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.

4 He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove

The glories of his righteousness,
And wonders of his love.

I8AAC WATTS.

Title : The Messiah's Coming and Kingdom.
A free rendering of the im»t part of Psalm
xcviii :

" Sing unto the Lord with the harp ; with the
harp, and the voice ot u psalm. With trumpets and
sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the
Lord, the King. Let the sea roar, and the fullnes*
thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Let the floods clap their hands : let the hills be
joyful together before the Lord; for he cometh
to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he
judge the world, and the people with equity."

Published in 1719. The text is not altered. It
is strange that this glad song never found its way
into our hymn book before. Wc welcome it at
last. May it long remain !

1 84 Wonderful. Counselor. Isa. ix, 6. C. M.

TO us a Child of hope is born,
To us a Son is given ;
Him shall the tribes of earth obey,
Him, all the hosts of heaven.

2 His name shall be the Prince of peace,
For evermore adored ;

The Wonderful, the Counselor,
The great and mighty Lord.

3 His power, increasing, still shall spread;
His reign no end shall know ;

Justice shall guard his throne above,
And peace abound below.

4 To us a Child of hope is born,
To us a Son is given ;

The Wonderful, the Counselor,
The mighty Lord of heaven,

JOHN MORRISON.

Part of a paraphrase of Isa. ix, 2-8. The last
stanza is a repetition of parts of the first and
second, and has been added by some hymnal
editor; otherwise it is unaltered. The first" three
verses, as published by the author in the Para-
phrases appended to the Scotch version of the
Psalms, are omitted.

The Rev. John Morrison, RD., (1749-1798,)
was a clergyman of the National Church of Scotland:
he was one of the editors of the above-mentioned
Paraphrases, and has the credit of being the author
of several of them. Date of authorship, 1770.

185 The Saviour's advent. CM.

HARK, the glad sound ! the Saviour
comes,
The Saviour promised long;
Let every heart prepare a throne,
And every voice a song.

HYMN STUDIES.

2 He comes, the prisoner to release,
In Satan's bondage held;

The gates of brass before him burst,
The iron fetters yield.

3 He comes, from thickest films of vice
To clear the mental ray,

And on the eyes oppressed with night
To pour celestial day.

4 He comes, the broken heart to bind,
The wounded soul to cure.

And, with the treasures of Ids grace,
To enrich the humble poor.

3 Our glad hosannas, Prince of peace,
Thy welcome shall proclaim,

And heaven's eternal arches ring
With thy beloved name.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title: Christ's Message. This is Dr. Doddridge's
masterpiece. It was written to be sung at the
close of a Christinas sermon, preached Dec. 28,
17:55. The text of the sermon, and of the hymn as
wdl, is Luke iv, 18, 19 :

" The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he
lmth anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor;
he hath Rent me to heal the Ibroken-hearted, to
preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering
of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the
Lord."

Two inferior stanzas, the second and sixth, have
been omitted. The third line of the third stanza
in the original is:

" And on the Eye-Balls of the Blind."

It also has "bleeding" instead of " wounded "
in the fourth stanza.
See No. 78.

186 The star in the East. 11, 10.

BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the
morning,
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine
aid;
Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.

2 Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are
shining;
Low lies his bed with the beasts of the
stall ;
Angels adore him, in slumber reclining, —
Maker, and Monarch, and Saviour of all.

3 Say, shall we yield him, in costly de-

votion,
Odors of Edom and offerings divine ?
Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the

ocean,
Myrrh from the forest, and gold from the

mine ?

4 Vainly Ave offer each ample oblation;
Vainly with gifts would Ids favor secure;

Richer by far is the heart's adoration;
Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.

REGINALD HEBEK.

The title given to this hymn in the Memoirs of
Heber is Star of the East. It was flret published
in the Christian Observer in 1811, and is found iu
Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly Church
Service, 1827.

The second line of the second stanza should
read;

" Low lies his head," etc.

In verse three, line four, the original has "or
gold " instead of " and gold."
See No. 62.

187 Star of Bethlehem. L. M.

WHEN", marshaled on the nightly plain,
The glittering host bestud the sky,
One star alone of all the train

Can fix the sinner's wandering eye.

2 Hark ! hark ! to God the chorus breaks,
From every host, from every gem ;

But one alone the Saviour speaks,
It is the Star of Bethlehem.

3 Once on the raging seas I rode,

The storm was loud, the night was dark,
The ocean yawned, and rudely blowed
The wind that tossed my foundering
bark.

4 Deep horror then my vitals froze;
Death-struck, I ceased the tide to stem;

When suddenly a star arose,
It was the Star of Bethlehem.

5 It was my guide, my light, my all,
It bade my dark forebodings cease;

And, through the storm and danger's thrall,
It led me to the port of peace.

6 Now safely moored, my perils o'er,
I'll sing, first in night's diadem,

For ever and for evermore,

The Star, the Star of Bethlehem.

H. KIRK.E WHITE.

BYMN STUDIES.

In this hymn, from the third verse to the end,
the writer gives, in highly poetical language, the
story of his own Christian experience, hie awaken-
ing, the intense anxiety that followed, and the
peace and rest that he found at lust. Unaltered,
from the author's poems.

For biographical sketch of Henry Kirke White,
see No. 22.

188 Peace on earth, good will to men. 8, 7.

HARK! what mean those holy voices,
Sweetly sounding through the skies ?
Lo! the angelic host rejoices;
Heavenly hallelujahs rise.

2 Listen to the wondrous story,
Which they chant in hymns of joy:

"Glory in the highest, glory,
Glory he to God most high !

3 "Peace on earth, good-will from heaven,
Reaching far as man is found;

Souls redeemed and sins forgiven !
Loud our golden harps shall sound.

4 "Christ is born, the great Anointed;
Heaven and earth his praises sing;

O receive whom God appointed,

For your Prophet, Priest, and King.

5 ' ' Hasten, mortals, to adore him ;
Learn his name and taste liis joy;

Till in heaven ye sing before him,
' Glory be to God most high! ' "

JOHN CAWOOD.

For Chrtitmrut Pay.

Several slight verbal changes have been made
since the hymn was first published.

Original Lines.
Verse one, line two :

" Sweetly warbling in the skies."
Verse one, line three :

"Sure the angelic host rejoices."
Verse one, line four:

llLoiide.ot hallelujahs rise."
Verse four,' line two :

" Heaven and earth his glory 6ing !
Verse four, line three :

"Glad receive whom God appointed."

Each stanza in the original was followed by a
"Hallelujah." Those changes were, without
doubt, made bv Dr. Thomas Cdtterill, for his Shef-
field Collection. 1810 to 1819.

Lyra Britannica gives an additional stanza:

" Let us learn the wondrous story

Of our srreat Redeemer's birth ;
Spread the l>rif.ditness of his glory

Till it cover all the earth."

The Rev. John Cawood, an English clergyman,
was born in 1775 ; was a farmer's son, and hi* early
advantages were not of the best. He succeeded",
notwithstanding, in entering St. Edmoud's Hall,
Oxford, and was graduated in 1801. Cawood was
the author of some twenty hymns, which appeared
in various collections. He died in 1852.

189 Adoring the holy Cluh 1. 8,7,4.

ANGELS, from the realms of glory,
Wing your flight o'er all the earth ;
Ye who sang creation's story,
Now proclaim Messiah's birth:
Come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King.

2 Shepherds, in the field abiding,
Watching o'er your flocks by night,

God with man is now residing;
Yonder shines the infant light:
Come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King.

3 Sages, leave your contemplations,
Brighter visions beam afar;

Seek the great Desire of nations;
Ye have seen his natal star:
Come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King.

4 Saints, before the altar bending,
Watching long in hope and fear,

Suddenly the Lord, descending,
In his temple shall appear:
Come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King.

5 Sinners, wrung with true repentance,
Doomed for guilt to endless pains,

Justice now revokes the sentence,

Mercy calls you,— break your chains:
Come and worship,
Worship Christ, the newborn King.

JAKES MONTGOMERY.

Title : Good Tidings of Great Joy lo All
People.

Found in the author's Christian Psalmist,
1825; and in CotteriWs Selection^ 1819. It is
unaltered, from Montgomerv's Original Hymns,
1853.

For biographical notes of author, sec No. 5.

UYMN STUDIES.

7'J

190 God incarnate. 7.

HA UK ! the herald-angels sing,
" Glory to the newborn King;
Peace on earth, and mercy mild;
God and sinners reconciled."

2 Joyful, all ye nations, rise,
Join the triumphs of the skies;
"With angelic hosts proclaim,
"Christ lfl born in Bethlehem."

3 Christ, by highest heaven adored,
Christ, the everlasting Lord;
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail, incarnate Deity!

4 Hail the heaven-born Prince of peace !
Hail the Sun of righteousness!

Light and life to all he brings,
Risen with healing in his wings.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Hymn for Christmas Day. It has ten stanzas in
all, and is found in Hymns and Sacred Poems,
1739. The first couplet has been changed. "Wesley
wrote:

" Hark how all the icelkin rings,
Glory to the King of kings."

The change was made bv the Rev. Martin Madan
in 1760, and was adopted by John Wesley in some
of his collections.

Some of the omitted stanzas illustrate that well-
known characteristic of the author— his intense de-
sire for personal holiness.

" Come, Desire of nations, come,
Fix in us Thy humble home ;
Rise, the woman's conquering seed,
Bruise in us the serpent's head.

"Adam's likeness, Lord, efface,
Stamp Thy image in its place;
Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in Thy love."

X 9 1 Prin-ce of peace.

BRIGHT and joyful is the morn,
For to us a Child is born ;
From the highest realms of heaven,
Unto us a Son is given.

2 On his shoulder he shall bear
Power and majesty, and wear,
On his vesture and his thigh,
Names most awful, names most high.

3 Wonderful in counsel he.
Christ, the incarnate Deity ;
Sire of ages, ne'er to cease ;

King of kings, and Prince of peace.

4 Come and worship at his feet;
Yield to him the homage meet;
From the manger to the throne,
Homage due to God alone.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title: TJie Xatnes and OJices of Christ. Another
rendering of Isa. ix, »> :

" For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is
given: and the government .-hall be upon his
shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counselor. The Mighty God, The Everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace."

From the Christian Psalmist, 1825.

The word Christ has been inserted in the second
line of the third stanza, and left out of the second
line of the fourth stanza, where '■•him'1'1 takes its
place. The author wrote, verse four, line- three :

" From his manger to his throne."

See No. 5.

C. M.

192

Good tidings of great joy. Luke ii, 10.

WHILE shepherds watched their flocks
by night,
All seated on the ground,
The angel of the Lord came down,
And glory shone around.

2 "Fear not," said he, — for mighty dread
Had seized their troubled mind, —

'• Glad tidings of great joy I bring,
To you and all mankind.

3 "To you, in David's town, this day
Is born, of David's line,

The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord;
And this shall be the sign:

4 " The heavenly babe you there shall find
To human view displayed,

All meanly wrapped in swathing-bands,
And in a manger laid."

5 Thus spake the seraph : and forthwith
Appeared a shining throng

Of angels, praising God on high,
Who thus addressed their song:

6 "All glory be to God on high,
And to the earth be peace:

Good-will henceforth from heaven to men,
Begin and never cease."

TATE AND BRADY.

For biographical notes of Tate and Brady, see
No. 13. It is not certain that either of them wrote
this hymn, which has been traced to the Appendix

HYMN STUDIES.

of the New Version of the realms, published in
1703. The author is really unknown.

The hymn is a very literal rendering of Luke ii,
8-14, and the versifier was too modest to claim
what he knew belonged to St. Luke.

193 Glory to God in the highest. C. M.

MORTALS, awake, with angels join,
And chant the solemn lay ;
Joy, love, and gratitude combine,
To hail the auspicious day.

2 In heaven the rapturous song began,
And sweet seraphic fire

Through all the shining legions ran,
And strung and tuned the lyre.

3 Swift through the vast expanse it flew,
And loud the echo rolled;

The theme, the song, the joy, was new, —
'Twas more than heaven could hold.

4 Down through the portals of the sky
The impetuous torrent ran ;

And angels flew, with eager joy,
To bear the news to man.

5 Hark ! the cherubic armies shout,
And glory leads the song :

Good-will and peace are heard throughout
The harmonious heavenly throng.

6 With joy the chorus we repeat,
"Glory to God on high ! "

Good-will and peace are now complete,
Jesus was born to die.

7 Hail, Prince of life, forever hail !
Redeemer, Brother, Friend !

Though earth, and time, and life shall fail,
Thy praise shtfll never end.

SAMUEL MEDLEY.

Title : The Nativity of Christ.

This hymn has been improved by the omission
of two inferior stanzas.

The Rev. Samuel Medley was born in Hertford-
shire, Eng.. in 1738; was piously brought up, hut,
enterinir t he navy, led for awhile a careless and
wicked life. Being severely wounded, he was al-
lowed to return home, where, through the efforts
of a pious grandfather, he was led to accept Christ.
At length he entered the ministry, and was for
many years pastor of a Baptist church in Liver-
pool. He died in 1799. His hymns, two hundred
and thirty in number, were collected and published
in the following year.

The author wrote, verse four, line one:

•' Down to the portals," etc.
From a London Collection, 1782.

1 94 Christmas carol. C. M.

IT came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth

To touch their harps of gold ;
"Peace on the earth, good-will to men,

From heaven's all-gracious King."
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angel's sing.

2 Still through the cloven skies they come
With peaceful wings unfurled,

And still their heavenly music floats

O'er all the weary world ;
Above its sad and lowly plains

They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o'er its Babel sounds

The blessed angels sing.

3 But with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;

Beneath the angel-strain have rolled

Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not

The love song which they bring:
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,

And hear the angels sing!

4 And ye, beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,

Who toil along the climbing way

With painful steps and slow,
Look now ! for glad and golden hours

Come swiftly on the wing:
O rest beside the weary road,

And hear the angels sing !

5 For lo ! the days are hastening on
By prophet-bards foretold,

When with the ever-circling years

Comes round the age of gold;
When peace shall over all the earth

Its ancient splendors fling,
And the whole world give back the song

Which now the angels sing.

EDMUND H. BEARS.

Title : Peace on Earth.

This is not, strictly speakinir, a hymn, but a very
elegant poem. It first appeared in the Christian
Rt-gister, Boston, Dee. 20, 1849.

The Rev.Edmund Hamilton Sears, D.D.,H810-
1876.) was a native of Massachusetts ; was graduated
at Union College, N. Y., in 1834, and at the
Cambridge Divinity School in 1837. He received
the degree of D.'D. from his Alma Mater in
1871. While pastor of several Unitarian churches
in Massachusetts, he found time to write several
prose works, and to contribute to various period-
icals.

HYMN STUDIES.

A few wor's have been altered since this hymn
was first published.

Original.

Verse two, line six :

"They bend on heavenly wing."
Verse three, line one:

" Yet with the woes of sin and strife."
Verse three, line two :

" The world hath suffered long."
Verse five, line seven :
" And the whole world tend back the song."

195 Ch-istmas anthem. CM.

CALM on the listening ear of night,
Come heaven's melodious strains,
Where wild Judea stretches far

Her silver-mantled plains;
Celestial choirs from courts above

Shed sacred glories there ;
And angels, with their sparkling lyres,
Make music on the air.

2 The answering hills of Palestine
Send back the glad reply.

And greet from all their holy heights
The Dayspring from on high :

O'er the blue depths of Galilee
Their comes a holier calm :

And Sharon waves in solemn praise
Her silent groves of palm.

3 " Glory to God! " the lofty strain
The realm of ether fills ;

How sweeps the song of solemn joy

O'er Judali's sacred hills!
" Glory to God ! " the sounding skies

Loud with their anthems ring:
" Peace on the earth; good-will to men,

From heaven's eternal King."

^ Light on thy hills, Jerusalem !

The Saviour now is born :
More bright on Bethlehem's joyous plains

Breaks the first Christmas morn;
And brighter on Moriah's brow,

Crowned with her temple spires.
Which first proclaim the newborn light,

Clothed with its orient fires.

5 This day shall Christian tongues be mute,

And Christian hearts be cold?
O catch the anthem that from heaven

O'er Judah's mountains rolled!
6

When nightly burst from seraph-harps

The high and solemn lay, —
"Glory to God; on earth be peace;

Salvation comes to-day ! "

KDMIND II. SKARS.

This Christmas Song was first published in the
Boston Observer in 1884, and was alterward amend-
ed by the author, and appeared in its present form
in The Monthly Religious Mayazine. Boston, 18GG.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes pronounced it one of
the finest and most beautiful hymns ever written.

This is the author's latest revision.

See No. 194.

196 Patience of Jesus. CM.

HAT grace, O Lord, and beauty shone

Around thy steps below !
What patient love was seen in all
Thy life and death of woe !

2 For, ever on thy burdened heart
A weight of sorrow hung ;

Yet no ungentle, murmuring wTord
Escaped thy silent tongue.

3 Thy foes might hate, despise, revile,
Thy friends unfaithful prove;

Unwearied in forgiveness still,
Thy heart could only love.

4 O give us hearts to love like thee,
Like thee, O Lord, to grieve

Far more for others' sins, than all
The wrongs that we receive.

5 One with thyself, may every eye
In us, thy brethren, see

That gentleness and grace that spring
From union, Lord, with thee.

SIR EDWAIID DENNY.

Author's title : The Forgiving One.

"Grace is poured into thy lip's." Pea. xlv, 2.

Given verbatim from the author's Miscellaneous
Hymns, 1839.

Sir Edward Denny, Bart., was born in Ireland
in 179*3. He was an earnest millenarian, and pref-
aced his Hymns and Poems, 1848, with a disserta-
tion on this favorite topic. Died 1889.

197 A present help. Q. M.

WE may not climb the heavenly steeps
To bring the Lord Christ down;
In vain we search the lowest deeps,
For him no depths can drown.

2 But warm, sweet, tender, even yet

A present help is he ;
And faith has yet its Olivet.

And love its Galilee.

HYMN STUDIES.

3 The healing of the seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain ;

We touch liira in life's throng and press,
And we are whole again.

4 Through him the first fond prayers are

said
Our lips of childhood frame;
The last low whispers of our dead
Are burdened with his name.

5 O Lord and Master of us all,
Whate'er our name or sign.

We own thy sway, we hear thy call,
We test our lives by thine !

JOHN G. WHITTIER.

This is part of a beautiful poem of thirty-eight
stanzas, entitled Our Master. The hymn is made
up of verses five, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and
sixteen, verbatim.

This hymn appeared in the Congregationalist,
Boston, Aug. 16, 1867.

John Greenleaf VVhittier was born in Haverhill,
Mass., in 1807. His early religious education,
which was received among the Society of Friends,
has influenced his whole life. Whittier first gained
reputation as a poet by a volume, entitled Voices of
Freedom. Since then he has produced several
works in prose and poetry, all of which have been
well received.

The Transfiguration.

C. M.

198

THE chosen three, on mountain height,
While Jesus bowed in prayer,
Beheld his vesture glow with light,
His face shine wondrous fair.

2 And lo ! with the transfigured Lord,
Leader and seer they saw;

With Carmel's hoary prophet stood
The giver of the law.

3 From the low-bending cloud above,
Whence radiant brightness shone,

Spake out the Father's voice of love,
" Hear my beloved Son! "

4 Lord, lead us to the mountain height ;
To prayer's transfiguring glow ;

And clothe us with the Spirit's might
For grander work below.

DAVID II. ELA.

Written and contributed to this Hymnal by the
author in 1877.

The Rev. David Hough Ela, D.D., a clergyman
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in
Maine in 1831 ; was graduated at the Wesleyan Uni-

versity in 1857; ordained Deacon in 1860, and El-
der in 1862. lie lias been in the regular work
of the pastorate, excepting two years, when he
was principal of East, Greenwich Seminary, and
lour years' service 08 a Presiding Elder.

199 The Transfiguration. L. M.

0 WONDROUS type! O vision fair
Of glory that the Church shall share.
Which Christ upon the mountain shows,
Where brighter than the sun he glows 1

2 From age to age the tale declare,
How with the three disci pies there,
Where Moses and Elias meet,

The Lord holds converse high and sweet.

3 With shining face and bright array,
Christ deigns to manifest to-day
What glory shall be theirs above.
Who joy in God with perfect love.

4 And faithful hearts are raised on high,
By this great vision's mystery ;

For which in joyful strains we raise
The voice of prayer, the hymn of praise.

5 O Father, with the Eternal Son,
And Holy Spirit, ever One,
Vouchsafe to bring us by thy grace
To see thy glory face to face.

SAIU'M BREVIARY.
TR. BY J. M. NEALE.

Title: Ccelestis forman Gloria1.

The third verse of this hymn has been omitted :

" The chosen witnesses stand nigh.
Of Grace, the Law. and Prophecy,
And from the cloud the Holy One
Bears record to the Only Soii."

Dr. Neale's translation is found in the Hymnal
Noted, 1851, It was largely altered by the editors
of Hymns Ancient and. Modern, 18(51.

The Kev. John Mason Keale, D.D., was born in
1818; was graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge,
in 1840, and entered liolv orders in 1842. In 184U
he was appointed Warden of the Sackville Col-
lege, which ofiice he retained until his death,
in I860.

Dr. Ncale was a voluminous writer, but his fame
was won as a hyuinologist, and largely as n trans-
lator of valuable medieval hymns. Next to writ
ing a first-class poem, it is a work of difficulty and
merit t<> translate one from another tongue. To
transfer the soul of a hvmn into a new body — accli-
matize it, and make it live — requires genius such a«
t'cw possess. Dr. Neale did it on a grand scale, and
the English-speaking churches arc greatly indebted
to him.

HYMN STUDIKS.

200 11,-rmon. L. M.

0 MASTER, it is good to be
High on the mountain here with thee.
Where stand revealed to mortal gaze
Those glorious saints of other days,
Who once received on Horeb's height
The eternal laws of truth and right,
Or caught the still small whisper, higher
Than storm, than earthquake, or than fire.

2 O Master, it is good to be

' Entranced, enwrapt, alone with thee;
And watch thy glistering raiment glow-
Whiter than Sermon's whitest snow;
The human lineaments that shine
Irradiant with a light divine;
Till we too change from grace to grace,
Gazing on the transfigured face.

3 O Master, it is good to be

Here on the holy mount with thee :
When darkling in the depth of night,
When dazzled with excess of light,
We bow before the heavenly voice
That bids bewildered souls rejoice,
Though love wax cold, and faith be dim,
" This is my Son, O hear ye him."

ARTHXR P. STANLEY.

The words of Peter at the Transfiguration are
very prominent in the hymn :

" Master, it is good for as to be here." Mark ix, 5.
The second stanza has been omitted :

2 " O Mister, it is <rood to be

With Thee, and with Thy faithful three :

Here, where the Apostle's heart of rock

Is nerved against temptation's shock ;

Here where the Son of Thunder learns

The thought that breathes, and word that burns ;

Here where on eagle's wings we move

With him whose last best creed is love."

In 1853 the author visited the Holy Land, and
gave a description of his tour to the public in
Sinai and Palestine. It is quite possible that there
is some connection between this hymn and the
author's visit to Mount Hermon.

The Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., was
horn in Alderley, England, in 1815. At the age
of fourteen vears he entered the famous Rugby
ttchool, Dr. Thomas Arnold, head master. He is
•aid to be the original Arthur, who won the heart
of "Tom Brown" by kneeling in the presence of
the rough noisy boys, and saying his prayer
before going to bed. In 1837 he was graduated* at
Baliol College, Oxford. In 185(5 he was appointed
Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford. His
Eautern Church and Jewish Church are some of the
results of his professorship. In 18fi4 he accepted
the office of Dean of Westminster, which he held
until his death in 1881.

201 Btostve thy tight. Luke xviii, 42. L. M.
HEX the blind suppliant in the way.

By friendly hands to Jesus led,
I 'rayed to behold the light of day,

"Receive thy sight," the Saviour said.

2 At once he saw the pleasant rays
That lit the glorious firmament;

And, with firm step and words of praise,
He followed where the Master went.

3 Look down in pity. Lord, we pray,
On eyes oppressed by moral night,

And touch the darkened lids, and say.
The gracious words, " Receive thy sight."

4 Then, in clear daylight, shall we see
Where walked the sinless Son of God

And, aided by new strength from thee,
Press onward in the path he trod.

WILLIAM C. BBTAUT.

From an edition of BryanVs Fovns, published
by D. Appleton <fc Co., New York, 1874. It is un-
altered and entire.

William Cullen Bryant was born in Cumming-
ton, Mass., in 1704; spent two years at Williams
College, after which he studied law and practiced
about ten years. In 1826 he connected himself
with the New York Evening Pod, and continued
to be one of its editors and proprietors to the day
<«f his death, in 1878. Bryant is known as one ot
the ablest and sweetest or American poets. Many
editions of his poems have been published. He
also made an excellent translation of Homer's
Iliad and Odyssey.

202 Meekness of Christ. L. M.

HOW beauteous were the marks divine,
That in thy meekness used to shine,
That lit thy lonely pathway, trod
In wondrous love, O Son of God!

2 O who like thee, so mild, so bright,
Thou Son of man. thou Light of light?
O who like thee did ever go
So patient, through a world of woe?

o O who like thee so humbly bore
The scorn, the scoffs of men, before?
So meek, so lowly, yet so high,
So glorious in humility?

4 And death, that sets the prisoner free,
Was pang, and scoff, and scorn to thee ;
Yet love through all thy torture glowed,
And mercy with thy life-blood flowed.

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5 O wondrous Lord, my soul would be
Still more and more conformed to thee,
And learn of thee, the lowly One,
And like thee, all my journey run.

A. CLEVELAND COXE.

Title : Hymn to the Redeemer.
The original has seven eight-line stanzas. Slight
changes have been made in three lines.

Original Form.
Verse one, line four:

" In wondrous love, oh Lamb of God ! "
Verse two, line one :

" Oh ! who like Thee, so calm, so bright."
Verse three, line three :

" So meek, forgiving, God-like, high."

From Christian Ballads and Poems. Oxford,
1855. Written in 1838.

Arthur Cleveland Coxe, D.D., one of the
Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was
horn at Mendham, N. J., in 1818; and was edu-
cated at the University of New York, and at the
General Theological Seminary.

He was ordained in 1841, and in 1862 was conse-
crated Bishop of the Diocese of Western New
Vork.

203 The tears of Jesus. 8, 7, 7.

JESUS wept ! those tears are over,
But his heart is still the same;
Kinsman, Friend, and elder Brother,
Is his everlasting name.

Saviour, who can love like thee,
Gracious One of Bethany?

2 When the pangs of trial seize us,
When the waves of sorrow roll,

I will lay my head on Jesus,
Pillow7 of the troubled soul.
Surely, none can feel like thee,
Weeping One of Bethany !

3 Jesus wept ! and still in glory,

He can mark each mourner's tear;
Living to retrace the story
Of the hearts he solaced here.
Lord, when I am called to die,
Let me think of Bethany.

4 Jesus wept ! that tear of sorrow
Is a legacy of love;

Yesterday, to-day, to-morrow,
He the same doth ever prove.
Thou art all in all to me,
Living One of Bethany !

JOHN R. MACDTJFF.

The author's title is : The Grave of Bethany.
The scriptural basis of the hymn is the brief but
touching declaration of John xi, 35: "Jesua
wept."

Two words have been changed.

Original Lines:
Verse two, line four:

" Refuge of the troubled soul."
Verse three, line three:

" Loving to retrace the story." „

The first stanza is omitted :

1 " Who is this in silence bending.

O'er a dark sepulchral cave?
Sympathetic sorrow blending

With the tears around that grave?
Christ the Lord is standing by,
At the tomb of Bethany."

This hymn, which was ascribed to Sir Edward
Denny, we are glad to restore to its author.

From The Gates of Praise. New York, edition
1876.

For biographical sketch, see No. 1016.

8,7.

204 Glorying in the cross.

IN the cross of Christ I glory,
Towering o'er the wrecks of time ;
All the light of sacred story

Gathers round its head sublime.

2 When the woes of life o'ertake me,
Hopes deceive, and fears annoy,.

Never shall the cross forsake me;
Lo! it glows with peace and joy.

3 When the sun of bliss is beaming
Light and love upon my way,

From the cross the radiance streaming
Adds more luster to the day.

4 Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure,
By the cross are sanctified;

Peace is there, that knows no measure,
Joys that through all time abide.

5 In the cross of Christ I glory,
Towering o'er the wrecks of time ;

All the light of sacred story
Gathers round its head sublime.

SI!£ .JOHN HOWRINO.

Title : The Cross of Christ.

This grand hymn — unaltered and entire — is
from the author's Hymns. London, 1825. In h'ro
preface he says: "This little l>ook is intended an
a sequel to the Matins and Vespert."'

See No. 150.

IITMN STUDIES.

20o Lessons of the cross. 7.

NEVER further than Thy cross :
Never higher than thy feel :
Here earth's precious tilings seem dross:
Here earth's bitter things grow sweet.

2 Gazing thus our sin we see,
Learn thy love while gazing thus;

Sin which laid the cross on thee.
Love which bore the cross for us.

3 Here we learn to serve and give,
And, rejoicing, self deny;

Here we gather love to live,
Here we gather faith to die.

4 Pressing onward as we can,

Still to this our hearts must tend ;
"Where our earliest hopes began,
There our last aspirings end;

5 Till amid the hosts of light,
"We in thee redeemed, complete,

Through thy cross made pure and white,
Cast our crowns before thy feet.

MRS. ELIZABETH CHARLES.

Title: The Cross. From a volume of the author's
poems, entitled The Women of the Gospel, the
Three Wakings, and Other Pvems. New York,
1867.

One stanza, the fourth, of the original has been
omitted:

4 " Symbols of our liberty

And our service here unite,

Captives by Thy Cross set free.

Soldiers of Thy Cross we fight."

Mrs. Charles, an English lady, is the author of
the well-known book, Chronicles of the Schonberg-
Cotta Family. She is also the author of a number
of hymns and translations, and has written a work
on hymnology of considerable value, entitled The
Voice of Christian Life in Song. London, 1S58.

206 Sinai, Tabor, Calvary.

WHEN on Sinai's top I see
God descend, in majesty,
To proclaim his holy law,
All my spirit sinks with awe.

2 When, in ecstasy sublime,
Tabor's glorious steep I climb,
At the too transporting light,
Darkness rushes o'er my sight.

3 When on Calvary I rest,
God, in flesh made manifest,
Shines in my Redeemer's face,
Full of beauty, truth, and grace.

4 Here I would forever stay,
Weep and gaze my soul away;
Thou art heaven on earth to me,
Lovely, mournful Calvary.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

The author's title is : The Three Mountains. The
contrast of Calvarv with Sinai in this hymn is very

fine. The second stanza represents Tabor as the
Mount of Transfiguration. Moot recent writers are
in favor of Hermon, which might be substituted in
the second stanza.

From The Christian Psalmist, 1825. It first ap-
peared in William B. Collyer's Collection, 1812.
It is unaltered.

207 cm.

The second Man is the Lord from heaven. 1 Cor.
xv, 47.

PRAISE to the Holiest in the height,
And in the depth be praise;
In all his words most wonderful,
Most sure in all his ways.

2 O loving wisdom of our God!
When all was sin and shame,

A second Adam to the fight
And to the rescue came.

3 O wisest love ! that flesh and blood,
Which did in Adam fail,

Should strive afresh against the foe,
Should strive and should prevail.

4 O generous love ! that he, who smote
In Man for man the foe,

The double agony in Man
For man should undergo ;

5 And in the garden secretly,
And on the cross on high.

Should teach his brethren, and inspire
To suffer and to die.

JOHN H. NEWMAN.

Written in 1865, and published in the author's
Verses on Various Occasions, 1808. It is found in
a dramatic poem, entitled The Dream of Gerotitin*.
Gerontius dies — has a dialogue with an angel —
hears choirs of angels sins — this hymn is sung by
the " Fifth Choir of Angelicals." He then desires
a sight of his Saviour, which is granted: where-
upon he prays that he may be sent to purgatory.
He is accommodated, and the poem leaves liim
there.

The author wrote " their foe" in verse three,
line three.

One verse, the fourth, has been omitted, but it

no loss.

The Rev. John Henry Newman, D.D., was born
in London in 1801; was graduated :it Oxford in
1820, and for several years was a tutor in the college.

HYMN STUDIES.

He was a lender of the High Church party from
t lie first, and had great influence among the youns;
men at Oxford, lie was ordained in the Church
■ .I England, but in 1845 left that communion and
united with the Roman Catholics. lie was made a
cardinal in 1879. He died in London, Aug. 11, 1890,

208 Thie power of the cross. L. M.

WE sing the praise of Him who died,
Of him who died upon the cross;
The sinner's hope let men deride,

For this we count the world hut loss.

2 Inscribed upon the cross Ave see,
In shining letters, "God is Love;"

He bears our sins upon the tree,
He brings us mercy from above.

3 The cross ! it takes our guilt away ;
It holds the fainting spirit up;

It cheers with hope the gloomy day,
And sweetens every bitter cup.

4 It makes the coward spirit brave,
And nerves the feeble arm for fight ;

It takes its terror from the grave,

And gilds the bed of death with light :

5 The balm of life, the cure of woe,
The measure and the pledge of love,

The sinner's refuge here below,

The angel's theme in heaven above.

THOMAS KELLY.

Text: "But God forbid that 1 should glory,
save in the cross." Gal. vi, 14.

This is new to the collection, and is an exact re-
print of the hymn as found in the author's Hymns
on Various Passages of Scripture, 1815.

See No. 54.

209 The hidings of the Father's face. L. M.

FROM Calvary a cry was heard,
A bitter and heart-rending cry;
My Saviour! every mournful word
JSespeaks thy soul's deep agony.

2 A horror of great darkness fell
On thee, thou spotless, holy One!

And all the swarming hosts of hell
Conspired to tempt God's only Son.

3 The scourge, the thorns, the deep dis-

grace,
These thou couldst bear, nor once repine ;
But when Jehovah veiled his face,
Unutterable pangs were thine.

4 Let the dumb world its silence break ;
Let pealing anthems rend the sky;

Awake, my sluggish soul, awake,
He died, that we might never die.

5 Lord, on thy cross I fix mine eye:
If e'er I lose its strong control,

O let that dying, piercing cry.

Melt and reclaim my wandering soul.

J. W. CUNNINGHAM, ALT.

The Scripture basis of this hymn is Matt, xxvii,
40:

" And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a
loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sahuchthani )
that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou for-
saken me? "

The author wrote, verse one, line two :

" A loud reiterated cry."

Verse two, lines two, three, and four:

"On Thee the Immaculate the Just,
Tlu congregated hosts of hell
Combined to shale the filial trust."

Verse three, line two :

" These thou couldst bear and not repine."

Verse four, line one :

" Let the dumb world her silence break."
Verse four, line four:

" He died that we may never die."
Verse five, line two :

" If e'er I lose its pure controul."

From Morning Thoughts in Prose and Verse, en
Single Verses in the Successive t hnptersof St. Mat-
thew, by a Country Clergyman. Fourth edition.
London, 1825.

This "country clergyman" is said to have been
the Rev. John William Cunningham, tor many
years Head Master of Harrow School. He lived,
from 1780 till 1861.

210 Atonement made. L. M.

THIS finished! the Messiah dies, —

J_ Cut off for sins, but not his own;
Accomplished is the sacrifice,

The great redeeming work is done.

2 'Tis finished! all the debt is paid;
Justice divine i- satisfied;

The grand and full atonement made;
Christ for a guilty world hath died.

3 The veil is rent; in him alone
The living way to heaves is seen;

The middle wall is broken down,
And all mankind may enter in.

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4 The types and figures arc fulfilled;
Exacted is the legal pain;

The precious promises are scaled;
The spotless Lamb of God is slain.

5 Death, hell, and sin are now subdued ;
All grace is now to sinners given;

And, lo! 1 plead the atoning blood,
And in thy right I claim my heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Scripture text : " It is finished." John xix, 80.

From Short II ftmu on Select Passages of the Holy
Scripterts, 1762.

In the lost hue of the Becond stanza, Wesley wrote:

" God for a guilty world hath died."
And in the first line of the third :

"The veil is rent in Christ alone."
Three stanzas are omitted.

211 Glorying in the cross. L. M.

WHEN I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
Save in the death of Christ, my God;

All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to his blood.

3 See, from his head, his hands, his feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down:

Did e*er such love and sorrow meet,
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

4 Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small ;

Love so amazing, so divine,

Demands my soul, my life, my all.

ISAAC WATTS.

The author's title was : Crucifixion to the World
by the Cross of Christ.
The text is' Gal. vi, 14':

" But God forbid that I should glory, save in the
a es of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world
is crucified uuto me, and I unto the world."

This excellent hymn was first inserted in our
hymn Look m 1849.
One stanza, the fourth, is omitted:

" His <lying crimson like a robe
Spread o'er his body on the tree,

Then I arn dead to all the globe,
And all the globe is dead to me."

Unaltered. F om Hymns and Spiritual Songs,
book hi, 1707.

212 Christ crucified. L. M.

EXTENDED on a cursCd tree,
Covered with dust, and sweat, and
blood,
See there, the King of glory see!
Sinks and expires the Son of God.

•2 Who, who, my Saviour, this hath done?

Who could thy sacred body wound?
No guilt thy spotless heart hath known,

No guile hath in thy lips been found.

3 I, I alone have done the deed;
'Tis I thy sacred flesh have torn ;

My sins have caused thee, Lord, to bleed,
Pointed the nail, and fixed the thorn.

4 For me the burden to sustain

Too great, on thee, my Lord, was laid:
To heal me, thou hast borne my pain;
To bless me, thou a curse wast made.

5 My Saviour, how shall I proclaim,
How pay the mighty debt I owe?

Let all I have, and all I am,

Ceaseless, to all, thy glory show.

6 Still let thy tears, thy groans, thy sighs,
O'erflow my eyes, and heave my breast.

Till, loosed from flesh and earth, I rise,
And ever in thy bosom rest.

PAUL GERHARDT.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

The text is Zech. xii, 10 :

"They shall look upon me whom they have
pierced."

This translation was first published in Hymns
and Sncred Poems, 1740.

Two lines of the translation have heen changed.
The original of verse one, line two, is :

" Besmear'd with dust," etc.

Verse four, line one :

" The burden, for me to sustain."

Three stanzas have been omitted.

The Rev. Paul Gerhardt was born in Saxony in
1 606 ; and was a Lutheran minister. For some
reason he did not receive holy orders until late in
life. Gerhardt first became known, outside his
humble parish, by his hymns, some of which were
published about 1655 In 1657 he was invited to
the great church of St. Nicholas, in Berlin, where
tor sevend year.* his life was a busy and happy
one. In 1662 Frederick William I. undertook to
make peace between the Lutheran and the Reformed
Churches, which were constantly, and sometimes
harshly, disputing on points of doctrine, and espe-
cially on whether Christ died " for all men," or for

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the " elect only." In 1064 the king published an
edict, requiring the ministers of both Churches to
abstain from attacking one another's doctrines in
the pulpit ; and in the following year required every
beneficed Lutheran cleryman to pledge himself to
observe the terms of this edict. Gerhardt, as well
as many others, refused, and in 1666 was deprived
of his appointment. In 1669 he accepted the post
of Archdeacon of Lubben in Saxony. He died in
1676. Gerhardt wrote tew hymns, compared with
some hymnists — only one hundred and twenty-
three in all — yet he is considered the greatest
bynm-writer of bis age, the Wesley of Germany.

213 Gazing on the cross. L. M.

LORD JESUS, when we stand afar
And gaze upon thy holy cross,
In love of thee, and scorn of self,
O may we count the world as loss.

2 When we behold thy bleeding wounds,
And the rough way that thou hast trod,

Make us to hate the load of sin
That lay so heavy on our God.

3 O holy Lord ! uplifted high

With outstretched arms, in mortal woe,
Embracing in thy wondrous love
The sinful world that lies below.

4 Give us an ever-living faith

To gaze beyond the things we see;
And in the mystery of thy death
Draw us and all men after thee !

WILLIAM W. HOW.

Text: " And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all
men unto me." John xii, 32.

It is unaltered and entire.

The Rev. William Walsliam How, M.A., was
born in 1823; educated at Wadham College, Ox-
ford, and ordained Rector of Whittington in 18.r>l.
He is the author of some prose works, and a few
hymns. In connection with the Rev. Thomas B.
Morrell, Ik; edited Ps'ilms and Hymns, London,
1854. Subsequently he was consecrated a Bishop
in the Church of England.

a 14 Godly sorrow at the cross. C. M.

ALAS! and did my Saviour bleed?
A ik! did my Sovereign die?
Would he devote that sacred head
For such a worm as If

2 Was it for crimes that I have done,
He groaned upon the tree?

Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree 1

3 Well might the sun in darkness hide,
And shut his glories in,

When Christ, the mighty Maker, died,
For man the creature's sin.

4 Thus might I hide my blushing face
While his dear cross appears ;

Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt mine eyes to tears.

5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay
The debt of love I owe :

Here, Lord, I give myself away, —
'Tis all that I can do.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : Godly Sorrow Arising from the Sufferings
of Christ.

Watts wrote "God" instead of "Chri>t" in
verse three, line three.

The second stanza the author inclosed in brack-
ets. The hymn is improved by omitting it alto-
gether.

2 " Thy body slain, sweet Jesus, thine,

And bathed in its own blood,
While all exposed to wrath divine,

The glorious sufferer stood ! "

This hymn is very popular. It has been much
used by the Methodists as a communion hymn.
From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

215 He died for thee. C. M.

BEHOLD the Saviour of mankind
Nailed to the shameful tree;
How vast the love that him inclined
To bleed and die for thee !

2 Hark ! how he groans, while nature shakes,
And earth's strong pillars bend:

The temple's veil in sunder breaks,
The solid marbles rend.

3 'Tis done ! the precious ransom's paid !
41 Receive my soul! " he cries:

See where he bows his sacred head;
He bows his head, and dies.

4 But soon he'll break death's envious

chain,
And in full glory shine:
O Lamb of God, was ever pain,
Was ever love, like thine 1

SAMUEL WESLEY.

Title : On the Crucifixion. Published in Hymns
and Sacred Poems, 1739.

This was a great favorite with the Wesleys.
Charles Wesley, in his Journal, mentions singing

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it in the cells of the condemned felons at Newgate

prison.

In 1709 the Sectary at Epworth, where the au-
thor resided, was binned to the ground. It was

from this tire tiiat John Wesley, a little hoy six
years of age, was rescued With difficulty; one man
standing upon the shoulders ot another, and Lifting
him out of a window, just before the building tell.
It is said that while the author's library, sermons,
and manuscripts were destroyed, this hymn, in
manuscript, was found in the garden partially-
burned.

The Rev. Samuel Wesley, father of Revs. John
and Charles Wesley, was born in 1»J0>2. VVhile an
academy student, Wesley expected to enter the
ministry of the Dissenters. The change in his
opinions was a little remarkahle. Some one had
written severely against the Dissenters, and Mr.
Samuel "Wesley was appointed to reply. This led
him to a course of reading, aud in the end resulted
differently from what was expected. He left the
Dissenters, and attached himself to the Established
Church. Entering Exeter College, Oxford, as a
Servitor, he was graduated therefrom in 1688.
Ordained soon after, he served as curate in several
places. In 1696 he dedicated his Life of Christ,
an Heroic Putin, to Queen Mary, who presented him
to the living at Epworth, where he remained until
his death in 1735. His poetic talent was not great ;
but under the inspiration of this sublime theme, he
exceeded himself, nis more gifted son, Charles,
never wrote a more valuable hymn than this.

216 God manifest in the flesh. C. M.

WITH glorious clouds encompassed
round,
Whom angels dimly see,
Will the Unsearchable be found,
Or God appear to me?

2 Will he forsake bis throne above,
Himself to worms impart?

Answer, thou Man of grief and love,
And speak it to my heart.

3 In manifested love explain
Thy wonderful design ;

What meant, thou suffering Son of man,
Thy streaming blood divine?

4 Didst thou not in our flesh appear,
And live and die below,

That I might now perceive thee near,
And my Redeemer know?

5 Might view the I.amb in his own light,
Wbom angels dimly see ;

And gaze, transported at the sight,
To all eternity?

CHAKLES WESLEY.

The last stanza begins : '•/ view the Lamb," etc.
Three Btanzas, the tilth, sixth, and seventh, are
omitted:

5 "Come, then, and to my bouI reveal
The heights and depths of grace,

Those wounds which all my sorrows heal
That dear disfigured face.

6 " Before my eyes of faith confessed,
Stand forth a slaughtered Lamb,

And wrap me in Thy crimson vest,
And tell me all Thy name.

7 "Jehovah in Thy person show,
Jehovah crucified,

And then the pardoning God I know,
And feel the blood applied.''

From Hymns for the Use of Families, 1767.

217 Christ in Gthsemane. L. M.

TT1IS midnight; and on Olives' brow

_L The star is dimmed that lately shone:
'Tis midnight ; in the garden, now,
The suffering Saviour prays alone.

2 'Tis midnight ; and from all removed,
The Saviour wrestles lone with fears;

E'en that disciple whom be loved

Heeds not his Master's grief and tears.

3 'Tis midnight; and for others' guilt
The Man of sorrows weeps in blood;

Yet he that hath in anguish knelt
Is not forsaken by bis God.

4 'Tis midnight ; and from ether-plains
Is borne the song that angels know ;

Unheard by mortals are the strains

That sweetly soothe the Saviour's woe.

WILLIAM B. TAPPAN.

Author's title : Odhsemane.
From Poems, published at Philadelphia, in 1822.
The third line of the second stanza reads :

"E'en £Ae disciple that he loved."

William Bingham Tappan was born in Massa-
chusetts in 1794, and lived till 1849. Mr. Tappan
was emphatically a self-made man. His father died
when he was young. He never attende I school,
except for six months; but taught school for sev-
eral years, successfully, in Philadelphia. A pious
mother's prayers and teaching saved him from irross
immorality, and when he came to manhood he be-
came an earnest Christian. He was connected with
the American Sunday-School Union, in Boston, and
also in Cincinnati and Philadelphia. He is some-
times called "Rev.," for he was licensed to preach
in 1840, but was never ordained.

He published several volumes of poetry, but de-
rived little pecuniary profit from them. He was a

HYMN STUDIES.

worthy man — not sufficiently appreciated in his own
day. This pathetic hymn, and one other, No.
1039, will honorably carry his name down to pos-
terity.

213 Prophecy fulfilled. L. M.

ii THIS finished!" so the Saviour cried,
J_ And meekly bowed his head and
died :
Tis finished! yes, the race is run;
The battle fought ; the victory won.

2 'Tis finished! all that Heaven foretold
By prophets in the days of old ;

And truths are opened to our view,
That kings and prophets never knew.

3 'Tis finished! Son of God, thy power
Hath triumphed in this awful hour;
And yet our eyes with sorrow see
That life to us was death to thee.

4 'Tis finished ! let the joyful sound
Be heard through all the nations round;
'Tis finished! let the triumph rise
And swell the chorus of the skies!

SAMUEL STENNETT, IN PART.

Text: "It is finished." John xix, 30.

It is hardly fair to ascribe this hymn, as it stands
here, to Stennett. He is the author of the first and
last stanzas oidy. The other two are by an "un-
known " writer. They were, no doubt, composed
by some hymn-book compiler. The original hymn,
six stanzas, was contributed to Rippon's Selection,
in 1787.

The Kcv. Samuel Stennett, D.D., an English
Baptist minister, was born at Exeter, in 1727 ; and
was a man of ability and scholarship. In 1758 he
succeeded his father as pastor of the Wild Street
Church, in London, where he remained for thirty-
seven years. He died in 1795. Dr. Stennett was
tho author of some prose writings, and of thirty-
seven hymns, which may be found at the end of
vol. iii, of his Works, London, 1824.

219

C. M.

/Fail, hob/ cross!

THE royal banner is unfurled,
The cross is reared on high,
On which the Saviour of the world
Is stretched in agony.

2 See! through his holy hands and feet
The cruel nails they drive:

Our ransom is thus made complete,
Our souls are saved alive.

3 And see! the spear hath pierced his side,
And shed thai sacred flood,

That holy reconciling tide,
The water and the blood.

4 Hail, holy cross ! from thee we learn
The only way to heaven ;

And O, to thee may sinners turn,
And look, and be forgiven !

5 Jehovah, we thy name adore,
In thee we will rejoice,

And sing, till time shall be no more,
The triumphs of the cross.

V EN ANTIUS FORTUNATUS.
TK. BY J. CHANDLER.

Title : Vexilla Regis Prod emit.

This famous passion hymn was composed about
580 A. D. The translation is? unaltered and en-
tire, from Hymns of. the Prim it ire Church, 1837.

Vcnantius Fortunatus, a Latin poet, wjus born in
Italy, about 530; was naturally of a gay disposition,
and spent the earlier part of his life in France — either
in idleness, or in writing fashionable literature. Ho
was past middle life when he entered the ministry.
In 599 he was appointed Bishop of Portiere, but
died soon after, about C09.

Some of his hymns have a preat reputation in
the Koman Catholic Church. The most famous is
the passion hymn : Pange, lingua, glorioxi, i)roeli-
■um certaminis, which has been translated by Dr.
Neale and others.

220 Transcendent love. L. M. G 1.

OLOVE. divine, what hast thou done!
The incarnate God hath died for me!
The Father's co-eternal Son,

Bore all my sins upon the tree !
The Son of God for me hath died :
My Lord, my Love, is crucified.

2 Behold him, all ye that pass by, —
The bleeding Prince of life and peace!

Come, sinners, see your Saviour die,
And say, was ever grief like his?
Come, feel with me his blood applied :
My Lord, my Love, is crucified :

3 Is crucified for me and you,

To bring us rebels back to God:
Believe, believe the record true,

Ye all are bought with Jesus' blood:
Pardon for all flows from his side:
My Lord, my Love, is crucified.

4 Then let us sit beneath his cross,
And gladly catch the healing stream;

All things for him account but loss,

And give up all our hearts to him:
Of nothing think or speak beside, —
My Lord, my Love, is crucified.

CHARLES WESLEY.

HYMN STUDIES.

Title : Desiring to Love.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, published by
John and Charles Wesley, 1742.

Some verbal changes have been made. The orig-
inal has u immortal" instead of "incarnate" in
the Beoond line ; and r In- same word instead of
" Bon of" in the fifth lino. The third line ot the
Beoond sumza read :

" Come, see, ye worms, your J/aXvrdie."

The fourth line of the third stanza began with :
" We."1 The burden of this sweet and pathetic
Christian Rong, ''My Lord, my Love, is crucified,"

Is said to be a quotation from Ignatius, the martyr.

221

Soveri i<jn lore.

L. M. 61.

OULD Je9ua have the sinner die?
Why hangs he then on yonder tree?
What means that strange expiring cry?

Sinners, he prays for you and me;
•'Forgive them. Father, O forgive!
They know not that by me they live."

2 Jesus, descended from above.
Our loss of Eden to retrieve,

Great God of universal love,

If all the world through thee may live,
In us a quickening spirit be,
And witness thou hast died for me.

3 Thou loving, all-atoning Lamb,
Thee — by thy painful agony,

Thy bloody sweat, thy grief and shame,

Thy cross and passion on the tree,
Thy precious death and life — I pray,
Take all, take all my sins away.

4 O let thy love my heart constrain !
Thy love, for every sinner free,

That every fallen son of man

May taste the grace that found out me ;
That all mankind with me may prove
Thy sovereign, everlasting love.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

Composed of stanzas twelve, fourteen, sixteen,
and eighteen of a long hymn, entitled Jesus Christ

the S'lviour of all lien. This was one of many
hymns that grew out of the fierce Calvmistic con-
troversy of that day. From Hymns on Cod's Ever-
lasting Love, 1741.

Among the omitted stanzas is one that is rather
remarkable:

"O let me kiss Thy bleeding feet,
And bathe, and wash them with my tears;

The >tory of Thy love repeat
In every drooping sinner's ears,

That all may luar the quickening sound:

If I, even I, have mercy found 1

In the original, the Beoond stanza begins with
u Adam," etc.; and the third, with '■"Dear, lov-

in'','' etc

222

Crowned with thorns.

7,6.

0 SACRED Head, now wounded,
Witli grief and shame weighed down,
Now scornfully surrounded

With thorns, thine only crown;
O sacred Head, what glory,

What bliss, till now was thine!
Yet, though despised and gory,
I joy to call thee mine.

2 What thou, my Lord, hast suffered
Was all for sinners' gain :

Mine, mine was the transgression,

But thine the deadly pain:
Lo, here I fall, my Saviour!

'Tis I deserve thy place ;
Look on me with thy favor,

Vouchsafe to me thy grace.

3 What language shall I borrow
To thank thee, dearest Friend,

For this, thy dying sorrow,

Thy pity without end?
O make me thine forever;

And should I fainting be,
Lord, let me never, never,

Outlive my love to thee.

4 Be near me when I'm dying,
O show thy cross to me ;

And, for my succor flying,

Come, Lord, and set me free :
These eyes, new faith receiving,

From Jesus shall not move;
For he who dies believing,

Dies safely, through thy love.

BERNARD OP CLAIRVAUX, PAUL GERHARDT.
TR. BY J. W. ALEXANDER.

From TJie ChHstian Lyre, 1830.

This hymn is now universally known by the first
line of the original : Salve, caput cruentntum.

In the Latin it consists of five stanzas of ten lines
each, ar.d is entitled Ad faciem Gkristi in cruce
pendentis. It lias been rendered into English by
several translators. This excellent version was first
translated into German by Paul Gerhardt, and then
into English.

The Rev. James Waddell Alexander was a Pres-
byterian clergyman, born in 1804 ; was graduated at
Princeton in 1820; a pastor for several years, then
editor, and then professor at Princeton. He died
in 1859.

For sketch of Bernard, see No. 327.

HYMN STUDIES.

/£&3 Christ our exemplar. 7, 6 1.

CI O to dark Gethsemane,
X Ye that feel the tempter's power;
Your Redeemer's conflict see,

Watch with him one bitter hour;
Turn not from his griefs away,
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

2 Follow to the judgment-hall ;
View the Lord of life arraigned;

O the wormwood and the gall!

O the pangs his soul sustained !
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;
Learn of him to bear the cross.

3 Calvary's mournful mountain climb;
There, adoring at his feet,

Mark that miracle of time,

God's own sacrifice complete:
"It is finished! " hear him cry;
Learn of Jesus Christ to die.

4 Early hasten to the tomb,

Where they laid his breathless clay ;
All is solitude and gloom ;

Who hath taken him away?
Christ is risen ; he meets our eyes ;
Saviour, teach us so to rise !

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title : Christ our Example in Suffering.

From The Christian Psalmist, 1S25.

It is unaltered and entire.

For biographical sketcli of author, see No. 5.

224 It is finished. «, 7, 4.

HARK ! the voice of love and mercy
Sounds aloud from Calvary;
See ! it rends the rocks asunder,

Shakes the earth, and veils the sky

" It is finished: "
Hear the dying Saviour cry.

2 "It is finished! " O what pleasure
Do these precious words afford !

Heavenly blessings, without measure,
Flow to us from Christ the Lord:

" It is finished: "
Saints, the dying words record.

3 Tune your harps anew, ye seraphs,
Join to sing the pleasing theme;

All on earth, and all in heaven,
Join to praise Immauucrs name;

Hallelujah!
Glory to the bleeding Lamb.

JONATHAN EVANS.

From George Burder's Collection, 1784.

This beautiful hymn also appeared in Ripno-n's

Selection, 1787, where it was marked F . Some

collections ascribed it to Francis. It is claimed,
however, that F. meant Foleshill, where Evans
was pastor.

It has not been altered, but two stanzas, the third
and fourth, of the original have been omitted :

3 " Finished all the types and shadows
Of the ceremonial law ;

Finished, all that God has promised ;
Death and hell no more shall awe,

It is finished,
Saints from hence your comforts draw.

4 " Happy souls, approach the table,
Taste the soul-reviving food ;

Nothing half so sweet and pleasant,
As the Saviour's flesh and blood,

It is finished !
Christ has borne the heavy load."

See No. 55.

223 Faster anthem. 8,7.

SING with all the sons of glory,
Sing the resurrection song!
Death and sorrow, earth's dark story,

To the former days belong:
All around the clouds are breaking,

Soon the storms of time shall cease,
In God's likeness, man awaking,
Knows the everlasting peace.

2 O what glory, far exceeding
All that eye has yet perceived^

Holiest hearts for ages pleading,
Never that full joy conceived.

God has promised, Christ prepares it,
There on high our welcome waits ;

Every humble spirit shares it,

Christ has passed the eternal gates.

3 Life eternal ! heaven rejoices,
Jesus lives who once was dead ;

Join, 0 man, the deathless voices,
Child of God, lift up thy head'.

Patriarchs from the distant ages,
Saints all longing for their heaven,

Prophets, psalmists, seer and sages,
All await the glory given.

4 Life eternal ! O what wonders
Crowd on faith; what joy unknown,

When, amidst earth's closing thunders,
Saints shall stand before the throne!

O to enter that bright portal,
See that glowing firmament,

Know, with thee, O God immortal,
" Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent ! *'

WILLIAM J. IKONS.

HYMN STUDIED.

From RalmaaHd Hymn* for the church. Writ-
ton by William J. Imns, \)'.D., Prebendary of St.
Paul's, and Hector of St. Mary's, Woolworth. Lon-
don, 1875.

Original Lines.

Verse one, lines tive to eight inclusive :

" Even now the dawn is breaking,
Soon the night of time shall cease,

And in Go Pe own likeness waking,
Man shall know eternal peace."

The Rev. William Jonah Irons, D.D., a Church
of Kngland clergyman, was bora in 1812, and lived
until 18

226 Jesus, victor over death. 8, 7, 4.

/ ^fOME, ye saints, look hero and wonder;
\J See the place where Jesus lay:
llv h-.is burst his bands asunder;

He has borne our sins away;
Joyful tidings!

Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.

2 Jesus triumphs! sing ye praises;
By his death he overcame :

Thus the Lord his glory raises,
Thus he fills his foes with shame :

Sing ye praises!
Praises to the Victor's name.

3 Jesus triumphs! countless legions
Come from heaven to meet their King;

Soon, in yonder blessed regions,
They shall join his praise to sing:

Songs eternal
Shall through heaven's high arches ring.

THOMAS KELLY.

'* Behold the place where they laid him." Mark
xvi. 6.

Tliia hymn was introduced by the Revision Com-
mittee in IsTT. A verbatim copy as found in the
Author's Hjmm on Various Passages of Scripture,
1809.

See Xo. 54.

227 The voice of triumph. 10,11,12.

LIFT your glad voices in triumph on
high,
For Jesus hath risen, and man shall not die ;
Vai n were the terrors that gather around him,
And short the dominion of death and the
grave;
II ■ burst from the fetters of darkness that
bound him,
Resplendent in glory, to live and to save:
Loud was the chorus of angels on high, —
The Saviour hath risen, and man shall
not die.

2 Glory to God, in full anthems of joy;
The being he gave us death cannot de-
stroy :
Sad were the life we may part with to-mor-
row,
If tears were our birthright, and death
were our end ;
But Jesus hath cheered that dark valley of
sorrow,
And bade us, immortal, to heaven ascend :
Lift then your voices in triumph on high,
For Jesus hath risen, and muai shall not
die.

HENRY WARE, JR.

Title : Resurrection of Christ.

This glad hymn of victory was written in 1817,
and was first published in the Christian l)'isciple,
and afterward in the Christian Examiner, Boston.

Unaltered. From the Author's Works, vol. i.
Boston, 1846.

The Rev. Henry Ware, Jr., D.D., was born in
Hingham, Mass., in 1794 ; was graduated at Harvard
College in 1812, and then spent some time in teach-
ing. In 1817 he was ordained pastor of a Unita-
rian church in Boston. In 1829 Dr. Ware was ap-
pointed Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and Pastoral
Care in Cambridge Theological School ; which
position he hell till the year previous to his death
in 1843. He was the author of a number of hymns
which are found in his works.

228 Christ, the Conqueror. CM.

WELC03IE, thou Victor in the strife,
Now welcome from the cave !
To-day we triumph in thy life
Around thine empty grave.

2 Our enemy is put to shame,
His short-lived triumph o'er;

Our God is with us, we exclaim,
We fear our foe no more.

3 O let thy conquering banner wave
O'er hearts thou makest free,

And point the path that from the grave
Leads heavenward up to thee.

4 We bury all our sin and crime
Deep in the Saviour's tomb.

And seek the treasure there, that time
Nor change can e'er consume.

5 We die with thee : O let us live
Hencefortli to thee aright ;

The blessings thou hast died to give
Be daily in our sight.

HYMN STUDIES.

6 Fearless we lay us in the tomb,

And sleep the Dight away,
If thou art there to break the gloom,

And call us back to-day.

BENJAMIN SOHMOI.KE.
TK. BY MISS C. AVINKWOHTII.

This translation is from Lyra German u-a, first
series, where it is prefaced by this passage from the
Gospel of Luke xxiv, 35, 36 :

" And they told what things were done in the
wav, and how he was known of them in breaking
of Bread. And as they thus spake, Jesus himself
stood in the midst of them, and sailh unto them,
Peace be unto you."

It is unaltered, but three stanzas, the third, fourth,
and ninth, are omitted. Original date, 1712.

The Rev. Benjamin Schmolfce. a German divine
and hymnologist, was born in 1672 ; was graduated
at Leipsic in 169*7, and in 1702 accepted a call to
Schweidnitz, where he remained until his death in
1737. A complete edition of his poems was pub-
lished at Tubingen in 1740.

229 Ascension hymn. 6,4.

RISE, glorious Conqueror, rise
Into thy native skies;
Assume thy right;
And where in many a fold
The clouds are backward rolled,
Pass through those gates of gold,
And reign in light !

2 Victor o'er death and hell,
Cherubic legions swell

The radiant train:
Praises all heaven inspire:
Each angel sweeps his lyre,
And claps his wings of fire,

Thou Lamb once slain !

3 Enter, incarnate God!
No feet but thine have trod

The serpent down :
Blow the full trumpets, blow,
Wider your portals throw,
Saviour, triumphant, go,

And take thy crown!

4 Lion of Judah, hail !
And let thy name prevail

From age to age:
Lord of the rolling years,
Claim for thine own the spheres,
For thou hast bought with tears

Thy heritage.

MATTHEW BRIDGES.

Title: Ascension.

From Lyra Catholica. New York edition, 1851.

The original contains >even stanzas. These nre
the first four, unaltered.

Matthew Bridges, born in 1800, was a convert to
the Bouiau Catholic Church from the Church of
England, lie was the author of quite a number of
books. This hymn first apr>eared in Jlymnsof the
Heart, 1848.

(CoO Resurrection hymn. 7,6.

THE day of resurrection !
Earth, tell it out abroad!
The passover of gladness,

The passover of God !
From death to life eternal.
From earth unto the sky.
Our Christ hath brought us over,
With hymns of victory.

2 Our hearts be pure from evil,
That we may see aright

The Lord in rays eternal

Of resurrection light;
And, listening to his accents,

May hear, so calm and plain,
His own "All hail! " and, hearing,

May raise the victor-strain.

3 Now let the heavens be joyful!
Let earth her Bong begin!

Let the round world keep triumph,

And all that is therein!
Invisible and visible.

Their notes let all things blend,
For Christ the Lord hath risen,
Our Joy that hath no end.

JOHN of DAMA8CTJB.
TR. BY J. M. NKA1.K.

This glorious old hvtnn "f victory is the first ode
of the authors great Easter Canon, sometimes called
the Golden Canon, or the Queen of Canons, and is
sung every year by the Greek Church, in joyous

strains, on Easter morning.

The translation is from Hymns of the EasUrn
Chvrch. London. L862.

It is unaltered, except the first line, which is, in
the original :

" ' 7"/* the day of Resurrection."

John Damascene was the greatest theologian and
poet of the Greek Church. His active life belonged
to the eighth century, but the exact dates of his
birth and death are unknown. IIi< work on The-
ology. Doctrines oj the Orthodox ChvrcK, is still a
standard text-book in the Eastern Church. He
was famous as a philosopher, and as an opponentof
the Iconoclasts of his time. Late in life he was

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ordained priest of the church :it Jerusalem. His
Burred between 7">4 and 7^7.
F'>r biographical sketch of Dr. Neale, see No. 199.

231 Enster chant. 11.

WELCOME, happy morning! age to age
shall Bay :
Hell to-day is vanquished, heaven is won

to-day !
Lo, the dead is living, God for evermore!
Him, their true Creator, all his works adore.

2 Eartli with joy confesses, clothing for her

spring.
All good gifts returned with her returning

King:
Bloom in every meadow, leaves on every

bough,
Speak his sorrows ended, hail his triumph

now.

S Makerand Redeemer, life and health of all,
Thou, from heaven beholding human nat-
ure's fall.
Of the Father's Godhead true and only Son,
Manhood to deliver, manhood didst put on.

4 Thou, of life the author, death didst un-

dergo,
Tread the path of darkness, saving strength

to show ;
Come then, true and faithful, now fulfill

thy word,
'TLs thine own third morning, rise, my

buried Lord!

5 Loose the souls long- prisoned, bound with

Satan's chain ;
All that now is fallen raise to life again;
Show thy face in brightness, bid the nations

see,
Bring again our daylight ; day returns with

thee !

VENANTIUS FORTUNATUS.
TR. BY J. ELT.ERTON.

[Sung by Jerome of Prague at the stake.]

Title : Salee fenta dies Mo venernhilis aevo.

Translation by the Kev. John Ellerton, made in
18B8, for the Bev. K. Brown Borth wick's Supple-
mental f/i/mn and Tune Book.

The original Latin is a cento or selection from a
poem of one hundred and fourteen lines in elegiac
verse, by VenantiusFortunatus, addressed to Felix,
Bishop of Nantes in Brittany; being Poem vii of
his third book. It has been frequently translated
and paraphrased in various languages.

The translation has not been altered, except by
the omission of the third verse and refrain.

For skewfa of Fortunatus, see No. 219.

2o« B^joieing in the risen Christ. CM.

AWAKE, glad BOull awake! awake!
Thy Lord has risen long,
Go to his grave, and with thee take
Both tuneful heart and song.

2 Where life is waking all around,
Where love's sweet voices sing,

The first bright blossom may be found
Of an eternal spring.

3 The shade and gloom of life are fled
This resurrection-day,

Henceforth in Christ are no more dead,
The grave hath no more prey.

4 In Christ we live, in Christ we sleep,
In Christ we wake and rise.

And the sad tears death makes us weep.
He wipes from all our eyes.

5 Then wake, glad heart ! awake ! awake !
And seek thy risen Lord,

Joy in his resurrection take,
And comfort in his word :

6 And let thy life, through all its ways,
One long thanksgiving be,

Its theme of joy. its so%g of praise —
Christ died, and rose for me.

JOHN S. B. MOXSELL.

This fine Easter song is from the author's Hymn*
of Lone and Praise for the Church's Year, 1863.
The original contains five eight-lined stanzas. These
are not altered. Two stanzas, the third and sixth,
of the original are omitted :

"O Love which lightens all distress,

Love death cannot destroy !
O Grave, whose verv emptiness

To Faith is full of joyl
Let but that Love our hearts supply

From Heaven's exhaustless Spring,
Then, Grave, where is thy victory \

And, Death, where is thy sting?

" And every bird and every tree,

And every opening flower.
Proclaim His glorious victory,

His resurrection-power:
The folds are glad ; the fields rejoice,

With vernal verdure spread ;
The little hills lift up their voice.

And shout that Death is dead."

The Rev. John Samuel Bewley Monsell, a Church
of England clergyman, was born in Derry, Ireland,
in 1811 ; was graduated at Dublin University in
1832, and was ordained in 1834. He died in 1875.

HYMN STUDIES.

t£33 Majestic triumph over the grave. L. M.
npiIE morning kindles all the sky,
JL The heavens resound with anthems high,
The shining angels as they speed,
Proclaim, "The Lord is risen indeed! "

2 Vainly with rocks his tomb was barred,
While Roman guards kept watch and ward;
Majestic from the spoiled tomb,

In pomp of triumph, he has come!

3 When the amazed disciples heard,
Their hearts with speechless joy were stirred ;
Their Lord's beloved face to see,

Eager they haste to Galilee.

4 His piercgd hands to them he shows,
His face with love's own radiance glows ;
They with the angels' message speed,
And shout, "The Lord is risen indeed! "

5 O Christ, thou King compassionate !
Our hearts possess, on thee we wait:
Help us to render praises due,

To thee the endless ages through !

AMBROSIAN. TR. BY MRS. E. CHARLES.

Title: Easier Hymn.

The translation— eleven stanzas— is found in The
Voice of Christian Life in Song. London, 1858.

This hymn is composed of the first half of the
first, last half of the fourth, the third, eighth, tenth,
and eleventh stanzas.

Some verbal changes have been made for the
bettor. The translator wrote :

Verse two, line four:

" In pomp of triumph He is come."
Verse three, lines one, three, four :

" When the bereaved disciples heard,"
" They also haste to Galilee,
Their Lord's adored face to see."

Verse four, line four :

" Proclaim, ' The Lord is risen indeed.' "
Verse five, line three :

" Tliat we may render praises due."
See No. 205.

«o4 Vying, rising, reigning. L. M.

HE dies! the Friend of sinners dies!
Lo! Salem's daughters weep around;
A solemn darkness veils the skies,

A sudden trembling shakes the ground.

2 Come, saints, and drop a tear or two,
For him who groaned beneath your load;

He shed a thousand drops for you, —
A thousand drops of richer blood.

3 Here's love and grief beyond degree:
The Lord of glory dies for man!

But lo ! what sudden joys we see,
Jesus, the dead, revives again !

4 The rising God forsakes the tomb;
In vain the tomb forbids his rise;

Cherubic legions guard him home,
And shout him welcome to the skies.

5 Break off your tears, ye saints, and tell
How high your great "Deliverer reigns;

Sing how he spoiled the hosts of hell,
And led the monster Death in chains:

6 Say, "Live forever, wondrous King!
Born to redeem, and strong to save ; "

Then ask the monster, ' ' Where's thy sting? "

And, "Where's thy victory, boasting

Grave?" h

ISAAC WATTS, ALT. BY J. WESLEY.

Title: Christ Dying, Rising, and lieigning. From
Jlorce LyHca:, 1709.

The first stanza, as given in Watts s Tbtticul
\\ orks,\s as follows :

" He dies ! the Heav'nly Lover dies !

The Tidings strike a doleful Sound. •
On my poor Heartstrings: deep he lies

Jn the cold Caverns of the Ground."

The second lines of verses two and four have a'so
been altered :

" Come, saints, and drop a Tear or two
On the dear Bosom of your God."

" The rising God forsakes the Tomb,
Up to his Father's Court liefties."

These changes are, confessedly, great improve-
ments; I know of no conclusive evidence that thev
were made by John Wesley. On the other hand,
the Rev. Dr. John Kippon 'claims this form of tho
hymn as an authorized text.

S. M.

ao5 Joy in His resurrection.

THE Lord is risen indeed ;
The grave hath lost its prey;
With him shall rise the ransomed seed,
To reign in endless day.

2 The Lord is risen indeed;
He lives, to die no more;

He lives, his people's cause to plead,
Whose curse and shame he bore.

3 The Lord is risen indeed;
Attending angels, hear!

Up to the courts of heaven, with speed,
The joyful tidings bear:

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4 Then take your golden lyres,
Ami strike each cheerful chord;

Join, all ye Wright celestial choirs,
To sing our risen Lord.

THOMAS KELLY.

Text : '• The Lord is risen indeed." Luke xxi v, 84.
The original contains eight stanzas. This hymn
is made up of verses four, live, seven, and eight.
The second liue in the first veise was originally :

" Then IIJl has lost its prey."

The rest is verbatim from Hymns on Various
Outages •■/ Scripture. First edition, 1804.
For biographical sketch of author, see No. 54.

236 Gone into heaven. S. M.

THOU art gone up on high
To mansions in the skies:
And round thy throne unceasingly
The songs of praise arise.

2 But we are lingering here,
"With sin and care oppressed :

Lord, send thy promised Comforter,
And lead us to thy rest.

3 Thou art gone up on high :

But thou didst first come down,
Through earth's most bitter agony
To pass unto thy crown.

4 And girt with griefs and fears
Our onward course must be ;

But only let that path of tears
Lead us at last to thee.

5 Thou art gone up on high:
But thou slialt come again,

With all the bright ones of the sky
Attendant in thy train.

6 0 by thy saving power
So make us live and die,

That we may stand, in that dread hour,
At thy right hand on high.

EMMA TOKE.

This hymn was written in 1851, and was contrib-
uted anonymously to the Hymn juootoftht
for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.

The author, Mrs. Emma Toke. (1812-1878.) was
the wife of the Rev. Nicholas Toke, an English
clergyman.

■ ord has been changed — verse three, line
three. The original has :

"Through earth's most bitter misery.''''

237 The Sing of glory. L. M.

Ol'K Lord is risen from the dead;
Our Jesus is gone up on high;
The powers of hell are captive led,

Dragged to the portals of the sky:
There his triumphal chariot waits,

And angels chant the solemn lay,
"Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates;
Ye everlasting doors, give way!

2 "Loose all your bars of massy light,
And wide unfold the ethereal scene;

lie claims these man-ions as his right;

Receive the King of glory in ! "
•'Who is the King of glory.' Who?"

" The Lord, that all our foes o'ercame;
The world, sin, death, and hell o'erthrew;

And Jesus is the Conqueror's name."

3 Lo, his triumphal chariot waits,
And angels chant the solemn lay:

"Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates;

Ye everlasting doors, give way ! ''
•• Who is the King of glory? Who?"

"The Lord, of glorious power possessed;
The King of saints and angels too;

God over all, forever blest ! "

CHARLES WESLEY.

The last part of a metrical version of Psalm xxiv.
These stanzas are founded on verses 7-10 :

" Lift up your heads, O ye gates : and be ye lifted
up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glorv
shall come in. Who is this King of glory ? The
Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
Lift up your hearts, O ye gates ; even lift them up,
yc everlasting doors; and" the King of glory sh:i!l
come in. Who is this King of glory ? The Lord
of hosts, he is the King of glorv."

Unaltered, from
Hymns, 174-3.

A Collection of Psalms and

238 Sufficiency of the atonement. L. M.

TESUS, thy blood and righteousness
My beauty are, my glorious dress;
'Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.

2 Bold shall I stand in thy great day,
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
Fully absolved through these I am,
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.

3 The holy, meek, unspotted Lamb,
Who from the Father's bosom came,
Who died for me, e'en me to atone,
Now for my Lord and God I own.

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4 Lord, I believe thy precious blood,
Which, at the mercy-seat of God,
Forever doth for sinners plead,

For me, e'en for my soul, was shed.

5 Lord, I believe were sinners more
Than sands upon the ocean shore,
Thou hast for all a ransom paid,
For all a full atonement made.

NICOLAUS L. ZINZENDORF.

TR. BY J. WESLEY.

Title : The Believer's Triumph.

Wesley's translation contains twenty- four stanzas,
and is found in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.
This hymn is composed of verses one, two, six,
seven, and eight. In his Collection for the Use of
the People called Methodists, Wesley published ten
stanzas of this hymn. The others were not equal
to these.

The last stanza originally closed with the follow-
ing couplet :

" For all Thou hast the ransom given,
Purchased for all peace, lite, and heaven."

It was changed bv the translator for his Collection,
in 1779.

239 l.m.

An advocate with the Father. 1 John ii, 1.

JESUS, my Advocate above,
My friend before the throne of love,
If now for me prevails thy prayer,
If now I find thee pleading there, —

2 If thou the secret wish convey,

And sweetly prompt my heart to pray, —
Hear, and my weak petitions join,
Almighty Advocate, to thine.

3 Jesus, my heart's desire obtain ;
My earnest suit present, and gain :
My fullness of corruption show;
The knowledge of myself bestow.

4 O sovereign Love, to thee I cry,
Give me thyself, or else I die !

Save me from death, from hell set free ;
Death, hell, are but the want of thee.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns and Sacred. Poems, 1739. In the
first edition the title to this piece was Blessed are
They that Movrn. In all subsequent editions it
was'* Try Me, O Cod. and Seek the Ground of My
Heart.'''' Psa. cxxxix, 23. This quotation is from
the Prayer-Book version.

The original hymn contains five double stanzas.
Thin is composed of the first and the first part of the
third and fifth. The first line ( 'liarlcs Wesley wrote:

"Jesus, my great High-lYiest above."

The change may have been made by John
Wesley as it appears in his Collection. 1 confess I
much prefer the line as it stood originally.

240 Christ, King and Creator. L. M.

0 CHRIST, our King, Creator, Lord,
Saviour of all who trust thy word,
To them who seek thee ever near,
Now to our praises bend thine ear.

2 In thy dear cross a grace is found,
It flows from every streaming wound,
Whose power our inbred sin controls,
Breaks the firm bond and frees our souls.

3 Thou didst create the stars of night,
Yet thou hast veiled in flesh thy light;
Hast deigned a mortal form to wear,

A mortal's painful lot to bear.

4 When thou didst hang upon the tree,
The quaking earth acknowledged thee;
When thou didst there yield up thy breath,
The world grew dark as shades of death.

~t Now in the Father's glory high,
Great Conqueror, never more to die,
Us by thy mighty power defend.
And reign through ages without end.

GREGORY THE GREAT.
TR. BY R. PALMER.

Title : The Lordship of Christ.

This translation was contributed to The Sabbath
Ilyntn Book. 1858.

For sketch of the translator, sec No. 714.

The Latin title is: Rex Christt Factor omnium.

Gregory was born in Rome about 541, was well
educated, and in early life was in the employ of
the State. Upon the death of his father he inherit-
ed great wealth, much of which he spent in build-
ing monasteries. lie founded St. Andrew's at
Heme, which he entered as a deacon. Upon the
death of Pelagius, Bishop of Rome, Gregory was
chosen by the clergy and people as his su
The Emperor Maurice confirmed the election, and,
much against his will, it is said, Gregory was in-
stalled Pope in 595. He was a student of the
Scriptures, and labored to circulate them among
the people. He was also a founder and patron ot
missions, that to England among others. The
Bishop of Borne did not then arrogate to himself
universal sovereignty. John, Patriarch ot' Constan-
tinople, about this time assumed the title of Uni vers-
■J Bishop: which act Gregory called "proud,
heretical, blasphemous, antichristian, and dia-
bolical ; " and in opposition thereto he assumed the
title of "Servant of servants " (Servus tervomm
Domini). lie claimed that Christ was the only
universal Head of the Church. Crcrory was a
lover of sacred music, and cultivated chanting in
the Church service. Many of his acts were praise-

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worthy, others wore injurious. The Romish doe
nines of purgatory, masses i> >r the dead, and tran-

hubstuntiulion date from his tune. He died in 004.

241 Afii/tstic sweetness. CM.

MAJESTIC Bweetnesa sits enthroned
Upon the Saviour's brow;
His head with radiant glories crowned,
His lips with grace o'erflow.

2 No mortal can with him compare,
Among the sons of men ;

Fairer is he than all the fair
That till the heavenly train.

3 He saw me plunged in deep distress,
He flew to my relief;

For me he bore the shameful cross,
And carried all my grief.

4 To him I owe my life and breath,
And all the joys I have ;

He makes me triumph over death,
He saves me from the grave.

5 To heaven, the place of his abode,
He brings my weary feet;

Shows me the glories of my God,
And makes my joy complete

6 Since from his bounty I receive
Such proofs of love divine,

Had I a thousand hearts to give,
Lord, they should all be thine.

SAMUEL STENNETT.

" Chief Among Ten. Thousand ; or, Tfte Escel-
lem-iesqf Christ." Cant. v. 10-1(5.

Three stanza* are omitted, which, I think, some
will be glad to see :

1 " To Christ, the Lord, let every tongue
Its noblest tribute bring :

When he's the subject of the song,
Who can refuse to sing ?

2 " Survey the beauties of his face,
And on his glories dwell :

Think of the wonders of his grace,
And all his triumphs tell."

6 " His hand a thousand blessings pours

Upon my guilty head ;
His presence gilds my darkest hours,

And guards my sleeping bed."

This hymn, as given in the Ilvmnal, begins
with the third stanza. The second line is :

" Upon his awful brow."
Contributed to Rippon's Selection., 1787.

242 Life in Christ. L. M.

I KNOW that my Redeemer lives;
What joy the blest assurance gives!
He lives, he lives, who once was dead ;
He lives, my everlasting Head !

2 He lives, to bless me with his love;
He lives, to plead for me above;

He lives, my hungry soul to feed ;
He lives, to help in time of need.

3 He lives, and grants me daily breath ;
He lives, and I shall conquer death ;
He lives, my mansion to prepare :

He lives, to bring me safely there.

4 He lives, all glory to his name ;
He lives, my Saviour, still the same;

* What joy the blest assurance gives,
I know that my Redeemer lives !

SAMUEL MEDLEY.

u I know that my Redeemer livethy Job xix, 2S.

The original contains nine stanzas. These are
verses one, three, eight, and nine. Four lines have
been changed.

Verse one, lines two and four :

" What comfort this sweet passage gives."
" He lives, my ever-living head ! "

Verse four, lines two and three :

" He lives, my Jesus, still the same;
" 0 the sweet joy this sentence gives."

From a London Collection published in 1782.
See No. 193.

243 Prophet, Priest, and King. H. M.

JOTN all the glorious names
Of wisdom, love, and power,
That ever mortals knew,
Or angels ever bore :
All are too mean to speak his worth,
Too mean to set the Saviour forth.

2 Great Prophet of our God,

Our tongues shall bless thy name;
By thee the joyful news

Of our salvation came ;
The joyful news of sins forgiven,
Of hell subdued, and peace with heaven.

3 Jesus, our great High Priest,
Has shed his blood and died;

The guilty conscience needs
No sacrifice beside :
His precious blood did once atone,
And now it pleads before the throne.

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4 O thou almighty Lord,

Our Conqueror and King,
Thy scepter and thy sword,
Thy reigning grace, we sing:
Thine is the power; behold we sit
In willing bonds beneath thy feet.

ISAAC WATTS, ALT.

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, nook i, 1707.
The original contains twelve stanzas, into each of
which is woven some Scripture name given to
Christ. This hymn is made up of verses one, four,
eight, and ten ; and is substantially as published
by the author ; but, on account of a number of
slight changes, no less than sixteen, it should be
marked altered.

344 Rejoice evermore. 11. M.

REJOICE, the Lord is King!
Your Lord and King adore ;
Mortals, give thanks and sing,
And triumph evermore;
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice.

2 Jesus, the Saviour, reigns,
The God of truth and love;

When he had purged our stains,
He took his seat above ;
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice ;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice.

3 TTis kingdom cannot fail.

He rules o'er earth and heaven;
The keys of death and hell
Are to our Jesus given ;
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice ;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice.

4 He sits at God's right hand
Till all his foes submit,

And bow to his command,
And fall beneath his feet;
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice.

5 He all his foes shall quell,
And all our sins destroy;

Let every bosom swell
With pure seraphic joy;
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice;
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice.

G Rejoice in glorious hope;

Jesus the Judge shall come,
And take his servants up
To their eternal home ;
We soon shall hear the archangel's voice;
The trump of God shall sound, — Rejoice!

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns for Our Lord's Insurrection.
London, 1746. The early editions have " heart"
instead of " hearts " in tiie chorus : otherwise it is
verbatim and complete. The burden of this song
is evidently taken from Phil, iv, 4 :

"Eejoice in the Lord always: and again I say,
Rejoice."

245 Glory to glory's King. II. M.
I OD is gone up on high,

With a triumphant noise;
The clarions of the sky
Proclaim the angelic joys;
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing;
Glory ascribe to glory's King.

2 All power to our great Lord
Is by the Father given ;

By angel hosts adored,

He reigns supreme in heaven:
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing;
Glory ascribe to glory's King.

3 High on his holy seat,

He bears the righteous sway ;
His foes beneath his feet

Shall sink and die away •
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing;
Glory ascribe to glory's King.

4 Till all the earth, renewed
In righteousness divine.

With all the hosts of God,
In one great chorus join,
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing;
Glory ascribe to glory's King.

CHARLES WESLET.

First published in a pamphlet containing seven
pieces, entitled Hymns for Ascension Day. Bristol,
1746. ' This hymn expresses an exuberance of joy

that is almost too great for these impassive times.
It is not altered. Two verses, the second and fifth.
are omitted :

2 " God in the flesh below,

For us lie reigns above:
Let all the nations know

Our Jesus' conquering love !

Choms.

5 " His foes and ours are one,
Satan, the world, and sin ;

But He shall tread them down.
And bring His kingdom in."

Chorus.

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101

2 46 ' ' ■"• Ruokal Lamb. 8, 7.

HAIL, thou once despised Jesus!
Hail, thou Galilean King!
Thou didst suffer to release us;

Thou didst free salvation bring.
Hail, thou agonizing Saviour,

Bearer of our sin and shame!
By thy merits we find favor;
Life is given through thy name.

2 Paschal Lamb, by God appointed,
All our sins ou thee were laid:

By almighty love anointed,

Thou hast full atonement made.

All thy people are forgiven,

Through the virtue of thy blood ;

Opened is the gate of heaven;

Peace is made 'twixt man and God.

3 Jesus, hail ! enthroned in glory,
There forever to abide;

All the heavenly hosts adore thee,

Seated at thy Father's side :
There for sinners thou art pleading;

There thou dost our place prepare :
Ever for us interceding,

Till in glory we appear.

4 Worship, honor, power, and blessing.
Thou art worthy to receive ;

Loudest praises, without ceasing,

Meet it is for us to give.
Help, ye bright angelic spirits;

Bring your sweetest, noblest lays ;
Ilelp to sing our Saviour's merits;

Help to chant Immanuel's praise!

JOHN BAKEWKLL, ALT.

This favorite hymn is found in Martin Madan's
Collection, 1760, where it differs from this in
twelve of its lines. It is possible that the author,
who was then living, made these changes for Mr.
Toplady's book, (1776 ;) but it is more probable
that the changes were made by Toplady himself.
This opinion is based upon the fact that lie was in
the hahit of doing such things. The first two lines
have not been altered.

Mr. John Bakewell lived to be ninety-eight
vears of age, 1721-1819. He was one of Wesley's
lay preachers. For some years he was Master of
Greenwich Royal Park Academy. On his tomb-
stone is found this inscription : " He adorned the
doctrine of God our Saviour eighty years, and
preached his glorious Gospel about seventy years."

247 Casting our Crowns before Him. 8, 7.
**TTTE shall see Him," in our nature,

VV Seated on his lofty throne,
Loved, adored, by every creature
Owned as God, and God alone!

2 There the hosts of shining spirits
Strike their harps, and loudly sing

To the praise of Jesus' merits,
To the glory of their King.

3 When we pass o'er death's dark river,
" We shall see him as he is,"

Resting in his love and favor,
Owning all the glory his.

4 There to cast our crowns before him,
O what bliss the thought affords !

There forever to adore him,

King of kings, and Lord of lords !

MARY PYPER.

Title : " We shall see Him as He is."
A hymn of eight stanzas, of which the first four
are omitted :

1 " Not as He was, a houseless stranger,
With no home to shield His head,

Not as seen in Bethlehem's manger,
Where the horned oxen fed.

2 " Not as in the garden groaning,
Plunged in deep mysterious woe,

All the guilt of man bemoaning,

While the precious blood-sweats flow.

3 "Not as seen on Calvary's mountain
Where He ottered up His soul,

Opening wide that sacred fountain,
Which alone can make us whole.

4 " Not as He was, a pale and breathless
Captive in the shades beneath,

But as He is, immortal, deathless,
Conqueror o'er the powers of death !

" Yes we shall see Him in our nature," etc.

The next stanza begins:

" There countless ho~ts of shining spirits."

Mary Pyper was born at Greenock, Scotland, in
1795. She lived in Edinburgh. In 1847 she pub-
lished a thin volume, entitled Select Pieces.

Sacred Songs of Scotland gives this and several
more of the hymns of this author that possess de-
cided merit. She was poor, and supported herself
by needlework.

248 Crown Him Lord of All. CM.

ALL hail the power of Jesus' name!
Let angels prostrate fall ;
Bring forth the royal diadem,
And crown him Lord of all.

2 Crown hiin, ye morning stars of light,

Who fixed this earthly ball;
Now hail the strength of Israel's might,

And crown him Lord of all.

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HYMN STUDIES.

3 Ye chosen seed of Israel's race,
Ye ransomed from the fall,

Hail him who saves you by his grace,
And crown him Lord of all.

4 Sinners, whose love can ne'er forget
The wormwood and the gall :

Go, spread your trophies at his feet,
And crown him Lord of all.

5 Let every kindred, every tribe,
On this terrestial ball.

To him all majesty ascribe,
And crown him Lord of all.

6 O that with yonder sacred throng
We at his feet may fall!

We'll join the everlasting song,
And crown him Lord of all.

EDWARD PERKONET.

Author's title : On, the Resurrection.

The original contained eight verses. Three stan-
zas have Deen omitted. One, the last, has been
added, and all except the fourth have been more or
less altered.

Original Lines.

Verse one, line four:

" To crown him Lord of all."

Verse two, line two :

" "Who fixed this floating ball."

Verse three, line one :

" Ye seed of IsraeFs chosen race."

Verse three, line two :

" Ye ransomed of the fall."

Verse five, line one :

"Let every tribe and every tongue."

Verse five, line two:

" That bound creation's call."

Verse five, line three :

" Now shout in universal song."

Verse five, line four:

" The crowned Lord of all."

The last stanza was not a part of the original
hymn. It is not modern, however, but has been
in use more than ninety years.

Omitted Stanzas.

2 " Let high-bom Seraphs tune the lyre,

And as they tune it tall,
Before His face, who tunes their cMoir,

And crown Ilim Lord of all.

4 " Crown Him, ye martyrs of your God,

Who from His altar call ;
Extol the stem of Jesse's rod

And crown Him Lord of all.

6 " Hail Him ye heirs of David's line,

Whom David Lord did call;
The God incarnate, man Divine,

And crown Him Lord of all."

From a rare volume, entitled Occasional Verses,
Moral and Sacred, Published for the Instruction
and Amusement of the Candidly Serious and Re-
ligious. London, 1785. There is a copy of this
book in the Liorary of the Drew Theological Sem-
inary, Madison, N. J. ; and one in the Library of
the British Museum.

Little is known of the Eev. Edward Perronet,
excrpt that he wrote this hymn, which is fame
enough for one man. He was a friend of Charles
Wesley. At one time he was one of Ladv Hunt-
ingdon's chaplains, but later in life was a Dissent-
ing minister. He was born in 1726 and died in
1792, triumphantly exclaiming:

" Glory to God in the height of his divinity !
Glory to God in the depth of his humanity !
Glory to God in his all-suffioiencv ! '
Into His hand I commend my spirit."

24:9 Crown the Saviour. 8, 7, 4.

LOOK, ye saints, the sight is glorious,
See the Man of sorrows now ;
From the fight returned victorious,
Every knee to him shall bow:

Crown him, crown him ;
Crowns become the Victor's brow.

2 Crown the Saviour, angels, crown him:
Rich the trophies Jesus brings :

In the seat of power enthrone him,
While the vault of heaven rings:

Crown him. crown him;
Crown the Saviour King of kings.

3 Sinners in derision crowned him,
Mocking thus the Saviour's claim;

Saints and angels crowd around him,
Own his title, praise his name:

Crown him, crown him;
Spread abroad the Victor's fame.

4 Hark, those bursts of acclamation!
Hark, those loud triumphant chords 1

Jesus takes the highest station :
O what joy the sight affords!

Crown him, crown him,
King of kings, and Lord of lords.

THOMAS KEI>LY.

" And he shall reign for ever and ever,
xi, 15.

Rev.

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103

From the Author's Hymns on Various I':

Script '«/•«■, 1809, It is new to this book, and is do
servedly popular. It is unaltered.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 54.

250 Our everlasting Meat. L. M. 6 1.

OTHOU eternal Victim, slain,
A sacrifice for guilty man,
By the eternal Spirit made
An offering in the sinner's stead;
Our everlasting Priest art thou,
Pleading thy death for sinners now.

2 Thy offering still continues new ;
Thy vesture keeps its crimson hue ;
Thou art the ever-slaughtered Lamb,
Thy priesthood still remains the same ;
Thy years, O Lord, can never fail;
Thy goodness is unchangeable.

3 O that our faith may never move,
But stand unshaken as thy love !
Sure evidence of things unseen,
Passing the years that intervene,
Now let it view upon the tree

The Lord, who bleeds and dies for me.

CHARLES WESLEY, ALT.

Ill 1745 the Wesleys published Hymns on the
Lord's Supper, containing ono hundre I and sixty-
six pieces. This is one of them. The book was
prefaced by a thesis on The Christian Sacrament
and Sacrifice, extracted from the works of the Rev.
Dr. Brevint, a French Protestant of the seventeenth
century.

Borne changes were made by the editors of our
hymn book in 1849. " Crimson," in the second
stanza, was substituted for " bloody /" the last three
lines were altered from this form :

" Now let it pass the years between,
And view Thee bleeding on the tree,
My God, who dies for me, for me!"

251 TJie victory of 'the cross. S. M.

JESUS, the Conqueror, reigns,
In glorious strength arrayed;
His kingdom over all maintains,
Aud bids the earth be glad :

2 Ye sons of men, rejoice
In Jesus' mighty love;

Lift up your heart, lift up your voice,
To him who rules above.

3 Extol his kingly power;
Kiss the exalted Son,

Who died, and lives to die no more,
High on his Father's throne:

4 Our Advocate with God,

He undertakes our cause,
And spreads through all the earth abroad

The victory of his cross.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Several volumes of the Wesley an hymns were
published by the brothers, John and Charles, con-
jointly. Most of them were probably written by
Charles Wesley, although it is impossible, in most
cases, to say with certainty of these hymns, " This
is by Charles and that by John Wesley." The
Weslcyan Hymn Book does not attempt this dis-
crimination, but simply marks them W. for Wes-
leyan. It is quite possible that in our Hymnal
some pieces are marked Charles Wesley that were
written by John Wesley, and vice versa. In 1749
Charles Wesley published two volumes of Hymns
and Sacred Poems. This composition is found in
vol. i, and consists of the first two — verbatim — of
sixteen double stanzas.

252 Christ, our Intercessor. S. M.

LORD, how shall sinners dare
Look up to thine abode,
Or offer their imperfect prayer
Before a holy God?

2 Bright terrors guard thy seat,
And glories veil thy face ;

Yet mercy calls us to thy feet,
And to thy throne of grace.

3 My soul, with cheerful eye
See where thy Saviour stands,

The glorious Advocate on high,
With incense in his hands.

4 Teach my weak heart, O Lord,
With faith to call thee mine;

Bid me pronounce the blissful word —
Father, with joy divine.

ANNE STEELE, ALT.

•

This is made up of parts of two hymns. The
first two stanzas are the first part of a lornr meter
hymn of eight verses, entitled On a Day of prayer
for success inJVar.

The last two stanzas are verses five and seven of
a hymn of seven verses, entitled Breatltiny after
God. The third line of each stanza is unaltered,
all the rest were altered in changing the meter from
long to short.

From Miscellaneous Pieces in Verses and Prose,
1780.

253 Jesus enthroned.

ENTHRONED is Jesus now,
Upon his heavenly seat ;
The kingly crown is on his brow,
The saints are at his feet.

S. M.

104

HYMN STUDIES.

2 In shining white they stand,
A great and countless throng;

A palmy scepter in each hand,
On every lip a song.

3 They sin<r the Lamb of God,
Once slain on earth for them ;

The Lamb, through whose atoning blood,
Each wears his diadem.

4 Thy grace, O Holy Ghost,
Thy blessed help supply,

That we may join that radiant host,
Triumphant iu the sky.

THOMAS J. JUDKIN.

From Sacred Melodies ; or, Original Hymns for
Congregational and Domestic Use, by the Rev. T.
J. Judkiii, M.A. London, 1837.

The first line in the original reads :

"Tfiron'd high is Jesus now."

The rest of the hvnm is unaltered.
The Kev. Thomas James Judkin Q788-1871)
was a clergyman of the Church of England.

254 Our merciful High, Priest. C. M.

WITH joy we meditate the grace
Of our High Priest above ;
His heart is made of tenderness,
His bowels melt with love.

2 Touched with a sympathy within,
He knows our feeble frame ;

He knows what sore temptations mean,
For he hath felt the same.

3 He, in the days of feeble flesh,
Poured out strong cries and tears,

And in his measure feels afresh
What every member bears.

4 He'll never quench the smoking flax,
But raise it to a flame;

The bruised reed he never breaks,
Nor scorns the meanest name.

5 Then let our humble faith address
His mercy and his power;

"We shall obtain delivering grace
In every trying hour.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: Chrisfs Compassion to the Weal- and
Tempted. From Hymns and Spiritual Songs,

book i, 1707. The hymn has three texts:

" For we have not a high priest which cannot
be touched with a feeling of our infirmities; but

was in all points tempted like as tve are, vet with-
out sin. Let us therefore come l>oldly*unto the
tlmme of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and
find grace to help in time oi need." Beta. iv, 15-10.
" Who iu the days of his flesh, when he had ottered
up prayers and supplications with strong crying
and teats unto him that was able to save him from
death, and was heard in that lie feared." lieb. V. 7.
"A bruised reed shall he not break, and Bmoktng
flax shall he not quench, till he send forth
judgment unto victory." Malt, xii, 20.

"Strong" has been substituted lor "//£*" in the
third stanza. The last line Watts wrote:

" In tlie distressing hour."
One feeble verse, the third, is omitted :

"But spotless, innocent, and pure,

The great Redeemer stood,
While Satan's fiery darts he bore

And did resist to blood."

255 Christ, our guide. CM.

JESUS, the Lord of glory, died,
That we might never die;
And now he reigns supreme, to guide
His people to the sky.

2 Weak though Ave are, he still is near,
To lead, console, defend;

In all our sorrow, all our fear,
Our all-sufficient Friend.

3 From his high throne in bliss he deigns
Our every prayer to heed ;

Bears with our folly, soothes our pains,
Supplies our every need.

4 And from his love's exhaustless spring,
Joys like a river come,

To make the desert bloom and sing,
O'er which we travel home.

5 O Jesus, there is none like thee,
Our Saviour and our Lord ;

Through earth and heaven exalted be,
Beloved, obeyed, adored.

BAPTIST W. NOEL.

" Whither the forerunner is for unentered.'" Heb.
vi, 20.

The text of this hymn has not been altered.
One stanza, the fourth, has been omitted:

4 "Still through his intercession spared,

We And him true and kind ;
Though we are as the marble hard

.Vinl changeful as the wind."

From A Selection, of Psalm* and fff/mns fot
Public and J'rlrat, use, by Baptist Wriothesley
Noel, M.A. London, 1

HYMN STUDIES.

[05

The author was born in 1799. His family be-
longed to tin- English nobility. Educated at
Cambridge, he w as graduated with honor at Trinity
in i>l'>;. He was ordained a clergyman of
the Church of England, and inducted Sector of St.
John's Chapel, London. About lsis be changed
his view.-, oonoerning baptism. was publicly im-
mersed, and entered the ministry ot the Baptist

churches.

Dr. Noel was a pious man, a popular preacher,
and a zealous Christian worker. He was the author
of several prose works; but this little hymn will
perpetuate his name when his other writings are
forgotten. He lived until 1878.

256 AV ' ,■ / kings, and Lord of lords. C. M.

THE head that once was crowned with
thorn-,
Is crowned with glory now;
A royal diadem adorns

The mighty Victor's brow.

2 The highest place that heaven affords,
Is to our Jesus given ;

The King of kings, and Lord of lords,
He reigns o'er earth and heaven:

3 The joy of all who dwell above,
The joy of all below,

To whom he manifests his love,
And grants his name to know.

4 To them the cross, with all its shame,
With all it- grace, is given;

Their name, an everlasting name,
Their joy, the joy of heaven.

5 They suffer with their Lord below,
They reign with him above;

Their everlasting joy to know
The mystery of his love.

THOMAS KELLY.

" Perfect through sufferings." Heb. ii, 10.

This valuable and popular hymn was fir- 1 pub-
lished in our hymn book in 1849. The Becond
and fourth lines of the second stanza, as written
and published by the author, were :

" Is his, is Ids by right ; "
"And heaven's eternal light."

The third line of the fifth stanza was :

" Their profit and their joy to know."

The last stanza is omitted :

" The cross be bore is life and health,
Though shame and death to him ;

His people's hope, bis people's wealth,
Their everlasting theme."

From Hymns on Various Passages of Scripture,

257 8.M.

On his head were many crowns. Rev. xix, 12.

C^HOWN him with many crowns,
j The Land) upon his throne;
Hark, how the heavenly anthem drowns

All music but its own!
Awake, my soul, and sing,

( If him who died for thee,
And hail him as thy matchless King
Through all eternity.

2 Crown him the Lord of love!
Behold his hands and side, —

Rich wounds, yet visible above,

In beauty glorified :
No augel in the sky

Can fully bear that sight,
But downward bends his burning eye

At mysteries so great.

3 Crown him the Lord of peace !
Whose power a scepter sways

From pole to pole, that wars may cease.
And all be prayer and praise:

His reign shall know no end,
And round his pierced feet

Fair flowers of paradise -extend
Their fragrance ever sweet.

4 Crown him the Lord of years,
The Potentate of time,

Creator of the rolling spheres,

Ineffably sublime !
All hail! Redeemer, hail!

For thou hast died for me;
Thy praise shall never, never fail

Throughout eternity.

MATTHEW BRIDGES.

"In Capite Ejus Diademata Mult-i." Apocal.
xix, 12.

The author wrote verse two, line eight :

" At mysteries so bright."

Verse three, line four :

"Absorbed in prayer and praise."

Omitted.

2 " Crown Ilirn the Virgin's Son !

The God Incarnate born, —
Whose arm those crimson trophies won

Which now His Brow adorn !
Fruit of the Mystic Rose

As of that Hose the Stem :
The Root, whence Mercy ever flows,
The Babe of Bethlehem."

" Glass'd in a sea of light,

Whose everlasting waves
Reflect His Throne— the Infinite !

Who lives, — and loves, — and saves.

106

HYMN STUDIES.

Crown Him the Lord of Heaven !

One with the Father known, —
And the Blest Spirit thro' Him given

From yonder triune Throne."

From Hymns of the Heart, For the Use of Cath-
olics, by Matthew Bridges, Esq., 1848.

aOo His speaking blood. 8,7.

1 RATHER, hear the blood of Jesus,
. Speaking in thine ears above :
From impending wrath release us;
Manifest thy pardoning love.

2 () receive us to thy favor, —
For his only sake receive ;

Give us to the bleeding Saviour,
Let us by his dying live.

3 " To thy pardoning grace receive them,"
Once he prayed upon the tree ;

Still his blood cries out, " Forgive them;
All their sins were laid on me."

4 Still our Advocate dn heaven,
Prays the prayer on earth begun,

" Father, show their sins forgiven;
Father, glorify thy Son ! "

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns on the Lord's Supper, \\x John and
Charles Wesley, Presbyters of the Church of En-
gland. Bri-toi, 1745.

This hymn came into our book in 1849, and a
few verbal changes -were made at that time ; the
third line read :

" From T7ty wrath and curse release us."

The third line of second stanza:
"Give us to our bleeding Saviour."

And the last line of third stanza :
" All their sins were purged by me."

«D«7 The Lord is risen. 7.

CHRIST, the Lord, is risen again,
Christ hath broken every chain;
Hark ! angelic voices cry.
Singing evermore on high,

Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

2 He who gave for us his life,
Who for us endured the strife,
Is our Paschal Lamb to-day !
We, too. sing for joy, and Bay,
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

3 He who bore all pain and loss,
Comfortless upon the cross,
Lives in glory now on high,
Pleads for us, and hears our cry ;

Hallelujah ! Praise the Lord !

4 Now he bids us tell abroad
How the lost may be restored,
How the penitent forgiven,
How we, too, may enter heaven !

Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

MICHAEL AVKISSE.
TR. BY iMISS C. WINKWORTH.

This Easter Hymn lias been traced to the Bo-
hemian Brethren of the fifteenth century.

Michael Weisse was pastor of a German congre-
gation in the first part of the sixteenth century.
lie translated some of the finest of the Bohemian
hymns into German, and added some original

iueces, thus making a favorite hymn book. The
English translation ib from Lyra Germamea, second
series, 1858. Three stanzas are omitted.
Verse one, line three, in the translation is :

" Hark, the angels shout for joy."
The change is a great improvement.

(SOU The Lord is risen. 7

CHRIST, the Lord, is risen to-day,
Sons of men and angels say :
Raise your joys and triumphs high;
Sing, ye heavens, — and earth, reply.

2 Love's redeeming work is done;
Fought the fight, the battle won:
Lo! the sun's eclipse is o'er;
Lo! he sets in blood no more.

3 Vain the stone, the watch, the seal,
Christ has burst the gates of hell:
Death in vain forbids his rise ;
Christ hath opened paradise.

4 Lives again our glorious King;
Where, O Death, is now thy sting ?
Once he died our souls to save ;
Where's thy victory, boasting Grave?

5 Soar we now where Christ has led,
Follow our exalted Head;
Made like him, like him we rise;
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The author's title was : Hymn for Faster Day.
There are eleven stanzas" in all ; these arc the
first five.

HVAfy STUDIES.

107

The third stanza very much resembles ;i Btanza
of his eldest brother's (BaiiKtel'a) Easter hymn :

M In vain the stone, tlie watch, the seal,

Forbid an early rise
Tollim who breaks the elites of hell,

And opens Paradise."

One couplet has been changed, the last in the
fourth stanza:

'• Dying once he all doth save :
•■ Where thy victory, O grave i "

From tfjtmns and Sacred Poems, published by-
John and Charles Wesley. London, 1739.

261 Ascension day. 7.

HAIL the day that sees Him ri.>e.
Ravished from our wishful eyes !
Christ, awhile to mortals given,
He-ascends Ids native heaven.

9 There the pompous triumph waits;
Lift your heads, eternal gates;
Wide unfold the radiant scene;
Take the King of glory in !

3 Circled round with angel powers,
Their triumphant Lord and ours,
Conqueror over death and sin, —
Take the King of glory in !

4 Him through highest heaven receives,
Still he loves the earth lie leaves;
Though returning to his throne,

Still he calls mankind his own.

5 See, he lifts his hands above !
See, he shows the prints of love!
Hark, his gracious lips bestow
Blessings on his Church below !

8 Saviour, parted from our sight,
High above yon azure height,
Grant our hearts may thither rise,
Following thee beyond the skies.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Hymn for Ascension, Bay, from Hymns and Sa-
cred Poems, 1739.

Between verses five and six, two stanzas are
omitted :

6 " Still for us His death He pleads ;
Prevalent, He intercedes :

Near Himself prepares our place,
Harbinger of human race.

7 " Master, (will we ever say,)
Taken from our head to-day ;
See Thy faithful servants, see !
Ever gazing up to Thee."

Tlie last stanza of the hymn, as written, begins:

" Grant though parted from our sight."

There are two additional stanzas :

9 " Ever upward let us move,
Watted on tlie wingB of love;
Looking when our Lord shall come,
Longing, gasping alter home.

10 " There we shall with Thee remain,
Partners of Thy endless reign;
There Thy face unclouded see,
Find our heaven of heavens in Thee."

2 O 3 Earnest of endless rest. 7.

GRACIOUS Spirit, Love divine,
Let thy light within me shine!
All my guilty fears remove ;
Fill me with thy heavenly love.

2 Speak thy pardoning grace to me;
Set the burdened sinner free;
Lead me to the Lamb of God ;
Wash me in his precious blood.

3 Life and peace to me impart ;
Seal salvation on my heart;
Breathe thyself into my breast,
Earnest of immortal rest.

4 Let me never from thee stray;
Keep me in the narrow way;
Fill my soul with joy divine;
Keep me, Lord, forever thine.

JOHN STOCKEB.

Title: To God the Holy Ghost.

The original of verse one, line four, is:

" Fill me full of Heatfn and Love."
There are two additional stanzas :

5 " Guard me round on ev'ry side ;
Save me from self-righteous pride:
Me with Jesus' Mind inspire;
Melt me with celestial fire."

6 " Thou my Dross and Tin consume,
Let thy inward kingdom come:

All my Prayer and Praise BUggest;
Dwell and reign within my Breast."

About all that is known of this author is that he
was an Englishman, and that he contributed this
and several other hymns to the Gospel Magazine in
the years 1776 and 1777. Daniel Sedgwick re-
printed nine of his hymns in 1861.

108

HYMN STUDIES.

3 O 3 His grace entreated. 7.

HOLY SPIRIT, Truth divine!
Dawn upon 1 1 lis soul of mine;
"Word of God, and inward Light!
Wake my spirit, clear my sight.

2 Holy Spirit, Love divine!
Glow within this heart of mine;
Kindle every high desire;
Perish self in thy pure fire !

2 Holy Spirit, Power divine!
Fill and nerve this will of mine;
By thee may I strongly live,
Bravely bear and nobly strive.

4 Holy Spirit, Right divine!
King within my conscience reign ;
Be my law, and I shall be
Firmly bound, forever free.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW.

Title: Braver for Inspiration. From Hymns of
the Spirit. Boston, 1864.

Thesestanzas are copied verbatim. There are two
additional :

5 "Holy Spirit, Peace divine!
Still this restless heart of mine;
Speak to calm this tossing sea,
Stayed in Thy tranquillity.

" Holy Spirit, Joy divine !
Gladden Thou this heart of mine ;
In the desert ways I sing
Spring, O Well! forever spring.

For biography of author, see No. 109.

204 TJie gracious Comforter. 7.

GRANTED is the Saviour's prayer,
Sent the gracious Comforter;
Promise of our parting Lord,
Jesus, to his heaven restored.

2 Christ, who now gone up on high,
Captive leads captivity,

While his foes from him receive
Grace, that God with man may live.

3 God, the everlasting God.
Makes with mortals his abode;
Whom the heavens cannot contain,
He vouchsafes to dwell in man.

4 Never will he thence depart,
Inmate of a humble heart :
Carrying on his work within,
Striving till he cast out sin.

5 There he helps our feeble moans,
Deepens our imperfect groans,
Intercedes in silence there,

Sighs the unutterable prayer.

6 Come, divine and peaceful Guest,
Lnter our devoted breast:

Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire,
Kindle there the gospel fire.

7 Crown the agonizing strife,
Principle and Lord of life:
Life divine in us renew,
Thou the Gift and Giver too!

CHAELE8 WESLEY.

Hymn for Whitsunday. Unaltered, from Hymns
and Sacred 1'oems, 1739.

This hymn is new to the collection.

There are three additional stanzas, which contain
the "application," and are, therefore, the most im-
portant of all :

8 " Now descend and shake the earth,
Wake us into second birth ;

Now Thy quickening influence mve.
Blow — and these dry bones shall live !

9 " Brood Thou o'er our nature's night,
Darkness kindles into light,

Speed Thy over-shadowing wings,
Order from contusion springs.

10 "Pain and sin and sorrow cease ;
Thee we taste, and all is peace;

Joy Divine in Thee we prove.
Light of truth, and fire of love."

265

The Source of consolation.

8,7.

HOLY GHOST, dispel our sadness;
Pierce the clouds of nature's night;
Come, thou Source of joy and gladness,
Breathe thy life, and spread thy light.

2 From the height which knows no measure,
As a gracious shower descend,

Bringing down the richest treasure
Man can wish, or God can send.

3 Author of the new creation.

Come with unction and with power;
Make our hearts thy habitation;
On our souls thy graces shower.

4 Hear, O hear our supplication,
Blessed Spirit, God of peace]

Resl upon this congn gation,
With the fullness of thy grace.

PAUL OEUIIAItDT. TIL L'Y J. C. .TACOBI,
ALT. I5Y A. M. TOPLADY.

HYMN STUDIES.

100

This hymn has bad a remarkable history. It has
boon drawn and quartered again and ogain. The
German original was written by Paul Gerhardt,
(see No. 212, > in 1648. It was translated in ten
eight-lined stanzas bj John Christian Jaoobi. In
1776 the Rev. Augustus M. Toplady made over
this translation into a hymn of si\ eight-lined
stanzas tor his Belectiou of hymns. The editors of
the 1849 edition of the Methodist Episcopal Hymn
Bonk, transposed and altered Toplady's version;
and the editors of the present Hymnal made still
further changes. If it is not the finest hymn now
extant, it cannot be for lack of attention.

266 Guide and Comforter. 8,7.

HOLY SPIRIT, Fount of blessing,
Ever watchful, ever kind,'
Thy celestial aid possessing,

Prisoned souls deliverance find.
Beal of truth, and Bond of union,

Source of light, and Flame of love,
Symbol of divine communion,
In the olive-bearing dove;

2 Heavenly Guide from paths of error,

Comforter of minds distressed,
"When the billows fill with terror,

Pointing to an ark of rest :
Promised Pledge, eternal Spirit,

Greater than all gifts below,
May our hearts thy grace inherit;

May our lips thy glories show !

THOMAS J. JCDK1N.

" Where the Spirit of the Lord is, thereis liberty.'1''
2 Cor. iii, 17.

Unaltered and entire from the author's Sacred
Melodies f or, Original Hymns for Congregational

and Domestic Use. London, 1837. See No. 253.

267 The work of the Holy Spirit 7.

HOLY GHOST, with light divine,
Shine upon this heart of mine;
Chase the shades of night away,
Turn my darkness into day.

2 Holy Ghost, with power divine,
Cleanse this guilty heart of mine.
Long hath sin, without control,
Held dominion o'er my soul.

3 Holy Ghost, with joy divine,
Cheer this saddened heart of mine;
Bid my many woes depart,

Ileal my wounded, bleeding heart.

4 Holy Spirit, all divine,
Dwell within this heart of mine;
Cast down every idol-throne,
Reign supreme — and reign alone.

ANDREW REED.

Title : Prayer to the Spirit. From Dr. Eeed's Col-
lection, published in 1S17.

The original contains four double stanzas. This
hymn is made up of the first half of each stanza
without change.

The Rev. Andrew Reed, D.D., an English Inde-
pendent minister, was born in London in 1788, and
lived until 18IJ2. In his youth he was a great lover
of books, and was very happy when his parents
decided that he might go to college. After he was
graduated at Hackney Seminary, he accepted a call
to a church in East London, where he remained
for half a century. Dr. Reed was a natural orator,
and a successful pastor; but he was more famous
for Christian philanthropy. He founded several
asylums and hospitals, which, by his great faith
and business ability, be made successful. He wrote
his own biography as follows :

" To ray saucy boy, who said lie would ivritemy
life, and asked for materials."

"A. R.

"I was born yesterday ;
I shall die to-morrow :
I must not spend to-day
In telling what I have done,
But in doing what I may for

HIM
Who has done all for me.
I sprang from the people ;
I have lived for the people —
The most for the most unhappy.
And the people, when they know it,
Will not allow me to die out of loving
remembrance."

268 His universal effusion. L. M.

ON all the earth Thy Spirit shower;
The earth in righteousness renew;
Thy kingdom come, and hell's o'erpower,
And to thy scepter all subdue.

2 Like mighty winds, or torrents fierce,
Let him opposers all o'errun ;

And every law of sin reverse,

That faith and love may make all one.

3 Yea, let him, Lord, in every place
His richest energy declare ;

While lovely tempers, fruits of grace,
The kingdom of thy Christ prepare.

4 Grant this, O holy God and true!
The ancient seers thou didst inspire,-

To us perform the promise due ;

Descend, and crown us now with fire.

HENRY MORE.
ALT. BY J. WESLEY.

110

HYMN STUDIES.

This hymn is the last part of a long poem, enti-
tled Upon the Descent of tlte lloly Ghost at the Day
of Pentecost.

It is found in the author's Works in prose and
poetry. London, 1708. It was altered by Wesley
and published (fifteen verses) in Hymns and Sacred
Poems 1739.

We here give the original of these stanzas that the
reader may see just what changes have been made :

" On all the earth tby Spirit pour,

In righteousness it to renew :
That Satan's kingdom 't may o'erpower,

And to Christ's sceptre may subdue.

11 Like mighty wind or torrent fierce,

Let it withstanders all o'errun,
And every wicked law reverse,

That faith and love may make all one.

" Let peace and joy in each place spring,
And righteousness, the Spirit's fruit-*,

With meekness, friendship, and each thing
That with the Christian spirit suits.

" Grant this O holy God and true,

Who the ancient prophets did inspire ,

Ha-ste to perform thy promise due,
As all thy servants thee desire."

The Kev. Henry More, D.D., was born in 1614 ;
was educated at Eton and Christ College, Cam-
bridge ; was graduated ill 1635, took the degree of
M. A. in 1639, and was made a fellow of his college.
Dr. More rejected all Church preferments, and gave
himself to philosophical studies and authorship.
He died in 1687.

269 Come, Creator Spirit. L. M.

OCOME, Creator Spirit blest !
Within these souls of thine to rest ;
Come, with thy grace and heavenly aid,
To fill the hearts -which thou hast made.

2 Come, Holy Spirit, now descend !
Most blessed gift which God can send ;
Thou Fire of love, and Fount of life !
Consume our sins, and calm our strife.

3 With patience firm and purpose high,
The weakness of our flesh supply ;
Kindle our senses from above,

And make our hearts o'erflow with love.

4 Far from us drive the foe we dread,
And grant us thy true peace instead ;
So shall we not, with thee to guide,
Turn from the paths of life aside.

GREGORY THE GREAT.

Title : Veni, Creator Splritus.
The translation is by Edward Caswall, from
Lyra Catholica, 1S4S.

The original has seven stanzas; these are verses
one, two, four, and five, somewhat altered.

Original Lines.

Verse one, lines one and two :

" Come, O Creator Spirit blest!
And in our souls take up thy rest."

Verse three, line one :

" With patience firm and virtue high."

The couplets of this stanza have been transposed.
Verse four, line three :

" So shall we not with iheefor guide."
For biographical sketch of Gregory, see No. 240.

270 Life, light, and U.ve. C. M.

NTHRONED on high, almighty Lord,

The Holy Ghost send down;
Fulfill in us thy faithful word,
And all thy mercies crown.

2 Though on our heads no tongues of fire
Their wondrous powers impart,

Grant, Saviour, what we more desire, —
Thy Spirit in our heart.

3 Spirit of life, and light, and love,
Thy heavenly influence give;

Quicken our souls, our guilt remove,
That we in Christ may live.

4 To our benighted minds reveal
The glories of his grace,

And bring us where no clouds conceal
The brightness of his face.

5 His love within tis shed abroad,
Life's ever-springing well;

Till God in us, and we in God,
In love eternal dwell.

THOMAS HAWEIS.

Author's title : Day of Pentecost.
From Cannina Chrisio;or, Hymns to the Saviour,
1792.

The last part of the third stanza was originally :

"Quicken our souls, born from above,
In Christ that we may live."

The Rev. Thomas llaweis was born in 1732. and
was graduated at Christ's College, Cambridge.
Haweis was a popular preacher of the Church of
England, and one of the founders of the London Mis-
sionary Society. He was the author of some pro»»e
works, and published a volume of two hundred
and fifty-six hymns. He lived until 1820.

HYMN STUDIES.

Ill

2 / 1 Source of liyJU and joy. C. M.

GREAT Spirit, by whose mighty power
All creatures live and move,
On us thy benediction shower;
Inspire our souls with love.

2 Hail, Sonne of light! arise and shine;
Darkness and doubt dispel;

Give peace and joy, for we are thine;
In us forever dwell.

3 From death to life our spirits raise,
And full redemption bring ;

New tongues impart to speak the praise
Of Christ, our God and King.

4 Thine inward witness bear, unknown
To all the world beside ;

Exulting then we feel and own
Our Saviour glorified.

THOMAS HAWEIS.

Original title : Day of Pentecost.

In verse three, hue two, the author wrote :

" Comphat redemption bring."

Verse four, line four :

" Our Jesus glorified."

The full title of Dr. Haweis's book of hymns was :
Carmina Christo ; or, Hymns to the Saviour, De-
sujned for the Use and Comfort of those tcho Wor-
ship the Lamb that was Slain, 1792. The first edi-
tion contained one hundred and thirty-nine hymns.

272 /worship Thee, 0 Holy Ghost. C. M.

I WORSHIP thee, O Holy Ghost,
I love to worship thee ;
My risen Lord for aye were lost
But for thy company.

2 I worship thee. O Holy Ghost,
I love to worship thee ;

I grieved thee long, alas ! thou know'st
It grieves me bitterly.

3 I worship thee, O Holy Ghost,
I love to worship thee;

Thy patient love, at what a cost
At last it conquered me !

4 I worship thee, O Holy Ghost,
I love to worship thee:

With thee each day is Pentecost,
Each night Nativity.

WILLIAM F. WARREX.

This hymn was contributed by the author to the
Hymnal in 1^7", ut the request of the Editorial
' Committee.

The Rev. William Fairfield Warren, D.D., LL.D.,
was born in Williamsburg, Mass., in 1888, and was
graduated at the Wesleyan University in 1853. la
1866 he went abroad, and spent some" years in Ger-
man Universities, and in traveling. In 1861 he was

appointed Professor of Systematic Theology in the
Methodist Episcopal Mission Institute at Bremen,
Germany, in 1666 he returned to this country,

having been elected to the ProfVssorsbip of System-
atic Theology in Boston Theological Seminarv. In
1871 he was chosen Dean of the School of Theol-
ogy in Boston University, and in 1873 was elected
President of the University, which position he still
honors. President Warren is a brother ot Bishop
Henry W. Warren. He wrote the by mn:

"Out on an ocean all boundless we ride,"

which was very popular several years ago.

273 L. M. 6L

Receive ye the Holy Ghost. John xx, 22.

COME, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire,
And lighten with celestial fire ;
Thou the anointing Spirit art,
Who dost thy sevenfold gifts impart:
Thy blessed unction from above
Is comfort, life, and fire of love.

2 Enable with perpetual light
The dullness of our blinded sight;
Anoint and cheer our soiled face
With the abundance of thy grace ;
Keep far our foes, give peace at home;
Where thou art guide, no ill can come.

3 Teach us to know the Father, Son,
And thee, of both, to be but one;
That through the ages all along,
This may be our endless song:
Praise to thy eternal merit.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

GREGORY THE GREAT.
TR. BY J. COSIN.

This is a free version of the famous Latin hymn,
Veni, Creator Spiritu".

For biography of Gregory, see No. 240.

This translation, as here given, first appeared in
A Collection of Private Devotions, 1627.

The translator, Bishop John Cosin, was born in
Norwich in 1594 ; entered Cambridge at the ajre of
sixteen, and in 1628 received the decree of D.D.
Dr. Cosin was extremely " High-Church," and
could not harmonize with the Loner Parliament.
He therefore retired to Prance. At the Restora-
tion he returned to England, and soon after that
was appointed Bishop of Durham. He died in
1672.

112

HYMN STUDIES.

a/Q The spirit of the ancient mints. L. M.

OFOR that flame of living fire,
Which shone so bright in saints of old!

Which bade their souls to heaven aspire,
Calm in distress, in danger bold.

2 Where is that Spirit, Lord, which dwelt
In Abrah'm's breast, and sealed him

thine?
Which made Paul's heart with sorrow melt,
And glow with energy divine?

3 That Spirit, which from age to age
Proclaimed thy love, and taught thy ways?

Brightened Isaiah's vivid page,

And breathed in David's hallowed lays?

4 Is not thy grace as mighty now
As when Elijah felt its power;

When glory beamed from Moses' brow,
Or Job endured the trying hour?

5 Remember, Lord, the ancient days;
Renew thy work ; thy grace restore ;

And while to thee our hearts we raise,
On us thy Holy Spirit pour.

WILLIAM II. BATHURST.

Title : For an Increase of Grace.

From Psa/ms and Hymns for Public and Private
Use. London, 1831.

This hymn is copied verbatim, except the last
couplet, which reads :

" Warm our cold' hearts to prayer and praise,
And teach us how to love thee more."

For biographical notes of author, see No. 61.

275 Pentecostal gifts. L. M.

(^OME, Holy Spirit, raise our songs
J To reach the wonders of that day,
When, with the fiery cloven tongues

Thou didst such glorious scenes display.

2 Lord, we believe to us and ours,
The apostolic promise given;

We wait the pentecostal powers,

The Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.

3 Assembled here with one accord,
Calmly we wait the promised grace,

The purchase of our dying Lord;
Come, Holy Ghost, and fill the place.

4 If every one that asks, may find,
If still thou dost on sinners fall,

Come as a mighty rushing wind ;
Great grace be now upon us all.

5 O leave us not to mourn below,
Or long for thy return to pine;

Now, Lord, the comforter bestow,
And fix in us the Guest divine.

CHARLES WESLEY, ALT.

The first stanza of this hymn is not Wesley's,
but was added by the Revision < ommiitee from an
old edition of the hymn book. The author is
unknown. He may be Robert (air Brackenbury.
It is the first stanza of a hymn in a book edited by
him, and entitled Sacred Poetry, etc. London, 18U0.
The remaining stanzas are respectively verses five,
seven, eight, and six of a Hymn for the Hay of
Pentecost, which contained twelve stanzas in all.
Three lines have been altered.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

276 His power and vnction. L. M.

0 SPIRIT of the living God,
In all thy plenitude of grace,
Where'er the foot of man hath trod,
Descend on our apostate race.

2 Give tongues of fire and hearts of love,
To preach the reconciling word;

Give power and unction from above,
Where'er the joyful sound is heard.

3 Be darkness, at thy coming, light;
Confusion — order, in thy path;

Soids without strength, i nspi re with might ;
Bid mercy triumph over wrath,

4 Baptize the nations; far and nigh
The triumphs of the cross record;

The name of Jesus glorify,

Till every kindred call him Lord.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title : Tlie Spirit Accompany in// the Word of
God. Unaltered, from the Christian /Palmist,
1825.

Two stanzas have been omitted :

4 " 0 Spirit of the Lord ! prepare
All the round earth her Qoa to meet;

Breathe Thou abroad like morning air,
Till hearts of stone begin to beat.

6 "God from eternity hath willed.

All flesh shall His salvation see;
So be the Father's love fulfilled,

The Saviour's sufferings crowned through Thee.

277 His quickening power, CM.

COME, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all thy quickening powers;
Kindle a flame nf sacred love
In these cold hearts of ours.

HYMN STUDIES.

113

2 Look how we grovel here below,
Fond of these earthly toys;

Our souls, how heavily they go
To reach eternal joys.

3 In vain we tune our formal songs,
In vain we strive to rise;

Hosannas languish on our tongues,
And our devotion dies.

4 Father, and shall wc ever live
At this poor dying rate,

Our love so faint, so cold to thee,
And thine to us so great ?

5 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove,
With all thy quickening powers;

Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love,
And that shall kindle ours.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : Breathing after the Holy Spirit ; or, Fer-
vency of Devotion Desired. From Hymns and
Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

The third line of the second stanza has been
changed. Watts wrote :

•' Our souls can neither fly nor go."

Watts alse began the fourth stansa :

" Dear Lord, and shall we ever live."

These changes were probably made by John
Wesley, who published this hymn, with others, in
his Collection of Psalms and Hymns, in 1738 and
1741. With regard to the word "rfww," John
Wesley was very particular. He never used it
himself in reference to the Saviour, and he always
substituted some other word for it in the hymns
that he edited. He thought it was " using too much
familiarity with the great Lord of heaven and earth."

278 Revelations of the Spirit. CM.

SPIRIT Divine, attend our prayer,
And make our hearts thy home;
Descend with all thy gracious power:
Come, Holy Spirit, come!

2 Come as the light : to us reveal
Our sinfulness and woe;

And lead us in those paths of life
Where all the righteous go.

3 Come as the fire, and purge our hearts,
Like sacrificial flame :

Let our whole soul an offering be
To our Redeemer's name.

4 Come as the wand, with rushing sound,
With pentecostal grace;

And make the great salvation known
Wide as the human race.
8

S Spirit Divine, attend our prayer,
And make our hearts thy home;

Descend with all thy gracious power:
Come, Holy Spirit, come!

ANDREW REED, ALT.

This is one of a number of original hymns that
Dr. Reed contributed to his Collection, in 1842.

Two stanzas have been omitted, and some ver-
bal changes have been made.

The title is : Prayer to ilie Spirit.

It was evidently written for the dedication of a
church. Ten lines have been changed.

Original.
Verse one, lines one, two, and four :

"Spirit Divine, attend our prayers
And make this house thy home ; "

" 0 come, Great Spirit, come!"
Verse two, line two :

" Our emptiness and woe."
Verse four, lines two, three, and four :

"And pentecostal grace
That all of woman bom may set
The glwy of thy face."

Verse five, lines one, two, and four :

" Spirit Divine, attend our prayers,
Make a lost world thy home ;

O come, Great Spirit, come !

Verses four and five are omitted.

For biographical sketch of the author, sea

No. 207.

279 The enlightening Spirit C. M.

COME, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire;
Let us thine influence prove ;
Source of the old prophetic fire,
Fountain of life and love.

Come, Holy Ghost, for moved by thee
The prophets wrote and spoke,

Unlock the truth, thyself the key;
Unseal the sacred book.

3 Expand thy wings, celestial Dove,
Brood o'er our nature's night ;

On our disordered spirits move,
And let there now be light.

4 God, through himself, we then shall know,
If thou within us shine;

And sound, with all thy saints below,
The depths of love divine.

CHARLES WESLEY.

114

HYMN STUDIES.

Title : Before Reading the Scriptures. Froi:
Hymns and Sacred Toems, 1740.
The author wrote, verse three, line one :

" Expand Thy wings, prolific Dove."

280 The Source of every good gift. CM.

OUR blest Redeemer, ere he breathed
His tender, last farewell,
A Guide, a Comforter, bequeathed,
With us on earth to dwell.

2 He came in tongues of living flame,
To teach, convince, subdue;

All-powerful as the wind he came,
And all as viewless, too.

3 He came, sweet influence to impart,
A gracious, willing Guest,

While he can find one humble heart
Wherein to fix his rest.

4 And his that gentle voice we hear,
Soft as the breath of even,

That checks each fault, calms every fear,
And whispers us of heaven.

5 And every virtue we possess,
And every virtue won,

And every thought of holiness
Is his, and his alone.

6 Spirit of purity and grace,
Our weakness pitying see ;

O make our hearts thy dwelling-place,
Purer and worthier thee !

HARRIET AUBER, ALT.

Title: Whitsunday.

From The Spirit of the Psalms, 1829. The alter-
ation consists in the addition of two syllables to
the fourth line of each stanza ; thus changing the
meter from particular to common.

Original Lines.
Verse one, line four :

" With us to dwell."

Verse two, line four:

"As viewless, too."

Verse three, line four :

" Wherein to rest."

Verse four, line three :
" That checks each fault, that calms each fear."

Verse four, line four :

" And speaks of heaven."

Verse five, line two :

" And every victory won."
Verse five, line four :

" Are his alone."

Verse six, line four :

" And worthier Thee."

The second stanza has been omitted :

" He came in semblance of a dove,
With sheltering wings outspread;

The holy balm of peace and love
On earth to shed.

For biographical sketch, see No. 33.

6ul The Spirit's witness. C M.

ETERNAL Spirit, God of truth,
Our contrite hearts inspire;
Kindle a flame of heavenly love,
The pure celestial fire.

2 'Tis thine to soothe the sorrowing,
With guilt and fear oppressed;

'Tis thine to bid the dying live,
And give the weary rest.

3 Subdue the power of every sin,
Whate'er that sin may be;

That we, in singleness of heart,
May worship only thee.

4 Then with our spirits witness bear,
That we are sons of God;

Redeemed from sin, and death, and hell,
Through Christ's atoning blood.

THOMAS COTTERILL, ALT.

Title : For a Well Grounded Hope of Salvation,
Five lines have been altered.

Original Form.
Verse one, line one :

" Eternal Spirit, source of truth."

Verse one, line three :

" Kindle tlie flame of heavenly love."

Verse one, line four :

" And feed thepure desire."

Verse two, line two:

" With Satan's yoke opprcss'd."

Verse four, line two :

" That we're the sons of God."

HYMN STUDIES.

115

One sumza, the third, hns been omitted:

" Let no false joy deceive our minds ;

Lest while we boast thy light,
We fall, from all our towering hopes,

Down to eternal night."

From A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for
Public and Private /'->, Adapted to tht Strvieea
of the Church, of England, By the Rev. T. Cot-
terill, A.M., Perpetual Curate of St. Paul's
Church, Sheffield; and late fellow of St. John's
College, Cambridge. Sheffield, (eighth edition
enlarged, 1819.)

The author was born in 1779, educated at St.
John's College, ordained in 1S0U, aud labored in
the ministry until his death, in 1823. He was the
editor of the above book, and contributed several
hymns to it ; but he gives no names of authors.
He altered without scruple, and now some one has
altered his work and improved it.

283 Heading the promise H. M.

OTHOU that hearest prayer,
Attend our humble cry,
And let thy servants share
Thy blessing from on high :
We plead the promise of thy word ;
Grant us thy Holy Spirit, Lord!

2 If earthly parents hear
Their children when they cry,

If they, with love sincere,

Their children's wants supply;
Much more wilt thou thy love display,
And answer when thy children pray.

3 Our heavenly father, thou ;
We, children of thy grace;

O let thy Spirit now

Descend and fill the place ;
That all may feel the heavenly flame,
And all unite to praise thy name.

JOHN BURTON.

This line hymn first appeared in Tfie Baptist
MagaetM, 1824. It has n<>t been altered, but the
irifinal contained three additional stanzas.

John Burton was an English Baptist layman,
Born in 18U3.

283 Prayer to the Tlohj Spirit. 7, 5.

TEOU who like the wind dost come.
Come to me, but ne'er depart ;
Blessed Spirit, make thy home
In my thankful heart.

2 Answer not with tongues of light;

Brood not o'er me like a dove ;
Fall upon me in thy might;

Fill me with thy love.

3 Sin has ruled me; set me free;

Sin has scimiged me; bring me rest:
Help my fainting soul to flee
To my Saviour's breast.

4 Tell me much of cleansing blood;
Show me sin, but sin forgiven :

Step by step, where Christ has trod,
Help me home to heaven.

IIERVEY D. GANSE.

Written in 1873 for Hymns and Songs of Praise.
edited by Drs. Hitchcock, Eddy, and Sc'hatf, and
published in 1874. It is unaltered and entire.

The Rev. Hervey Doddridge Ganse was a native
of New York State, born in 1822. In 1835 he en-
tered the New York University, where lie remained
three years. The senior year he spent at Columbia
College, graduating in 1839. He studied Theology
in the Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church, at
New Brunswick, N. J. ; was ordained in 1843 ;
was pastor of a Reformed Dutch Church in New,
Jersey till 1850, and of another in New York from
1856 until 1875. In 187(5 he was installed pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church in St. Louis.

6,4.

284 Invocation of the Holy Spirit.

COME, Holy Ghost, in love,
Shed on us from above
Thine own bright ray!
Divinely good thou art;
Thy sacred gifts impart
To gladden each sad heart :
O come to-day !

2 Come, tenderest Friend, and best,
Our most delightful Guest,

With soothing power:
Rest, which the weary know.
Shade, 'mid the noontide glow,
Peace where deep griefs o'erflow,

Cheer us, this hour !

3 Come, Light serene, and still
Our inmost bosoms fill;

Dwell in each breast;
We know no dawn but thine.
Send forth thy beams divine,
On our dark souls to shine,

And make us blest!

4 Come, all the faithful bless;
Let all who Christ confess

His praise employ:
Give virtue's rich reward ;
Victorious death accord.
And, with our glorious Lord,

Eternal joy !

ROBBRT II., KrNG OF FRANCE.
TR. BY R. PALMER.

JIG

HYMN STUDIES.

Come, Holy Ghost, one of many translations of
the famous Latin hymn, Vent, Sonde Spiriiiis.

One stanza, the fourth, of the translation, is left
out :

4 " Exalt our low desires ;
Extinguish passion's tires ;

Heal every wound :
Our stubborn spirits bend,
Our icy coldness end,
Our devious steps attend,

While heavenward bound."

Dean Stanley, who has given us what is perhaps
the best rendering of this prayer-song in English,
called this " the most beautiful of all Latin hymns."

This translation was furnished for the Andover
Sabbath Hymn Booh, 1858.

Robert II., called "the sage," was the son of
Hugh Capet, and succeeded his father on the throne
of France about 996 ; he died, atter a reign of thirty
five years, in 1031. It is said that the king was a
chorister, and that he loved to go to the Church of
St. Denis in his crown and robes, and direct the
singing.

For biographical sketch of translator, see No. 714.

285 For the Spirit1 s energy. S. M.

COME, Holy Spirit, come,
With energy divine,
And on this poor benighted soul
With beams of mercy shin-'.

2 From the celestial hills
Light, life, and joy dispense ;

And may I daily, hourly, feel
Thy quickening influence.

3 O melt this frozen heart,
This stubborn will subdue;

Each evil passion overcome,
And form me all anew.

4 The profit will be mine.

But thine shall be the praise;
Cheerful to thee will I devote
The remnant of my days.

BENJAMIN REDDOME.

Author's title : Invocation.

Verbatim. From Hymns Adapted to Public
Worship or TVivatt !>■ notion. Now first pub-
Hthedfrumthe manuscripts of the late Rev. D. Bed-
dome, A.M. London, 1818.

This hymn is found without name in Rippon's
Selection. Tenth edition, 1800.

The Rev. Benjamin Beddome was an English

Baptist minister, who lived from 1717 to 17'.'">. He
w.-is the pastor of a 1 i t T 1 < - church in Bourton, Glou-
cestershire. He had a c;dl to a large London
church, but refused it, and remained at Bourton
fifty-two years. His collected hymns number eight
hundred and thirty. Many of them arc valuable.

286 Renewal of Pentecost. S. M.

LORD God, the Holy Ghost!
In this accepted hour,
As on the day of Pentecost,
Descend in all thy power.

2 We meet with one accord
In our appointed place,

And wait the promise of our Lord, —
The Spirit of all grace.

3 Like mighty rushing wind
Upon the waves beneath,

Move with one impulse every mind;
One soul, one feeling breathe.

4 The young, the old, inspire
With wisdom from above;

And give us hearts, and tongues of fire.
To pray, and praise, and love.

5 Spirit of light! explore,
And chase our gloom away,

With luster shining more and more.
Unto the perfect day.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Author's title : The Descent of the Spirit.
Scripture basis : Acts ii, 1-4.
From the Christian Psalmist, 1825.
The hymn is copied, verbatim ; but, as published
by the author, it has four additional lines :

" Spirit of truth, be Thou
In life and death our guide ;

O Spirit of adoption, now
May we be sanctified."

Sec No. 5.

S. M.

287 The Comforter.

BLEST Comforter divine,
Let rays of heavenly love
Amid our gloom and darkness shine,
And point our souls above.

2 Turn us with gentle voice
Prom every sinful way.

And bid the mourning saint rejoice,
Though earthly joys decay.

3 By thine inspiring breath
Make every cloud of care,

And e'en the gloomy vale of death,
A smile of glory wear.

4 O fill thou every heart
With love to all our race;

Great Comforter, to us impart
These blessings of thy grace.

MRS. I.YDIA n. SIGOURNEY, ALT.

HYMN STUDIES.

117

This hymn has fell the might of the editor's pen.
It is found in many hymnals ; but ill hardly any
two of them is it in the same form. The earliest
gopj I have found, and probably the author's text,
was published in Dr. Nettleton's famous Village
Hymns in ls24. There it is marked H.,that is, we
Suppose, Huntley.

Title : Invocation to the Holy Spirit.

1 " Blest Comforter Divine !
Whose rays of heavenly love

Amid our gloom aii'l darkness shine,
And point our souls above ; —

2 "Thou— who with 'still small voice,'
Dost stop the sinner's way.

And bid the mourning saint rejoice,
Though earthly joys decay ; —

3 "Thou — whose inspiring breath
Can ma^e the cloua ot care,

And e'en the gloomy vale of doath
A smile of glory wear ; —

4 " Thou — who dost fill the heart
With love to all our race,

Blest Comforter ! — to us impart
The blessings of thy grace."

Miss Lydia Huntley, born at Norwich, Conn., in
1791, had a natural talent for i>oeiry, and composed
ver?es when a mere child. She was carefully edu-
cated, and taught for a time in a young ladies'
school. In 1819 she married Mr. Charles Sigour-
ney, and settled at Hartford. She lived until ibGO.

288 God's word, quick and powerful. S. M.

THY word, almighty Lord,
Where'er it enters in,
Is sharper than a two-edged sword,
To slay the man of sin.

2 Thy word is power and life ;
It bids confusion cease,

And changes envy, hatred, strife,
To love, and joy, and peace.

3 Then let our hearts obey
The gospel's glorious sound;

And all its fruits, from day to day,
Be in us and abound.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Author's title : On Leaving the House of God.
It was evidently intended for a closing hymn.
Unaltered. From T/te Christian Paalmist, 1825.
Bee No. 5.

Through earth extended wide

Shall mightily prevail.
Destroy the works of self and pride,

And shake the gates of hell.

2 Its energy exert

In the believing soul ;
Diffuse thy grace through every part,

And sanctify the whole;
Its utmost virtue show

In pure consummate love,
And fill with all thy life below,

And give us thrones above.

CHARLES WESLEY.

One of the many hymns that the author left in
manuscript. It was "first published in the supple-
ment to the Wesleyan Collection in 1830. It is un-
altered and entire.

289 Spreading the Scriptures. S. M.

JESUS, the word bestow,
The true immortal seed ;
Thy gospel then shall greatly grow,
And all our land o'erspread ;

290 l.m.

The brightening glory of the Gospel.

UPON the Gospel's sacred page
The gathered beams of ages shine ;
And, as it hastens, every age

But makes its brightness more divine.

; 2 On mightier wing, in loftier flight,

From year to year does knowledge soar;
And, as it soars, the Gospel light
Becomes effulgent more and moa*.

3 More glorious still, as centuries roll,
New regions blest, new powers unfurled.

Expanding with the expanding soul,
Its radiance shall o'erflow the world, —

4 Flow to restore, but not destroy ;
As when the cloudless lamp of day

Pours out its floods of light and joy,
And sweeps the lingering mists away.

SIR JOHN BOWRING.

Title : Progress of Gospel Truth. From the au-
thor's Matins and Vespers. London, 1823. In the
last line of the second stanza the author wrote :

"Adds to its influence more and more."

And in the last line of the third verse :

" Its waters shall o'erflow the world."

One stanza, the third, is omitted :

" Truth, strengthened by the strength of thought,

Pours inexhaustible supplies,
Whence Basest teachers may be taught,

And wisdom's self become more wise."

In his preface the author says : " These hymns
were not written in the pursuit of fame, or liter--
ary triumph ... I have not sought to l>e original:
to be useful is my rlr.-t ambition; that obtained, I
am indifferent to the rest."

See No. 150.

118

HYMN STUDIES.

291 Delight in the Bible. L. M. 6 1.

WHEN quiet in my house I sit,
Thy book be my companion still ;
My joy thy sayings to repeat,

Talk o'er the records of thy will,
And search the oracles divine,
Till every heart-felt word be mine.

2 O may the gracious words divine,
Subject of all my converse be;

So will the Lord his follower join,

And walk and talk himself with me:
So shall my heart his presence prove,
And burn with everlasting love.

3 Oft as I lay me down to rest,
O may the reconciling word

Sweetly compose my weary breast ;
While on the bosom of my Lord
I sink in blissful dreams away,
And visions of eternal day.

4 Rising to sing my Saviour's praise,
Thee may I publish all day long ;

And let thy precious word of grace

Flow from my heart, and fill my tongue:
Fill all my !ife with purest love,
And join me to the Church above,

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the
liohj Scriptures, 1762.

These four stanzas are founded on the four
phrases of the text :

" Thou shalt talk of them when thou sittest in
thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou risest
up." Deut. vi, 7.

The author wrote "might" instead of "may,"
verse two, line one; and "would" instead of
"shall " in verse two, line five.

292 The two revelations. L. M.

THE heavens declare thy glory, Lord ;
In every star thy wisdom shines ;
But when our eyes behold thy word,
We read thy name in fairer lines.

2 The rolling sun, the changing light,
And nights and days thy power confess,

But the blest volume thou hast writ,
Reveals thy justice and thy grace,

3 Sun, moon, and stars, convey thy praise
Round the whole earth, and never stand :

So when thy truth began its race,

It touched and glanced on every land.

4 Nor shall thy spreading gospel rest,

Till through the world thy truth has run:
Till Christ has all the nations blessed
That see the light, or feel the sun.

5 Great Sun of righteousness, arise,

Bless the dark world with heavenly light;
Thy gospel makes the simple wise,

Thy laws are pure, thy judgments right.

6 Thy noblest wonders here we view,
In souls renewed, and sins forgiven:

Lord, cleanse my sins, my soul renew,
And make thy word my guide to heaven.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : The Boohs of Mature and of Scripture
Compared; or, The Glory and /Success of t/ie Gospel.

It is founded on P.-ahn xix, especially on the hr.-t
part:

" The heavens declare the «lory of God ; and the
firmament showeth his handy work. Day unto day
uttercth speech, and night unto night showeth
knowledge. There is no speech nor language,
where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone
out through all the earth, and their words to the
end of the world. In them hath he set a taber-
nacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coining
out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man
to run a race."

It. is unaltered and entire. Date of publication,
1719.

293 The everlasting word. L. M.

THE starry firmament on high,
And all the glories of the sky,
Yet shine not to thy praise, O Lord,
So brightly as thy written word.

2 The hopes that holy word supplies,
Its truths divine and precepts wise,
In each a heavenly beam I see,
And every beam conducts to thee.

:\ Almighty Lord, the sun shall fail,
The moon forget her nightly tale,
And deepest silence hush on high
The radiant chorus of the sky;

4 But, fixed for everlasting years,
Unmoved amid the wreck of spheres,
Thy word shall shine in cloudless day,
When heaven and earth have passed away.

SIR ROBERT GRANT.

Founded on Psalm xix. It is intended as a

sequel or counterpart to Addison's well-known
hymn, •' The Spacious Firmament on High," (No.
138,) and it is in no wise inferior to that wonderful
hymn. It has not been altered.

HYMN STUDIES.

119

From Sacred Tbems, 1839. The original contains
four double stanzas. This hvinn is made up ol'the
first and last, verbatim. The omitted verses ure
good, but they are not equal to these.

Sec No. HO.

294 l.

The Saviour seen in the Scriptures.

NOW let my soul, eternal King,
To thee its grateful tribute bring;
My knee with humble homage bow;
My tongue perform its solemn vow,

2 All nature sings thy boundless love,
Iu worlds below and worlds above;
But in thy blessed word I trace
Diviner wonders of thy grace.

3 There, what delightful truths I read!
There, I behold the Saviour bleed:
His name salutes my listening ear,
Revives my heart, and checks my fear.

4 There Jesus bids my sorrows cease,
And gives my laboring conscience peace ;
He lifts my grateful thoughts on high,
And points to mansions in the sky.

5 For love like this, O let my song,
Through endless years, thy praise prolong ;
Let distant climes thy name adore,

Till time and nature are no more.

OTTIWELL HEGLNBOTHAM.

Title: The Glorious Gospel.

The second verse of the hymn is omitted :

2 " The spangled heavens thy power proclaim,

Earth echoes back thy mighty name :

Thy glory gilds returning days,

And nights in silence speak thy praise."

Verse four, line three, the author wrote :
" liaises my grateful passions high."

All of this author's hymns — about twenty-five in
number — are found in A Collection of Hymns from
Various Autlwrs / Intended as a Supplement to
Dr. Watts' s Tsalms and Hymns, 1799.

The Kev. Ottiwell lleginbotbani was born in
1744, and was ordained as a Congregational cler-
gyman at Sudbury, England, in 1765. He was a
man of decided talent, but died in 1768, when only
twenty-four years of age.

295 Riches of God's word. C. M.

THE counsels of redeeming grace
The sacred leaves unfold ;
And here the Saviour's lovely face
Our raptured eyes behold.

2 Here light descending from above
Directs our doubtful feet;

Here promises of heavenly love
Our ardent wishes meet.

3 Our numerous griefs are here redressed,
And all our wants supplied :

Naught we can ask to make us blest
Is in this book denied.

4 For these inestimable gains,
That so enrich the mind,

O may we search with eager pains,
Assured that we shall hnd.

SAMUEL 8TENNETT.

As an exception to the rule, this hymn retains
its early title. It was contributed to Hippon's
Selection, 1787. It has been decapitated. The fol-
lowing are the first two stanzas :

1 " Let avarice, from shore to shore,
Her favorite God pursue ;

Thy word, 0 Lord, we value more
Than India or Peru.

2 " Here mines of knowledge, love, and joy,
Are opened to <>ur sight;

The purest gold without alloy,
And gems divinely bright."

These stanzas contain allusions to mining and
speculation. A century ago, as to-day, men were
running a mad race for gold that perishes, and
neglected real and substantial riches.

The author wrote verse one, line two:

" These sacred leaves unfold."

296 Glory of the Scriptures. C. M.

WHAT glory gilds the sacred page !
Majestic, like the sun,
It gives a light to every age ;
It gives, but borrows none.

2 The power that gave it still supplies
The gracious light and heat ;

Its truths upon the nations rise:
They rise, but never set.

3 Lord, everlasting thanks be thine
For such a bright display,

As makes a world of darkness shine
With beams of heavenly day.

4 My soul rejoices to pursue
The steps of him I love.

Till glory breaks upon my view
In brighter worlds above.

WILLIAM COWPER.

120

HYMN STUDIES.

Title : The Light and Glory of the Word. From 01-
n<y Hymns, 1779. The first stanza lias been left out :

1 "The Spirit breathes upon the word,
And brings the truth to si^ht ;

Precepts and promises ufibrd
A sanctifying light."

The next verse began :

" A glory gilds," etc.

And the third :

" The hand that gave it," etc.

C. M.

297 Bible precious.

HOW precious is the book divine,
By inspiration given!
Bright as a lamp its doctrines shine,
To guide our souls to heaven.

2 It sweetly cheers our drooping hearts,
In this dark vale of tears ;

Life, light, and joy it still imparts,
And quells our rising fears.

3 This lamp through all the tedious night
Of life, shall guide our way;

Till we behold the clearer light
Of an eternal day.

JOHN FAWCETT.

" Thy word is a lamp unto my fed, and a light
unto my path."1 Psa. cxix, 105.

The original has six stanzas. These are verses
one, five, and six, unaltered.

From Hymns Adapted to the Circumstances of
Public Worship ana Private Devotion, by John
Fawcett, 1782.

For biographical sketch, see No. SI.

298 Revelation disseminated. CM.

HAIL, sacred truth, whose piercing rays
Dispel the shades of night ;
Diffusing o'er a ruined world
The healing beams of light.

2 Jesus, thy word, with friendly aid,
Restores our wandering feet;

Converts the sorrows of the mind
To joys divinely sweet.

3 O send thy light and truth abroad,
In all their radiant blaze;

And bid the admiring world adore
The glories of thy grace.

JOHN BUTTRESS, ALT.

In the Goapal Mmmzine, 1778, appeared a poem
on Truth, beginning:

"Hail, 6acred truth, thou source of peace."

It was signed John Buttress. That poem is prob-
ably the origin ot this hymn. I am indebted to
Mr. David Creamer, the author of Methodist
nology. 1848, for this information.

299 Excellence and sufficiency. C. M.

FATHER of mercies, in thy word
What endless glory shines!
Forever be thy name adored
For these celestial lines.

2 Here may the wretched sons of want
Exhaustless richds find ;

Riches above what earth can giant,
And lasting as the mind.

3 Here the fair tree of knowledge grows,
And yields a free repast ;

Sublimer sweets than nature knows
Invite the longing taste.

4 Here the Redeemer's welcome voice
Spreads heavenly peace around ;

And life, and everlasting joys,
Attend the blissful sound.

5 O may these heavenly pages be
Our ever dear delight ;

And still new beauties may we see,
And still increasing light.

G Divine Instructor, gracious Lord,

Be thou forever near;
Teach us to love thy sacred word,

And view the Saviour there.

ANNE STEELE.

Title: The Excellency of the Holy Scriptures;
containing twelve stanzas, from the author's Poems
on Subjects Chiefly Devotional. London, 1760.

This is made up of verses one, three, four, nine,
eleven, and twelve, verbatim.

See No. 63.

300 Light from heaven. C. M.

BRIGHT was the guiding star that led,
With mild, benignant ray,
The Gentiles to the lowly bed
Where the Redeemer lay.

2 But lo! a brighter, clearer light
Now points to his abode;

It shines through sin and sorrow's night,
To guide us to our God.

3 O gladly tread the narrow path,
While liyht and grace are given;

Who meekly follow Christ on earth
Shall reign with him in heaven.

HARRIET ACEER.

HYMN STUDIES.

121

Author' B title : Kpiphany.

One stanza, the third, has been omitted :

M O haste to follow where it leads,
The gracious call obey ;

Bo rugged wilda or flowery meads,
The Christian's destined way."

The three stanzas given arc unaltered.
From The Spirit or tlie Ralnu, 1829.
For sketch of author, see No. 33.

301 God girethtTu; increase. 1 Cor. hi, 7. CM.

ALMIGHTY God, thy word is cast
Like seed upon the ground;
O let the dew of heaven descend,
And shed its influence round.

2 Let not the foe of Christ and man
This holy seed remove ;

May it take root in every heart,
And grow in faith and love.

3 Let not this life's deceitful cares,
Nor worldly wealth and joy,

Nor scorching beam, nor stormy blast,
The rising plant destroy.

4 Where'er the word of life is sown,
A large increase bestow ;

That all who hear thy message, Lord,
Its saving power may know.

JOHN CAWOOD. ALT. BY W. J. HALL.

Author's title : TTymn after Sermon.
i Lyra Britannica gives the original :

1 "Almighty God ! Thy word is cast
Like seed into the ground ;

Oh may it aiow in humble hearts,
And righteous fruits abound.

2 " Let not the foe of Christ and man,
This holy seed remove ;

But give it root in praying souls,
To bring forth fruits of love.

8 " Let not the world's deceitful cares

The rising plant destroy,
But may it in converted minds

Produce the fruits of joy.

4 "Let not Thy word so kindly sent,
To raise us to Thy Throne,

Return to Thee and sadly tell
That we reject Thy Son.

5 " Great God! come down and on Thy word
Thy mighty power bestow ;

That all who hear the joyful sound,
Thy saving grace may know."

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 188.
Rev. W. J. Hall edited a Collection of Hymns.
London, 1836.

303 Lord, help my -unbelief . C. M.

HOW sad our state by nature is!
Our sin, how deep its stains!
And Satan binds our captive souls
Fast in his slavish chains.

2 But there's a voice of sovereign grace

Sounds from the sacred word:
"IIo! ye despairing sinners, come,
And trust a faithful Lord."

3 My soul obeys the gracious call,
And runs to this relief;

I would believe thy promise, Lord;
O help my unbelief !

4 To the blest fountain of thy blood,
Incarnate God, I fly ;

Here let me wash my guilty soul
From crimes of deepest dye.

5 A guilty, weak, and helpless worm,
Into thine arms I fall ;

Be thou my strength and righteousness,
My Jesus, and my all.

ISAAC WATTS, ALT.

Title : Faith in CJirist for Pardon and Sanctijica-'
tion. From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii,
1707.

It was altered by John Wesley, who edited it for
the fourth edition of Psalms and Hymns, 1748.

Watts wrote "captive minds" in the firet stanza;
"trust upon the Lord," in the second; '•'•almighty
call," in the third : " dear fountain " and " spotted
soul," in the fourth ; and " On thy kind anjis," in
the last verse. One stanza, the fifth, is omitted ; it
is plain and vigorous, showing clearly the theology
of the author :

5 " Stretch out thine arm, victorious King,

My reigning sins subdue,
Drive the old Dragon from his seat,

With all his hellish crew."

303 Without God in the world. C. M.

GOD is in this and' every place ;
But O, how dark and void
To me ! — 'tis one great wilderness,
This earth without my God.

2 Empty of him who all things fills,
Till he his light impart,

Till he his glorious self reveals,
The veil is on my heart.

3 O Thou who seest and know'st my grief,
Thyself unseen, unknown,

Pity my helpless unbelief,
And break my heart of stone.

122

HYMN STUDIES.

4 Regard me with a gracious eye;

The long-sought blessing give ;
And bid me, at the point to die,

Behold thy face and live.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Composed of verses, eleven to fourteen inelusive,
of a hymn of sixteen stanzas, entitled For One
Convinced of Unbdief. One line has been altered ;
the last in the third stanza, Wesley wrote :

" And take away the stone."
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

304: His pitying love. CM.

PLUNGED in a gulf of dark despair,
We wretched sinners lay,
Without one cheering beam of hope,
Or spark of glimmering day.

2 With pitying eyes the Prince of grace
Beheld our helpless grief :

He saw, and, O amazing love !
He ran to our relief.

3 Down from the shining seats above,
With joyful haste he sped,

Entered the grave in mortal flesh,
And dwelt among the dead.

4 O for this love let rocks and hills
Their lasting silence break ;

And all harmonious human tongues,
The Saviour's praises speak.

5 Angels, assist our mighty joys;
Strike all your harps of gold ;

But when you raise your highest notes,
His love can ne'er be told.

ISAAC WATTS.

Author's title : Praise to the Redeemer.

Three stanzas have been left out, and the hymn
is improved by their omission.

Of this and a number of other hymns, the author
says : " I hope the reader will forgive the neglect
of rhymes in the iirst and third lines of the stanzas."
This hymn is sufficient to prove that such rhyme
is not necessary to the loftiest poetical composition.

There are very few lines of sacred poetry so sub-
lime as the last part of this hymn.

Unaltered. From Jlymus arul Spiritual Songs,
book li, 1707.

305 Original corrupt ion and. actualsin. L. M.

LORD, we are vile, conceived in sin,
And born unholy and unclean;
Sprung from the man whoso guilty fall
Corrupts his race, and taints us all.

2 Soon as we draw our infant breath
The seeds of sin grow up for death;
Thy law demands a perfect heart,
But we're defiled in every part.

3 Behold, we fall before thy face;
Our only refuge is thy grace:

No outward forms can make us clean;
The leprosy lies deep within.

4 Nor bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast.
Nor hyssop branch, nor sprinkling priest,
Nor running brook, nor flood, nor sea,
Can wash the dismal stain away.

5 Jesus, thy blood, thy blood alone,
Hath power sufficient to atone;

Thy blood can make us white as snow ;
No Jewish types could cleanse us so.

6 While guilt disturbs and breaks our peace,
Nor flesh nor soul hath rest or ease;
Lord, let us hear thy pardoning voice,
And make these broken hearts rejoice.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : Original and Actual Sin Confessed..
An imitation of verses live to eight, inclusive, of
Psalm li :

Behold, T was shapen in iniquity; and in sin
did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desir-
est truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden
part thou slialt make me to know wisdom. Purge
me with hyssop, and I shall be clean : wash me,
and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear
joy and gladness ; that the bones which thou hast
broken may rejoice."

Watts wrote in the first person, "Lord, /," etc
The author wrote in the fifth verse:

" Jesus, my God, thy blood alone,"

and " broken bones,'1'1 in imitation of the psalmist,
in the last stanza.
One worthy stanza has been omitted:

3 "Great God! create my heart anew,

And form my spirit pure and true;
O make me wise betimes to spy
My danger and my remedy."

Date of publication, 1719.

306 The great Physician. L. M.

DEEP are the wounds which sin has made;
Where shall the sinner find a cure ?
In vain, alas! is nature's aid;

The work exceeds her utmost power.

IIYMN STUDIES.

12b

2 Hut can no sovereign balm be found,
And is no kind physician nigh,

To ease the pain and heal the wound,
Ere life and hope forever flyl

3 There is a great Physician near;
Look up. O fainting soul, and live;

See, in his heavenly smiles, appear
Such help as nature cannot give.

4 See, in the Saviour's dying blood,
Life, health, and bliss, abundant now;

And in that sacrificial Hood

A balm for all thy grief and woe.

ANNE STEELE, ALT.

Title : CJirist the Physician of Souls.

Text: "Is there no balm in Gilead? is there
no physician there? why then is not the health
of the daughter of my people recovered?" Jer.
viii, 82.

Three lines have been altered:
Verse one, line four :

" The work exceeds all nature's power."

Verse four, line tliree :

" ' Tis only this dear sacred flood."

Verse four, line four :

'■'■Can ease thy pain and heal thy woe."

Two stanzas, the second and sixth, are omitted :

2 " Sin, like a raging fever, reigns
"With fatal strength in every part ;

The dire contagion tills the veins,
And spreads its poison to the heart."

6 " Sin throws in vain its pointed dart,
For here a sovereign cure is found ;

A cordial for the fainting heart,
A halm for every painful wound."

From Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, by
Thcodosia. London, 1760.
For biography, see No. 03.

O 0 7 Inbred leprosy. L. M.

JESUS, a word, a look from thee,
Can turn my heart and make it clean;
Purge out the inbred leprosy,

And save me from my bosom sin.

2 Lord, if thou wilt, I do believe
Thou canst the saving grace impart;

Thou canst this instant now forgive,
And stamp thine image on my heart.

:5 My heart, which now to thee I raise,
I know thou canst this moment cleanse ;

The deepest stains of sin efface,
And drive the evil spirit hence.

■4 lie it according to thy word;

Accomplish now thy work in me;
And let my soul, to health restored,

Devote its deathless powers to thee.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

The last half of a hymn of eight stanzas, from
Hymns and tSacred Poems, 1749.

Title : Jesus Christ, the Same Yesterday, To-day,
and Forever. Ileb. xiii, 8.

It has been altered and improved since it was
first published.

The last line of the second stanza read originally:

" And write my pardon on my heart."

The change was probably made by John Wes-
ley, as it appears in his Collection of Hymns for the
use of the people called Methodists, 177 9.

The last line, the author wrote:

"Devote its little all to Thee."

This change, and a few others, were made by the
editors of the hymn book, appointed in 1848.

3 0 8 In- trespasses and sins. S. M.

MY former hopes are fled ;
My terror now begins :

1 feel, alas 1 that I am dead
In trespasses and sins.

2 When I review my ways,
I dread impending doom :

But hark ! a friendly whisper says,
"Flee from the wrath to come."

3 With trembling hope I see
A glimmering from afar;

' A beam of day that shines for me,
To save me from despair.

4 Forerunner of the sun,

It marks the pilgrim's way;
I'll gaze upon it while I run,
And watch the rising day.

WILLIAM COWPER, ALT.

Title : The Shining Light.

The second verse, omitted, is as follows :

2 " Ah, whither shall 1 fly ?

I hear the thunder roar;
The law proclaims destruction nigh,

And vengeance at the door."

124

HYMN STUDIES.

line

Cow per began tho third line of tlie second stanza :
" But sure" etc.

And the first pari of the third stanza with these

" I see, or think I see
A glimmering from afar."

From Olney Hymns, 1779.

For biographical notes, see No. 44.

309 Dependence on the Spirit. S. M.

HOW helpless nature lies,
Unconscious of her load !
'1 he heart unchanged can never rise
To happiness and God.

2 Can aught but power divine
The stubborn will subdue?

'Tis thine, eternal Spirit, thine
To form the heart anew ;

3 The passions to recall,
And upward bid them rise;

To make the scales of error fall
From reason's darkened eyes.

4 O change these hearts of ours,
And give them life divine ;

Then shall our passions and our powers,
Almighty Lord, be thine.

ANNE STEELE, ALT.

Title : TJw Necessity of Renewing Grace.

Two stanzas have been omitted, and the meter
changed from common to short. As this hymn
came into our book in 1S4;», we infer that these
changes were made by the editors of that edition.

From Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose.
By Theodosia. Bristol, 1780.

For biographical sketch, see No. C3.

310 Helpless and guilty. S. M.

AIT, how shall fallen man
Be just before his God?
If he contend in righteousness,
We sink beneath his rod.

2 If he our ways should mark
With strict inquiring eyes,

Could we for one of thousand faults
A just excuse devise?

3 The mountains, in thy wrath,
Their ancient scats forsake;

The trembling earth deserts her place,
Her rooted pillars shake.

4 Ah, how shall guilty man

Contend with such a God?
None — none can meet him, and escape,

But through the Saviour's blood.

ISAAC WATTS, ALT.

This hymn has been so transformed that only by
long and diligent search was the original discovered.
By comparison it will be seen that only one line re-
mains as written by the author.

Title :

Autuor's Text.
God Holy, Just, and Sovereign.

1 " How should the sons of Adam's race
Be pure before their God?

If he contend in righteousness,
We fall beneath his rod.

2 " To vindicate my words and thoughts
I'll make no more pretence ;

Not one of all my thousand faults
Can bear a just defence.

S " Strong is his arm, his heart is wise ;

What vain presumers dare
Against their Maker's hand to rise,

Or tempt tlie unequal war 2

4 " Mountains, by his almighty wrath,

From their old seats are torn,
lie shakes the earth from South to North,

And all her pillars mourn."

There are two additional stanzas.

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book i, 1707.

Part of these changes were made for the Scotch
Paraphrases about 1770, and others for the JJymns
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1826.

311 Obduracy bemoaned. S. M.

OTIIAT I could repent !
() that 1 could believe!
Thou, by thy voice, the marble rend,

The rock in sunder cleave:
Thou, by the two-edged sword,

My soul and spirit part ;
Strike with the hammer of thy word,
And break my stubborn heart.

2 Saviour, and Prince of peace,

The double grace bestow ;
Unloose the bands of wickedness,

And let the captive go:
Grant me my sins to feel,

And then the load remove:
Wound, and pour in, my wounds to heal.

The balm of pardoning love.

CIIA1JLE8 WESLEY.

Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749) contained
thirty-seven hymns with this title: For One Fallen
from Grace.

HYMN STUDIES.

12r>

Out raeeivee the impmnninii in reading the poet-
ical works of the Wc.-levs Unit there was a great
dc:il of backsliding in those days; and no doubt
this was tin' (act. Gnat revivals are usually fol-
lowed by more or less apostasy. The original
hymn contains ail stanzas. These are the first
two, unaltered.

312 Christ our ransom. S. M.

OUR sins on Christ were laid;
He bore the mighty load;
Our ransom-price be fully paid
In groans, and tears, and blood.

2 To save a world, he dies;
Sinners, behold the Lamb!

To him lift up your longing eyes;
Seek mercy in his name.

3 Pardon and peace abound ;
He will your sins forgive;

Salvation in his name is found, —
He bids the sinner live.

4 Jesus, we look to thee ;
Where else can sinners go?

Thy boundless love shall set us free
From wretchedness and woe.

JOHN FAWCETT, ALT.

" Behold the Lamb of God. which taktth away the
inn of the world!" John i, 29.

The original contains seven stanzas. These are
rentes three, four; five, and seven, altered. Only
three lines remain unchanged. The object was
evidently to change the meter, which is long in
the original.

From Hymns Adapted to tlve Circumstances of
Public Worship and Private Devotion, by John
Fawcett. Leeds, 1782.

See No. 31.

313 TJie only name. S. M.

JESUS, thou Source divine,
Whence hope and comfort flow!
Jesus, no other name than thine
Can save from endless woe.

2 None else will Heaven approve:
Thou art the only way,

Ordained by everlasting love,
To realms of endless day.

3 Here let our feet abide,
Nor from thy path depart:

Direct our steps, thou gracious Guide !
And cheer the fainting heart.

4 Safe through this world of night,
Lead to the blissful plains,

The regions of unclouded light,
Where joy forever reigns.

ANNE STEELE, ALT.

Title : Christ the Way to Heaven.
The second stanza is omitted :

2 "In vain would boasting reason find
The way to happiness and God ;

Her weak directions leave the mind
Bewilder'd in a dubious road."

The meter has been changed from long to short,
and only two lines remain as written by the author.

From Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, by
Theodosia. London, 17G0.

For sketch of author, see No. 63.

314 TJie precious blood. CM.

f^\ OD'S holy law transgressed,
Vjf Speaks nothing but despair;
Convinced of guilt, with grief oppressed,
We find no comfort there.

2 Not all our groans and tears,
Nor works which we have done,

Nor vows, nor promises, nor prayers
Can e'er for sin atone.

3 Relief alone is found

In Jesus' precious blood .
'Tis this that heals the mortal wound,
And reconciles to God.

4 High lifted on the cross,
The spotless Victim dies;

This is salvation's only source;
Hence all our hopes arise.

BENJAMIN BEDDOME.

Title : Hope Alone from the Gospel.
Two lines have Iwen altered.

Original Form.
Verse one, line three :

" Burdened with guilt, with grief oppressed."
Verse four, line four:

" And hence our hopes arise."

The design of this hymn is to show that sinners
cannot find comfort in God's justice, nor in their
own works, but only in the atonement of Christ.

From Hymns Adapted to Public Worship or
Family Devotion.. London, 1818.

For biographical sketch, see No. 2S5.

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HYMN STUDIES.

315 Wonders of redemption. C. M.

HOW great the wisdom, power, and grace,
Which in redemption shine !
The heavenly host with joy confess
The work is all divine.

2 Before His feet they cast their crowns, —
Those crowns which Jesus gave, —

And, with ten thousand thousand tongues,
Proclaim his power to save.

3 They tell the triumphs of his cross,
The sufferings which he bore ;

How low he stooped, how high he rose,
And rose to stoop no more.

4 With them let us our voices raise,
And still the song renew :

Salvation well deserves the praise
Of men and angels too.

BENJAMIN BEDDOME.

Title : Wonders of Redemption.
Four lines have been altered.

Original Form.
Verse one, line three :

"Angels and men with joy confess."

' Verse two, line one :

" Beneath his feet they cast their crowns."

Verse four, line one :

" Oh let them still their voices raise."

Verse four, line two :

" And still their song renew."

Two stanzas, the second and third, are omitted.
They are not of great value. From Hymns
Adapted to Public Worship or Family Devotion,
1818.

See No. 285.

316 The dearest name. C. M.

HOW sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer's ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.

2 It makes the wounded spirit whole,
And calms the troubled breast ;

'Tis manna to the hungry soul,
And to the weary, rest.

3 Dear name! the rock on which I build
My shield and hiding-place;

My never-failing treasure, filled
With boundless stores of jjrace !

4 Jesus, my Shepherd, Saviour, Friend,
My Prophet, Priest, and King,

My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End,
Accept the praise I bring!

5 I would thy boundless love proclaim
With every fleeting breath;

So shall the music of thy name
Refresh my soul in death.

JOHN NEWTON.

Title : The Name of Jesvs.

Text: " Thy name is as ointment poured forth."
Song of Sol. i, 3.

Two stanzas are omitted. They arc not neces-
sary to the hymn.

The author wrote "Husband'''' instead of "Sav-
iour" in the first line of the fourth stanza. New-
ton published the last stanza in this form :

" Till then I would thy love proclaim.

With every fleeting breath ;
And may the music of thy name

Kefresh my soul in death."

From Olney Hymns, 1779.
For biography, see No. 23.

317 Ceaseless goodness. C. M.

THY ceaseless, unexhausted love,
Unmerited and free,
Delights our evil to remove,
And help our misery.

2 Thou waitest to be gracious still;
Thou dost with sinners bear;

That, saved, we may thy goodness feel,
And all thy grace declare.

3 Thy goodness and thy truth to me,
To every soul, abound;

A vast, unfathomable sea,

Where all our thoughts are drowned.

4 Its streams the whole creation reach,
So plenteous is the store ;

Enough for all, enough for each,
Enough for evermore.

5 Faithful, O Lord, thy mercies are,
A rock that cannot move:

A thousand promises declare
Thy constancy of love.

6 Throughout the universe it reigns,
Unalterably sure;

And while the truth of God remains,
His goodness must endure.

CHARLES WESLEY.

HYMN STUDIES.

127

From Short Hymns on Select Jiisxagtsnf the Holy
Script uns, 170-'.

It is founded on Exodus xxxiv, 6:

"The Lord God merciful and gracious, long-
tufiering, and abundant in goodness and truth.'1

Wesley wrote "The" instead of " His'' in the
last line.

3 1 8 The Way, the Truth, and the Life. CM.

rnHOU art the Way:— to thee alone
J_ From sin and death we flee;
And he who would the Father seek,
Must seek him, Lord, by thee.

2 Thou art the Truth : — thy word alone
True wisdom can impart ;

Thou only canst inform the mind,
And purify the heart.

3 Thou art the Life: — the rending tomb
Proclaims thy conquering arm;

And those who put their trust in thee
Nor death nor hell shall harm.

4 Thou art the Way, the Truth, the Life •
Grant us that Way to know,

That Truth to keep, that Life to win,
Whose joys eternal flow.

GEORGE W. DOANE.

The Scripture text of this hymn is John xiv, 6 :

" I am the way, the truth, and the life : no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me."

The hymn itself is a very happy and successful
metrical exposition of the text. Only two of Bishop
Doane's hymas are found in this collection. They
are both excellent. The other is No. 117, which
Bee. Verbatim, from Songsby the Way. 1875 edition.

The first edition was published in 1824.

319 The cleansing fountain. C. M

THERE is a fountain filled with blood,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood,
Lose all their guilty stains.

2 The dying thief rejoiced to see
That fountain in his day;

And there may I, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away.

3 Thou dying Lamb! thy precious blood
Shall never lose its power,

Till all the ransomed Church of God
Are saved, to sin no more.

i 4 E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
Thy (lowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme,
And shall be till I die.

5 Then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing thy power to save,

When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave.

6 Lord, I believe thou hast prepared,
Unworthy though I be,

For me a blood-bought, free reward,
A golden harp for me !

7 'Tis strung and tuned for endless years,
And formed by power divine,

To sound in God the Father's ear3,
No other name but thine.

WILLIAM COWFER.

The author's title is : Praise for the Fountain
Opened. The text is Zech, xiii, 1 :

" In that day there shall be a fountain opened to
the house of David and to the inkabitante of Jeru-
salem for sin and for uncleanness."

It is a little strange that this hymn, and some
other great favorites, found no place in the Method-
ist hymn book till 1819 — after they had been in
common use for fifty or sixty years, but such is the
fact. We are glad that the Committee of fifteen
found room for the whole of this grand old hymn.
It is none too long.

A great change has been made in the last part of
the second stanza. The author wrote:

" And there have I, as vile as he,
Washed all my sins away."

There is no doubt but that Cowper gave his per-
sonal experience and testimony in this hymn.
These two lines are the only ones that have been
changed. They are found in various forms.

In Rippotes Selection, 17S7, they are found in
the form of prayer:

" 0 may I there, though vile as he,
Wash all my sins away."

In the Hartford Selection, 1799 :

" And there may I, as vile as he,
Wash all my sins away."

In DobelFs Selection, 1806, we find it given in itx
original form, as above.

Of course the great question with hymnal editors
is, "Which form will be the most useful?" and
there seems to be a difference of opinion. There ia
no doubt, however, as to what the author intended.

From Olney Hymns, 1779.

For biographical sketch, see No. 44.

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HYMN STUDIES.

320 The pierced hand. CM.

WHEN wounded sore, the stricken soul
Lies bleeding and unbound,
One only hand, a pierced hand,
Can heal the sinner's wound.

2 When sorrow swells the laden breast,
And tears of anguish (low,

One only heart, a broken heart,
Can feel the sinner's woe.

3 When penitence has wept in vain
Over some foul, dark spot,

One only stream, a stream of blood,
Can wash away the blot.

4 "Tis Jesus' blood that washes white,
His hand that brings relief;

His heart that's touched with all our joys,
And feeleth for our grief.

5 Lift up thy bleeding hand, O Lord !
Unseal that cleansing tide :

We have no shelter from our sin
But in thy wounded side.

MBS. CECIL F. ALEXANDER.

Title : Touched with the feeling of our Infirmi-
ties.

Cecil Frances Alexander is the author of a num-
ber of hymns and poems. She was the daughter
of Major Humphrevs, of Strabane, Ireland, and was
born i'n 1823. In 1850 she married the Rev. Will-
iam Alexander, now Bishop of Derry. Mrs. Alex-
ander wrote Hymns for Little Children, which has
had a wide circulation in England and in this coun-
try, and she edited The Sunday Book of Poetry,
1865. This piece first appeared in her Hymns De-
scriptive and Devotional, 1858.

The original has '■'■salve'1'' instead of "heal " in
verse one, line four.

321 Grace. S. M.

GRACE ! 'tis a charming sound,
Harmonious to the car;
Heaven with the echo shall resound.
And all the earth shall hear.

2 Grace first contrived a way
To save rebellious man ;

And all the steps that grace display,
Which drew the wondrous plan.

3 Grace taught my roving feet
To tread the heavenly road ;

And new supplies each hour I meet,
While pressing on to God.

4 Grace all the work shall crown

Through everlasting days ;
It lays in heaven the topmost stone,

And well deserves our praise.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Salvation by Grace. Eph. ii, 5 : " By grace ve
are saved."

This hymn is given verbatim, except one word.
The author wrote "wandering feet" instead of
" roving," in the third stanza.

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in th*
Holy Scriptures. London, 1755.

For biography, see No. 78.

0/32 Our debt paid upon the cross.
'HAT majesty and grace

S. M.

Through all the gospel shine!
'Tis God that speaks, and we confess
The doctrine most divine.

2 Down from his throne on high,
The mighty Saviour comes ;

Lays his bright robes of glory by,
And feeble flesh assumes.

3 The debt that sinners owed,
Upon the cross he pays :

Then through the clouds ascends to God,
'Midst shouts of loftiest praise.

4 There our High Priest appears
Before his Father's throne ;

Mingles his merits with our tears,
And pours salvation down.

5 Great Sovereign, we adore
Thy justice and thy grace,

And on thy faithfulness and power
Our firm dependence place.

6AMUEL STENNETT, ALT.

"TJie Glorious Gospel of theblessed GW." 1 Tim.
i. 11.

This hymn has been changed from a common to
a short meter by the omission of twosyllable* front
the first line ot each stanza.

From Nippon's StU&totly 1787.

The first lines were originally as follows:

" What wisdom, majesty, and grace."
" Down from his starry throne on high."
" The mighty debt that sinners owed."
" There he our great High Priest appears."
" Great God with rmnnce we adore."

For biography, see No. 218.

IIYMN STUDIES.

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323 Full and free . CM.

0\YH AT amazing words of grace
Are in the gospel found!
Suited to every Sinner's case.
Who knows the joyful sound.

2 Poor, sinful, thirsty, fainting souls
Are freely welcome here;

Salvation, like a river, rolls
Abundant, free, and clear.

o Come, then, with all your wants and
wound-;

Your every burden bring:
Here love, unchanging love, abounds,

A deep, celestial spring.

4 Whoever will — O gracious word!
.May of this stream partake;

Come, thirsty souls, and bless the Lord
And drink for Jesus' sake.

5 Millions of sinners, vile as you,
Have here found life and peace;

Come, then, and prove its virtues too,
And drink, adore, and bless.

SAMUEL MEDLEY, ALT.

" I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
end. 1 will give uuto him that is athirst of the
fountain of the water of life freely." Rev. xxi, >}.

The second stanza is not Medley's.

The author wrote :

2 " Here Jesus calls, and he's a true,

A kind, a faithful friend ;
He's ' Alpha and Omega,' too,

'Beginning and the end.' "

One other stanza, the fifth, of the original has
been omitted :

5 " This spring with living waters flows,

And living joy imparts:
Come, thirsty souls, your wants disclose,

And drink with thankful hearts."

The first two lines of the fourth verse the author
wrote :

" Whoever thirsts — O, gracious Word !
Shall of this stream partake."

The author's last stanza has been almost entirely
changed :

"To sinners poor, like me and you,

He saitli, he'll ' freely give ;'
Come, thirsty souls, and prove it true,

Drink, and forever live."

It appeared in the first edition of the author's
Hymn a, 17S'.J. It is also found in Topladv's CM-
Uction, 1776. For biographical sketch, sue No. IOC.
9

324 Th* joyful sound. CM.

SALVATION! O the joyful sound!
What pleasure to our ears!
A sovereign balm for every wound,
A cordial for our fears.

2 Salvation ! let the echo fly
The spacious earth around,

While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound.

3 Salvation! O thou bleeding Lamb!
To thee the praise belongs:

Salvation shall inspire our hearts,
And dwell upon our tongues.

ISAAC WATTS.

Author's title : Salvation.

One stanza, the second, has been omitted :

2 " Buried in sorrow and in sin,

At hell's dark door we lay,
But we arise, by grace divine,

To see a heavenly day."

The last stanza was not written by Dr. Watts.
It was appended by some unknown author. It is,
in every way, worthy of its place, and caps the
climax of this grand hymn. This additional stanza
is not modern ; it is found in the early editions of
Lady Huntingdon's Collection, and was possibly
written by the editor of that book, the Eev. Walter
Shirley.

From Hymnsand Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

325 The all-sufficient Saviovr. CM.

THE Saviour! O what endless charms
Dwell in that blissful sound!
Its influence every fear disarms,
And spreads delight around.

2 Here pardon, life, and joy divine,
In rich effusion flow,

For guilty rebels, lost in sin,
And doomed to endless woe.

3 The almighty Former of the skies
Stoops to our vile abode;

While angels view with wondering eyes,
And hail the incarnate God.

4 How rich the depths of love divine !
Of bliss a boundless store !

Redeemer, let me call thee mine,
Thy fullness I implore.

5 On thee alone my hope relies ;
Beneath thy cross I fall ;

My Lord, my Life, my Sacrifice,
My Saviour, and ray All!

ANNE STEELE.

HYMN STUDIES.

Part of a hymn of thirty-nine stanzas, entitled
Redeeming Love. This is made up, with slight
alterations, of verses two, three, eight, thirty-seven,
and thirty-nine.

From Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, by
Theodosia. London, 1760.

For biography of author, see No. 63.

326 The gospel feast. C. M.

LET every mortal ear attend,
And every heart rejoice;
The trumpet of the Gospel sounds
With an inviting voice.

2 Ho ! all ye hungry, starving souls,
That feed upon the wind,

And vainly strive with earthly toys
To fill an empty mind ;

3 Eternal Wisdom hath prepared
A soul-reviving feast,

And bids your longing appetites
The rich provision taste.

4 Ho! ye that pant for living streams,
And pine away and die,

Here you may quench your raging thirst
With springs that never dry.

5 Rivers of love and mercy here
In a rich ocean join ;

Salvation in abundance flows,
Like floods of milk and wine.

6 The happy gates of gospel grace
Stand open night and day:

Lord, we are come to seek supplies,
And drive our wants away.

ISAAC WATTS.

Watts gave this hymn a long title: The In-
vitation of the Gospel ; or, Spiritual Food and
Clothing. It is founded on the first few verses of
Isaiah lv, " Ho, every one that thirsteth," etc.

Three stanzas are omitted. One of them is very
striking and poetic :

" Dear God ! the treasures of thy love

Are everlasting mines,
Deep as our helpless miseries are,

And boundless as our sins."

Unaltered. From Hymns and Spiritual Songs,
book i, 1707.

327 ^ "''• "hich passeth knowledge. L. M.

OF Him who did salvation bring,
I could forever think and sing;
Arise, ye needy,— he'll relieve;
Arise, ye guilty, — he'll forgive.

2 Ask but his grace, and lo, 'tis given;
Ask, and he turns your hell to heaven;
Though sin and sorrow wound my soul,
Jesus, thy balm will make it whole.

3 To shame our sins he blushed in blood;
He closed his eyes to show us God:

Let all the world fall down and know
That none but God such love can show.

4 'Tis thee I love, for thee alone

I shed my tears and make my moan;
Where'er I am, where'er I move,
I meet the object of my love.

5 Insatiate to this spring I fly;
I drink, and yet am ever dry:

Ah! who against thy charms is proof?
Ah! who that loves, can love enough?

BERNARD OP CXAIRVAUX.
TR. BY A. W. BOEHM.

Another stanza of this hymn is found in Madan's
Collection, 1760. It follows the first, and is very
unique :

" Eternal Lord, Almighty King,
All Heav'n doth with thy Triumphs ring!
Thou conquer'st all beneath, above,
Devils with Force, and Men with Love."

It was formerly accredited to Charles Wesley,
but was found in a book of translations, before the
time of the Wesleys, by Anthony Wilhelm Boehm,
(1673-1722,) of whom nothing more is known.

Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) was born at
Fontaine, in Burgundy, and was educated at the
University of Paris. At the age of twenty-two he
entered the Cistercian Monastery of Citeaux. His
austerity made him famous, and at the age of
twenty -five he was appointed abbot of a new mon-
astery at Clairvaux. Here he remained for many
years, declining all further preferment. He was
the author of several famous Latin hymns.

328 The divine Teacher. L. M.

HOW sweetly flowed the gospel's sound
From lips of gentleness and grace,
While listening thousands gathered round,
And joy and reverence filled the place!

2 From heaven lie came, of heaven he spoke,
To heaven he led his followers' way;

Dark clouds of gloomy night he broke;
Unveiling an immortal day.

3 "Come, wanderers, to my Father's home ;
Come, all ye weary ones, and rest."

Yes, sacred Teacher, we will come,
Obey, and be forever blest.

HYMN STUDIES.

131

4 Decay, then, tenements of dust !

Pillars of earthly pride, decay!
A uobltT mansion waits the just,

And Jesus has prepared the way.

Bill JOHN BOWRlNG.

Title: Jesus Teaching the People.

Tli* hist line of the third stanza the author wrote :

" Obey thee, lore thee, and be blest."

From If at ins and peepers, London, 1823.

In his preface the author says: "Should any
fragment of this little book, remembered and dwelt
upon ill moments of gloom and anxiety, tend to re-
Rtnre peace, to awaken fortitude, to create, to renew,
or to strengthen confidence in Heaven, I shall have
obtained the boon for which I pray, the end to
which 1 aspire."

See No. 150.

329 Tlie gift unspeakable. L. M.

HAPPY the man who finds the grace,
The blessing of God's chosen race,
The wisdom coming from above,
The faith that sweetly works by love.

2 "Wisdom divine! who tells the price
Of wisdom's costly merchandise?
Wisdom to silver we prefer,

And gold is dross compared to her.

3 Her hands are filled with length of days,
True riches, and immortal praise:

Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all her flowery paths are peace.

4 Happy the man who wisdom gains;
Thrice happy, who his guest retains;
He owns, and shall forever own,
Wisdom, and Christ, and heaven, are one.

CIIAIILES WESLEY.

Part of a successful paraphrase of Prov. iii, 13-18 :

" Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and tlie
man that gettcth understanding: For the merchan-
dise of it is better than the merchandise of silver,
and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more
precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst
desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of
days Ls in her right hand ; and in her left hand
riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasant-
ness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of
life Id them that lav hold upon her: and happy is
every one that rctaineth her."

The original contains nine stanzas. These are not,
altered.

From Hymn* for Thou that Seek and Those that
tin' Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ. Lon-
don, 1747.

330 Tlie voice of free grace. 1 2.

rpiIE voice of free grace cries, "Escape to

_L the mountain ;

For Adam's lost race Christ hath opened a
fountain;

For sin and uncleanness, and every trans-
gression,

His blood flows most freely, in streams of
salvation."
Hallelujah to the Lamb, who has pur-
chased our pardon !
We will praise him again when we pass
over Jordan.

2 Now glory to God in the highest is given ;
Now glory to God is re-echoed in heaven;
Around the whole earth let us tell the glad

story,
And sing of his love, his salvation and glory.

3 O Jesus, ride on, — thy kingdom is glorious ;
O'er sin, death, and hell, thou wilt make us

victorious ;

Thy name shall be praised in the great con-
gregation,

And saints shall ascribe unto thee their
salvation.

4 When on Zion we stand, having gained

the blest shore,
With our harps in our hands, we will praise

evermore :
We'll range the blest fields on the banks of

the river,
And sing of redemption for ever and ever',

RICHARD RTJRD8ALL.

I have good reason to believe that this hymn has
be>n abbreviated and altered. I have never seen
the original.

Mr. Richard Burdsall (1735-1824) was a local
Wesleyan preacher for about sixty years.

H. M.

331 The year of jubilee.

BLOW ye the trumpet, blow,
The gladly-solemn sound !
Let all the nations know,
To earth's remotest bound,
The year of jubilee is come!
Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.

2 Jesus, our great High Priest,

Hath full atonement made:
Ye weary spirits, rest;

Ye mournful souls, be glad:
The year of jubilee is come!
Return, ye ransomed sinners, home,

132

HYMN STUDIES.

3 Extol the Lamb of God,
The all-atoning Lamb;

Redemption in his blood

Throughout the world proclaim:
The year of jubilee is come !
Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.

4 Ye slaves of sin and hell,
Your liberty receive,

And safe in Jesus dwell,
And blest in Jesus live:
The year of jubilee is come!
Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.

5 Ye who have sold for naught
Your heritage above,

Shall have it back unbought,
The gift of Jesus' love:
The year of jubilee is come!
Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.

6 The gospel trumpet hear,
The news of heavenly grace;

And. saved from earth, appear
Before your Saviour's face:
The year of jubilee is come!
Return, ye ransomed sinners, home.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This wonderful hymn has been ascribed in some
hymn books to Toplady, the author of Bock of Ages.
It was first published by Charles Wesley in a pam-
phlet containing only seven pieces, entitled Hymns
for New- War's Day, 1750. Toplady was then
only ten years of age. It is unaltered and complete.

The scriptural basis of the hvmn is Lev. xxv,
9, 10:

" Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubi-
lee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh
month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the
trumpet pound throughout all your land. And ye
shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
throughout all the land" unto all the inhabitants
thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye
shall return every man unto his possession, and ye
shall return every man unto his family."

O O <£ Jesus, the all-atoning Lamb. H. M.

LET earth and heaven agree,
Angels and men be joined,
To celebrate with me

The Saviour of mankind:
To adore the all-atoning Lamb,
And bless the sound of Jesus' name.

2 Jesus! transporting sound!

The joy of earth and heaven;
No other help is found,
No other name is given,
P>y which \vc can salvation have;
But Jesus came the world to save.

3 Jesus! harmonious name!
It charms the hosts above ;

They evermore proclaim
And wonder at his love:
'Tis all their happiness to gaze, —
'Tis heaven to see our Jesus' face.

4 His name the sinner hears,
And is from sin set free ;

'Tis music in his ears;
'Tis life and victory;
New songs do now his lips employ,
And dances his glad heart for joy.

5 O unexampled love!

O all-redeeming grace !
How swiftly didst thou move
To save a fallen race !
What shall I do to make it known,
What thou for all mankind hast done?

6 O for a trumpet voice,
On all the world to call,

To bid their hearts rejoice
In him who died for all!
For all my Lord was crucified;
For all, for all, my Saviour died.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part of a poem of ten stanzas, from Hymns on
God's Everlasting Love, 1741. The hvmn is made
up of the first four, the seventh, and ninth stanzas.
Charles Wesley was never weary of insisting upon
the truth of the last two lines "of this hymn. He
had a most intense aversion to the opposite doc-
trine of unconditional election. In another hymn,
published in the above book, he exclaims: "Take
back my interest in Thy blood unless it streamed
for all the race." In holy audacity, this reminds
us of the prayer of Moses for Israel : " Now, if thou
wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray
thee, out of thy book."

One word only has been changed. Wesley wrote
'■'■freely''' instead of "swiftly " in verse five, line
three.

333 Be died for me. L. M. G L

WHEN time seems short and death is
near,
And I am pressed by doubt and fear,
And sins, an overflowing tide,
Assail my peace on every side,
This thought my refuge still shall be,

1 know the Saviour died for me.

2 His name is Jesus, and he died,
For guilty sinners crucified;
Content to die that he might win
Their ransom from the death of sin:
No sinner worse than I can be,
Therefore I know he died for me.

JIYMX STUDIES.

133

3 If grace wore bought, I could not buy ;
If grace were coined, no wealth have i;
Bj Race alone 1 draw my breath,
Held up from everlasting death;
Yet. since I know his grace is free,
I know the Saviour died for me.

GEORGE W. liETHUXE.

This heautiful and pathetic hymn was written
by the author on the day previous to Ins death.
which occurred on the Sabbath, April 27, 1862, at
Florence, Italy. His death was very sudden, as
lie had preached the same day from the text : " Be
of good cheer ; thy sins be torgiven thee." It is
DOt altered.

There are two additional stanzas :

4 " 1 read God's holy Word, and find
Great truths which far transcend my mind;
And little do I know beside

Of thoughts so high, so deep, so wide:

This is my best theology,

I know tiie Saviour died for me.

5 " My faith is weak, but 'tis Thy gift;
Thou canst ray helpless soul uplift,
And say, ' Thy bonds of death are riven,
Thy sins by Me are all forgiven ;

And thou shalt live from guilt set free,
For I, Thy Saviour, died for thee.' "

The Rev. Georgre Washington Bethune, D.U.,
was born in New York in 1805 ; was graduated at
Dickinson College in 1822, and studied theology at
Princeton, N. J. He was pastor of Reformed
Dutch churches in New York and Philadelphia.

found no excuse for alteration. The fir>t part of.
the hymn contains an evident reference to
Haggai ii, 7 :

" The Desire of all nations shall come."
From Hymns for the Nativity of our Lord, 1744.

334 The Desire of nations. 8, 7.

COME, thou long-expected Jesus,
Born to set thy people free :
From our fears and sins release us,
Let us find our rest in thee.

2 Israel's Strength and Consolation,
Hope of all the earth thou art :

Dear Desire of every nation,
Joy of every longing heart.

3 Born thy people to deliver.
Born a child, and yet a King,

Born to reign in us forever.

Now thy gracious kingdom bring.

4 By thine own eternal Spirit,
Rule in all our hearts alone;

By thine all-sufficient merit,
Raise us to thy glorious throne.

CHARLES WESLEY.

A new and valuable hymn, full of praise and
prayer. Its meter and rhyme are faultless. It is
poetic and scriptural. The hymn mender lias

335 Turn ye. 11.

TURN ye, O turn ye, for why will ye

die,

When God in great mercy is coming so nigh?
Now Jesus invites you, the Spirit saya,

"Come,"
And angels are waiting to welcome you

home.

2 And now Christ is ready your souls to

receive,
O how can you question, if you will believe?
If sin is your burden, why will you not come?
'Tis you he bids welcome ; he bids you come

home.

3 In riches, in pleasures, what can you ob-

tain,
To soothe your affliction, or banish your pain ?
To bear up your spirit when summoned to

die,
Or waft you to mansions of glory on high?

4 Why will you be starving, and feeding

on air?
There's mercy in Jesus, enough and to spare ;
If still you are doubting, make trial and see,
And prove that his mercy is boundless and

free. /r.

JOSIAH HOPKINS. (?)

The first line is a quotation from Ezefc. xxxiii. 11.
The hymn, six stanzas, is found in the Christian
Lyre, New York, 1880.

The Rev. Josiah Hopkins C178'3-1^*:21 was or-
dained pastor of a Congregational church in Ver-
mont in 1809, and was subsequently pastor of a
Presbyterian church in northern New York. He
contributed several pieces to the Christian Lyre,
which have his name attached. This does not. I
am inclined to think it is older than 18-3U.

336 Delay not 11.

DELAY not, delay not, O sinner, draw
near,
The waters of life are now flowing for
thee;
Xo price is demanded, the Saviour is here,
Redemption is purchased, salvation is
free.

134

HYMN STUDIES.

2 Delay not, delay not, why longer abuse
The love and compassion of Jesus, thv

God?
A fountain is open, how canst thou refuse
To wash and be cleansed in his pardon-
ing blood ?

3 Delay not, delay not, O sinner, to conic,
For Mercy still lingers and calls thee to-
day:

Her voice is not heard in the vale of the
tomb;
Her message, unheeded, will soon pass
away.

4 Delay not, delay not, the Spirit of grace
Long grieved and resisted, may take his

sad flight,
And leave thee in darkness to finish thy race,
To sink in the gloom of eternity's night.

5 Delay not, delay not. the hour is at hand,
The earth shall dissolve, and the heavens

shall fade,
The dead, small and great, in the judgment
shall stand ;
What power then, O sinner, will lend
thee its aid !

THOMAS HASTINGS.

This hymn appeared first in Spiritual Songs for
Social Worship, by Thomas Hastings and Lowell
Mason. Copyrighted in 1831. It is not altered.

For biography of author, see No 177.

337 Fly to Jesus. 7, 6 1.

WEARY souls, that wander wide
From the central point of bli-^s.
Turn to Jesus crucified;

Fly to those dear wounds of his:
Sink into the purple flood;
Rise into the life of God.

2 Find in Christ the way of peace,
Peace unspeakable, unknown;

By his pain he gives you ease,
Life by his expiring groan :
Rise exalted by his fall ;
Find in Christ your all in all.

3 O believe the record true,

God to you his Son hath given;
Ye may now be happy too.

Find on earth the life of heaven:
Live the life of heaven above,
All the life of glorious love.

4 This the universal bliss,

Bliss for every soul designed ;

God's original promise this,

God's gnat gift to all mankind:

Blest in Christ this moment be,

Blest to all eternity.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Author's title : The Invitation. Verbatim, from
Hymns for those that Seek and tJtose that Have Re-
demption in the Blood of Jesus Christ, 1747. It is
found in every edition ot the Methodist Episcopal
Hymn Book.

338

Come and welcome.

7,61.

FROM the cross uplifted high,
Where the Saviour deigns to die,
What melodious sounds we hear
Bursting on the ravished ear!
"Love's redeeming work is done,
Come and welcome, sinner, cornel

2 ' ' Sprinkled now with blood the throne,
Why beneath thy burdens groan?

On his pierced body laid,
Justice owns the ransom paid ;
Bow the knee, embrace the Son,
Come and welcome, sinner, cornel

3 "Spread for thee, the festal board
See with richest bounty stored;

To thy Father's bosom pressed,
Thou Shalt be a child confessed,
Never from his house to roam ;
Come and welcome, sinner, come ! "

THOMAS HAWEIS.

The Scripture basis fortius charming gospel hymn
is John vii, 37 :

" If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and
drink."

Some slight changes have been made since it was
first published in 179?.
Verse one, line three :

M What melodious sounds /hear."
Verse ono, lino four :

" Bursting on my ravish'd qar."
Verse two, line three :

" On my pierced body laid."
Verse two, line five:

" Bow the knee and hUs the son."
Verse three, line two :

"See with richest dainties stor'd."
Verse three, line four:

" Yet again a child confest."

HYMN STUDIES.

135

There is one more stanza :

4 " Soon the days of life shall end,
Lo I 000)6, JOOI Saviour, Friend,
Sale yOU spirits to convey
To the realms of endless da\ ,
Up to my eternal home," etc.

See No. 270.

339

7. 6 1.

The work of sin.

HEARTS of stone, relent, relent!
Break, by Jesus' cross subdued ;
See his body mangled, rent,

Covered with his flowing blood!
Sinful soul, what hast thou done?
Crucified the Eternal Son !

2 Yes, thy sins have done the deed,
Driven the nails that fixed him there,

Crowned with thorns his sacred head,

Pierced him with a soldier's spear,
Made his soul a sacrifice;
For a sinful world he dies.

3 Wilt thou let him die in vain?
Still to death pursue our God?

Open all his wounds again?

Trample on his precious blood?
No ; with all my sins I'll part ;
Saviour, take my broken heart.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns on the Lord's Supper, by John and
Charles Wesley, Presbyters of the Church of En-
gland. Bristol, 1745.

A few verbal changes have been made. The
original has " murdered " instead of " crucified " in
the first stanza ; "c/r" sins instead of "thy" sins
in the second. The first line of the third stanza
began, "Shall we let," etc. The third line was:

" Open, tear his wounds again."

340

Invitation hymn.

8, 7, 4.

COME, ye sinners, poor and needy,
Weak and wounded, sick and sore :
Jesus ready stands to save you,
Full of pity, love, and power:

He is able.
He is willing : doubt no more.

2 Now, ye needy, come and welcome ;

God's free bounty glorify;
True belief and true repentance.

Every grace that brings you nigh,
Without money,

Come to Jesus Christ and buy.

3 Let not conscience make you linger,
Nor of fitness fondly dream ;

All the fitness he requireth
Is to feel your need of hi in :

This he gives you ;
'Tis the Spirit's glimmering beam.

4 Come, ye weary, heavy-laden,
Bruised and mangled by the fall;

If you tarry till you're better,
You will never come at all;

Not the righteous, —
Sinners Jesus came to call.

5 Agonizing in the garden,
Your Redeemer prostrate lies;

On the bloody tree behold him !
Hear him cry, before he dies,

"It is finished!"
Sinners, will not this suffice?

6 Lo! the incarnate God, ascending,
Pleads the merit of his blood :

Venture on him, venture freely ;
Let no other trust intrude :

None but Jesus
Can do helpless sinners good.

7 Saints and angels, joined in concert,
Sing the praises of the Lamb ;

While the blissful seats of heaven
Sweetly echo with his name :

Hallelujah!
Sinners here may do the same.

JOSEPH HART.

Author's title: Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ.
From Hymns, Composed on Various Subjects, by J.
Hart. Date of preface, 1759.

A few lines have been changed. Hart published
the first line :

" Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched."

And the fourth :

" Full of pity joined with power."

The first two lines of the fifth verse have also
been changed. The author wrote :

" View him grnv'Kng in the aarden ;
Lo! your Maker prostrate lies."

For more than sixty years this hymn stood No. 2
in the Methodist collection. It is a favorite invita-
tion hymn, and thousands have decided to accept
Christ while it was being sung.

136

HYMN STUDIES.

341 The healing fountain. 8,7,7.

^OME to Calvary's holy mountain.

Sinners ruined by the fall ;
Here a pure and healing fountain

Flows to you, to me, to all,
In a full perpetual tide,

Opened when our Saviour died.

2 Come, in sorrow and contrition,
Wounded, impotent, and blind;

Here the guilty, free remission,

Here the lost a refuge find.
Health this fountain will restore;
He that chinks need thirst no more.

3 Come, ye dying, live forever;
'Tis a soul-reviving flood ;

God is faithful ; he will never

Break his covenant sealed in blood;
Signed when our Redeemer died,
Sealed when he was glorified.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title : A Fountain Opened for Sin and Unclean-

JW88.

Three lines have been altered.

Original.
Verse two, line four :

" Here the troubled peace may find."
Verse three, line one :

" lie that drinks shall live forever."
Verse three, line two :

'"Tis a soul-renewing flood ;

One unique stanza, the second, has been omitted :

" Come in poverty and meanness,

Come defiled, without, within ;
From infection and uncleanness,

From the leprosy of sin,
Wash your robes and make them white ;
Ye shall walk with God in light."

From the Christian Fsalmist, 1825.

342 Hear, and live. 8,7,4.

SINNERS, will you scorn the message
Sent in mercy from above?
Every sentence. () bow tender!
Every line is full of love:

Listen to it:
Every line is full of love.

2 Hear the heralds of the gospel
News from Zion's King proclaim:

"Pardon to each rebel sinner,
Free forgiveness in his name: "

How important!
"Free forgiveness in his name."

3 Tempted souls, they bring you succor;
Fearful hearts, they quell your fears,

And, with news of consolation,
Chase away the falling tears :

Tender heralds !
Chase away the falling tears.

4 O ye angels, hovering round U9,
Waiting spirits, speed your way ;

Haste ye to the court of heaven,
Tidings bear without delay,

Rebel sinners
Glad the message will obey.

allen's col.

This favorite old hymn appeared in John Dobell'a
New Selection, 1806, where it was marked Allen' t
Collection.

Nothing more is positively known concerning
its authorship.

In Dohell's selection the hymn has six stanzas.
Verses four and five have been omitted.

34:3 The last call. 8, 7, 4.

HEAR, O sinner, mercy hails you,
Nowt with sweetest voice she calls ;
Bids you haste to seek the Saviour,
Ere the hand of justice falls;

Hear, O sinner!
'Tis the voice of mercy calls.

2 Haste, O sinner, to the Saviour!

Seek his mercy while you may;
Soon the day of grace is over ;

Soon your life will pass away :
Haste, O sinner!

You must perish if you stay.

ANDREW REED, ALT.

Title : The Sinner invited.

Three stanzas ; these are the first and third altered.

Original Form.
Verse one, line one :

" Listen, sinner ! mercy hails you.
Verse one, line two :

" With her sweetest voice she calls."

Verse one, line three :

" Bids you hasten to the Saviour."

HYMN STUDIES.

137

Terse one, line five:
11 LinUn, sinner."

Verae two, line one :

'• Haste 1 ah, hmtm/ to the Saviour."

Verse two, line two :

" Sue his mercy while you may."

Verse two, line five :
" Hasten, sinner."

Omitted stanza:

"See! the storm of vengeance gath'ring
O'er the path vou dare to tread:

Hark ! the awful" thunders rolling
Loud and louder o'er your head ;

Tarry, sinner!
Lest the lightnings strike your head."

From the author's Collection, 1817.
See No. 267.

344

The gracious call.

COME, said Jesus' sacred voice,
Come, and make my path your choice ;

1 will guide you to your home;
"Weary pilgrim, hither come.

2 Thou who, houseless, sole, forlorn.
Long hast borne the proud world's scorn.
Long hast roamed the barren waste,
Weary pilgrim, hither haste.

3 Ye who, tossed on beds of pain,
Seek for ease, but seek in vain ;
Ye, by fiercer anguish torn,

In remorse for guilt who mourn ;

4 Hither come, for here is found
Balm that flows for every wound,
Peace that ever shall endure,
Rest eternal, sacred, sure.

MUS. ANNA L. BARBATJLD.

" Come unto m*. all ye that labor and are heavy
lad*n, and I nil! air.- you rest." Matt, xi, 28.

The third stanza is made up of the first half of
the third and fourth of the original. The last coup-
lets of these stanzas are as follows :

" Ye whose swollen and sleepless eyes
Watch to see the morning rise."

" Here repose your heavy care :
Who the stings of guilt can bear?"

The last stanza the author began with, " Sinner,
come," etc.
For biographical sketch, see No. 77.

345 Delay dangerous. 7.

HASTEN, Binner, to be wise!
Stay not for tin- morrow's sun:
\\ riadom if you still despise,

Harder is it to be won.

2 Hasten, mercy to implore!
Stay not for the morrow's sun,

Lest thy season should be o'er
Ere this evening's stage be run.

3 Hasten, sinner, to return !
Stay not for the morrow's sun,

Lest thy lamp should fail to burn
Ere salvation's work is done.

4 Hasten, sinner, to be blest !
Stay not for the morrow's sun,

Lest perdition thee arrest
Ere the morrow is begun.

THOMAS SCOTT.

Author's title : Delay.
Two lines have been altered.

Oeigixal Fop.m.
Verse one, line three :

" Longer wisdom you despise."

Verse one, line four:

'• Harder is she to be won."

This valuable hymn is from a volume contain-
ing one hundred and four pieces, entitled Lyric
Poems, Devotional and Moral, by Thomas Scott.
London, 1773.

The Rev. Thomas Scott was a native of Nor-
wich, England ; and was the son of a Dissenting
minister, and himself a school-teacher and a min-
ister among the Presbyterians. He died in 1776.

346 At Zion-'s gate. 7.

PILGRIM, burdened with thy sin,
Come the way to Zion's gate :
There, till mercy lets thee in,

Knock, and weep, and watch, and wait.
Knock — He knows the sinner's cry;

Weep — he loves the mourner's tears;
Watch, for saving grace is nigh;
Wait, till heavenly light appears.

2 Hark, it is the Bridegroom's voice:

"Welcome, pilgrim, to thy rest! "
Now within the p;ate rejoice.

Safe, and sealed, and bought, and blest:
Safe, from all the lures of vice ;

Sealed, by signs the chosen know;
Bought by love, and life the price;

Blest, the mighty debt to owe.

138

HYMN STUDIES.

3 Holy pilgrim, what for thee

In a world like this remain?
From thy guarded breast shall flee

Fear, and shame, and doubt, and pain :
Fear, the hope of heaven shall fly ;

Shame, from glory's view retire ;
Doubt, in certain rapture die ;

Pain, in endless bliss expire.

GEORGE CRABBE.

This is unaltered and entire.

The careful reader will see that the hymn is a
literary curiosity. The fourth line of each stanza
contains four words which begin the four follow-
ing lines.

It is found in the author's poem, Sir Eustace
Grey, first published in 1785. Sir Eustace is a
worldly, prosperous man, who meets with great
affliction, loss of family and estate, and becomes
insane. While a patient in a mad-house he tells
to his physician and a visitor the story of his sor-
rows, and at length, of the rest he had found, he
says:

" I heard a heavenly Teacher speak,
And felt the Sun of Mercy shine;
I hailed the light, the birth divine !
And then was sealed among the few.
*****
" Come hear how thus the charmers cry

To wandering sheep the strays of sin,
• While some the wicket-gate pass by,

And some will knock and enter in ;
Full joyful 'tis a soul to win,

For lie that winneth souls is wise ;
Now hark ! the holy strains begin,

And thus the sainted preacher cries :

" Pilgrim, burthened with thy sin," etc.

The Rev. George Crabbe was born in England
in 1754, and early studied medicine ; but gave up
this profession and applied himself to literature.
He sought the acquaintance of Edmund Burke,
who became his friend and aided him in various
ways. In 1781 he was ordained priest of the Es-
tablished Church. Ilis most successful poems
were The Parish Register, 1809, and The Borough,
1810. He died in 1832. A complete edition of
bis writings was published in 1835.

FIRST PART.

347 Why will ye die ? 7.

SINNERS, turn; why will ye die?
God, your Maker, asks you why;
God, who did your being give,
Made you with himself to live;
He the fatal cause demands;
Asks the work of his own hands,
Why, ye thankless aval tiros, why
Will ye cross his love, and die?

2 Sinners, turn; why will ye die?
God, your Saviour, asks you why ;
He, who did your souls retrieve,
Died himself, that ye might live.
Will ye let him die in vain?
Crucify your Lord again?

Why, ye ransomed sinners, why
Will ye slight his grace and die?

3 Sinners, turn; why will ye die?
God, the Spirit, asks you why ;
He, who all your lives hath strove,
Wooed you to embrace his love.
Will ye not his grace receive?
Will ye still refuse to live?

Why, ye long-sought sinners, why
Will ye grieve your God, and die?

4 Dead, already dead within, —
Spiritually dead in sin;

Dead to God while here you breathe,
Pant ye after second death?
Will ye still in sin remain,
Greedy of eternal pain ?
O ye dying sinners, why,
Why will ye forever die?

CHARLES WESLEY.

" Why will ye die? O house of Israel.'" Ezek.
xviii, 81.

This hymn and the one following are parts of a
poem of sixteen stanzas, first published in Hymns
on God's Everlasting Love, 1741.

This part is the first four stanzas, verbatim, ex-
cept that it has "ye" for "yotf" in some half-
dozen lines. All the stanzas are valuable :

5 "Let the beasts their breath resign,
Strangers to the life divine ;

Who their God can never know,
Let their spirit downward go;
Ye for higher ends were born ;
Ye may all to God return,
Live with Him above the sky ;
Why will you forever die?

6 "You, on whom He favors showers,
You, possest of nobler powers ;

You, of reason's powers possest,
You, with will and memory blest,
You, with finer sense endued.
Creatures capable of God,
Noblest of His creatures, why,
Why will you forever die ?

7 " You, whom He ordained to be
Transcript of the Trinity ;

You, whom He in life doth hold.
You, for whom Himself was sold ;
You, on whom He still doth wait,
Whom He would again create,
Made by Him, and purchased, why,
Why will you forever die i

IIYMN STUDIES.

130

8 "Yen, who OWZ) His record true,
Too, Hi-- chosen people, you,
You, who oall the Suviour Lord,
You, who road His written Word,
You, \v!u> Bee the gospel light,
Claim a crown in Jesus' right,
Why will you, ye Christians, why
Will the house of Israel die i

9 "You. His own peculiar race,
Bharcrs of His special grace ;

All His grace to you is given,
You, the favorites of heaven :
And will you unfaithful prove,
Trample on His richest Love'
Jesus asks the reason, why,
Why will you resolve to die?"

second r.vuT.

348 Tender expostulation.

WHAT could your Redeemer do,
More than he hath done for you?
To procure your peace with God,
Could he more than shed his blood?
After all his flow of love,
All his drawings from above,
Why will ye your Lord deny?
"Why will ye resolve to die ?

2 "Turn," he cries, "ye sinners, turn:"
By his life, your God hath sworn,

He would have you turn and live ;
He would all the world receive.
If your death were his delight,
Would he you to life invite?
Would he ask, beseech, and cry,
" Why will ye resolve to die?"

3 Sinners, turn, while God is near;
Dare not think him insincere :
Now, e'en now, your Saviour stands;
All day long he spreads his hands ;
Cries, "Ye will n<# happy be;

No, ye will not come to me — ■
Mq, who life to none deny:
Why will ye resolve to die?"

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part second is made up of Btanzas ten, thirteen,
and fifteen,
The changes arc as follows :

Verse one, line five :

" After all His waste of love."

Verse two, lines five, six, and seven were taken
from verse fourteen, which see.
Verse two, line five :

" He hath brought to all the race.'1''

Verse two, line six :

" Full salvation by Ills grace."

Verse two, line seven :

" He hath no one soul pass\l by."

11 " Will you die because His grace
Cannot reach to all the race '.

Life because you oannot have?
You because He will not save?
Dare you say He doth not call,
Dotli not oiler life to all,
Doth not ask His creatures, why,
Why will you resolve to die?

12 "Saith He what He never meant,
Calls on all men to repent,

Calls, while His decree withstands,
M >eks the work of His own hands?
Will you die because you must ?
Dare you make your God unjust?
He would have you live ; 0 why,
Why will you resolve to die?

14 " Hath he pleasure in vour pain?
Did He you to death ordain,
Vow you never should return,
Damn, or ever you were born ?
If your death were His delight,
Would He you to life invite?
Would He ask, obtest, and cry,
Why will you resolve to die?

16 " Can ve doubt, if God is Love,
If to all His bowels move ?
Will ye not His Word receive ?
Will ye not His oath believe?
See, the suffering God appears 1
Jesus weeps I believe His tears;
Mingled with His Blood, they cry,
Why will you resolve to die ?"

349 The accepted time. L. M,

TX7HILE life prolongs its precious light,
W Mercy is found, and peace is given;
But soon, ah, soon, approaching night
Shall blot out every hope of heaven.

2 While God invites, bow blest the day!
How sweet the gospel's charming sound I

Come, sinners, haste, O haste away,
While yet a pardoning God is found.

3 Soon, borne on time's most rapid wing,
Shall death command you to the grave,

Before his bar your spirits bring,
And none be found to hear or save.

4 In that lone land of deep despair,

No Sabbath's heavenly light shall rise,
Nor God regard your bitter prayer,
No Saviour call you to the skies.

140

HYMN STUDIES.

5 Now God invites; how blest the day!

How sweet the gospel's charming sound !
Come, sinners, haste, O haste away,

While yet a pardoning God is found.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT.

Title: Life, the Only Accepted Time.

This solemn and valuable hymn is found in the
author's edition of Wattes Psalms, preface-date,
1800. It is given as the third part of Psalm lxxxviii.
It will be seen that the hymn here closes with a
repetition of the second stanza. This is the work
of some editor. The author closed with these
omitted stanzas :

5 " No wonders to the dead are shown,
(The wonders of redeeming love;)

No voice his glorious truth makes known,
Nor sings the bliss of climes above.

6 " Silence, and solitude, and gloom,
In these forgetful realms appear ;
Deep sorrows fill the dismal tomb,
And hope shall never enter there."

It has not been otherwise altered.

The Eev. Timothy Dwight, D.D., was born in
Northampton, Mass., in 1752 ; and entered Yale
College when only thirteen years old. In the war
of the Revolution he was a patriot and a chaplain.
In 1795 he was elected President of Yale College, a
position that he held to the time of his death, in
1817. Dr. Dwight was the author of several theo-
logical works, and of a number of poems ; among
others, the patriotic song :

"Columbia! Columbia 1 to glory arise,

The queen of the world, and the child of the skies."

FIRST TART.
350 All things are ready. L. M.

SINNERS, obey the gospel word ;
Haste to the supper of my Lord ;
Be wise to know your gracious day ;
All things are ready, — come away.

2 Ready the Father is to own
And kiss his late-returning son ;
Ready your loving Saviour stands,
And spreads for you his bleeding hands.

3 Ready the Spirit of his love,
Just now the stony to remove;

To apply and witness wit lit he blood,
And wash and seal the sons of God.

4 Ready for you the angels wait,
To triumph in your blest estate;
Tuning their harps, they long to praise
The wonders of redeeming grace.

5 The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Are ready, with their shining host;
All heaven is readv to resound,
" The dead's alive! the lost is found !"

CHARLES WESLEY.

Text: "Come; for all things are now ready."
Luke xiv, 17.

The first part of a poem of ten stanzas, from
Hymns and Sacred Poems, 174!>.

The reader will readily recognize the allusions to
the prodigal son in verses two and five.

The original of verse five, line two, is, " h ready,"
etc.

No. 351 is the last part of the same hymn.

SECOND PAKT.

OOi The bliss of penitence. L. M.

COME, O ye sinners, to the Lord,
In Christ to paradise restored :
His proffered benefits embrace,
The plenitude of gospel grace.

2 A pardon written with his blood;
The favor and the peace of God ;
The seeing eye, the feeling sense,
The mystic joys of penitence :

3 The godly fear, the pleasing smart,
The meltings of a broken heart;

The tears that tell your sins forgiven ;
The sighs that waft your souls to heaven :

4 The guiltless shame, the sweet distress,
The unutterable tenderness,

The genuine, meek humility;

The wonder, " Why such love to me? "

5 The o'erwhelming power of saving grace,
The sight that veils the seraph's face ;
The speechless awe that dares not move,
And all the silent heaven of love.

«CIIAKLES WESLEY.

The first line of this hymn has been slightly
changed. It is the sixth stanza of the poem, and
begins : " Come, then, ye sinners to your Lord."

352 Ood calling yd. L. M.

GOD calling yet ! shall I not hear?
Earth's pleasures shall I still hold dear ?
Shall life's swift passing years all fly,
Ami still my soul in slumber lie?

2 God calling yet ! shall T not rise?
Can I his loving voice despise!
And basely his kind care repay?
lie calls me still; can I delay?

HYMN STUDIES.

141

:; God calling yel I and shall he knock,
And I my heart the closer lock?
He still is waiting t<> receive.
And shall 1 dare his Spirit grieve?

4 God calling yet ! and shall I give
No heed, but still in bondage live?
1 wait, but he does not forsake;
He calls me still; my heart, awake!

5 God calling yet! I cannot stay;
My heart I yield without delay:

Vain world, farewell, from thee I part;
The voice of God hath readied my heart.

CKHHAUD TERSTEEGEN.
TR. 15Y MISS J. BORTUWICK.

" Unto you, O men, I call ; and my voice is to
the sons of man. " Prow viii, 4.

The translation is found in Hymns from the Land
of Luther, 1853.

It has been changed considerably. The following
verse, the tilth, is omitted :

" Ah ! yield Him all — all to ITis care confiding:
Where but with him, are rest and peace abiding?
Unloose, unloose, break earthly bonds asunder,
And let this spirit rise in soaring wonder."

Miss Jane Borthwick (born in 1825) was one of the
editors of Hymns from the Land of Luther, 1853.
and the author of a small volume of poems, entitled
Thoughts for the Thoughtful, 1859.

For biography of Tersteegen, see No. 47.

L. M.

353

Quench not the Spirit. 1 Thess. v, 18.

SAY, sinner, hath a voice within
Oft whispered to thy secret soul,
Urged thee to leave the ways of sin,
And yield thy heart to God's control?

2 Sinner, it was a heavenly voice,
It was the Spirit's gracious call ;

It bade thee make the better choice,
And haste to seek in Christ thine all.

3 Spurn not the call to life and light ;
Regard in time the warning kind;

That call thou mayst not always slight
And yet the gate of mercy find.

4 God's Spirit will not always strive
With hardened, self-destroying man;

Ye, who persist his love to grieve,
May never hear his voice again.

5 Sinner, perhaps this very day
Thy last accepted time may be;

O shouldst thou grieve him now away,
Then hope may never beam on thee.

MRS. ABBY B. HYDE.

A solemn hymn written upon Genesis vi, 3:
" Mi/ Spirit shall not always strive with man." It
was contributed to Dr. Nettleton's Village Hymns,

L824, The second Verse is omitted:

" Ilnth something met thee in the path

Of worldliness and vanity,
And pointed to the coining wrath,
And warn'd thee from that wrath to flee? "

It has not been altered.

The author's name was not Ann, but Abby
Bradley Hyde. She was the wife of the Kev.
Lavius Hyde, a Congregational minister, who was
pastor of several churches in Massachusetts and
Connecticut.

Mrs. Hyde lived from 1799 to 1872.

354: Haste, traveler, haste. L. M.

HASTE, traveler, haste! the night
comes on,
And many a shining hour is gone;
The storm is gathering in the west,
And thou art far from home and rest.

2 O far from home thy footsteps stray ;
Christ is the Life, and Christ the Way,
And Christ the Light ; thy setting sun
Sinks ere thy morning is begun.

3 The rising tempest sweeps the sky ;
The rains descend, the winds are high ;
The waters swell, and death and fear
Beset thy path, nor refuge near.

4 Then linger not in all the plain,
Flee for thy life, the mountain gain ;
Look not behind, make no delay,

O speed thee, speed thee on thy way.

WILLIAM B. COLBYER.

This is not in Dr. Collycr's Collection, 1812. It
was probably written after that book was published.
It is found in Rippon's Selection — the twenty-ninth
edition — published in 1829, where each stanza closes
with this burden:

" Haste, traveller, haste ! "
Verses three, five, and seven are omitted ;

3 " Awake, awake ! pursue thy way
With steady course, while yet 'tis day ;
While thou art sleeping on the ground,
Danger and darkness gather round.
Haste, traveller, haste ! "

5 " 0 yes ! a shelter you may gain,
A covert from the wind and rain,
A hiding-place, a rest, a home,
A refuse from the wrath to come.
Haste, traveller, haste ! "

142

HYMN STUDIES.

7 " Poor, lost, benighted soul ! art thou
Willing to find salvation now ?

There yet is hope ; hear mercy's call :
Truth ! Life ! Light ! Way ! in Christ is all !
Haste to Him, haste ! "

The Rev. "William Bengo Collyer, D.D., was
born in 1782, and was pastor ot a Congregational
church in Peckham, London, from 1811 to the time
of his death, in 1854. He published several prose
works and compiled a hymn book, entitled ffyntns,
Partly Collected and Partly Original. London,
1812. In this book were published fifty-eight
hymns ol his own composition.

355 Whosoever will. Rev. xxii, 17. S. M.

THE Spirit, in our hearts,
Is whispering, ' ' Sinner, come : "
The bride, the Church of Christ, proclaims
To all his children, "Come!"

2 Let him that heareth say-
To all about him, " Come ! "

Let him that thirsts for righteousness,
To Christ, the fountain, come !

3 Yea, whosoever will,
O let him freely come,

And freely drink the stream of life ;
'Tis Jesus bids him come.

4 Lo ! Jesus, who invites,
Declares, " I quickly come;"

Lord, even so! we wait thine hour;
O blest Redeemer, come !

H. TJ. ONDERDONK.

It will be seen that the first three verses are
founded on Rev. xxii, 17:

" And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And
let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that
is athirst come. And whosevcr will, let him take
the water of life freely."

The last stanza is based upon verse 20 :

" He which tcstifieth these things saitb, Surely I
come quickly : Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus."

The last line has been altered. The author
wrote :

"Jesus, my Saviour, come."

Contributed to the Ilipnm in the Protestant EpU-
eopal Prayer Book, 1826.

The Rev. Henry Ustic Onderdonk, D.D., was
born in New York in 1788 ; was graduated at Colum-
bia College in 1805, and then studied medicine.
After practicing for several yean he decided to enter
the ministry. He rose rapidly to distinction as a

preacher, and in 1827 was elected to the episcopacy
in the Protestant Episcopal Church. On account
of some dissatisfaction he resigned his office of
Bishop in 1841. He lived till 1858. Several of his
hymns are found in the Hymnal of the Protestant
Episcopal Church.

356 The guardianship of angels. S. M.

YE simple souls that stray
Far from the path of peace,
That lonely, unfrequented way

To life and happiness,
Why will ye folly love,

And throng the downward road,
And hate the wisdom from above,
And mock the sons of God?

2 So wretched and obscure,
The men whom ye despise,

So foolish, impotent, and poor,—

Above your scorn we rise :
We, through the Holy Ghost,

Can witness better things;
For he whose blood is all our boast,

Hath made us priests and kings.

3 Riches unsearchable

In Jesus' love we know;
And pleasures springing from the well

Of life, our souls o'erllow :
The Spirit we receive

Of wisdom, grace, and power;
And always sorrowful wc live,

Rejoicing evermore.

4 Angels our servants are,
And keep in all our ways.

And in their watchful hands they bear

The sacred sons of grace :
Unto that heavenly bliss

They all our steps attend;
And God himself our Father is,

And Jesus is our friend.

.HHTN WESI-EY.

Published, without title, in Hyrtvn«fot Thnsethat
Seek and Tlmse that Have Red* mption in the Blood
of Jesus Chrint. London, 1747.

This pamphlet, containing fifty-two pieces, and
sold for sixpence, was published without name.
Mr. Henry ktoore. <>ne of the biographers of John
Wesley, claims the authorship of this hymn for
John, rather than for Charles, Wesley.

Stuii7.as two, three, and seven have been omitted,
and the meter has been changed from particular to
short. This change was made by the author lor
his ('ollecii'in of Hymns for the use of the peopU
called Methodists, 1780.

HYXir STUDIES.

143

357 All things an ready . Matt. wii,4. S. M.
** A LL things arc ready," COtne,

Xjl Come to the stopper spread;
Come, rich and poor, come, old and young,

Coffee, and be richly fed.

2 "All things arc ready," come,
The invitation's given,

Through Him who now in glory sits
At God's right hand in heaven.

3 "All tilings arc ready," come,
The door is open wide;

O feast upon the love of God,
For Christ, his Son, has died.

4 " All things are ready," come,
To-morrow may not be ;

O sinner, come, the Saviour waits
This hour to welcome thee.

ALBERT MIDLANE.

From Gospel Echoes ; or, Help to the Heralds of
Salvation, by Albert Midlane. London, 18(55.

This little book contains one hundred and ninety-
one hymns.

The hymn is not altered. One verse, the fourth,
has been omitted:

" ' All things are ready,' come,

All hind'rance is removed ;
And God, in Christ, His precious love

To fallen man has proved."

Albert Midlane, a layman of the Church of En-
gland, was born in 1825. Besides the above-men-
tioned book, he published Leaves from Olivet,
1865.

358 The second death. S. M.

0 WHERE shall rest be found,
Rest for the weary soul?
'Twere vain the ocean's depths to sound,
Or pierce to either pole.

2 The world can never give
The bliss for which we sigh ;

'Tis not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.

3 Beyond this vale of tears
There is a life above,

Unmeasured by the flight of years ;
And all that life is love.

4 There is a death, whose pang
Outlasts the fleeting breath :

O what eternal horrors hang
Around the second death !

5 Thou God of truth and grace,
Teach us that death to slum;

Lest we be banished from thy face,
For evermore undone.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Author's title : The Iwmea of Life and Death.

The testimony of Montgomery, in the first part
of this hymn, should have great weight, lie wrote
from sail experience.

The original has four additional linos :

" Here would we end our quest ;

Alone are found in Thee
The life of perfect love, the rest

Of immortality."

Unaltered from Christian Psalmist, 1825.
See No. 5.

o59 Accepting the invitation. S. M.

COME, weary sinners, come,
Groaning beneath your load ;
The Saviour calls his wanderers home ;
Haste to your pardoning God.

2 Come, all by guilt oppressed,
Answer the Saviour's call,

" O come, and I will give you rest,
And I will save you all."

3 Redeemer, full of love,
We wTould thy word obey,

And all thy faithful mercies prove:
O take our guilt away.

4 We would on thee rely,

On thee would cast our care;
Now to thine arms of mercy fly,
And find salvation there.

CHARLES WESLEY, ALT.

The original contains four double stanzas This
hymn is made up of the first, the first part of the
second, and the Inst part of the third ; but there is
not a single line that remains as it was published by
the Wesleys. The changes were made by the edit-
ing committee of 1848. Common honesty demands
that it should be marked altered.

From Hymns for those that Seek and those that
Have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ,
1747.

360 51*1 Ilin i while he may be found. S. M.

MY son, know thou the Lord,
Thy father's God obey ;
Seek his protecting care by night,
His guardian hand by day.

144

HYMN STUDIES.

2 Call, while he may be found ;
Seek him while he is near;

Serve him with all thy heart and mind,
And worship him with fear.

3 If thou wilt seek his face,
His ear will hear thy cry;

Then shall thou find his mercy sure,
His grace forever nigh.

4 But if thou leave thy God,
Nor choose the path to heaven,

Then shalt thou perish iu thy sins,
And never be forgiven.

UNKNOWN.

This is hardly a hymn, but it is a fine exhorta-
tion. It was written upon the words of David to
Solomon, found in 1 Chron. xxviii, 9:

"And thou, Solomon, my son, know thou the
God ot thy father, and serve him with a perfect
heart, and with a willing mind: for the Lord
searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the im-
aginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he
will be found of thee ; but if thou forsake him, he
will cast thee off forever."

The Hymnal gives the authorship to Eobert Carr
Brackenbury, who was a local Wesleyan preacher,
and a wealthy and gifted friend of John Wesley for
many years; but this is certainly a mistake. The
hymn is found in a neat little book, entitled Ser-
mons to Children. To which are added Short
Hymns suited to the Subject. " By a Lady." There
were in this book seventeen little sermons, and fif-
teen hymns. This hymn follows Sermon xvi. 'flic
text of the sermon, as well as the ba~is of the hymn,
Ls the a^ove-quoted passage.

The first hymn is the once familiar and favorite
juvenile,

" See the kind Shepherd, Jesus, stands."
The date is from 1795 to 1818.

361 The day of grace. S. M.

NOW is the accepted time,
Now is the day of grace :
Now, sinners, come without delay,
And seek the Saviour's face.

2 Now is the accepted time,
The Saviour calls to-day;

To-morrow it may be too late —
Then why should you delay?

3 Now is the accepted time,
The gospel bids you come;

And every promise in his word
Declares there yet is room.

JOHN DOBELL.

" /.'< hold, now is the accepted time.'''' 2 Cor. vi, 2.

It is unaltered.

The original has two additional stanzas :

4 " Lord, draw reluctant souls,
And feast them with thy love;

Then will the angels clap their wings,
And bear the news above.

5 " At length around thy throne
They Bhall thy face behold;

While thro' eternity they'll strive
Their raptures to unfold."

From A New Selection of Seven Hundred Evan-
gelical Hymns, lor Private, Family, and Public
Worship. (Many original.) From more than two
hundred of the be>t authors in England, Scotland,
Ireland, and America. Intended ;>s A Supplement
to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns, by John Dobell,
1806. Dobell was a pious man, and his hymn
book a good one for those times. lie lived from
1757 to 1840.

362 The abundance of His grace. L.M.

HO! every one that thirsts draw nigh:
'Tis God invites the fallen race:
Mercy and free salvation buy;

Buy wine, and milk, and gospel grace.

2 Come to the living waters, come !
Sinners, obey your Maker's call ;

Return, ye weary wanderers, home,
And find his grace is free for all.

3 See from the Rock a fountain rise;
For you in healing streams it rolls;

Money ye need not bring, nor price,
Ye laboring, burdened, sin-sick souls.

4 Nothing ye in exchange shall give ;
Leave all you have and are behind;

Frankly the gift of God receive;
Pardon and peace in Jesus find.

JOHN WESLEY.

Isa. lv. The first four verses of a paraphrase of
the entire chapter, containing thirty-one stanzas. I
know of no reason for attributing this to John
rather than Charles Wesley.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems. Published by
John Wesley, M.A., Fellow ot' Lincoln College,
Oxford; and Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of
Christ Church, Oxford. London, 1740.

The author wrote verse two, line four:

" And find my grace," etc.

363 Come to Me. L

WITH tearful eves I look around;
Life seems a dark and stormy sea;
Yet 'midst the gloom I hear a sound,
A heavenly whisper, " Come to me! "

HYMN STUDIES.

145

2 It tells me of a place of rest,

It tells me where my soul may flee:

o to the weary, faint, oppressed,
Bow sweet the bidding, "Come to me!"

:! Winn against Bin I strive in vain,
And cannot from its yoke get free,

Binking beneath the heavy chain,
The words arrest me, "Come to me!1'

4 When nature shudders, loath to part
From all I love, enjoy, and see ;

When a faint chill steals o'er my heart,
A sweet voice utters, "Come to me!

5 " Come, for all else must fail and die;
Earth is no resting-place for thee;

Heavenward direct thy weeping eye;
I am thy portion: come to me! "

CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT.

Founded upon the precious words of Jesus :

"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest." Matt, xi, 28.

Two stanzas, the third and seventh, are omitted :

3 " When the poor heart with anguish learns,
That earthly props resigned must be,

And from each broken cistern turns,
It hears the accents, ' Come to me.'

7 " O voice of mercy ! voice of love !

In conflict, grief, and agony ;
Support me, cheer me from above!

And gently whisper, -Come to me.' "

This fine hymn is from the Invalid? & ffjjmn
Book, 1835. For many years it was anonymous, but
The Book of Praise, edited by Sir Eoundell Palmer,
> Lord Selborne, ) attributes it to Miss Elliott.

Charlotte Elliott was born in England in 1789,
and lived till 1871. She was highly accomplished
and fond of society. A serious sickness led her to
feel the need of personal religion. Something of
the conflict in her soul is evidently recorded in this
hymn. Hymn No. 393; " Just as I am," seems to
be the counterpart of this.

Miss Elliott was an invalid for many years, yet
she was a devoted Christian and anxious to do
good. Her desire was granted through her hymns,
which have been a blessing to multitudes.

36-4 The qospel feast. L. M.

COME, sinners, to the gospel feast;
Let every soul be Jesus' guest :
Ye need not one be left behind,
For God hath bidden all mankind.

2 Sent by my Lord, on you I call;
The invitation is to all:
( ome all the world ! come, sinner, thou !
All things in Christ are ready now.
10

:! Come, all ye souls by sin oppressed,

Ye restless wanderers after rest ;

Ye poor, ami maimed, and halt, and blind,

In Christ a hearty welcome lind.

4 My message as from Cod receive;
Ye all may come to Christ and live:
O let his love your hearts constrain,
Nor suffer him to die in vain.

5 See him set forth before your eyes,
That precious, bleeding sacrifice:
His offered benefits embrace,

And freely now be saved by grace.

CHAELKS WESLEY.

Title: The Great Supper.

Founded on Luke xiv, 16-24.

It is a very interesting paraphrase of the story,
in twenty four stanzas. The hymn is made up of
verses one, two, twelve, twenty, and twenty-two.
A few slight changes were made for the Collection,
1780. In some ol the omitted stanzas the author
uses great plainness of speech, for example, we give
the following verse, the thirteenth of the original:

" Sinners my gracious Lord receives,
Harlots, and publicans, and thieves;
Drunkards, and all ye hellish crew,
I have a message now to you."

It is said that when Jesse Lee preached under the
Old Elm, on Boston Common, in 1790, he sang this
radical Methodist hymn to collect his congregation.

From Redemption Hymns, 1747.

365 Sin kills beyond the tomb. C. M.

VAIN man, thy fond pursuits forbear;
Repent, thine end is nigh ;
Death, at the farthest, can't be far:
O think before thou die.

2 Reflect, thou hast a soul to save;
Thy sins, how high they mount!

What are thy hopes beyond the grave?
How stands that dark account?

3 Death enters, and there's no defense;
His time there's none can tell ;

He'll in a moment call thee hence,
To heaven, or down to hell.

4 Thy flesh, perhaps thy greatest care,
Shall into dust consume;

But, ah ! destruction stops not there ;
Sin kills beyond the tomb.

JOSEPH HART.

Author's title : Death.

146

HYMN STUDIES.

The second line of the fourth stanza, the writer
published:

" Shall crawling worms consume,"

which, by the way, is neither true nor poetic.
There are two additional and comparatively feeble

ttanzas :

" To-day the gospel calls, to-day,

Sinners, it speaks to you ;
Let every one forsake his way,

And mercy will ensue :

"Rich mercy, dearly bought with blood,

How vile soe'er he be;
Abundant pardon, peace with God,

All given entirely free."

From the Supplement of Mart's Hymns, 1762.

366 cm.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow. Prov. xxvii, 1.

WHY should we boast of time to come,
Though but a single day,
This hour may fix our final doom,
Though strong, and young, and gay.

2 The present we should now redeem-
This only is our own ;

The past, alas! is all a dream;
The future is unknown.

3 O think what vast concerns depend
Upon a moment's space,

When life and all its cares shall end
In vengeance or in grace.

4 O for that power which melts the heart,
And lifts the soul on high !

Where sin and grief and death depart,
And pleasures never die.

M. WILKS.

This appeared in the Methodist Episcopal Hymn
Book in 1849.

The Rev. Matthew Wilks, (1746-1829,) one of
Lady Huntingdon's ministers, wrote hymns, but
this is not found among those attributed to him. I
can vouch neither for the authorship nor for the
text.

367 The Justifer of the ungodly. C. M.

LOVERS of pleasure more than God,
For you he suffered pain;
For you the Saviour spilt his blood:
And shall he bleed in vain?

2 Sinners, his life for you he paid;

Y'nir basest crimes he bore ;
Your sins were all on Jesus laid,

That you might sin no more.

3 To earth the great Redeemer came,
That you might come to heaven ;

Believe, believe in Jesus' name,
And all your sin's forgiven.

4 Believe in him who died for thee,
And, sure as he hath died,

Tliy debt is paid, thy soul is free,
And thou art justified.

CHARLES WESLEY, ALT.

Title : Before Preaching to the Colliers in Leices-
tershire.

It is from the last part of a long hymn of eighteen
stanzas. No. 32 is from the first part. This is
composed of verses eleven, twelve, seventeen, and
eighteen. All, except the last, were altered for the
hymn book of 1849. The third line of the first
verse, Wesley wrote:

" Bailers, for you He spilt His blood."

The second verse was :

" Misers, His life for vou He paid,

Your basest crime He bore ;
Drunkards, your sins on JJim were laid,

That ye might sin no more."

The third verse began:
" The God of love to earth He came."

From JFymns and Sacred Poems, by Charles
Wesley, 1749.

368 Tli c hammer of Pis word. C. M.

COME, O thou all-victorious Lord,
Thy power to us make known;
Strike with the hammer of thy word,
And break these hearts of stone.

2 O that we all might now begin
Our foolishness to mourn ;

And turn at once from every sin,
And to the Saviour turn.

3 Give tis ourselves and thee to know
In this our gracious day ;

Repentance unto life bestow,
And take our sins away.

4 Convince us first of unbelief,
And freely then release;

Fill ever soul with sacred grief,
And then with sacred peace.

( II LRLES WESLEY.

Title : Written Before Preaching at Portland.

The fact that man] eft lie people worked in stone
quarries probably suggested to Wes!ey this
Scripture:

" Is not my word . . . like a hammer that break -
etfa the rock in pieces?" Jer. xxiii, 29.

HYMN STUDIES.

147

The author wrote, vers,- four, line one :
" Conclude us first in unbelief."

There are three additional stanzas.
From Hi/inns and Sacred I'ocrns, by Charles
Wesley, 1749.

369 Desperate resolution. C. M.

C^O.ME, humble sinner, in whose brea9t
J A thousand thoughts revolve,
Come, with your guilt and fear oppressed,

And make this last resolve: —

2 I'll go to Jesus, though my sin
Like mountains round me elose;

I know his courts, I'll enter in,
"Whatever may oppose.

% Prostrate 111 lie before his throne,

And there my guilt confess;
I'll tell him, I'm a wretch undone

Without his sovereign grace.

4 Perhaps he will admit my plea,
Perhaps will hear my prayer;

But, if I perish, I will pray,
And perish only there.

5 I can but perish if I go,
I am resolved to try ;

For if I stay away, I know
I must forever die.

EDMUND JONES.
Title : The Successful Resolve.

Text : " And so will I go in unto the king, which
is not according to the law: and if I perish, 1
perish." Esther iv, 16.

The oldest copy of this hymn now known is in
Rippon's Selection, 1787. In that book, verse two,
line two, is :

" Hath like a mountain rose."

One verse, the fourth, is omitted :

4 " I'll to the gracious King approach,

Whose scepter pardon gives,
Perhaps he may command my touch,

And then the suppliant lives."

The Rev. Edmund Jones (1722— 17fi">) was a wor-
thy man, and the pastor of a Baptist church at
Exeter, England.

370 The wanderer recalled. C. M.

RETURN, O wanderer, return,
And seek thy Father's face;
Those new desires which in thee burn
Were kindled by his grace.

2 Return, 0 wanderer, return;
He hears thy humble sigh:

He sees thy softened spirit mourn,
When no one else is nigh.

3 Return, O wanderer, return ;
Thy Saviour bids thee live:

Come to his cross, and, grateful, learn
How freely he'll forgive.

4 Return, O wanderer, return,
And wipe the falling tear:

Thy Father calls, — no longer mourn;
'Tis love invites thee near.

5 Return, O wanderer, return;
Regain thy long-sought rest:

The Saviour's melting mercies yearn
To clasp thee to his breast.

WILLIAM B. COLLYER, ALT.

Author's title: The Backslider.

It was written in long meter and contained six
stanzas. Only the first lines remain unaltered.

From Hymns Partly Collected and Partly Orig-
inal. Designed as a Supplement to Dr. Watts'*
Psalms and Hymns, by William Bengo Colly er,
D.D. London, lb 12.

See No. 354.

371 Xo peace to the wicked. C. M.

SINKERS, the voice of God regard ;
'Tis mercy speaks to-day ;
He calls you by his sacred word
From sin's destructive way.

2 Like the rough sea, that cannot rest,
You live, devoid of peace ;

A thousand stings within your breast
Deprive your souls of ease.

3 Your way is dark, and leads to hell :
Why will you persevere?

Can you in endless torments dwell,
Shut up in black despair?

4 Why will you in the crooked ways
Of sin and folly go?

In pain you travel all your days,
To reach eternal woe.

5 But he that turns to God shall live,
Through his abounding grace:

His mercy will the guilt forgive
Of those that seek his face.

6 Bow to the scepter of his word,
Renouncing every sin ;

Submit to him, your sovereign Lord,
And learn his will divine.

JOHN FAWCETT.

148

HYMN STUDIES.

Text: "Let the wicked forsake his way, and
the unrighteous man hie thoughts: and let him re-
turn unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon
him ; and to our God, for he will abundantly par-
don." lsa. lv, 7.

The author wrote "immortal" instead of "eter-
nal"' in verse four, line four.

There is one additional stanza, which is a good
illustration of the anticlimax. The first part is
grand, the last part weak :

" His love exceeds your highest thoughts,

He pardons like a God :
He will forgive your numerous faults,

Through a Redeemer's blood."

From Hymns Adapted to the Circumstances of
Public Worship and Private Devotion, 1782.
For biographical sketch, see No. 31.

3/2 The voice that wakes the dead. C. M.

THOU Son of God, whose flaming eyes
Our inmost thoughts perceive,
Accept the grateful sacrifice
Which now to thee we give.

2 We bow before thy gracious throne,
And think ourselves sincere:

But show vis, Lord, is every one
Thy real worshiper?

3 Is here a soul that knows thee not,
Nor feels his need of thee, —

A stranger to the blood which bought
His pardon on the tree!

4 Convince him now of unbelief;
His desperate state explain;

And fill his heart with sacred grief,
And penitential pain.

5 Speak with that voice that wakes the dead,
And bid the sleeper rise;

And bid his guilty conscience dread
The death that never dies.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hi/mnsfor the Use of Families, by Charles
Wesley, 1767.

There are three valuable additional stanza:

" Extort the cry, What must be done

To save a wretch like me ?
How shall a trembling sinner >hun

That endless misery '.

"I must this instant now begin,

Out of my sleep to wake,
And turn to Sod, and every sin

Continually forsake.

" I must for faith incessant cry,
And wrestle, Lord, with Thee,

1 must be born again, or die
To all eternity."

Two lines have been changed.
Verse one, line three :

" Accept our evening sacrifice."

Verse four, line three :

" And fill his careless heart with grief."

This last change was made for the Collection

of 17H0.

373 Warnings multiplied. CM.

BENEATH our feet, and o'er our head,
Is equal warning given ;
Beneath us lie the countless dead,
Above us is the heaven.

2 Death rides on every passing breeze,
And lurks in every flower;

Each season has its own disease,
Its peril, every hoar.

3 Our eyes have seen the rosy light
Of youth's soft cheek decay,

And fate descend in sudden night
On manhood's middle day.

4 Our eyes have seen the steps of age
Halt feebly to the tomb;

And shall earth still our hearts engage,
And dreams of days to come?

5 Turn, mortal, turn ; thy danger know :
Where'er thy foot can tread,

The earth rings hollow from below,
And warns thee by her dead.

6 Turn, mortal, turn; thy soul apply
To truths divinely given :

The dead, who underneath thee lie,
Shall live for hell or heaven.

REGINALD IIEBER.

Title: At a Funeral.
Second stanza omitted :

" Their names arc graven on the stone,

Their bones are in the clay ;
And ere another day is done,

Ourselves may be as they."

In the last stanza the author wrote " Christian "
instead of "mortal" in the first line; and "The
bones" instead of "The dead " in the third line.

From Hymns Written and Adapted to the Weekly
Church Service of the Year, 1827.

For biography, sec No. No. 62.

HYMN STUDIl.s.

149

3/4 Waiting to /»' gracious. C. M.

JESUS, Redeemer of mankind,
Display thy Baving power;
Thy mere; let the sinner find,
Ami know his gracious hour.

2 Who thee beneath their feet, have trod,

And crucified afresh,
Touch with thine all- victorious blood,

And turn the stone to flesh.

8 Open their eyes thy cross to see,

Their ears, to hear thy cries;
Sinner, thy Saviour weeps for thee;

For thee he weeps and dies.

4 All the day long lie meekly stands,
His rebels to receive;

And shows his wounds and spreads his
hands,
And bids you turn and live.

5 Turn, and your sins of deepest dye,
He will with blood efface;

E'en now he waits the blood to apply;
Be saved, be saved by grace.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part of a hymn of twelve stanzas. This is made
up of verses live, and eight to eleven, inclusive.

From Hymns for Times of Trouble and Persecu-
tion, by John and Charles Wesley, Presbyters of
the Church of England. London, 1744.

Three lines have been altered.

Original.
Verse one, lines three and four :

" Thy mercy let these outcasts find,
And know their gracious hour."

Verse three, lines one and two :

" Onen their eyes and ears, to see
Thy cross, to hear Thy cries."

At this time England was at war with France,
and was threatened with invasion. The Wesleys
and their fellow-laborers were subjected to se-
vere persecution. The "outcasts " for whom they
prayed were the fanatical leaders of riot and out-
rage.

375 Too late! 10.

LATE, late, so late! and dark the night,
and chill !
Late, late, so late! But we can enter still.
"Too late, too late! ye cannot enter
now."

2 No light hail we;— for that we do re-

pent,
And learning this, the Bridegroom will re-
lent.
"Too late, too late! ye cannot enter
now."

3 No light! so late! and dark and chill the

night —
O let us in, that we may find the light.
"Too late, to late! ye cannot enter
now ! "

4 Have we not heard the Bridegroom is so

sweet !
O let us in, though late, to kiss his feet.
" No ! no ! too late ! ye cannot enter now !"

ALFRED TENNYSON.

This plaintive song is found in Idyls of the
King, imbedded in Guinevere. The unhappy
quren had fled from King Arthur's court to the
convent at Almesbury. Here, unknown to all, she
found sanctuary among the nuns. She was at-
tended by a little maid, a novice, who one day was
humming snatches of a song. To her Queen Guin-
evere said :

" 0 maiden, if indeed you list to sing,
Sing, and unbind my heart that I may weep.
Whereat full willingly sanjj the little maid,
' Late, late, so late ! and dark the night, and chill,'
etc.

" So sang the novice, while full passionately,
Her head upon her hands remembering
Her thought when first she came, wept the sad
queen."

Alfred Tennyson was born in Lincolnshire in
1810; and is the son of a clergyman. While yet
an under-graduate at Cambridge, he published a
small volume of poems, which, of course, the critics
condemned unread, and almost unseen. His. third
volume, containing Locksly Hall, Ulysses, and some
of the first tales of King Arthur, gave him a repu-
tation as the coming poet of the age. Upon the
death of Wordsworth, in 1850, he was made Poet-
Laureate. He has easily held his place, and added
to his fame. In January, 1884, the poet was made
a peer of the realm, with the title of Baron Tenny- .
sou d'Eyncourt.

376 Mercy, death, doom. 8, 5.

TX the silent midnight watches,
List, — thy bosom door!
How it knocketh, knocketh, knocketh..,

Knocketh evermore !
Say not 'tis thy pulse is beating:

'Tis thy heart of sin;
'Tis thy Saviour knocks, and crieth
Rise, and let me in !

150

HYMN STUDIES.

2 Death comes down with reckless footstep,
To the hall and hut:

Think you death will stand a-knockiug

Where the door is shut?
Jesus waiteth, waiteth, waiteth;

But thy door is fast !
Grieved, away the Saviour goeth :

Death breaks in at last.

3 Then 'tis thine to stand entreating
Christ to let thee in ;

At the gate of heaven beating,

Wailing for thy sin.
Nay, alas! thou foolish virgin,

Hast thou then forgot?
Jesus waited long to know thee,

But he knows thee not.

A. CLEVELAND COXE.

Title : The Heart's Song.

From At/ama#ian and Miscellaneous Poem*, New
York, 1842.

The Scripture basis of the hymn is : " Behold, 1
stand at the door, and knock." Rev. iii, 20.

A few changes have been made since it was first
published. In the seventh line of the first stanza
the author wrote:

" 'Tis thy Saviour stands entreating.''''

The first line of the second stanza is :

" Death comes down with equal footstep,"

and in the seventh line :

" Grieved at length away he turneth."

For sketch of author, see No. 202.

377 The gift of faith. C. P. M.

AUTHOR of faith, to thee I cry,
To thee, who wouldst not have me die,
But know the truth and live:
Open mine eyes to see thy face;
Work in my heart the saving grace;
The life eternal give.

2 Shut u p in unbelief. I groan.
And blindly serve a God unknown,

Till thou the vail remove;
The gift unspeakable impart,
And write thy name upon my heart,

And manifest thy love.

3 I know the work is only thine,
The silt of faith is all divine;

Rut, if on thee we call,
Thou wilt that gracious gift bestow.
And cause our hearts to feel and know

That thou hast died for all.

4 Thou bidd'st us knock and enter in,
Come unto thee, and rest from sin,

The blessing seek and find:
Thou bidd'st us ask thy grace, and have ;
Thou canst, thou wouldst, this moment save

Roth me and all mankind.

5 Re it according to thy word;
Now let me find my pardoning Lord;

Let what I ask be given :
The bar of unbelief remove ;
Open the door of faith and love,

And take me into heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: For One Convinced of Unbelief.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, in two volumes,
by Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of Christ
Church Oxford. Bristol, 1749.

Two lines have been changed. Verse three, line
four :

" Thou wouldst the benefit bestow."

Verse three, line five:

" And give us hearts to feel and know," etc.

378 Heading the sacrifice of Christ. C. P. M.

OLAMR of God, for sinners slain,
I plead with thee, my suit, to gain, —
I plead what thou hast done:
Didst thou not die the death for me?
Jesus, remember Calvary,

And break my heart of stone.

2 Take the dear purchase of thy blood,
My Friend and Advocate with God,

My Ransom and my Peace,

Surety, who all my debt hast paid,
For all my sins atonement made,
The Lord my Righteousness,

3 O let thy Spirit shed abroad
The love, the perfect love of God,

In this cold heart of mine!
() might he now descend, and rest,
And dwell forever in my breast,

And make it all divine!

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Desiring to Love.

Seven stanzas." These are respectively the fourth,
filth, and third of the original. The first couplet
of the hymn as here Lriven has been transposed and
changed. The author wrote :

" What shall I do my suit to pain ?
O Lamb of God for sinners slain."

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacrtd Poems,
1749.

117 MX STUDIES.

151

379 Vrpth of mercy. 7.

DEPTH of mercy', can there be
Meny .-till reserved for met
Can my God his wrath forbear, —
Me, the chief of sinners, spare!

2 I have long withstood his grace;
Long provoked him to his face;
Would not hearken to his calls ;
Grieved him by a thousand falls.

3 Now incline me to repent;
Let me now my sins lament ;
Now my foul revolt deplore,
Weep, believe, and sin no more.

4 Kindled his relenting* are;
Me he now delights to spare;
Cries, " How shall I give thee up? "
Lets the lifted thunder drop.

5 There for me the Saviour stands.
Shows his wounds and spreads his hands ;
God is love ! I know, I feel ;

Jesus weeps, and loves me still.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

The author's title is : After a Relapse into Sin.

This son?, so full of poetry and tenderness, is
made up of verses oue, two, thirteen, seven, and
nine of the original.

One word has been changed. Wesley wrote "fall "
instead of " 6'ms " in verse three, line two.

From Hymns and Sacred Pnerm, by John and
Charles W esley. London, 174'\

A story is told of an English actress, who was
led into a cottage prayer- meeting by hearing this
hymn sung as she was passing by. She was deeply
convicted of sin, and soon afterward found pardon.
Having given her heart to God, she resolved to
leave the Btage : but her manager urged her to play
once more— representing that his disappointment
and loss woulu be great unless she consented to
appear. At last she yielded to his request. Her
part was introduced by a song. When the curtain
rose, the orchestra began the accompaniment, but
she did not sing. Supposing that sha was con-
fused, the hand played the air again. Still she was
silent. At length, "with her hands clasped and her
eves suffused with tears, she sang — not the song of
the play, but —

" Depth of mercy ! can there be
Mercy still reserved for me?
Can my God His wrath forbear?
Me, the chief of sinners, spare ?

The performance suddenly ended, and the people
scattered— some ridiculing her act, others reflecting
upon the power of religion.

It i- s:iid that the woman t>ecame a consistent
Christian, and afterward was the wife of a minister
of the GospeL

380 With T?uc is mercy. 7.

Si tVEREIGN Ruler, Lord of all,
Prostrate at thy feet I fall;
Hear, 0 hear my ardent cry,
Frown not, lest I faint and die.

2 Vilest of the sons of men,
Worst of rebels I have been;
Oft abused thee to thy face,
Trampled on thy richest grace.

3 Justly might thy vengeful dart
Pierce this bleeding, broken heart;
Justly might thy kindled ire
Send'me to eternal fire.

4 But with thee is mercy found,
Balm to heal my every wound ;
Soothe, O soothe this troubled breast,
Give the weary wanderer rest.

THOMAS RAFFLES.

Title : The Pen itent Pardon ed.
Some lines of this hymn differ from the version
given in the author's book.
Verse three, line three :

" Justly might thine angry breath."

Verse three, line four :

" Doom me to eternal death.''''

Verse four, line one :

" But with thee there's mercy found."

Verse four, line three :

" Soothe, oh, soothe my troubled breast."

From Hymns Selected, and Alphabetically
Arranged, for Public Worship and Private De-
votion, bv Thomas Raffles, D.D.. LL.D., 1852. It
first appeared in W. B. Collyer's Hymn Book, 1812,
where it lias two additional stanzas.

See No. 45.

381 The Man on Calvary. C. P. M.

0THOU who hast our sorrows borne,
Help us to look on thee and mourn,
On thee, whom we have slain, —
Have pierced a thousand, thousand times,
And by reiterated crimes
Renewed thy sacred pain.

2 O give us eyes of faith to see
The Man transfixed on Calvary, —

To know thee who thou art,
The one eternal God and true:
And let jhe sight affect, subdue,

And break my stubborn heart.

152

HYMN STUDIES.

3 Lover of souls ! to rescue mine,
Reveal the charity divine,

That suffered in my stead ;
That made thy soul a sacrifice,
And quenched in death those flaming eyes,

And bowed that sacred head.

4 The veil of unbelief remove,
And by thy manifested love,

And by thy sprinkled blood,
Destroy the love of sin in me,
And get thyself the victory,

And bring me back to God.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Wesley wrote verse two, line one :

" Vouchsafe us eyes of faith to see."

And verse four, line one :

" The unbelieving veil remove."

Two stanzas, the third and sixth, have been
omitted :

3 " My heart all other means defies.
It dares against Thy threatenings rise,

Thy righteous laws disdains;
More hardened than the fiends beiow,
With unconcern to hell I go,

And laugh at hellish pains.

6 " Now by Thy dying love constrain
My heart to love its God again,

Its God to glorify ;
And lo I come Thy cross to share,
Echo Thy sacrificial prayer,

And with my Saviour die."

From Charles Wesley's Hymns for Families,
1767.

SS a Looking unto Jesus. 7, 6,

LAMB of God, for sinners slain,
To thee I humbly pray :
Heal me of my grief and pain,

0 take my sins away.
From this bondage, Lord, release,
No longer let me be oppressed:
Jesus. Master, seal my peace,
And take me to thy breast.

2 Wilt thou cast a sinner out

Who humbly comes to thee ?
No, my God, I cannot doubt

Thy mercj is for me:
Let me then obtain the grace,

And be of paradise possessed:
Jesus, Master, seal my peace,

And take me to thy breast.

3 Worldly good I do not want;

Be that to others given :
Only for thy love I pant,

My all in earth and heaven:
This the crown I fain would seize,

The good wherewith I woidd be blest:
Jesus, Master, seal my peace,

And take mc to thy breast.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Looking unto Jesvs.
Wesley wrote " feebly " instead of " humbly " in
verse one, line two.
Three stanzas have been omitted :

2 " Hast Thou not invited all
Who groan beneath their sin?

Weary lobey Thy call.
And come to be made clean :

Give my burdened conscience ease ;

0 grant me now the promised rest:
Jesus, Master, etc.

4 " Full of pain and sin am I.

1 ever hear my shame,
Waiting till my Lord pass by,

And call me by my name ;
Surely now my pain He sees,

And I shall quickly be released!
Jesus, Master, etc.

6 " This delight I fain would prove,

And then resign my breath ;
Join the happy few, whose love

Was mightier than death;
Let it not my Lord displease,

That I would die to be Thy guest:
Jesus, Master," etc.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

383 Renumber Calvary. 7,6,8.

LAMB of God, whose dying love
We now recall to mind,
Bend the answer from above,

And let us mercy find:
Think on us who think on thee,

And every struggling soul release;
0 remember Calvary,
Ami bid us go in peace!

2 By thine agonizing pain,

And bloody sweat, we pray,
By thy dying love to man,

Take all our sins away :
Burst our bunds, and set ua free;

From all iniquity release;
0 remember Calvary.

And bid us go in peace!

IIYMN STUDIES.

153

3 Lit thy blood, by faith applied,

The sinner's pardon seal;
Speak us freely justified,

And all our sickness heal:
By thj passion on the tree,

Let all our griefs and troubles cease,
O remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace!

CHARLES WESLEY.

Froui Iliim »* "a the Lord's Supper, by John and
Charles Wesley, Presbyters of the Church of En-
gland. Bristol*, 17-io.

Wesley wrote the first two lines thus :

" Lamb of God, whose bleeding love
We thm recall to mind."

There is one additional stanza:

4 " Never will we hence depart,

Till Thou our wants relieve,
Write forgiveness on our heart,

And all thine image give;
Still our souls shall cry to Thee,

Till perfected in holiness :
O remember Calvary,

And bid us go in peace.

384 Even me. 8,7,3.

LORD, I hear of showers of blessing
Thou art scattering full and free;
Showers, the thirsty land refreshing ;
Let some drops now fall on me,
Even me.

2 Pass me not, O God, my Father,
Sinful though my heart may be;

Thou mightst leave me, but the rather
Let thy mercy light on me,
Even me.

3 Pass me not, O gracious Saviour,
Let me live and cling to thee;

I am longing for thy favor;

Whilst thou'rt calling. O call me,
Even me.

4 Pass me not, O mighty Spirit,
Thou canst make the blind to see ;

Witnesser of Jesus' merit,

Speak the word of power to me,
Even me.

5 Love of God, so pure and changeless,
Blood of Christ, so rich, so free,

Grace of God, so strong and boundless,
Magnify them all in me,
Even me.

MRS. ELIZABETH CODNER.

Written ill 1860, and first published us a leaflet
in 1861.

Mrs. Codner is the wife of an English clergy-
man. Some of her young friends had beengreatly
interested in an account of revival work to which
they had listened. She was anxious that they
might receive a personal blessing and wrote for
them this hymn. She says: "1 longed to press
upon them an earnest individual appeal. Without
effort, words seemed to be given me, and they took
the form of a hymn. 1 had no thought of sending
il beyond the limit of my own circle; but, passing
it on to one and another, it became a word of
power, and 1 then published it as a leaflet."

In J. C. Kyle's Spiritual Songs are found two
Other Stanzas, the fifth and seventh. They are too
good to be omitted :

5 " Have 1 long in sin beeu sleeping —
Long been slighting, grieving Thee'

Has the world my heart been keeping*
Oh ! forgive, and rescue me,
Even me.

1 "Pass me not, Thy lost one bringing,
Bind my heart, O Lord, to Thee;

Whilst the streams of life are springing,
Blessing others, oh ! bless ine, —
Even me."

3 8 O Saved, by grace. 7, 8, 8.

LET the world their virtue boast,
Their works of righteousness;
I, a wretch undone and lost,
Am freely saved by grace ;
Other title I disclaim,
This, only this, is all my plea,

1 the chief of sinners am,
But Jesus died for me.

2 Happy they whose joys abound
Like Jordan's swelling stream;

Who their heaven in Christ have found,

And give the praise to him.
Meanest follower of the Lamb,

His steps I at a distance see ;
I the chief of sinners am,

But Jesus died for me.

3 Jesus, thou for me hast died,
And thou in me wilt live;

I shall feel thy death applied;

I shall thy life Teceivc :
Yet, when melted in the flame

Of love, this shall be all my plea,
I the chief of sinners am,

But Jesus died for me.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: lam Determined to Know Nothing Save
Jesus Christ and Him Crucified.

154

HYMN STUDIES.

The original contains nine stanzas. These are
the first and last, with parts ofthe third and fourth,
unaltered. The bunion of this hymn doubtless re-
fers to the words of Paul, who called himself the
" chief" of sinners.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1712.

386 Refuge in the blood of the Lamb. 7, 6, :

G^ OD of my salvation, hear,
X And help me to believe ;
Simply do I now draw near,

Thy blessing to receive.
Full of guilt, alas! I am,

But to thy wounds for refuge flee:
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb,
Thy blood was shed for me.

2 Standing now as newly slain,
To thee I lift mine eye;

Balm of all my grief and pain,

Thy blood is always nigh.
Now as yesterday the same

Thou art, and wilt forever be:
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb,

Thy blood was shed for me.

3 No good word, or work, or thought,
Bring I to buy thy grace ;

Pardon I accept unbought,*

Thy proffer I embrace,
Coming, as at first I came,

To take, and not bestow on thee:
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb,

Thy blood was shed for me.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: After a Relapse into Sin.
There are eight stanzas in the original.
are verses one, two, and six, verbatim.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

These

3 8 7 Hear, and save. 7, 5.

LORD of mercy and of might.
Of mankind the life and light,
Maker, Teacher, Infinite—
Jesus! hear and save.

2 Strong Creator, Saviour mild,
Humbled to a little child,
Captive, beaten, bound, reviled —
Jesus! hear and save.

?> Borne aloft on angels1 wings,
Throned above celestial things,
Lord of lords, and King of kings —
Jesus ! hear and save.

4 Soon to come to earth again,
Judge of angels and of men,
Hear us now, and hear us then —
Jesus! hear and save.,

REGINALD HEBER.

Title : Quinquagesima.

One stanza, the second, is omitted :

" Who, when sin's primeval doom
Gave creation to the tomb,
Didst not scorn a Virgin's womb,
Jesus, hear and save."

The first couplet of the third stanza has been
transposed.

From Hymns Written and Adapte/l to the Weekly
Church Set-vice of the 1'ear, 1827. It was first pub-
lished in the Christian Observer, 1811.

See No. 62.

388 Tlie souV s home. S. M.

LIKE Noah's weary dove,
That soared the earth around,
But not a resting-place above
The cheerless waters found;

2 O cease, my wandering soul,
On restless wing to roam ;

All the wide world, to either pole,
Has not for thee a home.

3 Behold the ark of God!
Behold the open door!

Hasten to gain that dear abode,
And rove, my soul, no more.

4 There, safe thou shalt abide,
There, sweet shall be thy rest,

And every Longing satisfied,
With full salvation blot.

WILLIAM A. MUHLENBERG.

This hymn was written at Flushing, Lonj: Island,
in 1826 ; and published the same year in Hymns Ap-
pended to the Protestant Episcopal Prayer Look.

There is one additional stanza:

5 " And when the waves of ire,

Again the earth shall fill,
The ark shall ride the sea of fii-e;

Then rest on Zion's hill."

The Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg, D.D..
was born in Pennsylvania, in L796; was graduated
at the University of Pennsylvania in ]sl4, and or-
dained priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church in
1820. Subsequently he established St. Paul's Col-
lege, at Flushing, Long bland. Dr. Muhlenberg
was one ofthe committee that edited the Hymns
Suited to tht Feasts and Pasts ofthe Church, 1826.
He lived until 1877.

HYMN STUDIES.

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389 77<i tinner" B only pl>a. L. M.

WHEREWITH, O Lord, shall I draw
Dear,
Ami bow myself before thy face?
How in thy purer eyea appear'

What shall 1 bring to gain thy grace?

8 Will gifts delight the Lord most high?

Will multiplied oblations please:1
Thousands of rams his favor buy,

Or slaughtered hecatombs appease!

3 Can these avert the wrath of God?
Can these' wash out my guilty stain i

Rivers of oil, and seas of blood,
Alas! they all must flow in vain.

4 Who would himself to thee approve,
Must take the path thyself hath showed;

Justice pursue, and mercy love,

And numbly walk by faith with God.

5 But though my life henceforth be thine,
Present for past can ne'er atone :

Though I to thee the whole resign,
I only give thee back thine own.

6 Guilty I stand before thy face;
On me I feel thy wrath abide;

'Tis just the sentence should take place;
'Tis just,— but O, thy Son hath died!

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part of a hymn of thirteen stanzas. This is com-
posed of verses one, two, three, rive, six, and nine.
The scriptural basis of the hymn is Mieah vi, G-S :

"Wherewith shall 1 come before the Lord, and
how myself before the high God { shall I come be-
fore him with burnt-offerings, with calves of a year
old \ Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of
rains, or with ten thousands of rivers of od \ shall
1 give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit
ot my body for the sin of my soul ? He hath
shewed thee, 0 man, what is good ; and what doth
tlie Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to
love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God J"

From Hymns and Sacred Poems. London, 1740.
Wesley wrote :
Verse one, line one :

" Wherewith, 0 God, shall I draw near."

Verse three, line one :
" Can these assuage the wrath of God ? "

Verse four, line one :

" Whoe'er to Tltee themselves approve."

Verse six, line two :

" 1 feel on me Thy wrath abide."

390 lm

The withdrawal of the Spirit d<pi\caled.

STAY, thou insulted Spirit, stay,
Though I have done thee such despite;
Nor cast the sinner quite away.
Nor take thine everlasting flight.

2 Though I have steeled my stubborn heart,
And shaken off my guilty fears;

And vexed, and urged thee to depart,
For many long rebellious years :

3 Though I have most unfaithful been,
Of all who e'er thy grace received;

Ten thousand times thy goodness seen;
Ten thousand times thy goodness grieved.

4 Yet, O, the chief of sinners spare,
In honor of my great High Priest;

Nor in thy righteous anger swear

To exclude me from thy people's rest.

CnARLES WESLEY.

Title: Penitential Hymn. From Hymns and Sa-
cred Poems, by Charles Wesley, two vols, 1749.

The last line of the second stanza the- author
wrote :

"For forty long rebellious years."

Wesley was forty -two years old when he pub-
lished these volumes. There are three additional

5 " This only woe I deprecate,
This only plague, I pray, remove,

Nor leave me in my lost estate.
Nor curse me with this want of love.

6 " If yet thou canst my sins foigive.
From now, O Lord, relieve my woes,

Into Thy rest of love receive,

And bless me with the calm repose.

1 " From now my weary soul release,
Upraise me by Thy gracious hand,

And guide into Thy perfect peace,
And bring me to the promised land."

391 Pleading for pity. L. M.

SHOW pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive;
Let a repenting rebel live :
Are not thy mercies large and free?
May not a sinner trust in thee?

2 My crimes are great, but don't surpass
The power and glory of thy grace;
Great God, thy nature hath no bound,
So let thy pardoning love be found.

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3 O wash my soul from every sin,
And make my guilty conscience clean;
Here on my heart the burden lies,
And past offenses pain my eyes.

4 My lips with shame my sins confess,
Against thy law, against thy grace;
Lord, should thy judgments grow severe,
I am condemned, but thou art clear.

!i Should sudden vengeance seize my breath,
I must pronounce thee just, in death;
And if my soul were sent to hell,
Thy righteous law approves it well.

6 Yet save a trembling sinner. Lord,
Whose hope, still hovering round thy word.
Would light on some sweet promise there,
Some sure support against despair.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: A Penitent Heading for Pardon.

A famous hymn, founded on the first part of a

famous psalm : (Fsa. li.)

" Have mercy upon me, 0 God, according to thy
loving kindness: according unto the multitude of
thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse
me from my sin. 'For I acknowledge my trans-
gressions :• and my sin is ever before me. Against
thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil
in thy sight: that thou mighteat be justified when
thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest."

It is unaltered and entire.

From the Raima of David, Imitated in Vie Lan-
guage of the Aew Testament, 1719.

392 The tinner's only hope. L. M.

JESUS, the sinner's Friend, to thee,
Lost and undone, for aid I flee,
Weary of earth, myself, and sin:
Open thine arms, and take me in.

2 Pity and heal my sin-sick soul ;
'Tis thou alone canst make me whole;
Dark, till in me thine image shine.
And lost, I am, till thou art mine.

3 At last I own it cannot be
That I should tit myself for thee:
Here, then, to thee I all resign;
Thine is the work, and only thine.

4 What shall I say thy grace to mo
Lord, I am sin — but thou art love:
I (jive up every plea beside

Lord, I am lost — but thou hasl died.

CHARLES v. i.sl.LY.

Text: "But the Scripture hath concluded all un-
der sin, that the promise by faith <>f Jesus Christ
might be given to them that believe." Gal. iii, 22.

Composed of stanzas one, two, too, and twelve,
of a hymn of thirteen verses.

In the third line of the second stanza the author
wrote "Fall'n" instead of "Dark;" in the
fourth line, " moved instead of "lost;" and in
the last line of the hymn, " Lord, I am damned," etc

This author sometimes used strong lane
oueof the omitted stanzas, the fifth, will illustrate:

"Awake, the woman's conquering Seed,
Awake, and bruise the serpent's head I
Tread down thy foes, with power control

The beast and devil in my soul."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739.

o93 Judas I am. L. M.

JUST as I am, without one plea,
But that thy blood was shed for me,
And that thou bidd'st me come to tiiee,
O Lamb of God, I come ! I come !

2 Just as I am, and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot,

To thee whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!

3 Just as I am, though tossed about
With many a conflict, many a doubt,
Fightings within, and fears without,
O Lamb of God, I come ! I come !

4 Just as I am — poor, wretched, blind;
Bight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need, in thee to And,

0 Lamb of God. I come! I come]

5 Just as I am — thou wilt receive,
Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve;
Because thy promise I believe,

O Lamb of God, I come! I come!

6 Just as I am — thy love unknown
Hath broken every barrier down;
Now, to be thine, yea. thine alone,
O Lamb of God, 1 come! 1 come] -

< HABLOTTB ELLIOT.

Text: "Him that oometh to me I will in no
wise cast out." John vi, 87.

The last line of each stanza in the original is :

"O Lamb oi'C..,]. I e

The second line of the sixth stanza begins, " Has
broken," etc.

This favorite hymn was contributed to Ttie In-
valid's Hymn Book. Dublin, second edition, 184L

I1Y.MX STUDIES.

157

Tin' fbllowingadditional stanza is frequently (bund

with the hymn! It was doubtless written by Miss
Elliott, but it was oot a part of the In inn as printed

in the above edition of l'he Invalid?* Hymn Boot :

"Just as I am, of that free love,

The breadth, length, depth, and height to prove,

Here t'"r a season, then above,

O Lamb of God, 1 come."

The Rev. II. V. Elliott, brother of the authoress,

said, with reference r>> this hymn: ■' In the course

of a long ministry I hope 1 have been permitted to

le fruit of my labors, tan I feel thai far more

has been done by a single hymn of my sister's."

The hymn was written alter Miss Elliott had be-
come a permanent invalid. It has been translated
int> other tongues, and sung around the world.

See No. 303.

394 Dinning hope. L. M.

MY soul before Thee prostrate lies ;
To thee, her Source, my spirit flies;
My wants I mourn, my chains I sec ;
O let thy presence set me free.

2 Jesus, vouchsafe my heart and will
With thy meek lowliness to till ;

No more her power let nature boast,
Bu; in thy will may mine be lost.

3 Already springing hope I feel,
God will destroy the power of hell,
And, from a laud of wars and pain,
Load me where peace and safety reign.

4 One only care my soul shall know,
Father, all thy commands to do:

And feel, what endless years shall prove,
That thou, my Lord, my God, art love.

c. F. RICIITER.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.
Title: Hoping for Grace. Charles Town Col-
It CI '»'".'/, 1737.

Tin- translation from the German contains eleven
Btanzas, and was published in Hymns and Sacred
tbems, 1739.

Thi> is made up of the stanzas one, three, eight,
the first couplet of nine, and the last couplet of
eleven.

The original of the last couplet of verse three
was:

" God, from the land of wars and pain,
Leads me where peace and safety reign."

Christian Friedrich Richtcr, a doctor of medicine
and also of divinity, was born in 1676. After
graduating at Halle, be was for many years medical
attendant at Francke's celebrated "Orphan-House.
He was the author of a number of excellent hymns,
several of which have been translated.

395 Only Jesus. L. M.

WHEN, gracious Lord, when shall it be
That I shall find my all in thee?
The fullness of thy promise prove,
The seal of thine eternal love.''

2 A poor blind child I wander here,
[f haply I may feel thee Dear:

0 dark! dark! dark! I still must say,
Amidst the blaze of gospel day.

3 Thee, only thee, I fain would find,
And cast the world and flesh behind;
Thou, only thou, to me be given,

Of all thou hast in earth or heaven.

4 When from the arm of flesh set free,
Jesus, my soul shall fly to thee:
Jesus, when I have lost my all,

1 shall upon thy bosom fall.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From a poem of thirteen stanzas, entitled " Come,
Lord Jesus." This hymn is composed of the first
three and the ninth stanzas

The first line Charles Wesley wrote :

" When, clearest Lord," etc.

John Wesley, as was his custom, changed it. lie
would not allow such familiar terms in speaking of
the King Eternal.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

L. M.

3 9 O Stubbornness of heart.

OFOR a glance of heavenly day,
To take this stubborn heart away,
And thaw, with beams of love divine,
This heart, this frozen heart of mine!

2 The rocks can rend; the earth can quake;
The seas can roar; the mountains shake:
Of feeling, all things show some sign,

But this unfeeling heart of mine.

3 To hear the sorrows thou hast felt,
O Lord, an adamant would melt:
But I can read each moving line,

And nothing moves this heart of mine.

4 Thy judgments, too, which devils fear—
Amazing thought! — unmoved I hear;
Goodness and wrath in vain combine

To stir this stupid heart of mine.

5 But power divine can do the deed :
And, Lord, that power I greatly need ;
Thy Spirit can from dross refine,

And melt and change this heart of mine.

JOSEPH HART.

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HYMN STUDIES.

The authors'* title is : The Stony Heart.
From the Supplement of HarVs Hymns, 1762.
This is ji highly poetic and valuable hymn. The
last stanza has been improved, ilart wrote:

" But something yet can do the deed,
And that dear something much I need;
Thy Spirit can from dross refine,
And move &nd melt this heart of mine."

For biography, see No. 29.

L.M.

397 Only by faith.

LORD, I despair myself to heal ;
I see my sin, but cannot feel ;
I cannot, till thy Spirit blow,
And bid the obedient waters flow.

2 'Tis thine a heart of flesh to give;
Thy gifts I only can receive;
Here, then, to thee I all resign ;

To draw, redeem, and seal, are thine.

3 With simple faith, on thee I call,
My Light, my Life, my Lord, my All :
I wait the moving of the pool;

I wait the word that speaks me whole.

4 Speak, gracious Lord, my sickness cure,
Make my infected nature pure;

Peace, 'righteousness, and joy impart,
And pour thyself into my heart.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Text: "Looking unto Jesus the author and fin-
isher of our faith." Heb. xii, 2.

The first two stanzas are left out:

1 " Weary of struggling with my pain,
Hopeless to burst my nature's chain,
Hardly 1 give the contest o'er,

1 seek to free myself no more.

2 " From my own works at last. I cease,
God that creates must seal my peace ;
Fruitless my toil ami vain my care,
And all my fitness is despair.

The author wrote " w" instead of " are " in verse
two. line four ; and " to " instead of "on " in verse
three, line one.

From Hymns and Sacred Poem*, 1739.

398 The kind Physician. L. M.

JESUS, thy far-extended fame
My drooping soul exults to hear;
Thy name, thy all-restoring name,
Is music in a sinner's ear.

2 Sinners of old thou didst receive
With comfortable words, and kind;

Their sorrows cheer, their wants relieve,
Ileal the diseased, and cure the blind.

3 And art thou not the Saviour still,
In every place and age the same?

Hast thou forgot thy gracious skill,
Or lost the virtue of thy name?

4 Faith in thy changeless name I have:
The good, the kind Physician, thou

Art able now our souls to save,
Art willing to restore them now.

5 All my diseasa, my every sin,
To thee, O Jesus, I confess:

In pardon, Lord, my cure begin,
And perfect it in holiness.

CHARLES WE8LET.

Scripture basis: "Jesus Christ the same yester-
day, and to-day, and forever." Heb. xiii, 8.

The original contains twelve stanzas. These arc
verses one, three, five, six, and eleven.

Tiie first part of the last stanza has been changed.
Wesley wrote :

" My sore disease, my desperate sin,
To thee 1 mournfully confess."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, in two volumes,
by Charles Wesley. Bristol, 174'J.

FIRST TART.
399 Restore my peace. L. M.

ND wilt Thou yet be found,

And may I still draw near?
Then listen to the plaintive sound
Of a poor sinner's prayer.

2 Jesus, thine aid afford,
If still the same thou art:

To thee I look, to thee, my Lord,
I lift my helpless heart.

Thou seest my troubled breast,
The stragglings of my will,
The foes that interrupt my rest,
The agonies I feel.

4 O my offended Lord,
Restore my inward peace;

I know thou canst: pronounce the word,
And bid the tempest cease.

5 I long to see thy face:
Thy Spirit I implore —

The living water of thy grace,
That I may thirst no more.

CHARLES WESLET.

Title: The Rexignatum.

Twenty-two stanzas. These are the first three,
the sixth, und eighth, unaltered.

HYMN STUDIES.

15*J

Omitted Stanzas.

4 " The daily death I prove,
Saviour, t<> Thro is Known :

'Tis worse than death my God to love,
And not my God ulone.

5 " My peevish passions chide,
Who only canst control,

Canst turn the stream of nature's tide,
And calm my troubled soul.

7 " Abate the purging fire,
And draw me to my good ;

Allay the fever of desire
By sprinkling me with blood."

SECOND PART.

400 Yearning for deliverance. S. M.

WHEN shall Thy love constrain,
And force me to thy breast?
When shall my soul return again
To her eternal rest?

.2 Ah! what avails my strife,
My wandering to and fro?
Thou hast the words of endless life:
Ah! whither should I go?

3 Thy condescending grace
To me did freely move ;

It calls me still to seek thy face,
And stoops to ask my love.

4 Lord, at thy feet I fall ;
I groan to be set free;

I fain would now obey the call,
And give up all for thee.

CHARLES WESLEY.

These are stanzas nine to twelve of the same
hymn, verbatim.

13 " To rescue me from woe,
Thou didst with all things part;

Didst lead a suffering life below,
To gain my worthless heart."

THIRD PART.

401 The surrender.

AND can I yet delay
My little all to give?
To tear my soul from earth away
For Jesus to receive.

2 Nay, but I yield, I yield;

I can hold out no more :
I sink, by dying love compelled,

And own thee conqueror.

S. M.

8 Though late, I all forsake;

My friends, my all, resign:
Gracious Redeemer, take, O take,

And seal me ever thine.

4 Come, and possess me whole,
Nor hence again remove;

Settle and fix my wavering soul
With all thy weight of love.

5 My one desire be this,
Thy only love to know;

To seek and taste no other bliss,
No other good below.

G My life, my portion thou;

Thou all-sufficient art:
My hope, my heavenly treasure, now

Enter, and keep my heart.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The following stanza, the fourteenth of the poem,
throws light upon the first verse of this valuable
hymn :

14 " My worthless heart to gain,
The God of all that breathe,

Was found in fashion as a man,
And died a cursed death.

" And can I yet delay," etc.

No. 401 is composed of verses fifteen to twenty,
inclusive. There are two more stanzas:

21 " Rather than let it burn

For earth, O, quench its heat;
Then, when it would to earth return,
0, let it cease to beat.

22 " Snatch me from ill to come;
When I from Thee would fly,

O, take my wandering spirit home,
And grant me then to die."

Unaltered from Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

S. M.

40 2 To whom shall I go?

AH! whither should I go,
Burdened, and sick, and faint?
To whom should I my trouble show,
And pour out my complaint?

2 My Saviour bids me come;
Ah ! why do I delay?

He calls the weary sinner home,
And yet from him I stay.

3 What is it keeps me back,
From which I cannot part,

Which will not let the Saviour tak3
Possession of my heart?

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HYMN STUDIES.

4 Searcher of hearts, in mine
Tliy trying power display;

Into its darkest corners shine,
And take the veil away.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Text: " Gccl will have all men to be saved."
: Tim. ii, 4.

The hymn consists of sixteen double stanzas.
This is made up ofthe first, the first half of the second,
and the last half of the third. The poet's idea Can
be better seen by reading the omitted lines:

" Some cursed tiling unknown

Must surely lurk within,
Some idol which I will not own,

Some secret bosom sin.

" Jesu, the hindrance show,

Which I have feared to see ;
Yet let me now consent to know,

What keeps me out of Thee."

The only change is in verse one, line four. The
author wrote " Or pour" instead of " And pour."
From Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, 1741.

40 3 Out of the depths.

|UT of the depths of woe,

S. M.

To thee, O Lord, I cry :
Darkness surrounds me, but I know
That thou art ever nigh.

2 Humbly on thee I wait.
Confessing all my sin:

Lord, I am knocking at the gate ;
Open, and take me in.

3 O hearken to my voice.
Give ear to my complaint ;

Thou bidd'st the mourning soul rejoice,
Thou conifortest the faint.

4 Glory to God above,

The waters soon will cease!
For, lo! the swift-returning dove
Brings home the sign of peace.

5 Though storms his face obscure,
And dangers threaten loud,

Jehovah's covenant is sure,
His bow is in the cloud.

JAMES MONTGOMEBY.

Title: Fervent Supplication.

It is founded on Psalm exxx:

" Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, 0
Lord. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ems he at-
tentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou.
Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall
stand I But there is forgiveness with thee, that

thou mayest be feared. I wait for the Lord, mv
soul doth wait, and in his w ml do 1 hope. My
soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch

for the morning: I say. more than they that watch
for the morning. Let Israel hope in the Lord : for
with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is
plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel
from all his iniquities."

The original contains eijrht stanzas. These are the
first, fourth, second, seventh, and eighth, unaltered,
except verse three, line one, which begins:

" Then hearken to my voice."

From Songs of Zion, 1822.

For a broken heart.

S. M.

404

0THAT I could repent,
With all my idols part,
And to thy gracious eye present
A humble, contrite heart!

2 A heart with grief oppressed,
For having grieved my God;

A troubled heart, that cannot rest
Till sprinkled with thy blood.

8 Jesus, on me bestow

The penitent desire;
With true sincerity of woe

My aching breast inspire.

4 With softening pity look,
And melt my hardness down:

Strike with thy love's resistless stroke,
And break this heart of stone.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From vol. i of Charles Wesley's Hymns and
Sacred Ibems, 17 19,

There are thirty-seven hymns with this title:
For One Fallen from Grace.

Backslidintr is no new thing. This hymn is the
first half of No. 28 of these hymns. The author
wrote "effectual" instead of "resistless" in verse
four, line three. It is well adanted to the purpose
for which it was written.

405 Th\ Son of God in tears.

DID Christ o'er sinners weep,
And shall our checks be dry?
Let floods of penitential grief
Burst fortli from every eye.

2 The Son of God in tears
The wondering angels see!

Be thou astonished, <> my soul;
He shed those tears for thee.

S. M.

HYMN STUDIES.

161

3 Ho wept that we might weep;

Each sin demands a tear:
In heaven alone no sin is found,
And there's n<> weeping there.

BENJAMIN BEDDOME.

Title : Before Sermon.

Text: "lie beheld the city, and wept over it.''
Luke six, 41.

The second line of the second stanza, the author
wrote:

" Angola with wonder see."

W • ■ :<;-n for and publ ished in Rippon's Selection,
For biographical sketch, see No. 285.

406 Unwearied earnestness. CM.

FATHER. I stretch my hands to thee ;
No other help I know :
If thou withdraw thyself from me,
Ah! whither shall I go?

2 What did thine only Son endure,
Before I drew my breath !

What pain, what labor, to secure
My soul from endless death !

3 O Jesus, could I this believe.
I now should feel thy power;

And all my wants thou wouldst relieve,
In this accepted hour.

4 Author of faith ! to thee I lift
My weary, longing eyes:

0 let me now receive that gift;
My soul without it dies.

5 Surely thou canst not let me die ;
O speak, a-nd I shall live;

And here I will unwearied lie,
Till thou thy Spirit give.

6 How would my fainting soul rejoice
Could I hut see thy face !

Now let me hear thy quickening voice,
And taste thy pardoning grace.

CHARLES WESLEY. (?)

Title: A Frayer for Faith.

There is some doubt about the authorship of this
hymn. In the new U'esleyan Collection it is
marked " unknown.'''' The most that can be said
is, that it may be Wesley's. It is found in A Col-
lection of Ftalms and l'bjmr.x, published by John
Wesley in 1741. It was evidently modeled alter
Psalm cxliii, 6-11.

A few lines have been changed.
11

< )KI(iINAL.

Verse three, line three:

" JSbto, mug pmsrtoul, Thou wouldst reineve."
Verse three, line four :

■• Nor let me trait one hour."
Verse six, lines one, two, and three:

••The wont of tinners would rejoice,

Could they but 6ee Thy face,
0 let me hear Thy quickening voice."

407 Earnest desire for pardon. CM.

OTHAT I could my Lord receive,
Who did the world redeem;
Who gave his life that I might live
A life concealed in him!

2 O that I could the blessing prove,
My heart's extreme desire ;

Live happy in my Saviour's love,
And in his arms expire!

3 Mercy I ask to seal my peace,
That, kept by mercy's power,

I may from every evil cease,
And never grieve thee more.

4 Now, if thy gracious will it be,
E'en now my sins remove,

And set my soul at liberty
By thy victorious love.

5 In answer to a thousand prayers,
Thou pardoning God, descend;

Number me with salvation's heirs,
My sins and troubles end.

6 Nothing I ask or want beside,
Of all in earth or heaven,

But let me feel thy blood applied,
And live and die forgiven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Charles Wesley's Hymns for t?t.e Use of
Families, 17''-7.

The Rev. Henry Moore, in his Life of Wesle;/,
says : " Numberless examples might be <_riven of the

fen i us and taste of the Rev. Charles Wesley: but,
owever unfashionahle it may appear. I cannot but
give the palm to his Family Hymn Booh.''

One double stanza, the second, has been omitted :

2 "Jesus, Thou al!-atonin«r Lamb,

How shall I plead with Thee?
If graven on Tny hands I am,

For good remember me :
If still Thou dost my tokens bear,

Thy love to me reveal,
And listening to a sinner's prayer,

My present pardon seal.''

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Original Lines.
Veree six, line two:

" Of all in earth and heaven,"
Verse six, line four :

" Let me but die forgiven."

40 8 Reposing on Christ. C. M.

WE sinners, Lord, with earnest heart,
With sighs and prayers and tears,
To thee our inmost cares impart.
Our burdens and our fears.

2 Thy sovereign grace can give relief,
Thou Source of peace and light !

Dispel the gloomy cloud of grief,
And make our darkness bright.

3 Around thy Father's throne on high,
All heaven thy glory sings ;

And earth, for which thou cam'st to die,
Loud with thy praises rings.

4 Dear Lord, to thee our prayers ascend;
Our eyes thy face would see :

O let our weary wanderings end,
Our spirits rest in thee !

BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX.
TR. BY ROBINSON P. DUNN.

Title : Jesu decus angelicum.
These stanzas have not been altered, but the first
two verses of the translation are omitted :

1 " Jesus, whose name the angel hosts
Unceasing praise above,

Not all the joys our being boasts,
Can move us like thy love."

2 "To tbee, our fainting spirits cry,
When wilt thou show thy face?

Oh, when our longings satisfy,
And fill us with thy grace? "

The Eev. Robinson Potter Dunn was born in
Newport, R. I., in 1825 ; he was converted in early
life, and joined the Congregational Church when
seventeen years of age. He entered Brown Univer-
sity in 183*9, and subsequently studied theology at
Princeton, graduating in 1848. In the same year
he was ordained pastor of a Presbyterian church
at Camden, N. J. In 1851 he was elected Profess-
or of Rhetoric and English Literature at Brown
University, which position he held until his death,
in 1867.

From a Memorial Volume, edited bv the Rev. S.
L. Caldwell, D.D. Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858.

409 I would be Thine. CM.

I WOULD be thine : O take my heart
And fill it with thy love;
Thy sacred image, Lord, impart,
And seal it from above.

2 I would be thine; but while I strive
To give myself away,

I feel rebellion still ali.ve,
And wander while I pray.

3 I would be thine; but, Lord, I feel
Evil still lurks within:

Do thou thy majesty reveal,
And banish all my sin.

4 I would be thine ; I would embrace
The Saviour, and adore ;

Inspire with faith, infuse thy grace,
And now my soul restore.

ELIZABETH H. REED, ALT.

Author's title: Christian Desires.
Verses three and four have been changed:

Original Form.

3 " I would be thine, but oh ! I feel
Such evil lurk within :

Do thou thy majesty reveal,
And overcome my sin.

4 " I would be thine : I would embrace
The Saviour, and adore ;

0 grant me faith, and larger grace
To love thee more and more.

From The Hymn Book, Prepared from Dr. Walls's
Ptalms and Hymns and Other Authors, With some
Originals, by Andrew Reed, D.D. London, 1842.

The Hymnal attributes this hymn to Andrew
Reed. In the book which he edited it is marked
" Original." English hymnologiste give it, and
some twenty others, to his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth
Holmes Reed, (1794-1867.)

410 Sincere contrition. C. M.

OFOR that tenderness of heart
Which bows before the Lord,
Acknowledging how just thou art,

And trembling at thy word!
O for those humble, contrite tears,

Which from repentance flow;
That consciousness of guilt, which fears
The long-suspended blow !

2 Saviour, to me, in pity, give

The sensible distress;
The pledge thou wilt at last receive,

And bid me die in peace:
Wilt from the dreadful day remove,

Before the evil come;
My spirit hide with saints above,

My body in the tomb.

CHARLES WESLEY.

HYMN STUDIES.

163

scripture text, 2 Kings xxii, 19, 20 :

11 Because thine lu;irt was tender, and thou hast
bumbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heard-
eat wliat I spake against this place, and against the
inhahitants thereof, that they ahonld become a de>-
olation and a curse, aiul hast rent thy clothes, and
wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the
Lord. Behold therefore, 1 will gather thee unto
thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy
f.Tav.' in peace: and thine eyes shall not sec all the
evil which I will bring upon this place. And they
brought the king word again."

The author wrote "Acknowledges" instead of
"Acknowledging" in verse one, line three; and
u trembles" instead of "trembling" in verse one,
line four.

From Charles Wesley's Scripture Hymns, 1762.

4: 11 The Sun of righteousness. C. M.

OSUN of righteousness, arise
With healing in thy wing;
To my diseased, my fainting soul,
Life and salvation bring.

2 These clouds of pride and sin dispel,
By thy all-piercing beam;

Lighten mine eyes with faith ; my heart
With holy hope inflame.

3 My mind, by thy all-quickening power,
From low desires set free ;

Unite my scattered thoughts, and fix
My love entire on thee.

■4 Father, thy long-lost son receive ;

Saviour, thy purchase own;
Blest Comforter, with peace and joy

Thy new-made creature crown.

5 Eternal, undivided Lord,

Co-equal One in Three,
On thee all faith, all hope be placed ;

All love be paid to thee.

JOHN WESLEY. (?)

Title : A Prayer for the Light of Life.

We know of no positive proof that John Wesley
wrote this hymn. In the new Wesleyan Collection
it is marked ki unknown." It is found in A Collec-
tion, of l^alms and Hymns, published by John
Wesley in 1741.

It has not been altered.

412

Timely penitence. C. 1A.

WI1EX rising from the bed of death,
O'erwhelmed with guilt and fear,
I view my Maker face to face,
O how shall I appear?

2 If yet, while pardon may be found,
And mercy may \n; sought,

My soul with inward horror shrinks,
And trembles at the thought, —

3 When thou, O Lord, shalt stand disclosed
In majesty severe,

And sit in judgment on my soul;
O how shall I appear?

4 O may my broken, contrite heart,
Timely my sins lament;

And early, with repentant tears,
Eternal woe prevent.

5 Behold the sorrows of my heart,
Ere yet it be too late ;

And hear my Saviour's dying groan,
To give those sorrows weight.

6 For never shall my soul despair
Her pardon to secure,

Who knows thine only Son hath died
To make that pardon sure.

JOSEPH ADDISON, ALT.

This was first published in The Spectator, No.
513. 1712.

In the third line of the second stanza the author
wrote " mind " instead of " soul ; " and in the first
line of the fifth, " See then the sorrows," etc.

The fourth stanza has been considerably altered.
It was:

4 " But Thou hast told the troubled mind

Who does her sins lament,
The timely tribute of her tears,

Shall endless woe prevent."

In the Spectator the author claims that the very
best of men need the meditation and pardon of
Christ. He says : " Let a man's innocence be what
it will | let his virtues rise to the highest pitch, of
perfection attainable in this life, there will be still
in him so many secret sins — so many human frail-
ties— so many offenses of ignorance, passion, and
prejudice — so many unguarded words and thoughts
— and in short, so many defects in his best actions,
that, without the advantages of such an expiation
and atonement as Christianity has revealed to us.it
is impossible that he should be cleared before bin
Sovereign Judge, or that he should be able to stand
in his sight."

413 All things possible to God. CM.

OTIIAT Thou wouldst the heavens rend,
In majesty come down,
Stretch out thine arm omnipotent,
And seize me for thine own !

2 Thou my impetuous spirit guide,
And curb my headstrong will;

Thou only canst drive back the tide,
And bid the sun stand still.

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HYMN STUDIES.

3 What though I cannot break my chain,
Or e'er throw off my load?

The things impossible to men
Are possible to God.

4 Thtwi canst o'ercome this heart of mine,
Thou wilt victorious prove;

For everlasting strength is thine,
And everlasting love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : A Prayer Against the Power of Sin.

Seventeen stanzas. These are verses one, three,
four, and thirteen, unaltered. They make a tine
hymn. The last two stanzas of the original are
somewhat remarkable :

16 " Speak, and the deaf shall hear Thy voice,
The blind his sight receive,

The dumb in songs of praise rejoice,
The heart of stone believe.

17 " The Ethiop then shall change his skin,
The dead shall feel Thy power,

The loathsome leper shall be clean,
And I shall sin no more."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

414

The prodigaV s return.

C. M.

rpiIE prodigal, with streaming eyes,

I From folly just awake,
Reviews his wanderings with surprise;
His heart begins to break.

2 "I starve," he cries, " nor can I bear
The famine in this land.

While servants of my Father share
The bounty of his hand.

3 "With deep repentance I'll return,
And seek my Father's face ;

Unworthy to be called a son,
I'll ask a servant's place."

4 Far off the Father saw him move,
In pensive silence mourn,

And quickly ran, with arms of love,
To welcome his return.

5 Through all the courts the tidings flew.
And spread the joy around;

The angels tuned their harps anew, —
The long-lost son is found!

UNKNOWN.

This is nearly the same as No. 3fi0 in Pillage
Hymns. 1824 : but that was based on No. 247, part
iii, in The Hartford Selection, 1799.

In many editions of the Hymnal it has been at-
tributed to Mrs. Sigoumey, but the author is un-
known.

415 -Rock of ages. 7, 6 1.

ROCK of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From thy wounded side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath and make me pure.

2 Coidd my tears forever flow,
Could my zeal no languor know,
These for sin could not atone;
Thou must save, and thou alone:
In my hand no price I bring;
Simply to thy cross I cling.

3 While I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eyes shall close in death,
When I rise to worlds unknown,
And behold thee on thy throne,
Rock of ages, cleft for me,

Let me hide myself in thee.

AUGUSTUS M. TOPLADT, ALT.

This grand and favorite hymn cannot be correctly
understood, so long as it is divorced from its original
title, A living and dying Prayer, for the Holiest
Believer in the World.

The author's main thought is, the holiest man
must say in his prayer:

" Thou must save, and Thou alone."

The purest saint on earth must cast himself
wholly on the merits of Christ's atonement, and
say :

" In my hand no price I brin<r;
Simply to Thy cross I cling."

This hymn first appeared in the Gospel MagaMne,
in March, 1776, when Toplady was its editor. In
its altered and improved form of three verses it is
found in A Selection of Raima and Hymns, edited
hv the Rev. Thomas Cotterell, (eighth edition,
1819,) and probably in the earlier editions. Mr.
Cotterell was a notorious hymn-mender, and it
was probably rewritten by him for his CoUec-
tinn .

We here give a reprint of the original :
l

" Rock of Aires, cleft for me,

Let mo hide myself in Thee!

Let the Water and the Bl 1.

From thy riven Side which tlow'd,

Be of Sin the double Cure,

Cleanse me from its Guilt and Tow'r.
2

" Not the Labours of my Hands

Can fulfill thy Law's demands:

Could my Zeal no respite know,

Could my Tears forever rlow,

All for Sin could not atone :

Thou must save, and Thou alone I

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105

"Nothing in my Hand 1 bring;
Simply to thy Cross I cling:
Naked, oome to Thee for Dress;
Helpless, look to Thee tor Grace ;
Foul, 1 to the Fountain tiv :
Wuab me, Saviour, or I die !

" Whilst I draw this fleeting Breath —

When my Eye strings break in Death —
When I soar through tracts unknown —
See Tnee on thy Judgment- Throne —
Rock of Ages, deft for me,
Let nie hide mvself iu Thee ! "

A. T.

This hymn is a universal favorite. The British
Premier, the Right Bon. W. E. Gladstone, made a
version of it in Latin and another in Greek. Many
persons, and among them Prince Albert, of En-
gland, have used it as a dying prayer.

The steam-ship London was lost in the Bay of Bis-
cay in 1S66. The last man that eseaped said that
when he left the ship the passengers were singing :

" Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee."

The Rev. Augustus Montague Toplady was a
Church of England clergyman, born in 174ft. He
was educated at Westminster School, and Trinity
College, Dublin, and was awakened and converted,
when about sixteen years of age, by hearing an il-
literate layman preach in a barn in Ireland. He
received orders in 1762. In 1775 he settled in Lon-
don. Toplady was a High Calvinist, a tierce and
bitter controversialist, and opposed the Wesleys
with all his might. He died in 1778, hiding in the
"Rock of Ages."

416 The true Light. 7, 6 1.

CHRIST, whose glory fills the skies,
Christ, the true, the only Light,
Sun of righteousness, arise,

Triumph o'er the shades of night:
Dayspring from on high, be near,
Day-star, in my heart appear.

2 Dark and cheerless is the morn,
Unaccompanied by thee ;

Joyless is the day's return,

Till thy mercy's beams I see :
Till thou inward life impart,
Glad my eyes, and warm my heart.

3 Visit then this soul of mine ;
Pierce the gloom of sin and grief;

Fill me, Radiancy divine;
Scatter all my unbelief:
More and more thyself display, '
Shining to the perfect day.

CHAKLES WES/.EY.

Title : A Morning Hymn,.

Montgomery, in the preface of the Christian

Fbalmitt, calls this hymn "one of Charles Wes-
ley's loveliest progeny."

From Hi/runs ai.d Sacred Poems, 17/40.

Wesley wrote " they " instead of '• thou " in verse
two, line five. .

417 The Litany. 7, 6 L

BY thy birth, and by thy tears ;
By thy human griefs and fears;
By thy conflict in the hour
Of the subtle tempter's power, —
Saviour, look with pitying eye ;
Saviour, help me, or I die.

2 By the tenderness that wept

O'er the grave where Lazarus slept;
By the bitter tears that flowed
Over Salem's lost abode, —
Saviour, look with pitying eye;
Saviour, help me, or I die.

3 By thy lonely hour of prayer;
By the fearful conflict there;
By thy cross and dying cries ;
By thy one great sacrifice, —
Saviour, look with pitying eye;
Saviour, help me, or I die.

4 By thy triumph o'er the grave;
By thy power the lost to save;
By thy high, majestic throne;
By the empire all thine own, —
Saviour, look with pitying eye;
Saviour, help me, or I die.

SIR ROBERT GRANT, ALT.

The original of this hymn is No. 723 in this
Hymnal. The first three verses are founded on
verses two, three, and four of that hymn. It is
hardly fair to put Robert Grant's name to it, al-
though it belongs to him more than to any one else.

It was altered largely in Dr. Thomas Cotterell's
Collection. 1819 — no doubt by the editor himself.
It was still further changed when it appeared in the
Methodist Episcopal Hymn Book, 1849, probably by
Dr. James Floy, one of the editors of that book.

418 Peace and hope of the righteous. L. M.

LORD, how secure and blest are they
Who feel the joys of pardoned sin !
Should storms of wrath shake earth and sea,
Their minds have heaven and peace
within.

2 The day glides sweetly o'er their heads,
Made up of innocence and love;

And soft and silent as the shades,
Their nightly minutes gently move.

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IIYMN STUDIES.

3 Quick as their thoughts their joys come

on,
But fly not half so swift away:
Their souls are ever bright as noon,
And calm as summer evenings be.

4 How oft they look to the heavenly hills,
Where groves of living pleasure grow ;

And longing hopes, and cheerful smiles,
Sit undisturbed upon their brow !

5 They scorn to seek earth's golden toys,
But spend the day, and share the night,

In numbering o'er the richer joys

That Heaven prepares for their delight.

ISAAC WATTS.

Author's title: The Pleasures of a Good Con-
science.

The first line of the filth stanza Watts wrote:

" They scorn to seek out golden toys."

The following additional stanza is not necessary
to the hymn :

6 " While wretched we, like worms and moles,

Lie groveling in the dust below,
Almighty grace renew our souls,

And we'll aspire to glory too."

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

419 Filial love and longing. L. M.

GREAT God, indulge my humble claim ;
Be thou my hope, my joy, my rest ;
The glories that compose thy name
Stand all engaged to make me blest.

2 Thou great and good, thou just and wise,
Thou art my Father and my God ;

And I am thine by sacred ties,

Thy son, thy servant bought with blood.

3 With heart and eyes, and lifted hands,
For thee I long, to thee I look,

As travelers in thirsty lands

Pant for the cooling water-brook.

4 E'en life itself, without thy love,
No lasting pleasure can afford ;

Yea, 'twould a tiresome burden prove,
If I were banished from thee, Lord.

5 I'll lift my hands, I'll raise my voice,
While I have breath to pray or praise :

This work shall make my heart rejoice.
And till the remnant of my days.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: Longing after God ; or, The Love of God
£■ tter than Life.

An imitation of Psalm lxiii.

Three stanzas are omitted. The fourth stanza
has been slightly changed from this form:

" My life itself without thy love
No taste of pleasure could afford

''Twould but a tiresome burden prove
If I were banished from the Lord."

It was first published in 1719.

•4/aO TJie souPs anchorage. L. M. 6 1.

NOW I have found the ground wherein
Sure my soul's anchor may remain ;
The wounds of Jesus, for my sin

Before the world's foundation slain;
Whose mercy shall unshaken stay,
When heaven and earth are fled away.

2 Father, thine everlasting grace
Our scanty thought surpasses far :

Thy heart still melts with tenderness;

Thine arms of love still open are,
Returning sinuers to receive,
That mercy they may taste, and live.

3 O Love, thou bottomless abyss,
My sins are swallowed up in thee!

Covered is my unrighteousness,

Nor spot of guilt remains on me,
While Jesus' blood, through earth and

skies,
Mercy, free, boundless mercy, cries.

4 By faith I plunge me in this sea;
Here is my hope, my joy, my rest ;

Hither, when hell assails, I flee;

I look into my Saviour's breast:
Away, sad doubt and anxious fear!
Mercy is all that's written there.

JOHASN A. KOTHE.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

Title: Redemption found.

The last two stanzas arc especially grand. Thero
are two others in the translation. Thcv constitute
No. 649 in this collection. From Jjymns and
Sacred Poems, 1740.

Wesley began the last verse. " With faith," etc.

The Rev. Johaun Andreas Rot he was a Mora-
vian, and fof some yours pastor at llerrnhut. He
was born in 1G88, studied theology at L' ipsic, re-
signed his pastorate at Ilerrnhut in 1737, and be-
came a Lutheran minister, lie dieil in 1758.

This hymn, in the German, contained ten stan-
zas,and was dedicated by the author to Ids friend,
Count Zinzendorf, on his birthday in 1728.

HYMN STUDIES.

167

42 1 Chri.-t, the solid rock. L. M. 8 1.

MY hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesu.^' blood and righteousness;

1 dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name :
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand.

2 When darkness seems to veil his face,
I rest on his unchanging grace ;

In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil:
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand ;
All other ground is sinking sand.

3 His oath, his covenant, and blood,
Support me in the whelming flood:
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay :
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand ;
All other ground is sinking sand.

EDWARD MOTE, ALT.

Title : The Immutable Basis of a Sinner's Hope.
The first stanza is made up of' the first two verses
oi the author:

1 " Nor earth nor hell ray soul can move,
I rest upon unchanging love ;

1 dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name :
On Christ, etc.

2 " My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness ;
'Midst all the hell I feel within,

On bis completed work I lean :
On Christ," etc.

There are some slight changes in the first lines of
the second stanza.

Original.

" When darkness veils his lovely face,

I rest upon unchanging grace ;

In every rough and stormy gale," etc.

The author wrote the first lines of the next
stanza:

" His oath, his cov'nant, and his blood,
Support me in the sinking flood."

There are two additional stanzas :

5 " I trust his righteous character,
His council, promise, and his pow'r;
His honor and his name's at stake
To save me from the burning lake :
On Christ, etc.

6 " When I shall launch in worlds unseen,
O may I then be found in him,

Dress'd in his righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne :
On Christ," etc.

These ohangee and omissions were probably
made on account of the peculiar doctrines of the
hymn.

From Hymns of Praise, 1836.

The Rev. Edward Mote was an English Baptist
minister, who lived from 17'J7 to 1874. The above
book contains ninety -five of his hymns.

422 Alive in Christ. L. M. 6 L

AND can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Saviour's blood?
Died he for me, who caused his pain?
For me, who him to death pursued?
Amazing love! how can it be
That thou, my Lord, shouldst die for me?

2 'Tis mystery all ! the Immortal dies !
Who can explore his strange design?

In vain the first-born seraph tries

To sound the depths of love divine;
'Tis mercy all ! let earth adore :
Let angel minds inquire no more.

3 He left his Father's throne above, —
So free, so infinite his grace ! —

Emptied himself of all but love,

And bled for Adam's helpless race ;
'Tis mercy all, immense and free,
For, O my God, it found out me !

4 Long my imprisoned spirit lay,

Fast bound in sin and nature's night ;
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray,

I woke, the dungeon flamed with light:
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed thee.

5 No condemnation now I dread,
Jesus, with all in him, is mine;

Alive in him, my living Head,

And clothed in righteousness divine,

Bold I approach the eternal throne,

And claim the crown, through Christ, my
own.

CIIARLES WESLEY.

Title : Free Grace.

Wesley wrote this hymn in 1738, the very year
of his conversion, and without any doubt it con-
tains his personal experience. The following omit-
ted stanza is a remarkable one. It is full of the
spirit of Methodism, and reveals the secret of its
early success :

5 " Still the small inward voice I hear,
That whispers all my sins forgiven;

Still the atoning blood is near,
That quenched the wrath of hostile Heaven :

I feel the life His wounds impart ;

I feel my Saviour in my heart."

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HYMN STUDIES.

The author wrote " God" instead of "Lord" in
the last line of the first verse.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739.

CM.

423 Con vlcted, — pardoned.

IN evil long I took delight,
Una wed by shame or fear,
Till a new object struck my sight,
And stopped my wild career.

2 I saw One hanging on a tree,
In agonies and blood,

Who fixed his languid eyes on me,
As near his cross I stood.

3 Sure never till my latest breath
Can 1 forget that look:

It seemed to charge me with his death,
Though not a word he spoke.

4 My conscience felt and owned the guilt,
And plunged me in despair;

I saw my sins his blood had spilt,
And helped to nail him there.

5 Alas ! I knew not what I did !
But now my tears are vain :

Where shall my trembling soul be hid?
For I the Lord have slain !

6 A second look he gave, which said,
" I freely all forgive;

This blood" is for thy ransom paid;
I die that thou mayst live."

7 Thus, while his death my sin displays
In all its blackest hue,

Such is the mystery of grace,
It seals my pardon too.

JOHN NEWTON.

Title : Looking at the Cross.

This hymn is, no doubt, autobiographic.

Newton wrote his own epitaph, which he re-
quested might be put up on a plain marble tab-
let, near the vestry door of his church in London:

John Newton, Clerk.

Once an Infidel and Libertine,
A servant of slaves in Africa,
Was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour
Jksus Christ,
Preserved, restored, pardoned,
And appointed to preach the Faith
He had long labored to destroy,
Near 16 years at Olney in Bucks
And . . . years in this church.
On Feb. 1, 1750, he married
Mart,
Daughter of the late George Catlett

Of Chatham, Kent.
He resigned her to the Lord who gave her
On 15th of December, 1790.

There is one additional stanza :

8 u With pleasing grief, and mournful joy,

My spirit now is Bllea ;
That I should such a life destroy,

Yet live by him 1 killed."

Unaltered. From Olney Hymns, 1779.

424 The earnest of redemption. C. M.

WHY should the children of a King
Go mourning all their days?
Great Comforter, descend and bring
The tokens of thy grace.

2 Dost thou not dwell in all thy saints,
And seal the heirs of heaven?

When wilt thou banish my complaints,
And show my sins forgiven?

3 Assure my conscience of her part
In the Redeemer's blood;

And bear thy witness with my heart, ,
That I am born of God.

4 Thou art the earnest of his love,
The pledge of joys to come ;

May thy blest wings, celestial Dove,
Safely convey me home.

ISAAC WATTS.

Watts's title was : Tlie Witnessing and Sealing
Spirit.

" For as many as arc led by the Spirit of God,
they are the sons of God. For ye have not re-
ceived the spirit of bondage again to fear ; but ye
have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we
cry, 'Abba, Father.' The Spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are the children of
God." Rom. viii, 14-16.

"In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard
the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in
whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed
with that Boly Spirit" of promise, which is the
earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of
the purchased possession, unto the praise of his
glory." Fph. i, 13, 14.

The author wrote "Some tokens" in the last
line of the first stanza ; and the last two lines of
the Lust stanza :

"And thy soft wings, celestial Dove,
Will ecjfe convey me home."

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book i, 1707.

425 Tlie blood of sprinkling. CM.

• Y God, my God, to thee I cry;

Thee only would I know;
Thy purifying blood apply,

And wash me white as snow.

nTMN STUDIES.

109

2 Touch me, and make the Leper clean;
Purge my iniquity :

Unless thou wash my soul from siu,
I have no part in thee.

3 But art thou not already mine?
Answer, if mine thou art ;

"Whisper within, thou Love divine,
And cheer my drooping heart.

4 Behold, for me the Victim bleeds,
His wounds are open wide;

For me the blood of sprinkling pleads,
And speaks me justified.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : After a Relapse into Sin.

Twelve stanzas. These are the first three and
ihe sixth. The last part of the first stanza read
originally :

" One drop of blood on me let/all,
And wash me white as snow."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

426 The voice of Jesus. CM.

IHE.VRD the voice of Jesus say,
' ' Come unto me and rest ;
Lay down, thou weary one, lay down

Thy head upon my breast !"
I came to Jesus as I was,
Weary, and worn, and sad;

1 found in him a resting-place,
And he hath made me glad.

2 I heard the voice of Jesus say,
"Behold, I freely give

The living water; thirsty one,

Stoop down, and drink, and live!"

I came to Jesus, and I drank
Of that life-giving stream ;

My thirst was quenched, my soul revived,
And now I live in him.

3 I heard the voice of Jesus say,
"I am this dark world's Light;

Look unto me, thy morn shall rise

And all thy day be bright!"
I looked to Jesus, and I found

In him my Star, my Sun ;
And in that light of life I'll walk,

Till all my journey's done.

HORATIUS BONAR.
Title : The Voice from Galilee.

"Of his fullness have all we received, and grace
for grace." John i, 16.

Verbatim, except the last line, which the author
wrote :

" Till traveling days are done."

The Rev. Iloratius Bonar,
sweetest, though one of the t
Church. He was born in E(
was eduoHtod in its univere
1837, and for several yeaw
Dr. Bounr was one oi the
Church of Scotland in 18-13.

D.D., was one of the
widest, singers of the
linburgh in 1808, and
ity ; w:as ordained in
was pastor at Kelso.
founders of the Free
lie died July 31, 1889.

From Hymns of Faith ahd J/<>pe. (first series,)
1857. Hymns Original and Selected, ls50.

4:27 Amazing grace. C. M.

AMAZING grace ! how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!

1 once was lost, but now am found,

Was blind, but now I see.
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,

And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear

The hour I first believed!

2 Through many dangers, toils, and snares,
I have already come ;

'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,

And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me,

His word my hope secures ;
He will my shield and portion be

As long as life endures.

3 Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,

I shall possess, within the veil,

A life of joy and peace.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,

The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who called me here below,

Will be forever mine.

jonN NEWTON.

Title: Faith's Review and Expectation.

" Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine
house, that thou hast brought rne hitherto? And
yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, 0 God ;
for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for
a great while to come, and hast regarded me ac-
cording to the estate of a man of high degree, O
Lord God." 1 Chron. xvii, 16, 17.

The author in this hymn plainly refers to his
own life and experience.

Unaltered and entire. From Olney Hymns, 1779.
See Nos. 23 and 423.

170

HYMN STUDIES.

428 Reconciliation with God. CM.

ETERNAL Sun of righteousness,
Display thy beams divine,
And cause the glories of thy face
Upon my heart to shine.

2 Light in thy light O may I see,
Thy grace and mercy prove;

Revived, and cheered, and blest by thee,
The God of pardoning love.

3 Lift up thy countenance serene,
And let thy happy child

Behold, without a cloud between,
The Godhead reconciled.

4 That all-comprising peace bestow
On me, through grace forgiven ;

Then joys of holiness below,
And then the joys of heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Composed of two of Charles Wesley's Short
Hymns on Select Passage* of the Holy Scriptures.
The "passage" of Scripture on which the first half
is founded is :

" The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and
be gracious unto thee." Num. vi, 25.

The Scriptuve basis of the last part is the passage
immediately following :

" The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee,
»nd give thee peace." Num. vi, 2(i.

It is not altered.

429 Delightfvl assurance. CM.

SOVEREIGN of all the worlds on high,
Allow my humble claim ;
Nor while, unworthy, I draw nigh,
Disdain a Father's name.

2 My Father, God ! that gracious word
Dispels my guilty fear;

Not all the notes by angels heard
Could so delight my ear.

3 Come, Holy Ghost, thyself impress
On my expanding heart;

And show that in the Father's grace
I share a filial part.

4 Cheered by that witness from on high,
Unwavering I believe;

And, "Abba, Father," humbly cry;
Nor can the sign deceive.

run. n> doddkidge, alt.

Title : A Filial Temper the Work of the Spirit
and a Proof of Adoption.

Dr. Doddridge's hymns were all written on
texts of Scripture. The foundation of this is
Gal. iv, 6 :

"And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth
the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba.
Father." ' ' *'

The hymn has been altered for the purpose of
making the first and third lines rhyme, as they do
not in the original. Nine lines of the sixteen have
been change^ I.

There is one additional stanza :

4 "On Wings of everlasting Love,

The Comforter is come ;
All Terrors at his Voice disperse,

And endless Pleasures bloom."

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in th*
Holy Scriptures, 1755.

43 0 Peace in believing. C. M.

JESUS, to thee T now can fly,
On whom my help is laid :
Oppressed by sins, I lift mine eye,
And see the shadows fade.

2 Believing on my Lord, I find
A sure and present aid ;

On thee alone my constant mind
Be every moment stayed.

3 Whate'er in me seems wise, or good,
Or strong, I here disclaim ;

I wash my garments in the blood
Of the atoning Lamb.

4 Jesus, my strength, my life, my rest.
On thee will I depend,

Till summoned to the marriage-feast,
When faith in sight shall end.

CHAHLES WESLEY.

Title : After a He/apse into Sin.

There are ten stanzas. Thc^e are the sixth,
eighth, ninth, and tenth, unaltered.

The Wesley's believed in backsliding, but they
did not believe in living in a backslidden state.

From Hymns and Sacred Ibems, 1742.

43 1 The veil of life. C M.

FOUNTAIN of life, to all below
Let thy salvation roll;
Water, replenish, and o'erflow
Every believing soul.

HYMN STUDIES.

171

2 Into that happy number, Lord,
Us weary Burners take;

.lesus, fulfill thy gracious word,
For thine own mercy's sake.

3 Turn back our nature's rapid tide,
And we shall flow to thee,

While down the stream of time we glide
To our eternity.

4 The well of life to us thou art,
Of joy the swelling flood;

Wafted by thee, with willing heart,
We swift return to God.

5 We soon shall reach the boundless sea;
Into thy fullness fall ;

Be lost and swallowed up in thee,
Our God, our all in all.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: Entering into the Congregation.
A grand opening hymn, copied verbatim from
Hymns and Sacrtd Poems, 1742.

432 Victorious faith. C. M.

FATHER of Jesus Christ, my Lord,
My Saviour, and my Head,
J trust in thee, whose powerful word
Hath raised him from the dead.

2 In hope, against all human hope,
Self-desperate, I believe;

Thy quickening word shall raise me up,
Thou wilt thy Spirit give.

3 Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees,
And looks to that alone ;

Laughs at impossibilities,

And cries, " It shall be done! "

4 To thee the glory of thy power
And faithfulness I give;

I shall in Christ, at that glad hour,
And Christ in me shall live.

5 Obedient faith, that waits on thee,
Thou never wilt reprove;

But thou wilt form thy Son in me,
And perfect me in love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part of a longhymn founded on Rom. iv, 1G-23:
" Therefore it is of faith," etc.

The third stanza is a good definition of faith.
This hymn is composed of verses one, nine, four-
teen, fitteen, and twenty, unaltered.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

433 His boundless grace. CM.

WHAT shall I do ray God to love?
My loving God to praise?
The length and breadth, and height to
prove.
And depth of sovereign grace?

2 Thy sovereign grace to all extends,
Immense and uueonfined;

From age to age it never ends;
It reaches all mankind.

3 Throughout the world its breadth is

known,
Wide as infinity :
So wide it never passed by one,
Or it had passed by me.

4 My trespass was grown up to heaven;
But, far above the skies,

Through Christ abundantly forgiven,
I see thy mercies rise.

5 The depth of all-redeeming love,
What angel tongue can tell?

O may I to the utmost prove
The gift unspeakable!

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : After a Recovery.

These are verses eleven to fifteen, inclusive, of a
long hymn of eighteen stanzas.

the anticalvinism ot the author is very prom-
inent in this, as in many other of his hymns.

Unaltered. From Charles Wesley's Hymns and
Sacred Poems, two vols., 1749.

434 No more a wandering sheep.
WAS a wandering sheep,

S.M.

I did not love the fold,
I did not love my Shepherd's voice,

I would not be controlled:
I was a wayward child,

I did not love my home,

1 did not love my Father's voice,
I loved afar to roam.

2 The Shepherd sought his sheep,
The Father sought his child;

He followed me o'er vale and hill,
O'er deserts waste and wild:

He found me nigh to death,
Famished, and faint, and lone;

He bound me with the bands of love,
He saved the wandering one.

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HYMN STUDIES.

3 Jesus ray Shepherd is;
'Twas he that loved my soul,

'Twas he that washed me in his blood,
'Twas he that made me whole :

'Twas he that sought the lost,
That found the wandering sheep;

'Twas he that brought me to the fold,
'Tis he that still doth keep.

4 No more a wandering sheep,
I love to be controlled,

I love my tender Shepherd's voice,

I love the peaceful fold :
No more a wayward child,

I seek no more to roam ;
I love my heavenly Father's voice,

I love, I love his home !

HORATIUS BONAR.

Author's title : Lout, but Found.
One stanza, the third, of the original has been
omitted :

3 " They spoke in tender love ;

They raised my drooping head ;
They gently closed my bleeding wounds,

My fainting soul they fed.
They washed my filth away ;

Thev made me clean and fair;
They brought me to my home in peace, —

The long-sought wanderer ! "

The third, fifth, seventh, and eighth lines of the
second stanza begin with the word " They " instead
of " He."

The last stanza has been changed. In Hymns, of
Faith and Love, (first series,) it is :

" I was a wandering sheep.

I would not be controlled :
But now I love my Shepherd's voice,

I love, 1 love the fold !
I was a wayward child;

I once preferred to roam,
But now /love my Father's voice, —

I love, I love his home."

From The Bible Hymn Book, 1845.

43 D T7te revealing Spirit.
PIRIT of faith, come down,

S. M.

Reveal the things of God ;
And make to us the Godhead known,

And witness with the blood:
'Tis thine the blood to apply,

And give us eyes to sec.
That he who did for sinners die,

Hath surely died for me.

2 No man can truly say

That Jesus is the Lord,
Unless thou take the veil away,

And breathe the living word:

Then, only then, we feel

Our interest in his blood ;
And cry, with joy unspeakable,

' ' Thou art my Lord, my God ! "

3 O that the world might know

The all-atoning Lamb!
Spirit of faith, descend and show

The virtue of his name:
The grace which all may find,

The saving power, impart ;
And testify to all mankind,

And speak in every heart.

C1IAKLES WESLEY.

The following stanzas, the third and the filth,
are omitted:

3 " I know my Saviour lives,

He lives, who died for me,
My inmost soul His voice receives

W ho hangs on yonder tree :
Set forth before my eyes

Even now I see "Him bleed,
And hear His mortal groans and cries,

While suffering in my stead."

5 " Inspire the living faith,

Which whosoe'er receives,
The witness in himself he hath,

And consciously believes ;
The faith that conquers all,

And doth the mountain move,
And saves whoe'er on Je>us call,

And perfects them in love."

Unaltered from a pamphlet containing thirty-two
pieces, entitled Hymns of Petition and Thanks-
giving for tfte Promise of the Father. By the Rev-
erend Mr. John and Charles Wesley. Bristol, 1746.

43 6 God, my Father. S. M.

HERE I can firmly real ;
I dare to boast of this.
That God, the highest and the best,
My Friend and Father is.

2 Naught have I of my own,
Naught in the life 1 bad;

What Christ hath given, that alone
I dare in faith to plead.

3 I rest upon the ground
Of Jesus and his blood ;

It is through him that I have found
My soul's eternal good.

4 At cost of all I have,

At cost of life and limb.
I cling to Qod who yet shall save;
I will not turn from him.

//r.l/.V ST ('DIES.

173

5 His spirit in me dwells,
O'af all my mind he reigns;

My care and Badness he dispels,
And soothes away my pains.

6 He prospers day by day

His work within my heart,
Till I have strength and faith to say,
" Thou, God, my Father art ! "

l'.UL GEKHAttDT,
TK. I5Y MISS 0. WINXWOBTH.

This is made up of quatrains, Beleoted here and
there, from a translation of Bixteen donble stanzas,

touud in Lyra German ten, first series, beginning :

" If God be on my side,
Then let who will oppose."

Original of verso three, line four:

" The True Eternal Good."

Writing of Gerhardt, Miss "Winkworth, in her
Christian Singers of Germany, says : " His hymns
seem to be the spontaneous outpouring of a heart
that overflows with love, trust, and praise."

For biographical sketch, see No. 212.

43 7 Knowledge rf forgiveness. S. M.

HOW can a sinner know
His sins on earth forgiven?
How can my gracious Saviour show
My name inscribed in heaven?

2 What we have felt and seen
With confidence wc tell;

And publish to the sons of men
The signs infallible.

3 We who in Christ believe
That he for us hath died,

We all his unknown peace receive,
And feel his blood applied.

4 Exults our rising soul,
Disburdened of her load.

And swells unutterably full
Of glory and of God.

5 His love, surpassing far
The love of all beneath,

We find within our hearts, and dare
The pointless darts of death.

6 Stronger than death or hell
The sacred power we prove;

And, conquerers of the world, we dwed
In heaven, who dwell in love.

CHARLES WESLEY, ALT.

Title: The Mar.h <>/ Faith.

As published by Charles Wesley in Hymns ami
Soared /'oein#, (two vols.,) 1749, this hymn has
eight stanzas of eiu'ht lines each. The first three
were altered into this meter for the Collection of
Hymni far the use of the people called Methodists,
probably by John Wesley, 1779.

438 Abba, "Father. Rom. viii, 15. H. M.

ARISE, my soul, arise;
Shake off thy guilty fears;
The bleeding Sacrifice

In my behalf appears:
Before the throne my Surety stands,
My name is written on his hands.

2 He ever lives above,
For me to intercede ;

His all-redeeming love,

His precious blood to ])lead ;
His blood atoned for all our race,
And sprinkles now the throne of grace.

3 Five bleeding wounds he bears,
Received on Calvary;

They pour effectual prayers,

They strongly plead for me:
"Forgive him, O forgive," they cry,
"Nor let the ransomed sinner die."

4 The Father hears him pray,
His dear anointed One :

He cannot turn away

The presence of his Son :
His Spirit answers to the blood,
And tells me I am born of God.

5 My God is reconciled;

His pardoning voice I hear:
He owns me for his child ;

I can no longer fear :
With confidence I now draw nigh,
And, "Father, Abba, Father," cry.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Behold the Man.

A much- used and blessed hymn. It is a satis-
faction to know that it remains, except the title, as
it was published hy the author in Hymns and Sa-
cred Poems, 1742.

439 The. inward witness. C. P. M.

THOU great mysterious God unknown,
Whose love hath gently led rne on
E'en from my infant days ;
Mine inmost soul expose to view,
And tell me if I ever knew
Thy justifying grace.

174

HTMN STUDIES.

2 If I have only known thy fear,
And followed, with a heart sincere,

Thy drawings from above;
Now, now the further grace bestow,
And let my sprinkled conscience know

Thy sweet forgiving love.

3 Short of thy love I would not stop,
A stranger to the gospel hope,

The sense of sin forgiven;
I would not, Lord, my soul deceive,
Without the inward witness live,

That antepast of heaven.

4 If now the witness were in me,
Would he not testify of thee,

In Jesus reconciled?
And should I not with faith draw nigh,
And boldly, "Abba, Father," cry,

And know myself thy child?

5 Father, in me reveal thy Son,
And to my inmost soul make known

How merciful thou art;
The secret of thy love reveal.
And by thy hallowing Spirit dwell

Forever in my heart.

CHARLES WESI,EY.

Three stanzas are omitted, which we give, as a
specimen of the careless and faulty maimer in which
the author sometimes wrote :

5 " Ah ! never let Thy servant rest,
Till of my part in Christ possessed.

I on thy mercy feed.
Unworthy of the crumbs that fall.
Yet raised hy Him who died for all,

To eat the children's bread.

6 "O may I cast my rags as'xle,
My filthy raga of virtuous pride,

And for acceptance groan :
Mv works of righteousness disclaim,
With all I have, or can, or am,

And trust in grace alone.

7 " Whate'er obstructs Thy pardoning love,
Or sin, or righteousness remove,

Thy glory to display ;
Mine heart of unbelief convince,
And now absolve me from my sins,

And take them all away." "

"Feed" and " bread" are. not rhymes, :iHh>>tiLr!i
they come nearer to it than ''convince" and
"sins." There are other infelicities that will b«
seen by every reader.

Unaltered. From Hymns for Those that Seek and
Those that Have Redemption in the Blood of Jestis
Christ. London, 1747.

4.4.0 The indwelling Spirit. 7, 6L

ABBA, Father, hear thy child,
Late in Jesus reconciled;
Hear, and all the graces shower,
All the joy, and peace, and power;
All my Saviour asks above,
All the life and heaven of love.

2 Lord, I will not let thee go
Till the blessing thou bestow:
Hear my Advocate divine;
Lo! to his my suit I join;
Joined to his, it cannot fail ;
Bless me ; for I will prevail.

3 Heavenly Father, Life divine,
Change my nature into thine:

Move, and spread throughout my soul,
Actuate and till the whole :
Be it I no longer now
Living in the flesh, but thou.

4 Holy Ghost, no more delay;
Come, and in thy temple stay:
Now thine inward witness bear,
Strong, and permanent, and clear:
Spring of life, thyself impart;
Rise eternal in my heart.

CHARLES WESLEY.

" Ask. and ye shall receive, that your joy may U
full.'" John xvi, 24.

Twelve stanzas, beginning:

" Rise, my soul, with ardour rise,
Breathe thy wishes to the skies."

This hymn is composed of verses eight, nine,
eleven, and twelve.
In the first line of the third stanza the author wrote :

" Heavenly Adam, Life divine.
Late in Jesus reconciled.'1''

Wesley was then only a young convert.
From Hymns and Sacred 1'ot.ms, 1739.

441 Chief of sinners. 7,6 1.

CHIEF of sinners though I be,
Jesus shed his blood for me ;
Died that I might live on high,
Died that I might never die;
As the branch is to the vine,

1 am his and he is mine.

2 O the height of Jesus' love!
Higher than the heavens above,
Deeper than the depths of sea,
Lasting as eternity;

Love that found me, — wondrous thought! —
Found me when I sought him not!

IITMN STUDIES.

Y.%

3 Chief of sinners though I be,
Christ i» all in all to me;
All my wants to him are known,
All my sorrows are his own;
Bafe with him from earthly strife,
He sustains the hidden life.

m'comb.

Title: Christ is Ml.

Two stanza-, the third and fifth, are omitted :

3 "Jesus only can impart
Balm, to heal the smitten heart ;
Peace that flows from sins forgiven,
Joy that lifts the soul to heaven.
Faith and hope to walk with God,
In the way that Enoch trod.

5 "O, mv Saviour, help afford,
By Thy Spirit and Thy Word:
When my wayward heart would stray,
Keep me in the narrow way ;
Grace in time of need supply,
While I live and when I die."

I cannot vouch for the text of the hymn, nor for
the authorship, as I have taken both at second
hand.

William M'Comb was born in Ireland in 1793 :
and was a book-seller in Belfast for manv years. His
complete Poetical Works were published" in 1864.

442 The joys of conversion. 12,8.

0HO"W happy are they,
Who the Saviour obey,
And have laid up their treasure above !
Tougue can never express
The sweet comfort and peace
Of a soul in its earliest love.

2 That sweet comfort was mine,
When the favor divine

I received through the blood of the Lamb;

When my heart first believed,

What a joy I received,
What a heaven in Jesus's name !

3 'Twas a heaven below
My Redeemer to know,

And the angels could do nothing more,

Than to fall at his feet,

And the story repeat,
And the Lover of sinners adore.

4 Jesus all the day long
Was my joy and my song:

O that all his salvation might see!

" He hath loved me," I cried,

" He hath suffered and died.
To redeem even rebels like me."

5 O the rapturous height

Of that holy delight
Which I felt in the life-giving blood!

of my Saviour possessed,

1 was perfectly blessed,
As if tilled with the fullness of God.

CHABLB8 WESLEY.

Title 1 For One Fallen from Grace.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.
A few slight changes have been made, and two
stanzas, the fifth and sixth, omitted :

5 " On the wings of His love,
I was carried above,

All sin, and temptation, and pain;

1 could not believe,

That 1 ever should arieve,
That I ever should suffer again.

6 " I rode on the sky,
(Freely justified I !)

Nor envied Elijah his seat;

My soul mounted higher,

In a chariot of fire,
And the moon it was under my feet."

There is a " part second," that contains nine
verses more. The old Pocket Hymn, Book contained
the whole sixteen stanzas, which were retained in
all the editions down to 1849, when all the stanzas
were left out, except these five. They are all that
are worth saving. Some writers, judging from in-
ternal evidence, have doubted whether Charles
Wesley ever wrote this hymn; thinking him inca-
pable of writing such nonsense as the stanzas quoted
above. The real wonder is, that in the great har-
vest of Ms writings — some six thousand pieces —
there should be so much good wheat and so little
worthless chaff.

443 Tlie Hijhteomness of faith. 7, 6, 7.

OFT I in my heart have said, —
Who shail ascend on high,
Mount to Christ, my glorious Head,

And bring him from the sky!
Borne on contemplation's wing,
Surely I shall find him there,
Where the angels praise their King,
And gain the Morning Star.

2 Oft I in my heart have said, —

Who to the deep shall stoop,
Sink with Christ among the dead,

From thence to bring him up?
Could I but my heart prepare,

By unfeigned humility,
Christ would quickly enter there,

And ever dwell in me.

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HYMN STUDIES.

3 But the righteousness of faith

Hath taught me better things:
"Inward turn thine ryes," it saith,

While Christ to me it brings:
"Christ is ready to impart

Life to all, for life who sigh :
In thy mouth and in thy heart

The word is ever nigh."

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is founded on Rom. x, 6, 7 :

" But the righteousness which is of filth speak -
eth on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall
ascend into heaven ? (that is, to bring Christ down
from above:) or. Who shall descend into the
deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the
dead.")

The author wrote " To bring" instead of " And
bring" in verse one, line four.

There are three additional stanzas.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, by John and
Charles Wesley, 1742.

4; 4.4 The new joy. L. M.

TREMBLING before thine awful throne,
O Lord, in dust my sins I own ;
Justice and mercy for my life
Contend ; O smile, and heal the strife.

2 The Saviour smiles ; upon my soul
New tides of hope tumultuous roll ;
His voice proclaims my pardon found,
Seraphic transport wings the sound.

3 Earth has a joy unknown to heaven,
The newborn peace of sins forgiven;
Tears of such pure aud deep delight,
Ye angels, never dimmed your sight.

4 Bright heralds of the eternal Will,
Abroad his errands ye fulfill ;

Or, throned in floods of beamy day,
Symphonious in his presence play.

5 Loud is the song, the heavenly plain
Is shaken with the choral strain;

And dying echoes, floating far,
Draw music from each chiming star.

6 But I amid your choirs shall shine.
And all your knowledge shall be mine:
Ye on your harps must learn to hear

A secret cord that mine will bear.

AUGUSTUS L. IIII. 1. HOUSE.

Dr. Leonard Bacon said that this hymn was " as
near perfection as an uninspired composition could

be." It is said to have been the only poem the
author ever wrote.

One stanza, the fourth, has been omitted. It i»
hardly suitable for singing, and yet it is too bad to
dismember such a piece of work. It is :

4 " Ye saw of old on chaos rise
The beauteous pillars of the skies :
Ye know where morn exulting springs,
And evening folds her drooping wings."

The thought of the last couplet of the hymn is
not new, but it is expressed in an original and ad-
mirable manner.

Augustus Lucas Hillhouse was a brother of the
poet, James A. Hillhouse, and was born at New
Haven, Conn., in 1792. He died in 1859.

This poem was first published m the Christian
Spectator. New Haven, 1822.

445 The realizing light of faith. L. M.

AUTHOR of faith, eternal Word,
Whose Spirit breathes the active flame,
Faith, like its finisher and Lord,
To-day as yesterday the same.

2 To thee our humble hearts aspire,
And ask the gift unspeakable;

Increase in us the kindled fire,
In us the work of faith fulfill.

3 By faith we know thee strong to save;
Save us, a present Saviour thou:

Whate'er we hope, by faith we have;
Future and past subsisting now.

4 To him that in thy name believes,
Eternal life with thee is given;

Into himself he all receives,

Pardon, and holiness, and heaven.

5 The things unknown to feeble sense,
Unseen by reason's glimmering ray,

Willi strong, commanding evidence,
Their heavenly origin display.

6 Faith lends its realizing light;

The clouds disperse, the shadows fly ;
The Invisible appears in sight,
And God is seen by mortal eye.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The Life of Faith, Exemplified in the Eleventh
Chapter of St. FauPt Bputie l»tli> Hebrews,

The author wrote eighty-five Stanzas of paraphrase
upon this chapter. This hymn is founded on the
tirst verse :

" Now faith is the substance of things hoped for.
the evidence of things not seen."

Unaltered. From Hymns and Sacred Poems, by
John and Charles Wesley, 1740.

T7YMN STUD I his.

177

446 Salvation by grace. L. M.

WF. have no outward righteousness,
No merits or good works to plead;
We only can be saved by grace;
Thy grace, O Lord, is five indeed.

2 Save us by grace, through faith alone,
A faith thou must thyself impart;

A faith that would by works he shown,
A faith that purifies the heart:

3 A faith that doth the mountains move,
A faith that Bhows our sins forgiven,

A faith that sweetly works by love,
And ascertains our claim to heaven.

4 This is the faith we humbly seek,
The faith in thy all-cleansing blood,

That blood which doth for sinners speak;
O let it speak us up to God !

CHAULES WESLEY.

Title : For Gondemned Malefactors.

"Let the sighing of the prisoner come before
thee; according to the greatness of thy power

preserve thou those that are appointed to die." Psa.
Ixxix, 12.

The whole hymn contains fourteen stanz:us. These
are the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh, unaltered.
It must be remembered that Wesley ministered to
condemned prisoners, and sought to prepare them
for death. This hymn, with others, was written
for their special use. It will be better understood
by reading the lir>t three stanzas of the hymn :

1 " 0 Thou that hangedst on the tree,
Our curse and Bufferings to remove,

Pity the souls that look to Thee,
And save us by Thy dying love.

2 " Outcasts of men, to Thee we fly,
To Thee who wilt the worst receive ;

Forgive, and make us fit to die;
Alas ! we are not fit to live.

3 " We own our punishment, is just,
We suffer for our evil here,

But in Thy suffering, Lord, we trust,
Thine, only Thine, our souls can clear."

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Po-
ems, 1749.

447 O happy day! L. M.

0 HAPPY day that fixed my choice
On thee, my Saviour and my God !
Well may this glowing heart rejoice,
And tell its raptures all abroad.
12

2 O happy bond, that seals my vows
To him who merits all my love!

Let cheerful anthems (ill his house.
While to that sacred shrine I move.

3 'Tis done, the great transaction's done ;
I am my Lord's, and he is mine;

He drew me, and I followed on,

Charmed to confess the voice divine.

4 Now rest, my long-divided heart;
Fixed on this blissful center, rest;

Nor ever from thy Lord depart,
With him of every good possessed.

5 High Heaven, that heard the solemn vow,
That vow renewed shall daily hear,

Till in life's latest hour I bow,

And bless in death a bond so dear.

PniLIP DODDKIDGE.

Title :
to God.

Rejoicing in, Our Covenant Engagements

" And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they
had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with
their whole desire; and he was found of them : and
the Lord gave them rest round about." 2 Ghron.
xv, 15.

The hymn is a verbatim copy of the original, ex-
cepting the last couplet of the fourth stanza. Dod-
dridge wrote:

" With Ashes whotcould grudr/e to part,
When called on Angels' Bread to feast.''''

"Blessed is the man," says Montgomery, " who
can take the words of this hymn, and make them
his own from similar experience."

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in th*
Holy Scriptures, 175.5.

For biographical sketch, see No. 78.

448 Salvation by faith. L. M.

INTO thy gracious hands I fall,
And with the arms of faith embrace;

0 King of glory, hear my call ;

O raise me, heal me by thy grace.
Now righteous through thy grace I am ;
No condemnation now I dread;

1 taste salvation in thy name,
Alive in thee, my living Head.

2 Still let thy wisdom be my guide,
Nor take thy flight from me away ;

Still with me let thy grace abide,
That I from thee may never stray:

Let thy word richly in me dwell,
Thy peace and love my portion be;

My joy to endure and do thy will,
Till perfect I am found in thee.

178

HYMN STUDIES.

3 Ann me with thy whole armor, Lord,

Support my weakness with thy might;
Gird on my thigh thy conquering sword,

And shield me in the threatening tight;
From faith to faith, from grace to grace,

So in thy strength shall I go on,
Till heaven and earth flee from thy face,

And glory end what grace begun.

WOLFGANG C. DESSLER.
TU. BY J. WESLEY.

Title : The Change.

The last half of a hymn of six stanzas. Wesley
wrote "wounds" instead of "grace" in verse one,
line live.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739.

Wolfgang Christopher Dessler was born at
Nuremberg in lUGO. His father was a jeweler,
and wished his son to follow the same trade. But
the son was devoted to study, and at length entered
the University of Altdorf as a student of divinity.
On account of ill health, he was obliged to give up
his course ; but he continued his literary work as
he was able. He was head master of a school at
Nuremberg some fifteen years. Dessler was the
author of fifty-six hymns; an accurate scholar, and
a devout Christian. He died iti 1722.

449 Forgiving love. L. M.

MY soul, with humble fervor raise
To God the voice of grateful praise,
And all my ransomed powers combine,
To bless Ms attributes divine.

2 Deep on my heart let memory trace
His acts of mercy and of grace,
Who, with a Father's tender care,
Saved me when sinking in despair;

3 Gave my repentant soul to prove
The joy of his forgiving love;
Poured balm into my bleeding breast,
And led my weary feet to rest.

LIVINGSTONE.

The three stanzas of this hymn arc founded on
the first four verses of Psalm ciii. It was contrib-
uted, with twelve other pieces, by the same author
to Dr. William B. Collver's Collection of Hymns,
1812.

The author was not the Rev. John Henry Liv-
ingston, as the editors of our Hymnal supposed,
but a Livingstone not otherwise known.

4:5 0 The highway of holiness. L. M.

JESUS, my all. to heaven is gone,
lie whom I fix my hopes upon;
His track I see, and I'll pursue
The narrow way, till him I view.

2 The way the holy prophets went,
The road that leads from banishment,
The King's highway of holiness,

I'll go, lor all his paths are peace.

3 This is the way I long have sought,
And mourned because I found it not;
My grief a burden long has been.
Because I was not saved from sin.

4 The more I strove against its power,
I felt its weight and guilt the more;
Till late I heard my Saviour say,
"Come hither, soul, I am the way."

5 Lo! glad I come; and thou, blest Lamb,
Shalt take me to thee, as I am ;
Nothing but sin have I to give;
Nothing but love shall I receive.

6 Then will I tell to sinners round,
What a dear Saviour I have found;
I'll point to thy redeeming blood,
And say, " Behold the way to God."

JOHN CENNICK, ALT.

The author's title was: Following Christ the
Sinner's Way to God.
Several lines have been altered.

Verse one, line two :

" He that I fix my hopes upon."

Verse three, line three :

"My grief my burden long has been."

Verse three, line four :

" Because I could not cease from sin."

Verse four, line two :

"1 sinned and stumbled but the more."

Verse four, line four :

"Come hither, soul, for Tm the way."

Verse five, line one :

" Lo ! glad 1 come ; and thou, dear Lamb."

Verse five, line three :

" Nothing but sin / T7iee can give."

Verse five, line four:

" Yet help me and Thy Praise Til livt.

Verse six, line one :

i{ Til tell lo all poor sinners round."

Omitted Stanzas.

8 " No Stranger may proceed therein,
No Lover of the World and Sin;
No Lion, no devouring Care,
No ravenous Tyger shall be there.

HYMN STUDIES.

179

4 " No Nothing may <;o up thereon
But traveling Souls, and 1 am one:
Wayfaring Hen t<> Canaan liound,

Shall only in the Wuy be found.

5 " Nor Fools, by eiirnul men esteem'd,
Shall err therein; but they redeem'd

In Jesus' Blood, shall shew their Bight
To travel there, till Heav'n's in Sight."

From Sacred Hymns, For the Use of Religious So-
»iatt«$, (Generally Composed in, Dialogues. By
John Cennick. Part ii. Bristol, 1743.

The author was born in England in 1717. In
early life he was fond of sinful amusements ami
ungodly companions; but at length the Spirit thor-
oughly awakened him, and, after a lonij struggle,
he found the way of " faith." He refers to this
struggle in verses three and four. Cenniek was a
Methodist preacher. When Whitcfield withdrew
from the Wesleys, Cennick followed him. He aft-
erward became a Moravian preacher. He died at
London in 1755, and was buried in the Moravian
Cemetery.

45 1 His sovereign grace. L. M-

GLORY to God, whose sovereign grace
Hath animated senseless stones,
Called us to stand before his face,
And raised us unto Abraham's sons.

2 The people that in darkness lay
In sin and error's deadly shade,

Have seen a glorious gospel-day
In Jesus' lovely face displayed.

3 Thou only, Lord, the work hast done,
And bared thine arm in all our sight;

Hast made the reprobates thine own,
And claimed the outcasts as thy right.

4 Thy single arm, almighty Lord,
To us the great salvation brought;

Thy Word, thy all-creating Word,

That spake at first the world from naught.

5 For this the saints lift up their voice,
And ceaseless praise to thee is given ;

For this the hosts above rejoice,

And praise thee in the highest heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Hymn for the Kingswood Colliers.
•They were an ignorant and desperately wicked
class of men who worked in the coal mines near
the city of Bristol. The Wesleys labored among
them, and this hymn celebrates a glorious revival
that followed.
The last line of the hymn the author wrote :

" We raise the happiness of heaven."

There are three additional stanzas, which show
plainly the original design of the autnor :

6 " For this, no longer sons of night,

To Thee our thanks and hearts we give ;
To Thee who called us into light,
To Thee we die, to Thee we live.

7 " Suffice that for the season past
Hell's horrid language filled our tongues,

We all Thy won Is behind us cast,
And loudly sang the drunkard's songs.

8 " But, O the power of grace Divine !
In hymns we now our voices raise,

Loudly in strange hosannas join,

And blasphemies are turned to praise."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

4o3 The Lord our righteousness. L. M.

LET not the wise their wisdom boast,
The mighty glory in their might,
The rich in flattering riches trust,
Which take their everlasting flight.

2 The rush of numerous years bears down
The most gigantic strength of man ;

And where is all his wisdom gone,
When, dust, he turns to dust again?

3 One only gift can justify

The boasting soul that knows his God;
When Jesus doth his blood apply,
I glory in his sprinkled blood.

4 The Lord my righteousness I praise,
I triumph in the love divine ;

The wisdom, wealth, and strength of grace,
In Christ to endless ages mine.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the
Holy Scriptures. The "passage" on which this
hymn is founded is Jer. ix, 23, 24 :

" Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man
glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man
dory in his might, let not the rich man glory in
his riches: but let him that glorieth, glory in this,
that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am
the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment,
an I righteousness, in the earth : for in these things
I delight, saith the Lord."

One word has been changed. In the last line
the author wrote :

" In Christ through endless ages mine."

180

IIYMN STUDIES.

453 His plenteous grace. 10,11.

OWIIAT shall I do my Saviour to praise,
So faithful and true, so plenteous in
grace,
So strong to deliver, so good to redeem
The weakest believer that hangs upon him !

2 How happy the man whose heart is set

free;
The people that can be joyful in thee !
Their joy is to walk in the light of thy face,
And still they are talking of Jesus's grace :

3 For thou art their boast, their glory, and

power,
And I also trust to see the glad hour,
My soul's new creation, a life from the dead,
The day of salvation that lifts up my head.

4 For Jesus, my Lord, is now my defense ;
I trust in his word ; none plucks me from

thence;
Since I have found favor, he all things will

do;
My King and my Saviour shall make me

anew.

5 Yes, Lord, I shall see the bliss of thine own:
Thy secret to me shall soon be made known ;
For sorrow and sadness I joy shall receive,
And share in the gladness of all that believe.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: A Thanksgiving.

One stanza, the third, is omitted :

3 "Their daily delight shall be in Thy name.
They shall, as their right, Thy righteousness claim ;
Thy righteousness wearing, and cleansed by Thy

blood,
Bold shall they appear in the presence of God."

It has not been altered.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

454 Accepted in the Beloved. 10,11.

ALL praise to the Lamb! accepted I am,
Through faith in the Saviour's ador-
able name :
In him I confide, his blood is applied;
For me he hath suffered, for me he hath died.

2. Not a cloud doth arise, to darken my skies,
Or hide for a moment my Lord from mine

eyes;
In him I am blest, I lean on his breast,
And lol in his wounds I continue to rest.

CHARLES WESLEY, ALT.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, by Charles
Wesley, 1749.

It is part of one of the Hymns for Believers.
The original contains eighteen stanzas. This Is made
up of verses one, three, live, and six, altered. Only
three lines remain as they were first published.
The hymn first appeared in this collection in the
1849 edition.

45 5 Tears of joy. 7, 6, 8.

LORD, and is thine anger gone,
And art thou pacified?
After all that I have done,

Dost thou no longer chide?
Let thy love my heart constrain,

And all my restless passions sway :
Keep me, lest I turn again
Out of the narrow way.

2 See my utter helplessness,
And leave me not alone;

O preserve in perfect peace,
And seal me for thine own :

More and more thyself reveal,
Thy presence let me always find ;

Comfort, and confirm, and heal
My feeble, sin-sick mind.

3 As the apple of thine eye,
Thy weakest servant keep;

Help me at thy feet to lie,

And there forever weep:
Tears of joy mine eyes o'erflow,

That I have any hope of heaven ;
Much of love I ought to know,

For I have much forgiven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: After a Recovery.

The whole hymn consists of eight eight-line
stanzas. This is made up of the first half of the
first, the first half of the second slightly altered,
the fifth and sixth.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, published by
John and Charles Wesley, 1742.

CONSECRATION.

456 Nothing but Christ crucified. 7,6,8.

VAIN, delusive world, adieu,
"With all of creature good!
Only Jesus I pursue,

Who bought me with his blood:
All thy pleasures I forego;

I trample on thy wealth and pride;
Only Jesus will I know,
And Jesus crucified.

HYMN STUDIES.

181

2 Other knowledge I disdain;

'Tis all but vanity:
Christ, the Lamb of God, was slain,

Be tasted death for me.
Mi to save from endless woe

The sin-atoning Victim died:
Only Jesus will 1 know,

And Jesus crucified.

8 Here will I set up my rest;

My fluctuating heart
From the haven of his breast

Shall never more depart:
Whither should a sinner go?

His wounds for me stand open wide;
Only Jesus will 1 know,

And Jesus crucified.

4 Him to know is life and peace,
And pleasure without end;

This is all my happiness,

On Jesus to depend ;
Daily in his grace to grow,

And ever in his faith abide;
Only Jesus will I know,

And Jesus crucified.

5 O that I could all invite,
This saving truth to prove ;

Show the length, the breadth, the height,

And depth of Jesus' love !
Fain I would to sinners show

The blood by faith alone applied;
Only Jesus will I know,

And Jesus crucified.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: I am Determined to Know Nothing save
Jesus Christ, and Him Crucified.

The ori'.'inal has nine stanzas. This hymn is
composed of verses oik-, two, four, seven, and
eighty verbatim.

In one of the omitted stanzas the author alludes
to the opposition that he sometimes encoun-
tered :

6 " What though earth and hell engage

To shake my soul with fear ;
Calmly I defy the rage

Of persecution near;
Suffering faith shall brighter glow,

As gold when in the furnace tried ;
Only Jesus," etc.

From Hymns and Starred, Poems, published by
John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College.
Oxford, and Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of
Christ Church, Oxford, 1742.

457 Renouncing all for Christ. L. M.

COME, Saviour, Jesus, from above.
Assist me with thy heavenly grace;
Empty my heart of earthly love,
And for thyself prepare the place.

2 O let thy sacred presence fill,
And set my longing spirit free;

Which pants to have no other will,
But night and day to feast on thee.

3 While in this region here below,
No other good will I pursue:

I'll bid this world of noise and show,
With all its glittering snares, adieu.

4 That path with humble speed I'll seek,
In which my Saviour's footsteps shine,

Nor will I hear, nor will I speak,
Of any other love but thine.

5 Henceforth may no profane delight
Divide this consecrated soul;

Possess it thou, who hast the right,
As Lord and Master of the whole.

6 Nothing on earth do I desire,

But thy pure love within my breast;
This, only this, will I require.
And freely give up all the rest,

MAD. A. BOURIGNON.
TR. BY J. BYROM.

The translation, t<n stanzas, is found in Hymns
and Sacred Poems, 1739, and in JJixcellaneous
Poems, by John Byrom, 1773. Hyninologi^ts are
not agreed whether it was translated by John Wes-
ley or by John Byrom. In the finst edition of
Hymn Studies I giwe it to Byrom, further research
seems to be in favor of Wesley. I know of no evi-
dence that is conclusive.

Madame Antoinette Bourignon, a truly pioiis
but somewhat visionary French woman, was born
in 1616. She aspired to be a great religious leader,
but did not meet with very marked success. Her
disciples, since her death, in 1680, have dwindled
and been almost forgotten. She wrote much, and
her works were published at Amsterdam, in 1786,
in nineteen volumes. Some of them have been
translated into English, hut they are regarded as
of little worth ; as largely " wood, hay, and stub-
ble." This hymn is one of the "precious stones,''
—a gem that survives because it is worthy. As a
hymn of consecration it has no superior.

45 8 Personal consecration.

GOD of my life, what just return
Can sinful dust and ashes give?
I only live my sin to mourn :
To love my God I only live.

L. M.

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HYMN STUDIES.

2 To thee, benigu and saving Power,
I consecrate my lengthened days;

While, marked with blessings, every hour
Shall speak thy co-extended praise.

3 Be all my added life employed
Thine image in my soul to see:

Fill with thyself the mighty void;
Enlarge my heart to compass thee.

4 The blessing of thy love bestow ;
For this my cries shall never fail;

Wrestling, I will not let thee go, —
I will not, till my suit prevail.

5 Come, then, my Hope, my Life, my Lord,
And fix in me thy lasting home;

Be mindful of thy gracious word, —
Thou, with thy promised Father, come.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: After a Recovery from Sickness.

Part of a long hymn of seventeen stanzas.
These are verses ei^ht, nine, eleven, thirteen,
and sixteen, unaltered. The hymn was written
after recovering from a severe sickness, which he
did not expect to survive. The author describes
his recovery very poetically in the sixth and
seventh stanzas that immediately preceded this
liymn :

6 "Jesus to my deliverance flew,
When sunk in mortal pangs 1 lay :

Pale Death his ancient Conqueror knew,
And trembled, and ungrasped his prey.

7 "The fever turned its backward course,
Arrested by Almighty power;

Sudden expired its fiery force,

And anguish gnawed my side no more."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739.

459 Living to God. L. M.

OTHOU, who hast at thy command
The hearts of all men in thy hand,
Our wayward, erring hearts incline
To have no other will but thine.

2 Our wishes, our desires, control;
Mold every purpose of the soul;
O'er all may we victorious prove
That stands between us and thy love.

3 Thrice blest will all our blessings be,
When we can look through them to thee;
When each glad heart its tribute pays
Of love, and gratitude, and praise.

4 And while we to thy glory live,
May we to thee all glory give,
Until the final summons come,
That calls thy willing servants home.

MRS. JANE COTTERILL.

Title: For Entire Subjection to the Will of God.

The original has six stanzas. These are verses
one, two, three, and six.-

One couplet has been changed. The author
wrote the last part of verse two:

" O'er all may we victorious be

That stands between ourselves and Thee."

Omitted Stanzas.

4 " Still make us when temptation's near
As our worst foes ourselves to fear ;
And, each vain-glorious thought to quell,
Teach us how Peter vow'd and fell.

5 " Yet. may we, feeble, weak, and frail,
Against our mightiest foes prevail ;
Thy word, our safety from alarm.

Our strength, thine everlasting arm."

The author wrote, verse four, line three:
" Until the joyful summons come."

It appeared in one of the editions of Thomas
Cotterill's fisalms and Hymns, 1810 to 1819.

460 The vow sealed at the cross L. M.

LORD, I am thine, entirely thine,
Purchased and saved by blood divine;
With full consent thine I would be,
And own thy sovereign right in me.

2 Grant one poor sinner more a place
Among the children of thy grace;

A wretched sinner, lost to God,
But ransomed by Immanuel's blood.

3 Thine would I live, thine would I die,
Be thine through all eternity;

The vow is past beyond repeal,
And now I set the solemn seal.

4 Here, at that cross where flows the blood
That bought my guilty soul for God,
Thee, my new Master, now I call,

And consecrate to thee my all.

5 Do thou assist a feeble worm
The great engagement to perform ;
Thy grace can fall assistance lend,
And on that grace I dare depend.

SAMUEL DAVIES.

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183

This hymn is n rich legacy to the Christian
Churoli. It was published Brora tho writer's man-
iworipts, with a few others by the same author, in
Dr. Thomas Gibbon's Hymns Adapted to Divim
Worship, London, 1709, where it has this head-
ing :

"■S,// Dedication at the Table of the Lord, hy
the Reverend Samuel Daviea, A.M. A Sacramental
Hymn."

One lino has been altered. Verse three, line
four, is :

M Now tcill I set the solemn seal."

Verses two and live are omitted. Many will be
glad to see them :

2 " Here, Lord, my Flesh, my Soul, my AH,
I yield to Thee beyond Recall ;
Accept thine own, so long withheld,
Accept what I so freely yield ! "

5 "Be thou the Witness of my Vow,
Angels and Men attest it too,
That to thy Board 1 now repair,
And seal the sacred Contract there."

The Rev. Samuel Davies was a Presbyterian
minister, born in Delaware in 1723, and ordained
in 1747. He subsequently labored for several
years as missionary and evangelist in the State of
Virginia. In 1759 he was elected President of New
Jersey College, Princeton, where he died in 17H1.
He was a man of great piety, activity, and useful-
ness. His sermons have been frequently reprinted,
and are still read with profit.

461 Thirsting /or perfect love. L. M.

I THIRST, thou Avounded Lamb of God,
To wash me in thy cleansing blood ;
To dwell within thy wounds; then pain
Is sweet, and life or death is gain.

2 Take my poor heart, and let it be
Forever closed to all but thee :

Seal thou my breast, and let me wear
That pledge of love forever there.

3 How blest are they who still abide
Close sheltered in thy bleeding side !
Who thence their life and strength derive,
And by thee move, and in thee live.

4 What are our works but sin and death,
Till thou thy quickening Spirit breathe?
Thou giv'st the power thy grace to move;
O wondrous grace ! O boundless love !

5 How can it be. thou heavenly King,
That thou shouldst us to glory bring?
Make slaves the partners of thy throne,
Decked with a never-fading crown?

C> Hence our hearts melt, our eyes o'crflow !
Our words are lost, nor will we know,
Nor will we think of aught besid?,
" My Lord, my Love is crucified."

NICOLAU8 L. ZINZENDORF.
TH. BY J.WESLEY.

This translation was first published in Hymns
and Scumd Fbemt, 1740.

The original of verse throe, lino throe, is :

" Who life and strength from thence derive."

There arc two additional stanzas, which we give,
though the hymn is complete without them.

7 " Ah, Lord ! enlarge our scanty thought
To know the wonders TUou hast wrought;
Unloose our stammering tongue to tell
Thy love immense, unsearchable !

8 ''First born of many brethren Thou !
To Thee, lo ! all our souls we bow ;

To Thee our hearts and hands we give:
Thine may we die ; Thine may we live."

For biographical sketch of Count Zinzcndorf, see
No. 123.

462 The Lord is my portion. Lam. iii,24. L. M.

OLOVE, thy sovereign aid impart,
And guard the gift thyself hast given :
My portion thou, my treasure art,
My life, and happiness, and heaven.

2 Would aught on earth my wishes share?
Though dear as life the idol be,

The idol from my breast I'd tear,
Resolved to seek my all in thee.

3 Whate'er I fondly counted mine,
To thee, my Lord, I here restore;

Gladly I all for thee resign ;
Give me thyself, I ask no more.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: In Desertion, or Temptation.
These arc the last three stanzas of a hymn con-
taining fourteen verses.

Verse two, line one, Wesley wrote:

" Would aught with Thee my wishes share."
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739.

463 Perfect peace. 7.

PRINCE of peace, control my will ;
Bid this struggling heart be still;
Bid my fears and doubt ings cease,
Hush my spirit into peace.

184

HYMN STUDIES.

2 Thou hast bought mo with thy blood,
Opened wide the gate to God :

Peace I ask — but peace must be,
Lord, in being one with thee.

3 May thy will, not mine, be done;
May thy will and mine be one:
Chase these doubtings from my heart;
Now thy perfect peace impart.

4 Saviour, at thy feet I fall ;
Thou my Life, my God, my All !
Let thy happy servant be

One for evermore with thee !

MARY A. S. BARBER.

The original appeared in the Church of England
Magazine, March 3, 1838. It contained thirty-two
lines. The writer of this genuine prayer-song is
said to be as given above.

464: The mind of Jesus. 7.

FATHER of eternal grace,
Glorify thyself in me ;
Sweetly beaming in my face
May the world thine image see.

2 Happy only in thy love,
Poor, unfriended, or unknown :

Fix my thoughts on things above,
Stay my heart on thee alone.

3 To thy gracious will resigned,
All thy will by me be done ;

Give me, Lord, the perfect mind
Of thy well-belovecl Son.

4 Counting gain and glory loss,
May I tread the path he trod ;

Die with Jesus on the cross,
Rise with him to live with God.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

The author's title was : The Image of God. The
first two lines of the third stanza have been changed.
Montgomery wrote :

"ITuml)le, holy, all-resigned
To Thy will,— Thy will be done."

It was contributed to the Rev. William B. Coll-
yer's Collection, 1812.

465 Thine forever.

THINE forever!— God of love,
Hear us from thy throne above ;
Thine forever may we be,
Here and in eternity.

2 Thine forever ! — Lord of life,
Shield us through our earthly strife;
Thou, the Life, the Truth, the Way,
Guide us to the realms of day.

3 Thine forever! — Saviour, keep
These thy frail and trembling sheep;
Safe alone beneath thy care,

Let us all thy goodness share.

4 Thine forever! — thou our Guide,
All our wants by thee supplied,
All our sins by thee forgiven,

Lead us, Lord, from earth to heaven.

MRS. MARY P. MAUDE, fijr1

Title: We are Thine. Isaiah lxtii, 19.

This hymn is unaltered, and is found in the col-
lection edited by Morrell and How. Second edi- /
tion, 1864. It was written in 1848.

One stanza, the third, i9 omitted :

3 "Thine forever! — O how blest
They who find in Thee their rest !
Saviour, Guardian, heavenly Friend,
O defend us to the end."

Mrs. Mary Fawlcr Maude is the wife of the Rev.
Joseph Maude, an English clergyman.

466 The solemn voio. C. M.

WITNESS, ye men and angels, now,
Before the Lord we speak;
To him we make our solemn vow,
A vow we dare not break :

2 That long as life itself shall last,
Ourselves to Christ we yield ;

Nor from his cause will we depart,
Or ever quit the field.

3 We trust not in our native strength,
But on his grace rely,

That, with returning wants, the Lord
Will all our need supply.

4 Lord, guide our doubtful feet aright,
And keep us in thy ways;

And, while we turn our vows to prayers,
Turn thou our prayers to praise.

BENJAMIN BEDDOME.

The author wrote

Title: Joining the Church.
One word has been changed.
verse four, line one :

" O, guide our doubtful feet aright."

From Hymns Adapted to Public Worship or Fam-
ily Devotion, 1818.
See No. 285.

IIYMX STUDIES.

185

467 cm.

/ will Utbt the cup of sal rat ion. Psa. cxvi, 13.

WHAT shall I render to my God
For all his mercy's store?
I'll take the gifts he hath bestowed,
And humbly ask for more.

2 My vows I will to his great name
Before his people pay.

And all I have, and all I am,
Upon his altar lay.

3 Thy lawful servant, Lord, I owe
To thee, whate'er is mine,

Born in thy family below,
And by redemption thine.

4 The God of all-redeeming grace
My God I will proclaim,

Offer the sacrifice of praise,
And call upon his name.

5 Praise him, ye saints, the God of love,
Who hath my sins forgiven,

Till, gathered to the Church above,
We sing the songs of heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This hymn is part of a paraphrase of Psalm
cxvi. There are eleven eight-lined stanzas in the
piece. These are the first halt' of verses seven,
eight, nine, and ten, and the last half of verse
eleven, unaltered.

Hymn No. 157 is from a part of the same par-
aphrase. Samuel Wesley, Sr., wrote the tirst
part of it, and Charles Wesley the latt< r part.
Charles Wesley's name should be appended to this
hymn. The Ilymnal says Samuel Wesley.

468 Accept my heart. CM.

MY God, accept my heart this day,
And make it always thine;
That I from thee no more may stray.
No more from thee decline.

2 Before the cross of him who died,
Behold, I prostrate fall ;

Let every sin be crucified,
Let Christ be all in all.

3 Let every thought, and work, and word,
To thee be ever given ;

Then life shall be thy service, Lord,
And death the gate of heaven !

MATTHEW BRIDGES.

Author's title: Confirmation.

Two stanzas, the third and fourth, of the origi-
nal, have been omitted. Unaltered from Hymns
of the Heart, 1848 :

3 " Anoint me with Thy heavenly grace,
Adopt me for Thine own, —

That I may see Thy glorious face,
And worship at Thy throne.

4 " May the dear blood onee shed for nn
My blest atonement prove, —

That I from first to last may bo
The purchase of Thy love ! "

See No. 229.

469 c m.

Haul and body dedicated to the Lord.

LET Him to whom we now belong,
His sovereign right assert;
And take up every thankful song,
And every loving heart.

2 He justly claims us for his own,
Who bought us with a price:

The Christian lives to Christ alone ;
To Christ alone he dies.

3 Jesus, thine own at last receive ;
Fulfill our heart's desire ;

And let us to thy glory live,
And in thy cause expire.

4 Our souls and bodies we resign ;
With joy we render thee

Our all, — no longer ours, but thine
To all eternity.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The last line the author wrote :

" Through all eternity."

From Hymns on the Lord's Supper, 1745. Tins
volume contained one hundred and sixty-six pieces,
and was prefaced by a thesis upon The Christian
Sacrament and Sacrifice, by Dr. Brevint, a French
Protestant

470 Entire consecration. 7, 6 L

FATHER, Son, and Holy Ghost,
One in Three, and Three in One,
As by the celestial host,

Let thy will on earth be done ;
Praise by all to thee be given,
Glorious Lord of earth and heaven.

2 If so poor a worm as I
May to thy great glory live,

All my actions sanctify,

All my words and thoughts receive ;

Claim me for thy service, claim

All I have, and all I am,

186

HYMN STUDIES.

3 Take my soul and body's powers;
Take my memory, mind, and will ;

All my goods, and all my hours ;

All I know, and all I feel ;
All I think, or speak, or do;
Take my heart, but make it new.

4 Now, O God, tliiue own I am,
Now I give thee back thine own ;

Freedom, friends, and health, and fame,

Consecrate to thee alone :
Thine I live, thrice happy I ;
Happier still if thine I die.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The second stanza has been omitted. It is as
follows :

2 " Vilest of the fallen race,

Lo, I answer to Thy call ;
Meanest vessel of Thy grace,

(Grace divinely tree for all,)
Lo, 1 CMiie to do Thy will,

All Thy counsel to fulfill."

Such language is of doubtful utility in a hymn to
be sung.

The hymn closes by a repetition of the first
stanza.

The original has '■'■and'1'' instead of "or" twice
in verse three, line five, and "for " instead of " if"
in verse four, line six.

From Hymns on the Lord's Supper, 1745.

47 1 The trial of Abraham. L. M.

ABRAHAM, when severely tried,
His faith by his obedience showed ;
He with the harsh command complied,
And gave his Isaac back to God.

2 His son the father offered up, —
Son of his age, his only son ;

Object of all his joy and hope,
And less beloved than God alone.

3 O for a faith like his, that we
The bright example may pursue !

May gladly give tip all to thee,
To whom our more than all is due.

4 Is there a thing than life more dear?
A thing from which we cannot part?

We can ; we now rejoice to tear
The idol from our bleeding heart.

5 Jesus, accept our sacrifice ;

All things for thee we count but loss;
Lo! at thy word out idol dies. —
Dies on the altar of thy cross.

6 For what to thee, O Lord, we give,
A hundred-fold we here obtain ;

And soon with thee shall all receive,
And loss shall be eternal gain.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part of a long paraphrase of Ileb. xi. This hymn
is founded on the seventeenth verse :

" By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered
up Isaac : and he that had received the promises
olfered up his only begotten son."

One word has been changed. In the third line
of the fifth stanza Wesley wrote :

" Lo ! at Thy word our Isaac dies."
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

472 Dedication to God. H. M.

MY soul and all its powers
Thine, wholly thine, shall be;
All, all my happy hours
I consecrate to thee:
Me to thine image now restore,
And I shall praise thee evermore.

2 Long as I live beneath,
To thee O let me live ;

To thee my every breath
In thanks and praises give:
Whate'er I have, whate'er I am,
Shall magnify my Maker's name.

3 I wait thy will to do,
As angels do in heaven :

In Christ a creature new,
Most graciously forgiven ;
I wait thy perfect will to prove,
All sanctified by spotless love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : On his Birthday.

The original contains eight stanzas. These are
verses three, four, and six.

Original Lines.
Verse three, line four :

" Eternally forgiven."

Verse three, line six :

" When sanctified by spotless lovo."

The last stanza of the original hymn contains a
singular conceit :

" Then, when the work is done,
The work of faith with power,
Call home Thy favored son
At death's triumphant hour,
Like Moses to Thyself convey,
And kiss my raptured soul away."

HYMN STUDIES.

187

Dr. Watts uses a similar expression. The i«i--:i is
tlmt God took the life <»t Moses with a kiss. The
tlioujrht did not originate with Wesley nor Watts
It is an old Jewish tradition. Such a fanciful in
terpretation oi the Scripture will do for the pmt
but it can hardly be sustained by the sober Hebraist

From Hymn* and Sacred Puems. by Charles Wes-
ley, 1749.

473 Self -consecration. S. M.

LORD, in the strength of grace.
With a glad heart and free,

Myself, my residue of days,
I consecrate to thee.

2 Thy ransomed servant, I

Restore to thee thine own;
And from this momeut live or die

To serve my God alone.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Unaltered from Short Hymns on Select Passages
of the Holy Scriptures, 1762.
This is founded on 1 Chron. xxix, 5 :

" Who is willing to consecrate his service this
day unto the Lord i "

4:74 A living sacrifice. L. M. 6 1.

OGOD, what offering shall I give
To thee, the Lord of earth and skies?
My spirit, soul, and flesh receive,

A holy, living sacrifice :
Small as it is, 'tis all my store;
More shouldst thou have, if I had more.

2 Xow then, my God, thou hast my soul:
No longer mine, but thine I am:

Guard thou thine own, possess it whole;
Cheer it with hope, with love inflame.

Thou hast my spirit; there display

Thy ^lory to the perfect day.

y Thou hast my flesh, thy hallowed shrine,

Devoted solely to thy will:
Here let thy light forever shine:

This house still let thy presence fill:
O Source of life! live, dwell, and move
In me, till all my life be love.

JOACHIM LAJJGE.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

Title: A Morning Dedication of Ourselves to
ChrUt.

Seven stanzas. These are verses two, three, and
four.

The original has, verse one, line one :

" But 0, what," etc.

And verse two, line four:

" Cheer it by hope," etc.
Among the omitted stanzas are two upon dress:

o M0, never in these veils of shame,
Sad fruits ot sin, my glorj irig be !

Clothe with salvation through Thy name
My soul, and may I put on Thee i

Be living faith my costly dress,

And my best robe Thy righteousness.

G "Send down Thy likeness irom above,

And let this my adorning be :
Clothe me with wisdom, patience, love,

With lowliness and purity,
Than gold and pearls more precious far
And brighter than the morning star."

These are in harmony with the " rules concerning
dress," which were found in the Methodist Dis-
cipline down to the year 1856. Two of them were
as follows : " Receive none into the Church till
they have left olf superfluous ornaments." " Give
no tickets (of admission to love- feasts) to any that
wear high heads, enormous bonnets, ruffles, or
rings."

The Rev. Joachim Lange, D.D., the German
author ot this hymn, was born in 1670, and was an
associate of Franke, and other Pietists of his day.
He gained a great reputation, while professor at
Halle, as a theologian and commentator, and espe-
cially as an opponent of Christian Wolf and his
philosophy, lie died in 1744.

Wesley's translation was first published in
Hymns and Snored Poems, 1739.

475 The single eye. L. M. 6 1.

BEHOLD the servant of the Lord!
I wait thy guiding hand to feel;
To hear and keep thy every word,

To prove and do thy perfect will :
Joyful from my own works to cease,
Glad to fulfill all righteousness.

2 My every weak, though good design,
O'errule or change, as seems thee meet ;

Jesus, let all my work be thine!

Thy .work, O Lord, is all complete,
And pleasing in thy Father's sight;
Thou only hast done all things right.

3 Here, then, to thee thine own I leave;
Mold as thou wilt thy passive clay;

But let me all thy stamp receive,
But let me all thy words obey;
Serve with a single heart and eye,
And to thy glory live and die.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : An Act of Devotion.
It was first published in 1744.

188

HYMN STUDIES.

One stanza is omitted :

2 " Me, if Thy grace vouchsafe to use,
Meanest of all Thy creatures me.

The deed, the time, the manner choose;
Let all my fruit be found of Thee,

Let all my works in Thee he wrought,

By Thee to full perfection brought."

Verbatim, as found in Hymns and Sacred Poems,
by Charles Wesley, 1749.

47 D The prize of our high calling. L. M. 6 1.

JESUS, thy boundless love to me
No thought can reach, no tongue declare ;
O knit my thankful heart to thee,

And reign without a rival there:
Thine wholly, thine alone, I am;
Be thou alone my constant flame.

2 O grant that nothing in my soul
May dwell, but thy pure love alone:

O may thy love possess me whole.

My joy, my treasure, and my crown :
Strange flames far from my heart remove;
My every act, word, thought, be love.

3 Unwearied may I this pursue ;
Dauntless to the high prize aspire ;

Hourly within my soul renew

This holy flame, this heavenly fire:

And day and night, be all my care
To guard the sacred treasure there.

4 In suffering be thy love my peace;
In weakness be thy love my power;

And when the storms of life shall cease,

Jesus, in that important hour,
In death as life be thou my guide,

And save me, who for me hast died.

PAUL GERHARDT, TR. BY J. WESLEY.

Title: Living by Christ.

The translation lias sixteen stanzas ; these are the
first two, the fourth, and last, verbatim..

The German text is fount! in the llerrnhuth Col-
lection.

The translation is found in Hymns and Sacred
Poems, 1739.

For biographical sketch of Gerhardt, see No. 212.

477 Cltrist in you, the hope of glory. L. M. 6 1.

TIIOU hidden love of God. whose height,
Whose depth unfathomed, no man
knows!
I see from fur thy beauteous light,

Inly I sigh for thy repose:
My heart is pained, nor can it be
At rest, till it finds rest in thee.

2 Is there a thing beneath the sun,

That strives with thee my heart to share?

Ah, tear it thence, and reign alone,
The Lord of every motion there;

Then shall my heart from earth be free,

When it hath found repose in thee.

b* O hide this self from me, that I
No more, but Christ in me, may live;

My vile affections crucify,

Nor let one darling lust survive!

In all things nothing may I sec.

Nothing desire or seek, but thee.

4 O Love, thy sovereign aid impart,
To save me from low-thoughtcd care;

Chase this self-will through all my heart,

Through all its latent mazes there;
Make me thy duteous child, that I
Ceaseless may, "Abba, Father,'' cry.

5 Each moment draw from earth away
My heart, that lowly waits thy call;

Speak to my inmost soul, and say,

"I am thy Love, thy Cod. thy All! "
To feol thy power, to hear thy voice,
To taste thy love, be all my choice.

GERHARD TEHSTEEOEN.
TR. BY J. WEBLfeY.

Title: Divine Love.

This translation was made by Mr. \Ye>lry,
while he was at Savannah, Georgia, in 17o0. li
was published in Psalms ana Hymns, 1738.

Three stanzas are omitted.

The last line as first published was:

" To taste Thy love is all my choice."

Wesley pave it the precatory form, as in the
hymn, in his Collect 'inn, 1T80.
For biography of TeTstecgen, .-ee No. 47.

478 Pressing toward the mark. L. M. 6 1

I THANK thee, uncreated Sun,
That thy bright beams on me have
shined;
I thank thee, who hast overthrown

My foes, and healed my wounded mind;

1 thank thee, whose enlivening voice
Bids ray freed heart in thee rejoice.

2 Uphold me in the doubtful race,
Nor suffer me again to stray;

Strengthen my feet, with steady pace

Still to press forward in thy way;
My soul and flesh, 0 Lord of might,
Fill, satiate, with thy heavenly light.

I/YUX STUDIES.

189

3 Give to mine eyes refreshing tears;

Give to my heart chaste, hallowed tires;
(Jive to niv soul with filial fears.

Tin- love that all heaven's host inspires,
That all niv powers with all their might,
In thy sole glory may unite.

4 Thee will I love, niv joy, my crown;
Thee will I love, niv Lord, my God;

Thee will I love, beneath thy frown

Or smile, thy scepter or thy rod.
What though my flesh and heart decay?
Thee shall 1 love in endless day!

JOHAXN A. SCIIEFFLER.
TK. I5Y J. WESLEY.

Title: Gratitude for our Com: era ion.

The German text may be found in the Herrn-
huth Collection. The translation consists of seven
stanzas ; the last four, unaltered.

The first three are as follows :

1 " Thee will I love, my strength, my tower;
Thee will 1 love, my joy, my crown ;

Thee will I love with all my power,
In all my works, and Thee alone !
Thee will I love, till the ]>ure tire
Fill my whole soul with chaste desire.

2 " Ah ! why did I so late Thee know,
Thee, lovelier than the sons of men!

Ah ! why did I no sooner jro

To Thee, the only ease in pain !
Ashamed I sigh, and inly mourn
That I so late to Thee did turn.

3 " Tn darkness willingly I strayed :

I sought Tine, yet from Thee I roved :
For wide my wandering thoughts were spread,

Thy creatures more than Thee I loved.
And now, if m<>re at length I nee,
'Tis through Thy light and comes from Thee."

Tnnslation in //i/mn.s andSaened Poems, 1739.
For biography of Schemer, see No. 1 ly.

479 His hlood cleansethfrom all sin. L. M. 6 1.

PRISONERS of hope, lift up your heads,
The day of liberty draws near!
Jesus, who on the serpent treads.

Shall soon in your behalf appear:
The Lord will to his temple come;
Prepare your hearts to make him room.

2 Ye all shall find, whom in his word
Himself hath caused to put your trust,

The Father of our dying Lord
Is ever to his promise just;

Faithful, if we our sins confess,

To cleanse from all unrighteousness.

3 O ye of fearful hearts, be strong!

Your downcast eyes and hands lift up!
Ye shall not be forgotten long;

Hope to the end, in Jesus hope!
Tell him ye wait his grace to prove;
And cannot fail, if God is love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part of a hymn of thirteen stanzas, entitled " The
word of our God shall stand fort vi r." Isa. xl, 8.

This hymn is made up nt' verses "lie, two, and
eight. One word is changed in the first line of the
second stanza, " We " for "Ye."

From Hymns and Sacred litems, 1742.

480

L.P.M.

The sealing and sanctifying Spirit.

FATHER of everlasting grace,
Thy goodness and thy truth we praise,
Thy goodness and thy truth wre prove;
Thou hast, in honor of thy Son,
The gift unspeakable sent down, —
Spirit of life, and power, and love.

2 Send us the Spirit of thy Son,

To make the depths of Godhead known,
To make us share the life divine:

Send him the sprinkled blood to apply;

Send him our souls to sanctify,
And show and seal us ever thine.

3 So shall we pray, and never cease;
So shall wre thankfully confess

Thy wisdom, truth, and power, and love;
With joy unspeakable adore,
And bless and praise thee evermore,

And serve thee as thy hosts above :

4 Till, added to that heavenly choir,
We raise our songs of triumph higher,

And praise thee in a bolder strain;
Outsoar the first-born seraph's flight.
And sing, with all the saints in light,

Thy everlasting love to man.

CHARLES WESLEY.

In 1746 the Wedeys published a pamphlet con-
taining thirty-two pieces. It was entitled JIgmns
of Petition and Thanksgiving for the Prom is,- of
the Father.

This is part of the first hymn of eight stanzas —
verses one, six, seven, and eight, verbatim.

481 Crucified with Christ. L. P. M.

COME, Holy Ghost, all-<]uickening fire,
My consecrated heart inspire,
Sprinkled with the atoning blood:
Still to my soul thyself reveal :
Thy mighty working may I feel,
And know that I am one with God.

190

HYMN STUDIES.

2 Humble, and teachable, and mild,
O may I, as a little child,

My lowly Master's steps pursue!
Be anger to my soul unknown;
Hate, envy, jealousy, be gone;

In love create thou all things new.

3 Let earth no more my heart divide;
With Christ may I be crucified ;

To thee with my whole heart aspire:
Dead to the world and all its toys,
Its idle pomp, and fading joys,

Be thou alone my one desire.

4 My will be swallowed up in thee;
Light in thy light still may I see,

Beholding thee with open face ;
Called the full powei of faith to prove,
Let all my hallowed heart be love,

And all my spotless life be praise.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Hymn to God the Sandifier.

The original contains eight stanzas. These are a
copy of verses eight, four, five, and seven, un-
altered.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, published hy
John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College.
Oxford, and Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of
Christ Church, Oxford. London, 1740.

482 The laic of love. S.

THE thing my God doth hate
That I no more may do,
Thy creature, Lord, again create,
And all my soul renew :

2 My soul shall then, like thine,
Abhor the thing unclean,

And, sanctified by love divine,
Forever cease from sin.

3 That blessed law of thine,
Jesus, to me impart;

The Spirit's law of life divine,
O write it on my heart!

4 Implant it deep within,
Whence it may ne'er remove,

The law of liberty from sin,
The perfect law of love.

5 Thy nature be my law,
Thy spotless sanctity;

And sweetly every moment draw
My happy soul to thee.

6 Sotd of my soul, remain !

Who did'st for all fulfill,
In me, O Lord, fulfill again

Thy heavenly Father's will

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the
Holy Scripture*, 1762.

The first two stanzas are founded upon Jer.
xliv, 4 :

" Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate."

The rest of the hymn is based upon Jer. xxxi, 33 :

"I will put my law in their inward parts, and
write it in their hearts/'

This hvmn has not been altered.

483 The Guide and Counselor. S. M.

JESUS, my Truth, my Way,
My sure, unerring Light,
On thee my feeble steps I stay,
AVhich thou wilt guide aright.

2 My Wisdom and my Guide,
My Counselor thou art:

O never let me leave thy side,
Or from thy paths depart.

3 I lift mine eyes to thee,

Thou gracious, bleeding Lamb.
That I may now enlightened be,
And never put to shame.

4 Never will I remove

Out of thy hands my cause;
But rest in thy redeeming love,
And hang upon thy cross.

5 O make me all like thee,
Before I hence remove;

Settle, confirm, and 'stablish me,
And build me up in love.

6 Let me thy witness live,
When sin is all destroyed;

And then my spotless soul receive,
And take me home to God.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : For Believers.

The original contains seven eight-lined stanza*.
This hymn is made up of the first two, and the last.
The only change is a slight transposition in the
fourth stanza. Wesley's order was :

"I never will remove."

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Poems,
1749.

JIT.VX STUDIES.

191

484 Cliristian aspiration. 5. M.

GOD of almighty love.
By whose sufficient grace

1 lift mv heart to things above,

And humbly seek thy face;

2 Through Jesus (hri<t the Just,
Mv faint de-ires receive,

And let me in thy goodness trust.
And to thy glory live.

3 What'er I say or do.
Thy glory be my aim;

My offerings all be offered through
The ever-blessed name.

4 Jesus, my single eye
Be fixed on thee alone :

Thy name be praised on earth, on high;
Thy will by all be done.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: Firr Believers. An Hourly Act of Oblation.
One word is altered. Verse three, line one, Wes-
ley wrote :

" Whate'er I speak or do."
There is one additional double stanza :

3 "Spirit of grace, inspire

My consecrated heart,
Fill me with pure celestial fire,

With all Thou hast, or art :
My feeble mind transform,

And perfectly renewed
Into a saint exalt a worm,

A worm exalt to God."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, by Charles
Wesley, 1749.

485 Loyalty to Christ. 7.

KING of kings, and wilt thou deign
O'er this wayward heart to reign?
Henceforth take it for thy throne
Rule here, Lord, and rule alone.

2 Then, like heaven's angelic bands,
Waiting for thine high commands,
All my powers shall wait on thee.
Captive, yet divinely free.

•°, At thy word my will shall bow,
Judgment, reason, bending low;
Hope, desire, and every thought,
Into glad obedience brought.

4 Zeal shall haste on eager wing,
Hourly some new gift to bring;
Wisdom, humbly casting down
At thy feet her golden crown.

5 Tuned by thee in BWeet accord,
All shall sing their gracious Lord;
Love, the leader of the choir,
Breathing round her seraph lire.

WILLIAM A. KUHLKHBEBG.

Title: Thy Kingdom Come.

There is one additional >tanza to this fine hymn :

6 " Be it so: my heart's Thy throne,
All my powers Thy scepter own,
And. with them on Thine own hill,
Live rejoicing in Thy will."

It is f.und in Dr. Muhlenberg's little book, " /
Wvultl not Live Alwny,''' and Other Meets in
\'rt:<e,by the same Author. New York, 1859. It
contains twenty pieces. It has not been altered,
except in one line, which was changed by the author.
See No. 3s8.

486 Cut short the work in righteousness. 7.

SAVIOUR of the sin-sick soul,
Give me faith to make me whole;
Finish thy great work of grace;
Cut it short iu righteousness.

2 Speak the second time, " Be clean! "
Take away my inbred sin ;

Every stumbling-block remove ;
Cast it out by perfect love.

3 Nothing less will I require;
Nothing more can I desire :
None but Christ to me be given ;
None but Christ in earth or heaven.

4 O that I might now decrease !
O that all I am might cease!
Let me into nothing fall;

Let my Lord be all in all !

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is the last half of one of several Hymns for
Tho*e that Wait for Full Redemption. Here is the
first part:

1 " Jesu, cast a pitving eve,
Humbled at Thy fe*et I lie,

Fain within Thy arms would rest,
Fain would lean upon Thy breast ;
Thrust my hand into Thy side.
Always in the cleft abide.
Never from Thy wounds depart,
Never leave Thy bleeding heart.

2 " Surely I have pardon found,
Grace doth more than sin abound,
God, I know, is pacified,

Thou for me, for me, hast died ;
But I cannot rest herein,
All my nature still is sin,
Comforted I will not be.
Till my soul is all like Thee."

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HYMN STUDIES.

The next stanza began :

"See my burdened sin-sick soul."

It was changed by Jolui Wesley for his Collection,
1780.

From Charles Wesley's Hyimis and Sacred Poems,
1749.

487 Christ comforting mourners. 7,61.

GRACIOUS soul, to whom are given
Holy hungerings after heaven,
Restless breathings, earnest moans,
Deep, unutterable groans,
Agonies of strong desire,
Love's suppressed, unconscious fire ;

2 Turn again to God, thy rest,
Jesus hath pronounced thee blest:
Humbly to thy Jesus turn,
Comforter of all that mourn :
Happy mourner, hear, and see,
Claim the promise made to thee.

3 Gently will he lead the weak,
Bruised reeds he ne'er will break ;
Touched with sympathizing care,
Thee he in his arms shall bear,
Blessed with late but lasting peace,
Fill with all his righteousness.

4 Lift to him thy weeping eye,
Heaven behind the cloud descry:
If with Christ thou suffer here,
When his glory shall appear,
Christ his suffering son shall own;
Thine the cross, and thine the crown.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : " Blessed are they that Mourn.'''1 Matt, r, 4.

There nre eleven stanzas in all ; these are verses
one, two, seven, and three, unaltered. The hymn
is new to this collection, and was inserted by the
revisers of 1878.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, by John ami
Charles Wesley, 1740.

488 Ineffable love.

JESUS, full of love divine,
I am thine and thou art mine:
Let me live and die to prove
Thine unutterable love.
More and more of love I claim,
Glowing still with quenchless flame;
All my heart to thee aspires,
Yearns with infinite desires.

2 Every thought, design, and word,
Burns with love to thee, my Lord ;
Body, soul, and spirit joined,

All in love to thee combined.
Ever since I saw thy face,
Proved thy plenitude of grace,
Chose thee as the better part —
Love has filled and fired my heart.

3 Jesus, Saviour, thou art mine :
Jesus, all I have is thine;
Never shall the altar-fire,
Kindled on my heart, expire.
Love my darkness shall illume,
Love shall all my sins consume:

Sweetly then I die to prove
An eternity of love !

BENJAMIN GOVGTT.

Mr. Benjamin Cough, lately decea-ed, was born
in 1805. For many years he was a London nil i-
eliant, but at length retired from active businc-s.
In 18i;"> he published a volume of hymns and poems,
entitled l.yra Sabhatica.

He was also the auihor of several other volumes
of poetry which have been examined to find this
hymn, but without success. I can vouch neither t<>r
the alleged authorship nor for the text. Died lb.^l.

489 For reviving grace.

IGHT of life, seraphic fire,

_J Love divine, thyself impart:
Every fainting so\il inspire,

Shine in every drooping heart;
Every mournful sinner cheer,

Scatter all our guilty gloom;
5'on of God, appear, appear!

To thy human temples come.

2 Come in this accepted hour;

Bring thy heavenly kingdom in;
Fill us with thy glorious power,

Rooting out the seeds of sin:
Nothing more can we require,

We will covet nothing less;
Be thou all our heart's desire,

All our joy, and all our peace.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is one of the Hymns for Those that Wait for
Full. Redemption.

The only chance is in the seventh line of the
second stanza. The author wrote:

" Thou art all our heart's desire."

John Wesley made the chance for his Colt,ctinn
of Hymns for the use of the people called Methodists,
1780.

1IVU.X ST CD IKS.

193

There is one additional stanza :

^ •■ Whom bat Thee have we in heaven,

Whom have we on earth but Thee I
Duly Thoo to us be given,

All besides is vanity ;
Grunt us love, we ask no more,

Every other L'itt remove ;
PI uiure, tame, and wealth, and power,

Still we all enjoy in 1 i\ i ."

Fr>in Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred
Ibtnu, 1749.

490 Biniing for purity. 7.

HOLY Lamb, who thee receive,
Who in thee begin to live,
Day and night they cry to thee,

"As thou art, so let us lie!''

2 Jesus, see my panting breast;
See, I pant in thee to rest;
Gladly would I now be clean;
Cleanse me now from every sin.

:! Fix, O fix my wavering mind;
To thy cross my spirit bind:
Earthly passions far remove;
Swallow up my soul in love.

4 Dust and ashes though we be,
Full of sin and misery,
Thine we are, thou Son of God;
Take the purchase of thy blood !

MBS. ANNA S. DOBER.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

Title: Redemption Found.

A translation from the German of Anna Schind-
ler Dober, (1713-1739.) The original is found in
tiie Hermhuth Collection. < >nly the first half of
the translation is here driven.

Unaltered from Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739.

4:91 Tfie new creation. 8,7.

LOVE divine, all love excelling,
Joy of heaven, to earth come down !
Fix in us thy humble dwelling;

All thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesus, thou art all compassion,

Pure unbounded love thou art;
Visit us with thy salvation;
Enter every trembling heart.

2 Breathe, O breathe thy loving Spirit

Into every troubled breast!
Let us all in thee inherit,

Let us find that second rest.
13

Take away our bent to sinning;

Alpha and Omega be;
End of faith, as its beginning,

Set our hearts at liberty.

3 Come, almighty to deliver,

Let us all thy life receive;
Suddenly return, and never,

Never more thy temples leave:
Tliee we would be always blessing,

Serve thee as thy hosts above,
Pray, and praise thee without ceasing,

Glory in thy perfect love.

4 Finish then thy new creation;
Pure and spotless let us be;

Let us see thy great salvation,

Perfectly restored in thee :
Changed from glory into glory,

Till in heaven we take our place,
Till we cast our crowns before thee,

Lost in wonder, love, and praise.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns for Those that Seek and Those, that
Have Redemption, in the Blood of Jesus Christ,
1747.

This hymn, one of the most valuable the author
ever wrote, was evidently intended for " those that
seek."

Only two words have been changed. In the first
line Wesley wrote :

"Love divine, all loves excelling."

In the fifth line, second stanza, he wrote:

" Take away our power of sinning."

This line, literally interpreted, would be a prayer
to take away our free moral agency, which, of course,
the author did not intend.

John Wesley evidently had some objection to the
stanza, as he omitted it from at least two books that
he edited. In this collection, from the first, it has
been:

" Take away our bent to sinning,"
which is good theology and an appropriate petition.

492 The one thing needful. 8.7.

WELL for him who all things losing,
E'en himself doth count as naught,
Still the one thing needful choosing,
That with all true bliss is fraught !

2 Well for him who nothing knoweth
But his God, whose boundless love

Makes the heart wherein it gloweth
Calm and pure as saints above!

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UYMN STUDIES.

3 Well for him who all forsaking,
Walketh not in shadows vain,

But the path of peace is taking

Through this vale of tears and pain !

4 O that we our hearts might sever
From earth's tempting vanities,

Fixing them on him forever
In whom all our fullness lies!

5 Thou, abyss of love and goodness,
Draw us by thy cross to thee,

That our senses, soul, and spirit,
Ever one with Christ may be !

GOTTFRIED ARNOLD.
TR. BY MISS C. W1NKWORTII.

In Lyra Germanica this hymn is marked
Anon. ; " but Theodore Kubler, in Historical

Rotes to tlie Lyra Germanica, ascribes it to Arnold.

His hymns appeared in 1697, under the title, Spark*

of Divine Love. The translation is unaltered.

' Two stanzas, the fifth and sixth, have been

omitted :

5 " Oh that we might Him discover
Whom with longing love we've sought,

Join ourselves to Him forever,
For without Him all is nought !

6 " Oh that ne'er our eyes might wander
From our God, so might we cease

Ever o'er our sins to ponder,
And our conscience be at peace!"

The Rev. Gottfried Arnold was a German Pietist,
born in 1666, and educated at Wittenberg. In KS89
he was engaged as tutor in a noble family ut Dres-
den. Here he became acquainted with Spener, and
was one of his most ardent disciples. In 1707, after
various experiences, he became pastor at Perleberg,
remaining there until his death, in 1714. Arnold
is represented as being full of prejudices and fanati-
cisms, yet, withal, a pious man and a faithful
preacher.

493 Rejoicing in hope.

YE ransomed sinners, hear,
The prisoners of the Lord ;
And wait till Christ appear,
A (cording to his word :
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me,
We shall from all our sins be free.

2 In God we put our trust;

If we our sins confess,
Faithful is he and just.
From all unrighteousness
To cleanse us all, both you and me
We shall from all our sins be free.

II. M.

3 Who .Testis' sufferings share,
My fellow-prisoners now,

Ye soon the crown shall wear
On your triumphant brow:
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me,
We shall from all our sins be free.

4 The word of God is sure,
And never can remove ;

We shall in heart be pure,
And perfected in love :
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me,
We shall from all our sins be free.

5 Then let us gladly bring
Our sacrifice of praise :

Let us give thanks and sing,
And glory in his grace:
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me,
We shall from all our sins be free.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This hymn retains its original title, which is an
exception to the rule.
The first line Wesley wrote:

" Ye happy sinners, hear."

The following stanzas, the second, third, and fifth,
are omitted :

2 " The Lord our Righteousness
We have long since received,

Salvation nearer is
Than when we first believed ;
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me,
We shall from all our sins be free.

3 " Let others hug their chains,
For sin and Satan plead,

And say from sin's remains
They never can be freed ;
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me,
We shall from all our sins be free."

5 " Surely in us the hope
Of glory shall appear :

Sinners, your heads lift up,
And see redemption near;
Again 1 say, rejoice with me,
We shall from ;.ll our sins be free."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

494 Speak the word.

EVER fainting with desire,
For thee, O Christ, I call;
Thee I restlessly require;

I want my God, my all.
Jesus, dear redeeming Lord,

I wait thy coming from above;
Help me, Saviour, speak the word,
And perfect me in love.

7, 6, 8.

HYMN STUDIES.

195

2 Thou my life, my treasure be,
My portion here below ;

Nothing would I seek but thee,

Thee only would I know ;
My exceeding great reward,

My heaven on earth, my heaven above:
Help me, Saviour, speak the word,

And perfect me in love.

3 Grant me now the bliss to feel
Of those that are in thee:

Son of God, thyself reveal ;

Engrave thy name on me.
As in heaven, be here adored,

And let me now the promise prove ;
Help me, Saviour, speak the word,

And perfect me in love,

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: A Prayer for Holiness.

Ten stanzas, of which these are the first and the
hist two, unaltered.

One of the omitted stanzas, the fourth, was as
follows :

4 " Gifts, alas ! cannot suffice,

And comforts all are vain ;
While one evil thought can rise

1 am not born again ;
Still I am not as my Lord,

Thy holy will I do not prove.
Help me, Saviour," etc.

Wesley italicized the third and fourth lines of
this stanza; but, subsequently, both of the Wesleys
were obliged to modify some expressions in poetry
and in prose, because they were indefensible.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

49 O The yoke easy and the burden light. L. M.

OTHAT my load of sin were gone!
O that I could at last submit
At Jesus' feet to lay it down —
To lay my soul at Jesus1 feet !

2 Rest for my soul I long to find:
Saviour of all, if mine thou art,

Give me thy meek and lowly mind.
And stamp thine image on my heart.

3 Break off the yoke of inbred sin,

And fully set my spirit free;
I cannot rest till pure within,
Till I am wholly lost in thee.

4 Fain would I learn of thee, my God,
Thy light and easy burden prove,

The cross all stained with hallowed blood,
The labor of thy dying love.

5 I would, but thou must give the power;

My heart from every sin release;
Bring near, bring near the joyful hour,

And till me with thy perfect peace.

CHARLES WESLEY.

" Come unto me. all ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and 1 will give you rest." Matt. xi. 2S.

Fourteen stanzas in all ; these are verses one,
four, live, six, and eight, verbatim.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

496 Following the Saviour. L. M.

OTHOU, to whose all-searching sight
The darkness shineth as the light,
Search, prove my heart, it pants for thee;
O burst these bonds, and set it free.

2 Wash out its stains, refine its dross,
Nail my affections to the cross;
Hallow each thought; let all within
Be clean, as thou, my Lord, art clean.

3 If in this darksome wild I stray,
Be thou my light, be thou my way :
No foes, no violence I fear,

No fraud, while thou, my God, art near.

4 When rising floods my soul o'erflow,
WThen sinks my heart in waves of woe,
Jesus, thy timely aid impart,

And raise my head, and cheer my heart.

5 Saviour, where'er thy steps I see,
Pauntless, untired, I follow thee;
O let thy hand support me still,
And lead me to thy holy hill.

6 If rough and thorny be the way,
My strength proportion to my day ;
Till toil, and grief, and pain shall cease,
Where all is calm, and joy, and peace.

GERHARD TERSTEEGEN.
TR. BY JOHN WESLEY.

Title : The Believers Support.

This translation was printed in Psalms and
Hymns, 1738, and again in Hymns and Sacred
Poems, 1739. The German original is found in
the Herrnhuth Collection.

For biographical sketch of Tersteegen, see No. 47.

497 For constant devoted ness.

LORD, fill me with a humble fear;
My utter helplessness reveal;
Satan and sin are always near,
Thee may I always nearer feel.

L. M.

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HYMN STUDIES.

2 O that to thee my constant mind
Might with an even flame aspire,

Pride in its earliest motions find,
And mark the risings of desire!

3 O that my tender soul might fly
The first abhorred approach of ill,

Quick as the apple of an eye,

The slightest touch of sin to feel!

4 Till thou anew my sold create,

Still may I strive, and watch, and pray;
Humbly and confidently wait,
And long to see the perfect day.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

Verses eight to eleven inclusive of a hymn of
fifteen stanzas. No. 686 in this collection is the
first part of the same poem.

The title is: Watch in all Things. 2 Tim. iv, 5.

The first word of the hymn has beta changed. It
was:

" Pierce, fill me with a humble fear."

This change was made by the editors of the edi-
tion of 1849.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

4:9 8 The throne of grace. S. M.

BEHOLD the throne of grace;
The promise calls us near;
There Jesus shows a smiling face,
And waits to answer prayer.

2 My soul, ask what thou wilt,
Thou canst not be too bold;

Since his own blood for thee he spilt,
What else can he withhold ?

3 Thine image, Lord, bestow,
Thy presence and thy love,

That we may serve thee here below,
And reign with thee above.

4 Teach us to live by faith.
Conform our wills to thine;

Let us victorious be in death,
And then in glory shine.

JOHN NEWTON.

From Olnei/ Hymns, 1779.

Eight stanzas in all. These arc verses one, three,
six, and seven. Some Blight changes have been
made to make it read in the plural, inasmuch a.s it
was written in the singular number.

The passage of Bcripture upon which it is founded
is the word of God to Solomon :

l; Ash what 1 shall give thee." 1 Kings iii. 5.

For biographical sketch, sec No. 23.

499 Living temples. S. M.

AND will the mighty God,
Whom heaven cannot contain,
Make me his temple and abode,
And in me live and reign?

2 Come, Spirit of the Lord,
Teacher and heavenly Guide!

Be it according to thy word,
And in my heart reside.

3 O Holy, Holy Ghost !
Pervade this soul of mine :

In me renew thy Pentecost,
Reveal thy power divine !

4 Make it my highest bliss
Thy blessed fruits to know ;

Thy joy, and peace, and gentleness,
Goodness and faith to show.

5 Be it my greatest fear
Thy holiness to grieve;

Walk in the Spirit even here,
And in the Spirit live.

GEOKGE RAW80N.

Title : He dwelleth ivith yon. John xiv, 17.

This hymn is verbatim as found in The Sunday*
School Hymn Book, Leeds, 1859, except that in the
Leeds book there is one additional stanza.

In an earlier edition of the same book (1838)
the hymn is quite different. It was probably
altered by the author.

Kawson was an English Baptist layman, who
published Hymns, Verses, and Chants, in 1876.

500 Thine, luring or dying. S. M.

JESUS, 1 live to thee,
The loveliest and best;
My life in thee, thy life in me,
In thy blest love I rest.

2 Jesus, I die to thee,
Whenever death shall come;

To die in thee is life, to me,
In my eternal home.

3 Whether to live or die,

I know not which is best;
To live in thee is bliss to me,
To die is endless rest.

4 Living or dying, Lord,
I ask but to be thine;

My life in thee, thy life in me,
Makes heaven forever mine.

iienky iiAiinAron.

IITMN STUDIES.

107

The leading thought of this excellent hymn is
evidently fouud in the words ofPuul, Bom. xiv, 8:

" For whether we live, we live onto the Lord ; and
whether we die, wo die unto the Lord: whether

we live therefore, or die, we uru tlie Lord's.

It is unaltered and entire us published in Hymns
and Chenits, 1.861

The Rev. Henry FJarbaugh was a prominent
minister and writer in the German Reformed
Church, and the son of a clergyman. Born in
Pennsylvania in lsi7, in L640 he entered Mar-
shall College, where he remained three years, but
did not graduate. From 1848 u> 1868 he served as
pastor of three ehurehes. In 1868 lie was eleeted
Professor of Theology in the Seminary of Mercers-
hurg. Pa., where he remained until his death, in
l>t'>7. lie was t he author of several prose works,
and of one volume of Items.

501 Purity of heart. S. M.

BLEST are the pure in heart,
For they shall see our God ;
The secret of the Lord is theirs;
Their soul is his abode.

2 Still to the lowly soul
He doth himself impart.

And for his temple and his throne
Selects the pure in heart.

3 Lord, we thy presence seek,
May ours this blessing be ;

O give the pure and lowly heart, —
A temple meet for thee.

JOHN KEBLE.

"Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall see
God." Matt, v, 8.

Verses one and two are the first and last stanzas
of a poem of seventeen verses on the festival of
" The Purification." The last stanza was written
by Edward Osier, M. D., 1798-18G3.

Keble wrote, verse one, line fojr:

" Their soul is Christ's abode."

and verse two, lines three and four:

" And for His cradle and His throne,
Chooseth the pure in heart."

From The Christian Year, 1827.
For biographical sketch, see No. 102.

OU2 Glorious liberty. S. M.

OCOME, and dwell in me,
Spirit of power within.
And brinp; the glorious liberty
From sorrow, fear, and sin!

2 The seed of sin's disease,
Spirit of health, remove,

Spirit of finished holiness,
Spirit of perfect love.

3 Hasten the joyful day
Which shall my sins consume;

When old things shall be done away,
And all things new become.

4 I want the witness, Lord,
That all I do is right,

According to thy will and word,
Well pleasing in thy sight.

5 I ask no higher state ;
Indulge me but In this,

And soon or later then translate
To my eternal bliss.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy
Scriptures, 1702.
The first two stanzas are founded on 2 Cor. iii, 17 :

" Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
The third stanza is based upon 2 Cor. v, 17 :

"Old things are passed away ; behold, all things
are become new."

The text of the last two stanzas is Heb. xi, 5 :

"Before his translation he had this testimony,
that he pleased God."

One word lias been changed. The original lias
"/«i«4" instead of" will" in verse four, line three.

O 0 3 Waiting at the cross. S. M.

FATHER, I dare believe
Thee merciful and true:
Thou wilt my guilty soul forgive.
My fallen soul renew.

2 Come, then, for Jesus' sake,
And bid my heart be clean ;

An end of all mv troubles make,
An end of all my sin.

3 I cannot wash my heart, '
But by believing thee,

And waiting for thy blood to impart
The spotless purity.

4 While at thy cross I lie,
Jesus, the grace bestow ;

Now thy all-cleansing blood apply,
And I am white as snow.

CHARLES WESLEY.

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HYMN STUDIES.

This is composed of two Short Hymns on Select
J'assai/es nf the Holy Scriptures, 1762.
The first part is founded on rsa. cxxx, 8 :

" He shall redeem Israel from all his sins." —
Prayer Book version.

The Scripture "passage" of the last part is
Jer. iv, 14 :

" 0, Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wicked-
ness, that thou maycst he saved."

They are not altered.

Among these Short Hymns are found some
of the most valuable stanzas of Charles Wesley's
poetical composition.

O 04 Charity supreme. S. M.

HAD I the gift of tongues,
Great God, without thy grace,
My loudest words, ray loftiest songs,
Would be but sounding brass.

2 Though thou shouldst give me skill
Each mystery to explain,

Without a heart to do thy will,
My knowledge would be vain.

3 Had I such faith in God
As mountains to remove,

No faith could work effectual good,
That did not work by love.

4 Grant, then, this one request,
Whatever be denied,—

That love divine may rule my breast,
And all my actions guide.

SAMUEL STENNETT, ALT.

Title : All Attainments Vain without Lore.
It will be seen at a glance that this hymn is
founded upon the first part of 1 Cor. xiii :

" Though I speak with the tongues of men and
of nnirels, and nave not charity, I am become as
Mounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. Ami though
I have the trill of prophecy, and understand all
mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have
nil faith, so that I could remove mountains, and
have ii<>t charity. I am nothing:. And though I be-
stow all my poods to feed the poor, and though 1 give
my body to be burned, and have not charity, it
profiteth me nothing."

In Dr. StenneWs Works, vol. iii, we find the orig-
inal hymn in nine stanzas. It is quaint and eood.
This hymn is composed of verses three, four, live,
and nine, altered ho as to change the meter from com-
mon to snort. Eight lines have been more or lees
changed. The other eight remain as written.

FIRST PAKT.
505 For entire consecration. S. M.

JESUS, my strength my hope,
On thee I cast my care;
With humble confidence look up,

And know thou hear'st my prayer,
Give me on thee to wait,

Till I can all things do;
On thee, almighty to create,
Almighty to renew.

2 I want a sober mind.
A self-renouncing will,

That tramples down, and casts behind,

The baits of pleasing ill:
A soul inured to pain,

To hardship, grief, and loss;
Bold to take up, firm to sustain,

The consecrated cross.

3 I want a godly fear,

A quick discerning eye,
That looks to thee when sin is near,

And sees the tempter fly:
A spirit still prepared,

And armed with jealous care;
Forever standing on its guard,

And watching unto prayer.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The author's title is : A Poor Sinner.
There are seven stanzas in all. The fir-t part is
made up of verses one, three, and four, verbatim.
From Hymns and Sacral J'ocms, 1742.

SECOND TART.
506 for perfect submission. S. M.

I WANT a heart to pray,
To pray, and never cease ;
Never to murmur at thy stay,
Or wish my sufferings less.
This blessing, above all,

Always to pray, I want;
Out of the dec]) on thee to call,
And never, never faint.

2 I want a true regard,

A single, steady aim,
Unmoved by threatening or reward,

To thee and thy great name;
A jealous, just concern

For thine immortal praise;
A pure desire that all may learn

And glorify thy grace.

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3 I rest upon thy word ;

The promise is for me;
My succor and salvation, Lord,

Shall surely come from thee:
But let me still abide,

Nor from my hope remove,
Till thou my patient spirit guide

Into thy perfect love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This part is made up of stanzas five, six, and two,
unaltered; thus including the whole of the original,
except the last verse, which is peculiar:

7 " I want with all my heart

Thy pleasure to t'ultill,
To know myself, nnd what Thou art,

And what Thy perfect will.
1 want I know not what,

I want my wants to see,
I want, alas ! what want 1 not,

When Thou art not in me."

507 Walk in the light. C. M.

WALK in the light! so shalt thou know
That fellowship of love,
His Spirit only can bestow
Who reigns in light above.

2 Walk in the light ! and thou shalt find
Thy heart made truly his,

Who dwells in cloudless light enshrined,
In whom no darkness is.

3 Walk in the light ! and thou shalt own
Thy darkness passed away,

Because that light hath on thee shone
In which is perfect day.

4 Walk in the light ! and e'en the tomb
No fearful shade shall wear;

Glory shall chase away its gloom,
For Christ hath conquered there.

o Walk in the light ! thy path shall be

Peaceful, serene, and bright:
For God, by grace, shall dwell in thee,

And God himself is light.

BERNARD BARTON.

Title : Walking in the Light.

This familiar hymn is founded on 1 John i, 7 :

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light,
we have fellowship one with another, and the blood
of Jesus Christ his Son eleanseth us from all sin."

The second stanza of the original is omitted :

2 " Walk in the light! and sin abhorr'd

Shall ne'er defile strain ;
The blood of Jesus Christ, thy Lord,

Shall cleanse from every stain."

Two lines have been altered.

Okiginal.

Verse live, lines one and two :

" Walk in the light ! and thine shalt be
A path, though thorn//, bright."

From the author's Devotional Verses. London,
1826.

Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet, (as he was com-
monly called,) was born in 1784, and lived until
1S49. He was the author of no less than eight vol-
umes of verse, between the years 1812 and 1845.

508 The fullness of God. C. M.

BEING of beings, God of love,
To thee our hearts we raise;
Thy all-sustaining power we prove,
And gladly sing thy praise.

2 Thine, wholly thine, we pant to be ;
Our sacrifice receive :

Made, and preserved, and saved by thee ;
To thee ourselves we give.

3 Heavenward our every wish aspires,
For all thy mercy's store ;

The sole return thy love requires,
Is that we ask for more.

4 For more we ask; we open then
Our hearts to embrace thy will ;

Turn, and revive us, Lord, again;
With all thy fullness fill.

5 Come, Holy Ghost, the Saviour's love
Shed in our hearts abroad;

So shall we ever live, and move,
And be, with Christ in God.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The author's title is : Grace After Meat.
One word has been altered. The author wrote,
verse four, line three:

"Turn, and beget us, Lord, again."

From ITyrnns and Sacred Poems, published by
John Wesley, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College,
Oxford, and' Charles Wesley, M.A., Student of
Christ Church, Oxford. London, 1739.

This was the first hymn book published by the
Wesleys to which they put their names.

In 1738 A Collection of Halms and Hymnt was
published in London, with no name of editor or
printer. Recently, we understand, there has been
found in London A Collection, of Psalms and

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llt/mns. Charles-Town. Printed by Lewis Tim-
othy, 1737. The 1738 book lias long been con-
sidered to be tlic first Wesleyan hymn book, but
tliis is still curlier, and was published in America.

509 The thought of God. C. M.

OIIOW the thought of God attracts
And draws the heart from earth,
And sickens it of passing shows
And dissipating mirth!

2 'Tis not enough to save our souls,
To shun the eternal tires;

The thought of God will rouse the heart
To more sublime desires.

3 God only is the creature's home,
Though rough and straight the road;

Yet nothing less can satisfy
The love that longs for God.

4 O utter but the name of God
Down in your heart of hearts,

And see how from the world at once
All tempting light departs !

5 A trusting heart, a yearning eye,
Can win their way above;

If mountains can be moved by faith,
Is there less power in love?

FKEDERICK W. FABER.

Title : Perfection.

These are a verbatim copy of the first five verses
of a hymn of eleven stanzas from the author's
Hym,7is. London, 1861.

The old thought, that the soul without G<>d is
homesick, is well expressed in the third stanza.

The following are the closing stanzas of this
hymn :

" Then keep thv conscience sensitive ;

No inward token miss :
And go where grace entices thee ; —

Perfection lies in this.

" Be docile to thine unseen Guide,

Love Him as He loves thee ;
Time and obedience are enough,

And thou a saint shall be."

For biographical sketch of Faber, see No. 1 25.

0 1 0 For full redemption. C. M.

MY Saviour, on the word of truth
In earnest hope I live;

1 ask for all the precious things

Thy boundless love can give.
I look for many a lesser light

About my path to shine:
Hut chiefly long to walk with thee,

And only trust in tlune.

2 Thou knowest that I am not blest
As thou wouldst have me be,

Till all the peace and joy of faith

Possess my soul in thee;
And still I seek 'mid many fears,

With yearnings unexpressed,
The comfort of thy strengthening love,

Thy soothing, settling rest.

3 It is not as thou wilt with me,
Till, humbled in the dust,

I know no place in all my heart

Wherein to put my trust:
Until I find, O Lord, in thee,

The Lowly and the Meek,
The fullness which thy own redeemed

Go nowhere else to seek.

ANNA L. WARING.

" I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in
his word do I hope." Psa. exxx, 5.

Two stanzas are omitted ; they are the second
and fifth:

2 " In holy expectation held,

Thy strength my heart shall stay,
For Thy right hand will never let

My trust be cast away.
Yea, Thou hast kept me near Thy feet,

In many a deadly strife,
By the stronghold of hope in Thee;

The hope of endless life."

5 "Then, O my Saviour, on my soul,

Cast down, but nut dismayed,
Still be Thy chastening, healing hand

In tender mercy laid.
And while I wait for all Thy joys,

My yearning heart to till,
Teach me to walk and work with Thee,

And at Thy feet sit still."

The hymn has not been altered.

Miss Anna LaHitia Waring was a native of South
Wales. Her Hymns and Meditations, from which
this was taken, was first published in London in
1850, and was reprinted at Boston in 1863, with an
Introduction by the Kev. F. D. Huntington, D.D.

Oil For a tender conscience. C. M,

I WANT a principle within,
Of jealous, gmlly fear;
A sensibility of sin,

A pain to feel it near:
I want the first approach to feel

Of pride, or fond desire;
To catch the wandering of my will,
And quench the kindling lire.

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2 From Thee that I no more may part,
No more thy goodness grieve,

The filial awe, the fleshly heart,

The tender conscience give.
Quick as the apple of an eye,

() God, my conscience make;
Awake my soul when sin is nigh,

And keep it still awake.

3 If to the right or left I stray,
That moment. Lord, reprove;

And let me weep my life away,
For having grieved thy love.

0 may the least omission pain
My well-instructed soul.

And drive me to the blood again,
Which makes the wounded whole.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The author's title is retained, a circumstance so
rare as to be well worth recording.

There are rive stanzas; the first is omitted, and
also half of each of the last two :

1 " Almighty God of truth and love,

In me Thy power exert,
The mountain from my soul remove,

Tin' hardness trom my heart:
My most obdurate heart subdue,

In honor ot Thy Son,
And now the gracious wonder show,

And take away the stone."

" Give me to feel an idle thought

As actual wickedness,
And mourn for the minutest fault

In exquisite distress."

More of this tender spirit, more
Of this affliction send,
And spread the moral sense all o'er
Till pain with life shall end."

One can hardly help feeling that there is some-
thing morbid about these last lines.

Unaltered. From Charles Wesley's Hymns and
Sacred Poems, 174y.

O 1 2 The counsel of His grace. C. M.

I KNOW that my Redeemer lives,
And ever prays for me:
A token of his love he gives,
A pledge of liberty.

2 I find him lifting op my head;
He brings salvation near;

His presence makes me free indeed,
And he will soon appear.

3 He wills that I should holy be;
What can withstand his will?

The counsel of his grace in me
He surely shall fulfill.

4 Jesus. I hang upon thy word;
I steadfastly believe

Thou wilt return, and claim me, Lord,
And to thyself receive.

5 When God is mine, and I am his,
Of paradise possessed,

1 taste unutterable bliss,
And everlasting rest.

CHARLES WESLEY.

" Rejoicing in hope." Rom. xii, 12.

Twenty-three stanzas. This hymn is composed
of verses one, two, ten, fifteen, ami nineteen, ver-
batim. One of the omitted stanzas is as follows :

"Thy love 1 soon exnect to find

In all its depth and height,
To comprehend the eternal Mind,

And grasp the Infinite."

It is not strange that the verse has been omitted.
It is strange that Wesley ever wrote it.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

513 The rest of faith. C. M.

LORD, I believe a rest remains
To all thy people known;
A rest where pure enjoyment reigns.
And thou art loved alone :

2 A rest where all our soul's desire
Is fixed on things above ;

Where fear, and sin, and grief expire,
Cast out by perfect love.

3 O that 1 now the rest might know,
Believe, and enter in !

Now, Saviour, now the power bestow,
And let me cease from sin.

4 Remove this hardness from my heart;
This unbelief remove :

To me the rest of faith impart,
The Sabbath of thy love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

" There remaineth therefore a rest to the people
of God. Heb. iv, 9.

The original hymn contains seventeen stanzas.
These are the first, second, tenth, and eleventh,
unchanged, except in the third line of the second
stanza. This was first published :

" Where doubt and pain and/W expire."

It was altered by John Wesley for his Collection
in 17*0.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

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514 Come, Lord Jesus. C. M.

0 JESUS, at thy feet we wait,
Till thou shaft bid us rise;
Restored to our unsinning state,
To love's sweet paradise.

2 Saviour from sin, we thee receive,
From all indwelling sin;

Thy blood, we steadfastly believe,
Shall make us throughly clean.

3 Since thou wouldst have us free from sin,
And pure as those above,

Make haste to bring thy nature in,
And perfect us in love.

4 The counsel of thy love fulfill :
Come quickly, gracious Lord!

Be it according to thy will,
According to thy word.

5 O that the perfect grace were given,
Thy love diffused abroad !

O that our hearts were all a heaven,
Forever filled with God !

CnARLES WESLEY.

One of a number of Hymns for Those That Wait
for Full Redemption.

Nine stanzas ; these are the first, second, sixth,
seventh, and ninth.

In the last verse the author wrote " gift " instead
of " grace" in line one ; " The" instead of "Thy "
in line two; and "an." instead of "a" in line
three.

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Poems,
174'J.

515 A. present paradise. C. M.

0 JOYFUL sound of gospel grace!
Christ shall in me appear-
I, even I, shall see his face,
I shall be holy here.

2 The glorious crown of righteousness
To me reached out I view :

Conqueror through him, I soon shall seize,
And wear it as my due.

3 The promised land, from Pisgah'stop,
I now exult to see:

My hope is full, O glorious hope!
Of immortality.

4 With me, 1 know, I feel, thou art;
Rut this cannot suffice,

Unless thou plant est in my heart
A constant paradise.

5 Come, O my God, thyself reveal,

Fill all this mighty void:
Thou only canst my spirit fill;

Come, O my God, my God!

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part of a long hymn of twenty-two stanzas, en-
titled " The Spirit and the bride say, Come.'1'' Kev.
xxii, 17.

This hymn is composed of verses ten, fourteen,
fifteen, nineteen, and twenty-one. They contain
the cream of the whole poem.

One word lias been changed. Wesley wrote
'•blessed" hope in verse three, line three.

From Hymns and Sacred 1'uems, 17-42.

516 Tlie world overcome. CM.

LET worldly minds the world pursue ;
It has no charms for me :
Once I admired its trifles too,
Rut grace hath set me free.

2 Its pleasures can no longer please,
Nor happiness afford:

Far from my heart be joys like these,
Now I have seen the Lord.

3 As by the light of opening day
The stars are all concealed,

So earthly pleasures fade away,
When Jesus is revealed.

4 Creatures no more divide my choice;
I bid them all depart:

His name, his love, his gracious voice,
Have fixed my roving heart.

JOHN NEWTON.

Title: Old Things are passed Aioay.
The first two lines of the second stanza have
been slightly altered. Newton wrote:

" Its pleasures now no longer please,
JS'omore content afford."

Tlie third stanza is very beautiful.
There are t wo additional verses that are charac-
teristic of the author:

5 " Now, Lord, I would be thine alone,
And holv live to thee ;

But may I nope that thou wilt own
A worthless worm like me '

6 " Yes ! though of sinners bin the worst,
I cannot doubt thy will ;

For if thou badst ti"t loved me first,
1 had refused thee still."

From Olney 1 1 limns, 1779.

For biographical sketch, see No. 23.

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517 CM.

In earth 01 it it in heaven. Matt. vi. 10.

JESUS, the Life, the Truth, the Way,
In whom I now believe,
A> taught by thee, in faith I pray,
Expecting to receive.

2 Thy will by me on earth he done,
As by the powers above,

Who always see thee on thy throne,
And glory in thy love.

3 I ask in confidence the grace,
That I may do thy will,

As angels who behold thy face,
And all thy words fulfill.

4 Surely I shall, the sinner I,
Shall serve thee without fear,

If thou my nature sanctify
In answer to my prayer.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The first four verses of a hymn of twelve stanzas,
written upon Matt, vi, 10 :

" Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."

Wesley wrote "choirs" instead of "powers" in
the second line of the second stanza.

The last two lines of the hymn have been alto-
gether changed. Wesley wrote :

"My h-eart no longer given the lie
To my deceitful prayer."

These changes were made by the editors of the
Supplement to the Methodist Pocket Hymn B>olc,
They were Bishop Asbury and Daniel llitt.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

O 1 8 The refining fire. C. M.

JESUS, thine all-victorious love
Shed in my heart abroad :
Then shall my feet no longer rove,
Rooted and fixed in God.

2 O that in me the sacred fire
Might now begin to glow,

Burn up the dross of base desire
And make the mountains flow !

3 O that it now from heaven might fall,
And all my sins consume!

Come, Holy Ghost, for thee I call ;

Spirit of burning, come!

4 Refining fire, go through my heart ;
Illuminate my soul;

Scatter thy life through every part,
And sanctify the whole.

.1 My steadfast soul, from falling free,

Shall then no Longer move,
While Christ is all the world to me,

And all my heart is love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

A favorite hymn, from a poem of twelve stanzas,
entitled Against Hope Believing in Hope.

Those xtanzas are numbers four, seven, eight.
nine, ;ind twelve. The second and third lines of
the last stanza have been changed. The author
wrote :

" Can now no longer move ;
Jesus is all the world to me."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

Ol9 The affections crucifix/. C. M.

JESUS, my Life, thyself apply;
Thy Holy Spirit breathe :
My vile affections crucify;
Conform me to thy death.

2 Conqueror of hell, and earth, and sin,
Still with the rebel strive:

Enter my soul, and work within,
And kill, and make alive.

3 More of thy life, and more I have,
As the old Adam dies :

Bury me, Saviour, in thy grave,
That I with thee may rise.

4 Reign in me, Lord ; thy foes control,
Who would not own thy sway ;

Diffuse thine image through my soul ;
Shine to the perfect day.

5 Scatter the last remains of sin,
And seal me thine abode ;

O make me glorious all within,
A temple built by God!

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: Christ oiir San ctification.
There is one additional stanza :

6 " My inward holiness Thou art,
For faith hath made Thee mine :

With all Thy fullness fill my heart,
Till all I am is Thine."

The original has " Thy" instead of "the" in
verse two, line two.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

520 Give me Thyself. C. M.

JESUS hath died that I might live,
Might live to God alone;
In him eternal life receive,
And be in spirit one.

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2 Saviour, I thank thee for the grace,
The gift unspeakable;

And wait with arms of faith to embrace,
And all thy love to feel.

3 My soul breaks out in strong desire
The perfect bliss to prove;

My longing heart is all on fire
To be dissolved in love.

4 Give me thyself; from every boast,
From every wish set free;

Let all I am in thee be lost,
But give thyself to me.

5 Thy gifts, alas! cannot suffice,
Unless thyself be given;

Thy presence makes my paradise,
And where thou art is heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The last five stanza? of a hymn of thirteen verses,
written on Acts xvi, i>l :

" Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
shalt be saved."

W esley wrote " soul " instead of " heart " in verse
three, line three.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

O 2 1 A perfect heart. C. M.

OFOR a heart to praise my God,
A heart from sin set free !
A heart that always feels thy blood,
So freely spilt for me !

2 A heart resigned, submissive, meek,
My great Redeemer's throne;

Where only Christ is heard to speak,
Where Jesus reigns alone.

3 O for a lowly, contrite heart,
Believing, true, and clean,

Which neither life nor death can part
From him that dwells within.

4 A heart in every thought renewed,
And full of love divine;

Perfect, and right, and pure, and good,
A copy, Lord, of thine.

5 Thy nature, gracious Lord, impart ;
Come quickly from above;

Write thy new name upon my heart,
Thy new, best name of Love.

CHAULES WKSI.KV.

Title: Make me a Clean Ihart, O God. — Prayer-
Book version of P.-a. H, 10

The original has " an heart " instead of " a heart "
in every case.
The third stanza began:

"An humble, lowly, contrite heart."

The author wrote in the second stanza:
"My dear Redeemer's throne."
and in the last:

"Thy nature, dearest Lord, impart."

John Wesley changed these words for his Collec-
tion, in 1780.

Three stanzas, the fifth, sixth, and seventh, of
this favorite hymn wuro omitted from the Jb4'J edi-
tion. They are not necessary to the hymn, yet,
perhaps, some would like to see them :

5 " Thy tender heart is still the same,
And melts at human woe:

Jesus, for Thee, distressed I am,
I want Thy love to know.

6 " My heart, Thou knowest, can never rest
Till Thou create my peace ;

Till of my Eden repossest,
From self and sin I cease.

7 u Fruit of Thy gracious lips, on me
Bestow that peace unknown,

The hidden manna, and the tree
Of lite, and the white stone."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

522 The work wrought. C. M.

COME, O my God, the promise seal,
This mountain, sin, remove;
Nowr in my waiting soul reveal
The virtue of thy love.

2 I want thy life, thy purity.
Thy righteousness, brought in:

I ask, desire, and trust in thee
To be redeemed from sin.

3 Saviour, to thee my soul looks up,
My present Saviour thou!

In all the confidence of hope,
I claim the blessing now.

4 'Tis done! thou dost this moment save,
With full salvation ldess ;

Redemption through thy blood I have,
And spotless love and peace,

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Scripture Hymns, 1762.
'I'lir passage on which this is written is Mark
xi. -24 :

"What things soever ye de-ire. when ye pray,
believe that yc receive them, and ye shall have

thrill."

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Qne eight-lined stanza is omitted:

" For this as taught by Thee, I pray,

And ean no longer doubt ;
Remove far henoo, to sin 1 say,

Be east tliis moment out ;
Tlie jg-uilt and strength of self and pride,

lie pardoned and rabdned,
-t i i it < > the crimxot) tide

I »f my Redeemer's blood."

In the first stanza Wesley wrote:

'■■ in my gasping soul reveal,"

and in the last line of the hymn:
" And heaven in Thy peace."

023 Faith omnipott nt. CM.

GOD of eternal truth and grace,
Thy faithful promise seal ;
Thy word, thy oath, to Abrah'm's race,
In ine, O Lord, fulfill.

2 That mighty faith on me bestow,
"Which cannot ask in vain,

"Which holds, and will not let thee go,
Till I my suit obtain :

3 Till thou into my soul inspire
The perfect love unknown ;

And tell my infinite desire,

"Whate'er thou wilt, be done."

4 But is it possible that I
Should live, and sin no more?

Lord, if on thee I dare rely,

The faith shall bring the power.

5 On me the faith divine bestow
Which doth the mountain move;

Ail 1 .'ill my spotless life shall show
The omnipotence of love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Fastaget of the Holy

"wt, 1762.
The first part of the hymn is founded on Mi-
eah vii, 20:

" Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the
mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto
mr lathers from the days of old."

The first stanza is incomplete. It was :

" God of eternal truth and grace,

Thy faithful promise seal :
Thy word. Thy oath, to Abraham's nice,

In us, even its, fulfil:
Let us to perfect love restored,

Thine ima^c here retrieve,
And in the preeenoe of our Lord,

The life of angels live."

The second and third stanzas ware written upon
Matt xv, 28:

"() woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee
even aa thou wilt ; "

and tho last two stanzas, upon Mark ix, 23 :

" All things are possible to him that believeth."

In verse five, line three, Wesley wrote "sinless "
instead of "spotless."

524 l.m.

Tliereremaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Heb. iv, 9.

COME, O Thou greater than our heart,
And make thy faithful mercies known;
The mind which was in thee impart;
Thy constant mind in us be shown.

2 O let us by thy cross abide,
Thee, only thee, resolved to know,

The Lamb for sinners crucified,
A world to save from endless woe.

3 Take us into thy people's rest,

And we from our own works shall cease;
With thy meek Spirit arm our breast,
And keep our minds in perfect peace.

4 Jesus, for this we calmly wait ;
O let our eyes behold thee near!

Hasten to make our heaven complete;
Appear, our glorious God, appear !

CHARLES WE8LEY.

From part second of a long hymn of four parts,
written on Isaiah xxviii, 16 :

"He that believeth shall not make haste."

Part second has eight stanzas. These are num-
bers one, four, five, and eight, verbatim. Hymns 792
and T'.'o are a part of the same poem.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

525 Christ all in all. L. M.

HOLY, and true, and righteous Lord,
I wait to prove thy perfect will:
Be mindful of thy gracious word,
And stamp me with thy Spirit's seal.

2 Open my faith's interior eye :
Display thy glory from above;

And all I am shall sink and die,
Lost in astonishment and love.

3 Confound, o'erpower me by thy grace;
I would be by myself abhorred;

All might, all majesty, all praise,
All glory, be to Christ my Lord.

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4 Now let me pain perfection's height;
Now let me into nothing fall,

As less than nothing in thy sight,
And feel that Christ is all in all,

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: Pleading the Promise qf Sanctiflcalion.

Part ofa long hymn of t wen t\ -eight stanzas found-
ed on Ezek. xxxvi, 23-31 inclusive. These are
versus twenty -three, twenty-six, twenty seven, and
twenty-eight.

The original has " Be less," etc., in verse four,
line three.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

526 Waiting for the promise. L. M.

0 JESUS, full of truth and grace,
O all-atoning Lamb of God,

1 wait to see thy glorious face ;

I seek redemption through thy blood.

2 Thou art the anchor of my hope;
The faithful promise I receive:

Surely thy death shall raise me up,
For thou hast died that I might live.

3 Satan, with all his arts, no more
Me from the gospel hope can move ;

I shall receive the gracious power,
And find the pearl of perfect love.

4 My flesh, which cries, "It cannot be,1'
Shall silence kee,p before the Lord ;

And earth, and hell, and sin shall flee
At Jesus' everlasting word.

CHARLES WESLEY.

These are the first, sixth, eighth, and la-t verses
of a hymn of eleven stanzas, entitled Waiting fur
the PromUe.

The author wrote " lovely face " in the first verse,
"faithful saying" in the second, and "almighty
power" in the third.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

527 For lowliness and purity. L. M.

JESUS, in whom the Godhead's rays
Beam forth with mildest majesty ;

1 see thee full of truth and grace,

And come for all I want to thee.

2 Save me from pride — the plague expel ;
Jesus, thine humble self import :

O let thy mind within me dwell;
O give me lowliness of heart.

3 Enter thyself, and cast out sin;
Thy spotless purity bestow:

Touch me, and make the leper clean ;
Wash me, and I am white as snow.

4 Sprinkle me, Saviour, with thy blood,
And all thy gentleness is mine;

And plunge me in the purple flood,
Till all I am is lost in thine.

CHAULES WESLEY.

Written upon Matt, i, 21 :

" He shall save his people from their sins."

In the last stanza of this hymn two linc9 have
been omitted, and two others added. The author
wrote :

" Fury is not with Thee, my God ;

0, why should it be found in Thine !
Sprinkle me, Saviour, with Thy blood,

And all Thy gentleness is mine."

Two stanzas, the second and last, have been
omitted :

2 " Wrathful, impure, and proud I am,
Nor constancy nor strength I have :

But Thou, O Lord, art still the same,
And hast not lost Thy power to save.

6 " Pour but Thy blood upon the flame,
Meek, and dispassionate, and mild,

The leopard sinks into a lamb,
And I become a little child."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

528 The Canaan of perfect love. L. M.

GOD of all power, and truth, and grace,
Which shall from age to age endure,
Whose word, when heaven and earth shall
pass,
Remains, and stands forever sure;

2 That I thy mercy may proclaim,
That all mankind thy truth may see,

Hallow thy great and glorious name,
And perfect holiness in me.

3 Give me a new, a perfect heart.

From doubt, and fear, and sorrow free;
The mind which was in Christ impart,
And ht my spirit cleave to thee.

4 O that I now, from sin released,
Thy word may to the utmost prove;

Enter into the promised rest,
The Canaan of thy perfect lovel

CHABLBS WESLEY.

Title : Reading the Promise of Sanct if cation.

This is the first, part of stanzas one, three, eight,
and fourteen, of a long hymn of twenty-eight
verses. No. 525 is a part of the same. It is founded
on Ezek. xxxvi, 23-31.

HYMN STUDIES.

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The whole hymn may be seen at the end of John
Wealey's Bennon On Christian Ptrftction. Works,
vol. i, page 368.

Unaltered. From Hymns and Sucre I Potms,l*{ 42.

529 The will of God. L. M.

HE wills that I should holy be:
That holiness I long to feel;
That full divine conformity

To all my Saviour's righteous will.

2 See, Lord, the travail of thy soul
Accomplished in the change of mine;

And plunge me, every whit made whole,
In all the depths of love divine.

3 On thee, O God, my soul is stayed,
And waits to prove thine utmost will ;

The promise by thy mercy made,
Thou canst, thou wilt, in me fulfill.

4 No more I stagger at thy power,

Or doubt thy truth, which cannot move :
Hasten the long-expected hour,

And bless me with thy perfect love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy
Scriptures, 1762.

The lirst two stanzas are founded on 1 Thess.
iv, 3:

" This is the will of God, even your sanetifi-
cation."

The last two are written upon Deut. xxx, 6 :

" And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine
heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord
thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,
that thou mayest live."

The last has one more eight-lined stanza :

" One of the stubborn, hardened race,

Now, Lord, on me the work begin,
And by the Spirit of Thy grace

Cut oif the foreskin of my sin :
Mv stiff-necked heart to circumcise,

Thy sanctifying power exert.
And 1 shall then attain the prize,

And love my God with all my heart."

The hvmn has not been altered.

L. M.

O 3 0 Heavenly bliss in prospect.

ARISE, my soul, on wings sublime,
Above the vanities of time ;
Let faith now pierce the veil, and see
The glories of eternity.

2 Horn by a new, celestial birth,
Why should I grovel here on earth ?
Why grasp at vain and fleeting toys,
So near to heaven's eternal joys ?

3 Shall aught beguile me on the road,
The narrow road that leads to God?
Or can I love this earth so well.

As not to long with God to dwell ?

4 To dwell with God, to taste his love,
Is the full heaven enjoyed above :
The glorious expectation now

Is heavenly bliss begun below.

THOMAS GIIJBON8, ALT.
Only three lines of this hymn remain unaltered.

Original.

1 " Now let our souls on wings sublime
Rise from the vanities of time :

Dram back the parting veil, and see
The glories of eternity.

2 " Twice bom by a celestial birth,
Why should we grovel here on earth ?
Why grasp at transitory toys,

So near to heaven's eternal joys ?

3 "Shall aught beguile vs on the road
When we are travelling back to God?
For strangers into life we come,

And dying is but going home.

4 " Welcome sweet hour of my discharge,
That sets my longing souj at large,
Unbinds my chains, breaks up my cell,
And gives me with my God to dwell.

5 " To dwell with God, to feel his love,
Is the full heaven enjoyed above ;
And the sweet expectation now,

Is the young dawn of hear'' n below."

From Sermons on Various Subjects,' with an Hymn
Adapted to each Subject, 1762.

This hymn was appended to a sermon, the
text of which was Eccl. xti, 7 :

" Then shall the dust return to the earth as it
was : and the spirit shall return unto God who

gave it."

For biographical sketch, see No. 910.

O 3 1 The new covenant. L. M.

OGod, most merciful and true,
Thy nature to my soul impart ;
'Stablish with me the covenant new,
And stamp thine image on my heart.

2 To real holiness restored,

O let me gain my Saviour's mind ;

And in the knowledge of my Lord,
Fullness of life eternal find.

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& Remember, Lord, my sins no more,
That them I may no more forget;

But, sunk in guiltless shame, adore,
With speechless wonder, at thy feet.

4 O'erwhelmed with thy stupendous grace,
I shall not in thy presence move;

But breathe unutterable praise,

And rapturous awe, and silent love.

5 Then every murmuring thought, and vain,
Expires, in sweet confusion lost:

I cannot of my cross complain,
I cannot of my goodness boast.

6 Pardoned for all that I have done,
My mouth as in the dust I hide;

And glory give to God alone,
My God in Jesus pacified.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy
Scriptures, 1762.

This hj mn is founded on Ezek. xvi, 62, 63 :

" And I will establish my covenant with thee ;
and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: that
thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and
never open thy mouth any more because of thy
shame, when 1 am pacified toward thee tor all thou
hast done, saith the Lord God."

The last lines of the first and last stanzas have
been altered. Wesley wrote :

" And write perfection on my heart ;"

And

" My God. forever pacified."

532 True perfection. L. M.

WHAT! never speak one evil word.
Or rash, or idle, or unkind !
O how shall I, most gracious Lord,
This mark of true perfection find?

2 Thy sinless mind in me reveal;
Thy Spirit's plenitude impart;

And all my spotless life shall tell
The abundance of a loving heart.

3 Saviour, I long to testify

The fullness of thy saving grace;
0 may thy power the blood apply,

Which bought for me the sacred peace!

4 Forgive, and make my nature whole,
My inbred malady remove;

To perfect health restore my soul,
To perfect holiness and love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The first two stanzas are founded upon James
hi, 2 :

"If any man offend not in word, the same is a
perfect man."

The third line of the second stanza has been al-
tered. The author wrote :

" And all my language pure shall tell."

The third and fourth stanzas were written on
Psa. ciii, 3 :

" Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth
all thy diseases."

The third stanza was, originally :

"Saviour, I long to testify
The fulness of Thy gracious power :

0 might Thy Spirit the blood apply,

Which bought for me the peace; ana more ! "

These changes were made by John Weslev for
hi- Collection., 1780.
From Short Scripture llij-mns, 176J.

533 Entire purification. C. M.

FOREVER here my rest shall be,
Close to thy bleeding side;
This all my hope, and all my plea,
"For me the Saviour died."

2 My dying Saviour, and my God,
Fountain for guilt and sin,

Sprinkle me ever with thy blood,
And cleanse and keep me clean.

3 Wash me, and make me thus thine own ;
Wash me, and mine thou art;

Wash me, but not my feet alone,
My hands, my head, my heart.

4 The atonement of thy blood apply,
Till faith to sight improve;
Till hope in full fruition die,
And all my soul be love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The original title to tins favorite hymn is: Christ
ovr Righteousness. 1 Cor. i. 30.

The first two stanza.-, which have been omitted,
are as follows :

1 "Jesus, Thou art my Righteousness,
For all mv sins were Thine :

Thv death hath bought of God my peace,
Thy lift hath made Him mine.

2 " Spotless and just, in Thee 1 am ;
1 feel my sins forgiven;

I taste salvation in Thy name,
And antedate my heaven."

TIT MX ST T DIES.

209

Two lines have been ohaa

two, line three :

"Sprinkle me ever mi Thy blood."
Verse four, line three \

'• Till hope shall in fruition die."
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

534 Perfect rest from sin. CM.

JESUS, the sinner's rest thou art,
From guilt, and fear, and pain;
While thou art absent from the heart
We- look for rest in vain.

2 O when wilt thou my Saviour be?
O when shall I be clean?

The true eternal Sabbath see, —
A perfect rest from sin?

3 The consolations of thy word
My soul have long upheld ;

The faithful promise of the Lord
Shall surely be fulfilled.

4 I look to my incarnate God
Till he his work begin ;

And wait till his redeeming blood
Shall cleanse me from all sin.

AUGUSTUS M. TOPLADY.

If we were to guess at the authorship of this hymn,
upon internal evidence, we should say it was one of
Charles Wesley's hymns on sanctitieation. Stanzas
one and two have been transposed.

In verse one, line three, the original is, •'•my
heart; and verse one, line four, "/ look." There
are four additional stanza-.

From Poems on Sacred Subjects. Dublin, 1759.

For biographical sketch of author, see No 415.

535 The gift of righteousness. C. M.
ASK the gift of righteousness,

The sin-subduing power;
Power to believe, and go in peace,
And never grieve Thee more.

2 I ask the blood-bought pardon sealed,
The liberty from sin,

The grace infused, the love revealed,
The kingdom fixed within.

3 Thou hear'st me for salvation pray ;
Thou seest my heart's desire;

Made ready in thy powerful day,
Thv fullness I require.
14

4 My restless soul cries out, oppressed,
Impatient to be freed ;

Nor can I, Lord, nor will I rest,
Till 1 am saved indeed.

5 Thou canst, thou wilt, I dare believe,
So arm me with thy power,

That I to sin may never cleave,
May never feel it more.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy
Scriptures, 1762.

It is written on Mark xi, 24:

'•What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,
believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have
them."

The first double stanza, and half of the last, have
been omitted :

" Jesus, the irrevocable word,

Thy gracious lips hath passed.
And trusting in my faithful Lord,

I shall be saved at last ;
Whate'er I ask with longing heart,

Expecting to receive.
Almighty God, Thou ready art,

And promisest to give."

" Art Thou not able to convert,

Art Thou not willing, too,
To change this old rebellious heart,

To conquer and renew ? "

The author wrote the firet line of the fourth
stanza :

" My vehement soul cries out, oppress'd ; "

thus giving the line one redundant syllable ; and so
it remains in the Wesleyan Collectiontot\\\s<\a.y. It
read the same in this collection up to the year 184H.

536

Steadfast faith.

0. M.

MY God, I know, I feel thee mine,
And will not quit mv claim,
Till all I have is lost in tuine,
And all renewed I am.

2 I hold thee with a trembling hand,
And will not let thee go,

Till steadfastly by faith I stand,
And all thy goodness know.

3 Love only can the conquest win,
The strength of sin subdue:

Come, O my Saviour, cast out sin,
And form my soul anew.

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4 No longer then my heart shall mourn,

While, sanctified by grace,
I only for thy glory burn,

And always see thy face.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : " Against Hope, Bdieving in Hope,"
Twelve stanzas. These are numbers one, two,
five, and eleven. No. 518 is a part of the same.
The third line of the third stanza, Wesley « rote :

" Mine own unconquerable sin,"

and the second line of the last stanza,

" While purified by grace."

These changes were made for the Supplement to
the Methodist Pocket Hymn Book, 1808.

537 Tlty will be done. Matt, vi, 10 CM.

THY presence, Lord, the place shall fill ;
My heart shall be thy throne ;
Thy holy, just, and perfect will,
Shall in my flesh be done.

2 I thank thee for the present grace,
And now in hope rejoice,

In confidence to see thy face,
And always hear thy voice.

3 I have the things I ask of thee;
What more shall I require?

That still my soul may restless be,
And only thee desire.

4 Thy only will be done, not mine,
But make me, Lord, thy home;

Come as thou wilt, I that resign,
But O, my Jesus, come !

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: At Waking.

Part of a hymn of fourteen stanzas, beginning :

" Giver and Guardian of my sleep,"
To praise Thy name I wake."

This hymn is composed of verses ten, eleven,
twelve, and fourteen.

Slight changes have been made in two lines.
In verse three, line two, the original is :

" What shall I more require ! "

and in verse four, line three :

" Come when Thou wilt, I that resign."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

538 For patience and sanctity. C. M.

DEEPEN the wound thy hands have
made
In this weak, helpless soul,
Till mercy, with its balmy aid,
Descend to make me whole.

2 The sharpness of thy two-edged sword
Enable me to endure,

Till hold to say, "My hallowing Lord
Hath wrought a perfect cure."

3 I see the exceeding broad command,
Which all contains in one:

Enlarge my heart to understand
The mystery unknown.

4 O that, with all thy saints, I might
By sweet experience prove

What is the length, and breadth, and height,
And depth, of perfect love!

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is a combination of two of the Short Hymns
on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, 17(52.

The first two stanzas are founded on Deut.
xxxii, 39 :

" I wound, and I heal."

Verses three and four were written on Psa.
cxix, 96 :

" 1 have seen an end of all perfection : but thy
commandment is exceeding broad."

Only half of the last hymn is given. The first
part is as follows :

" L too, the broad command have seen,

Enlightened, Lord, by Thee,
And may attain, through faith, the mean,

That spotless charity :
Holy and just I may appear,

Before 1 hence remove:
The end of all perfection here,

The law fulfilled, is love."

The author wrote " cry" instead of "say" i
verse two, line three.

O 3 9 The hope of our catting. C. M.

TTTIIAT is our calling's glorious hope,
W But inward holiness (
For this to Jesus I look up;
I calmly wait for this.

2 I wait till he shall touch me clean,

Shall life and power impart,
Give me the faith that casts out sin,

And purifies the heart.

HYMN STUDIF.s.

211

\\ When Jesus makes ray heart his home.

My sin shall all depart :
And. to! he saith, "I quickly come,

To till and rule thy heart."'

4 Bo it according to thy word;
Redeem me from all Bin;

My heart would now receive thee, Lord ;
Come in, my Lord, come in!

CHARLES WESLEY.

The last port of a hymn of fourteen stanzas,
founded on Titus ii, 14:

" Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem

us from all iniquity."

These are stanzas nine, ten, thirteen, and four-
teen. John Wesley altered a few words for his
Collection of 1780.

In verse two, line three, the original has "roots"
instead of " casts ; " and in verse three, line one,
"soul" instead of "heart."

In the second stanza, first line, we have a happy
allusion to the healing of the leper by a touch of
our Lord.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

540 Panting for fullness of love. C. P. M.

0LOVE divine, how sweet thou art !
When shall I find my willing heart
All taken up by thee?

1 thirst, I faint, I die to prove
The greatness of redeeming love,

The love of Christ to me.

2 Stronger his love than death or hell ;
Its riches are unsearchable;

The first-born sons of light
Desire in vain its depths to see;
They cannot reach the mystery,

The length, the breadth, the height.

3 God only knows the love of God;
O that it now were shed abroad

In this poor stony heart !
For love 1 sigh, for love I pine ;
This only portion, Lord, be mine:

Be mine this better part.

4 O that I could forever sit
With Mary at the Master's feet !

Be this my happy choice :
My only care, delight, and bliss,
My joy, my heaven on earth, be this,

To hear the Bridegroom's voice.

B O that I could, with favored John,
Recline my weary head upon

The dear Redeemer's breast !
From care, and sin, and sorrow free,
(Jive me, O Lord, to find in thee

My everlasting rest.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Desiring to Love.
Original of verse two, line six :

"The length, and breadth, and height."

Two stanzas, the fifth and seventh, of this won-
lerful hymn are omitted :

5 " O that with humbled Peter, I
Could weep, believe, and thrice reply,

My faithfulness to prove :
'Thou knowest,' for all to Thee is known,
' Thou knowest,' O Lord, and Thou alone,

1 Thou knowest' that Thee I love."

7 " Thy only love do I require,
Nothing in earth beneath desire,

Nothing in heaven above ;
Let earth and heaven, and all things go,
Give me Thy only love to know,

Give me Thy oidy love."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

541 The blessed hope. C. P. M.

BUT can it be that I should prove
Forever faithful to thy love,
From sin forever cease?

1 thank thee for the blessed hope ;
It lifts my drooping spirits up;

It gives me back my peace.

2 In thee, O Lord, I put my trust,
Mighty, and merciful, and just;

Thy sacred word is passed ;
And I, who dare thy word believe,
Without committing sin shall live,

Shall live to God at last.

3 I rest in thine almighty power;
The name of Jesus is my tower

That hides my life above :
Thou canst, thou wilt, my helper be;
My confidence is all in thee,

The faithful God of love.

4 Wherefore, in never-ceasing prayer,
My soul to thy continual care

I faithfully commend;
Assured that thou through life wilt save,
And show thyself beyond the grave

My everlasting Friend.

CHARLES WESLEY.

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HYMN STUDIES.

Title: In Temptation. Two stanzas, the third
and fifth, of this tine hymn are omitted :

3 " No more shall sin its sway maintain,
No longer in my members reign,

Or captivate my heart.
Upheld by Thy victorious grace,
1 walk henceforth in all Thy ways,

And never will depart."

5 " While still to Thee for help 1 call,
Tnou wilt not suffer me to fall,

Thou canst not let me sin :
And Thou shalt give me power to pray,
Till all my sins are purged away,

And all" Thy mind brought in."

The original has '■'■keeper'1'' instead of "helper"
in verse three, line four; and "sAalt" instead of
" wilt" in verse four, line four.

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Poema,
1749.

542 TJte glorious Itope. C. P. M.

0 GLORIOUS hope of perfect love !
It lifts me up to things above;
It bears on eagles' wings;
It gives my ravished soul a taste,
And makes me for some moments feast
With Jesus' priests and kings.

8 Rejoicing now in earnest hope,
I stand, and from the mountain top

See all the land below:
Rivers of milk and honey rise,
And all the fruits of paradise

In endless plenty grow.

3 A land of corn, and wine, and oil,
Favored with God's peculiar smile,

"With every blessing blest;
There dwells the Lord our Righteousness,
And keeps his own in perfect peace,

And everlasting rest.

4 O that I might at once go up;
No more on this side Jordan stop,

But now the land possess;
This moment end my legal years,
Sorrows and sins, and doubts and fears,

A howling wilderness!

CHARLES WESLEY.

From a hymn of two parts, entitled Deriving to
Ijove. Part first has eleven stanzas; part second
has eight. This hymn is made up of verses four to
seven, inclusive, of part second. They are unal-
tered.

This is n remarkable hymn and a great favorite;
hut the closing impression is not a very happy one.
If the next stanza had been added it would have
been better:

" Now, 0 my Joshua, hring me in,
Cast out my foes ; the inbred sin,

The carnal mind remove;
The purchase of Thy death divide ;
And O, with all the sanctifiod,

Give me a lot of love."

o43 Power over temptation. C. P. M.

HELP, Lord, to whom for help I fly,
And still my tempted soul stand by
Throughout the evil day ;
The sacred watchfulness impart,
And keep the issues of my heart,
And stir me up to pray.

2 My soul with thy whole armor arm ;
In each approach of sin alarm,

And show the danger near:
Surround, sustain, and strengthen me,
And till with godly jealousy

And sanctifying fear.

3 Whene'er my careless hands hang down,
O let me see thy gathering frown,

And feel thy warning eye;
And, starting, cry from ruin's brink,
" Save, Jesus, or I yield, I sink ;

O save me, or I die."

4 If near the pit I rashly stray,
Before I wholly fall awray,

The keen conviction dart;
Recall me by that pitying look,
That kind, upbraiding glance, which broke

Unfaithful Peter's heart.

5 In me thine utmost mercy show
And make me like thyself below,

Unblamable in grace;
Ready prepared and fitted here,
By perfect holiness, to appear

Before thy glorious face.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: In Temptation.

The author wrote 'lthis evil day " in verse one,
line three ; and uJeeble hands " in verse three, line
one.

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Poem*,
174H.

There were five volumes published by theWcs-
leys under this title. The first three, distinguished
by their dates, IT'V.t, 1740, 1742. bore the names o(
the brothers, John and Charles Wesley. The other
two were entitled Hymns and Sacred Poems, in
two volumes. By Charles Wesley, M. A, Student
of <'l,rist Church, Oxford. Bristol, 174y. John
Wesley sa\s. in his Plain Account of Christian
Fsrfi '/inn, that he did not sec these volumes before
they were printed, and that they contained some
things whi<-h he could not approve.

II Y.MS STUDIES.

213

544 A present help in trouble. C. P. M.

OGOD, thy faithfulness I plead.
My present help in time of need.
My great Deliverer thoul
Haste to mine aid, thine ear incline,
And rescue this poor soul of mine:
I claim the promise now.

"2 One only way the erring mind

Of man, short-sighted man, can find,

From inbred sin to fly:
Stronger than love, I fondly thought
Death, only death, can cut the knot,

Which love cannot untie.

3 But thou, O Lord, art full of grace;
Thy love can find a thousand ways

To foolish man unknown :
My soul upon thy love I cast :
I rest me, till the storm be past,

Upon thy love alone.

4 Thy faithful, wise, almighty love
Shall every stumbling-block remove,

And make an open way :
Thy love shall burst the shades of death,
And bear me from the gulf beneath,

To everlasting day.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : In Temptation.

Eight stanzas ; these are numbered one, five, six,
an' I seven.

In the first line of the third verse the author
wrote '■'■rich in grace; " and in the second line of
the fourth verse :

"Shall every obstacle remove."

These changes were made by John Wesley for
his Collection in 1780. His alterations are usually
improvements; but these, in my opinion, are not.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

545 The pure in heart shall see God. C. P. M.

SAVIOUR, on me the grace bestow,
That, with thy children, I may know
Iffy sins on earth forgiven ;
Give me to prove the kingdom mine,
And taste, in holiness divine,
The happiness of heaven.

2 Me with that restless thirst inspire,
That sacred, infinite desire,

And feast my hungry heart;
Less than thyself cannot suffice;
My soul for all thy fullness cries,

For all thou hast and art.

3 Jesus, the crowning grace impart;
Bless me with purity of heart.

That, now beholding thee,
I soon may view thy open face.
On all thy glorious beauties gaze,

And God forever see.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns on the Four Gospels and Acts <>f the
Apostles, by Charles Wesley. The first stanza is
founded oil Matt, v, 3 :

" Blessed are the poor in spirit : for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven."

Some changes have been made in the first lines :

" Jesus, on me the want bestow.
Which all who fed shall surely know
Their sins on earth forgiven."

The second stanza is founded on the sixth verse :

''Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness : for they shall be filled."

And the third stanza upon the eighth verse :

" Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall
see God."

546 Mourning departed joys. CM.

SWEET was the time when first I felt
The Saviour's pardoning blood
Applied to cleanse my soul from guilt,
And bring me home to God.

2 Soon as the morn the light revealed,
His praises tuned my tongue;

And when the evening shades prevailed,
His love was all my song.

3 In prayer my soul drew near the Lord,
And saw his glory shine ;

And when I read his holy word,
I called each promise mine.

4 But now, when evening shade prevails,
My soul in darkness mourns;

And when the morn the light reveals,
No light to me returns.

5 Rise, Lord, and help me to prevail;
O make my soul thy care;

I know thy mercy cannot fail:
Let me that mercy share.

JOHN NEWTON, ALT.
Founded upon Job xxix, 2 :

" 0 that I were as in months past."

214

HYMN STUDIES.

Three stanzas, the third, fifth, and seventh, are
omitted :

3 " In vain the tempter spread his wiles,
The world no more could charm ;

I lived upon my Saviour's smiles,
And leaned upon ins arm."

5 " Then to his saints I often spoke,

Of what his love had done ;
But now my heart is almost broke

For all my joys are gone."

7 "My prayers are now a chatt'ring noise,

For Jesus hides his face ;
I read, the promise meets my eyes,

But will not reach my case."

The last stanza has been so altered that the
author would hardly dare to claim it. Newton
wrote :

"Now Satan threatens to prevail,

And make my soul his prey ;
Yet, Lord, thy me/rim cannot fail,

O come without delay.'1''

These changes were doubtless made by the
editors of the 1849 edition of this collection.
■ From Olney Hymns, 1779.

047 Sad reflections on spiritual sloth. CM.

MY drowsy powers, why sleep ye so ?
Awake, my sluggish soul!
Nothing hath half thy work to do,
Yet nothing's half so dull.

2 Go to the ants ! for one poor grain
See how they toil and strive ;

Yet we, who have a heaven to obtain,
How negligent we live !

3 We, for whose sake all nature stands,
And stars their courses move ;

We, for whose guard the angel bands
Come flying from above ;

4 We, for whom God the Son came down,
And labored for our good ;

How careless to secure that crown
He purchased with his blood !

5 Lord, shall we live so sluggish still,
And never act our parts?

Come, holy Dove, from the heavenly hill,
And warm our frozen hearts!

6 Give us with active warmth to move,
With vigorous souls to rise;

With hands of faith, and wings of love,
To fly and take the prize.

ISAAC WATTS, ALT.

Title : Complaining of Spiritual Sloth.
This hymn has been altered somewhat. The
first part of the second stanza Watts wrote :

" The little ants for one poor grain
Labor, and tug, and strive."

The last line of the fifth stanza was originally
written :

" And sit and warm our hearts,"
and the last stanza was in this form :

" Then shall our active spirits move,

Upwards our souls shall rise ;
With hands of faith and wings oflovo

We'll fly and take the prize."

These changes were made at least a century ago.
Those in the second and fifth verses are improve-
ments. The change in the last stanza, I think, is
not for the better.

There is an ea>-y majesty in some of Watts'* stan-
zas that no other hymnist has reached. An illus-
tration of this can be seen in verses three and
tour.

From Uym/is and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

o48 Iieturning to Christ. CM.

MY head is low, my heart is sad,
My feet with travel torn,
Yet, O my Saviour, thou art glad
To see thy child return.

2 It was thy love that homeward led,
Thine arm that upward stayed ;

It is thy hand which on my head
Is now in mercy laid.

3 O Saviour, in this broken heart
Confirm the trembling will,

AVhich longs to reach thee where thou art,
Rest in thee and be still.

4 Within that bosom which hath shed
Both tears and blood for me,

O let me hide this aching head,
Once pressed and blessed by thee.

JOHN 8. 11. MONSKLL.

Title: Penitential Confirmation Hymn. The
original contains tivc eight-lined stanzas. This is
composed of the first and fourth stanzas, unaltered.
It is founded on Luke xv, 24:

" This mv son was dead, and is alive again ; ho
was lost, and is found."

From Hymns of Love and Praise. London,
18B8.

For biographical sketch of the author, see No.
232.

HYMN STUDIES.

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549 For tht return of the Spirit. ( '. M.

OPOR B closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame;
A light tt> shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb !

2 Where is the blessedness I knew,

"When first I saw the Lord?
Where is the soul-refreshing view

Of Jesus and his word?

:! What peaceful hours I once enjoyed !

How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void

The world can never till.

4 Return, O holy Dove, return,
Sweet messenger of rest!

I hate the sins that made thee mourn,
And drove thee from my breast.

5 The dearest idol I have known,
What e'er that idol be,

Help me to tear it from thy throne,
And worship only thee.

6 So shall my walk be close writh God,
Calm and serene my frame ;

So purer light shall mark the road
That leads me to the Lamb.

WILLIAM COWPER.

Title : Walking with God.

It was suggested by Gen. v, 24 :

" And Enoch walked with God : and he was not ;
for God took him."

The fact that this hymn is found in the Hymnals
of all the Churches ; and usually, as here, without a
word of change, is the highest possible praise.

From Olney I/ynin.s, 1779.

For biography of Cov.'per, see No. 44.

550 Faint, yet pursuing. C. M.

AS pants the hart for cooling streams,
When heated in the chase,
So longs my soul, O God, for thee,
And thy refreshing grace.

2 For thee my God, the living God,
My thirsty soul doth pine ;

O when shall I behold thy face,
Thou Majesty divine?

3 I sigh to think of happier days,
When thou, O Lord, wast nigh;

When every heart was tuned to praise,
And none more blest than I.

1 Why restless, why cast down, my soul ?

Hope still, and thou shalt sing
The praise of him who is thy God,

Thy Saviour and thy King.

TATE AND BRADY.

This is a part of an excellent metrical version of
Psalm xlii. These are stanzas one, two, four, and

eleven.

The third stanza has been entirely changed, ex-
cept the first two words :

" I sigh, whene'er my musing thoughts

Those happy days present.
When I, with troops of pious friends,

Thy temple did frequent."

The last line of the hymn was originally :

" Thy health's eternal spring.'1''

From A New Version, of the Psalms of David,
1G96.
For biographies, see Nos. 13 and 120.

551 God gracious to the contrite. C. M.

COME, let us to the Lord our God
With contrite hearts return ;
Our God is gracious, nor will leave
The desolate to mourn.

2 His voice commands the tempest forth,
And stills the stormy wave ;

His arm, though it be strong to smite,
Is also strong to save.

3 Our hearts, if God we seek to know,
Shall know him and rejoice;

His coming like the morn shall be,
Like morning songs his voice.

4 As dew upon the tender herb,
Diffusing fragrance round ;

As showers that usher in the spring,
And cheer the thirsty ground;

5 So shall his presence bless our souls,
And shed a joyful light;

That hallowed morn shall chase away
The sorrows of the night.

JOHN MORRISON.

A paraphrase of Hosea vi, 1-3 :

" Come, and let us return unto the Lord : for he
hath torn, and he will heal us ; he hath smitten,
mid he will bind us up. After two days will he
revive us : in the third day he will raise us up, and
we shall live in his Right. Then shall wre know, if
we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is
prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto
us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto
the earth."

216

HYMN STUDIES.

One stanza, the third, is omitted :

" Long hath the night of sorrow reigned ;

tiie dawn shall bring us light:
God shall appear, and we shall rise

with gladness in his sight."

Contributed to the Scotch Paraphrases, 1770. It
has not been altered.
For biographical sketch of author, see No. 184.

552 Love to the. Saviour. 7.

HARK, my soul ! it is the Lord ;
'Tis thy Saviour, — hear his word:
Jesus speaks, he speaks to thee:
" Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou me? "

2 "I delivered thee when bound,
And, when bleeding, healed thy wound;
Sought thee wandering, set thee right,
Turned thy darkness into light.

3 " Can a mother's tender care
Cease toward the child she bare !
Yes, she may forgetful be,

Yet will I remember thee.

4 " Mine is an unchanging love,
Higher than the heights above ;
Deeper than the depths beneath,
Free and faithful, strong as death.

5 " Thou shalt see my glory soon,
When the work of faith is done;
Partner of my throne shalt be;
Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou me?"

6 Lord, it is my chief complaint
That my love is weak and faint,
Yet I love thee and adore:

O for grace to love thee more !

WILLIAM COWrEIt.

Original title : " Lovestthou Me." John xxi, 10.
One word has been changed. In the second line
of the fifth stanza Cowper wrote :

"When the work of (/race is done."

Some Arminian hymn editor made this change,
because he thought that " grace " savored of Cal-
vinism. It ought to be restored out of regard to
the author.

The third stanza of this hymn is a reproduction
of a remarkable passage in Isaiah xlix, 15.

From the Gospel Minjuziue. 1771.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 44.

S. M.

55<J God's absence deprecate/.

OTIIOU, whose mercy hears
Contrition's humble sigh;
Whose hand, indulgent, wipes the tears
From sorrow's weeping eye;

2 See, at thy throne of grace,
A wretched wanderer mourn:

Hast thou not bid me seek thy face ?
Hast thou not said, " Return ? "

3 Shall guilty fears prevail
To drive me from thy feet ?

O let not this last refuge fail,
This only safe retreat.

4 Absent from thee, my Light,
Without one cheering ray,

Through dangers, fears, and gloomy night,
How desolate my way !

5 On this benighted heart

" With beams of mercy shine ;
And let thy voice again impart
A taste of joy divine.

ANNE STEELE, ALT.

Author's title : Absence from God.

This hymn has been changed from common to
short meter, by the omission of two syllables
from the first line of each stanza.

There is one additional verse :

6 " Thy presence only can bestow,
Delights which never cloy ;

Be this my solace here below,
And my eternal joy."

From roems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, by
Theodosia. London, 1760.
For biography of author, see No. 63.

554: The wanderer returning. S. M.

HOW oft this wretched heart
Has wandered from the Lord !
Howr oft my roving thoughts depart,
Forgetful of his word !

2 Yet mercy calls, " Return ; "
Saviour, to thee I come :

My vile ingratitude I mourn ;
O take the wanderer home.

3 Thy love so free, so sweet,
Blest Saviour, I adore;

O keep me at thy sacred feet,
And let me rove no more.

ANNA STEELE, ALT.

Author's title : I'ardoniiu) Love. Written on
Jer. iii, 22 :

'• Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal
your baokalidings."

It has been altered from common to short meter.

HYMN STUDIES.

217

Tiiis ,an usually 'no .lone very easily. Here ure the
first line* with the omitted words italieized :

■■ Hon i ft, alas, this wretched heart."
•• Vet sovereign mercy calks 'Keturn.' "
" Thy pardoning love bo Tree, so sweet."

Two stanzas, the third and fourth of the original,
are omitted :

3 " And canst thou, wilt thou yet forgive
And hid my crimes remove '.

And shall a pardoned rebel live
To speak thy wondrous love?

4 " Almighty i:r.u-e, thy healing power

How glorious, how divine !
That can to life and bliss restore
So vile a heart as mine."

From Poems on Subjects chiefly Devotional, by
Theodosia. Loudon, 1700.
See No. 63.

FIRST PART.
555 The warning voice of Jesus. S. M.

GRACIOUS Redeemer, shake
This slumber from my soul!
Say to me now, "Awake, awake!
And Christ shall make thee whole."

2 Lay to thy mighty hand;
Alarm me in this hour;

And make me fully understand
The thunder of thy power.

3 Give me on thee to call
Always to watch and pray,

Lest I into temptation fall,
And cast my shield away.

4 For earh assault prepared,
And ready may I be;

Forever standing on my guard,
And looking up to thee.

5 O do thou always warn
My soul of evil near;

When to the riirht or left I turn,
Thy voice still let me hear:

6 "Come back! this is the way;
Come back, and walk therein;"

O may I hearken and obey,
And shun the paths of sin.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is part of one of a number of Hymns for the
Watchnisjht.

There are ten ei<;ht-lined stanzas. These arc the
fifth, sixth, and seventh, verbatim.

From Charles Wesley's Uymnsand Sacred Poems,
174'J.

BBOOND PABT.
556 Commending the soul to Ghd. S. M.

rpiior seesl my feebleness;

_L Jesus, be thou my power,

My help and refuge in distress,

My fortress ami my tower.

2 Give me to trust in thee;

Be thou my sure abode :
My horn, and rock, and buckler be,

My Saviour and my God.

B Myself I cannot save,

Myself I cannot keep,
But strength in thee I surely have,
Whose eyelids never sleep.

4 My soul to thee alone,
Now therefore I commend;

Thou, Jesus, love me as thine own,
And love me to the end.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Composed of stanzas nine and ten of the same as
the last. The bejjinnini? of this hymn is awkward,
and might be arranged in this form :

" Jesus, be thou my power;

Thou seest my feebleness ;
Be thou my fortress and my tower,

My refuge in distress."

The second stanza of the original begins:

" Cause me to trust in thee."

The last two Hues were written :

" Thou, Jesus, having loved Thine own,
Shalt love me to the end."

These changes were made by John Wesloy for his
Colltction oi 1780.

557 Restore my peace. S. M.

0 JESUS, full of grace,
To thee I make my moan:
Let me again behold thy face,
Call home thy banished one.

2 Again my pardon seal,
Again my soul restore,

And freely my backslidings heal,
And bid me sin no more.

3 Wilt thou not bid me rise ?
Speak, and my soul shall live;

"Forgive," my stricken spirit cries,
"Abundantly forgive."

218

HYMN STUDIES.

4 Thine utmost mercy show ;

Say to my drooping soul,
"In peace and full assurance go;

Thy faith hath made thee whole."

CHARLES WESLEY.

From a hymn of six eight-lined stanzas. This is
made up of the third, the first part of the fourth,
and the last part of the sixth.

It is full of the broken-hearted pleading of a
poor backslider. In the third line of the third
stanza Wesley wrote "gasping spmt," and in
the first line of the last stanza Thy utmost,"
etc.

From Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, 1741.

For this improvement we are indebted to the
editors of the 1849 edition of the hymn book.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems. By C harks
Wesley, 1749.

558 Humility and contrition. 7,6,8.

JESUS, let thy pitying eye
Call back a wandering sheep ;
False to thee, like Peter, I

Would fain, like Peter, weep.
Let me be by grace restored ;

On me be all long-suffering shown;
Turn, and look upon me, Lord,
And break my heart of stone.

2 Saviour, Prince, enthroned above,
Repentance to impart,

Give me, through thy dying love.

The humble, contrite heart;
Give what I have long implored,

A portion of thy grief unknown;
Turn, and look upon me, Lord,

And break my heart of stone.

3 See me, Saviour, from above,
Nor suffer me to die;

Life, and happiness, and love

Drop from thy gracious eye:
Speak the reconciling word,

And let thy mercy melt me down;
Turn, and look upon me, Lord,

And break my heart of stone.

4 Look, as when thy languid eye
Was closed that we might live;

" Father," at the point to die
My Saviour prayed, " forgive!"

Surely, with that dying word,

He turns, and 1 ooks, and cries, ' ' 'Tis done 1"

O my bleeding, loving Lord,
Tliou break'st my heart of stone'

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part of one of several hymns For One Fallen,
from Grace.

Twelve stanzas, of which these are verses one,
two, six, and twelve. One word has be n ehanired.
In the fourth line of the last Btanza Wesley wrote :

" My Saviour gasped, ' forgive.' "

559 The deccit/ulness of sin. 7, 6, 8.

JESUS, Friend of sinners, hear
Yet once again, I pray;
From my debt of sin set clear,

For I have naught to pay :
Speak, O speak the kind release;

A poor backsliding soul restore;
Love me freely, seal my peace,
And bid me sin no more.

2 For my selfishness and pride
Thou hast withdrawn thy grace;

Left me long to wander wide,

An outcast from thy face;
But I now my sins confess,

And mercy, mercy, I implore;
Love me freely, seal my peace,

And bid me sin no more.

3 Sin's deceitfulness hath spread
A hardness o'er my heart ;

But if thou thy Spirit shed,

The stony shall depart :
Shed thy love, thy tenderness,

And let me feel thy softening power;
Love me freely, seal my peace,

And bid me sin no more.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Author's title : A Prayer for Restoring Grace.

These are verses one, two, and four, unaltered,
of a hvnin of six stanzas.

In the refrain reference is made to the words of
Jesus in John viii, 11 :

" Go, and sin no more."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

560 Zeal implored. L. M.

0TIIOU who all things canst control,
Chase this dread slumber from my soul
With joy and fear, with love and awe,
Give me to keep thy perfect law.

2 O may one beam of thy blest light
Pierce through, dispel, the shade of nigh 1
Touch my cold breast with heavenly fire;
With holy, conquering zeal inspire.

3 For zeal I sigh, for zeal I pant;
Yet heavy is my soul, and faint:
With steps unwavering, undismayed,
Give me in all thy paths to tread.

HYMN STUDIES.

219

4 With outstretched hands, and streaming

eyes.

Oft I begin to grasp the prize;
I groan, [strive, 1 watch, I pray;
But ah! my zeal Boon dies away.

5 The deadly slumber then I feel
Afresh upon my spirit steal:

Rise, Lord, stir up thy quickening power,
And wake me that I sleep uo more.

FROM THE GERMAN.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

Title : S/>iritual Slumber.

The German author is unknown. The transla-
tion has one additional stanza:

6 " Single of heart, O ! may I be,
Nothing may I desire but Thee ;
Far, far from me the world remove,
And all that holds me from Thy love."'

This hymn has never found a place in the Wes-
leyan CblUction. It came into tins collection in the
Supplement of 160s. It first appeared in Hymns
and Sacred Poem*. 1789,

It has not been altered.

561 Pence in the favor of God. L. M.

0 WHERE is now that glowing love
That marked our union with the Lord?
Our hearts were fixed on things above,
Xor could tlie world a joy afford.

2 Where is the zeal that led us then
To make our Saviour's glory known?

That freed us from the fear of men,
And kept our eye on him alone?

o Where are the happy seasons, spent
In fellowship with him we loved?

The sacred joy, the sweet content,
The blessedness that then we proved?

4 Behold, again we turn to thee;

0 cast us not away, though vile:
No peace we have, no joy we see,

O Lord our God, but in thy smile.

THOMAS KELLY.
Scripture motto, Jeremiah ii, 2 : •

" Thus saith the Lord ; I remember thee, the
kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals."

Three stanzas, the second, fifth, and seventh,
have been omitted :

2 " So strange did love like his appear,
That love that made him bear the cross,

No other subject pleased our ear,
The world for this appeared but loss."

5 " To thee, our God, we own our sin,

Of thee we have forgetful proved ;
As one who leaves her lord we've been,

As one unfaithful, though beloved."

7 " And, oh ! renew our former love ;

Yea, let it never cease to (fTOW,
Till, brightened and refined above,

A pure celestial flame it glow."

The stanzas given arc not altered.
From the author's Hymns on Y'arious Passages
of Scripture, 1809.
For biographical sketch, see No. 54.

562 For the fire of divine love. L. M.

OTHOU who earnest from above,
The pure celestial fire to impart,
Kindle a flame of sacred love
On the mean altar of my heart.

2 There let it for thy glory burn,
With inextinguishable blaze;

And trembling to its source return,
In humble prayer and fervent praise.

3 Jesus, confirm my heart's desire

To work, and speak, and think for thee;
Still let me guard the holy fire,
And still stir up thy gift in me.

4 Ready for all thy perfect will,
My acts of faith and love repeat,

Till death thy endless mercies seal,
And make the sacrifice complete.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy
Scriptures, 1782.
This was written on Lev. vi, 13 :

"The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar;
it shall never go out."

It is unaltered and complete. John Wesley said
that his experience might always be found in these
lines.

563 Onward, Christian soldiers. 6, 5.

NWART), Christian soldiers!
Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus

Going on before.
Christ, the royal Master,
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
See, his banners go !

Onward, Christian soldiers!

Marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus

Going on before.

280

HYMN STUDIES.

2 At the sign of triumph
Satan's host cloth flee;

On, then, Christian soldiers,

On to victory !
Hell's foundations quiver

At the shout of praise ;
Brothers, lift your voices,

Loud your anthems raise.

3 Like a mighty army
Moves the Church of God;

Brothers, we are treading
Where the saints have trod ;

We arc not divided,
All one body we,

One in hope and doctrine,
One in charity.

4 Crowns and thrones may perish,
Kingdoms rise and wane,

But the Church of Jesus

Constant will remain;
Gates of hell can never

'Gainst that Church prevail;
We have Christ's own promise,

And that cannot fail.

5 Onward, then, ye people!
Join our happy throng,

Blend with ours your voices

In the triumph- song;
Glory, laud, and honor

Unto Christ the King,
This through countless ages

Men and angels sing.

SABINE BAKING-GOULD.

This hymn WOB first published in the Church
Times, 1805. It is entire and unaltered as found in
Hymns Ancient and Modern. 1875.

The Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, a clergyman of
the Church of England, wa* born in 1834.

564 Forward into light. 6,5.

FOR W A R I) ! be our watchword,
Steps and voices joined;
Seek the tilings before us,

Not a look behind :
Burns the fiery pillar

At our army's head ;
Who shall dream of shrinking,

By our Captain led?
Forward through the desert,

Through the toil and tight:

Jordan Hows before us,
Ziou beams with light !

2 Forward ! flock of Jesus,
Salt of all the earth,

Till each yearning purpose

Spring to glorious birth:
Sick, they ask for healing;

Blind, they grope for day;
Pour upon the nations

Wisdom's loving ray.
Forward, out of error,

Leave behind the night ;
Forward through the darkness,

Forward into light!

3 Glories upon glories
Hath our God prepared,

By the souls that love him

One day to be shared :
Eye hath not beheld them,

Ear hath never heard ;
Nor of these hath uttered

Thought or speech a word :
Forward, marching eastward

Where the heaven is bright,
Till the veil be lifted.

Till our faith be sight!

4 Far o'er yon horizon
Rise the city towers,

Where our God abideth;

That fair home is ours:
Flash the streets with jasper,

Shine the gates with gold;
Flows the gladdening river

Shedding joys untold;
Thither, onward thither,

In the Spirit's might:
Pilgrims to your country,

Forward into light !

IIKNKY ALFORD.

Written upon Exod. xiv, 15 :

" Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go
forward."

The original has eight stanzas; theso are the
first, third, fourth, and tiftli, unaltered.

The Rev. Henry Alt' id is widely known as the
author of The Greek Testament with A'otes. V.c
was born at London in 1810; "as pious from his
youth, and in his sixteenth year wrote the follow-
ing dictation in his Bible:

'■ I do this day, in the presence of God and My
own soul, renew my covenant with God, ftM
solemnly determine henceforth to hecome his, ui.d
to do his work as tar as in me liefl."

Hi' was educated at Trinity College. Cambridge;
ordained in 1833, and soon made a reputation as an
eloquent preacher and sound biblical eritie. lie
was appointed Dean of Canterbury in ls.">7. which
distinction he held to the day of his death in 1871.

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565 Wert, irhih- it ia day. :,'•»,.").

WORK, for tlu' night is coming,
Wmk through the morning hours;

Work, while the dew is sparkling.
Work 'mid springing flowew;

Work, when the day grows brighter,

"Work in the glowing sun;
Work, for the night is coming,

When man's work is done.

9 Work, for the night is coming,

Work through the sunny no on ;
Fill brightest hours with labor,

Rest comes sure and soon.
(rive every riving minute

Something to keep in store:
Work, for the night is coming,

When man works no more.

:l Work, for the night is coming,

Under the sunset skies;
While their bright tints are glowing,

Work, for daylight flies.
Work till the last beam fadeth,

Fadeth to shine no more ;
Work while the night is darkening,

When man's work is o'er.

ANNIE L. WALKER.

The H'jmnal and other backs attribute this to
the Rev. Sklr.ey Dyer, the author of Besting By
amd By, :ii>'i other pieces; but Mr. Dyer writes:
M I have never claimed this hymn, and know not
who put my name to it."

The author Ls now said to be Annie L. Walker,
of Canada.

3 Jesus conquered when he fell,
.Met and vanquished earth and hell;
Now lie leads you on to swell

The triumphs of his cross.
Though all earth ami hell appear,
Who will doubt, or who can fear?
God, our strength and shield, is near;

We cannot lose our cause.

4 Onward, then, ye hosts of God!
Jesus points the victor's rod;
Follow where your Leader trod;

You soon shall see his face.
Soon, your enemies all slain,
Crowns of glory you shall gain,
Soon you'll join that glorious train

Who shout their Saviour's praise.

JARED B. WATERBCRY.

This is one of eight hymns, written for the Chris-
tian Lyre. New York, 1830. It has been altered and
improved mfoar lines since it was first published.

The second stanza is not Waterbury's, but is
taken from a hymn of four stanzas written for the
Christian Lyre by William Mitchell, (1793-1867.)

The Rev. Jared Bell Waterbury, a Presbyterian
minister, was born in New York city in 17'J9. He was
graduated at Yale College in 1 B22, and subsequently
studied theology at Princeton. He was a pastar in
Hudson, N. Y.; in Boston, and elsewhere. His
active and useful life closed in Brooklyn in 1870.

566 The spiritual warfare. 7, 7, 7, *>.

SOLDIERS of the cross, arise!
Lo I your Leader from the skie.3
Waves before you glory's prize,

The prize of victory.
Seize your armor, gird it on ;
Now the battle will be won ;
See, the strife will soon be done ;
Then struggle manfully.

2 Now the fight of faitli be-in,
Re no more the slaves of 9in,
Strive the victor's palm to win,

Trusting in the Lord :
Gird ye on the armor bright,
Warriors of the King of Ughi,
Never yield, nor lose by flight

Your divine rjward.

O 6 7 Stand vp for Jesus. 7, 6.

1 TAND up, stand up for Jesus,

Ye soldiers of the cross;
Lift high his royal banner,

It must not suffer loss:
From victory unto victory

His army shall he lead,
Till every foe is vanquished

And Christ is Lord indeed.

2 Stand up, stand up for Jesus,
The trumpet call obey ;

Forth to the mighty conflict,

In this his glorious day :
" Ye that are men, now serve him,"

Against unnumbered foes ;
Your courage rise with danger,

And strength to strength oppose.

3 Stand up, stand up for Jesus,
Stand in his strength alone;

The arm of flesh will fail you;

Ye dare not trust your own:
Put on the gospel armor,

Each piece put on with prayer;
Where duty calls, or danger,

Be never wanting there.

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HYMN STUDIES.

4 Stand up, stand up for Jesus,

The strife will not be long;
This day the noise of battle,

The next the victor's song:
To him that overcometh,

A crown of life shall be;
He with the King of glory

Shall reign eternally.

GEORGE DUFFIELD,. JR.

This favorite hymn was inspired by the triumph-
ant death oi the Eev. Dudley Atkins Tyng, the
rifted son of the Rev. Stephen II. Tyng, D.D.

Dudley Tyng was rector in Columbus, Ohio, and
also in Philadelphia, and was an active and suc-
cessful worker in the great revival ot 1857. In the
following year he met with an accident which
proved to be fatal. Being asked if he had any mes-
sage to his brethren in the ministry, lie replied :
"Tell them to stand up for Jesus."

The Rev. George Dutfield, D.D., a Presbyterian
minister, was born in Pennsylvania in 1818, and
was graduated at Yale College in 1837. He died
July 6, 1888. The date of the hymn is 1858.

568 7,6.

Enduring hardness as good soldiers.

GO forward, Christian soldier,
Beneath His banner true:
The Lord himself, thy Leader,

Shall all thy foes subdue.
His love foretells thy trials,

He knows thine hourly need;
He can, with bread of heaven,
Thy fainting spirit feed.

2 Go forward, Christian soldier,
Fear not the secret foe ;

Far more are o'er thee watching
Than human eyes can know.

Trust only Christ, thy Captain,
Cease not to watch and pray;

Heed not the treacherous voices,
That lure thy soul astray.

3 Go forward, Christian soldier,
Nor dream of peaceful rest.

Till Satan's host is vanquished,
And heaven is all possessed;

Till Christ himself shall call thee
To lay thine armor by,

And wear, in endless glory,
The crown of victory.

LAURENCE TTJTTIETT.

There is one additional stanza:

4 "Go forward Christian soldier
Fear not the gathering night:

The Lord has been thy shelter,
The Lord will be thy light:

When morn his face reveahth,
Thy dangers all arc passed :

Oh pray that faith and virtue
May keep thee to the last."

The Rev. Laurence Tuttictt was born in England
in 1825; was educated at King's College, London;
studied medicine, but at length resolved to enter
the Church, lie was ordained by the Bishop of
London in 1848.

O D 9 Battle-hymn of the Reformation. C. P. M.

FEAR not, O little flock, the foe
Who madly seeks your overthrow;
Dread not his rage and power;
What though your courage sometimes faints?
This seeming triumph o'er God's saints
Lasts but a little hour.

2 Fear not, be strong ! your cause belongs
To him who can avenge your wrongs;

Leave all to him, your Lord:
Though hidden yet from mortal eyes,
Salvation shall for you arise;

He girdeth on his sword 1

3 As true as God's own promise stands,
Not earth nor hell with all their bands

Against us shall prevail ;
The Lord shall mock them from his throne ;
God is with us; we are his own ;

Our victory cannot fail !

4 Amen, Lord Jesus, grant our prayer !
Great Captain, now thine arm make bare,

Thy Church with strength defend;
So shall thy saints and martyrs raise
A joyful chorus to thy praise.

Through ages without end.

GUSTAVUS ADOLrilUS, IX PBOBE.

JACOB FABRIC 1 1 .

TR. BY MISS C. WIK K. WORTH.

Miss Winkworth's translation is found in Lyra
Germanica, first scries. This varies from that in
twelve of its lines. It was the battle-song of Gus-
tavus Adolphus. King of Sweden. Miss Catherine
Winkworth, in lier Christian Singers of Oermanp,
says that the hymn was " long attributed to Alten-
burg, a pastor of Thuringia: recent researches,
however, seem to have made it char that he onh
composed the chorale: and that the hymn itself
was written down roughly by Gustavus Adolphus,
after his victory at Leipsic, and reduced to regular
verse by his chaplain, l)r. Fabricius, for the use of
the army." The date of the battle of Leipsic is
September 7, 1621. Gustavus sang this hymn with
his army before entering the battle of Lutzen, Nov.
6, 1632, where he met a triumphant death. The
Rev. Jacob Fabricius, D.D., chaplain of the king,
lived from 1593 to 1654.

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228

570 Looking unto Jesus. C. P. M.

AUK there not in the laborer's day
Twelve hours, in which he safely may
His calling's work pursue f
Though sin and Satan still are near,
Nor sin nor Satan can I fear,
With Jesus in my view.

2 Light of the world! thy beams T bless;
On thee, bright Sun of righteousness,

My faith hath fixed its eye:
Guided by thee, through all I go,
Nor fear the ruin spread below,

For thou art always nigh.

3 Ten thousand snares my paths beset,
Yet will I, Lord, the work complete,

Which thou to me hast given ;
Regardless of the pains I feel.
Close by the gates of death and hell,

1 urge my way to heaven.

CIIAKLES WESLEY.

The authors title was: The Way of Duty t/ie
Way ofSaftby.

Five stanzas; those omitted are the second and last:

2 " Not all the power-: of hell can fright
A soul that walks with Christ in light;

lie walks and cannot fall :
Clearly lie Bees, and wins his way,
Shining unto the perfect day

And more than conquers all."

5 " Still will I strive and labor still,
With humble zeal to do Thy will,

And trust in Thy defense;
My soul into Thy hands I jrive,
And, if he can obtain Thy leave,

Let Satan pluck mo thence."

"Wesley wrote, verse three, line four:

'■'■Superior to the pains I feel."

From Charles Wedey's Hymns and Sacred Po-
ems, 17-49.

O 7 1 Loving gratitude. C. P. M.

BE it my only wisdom here.
To serve the Lord with filial fear,
With loving gratitude :
Superior sense may I display,
By shunning every evil way,
And walking in the good.

2 O may I still from sin depart ;
A wise and understanding heart,

Jesus, to me be given :
And let me through thy Spirit know
To glorify my God below,

And find my way to heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymn* on 8 1 1 Put y of thi Holy

Scriptures, 17ti2.

it is based upon Job xxviii, u^ :

"Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
and to depart from evil is understanding."

It is unaltered and entire.

572 7,6,5,4.

One more day's work for Jesus.

ONE more day's work for Jesus,
One less of life for me !
But heaven is nearer,
And Christ is dearer
Than yesterday to me;
His love and light
Fill all my soul to-night.
One more day's work for Jesus, etc.

2 One more day's work for Jesus !

How sweet the work has been,

To tell the story,

To show the glory,
Where Christ's flock enter in!

How it did shine

In this poor heart of mine !

3 One more day's work for Jesus 1

O yes, a weary day ;

But heaven shines clearer

And rest comes nearer,
At each step of the way ;

And Christ in all,

Before his face I fall.

4 O blessed work for Jesus!

O rest at Jesus' feet !

There toil seems pleasure,

My wants are treasure,
And pain for him is sweet.

Lord, if I may,

I'll serve another day !

ANNA BAKTLETT WARNER.

Title : The Song of a Tired Servant.
There are two omitted stanza", the second ind
fourth, that are equal, if not superior, to those given :

2 "One more day's work for Jesus:
How glorious is my King !

'Tis joy, not duty.

To speak his beauty ;
My soul mounts on the wing,

At the mere thought

How Christ her life hath bought."

4 " One more day's work for Jesus :
In hope, in faith, in prayer, .

His word I've spoken —

His bread I've broken.
To souls faint with despair;

And bade them flee

To him who hath saved me."

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HYMN STUDIES.

From Wayfaring Hymns, Original and Trans-
lated, by Anna Warner. Preface dale, 1869.

Miss Anna Warner, and her sister, Susan War-
ner, well known American authors, are the daugh-
ters of Mr. Henry Warner, 11 member of the bar of
New York city. This touching hymn was written
after the receipt of a letter from the Eev. Benjamin
M. Adams, in which, after the close of his day's
li-bors, he spoke of physical weariness, and ot
a funding spiritual joy.

O/O For the head of a family . C. P. M.

I AND my house will serve the Lord:
But first, obedient to his word
I must myself appear;
By actions, words, and tempers, show
That I my heavenly Master know,
And serve with heart sincere.

2 I must the fair example set ;

From those that on my pleasure wait

The stumbling-block remove;
Their duty by my life explain,
And still in till my v;orks maintain
The diguity of love.

3 Easy to be entreated, mild,
Quickly appeased and reconciled,

A follower of my God,
A saint indeed I long to be,
And lead my faithful family

In the celestial road.

4 Lord, if thou didst the wish infuse,
A vessel fitted for thy use

Into thy hands receive :
Work in me both to will and do ;
And show them how believers true,

And real Christians, live.

CHARLES WESLEY.

In this hymn the author is indebted for his lead-
ing thought to the words of Joshua xxiv, 15 :

" As for me and my house, we will serve the
Lord."

It is not altered. There are two additional stanzas :

5 "With all-sufficient grace supply,
And lo, I come to testify

The wonders of Thy name,
Which saves from sin, the world, and hell,
Whose virtue every heart may feel,

And every tongue proclaim.

"A sinner, saved myself from sin,
I conic my relatives to win,

To preaeli their sins forgiven ;
Children and wife and servants seize,
And through the ways of pleasantness,

Conduct them all to heaven."

From Hymns for the Vseof Families, 1767.

O 74 For watchfulness. S. M.

A CHARGE to keep I have,
A God to glorify;
A never-dying soul to save,

And fit it for the sky.
To serve the present age,
My calling to fulfill, —
O may it all my powers engage,
To do my Master's will.

2 Arm ire with jealous care,

As in thy sight to live;
And O, thy servant, Lord, prepare,

A strict account to give.
Help me to watch and pray,

And on thyself rely,
Assured, if I my trust betray,

I shall forever die.

CIIARLES WEfLEY.

This is a great favorite, and, is found in all edi-
tions <>f the hymn book. It was first published in
Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Seiipt-

uves, 1762 ; and wa> written upon Lev. viii, 35:

" Keep the charge of the Lord, that ye die not."

Wesley very happily utilized this text. It lias
not been altered.

575 Sow beside all waters. S. M .

SOW in the morn thy seed ;
At eve hold not thy hand ;
To doubt and fear give thou no heed,
Broadcast it o'er the land.

2 Thou know'st not which shall thrive.
The late or early sown ;

Grace keeps the precious germ alive,
When and wherever strown:

3 And duly shall appear,

In verdure, beauty, strength,
The tender blade, the stalk, the ear,
And the full corn at length.

4 Thou canst not toil in vain :
Cold, heat, and moist, and dry,

Shall foster and mature the grain
For garners in the sky.

5 Then, when the glorious end,
The day of God, shall come,

The angel reapers shall descend,

And heaven shout, " Harvest home!"

JAMES MONTOOMEUY
The author's title was: The Field of the World.

ETMN STUDIES.

22r

It is bated up >n EcoL ri, 6:

•• In the morning sow thy sood, and in tin
ing withhold not wine band: for thou knowestnot
wruetherahall prosper, either this or that, or whether

they both shall be alike good."

The second and third stanzas of the original arc
omitted :

2 "Beside all waters sow,
The highway farrows stock,

Drop it where thorns and thistles grow,
Scatter it ou the rock.

3 '^The good, the fruitful ground,
Exp<-et not lure nor there,

O'er lull and dale, by plots 'tis found;
Go forth, then, every where."

In the last stanza the author wrote " Thence'1'1 in-
stead of " Then " in the tirst line ; and "cry" in-
stead of " shout" in the last line.

From .1 /W« Portfolio; or. Minor Poems: in
Three Books, by James Montgomery, 1835.

See No. 5.

0 " The sail, whose leaf and dower,
Though poor in human sight,

Bring forth at last the eternal fruit,
Sow thou by day and night.

Make ha-->te, O man, to live."

Unaltered, except by omissions.

From Hymns oj Faith and Hope, firstseries, 1857.

See No. 426.

576 Mike haste to lice. S. M.

MAKE haste, O man, to live,
For thou so soon must die ;
Time hurries past thee like the breeze ;
How swift its moments fly !

2 Make haste, O man, to do
Whatever must be done;

Thou hast no time to lose in sloth,
Thy day will soon be gone.

3 Up, then, with speed, and work ;
Fling ease and self away;

This is no time for thee to sleep,
Up, watch, and work, and pray!

4 Make haste, O man, to live,
Thy time is almost o'er;

O sleep not, dream not, but arise,
The Judge is at the door.

HORATICS BOXAR.

Author's title : Live.

I >tanzas ; the second, fifth, and sixth have
been omitted; also the refrain of each stanza:

" Make haste, 0 man, to live ! "

2 "To breathe, and wake, and sleep,

To smile, to Bigh, to grieve ;
To move in idleness through earth,

This, this is not to live !

Make haste, O man, to live '. "

5 " The useful, not the great,

The tiling that never dies;
The silent toil that is not lost, —

Set these before thine eves.

Make haste, O man, to live!

O 7 7 Victory on the Lord's side. S.M.

ARISE, ye saints, arise!
The Lord our Leader is ;
The foe before his banner flies,
And victory is his.

2 We follow thee, our Guide,
Our Saviour, and our King;

We follow thee, through grace supplied
From heaven's eternal spring.

3 We soon shall see the day
When all our toils shall cease;

When we shall cast our arms away,
And dwell in endless peace.

4 This hope supports us here ;
It makes our burdens light;

'Twill serve our drooping hearts to cheer,
Till faith shall end in sight :

5 Till, of the prize possessed,
We hear of war no more ;

And ever with our Leader rest,
On yonder peaceful shore.

THOMAS KELLY.

From the author's ITi/mns on Various Passages of
Scripture, 1809.

The passage prefixed to the hvmn is Psalm xviii,
34:

" He tcacheth my hands to war."

The second and third stanzas are omitted:

2 " Behold ! he leads the w;iy ;
We'll follow where he goes ;

We cannot fail to win the day,
Since he subdues our foes.

3 " Lead on, Almighty Lord,
Lead on to victory ;

Encouraged by the bright reward,
With joy we'll follow thee."

The first and third lines of the second stanza

" We'll follow thee," etc.
The third stanza the author wrote thus :

" We hope to see the day
When toil and strife shall cease ;

We then shall cast our arms away
And dwell in endless peace."

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HYMN STUDIES.

The last two lines of the hymn were written
thus :

" And, O sweet thought ! forever rest
Chi yonder peaceful shore."

This hymn came into the collection in 1849, and
these changes were probably made by the editors
of that edition.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 54.

578 Recompense of toil. S. M.

LABORERS of Christ, arise,
And gird you for the toil !
The dew of promise from the skies
Already cheers the soil.

2 Go where the sick recline,
Where mourning hearts deplore ;

And where the sons of sorrow pine,
Dispense your hallowed store.

3 Be faith, which looks above,
With prayer, your constant guest;

And wrap the Saviour's changeless love
A mantle round your breast.

4 So shall you share the wealth
That earth may ne'er despoil,

And the blest gospel's saving health
Repay your arduous toil.

MRS. LYDIA H. SIGOTJRNEY.

Title : For Tract Distributors.

The author wrote verse two, line three :

" And where the sons of penury pine."

One stanza, the third of the original, has been
omitted :

3 " Urge, with a tender zeal,

The erring child along,
"Where peaceful congregations kneel,

And pious teachers throng."

This is found in Select ITymns Adapted to the De-
votional E.rercfces of the Baptist Denomination, by
James II. Linsley and Gustavus F. Davis, 1836.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 287.

5 79 Sowing in tears, reaping in joy. S. M-

THE harvest dawn is near,
The year delays not long:
And he who sows with many a tear,
Shall reap with many a song.

2 Sad to his toil he goes,

His seed with weepintr leaves;

But he shall come at twilight's close,
And bring his golden sheaves.

GEORGE BUROESS.

From the author's Hook of Psalms in Enalish
Verse. New York, 1840.

Part of u metrical version of Psalm exxvi.

These two stanzas are lounded on the last two
verses of the psalm :

" They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. lie
that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed,
shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing
his sheaves with him."

The Rev. George Burgess, D.D., was horn in
Providence, R. 1., in 1809 ; was graduated at Brown
University, and afterward spent two years m Ger-
man universities. In ls.34 he was chosen rector of
Christ Church, Hartford, where he remained until
1847, when he was consecrated Bishop of the dio-
cese of Maine. Bishop Burgess died on his passage
home from the West Indies, while on a voyage for
his health in 1866.

580 On guard. S. M.

IET us keep steadfast guard
J With lighted hearts all night,
That when Christ comes, we stand pre-
pared,
And meet him with delight.

2 At midnight's season chill
Lay Paul and Silas bound, —

Bound, and in prison sang they still,
And singing, freedom found.

3 Our prison is this earth,
And yet we sing to thee:

Break sin's strong fetters, lead us forth,
Set us, believing, free!

4 Meet for thy realm in heaven,
Make us, O holy King!

That through the ages it be given
To us thy praise to sing.

BREVIARY.

The editors of the Hymnal found this hymn in
the Book of liaise, published in Connecticut in
1868.

I have not been able to learn more concerning it.

S. M.

581 Perseverance.

MY soul, be on thy guard ;
Ten thousand foes arise:
The hosts of sin are pressing hard
To draw thee from the skies.

2 O watch, and fight, and pray;

The battle ne'er give o'er;
Renew it boldly every day,

And help divine implore.

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3 Ne'er think I he victory won,
Nor lay thine armor down:

The work of faith will not be done,
Till thou obtain the crown.

4 Fight on, my soul, till death
Shall bring thee to thy God;

He'll take thee, at thy parting breath,
To his divine abode.

GEORGE HEATH, ALT.

Title : Fight the Good Fight of Faith.
It baa been altered in seven lines, and improved
t*- the changes.

Original Lines.
Verse one, line three :

" An host of sins are pressing hard."

Verse three, lines two, three, and four:

" Nor once at ease sit down,
Thy arduous work will not be done,
Till thou had got thy crown."

Verse four, lines two, three, and four :

" God will the work applaud,
Reveal his Love at thy last breath,
And take to his abode."

From Hymns and Poetic Essays Sacred to the
Public and Private Worship of the Deity, and to
Religious anil Christian Improvement, by the liev.
George Heath. Bristol, 1781.

This book contains 244 hvmns.

O 8 2 The standard of the cross. S. M.

HARK, how the watchmen cry !
Attend the trumpet's sound;
Stand to your arms, the foe is nigh,

Tlie powers of hell surround.
Who bow to Christ's command,

Your arms and hearts prepare;
The day of battle is at hand —
Go forth to glorious war.

2 See on the mountain-top
The standard of your God ;

In Jesus' name I lift it up.

All stained with hallowed blood.

His standard-bearer, I
To all the nations call :

Let all to Jesus' cross draw nigh;
He bore the cross for all.

3 Go up with Christ your Head;
Your Captain's footsteps see;

Follow your Captain, and be led
To certain victory.

All power to him is given;

He ever reigns the same:
Salvation, happiness, and heaven,

Are all in Jesus' name.

CHARLES WESLEY.

One of several pieces that the author entitled
Hymns for ih-e Watch-night. It contains twelve
stanzas. These are the tirst, second, and fourth,
Vi rlnitim.

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred
Ihenu, 1749.

583 Courage — victory. 8. M.

URGE on your rapid course,
Ye blood-besprinkled bauds;
The heavenly kingdom suffers force;

'Tis seized by violent hands:
See there the starry crown

That glitters through the skies;
Satan, the world, and sin, tread down,
And take the glorious prize.

2 Through much distress and pain,
Through many a conflict here,

Through blood, ye must the entrance gain,

Yet, O disdain to fear:
' ' Courage ! " your Captain cries,

Who all your toil foreknew ;
"Toil ye shall have, yet all despise;

I have o'ercome for you. "

3 The world cannot withstand
Its ancient Conqueror;

The world must sink beneath the hand

Which arms us for the war:
This is the victory, —

Before our faith they fall ;
Jesus hath died for you and me ;

Believe, and conquer all.

CHARLES WESLET.

One of a number of Hymns for Believers. Six-
teen stanzas in all. These are the fourth, fifth,
and sixth, unaltered.

Hymn No. 251 is the first part of the same.

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred
Poems, 1749.

5 84r Weigh not thy life. S. M.

MY sotd, weigh not thy life
Against thy heavenly crown;
Nor suffer Satan's deadliest strife
To beat thy courage down.

2 With prayer and crying strong,

Hold on the fearful fight,
And let the breaking day prolong

The wrestling of the night.

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HYMN STUDIES.

3 The battle soon will yield,
If thou thy part fulfill;

For strong as is the hostile shield,
Thy sword is stronger still.

4 Thine armor is divine,
Thy feet with victory shod ;

And on thy head shall quickly shine
The diadem of God.

LEONARD SWAIN.

Contributed to the Sabbath Hymn Book, 1858.
The author's name was omitted at hi.s speeial request.

It has not been altered.

The Kev. Leonard Swain, U.D., was born in Con-
cord, N. H., 1S21 ; was graduated at Dartmouth Col-
lege in 1841, and completed his theological course at
Andover in 1846. His last pastorate was that of
the Central Congregational church, Providence,
It. 1., and continued lrom 1851 to ins death in 1869.

585 Victory. S. M.

" T THE good fight have fought,"

J_ O when shall I declare ?
The victory by my Saviour got,
I Jong with Paul to share.

2 O may I triumph so,
When all my warfare's past ;

And, dying, find my latest foe
Under my feet at last !

3 This blessed word be mine,
Just as the port is gained,

"Kept by the power of grace divine,
I have the faith maintained."

4 The apostles of my Lord,
To whom it first was given,

They could not speak a greater word,
Nor all the saints in heaven.

CHARLE9 WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select I\issages of the
IJoli/ Scriptures, 17f>2.

The first two stanzas were written upon 2 Tim.
iv, 7 :

" I have fought a good fight;"

and the last two upon

" I have kept the faith."

The second stanza is a sublime prayer worthy of
the writer. It has not been altered.

586 The mind that was in Christ.

EQUIP me for the war,
And teach my hands to fight;
My simple, upright heart prepare,
And guide my words aright.

S. M.

2 Control my every thought,
My whole of sin remove;

Let all my works in thee be wrought,
Let all be wrought in love.

3 O arm me with the mind,
Meek Lamb, that was in thee;

And let my knowing zeal be joined
With perfect charity.

4 With calm and tempered zeal
Let me enforce thy call ;

And vindicate thy gracious will,
Which offers life to all.

• 5 O may I love like thee ;
In all thy footsteps tread;
Thou hatest all iniquity,

But nothing thou hast made.

6 O may I learn the art.
With meekness to reprove;

To hate the sin with all my heart,
But still the sinner love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : The Lordh Controversy.

This hymn is made up of verses two, three, and
seven of a long hymn of twenty-six doable stan-
zas.

The hymn begins with the second stanza of the
original, and cannot well be understood without
the first.

" O all-atoning Lamb,

O Saviour of mankind,
If every soul may in Thy name

With me salvation find;
If Thou hast chosen me

To testify Thy grace,
(That vast unfathomable sea

Which covers all our race,)

"Equip me for the war," etc.

Charles Wesley had a most intense aversion to
the doctrine of unconditional election and reproba-
tion, as taught by many in his day. This i.-> well
shown in the eighth stanza of this same composi-
tion. He says :

" Increase (if that can be)

The perfect hate 1 feel
To Satan's Horrible Decree,

That genuine child of hell ;
Which feigns Thee to pass by

The most of Adam's race,
And leave them in their blood to die

Shut out from saving grace."

There is more of the same sort, but this will suf-
fice. Slight verbal changes have been made in
three lines.

From Hymns cm God's Everlasting Love, 1741.

HYMN STUDIES.

229

FIRST PART.
587 The whole armor of God. S. M.

SOLDIERS of Christ, arise,
And put your armor on,
Strong in the strength which God supplies

Through his eternal Son;
Strong in the Lord of hosts,
And in his mighty power,
Who in the strength of Jesus trusts
Is more than conqueror.

2 Stand, then, in his great might,
With all his strength endued;

But take, to arm you for the fight,

The panoply of God :
That, having all things done,

And all your conflicts passed,
Ye may oVrcome through Christ alone,

And stand entire at last.

3 Leave no unguarded place,
No weakness of the soul;

Take every virtue, every grace,

And fortify the whole:
Indissolubly joined,

To battle all proceed ;
But arm yourselves with all the mind

That wras in Christ, your Head.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The original title was : T/ie wliole armor of God.
Eph. vi, 11.

The "first part" is composed of verses one, two,
and four of a poem of sixteen stanzas.

Fart of this hymn is found in the Lyra Catholica,
marked "Anon."

It has not been altered.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

6ECOND PART.
588 The shield of faith. S. M.

SOLDIERS of Christ, lay hold
On faith's victorious shield;
Armed with that adamant and gold,

Be sure to win the field :
If faith surround your heart,

Satan shall be subdued;
Repelled his every fiery dart,
And quenched with Jesus' blood.

2 Jesus hath died for you !

What can his love withstand ?
Believe, hold fast your shield, and who

Shall pluck you from his hand ?

Believe that Jesus reigns;

All power to him is given :
Believe, till freed from sin's remains;

Believe yourselves to heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Fart second is composed of verses seven and
eight of the same hymn as the preceding. It is
written on Eph. vi, 16 :

" Above all, taking the shield of faith, where-
with ye shall be able to quench all the fiery UarUs
of the wicked."

The first line the author wrote :

"Jiut above all, lay hold."
Otherwise it is unaltered.

THIRD PART.
589 The well-fought day.

S. M.

PRAY, without ceasing pray,
Your Captain gives the word ;
His smnmons cheerfully obey,

And call upon the Lord :
To God your every want

In instant prayer display ;
Pray always; pray, and never faint;
Pray, without ceasing pray.

2 In fellowship, alone,

To God with faith draw near;
Approach his courts, besiege his throne

With all the power of prayer:
His mercy now implore,

And now show forth his praise;
In shouts, or silent awe, adore

His miracles of grace.

3 From strength to strength go on;
Wrestle, and fight, and pray;

Tread all the powers of darkness down,
And win the well-fought day:

Still let the Spirit cry

In all his soldiers, "Come!"

Till Christ the Lord descend from high,
And take the conquerors home.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is made np of the twelfth, the first half of
the thirteenth, the last half of the fourteenth, arid
the sixteenth stanza* of the eiriginal poem, verbatim.
It is founded on Eph. vi, 18 :

" Pray i n<x always with all prayer and supplication
in tin- Spirit, and watching thereunto with all per-
severance and supplication for all saints."

From Fh/mns and Sacred Poems, by Charles
Wesley, 1749.

2<J0

HYMN STUDIES.

O t7 0 Hearing the cross. C. M.

LORD, as to thy dear cross we flee,
Aud pray to be forgiven,
So let thy life our pattern be,
And form our souls for heaven.

2 Help us, through good report and ill,
Our daily cross to bear;

Like thee, to do our Father's will,
Our brother's grief to share.

3 Let grace our selfishness expel,
Our earthliness refine ;

And kindness in our bosoms dwell
As free and true as thine.

4 If joy shall at thy bidding fly,
And grief's dark day come on,

We, in our turn, would meekly cry,
"Father, thy will be done! "

5 Kept peaceful in the midst of strife,
Forgiving and forgiven,

O may we lead the pilgrim's life,
And follow thee to heaven !

JOHN H. GURNET.

From A Collection of Hym^s for Public Worship,
by the Rev. J. II. Gumey, 1838.

The original text has "plead" instead of" pray"
in the first stanza, and "brethren's'" instead of
" brother's " in the second. One stanza, the fifth,
has been omitted :

" Should friends misjudge, or Iocs defame,

Or brethren faithless prove,
Then, like Thine own, be all our aim

To conquer them by love."

The Rev. John Hampden Gurriey was a clergy-
man of the Church of England, and lived from
1802 to 1862. He was graduated at Trinity College,
Cambridge in 1824, and was ordained in 1828.

4 Then learn to scorn the praise of men,

And learn to lose with God;
For Jesus won the world through shame,

And beckons thee his road.

FREDERICK W. PABER.

Composed of verses ten to thirteen, inclusive, of
a poem of eighteen stanzas. No 5i)G of this book is
a part of the same.

Faber wrote the first word of this hymn in the
plural :

" Workmen of God," etc.

From the author's Hymns. London, 18G2.

For biographical sketch, see No. 125.

Toil sanctified.

CM.

591 Christian courage. CM.

WORKMAN of God ! O lose not heart,
But learn what God is like;
And in the darkest battle-field
Thou shalt know where to strike.

2 Thrice blest is he to whom is given
The instinct that can tell

That God is on the field, when he
Is most invisible.

3 Blest too is he who can divine
Where real right doth lie,

Ami dares to take the side that seems
Wroujr to man's blindfold eve.

592

SON of the carpenter, receive
This humble work of mine;
Worth to my meanest labor give,
By joining it to thine.

2 Servant, at once, and Lord of all,
While dwelling here below,

Thou didst not scorn our earthly toil
And weariness to know.

3 Thy bright example I pursue,
To thee in all things rise,

And all I think, or speak, or do,
Is one great sacrifice.

4 Careless through outward care I go,
From all distraction free;

My hands arc but engaged below,
My heart is still with thee.

5 O when wilt thou, my life, appear?
Then gladly will I cry,

" 'Tis done, the work thou gav'st me here,
'Tis finished, Lord," and die!

CIIA1U.ES WrESLEY.

Author's title : To be Sung at Work.

This hymn is new to this book. Part of it is
found in John Wesley's Collection, 1780.

The second stanza was altered by Mrs. Rice,
author of hymn No. 878. Originally it was:

2 " Servant of all, to toil for man,
Thou wouldst n>.t, L<>rd. refuse:

Thv Majesty did not disdain
To be employed for us."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739.

593 Faith sees the final triumph.

AM I R soldier of the cross,
A follower of the Lamb,
Ami shall I fear to own his cause,
Or blush to speak his name?

CM.

IIYMX STUDIES.

231

2 Must 1 be carried to the skies
On flowery beds of ease,

While others fought to win the prize,

And sailed through bloody seas I

3 Are there no foes for me to face?
.Must I not stem the flood?

Is this vile world a friend to grace,
To help me on to God?

4 Sure I must fight, if I would reign;
Increase my courage, Lord ;

I'll bear the toil, endure the pain,
Supported by thy word.

5 Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die:

They see the triumph from afar,
By faith they bring it nigh.

G When that illustrious day shall rise,

And all thy armies shine
In robes of victory through the skies,

The glory shall be thine.

ISAAC WATTS.

This grand and favorite hymn was first pub-
lished by the author at the end of a sermon, en-
titled Holy Fortitude ; or, Remedies Against Fear.
The text was:

" Stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be
strong." 1 Cor. xvi, 13.

Watts WTOte the last part of the fifth stanza :

" They see the triumph from afar,
And seize it with their eye."

The change is a great improvement, whoever
made it.

Bishop Emory added this hymn to the Methodist
fli/mn Book when he was Book Agent and Editor
at New York, (1824-1832.)

5 94 The race for glory. C. M.

WAKE, my soul, stretch every nerve,

And press with vigor on ;
A heavenly race demands thy zeal,
And an immortal crown.

2 A cloud of witnesses around
Hold thee in full survey ;

Forget the steps already trod,
And onward urge thy way.

3 'Tis God's all-animating voice
That calls thee from on high;

'Tis his own hand presents the prize
To thine aspiring eye: —

1 Thai prize, with peerless glories bright,

Which shall new luster boast,
Win a rictore' wreaths and monarchs' gems

Shall blend in common dust.

5 Blest Saviour, introduced by thee,

Have I my race begun ;
And, crowned with victory, at thy feet

I'll lay my honors down.

PIIILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title : Pressing on in the (Christian Race.
It is founded upon Phil, iii, 12-14 :

"Not as though I had already attained, either
were already perfect : but I follow alter, it that I
may apprehend that for which also I am appre-
hended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not
myself to have apprehended : but this one thing I
do, forgetting those things which are behind, and
reaching forth unto those things which are before,
1 press toward the mark for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus."

Unaltered and entire from Hymns Founded on,
Various Texts in the Holy Scriptures, 1755.
For biographical sketch of author, see iso. 78.

595 Xot ashamed of the Gospel. C. AL

I'M not ashamed to own my Lord,
Or to defend his cause ;
Maintain the honor of his word,
The glory of his cross.

2 Jesus, my God! I know his name;
His name is all ray trust;

Nor will he put my soul to shame,
Nor let my hope be lost.

3 Firm as his throne his promise stands,
And he can well secure

What I've committed to his hands,
Till the decisive hour.

4 Then will he own my worthless name
Before his Father's face,

And in the New Jerusalem
Appoint my soul a place.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : Not Ashamed of the Gospel.
Written upon 2 Tim. i, 12 :

" I am not ashamed ; for 1 know whom I have
believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep
that which I have committed unto him against that
day."

Unaltered and entire from Hymns and Spiritual
Sonus, book i, 1707.

232

HYMN STUDIES.

596 To doubt, disloyal. C. M.

OIT is hard to work for God,
To rise and take his part
Upon this battle-field of earth,
And not sometimes lose heart !

2 He hides himself so wondrously,
As though there were no God ;

He is least seen when all the powers
Of ill are most abroad;

3 Or he deserts us in the hour
The fight is all but lost ;

And seems to leave us to ourselves
Just when we need him most.

4 It is not so, but so it looks ;
And we lose courage then;

And doubts will come if God hath kept
His promises to men.

5 But right is right, since God is God;
And right the day must win ;

To doubt would be disloyalty.
To falter would be sin !

FREDERICK W. FABER.

Part of a loner livmn, eighteen stanzas, entitled
The Eight Must, Win.

These are verses one, two, three, six, and eighteen.
No 591 is part of the same. The last stanza i* par-
ticularly fine.

From the author's Hymn*. London, 1862.

For biographical sketch ot'Faber, see No. 125.

597 WeeJc-day worship. CM.

BEHOLD us, Lord, a little space
From daily tasks set free,
And met within thy holy place
To rest awhile with thee.

2 Around us rolls the ceaseless tide
Of business, toil, and care.

And scarcely can we turn aside
For one brief hour of prayer.

3 Yet these are not the only walls
"Wherein thou mayst be sought;

On homeliest work thy blessing falls
In truth and patience wrought.

4 Thine is the loom, the forge, the mart,
The wealth of land and sea ;

The worlds of science and of art,
Revealed and ruled by thee.

5 Then let us prove our heavenly birth
In all we do and know;

And claim the kingdom of the earth
For thee, and not thy foe.

6 Work shall be prayer, if all be wrought
As thou wouldst have it done ;

And prayer, by thee inspired and taught,
Itself with work be done.

JOHN ELLERTON.

Written in 1870 for a midday service in a city
church. It is unaltered and complete.
For sketch of author, see No. 60. .

598 More reapers. C. M.

0 STILL in accents sweet and strong
Sounds forth the ancient word,
" More reapers for white harvest fields,
More laborers for the Lord ! "

2 We hear the call ; in dreams no more
In selfish ease we lie,

But girded for our Father's work,
Go forth beneath his sky.

3 Where prophets' word, and martyrs'

blood,
And prayers of saints were sown,
We, to their labors entering in,

Would reap where they have strown.

SAMUEL LONGFELLOW.

Title : Behold the Fields are White.

The closing stanza, for some reason, is omitted :

4 " O Thou whose call our hearts has stirred !
To do Thy will we come ;

Thrust in our sickles at Thy word,
And bear our harvest home."

Unaltered. It was contributed to Hymns of the
Spirit, which the author compiled, in connection
with the Rev. Samuel Johnson, in 1664

See No. 109.

599 Thi Christian warrior. L. M.

BEHOLD the Christian warrior stand
In all the armor of his God ;
The Spirit's sword is in his hand,
His feet are with the gospel shod;

2 In panoply of truth complete,
Salvation's helmet on his head;

With righteousness a breast-plate meet,
And faith's broad shield before him
spread.

HYMN STUDIES.

233

3 Undaunted to the field he goes;
Yet vain were -kill and valor there,

Unless, to foil bis Legion foes,

He takes the trustiest weapon, prayer.

4 Thus, strong in his Redeemer's strength,

Sin. death, and hell, he tramples down;
Fights the good light, and wins at length,
Through mercy, an immortal crown.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

5 For who by faith your Lord receive,
Ye nothing seek or want beside;

Dead to the world and sin ye live,

Your creature-love is crucified.

u' Your real life, with Christ concealed,
Deep in the Father's bosom lies;

And glorious as your Head revealed,
Ye soon shall meet him in tin,' skies.
CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: The Christian Soldier. Eph. vi, 10-18.
Two line.'-, have been altered. The first was :

" The Christian warrior — see him stand."
The last line of the third stanza was :
" The trustiest weapon were ' all prayer.' "

The third, fourth, and sixth stanzas have been
omitted :

3 " He wrestles not with flesh and blood,
But principalities and powers,

Rulers of darkness, like a flood,
Nigh, and assailing at all hours.

4 " Nor Satan's fiery darts alone,
Quenched on his shield, at him are hurled ;

The traitor in his hcait is known,
And the dire friendship of this world."

6 " With this omnipotence he moves,

From this the alien armies flee,
Till, more than conqueror, he proves,

Through Christ, who gives him victory."

From the Christian Psalmist, 1825.
See No. 5.

600 l.

Your life is hid with Christ in God.

YE faithful souls who Jesus know,
If risen indeed with him ye are,
Superior to the joys below,

His resurrection's power declare.

2 Your faith by holy tempers prove,
By actions show your sins forgiven,

And seek the glorious things above,

And follow Christ, your Head, to heaven.

3 There your exalted Saviour see,
Seated at God's righl hand again,

In all his Father's majesty,
In everlasting pomp to reign.

4 To him continually aspire.
Contending for your native place;

And emulate the angel choir,
And only live to love and praise.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy
.s\ • iptures, IT1'*-.
This was written on Col. iii, 1-4:

" If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those
things which arc above, where Christ sitteth on the
right hand of God. Set your affection on things
above, not on thing, v on the earth. For ye are dead,
and your life is hid with Christ in Grod. When
Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye
also appear with him in glory."

It has not beeu altered.

601

Take up thy cross.

L. M.

ii rTlAKE up thy cross," the Saviour said,

J_ "If thou wouldst my disciple be;
Deny thyself, the world forsake,
And humbly follow after me."

2 Take up thy cross ; let not its weight
Fill thy weak spirit with alarm ;

His strength shall bear thy spirit up,

And brace thy heart and nerve thine arm.

3 Take up thy cross, nor heed the shame;
Nor let thy foolish pride rebel;

Thy Lord for thee the cross endured,
To save thy soul from death and hell.

4 Take up thy cross, then, in his strength,
And calmly every danger brave;

Twill guide thee to a better home,
And lead to victory o'er the grave.

5 Take up thy cross, and follow Christ;
Nor think till death to lay it down;

For only he who bears the cross

May hope to wear the glorious crown.

CHARLES W. EVEREST.

The Scripture basis is Matt, xvi, 24 :

" If any man will come after me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."

I have not been able to verify the reputed author-
ship of this hymn.

234

HYMN STUDIES.

T hue Rev. Charles William Everest (1814r-l 877) was
a native ol' Connecticut; was graduated at Trinity
College in 183S ; was rector at Hartford and in other
places; and edited a volume entitled The I'oets of
Connecticut. Hartford, 1843. He was also the au-
thor of Vision of Death, and Other Items.

602 The sure reward. L. M.

IT may not be our lot to wield
The sickle in the ripened field ;
Nor ours to hear, on summer eves,
The reaper's song among the sheaves.

2 Yet where our duty's task is wrought
In unison with God's great thought,
The near and future blend in one,
And whatsoe'er is willed, is done.

3 And ours the grateful service whence
Comes, day by day, the recompense ;
The hope, the trust, the purpose stayed,
The fountain, and the noonday shade.

4 And were this life the utmost span,
The only end and aim of man,
Better the toil of fields like these
Than waking dreams and slothful ease.

5 But life, though falling like our grain,
Like that revives and springs again;
And, early called, how blest are they
Who wait in heaven, their harvest day !

JOHN G. WHITTIER.

Author's title; Seed-time and Harvest.
The first three stanzas of the original poem are
omitted :

" As o'er his furrowed fields which lie
Beneath a coldly-dropping sky,
Yet chill with winter's milted snow,
The husbandman goes forth to sow.

" Thus. Freedom, on the bitter blast
The ventures of thy seed we cast,
And trust to warmer sun and rain
To swell the germ, and fill the grain.

" Who calls thy glorious service hard?
Who (hems it not its own reward?
Who, for its trials, counts it less
A cause of praise and thankfulness?"

Then follows the hymn.

The thought of the' poet is a true and very com-
forting one, that God will reward those who try to
servo him ; even though they may not succeed ac-
cording to their expectations.

Unaltered. From the author's Jiliscellaneous
Poems.

See No. 197.

603 Zeal in labor. L. M.

GO, labor on; spend and be spent,
Thy joy to do the Father's will ;
It is the way the Master went;

Should not the servant tread it still?

2 Go, labor on ; 'tis not for naught ;
Thine earthly loss is heavenly gain;

Men heed thee, love thee, praise thee not;
The Master praises, — what are men?

3 Go, labor on; your hands are weak;
Your knees are faint, your soul east down ;

Yet falter not; the prize you sick
Is near, — a kingdom and a crown!

4 Toil on, faint not; keep watch, and pray!
Be wise the erring soul to win;

Go forth into the world's highway;
Compel the wanderer to come in.

5 Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice ;
For toil comes rest, for exile home;

Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom's voice,
The midnight peal, "Behold, I come!"

HORATIl'S BOKAR.

Original title : The Useful Life.
Three stanzas, the third, fifth, and sixth, aro
omitted :

3 " Go, labor on ; enough while here,
If He shall i 'raise thee, if he deign

Thy willing heart to mark and cheer;
No toil for llim shall be in vain."

5 " Go, labor on ; while it is day,

The world's dark night is hastening on;
Speed, speed thy work, east sloth away :
It is not thus that souls are won.

6 " Men die in darkness at your sido,
Without a hope to elu er the tomb ;

Take up the torch and wave it wide,
The torch that lights time's thickest .gloom."

Unaltered. From the author's Hymns of Faith
and Hope, first series, 1857.
See No. 426.

604 Kot ashamed of Jisj/s. L. M.

JESUS, and shall it ever be,
A mortal man ashamed of thee?
Ashamed of thee, whom angels praise,
Whose glories shine through endless days?

2 Ashamed of Jesus! sooner far
Let evening blush to own a star;
He sheds the beams of lighl divine
O'er this benighted soul of mine.

HYMN STUDIES.

2:{r>

;{ Ashamed of Jesus! just as soon
Let midnight be ashamed of noon;
Tis midnight with my soul till he,
Bright Morning Star, bid darkness flee.

4 Ashamed of Jesus! that dear Friend
On whom my hopes of heaven depend!
No; when I blush, be this my shame,
That I no more revere his name.

5 Ashamed of Jesus! yes, I may,
When I've no guilt to wash away;
No tear to wipe, no good to crave,
No fears to quell, no soul to save.

6 Till then — nor is my boasting vain —
Till then I boast a Saviour slain ;
And O, may this my glory he,

That Christ is not ashamed of me !

JOSEPH GRIGG,
ALT. BY B. FRANCIS.

The merits of the piece belong largely to the orig-
inal author who composed it — it id said — when only
ten years of age.

OUIOIXAL.

Ashamed of Me. Mark vhi, 3S.

1 Jesus ! and shall it ever be !

A mortal Man asham'd of Thee?

Soora'd be the Thought by Rich and Poor;

0 may I scorn it more and more !

2 Asham'd of Jesus ! sooner far
Let Bv'ning blush to own a Star.
Asham'd of Jesus ! just as soon

Let Midnight blush to think of Noon.

3 'Tis Evening with my Soul till lie,
That Morning-Star bids Darkness flee ;
He sheds the Beam of Noon divine
O'er all this Midnight Soul of mine.

4 Asham'd of Jesus! shall yon Field
Blush when it thinks who bids it yield?
Yet blush I must, while I adore,

1 blush to think I yield no more.

5 Asham'd of Jesus ! of that Friend,

On whom, for Heaven, my Hopes depend;
It must not be — be this inv Shame,
That I no more revere His Name.

6 Asham'd of Jesus ! yes, 1 may,
When I've no Crimes to wash away;
No Tear to wipe, no Joy to crave,
No Fears to quell, no Soul to save.

7 'Till then, (nor is the Boasting vain,)
'Till then I boast a Saviour slain :
And (), may this my Portion be,
That Saviour not asham'd of me!

It was published in a pamphlet entitled Four
Hymns on Divine Subjects, 1765.

Joseph Qrigg was born in humble circumstances,
and in early life was a mechanic Lie was a deeply
pious man, and ibr a Dumber oi years (1748 1747)

was assistant pastor of a Presbyterian ahuroh iu
London. He died in 1708.

605 Living to Christ. L .M.

MY gracious Lord, 1 own thy right
To every service I can pay,
And call it my supreme delight
To hear thy dictates, and obey.

2 What is my being hilt for thee,
Its sure support, its noblest end?

'Tis my delight thy face to see,

And serve the cause of such a Friend.

3 I would not sigh for worldly joy,
Or to increase my worldly good;

Nor future days nor powers employ
To spread a sounding name abroad.

4 'Tis to my Saviour I would live,
To him who for my ransom died;

Nor could all worldly honor give
Such bliss as crowns me at his side.

5 His work my hoary age shall bless,
When youthful vigor is no more;

And my last hour of life confess
His dying love, his saving power.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title : Christ's Service, the Fruit of our Labors on
Earth. Phil. i. 22.

This hymn has been altered considerably since it
was first published by Job Orton, in 1755. The
third line in the second stanza was originally :

" Thine ever-smiling Face to see."

The first line of the third stanza :

" I would not breathe for worldly Joy ; "

and the last part of the fourth stanza :

" Nor could untainted Eden give
Such Bliss as Blossoms at his Side."

The last line of the hymn read :

" His Love hath animating Power.?'

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 78.

606 Beginning the labors of the day. L. M.

FORTH in thy name, O Lord, I go,
My daily labors to pursue;
Thee, only thee, resolved to know,
In all I think, or speak, or do.

236

IIYMN STUDIES.

2 Thee will I set at my right hand,
Whose eyes mine inmost substance see;

And labor on at thy command,
And offer all my works to thee.

3 Give me to bear thy easy yoke,
And every moment watch ar.d pray;

And still to things eternal look.
And hasten to thy glorious day.

4 For thee delightfully employ
Whate'er thy bounteous grace hath given ;

And run my course with even joy.
And closely walk with thee to heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Before Work:.

The Si cond and third stanzas of the original are
omitted :

2 " The task Thv wisdom hath assigned,
O let me cheerfully fulfil,

In all my works Thy presence find,
And prove Thine acceptable will.

3 " Preserve me from my calling's snare,
And hide my simple heart above.

Above the thorns of choking care,
The gilded baits of worldly love."

The author wrote " Thee may I set," etc., in
the second stanza.
.From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

607 The Master calling. 8, 7.

HARK, the voice of Jesus calling,
" Who will go and work to-day ?
Fields are white, and harvests waiting,

Who will bear the sheaves away ? "
Loud and long the Master calleth,

Rich reward he offers free;
Who will answer, gladly saying,
" Here am I, send me, send me ?"

2 Let none hear you idly saying,

"There is nothing I can do,"
While the souls of men are dying,

And the Master calls for you:
Take the task he gives you gladly;

Let his work your pleasure be;
Answer quickly when he calleth,

"Here am I, send me, send me."

DANIEL If ARCH.

Only one word has been altered. The first line
was originally :

" Hark the voice of Jcmis crying."

Two stanzas, the second and third, with which

tht' author ha* very kindly furnished me, have been
omitted :

2 " If you cannot cross the ocean
And the heathen lands explore,

You can find the needy nearer,
You can help them at your door;

If you cannot give your thousands,
You can L'ivc the widow's mite,

And the least you give for Jesus
Will be precious in his sight.

3 " If you cannot speak like angels,
If you cannot preach like Paul,

You COD tell the love of JeSUS,
You can say he died for all ;

If you cannot rouse the wicked
With the judgment's dread alarms,

You can lead the little children
To the Saviour's waiting arms."

The history of this hymn is as follows:
In ls,6s the author was a pastor in Philadelphia.
On the 18th of October he was to preach, bj re-
quest, to the Christian Association of that city.
At a late hour he learned that one of the hyiniH
selected was not suitable. His text won, " line
am I; send me.'" Isa. vi, 8. In "great haste,"
lie savs, he wrote the hymn, and it was suiil' I'm in
the manuscript.

The Rev. Daniel March, P.D., a Congregational
clergyman, was born in 181ft. He is the author < f
Night Scenes in the Bible, and of other prot^c
works.

608 Faith of our fathers. L. SI .01.

FAITH of our fathers! living still
In spite of dungeon, fire, and sword:
0 how our hearts heat high with joy

Whene'er we hear that glorious word:
Faith of our fathers! holy faith]
We will be true to thee till death!

2 Our fathers, chained in prisons dark.
Were still in heart and conscience free:

How sweet would be their children's fate.

If they, like them, could die for thee!
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death !

3 Faith of our fathers! we will love
Both friend and foe in till our strife;

And preach thee, too. as love knows how,

By kindly words and virtuous life:
Faith of our fathers! holy faith!
We will be true to thee till death!

FREDERICK W. FABEH.

From Jena and .Vary ; or. Catholic Tlymn* for
Singing anTA Heading, by Frederick W. Fai>cr,
1849.

There are four stanzas in the original. 'I he*
are verses one, two, and four, verbatim.

IIV.VX STUDIES.

287

The third st;mz:i is omitted for evident reasons :

•' Faith of our fathers ! Mary's prayers
Shall win < > 1 1 r country baas t<> thee ;

And through the truth that comes from God,
England aha]! then indeed be free.

Faith of our fathers ! Holy Faith !

We will be truo to the.- till death ! "

- '• V.T..

609 Thy service is perfect freedom. 7, 6, S.

LO! I come with joy to do
The Master's blessed will \

Him in outward works pursue,

And serve his pleasure still.
Faithful to my Lord's commands,

I still would choose the better part,
Serve with careful Martha's hands,

And loving Mary's heart.

2 Careful, without care I am,
Nor feel my happy toil,

Kept in peace by Jesus' name,

Supported by his smile:
Joyful thus my faith to show,

I find his service my reward;
Every work I do below,

I do it to the Lord.

3 O that all the art might know
Of living thus to thee,

Find their heaven begun below,

And here thy glory see!
Walk in all the works prepared

By thee, to exercise their grace,
Till they gain their full reward,

And see thy glorious face !

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: For a Believer. In Worldly Business.
six stanzas. The third, fourth, and fifth are
omitted, but they are too good to be forgotten:

3 " Thou, O Lord, in tender love
Dost all my burdens bear,

Lift my heart to things above,

And fix it ever there :
Calm, on tumult's wheel, I sit,

'Midst busy multitudes, alone,
Sweetly waiting at Thy feet,

Till all Thy will be done.

4 " To the desert or the cell,
Let others blindlv fly,

In this evil world I dwell,

Unhurt, unspotted, I:
Here I find an house of prayer,

To whieh I inwardly retire,
Walking unconcerned in care,

And uuconsumed in fire.

5 "Thou. <> Lord, mj portion art,
Before 1 hence remove !

Now my treasure and mj heart

Is all laid up above :
Far above these earthly things,

While yet my hands are here employed,
- my soul the Kiii^r of kings
And freely talks with Q "1."

From Hymns for Tim** that Suh and Those that
ili', Bedemmtion in the Blood of Jesus Christ.
London, 1747.

6 1 0 A calm and thankful heart. CM.

F ATI IKK, whate'er of earthly bliss
Thy sovereign will denies,
Accepted at thy throne of grace,
Let this petition rise:

2 Give me a calm, a thankful heart,
From every murmur free ;

The blessings of thy grace impart,
And make me live to thee.

3 Let the sweet hope that thou art mine
My life and death attend ;

Thy presence through my journey shine,
And crown my journey's end.

ANNE STEELE.

Title: Desiring Resignation and Tiiankfulness.
Ten stanzas. These are the last three. Three
lines have been altered.

ORIGINAL.

Veree one, line one :

" And 0, whate'er of earthly bliss."

Verse three, line two :

" My path of life attend."

Verse three, line four :

" And bless its happy end."

The end of the author's life was indeed " happy."
Dr. Caleb Evans, her biographer, says: "She took
the most affectionate leave of her weeping friends
around her, and, at length, the happy moment of
her dismission arriving, she closed her eyes, and,
with these animating words on her dying lips, ' I
know that my Redeemer liveth,' gently fell asleep
in .Jesus."

The whole hymn is found in Poems on Subjects
Chiefly Devotional^ by Theodosia. London, 1760.

For biographical sketch, see No. 63.

Q \ X The only solace in sorrow. C. M.

OTIIOU who driest the mourner's tear,
How dark this world would be,
If, when deceived and wounded here,
We could not fly to thee !

238

HYMN STUDIES.

2 The friends who in our sunshine live,
When winter comes, are flown;

And lie who lias but tears to give,
Must weep those tears alone.

$ But thou wilt heal that broken heart,
"Which, like the plants that throw

Their fragrance from the wounded part,
Breathes sweetness out of woe.

4 O who could bear life's stormy doom,
Did not thy wing of love

Come brightly waiting through the gloom,
Our peace-branch from above '{

5 Then sorrow, touched by thee, grows

bright
With more than rapture's ray;
As darkness shows us worlds of light
We never saw by day.

THOMAS MOORE.

One of the author's Sacred Songs, founded on
Psa. cxlvii, 3 :

" He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up
their wounds.''

One quatrain has been left out; its place is be-
tween the third and fourth stanzas:

" When joy no longer soothes or cheers,

And e'en the hope that threw
A moment's sparkle o'er our tears

Is dimmed and vanished too."

ThomaR Moore, author of Lalla Iiookh and the
Irish Melodies, was born in Dublin in 177'J ; was
graduated at Dublin University, and subsequently
studied law. Many of Moore's poems are of little
value, yet he possessed great genius and all the
qualities that are required in a great poet-, except
true religion. Were we to judge from his Sacred
Songs aione, he was not altogether a stranger to
that. For example :

" The bird let loose in eastern skies."
And

" As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean."

There are no lines in English poetry more tender
and devout than these two lyric gems.

Moore died in Is.Vj, and his memoirs were edited
by Lord John Russell.

From The Poetical I f<< rtoof Thomas Moore, cor-
rected by himself. London, 1868.

Consolation in sickness.

612

WHEN languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay,
'Tis sweet to look beyond my pains,
And long to fly away;

C. M.

2 Sweet to look inward, and attend
The whispers of His love ;

Sweet to look upward, to the place
Where Jesus pleads above ;

3 Sweet to look back, and see my name
In life's fair book set down ;

Sweet to look forward, and behold
Eternal joys my own;

4 Sweet to reflect how grace divine
My sins on Jesus laid;

Sweet to remember that his blood
My debt of suffering paid ;

5 Sweet to rejoice in lively hope,
That, when my change shall come,

Angels shall hover round my bed,
And waft my spirit home.

6 If such the sweetness of the stream,
What must the fountain be,

Where saints and angels draw their bliss
Directly, Lord, from thee!

AUGUSTUS M. TOPLADY.

Title : My Meditation of Him shall be Stceet.
Psa. civ, 34.

The original has fifteen stanzas. These are the
first four, the eighth, and fourteenth. Two slight
changes have been made.

The third line of the first verse Toplady wrote :

" Tis sweet to look beyond my Cage."
and the last line of verse six :
"Immediately from thee."

This " sweet " hymn was written in illness, and
sent to the Countess of Huntingdon by Toplady.
It may be called the dying testimony of the author
of Rock of Ages.

From Toplady's Works. See No. 415.

613 Friend of souls. C. M.

0 FRIEND of souls ! how blest the time
When in thy love I rest,
When from my weariness I climb
E'en to thy tender breast!

2 The night of sorrow endeth there,
Thy rays outshine the sun,

And in thy pardon and thy care
The heaven of heavens is won.

3 The world may call itself my foe,
Or flatter and allure :

I care not for the world ; I go
To this tried Friend and sure.

nr.vx studi /■:.<.

239

4 And when life's fiercest storms an

Upon life's wildest sea.

My little bark is confident,
Because it holdeth thee.

5 To others, death seems d:irk and grim,
But not, < ) Lord, to me:

I know then Hi "> t forsakest him

Who puts big trust in thee.

C Nay, rather, with a joyful heart
I welcome the release

From this dark desert, and depart
To thy eternal peace.

WOLFGANG C. DE8SLER.

In T%jf presence isfvOnett of joy ; at Thy right
hand there are pleasures for t verm ire. Psalm xvi,
11.

This transmit! m is found in Christ in Song.
edited by Dr. Philip Behalf, and is evidently based
upon the translation of Miss Catharine Win&worth,
in Lyra Oermaniea, firsts -

For biographical sketch of Dessler, see No. 44S.

614 Unfaltering trust. CM.

FATHER of love, our Guide and Friend.
O lead us gently on,
Until life's trial-time shall end,
And heavenly peace be won.

2 We know not what the path may be
As yet by us untrod :

But we can trust our all to thee,
Our Father and our God.

3 If called, like Abraham's child, to climb
The hill of sacrifice,

Some angel may be there in time ;
Deliverance shad arise:

4 Or, if some darker lot be good,
O teach us to endure

The sorrow, pain, or solitude,
That make the spirit pure.

5 Christ by no flowery pathway came;
And we, his followers here.

Must do thy will and praise thy name,
In hope, and love, and fear.

6 And, till in heaven we sinless bow,
And faultless anthems raise,

O Father, Son, and Spirit, now
Accept our feeble praise.

WILLIAM J. IRONS.

Original title: Father of Love.

" Doubtless thou art our Father." Isa. Ixiii, in.

This i- and entire as found in ftalms

nn,l Hymns for the Church, written by William J
lions, D.D.* London, 1875.

For sketch of author , see 2\o. 225.

bl5 Crosses and blessings. C. M.

C1INCE all the varying scenes of time

kj God's watchful eye surveys,
( > who so wise to choose our lot,
Or to appoint our ways.'

2 Good, when he gives — supremely good,
Nor less when he denies;

E'en crosses, from his sovereign hand,
Are blessings in disguise.

3 Why should we doubt a Father's love,
So constant and so kind ?

To his unerring, gracious will
Be every wish resigned.

JAMES IIERVEY, ALT.

This hymn is found in a forgotten book : Reflec-
tions on a Flower- Garden. In a Letter to a Lady.
It is usually found in connection with the author's
once famous Meditations <ual Contemplations, 174fi.

The hymn is prefaced with this "reflection: "

"Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal: know that
God is unerringly wise, and be assured that, amidst
the greatest multiplicity of beings, he does not
overtook thee."

Verses two and three have changed places,
Oiiginal of altered lines.

Verse one, line one :

" Since all the downward tracts of time."
Verse one, line four :

" And regulate our ways."

Verse three, lines one and two :

" Since none can doubt his equal love. •
Immeasurably kind."

The Rev. James Hervey lived from 1713 to 1758.
He was graduated at < Ixford, entered the ministry as
a clergyman of the Church of England, and was the
author of several works which, in their day, were
c^ .nsidered valuable.

C. M.

616 Habitual devotion.

WHILE thee I seek, protecting Power
Be my vain wishes stilled;
And may this consecrated hour
With better hopes be filled.

240

HYMN STUDIES.

2 Thy love the power of thought bestowed ;
To thee my thoughts would soar;

Thy mercy o'er my life has flowed;
That, mercy I adore.

3 In each event of life, how clear
Thy ruling hand I see!

Each blessing to my soul more dear,
Because conferred by thee.

4 In every joy that crowns my days,
In every pain I bear,

My heart shall rind delight in praise,
Or seek relief in prayer.

5 When gladness wings my favored hour,
Thy love my thoughts shall fill;

Resigned, when storms of sorrow lower,
My soul shall meet thy will.

6 My lifted eye, without a tcai-,
The gathering storm shall see:

My steadfast heart shall know no fear;
That heart will rest on thee.

IIELEN M. WILLIAMS.

This hymn is full of submission, and of faith in
God.

Miss Helen Maria Williams was born in England
in 17*52, and lived until 1827. She gained an early
and wide reputation by her writing in prose and

£oetry. Miss Williams's poems were published in
lOndon in 1786 in two small volumes. Two words
only have been altered :

The author wrpte "powers of thought " in the
second stanza, and "lour'rvng storm" instead of
"gathering " in the last sianz'a.

Ol7 Acquiescence in the Divine will. CM.

AUTHOR of good, we rest on thee:
Thine ever watchful eye
Alone our real wants can sec,
Thine hand alone supply.

2 In thine all-gracious providence

Our cheerful hopes confide;
O let thy power be our defense,

Thy love our footsteps guide.

:? And since, by passion's force subdued,

Too oft. with stubborn will,
We blindly shun the latent good,

And grasp the specious ill, —

4 Not what we wish, but what we want,

Let mercy still supply :
The good we ask not, Father, grant ;

The ill we ask. deny.

JAMES MEKIUCK, ALT.

Author's title: The Tgnorana "/Man.
This is a. part of a longer hymn, beginning :

" Behold yon new-born infant grieved."

Il has been altered in nearly every line.

The Kev. James Merrick (1720-1769) was or-
dained priest in the Church of England, but his
health never permitted him to do pastoral work.
He was the author of several hooks, of which tho
best known are Poems on Sacred Suhjects, and The
Iltalms, Translated or Paraph rased in Enijlish Verse,
1765.

D 1 O Overwhelming grief. C. M.

OTHOU, who in the olive shade,
When the dark hour came on,
Didst, with a breath of heavenly aid,
Strengthen thy suffering Son, —

2 O by the anguish of that night,
Send us down blest relief;

Or, to the chastened, let thy might
Hallow this whelming grief.

3 And thou, that, when the starry sky
Saw the dread strife begun,

Didst teach adoring faith to cry,
"Father, thy will be done," —

4 By thy meek Spirit, thou, of all
That e'er have mourned the chief.

Blest Saviour, if the stroke must fall.
Hallow this whelming grief.

MUS. FELICIA D. IIEMANS, ALT.

The author's title was : Hymn by the Sick Bed of a
Mother.

It was written in 1820, and published first in
Hymns for Children. It begins:

" Father who in," etc.

The meter has been changed from particular to
common by the addition of two syllables to the
last line of each stanza. The words inserted are
"suffering" in the first Btauzu, "whelming" in
the second and fourth, and " Father" in the third.

These changes were probably made by the editor*
of the 1849 edition.

Mrs. Felicia Dorothea Ilemans was born at Liver-
pool in 1798. Her educational advantages were
very limited; but she was a great reader and student
all her life. She Iwgan to write very early, and in
1808, when only fourteen years of aire, published a
volume, entitled .hirii.il, Jbems. From this time
until her death, in 1835. she wrote and published
many volumes. Her maiden name was Browne.
She married Captain Ilemans, of the militia, in
1812. Mrs. Hcmans ranks among the first lyrical
poets.

HYMN STUDIES.

241

619 BememXurmtl CM.

OTIIOU from whom all goodness flows,
I lift my soul to thee;
In all my Borrows, conflicts, woes,
Dear Lord, remember me.

9 If, for thy sake, upon my name

Heproacb and shame shall be,
I'll hail reproach, and welcome shame,

If thou remember me.

3 When worn with pain, disease, and

grief.
This feeble body see;
Grant patience, rest, and kind relief;
Hear, and remember me.

4 When, in the solemn hour of death,
I wait thy just decree,

Saviour, with my last parting breath,
I'll cry, "Remember me."

5 And when before thy throne I stand,
And lift my soul to thee,

Then, with the saints at thy right hand,
O Lord, remember me.

THOMAS IIAWEIS, ALT.

" Remember me, 0 my God, for good.'1'' Neh.
xiii, 31.

The original (1792) has six stanzas. The?e are
verses one, live, tour, and six, altered. Verses two
and three of the original are omitted. The last
stanza has been added by another writer.

The author wrote, verse one, line two :

" I lift my heart to thee."
Verse two, lines one, two, and three :

" If on in y face for thy dear Name,

Shame and reproaches l>e ;
All hail reproach and welcome shame."

Verse three, line one :

" Dittrett with pain, disease, and grief."

Verse four, lines one and two :

" The hour is near, consign' d to death,
I own the just decree."

Omitted stanzas:

2 " When groaninsr on my bnrden'd heart,
My sins lie heavily ;

My pardon speak, new peace impart,
In love remember me.

3 " Temptations sore obstruct my way,
And iils I cannot flee;

Oeive rne strength, Lord, as my day,
For good remember me."
lrj

From CtinniiKi ('risto; or, Hymns to the Saviour,
IT'.iJ. Another edition, enlarged, was published in
1808.

See No. 270.

D/&0 fight at evening. CM.

WE journey through a vale of tears,
By many a cloud o'ercast ;
And worldly cares and worldly fears,
Go with us to the last.

2 Not to the last ! Thy word hath said,
Could we but read aright,

" Poor pilgrim, lift in hope thy head,
At eve it shall be light ! "

3 Though earthborn shadows now may

shroud
Thy thorny path awhile,
God's blessed word can part each cloud,
And bid the sunshine smile.

4 Only believe, in living faith,
His love and power divine;

And ere thy sun shall set in death,
His light shall round thee shine.

5 When tempest clouds are dark on high,
His bow of love and peace

Shines sweetly in the vaulted sky,
A pledge that storms shall cease.

6 Hold on thy way, with hope unchilled,
By faith and not by sight,

And thou shalt own his word fulfilled,
" At eve it shall be light."

BEKNARD BARTON.

The author's title was : Hope for the Mourner.

" But it shall come to pass, that at evening time
it shall be light." Zech. xiv, 7.

There are slight changes in two stanzas.
Verse two, line four:

" At eve there shall be light."

Verse five, line four :

" Betokening storms shall cease."

From the writer's Household Verses, 1845.
For biographical sketch, see No. 507.

621 Grateful acknowledgment. CM.

I LOVE the Lord: he heard my cries,
And pitied every groan ;
Long as I live, when troubles rise,
I'll hasten to his throne.

242

HYMN STUDIES.

2 I love the Lord: he bowed his ear,
And chased my grief away ;

O let my heart no more despair,
While I have breath to pray.

3 The Lord beheld me sore distressed;
He bade my pains remove;

Return, my soul, to God thy rest,
For thou hast known his love.

ISAAC WATTS.

The author's title was : Recovery from Sick-
ness.
Founded on the first part of Psa. cxvi :

" I love the Lord, because he hath heard my
voice and my supplications. Because he hath In
clined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon
him as long as I live. The sorrows of death com-
passed mo, and the pains of hell yat hold upon me :
I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon
the name of the Lord ; O Lord, I beseech thee, de-
liver ray soul. Gracious is the Lord, and right-
eous ; yea, our God is merciful. The Lord pre-
serveth the simple : I was brought low, and he
helped me. Return unto thv rest, O my soul; for
the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. For
thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eye*
from tears, and my feet from falling. I will walk
before the Lord in the land of the living."

Three stanzas, the third, fourth, and sixth, have
been omitted :

3 " My flesh declined, my spirits fell,
And I drew near the dead,

While inward pangs and fears of hell
Perplexed my wakeful head.

4 " My God, I cried, thy servant save,
Thou ever good and just,

Thy power can rescue from the grave,
Thy power is all my trust."

6 " My God hath saved my soul from death,

And <lried my falling tears,
Now to hi< praise I'll spend my breath,

And my remaining years."

The verses given are unaltered.
1719.

Published in

622 lie leadelh me. L. M.

HE leadeth me! O blessed thought!
O words with heavenly comfort
fraught !
Whate'cr I do, where'er I be,
Still 'tis God's hand that leadeth me.

He leadeth me, he leadeth me,
By his own hand he leadeth me:
His faithful follower I would be,
For by his hand he leadeth me.

2 Sometimes 'mid scenes of deepest gloom,
Sometimes where Eden's bowers bloom,
By waters still, o'er troubled sea, —

Still 'tis his hand that leadeth me!

3 Lord, I would clasp thy hand in mine,
Nor ever murmur nor repine,
Content, whatever lot I see,

Since 'tis my God that leadeth me !

4 And when my task on earth is done,
When, by thy grace, the victory's won,
E'en death's cold wave I will not flee,
Since God through Jordan leadeth me.

J. II. OILMOKE.

The seed-thought and title of this favorite hymn
is: "He leadeth me beside the still waters,'' I'sa.
xxiii, 2.

It was written in Philadelphia, 1861.
(Boston, Dec. 4, 1862,) in which it was signed
" Contocook."

The hymn is not altered, save that the last two
lines of the chorus have been added by another
hand.

The Rev. Joseph Henry Gilmore, a Baptist min-
ister, was born in 1834.

L.M.

ETERNAL Beam of light divine,
Fountain of unexhausted love,
In whom the Father's glories shine,

Through earth beneath, and heaven above ;

2 Jesus, the weary wanderer's rest,
Give me thy easy yoke to bear;

With steadfast patience arm my breast,
With spotless love and lowly fear.

3 Thankful I take the cup from thee,
Prepared and mingled by thy skill;

Though bitter to the taste it be,

Powerful the wounded soul to heal.

4 Be thou, O Rock of ages, nigh !

So shall each murmuring thought be gone,
And grief, and fear, and care shall fly,
As clouds before the midday sun.

5 Speak to my warring passions, " Peace."
Say to my trembling heart, " Be still;"

Thv power my strength and fortress is.
For all things serve thy sovereign will.

6 O Death! where is thy sting? Where now
Thy boasted victory, O Grave?

Who shall contend with God? or who
Can hurt whom God delights to save?

CIIAKLES WEBLEY.

HYMN STUDIES.

243

The author's title is : In Affliction.
The last three Btanzaa arc especially fine.
It is unaltered and entire.

From Jlymns and Sacred Poem*, 1739.

624 For sustaining grace. L.M.

MY hope, my all, my Saviour thou,
To thee, lo, now my soul I bow!
I feel the bliss thy wounds impart,
I rind thee, Saviour, in my heart.

i Be thou my strength, be thou my way.
Protect me through my life's short day:
In all my acts may wisdom guide.
And keep me, Saviour, near thy side.

3 In fierce temptation's darkest hour,
Save me from sin and Satan's power;
Tear every idol from thy throne.
And reign, my Saviour, reign alone.

4 My suffering time shall soon be o'er;
Then shall I sigh and weep no more:
My ransomed soul shall soar away.

To sing thy praise in endless day.

UNKNOWN.

In the Hymnal this is attributed to Thomas Coke,
but without sufficient warrant. It was supposed
for a Ion? time that the first official hymn book of
the M. E. Church was compiled by Bishops Coke
and Asbury. It has been shown that this book
was substantially a reprint of A Pocket Hymn
Book, published iu York, England, by Kobert
Spence. (Sixth edition, 1786.)

This hymn appears in the York book. One
(stanza, the third, has been omitted :

3 " Correct, reprove, and comfort me,
As I have need my .Saviour be;
And if I would from thee depart,
Then clasp me, Saviour, to thy heart.'"

625 Friend of tlu friendi 'ess. L. M.

GOD of mv life, to thee I call;
Afflicted, at thy feet I fall;
When the great water-floods prevail.
Leave not my trembling heart to fail.

2 Friend of the friendless and the faint.
Where should I lodge my deep complaint ?
Where, but with thee, whose open door
Invites the helpless and the poor?

3 Did ever mourner plead with thee,
And thou refuse that mourner's plea?
Does not the promise still remain,
That none shall seek thy face in vain?

4 Poor I may be, despised, forgot,
Yet God, my God, forgets me not ;

And he is safe, and must succeed,
For whom the Saviour deigns to plead.

WILLIAM COWPEIt.

The original title was: Looking Upwards in a
Sturm.

Two stanzas, the fourth and fifth, have beeD
omitted :

4 "That were a grief, I could not Lear,
Did'st thou not hear and answer praver;
But a prayer-hearing, answering God,
Supports me under every load.

5 " Fair is the lot that's cast for me;
I have an advocate with thee;
They whom the world caresses most,
Have no such privilege to boast."

The third line of the third verse was :
" Does not the word still fixed remain."

And the last line was :

" For whom the Lord vouchsafes to plead."

From Olney Hymns, 1779.
For biography, see No. 44.

626 In hope, believing against hope. L.M.

AWAY, my unbelieving fear!
Fear shall in me no more have place ;
My Saviour doth not yet appear,

He hides the brightness of his face :
But shall I therefore let him go,

And basely to the tempter yield?
No, in the strength of Jesus, no,
I never will give up my shield.

2 Although the vine its fruit deny,

Although the olive yield no oil,
The withering fig-trees droop and die,

The fields elude the tiller's toil,
The empty stall no herd afford,

And perish all the bleating race,
Yet will I triumph in the Lord, —

The God of my salvation praise.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is the first half of a hymn written upon
Hab. ill, 17, 18 :

14 Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither
sliall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive
shall fail, and the fields sliall yield no meat; the
flock sliall be cut off from the fold, and there shall
he no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the
Lord, I will joy in the (iod of my salvation."

It will he seen, by comparison, that the second
stanza is an excellent metrical rendering of this fine
Damage of 8criptare.

Unaltered, i roin Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

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HYMN STl/DIES.

627 Blessing for mourners. L. M.

DEEM not that they are blest alone
Whose days a peaceful tenor keep;
The anointed Son of God makes known,
A blessing for the eyes that weep.

2 The light of smiles shall fill again
The lids that overflow with tears ;

And weary hours of woe and pain
Are promises of happier years.

3 There is a day of sunny rest

For every dark and troubled night ;

And grief may bide an evenimr guest,

But joy shall come with early light.

4 Nor let the good man's trust depart,
Though life its common gifts deny,

Though with a pierced and broken heart,
And spurned of men, he goes to die.

5 For God has marked each sorrowing day,
And numbered every secret tear;

And heaven's long age of bliss shall pay
For all his children suffer here.

WILLIAM C. BRYANT.

Title : Blessed are Tliey that Mourn.

This hymn was written in 1620, tor a collection
to be used in the Rev. William Ware's — afterward
Dr. Bellows's — church in New York city.

The third line of the first stanza evidently
troubled the author considerably. As originally
written, it was:

" The God who loves our race has shown.'''

In his Poems (1854 edition) it was :

" The Poirer who pities man has shown."

In an autograph letter to a member of the com-
mittee that edited this Hymnal, he gave to it its
present form. It was his last revision. One stanza,
tho fourth, is omitted:

4 " And Thou, who o'er thy friend's low bier,
Sheddest the bitter drops like rain,

Hope that a brighter, happier sphere
Will give him to thy arms again."

For biographical sketch, see No. 201.

628 Resignation.

THY will be done ! I will not fear
The fate provided by thy love;
Though clouds and darkness shroud
here,
I know that all is bright above.

L. M.

2 The stars of heaven are shining on,
Though these frail eyes are dimmed with

tears ;
The hopes of earth indeed are gone,
But are not ours the immortal years?

3 Father, forgive the heart that clings,
Thus trembling, to the things of time ;

And bid my soul, on angel wings,
Ascend unto a purer clime.

4 There shall no doubts disturb its trust,
No sorrows dim celestial love;

But these afflictions of the dust,
Like shadows of the night, remove.

5 E'en now, above, there's radiant day,
While clouds and darkness brood below ;

Then, Father, joyful on my way
To drink the bitter cup I go.

JANE E. ROSCOE.

Title : Comfort in. Affliction.
The original began:

"My Father! when around me spread."

It contained eight stanzas. The first three have
been omitted. The last stanza of the hymn has
been altered. The author wrote it :

" That glorious hour will well repay
A life of toil and care and woe\

O Father, joyful on my way
To drink thy bitter cup 1 go ! "

Jane Elizabeth Roseoe, afterward Mrs. Ilorn-
blower, lived from 1793 until 1853.
This fine hymn, full of faith and resignation, wm

first published in Sabbath Recreations, edited bv
Emily Taylor, in 1829.

629 Sympathetic love. L. M.

LOVE divine, that stooped to share

Our sharpest pang, our bitterest tear!
On thee we cast each earthborn care;
AYe smile at pain while thou art near.

2 Though long the weary way we tread.
And sorrows crown each lingering year.

No path we shun, no darkness dread,
Our hearts still whispering, "Thou art
near ! "

3 When drooping pleasure turns to grief.
And trembling faith is changed to fear,

The murmuring wind, the quivering leaf,
Shall softly tell us, "Thou art near! "

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4 On thee we fling our burdening woe,

O Love divine, forever dear;
Content to Buffer while we know,

Living and dying, thou art near!

OLIVER W. IKU. mi -.

The original title was: Hymn of Trust.
It is unaltered and entire. From the author's
Rmni, 1862. V> ritten .
For biographical skutch, see No. 135.

630-// M /; be not afraid. Matt, xiv, 27. L. M.

WIIEX Power divine, in mortal form,
Hushed with a word the raging
storm,
In soothing accents Jesus said,
"Lo! it is I; be not afraid."

2 So when in silence nature sleeps,
And lonely watch the mourner keeps,
One thought shall every pang remove, —
Trust, feeble man, thy Maker's love.

3 God calms the tumult and the storm;
He rules the seraph and the worm:

No creature is by him forgot

Of those who know, or know him not.

4 And when the last dread hour is come,
And shuddering nature waits her doom,
This voice shall wake the pious dead,
"Lo! it is I; be not afraid."

SIR j. E. SMITH.

This hymn, founded on the words of the Master,
first appeared in Sabbath Recreations, (1829,) a
little book; edited by Miss Emily Taylor.

Instead of "lonely" in the "second stanza the
author wrote "hi* lone;" and instead of "wake"
in the fourh stanza the original has " call."

The third and fourth stanzas have been omitted:

3 "Bless'd be the voice that breathes from heaven,
To every heart in sunder riven,

When love, and joy, and hope are fled,
Lo ! it is I ; be not afraid.

4 " When men with fiend-like passions rajre,
And foes yet fiercer foes engage ;

Bless'd be the voice, though still and small,
That whispers, ' God is over all.' "

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 67.

bdl Meekness and patience. L. M.

THOU Lamb of God, thou Prince of peace,
For thee my thirsty soul doth pine;
My longing heart implores thy grace;
O make me in thy likeness shine.

'2 When pain o'er my weak flesh prevails,
With lamb-like patience arm my breast;

When grief my wounded BOUl assails,
In lowly meekness may I rest.

3 Close by thy side still may I keep,
How e'er life's various currents flow;

With steadfast eye mark every step,
And follow thee where'er thou go.

4 Thou, Lord, the dreadful fight hast won;
Alone thou hast the wine-press trod;

In me thy strengthening grace be shown:
O may I conquer through thy blood.

5 So, when on Zion thou shalt stand,
And all heaven's host adore their King,

Shall I be found at thy right hand,
And, free from pain, thy glories sing.

C. F. RICHTER. TK. BY J. WESLEY. .

Fmm the German, by the Rev. Christian Fried-
rich Riehter.
See No. 394.
This second stanza is omitted :

"With fraud less, even, humble Mind,
Thy Will in all Things may I see:

In Love be every Wish resign'd,
And hallow'd my whole Heart to thee."

This translation appeared in Wesley's//'^ hymn
book, edited and printed in America": Collection of
Ilsalms and Hymns. Charles-Town, 1737.

O «J ti Comfort in the promises. L. M.

OGOD, to thee we raise our eyes;
Calm resignation we implore;
O let no murmuring thought arise,
But humbly let us still adore.

2 With meek submission may we bear
Each needful cross thou shalt ordain;

Nor think our trials too severe,
Xor dare thy justice to arraign.

3 For though mysterious now thy ways
To erring mortals may appear,

Hereafter we thy name shall praise
For all our keenest sufferings here.

4 Thy needful help, O God, afford,
Nor let us sink in deep despair;

Aid us to trust thy sacred word.

And find our sweetest comfort there.

CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON.

The original title was: After the Death of M$
Dear Husband.

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HYMN STUDIES.

It was written in the first person :

11 Jiff God, to thee /raise mine eyes,"

and so on throughout the hymn. The only
other change is in verse four, line one :

" Noiv, Lord, thy needful aid afford."

From the author's Poems, Written on Different
Occasions, 1806.

In the preface the editor says : " Charlotte Smith
was born in the year 1775 under circumstances the
most unfavorable ; and it is probable that whatever
in her character or subsequent cnduct may have
been deserving of praise, has owed its origin to relig-
ious impressions early made upon her mind by the
pious conductors of a Sunday-school."

She had some small educational advantages in a
charity school, but at tlie age of sixteen went out
to service. In 1802 she married a Mr. Richardson,
and two years later was widowed. Her Poems
( thirty ->even pieces) were published by subscrip-
tion. They show but little poetic talent, yet mani-
fest true piety and great trust in God.

633 Believers encouraged. S. M.

YOUR harps, ye trembling saints,
Down from the willows take;
Loud to the praise of love divine
Bid every string awake.

2 Though in a foreign land,
We are not far from home ;

And nearer to our house above
We every moment come.

3 His grace will to the end
Stronger and brighter shine;

Nor present things, nor things to come,
Shall quench the spark divine.

4 When we in darkness walk,
Nor feel the heavenly flame,

Then is the time to trust our God,
And rest upon his name.

5 Soon shall our doubts and fears
Subside at his control;

His loving-kindness shall break through
The midnight of the soul.

6 Blest is the man, O God,
That stays himself on thee;

Who wait for their salvation, Lord,
Shall tliy salvation see.

AUGUSTUS M. TOPLADY.

Title : Weak liilierers Encouraged.
Part of a hymn of eight doable stanzas. These
verses are the first, the first half of the second,

the fourth, and the last half of the eighth, ■verba-
tim.

The whole poem can be found in the author's
Works, or in The Poetical Remains of Topladij, pub-
lished by Daniel Sedgwick. London, I860.

See No. 415.

634 With Christ. 8. M.

JESUS, one word from thee
Fills my sad soul with peace:
My griefs are like a tossing sea;
They hear thy voice and cease.

2 Soon as thy pitying face
Shone through my stormy fours,

The storm swept by, nor left a trace,
Save the sweet dew of tears.

3 And when thou call'st me, Lord,
Where thickest dangers be,

Even the waves a path afford ;
I walk the waves with thee.

4 With thee within my bark

I'll dare death's threatening tide,
Nor count the passage strange or dark
With Jesus by my side.

5 Dear Lord, thy faithful grace
I know and I adore :

What shall it be to see thy face
In heaven for evermore!

HEHVEY D. GANSE.

Written in 1872, and published first in the New
York Observe)-. It was afterward published in
Hymns and Songs of Praise, edited by Dm. Hitch-
cock, Eddy, and Sc'hatf, 1874.

It is unaltered and complete.

For sketch of author, see No. 2S3.

635 I>1 the Saviour's care. S. M.

MY spirit, on thy care,
Blest Saviour, I recline;
Thou wilt not leave me to despair,
For thou art Love divine.

2 In thee I place my trust,
On thee I calmly real ;

I know thee good, I know thee just,
And count thy choice the best.

3 Whate'er events betide,
Thy will they all perform;

Safe in thy breast my head I hide,
Nor fear the coming storm.

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4 Let good or ill befall,

It must be good for me;
Secure of having thee in all,
Of having all iu thee.

1IEXRY K. LYTE.

Written upon Psalm mi :

" In thee, 0 Lord, do I put my trust ; let me
never be ashamed," etc

Unaltered. From The Spirit of the Psalms, (third
edition, lsfi4.)

For biographical sketch of the author sec
No. 87.

■1 '• )\t Uarn in every state,

To make his will your own,
And when the ioya of sense depart,

To walk by laith uloiic."

It will be seen that the nr>t stanza is almost en-
tirely new, and that there are a number of word-
ohangee in the others. This was done by some
hymn-book editor.

For biography of Toplady, see No. 415.

t) 3 D Waiting by faith.

F, on a quiet sea,

S. M.

Toward heaven we calmly sail,
With grateful hearts, O God, to thee,
We'll own the favoring gale.

2 But should the surges rise,
And rest delay to come,

Blest be the tempest, kind the storm,
Which drives us nearer home.

3 Soon shall our doubts and fears
All yield to thy control ;

Thy tender mercies shall illume
The midnight of the soul.

4 Teach us, in every state,
To make thy will our own;

And when the joys of sense depart,
To live by faith alone.

AUGUSTUS M. TOPLADY, ALT.

Part of the hymn from which No. 633 is taken.

This hymn is made up of the last part of the sec-
ond stanza, first half of the third, last half of the
fourth, and the last half of the tilth — all of them
altered.

Original Stanzas.

1 " Fastened within the vail,
Hope be your anchor strong ;

His loving Spirit the sweet gale,
That wafts you smooth along.

2 "Or should the surges rise,
And peace delay to come ;

Blest is the sorrow, kind the storm
Thai drives us nearer home.

3 " Soon shall our doubts and feare,
Bubtidt nt his control :

Ilia loving-kindnesn shall break through
The midnight of the soul..

637 s.m.

Jly times are in Tliyhand. Psa. xxxi, 15.

** 1VT Y times are in thy hand : "
j_VJ_ My God, I wish them there;

My life, my friends, my soul, I leave
Entirely to thy care.

2 " My times are in thy hand,"
Whatever they may be ;

Pleasing or painful, dark or bright,
As best may seem to thee.

3 "My times are in thy hand ; "
Why should I doubt or fear?

My Father's hand will never cause
His child a needless tear.

4 "My times are in thy hand,
Jesus, the crucified !

The hand my cruel sins had pierced
Is now my guard and guide.

5 "My times are in thy hand; "
I'll always trust in thee ;

And, after death, at thy right hand
I shall forever be.

WILLIAM F. LLOYD.

One stanza, the fifth, has been omitted :

5 " ' My times are in thy hand : '

Jesus, my Advocate :
Nor shall Thine hand be stretched in vain,

For me to supplicate."

From the author's Thoughts in Rhyme, 1 830.

William Freeman Lloyd was an English layman,
an enthusiastic Sunday-school worker, and editor
of literature for the j'oung. He lived from 1791
until 1853.

638

S. M.

Through death to life.

OWHAT. if we are Christ's,
Is earthly shame or loss?
Bright shall the crown of glory be,
When we have borne the cross.

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HYMN STUDIES.

2 Keen was the trial once,
Bitter the cup of woe,

"When martyred saints, baptized in blood,
Christ's sufferings shared below.

3 Bright is their glory now,
Boundless their joy above,

Where, on the bosom of their God,
They rest in perfect love.

4 Lord, may that grace be ours,
Like them in faith to bear

All that of sorrow, grief, or pain,
May be our portion here.

5 Enough, if thou at last
The word of blessing give,

And let us rest before thy throne,
Where saints and angels live.

SIR HENRY W. BAKER.

" I reckon that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared with the glory which
shall be revealed in us." Rom. viii, 18.

The hymn closes with this doxology :

" All glory, Lord, to Thee,

Whom heaven and earth adore;
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
One God for evermore." Amen.

Written in 1852.

Contributed to Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861.

See No. 91.

of whom shall I he afraid ? When the wicked, even
mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up
my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though a host
should encamp against me, my heart shall not tear:
though war should rise against me, iu this v. ill 1 be
confident."

In the fifth line of the second stanza, the original
has " thine heart."
From Songs of Zion, 1822.
For biographical sketch, see No. 5.

D 3 y 2Vo cause for fear. 7, 6.

GOD is my strong salvation ;
What foe have I to fear?
In darkness and temptation,

My light, my help, is near:
Though hosts encamp around me,

Firm in the fight I stand ;
What terror can confound me,
With God at my right hand !

2 Place on the Lord reliance ;

My soul, with courage wait;
His truth be thine affiance,

When faint and desolate;
His might thy heart shall strengthen,

His love thy joy increase;
Mercy thy days shall lengthen;

The Lord will give thee peace.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

This excellent hymn is founded on the first part
of Psa. xxvii :

" The Lord is my light and my salvation j whom
shall 1 fear? the Lord is the strength of my life ;

O40 TJie -pilgrims of Jesus 7,6.

0 HAPPY band of pilgrims,
If onward ye will tread,
With Jesus as your Fellow,

To Jesus as your Head !
O happy, if ye labor

As Jesus did for men;
O happy, if ye hunger
As Jesus hungered then!

2 The cross that Jesus carried
He carried as your due:

The crown that Jesus weareth

He weareth it for you.
The faith by which ye see him,

The hope in which ye yearn,
The love that through all trouble

To him alone will turn, —

3 What are they but forerunners
To lead you to his sight?

What are they save the effluence

Of uncreated Light?
The trials that beset you,

The sorrows ye endure.
The manifold temptations

That death alone can cure, —

4 What are they but his jewels
Of right celestial worth?

What are they but the ladder,
Set up to heaven on earth?
O happy band of pilgrims,

Look upward to the skies,

Where such a light affliction

Shall win so great a prize.

JOSEPH OP the STUJUUM.
TR. BY J. M. KEAEE.

From Hymns of the Eastern Chnrch. London,
1862.

One word ha* been changed, the original has
'• t>aunt-courier»" in the tir>t line of the third stann
instead of " forerunners."

Joseph of the Studiura was a Greek menfeoffhe
ninth century. Dr. Neale relates the following
legend concerning his death :

" A citizen of Constantinople betook himself to

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the Church of Saint Theodore, in the hoj
taining some benefit from the intercessions of that
martyr, lie waited three days in vain ; then, just
us be was about to leave the church in despair,
Saint Theodore appeared. ; I,' said the vision,
'and the other Mint*, whom the poet Joseph has
celebrated in his Canons, have been attending his
soul to Paradise, hence my absence from my
church.' "

641 Peace and joy 7,6.

SOMETIMES a light surprises
The Christian while he sings;
It is the Lord who rises

With healing on his wings;
When comforts are declining,

He grants the soul again
A season of clear shining,
To cheer it after rain.

2 In holy contemplation,
We sweetly then pursue

The theme of God's salvation,

And rind it ever new :
Set free from present sorrow,

We cheerfully can say,
Let the unknown to-morrow

Bring with it what it may.

3 It can bring with it nothing
But he will bear us through;

Who gives the lilies clotliing,
Will clothe his people too ;

Beneath the spreading heavens
No creature but is fed ;

And he who feeds the ravens
Will give his children bread.

4 Though vine nor fig-tree neither
Their wonted fruit should bear,

Though all the fields should wither,
Nor flocks nor herds be there ;

Yet God the same abiding,

His praise shall tune my voice;

For while in him confiding,
I cannot but rejoice.

WILLIAM COWPEK.

Title : Joy and Peace in Believing.

This is not a hymn, strictly speaking, but it is a
very fine little poem. It is from the Olney Hymns,
1779. Sometimes it is accredited to John Newton.

The Olney Hymns were composed by Newton
and Cowper, and edited by Newton, who desig-
nated Cowper's hymns by prefixing the letter C. to
them. In most editions of the Olney Hymn* we
find this piece so marked; but in John Newton's
Works, published about ten years before his death,
■second edition. 1*18, a't'Oiit ten years after he died J
tbis hymn has no C. prefixed to it. This may be a

typographical error. If so, it is strange that it was
UOt corrected in thi ''mil.

The third stanza contains happy alluai
Christ's Sermon on the Mount, Matt, vi, and the
last stanza is a Bueoesaful paraphrase *f Hab.
iii. 17, 18.

' Ine line has been altered, verse two, line seven.
The author wrote:

" E'en let the unknown to-morrow."

64:2 / will fear no change. 7, 6.

IN heavenly love abiding,
No change nay heart shall fear;
And safe is such confiding,

For nothing changes here.
The storm may roar without me,

My heart may low be laid,
But God is round about me,
And can I be dismayed?

2 Wherever he may guide me,
Xo want shall turn me back;

My Shepherd is beside me,

And nothing can I lack.
His wisdom ever waketh,

His sight is never dim,
He knows the way he taketh,

And I will walk with him.

3 Green pastures are before mc,
Which yet I have not seen ;

Bright skies will soon be o'er me,
Where darkest clouds have been

My hope I cannot measure,
My path to life is free,

My Saviour has my treasure,
And he will walk with me.

ANNA L. WARING.

" I will fear no evil ; for thou art with me." Psa.
xxiii, 4.

Hiss Waring's hymns are characterized by sim-
plicity, beauty, and a rational, child-like faith. This
is unaltered and entire.

From Hymns and Meditations. London, 1850.

See No. 510.

643 The cross accepted. 8,7.

TE8U8, I my cross have taken.
All to leave, and follow thee;
Naked, poor, despised, forsaken,

Thou, from hence, my all shalt be:
Perish every fond ambition.

All I've sought, and hoped, and known;
Yet how rich is my condition.

God and heaven are still my own!

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HYMN STUDIES.

2 Let the world despise and leave me,
They have left my Saviour, too;

Human hearts and looks deceive me;

Thou art not, like man, untrue ;
And, while thou shalt smile upon me,

God of wisdom, love, and might,
Foes may hate, and friends may shun me;

Show thy face, and all is bright.

3 Go, then, earthly fame and treasure!
Come, disaster, scorn, and pain !

In thy service, pain is pleasure;

With thy favor, loss is gain.
I have called thee, "Abba, Father;"

I have stayed my heart on thee :
Storms may howl, and clouds may gather,

All must work for good to me.

4 Man may trouble and distress me,
'Twill but drive me to thy breast;

Life with trials hard may press me,
Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.

O 'tis not in grief to harm me,
While thy love is left to me;

O 'twere not in joy to charm me,
Were that joy unmixed with thee.

5 Know, my soul, thy full salvation ;
Rise o'er sin, and fear, and care;

Joy to find in every station

Something still to do or bear.
Think what Spirit dwells within thee;

What a Father's smile is thine;
What a Saviour died to win thee:

Child of heaven, shouldst thou repine?

6 Haste thee on from grace to glory,
Armed by faith, and winged by prayer;

Heaven's eternal day's before thee,

God's own hand shall guide thee there.

Soon shall close thy earthly mission,
Swift shall pass thy pilgrim days,

Hope shall change to glad fruition,
Faith to sight, and prayer to praise.

HENRY F. LTTE.

Title: Z<\ un havt I> ft all and followed. Thee.

This favorite hymn appeared in Montgomery's
Christian Ralmist (1825) without the name of the
author, lie doubtless found it in some periodical.

The third line of verse one the autiior wrote :

"Destitute, despised, forsaken."

And the first line of the fifth verse was:
" Take my soul, thy full savation."

From Poems, Chiefly U> ligious, by Henry Francis
Lyte. London, 18U3.
See No. 27.

644 Only wailing. 8, 7.

ONLY waiting, till the shadows
Are a little longer grown:
Only waiting, till the glimmer

Of the day's last beam is flown;
Till the light of earth is faded

From the hearts once full of day ;
Till the stars of heaven are breaking
Through the twilight soft and gray.

2 Only waiting, till the reapers
Have the last sheaf gathered home;

For the summer-time is faded,

And the autumn winds have come.

Quickly, reapers, gather quickly
These last ripe hours of my heart,

For the bloom of life is withered,
And I hasten to depart.

3 Only waiting, till the shadows
Are a little longer grown:

Only waiting, till the glimmer
Of the day's last beam is flown.

Then, from out the gathered darkness
Holy, deathless stars shall rise.

By whose light my soul shall gladly
Tread its pathway to the skies.

FRANCES L. MACE.

This fine hymn was written in 1854, and first
published in the WatervUU Mail, a local paper in
Maine, Sept. 7, 1854. The author was then a
school-girl, and contributed to the poet's corner of
this paper under the nom dt plume of " Inez." It
was widely copied, and appeared in various hymn
books as "Anon." A .few years aero an inquiry
was made as to the authorship, and .Mrs. Mace ac-
knowledged it.

The title and burden of the poem are not original
with the author. A poor old man in an almshouse
being asked what he was doing now, replied, "Only
waiting." Mrs. Mace heard of this, and based the
poem upon it. Several lines have been slightly
altered, and one stanza, the third, has been omitted :

3 " Only waiting till the angels

Open wide the mj stie g ii e,
At whose feet I long have lingered

Weary, poor, and desolate ;
Even now I hear their footsteps,

And their voices far away,
If they call me I am waiting,

Only waiting to obey."

The author writes: "Nothing was further from
my thoughts, when I sent these simple lines to the
Water ville Mail, than that they'wouJd ever re rive
more than a passing notice of the readers of that
| ■aper. ' '

Miss Frances Laughton was born in Orono,
Maine, in 1836. In 1855 she was married to Beni.
II. Maee, Esq., a lawyer of Bangor. A dainty vol-
ume of Mrs. Mace's poems, entitled I ■■>■ nds, Lyrics,
and Sonnets, was published in Boston in 1883.

HYMN STUDIES.

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645 . tion. 8, 7.

FULL of trembling expectation,
Peeling much, and fearing more,
Mighty God of my salvation,
I thy timely aid implore.

2 Suffering Son of man, be near me,
In my sufferings to sustain;

By thy sorer griefs to cheer me,

By thy more than mortal pain.

3 By thy most severe 'temptation
In that dark Satanic hour,

By thy la^t mysterious passion,
Bcreen me from the adverse power.

4 By thy fainting in the garden,
By thy dreadful death, I pray.

Write upon my heart the pardon;
Take my sins and fears away.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The author's title was : For a Woman Star the
Time of her Travail.

Four double stanzas, the second and fourth
are omitted.

The second line in the last stanza Wesley wrote :

" By Thy bloody sweat I pray."

From II j mm for the Use of Families. Bristol,
1MT.

6 4: 6 Gently lead us. 8, 7, 4.

GENTLY, Lord, O gently lead us
Through this gloomy vale of tears ;
And, O Lord, in mercy give us
Thy rich grace in all our fears.

O refresh us,
Traveling through this wilderness.

2 When temptation's darts assail us,
When in devious paths we stray,

Let thy goodness never fail us,
Lead us in thy perfect way.

3 In the hour of pain and anguish,

In the hour when death draws near,
Suffer not our hearts to languish,
Suffer not our souls to fear.

4 When this mortal life is ended,
Bid us in thine arms to rest,

Till, by angel-bands attended,
We awake among the blest.

THOMAS HASTINGS.

Author's title : Pilgrimage.
This hymn first appeared in Spiritual Songs for
Social Worship. Words and music arranged l>y

Thomas Hastings, of Utica, and Lowell Mason, of
Boston. Utica, l-

A> than published, the hyrau had no refrain.
The first stanza has been changed from this form :

"Gently, Lord, 0 gently hud us

Through this lonely vale of tears:
T7irou<//t the change* thou'et decreed us

Till our last great change appears."

The last stanza began :

" And when mortal life Is ended."

The rest is verbatim.
See No. 177.

d4:/ Worldly pleasures renounced. 8,7.

VAIN are all terrestrial pleasures;
.Mixed with dross the purest gold;
Seek we, then, for heavenly treasures,

Treasures never waxing old.
Let our best affections center

On the things around the throne:
There no thief can ever enter ;

Moth and rust are there unknown.

2 Earthly joys no longer please us ;
Here would we renounce them all;

Seek our only rest in Jesus,
Him our Lord and Master call.

Faith, our languid spirits cheering,
Points to brighter worlds above ;

Bids us look for his appearing;
Bids us triumph in has love.

3 May our lights be always burning,
And our loins be girded round,

Waiting for our Lord's returning,
Longing for the welcome sound.

Thus the Christian life adorning,
Never need we be afraid,

Should he come at night or morning,
Early dawn, or evening shade.

DAVID E. FORD.

Title : The Watchful Servant*.

It was written upon Luke xii, 35-40.

A few changes have been made by the hymn
editors.

The Rev. David Everard Ford was an English
Congregational minister, ordained in 1821. In 1828
he published his Hymns ch&efiy on the Parables of
Christ, from which this is taken.

64:8 The pilgrim's Guide. L. M. 6 1.

LEADER of faithful souls, and Guide
Of all that travel to the sky,
Come and with us. e'en us, abide,
Who would on thee alone rely ;
On thee alone our spirits stay,
While held in life's uneven way.

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HYMN STUDIES.

2 Strangers and pilgrims here below,
This earth, we know, is not our place;

But hasten through the vale of woe,

And, restless to behold thy face,
Swift to our heavenly country move,
Our everlasting home above.

3 We've no abiding city here,
But seek a city out of sight ;

Thither our steady course we steer,

Aspiring to the plains of light,
Jerusalem, the saints1 abode,
Whose founder is the living God.

4 Patient the appointed race to run,
This weary world we cast behind ;

From strength to strength we travel on,

The New Jerusalem to lind:
Our labor this, our only aim,
To find the New Jerusalem.

5 Through thee, who all our sins hast

borne,

Freely and graciously forgiven,
With songs to Zion we return,

Contending for our native heaven ;
That palace of our glorious King, —
We find it nearer while we sing.

6 Raised by the breath of love divine,

We urge our way with strength re-
newed ;
The church of the first-born to join,

We travel to the mount of God;
With joy upon our heads arise,
And meet our Saviour in the skies.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

Original title : The Traveler.
Two stanzas, the filth and seventh, have been
omitted :

5 "Thither in all our thoughts we tend,
And still with longing eves look up,

Our hearts and prayers before us send,
Our ready scouts of faith and liope,

Who l>rin<_' us news of Sinn near,

We soon shall see the towers appear."

7 " Even now we taste the pleasures th< re,

A cloud of spicy odors conies,
Soft wafted by the balmy air,

Sweeter than Arabics perfumes;
From Sum's top the breezes blow,
And cheer us in the vale below."

In the last line of the hvmn the author Wrote
" Captain " instead of" Saviour."
From Hymns for Tim*, thai Seek an l Thtmthat

liar" ademption in tlie Blood of Jesus Christ.
London, 1747.

649 Steadfast reliance. L. M. « 1.

rPIIOUGII waves and storms go o'er my
J_ head,

Though strength, and health, and friends
be gone;
Though joys be withered all, and dead,

Though every comfort be withdrawn;
On this my steadfast soul relies, — ■
Father, thy mercy never dies.

2 Fixed on this ground will 1 remain.
Though my heart fail, and flesh decay;

Tli is anchor shall my soul sustain,
When earth's foundations melt away ;

Mercy's fvdl power I then shall prove,*

Loved with an everlasting love.

JOIIAKX A. HOTI'I'..
TI{. BY J. WKSI.K^ .

These were the last two stanzas of No. 420,
(which see,) until the 184H edition of tin- hymn
book, and were printed with it.

The translation was rii>t published in Hymns and
Sacred Poems, 1740.

These stanzas have not been altered.

OOU The ever-present Saviour. L. M. 6 1.

JESUS, to thee our hearts we lift.-
Our hearts with love to thee o'«r-
flow, —
With thanks for thy continued gift,

That still thy gracious name we know,
Retain our sense of sin forgiven,
And wait for all our inward heaven.

2 Wrhat mighty troubles hast thou shown
Thy feeble, tempted followers here!

We have through fire and water gone,

But saw thee on the floods appear,
And felt thee present in the flame,
And shouted our Deliverer's name.

3 Thou who hast kept us to this hour,
O keep us faithful to the end,

When, robed in majesty and power,

Our Jesus shall from heaven descend,
Tlis friends and witnesses to own.
And seat us on his glorious throne!

CHABLES wksi.i v.

Title: At Meetina of Friends.

The original contains six stanzas; these arc the
first two and the last.

Five linos were altered by John Wesley f r his
Collection, 1780.

1IYM\ STUDIES.

2-53

I >i:u.inal.
Verse oue, line four:
"That still thy pnvious name we know."

Vena three :

" Th< orace which kept us to this hour,

keep us faithful to the end,
When, clothed with majesty and power
Our Jesus shall from heaven descend,
His friends and con/essora to own,
And seat us on his glorious throne."

From the author's Hymna and Sacred Poem*
1T4».

651 Iulllfear no evil. Psa. xxiii,4. L. M. 6 1.

PEACE, doubting heart! my God's I am;
Who formed me man forbids my fear;
The Lord hath called me by my name;

The Lord protects, forever near:
His blood for me did once atone,
And still he loves and guards his own.

2 When, passing through the watery deep,
I ask in faith his promised aid,

The waves an awful distance keep,

And shrink from my devoted head:
Fearless, their violence I dare;
They cannot harm, for God is there !

3 To him mine eye of faith I turn,
And through the tire pursue my way;

The fire forgets its power to burn,

The lambent flames around me play :
I own his power, accept the sign,
And shout to prove the Saviour mine.

4 Still nigh me, O my Saviour, stand,
And guard in fierce temptation's hour;

Hide in the hollow of thy hand;

Show forth in me thy saving power;
Still be thy arms my sure defense.
Nor earth, nor hell, shall pluck me thence.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The original has seven stanzas ; these are the
.first four, verbatim. It was inspired by a precious
passage from Isa., xliii, 1, 2:

"Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have
called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When
thou passest through the waters, I will be with
t!i ; and through the rivers, they shall not over-
ftow thee: when thou walkest through the tire,
thou shalt not be burned ; neither shall the flame
kindle upon thee."

From Hym/u and Sacred Poems, 1739.

652 /.' -t for the wear//. 11,10.

(^O.ME unto me, when shadows darkly
J gather,

When the sad heart is weary and dis-
tressed,
Seeking for comfort from your heavenly
Father,
Come unto me, and I will give you rest.

2 Large are the mansions in thy father's

dwelling,

Glad are the homes that sorrows never
dim ;
Sweet are the harps in holy music swelling,

Soft are the tones which raise the heaven-
ly hymn

3 There, like an Eden blossoming in glad-

ness,

Bloom the fair flowers the earth too rude-
ly pressed;
Come unto me, all ye who droop in sadness,

Come unto me, and I will give you rest.

C ATI! AKIN E H. ESLING.

Author's title : Come Unto Me.
The burden of this beautiful sacred poem is the
familiar invitation of Jesus :

" Come unto me, all ye that labor rnd are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest." Matt, xi, 28.

It was written for an annual, called the Christian
Keepsake, (1839,) by Miss Catharine II. Water-
man, of Philadelphia.

The original poem contains nine stanzas. This
hymn is composed of verses three, eight, and nine,
slightly altered.

Miss Waterman was born in 1812; in 1840 she
married George J. Ealing, of Philadelphia. In
1850 her poems were collected and published under
the title: The Broken Bracelet, and Othsr Poems.
Mrs. Esling claims connection with the Protestant
Episcopal Church. This gem of holy song will
long preserve her name in the Church of Christ.

653 The precious name. 8,7.

TAKE the name of Jesus with you,
Child of sorrow and of woe ;
It will joy and comfort give you;
Take it, then, where'er you go.
Precious name, O how sweet!
Hope of earth and joy of heaven.

2 Take the name of Jesus ever,
As a shield from every snare;

If temptations round you gather,
Breathe that holy name in prayer.

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HYMN STUDIES.

3 O the precious name of Jesus!
How it tli rills our souls with joy,

When his loving arms receive us,
And his songs our tongues employ !

4 At the name of Jesus bowing,
Falling prostrate at his feet,

King of kings in heaven we'll crown him,
When our journey is complete.

MRS. LYDIA BAXTER.

Mrs. Baxter, the writer of " There is a pate that
stands ajar," and other popular hymns, was born
in Petersburg, N. V., in 1809. She was converted
early in life, and united with a Baptist ehurch.
Later in life she resided in New York city; was an
invalid for many years, but a patient and cheerful
suiferer. She died in 1874.

A volume of her poems, Gemsbythe Wayside, w as
published in 1855.

654 Jesits, as thou wilt 6.

MY Jesus, as thou wilt:
O may thy will be mine;
Into thy hand of love

I would my all resign.
Through sorrow or through joy,

Conduct me as thine own,
And help me still to say,

" My Lord, thy will be done."

2 My Jesus, as thou wilt:
Though seen through many a tear,

Let not my star of hope

Grow dim or disappear.
Since thou on earth hast wept

And sorrowed oft alone,
If I must weep with thee,

My Lord, thy will be done.

3 My Jesus, as thou wilt :
All shall be well for me;

Each changing future scene

I gladly trust with thee.
Straight to my home above,

I travel calmly on,
And sing in life or death,

44 My Lord, thy will be done."

BENJAMIN 8CHMOLKE.
TR. BY MISS J. BORTHWICK.

Title : Thy Will be Bone.

" It is the Lord: let him do what seemcth him
good." 1 Sam. iii, 18.

The translation is from Hymns from the Land of
Lvther. Edinburgh, 1853. Seven stanzas ; these
are the first, fourth, and last, verbatim.

For sketch of translator, see No. 352.

For biographical sketch ot'Sehmolke, see No. 228.

655 6.

Christian trial, suffering, and submission.

THY way, not mine, O Lord,
However dark it be !
Lead me by thine own hand ;
Choose out the path for me.

1 dare not choose my lot ;

I would not if I might;
Choose thou for me, my God,
So shall I walk aright.

2 The kingdom that I seek
Is thine; so let the way

That leads to it be thine,

Else I must surely stray.
Take thou my cup, and it

With joy or sorrow fill.
As best to thee may seem ;

Choose thou my good and ill.

3 Choose thou for me my friends,
My sickness or my health;

Choose thou my cares for me,

My poverty or wealth.
Not mine, not mine the choice,

In things or great or small;
Be thou my guide, my strength,

My wisdom and my all.

HORATIUS BONAR.

Author's title : 77iy Way not Mine.

Seven four-lined stanzas ; the second is omitted :

" Smooth let it be, or rough,

It will be still the best,
Winding or straight, it matters not,

It leads me to thy rest."

From Hymns of Faith and Hope, first sericB,
1857. Unaltered.
For sketch of author, see No. 426.

656 The only refvge. 7.

JESUS, Lover of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly,
While the nearer waters roll,

While the tempest still is high 1
Hide me, O my Saviour, hide,
Till the storm of life is past;
Safe into the haven guide.
O receive my soul at last I

2 Other refuge have I none ;

Hangs my helpless soul on thee:
Leave, O leave me not alone,

Still support and comfort me:
All my trust on thee is stayed,

All my help from thee I bring;
Cover my defenseless head

With the shadow of thy wingl

iitmx stcdies.

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3 Thou. O Christ, art all I want;
More than all in thee I find ;

Raise the fallen, cheer the faint,
Ileal the sick, and lead the blind.

Just and holy is thy name,
I am all unrighteousness:

False and full of sin I am,
Thou art full of truth and grace.

4 Plenteous grace with thee is found,
Grace to cover all my sin :

Let the healing streams abound;

Make and keep me pure within.
Thou of life the fountain art.

Freely let me take of thee:
Spring thou up within my heart,

Rise to all eternity.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The author's title is : In Temptation.

This is probably the most popular and widely
used hymn in the English language. One stanza,
the third, has been omitted :

3 " Wilt Thou not regard my call ?

Wilt Thou not accept my prayer?
Lo! I sink, I faint, 1 Fall—

Lo on Thee I cast my care :
Beach me out Thy gracious hand!

While I of Thy strength receive,
Hoping against le>pc I stand.

Dying, and, behold, 1 live!"

There are several stories concerning the
origin of this hymn. One is that a meet-
ing of the Wesley brothers was broken up
by a mob. They took refuge in a spring-
house. Tltere the author, inspired by gratitude
for their providential escape, wrote the hymn
with a piece of lead which he hammered into a
pencil. Another is that the writer was one day
sitting at an open window, when a little bird, pur-
sued dv a hawk, flew in and took refuge in the
poet's bosom. This incident, it is said, BUggested
the hymn. Neither of these Btorica can be verified.
They are doubtless pure myths. The original title
gives us some light, and the omitted stanza, es-
pecially in connection with the first verse, shows
that some of the imagery and language of this hymn
were borrowed from the story of Peter's attempt
to walk on the Sea of Galilee. Matt, xiv, 28-31.
The author's genius and his rough experience on
the Atlantic account for the rest.

From Hymns and Sacred Fbems, 1740.

657 Bliss-inspiring hope. C. P. M.

COME on, my partners in distress,
My comrades through the wilderness,
Who still your bodies feel ;
Awhile forget your griefs and fears,
And look beyond this vale of tears,
To that celestial hill.

2 Beyond the bounds of time and space,
Look forward to that heavenly place,

The saints' secure abode;
On faith's strong eagle pinions rise,
And force your passage to the skies,

And scale the mount of God.

:'. Who suffer with our Master here,
We shall before bis face appear

And by his side sit down;
To patient faith the prize is sure,
Ami all that to the end endure

The cross, shall wear the crown.

4 Thrice blessed, bliss-inspiring hope!
It lifts the fainting spirits up,

It brings to life the dead :
Our conflicts here shall soon be past,
And you and I ascend at last,

Triumphant with our Head.

5 That great mysterious Deity
We soon with open face shall see;

The beatific sight
Shall fill the heavenly courts with praise.
And wide diffuse the golden blaze

Of everlasting light.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This hymn was published without a title. Two
words are cl anged. The original has " the vale"
instead of "this vale" in the first stanza, and
u happy place" instead of " heavenly place " in
the second. The third and last two* stanzas are
omitted :

3 " See where the Lamb in glory stands,
Encircled with His radiant hands,

And join the angelic powers.
For all that iieight of glorious bliss,
Our everlasting portion is,

And all that heaven is ours."

7 "The Father shining on His throne,
The glorious co-eternal Son,

The Spirit one and seven,
Conspire our rapture to complete;
And, lo ! we fall before his feet,

And silence heightens heaven.

8 " In Hope of that ecstatic pause,
Jesus, we now sustain Thv cross,

And at Thy footstool fall,
'Till Thou our hidden life reveal,
'Till Thou our ravish'. 1 spirits fill,

And God is all in all."

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred J'oer.u,
vol. ii. Bristol, 1749.

HYMN STUDIES.

bbb The aged pilgrim. C. 1'. M.

THY mercy heard ray infant prayer;
Thy love, with all a mother's care.
Sustained my childish days :
Thy goodness watched my ripening youth,
And formed my heart to love thy truth,
And filled my lips with praise.

2 And now, in age and grief, thy name
Doth still my languid heart inflame,

And bow my faltering knee:
O yet this bosom feels the fire;
This trembling hand and drooping lyre

Have yet a strain for thee !

3 Yes; broken, tuneless, still, O Lord,
This voice, transported, shall record

Thy goodness, tried so long;
Till, sinking slow, with calm decay,
Its feeble murmurs melt away

Into a seraph's song.

SIR ROBERT GRANT.

Written upon Psalm lxxi.

This hymn is not altered, except in the first part
of the second stanza, which the author wrote :

" Then even in age and grief, thy name
Shall still my languid heart inflame."

Verses one and three are omitted,
touching:

Thev are verv

1 " Wil h years opnrcss'd, with sorrow worn,
Dejected, harrass'd, sick, forlorn,

To thee, 0 God, I pray :
To thee ray wither'd bunds arise,
To thee I lift these tailing eyes,

O ! cast me not away."

3 "O, Saviour! has thv grace declined?
Can years affect th' Eternal Mind ?

Or time its love decay ?
A thousand ages pass thy sight,
And all their long and weary flight,

Is gone like yesterday."

From the author's Sacred Poems, 1839.
See No. 140.

659 Heavenly rest anticipated. CM.

WHEN I can read my title clear
To mansions in the skies,

1 bid farewell to every fear,

And wipe my weeping eyes.

2 Should earth against my soul engage,
And fiery darts be hurled,

Then I can smile at Satan's rage,
And face a frowning world.

3 Let cares like a wild deluge come,
Let storms of sorrows fall,

So I but safely reach my home,
My God, my heaven, my all.

4 There I shall bathe my weary soul
In seas of heavenly rest,

And not a wave of trouble roll
Across my peaceful breast,

ISAAC WATTS.

The author's title was: The Hopes of Heaven our
Support Under Trials on Earth.

Only two words haw been changed. Thr- orig-
inal has '■•hellish darts" instead of '-fiery darts"
in the second stanza, and " MayV instead of " So
I " in the third.

The order of the words of the first line of the
last stanza was :

" There shall I bathe my weary soul."

Father Bates, an old itinerant, used to sing this
line as follows;

" There I shall bathe my happy soul."

He ridiculed the idea of a soul being " wearv " in
heaven.

From Jli/mns and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

660 God's par il inn. CM.

GRANT me within thy courts a place,
Among thy saints a scat,
Forever to behold thy face,
And worship at thy feet ; —

2 In thy pavilion to abide,
When storms (if trouble blow.

And in thy tabernacle hide,
Secure from every foe.

3 "Seek ye my face:" Without delay,
When tints I hear thee speak,

My heart would leap for joy, and say,
"Thy face, Lord, will I seek."

4 Then leave me not when griefs assail,
And earthly comforts flee;

When father, mother, kindred fail,
My God, remember me !

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Founded on the last part ot Pun. xxvii. The
original contains seven stanzaa. These are verses
two to five, pi /■/■ dim.

The four stanzas of this hymn were written on
verses four, five, eight, and ten of the Psalm :

" One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will
I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the

HYMX STUDIES.

2.-,7

Lord all the days of my life, to behold th

of the Lord, and to inouire in his temple. For iii

the timeof trouble he shall bide me in his pavilion :

in the secret Of Ins tab- rnacle shall he hide me:
he shall set me Dp Upon a rock. When tbou saidst,

Beek \e my tar.-; my heart said unto th.-.-. Tii\

rd, will I Beek. When my father and my

liK'ther forsake me, then the Lord will take me Up."

From Songs of Zion, 1822.

See .'-

661 Fullness of joy in Hi* presence. 0. If.

THY gracious presence. 0 my God,
Ail that I wish contains;
With this, beneath affliction's load,
My heart no more complains.

2 This can my every care control,
Gild each dark scene with tight:

This is the sunshine of the soul;
Without it all is night.

3 O happy scenes above the sky,
Where thy full beams impart

Unclouded beauty to the eye,
And rapture to the heart!

4 Her portion in those realms of bliss,
My spirit longs to know ;

My wishes terminate in this,
Nor can they rest below.

5 Lord, shall the breathings of my heart
Aspire in vain to thee?

Confirm my hope, that where thou art
I shall forever be.

G Then shall my cheerful spirit sing

The darksome hours away.
And rise on faith's expanded wing,

To everlasting day.

ANSE STEELE.

Title : The Pretence of God the Only Comfort in
ArH'ftion.

The original contains ten stanzas ; this hvmn is
composed of the fourth, fifth, and the last four.
Four lines have been altered.

Verse one, line two, the author wrote :

" My every wish contains."
Verse three, line one :

" 0 happy scenes of pure delight."
Verse three, line three :

" Unclouded beauty to the sight.''''

Ferae (bur, line one :

" Her part in tlu>*e fur realms of bill

From Miscellaneous IHo-.xin, Verse and Prose
by Theodoeia. Bristol, 1780.
See .No. 63.

662 Vanity of earthly enjoyment*. V. M.

HOW vain are all things hen' below!
How false, and yet how fair!
Each pleasure hnth its poison too,
And every sweet a snare.

2 The brightest tilings below the sky
Give bat a flattering light;

We should su-pect so,U(. danger nigh,
Where we posaMB delight.

3 Our dearest joys, and nearest friends,
The partners of our blood, —

How they divide our wavering minds,
And leave but half for God.

4 The fondness of a creature's love, —
How strong it strikes the sense!

Thither the warm affections move,
Xor can we call them thence.

5 My Saviour, let thy beauties be
My soul's eternal food ;

And grace command my heart away
From all created good.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : Love to the Creatures is Dangerous.

It is said that the author wrote this' hvmn when
juifering under the pain and mortification of a re-
jection of his marriage proposal.

The beautiful and accomplished Miss Singer (aft-
erward Mrs. Eowe) wan herself a poet, ami pub-
lished fugitive pieces under the pseudonvm, "Phil-
omela." Watts was permitted to examine some of
her unpublished pieces. In Julv, 1706, he wrote a
little poem to the lady in praise of her work. There
is no doubt that his regard for the Singer had some-
thing to do with his extravasr.int appreciation of her
songs. In the closing lines he rsj a :

" Now be my harp forever dumb.

My Muse attempt no more; 'twas long ago
I bid adieu to mortal things,

To Grecian tides and wars of Rome ;
'Twaa l<.ni' aL'o I broke all but th' immortal strings:

Now those immortal strings have no employ, °
Since a fiur angel dwells below,

To turn the notes of heaven and propagate the joy :
Let all my powers with awe profound,

While Philomela sings,
Attend the rapture of the sound,

And my devotion rise on her seraphic wintrs."

Miss Singer was equally anadmirerof Dr. YVatt-\s
writings ; as can be learned from a poem that sha

IIYMN STUDIES.

dedicated to him in the same month, July, 1706.
Two of the eight stanzas arc as follows:

"Seraphic heights I seem to gain,

And sacred transports feel,
While, Watts! to tliy celestial strain,

Surprised I listen still.

" The gliding streams their course forbear,

When I thy lays repeat,
The bending forest lends an ear,

The birds" their notes forget."

It is evident that at this time Mr. Watts and Miss
Singer were, to say the least, good friends ; but
W alts' s great musical soul was enshrined in an in-
significant and enfeebled body. Miss Singer said
that while she " prized the jewel, she could not ad-
mire the casket that held it." Other suitors -were
pressing their claims. Another won the prize, and
Watts lost it. The next year Hymns and. Spiritual
Songs appeared, containing this hymn with its sig-
nificant title.

Those who read the hymn in the light of these
facts must confess that only triumphant grace could
enable the author to close with a prayer of conse-
cration :

" Dear Saviour, let thy beauties be," etc.

This vow Dr. Watts faithfully kept.
and died — wedded only to Christ.

He lived

663 Radiant lope. CM.

OWHO, in such a world as this,
Could bear his lot of pain,
Did not one radiant hope of bliss
Unclouded yet remain?

2 That hope the sovereign Lord has given
Who reigns above the skies;

Hope that unites the soul to heaven
By faith's endearing ties.

3 Each care, each ill of mortal birth,
Is sent in pitying love,

To lift the lingering heart from earth,
And speed its flight above.

4 And every pang that wrings the breast,
And every joy that dies,

Bid us to seek a purer rest,
And trust to holier ties.

JAMES MONTGOMERY. (?)

This is a part of hymn No. 1115 in the Hymouth
Collection, edited by Henry Ward Beecher. Brook-
lyn, 1855. It begins :

" The broken ties of happier days."

It is not found in Montgomery's Original Hymn*,
f, Inch he collected a year before his death.

664 Deliverance at hand. CM.

MY span of life will soon be done,
The passing moments say;
As lengthening shadows o'er the mead
Proclaim the close of day.

2 O that my heart might dwell aloof
' From all created things,

And learn that wisdom from above,
Whence true contentment springs!

3 Courage, my soul ! thy bitter cross,
In every trial here,

Shall bear thee to thy heaven above,
But shall not enter there.

4 The sighing ones, that humbly seek
In sorrowing paths below,

Shall in eternity rejoice,

Where endless comforts flow.

5 Soon will the toilsome strife be o'er
Of sublunary care,

And life's dull vanities no more
This anxious breast ensnare.

G Courage, my soul! on God rely,

Deliverance soon will come;
A thousand ways has Providence

To bring believers home.

FRANCES M. COWPER.

The author's title was: The Consolation.-

Theoriginal has five eight-lined stanzas. This
hymn is composed of the first three, unaltered. The
other two have no special value.

From Original J'<>ems on VarUnu Occasion*.
By a Ladv. ' Revised by William Cowper, Esq., of
the Inner 'Temple, 1792.

The ladv author was Maria F'anccs Cowper,
(lV_;7-17i»7*) wife of Major Cowper. She was a
sister of the Rev. Martin Madan, and cousin, by the
mother's side, of William Cowper, the poet.

665 De profundus. CM.

OUT of the depths to thee I cry,
Whose fainting footsteps trod
The paths of our humanity,
[ncarnate Son of God!

2 Thou Man of grief, who once apart
Didsl all our sorrows bear, —

The trembling hand, the fainting heart,
The agony, and prayer!

3 Is this the consecrated dower,
Thy chosen ones obtain.

To know thy resurrection power
Through fellowship of pain?

iivmx ST l' DIES.

2.-59

4 Then, 0 my soul, in silence wait;
Faint not, <> faltering feet;

Press onward to that blest estate,
lu righteousness complete.

5 Let faith transcend the passing hour,
The transient pain and strife,

Upraised by an immortal power, —
The power of endless life.

MRS. E. E. MARCY.

Mrs Elisabeth Eunice Storey, the wife of Oliver
Maroy, LL.D., Professor of Natural History in the
North-western University, ESvanston, Illinois, was
born in 1823. She contributed this hymn to the
Hymnal in 1877.

666 Xo cross, no crown. C. M.

Ml" ST Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free?
No, there's a cross for every one,
And there's a cross for me.

2 How happy are the saints above,
Who once went Borrowing here!

But now they taste unmingled love,
And joy without a tear.

3 The consecrated cross I'll bear,
Till death shall set me free;

And then go home my crown to wear,
For there's a crown for me.

THOMAS SHEPHERD, ALT.

Sometinrs this hymn has been erroneously at-
tributed to Prof. Geo. N. Allen. Mr. Allen wrote
the tune Maitland; or, Cross and Crown, to which
it is usually sun;.', about 1850.

The first verse is altered from the following lines,
found in Thomas Shepherd's Penitential Cries,
1692:

"Shad Simon bear thy Cross alone,

And otlur Saints be free \
Each Saint of thine shall find his own,

And there is one for me."

The Rev. Thomas Shepherd was an Englishman,
born in 1665, educated at one of the great universi-
ties, and took orders in the Established Church. In
1694 he became a Congregationalist, and was the
pastor of a church in Braintree, Essex, for forty
yean, from 1700 till the time of his death in 1739.'

667 For victorions faith. C, M.

OFOR a faith that will not shrink,
Though pressed by every foe,
That will not tremble on the brink
Of any earthly woe !

2 That will not murmur nor complain

Beneath the chastening rod.
But, in the hour of grief or pain,

Will lean upon its God;

'•\ A faith that shines more bright and
clear

When tempests rage without;
That when in danger knows no fear,

In darkness feels no doubt;

4 That bears, unmoved, the world's dread

frown.
Nor heeds its scornful smile;
That seas of trouble cannot drown,
Nor Satan's arts beguile ;

5 A faith that keeps the narrow way
Till life's last hour is fled,

And with a pure and heavenly ray
Illumes a dying bed.

6 Lord, give us such a faith as this,
And then, whate'er may come,

"We'll taste, e'en here, the hallowed bliss
Of an eternal home.

WILLIAM H. BATHURST, ALT.

Title : The Power of Faith.
Scripture basis, Luke xvii, 5 :

" Increase our faith."

Each stanza, except the third, has been altered
by the hymn mender, more or less.

Original Lines.
Verse one, line four :

" Of poverty or woe."

Verse two, line four:

" Can lean upon its God."

Verse four, lines three and four :

" That siri's wild ocean cannot drown,
Nor its soft arts beguile."

Verse five, lines two and four :

" Till life's last spark is fled."
" Lights up a dying bed."

Verse six, lines one and three:

" Lord, give me such a faith as this."
" / taste e'en now the hallowed bliss."

From Psalms and. Hymns for Public and Private
Use. By W. II. Bathurst. 'London, 1831.

The preface date is Barwick-iu-Elmett, Nov. 15,
1830. Bathurst was rector there at the time.

See No. 61.

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HYMN STUDIES.

668 cm.

Strength renewed in ivaiting upon, the. Lord.

LORD, I believe thy every word,
Thy every promise true;
And lol I wait on thee, my Lord,
Till I my strength renew.

2 If in this feeble flesh I may
Awhile show forth thy praise,

Jesus, support the tottering clay,
And lengthen out my days.

3 If such a worm as I can spread
The common Saviour's name,

Let him who raised thee from the dead,
Quicken my mortal frame.

4 Still let me live thy blood to show,
Which purges every stain;

And gladly linger out below
A few more years in pain.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

" They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their
strength." Isa. xl, 31.

The original contains fourteen stanzas ; these are
the first four, verbatim.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

669 cm.

To liveis Christ, and to die is gain. Phil, i, 21.

LORD, it belongs not to my care
Whether I die or live ;
To love and serve thee is my share,
And this thy grace must give.

2 If life be long, I will be glad
That I may long obey ;

If short, yet why should I be sad
To soar to endless day )

3 Christ leads me through no darker rooms
Than he went through before ;

He that unto God's kingdom comes
Must enter by his door.

4 Come, Lord, when grace hath made me

meet
Thy blessed face to see ;
For, if thy work on earth be sweet,
What will thy glory be?

5 Then I shall end my sad complaints,
And weary, sinful days,

Aud join with the triumphant saints
Who sing Jehovah's praise.

G My knowledge of that life is small ;

The eye of faith is dim:
But 'tis enough that Christ knows all,

And I shall be with him.

KICHAHD BAXTER, ALT.

This is a part of a hymn of eight double-stanzas,
entitled The Covenant and Confidence <>/ Faith.
These are verses four, seven, and eight,' slightly
ultered.

Original Lines.

Verse one, line one :

" Xvw it belongs not, to uiy care."
Verse two, line four :

" That shall have the same pay.''''
Verse three, lines three and four:

" lie that into (J<«l's kingdom cornea
Must enter by this door."

Verse six, line three :

" But if* enough that Christ knows all."

This was a hymn of personal consecration, which
the author wrote for himself. In a note lie paw:
"This Covenant, my dear Wife, in her former
Sickness, subscribed with a cheerful will."

The title of the book from which this hymn is
taken is a curiosity. It is " 1'vitind Fnagments:
Heart- Imployment with God and J/s, If. ( 'oncordant
Discord Of a Brnktu-htaled Heart, Surroning-rijuic-
ing. Fearing -hoping. Dying living. Written partly
for himself, and partly tor near Friends in Sickness
and other deep Affliction. By Richard Baxter.
London. 1681."

The Rev. Richard Baxter was born in ltilO. He
was largely self-educated, took orders in the Church
of England, ami began his ministry ubout 1640. He
was a Puritan at heart, and on tin- passage of the
''Act of Uniformity" renounced his living. In
1685 he was imprisoned by the infamous Judge
Jeffries on the charge of sedition, remained in
prison for a year and a half, and was then released.
He died in 1691. lie was a voluminous writer.
The best known of his works is The Saint's Ever-
lasting Reft.

670 Christ sfrenglheiting the weak. CM.

0TIIOU, whose filmed and failing eye,
Ere yet it closed in death,
Behold thy mother's agony,
The shameful cross beneath !

2 Remember them, likelier, through whom
The sword of grief is driven,

And O, to cheei their cheerless gloom,
Be thy dear mercy given.

3 Let thine own word of tenderness
Drop on them from above;

Its music shall the lone heart bless,
Its touch shall heal with love.

BY MS STUDIES.

2Gi

4 O Son of Mary, Son of God,
Tlu' way of mortal ill,

By thy hirst feel in triumph trod,
Our feet are treading still.

5 But not with strength like thine, we gtj
This dark and dreadful way;

As thou wert strengthened in thy woe,
So strengthen us, we pray.

AI.KXANDKU R. THOMPSON.

Written in 18SS for Ihjmns of the Church — the
hymnal of the Reformed Dutch Church, of which
the author is a member. It has not heen essen-
tially altered.

The Kev. Alexander Ramsay Thompson, D.D.,
was horn in 18S8.aud was graduated at the Univer-
sity in New York in 184^. Dr. Thompson is the
author and translator of a number of valuable
hymns.

671 o.

Based are they that mourn. Matt, v, 4.

FROM lips divine, like healing balm
To hearts oppressed and torn,
The heavenly consolation fell,
"Blessed are they that mourn. "

2 Unto the hopes by sorrow crushed

A noble faith succeeds;
And life, by trials furrowed, bears

The fruit of loving deeds.

3 How rich, how sweet, how full of strength
Our human spirits are.

Baptized into the sanctities
Of suffering and of prayer!

4 Yes, heavenly wisdom, love divine,
Breathed through the lips which said,

"O blessed are the hearts that mourn;
They shall be comforted."

WILLIAM II. BURLEIGH.

This hymn is a part of a poem of four eight-lined
stanzas, and is made up of the last part of the first,
the last part of the second, and the fourth verses.

Original.

1 " O deem not that earth's crowning bliss
Is found in joy alone ;

For sorrow, bitter though it he,

Hath blessings all i's own ;
From lips divine, like healing balm," etc.

2 " As blossoms smitten by the rain
Their sweetest odors yield —

As where the plowshare deepest strikes

Rich harvests crown the field,
So, to the hopes by sorrows crushed," etc.

3 " Who never mourned, hath never known

What treasures grief reveals:
Tin' sympathies that humanize,

The tenderness that heals,
The power to look within the veil

And learn the heavenly lore,
The key-word to life's mysteries,

!So dark to us before."

In the first line of the last stanza of the hymn,
the author wrote :

" Supernal wisdom," etc.

William Henry Burleigh was born in Connecti-
cut in lslli; was brought up on his father's farm,
and attended the district school. He was a born
reformer; and, living in New England, in his time
and with his disposition, naturally identified him-
self with the radical abolitionists and prohibition-
ists. His business was that of editor and lecturer.
Poetry was his recreation. The poem, Unused are
they that Mourn, was horn of sorrow. Within the
space of two years he buried his father, wife, eld-
est daughter, and eldest son. Let no one imagine
tha l'ie strong, calm faith of this hymn was at-
tained without difficulty. In a letter to a friend
he said : " It is not without strong wrestlings that
doubt and murmurings are put under my feet, and
I am enabled to struggle up into the purer atmos-
phere of faith."

Mr. Burleigh lived until 1871.

From the author's poems, 1871.

6/2 FIRST PART. S. M.

Whoso putt eth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.

COMMIT thou all thy griefs
And ways into His hands,
To his sure trust and tender care
Who earth and heaven commands.

2 Who points the clouds their course,
Whom winds and seas obey.

He shall direct thy wandering feet,
He shall prepare thy way.

3 Thou on the Lord rely.
So, safe, shalt thou go on ;

Fix on his work thy steadfast eye,
So shall thy work be done.

4 No profit canst thou gain
By self-consuming can1;

To him commend thy cause; his ear
Attends the softest prayer.

5 Thy everlasting truth,
Father, thy ceaseless love,

Sees all thy children's wants, and knows
What best for each will prove.

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HYMN STUDIES.

6 Thou every-where hast sway,
And all things serve thy might;

Thy every act pure blessing is,
Thy path unsullied liglit.

PAUL GERHARDT. TR. BY J. WESLEY.

SECOND PART.

6 73 He ruleth all things well. S. M.

GIVE to the winds thy fears;
Hope, and be undismayed;
God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears ;
God shall lift up thy head.

2 Through waves, and clouds, and storms,

lie gently clears thy way ;
Wait thou "his time, so shall this night

Soon end in joyous day.

• 3 Still heavy is thy heart ?
Still sink thy spirits down?
Cast off the weight, let fear depart,
And every care be gone.

4 What though thou rulest not ?
Yet heaven, and earth, and hell

Proclaim, "God sitteth on the throne,
And ruleth all things well."

5 Leave to his sovereign sway
To choose and to command:

So shalt thou, wondering, own his way,
How wise, how strong his hand !

6 Far, far above thy thought
His counsel shall appear,

When fully he the work hath wrought
That caused thy neeedless fear.

PAUL GERHARDT. TR. BY J. WESLEY.

This is called Gerhnrrlt's Hymn of Trust.

It was doubtless written by him when he was
Buffering wrongfully for " the faith which was once
delivered unto the saints."

Wesley published this translation in Hymns and
Sacred Poems, (1739,) with the title, Trust in Prov-
idence.

Four stanzas ; the sixth, eighth, and last two are
omitted. The hymn is founded on Psalm xxxvii, ."> :

" Commit thv way unto the Lord ; trust also in
him ; and he shall bring it to pass."

These twelve stanzas have not been altered.
See No. 212.

6/4 Tlie sour s only refuge

TBOU Refuge of my soul,
On thee, when Borrows rise.
On thee, when waves of trouble roll,
My fainting hope relies.

S. M.

2 To thee I tell my grief,
For thou alone canst heal ;

Thy word can bring a sweet relief
For every pain 1 feel.

3 But O when doubts prevail,
I fear to call thee mine ;

The springs of comfort seem to fail,
And all my hopes decline.

4 Yet, Lord, where shall I flee?
Thou art my only trust ;

And still my soul would cleave to thee,
Though prostrate in the dust.

AMNE STEELE, ALT.

Title: God the Only Rfuge of the Trovbled
Mind.

Eight stiinzas; these are the first, third, fourth,
and fifth, altered from common meter. The first
line of each stanza has been changed :

1 " Ikar refuge of my weary soul."

2 " To thee I tell each rising grief."

3 "But oh! when gloomy doubts prevail."

4 "Yet, gracious God, where shall I flee?"

From Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional, by
Theodosia. London, I7t>0.
For biographical sketch, see No. G3.

675 Contented piety. 8,6.

FATHER, I know that all my life
Is portioned out for me ;
And the changes that are sure to come

I do not fear to see;
But I ask thee for a present mind
Intent on pleasing thee.

2 I ask thee for a thoughtful love,
Through constant watching wise,

To meet the glad with joyful smiles,
And wipe the weeping eyes;

And a heart at leisure from itself,
To soothe and sympathize.

3 I would not have the restless will
That hurries to and fro,

Seeking for some great tiling to do,

Or secret thing to know;
I would be treated as a child,

And guided where I go.

4 Wherever in the world I am,

In whatsoe'er estate.
I have a fellowship with hearts,

To keep and cultivate;
And a work of lowly love to do

For the Lord on whom I wait.

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5 So I ask thee for the daily strength,
To none that ask denied,

And a mind to blend with outward life,

While keeping at thy side;
Content to till a little space,

If thou be glorified.

6 And if some things I do not ask
In my cup of blessing be,

I would have my spirit tilled the more

With grateful love to thee;
More careful, not to serve thee much,

But to please thee perfectly.

ANNA L. WAKING.

Title : My timet are in Thy hand. Psa. x.wi, 15.
This is the first poem in tlie author's Hymns and
M lions, 18.' 0
There are two additional stanzas :

" There are briers besetting every path,

That eall for patient care ;
There is a eross in every lot,

And an earnest need for prayer;
But a lowly heart that leans on Thee

Is happy anywhere.

" In a service which Thy will appoints,

There are no bonds for me ;
For my inmost heart is taught ' the truth'

That makes thy children ' free; '
And a life of self-renouncing love,

Is a life of liberty."

[t is unaltered.

The reader will perceive that the meter is a little
irregular.
See No. 510.

676 Go not far from me, 0 my Strength. 8,6.

GO not far from me, O my Strength,
Whom all my times obey;
Take from me any thing thou wilt,

But go not thou away ;
And let the storm that does thy work
Deal with me as it may.

2 No suffering, while it lasts, is joy,
How blesl Boe'er it be;

Yet may the chastened child be glad

His Father's face to see;
And O, it is not hard to bear

What must be borne in thee.

3 Safe in thy sanctifying grace,
Almighty to restore;

Borne onward, sin and death behind,

And love and life before,
O let my soul abound in hope,

And praise thee more and more I

4 Deep unto deep may call, but I
With peaceful heart will say,

"Thy loving-kindness hath a charge
Nb waves can take away;"

And let the storm that speeds me home,
Deal with me as it may.

ANNA L. WAKING,

Tart of a long hymn of fourteen stanzas, prefaced
by this passage from Psa. xlii, 7, 8 :

" Deepcalleth unto deep at the noise of thy water-
spouts : all thy waves and thy billows are gone over
me. Yet the Lord will command his loving-kind-
ness in the day-time, and in the aight his song

shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my
life."

It is evident that the author knew the discipline
of severe physical suffering, sustained l>y a strong
submissive faith in Christ. In one of the omitted
stanzas she says :

" What hand should pluck me from the flood,

That casts my soul on Thee ?
Who would not suffer pain like mine,

To be consoled like me? "

The effect of sorrow and affliction on the unre-
generate heart is to make it hanl and bitter ; but it
sweetens the Christian's spirit and ripens it for
heaven. The hymn is composed of verses one,
eleven, thirteen, and fourteen, verbatim. From
Hymns and Meditations. London, 1S50.

See No. 510.

677 7,6,7.

Fearless in the furnace of affliction.

G1 OD of Israel's faithful three,
X Who braved a tyrant's ire,
Nobly scorned to bow the knee,
And walked, unhurt, in fire;
Breathe their faith into my breast,

Arm me in this fiery hour;
Stand, O Son of man, confessed
In all thy saving power!

2 For while thou, my Lord, art nigh,

My soul disdains to fear;
Sin and Satan I defy,

Still impotently near;
Earth and hell their wars may wage;

Calm I mark their vain design,
Smile to see them idly rage

Against a child of thine.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Tlie Three Children in the Fiery Furnace.

Five stanzas ; these arc the first and third. The
last begins with " But" instead of "For;" other-
wise they arc not altered.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

264

HYMN STUDIES.

678 7,6,8.

The shadow of a great Jiock.

TO the haven of thy breast,
O Son of man, I fly;
Be my refuge and my rest,
For O the storm is high !
Save me from the furious blast;

A covert from the tempest be :
Hide me, Jesus, till o'erpast
The storm of sin I see.

2 Welcome as the water-spring
To a dry, barren place,

O descend on me, and bring
Thy sweet, refreshing grace;

O'er a parched and weary land,
As a great rock extends its shade,

Hide me. Saviour, with thy hand,
And screen my naked head.

3 In the time of my distress
Thou hast my succor been ;

In my utter helplessness,

Restraining me from sin;
O how swiftly didst thou move

To save me in the trying hour!
Still protect me with thy love,

And shield me with thy power.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

The hymn has six stanzas in the original : these
are the first three, unaltered. It is founded upon
Isa. xxxii, 2 :

" And a man shall be as a biding place from the
■wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers ot
water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock
in a weary land."

From Ilytnns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

679 Tfie firm fo u n dation. 1 1 .

HOW firm a foundation, ye saints of the
Lord,
Is laid for your faith in his excellent word !
What more can he say, than to you he hath

said,
To you, who for refuge to Jesus have fled?

2 "Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dis-
mayed.

For I am thy God, I will still give thee
aid;

I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause tliee
to Btand ;

Upheld by my gracious, omnipotent hand.

3 ' ' When through the deep waters I call thee

to go,
The rivers of sorrow shall not overflow ;
For I will be with thee thy trials to bless,
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.

4 " When through fiery trials thy pathway

shall lie,

My grace, all-sufficient, shall be thy sup-
ply,

The flame shall not hurt thee; I only de-
sign

Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to
refine.

5 "E'en down to old age all my people shall

prove
My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love;
And when hoary hairs shall their templets

adorn.
Like lambs they shall still in my bosom be

borne.

6 "The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for

repose,
I will not, I will not desert to his foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeavor

to shake,
I'll never, no never, no never forsake! "

GEOKGE KEITH.

Title : Exceeding great and precious promises.

2 Pet. i, 4.

The second stanza of the original is omitted :

3 " In every condition, in sickness, in health,
In poverty's vale, or abounding in wealth ;
At home and abroad, on the land, on the sea,

As thy days may demand shall thy strength ever be."

Slight verbal changes appear in five lines.
Verse one, line four:

" You who unto Jesus for refuge have lied."

Verse two, lines two and four:

" /, I am thy God, and will still give tine aid ;r'
" Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand."'

Verse three, lines two and three :

" The riv.-rs ot' woe shall not thee oVrflow;
For 1 will l>e with thee, thy troubles to bless."

This hymn first appeared in Rippon's Selection,

1TS7, where it was marked K . Some hymn

editors have taken this to mean Kennedy; others,
Kirkham; :-till others, Keith. Daniel Sedgwick,
the ^reat English hymnologUl^asaigned it toGeorgu
Keith, a London publisher.

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680 Fiarim in trUwIatum. 7, 8, 7.

HBA.D of tlic Church triumphant,
We joyfully adore thee;
Till thou appear, thy members here

Shall sing like those in glory:
We lift our In-art- and voices

With blest anticipation;
And cry aloud, and give to God
The praise of our salvation.

2 Thou dost conduct thy people
Through torrents of temptation;

Nor will we fear, while thou art near,
The lire of tribulation:

The world, with sin and Satan,

In vain our inarch opposes;
By thee we shall break through them all,

And sing the song of Moses.

3 By faith we see the glory

To which thou shalt restore us :
The cross despise for that high prize

Which thou hast set before us:
And if thou count us worthy,

We each, as dying Stephen,
Shall see thee stand at God's right hand,

To take us up to heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This was published without a title in Hymns for
Times of Trouble and Persecution, second edition.
London, 1745.

The second stanza is omitted :

2 " While in affliction's furnace,

And passing through the tire,
Thy love we praise which knows our days,

And ever brings us nigher :
"We clap our hands exulting

In thine almighty favor;
The love Divine, which made us Thine,

Shall keep us Thine forever."

In the first line the author wrote " Thy Church,"
and " Through Thee," etc., in verse two, line seven.

Dol Passionate longing for heaven. I

STILL out of the deepest abyss
Of trouble, I mournfully cry;
And pine to recover my peace,
And see my Redeemer, and die.

1 cannot, I cannot forbear,

These passionate longings forborne;
O when shall my spirit be there?
O when will the messenger come?

2 Thy nature I long to put on,
Thine image on earth to regain;

And then in the grave to lay down
This burden of body and pain.

O Jesus, in pity draw near.

And lull me to sleep on thy breast,
Appear, to my rescue appear,

And gather me into thy res! !

3 To take a poor fugitive in.

The arms of thy mercy display,
And give me to rest from all sin,

And bear me triumphant away;
Away from a world of distress,

Away to the mansions above;
The heaven of seeing thy face,

The heaven of feeling thy love.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

Published without title. The fourth lino of the
first stanza begins :

" To see my Redeemer," etc.

From Hymns for Those that Seek and Those that
Hue Redemption in, the Blood of Jesus Christ.
London, 17-17.

682 Lead, kindly Light. 10, 4, 10.

LEAD, kindly Light, amid the encircling
gloom,
Lead thou me on !
The night is dark, and I am far from home ;

Lead thou me on !
Keep thou my feet ; I do not ask to see
The distant scene; one step enough for me.

2 I was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou

Shouldst lead me on ;
I loved to choose and see my path ; but now

Lead thou me on !
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will. Remember not past
years !

3 So long thv power hath blest me, sure it

still
Will lead me on
O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent,
till
The night is gone,
And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since, and lost
awhile !

jolts ir. newman.

Author's title: The Hilar of the Cloud,.

Written on the Mediterranean Sea in 1833. The
mingled gloom and faith, apparent throughout this
hymn, doubtless correctly reveal the feelings ofthe
author at the time of writing. It has not been
altered.

From Verses on Various Occasions, 1868.

For sketch of author, see .No. 207.

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HYMN STUDIES.

683 Come, ye disconsolate. 11,10.

COME, ye disconsolate, where'er ye lan-
guish ;
Come to the mercy-scat, fervently kneel;
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell
your anguish;
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot
heal.

2 Joy of the desolate, light of the straying,
Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure,

Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying,
" Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can-
not cure."

3 Here see the bread of life; see waters

flowing

Forth from the throne of God, pure from
above ;
Come to the feast of love; come, ever know-
ing

Earth has no sorrow but Heaven can re-
move.

TIIOMAS MOORE, ALT.

Tins hymn lias been altered. In very nearly
this form it appears in Spirilval Songs for Social
Worship, 1832. The changes were probably made
by Thomas Hastings, one of the compilers of that
book.

The following is the original :

1 "Come, ye disconsolate, where'er yr>n languish,
Come, at GoWs attar fervently kneel;" etc.

2 "Joy of the desolate, light of the straying,
Hope, when all. others die, fadeless and pure,

Here speaks the Comforter, in Gad's name saying,
Eartn lias no sorrow that Heaven cannot euro.

3 " Go, ask the infidel what boon he hrinns us.
What charmfor aching hearts In can reveal,

Sweet as that heavenly promise Hope slugs us—
Earth has no sorrow that God cannot heal."

From Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, correct-
ed by himself. London. 18(18.
For biography of the author, see No. Gil.

684 The mercy-seat. L. M.

FROM every stormy wind that blows,
From every swelling tide of woes,
There is a calm, a sure retreat :
'Tis found beneath the mercy-seat.

2 There is a place where Jesus sheds
The oil of gladness on our heads;
A place than all besides more sweet :
It is the blood-bought mercy-seat.

3 There is a scene where spirits blend,
Where friend holds fellowship with friend:
Though sundered far, by faith they meet
Around one common inercy-scat.

4 Ah! whither coidd we flee for aid,
When tempted, desolate, dismayed?
Or how the hosts of hell defeat,
Had suffering saints no mercy-seat?

5 There, there on eagle wings we soar,
And sin and sense molest no more;

And heaven comes down our souls to greet,
While glory crowns the mercy-seat.

HUGH STOWELL.

A Selection of Psalms and Hymns Suited to the
Services of the 'Church of England, by the Rev. 11.
Stowell, M.A., Manchester, England, 1831, con-
tained this hymn and a few others by the same
writer.

Changes are found in four lines.

Oiuginal.
Verse two, line four :

" It is the blood-rfcu'ne^ mercy-seat."

Verse three, line one :

"There is a spot where spirits blend."

Verse five, lines two and four :

" And time and sense see?n all no more ; "
"And glory crowns the merey-seat."

The last stanza is omitted :

6. "Oh! may my hand forget her skill,
My tongue be silent, stiff, and still ;
My bounding heart forget to beat,
If I forget the merey-seat.''

The Rev. Hugh Stowell, an able and popular
minister of the Church of England, was born in
1799; was graduated at Oxford in ls-j-j, and took
holy orders in the following year. He was the
author of many sermons and addresses; but this
hymn will outlive them all. He died in 1865.

(3 8 O !'■ dication to the Lord.

OLOHD, thy heavenly grace impart.
And fix my frail, inconstant heart;
Henceforth my chief desire shall be
To dedicate myself to thee.

2 Whate'er pursuits my time employ,
One thought shall fill my BOul with joy:
That silent, secret thought shall be,
That all my hopes are fixed on thee.

L. M.

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3 Thy glorious eye pervadeth space;
Thy presence, Lord, fills every place;
And vvheresoe'er my lot may be,

Still shall my spirit cleave to thee.

4 Renouncing every worldly thing,
And safe beneath thy spreading wing,
My sweetest thought henceforth shall be,
That all I want I rind in thee.

JEAN F. OBERI.IN.
Tit. BY MRS. D. WILSON.

This hymn first appeared in its English form in
Memoirs of John /•'/. ierick Oberlin. London, 1880,
p. 239. Tne first and third stanzas have this refrain :

" To Thee, my God, to Time."

The second :

" On Thee, my God, on Thee."
The fourth :

" In Thee, my God, in Thee."

Two lines have been changed. The original
ha9, in the second line of the third stanza:

" Thou'rt present, Lord, in every place; "

and in the second line of the last stanza :

"Safe 'neath the covert of thy wing."

The book was published anonymously. Sir
Roundell Palmer, (Lord 8el borne,) in his Hook of
Praise, {fives the name of the editor and translator.
It was Mrs. Daniel Wilson, of Islington.

Oberlin was a Lutheran divine, born in Star-
burg in 17-10 ; piously trained and liberally edu-
cated. At the age of twenty he wrote out and
signed a solemn dedication of himself to God.
Ai>out 176*5 he accepted the pastorate of the village
of Waldbach. The region was wild and desolate,
and the people sunken in poverty and ignorance.
Here he remained for sixty years; and by almost
incredible devotion, labor, and perseverance raised
the people to a high state of Christian civilization.
lie died, universally beloved, in 1826.

686 The Spirit's guidance. L. M.

JESUS, my Saviour, Brother, Friend,
On whom I cast ray every care,
Ou whom for all things I depend,

Inspire, and then accept, my prayer.

2 If I have tasted of thy grace,

The yrace that sure salvation brings;
If with me now thy Spirit stays,

And, hovering, hides me iii his wings;

3 Still let him with my weakness stay,
Nor for a moment's space depart;

Evil and danger turn away,

And keep till he renews my heart.

4 If to the right or left I stray,

His voice behind me may 1 hear,
"Return, and walk in Christ, thy Way;
Fly back to Christ, for sin is near! "
CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Watch in all things. 2 Tim. iv, 5.

The original contains fifteen stanzas. No. 4D7 is
a part of the Miino. These are the first tour
stanzas. Only one word lias been changed. The
last stanza of the author's text begins with " When,"
instead of " If."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

687 The pure Light of souls. L. M.

OTMOU pure Light of souls that love,
True Joy of every human breast,
Sower of life's immortal seed,
Our Saviour and Redeemer blest !

2 Be thou our guide, be thou our goal;

Be thou our pathway to the skies;
Our joy. when sorrow fills the soul;

In death our everlasting prize.

BREVIARY.

Original title : Salutis humnnce Sator.

These are the first and last verses of a hymn of
five stanzas.

The last line of the first verse has " Our Maker,1
instead of "Our Saviour."

The translator is the Rev. Edward Caswall. It
is found in his Hymns and Poems, Original and
Translated. London, second edition, 1673 ; and
in Lyria Catholica, 1848.

688 Sweet hour of prayer. L. M.

SWEET hour of prayer, sweet hour of
prayer,
That calls me from a world of care,
And bids me, at my Father's throne,
Make all my wants and wishes known!
In seasons of distress and grief,
My soul has often found relief,
And oft escaped the tempter's snare,
By thy return, sweet hour of prayer,

2 Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of

prayer,
Thy wings shall my petition bear
To Him, wdiose truth and faithfulness
Engage the waiting soul to bless:
And since he bids me seek his face,
Believe his word, and trust his grace,
I'll cast on him my every care.
And wait for thee, sweet hour of prayer.

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HYMN STUDIES.

3 Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of

prayer,
May I thy consolation share,
Till, from Mount Pisgah's lofty height,
I view my home, and take my flight:
This robe of flesh I'll drop, and rise,
To seize the everlasting prize;
And shout, while passing through the air,
Farewell, farewell, sweet hour of prayer!

W. W. WALFORD.

Mr. Butterworth, in his Story of the Hymns,
Bays: "This hymn was written by Rev. Mr. Wal-
lord, an English blind preacher; and was given to
the public in 1849."

Tne second stanza has been omitted :

2 "Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer,

Thy joy I feel, the bliss 1 share,

Of those whose anxious spirits burn

With strong desire for thy return ;

With such I hasten to the place

Where God, my Saviour, shows his face,

And gladly take van station there,

To wait for thee, sweet hour of prater."

689 Design of prayer. L. M.

PRAYER is appointed to convey
The blessings God designs to give:
Long as they live should Christians pray ;
They learn to pray when first they live.

2 If pain afflict, or wrongs oppress;
If cares distract, or fears dismay ;

If guilt deject, if sin distress;

In every case, still watch and pray.

3 'Tis prayer supports the soul that's weak,
Though thought be broken, language

lame :
Pray, if thou canst or canst not speak;
But pray with faith in Jesus' name

4 Depend on him; thou canst not fail;
Make all thy wants and wishes known;

Fear not; his merits must prevail:
Ask but in faith, it shall be done.

JOSEPH HART.

Title: Pray without ceasing. 1 Thess. v. 17.
Two stanzas, the second and third, of the original
are omitted :

2 "The Christian's heart his prayer ind'tea :
He speaks as prompted from within,

T)h- Spirit his petition writes:

And Christ receives and gives it in.

3 '• And wilt tho'l in dead silence lie,
When Christ stands waiting for thy prayer?

My smd, thou ha«t a Friend on high,

Arise, and try thy interest there."

Some changes have been made. In the first line
the author wrote :

" Prayer was appointed," etc.
In the last line of the first verse:

" For only ivhile they pray they live."
The last line of the second stanza was:

" The remedy's before thee. Pray ;"
and the last line of the hymn :

"Ask what thou uilt, it shall be done."

From the Appendix to Barfs Hymns on Various
Subjects, 1765.
For biographical sketch of author, see No. 2'J.

0 y 0 Blessings of prayer. L. M.

WHAT various hindrances we meet
In coming to a mercy-seat !
Yet who that knows the worth of prayer,
But wishes to be often there?

2 Prayer makes the darkened cloud with-

draw :
Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw ;
Gives exercise to faith and love;
Brings every blessing from above.

3 Restraining prayer, we cease to fight :
Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright;
And Satan trembles when he sees

The weakest saint upon his knees.

4 Were half the breath that's vainly spent.
To heaven in supplication sent,

Our cheerful song would oftener be.
"Hear what the Lord has done for me."

WILLIAM COWI'I.U.

Author's title : Exhortation to Prayer.

Two stanzas, the fourth and fifth, are omitted.
One of them illustrates the value of prayer, and the
ether answers a common excuse :

4 " While Moses stood with arms spread wide,
Success was found on Israel's side ;

But when, through weariness, they failed,
That moment Amalek prevailed.'*

See Exodus xvii, 11.

5 " Have you no words i Ah, think again,
Words flow apace when you complain,
And fill a fellow-creature's ear

With the sad tale of all your care."

In the last verse, first line, the original bus lifhuk "

instead "f " that's," and the third line begins with
'• Tour " instead of " < )ur.''

From (thug Hymns, 1779.

See IS'o. 44.

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269

691 Tht jny of /nt-ing htirrtx. ].. M.

JE8U8, thou Joy of toring hearts!
Thou Fount of fife! thou Light of men!
From the best l>li-s that earth impart-.
We turn unfilled to thee again.

2 Thy truth unchanged hath ever stood;

Thou Barest those that on thee call;
To them that seek thee, thou art good,

To them that rind thee, all in all.

:: We taste thee. 0 thou Living Bread,

And long to feast upon thee still;
We drink of thee, the Fountain Head.
And thirst our souls from thee to fill!

4 Our restless -pirits yearn for thee,
Where'er our changeful lot is cast;

Glad, when thy gracious smile we see.
Blest, when our faith can hold thee fast.

5 O Jesus, ever with us stay;

Make all our moments calm and bright;
Chase the dark night of sin away,
Shed o'er the world thy holy tight !

BERNARD OF CLAIKVAUX.
TR. BY R. PALMER.

Title : Delight in Christ.

This translation was contributed to the Sabbath
Hymn Book, 1858.

It is a free rendering of selected stanzas from
Bernard's Jeeu Jid<:i< memorut, The Bev. E. Cas-
wall and others have translated the same. It is
unaltered and entire.

693 God1* praises crown eternity. L. M.
1 OD of my life, through all my days

My grateful powers shall sound thy
praise;

The song shall wake with opening light,
And warble to the silent night.

2 When anxious cares would break my rest.
And griefs would tear my throbbing breast.
Thy tuneful praises, raised on high,
•Shall check the murmur and the sigh.

i\ When death o'er nature shall prevail,
And all my powers of language fail,
Joy through my swimming eye- -hall break,
An 1 mean the thanks I cannot speak.

4 But O, when that last conflict's o'er,
And I am chained to earth no more,
"With what glad accents shall I rise
To join the music of the skies!

5 S ion -hall I learn the I salted -trains
Which echo o'er the heavenly plains;

And emulate, with joy unknown,

The glowing seraphs round thy throne.

0 The cheerful tribute will I give,
Long as a deathless bou! can live:
A work bo sweet, a theme so high,
Demands and crowns eternity !

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title : Praising God through the Whole of our
Existence.

"While I live will I pnise the Lord: I will
sing praises unto my God while I have any being."
Psa. cxlvi, 2.

Only two words are changed. In the second line
! of the third stanza the original has '• ifc" instead
of "my;M and in the second line of the fourth,
" flesh" instead of "earth."

The fast line nf the third stanza is happily ex-
pressed. It recognizes man's natural immortality,
and regards death a- an " enemy."

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the
Holy S.riptures. London, 1755.

For biography of author, see No. 78.

693 Hisloting in n finest better than life. L. M.

OGOD, thou art my God alone;
Early to thee my soul shall cry;
A pilgrim in a land unknown,

A thirsty land, whose springs are dry.

2 Thee, in the watches of the night,
When I remember on my bed,

Thy presence makes the darkness light ;
Thy guardian wings are round my head.

3 Better than life itself, thy love;
Dearer than all beside to me;

For whom have I in heaven above,

Or what on earth, compared with thee?

4 Praise with my heart, my mind, my voice.
For all thv mercy I will give:

My soul shall still in God rejoice,

My tongue shall bless thee while I live.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title : Remembrance and Resolution.
It is a paraphra-e of Psa. lxiii.
Two stanzas, the second and third, of the original
are omitted :

2 " Oh ! that it were as it hath been,
When, praying in the holy place,

Thy power and glory I have Been,
And marked the foot-teps of Thy grace 1

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HYMN STUDIES.

3 " Yet through this rough and thorny maze,

I follow hard on Thee, my God !
Thine hand unseen upholds my ways,

I safely tread where Thou hast trod."

Unaltered. From the author's Songs of Zion.
London, 1S22.
See No. 5.

694 l. m

1 slcall be satisfied, when I awake, with Tliy likeness.

LORD Jesus Christ, my Life, my Light,
My strength by day, my trust by night,
On earth I'm but a bussing guest,
And sorely with my sins oppressed.

2 O let thy Bufferings give me power
To meet the last and darkest hour,
Thy cross, the staff whereon I lean,

My couch, the grave where thou hast been.

3 Since thou hast died, the pure, the just,
I take my homeward way in trust ;

The gates of heaven, Lord, open wide,
When here I may no more abide.

4 And when the last great day is come,
And thou, our Judge, shall speak the doom,
Let me with joy behold the light,

And set me then upon thy right.

5 Renew this wasted flesh of mine,
That like the sun it there may shine
Among the angels pure and bright,
Yea, like thyself, in glorious light.

6 Ah, then I have my heart's desire,
When, singing with the angels' choir,
Among the ransomed of thy grace,
Forever I behold thy face !

M. BEHEMB. TR. BY MISS C. WINKWORTn.

Title: In Weakness and Distress of Mind.

In Lyra Germanica, second series, 1858, the trans-
lation consists of eleven stanzas. These verses are
tin' first, the first half ol the fourth, the last half of
the seventh, the eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh,
verbatim. It was Brut published in 1608.

The author's title was ■ A prayer for tfu Dying

The Kev. Martin Behemh was born in Lusatia,
North 'Germany, in 1557. He studied theology at
the University of Strasburg, and afterward become
pastor of the* Lutheran church in his native town
of Laubau, where he died in 1622.

695 The fairest of the fair. L. M.

THOUGH all the world my choice deride,
Yet Jesus shall my portion be;
For I am pleased with none beside;
The fairest of the fair is he.

2 Sweet is the vision of thy face,
And kindness o'er thy lips is shed;

Lovely art thou, and full of grace,
And glory beams around thy head.

3 Thy sufferings I embrace with thee,
Thy poverty and shameful cross;

The pleasures of the world I flee,
And deem its treasures only dross.

4 Be daily dearer to my heart,
And ever let me feel thee near;

Then willingly with all I'd part,
Nor count it worthy of a tear.

GERHARD TERSTEEGEN.

Title : Entire Surrender.

The translation appeared in Original Hymns by
Va\ vous Authors, edited by the Eev. J. Leifchild,
D.D. London, 1843. In 'this work it has eight
stanzas. These are verses two, three, five, and seven,
unaltered.

It was translated by Samuel Jackson, 1832.

For biographical sketch of Tersteegen, see No. 47.

696 At home with God anywhere. L. M.

MY Lord, how full of sweet content,
I pass my years of banishment!
Wher'er I dwell, I dwell with thee,
In heaven, in earth, or on the sea.
To me remains nor place nor time;
My country is in every clime:

1 can be calm and free from care
On any shore, since God is there.

2 While place we seek, or place we shun,
The soul finds happiness in none;

But with a God to guide our way,
'Tis equal joy to go or stay.
Could I be cast where thou art not,
That were indeed a dreadful lot;
But regions none remote I call,
Secure of finding God in all.

MAD. J. M. B. DE LA MOTHE GUTON.
TR. BY WM. COWPEB.

Title: The Soul that Loves God finds Ilim Every-
where.

The translation in Cowper's Poetical Works con-
sists of nine four-lined stanzas. It begins thus:

1 " O Thou, by Ions.' experience tried,
Near whom no grief can long abide ;
My Love J how rail of sweet content

1 pass my years of banishment.

2 " All scenes alike engaging prove
To souls impressed with sacred Love!
Where'er they dwell, they dwell in Thee
In heaven, in earth, or on the sea."

It will be seen that the first stanza of the hymn

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is made up of parts of the first two stanzas of the
translation, Bomewhat altered.

Jeanne Marie Bouvierea de la Motte Guyon, the
French Mystic, was born in lot-*: was educated
in a convent, and desired to take the veil,
bat her parenta refused consent. Her married
life was not nappy, and slie Bought peace
in religion. A Franciscan monk told her
to •■ - !; Q 1 in her heart." She dated
her conversion, Julv 22, 1668, and says: '• 1
was on a sudden BO alten.il that I was hardly to be
known, either by myBelf or by others . . . nothing
was more easy to me now than to practice prayer."
After the death of her husband, in L676, she de-
voted her life to teaching religion and writing
books. Madam LSuyon was eminently spiritual,
and professed entire sanctification, perfect faith,
and perfect love. She was accused by the Roman
Church of heresy, and at one time was banished,
and at another imprisoned. But she say- :

" Nor castle walls, nor dungeons deep,
Exclude His quickening Beams;

There 1 can sit, and sing, and weep
And dwell on heavenly themes."

Cowpcr translated a number of her hymns. John
Wesley said: "The grand source of all her mis-
takes was this, the not b in.' guided by the written
word." That was the mistake of her a^e and
Church. Her last years were spent in quietness,
and she died in full communion with the Soman
Catholic Church, in 1717.

Verse two, lines three and four:

li And in my Priest wi 1 1 rejoice,
Mj great .!/• ■ hisedech."

Verse four, line two ;

" With all Ms favored throng."

From Sacred Hymns for the vse of Religious So-
cieties, by John Cenuick, part iii. London, 1744.
For biographical notes, see .No. 450.

69/ Ttiou dear Redeemer. CM.

THOU dear Redeemer, dying Lamb,
I love to hear of thee ;
No music's like thy charming name,
Nor half so sweet can be.

2 O let me ever hear thy voice
In mercy to me speak;

In thee, my Priest, will I rejoice,
And thy salvation seek.

3 My Jesus shall be still my theme,
While in this world I stay ;

I'll sing my Jesus' lovely name
When all things else decay.

4 When I appear in yonder cloud,
With all thy favored throng,

Then will I sing more sweet, more loud,
And Christ shall be my song.

JOHN CENXICK.

Title : TIiou art a Priest forever after the Order
of ife/ckiseiJeck.
Five lines have been altered.

Original Form.

Verse one, lines three and four :

" No mvsic like thy charming name
Is half so sweet to me."

698 God my sufficient Portion. CM.

MY God, my Portion, and my Love,
.My everlasting All,

1 ve none but thee in heaven above,

Or on the earthly ball.

2 What empty things are all the skies,
And this inferior clod!

There's nothing here deserves my joys,
There's nothing like my God.

3 To thee I owe my wealth and friends,
And health, and safe abode:

Thanks to thy name for meaner things;
But they are not my God.

4 How vain a toy is glittering wealth,
If once compared to thee!

Or what's my safety, or my health,
Or all my friends to me?

o Were I possessor of the earth,
And called thy stars my own,

Without thy graces and thyself,
I were a wretch undone.

6 Let others stretch their arms like seas.

And grasp in all the shore;
Grant me the visits of thy grace,

And I desire no more.

ISAAC WATTS.

Author's title : Gad My 0>J>/ Ilippiness.

" Whom have T in heaven but thee ? and there is
none upon earth that I desire besides thee." Psa.

ixxiii, !'•">.

Two stanzas, the third and fourth, of the original
are omitted :

3 "In vain the bright, the burning sun
Scatters his feeble light;

'Tis thy sweet beams create my noon,
If thou withdraw 'tis night.

4 " And whilst upon my restless bod,
Amongst the shades I roll ;

If iny Redeemer shows his head,
'Tis morning with my soul."

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The only change is in the first line of the third
stanza :

" To thee we owe our wealth and friends."

This is a perfect hymn, of its kind, and is special -
ly adapted to private devotion. The last two
stanzas are indeed grand.

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

699 Pram dt Ugh t ful. C. M.

MY Saviour, my almighty Friend,
When I begin thy praise,
Whore will the growing numbers end,
The numbers of thy grace?

2 I trust in thy eternal word;
Thy goodness I adore:

Send down thy grace. 0 blessed Lord,
That I may love thee more.

3 My feet shall travel all the leugth
Of the celestial road ;

And march, with courage in thy strength,
To see the Lord my God.

4 Awake ! awake ! my tuneful powers,
With this delightful song;

And entertain the darkest hours,
Nor think the season long.

ISAAC WATTS, AI/T.

Title: Christ, our Strength and Rigfiteowtness.

Founded on the last part Of Psa. lxsri. Seven
stanzas: these are the first three and last.

Three lines of the second stanza have been
altered. Watts wrote it:

2 " Thou art my everlasting trust,

Thy goodness 1 adore,
And since I knew thy graces first,

I speak thy glories more.'1''

The last line of the third vcr^c was :
" To see my Father God ; "

and the third line of the last stanza:
"I'll entertain," etc.

From the author's Psalms of David Imitated in
the Language of the New Testament, 1719.

FT 7! ST PART.

700 The sweetest name. CM.

JESUS, the very thought of thee
With sweetness fills the breast;
But sweeter far thy face to see,
And in thy presence rest.

2 No voice can sing, no heart can frame,
Nor can the memory rind

A sweeter sound than Jesus' name,
The Saviour of mankind.

3 O Hope of every contrite heart,
0 Joy of all the meek,

To those who ask, how kind thou art!
How good to those who seek !

4 Rut what to those who find? Ah, this
Nor tongue nor pen can show :

The love of Jesus, what it is,
None but his loved ones know.

5 Jesus, our only joy be thou,
As thou our prize wilt be;

Iu thee be all our glory now,
And through eternity.

BEKNARD OF CLAIRVAUX.
TR. BY E. CASWAI.L.

Title : Jesu dulcis memoria.
The original, in Thesaurus IlymnoJogicus, con-
tains forty-eight quatrains.

This translation was contributed to Lyra Cathol-
ica, 1848. It is also found in Hymns and Lbemt,
Original and Translated, by Edward C as wall,
second edition. London. 1873.

A number of lines have been altered.

Origin A I..

Verse two, lines one, three, and four:

"JVbr voice can sing, nor heart can frame,"
"A sweeter sound than Thy blest muaa,
O Saviour of mankind."

Verse three, line three :

" To those v/hofall, how kind thou art ! "
Verse four, line four :

" None but his lovers know."
Verse five, line three :

" Jesus, be TJiou our glory now."

SECOND TART.

/01 Th < Conqueror renowned. CM.

0 JESUS, King most wonderful,
Thou Conqueror renowned,
Thou sweetness most ineffable,
In whom all joys arc found !

2 When once thou visitest the heart,
Then truth begins to shine,

Then earthly vanities depart,
Then kindles love divine.

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3 O Jesus, Light of all below,
Thou Fount of living lire,

Surpassing all the joys we know,

Ami all we SOB desire!

4 Jesus, may all confess thy name,
Thy wondrous love adore,

And, seeking thee, themselves inflame
To seek thee more and more.

5 Thee, Jesus, may our voices bless;
Thee may we love alone;

And ever in our lives express
The image of thine own.

BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX.
TK. BY E. CASWALL.

Title: Jitmi Rex admirab-ilis.
The translator wrote verse four, lines one, two,
and three :

" May every heart confess thy name,

.1 ' > ner The,: adorta ;
And seeking Thee itself inflame."

Verse five, line one :

" Thee may our tongues forevtr bless."

THIRD PART.

702 The King in his beauty. C. M.

0 JESUS, thou the beauty art
Of angel-worlds above ;
Thy name is music to the heart,
Inflaming it with love.

2 O Jesus, Saviour, hear the sighs
Which unto thee we send;

To thee our inmost spirit cries,
To thee our prayers ascend.

3 Abide with us, and let thy light
Shine, Lord, on every heart ;

Dispel the darkness of our night,
And joy to all impart.

4 Jesus, our love and joy ! to thee,
The Virgin's holy Son,

All mi:j;ht, and praise, and glory be,
While endless ages run !

BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX.
TR. BY E. CASWALL.

Title: Jesu deous angeKcttm.

Original Form.
Verse one, line four :

" Enchanting it with love.

2. " O my sweet Jems hear the sighs

Which unto Thee /send ;
To Thee mine inmost spirit cries

J/y being's hupe and end.

:. ■• Stay with us. Lord, and with thy light

Illume the iOUls abySS ;

Scatter the darkness oi our nighty

And fit the world with bit**.

4 " 0 Jesus ! spotless Virgin flower I

Our life and joy, to Tlue
£i /liaise, beatitude, and power

Through all eternity,"

703 Ttie rapt ure of love. C. U.

OTIS delight without alloy,
Jesus, to hear thy name:
My spirit leaps with inward joy;
I feel the sacred llamc.

2 My passions hold a pleasing reign,
When love inspires my breast, —

Love, the divinest of the train,
The sovereign of the rest.

3 This is the grace must live and sing,
When faith and hope shall cease,

And sound from every joyful string
Through all the realms of bliss.

4 Swift I ascend the heavenly place,
And hasten to my home ;

I leap to meet thy kind embrace ;
I come, O Lord, I come.

5 Sink dowm, ye separating hills!
Let sin and death remove ;

'Tis love that drives my7 chariot wheels,
And death must yield to love.

ISAAC WATTS.

Author's title : Ascending to Him, in Heaven.
Several lines have been altered.

Original.

Verse one, line one :

" 'Tispwe Delight without Alloy."

Verse two, line two :

" Wliile Love inspires my Breast."

Verse three, lines two, three, and four :

" When Faith and Fear shall cease,
Must sound from every joyful String,
Thro' the sweet Groves of Bliss."

Verse five, line two :

" Let Guilt and Death remove."

One stanza, the fourth, of the original is omitted :

4 " Let Life immortal seize my Clny,

Yet Love refine my Blood.
Her Flames can bear my Soul away,

Can bring me near my God."

There is a holy rapture in the last two stanzas
of this hymn. From' /force Lyricce, 1709.

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704: Triumphant joy. C. M.

MY God, the spring of all my joys,
The life of my delights,
The glory of my brightest days,
And comfort of my nights !

2 In darkest shades, if thou appear,
My dawning is begun;

Thou art my soul's bright morning star,
And thou my rising sun.

3 The opening heavens around me shine
With beams of sacred bliss,

If Jesus shows his mercy mine,
And whispers I am his.

4 My soul would leave this heavy clay
At that transporting word,

Run up with joy the shining way,
To see and praise my Lord.

5 Fearless of hell and ghastly death,
I'd break through every foe ;

The wings of love and arms of faith
Would bear me conqueror through.

ISAAC WATTS. ALT.

Title : God? 8 Presence is Light in Darkness.

Original Form.

Verse two, lines one, three, and four :

" In darkest shades if he appear,"
"He is my soul's sweet morning star,
And he my rising sun."

Verse three, line three :

" While Jesus shows his heart is mine."
Verse four, line four:

" T embrace my dearest Lord."
Verse five, line four:

" Shdiild bear me conqueror through."

These changes were made by John Wesley, who
edited this hymn for his Collection of Psalms and
Hymns, 1738.

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

70 O Peypettial praise. CM.

YES, I will bless thee, O my God,
Through all my fleeting days ;
And to eternity prolong

Thy vast, thy boundless praise.

2 Nor shall my tongue alone proclaim

The honors of my God;
My life, with all its active powers,

Shall spread thy praise abroad.

3 Nor will I cease thy praise to sing
When death shall close mine eyes;

My thoughts shall then to nobler heights
And Bweeter raptures rise.

4 Then shall my lips, in endless praise,
Their grateful tribute pay;

The theme demands an angel's tongue,
And an eternal day.

OTTIWELL HEGINBOTIIAM. ALT.

Title : Praise to God in Life and Death.
The first stanza the author wrote:

" My soul shall praise Thee, 0 my God,

Through all my mortal days,'' etc.

Two stanzas, the second and third, are omitted :

" In each bright hour of peace and hope,

Be this my BWeet employ !
Devotion heightens aU my bliss,

And sanctities my joy.

"When gloomy care or keen distress

Invades my throbbing breast.
My tongue shall learn to speak Thy praise,

And soothe my pains to rest."

The third stanza of the hymn is altered consid-
erably :

3 " And though these lips shall cease to move,
Though death shall close these eyes,

Yet shall my soul to nobler heights
Of joy and transport rise."

The author wrote the first line of the fourth
stanza :

" Then shall my powers in endless strains."

The thought of the last two lines of the hymn is
very grand. Verified by Lyra liritannica, Rogers.
London, (second edition.) 1868.

For biographical sketch, see No. 294.

706 Prayer. CM.

PRAYER is the breath of God in mau,
Returning whence it came;
Love is the sacred tire within,
And prayer the rising flame.

2 It gives the burdened spirit ease,
And soothes the troubled breast;

Yields comfort to the mourners here,
And to the weary rest.

3 When Cod inclines the heart to pray.
lie hath an ear to hear;

To him there's music in a groan,
And beauty in a tear.

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4 The humble suppliant cannot fail

To have his wants supplied.

Since lie fur sinners intercedes,

Who once fur sinners died.

BENJAMIN 1IEDDOME.

The author's title was : Importance of Prayer.

The hymn is not altered.

Due stanza, the second, is omitted :

2 " The Christian life, with it concludes,

And with it doth begin ;
'Tis this invigorates the soul,

And is the death of sin.

God's love for true penitence is poetically ex-
pressed in the last part of the third stanza.
From Hymns Adapted to Public Worship or

Fhmi'y Jit rotion, 1816.
For biographical sketch, see No. 285.

707 Prayer mores Omnipotence. C. M.

THERE is an eye that never sleeps
Beneath the wing of night;
There is an ear that never shuts,
When sink the beams of light.

'2 There is an arm that nevers tires,
When human strength gives way;

There is a love that never fails,
When earthly loves decay.

0 That eye is fixed on seraph throngs;
That arm upholds the sky ;

That ear is filled with angel songs;
That love is throned on high.

4 But there's a power which, man can wield.

When mortal aid is vain.
That eve. that arm, that love to reach,
That listening ear to gain.

5 That power is prayer, which soars on high.
Through Jesus, to the throne,

And moves the hand which moves the world,
To bring salvation down.

JOHN Ax. WALLACE.

It is said that this hvmn first appeared in the
Scottish Christian Herald, 1839.
It has been altered. How much I cannot tell, as

1 have never seen the original.

The Rev. John Aikman Wallace was a minister
of tiie Free Church of Scotland, 1800-1870.

'2 Till thou art seen, il Beema to be

A BOrt of faiiy ground,
Where suns unsetting light the sky,
And flowers and fruits abound.

3 But when thy keener, purer beam
Is poured upon our sight,

It loses all its power to charm,
And what was day is night.

4 Its noblest toils are then the scourge
Which made thy blood to flow ;

Its joys are but the treacherous thorns
Which circled round thy brow.

5 And thus, when we renounce for thee
Its restless aims and fears,

The tender memories of the past,
The hopes of coming years, —

6 Poor is our sacrifice, whose eyes
Are lighted from above;

We offer what we cannot keep,
What we have ceased to love.

JOHN H. NEWMAN.

Original title: The Too Worlds.
Thi* hymn was written in 1862. Only one word
has been changed. The author wrote : "

" This gaudy world," etc.,

in the the third line of the fir>t stanza.

From Verses on Various Occasions, by J. II.
Newman, 1868.

For biographical sketch, see No. 207.

C. M.

708 The two worlds.

UNVEIL, O Lord, and on us shine
In glory and in grace;
The gaudy world grows pale before
The beauty of thy face.

/ 0 9 Evening — solitude. C. M.

I LOVE to steal awhile away
From every cumbering care,
And spend the hours of setting day
In humble, grateful prayer.

2 I love in solitude to shed
The penitential tear,

And all his promises to plead
Where none but God can hear.

3 I love to think on mercies past,
And future good implore,

And all my cares and sorrows cast
On him whom I adore.

4 I love by faith to take a view
Of brighter scenes in heaven;

The prospect doth my strength renew,
While here by tempests driven.

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5 Tims, when life's toilsome day is o'er.

May its departing ray
Be culm as this impressive hour.

And lead to endless day.

MRS. PUCEBE II. RliOWN.

Phoebe Hinsdale Brown was a humble Christian
woman, who lived from 17S3 to lb61. This poem
was written in Ellington, Conn., in 1818. The
author lived in a small house, and having no re-
tired room in which to pray, was aeeustomed to
Ktroll along under the elms by the quiet country
road-side, and eommune with God. One day she
met a rich neighbor at the house of her pastor, the
Bev. Mr. Hyde. This lady had observed the twi-
light walks of Mrs. Brown, and, misapprehending
her object, grieved her sensitive soul. " Why,"
said she, do you walk back and forth between
your house and mine *. It' there is any thing you
want, conic in and get it."' That evening Mrs.
Brown wrote the verses, which she headed, An
Apology for my Pwilight A'a/ub/cs, Addressed to a
Lady.

The original contained nine stanzas. It is given
by the Rev. F. M. Bird in the Independent of Jan.
6, 1881. This hymn is composed of verses two,
four, five, seven, and nine; edited, probably, by
Dr. Nettleton, for his Village JJym/is, 1884

Original.

Verse one, lines two and four :

" From little ones and care.''
" In gratitude and prayer."

Verse two, lines three and four:

" And all GoiVs promises to plead,
Where none can seeor hear."

Verse three, line two:

"And future ones implore."

Verse four, lines two, three, and four :

" Of bh'sf \f id scenes in heaven.
The s?//At doth all my strength renew
While here by storms Pm driven."

Some readers will be glad to see the omitted
stanzas :

1 "Yes, when the toilsome day is done,
And night, with banners gray,

Steals silently the glade alone,
in twilight's soft array —

3 " 1 love to feast on Nature's scenes,

Waen falls the evening dew ;
And dwell upon her silent themes

Forever rich and new."

6 " I love to meditate on death ;
WThen shall his message come

With friendly smiles, to steal my breath,
And take an exile home."

8 "I love this silent twilight hour,

Far better than the rest ;
It is, of all the twenty-four,

The happiest and the best."

It is not at all wonderful that such a praying
mother gave to the Church a Christian missionary"
ihu Bev. Samuel K. Brown, D.D.

710 What is prayer? CM.

PRAYER is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed ;
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.

2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh.
The falling of a tear.

The upward glancing of an eye,
AVhen none but God is near.

3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech
That infant lips can try;

Prayer the sublimest strains that reach
The Majesty on high.

4 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice,
Returning from his ways;

While angels in their songs rejoice
Aud cry, "Behold, he prays! "

5 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath,
The Christian's native air,

His watchword at the gates of death ;
He enters heaven with prayer.

G O Thou, by whom we come to God,
The Life, the Truth, the Way;

The path of prayer thyself hast trod:
Lord, teach us how to pray !

J A M Efl M < I N"l'( ; omek y.

The author's title was : What is Prayer?

This tine In inn was written in 1818, at the re-
quest of the Bev. E. Biekcrsteth, for his Treatisi
on. Prayer.

Two stanzas, the sixth and seventh, have be> a
omitted :

6 " The saints in prayer appear as one
In word, in deed, and mind;

While with the Father and the Son
Sweet fellowship they find.

7 u Nor prayer is made by man alone,
The Holy Spirit pleads,

And Jesus, on the eternal throne
For sinners intercedes."

Montgomery irave an autograph copy of tfiis
favorite hymn tc George John Stevenson, the wel!-
known English hynrrjologtgt, who still has it in
bis possession. It was published in the Christian
Hamitt, 1S25.

See No. 5.

// }\V.V N 7 r DIES.

877

711 Communion with Ocd. C. M.

SWEET is the prayer whose holy stream
In earnest pleading flows;

Devotion dwells upon the theme,
And warm and warmer prows.

S Faith grasps the blessing she desires;

Hope points ths upward gaze;
And Love, celestial Love, inspires

The eloquence of praise.

3 But sweeter far tlie still, small voice,
Unheard by human ear.

When God lias made the heart rejoice,
And dried the bitter tear.

4 No accents flow, no words ascend;
All utterance faileth there;

But God himself doth comprehend
And answer, silent prayer.

UNKNOWN.

This beautiful little hymn has been traced to
Selections of Hymns far Christian, Worship. Man-
chester, (Eng.,1 1829. It was then anonymous,
and still remains bo ; although the Eev. S. F.
Smith, author of My Country, His of TJiee, and
other hymns, writes me : '• I think this hymn is
one of my own. though 1 am not entirely sure."

In the earlier book.s the last two lines'are:

" But suintel spirits comprehend,
And God accept* the prayer."

712 Talking with God. C. M.

TALK with us, Lord, thyself reveal,
While here o'er earth we rove;
(Speak to our hearts, and let us feel
The kindling of thy love.

2 With thee conversing, we forget
All time, and toil, and care;

Labor is rest, and pain is sweet,
If thou, my God, art here.

3 Here, then, my God, vouchsafe to stay.
And bid my heart rejoice;

My bounding heart shall own thy sway,
And echo to thy voice.

4 Thou callest me to seek thy face, —
'Tis all I wish to seek:

To attend the whispers of thy grace,
And hear thee inly speak.

5 Let this my every hour employ,
Till I thy glory see;

Enter into my .Master's joy,
And find my heaven in thee,

CHARLES WESLEY.

Author's title: On a Journey.
The Brst stanza is omitted ;

1 "Saviour, who ready art to hear,
(Headier than 1 to pray,)

Answer my scarcely uttered prayer,

And meet me ou the way."

Verses one and two were written in the BUUmlaf

number.

" Talk with me,"1 etc.

In the second stanza the author, perhaps uncon-
sciously, quoted Milton :

" With thee conversing, I forget all time,"

is what Eve says to Adam, in Paradise Lost, book
iv, line 639.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

713 Retirement and meditation C M.

171 A R from the world, O Lord, I flee,
. From strife and tumult far;
From scenes where Satan wages still
His most successful war.

2 The calm retreat, the silent shade,
With prayer and praise agree,

And seem by thy sweet bounty made
For those who follow thee.

3 There, if thy Spirit touch the soul,
And grace her mean abode,

O with what peace, and joy. and love, ■'•
Does she commune with God!

4 Author and Guardian of my life,
Sweet Source of li<jht divine.

And all harmonious names in one,
My Saviour! thou art mine!

5 The thanks I owe thee, and the lo\'e,
A boundless, endless store,

Shall echo through the realms above
When time shall be no more.

WILLIAM COWPER.

Title : Retirement.

This hymn was written by Cowper soon after
his conversion.
Verse three, line four, the author wrote :

" She communes with her God."

One stanza, the fourth — a very poetic one — is
omitted :

4 " There, like the nightingale, she pours

Her solitary lays ;
Nor asks a witness of her son?.

Nor thirsts for human praise."

From Olney Hymns, 1779.
.^ee No. 44.

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714 C.M.

Whom having not seen, yelove. 1 Pot. i, 8.

JESUS, these eyes have never seen
That radiant form of thine;
The veil of sense hangs dark between
Thy blessed face and mine.

2 I see thee not, I hear thee not,

Yet art thon oft with me ;
And earth hath ne'er so dear a spot

As where I meet with thee.

'& Like some bright dream that comes un-
sought
•' When slumbers o'er me roll,
Thine image ever tills my thought,
And charms my ravished soul.

4 Yet though I have not seen, and still
Must rest in faith alone,

I love thee, dearest Lord, and will,
Unseen, but not unknown.

5 When death these mortal eyes shall seal,
And still this throbbing heart,

The rending veil shall thee reveal,
All-glorious as thou art.

RAY PALMER.

The author's title is: Unseen-— not Unknown.
" Whom having not seen, ye love." 1 Pet. i, 8.

This hymn was contributed to The Sabbath Hymn
Book, 1858. It was also published ill the author's
Hymns and Sacred Pieces. New York, 1805. It is
unaltered and entire.

The Rev. Kay Palmer, P.P., n Congregationalist
clergyman, was born in Rhode Island in 1808; was
graduated at Yale College in 1830; and his first
and most famous hymn was written in the same
year. (See No. 762.) He is the author of several
volumes of poetry which contain valuable contri-
butions to hymnologv — both original hymns and
translations. He died March 29, 18b7.

7 1 D Pray without ceasing. C. M.

SHEPHERD Divine, our wants relieve,
In this our evil day;
To all thy tempted followers give
The power to watch and pray.

2 Long as our fiery trials last,
Long as the cross we bear,

O let our souls on thee be cast
In never-ceasing prayer.

3 Till thou thy perfect love impart,
Till thou thyself bestow,

lie this the cry of every heart,
" 1 will not let thee go;

4 "I will not let thee go, unless
Thou tell thy name to me,

With all thy great salvation bless,
And make me all like thee.

5 "Then let me on the mountain-top
Behold thy open face,

Where faith in sight is swallowed up,
And prayer in endless praise."

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Desiring to Pray.

One stanza, the third, is omitted :

3 " The Spirit of interceding grace,

Give us in faith to claim,
To wnstlc till we see Thy face.

And know Thy bidden name."

In this, as in the two following stanzas, there is
a plain reference to the wrestling of Jacob. See
Gen. xxxii.

Unaltered. From Charles Wesley's Hymns and
Sacred Poems, 17-19.

716 The Lord's Prayer. C.M.

OUR Father, God, who art in heaven,
All hallowed be thy name;
Thy kingdom come; thy will be done
In heaven and earth the same.

2 Give us this day our daily bread;

And as we those forgive
Who sin against us, so may we

Forgiving grace receive.

;} Into temptation lead us not;

From evil set us free;
And thine the kingdom, thine the power

And glory ever be.

ADONIRAM JUDSO>\

This hymn, a metrical version of the Lord's
Prayer, is a remarkable piece of work. A com-
parison with the form given in Matthew vi will
show how little change has been made. This ver-
sion contains sixty- eight words — only two more
than the text in Matthew, and four less than the
original Creek. The author dated it, "Prison,
A\a, March, 1825." He was released, after having
been incarcerated nineteen months.

The Rev. Adoniram JucUon, P.P., the_ famous
missionary, was born in Massachusetts in ITsS,
ami «as educated at Brown University and Ando-
ver Divinity School. It was while a student ut
Andover that Judson and a few other young men
became deeply interested in foreign missionary
work. Soon afterward, "The American Board ol
Commissioners for Foreism Missions" was organ-:
ized; and in 1812, Judson sailed for India as their
first missionary. On the voyaire lie changed his
views concerning baptism, and was immersed by
Dr. Carey, a Baptist missionary at Serampore. The

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East India Company were bo opposed to missionary
work at that time, that they ordered him to leave
the country. Dr. Judsou at length accepted Bur-
undi an his mission field, lie became familiar with
the language, and the great work of his life was the
translation of tile whole Bible into the Bnrmcse
•■■. In 1845 Dr. Judson returned to America ;
bat the next year be sailed again for India. He
died on a voyage lor his health iu 1350, and \\a>
buried ut bob.

717 God ei'ery-whcre. 7.

THEY who Beek tlic* throne of grace,
Find that throne in every place;
If wc live a life of prayer,
God is present every- where.

2 In our sickness or our health.,
In our want or in our wealth,
If we look to God in prayer,
God is present everywhere.

3 When our earthly comforts fail,
When the foes of life prevail,
'Tis the time for earnest prayer;
God is present every- where.

4 Then, my soul, in every strait
To thy Father come and wait ;
He will answer every prayer;
God is present every-where.

OLIVER HOLDEN, ALT.

Title : Secret Prayer.

This hymn has been altered from a long meter of
six stanzas, beginning :

" All those who seek a throne of grace."

In an old book, this and several other hymns are
marked II. In a later book some of the same hymns
are attributed to Holden. It is supposed that* they
were written by Oliver Holden, an editor and com-
poser of music. lie wrote Cimcord, Coronation,
and other valuable tunes, and published them in
The Union. Harmony. Boston, 1793.

:i While I am a pilgrim here,
Let thy love my spirit cheer;
As my guide, my guard, my friend,
Lead me to my journey's end.

4 Show me what I have to do;
Every hour my strength renew ;
Let me live a life of faith.
Let me die thy people's death.

JOHN NEWTON.

Title: Ask what I shall give thee. 1 Kings hi, 5.
The second, third, and fifth stanzas are omitted :

2 " Thou art coming to a King,
Large petitions with thee bring;
For his grace and power are such,
None can ever ask too much.

3 " With my burden I begin,
Lord, remove this load of sin !
Let thy blood, for sinners spilt.
Set my conscience free from guilt."

5 " As the image in the glass
Answers the beholder's face ;
Thus unto my heart appear,
Print thine own resemblance there."

The last couplet of the first stanza has been
changed. Newton wrote :

" He himself has lid yon pray,
Therefore will tuit say thee nay."

From Olney Hymns, 1779.
See No. 23.

718 Encouragements to pray. 7.

COME, my soul, thy suit prepare,
Jesus loves to answer prayer;
He himself invites thee near,
Bids thee ask him, waits to hear.

2 Lord, I come to thee for rest ;
Take possession of my breast;
There thy blood-bought right maintain,
And without a rival reign.

719 t.

Partnership of the saints in light.

JESUS is our common Lord,
He our loving Saviour is ;
By his death to life restored,
Misery we exchange for bliss;

2 Bliss to carnal minds unknown,
O 'tis more than tongue can tell !

Only to believers shown,
Glorious and unspeakable.

3 Christ, our Brother and our Friend,
Shows us his eternal love :

Never shall our triumphs end,
Till we take our seats above.

4 Let us walk with him in white,
For our bridal day prepare,

For our partnership in light,
For our glorious meeting there.

CHARLES WESLEY.
Title : Receiving a Christian Friend.

2b0

IIYMN STUDIES.

The first two stanzas have been omitted. They
nre necessary, as well as the original title, to fully
appreciate the thought of ihe author:

1 "Welcome friend, in that great name,
Whence our every blessing flows,

Enter, and increase the flame
Which in all our bosoms glows.

2 '' Sent of God we thee receive :
Hail the providential guest !

If In Jesus we believe
Let us on his mercies feast."

The last line of the third stanza the author wrote :

'■ Till we join the host above."'

It was changed for the Collection of 1 7 SO .
From Uynuts and Sacred Poems, 1742.

720 The pilgrims' song. 7.

CHILDREN of the heavenly King,
As we journey let us sing;
Sing our Saviour's worthy praise,
Glorious in his works and ways.

2 We are traveling home to God,
In the way our fathers trod ;
They are happy now, and we
Soon their happiness shall see.

3 O ye banished seed, be glad ;
Christ our Advocate is made :
Us to save our flesh assumes,
Brother to our souls becomes.

4 Lift your eyes, ye sons of light ;
Ziou's city is in sight;

There our endless home shall be,
There our Lord we soon shall see.

5 Fear not, brethren, joyful stand
On the borders of our laud;
Jesus Christ, our Father's Son,
Bids us undismayed go on.

6 Lord, obediently we'll go,
Gladly leaving all below:
Only thou our Leader be,
And we still will follow thee,

JOHN CENNICK.

Published without title in Sacred Hymns for the
, Children of God, in the Days of their Pilgrimage,
by J. 0. "London, 174'-'.

The original has twelve stanzas. These are verses
one, two, four, six. seven, and eight.

Slight changes have been made in a few lines..

y praise."

Original.

Verse one, lines two and three

" As ye journey sweetly sine;,
Sing your Saviours worthy \

Verse two, line two :

" In the way the fathers trod."

Verse five, lines two, three, and four:

" On the borders of your land,
Jesus Christ, your bather's Son,
Bids you undismayed go on.''

For sketch of author, see No. 450.

/ 2 1 Christ, the source of every bletfing. 7.

CHRIST, of all my hopes the ground,
Christ, the spring of all my joy,
Still in thee may I be found,

Still for thee my powers employ.

2 Fountain of o'erflowing grace,

Freelv from thv fullness <rive

Till I close my earthly race,

May I prove it " Christ to live! "

3 Firmly trusting in thy blood,
Nothing shall my heart confound;

Safely I shall pass the flood,

Safely reach Emmanuel's ground.

4 When I touch the blessed shore,
Back the closing waves shall roll,

Death's dark stream shall nevermore
Fart from thee my ravished soul.

5 Thus, O thus an entrance give
To the land of cloudless sky;

Having known it " Christ to live,"
Let me know it " Gain to die."

KALP1I WAI1DLAW.

From A Selection of Hymns for J'ublic Worship,
by Ralph Wardlaw, 1>.1>-.. l*l-7.
"The Scripture basis of this hymn is Phil, i, 21 :

"To live is Christ, and to die is gain."

This is part of a hymn of thirteen stanzas ; these
are verses one, six, nine, ten and eleven, verbatim.

The Rev. Ralph Wardlaw, I >.!>., n Scotch Con-
gregational divine and author, was born in 177'.':
in 1808 was ordained and installed pastor of a
church in Glasgow; and in 1811 appointed Pro-
fessor of Theology in the Seminary of the I
(rational Church of Scotland, which position lie
held until his death, in 1S53.

HYMN STUD IE 8.

2«l

722 I'm- humility and protection. 7.

GOD of Love, who nearest prayer,
Kiinlly for thy people car.',
Who on thee alone depend:

Love us, save us to the end.

2 Save as, in the prosperous hour,
From the Battering tempter's power,
From his unsuspected wiles,

From the world's pernicious smiles.

3 Save us from the great and wise,
Till they sink in their own eyes,
Tamely to thy yoke submit,

Lay their honor at thy feet.

4 Never let the world break in ;
Fix a mighty gulf between;
Keep us little and unknown,
Prized and loved by God alone.

5 Let us still to thee look up.
Thee, thy Israel's Btrength and hope-,
Nothing know, or seek, beside
Jesus, and him crucified.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This hymn was published without title. The
original contains six eightrlined stanzas; these are
the' first, the last hall or the fourth, and the tilth.

Only two lines have been ehanged.

Wesley wrote :

" God of love that hearest prayer."
Changed for the edition of 1849.
In the third verse :

" Till they to Thy yoke submit."

Changed for the Wesleyan Collection, 1780.

The author claims that there is no higher honor
than to he a Christian. The hymn closes with these
vigorous lines:

" Far above created things,
Look "■■ :.'< n i >a earthly kings,
Taste our glorious liberty,
Find our happy all in Thee."

From Hymns for Those thai Seek and Those that
Have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ.
London, 1747.

723 The Litany. 7.

SAVIOUR, when, in dust, to thee
Low we bend the adoring knee;
When, repentant, to the skies
Scarce we lift our weeping eyes;
O by all thy pains and woe
Suffered once for man below,
Bending from thy throne on high,
Hear our solemn litany.

2 By thy helpless infant years;
By thy Life pf want and tears;

By thy days of sure distress,

In the savage wilderness;
By the dread mysterious hour
Of the insulting tempter's power;
Turn, 0 turn a favoring eye,
Hear our solemn litany !

3 By the sacred griefs that wept
O'er the grave where Lazarus slept;
By the boding tears that flowed
Over Salem's loved abode;

By the anguished sigh that told
Treachery lurked within thy fold;
From thy seat above the sky,
Hear our solemn litany !

4 By thine hour of dire despair;
By thine agony of prayer;

By the cross, the nail, the thorn,
Piercing spear, and torturing scorn;
By the gloom that veiled the skies
O'er the dreadful sacrifice;
Listen to our humble cry,
Hear our solemn litany I

5 By thy deep, expiring groan;
By the sad sepulchral stone;
By the vault whose dark abode
Held in vain the rising God;

O from earth to heaven restored,
Mighty, re-ascended Lord,
Listen, listen to the cry
Of our solemn litany!

SIR ROBERT GRANT.

The author's title was : Litany.

The hymn was copied verbatim from Sacred Po-
ems, published by the brother of the author, Lord
Glenelg, in 1S39. It tii^t appeared in the Chris-
tian Observer, lsl5.

No. 417, in the Hymnal, was manufactured by
some hymn editor o;it of this hymn.

For biographical sketch, see No. 140.

724 Nearer, my God, to thee. 6, 4, 6.
'BARER, my God, to thee!

Nearer to thee,
E'en though it be a cross

That raiseth me ;
Still all my Bong shall be,
Nearer, my God, to thee,

Nearer to thee!

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HYMN STUDIES.

2 Though like the wanderer,
The sun gone down,

Darkness be over me,

My rest a stone,
Yet in my dreams I'd be
Nearer, my God to thee,

Nearer to thee !

3 There let the way appear,
Steps unto heaven;

All that thou sendest me,

In mercy given ;
Angels to beckon me
Nearer, my God, to thee,

Nearer to thee !

4 Then, with my waking thoughts
Bright with thy praise,

Out of mv stony griefs

Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to be
Nearer, my God, to thee,

Nearer to thee !

5 Or if, on joyful wing
-Cleaving the sky,

Sun, moon, and stars forgot,

Upward I fly,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to thee,

Nearer to thee !

MRS. SARAH F. ADAMS.

Title : Nearer to God.

This favorite hymn was written in 1841, and con-
tributed to Hymns and Anthems, edited by the
Rev. William Johnson Fox. It was the fruitage oi
a gifted mind and a pious heart, It is founded
upon the story of Jacob's journey, % giveu in Gen.
xxviii, 10-1 9 :

" And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and
went toward Ilaran. And be lighted upon a cer-
tain place, and tarried there all night, because the
sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place,
and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that
place to sleep. And he dreamed, imd behold a
ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached
to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascend-
ing and descending on it. . . . And Jacob rose up
early in the morning, and took the stone that he
had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar,
and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called
the name of that place Beth-el."

One word only has been changed.
The author wrote, in the fifth line of the first
stanza :

" Still all my song iron',/ be."

Mrs Sarah Flower Adams was the daughter of
Benjamin Flower, an English editor and author,
and was born at Cambridge in 1805. She was the
author of several other hymns, i>ut none so famous
us this. She died in 1848 or 1849; authorities differ

as to the date. Mrs. Adams was connected with the
Unitarian church of which the Rev. W. J. Fox
was pastor.

4,6.

725 More love to Thee. 6,

MORE love to thee, O Christ,
More love to thee]
Hear thou the prayer I make,

On bended knee;
This is my earnest plea,
More love, O Christ, to thee,
More love to thee!

2 Once earthly joy I craved,
Sought peace and rest;

Now thee alone I seek,
Give what is best :

This all my prayer shall be,

More love, O Christ, to thee,
More love to thee !

3 Then shall my latest breath

Whisper thy praise;
This be the parting cry

My heart shall raise,
This still its prayer shall be,
More love, O Christ, to thee,

More love to thee !

MRS. ELIZABETH P. PRENTISS.

One stanza of this sweet hymn, the third, has
been omitted :

3 " Let sorrow do its work,

Send grief or pain ;
Sweet are thy messengers,

Sweet their refrain,
When they can s'iiilt with me;
More love, O Christ to thee,

More love to thee."

It has not been altered

Heavenward, and other prose works ; also of Golden
/fours ; or, Hymns and Songs <>t the < 'hrixtian Life.
New York, 1874. The above hymn was taken from
this volume. It is, without doubt, a heart song,
and sounds the key-note of ihe Christian Life of the
author. Her Hymns and Songs are full of Christ.

726 8,7.

Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. 1 Sam. vii, 12.

COME, thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my In-art to sing thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudesl praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Bung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount— I'm lixeil upon it —
Mount of thy redeeming love]

HYMN STUDIES.

283

8 Here I'll raise mine Ebenezer;

Hither by thy hi l[> I'm come ;
And I hope, by thy good pleasure,

Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus Bought me when a stranger,

Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,

Interposed his precious blood.

3 O to grace how greal a debtor

Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,

Bind my wandering heart to thee:
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,

Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, < > take and seal it ;

Seal it for thy courts above.

KOBE It T ROBINSON.

Title: Desiring to Praist Worthily.

This old hymn haa been a fount of blessing to
multitudes, and was published in A (Collection
of Hymns for Social worship,by George White-
field, late of Pembroke College, Oxford; and
Chaplain to the Kt. Hon. the Countess of Hunting-
don. A copy ot the thirty-third edition is the only
one I have ever seen. Lon Ion, 1T'.»!>.

Six lines have been slightly altered.

Verse one, lines seven and eight :

M Praise the mount — Oh fix m* on it.
Mount of God's unchanging love."

Verse two, lines one, two, and eight :

"Here /raise my Ebenezer,

Hither by than' Help I'm come,"
" Interposed with preeious Blood."

Verse three, line three :

41 Let that Grace, now like a Fetter."

At one time in Robinson's life he was skeptical,
and, of course, miserable. It is said that a lady
once sang this hymn in bis presence, and spoke of
the spiritual benefit she hud derived from the use
of it. Robinson was deeply moved, for he was a
man of quick sensibilities, and with much emotion
said : '" .Ma> lam, I am ihe poor unhappy man who
composed that hymn many years ago ; and I would
give a thousand worlds, if 1 had them, to enjoy the
t' clings I had then."

This hymn is found in the first edition of Lad;)
Huntingdon's Hyinn Book, and some hymnologists
attribute the authorship to her.

For biographical sketch of Robinson, see No.
148.

727 The harmonious chorus. v, 7.

HERE on earth, where foes surround us,
While our trembling souls within
Fed the fetters which have bound us,
Feel the burden of our sin;

Lord, on thee alone relying,

Strength we crave to burst our chain,
Ever pleading, ever crying,

" Lord, for us the Lamb was slain."

2 In those high and holy regions
Where the blest thy praise prolong,

Cherubs and seraphic Legions
Know no theme of nobler song;

White-robed saints, who there adore thee
Throned above the grassy main,

Sing, and cast their crowns before thee,
"Lord, for us the Land) was slain."

3 Thus thy Church, whate'er her dwelling,
Heaven above or earth below,

One harmonious chorus swelling,
Loves her Saviour's praise to show :

Here in trial, there in glory,

Changeless rings the immortal strain,

Changeless sounds the wondrous story,
" Lord, for us the Lamb was slain."

UNKNOWN.

All that I have been able to learn concerning this
hymn is that it appeared in the British Magazine,
September, 1832, marked B. J. W.

728 What a Friend we have in Jesus. 8, 7.

WHAT a Friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry

Every thing to God in prayer !
O what peace we often forfeit,

O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Every thing to God in prayer!

2 Have we trials and temptations ?
Is there trouble anywhere?

We should never be discouraged,
Take it to the Lord in prayer.

Can we find a friend so faithful
Who will all our sorrows share?

Jesus knows our every weakness,
Take it to the Lord in prayer.

3 Are we weak and heavy laden,
Cumbered with a load of care? —

Precious Saviour, still our refuge, —
Take it to the Lord in prayer.

Do thy friends despise, forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer;

In his arms he'll take and shield thee,
Thou wilt find a solace there.

JOSEPH SCKIVEN.

284

H7MN STUDIES.

This hymn h:^ been a favorite in gospel meet-
ings. It has been attributed for years to Lloratius

Bonar; but, in answer to a letter of inquiry, Dr.
Bonar wrote ; •■ The hymn, ' What a Fr'undj' etc.,
is 7i at mine. . . . I know not who wrote it."

The author, Joseph Scriven, a lay preacher, was
born in Ireland, 1 ^uO, and died in Canada, lbtiti.

729 Praiaete the Baity. 8,7.

OMY God, how thy salvation
Fills my soul with peace and joy,
Patience gives, and consolation

Which the world cannot destroy !
Praise to God, the glorious giver,
Christ, the Saviour of the lost,
And the Comforter forever,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

2 For that love whose tender mercies

Purest joys do daily bring,
I will in my life confess thee,

With my moufh thy praises sing:
Praise to God, the glorious giver,

Christ, the Saviour of the lost,
And the Comforter forever,

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

JOHN 8. B. MONSELL.

" O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt
his name together." Psa. xxxiv, 3.

These are the last two verses of a hymn of five
stanzas.

From Hymns of Love and Praise for the Church'1 a
Year, 160U. In his preface the author says of his
hymns: " Their name tells what they desire to
express, love to and praise of God; and if they
tend in any degree to make that love in others more
fervent and real, that praise more joyous and bright,
they have not been written in vain."

See No. 232.

730 Ik fore His cross. 8,7.

SWEET the moments, rich in blessing,
Which before the cross I spend;
Life, and health, and peace possessing,
From the Burner's dying Friend.

2 Truly blessed is this station,
Low before his cross to lie;

While I see divine compassion
Beaming in his gracious eye.

3 Here it is I find my heaven
While upon the cross I gaze ;

Love I much? I've much forgiven;
I'm a miracle of grace.

4 Love and grief my heart dividing,
With my tears his fret Til bathe;

Constant still, in faith abiding,
Life deriving from his death.

5 Here in tender, grateful sorrow
With my Saviour will I stay:

Here new hope and strength will borrow ;
Here will love my fears away.

JAMES AI.I.KN.
ALT. BY WAXTEB SIIIIILEY.

The original of this familiar hymn appeared
in A Collection of Hymns for the Use of Those that
| Seek and Those that Hue. Rtdenvption in lite Blood
oj Jesus Christ. Kendal, 1757.

It was edited by James Allen and Christopher
Batty. The hymn contained six eight-lined stanzas,
and began :

'■ While my Jesus I'm possessing."

It was a strange and crude production, yet full <>f
love for Christ, and of faith in his saving power.
1 1 was rewritten for the Collection of Hymns for
i ',, i bvntess of Huntingdon' i < 'Jiapelsf ii is supposed
to have been altered by Walter Shirley, the editor
of that collection. Neither Allen nor Snirlejy wrote
the last verse as given in the llytnind. Who did
write it is unknown.

The original of the first four stanzas is her*
given :

1 "Oh! how happy are the moments.
Which I here in transport spend ;

Life deriving from His torments

Who remains the sinner's Friend:

2 " Really blessed is the portion
Destin'd me by sovereign grace;

Still to view di\ ine compassion
In the Saviour's bruised face.

3 " Here it is I find my heaven,
While upon my Lamb I gaze ;

Love I much, I've more forgiven ;
I'm a miracle of grace :

4 "Fill'd with sinner like contrition,
With my tears his feet I'll bathe;

Happy in the sweet fruition

Of my Saviour's painful death."

James Allen was born in Yorkshire, Eng., in
1734, and was awakened under the preaching of
Mr. Ingham. In 1752 he joined the Ingham it*.*.
and was a popular preacher among them fir several
years. Afterward be built a chapel for himself,
in which he officiated to the cud of his days. He
died in 1804.

731 //>, / am with you alway.

ALWAYS with us, always with us;—
Words of cheer and words of love:
Thus the risen Saviour whispers,

From his dwelling-place above.
With us when we toil in sadn
Sowing much, and reaping none;
Telling us that in the future
Golden harvests shall be won.

HYMN STUDIES.

28*

B With us when the storm is sweeping
OYr our pathway dark and drear;

Waking hope within our bosoms,
Stilling every anxious fear.

With us id the lonely valley.

When we cross the chilling stream;

Lighting np the steps to glory
With salvation's radiant beam.

EDWIN' II. N KVIX.

Written about 1856. The original eontaii -

fair-lined stanzas, and is found in Lyra Saero.
Americana, edited by Charles Dexter Cleveland,

This hymn is made up of verses one, five, four,

and six, slightly altered. The author wrote, " Al-
ways with me," and so throughout, in the first per-
son. Instead of the last line, the author wrote :

"Like the ancient prophet1 s dream.''''

The Rev. Edwin II. Nevin was born in Pennsyl-
vania, in 1814 ; tras graduated at Jefferson Go! e .
and studied theology at Princeton. He was a pas-
tor in the Presbyterian church for some years.
Failing health compelled biul to resign his pastoral
labors.

732 Life of life. 8,7.

LABORING and heavy laden,
Wanting help in time of need,
Fainting by the way from hunger,
"Bread of Life!" on thee we feed.

2 Thirsting for the springs of waters
That, by love's eternal law,

From the stricken Rock are flowing,
*' Well of life! " from thee we draw.

3 In the land of cloud and shadow,
Where no human eye can see,

Light to those who sit in darkness,
" Light of life ! " we walk in thee.

4 Thou the grace of life supplying,
Thou the crown of life wilt give ;

Dead to sin, and daily dying,
"Life of life!" in thee we live.

JOHNT S. B. MON'PET.L.

Title : Christ our life. Col Hi, 4.

The original lias eight stanzas. These are verses
one, two, four, and eight, unaltered.

From the author's //■/inns of Love and Prai*e.
London. (Second edition, I86&)

For biographical sketch of authorrsee No. 232.

733 'ttfai. 8,7,4.

OTHOU Cod of my salvation,
.My Redeemer from all sin ;
Moved by thy divine compassion,
Who hast died my heart to win,

I will praise thee;
Where shall I thy praise begin?

2 Though unseen, I love the Saviour;
lie hath brought salvation near;

Manifests hi.- pardoning favor;

And when Jesus doth appear,

Soul and body
Shall his glorious image bear.

3 While the angel choirs are crying,
" I dory to the great I AM,"

I with them will still be vying —
Glory ! glory to the Lamb !

0 how precious
Is the sound of Jesus* name !

4 Angels now are hovering round us,
Unperceived amid the throng;

"Wondering at the love that crowned us,
Glad to join the holy song:

Hallelujah,
Love and praise to Christ belong!

THOMAS OLIVERS.

The original title was : An I/>jm.n of Praiseto Christ.
There are two additional stanzas:

5 " Now I see with joy and wonder,
Whence the gracious spring arose ;

Angel minds are lost to ponder,
0j ing love's mysterious cause ;

But the blessing
Down to all, to me it Hows.

6 " This has set me all on fire,
Strongly glows the flame of love ;

Higher mounts my soul, and higher
Struggles for its swift remove,

Then Til praise thee,
In a nobler strain above."

This hymn is attributed to Thomas Olivers, bu»
only on internal and circumstantial evidence. It
first appeared, appended to a short account of the
death of Mary Langson, of Tax.ill, in Cheshire ;
who died January 29, 1769, when Olivers was sta-
tioned on that circuit.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 1075.

734 8,7.

King of heaven. God of fjrac.

PRAISE, my soul, the King of heaven;
To his feet thy tribute bring;
Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,
Evermore his praises sins :
Hallelujah! Hallehijahl
Praise the everlasting King.

286

HYMN STUDIES.

2 Praise him for his grace and favor
To our fat Iters in distress;

Praise him, still the same as ever,
Slow to chide, and swift to bless:

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Glorious in his faithfulness.

3 Father-like he tends and spares us,
Well our feeble frame he knows;

In his bauds he gently bears us,
Rescues us from all our foes:

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Praise with us the God of grace.

HENRY F. LYTE, ALT.

Title : Psalm ciii.

From The Spirit of the Psalms, (first edition,
1834.)

Tlie original bus :l Praise Him'1'' in place of " Hal-
lelujah " m each stanza. Two other lines have been
altered.

Original Form.
Verse one, line four :

" Who like me JIls praise should Bing."

Verso three, line six :

" Widely as His mercy flows."

There are two additional stanzas in the origi-
nal.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 27.

7 3 O The power of prayer. L. M. 6 1.

0 WONDROUS power of faithful prayer!
What tongue can tell the almighty
grace?
God's hands or bound or open are,

As Moses or Elijah prays:
Let Moses in the Spirit groan,
And God cries out, "Let me alone!

2 " Let me alone, that all my wrath
May rise the wicked to consume;

While justice hears thy praying faith,

It cannot seal the sinner's doom:
My Son is in my servant's prayer,
And Jesus forces me to spare."

3 Father, we ask in Jesus' name,
In Jesus' power and spirit pray,

Divert thy vengeful thunder's aim,

O turn thy threatening wrath away!
Our guilt and punishment remove,
And magnify thy pardoning love.

4 Father, regard thy pleading Son!

Accept his all-availing prayer,
And scud a peaceful answer down,

In honor of our Spokesman there,
Whose blood proclaims our sins forgiven.
And speaks thy rebels up to heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Published without title in Hymns for Those that
Seek and Those that Have Redemption in the Lluod
of Jestis Christ, 1747.

These are verses one, two, four, and eight, ver-
batim. The original has eight stanzas.

736 Jesus all, and in all. L. M 6 1.

THOU hidden Source of calm repose,
Thou all-sufficient Love divine,
My help and refuge from my foes,

Secure I am while thou art mine:
And lo! from sin, and grief, and shame,

1 hide me, Jesus, in thy name.

2 Thy mighty name salvation is,
And keeps my happy soul above:

Comfort it brings, and power, and peace,

And joy, and everlasting love:
To me, with thy great name, are given
Pardon, and holiness, and heaven.

3 Jesus, my all in all thou art ;
My rest in toil, my ease in pain ;

The medicine of my broken heart ;

In war, my peace; in loss, my gain;
My smile beneath the tyrant's frown;
In shame, my glory and my crown:

4 In want, my plentiful supply;

In weakness, my almighty power;

In bonds, my perfect liberty;

My light, in Satan's darkest hour;
In grief, my joy unspeakable;
My life in death, my all in all.

CHABLEH WESLEY.

Title : Hymns for Believers. For the Aforn-
inij.
Wesley wrote the last line:

" My life in death, my heaven in hell;"

and so it remains in the Collection for the use of
the people called Methodists to this day. It was
changed for the Supplement to the Methodist Pocket

Hymn Book, 1808.
The

change makes the line read more smoothly,

HYMN STUDIES.

28*

but it deranges the author's climax, and makes him
end as he begun in the first line of the third
stanza.

From Hymns and Sacred 1'oerns, 1749.

FIRST PART.

737 H/ '< g Jacob— the struggle. L.M.6L

COME, 0 thou Traveler unknown,
Whom still I hold but cannot see;
My company before is gone,

And I am left alone with thee:
With thee all night I mean to stay,
And wrestle till the break of day.

2 I need not tell thee who I am,
My sin and misery declare;

Thyself hast called me by my name,

Look on thy hands, and read it there:
But who. I ask thee, who art thou?
Tell me thy name, and tell me now.

3 In vain thou strugglest to get free,
I never will unloose my hold:

Art thou the Man that died for me?

The secret of thy love unfold :
Wrestling, I will not let thee go,
Till I thy name, thy nature know.

4 Wilt thou not yet to me reveal
Thy new, unutterable name?

Tell me, I still beseech thee, tell;
To know it now resolved I am :
Wrestling, I will not let thee go,
Till I thy name, thy nature know.

5 What though my shrinking flesh complain,
And murmur to contend so long?

I rise superior to my pain ;

When I am weak then I am strong:
And when my all of strength shall fail,
1 shall with the God-man prevail.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Wrextlina Jacob.

Fourteen stanzas; two, the fifth and seventh, are
omitted :

5 " 'Tis all in vain to hold Thv tongue,
Or touch the hollow of my thigh:

Though every sinew be unstrung,
Out of my amis Thou shalt not fly;

Wrestling, 1 will not let Thee go,

Till 1 Thy name, Thy nature know."

7 " My strength is gODe, my nnture dies :
I sink beneath Thy weighty hand ;

Faint to revive, and fall to rise :
I fall, and yet by faith 1 s'and.

I stand, and will not let Thee go,

Till I Thy name, Thy nature know."

SECOND PART.
/ 3 3 The name revealed. L. M. 6 1.

YIELD to me now, for I am weak,
But confident in self-despair;
Speak to my heart, in blessing speak,
Be conquered by my instant prayer:
Speak, or thou never hence shalt move,
And tell me if thy name be Love.

2 'Tis Love ! 'tis Love ! thou diedst for me !
I hear thy whisper in my heart;

The morning breaks, the shadows flee;

Pure, universal love thou art :
To me, to all, thy bowels move;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.

3 My prayer hath power with God; the

grace

Unspeakable I now receive;
Through faith I see thee face to face,

I see thee face to face and live!
In vain I have not wept and strove;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.

4 I know thee. Saviour, who thou art,
Jesus, the feeble sinner's Friend ;

Nor wilt thou with the night depart,

But stay and love me to the end :
Thy mercies never shall remove ;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

TniRD PART.
739 Victorious rapture. L. M. 6

THE Sun of righteousness on me
Hath risen with healing in his wings :
Withered my nature's strength, from thee

My soul its life and succor brings:
My help is all laid up above ;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.

2 Contented now, upon my thigh

I halt, till life's short journey end;
All helplessness, all weakness, I

On thee alone for strength depend,
Nor have I power from thee to move ;
Thy nature and thy name is Love.

3 Lame as I am, I take the prey ;

Hell, earth, and sin, with ease o'ercome ;
I leap for joy, pursue my way,

And as a bounding hart fly home,
Through all eternity to prove
Thy nature and thy name is Love.

^CHARLES WE8LEY.

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HYMN STUDIES.

This is, doubtless, the most celebrated lyric
poem that Charles Wesle> ever wrote. It is found-
ed upon Gen. xxxii, 24-26 :

" And Jacob was left alone ; and there wrestled
a man with him, until the breaking of the day.
And wlien he saw that lie prevailed not against
him, he touched the hollow of liis thigh : and the
hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he
wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for
the day breaketh : and be said, 1 will not let thee
go, except thou bless me."

The climax of the hymn is reached in the second
stanza of the second part — a stanza that is sublime
indeed, and something more.

Charles Wesley's brief obituary — Minutes of the
Method'ixt Conferences, 17S8 — probably written by
his brother John, closes as follows:

" His least praise was his talent for poetry ; al-
though Dr. Watts did not scruple to say that ' that
single poem, ' Wrestling Jacob,' was worth all the
verses lie himself had written.' "

Dr. Watts, however, must be understood " poet-
ically." He simply meant that he greatly admired
the production.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

740 Everlasting praises. L. P.M.

I'LL praise my Maker while I've breath,
And when my voice is lost in death,
Praise shall employ ray nobler powers;
My days of praise shall ne'er be past,
While life, and thought, and being last,
Or immortality endures.

2 Happy the man whose hopes rely
On Israel's God ; he made the sky,

And earth, and seas, with all their train ;
His truth forever stands secure;
He saves the oppressed, lie feeds the poor,

And none slfall find his promise vain.

8 The Lord pours eye-sight on the blind;
The Lord suppprts the fainting mind;

lie sends the laboring conscience peace;
He helps the stranger in distress,
The widow of the fatherless,

And grants the prisoner sweet release.

4 I'll praise him while he lends me breath,
And when my voice is lost in death,

Praise shall employ my nobler powers;
My days of praise shall ne'er be past.
While life, and thought, and being last,

Or immortality endures.

ISAAC WATTS.

The author's title was: Praise to God for his
Ooodn ess an <1 Tr nt It .

A metrical version of Psa. exlvi.

The original contained six stanzas; the second
and fifth have been omitted.

Watts wrote the first line :

" I'll praise my Maker with my breath,"

and the first line of the third stanza :

" The Lord hath eyes to (jive the blind,"

which is awkward enough. These changes were
made by John Wesley, who edited the psalm for
his Psalms and Hymns, 1741. In the second
change he consciously or unconsciously borrowed
from Pope's Messiah:

" He from thick films shall purge the visual ray,
And on the sightless eye-bull pour the day."'

This is the hymn that seemed to dwell in the
mind of John Wesley during the last two days of
his earthly life. Again and again, in his extreme
feebleness, lie attempted to Bing:

"I'll praise my Maker while I've breath."
First published in 1719.

74:1 Jesas is mine. 6,4,6.

FADE, fade, each earthly joy;
Jesus is mine.
Break every tender tie;

Jesus is mine.
Dark is the wilderness,
Earth has no resting-place,
Jesus alone can bless;
Jesus is mine.

2 Tempt not my soul away;

Jesus is mine.
Here would I ever stay ;

Jesus is mine.
Perishing things of clay.
Born but for one brief day,
Pass from my heart away ;

Jesus is mine.

3 Farewell, ye dreams of night;

Jesus is mine.
Lost in this dawning bright,

Jesus is mine.
All that my soul has tried
Left but a dismal void;
Jesus has satisfied ;

Jesus is mine.

4 Farewell, mortality;

Jesus is mine.
Welcome, eternity :

Jesus is mine.
Welcome, O loved and blest,
"Welcome, sweet scenes of rest,
Welcome, my Saviour's breast-;

Jesus is mine.
BEB8. uoiiATit's nox.VR, ALT.

irrvx studies.

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The Rev J. II. Wils.»n, M.A., editor of Tin
S , London, 1867, accredita this

hymn to Mrs. li. Bonar, and claims that it was " in-
Mrtod by Bpeciol permission." Thfl version lie
gives diners from this hymn in the following lines :

Verse one, linos one, three, and six :

'• Rwg avxty, earthly joy."
" Break every mortal tie."
" Distant the resting-place."

Verse three, lines one and three :

" Fnr ye well, dreams of night."
" Mineia a dawning bright."

Verse four, lines five, six, and seven :

" Welcome, ye scenes of rest,
Welcome, i/e i/ians/oiis blest,
Welcome, a Saviour's breast."

Mrs. Jane Catherine Bonar, the wife of the Rev.
Horatius Bonar, of Edinburgh, Scotland, died lss4.

742 I give myself to Thee. 6, 6, 4.

SAVIOUR, who died for me,
I give myself to thee;
Thy love, so full, so free,
Claims all my powers.
Be tliis my purpose high,
To serve thee till I die,
Whether my path shall lie
'Mid thorns or flowers.

2 But, Lord, the flesh is- weak;
Thy gracious aid I seek,

For thou the word must speak,

That makes me strong.
Then let me hear thy voice,
Thou art my only choice;

0 bid my heart rejoice,
Be thou my song.

3 May it be joy to me
To follow only thee;
Thy faithful servant be,

Thine to the end.
For thee, I'll do and dare,
For thee, the cross I'll bear,
To thee direct my prayer,

On thee depend.

4 Saviour, with me abide ;
Be ever near my side ;
Support, defend, and guide;

I look to thee.

1 lay my hand in thine,
And fleeting joys resign,
If I may call thee mine

Eternally.

MISS MART J. MASOX.

Written in 1871, and published by Biglow &'

Main, New York. The author does not wish to
lie known to the public, and her winh must be rc-

Bpeoted. The h\ mn is full of Chri-tian submission.

743 Make His praise glorious. C. P. M.

0 COULD I speak the matchless worth,
O could I sound the glories forth,
Which in my Saviour shine,
I'd soar and touch the heavenly strings,
And vie with Gabriel while he sings
In notes almost divine.

2 I'd sing the precious blood he spilt,
My ransom from the dreadful guilt

Of sin, and wrath divine;
I'd sing his glorious righteousness,
In which all-perfect, heavenly dress

My soul shall ever shine.

3 I'd sing the characters he bears,
And all the forms of love he wears,

Exalted on his throne;
In loftiest songs of sweetest praise,
I would to everlasting days

Make all his glories known.

4 Well, the delightful day will come
When my dear Lord will bring me home,

And I shall see his face ;
Then with my Saviour, Brother, Friend,
A blest eternity I'll spend,

Triumphant in his grace.

SAMUEL MEDLEY.

" Sing forth the honor of his name : make his
praise glorious." Psa. lxvi, 2.

The original contains eijjht stanzas. These aro
verses two. five, six; and eight, verbatim.

This is the first piece in the author's book, tho
full title of which is : Hymns, The, Public Worship
and Private Devotions of True Christians Assisted, in
Some Thoughts in Verse, Principal!// Drawn from Se-
lect Passages of the Word of God. By Samuel' Medley.

See No. 193.

744r Always rejoicing. C. P. M.

~OW happy, gracious Lord, are we,

Divinely drawn to follow thee !

Whose hours divided are
Betwixt the mount and multitude;
Our day is spent in doing good.

Our night in praise and prayer.

2 With us no melancholy void,
No moment lingers unemployed,

Or unimproved, below :
Our weariness of life is gone,
Who live to serve our God alone,

And only thee to know.

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TIYMN STUD IE 8.

3 The winter's night, the summer's day,
Glide imperceptibly away.

Too short to sing thy praise;
Too few we find the happy hours.
And haste to join those heavenly powers

In everlasting lays.

4 With all who chant thy name on high,
And, "Holy, holy, holy," cry, —

A bright, harmonious throng!
We long thy praises to repeat,
And ceaseless sing around thy seat

The new, eternal song.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is one of eleven hymns published in a pam-
phlet, in 1744, entitled Hymns for the Watch-night.

In verse two, line two, the author wrote "period "
instead of " moment."

It is said that watch-night services originated
among the colliers of Kingswood. Before they were
converted, they had l>een in the habit of spending
every Saturday night at the ale-house in drinking
and revelry. Now they resolved to devote that
night to prayer and spiritual songs. The practice.
at length, grew quite general. At first watch-night
meetings were held once a month, then once a
quarter, and at length only once a year, on New
Year's-eve.

74-5 FIRST PART 75 6, 7.

My help comethfrom the Lord. Psa. exxi. 2.

TO the hills I lift mine eyes,
The everlasting hills;
Streaming thence in fresh supplies,

My soul the Spirit feels:
Will* he not his help afford?

Help, while yet I ask, is given :
God comes down ; the God and Lord
Who made both earth and heaven.

2 Faithful soul, pray always ; pray,
And still in God confide;

He thy feeble steps shall stay,

Nor suffer thee to slide ;
Lean on thy Redeemer's breast;

He thv quiet spirit keeps;
Rest in him, securely rest;

Thy Watchman never sleeps.

3 Neither sin, nor earth, nor hell,
Thy Keeper can surprise ;

Careless slumbers cannot steal

On his all-seeing eyes;
He is [srael's sure defense;

Israel all his care shall prove;
Kept by watchful providence,

And ever-waking love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

746 SECOND PART. 7,6,7.

The Lord is thy Keeper, l'sa. exxi, 5.

SEE the Lord, thy Keeper, stand
Omnipotently near:
Lo! he holds thee by thy hand,

And banishes thy fear :
Shadows with his wings thy head;

Guards from all impending harms;
Round thee and beneath are spread
The everlasting arms.

2 Christ shall bless thy going out,

Shall bless thy coining in;
Kindly compass thee about.

Till thou art saved from sin;
Like thy spotless Master, thou,

Filled with wisdom, love, and power,
Holy, pure, and perfect now,

Henceforth and evermore.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is a paraphrase of Psalm exxi. It is inter-
esting to compare the hymn with the psalm:

"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from
whence cometh my help. My help cometh from
the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will
net sutler thy foot, to bemo\ed: he that keepeth
thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth
Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord
is thv keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy
right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day,
nor the moon by night. The Lord Bhtill preserve
thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy
coming in trom this time forth, and even for ever-
more.

One stanza, the fifth, has been omitted :

5 " Thee, in evil's scorching day,

The sun shall never smite ;
Thee, the moon's malignest ray,

Shall never blast by night.
{Safe from known or secret foes,

Free from sin and Satan's thrall,
God, when flesh, earth, hell oppose,

Shall ke%ep thee safe from all.

Verse one, line eight, of the first part begins in
the original: " That made," etc. 1 he paraphrase
is otherwise unaltered.

From A Collection of Pi/alms and Hymns, 1743.

747 Preci ' Jena. 8.

HOW tedious and tasteless the hours
When .Jesus no longer I see!
Sweet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet
flowers,
Have all lost their sweetness to me;
The midsummer sun shines but dim,

The Gelds strive in vain to look gay;
But when I am happy in him,
December's as pleasant as May.

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2 His name yields the richest perfume.
Ami sweeter than music his voice;

Hi- presence disperses my gloom,

And makes all within me rejoice;
I should, were ho always thus nigh,

Have nothing to wish or to fear;
No mortal so happy as I,

My summer would last all the year.

3 Content with beholding his face,
My all to his pleasure resigned,

No changes of season or place

Would make any change in my mind:

While blest with a sense of his love.
A palace a toy would appear;

And prisons would palaces prove,
If Jesus would dwell with me there.

4 My lord, if indeed I am thine,

If thou art my sun and my song,
Say. why do I languish and pine?

And why are my winters so long?
0 drive these dark clouds from my sky,

Thy soul-cheering presence restore ;
Or take me to thee up on high.

Where winter and clouds are no more.

JOHN NEWTON.

'• None upon earth I desire besides thee." Psa.
Ixxiii, 25.

The only changes are in the last stanza. Newton
wrote:

Tis there I would always abide,
And never a moment depart.

Concealed in the cleft of thy side,
Eternally held in thy heart.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy
So i/itures, 1702.

It is founded on the Song of Solomon i, 7 :

"Tell me, 0 thou whom my soul loveth, where
thou feedeat! where thou makest thy flock to rest at
| noon : for why should I be as one that turneth aside
I by the flocks of thy companions?"

The second verse is omitted, lor which the reason
is evidtnt :

2 " Ah show me that happiest place,

That place of Thy people's abode,
Where saints in an ecstasy gaze,

And hang on a crucified God :
Thy love for a sinner declare,

Thy passion and death on the tree,
My spirit to Calvary bear,

to suffer, and triumph with Thee."

and,

" Dear Lord, if indeed I am thine ; "

Or take me unto thee on hiorh."

This joyous hymn has been in every edition of
our hymn book fr<>m the fir.^t. It truly represents
the fact that communion with Christ makes a
heaven on earth.

From Olney Hymns, 1779.

See No. 23.

748 Longing for closer communion. 8.

THOU Shepherd of Israel, and mine.
The joy and desire of my heart,
For closer communion I pine,

I long to reside where thou art:
The pasture I languish to find,

Where all, who their Shepherd obey,
Are fed, on thy bosom reclined.
And screened from the heat of the da v.

2 'Tis there, with the lambs of thy flock,

There only, I covet to rest;
To lie at the foot of the rock,

Or rise to be hid in thy breast :

749 The tender mercy of the Lord. S. M.

0 BLESS the Lord, my soul !
His grace to thee proclaim;
And all that is within me, join
To bless his holy name.

2 The Lord forgives thy sins,
Prolongs thy feeble breath;

He healeth thine infirmities,
And ransoms thee from death.

3 He clothes thee with his love,
Upholds thee with his truth ;

And like the eagle he renews
The vigor of thy youth.

4 Then bless his holy name

Whose grace hath made thee whole;
Whose loving-kindness crowns thy days:
O bless the Lord, my soul !

THOMAS COTTERILI,.

This is a fine metrical version of the first part of
Psa. ciii :

" Bless the Lord, O my soul : and all that is with-
in me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my
soul, and forget not all his benefits : who forgiveth
all thine iniquities ; who healeth all th\ diseases ;
who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; who
crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender
mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good
things; so that thy youth "is renewed like the
eagle's."

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HYMN STUDIES.

Eight lines are omitted between verses one and
two:

" O bless the Lord, my soul !
His mercies bear in mind;
Forget not all his benefits,
The Lord to tliee is kind.

" He will not always chide ;

He will with patience wait;
His wrath is ever slow to rise,

And ready to abate.

He pardons all thy sins," etc.

Some books erroneously ascribe this hymn to
Montgomery, and some to Watts. It appeared in
Dr. Cotterill's Sheffield Collection, 1811* edition,
perhaps earlier, and was probably versified by him.

750 Pray evermore. S. M.

COME at the morning hour,
Come, let us kneel and pray ;
Prayer is the Christian pilgrim's stall
To walk with God all day.

2 At noon, beneath the Rock
Of ages, rest and pray ;

Sweet is that shelter from the sun
In weary heat of day.

3 At evening, in thy home,
Around its altar, pray;

And rinding there the house of God,
With heaven then close the day.

4 When midnight veils our eyes,
O it is sweet to say,

"I sleep, but my heart waketh, Lord,
With thee to watch and pray."

JAMES MONTGOMERY, ALT.

Title : Daily Prayer.

" And he spake a parable unto them to this end,
that nun out'lit always

Luke xviii, 1.

to pray, ami not to taint.'

At least half thelines of this hvmn have been con-
siderably altered in spite of tfie author's protest.
In the preface to bis Original Hymns he reminds
the "borrowers" that if they " cannot conscien-
tiously adopt hit diction and doctrine, it is a little
questionable in them to impose upon him theirs,
which he may as honestly hesitate to receive."

It is just for this reason, because it is neither fair
nor honest, that we claim that whenever a hymn lias
been essentially changed from its authorized form,
it should be plainly marked al&ered. It is simply
outrageous, after men are dead and can no longer
defend themselves, to make them responsible for
what they never said.

The authorized text of this hymn can be found in
Montgomery's Original Hymns, 1*53.

We must add, in simple justice, that this author
is not entitled to as much s\ mpathy as Borne others,
because he was a notorious hymn-mender himself.

/OX Heaven upon earth S. M.

MY God, my Life, my Love,
To thee, to tliee I call;

1 cannot live if thou remove,

For thou art all in all.

2 Thy shining grace can cheer
This dungeon where I dwell;

Tis paradise when thou art here;
If thou depart, 'tis hell.

3 The smilings of thy face,
How amiable they are!

'Tis heaven to rest in thine embrace,
And nowhere else but there.

4 Not all the harps above
Can make a heavenly place,

If God his residence remove,
Or but conceal his face.

5 Thou art the sea of love,
Where all my pleasures roll:

The circle where my passions move,
And center of my soul.

ISAAC WATTS.

God all and in all.
" Whom have I in heaven but thee ?"

Pea.

Title :

Text :
lxxiii, 25.

Eight stanzas ; the fourth, sixth, and last are
omitted :

4 " To thee and thee alone

The angels owe their bliss ;
They sit around thy gracious throne

And dwell where Jesus is."

6 " Nor earth nor all the sky

Can one delight afford,
No, not a drop of real joy,

Wit bout thy presence, Lord."

8 " To thee my spirits Hy

With infinite desire,
And yet how far from thee I lie !

Dear Jesus raise me higher."

The stanzas given are unaltered.

The common thought, that the essential part of
heaven is God's presence and favor, is beautifully
expressed in the third and fourth stanzas of this
hymn.

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii. 1707.

752

The hour of prayer.

8, 8, 8, 4.

MY God, is any hour so sweet,
From blush of morn to evening star,
As that which calls me to thy feet,
The hour of prayer?

1IYMX STUDIES.

:C3

2 Blest is that tranquil hour of morn.
And blest that solemn hour of eve,

When, on the wings of prayer upborne,
The world 1 leave.

3 Then is my strength by thee renewed;
Then are my sins by thee forgiven;

Then dost thou cheer my solitude
With hopes of heaven.

4 No words can tell what sweet relief
Here for my every want I rind;

What strength for warfare, balm for grief,
What peace of mind.

5 Bushed is each doubt, gone every fear;
My spirit seems in heaven to stay;

And e'en the penitential tear
Is wiped away.

6 Lord, till I reach that blissful shore,
No privilege so dear shall be.

As thus my inmost soul to pour
In prayer to thee.

CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT.

Author's title : Tlte Hour of Prayer.
One verse, the third, has been omitted :

3 " For then a Day-sprint shines on me,
Brighter than morn's ethereal glow;

And richer dews descend from Thee
Than earth can know."

From Hours of Sorrow Cheered and Comforted,
by Charlotte Elliott. No date given. This hymn
is found in print as early as 1829.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 3G3.

753 The spirit of prater. S. M.

THE praying spirit breathe,
The watching power impart,
From all entanglements beneath

Call off my peaceful heart;
My feeble mind sustain,

By worldly thoughts oppressed;
Appear, and bid me turn again
To my eternal rest.

2 Swift to my rescue come,

Thine own this moment seize;
Gather my wandering spirit home,

And keep in perfect peace:
Suffered no more to rove

O'er all the earth abroad,
Arrest the prisoner of thy love,

And shut me up in God.

CIIAHLES WESLEY.

The author's title was : For BtlteveTB, In an
Hurry of Bonnets.
The first stanza is omitted :

" Help, Lord, the busy foe

Is as a flood come in !
Lilt up a standard, and o'erthrow

This soul-distracting sin :
This sudden tide of cure

Stem by that bloody tree,
Nor let the rising torrent bear

My soul away from Thee.-'

In the fourth line of the hymn the author wrote:
" Call off my anxious heart."

The change was made for the Collection of 1780.
I like the original better. The heart is "anxious"
and troubled, and therefore prays for victory and
peace.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

7o4 I lay my sins on Jesus. 7, 6.

I LAY my sins on Jesus,
The spotless Lamb of God;
He bears them all, and frees us
From the accursed load :

1 bring my guilt to Jesus,

To wash my crimson stains
White in his blood most precious,
Till not a stain remains.

2 I lay my wants on Jesus;
All fullness dwells in him;

He healeth my diseases,
He doth my soul redeem:

I lay my griefs on Jesus,
My burdens and my cares ;

He from them all releases,
He all my sorrows shares.

3 I rest my soul on Jesus,
This weary soul of mine;

His right hand me embraces,

I on his breast recline :
I love the name of Jesus,

Immanuel, Christ, the Lord;
Like fragrance on the breezes,

His name abroad is poured.

4 I long to be like Jesus,
Meek, loving, lowly, mild;

I long to be like Jesus,

The Father's holy child :
I long to be with Jesus

Amid the heavenly throng.
To sing with saints his praises,

And learn the angels' song.

HOIIATIUS BONAB.

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The author's title was : The Substitute.
It dates back to the Bible Hymn Book. Is44.
Only one word has been changed, and that is for
the better. The last line the author wrote :

" To learn the angels' song."

From Hymns of Faith and Hope. First series,
1857.

For biographical sketch, see No. 126.

"/DO Never separated from Christ. 7,6.

I KNOW no life divided,
O Lord of life, from thee ;
In thee is life provided
For all mankind and me:

1 know no death, O Jesus,

Because I live in thee ;
Thy death it is which frees us
From death eternally.

2 I fear no tribulation,
Since, whatsoe'er it be,

It makes no separation

Between my Lord and me.

If thou, my God and Teacher,
Vouchsafe to be my own,

Though poor, I shall be richer
Than monarch on his throne.

3 If, while on earth I wander,
My heart is light and blest,

Ah, "what shall I be yonder,

In perfect peace and rest?
O blessed thought! in dying

We go to meet the Lord,
Where there shall be no sighing,

A kingdom our reward.

CARL J. P. PPITTA.
TK. BY R. MAS8IE.

This translation from the German is found in
Lyra Domestica. London. (First edition, 1860.)

Title: Life and Contentment in Jena.

Eight stanzas; these arc verses four, five, and
mx, verbatim.

Carl Johann Pbilipp Spitta. a German theologian
ati'l poet, was horn in 1801. His early years were
without special promise, and lie was apprenticed to
a watchmaker. While learning this trade lie began
the Btudy of languages, and in 1821 entered the
University of Gottingen to study theology. After
graduating, he was engaged as tutor in a private
family for some time ; but from 1*-JS till 1859, the
date of his death, he was a popular and successful
pastor of several Lutheran churches. His reputa-
tion rests principally upon Ins hymns, which are
deeply Bjpiritunl and very popular in his native
land." His Ptalter and Harfe: Leipzio, (first
edition, 1888,) was translated by Bichard Mas.-ie in
1860.

/ O 6 1 love to tell the story. 7, 6.

I LOVE to tell the story,
Of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and his u'lory,
Of Jesus and his love.

1 love to tell the story,

Because I know 'tis true;
It satisfies my longings,
As nothing else can do.

I love to tell the story,

'Twill be my theme in glory,

To tell the old, old story
Of Jesus and his love.

2 I love to tell the story ;
More wonderful it seems

Than all the golden fancies

Of all our golden dreams.
I love to tell the story,

It did so much for me;
And that is just the reason

I tell it now to thee.

3 I love to tell the story ;
'Tis pleasant to repeat

What seems, each time I tell it,

More wonderfully sweet.
I love to tell the story ;

For some have never heard
The message of salvation

From God's own holy word.

4 I love to tell the story;
For those who know it best-
Seem hungering and thirsting

To hear it like the rest.
And when, in scenes of glory,

I sing the new, new song,
'Twill be the old, old story

That I have loved so long.

CATHARINE HANKEY.

The author has prefaced this favorite hymn with
a selection from Psa. xevi, 2 :

"Shew forth his salvation from day to day."

One word only has been altered. The author
wrote, verse one, line eight :

" As nothing else would do."

The chorus has been added by another writer.
From a small volume, entitled lUart to Heart,
Hymns, by the author of The old, Old^tvry, 1876.

The poem,

■■ Tell me the old, old st-ry
Of unseen tilings above,"

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29a

by the same author, contains fifty-five four-lined
■Kansas, and closea ua folio wb:

•■ Boon, s.'oii, our eyes shall see Him I

An.l, iii our Home ubot e,
We'll sing "the old. old Story

Of Jesus and His Love."

Miss Hankey was an English author. Hymn
7.V1 was written about 1865.

757 ThefuntasU of endless bites. 11,12

MY God, I aru thine; what a comfort <li
vine.
What a blessing to know that my Jesus is

mine!
In the heavenly Lamb thrice happy I am,
And my heart doth rejoice at the sound of
his name.

2 True pleasures abound in the rapturous

sound.
And whoever hath found it, liath paradise

found :
My Redeemer to know, to feel his blood

flow,
This is life everlasting — 'tis heaven below.

3 Yet onward I haste to the heavenly feast;
That indeed is the fullness, but this is the

taste ;

And this I shall prove, till with joy I re-
move

To the heaven of heavens in Jesus's love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is one of a number of Hymns for Believers.
From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Po-
ems, in two volumes, 1749.

The last line of the first stanza the author wrote :

" My heart it doth dance at the sound of Thy
name,"

and so it remains in the Wesleyan Collection. But,
in this country, Methodists have not even allowed
their hearts to "dance.''' They are permitted to
" r voice."

This change was made for the first official
hymn hook of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
entitled A Pocket Hymn Book Designed as a Con-
stant Companion for the Pious.

758 Worldly vanity renounced. 10,11.

OTELL me no more of this world's vain
store,
The time for such trifles with me now is o'er ;
A country I've found where true joys

abound,
To dwell I'm determined on that happy
ground.

2 The souls that believe in paradise live,
And me in that number will Jesus receive:
My s< ml, don't delay; he calls thee away;
Rise, follow thy Saviour, and bless the
glad day.

:'. No mortal doth know what he can be-
stow,

What light, strength, and comfort — go after
him, go;

Lo, onward I move to a city above,

None guesses how wondrous my journey
will prove.

4 Great spoils I shall win from death, hell,

and sin,
'.Midst outward afflictions shall feel Christ

within :
And when I'm to die, " Receive me," I'll

cry,
For Jesus hath loved me, I cannot tell why:

~) But this I do find, we two are so joined,
He'll not live in glory and leave me behind:
So this is the race I'm running through

grace.
Henceforth, till admitted to see my Lord's

face.

6 And now I'm in care my neighbors may

share
These blessings: to seek them will none of

you dare ?
In bondage, O why, and death will vou

lie,
When one here assures you free grace is so

nigh?

JOHN GAMBOLD.

From Moravian Collection, 1754.

This hymn is found in the Works of the Rev.
John Gauibold, A.M., late one of the Bishops of
the United Brethren. Glasgow, 1823.

The author wrote verse three, line three :

" Lo, onward 1 move, And but Christ above ; "
and verse five, line three :

" Lo, this is the race," etc.

The original is arranged in fourteen three-lined
stanzas ; the eighth and ninth are omitted :

8 " Perhaps for his name,
Poor dust that I am

Some works I shall finish with glad loving aim.

9 "I still (which is best)
Shall in his dear breast

As at the beginning, find pardon and rest."

The Rev. John Gambold was born in South
Wales in 1711 ; was educated at Christ Church,

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Oxford, and entered the ministry in the Established

Church. In 1742 he joined the Moravians, and in
1754 was consecrated Bishop. He was the author
of several prose works, and the editor of a volume
of hymns, 1748. He died in 1771.

Bishop Gambold wrote the following epitaph on
himself :

" Ask not, who ended here his span?
His name, reproach, and praise, was man.
Did no great deeds adorn his course {
No Deed of his, but show'd him worse :
One thing was great, which God supplied,
He suffered human life — and died.
What points of knowledge did he gain ?
That life was sacred all, — and vain :
Sacred how high, and vain how low
He knew not here, but died to know."

759 My Beloved. 11,8.

OTHOU, in whose presence my soul takes
delight,
On whom in affliction I call,
My comfort by day, and my song in the
night,
My hope, my salvation, my all !

2 Where dost thou, dear Shepherd, resort

with thy sheep,
To feed them in pastures of love?
Say, why in the valley of death should I

weep,
Or alone in this wilderness rove?

3 O why should I wander an alien from

thee,
Or'cry in the desert for bread ?
Thy foes will rejoice when my sorrows they
see,
And smile at the tears I have shed.

4 Ye daughters of Zion, declare, have you

seen
The star that on Israel shone?
Say, if in your tents my Beloved has been,
And where with his flocks he has gone.

5 He looks! and ten thousands of angels

rejoice,
And myriads wait for his word ;
He speaks! and eternity, tilled with his

voice,

Re-echoes the praise of the Lord.

6 Dear Shepherd, I hear, and will follow

thy call ;
I know the sweet sound of thy voice;
Restore and defend me, for thou art my all,
And in thee I will ever rejoice.

JOSEPH SWAIN.

Title : A Description of Christ by His Grace and
1'tnr, r ; from Solomon's Sony.

The original, containing nine eight-lined stanzas,
is found in the author's Experimetaat Essays on
Divine Subjects in Verse. London, 1791. Some
verbal changes have been made, and the last verse
has been added by another pen.

The Rev. Joseph Swain, a successful English
Baptist minister, was born in 1761. By trade he
was an engraver. After his conversion he held
meetings, and in 1792 was ordained pastor of a
church in Walworth, where he remained till his
early and lamented death, in 179fi. He was the
author of Walworth Hymns. London, 1792.

6, 4, 7.

760 I need Thee every hour

I NEED thee every hour,
Most gracious Lord ;
No tender voice like thine
Can peace afford.

I need thee, O I need thee;
Every hour I need thee;
O bless me now, my Saviour,
I come to thee !

2 I need thee every hour ;

Stay thou near by ;
Temptations lose their power

When thou art nigh.

3' I need thee every hour,

In joy or pain;
Come quickly and abide,

Or life is vain.

4 I need thee every hour;
Teach me thy will ;

And thy rich promises
In me fulfill.

5 I need thee every hour,
Most Holy One;

O make me thine indeed,
Thou blessed Son !

MBS. ANNIE S. TIAWKS.

in a letter to the author the Rev Robert Lowry,
D.D., writes:

"'I Need 'Dice Every Hour' was written bv
Mrs. Annie S. Hawks, in 1872, in Brooklyn, N. V.
1 believe it was the expression of her own experi-
ence. It came to me in the form of five simple
stanzas, to which 1 added the chorus to make it
mure serviceable. It inspired me at its first read-
ing. It first appeared in a small collection of origi-
nal songs prepared for the National Baptist Bun*
day-school Association, held in Cincinnati, in No-
vember, 1872, and was sun? on that occasion."

Mrs. Annie Sherwood Hawks was born in New
York State, in 1885. For some years she has re-
sided in Brooklyn, N. Y.

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761 Exultant trust. 6, 8, 4.

My Shepherd's mighty aid,
Bis dear redeeming love.
Hi- all-protecting power displayed,

I joy to pro\ e :
Lcil onward by my guide,

I view the verdant srene,

Where limpid waters gently glide
Through pastures green.

2 In error's maze my soul
Shall wander now no more;

His Spirit shall, with sweet control,

The lost restore;
My willing Bteps shall lead

In paths of righteousness;
His power defend; his bounty feed;

His mercy bless.

3 Affliction's deepest gloom
Shall but his love display;

He will the vale of death illume

With living ray:
My failing flesh his rod

Shall thankfully adore;
My heart shall vindicate my God

For evermore.

4 His goodness ever nigh,
His mercy ever free,

Shall while I live, shall when I die,

Still follow me ;
Forever shall my soul

His boundless blessings prove ;
And while eternal ages roll,

Adore and love.

THOMAS ROBERTS.

TheEc-v. Thomas Roberts, A.M. (1785-1832), was
a Wesleysn minister. This hymn, based upon the
Twenty-third 1'salm, appeared 'in the Metliodi.-t M<m-
aziiir. tor March, 1 9 4. • )ne stanza has been omitted.

7b<s Before the cross.

MY faith looks up to thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
Saviour divine:
Now hear me while I pray,
Take all my guilt away,
O let me from this day
Be wholly thine.

2 May thy rich crrace impart
Strength to my fainting heart,

My zeal inspire;
As thou nasi died for me,
O may my love to thee
Pure, warm, and changeless be,-

A living tire.

6,4

;! While life's dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread,

lie thou my guide;
Bid darkness turn to day,
Wipe sorrow's tears away,
Nor let me ever stray

From thee aside.

4 When ends life's transient dream,
When death's fold, sullen stream

Shall o'er me roll;
Blest Saviour, then, in love,
Fear and distrust remove ;
O bear me safe above, —

A ransomed soul.

RAY PALMER.

The original title of this valuable and favorite
hymn was Self -Consecration. The author says he
wrote it " with a deep consciousness of his own
needs," and without the " slightest thought of
writing for another eye ; least of all of writing a
hymn for Christian worship. " It was written in
New York city in 1S30, and copied into a pocket
note-book. It was first published in Spiritual
Songs for Social Worship, compiled by Thomas
Hastings, of Utica, N. Y., and Lowell Mas>n. of
Boston, 1832. One word only is here different
from the original. When first published the fifth
line of the last stanza read :

" Fear and distress remove."

This, however, may have been a typographical
error.
See No. 714.

/DO The Church immovable. CM.

0 WHERE are kings and empires now,
Of old that went and came?
But, Lord, thy Church is praying yet,
A thousand years the same.

2 We mark her goodly battlements,
And her foundations strong;

We hear within the solemn voice
Of her unending song.

3 For not like kingdoms of the world
Thy holy Church, O God !

Though earthquake shocks are threatening
her,
And tempests are abroad;

4 Unshaken as eternal hills,
Immovable she stands,

A mountain that shall fill the earth,
A house not made by hands.

A. CLEVELAND COXE. ALT.

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117 MN STUDIES.

From the author's Christian Ballads. They
were contributed to the; Churchman in 1S39, and
collected in a volume in 1840. This hymn is taken
from a ballad of ten eight-lined stanzas, entitled
Chelsea ; and is composed of the tirst half of the
sixth stanza, the last half of the eighth, and the
whole of the seventh. It has been altered in sev-
eral lines.

ORIGINAL LINES.

Verse one, lines one, two, and three :

'■'■And where arc kings and empires now,

Since then that went and came 3
But holy Church is praying yet."

Verse two lines one, three, and four.

" Oh mark her holy battlements,"
"And hear, within, her ceaseless voice,
And her unending song ! "

Verse three lines two, three, and four.

" The holv Church of God !
Though earthquake shocks be rocking it,
And tempest is abroad ;"

Verse four lines two and four.

" Unmovable it stands"

" A fane unbuilt by hands."

For sketch of author, see No. 202.

764: Founded on a Bock. CM.

WITH stately towers and bulwarks
strong,
Unrivaled and alone,
Loved theme of many a sacred song,
God's holy city shone.

2 Thus fair was Zion's chosen seat,
The glory of all lands ;

Yet fairer, and in strength complete,
The Christian temple stands.

3 The faithful of each clime and age
This glorious Church compose;

Built on a Rock, with idle rage
The threatening tempest blows.

4 Fear not; though hostile bands alarm,
Thy God is thy defense;

And weak and powerless every arm
Against Omnipotence.

HARRIET AUBER.

Psa. xlviii, 1, 2 :

"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in
the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.
Beautiful fir situation, the joy of the whole
earth, is mount Zion."

The last stanza was originally written:

"In vain way hostile bands alarm,

For God is her defense:
How weak, how powerless each arm,

Against Omnipotence."

From Hie Spirit of the Tsalms. London, 1629.
See No. 33.

7 D O The kingdoms one. C. M.

APPY the souls to Jesus joined,

And saved by grace alone;
Walking in all his ways, liny lind
Their heaven on earth begun.

2 The Church triumphant in thy love,
Their mighty joys we know:

They sing the Lamb in hymns above,
And we in hymns below.

3 Thee in thy glorious realm they praise,
And bow before thy throne;

We in the kingdom of thy grace:
The kingdoms are but one.

4 The holy to the holiest leads,
And thence our spirits rise ;

For he that in thy statutes treads,
Shall meet thee in the skies.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Published without title in Hymns on the Lord's
Supper, 1745.

In the first stanza the original is :

" Walking in all Thy ways /r< find
Our heaven on earth begun ;"

and in the last stanza:

" From hence our spirits rise
And he that in Thy statutes treads."

The first change was made for the collection of
1780 ; the last is much later.

766 The sure Foundation. CM.

BEHOLD the sure Foundation-stone
Which God in Zion lays.
To build our heavenly hopes upon,
And his eternal praise.

2 Chosen of God, to sinners dear,
We now adore thy name;

We trust our whole salvation here,
Nor can we suffer shame.

3 The foolish builders, scribe and priest,
Reject it with disdain;

Yet on this Rock the Church shall rest,
And envy rage in vain.

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4 What though the gates of hell withstood?

Yet must this building rise ;
'Tis thine own work. Almighty God,

And wondrous in our eyes.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: Christ the Foundation uf his Church.

Tlif hymn was written on Psa. cxviii, ~1'1, 23 :

"The stone whioh the builders refused is become
the brad stone of the corner. This is the Lord's
doing; it is marvelous in our eyes."

The lust three lines of the second stanza have
been changed. Watts wrote:

" And saints adore tht name;
Ttieij trust their whole salvation here,
Is'or shall they suffer shame."

This was the first hymn in the supplement to
the hymn book, edited by Dr. Nathan Bangs in
1836. He may have made these changes.

767 Good neics for Zion. 8,7,4.

OX the mountain's top appearing,
Lo! the sacred herald stands,

Welcome news to Zion bearing,

Zion, long in hostile lands:

Mourning captive!

God himself shall loose thy bands.

2 Has thy night been long and mournful?
Have thy friends unfaithful proved?

Have thy foes been proud and scornful,
By thy sighs and tears unmoved?

Cease thy mourning;
Zion still is well beloved.

3 God, thy God, will now restore thee;
He himself appears thy Friend ;

All thy foes shall flee before thee ;
Here their boasts and triumphs end:

Great deliverance
Zion's King will surely send.

4 Peace and joy shall now attend thee;
All thy warfare now is past ;

God thy Saviour will defend thee;
Victory is thine at last :

All thy conflicts
End in everlasting rest.

TnOMAS KELLY.

From the author's Hymns on Various Passages of
Scripture.
The passage on which this is based is Isa. lii, 7 :

" How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet
of him that bringeth good tidings."

This hymn appeared in the first edition of the

author's hymns. Dublin. 1804. Some changes
Wore made by him tor later editions. As hero
given it corresponds with the author's text, last
edition, with these exceptions:
In the last line of the third verse :

" Zion's King vouchsafes to send ; "
and in the first part of the last verse :

" Enemies no more shall trouble,
All thy wrongs shall be redressed;

For thy shame thou shalt have double
In thy Maker's favor blessed.

All thy conflicts
End in everlasting rest."

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 54.

768 Jehovah, the defense of Zion. 8, 7, 4.

ZION stands with hills surrounded,
Zion, kept by power divine :
All her foes shall be confounded,
Though the world in arms combine:

Happy Zion,
What a favored lot is thine !

2 Every human tie may perish ;
Friend to friend unfaithful prove;

Mothers cease their own to cherish;
Heaven and earth at last remove;

But no changes
Can attend Jehovah's love.

3 In the furnace God may prove thee,
Thence to bring thee forth more bright,

But can never cease to love thee;
Thou art precious in his sight:

God is with thee,
God, thine everlasting light,

THOMAS KELLY.

Title: As the mountains are round about Jeru-
salem, so the Lord is round about his people from
henceforth even forever. Psa. CXXV, 2.

Two stanzas, the third and fourth, are omitted:

3 " Zion's friend in nothing alters,
Though all others may and do:

His is love that never falters,
Always to its ohject true.

Happy Zion !
Crowned with mercies ever new.

4 " If thy God should show displeasure,
'Tis to save, and not destroy ;

If he punish, 'tis in measure ;
'Ti.s to rid thee of alloy.

Be thou patient ;
Soon thy grief shall turn to joy."

Unaltered. From Hymns on Various Passages of
Scripture, 1804.
See No. 54.

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769 The truly Vest. C. M.

HOW lovely are thy dwellings, Lord,
From noise and trouble free !
How beautiful the swreet accord
Of souls that pray to thee !

2 Lord God of hosts that reign'st on high !
They arc the truly blest

Who only will on thee rely,
In thee alone will rest.

3 They pass refreshed the thirsty vale,
The dry and barren ground,

As through a fruitful, watery dale,
Where springs and showers abound.

4 They journey on from strength to

strength,
With joy and gladsome cheer,
Till all before our God at length
In Zion's courts appear.

JOHN MILTON, ALT.

This is a part of the author's version of Psa.
lxxxiv. These tour stanzas are written on verses
one, twelve, six, and seven ol the psalm, and of
Milton's paraphrase. They have been cousider-
ably altered.

Original.

1 "How lovely are thy dwellings fair,
0 Lord of hods, how dear

The pleasant tabernacles are
H- here thou dost dwell so near.

2 " Lord God of hosts that reign'st on high !
That man is truly blest

Who only on thee doth rely
And in thee only rest.

3 " They pass through Baca's thirsty vale,
That dry and barren ground," etc.

Verse four, line four :
" In Sion do appear."

For biography, see No. 145.

770 Love for Zion. S. M.

I LOVE thy kingdom, Lord,
The house of thine abode.

The church our blest Redeemer saved
With his own precious blood.

2 I love thy Church. O God !
Her walls before thee stand,

Dear as the apple of thine eye,
And graven on thy hand.

3 For her my tears shall fall.
For her my prayers ascend;

To her my cares and toils be given,
Till toils and cares shall end.

4 Beyond my highest joy

I prize her heavenly ways,
Her sweet communion, solemn vows,
Her hymns of love and praise.

5 Sure as thy truth shall last,
To Zion shall be giyen

The brightest glories earth can yield,
And brighter bliss of heaven.

TIMOTHY DWIGI1T.

The author's title was : Love to the Church.
It was written on I'sa. exxxvii, 5, 6 :

" If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand

forget her conning. If 1 do not remember tine,
let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; if I
prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy "

Three stanzas, the third, fourth, and seventh,
are emitted. Some will be glad to see the whole
of this preeious and valuable hymn :

3 " If e'er to bless thy sons
My voice, or hands', deny,

These hands let useful skill forsake,
This voice in silence die.

4 " If e'er my heart forget
Her welfare, or her woe,

Let every joy this heart forsake,
And every grief o'erfiow.

7 " Jesus, thou Friend divine,

Our Saviour and our King,
Thy hand from every snare and foe

Shall great deliverance bring."

Contributed to an edition of Dr. Watts's Lsa/ms,
edited by Dr. Dwightiu 1800.

771 For a revival. S. M.

OLOKD, thy work revive,
In Zion's gloomy hour,
And let our dying graces live
By thy restoring power.

2 O let thy chosen few
Awake to earnest prayer;

Their covenant again renew,
And walk in filial fear.

3 Thy Spirit then will speak
Through lips of humble clay.

Till hearts of adamant shall break,
Till rebels shall obey.

irvvx STUDIES.

yoi

•t Now lend thy gracious ear;

Now listen to our cry :
O OOme, and bring salvation mar;
Our souls on thee rely.

PIIUiBE H. BKOWN.

This hymn is founded upon the prayer of Ila-
bakkuk iii, 2:

" 0 Lord, revive thy work."

The text is the same here as in its first printed
firm in Spiritual Songs for Social Worsfnp, L883
clition; but it differs considerably from the copy
famished by the author to the Kev. Eliaa Nason

for 1'hc 'anal Hymn fiook,l$o'l. It was

i robably edited by Thomas Hastings.

Phoebe Hinsdale Brown was the daughter of
George Hinsdale, and was born in Canaan, N. Y.,
in 1788. She died October 10, 1861.

See No. 709.

772 s.m.

The Church? 8 confidence and security.

WHO in the Lord confide,
And feel his sprinkled blood,
In storms and hurricanes abide

Firm as the mount of God :
Steadfast, and fixed, and sure,

His Zion cannot move;
His faithful people stand secure
In Jesus' guardian love.

2 As round Jerusalem

The hilly bulwarks rise,
So God protects and covers them

From all their enemies.
On every side he stands,

And for his Israel cares;
And safe in his almighty hands

Their souls forever bears.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part of a paraphrase of Psa. exxv.

Six stanzas; these are the first two, unaltered,
and are founded on the first two verses of the
p-ialm :

" They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount
Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for-
ever. As the mountains are round about Jerusa-
lem, so the Lord is round about his people from
henceforth even forever."

It was first published in A Collection of Psalms
and Hymns, 1743.

773 The forty-sixth Psalm. L. M.

Gi OD is the refuge of his saints,
IT When storms of sharp distress invade;
Ere we can offer our complaints,
Behold him present with his aid.

2 Lei mountains from their scats be hurled
Down to the deep, and buried there.

Convulsions shake the solid world, —
Our faith shad never yield to fear.

3 Loud may the troubled ocean roar;
In sacred peace our souls abide;

While every nation, every shore,
Trembles, and dreads the swelling tide.

4 There is a stream whose gentle flow
Supplies the city of our God,

Life, love, and joy, still gliding through,
And watering our divine abode.

5 That sacred stream, thine holy word,
Our grief allays, our fear controls;

Sweet peace thy promises afford,

And give new strength to fainting souls.

6 Zion enjoys her Monarch's love,
Secure against a threatening hour;

Nfor can her firm foundation move,

Built on his truth, and armed with power.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: The Church's Safety and Triumph among
Xational Desolations.

The hymn is based on the first five verses of
Psa. xlvi.

" God is our refuge and strength, a very present
help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though
the earth be removed, and though the mountains
be carried into the midst of the sea ; though the
waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the
mountains shake with the swelling thereof. There
is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the
city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the
most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall
not be moved : God shall help her, and that right
early."

The second lino of the fifth stanza Watts wrote :

" That all our raging fear controls."

This was one of Dr. Dwight's improvements.
Published in 1719.

7 74- The river of life. L. M.

GREAT Source of being and of love!
Thou waterest all the worlds above;
And all the joys which mortals know,
From thine exhaustless fountain flow.

2 A sacred spring, at thy command,
From Zion's mount, in Canaan's land,
Beside thy temple cleaves the ground,
And pours its limpid stream around.

802

HYMN STUDIES.

3 Close by its banks, in order fair,
The blooming trees of life appear;
Their blossoms fragrant odors Liive,
And on their fruit the nations live.

4 Flow, wondrous stream, with glory

crowned,
Flow on to earth's remotest bound;
And bear us, on thy gentle wave,
To him who all thy virtues gave.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title: The Waters of the Sanctuary Healing the
Dead Sea. Ezek. xlvii, 1-12.

This is a beautiful hymn founded on a beautiful

E arable. Two stanza/, the third and fifth, have
een omitted :

3 " The limpid Stream with sudden Force
Swells to a River in its Course;
Thro' desert Realms its Windings play,
And scatter Blessings all the Way.

5 To the dead Sea the Waters flow,
And carry Healing as they fjo ;
Its povs'nous Dregs their Pow'r confess,
And all its Shores the Fountain bless.

In verse one, line three, the author wrote " we
mortals."

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the
Holy Scriptures. London, 1755.

See No. 78.

775 Awake, Jerusalem., awake! L. M.

AWAKE, Jerusalem, awake !
No longer in thy sins lie down:
The garment of salvation take ;

Thy beauty and thy strength put on.

2 Shake off the dust that blinds thy sight,
And hides the promise from thine eyes;

Arise, and struggle into light;

The great Deliverer calls, " Arise!"

3 Shake off the bands of sad despair;
Zion, assert thy liberty;

Look up, thy broken heart prepare.
And God shall set the captive free.

4 Vessels of mercy, sons of grace,
Be purged from every sinful stain;

Be like your Lord, his word embrace,
Nor bear his hallowed name in vain.

CnAIU.ES WESI,EY.

From a long hymn of three parts, thirty-two
stanzas in all. These arc verses one, three, and
four of part one, and verse two of part three, ver-
batim. The whole is founded on Isa. lii.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

776 Ood in the midst of her. 8, 7.

GLORIOUS things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God ;
He, whose word cannot be broken,
Formed thee for his own abode;
On the Rock of ages founded,

What can shake thy sure repose?

With salvation's walls surrounded,

Thou mayst smile at all thy foes.

2 See. the streams of living waters,
Springing from eternal love,

Still supply thy sons and daughters,
And all fear of want remove:

Who can faint while such a river
Ever flows our thirst to assuage?

Grace, which, like the Lord, the giver,
Never fails from age to age.

3 Round each habitation hovering,
See the cloud and fire appear,

For a glory and a covering,
Showing that the Lord is near!

He who gives us daily manna,
He who listens when we cry,

Let him hear the loud hosanna
Rising to his throne on high.

JOIIN NEWTON.

Title : Zion ; or, the City of God.
The hymn is written upon Isa. xxxiii, 20. 21,
and contains references to various other Scripture

passages.

The last four lines have been altered,
thor wrote :

The au-

" Thus derivina from their banner,
Light by night and shade by day ;

Safe the// feed upon the. manna,

Which he gives them when, they pray."

There are two additional stanzas:

4 " Blest inhabitant* of Zion,
Washed in the Redeemer's blood I

Jesus, whom their souls rely on,

Makes them kings and priests to God;

'Tis his love his people raises
Over self to reign as kings;

And as priests, his solemn praises
Each for a thank-offering brings.

5 " Saviour, if of Zion's city

I through trrace a member am;
Let the world deride or pity,

I will glory in thy name :
Fading is the worldling's pleasure,

All his boasted pomp and show;
Solid joys and lasting treasure,

None but Zion's children know."

From Olney Hymns, 1779.
See No. 23.

J/YVX STUDIES.

303

777 Go-! ting light. 8,7.

HEAR what (W»l the Lord hath spoken:
1 1 my people, faint and few,
Comfortless, afflicted, broken,
Pair abodes I build for you.
Bcenea of heartfelt tribulation

Shall mi more perplex your ways;
You shall name your walls '•Salvation.''
And your gates shall all be " Praise."

2 There, like streams that feed the garden,
Pleasures without end shall flow.

For the Lord, your faith rewarding,

All his bounty shall he-tow.
Still in undisturbed possession,

Peace and righteousness shall reign,
Never shall you feel oppression,

Hear the voice of war again.

3 Ye. no more your suns descending,
Waning moons no more shall see;

But. your griefs forever ending,

Find eternal noon in me:
God shall ri-e. and, shining o'er you,

Change to day the gloom of night ;
He, the Lord, shall be your glory,

God your everlasting light.

WILLIAM COWPER.

Title : The Future Peace and Glory of the Church.
It is founded upon Isa. lx, 18-20:

"Violence shall no more be heard in thy land,
wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but
thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates
Praise. The sun shall be no more thy light by
day; neither for brightness shall the moon give
light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an
everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun
shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon
withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine ever-
lasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall
be ended."

Instead of "Scenes," verse one, line five, some
editions have " Themes," and some " Thorns."
From Olney Hymns, 1779.
For biographical sketch, see No. 44.

11.
from thv

778 Do, urjhter of Zion.

DAUGHTER of Zion, awake
sadness ;
Awake, for thy foes shall oppress thee no
more;
Bright o'er thy hills dawns the day-star of
gladness ;
Arise, for the night of thy sorrow is o'er.

-2 Strong were thy foes; but the arm that
subdued them.
And scattered their legions, was mightier
far;
They fled like the chaff from the scourge
that pursued them ;
Vain were their steeds and their chariots
of war.

3 Daughter of Zion, the power that hath
saved thee
Extolled with the harp and the timbrel
should be;
Shout, for the foe is destroyed that enslaved
thee;
The oppressor is vanquished, and Zion is
free !

ooown.

This fine hymn evidently drew its inspiration
from the prophecies of Isaiah. So far as is known
it first appeared in 1S30.

779 For the extension of the Church. 7, 61.

OX thy Church, O Power divine,
Cause thy glorious face to shine,
Till the nations from afar,
Hail her as their guiding star;
Till her sons from zone to zone,
Make thy great salvation known.

2 Then shall God, with lavish hand,
Scatter blessings o'er the land ;
Earth shall yield her rich increase,
Every breeze shall whisper peace,
And the world's remotest bound
With the voice of praise resound.

HARRIET AUBER.

This hymn is written on verses one, two, six, and
seven of Psa. lxvii :

" God be merciful unto us, and ble.'s us ; and
cause his face to shine upon us ; that thy way
may be know upon earth, tliy saving health among
all nations. Then shall the earth yield her increase :
and God, even our own God, shall bless us. God
shall bless us ; and all the ends of the earth shall
fear him."

Verbatim and entire from The Spirit of tit*
rmlm*, 1829.
See No. 33.

780

Tlve golden chain.

C. M.

HOW" sweet, how heavenly is the sight,
When those who love the Lord
In one another's peace delight,
And so fulfill his word!

804

HYMN STUDIES.

2 When each can feel his brother's sigh,
And with him hear a part!

When sorrow Hows from eye to eye,
And joy from heart to heart!

3 When, free from envy, scorn, and pride,
Our wishes all above,

Each can his brother's tailings hide,
And show a brother's love !

4 Let love, in one delightful stream,
Through every bosom flow,

And union sweet, and dear esteem,
In every action glow.

5 Love is the golden chain that binds
The happy souls above;

And he's an heir of heaven who finds
His bosom glow with love.

JOSEPn SWAIN.

Title : TJie Grace of Christian. Love.
Some slight verbal changes have been made in
this -fine hy mn. The original ha&" that" instead

of " who " in the second line of the first stanza.
The fourth verse was written :

" When love, in one delightful stream,

Through every bosom flows :
When union sweet, and dear esteem

In every action (/lows."

From the author's Walworth Ili/mm. London.
1792. J

For biography, see No. 759.

781 Come with vs. CM.

COME in, thou blessed of the Lord,
Stranger nor foe art thou :
We welcome thee with warm accord,
Our friend, our brother, now.

2 The hand of fellowship, the heart
Of love, we offer thee •

Leaving the world, thou dost but part
From lies and vanity.

3 Come with us; we will do thee good,
As God to us hath done:

Stand but in him, as those have stood
Whose faith the victory won.

4 And when, by turns, we pass away,
As star by star grows dim,

May each, translated into day,
Be lost and found in him.

I A M KS MONTGOMERY.
Title : Reception into Church Fellowship.

Two stanzas, the third and fourth, are omitted :

3 " The cup of blessing which we bless,
The heavenly bread we break;

Our Saviour's blood ami righteousness
Freely with us partake.

4 " In weal or woe, in joy or care,
Thy portion shall he ours;

Christians their mutual burthen share,
They lend their mutual powers."

Unaltered. From the author's Original Bvmnt,
1853. * '

For biography, see No. 5.

7o2 United — thovrjh separate. CM.

BLEST be the dear uniting love,
That will not let us part :
Our bodies may far off remove,
We still are one in heart.

2 Joined in one spirit to our Head,
Where he appoints we go;

And still in Jesus' footsteps tread,
And show his praise below.

3 O may we ever walk in him,
And nothing know beside;

Nothing desire, nothing esteem,
But Jesus crucified.

4 Closer and closer let us cleave
To his beloved embrace;

Expect his fullness to receive,
And grace to answer grace.

5 Partakers of the Saviour's grace,
The same in mind and heart,

Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
Nor life, nor death can part.

6 Then let us hasten to the day
Which shall our flesh restore;

When deatli shall all be done away,
And bodies part no more.

( IIAULES WESLEY.

Original title : At Uirtlim.
Some slight changes were made for the Collection
of 1780.
Verse one, line four:

" We still arc joined in heart."
Verse two, line four:

" And do His work below."

Verse three, line one :

" O let us ever walk in Him."

HYMN STUDIES.

305

The fifth and sixth Btonzaa have been left out:

5 " While thus we walk with Christ in light,
Who shall <>'.ir souls disjoin 1

Souls wbioh Himself vouchsafes to unite
In fellowship Divine.

6 "We all are one who Iliiii receive,
Ami each with each atrree ;

In Him, the One. the Truth, we live,
Blest point of unity."

These two stanzas, we admit, are comparatively
valueless ; but they complete the original hymn.
The last stanza began :

" But let us hasten, etc."
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 17412.

783 Love, the test of discipleship. C. M.

OUR God is love; and all his saints
His image bear below;
The heart with love to God inspired,
With love to man will glow.

2 Teach us to love each other, Lord,
As we are loved by thee ;

None who are truly born of God
Can live in enmity.

3 Heirs of the same immortal bliss,
Our hopes and fears the same,

With bonds of love our hearts unite,
With mutual love inflame.

4 So may the unbelieving world
See how true Christians love ;

And glorify our Saviour's grace,
And seek that grace to prove.

THOMAS COTTERILL, ALT.

Title : For Christian, Love.

It has been altered considerably.

Original Lines.
Verse two, lines one, three, and four :

" O may we love each other. Lord,"
" For none are truly born of God
Who live in enmity."

Verse three, lines three and four :

" Tfie cords of love our hearts should bind
The law of dove inflame."

Verse four :

" So shall the vain contentious world

Our peaceful lives approve,
And wondering say, as they of old,

See how tliese Christians love.''

This hymn is none the less valuable for being
partly didactic and partly devotional.
From the author's Selection of Psalms andlhjm ns.
See No. 281.
20

C. M.

784: The law of Christ.

TRY us, O God and Bearch the ground
Of every sinful heart;

Whate'er of sin in us is found,
O bid it all depart.

2 If to the right or left we stray,
Leave us not comfortless;

11 v . t guide our feet into the way
Of everlasting peace.

3 Help us to help each other, Lord,
Each other's cross to bear;

Let each his friendly aid afford,
And feel his brother's care.

4 Help us to build each other up,
Our little stock improve ;

Increase our faith, confirm our hope,
And perfect us in love.

5 Up into thee, our living Head,
Let us in all things grow,

Till thou hast made us free indeed,
And spotless here below.

6 Then, when the mighty work is wrought,
Receive thy ready bride ;

Give us in heaven a happy lot
With all the sanctified.

CHARLES WESLEY.

A Prayer for Persons Joined in Fellowship. A
hymn of four parts ; this is part one, entire.

One word was changed for the Collection of 1780
The last line of the fifth stanza read
instead of " spotless."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems. 1742.

7oO TJie loadstone of His love. C. M.

JESUS, united by thy grace,
And each to each endeared,
With confidence we seek thy face,
And know our prayer is heard.

2 Still let us own our common Lord,
And bear thine easy yoke ;

A band of love, a threefold cord,
Which never can be broke.

3 Make us into one spirit drink;
Baptize into thy name;

And let. us always kindly think,
And sweetly speak, the same.

4 Touched by the loadstone of thy love,
Let all our hearts agree,

And ever toward each other move,
And ever move toward thee.

CHARLES WESLEY.

306

HYMN STUDIES.

Part of the same hymn as the last, (sec title.)
These are the first lour stanzas of part four, verbatim.
These hymns are full of the spirit of the Gospel,
and they are well adapted to congregational sing-
ing.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

786 Rejoicing in hope. CM..

LIFT up your hearts to things above,
Ye followers of the Lamb,
And join with us to praise his love,
And glorify his name.

2 To Jesus' name give thanks and sing,
Whose mercies never end:

Rejoice! rejoice! the Lord is King;
The King is now our friend !

3 We for his sake count all things loss;
On earthly good look down;

And joyfully sustain the cross,
Till we receive the crown.

4 O let us stir each other up,
Our faith by works to 'approve,

By holy, purifying hope,
And the sweet task of love.

5 Let all who for the promise wait,
The Holy Ghost receive;

And, raised to our unsinning state,
With God in Eden live: —

6 Live, till the Lord in glory come,
And wait his heaven to share:

He now is fitting up your home;
Go on, we'll meet you there.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is one of the Hymns for Christian Friends.
Twelve stanzas ; these are verses one, two, four,
five, eleven, and twelve.

The third stanza in the original began :

" TVVtofor his sake, etc."

Otherwise it has not been altered.
From the author's Hymns and Sacred Poems,
1749.

787 C M.

Ye art come unto Mount Sion. Hcb. xii, 22.

NOT to the terrors of the Lord.
The tempest, fire, and smoke;
Not to the thunder of that word
Which God on Sinai spoke; —

2 But we are come to Zion's hill,
The city of our God ;

Where milder words declare his will,
And speak his love abroad.

3 Behold the innumerable host
Of angels clothed in light !

Behold the spirits of the just,
Whose faith is turned to sight.

4 Behold the blest assembly there,
Whose names are writ in heaven,

And God, the Judge of all, declare
Their vilest sins forgiven !

5 The saints on earth and all the dead
But one communion make;

All join in Christ, their living Head,
And of his grace partake.

6 In such society as this

My weary soul would rest :
The man that dwells where Jesus is
Must be forever blest.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : Sinai and Sion.

Written on Hcb. xii, 18, 19, 22-24:

" For ye are not come unto the mount that might
be touched, and that burned with tire, nor unto
blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the
sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which
voice they that heard entreated that the word should
not be spoken to them any more : but ye are come
unto mount (Sion, and unto the city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumera-
ble company of angels, to the general assembly
and church of the firstborn, which are written in
heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the
spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the
mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling, that spcaketh better things than that
of Abel."

The author wrote " spread " instead of " speak "
in verse two, line four.

From Watts's Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book
ii, 1707.

788 The bond of love. C M.

THE glorious universe around,
The heavens with all their train,
Sun, moon, and stars, are firmly bound
In one mysterious chain.

2 In one fraternal bond of love,

One fellowship of mind,
The saints In low and saints above

Their bliss and glory find.

HYMN STUDIES.

:)07

:i Here, in their houae of pilgrimage,

Thy statutes arc their song;
There, through one bright, eternal age,
Thy praiaee they prolong.

4 Lord, may our union form a part

( >f that thrice happy whole ;
Derive its poise from "thee, the heart ;

It- life from thee, the soul.

JAMES MONTOOMKKY.

Title : The Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of

The second and third stanzas of the original have
been omitted. They are a little peculiar :

i '• The earth, the ocean, and the sky,

To form one world agree.
Where all that walk, or swam, or fly,

Compose one family.

3 "God in creation thus displays

His wisdom and His might.
While all His works and all His ways

Harmoniously unite."

Unaltered. From the author's Christian Psalmist.
1885. It first appeared in a Leeds Collect i<

See No. 5.

/ 89 Harmony and joy unsp-akabh. CM.
A LL praise to our redeeming Lord,
j\_ Who joins us by his grace,
And bids us, each to each restored,
Together seeks his face.

2 He bids us build each other up;
And, gathered into one,

To our high calling's glorious hope,
We hand in hand go on.

3 The gift which he on one bestows,
We all delight to prove;

The grace through every vessel flows,
In purest streams of love.

4 E'en now we think and speak the same.
And cordially agree,

United all, through Jesus' name.
In perfect harmony.

5 We all partake the joy of one ;
The common peace we feel ;

A peace to sensual minds unknown,
A joy unspeakable.

6 And if our fellowship below
In Jesus be so sweet,

What height of rapture shall we know
When round his throne we meet !

CIIAIII.ES WESLEY.

Title : At Meeting •/ Fri nds.
The only change in this hymn is a transp isition
of winds in the Bret line of the fourth stanza.
Chat lea W e.- ley w rote :

'■ E'en now we speak and think the same.''

John Wesley arranged the Hue for hits Collection^
1780, as given in the hymn. This little ohangi
well illustrates the mental characteristics of the two
brothers. Charles Wesley gave the line a poetietti
arrangement. We not only speak but think the
same. John Wesley, who was evidently of the
opinion that Christians ought to think before they
speak, changed the order and gave the line a
logical arrangement.

From Hymns for Thost that Seek and Tims, /hut
Have Redemption m the Blood of Jesus Christ.
London, 1747.

790 Safety in union. CM.

JESUS, great Shepherd of the sheep,
To thee for help we fly ;
Thy little flock in safety keep,
For O, the wolf is nigh!

2 He comes, of hellish malice full,
To scatter, tear, and slay ;

He seizes every straggling soul
As his own lawful prey.

3 Us into thy protection take,
And gather with thine arm;

Unless the fold we first forsake,
The wolf can never harm.

4 We laugh to scorn his cruel power
While by our Shepherd's side ;

The sheep he never can devour,
Unless he first divide.

5 O do not suffer him to part
The souls that here agree;

But make us of one mind and heart,
And keep us one in thee.

6 Together let us sweetly live,
Together let us die ;

And each a starry crown receive,
And reign above the sky.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

This is one of the Hymns for Believers.
original has one additional stanza:

7 " Keep us till then in perfect peace,
And call us each to prove

An endless age of heavenly bliss,
An endless age of love."

The

Unaltered.
1749.

From Hymns and Sacred Poem*,

308

HYMN STUDIES.

7c) 1 Welcome to Church fellowship. L. M.

BRETHREN in Christ, and well beloved,
To Jesus and his servants dear,
Enter, and show yourselves approved ;
Enter, and find that God is here.

2 Welcome from earth: lo, the right hand
Of fellowship to you we give!

With open hearts and hands we stand,
And you in Jesus' name receive.

3 Jesus, attend ; thyself reveal ;

Are we not met in thy great name?
Thee in the midst we wait to fed ;
We wait to catch the spreading flame.

4 Truly our fellowship below
With thee and with the Father is:

In thee eternal life we know,
And heaven's unutterable bliss.

5 Though but in part we know thee here,
We wait thy coming from above;

And we shall then behold thee near,
And be forever lost in love.

CHARLES WESLEY, ALT.

Title : On the Admission of any Pers<yn into the
Society.

Eight stanzas: these are verses one, three, five,
seven, and eight. There are verbal changes in ten
lines of this hymn, which first appeared in this
form in the Supplement to the Wesleyan Collection,
edited by Richard Watson and Thomas Jackson,
at i he request of the Conference.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

700 first part. L. M.

Striding together for the faith of the gospel.

U CHANGEABLE, almighty Lord,
Our souls upon thy truth we stay;
Accomplish now thy faithful word,
And give, O give us all one way.

2 O let us all join hand in hand,
Who seek redemption in thy blood;

Past in one mind and spirit stand,
And build the temple of our God.

3 Thou only canst our wills control,
Our wild, unruly passions bind,

Tame the old Adam in our soul,

And make us of one heart and mind.

4 Speak but the reconciling word, —

The winds shall cease, the waves subside :
We all shall praise our common Lord,
Our Jesus, and him crucified.

CHARLES WESLEY.

SECOND PART.

793 Onefold and one Shepherd. L. M.

GIVER of peace and unity,
Send down thy mild, pacific Dove;
We all shall then in one agree,
And breathe the spirit of thy love.

2 We all shall speak and think the same
Delightful lesson of thy grace;

One undivided Christ proclaim,
And jointly glory in thy praise.

3 O lei us take a softer mold,
Blended and gathered into thee;

Under one Shepherd make one fold,
Where all is love and harmony.

4 Regard thine own eternal prayer.
And send a peaceful answer down;

To us thy Father's name declare;
Unite and perfect us in one.

5 So shall the world believe and know-
That God hath sent thee from above,

When thou art seen in us below,
And every soul displays thy love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

These are parts of a long hymn of thirty-four
stanzas, written on Isa. xxviii, 16 :

" lie that believeth shall not make haste."

The author published the hymn in four parts.
Nos. 792 and 7'J3 are composed of part three, vi rba-
tim.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

L. M.

794 The heavenly Guest invited.

SAVIOUR of all, to thee we bow,
And own thee faithful to thy word;
We hear thy voice, and open now
Our hearts to entertain our Lord.

2 Come in, come in, thou heavenly Guest ;
Delight in what thyself hast given ;

On thy own gifts and graces feast,

And make the contrite heart thy heaven.

3 Smell the sweet odor of our prayers;
Our sacrifice of praise approve;

And treasure up our gracious tears,
Who rest in thy redeeming love.

4 Beneath thy shadow let us sit;

Call us thy friends, and love, and bride,
And bid us freely drink and eat
Thy dainties, and be satisfied.

CHARLES WESLEY.

HYMN sr XTDIE8.

COO

This was taken from a long hymn of thirty-six
Sannm, entitled Unto tin Angel of tht I'hurch of
the Laoddceans. This hymn is divided into three

parts. These are t lie* rir>t four verses of part three,
unaltered. The basis of the hymn is licv. iii, 20 :'
'• If any man hear my voice, and open the door, I
will oome in to him, and will sup with him, and lie
with me."

From Hymns and Sacred Fbvtns, 1742.

7&0 Glorious and spot Uu. L, M.

JE8U8, from whom all blessings flow,
Great Builder of thy Church below,

If now thy Spirit move my breast,
Hear, and fulfill thine own request.

2 The few that truly call thee Lord,
And wait thy sanctifying word.

And thee their utmost Saviour own, —
Unite and perfect them in one.

3 O let them all thy mind express,
Stand forth thy chosen witnesses,
Thy power unto salvation show,
And perfect holiness below.

4 In them let all mankind behold
How Christiana lived in days of old;
Mighty their envious foes to move,
A proverb of reproach — ami love.

CIIAKLES WESLEY.

Author's title : Primitive Christianity.

The original contains thirty stanzas, divided into
two parts. These are verses one. two, six, and
eitrht of part second, unaltered. The hymn was
first published by John Wesley, in 1743, at the end
of Au Earnest Appeal, to Mm of Reason and Re-
tigion. It was a great favorite 'with Wesley, and
with Fletcher of Madeley as well. Two of the
omitted stanzas show the "manner of bpirit " of
these men :

12 '■ O might my lot be cast with these;
The least of Jesus' witn
O that my Lord would count me meet
To wash His dear disciples feet."

14 " After my lowly Lord to go.
And wait upon Thy saints below ;
Enjoy the grace to angels {riven
And serve the royal heirs of heaven."

From Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred
Poems, 174'j.

/ y D One now, one forever. L. M.

STILL one in life and one in death,
One in our hope of rest above.
One in our joy. our tru>t, our faith.
One in each other's faithful love;

•J Yet must we part, and parting weep;

What (•!>•• has earth for us in store'i'
Our farewell pangs, how sharp and deep!

Our farewell words, how sad and sODb !

:! Yet shall we meet again in peace,
To ring the song of festal joy,

Where none shall bid our gladness cease,
And none our fellowship destroy:

4 Where none shall beckon us away,
Nor bid our festival be doue ;

Our meeting-time the eternal day,
Our meeting-place the eternafthrone.

5 There, hand in hand, firm-linked at last,
And heart to heart enfolded all,

We'll smile upon the troubled past,
And wonder why we wept at all.

HORATIUS BONAB. '

Author's title : Quis Separabit.

The first and last stanzas have been omitted :

1 " 'Tis thus they press the hand and part,
Thus have they bid farewell again;

Yet still tiny commune, heart with heart,
Linked by a never-broken chain."

1 " Then let them j.ress the hand and part,
The dearly loved, the fondly loving,

Still, still in spirit and in heart,
The undivided, nnremoving."

In this hymn the fir--t person has been substi-
tuted for the third, and a number of words have
necessarily been chauged.

From Hymns of Faith and Hope, first series,
1857.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 426.

S. M.

/ y / Sympathy and mutual love.

BLLST be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love;
The fellowship of kindred minds
Is like to that above.

2 Before our Father's throne,
We pour our ardent prayers;

Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one,
Our comforts and our cares.

3 We share our mutual woes,
Our mutual burdens bear;

And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear.

■i 'When we asunder part,

It gives us inward pain ;
Bat we shall still be joined in heart,

And hope to meet again.

310

HYMN STUDIES.

5 This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way;

Wliile each in expectation lives,
And longs to see the day.

6 From sorrow, toil, and pain,
And sin we shall be free;

And perfect love and friendship reign
Through all eternity.

JOHN FAWCETT.

Author's title: Brotherly Lore.

This hymn is unaltered and entire.

In 177-.! Dr. Faweett received a «iH tea prosper-
ous church in Loudon, and decided Bo go. After
Ids goods were loaded, his people at Wainsgate met
to bid him farewell ; but they telt that they could
<i'M give up their beloved pastor, and with tears en-
treated him to remain. Their love prevailed ; he
was convinced that it was his duty to remain, and
fie did remain with them until his death, in 1817.
It is said that Dr. Faweett wrote this hymn at the
time, (1772,) and that it was inspired by the love
that bound him to his humble people.

From Hymns Adapted to the Circumstances of
Public Worship and Private JJevotion, 1782.

See No. 31.

798 Meeting, after absence. S. M.

AND are we yet alive,
And see each other's face?
Glory and praise to Jesus give.

For his redeeming grace.
Preserved by power divine

To full salvation here,
Again in Jesus' praise we join,
And in his sight appear.

2 What troubles have we seen,
What conflicts have we passed,

Fightings without, and fears within,

Since we assembled last!
But out of all the Lord

Hath brought us by his love;
And still he doth his help afford,

And hides our life above.

3 Then let us make our boast
Of his redeeming power,

Which saves us to the uttermost,

Till we can sin no more;
Let us take up the cross.

Till we the crown obtain ;
And gladly reckon all things loss,
So we may Jesus- gain.

(II UU.FS WF.SFEY.

This is one of the Hymn* for Christian friends.
A few words were changed for the Collection of

1780 l.v John Wesley.

The author wrote in the first stanza:
" For His almiijhty grace ; "

and in the second :

" What mighty conflict passed ;"
and :

" Vet out of all the Lord."

One stanza, the last, is omitted :

*' Jesus to Thee we bow,

And for Thy coining wait,
Give us for good some token now

In our imperfect state ;
Annly the hallowing wora,

1 ell each who looks for Thee,
Thou slialt be perfect as thy Lord,

Thou shalt be all like Me."

This hymn is frequently sun;.' at the opening
session of an Annual Conference, and it is espe-
cially appropriate for such an occasion.

From Hymns and Sacred J'ocms, 1749.

799 West commvnum. S. M,

BLEST are the sons of peace,
Whose hearts and hopes are one;
Whose kind designs fo serve and please
Through all their actions run.

2 Blest is the pious house
Where zeal and friendship meet;

Their songs of praise, their mingled vows,
Make their communion sweet.

3 Thus on the heavenly hills
The saints are blest above,

Where joy like morning dew distills,
And all the air is love.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: Commvnion of Saints ; or, Love and War-
shin in o Family.

This hymn is written on Psa. e.\x.\iii. It has
not been altered.

One stanza, the third, is omitted :

3 " Thus when on Aaron's bead,
They poured the rich perfume,

The oil through all his raiment spread.
And pleasure filled the room."

Published in 1719.

800 ».*.

(>i,, Lord, one faith, one baptism, Eph. iv, f>.

ONE sole baptismal sign,
< me Lord below, above,
One faith, one hope divine.

One only watchword, love;
From different temples though it rise,
One son«r ascendeth to the sides.

7/r.v.v sir i) i eh.

311

% t >ur Sacrifice is one;

om- Priesl before the throne,
The slain, the risen Son,

Redeemer, Lord alone :
Thou who dldflt raise him from the dead,
Unite thy people ID their Head.

3 () may that holy prayer.
His tenderest and his last,

His constant, latest care

Ere to his throne be passed,

No longer unfulfilled remain.

The worlds offense, his people's stain!

4 Head of thy Church beneath,
The catholic, the true,

On all her members breathe,

Her broken frame renew :
Then shall thy perfect will be done,
When Christians love and live as one.

GEORGE ROBINSON.

Title: Christian Fellowship.

Written in 1842, and rirst published in Original
Hymn* Adapted to General Worship and Special
m, Uy various authors. Edited by Rev. J.
Leifchild, I)".D. London, 1843.

Three lines have been altered. The author
wrote, verse one, line three:

" Zion, one faith is thine.''''
Verse two, lines five and six :

" And sighs from contrite hearts that spring
Our chief, our choicest offering."

These last lines were altered by Prof. F. M. Bird,
of Lehigh University, in 1865.
The third stanza Las been omitted :

3 "Oh why should they who love

One gospel to unfold,
Who seek one home above,

On earth be strange and cold ?
Why, subjects of the Prince of Peace,
In strife abide, and bitterness ? "

The personal history of the author I have not
been able to obtain.

801 ii. m.

Sear ye one another's burdens.

TBOU God of truth and love,
We seek thy perfect way,
Ready thy choice to approve,
Thy pi'.A idence to obey;
Enter into thy wise design,
And sweetly lose our will in thine.

2 Why hast thou ea-4 our lot
In the same age and place!

And why together brought

To see each other's face;
To join with BOftest sympathy,
And mix our friendly souls in thee?

3 Didst thou not make us one,
Thai we might one remain;

Together travel on,

And hear each other's pain;
Till all thy utmost goodness prove,
And rise renewed in perfect love?

4 Surely thou didst unite
Our kindred spirits here,

That all hereafter raighl
Before thy throne appear ;§
Meet at the marriage of the Lamb,
And all thy gracious love proclaim.

5 Then let us ever bear
The blessed end in view,

And join, with mutual care,
To right our passage through ;
And kindly help each other on,
Till all receive the starry crown.

6 O may thy Spirit seal
Our souls unto that day,

With all thy fullness fill,
And then transport away, —
Away to our eternal rest,
Away to our Redeemer's breast !

CHARLES WESLEY.

One of the Hymns for Christian Friends.

Charles Wesley was betrothed to Miss Sarah
Gwynne, in December, 1748. They were married
the next April. From internal evidence we judge
that most of these hymns were written for "' A
Christian Friend," and that friend was the lady
who became his wife. They must have been writ-
ten during his engagement, or soon after, for they
were published in the year of his marriage — 1749.
This hymn has been edited twice, and Its original
design somewhat obscured, but not obliterated.
There is an additional stanza :

7 " There, only there, we shall
Fulfil Thy great design,

And in Thy praise with all
Our elder brethren join ;
And hymn, in songs which never end,
Our heavenly, everlasting Friend."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

803 Swet counsel. 7.

GLORY be to God above,
God, from whom all blessings flow ;
Make we mention of his love,
Publish we his praise below:

312

ETMN STUDIES.

2 Called together by his grace,
We are met in Jesus' name;

See with joy each other's face.
Followers of the bleeding Lamb.

3 Build we each the other up;
Pray we for our faith's increase;

Solid comfort, Bettled hope,

Constant joy, and lasting peace.

4 More and more let love abound ;
Let us never, never rest,

Till we are in Jesus found,
Of our paradise possessed.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: At the Meeting of Christian Friends.

Six eight-lined stanzas. This hymn is composed
of the tirst, the last half of the second, and theiir.-t
halt of the third.

The last part of the third stanza of this hymn,
Wesley wrote:

" Lasting comfort, steadfast hope,
Solid joy, and settled peace ; "

and the second line of the lust stanza :
" Never, never may we rest."

The changes were made for the Collection for the
U8( of the people called Methodists, 1780.
From Hymns and Sacred Ibems, 1742.

803 Love, the bond of vnion. 7.

WHILE we walk with God in light,
God our hearts doth still unite;
Dearest fellowship we prove,
Fellowship in Jesus' love:
Sweetly each, with each combined,
In the bonds of duty joined,
Feels the cleansing blood applied,
Daily feels that Christ hath died.

2 Still, O Lord, our faith increase,
Cleanse from all unrighteousness;
Thee the unholy cannot see,
Make, 0 make us meet for thee;
Every vile affection kill,

Root out every seed of ill,

Utterly abolish sin,

Write thy law of love within.

3 Hence may all our actions flow,
Love the proof that Christ we know;
Mutual love the token be,

Lord, thai we belong to thee:
Love, thine image, love impart;
Stamp it now on every heart:
Only love to us be given :
Lord, we ask no other heaven.

( IIAKI.Ks WESLEY.

Title : The Love-Feast.

Taken from a long hymn of twenty-two stanza*,
in five parts. This is part four, with the firt-t verse
omitted :

1 " Partners of a glorious hope,
Lift your hearts and voices up;
Jointly let us rise and Bing,
Christ our Prophet, Priest, and King.
Monuments of Jesus' grace,
Speak we by our lives His praise,
walk in Him we have received.
Show we not in vain believed."

" Thy" has been changed to "thine" in the fifth
line of the last stanza.
From J/ymns and Sacred Poems, 1740.

804 Of one heart and mind. 7.

JESUS, Lord, wre look to thee;
Let us in thy name agree;
Show thyself the Prince of peace;
Bid our jars forever cease.

2 By thy reconciling love,
Every stumbling-block remove;
Each to each unite, endear.
Come, and spread thy banner here.

:] Make us of one heart and mind,
Courteous, pitiful, and kind,
Lowly, meek, in thought and word,
Altogether like our Lord.

4 Let us for each other care.
Each the other's burden bear;
To thy Church the pattern give,
Show how true believers live.

5 Free from anger and from pride,
Let us thus in God abide;

All the depths of love express,
All the heights of holiness.

6 Let us then with joy remove
To the family above:

On the wings of angels fly;
Show how true believers die.

CflARLES WESLEY.

Author's title : For a Family.
This is one of the Hymns for Believers.
The author wrote the first couplet of the fourth
stanza thus :

" Let us emh for other care,
Each his brother's burden bear."

It was changed for the Collection of 17*0. F<>r a
hundred years it ha* been used in various edition*
of our hymn Injok without a word of change. The
vidently agree that it is all right. It cer-
tainly adds to the value of this excellent hyinn to

know that it was written " for a family."
l'r< >ni Charles Wesley's Hymns and Sacred Ibems.

1749.

J/YMX STUDIES.

SI 3

805 Witnatetfur Jesug. 7.

COME, and lei us sweetly join,
Christ to praise in hymns divine;
Qive we all, with one accord,
Glory to our common Lord ;

Hands, and hearts, and voices raise;
Sing as in the ancient days;
Antedate the joys above,
Celebrate the least of love.

2 Strive we, in affection strive;
Let the purer flame revive,
Such as in the martyrs glowed,
Dying champions for their God:
We like them m ly live and love;
Called we arc their joys to prove,
Saved with them from future wrath,
Partners of like precious faith.

3 Sing we, then, in Jesus' name,
Now as yesterday the same;
One in every time and place.
Full for all of truth and grace:
We for Christ, our Master, stand,
Lights in a benighted land:

We our dying Lord confess;
We are Jesus' witnesses,

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: The Love-Feast.

These are the first three stanzas of a long hymn
of live parts, twenty-two stanzas.
These stanzas have not been altered.
No. 803 is a part of the same.
From Hymns and Sacrtd J'ocms, 1710.

Many arc we now and one,
We who Jesus have put on;
Names, and sects, and parties fall:
Thou, O Christ, art all in all.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

'I'lic author wrote a hymn of thirtj -nine Btanzas,
di\ hlccl into six parts, entitled Tht Communion of
Saints.

Part lour has live stanzas, each of which con-
tributes to make up this hymn. We give the lust
tu o ( ntire :

4 ''Sweetly now we all agree,
Touched with softest sympathy,
Kindly for each other care;
Every member feels its share:

Wounded by thegritfof one,
All tht suffering members groan :
Honored if one member is.
All partake the common bliss.

5 " Many are we now, and one,
We who Jesus have put on:
There is m if her bond nor free,
Male nor female, Lord, in Thee.
Love, like death, hath all destroyed^
'Rendered all distinctions void :
Names, and sects, and parties fall ;
Thou, O Christ, art all iu all."

From Hymns and Sacred Toems, 1740.

O 0 D Many, but one. 7.

CHRIST, from whom all blessings flow,
Perfecting the saints below,
Hear us, who thy nature share,
Who thy mystic body are.
Join us, in one spirit join,
Let us still receive of thine;
Still for more on thee we call,
Thou who fillest all in all.

2 Move, and actuate, and guide,
Divers gifts to each divide;
Placed according to thy will,
Let us all our work fulfill;
Never from our office move;
Needful to etc!! other prove;
Let us daily growth receive,
More and more in Jesus live.

3 Sweetly may we all agree,
Touched with softest sympathy;
Kindly for each other care;
Every member feel its share.

807 6,5.

When shall ice meet again?

XX7HEN shall we meet again,
W Meet ne'er to sever?
When will peace wreathe her chain

Round us forever?
Our hearts will ne'er repose,
Safe from each blast that blows,
In this dark vale of woes,
Never — no, never!

2 When shall love freely flow
Pure as life's river?

When shall sweet friendship glow

Changeless forever?
Where joys celestial thrill,
Where bliss each heart shall fill,
And fears of parting chill

Never — no, never!

3 Up to that world of light
Take us, dear Saviour;

May we all there unite,

I lappy forever;
Where kindred spirits dwell,
There may our music swell,
And time our joys dispel

Never — no, never!

314

HYMN STUDIES.

4 Soon shall we meet again,

Meet ne'er to sever ;
Soon shall peace wreathe her chain

Round us forever;
Our hearts will then repose
Secure from worldly woes;
Our songs of praise shall close

Never — no, never!

ALAKIC A. WATTS AND S. F. SMITH.

Alaric Alexander Watts, editor, literator, anrl
poet, was bora in London in 1797, and lived until
1864.

Watts wrote only the first stanza of this hymn.
It was part of a piece published in his Poetical
Sketches, 1822. The remaining stanzas were irreg-
ular in meter, and not singable* The ltev. S. F.
Smith wrote the rust of the hymn at the request of
Lowell Mason, who gave him the first stanza, and
asked him to write three more in the same meas-
ure.

See No. 92.

808 Ministers' prayer. 7,6.

LORD of the living harvest
That whitens o'er the plain,
"Where angels soon shall gather

Their sheaves of golden grain ;
Accept these hands to labor,

These hearts to trust and love,
And deign with them to hasten
Thy kingdom from above.

2 As laborers in thy vineyard,
Send us, O Christ, to be

Content to bear the burden

Of weary days for thee ;
We ask no other wages,

When thou shalt call us home,
But to have shared the travail

Which makes thy kingdom come.

3 Come flown, thou Holy Spirit !
And fill our souls with light,

Clothe ns in spotless raiment,

In linen clean and white;
Beside thy sacred altar

Be with us, where we stand,
To sanctify thy people

Through all this happy land.

JOHN S. B. MONSELL.

Titie: .4" Ordination Hymn.

The first stanza v\a> written upon John iv, 35:

"Say not ye, There ore yet f"iir months, and
then cometh harvest 1 behold, 1 say unto you,
Lift up your eyes, and l""k on the fields; fur tbey
are white already to harvest."

The second stanza was founded on Matt. Lx, 88 :

" Pray yc therefore the Lord of the harvest, that
he will send forth laborers into his harvest."

The hymn closes with this doxology:

"Be with us, God the Father,

Be with us, God the Son,
And God the Holy spirit,

<> Blessed Three in One.
Blake us a roval priesthood,

Thee rightly t<> adore;
And fill us with Thy fullness

Now and for evermore."

From Hymns of Love and Praise for the Church's
Fear, 1«63.
See No. 232.

809 Entire dependence on Christ. C. P. M.

EXCEPT the Lord conduct the plan.
The best concerted schemes are vain,
And never can succeed;
We spend our wretched strength for naught ;
But if our works in thee be wrought,
They shall be blest indeed.

2 Lord, if, thou didst thyself inspire
Our souls with this intense desire

Thy goodness to proclaim;
Thy glory if we now intend,
O let our deeds begin and end

Complete in Jesus' name.

3 Now, Jesus, now thy love impart,
To govern each devoted heart.

And fit us for thy will ;
Deep founded in the truth of grace,
Build up thy rising Church, and place

The city on the hill.

4 O let our love and faith abound;
O let our lives, to all around,

With purest luster shine;

That all around our works may see,
And give the glory, Lord, to thee,
The heavenly light divine.

t IIAIU.ES WESLEY.

Title : Fbr a Family <f H>h'' vi n.
Two stanzas, the third and fourth, of the original
are omitted :

3 " In Jesus' name behold we meet,
Far from an evil world retreat,

And all its frantic Ways,
One only tiling resolve I :" know,
An<l square <>ur useful lives below

By reason and by grace.

HYMN STUDIES.

315

4 M Not in the tombs we pine to dwell,
Not in the dark naonaetio cell

By vows and grates confined ;
Freely t<> all "u solves we give,
Constrained bj Jesus' l"ve to live

The servant- of mankind."

These two omitted stanzas reveal the real mis-
sionary spirit of the Wesley family. A lew slight
ohanges have been made.

From Hymn* for tit Use of Families, \~u~.

810 Heralds oj tin . L. M.

/ 1 () forth, ye heralds, in My name,
VJT Sweetly the gospel trumpet sound;
The glorious jubilee proclaim,

Where'er the human race is found.

2 The joyful news to all impart.

And teach them where salvation lies;
With care hind up the broken heart.

And wipe the tears from weeping eyes.

3 Be wise as serpents, where you iy>.
But harmless a- the peaceful (love:

And let your heaven taught conduct show
Ye are commissioned from above.

4 Freely from me ye have received,
Freely, in love, to others give;

Thus shall your doctrines be believed,
And, by your labors, sinners live.

JAMES MAXWELL.

In many editions of the Hymnal this is attribut-
ed to John Logan. James Maxwell, born 1720,
was one of tie' early Wesle> an ministers. He was
the author of Soared Poems, lT'i'i; md Psalms and
Hymns, 1759.

5 Jesus their toil delighted Bees,

Their industry vouchsafes to crown;
lie kindly gives the wished increase,
And sends the promised blessing down.

AUGUSTUS G. si'AM.KNnKHO.
Tit. BY J. WESLEY.

Title : God's Husbandry.

This hymn is a part of a poem of thirteen double

stanzas, which the author presented to Count Zin-

iiii his birthday, in 1784. John Wesley

published his translation ot the whole hymn in

Hymns and Sacred Fberns, 1742.

This hymn is made up of tho first, third, and
the first half of the eighth stanzas.

We.-ley wrote the tirst line of the third verse:

"See where the servants of Ihtir God."

This hymn eame into the Methodist Episcopal
hymn book in one of the edition* of the Pocket
Hymn Book, between the ninth edition (1788) and
the eighteenth edition, i L793. 1

Augustus ttottlieb Spangenberg lived from 1704
to 1792*. In 17^- he entered the University of Jena
as a law student, but soon gave up the law for
theology. After graduating at Jena, he made the
acquaintance of Count Zinzendorf, and in 1735 be-
gan his ministry at Ilerrnhut. Subsequently he
did useful work in visiting the churches of the
Brethren in England and America. In 1744 he
was ordained Bishop in the Moravian Church, at
ilerrnhut. Spangenberg wrote some theological
works, and a few very fine hymns.

811 He fieeth the increase. L. M.

HIGH on his everlasting throne,
The King of saints his work surveys;
.Marks the dear souls he calls his own,
And smiles on the peculiar race.

2 lie rests well pleased their toils to see;
Beneath his easy yoke they move;

With all their heart and strength agree
In the sweet labor of his love.

3 See where the servants of the Lord,
A busy multitude, appear;

For Jesus day and night employed,
His heritage they toil to clear.

4 The love of Christ their hearts constrains.
And strengthens tli Lr unwearied hand-:

They spend their iweat, and blood, and pains.
To cultivate Immanuel'a lands.

812 The ministry instituted. I*. M.

rpiIE Saviour, when to heaven he rose,
J_ In splendid triumph o'er his foes^
Scattered his gifts on men below,
And still his royal bounties flow.

2 Hence sprang the apostles' honored name,
Sacred beyond heroic fame:

In humbler forms, before our eyes,
Pastors and teachers hence arise.

3 From Christ they all their gifts derive,
And, fed by Christ, their grace- live;
WTiile, guarded by his mighty hand,
'Midst all the rage of hell they stand.

1 So shall the bright succession run
Through all the courses of the sun;
While unborn churches, by their care,
Shall rise and flourish large and lair.

5 Jesus, now teach our hearts to know
The spring whence all these blessings flow;
Pa-tors and people shout thy praise,
Through the long round of endless days.

rilll.IP DODD1UDGE, ALT.

316

IIYMN STUDIES.

Title: The Institution of a Gospel Ministry
from. Christ.
Scripture basis, Eph. iv, 11, 12:

" And he gave Bome. apostles ; and sonic, proph-
ets; and sonic, evangelists ; and some, pastors und
teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the
work ul the ministry, for the edifying of the body
of Christ."

It was written for the ordination of the Rev.
Abraham Tozer, June 20, 1745, and contained
seven stanzas.

The first stanza of the original is omitted, and
also part of two others. There, arc verbal changes
in nine of the lines. It should be marked altered.

From Hymns Founded on, Various Texts in the
Holy Scriptures, 1755.

See No. 78.

FIRST PART.
813 Boldness in the gospel. L. M.

SHALL I, for fear of feeble man,
The Spirit's course in me restrain?
Or, undismayed in deed and word,
Be a true witness of my Lord?

2 Awed by a mortal's frown, shall I
Conceal the word of God most high?
How then before thee shall I dare
To stand, or how thine anger bear ?

3 Shall I, to soothe the unholy throng,
Soften thy truth, or smooth ray tongue,
To gain earth's gilded toys, or flee
The cross endured, my Lord, by thee?

4 What, then, is he whose scorn I dread,
Whose wrath or hate makes me afraid?

A man! an heir of death ! a slave
To sin! a bubble on the wave!

5 Yea, let men rage; since thou wilt spread
Thy shadowing wings around my head;
Since in all pain thy tender love

Will still my sure refreshment prove.

JOHANN J. WINKLER.
TR. BY J. WESLEY.

SECOND PAKT.
814r ChrkVs constraining love. L. M.

SAVIOUR of men, thy searching eye
Doth all mine inmost thoughts descry;
Doth aughl on earth my wishes raise,
Or the world's pleasures, or its praise?

2 The love of Christ doth me constrain
To seek the wandering souls of men;

With cries, entreaties, tears, to save, —

To snatch them from the gaping grave.

3 For this let men revile my name;
No cross I shun, I fear no shame:

All hail, reproach; and welcome, pain;
Only thy terrors, Lord, restrain.

4 My life, my blood, I here present,
If for thy truth they may be spent;
Fulfill thy sovereign counsel, Lord;
Thy will be done, thy name adored.

5 Give me thy strength, O God of power:
Then lei winds blow, or thunders roar,
Thy faithful witness will I be:

'Tis fixed; I cau do all through thee.

JOHANN J. WINKLER,
TK. BY J. WESLEY.

From the German. The translation is entitled
Boldness in th<' Gospel,

Something of the dignity and responsibility "f
an embassador of Christ is shown in tins hymn.
The translation is from Hymns and Sacred l'oern*,
1739.

The Rev. Johann Joseph Winkler lived from
1670 to 1722. He was a German Pietist; an excel-
lent and cultured man; the pastor of a church in
Magdeburg, and for a time chaplain to the Protec-
tant forces in the early partof the Thirty Years' War.

815 The angels of the < 7/ wches. L M .

DRAW near, O Son of God, draw near;
l's with thy flaming eye behold;
Still in thy Church do thou appear,
And let our candlestick be gold.

2 Still hold the stars in thy right hand,
And let them in thy luster glow,

The lights of a benighted land.
The augels of thy Church below.

3 Make good their apostolic boasl ;
Their high commission let them prove;

Be temples of the Holy Ghost,

And tilled with faith, and hope, and love.

4 Give them an ear to hear thy word ;
Thou speakest to the churches now:

And let all tongues confess their Lord;
Let every knee to Jesus bow.

CHARLES WESLEY. *

The author's title was: .1 Flayer for the Bishops.

It must be remembered that Charles Wesley did
not share with his brother John in the opinion
•• that Bishops and Presbyters are the same order,
and consequently have the same right to ordain."
Charles Weslej held certain High-Church notinnn
all his life. A Bishop, with him, was one in the
" regular apostolic succession.** For such " lii-li-
opa" this "prayer" was written. Witness tiic

IIYMN STUDIES.

317

fourth and fifth Btanzas. which have been omit-
ted:

t "The worthy successors of those
Who first adorned the Baorod line,

Bold let them stand before their i
And dare assert their right divine."

5 ;' Their hearts from thiii<rs ol eartli remove;

Sprinkle them, Lord, from Biiiand fear!
Fix their affections all above,

And lav up all their treasure there."

The third line of the first verse was, originally :
"Still in Thy /ailing church appear,"

and the l;v>t line of the hymn was:
" And ht all knees to Jesus bow."

From Hymns and Sacrtd Poems, 1742.

olb Laborers hi the vineyard. S. M.

AND let our bodies part,
To different climes repair;
Inseparably joined in heart
The friends of Jesus are.

2 O let us still proceed
In Jesus' work below;

And, following our triumphant Head,
To further conquests go.

3 The vineyard of the Lord
Before his laborers lies;

And lo! we see the vast reward
Which waits us in the skies.

4 O that our heart and mind
May evermore ascend,

That haven of repose to find,
Where all our labors end;

5 Where all our toils are o'er,
Our suffering and our pain !

Who meet on that eternal shore
Shall never part again.

6 O happy, happy place,
Where saints and angels meet !

There we shall see each other's face,
And all our brethren greet :

7 The Church of the first-born,
We shall with them be blest,

And, crowned with endless joy, return
To our eternal rest.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The author's title was : At Parting.

f the Hymns for Christian Friends. The
original is in two parts and comprises ten eight-
lined stanzas. Tins hymn is from pari one. Sev-
eral lines were changed for the Collection of 1780 —
probably by John Wesley.

Tin- original hymn is found in Charles Wesley's
Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

817 Success certain. S. M.

LORD, if at thy command
The word of life we sow,
Watered by thy almighty hand,

The seed shall surely grow:
The virtue of thy grace

A large increase shall give,
And multiply the faithful race
Who to thy glory live.

2 Now, then, the ceaseless shower

Of gospel blessings send,
And let the soul-converting power

Thy ministers attend.
On multitudes confer

The heart-renewing love,
And by the joy of grace prepare

For fuller joys above.

CHARLES WESLEY.
This valuable hymn was written upon Acts xi, 21 :

" And the hand of the Lord was with them : and
a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord."

It was left by the author in manuscript, and
was first published in A Supplement to the Col-
lection of Hymns for the use of the people called
Methodists, 1830. 'it has not been altered.

olu TJie laborers are few. S. M.

LORD of the harvest, hear
Thy needy servants' cry;
Answer our faith's effectual prayer,
And all our wants supply.

2 On thee we humbly wait;
Our wants are in thy view,

The harvest, truly, Lord, is great,
The laborers are few.

3 Convert and send forth more
Into thy Church abroad,

And let them speak thy word of power,
As workers with their God.

4 O let them spread thy name,
Their mission fully prove;

Thy universal grace proclaim,
Thine all-redeeming love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

318

HYMN STUD IKS.

Title : A Pray* r for Laborer*.

Two stanzas, the fourth and sixth, arc omitted :

4 " Give the pure gospel word,

The word of general grace;
Thee let them preach, the common Lord,

Saviour of human nice."

6 "On all mankind forgiven

Empower them still to eall,
And tell each creature under heaven

That Thou hast died for all."

The last part of this stanza reveals the theology
of the author.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

819 For the success of ministers. L. M.

FATHER of mercies, bow thine ear,
Attentive to our earnest prayer :
We plead for those who plead for thee ;
Successful pleaders may they be.

2 O clothe their words with power divine,
And let those words be ever thine ;

To them thy sacred truth reveal ;
Suppress their fear, inflame their zeal.

3 Teach them to sow the precious seed;
Teach them thy chosen flock to feed ;
Teach them immortal souls to gain,
Nor let them labor, Lord, in vain.

4 Let thronging multitudes around
Hear from their lips the joyful sound;
In humble strains thy grace implore,
And feel thy Spirit's living power.

BENJAMIN BKDDOME, ALT.

Author's title : Prayer for Ministers.
Five lines have been altered.

Original Form.
Verse two, lines one and two :

" Clothe thou with energy divine

Tlieir words, and let those words be thine."

Verse three, line one :

" Teach them aright to sow the seed."

Verse four, lines three and four:

" In humble strains thy grace edort
And feel thy new-creating power.''

Two stanzas, of little value, are omitted.
It first appeared in Rippor&t Selection, 1787.
For biographical sketch, see No. 285.

820 The commission. L. M.

'^ f~~-i n T>rpnrVi mv misi id, " saith the Lord,
world my grace

Gi (), preach mv gospel,
T " .

receive

Bid the whole

Be shall be saved who trusts my word;
He shall be damned who won't believe.

2 " I'll make your great commission known ;
And ye shall prove my gospel true,

By all the works that I have done,
By all the wonders ye shall do.

3 " Teach all the nations my commands,
I'm with you till the world shall end;

All power is trusted in my hands,
I can destroy, and I defend.''

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: The Apostle'' s Commission ; or, The Gospel
attended by Miracles.

The first two stanzas are founded upon Mark xvi,
15, 16:

" And he said unto them, Go ye into all the
world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that beheveth and is baptized shall be saved ;
but he that believeth not shall be damned."

The last stanza was written upon Matt, xxviii,
19, 20:

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptiz-
ing them in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
you : and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the
end of the world."

The original has "that" instead of "who"
in the third and fourth lines of the first verse.
Two stanzas, the third and tilth, are omitted :

3 " Go heal the sick, go raise the dead,

Go cast out devils in my name,
Nor let my prophets be afraid

Though' Greeks reproach and Jews blaspheme."

5 " He spake, and light shone round his head,
On a bright cloud to heaven he rode ;

They to the farthest nations spread
The grace of their ascended God."

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book i, 1707.

821 Tlit joyful sound. S. M.

HOW beauteous are their feet
"Who stand on Zion's hill,
"Who bring salvation on their tongues,
And words of peace reveal !

2 How charming is their voice,

How sweet the tidings are!
"Zion, behold thy Saviour King;

He reigns and triumphs here."

HY.VN STUDIES.

819

3 How happy arc our oars.
That hear the joyful Bound,

Which kings and prophets waited for,
And sought, but never found!

4 How blessed are our eyes,

That Bee this heavenly light!

Prophets and kings desired it long,
But lied without the sight. .

5 The watchmen join their voice,
And tuneful notes employ;

Jerusalem breaks forth in songs,
And deserts learn the joy.

G The Lord makes bare his arm
Through all the earth abroad;

Let every nation now behold
Their Saviour and their God.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: 77/,' fihtxolness of Gospel Times ; or, The
Revelation of Christ to Jew* and Gentiles.

The first two and the last two stanzas of this
favorite hymn were written upon isa. hi, 7-10 :

" How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet
of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth

peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that
publisheth salvation ; that saith unto Zion, Thy
God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the
voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for
th y shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring
■gain Zion. Break forth into joy, sing together, ye
waste places of Jerusalem : for the Lord hath com-
forted his people, ho hath redeemed Jerusalem.
The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes
of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth
shall see the salvation of our God."

The third and fourth stanzas were founded upon
Matt, xiii, 16, 17 :

" But blessed are your eyes, for they see : and
vour ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you,
That many prophets and righteous men have desired
to see those things which ye see, and have n<>t seen
them ; and to hear those things which ye hear, and
have not heard them."

Unaltered and entire from Hymns and Spiritual
Songs, 1707.

822 T7te minister's only business.

JESUS ! the name high over all,
In hell, or earth, or sky ;
Angels and men before it fall,
And devils fear and fly.

2 Jesus! the name to sinners dear,
The name to sinners given ;

It scatters all their guilty fear;
It turns their hell to heaven.

C. M.

8 Jesus the prisoner's fetters breaks,
And bruises Satan's head ;

Power into Btrengthless souls he speaks,
And life into the dead.

4 0 that the world might taste and see
The riches of his grace !

The arms of love that compass me

Would all mankind embrace.

5 His only righteousness I show,
His saving truth proclaim:

'Tis all my business here below,
To cry,*" Behold the Lamb! "

6 Happy, if with my lat st breath
I may but gasp his name ;

Preach him to all, and cry in death,
"Behold, behold the Lamb!"

CHAKLES WESLEY.

Title : After Preaching in a Church.

This is partof a long hymn of twenty -two stanzas,
and consists of verses nine, ten, twelve, thirteen,
eighteen, and twenty-two of the original.

Only one word has been changed. Wesley wrote
in the fourth stanza:

" The arms of love which compass me."

This has always been a very popular hymn with
the Methodists. The author shows how much he
appreciated the Gospel, and how he loved to pro-
claim it.

One of the omitted stanzas, the fourteenth, is as
follows :

14 " O that my Jesus' heavenly charms

Might every bosom move !
Fly, sinners, fly into those arms

Of everlasting love."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, vol. ii, 1749.

823 The pastoral office. C. M.

LET Zion's watchmen all awake,
And take the alarm they give;
Now let them from the mouth of God
Their solemn charge receive.

2 'Tie not a cause of small import

The pastor's care demands;
But what might fill an angel's heart,

And filled a Saviour's hands.

:3 They watch for souls for which the Lord

Did heavenly bliss forego ;
For souls which must forever live

In raptures or in woe.

320

HYMN STUDIES.

4 May they that Jesus, whom they preach,
Their own Redeemer see;

And watch thou daily o'er their souls,
That they may watch for thee.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Author's title : Watching for Souls in the View
of the Great Account.
Scripture basis, Heb. xiii, 17 :

" Obey them that have the rule over you, and
submit yourselves : for they watch for your
they that most give account, that they may do it
with joy, and not with grief."

This valuable hymn was written for the ordina-
tion of a minister, and has not been altered.
One stanza, the fourth, has been omitted:

4 " All to the great Tribunal haste,

Th' Account to render there ;
And shouldst thou strictly mark our Faults,

Lord, how should we appear \ "

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in tin
Holy Scriptures. London, 1755.
See No. 78.

824 Clothed with salvation. CM.

JESUS, the word of mercy give,
And let it swiftly run ;
And let the priests themselves believe,
And put salvation on.

2 Jesus, let all thy servants shine
Illustrious as the sun;

And, bright with borrowed rays divine,
Their glorious circuit run.

3 As giants may they run their race,
Exulting in their might;

As burning luminaries, chase
The gloom of hellish night.

4 As the bright Sun of righteousness,
Their healing wings display:

And let their luster still increase
Unto the perfect day.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy
Scriptures.
The first stanza is written on 2 Chron. vi, 41 :

"Let thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with
salvation."

The rest of the hymn is founded on Judges v, 31 :

" Let them that love him be as the sun when he
(foeth forth in bis might."

Wesley wrote the first line of the second verse:

41 Jesus, let all thy lovers shine."

This was changed to"Rervanta" in 1808, when
the hymn was published in the Supplement to the
Methodist Pocket Hymn Book.

The first Line of the last verse the author wrote:

" As the great Sun of Righteousness."

"Great" was changed to "bright" by John
Wesley for his Collection of 17S0.

O/sO Training the soldiers of Christ. L. M. cl.

CAPTAIN of our salvation, take
The souls we here present to thee,
And tit for thy great service make

These heirs of immortality;
And let them in thine image rise,
And then transplant to paradise.

2 Unspotted from the world, and pure.
Preserve them for thy glorious cause,

Accustomed daily to endure

The welcome burden of thy cross ;
Inured to toil and patient pain,
Till all thy perfect mind they gain.

3 Train up thy hardy soldiers, Lord,
In all their Captain's steps to tread;

Or send them to proclaim the word,

Thy gospel through the world to spread ;
Freely as they receive to give,
And preach the death by which we live.

CHARLES WESLEY.

By mistake this hymn was credited, in the first
editions of the Hymnal, to Henry John Gauntlett.
It was written by Charles Wesley, and published in
Hymns for Children. Bristol, 1703.

The fast line of the first stanza tin; author wrote:

"And then transplant th, m to the skies."

The last line of the hymn was:

" And preach the death by which they live."

One stanza, the third, has been omitted :

3 " Our sons henceforth be wholly Thine,
And serve ami love Thee all their days ;

Infuse the principle Divine
In all who here expect Thy grace;

Let each improve the grace bestowed,

Ki-e every child a man of God."

826

L.M. 61.

Baptismal hymn.

I AM baptized into thv name,
O Father. Son, and Holy Ghost I
Among thy seed a place I claim,
Among thy consecrated hosl ;
Buried with Christ and flcad to sin.
Thy Spirit now shall live within.

itymx STUDIES.

821

I Rf] loving Father, here dost thou

Proclaim me as thy child and heir;
Thou, faithful Saviour, bidd'st me now

The t'rviit of all thy sorrows share;
Thou, Holy Ghost, wilt comfort me
When darkest clouds around I Bee.

8 Ilonco, Prince of darkness I hence, my foe !

Another Lord hath purchased me;
My conscience tells of sin, yet know,

Baptised in Christ, I fear not thee:
Away, vain world! sin, leave me now!
I turn from you ; God hears my vow.

4 And never let me waver more,
O Father, Son, and Holy Ghos-t;

Till at thy will this life is'o'er,
Still keep me in thy faithful host,

So unto thee 1 live and die,

And praise thee evermore on high.

J. J. KAMBACH.
Til. BY MISS C. WINKWOIITH.

Title: Renewal of the Vow.

The original contains seven stanzas. These are
the first two an- 1 the last two, verbatim.

The date given in Lyra Gcrmanica, second series,
Ls 1720.

The Eev. Johann Jakob Rambaeh was born at
Halle in 1696, was a professor ot theology, and the
author of some valuable theological works. He
died at Giesseu in 1735.

827 cm.

Suffer the little ones to come unto Ale.

SEE, Israel's gentle Shepherd stands
With all engaging charms;
Hark, how he calls the tender lambs,
And folds them in his arms !

2 " Permit them to approach," he cries,
" Nor scorn their humble name;

For 'twas to bless such souls as these
The Lord of angels came."

3 We brinq1 them, Lord, in thankful hands,
. And yield them up to thee;

Joyful that we ourselves are thine,
Thine let our offspring be.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title : Christ's Condescending Regard to Litth
Children.

"Suffer the little children to come unto me, and
forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of
God." Mark x, 14.

There are two additional stanzas :

4 " Ye little Flock, witli Pleasure hear;

Ye Children, seek his Face ;
And fly with Transport to receive

The Blessings of his Grucc.
21

5 " If, Orphans, t ej ore left behind,

Thy guardian Care we trust.
That Care shall heal our bleeding Hearts,

While weeping o'er their Dust."'

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in tit«
Holy Scriptures.

Published from the author's manuscript, by
Job I Irton, 1755.

See No. 78.

828 Children in the arms of Jesus. C. M.

BEHOLD what condescending love
Jesus on earth displays!
To little children he extends
The riches of his grace.

2 He still the ancient promise keeps,
To our forefathers given ;

Our infants in his arms he takes,
And calls them heirs of heaven.

3 Forbid them not, whom Jesus calls,
Nor dare the claim resist,

Since his own lips to us declare
Of such wdll heaven consist.

4 With flowing tears, and thankful hearts,
We give them up to thee ;

Receive them. Lord, into thine arms;
Thine may they ever be.

JOHN PEACOCK, WATTS, AND OTHERS.

A Cento, compiled from several popular authors.
The first and third stanzas were written by John
Peacock ; from Songs of Praise. London, 1776.

The second stanza was written by Isaac Watts ;
from Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book i, hymn
113. The last stanza is evidently altered from
Philip Doddridge.

Compare it with the last stanza of the preceding
hymn.

The Eev. A. M. Toplady compiled the hymn for
his Psalms and Hymns. London, 1776. We find it
composed of one stanza of Peacock's hymn, one >>f
Wattfl's, two of Doddridge's, and two others — prob-
ably by Toplady himself.

Several lines have been altered.

Original.
Verse one, line three : '

" To Babes and Sucklings He extends."

Verse two, lines one, two, and three :

" Jesus, the ancient faith confirms

To our great fathers giv'n ;
He takes young children to his arms" etc

Verse three, lines two, three, and four:

" Nor dare their Claim resist ;
Let none tfie Infant Race despise,
For Heaven, of such consists." ,

322

HYMN STUDIES.

The Rev. John Peacock was born in 1731 ; was
awakened and converted under the preaching of
George Whitefield; became an itinerant Wesleyan
preacher in 1707; and continued in the work till
17%, when he was obliged to retire on account of
ill-health. He died in 1803. An account of his
lift and triumphant death is given in the Methodist
( Wesley an) Magazine.

829 Significance of baptism. CM.

OLORD, while we confess the worth
Of this the outward seal,
Do thou the truths herein set forth
To every heart reveal.

2 Death to the world we here avow,
Death to each fleshly lust ;

Newness of life our calling now,
A risen Lord our trust.

3 And we, O Lord, who now partake
Of resurrection life,

With every sin, for thy dear sake,
Would be at constant strife.

4 Baptized into the Father's name,
We'd walk as sons of God;

Baptized in thine, we own thy claim
As ransomed by thy blood.

5 Baptized into the Holy Ghost,
We'd keep his temple pure,

And make thy grace our only boast,
And by thy strength endure

MARY BOWLY.

This baptismal hymn is said to have been
written by Mrs. Mary Bowly Peters, the wife of
the Rev. M' Williams Peters, an English clergy-
man. In 1846 she published Hymns Intended to
Help the Communion, of Saints, containing fifty-
eight pieces. Mrs. Peters died in 1856.

830 Rites inefficacious. S. M.

RITES cannot change the heart,
Undo the evil done,
Or with the uttered name impart
The nature of thy Son.

2 To meet our desperate want,
There gushed a crimson flood :

O from his heart's o'erflowing font
Baptize this soul with blood !

3 Be grace from Christ our Lord,
And love from God supreme,

By the communing Spirit poured
In a perpetual stream !

WILLIAM M. IiUXTINU.

( trig'mal title : A Parental Prayer at the Baptism
of an Infant.

This is part of a hymn of six stanzas, found in
The Xew Supplement to the Wesley an Collection,
1875. These are verses three, four, and live,
verbatim.

The Rev. "William Maclardie Bunting was the
oldest son of Dr. Jabez Bunting, of the Wesleyan
Conference, lie lived from 1805 to 1806, and was
a gifted and educated gentleman, an able preacher,
and an elegant writer, both in prose and verse.
This hymn, with several others, was contributed to
Original Hymns. Edited by the Rev. J. Leit-
ehild, D.D. London, 1843.

The sacramental seal.

L. M.

831

COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Honor the means ordained by thee;
Make good our apostolic boast,
And own thy glorious ministry.

2 We now thy promised blessing claim ;
Sent to disciple all mankind,

Sent to baptize into thy name,

We now thy promised presence find.

3 Father, in these reveal thy Son ;

In these, for whom we seek thy face,
The hidden mystery make known,
The inward, pure, baptizing grace.

4 Jesus, with us thou always art ;
Effectual make the sacred sign ;

The gift unspeakable impart.
And bless the ordinance divine.

5 Eternal Spirit, from on high,
Baptizer of our spirits thou,

The sacramental seal apply.

And witness with the water now.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title: At the Baptism of Adults.

Wesley wrote the second line of the first verse :

" Honor the Means Jnjoiii'd by Thee."

It was changed for the Collection of 1780. The
second line of the fourth verse was :

" Effectuate now the Sacred Sign."

This awkward expression was changed by the
editors of the hymn book in 1849.
The hymn has an additional stanza:

6 " Oh ! that the Souls haptiz'd herein
May now thy Truth and Mercy feel,

May rise and wash away their Sin —
Come, Holy Ghost, their Pardon seal."

From IJymns at d Sacred Poems^ 1749.

I/).\f\ ST r DIES.

333

832 At a child's baptiem. L. If.

THIS child we dedicate to (hoe,
0 God of grace and purity !

Shield it from bid and threatening wrong.
And let thy love its life prolong.

'J O may thy Spirit gently draw
Its willing soul to keep thy law;
May virtue, piety, and truth.
Dawn even with its dawning youth.

3 We, too, before thy gracious sight,
Once shared the blest baptismal rate,
And would renew its solemn vow

With love, and thanks, ami praises, now.

4 Grant that, with true and faithful

heart.
We still may act the Christian's part.
Cheered by each promise thou hast given,
And laboring for the prize in heaven.

TR. BY 8. OILMAN.

Tlymn for Baptism. A translation from the
German. The Kev. Alfred P. Putnam, in Singers
and Songs of the Liberal Faith, is the authority lor
authorship and text.

The Rev. Samuel Gilman, D.D., was an al>le
Unitarian minister, and was born in Massachusetts
in 1791. lie was graduated at Harvard College in
1811. In 181'J lie was installed pastor of a church
in Charleston, S. C, where he remained till his
death, in 1858.

the

833 The Lord's Supper instituted. L. M. 6 1

IN that sad, memorable night,
When Jesus was for us betrayed,
He left his death-recording rite:
He took, and blest, and brake
bread ;
And gave his own their last bequest,
And thus his love's intent expressed :

2 "Take, eat, this is my body, given
To purchase life and peace for you,

Pardon, and holiness, and heaven :
Do this, my dying love to show :
Accept your precious legacy,
And thus, my friends, remember me."

3 He took into his hands the cup,
To crown the sacramental feast,

And, full of kind concern, looked up,

And gave to them what he had blest;
And, " Drink ye all of this," he said,
"In solemn memory of the dead.

|4 ''This i-, my blood, which seals the new
Eternal covenant of my grace;
My blood, so freely shed for you,
For you and all the sinful race;
j My blood, that speaks your sins forgiven,
And justifies your claim to heaven."

CHARLES WESLEV.

Published without title in Hymns on the Lord's
Supper, by John and Charles Wesley, Presbyfc n
of the Church of England. Bristol, 1745. ' The
real subject is The Institution of the Lord? a Supper.

It is based on Matt, xxvi, 26-28 :

" And as they were eating1, Jesus took bread, and
blessed it, and brake it, andgave it to the disci plea,
and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he
took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them,
saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of
the new testament, which is shed for many for the
remission of sins."

The original has one additional stanza :

5 " The grace which I to all bequeath

In this Divine memorial take,
And, mindful of your Saviour's death,

Do this, My followers, for My sake,
Whose dying love hath left behind
Eternal life for all mankind."

It has not been altered.

834 The invitation. C. M.

THE King of heaven his table spreads,
And blessings crown the board ;
Not paradise, with all its joys, .

Could such delight afford.

2 Pardon and peace to dying men,
And endless life are given,

Through the rich blood that Jesus shed
To raise our souls to heaven.

3 Millions of souls, in glory now,
Were fed and feasted here ;

And millions more, still on the way,
Around the board appear.

4 All things are ready, come away,
Nor weak excuses frame ;

Crowd to your places at the feast,
And bless the Founder's name.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title: Room at the Gospel-Feast. Luke xiv, 22.

One word has been changed. The author wrote
"dainties" instead of "blessings" in the second
line.

S24

HYMN STUDIES.

Two stanzas, the third and fifth, of the original
have been omitted :

3 " Ye hungry Poor, that long have stray'd

In Sin's dark Mazes, come :
Come from the Hedges and Highways,

And Graee shall find you Boom."

6 " Yet is his House and Heart so large,

That Millions more may come:
Nor could the wide assembling World

O'erlill the spacious Room."

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the
Holy Scriptures, 1755.

See No. 78.

83 O Approaching the table. CM.

JESUS, at whose supreme command,
We now approach to God,
Before us in thy vesture stand.
Thy vesture dipped in blood.

2 Tlie tokens of thy dying love
O let us all receive,

And feel the quickening Spirit move,
And sensibly believe.

3 The cup of blessing, blest by thee,
Let it thy blood impart ;

The bread thy mystic body be,
To cheer each languid heart.

4 The living bread sent down from heaven,
In us vouchsafe to be :

Thy flesh for all the world is given,
And all may live by thee.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Published in Hymns on, the Lord?* Supper, with-
out title.

The hymn has in all eight stanzas ; these are the
first, fourth, fifth, and seventh, verbatim. This
book was published at Bristol, in 1745, and con-
tained 166 pieces, which were arranged under six
general topics:

I. " As it is a Memorial of the Sufferings and
Death of Christ," 27 hymns.

II. " As it is a Sign and a Means of Grace," Go
hymns.

III. ': The Sacrament a Pledge of Heaven," 23
hymns.

IV. " The Holy Eucharist as it Implies a Sacri-
fice," 12 hymns.

V. " Concerning the Sacrifice of our Persons,"
30 hymns.

VI. " After the Sacrament," 9 hymns.

836 Grateful remembrance. C M.

ACCORDING to thy gracious word,
In meek humility,
This will I do, my dying Lord,
I will remember thee !

2 Thy body, broken for my sake,
My bread from heaven shall be;

Thy testamental cup I take,
And thus remember thee!

3 Gethsemane can I forget?
Or there thy conflict see,

Thine agony and bloody sweat,
And not remember thee?

4 "When to the cross I turn mine eyes,,
And rest on Calvary,

O Lamb of God, my Sacrifice,
I must remember thee !

5 Remember thee, and all thy pains,
And all thy love to me;

Yea, while a breath, a pulse remains,
Will I remember thee!

6 And when these failing lips grow dumb,
And mind and memory flee.

When thou shalt in thy kingdom come,
Jesus, remember me!

JAMES MONTGOMEKY.

Written upon Luke xxii, 19:

" This do in remembrance of me."

No Christian can carefully read this excellent
hymn without profit. It is well calculated to stir
the heart of tne believer. It lias not been ut-
tered.

From The Christian I'salmist, 1825.

For biography, see No. 5.

837 Itich gifts of gospel grace. C M.

OLOVE divine! O matchless grace!
Which in this sacred rite
Shines forth so full, so free, in rays
Of purest living light.

2 O wondrous death ! O precious blood !
For us so freely spilt,

To cleanse our sin-polluted souLs
From every stain of guilt.

3 O covenant of life and peace,
By blood and suffering sealed !

All the rich gifts of gospel grace
Are here to faith revealed.

4 Jesus, we bow our souls to thee,
Our life, our hope, our all,

While we, with thankful, contrite hearts,
Thv dviii£j love recall.

// rV.Y S / I'DIES.

325

5 O may thy pure and perfect love

Be written Dii our minds;
Nor earth, nor st 'It', nor sin obscure

The ever-radiant lines.

BDKrjND TUKNKY.

Author's title: In Remembrance of Me.

"■'This oup is the new testament in my blood,
■which is shed for you." Luke xxii, 20.

The author wrote, verse one, line four:
" Of pure and living light."

Verse five, line one:

" Oh ! may Thy pure and perfect laws."

It first appeared in Memorial Hymns; or. Sonos
in tkt ffoutt of My Pilgrimage^ by Edmund 1 urney,
lore Professor of Biblical Literature and Interpre-
tation in the Fairmount Theological Seminary.
New York, 1864.

The Rev. Edmund Turney (1817-1872) was a
Baptist clergyman. Memonal Hymns oontained
forty pieces. He was also the author of a volume
entitled Memorial Ibenu.

8oo The sacred feast. CM.

IN memory of the Saviour's love,
We keep the sacred feast,
Where every humble, contrite heart
Is made a welcome guest.

2 By faith we take the bread of life,
With which our souls are fed ;

The cup, in token of his blood,
That was for sinners shed.

3 Under his banner thus we sing
The wonders of his love,

And thus anticipate by faith
The heavenly feast above.

TIIOMAS C OTTERILL, ALT.

The New Wesleyan Collection attributes this
hymn, which in our Hymnal has been marked
" unknown, " t^> Thomas Cotterill.

It has been altered in almost every line.

Eor sketch of author, see No. 281.

83 £) Gratitude and love. CM.

IF human kindness meets return,
And owns the grateful tie;
If tender thoughts within us burn
To feel a friend is nigh;

2 O shall not warmer accents tell
The gratitude we owe

To Him who died our fears to quell,
And save from endless woe?

3 While yet in anguish lie surveyed
Those pangs he would not flee,

What love his latest words displayed 1
" Meet and remember me."

4 Remember thee ! thy death, thy shame,
The griefs which thou didst bear!

O memory, leave no other name
So deeply graven there.

GERARD T. NOEL.

Title : Tim Do in, Remembrance of Me.
Four lines have been altered.

Original Fork.
Verse two, line four:

uOur -more than orphan's woe."

Verse three, line one :
" While yet his anguish? d soul survey'd."

Verse four, lines two and four:

" Our sinful hearts to share.''''
" Bat His recorded there."

From A Selection of Psalms and Hymns for Pub-
lic and Private Use, bv Baptist W. Noel, 1838.

The Rev. Gerard Thomas Noel was born in En-
gland in 17S2 ; was a brother of the Kev. Baptist
W. Noel ; was educated at Edinburgh and Cam-
bridge, and labored as a clergyman in the Estab-
lished Church until his death, in 1851.

This hymn tint appeared in Aroendel ; or, Sketches
iu Italy and Switzerland. (First edition, 182G.)

840 Be died for me. C M.

THAT doleful night before his death,
The Lamb, for sinners slain,
Did, almost with his dying breath,
This solemn feast ordain.

2 To keep the feast. Lord, we have met,
And to remember thee:

Help each poor trembler to repeat,
"For me he died, for me ! "

3 Thy sufferings. Lord, each sacred Bign
To our remembrance brings ;

We eat the bread, and drink the wine.
But think on nobler things.

4 O tune our tongues, and set in frame
Each heart that pants for thee,

To sing, " Hosanna to the Lamb,
The Lamb that died for me! "

JOSEPH HAKT.

This sacramental hymn was published without
title in the Supplement of Hart's Hymns, 1702.

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HYMN STUDIES.

The. author wrote the third line of the first
stanza :

"Did almost with his latest breath,"

and the first line of the second stanza :

" To keep Thy feast, Lord, are we met."

For biographical sketch, see No. 29.

84:1 Universal gladness. S. M.

GLORY to God on high,
Our peace is made with Heaven;
The Son of God came down to die,
That we might be forgiven.

2 His precious blood was shed,
His body bruised, for sin :

Remember this in eating bread,
And this in drinking wine.

3 Approach his royal board,
In his rich garments clad ;

Join every tongue to praise the Lord,
And every heart be glad.

4 The Father gives the Son ;
The Son, his flesh and blood;

The Spirit seals ; and faith puts on
The righteousness of God.

JOSEPH HART.

The last line of the first verse the author wrote :
" That sin might be forgiven,"

Mid of the third verse :

"And that in drinking wine."

There are two additional stanzas :

5 " Sinners, the gift receive,
And each say, ' 1 am chief;

Thou knowest, 0 Lord, I would believe
Oh1 help my unbelief.'

6 " Lord, help us from above,
The power is all thy own ;

Faith is thy gilt, and hope, and love;
For of our.-elves we've uodc."

This is found in the supplement of the author's
book, entitled Hymns, Composed on Varirnu Sub-
jects, preface date, 1750. Date of Supplement, 1762.

84-2 Aforetasti of glory. S. M.

OW1IAT delight is this.
Which now in Christ we know,
An earnest of our glorious bliss,
Our heaven bejnm below!

2 When he the table spreads,
How royal is the cheer!

With rapture we lift up our heads,
And own that God is here.

3 The Lamb for sinners slain,
Who died to die no more,

Let all the ransomed sons of men,
With all his hosts, adore.

4 Let earth and heaven be joined,
His glories to display,

And hymn the Saviour of mankind
In one eternal day.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : After the Sacrament.
Part of a hymn of four eight-line stanzas, of
which the first and third verses are as follows :

1 " All praise to God above,

In whom we have believed,
The tokens of whose dying lovo

We have even now received,
Have with Ilis flesh been fed.

And drank Ilis precious blood:
His precious blood is drink indeed,

His flesh, immortal food.

3 " lie bids us taste His grace,

The joys of angejs. prove;
The stammerers' tongues are loosed to praise-

Our dear Redeemer's lo\e.
Salvation to our God

That sits upon the throne;
Salvation be alike bestowed

On Ilis triumphant Son."

Wesley wrote the first line of the hymn :

"0 what a taste is this."
From Hymns on the Lord's Supper, 1745.

S. M.

o43 Bis tin pain — ours the joy,

NO gospel like this feast
Spread for Thy Church by thee;
Nor prophet nor evangelist
Preach the glad news so free.

2 All our redemption cost,
All our redemption won;

All it has won for us, the lost;
All it cost tiiee, the Son.

3 Thine was the bitter price,
Ours is the free gift, given;

Thine was the blood of sacrifice,
Ours is the wine of heaven,

4 Here we would rest midway,
As on a sacred height,

That darkest and that brightest day
Meeting before our sitdit.

1IYMX STUDIES.

327

o From ihat dark depth of woes

Thy love for us has trod,
fjp to the heights of blest repose

Thy love prepares with God;

6 Till from self's chains released,

One sight alone we see,
Still at the cross, as at the feast,

Behold thee, only thee.

ELIZABETH CHARLES.

Title : The Gomel in, the Lord's Supper.

In the Hymnal this hymn was incorrectly ac-
credited to the Kev. John Charles Kyle, an En-
glish clergyman. It was found in a collection ed-
ited by him, entitled Hymns for the Church on
Earth,

The author was Mrs. Elizabeth Charles. The
whole hymn is found in her book, entitled TJie
Three Wakings, with Hymns and Songs. London,
1859.

Ten stanzas. This hymn is composed of the
fir.-t, third, fourth, eighth, ninth, and tenth verses.
Unaltered.

Sue No. 205.

844 7, 6i.

The memorial feast maintained.

MANY centuries have fled
Since our Saviour broke the bread,
And this sacred feast ordained,
Ever by his Church retained :
Those his body who discern,
Thus shall meet till his return.

2 Through the Church's long eclipse,
Winn, from priest or pastor's lips,
Truth divine was never heard, —
'Mid the famine of the wrord,

Still these symbols witness gave
To his love who died to save.

3 All who bear the Saviour's name,
Here their common faith proclaim;
Though diverse in tongue or rite,
Here, one body, we unite ;
Breaking thus one mystic bread,
Members of one common Head.

4 Come, the blessed emblems share,
Which the Saviour's death declare ;
Come, on truth immortal feed;
For his flesh is meat indeed:
Saviour, witness with the sign,
That our ransomed souls are thine.

JOSIAII CONDER.

Title : Ye do show the Lord's death till he come.
ri, 26.

It is unaltered, except the first line, which the-
author Wrote :

•• Eighteen centuries have fled."
From The Congregational Hymn Book. A Sup-

j'/. tnt itt t'i Dr. Watto's JUiim.s and Hymns, compiled
Dy Josiuh Conder. London, 1636.

J osiiili Conder, the author of two of the hymns
in the Hymnal, (see No. 134,) was born in London
in 1798. He passed a busy life as book-seller, editor,
and author. His poetical works arc The Star in. t/te
East, 1824; The Choir and the Orator)/, lfc>37; and
Hymns of Praise, J'rayer, and Devout Meditation,
ls56. This work was not published until after tho
death of the author, in 1855.

845 Till lie come. 7, 6L

"miLL He come:" O let the words
J_ Linger on the trembling chords;
Let the little while between
In their golden light be seen ;
Let us think how heaven and home
Lie beyond that — '"Till he come."

2 When the weary ones we love
Enter on their rest above,
Seems the earth so poor and vast,
All our life- joy overcast?

Hush, be every murmur dumb;
It is only — "Till he come.1'

3 See, the feast of love is spread,
Drink the wine, and break the bread-
Sweet memorials, — till the Lord
Call us round his heavenly board ;
Some from earth, from glory some,
Severed only — "Till he come."

EDWARD H. BICKERSTETH.

Title : Ye do show the Lord's death till he come.
1 Cor. xi, 26.

It has not been altered,
has been omitted :

One stanza, the third,

3 " Clouds and conflicts round us press:
Would we have one sorrow less?
All the sharpness of the eross,
All that tells the world is loss,
Death, and darkness, and the tomb,
Only whisper — " Till he come."

From the author's Di/mnal, Companion to the
Book of Common Prayer, 1870.

It was written in 1861.

The Rev. Edward Henry Biekersteth, an English
clergyman, was born in London in 1825, and was
educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating
in 1847. He is the author of valuable" works in
prose and poetry. Ainons the last is Yesterday,
To-day, and Forever, which is well known.

328

HYMN STUDIES.

846 Our Paschal Lamb. S. M.

LET all who truly bear
The bleeding Saviour's name,
Their faithful hearts with us prepare,
And cat the Paschal Lamb.

2 This eucharistic feast
Our every want supplies,

And still we by his death are blest,
And share his sacrifice.

3 Who thus our faith employ,
His sufferings to record,

E'en now we mournfully enjoy
Communion with our Lord.

4 We too with him are dead,
And shall with him arise ;

The cross on which he bows his head
Shall lift us to the skies.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns on the Lord's Supper, 1745.

The original has four eight-lined stanzas. These
are the first half of verses one, two, and three, and
the last half oJ the fourth stanza, verbatim.

o47 Praise to our victorious King. 7.

AT the Lamb's high feast we sing
Praise to our victorious King,
Who hath washed us in the tide
Flowing from his pierced side;

2 Praise we him, whose love divine
Gives his sacred blood for wine,
Gives his body for the feast,
Christ the Victim, Christ the Priest.

3 Where the paschal blood is poured,
Death's dark angel sheathes his sword;
Israel's hosts triumphant go
Through the wave that drowns the foe.

4 Praise we Christ, whose blood was shed,
Paschal Victim, paschal Bread;

With sincerity and love
Eat we manna from above.

5 Mighty Victim from the sky !
Hell's fierce powers beneath thee lie;
Thou hast conquered in the fight.
Thou hast brought us life and light:

fi Now no more can death appall,
Now no more the grave enthrall;
Thou hast opened paradise,

And in thee thy saints shall rise.

ROMAN HUEVIAUY. Tit. UY II. CAMPBELL.

A translation of Ad regins Agni dopes.

The original has four eight-fined stanzas: these
are the first three, somewhat altered. The last is
as follows:

" Paschal triumph. Paschal joy,
Only sin can this destroy;
From the death of siu set free,
Souls reborn, dear Lord, in Thee.
Hymns of glory, songs of praise,
Father, unto Thee we raise;
Risen Lord, all praise to Thee
Ever with the spirit be."

From I/ijmn-s and Anthems For Use in The Holy
Services of the Church. Edinburgh, 1850.
For biography of author, see No. 107.

848 7.

Discerning the Lord's body.

JESUS, all-redeeming Lord,
Magnify thy dying word;
In thine ordinance appear;
Come, and meet thy followers here.

2 In the rite thou hast enjoined,
Let us now our Saviour find;
Drink thy blood for sinners shed.
Taste thee in the broken bread.

3 Thou our faithful hearts prepare;
Thou thy pardoning grace declare;
Thou that hast for sinners died,
Show thyself the Crucified !

4 All the power of sin remove ;
Fill us with thy perfect love ;
Stamp us with the stamp divine;
Seal our souls forever thine.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Appropriate sacramental hymns, neither too frigid
on trie one hand, nor too sentimental on the other,
arc rare indeed. This is one of the few.

It is unaltered and entire.

From Hymns vn the Lord's Supper, by John and
Charles Wesley, Presbyters of the Church of En-
gland. Bristol,- 1745.

849 Angels food.

0 BREAD to pilgrims given,
O Food that angels eat,
() Manna sent from heaven.

For heaven-born natures meet,
(Jive us, for thee long pining,

To eat till richly filled ;
Till, earth's delights resigning,
Our every wish is stilled.

HYMN STUDIES.

32!>

2 0 Water, life bestowing,
Prom out tin' Saviour's heart,

A fountain purely flowing,

A fount of Love thou art :
0 let us. freely tasting,

Our burning thirst assuage;
Thy Bweetness never wasting,

Avails from age to age.

3 Jesus, this feast receiving,
We thee unseen adore;

Thy faithful word believing,
We take, and doubt no more:

Give us, thou true and loving,
On earth to live in thee;

Then, death the veil removing,

Thy glorious face to see.
THOMAS AQUINAS. TR. BY R. PALMER.

The original of the hymn, beginning 0 tsca viato-
rum, may be found in Daniel's Thesaurus Hym-
noiogieut, vol. ii, p. 369.

The translation was contributed to the Sabbath
Hymn Book-, 1858.

Thomas Aquinas, sometimes called the Angelical
Doctor, was born at Aquino, in the kingdom of
Naples, about 1225. lie begun hid education at the
M inaetery of Monte Cassino, and completed his
studies at Cologne and Paris, under the tuition of
the celebrated Albertus Magnus. His life was de-
voted to teaching theology and philosophy, to au-
thorship and preaching. His most famous work
was his Summa T/te>>lo</ias. He was a Dominican,
and the founder of the School of Thomists. He
died iu 1274.

850 Until lie come. 8, 8, 8, 4.

BY Christ redeemed, in Christ restored,
We keep the memory adored,
And show the death of our dear Lord,
Until he come.

2 His body broken in our stead
Is here, in this memorial bread ;
And so our feeble love is fed,

Until he come.

3 His fearful drops of agony,

His life-blood shed for us we see:
The wine shall tell the mystery,
Until he come.

4 And thus that dark betrayal night,
With the last advent we unite —
The shame, the glory, by this rite,

Until he come.

B Until the trump of God be heard,
Until the ancient graves be stirred,
And with the great commanding word,
The Lord shall come.

(i 0 blessed hope! with this elate
Let not our hearts be desolate,
Hut strong in faith, in patience wait,
Until he conic.

GEORGE KAWSON.

This hymn is the same as that found in Baptist
I^itlms and Hymns, 1858, where it is dated 1857.
It was afterward altered by the author.

See No. 199.

851 L. M.

Figure and means of saving grace.

AUTHOR of our salvation, thee,
With lowly, thankful hearts, we praise;
/Author of this ureal mystery,
Figure and means of saving grace.

2 The sacred, true, effectual sign,
Thy body and thy blood it shows;

The glorious instrument divine,

Thy mercy aud thy strength bestows.

:] We see the blood that seals our peace;

Thy pardoning mercy we receive;
The bread doth visibly express

The strength through which our spirits
live.

4 Our spirits drink a fresh supply,
And eat the bread so freely given,

Till, borne on eagle wings, we fly,

And banquet with our Lord in heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns on the LorePs Supper, 1745.
It is unaltered and complete.

OOfl Bejoicino at the table. L. M.

TO Jesus, our exalted Lord,
The name by heaven and earth adored,
Fain would our hearts and voices raise
A cheerful song of sacred praise.

2 But all the notes which mortals know,
Are weak, and languishing, and low;
Far, far above our humble songs,
The theme demands immortal tongues.

:) Yet while around his board we meet,
And humbly worship at his feet,
O let our warm affections move,
In glad returns of grateful love.

4 Let humble, penitential woe,
In tears of godly sorrow flow;
And thy forgiving smiles impart
Life, hope, and joy to every heart.

ANXE STEELE, ALT.

830

HYMN STUDIES.

Title : Communion with Christ at his Table.
Three lines have been altered.

Original.
Verse one, line two :

"Dear name, by heaven and earth adored."

Verse three, line two :

" And ivorship at his glorious feet."

Verse four, line two :

" With painful, pleasing anguish flow."

There will boa difference of opinion us to whether
these changes are improvements or not. Two stau-
zas, the fourth and fifth, are omitted :

4 " Yes, Lord, we love and we adore,
But long to know and love thee more ;
And while we taste the bread and wine,
l)esire to feed on joys divine.

5 "Let faith our feeble senses aid,
To see thy wondrous love displayed,
Thy broken flesh, thy bleeding veins,

Thy dreadful agonizing pains."

This is a valuable hymn. The second and last
stanzas are especially fine.

From the author's Poems on Subjects Chief// De-
votional. London, 1760.

See No. 63.

OOO The heavenh/ banquet. 8,7.

JESUS spreads his banner o'er us,
Cheers our famished souls with food;
He the banquet spreads before us,

Of his mystic flesh and blood.
Precious banquet; bread of heaven;

Wine of gladness, flowing free;
May we taste it, kindly given,
In remembrance, Lord, of thee.

2 In thy holy incarnation.

When the angels sang thy birth;
In thy fasting and temptation ;

In thy labors on the earth;
In thy trial and rejection;

In thy sufferings on the tree;
In thy glorious resurrection;

May we, Lord, remember thee.

B08WELJ; PARK.

These are the Becond and third verses, verbatim,
of ahymnof six stanza-, entitled Tfu Communion.
The introduction to this hymn is found in the
author's lirst stanza. In some churches the con-
gregation is dismissed before the communion sen -
ice :

1 " While the sons of earth retiring,

From the sacred temple roam ;
Lord, thy light and love desiring,
To thine altar fain we conic.

Children of our Heavenly Father,
Friends and brethren would \\e be;

While we round thy table gather,
May our hearts be one in thee."

The Rev. Roswell Park was born in Connecticut

in lb07. He received a military education, gradu-
ating at West Point in L831, and .served several
years in the U. S. Engineer Corps.

In lb42 he began to study theology, and soon
after entered the ministry of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church. In 1852 he became President of Pva-
eine College, Wisconsin. In 1863 he founded a
school in Chicago, where he died in 1869. He u as
the author of a volume, entitled Selections of Ju-
c&mle and Miscellaneous OOems. Written or tran.--
lated. Philadelphia, 1836.

b54 The Spirit's quickening influences. 8,7.

COME, thou everlasting Spirit,
Bring to every thankful mind
All the Saviour's dying merit,

All his sufferings for mankind;
True Recorder of his passion,

Now the living faith impart ;
Now reveal his great salvation
Unto every faithful heart.

2 Come, thou Witness of his dying;

Come. Remembrancer divine;
Let us feel thy power applying

Christ to every soul, and mine;
Let us groan thy inward groaning;

Look on him we pierced, and grieve;
All partake the grace atoning.

All the sprinkled blood receive.

CHAKLEB WESLEY.

Published without title in Hymns on the Lord's
Supper, 1745.

The author wrote the last line of the fir>t stanza:

" Preach His gospel to our heart ; "

and the seventh line of the last stanza :

" All receive the grace atoning."

These changes were made by the editors of the
hvmn book in 184(J.

855 Bless us in parting, 8,7,4

NOW in parting, Father, bless us;
Saviour, still thy peace bestow;
Gracious Comforter, be with us.

As we from thy table go.

Bless us, bless us,
Father, Sou, ami Spirit now.

HYMN STUDIES.

:iM

I Bless us lure, while still as strangers

Onward to our home W6 move;
Bless us with eternal blessings,
In our Father's house above,

Ever, ever
Dwelliug in the light of love.

BORATIUS no.NAU.

Autlior's title: Ibst-Oommuuion Hymn. It is
wi-ll adapted for such use as the title suggests.

From Hymns of Faith and Hope, third scries,
1S6G.

It is unaltered and entire.

for biographical sketch, sec No. 42ti.

806 Christ the //■ id and Corner Stone. 8, 7.

CHRIST is made the sure Foundation,
Christ the Head and Corner Stone,
Chosen of the Lord, and precious,

Binding all the Church in one,
Holy Zion's help forever,
And her confidence alone.

2 To this temple, where we call thee,
Come, O Lord of hosts, to-day;

With thy wonted Loving-kindness,
Hear thy servants as they pray;

And thy fullest benediction
Shed within its walls ahvay.

3 Here vouchsafe to all thy servants
What they ask of thee to gain,

What they gain from thee forever

With the blessed to retain,
And hereafter in thy glory

Evermore with thee to reign.

FROM THE LATIN.
TR. BY J. M. XKAI.E.

The nuthor of the hymn in Latiu is unknown.
Dr. John Mason Neale published his translation in
The Hymnal Noted, 1851. This was altered by the
editors of Hymns .1 - ui Modern, 1861.

Original line-, verse one, lines two, three, and
four:

11 And the precious Corner-stone
Who tht two-fold walls surmounting,
Bind* them clou l ij into one."

Verse two, lines four and six :

" Hear thy p.,,/,1. :iS they prnv."
" Shed within its walls/or aye:''

Verse three, lines two, three, and four :

" That they suppH ate to train

Here to ham and hold forever
Those good things tin ir prayers obtain."

Verse three, line six :

" With thy blessed ones to reign."

Two stanzas, the second and fifth, of the trans-
lator, have been omitted.
Fur biographical sketch of Dr. Neale, see No. 19J.

8 O 7 Christ, the Corner-stone. 7.

ON this stone, now laid with prayer,
Let thy church rise, strong and fair;
Ever, Lord, thy name be known,
Where we lay this corner-stone.

2 Let thy holy Child, who came
.Man from error to reclaim,
Aud for sinners to atone,

Bless, with thee, this corner-stone.

3 May thy Spirit here give rest
To the heart by sin oppressed,
And the seeds of truth be sown,
Where we lay this coiner-stone.

4 Open wide, O God, thy door,
For the outcast and the poor,
Who can call no house their own,
Where we lay this corner-stone.

5 By wise master-builders squared,
Here be living stones prepared
For the temple near thy throne, —
Jesus Christ its Corner-stone.

JOUX RIERPONT.

Written for, and first sung at, the laying of the
corner-stone of the Suffolk Street Chapel, in Boston,
for the ministry to the poor, May 23, 1889.

This hymn has a Trinitarian cast, which has
been given to it largely by changes of the text.
The second stanza the author wrote thus :

" Let thy ' holy child ' who camo
Man from error to reclaim,
And the sinner to atone,
With thee, bless this Corner Stone."

The next stanza is made up of verses three and
four of the author :

3 "Let the spirit from ahove,
That once hovered like a dove
O'er the Jordan, hither flown
Hover o'er this Corner Stone.

4 " In the sinner's troubled breast,
In the heart, by care oppressed,
Let the seeds of truth be sown
Where we've laid tins Corner Stone."

The words "corner-stone" in the original begin
with canitel letters; the words "Child" and
"Spirit" with small letters. This may illustrate
the genius of Unitariani-m. From Airs of Bates*
tiif and Other Poems. Boston, 1840.
I See No. 36.

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HYMN STUDIES.

OOO Prayer and praise. 7.

LORD of hosts! to thee we raise
Here a house of prayer and praise:
Thou thy people's hearts prepare,
Here to meet for praise and prayer.

2 Let the living here be fed

With thy word, the heavenly bread:
Here, iu hope of glory blest,
May the dead be laid to rest.

3 Here to thee a temple stand,
While the sea shall gird the land:
Here reveal thy mercy sure,
While the sun and moon endure.

4 Hallelujah! earth and sky
To the joyful sound reply:
Hallelujah ! hence ascend

Prayer and praise till time shall end.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

The original title was : On Opening a Place for
Worship.

A very appropriate dedication hymn from The
Christian Psalmist, ls^r>.

It is unaltered and complete.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 5.

859 Laying the foundation. L. M.

OLORD of hosts, whose glory fills
The bounds of the eternal hills,
And yet vouchsafes, in Christian lands,
To dwell in temples made with hands.

2 Grant that all we who here to-day
Rejoicing this foundation lay,

May be in very deed thine own,
Built on the precious Corner-stone.

3 Endue the creatures with thy grace
That shall adorn thy dwelling-place;
The beauty of the oak ami pine,
The gold and silver make them thine.

4 To thee they all pertain; to thee
The treasures of the earth and sea;
And when we bring them to thy throne
We but present thee with thine own.

5 The heads that guide endue with skill;
The hands that work preserve from ill;
That we. who these foundations lay,
.May raise the topstone in its day.

J. MASON NKALE.

Title: Laying the First Stone of a Church.

" The glory of Lebanon shall come unto tht*,
the tir-tree, tlie pine-tree, and the box together, to
beautify the place of my sanctuary." Isa. L\, 13.

There is one additional stanza :

6 " Both now and ever, Lord, protect
The temple of Thine own elect;
Be Thou in them, and they in Thee
0 Ever-blessed Trinity ! Amen 1

See No. 199.

Dr. John Mason Neale's name is found in this
Hymnal in connection with tin hymns. The cithern
are translations; this is original, and shows that
he could compose MlcCcs.- fully as well as translate
successfully.

The author wrote libelong" instead of "pertain"
in verse four, line one; and the first part of the
fifth verse:

" Endue the heads that guide with skill,
Preserve the hands that work from ill."

From Hymns for the Young; a second serk> >f
Ily in n 8 for C 'h i Idren.
London, 1854.

860 Jehovah' 'e presence. L. M.

NOT heaven's wide range of hallowed
space
Jehovah's presence can confine ;
Nor angels' claims restrain his grace.
Whose glories through creation shine

2 It beamed on Eden's guilty days,

And traced redemption's wondrous plan;
From Calvary, in brightest rays,
It glowed to guide benighted man.

3 Its sacred shrine it fixes there,
Where two or three arc met to raise

Their holy hands in humble prayer,
Or tune their heart- to grateful praise.

4 Be this, O Lord, that honored place,
The house of God, the gate of heaven;

And may the fullness of thy grace
To all who here shall meet be given.

5 And hence, in spirit, may we soar

To those bright courts when- seraph*
bend ;
With awe like theirs, on earth adore,
Till with their anthems OUTS shall blend.

UNKNOWN.

This hymn first appeared in the hymn book in
1849. It' was taken from the Weeleyan Magazine.
I have not been able to learn any thing more con-
cerning it.

IIY.VX STUD IKS.

333

861 '/ -net. L. M.

THIS stone to thee in faith we lay;
To thee this temple, Lord, we build;

Thy power and goodness! here display,

And be it with thy presence tilled.

2 Here, when thy people seek thy face,
• And dying sinners pray to live,

Bear thou in heaven, tin dwelling-place.
And when thou nearest, Lord, forgive!

:! Here, when thy messengers proclaim
The blessed gospel of thy Son,

Still, by the power of his great name,
Be mighty signs and wonders done.

4 But will indeed Jehovah deign
Here to abide, no transient guest ?

Here will the world's Redeemer reign ?
And here the Holy Spirit rest ?

5 Thy glory never hence depart ;

Yet choose not. Lord, this house alone ;
Thy kingdom come to every heart,
In every bosom fix thy throne.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

The author's title was : On laying the Founda-
tio t Stone of a Place for Worship. That phice of
worship was St. George's Church, Sheffield, the
corner-stone of which was laid July 9, 1821.

The first verse has been improved by some one.
The author wrote it thus :

" This stone to Thee in faith we lay ;

We build the temple, Lord, to Thee ;
Tlnne eye be open night and </'</,

To guard this house and sanctuary ."

Montsomery was very sensitive to any change in
his lines; but, if he were still living, lie c>uld not
but be grateful to the editor who put some rhyme
and sense into this stanza.

The author wrote "(?" instead of "Lord" in
the last lines of the second stanza, and began the
last verse with uThat glory," etc.

The fourth stanza is omitted:

4 " Hosannah ! to their heavenly King,
When children's voices raise that song;

Hosannah ! let their ;mgels sing.

And heaven, with earth, the strain prolong."

From The Christian Psalmist, 1325.
tee No. 5.

2 Abide with us, O Lord, we pray,

Our Btrength, our coin fort, and our light;
Sun of our joy's unclouded day!
Star of our sorrow"s troubled night !

3 If from thy paths our souls should stray,
Yet turn to seek thy pardoning grace,

Cast not our contrite prayer away.

But hear from heaven, thy dwelling-place.

4 Grant us to walk in peace and love,
And find, at last, some humble place

In that great temple built above,

Where dwell thy saints before thy face.

MRS. EMILY IE MILLER.

This hymn was written for the dedication of tire
Methodist Episcopal church, Akron, Ohio, 1861.

Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller is better known
as a writer of Sunday-school books. She is also
the author of a larsre number of hymns and poems
contributed to periodicals.

862 l. m.

The earthly and the heavenly temple.

ENTER thy temple, glorious King!
And write thy name upon its shrine,
Thy peace to shed, thy joy to bring,
And seal its courts forever thine.

863 -4 humble offering to Jehovah. L. M.

THE perfect world, by Adam trod,
Was the first temple, built by God ;
His fiat laid the corner-stone,
And heaved its pillars one by one.

2 He hung its starry roof on high,
The broad expanse of azure sky ;

He spread its pavement, green and bright,
And curtained it with morning light.

3 The mountains in their places stood,
The sea, the sky ; and all was good ;
And when its first pure praises rang,
"The morning stars together sang."

4 Lord, 'tis not ours to make the sea,
And earth, and sky, a house for thee;
But in thy sight our offering stands,

A humbler temple, " made with hands."

NATHANIEL P. WILLIS.

Title : Dedication Hymn.

It was written to be sung at the consecration of
Hanover Street Church, Boston. .Most vers'-.
written to order, are measured prose of the heaviest
species : but this is poetry of a lofty type — indeed,
it is more poem than hymn.

The second line of the second stanza the author
wrote:

* The broad illimitable sky."

This has been changed for the better.

From the author's Sacred Poems.

Nathaniel Parker Willis was born at Portland,
Me., in 1807; prepared for college in the Boston
Eatin School, and was graduated at Yale in 1827.
Mr. Willis devoted himself to literature as a profes-
sion, and with rare success. He lived until 1867.

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117 MN STUDIES.

864 Seeking a tabernacle. L. M.

WHEN to the exiled seer were given
Those rapturous views of highest
heaven,
All glorious though the visions were,
Yet he beheld no temple there.

2 The new Jerusalem on high
Math one pervading sanctity;

No sin to mourn, no grief to mar,
God and the Lamb its temple are.

3 But we, frail sojourners below,
The pilgrim heirs of guilt and woe,
Must seek a tabernacle where

Our scattered souls may blend in prayer.

4 O Thou, who o'er the cherubim
Didst shine in glories veiled and dim,
With purer light our temple cheer,
And dwell in unveiled glory here.

GEOKGE ROBINSON.

Title: The New Jerusalem.
Contributed to Original Jf//mns, edited by the
Rev. J. Leifehild, D.D., 1843.

The author wrote, verse one, line two :

"A rapturous foregaze into heaven."

The fourth and sixth stanzas have been omitted :

4 '* We praise the Lord, who deigns to bless
His chosen in the wilderness ;
And in unfailing love imparts
The hidden manna to their hearts."

6 "Risen, enthroned, and pleading Priest!
On us. the lowliest and the least,
Thy choicest blessing now confer,
The Paraclete, the Comforter."

The author was an Englishman, who contributed
five hymns to Dr. Leifehild's book in 1843.

OUO Invoking God's presence. H. M.

GREAT King of glory, come.
And with thy favor crown
This temple as thy home,
This people as thine own:
Beneath this roof, O deign to show
How God can dwell with men below.

2 Here may thine ears attend

Our interceding cries,
And grateful praise ascend.
Like incense to the skies:
Here may thy word melodious sound,
And spread celestial joys around.

3 Here may our unborn sons

And daughters sound thy praise,
And shine, like polished stones,
Through long-succeeding days:
Here, Lord, display thy saving power,
While temples stand and men adore

4 Here may the listening throng
Receive thy truth in love;

Here Christians join the song
Of seraphim above ;
Till all, who humbly seek thy face,
Rejoice in thy abounding grace.

BENJAMIN FHANCIS, ALT.

Title: On Opening a Place of Worship.
The first two stanzas have been omitted:

1 "In sweet, exalted strains
The King of Glory praise ;

O'er heaven and earth he reigns
Thro' everlasting days;
He, with a nod, the world controls,
Sustains or sinks the distant ['oles.

2 "To earth he bends his throne,
His throne of grace divine ;

Wide is his bounty known,
And wide his glories shine :
Fair Salem still his chosen rest
Is with his smiles and presence blest."

3 " Tlien King of Glory come," etc.

Verse two, line four, was written :
" All fragrant to the skies."

The last two stanzas have changed places, and
several verbal changes have been made in the last.
The author wrote it :

" Here may the attentive throng

Imbibe thy truth and love,
And converts )o\n the song
Of seraphim above;
And witling cro/rds surrvund the hoard,
With sacred joy and sweet accord."

The Rev. Benjamin Francis was born in Wales
in 1784; was educated at Bristol College, and in
1758 was ordained pastor of a Baptist church m
Gloucestershire, where he remained until his death,
in 1799.

He was a faithful and successful minister. His
church was enlarged three times during his long
pastorate of forty-one years.

This hymn was written for a re-opening of h'w
church in 1774. The original was contributed to
Kippon's Selection, 1787.

ODD Dedication of a hall of science L. M.

THE Lord our God alone is strong;
His hands build not for one brief day;
His wondrous works, through ages long,
His wisdom and his power display.

i/r.vx srr/>/i:s.

8;jr>

2 His mountains Lift their solemn forms,
To watch in silence o'er the land;

The rolling ocean, rocked with storms.
Sleeps in the hollow of his hand.

8 Beyond the heavens he sits alone,

The universe obeys his nod;
The lightning-rifts disclose Ins throne.

And thunders voice the name of God.

4 Thou sovereign God, receive this gift
Thy willing servants offer thee;

Accept the prayers that thousands lift,
Ami Let these halls thy temple be.

5 And let those learn, who here shall meet,
True wisdom is with reverence crowned.

And Science walks with humble feet
To seek the God that Faith hath found.

CALEB T. WINCHESTER.

This hymn was written in 1871, to be sun? at
the dedication of the Orange Judd Hall of Natural
Science, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.

Caleb Thomas Winchester, M.A., Professor of
Rhetoric and English Literature in Wesleyan Uni-
versity, Middletown, Conn., was born in 1847.
Ilo is a graduate of Wesleyan class of 1869.

8 6 7 The tokens of His grace. L. M.

AND will the great eternal God
On earth establish his abode?
And will he, from his radiant throne,
Accept our temples for his own?

2 These walls we to thy honor raise;
Long may they echo with thy praise :
And thou, descending, fill the place
With choicest tokens of thy grace.

3 Here let the great Redeemer reign.
With all the graces of his train ;
While power divine his word attends,
To conquer foes, and cheer his friends.

4 And in the great decisive day,
When God the nations shall survey.
May it before the world appear
That crowds were born to glory here.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title : The Church the Birth-place of the Saints ;
and (i oil's Care of It.

One word has been altered. The author wrote
verse one, line four :

" Avow our temples for his own."

The second and third stanzas of* the original are

omitted :

2 " We bring the Tribute of our Praise,
And sing that condescending Grace,
Which to cur Notea will lend an Ear,
And call us sinful Mortals near.

3 " Our Father's watchful t'are we bless
Which guards our Synagogues in Peace,
That no tumultuous Foes invade,

To till our Worshipers with Dread."

The Scripture basis of this valuable dedication
hymn is Psalm lxxxvii, 5:

" And of Zion it shall be said, This and that
man was born in her: and the Highest himself
shall establish her."

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the
Holy Scriptures. London, 1755.
Sec No. 78.

868 ii.

Where is the house that ye build unto Me?
Isa. lxvi, 1.

WE rear not a temple, like Judah's of old,
Whose portals were marble, whose
vaultings were gold;
No incense is lighted, no victims are

slain,
No monarch kneels praying to hallow the
fane.

2 More simple and lowly the walls that we

raise,
And humbler the pomp of procession and

praise,
Where the heart is the altar wdience incense

shall roll,
And Messiah the King who shall pray for

the soul.

3 O Father, come in! but not in the

cloud
Which filled the bright courts where thy

chosen ones bowed ;
But come in that Spirit of glory and

grace,
Which beams on the soul and illumines the
race.

4 O come in the power of thy life-giving

word,
And reveal to each heart its Redeemer and

Lord;
Till faith bring the peace to the penitent

given,
And love fill the air with the fragrance of

heaven-

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HYMN STUDIES.

5 The pomp of Moriah lias long passed away,
And soon shall our frailer erection decay;
But the souls that are builded in worship

and love
Shall be temples to God, everlasting above.

HENRY WAKE, TR.

The author's title (o this little poem is: Hymn,
For the Dedication of a Church. April, 188J>.

Unaltered and entire from the author's Aluctlla-
neons Writings, vol. i. Boston, 1846.

For biographical sketch, see No. 227.

869 Dedication, Hymn C. M.

OTIIOU, whose own vast temple stands,
Built over earth and sea,
Accept the walls that human hands
Have raised to worship thee!

2 Lord, from thine inmost glory send,
Within these courts to bide,

The peace that dwelleth without end,
Serenely by thy side!

3 May erring minds that worship here
Be taught the better way ;

And they who mourn, and they who fear,
Be strengthened as they pray.

4 May faith grow firm, and love grow

warm,
And pure devotion rise,
While round these hallowed walls the storm
Of earthborn passion dies.

WILLIAM C. BRYANT.

This version of the hymn is found in The
Plymouth Collection, 1855,' and differs in several
lines from that found in the author's volume of
Hymns, 1864.

" How Amiable are Thy Tabernacles/"

" Thou, whose unmeasured temple stands,

Built over earth and sea,
Accept the walls that human hands

Have raised, Oh God ! to thee.

" And let the Comforter and Friend,

Thy Holy Spirit; meet
With those who here in worship bend

Before thy mercy-seat.

" May they who err be guided here

To find the better way,
And they who mourn, and they who fear

Be strengthened as they pray.

" May faith grow firm, and love grow warm,

And hallowed wishes rise,
While round these peaceful walls the storm

Of earth-born passion dies."

This hymn was written originally for the dedi-
cation of a church in Prince Street, New York- city.
Whether tin; changes were made by the author or
by some hymn editor, I cannot say.

See No. 201.

870 Biasing* entreated. CM.

OGOD, though countless worlds of light
Thy power and glory show,
Though round thy throne, above all height,
Immortal seraphs glow, —

2 Yet, Lord, where'er thy saints apart
Are met for praise and prayer,

Wherever sighs a contrite heart,
Thou, gracious God, art there.

3 With grateful joy, thy children rear
This temple, Lord, to thee;

Long may they sing thy praises here,
And here thy beauty see.

4 Here, Saviour, deign thy saints to meet;
With peace their hearts to rill ;

And here, like Sharon's odors sweet,
May grace divine distill.

5 Here may thy truth fresh triumphs win;
Eternal Spirit, here,

In many a heart now dead in sin,
A living temple rear.

J. D. KNOWLES.

This hymn was written for the dedication of
some church about 1805, and was published in Tht
Halmist, 1843.

The second stanza has been omitted :

2 " Yet oft to men of ancient time

Thy glorious presence came,
And in Moriah'a fane sublime

Thou didst record thy name."

The first line of the next stanza, the second of
the hymn, was:

" And now where'er thy saints apart."

The Rev. James Davis Knowles was a native of
Rhode Island, born in Providence in 179S. lie was
graduated at Columbia College in ls24; and waa
ordained and installed past r of the Second Baptist
Church, Boston, in 1825. In 1832 he resigned his
pastorate and became Professor of Pastoral Theol-
ogy and Sailed Rhetoric in tin- Newton Theolog-
ical Seminarv. He died in 1838.

8/1 The honor and safety of a nation. 8. M.

GREAT is the Lord our God,
And let his praise be great;
He makes his churches his abode,
His most delighted seat.

HYMN STUDIES.

337

2 These temples of hia grace,
How beautiful they stand!

The honors of our native place,

And bulwarks of our laud.

3 In Zion God is known,
A refuge in distress;

IIow bright has his salvation shone
Through all her palaces!

4 In every new distress
We'll to his house repair;

We'll think upon his wondrous grace,
And seek deliverance there.

ISAAC WATTS.

Authors title: The Church is the Honor and
Safety "fa Ration.

It is (banded on the first part of Psalm xlviii.
Three stanzas, the fourth, fifth, and sixth, have
been omitted :

4 " When kings against her joined,
And saw the Lord was there,

In wild contusion of the mind
They tied with hasty fear.

5 " When navies tall and proud
Attempt to spoil our peace,

He sends his tempest roaring loud
And sinks them in the seas.

6 "Oft have our fathers told,
Our eyes have often seen,

Bow well our God secures the fold
Where his own sheep have been."

In the second of these omitted stanzas, the
author probably refers to the destruction of tlie
Spanish Armada in 15S8.

The hymn has not been altered.

From The Psalms of David Imitated in the Lan-
guage of the New Testament, 1719.

872 For th( Shepherd's care. 8, 7, 4.
AVIOUR, like a shepherd lead us,

k3 Much we need thy tendcrest care;
In thy pleasant pastures feed us.

For our use thy folds prepare :
Blessed Jesus,

Thou hast bought us, thine we are.

2 We are thine, do thou befriend us,

Be the guardian of our way;
Keep thy flock, from sin defend us,
Seek us when we go astray:

Blessed Jesus,
Hear, O hear us, when we pray.
22

3 Thou hast promised to receive us,
Poor and sinful though we be;

Thou hast mere; to relieve us,

Grace to cleanse, and power to free:

Blessed Jesus,
We will early turn to thee.

4 Early let us seek thy favor,
Early let us do thy will;

Blessed Lord and only Saviour,
With thy love our bosoms fill :

Blessed Jesus,
Thou hast loved us, love us still.

DOROTHY A. TIIRUPP. (?)

Miss Dorothy Ann Thrupp (1799-1S47) was an
English writer of juvenile poetry.

This really fine hymn is found in A Selection of
Hymns and Poetry for the Use of Infant and Juve-
nile Schools and Families. London, 1838. It has
been attributed to II. F. Lyte by some hymnolo-
gists. In point of fact neither the author nor the
original text have as yet been discovered.

873 For early piety. 8, 7, 4.

GOD has said, " Forever blessed
Those who seek me in their youth ;
They shall find the path of wisdom,
And the narrow way of truth : "

Guide us, Saviour,
In the narrow way of truth.

2 Be our strength, for we are weakness;
Be our wisdom and our guide ;

May we walk in love and meekness,
Nearer to our Saviour's side :

Naught can harm us,
While we thus in thee abide.

3 Thus, when evening shades shall gather,
We may turn our tearless eye

To the dwelling of our Father,
To our home beyond the sky ;

Gently passing
To the happy land on high.

MRS. M. H. MAXWELL.

This genuine hymn is partly didactic and partly
precatory. Many of our best hymns are ot this
mixed character.

For more than thirty years it has been "un-
known." After the first part of this book was
in type I had the good foriune to discover the
author. It was written by Mrs. Mary Hamlin Max-
well, (1814-1853,) whose Original I/yrnns, one hun-
dred and seven in number, were published by Lane
<fc Scott, New York. 1849.

The original contains five stanzas. These are the
second, fourth, and fifth, verbatim.

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0/4 Children' s hymn. 8,7,4.

CHILDREN, loud hosannas singing,
Hymned Thy praise in olden time,
Judah's ancient temple tilling
With the melody sublime;

Infant voices
Joined to swell the holy chime.

2 Though no more the incarnate Saviour
We behold in latter days ;

Though a temple far less glorious
Echoes now the songs we raise;

Still in glory
Thou wilt hear our notes of praise.

3 Loud we'll swell the pleading anthem,
All thy wondrous acts proclaim,

Till all heaven and earth resounding,
Echo with thy glorious name;

Hallelujah,
Hallelujah to the Lamb !

MIlS. II. B. STEELE.

This hymn was written for a Sunday-school cel-
ebration, and was contributed to the Hymnal in
1877 in answer to a request from the editorial com-
mittee.

Mrs. Harriet Binney Steele is a daughter of the
late Eev. Amos Binney, D.D., and the wife of the
Kev. Daniel Steele, D.D.

875 The Cliristian child. CM.

BY cool Siloam's shady rill
How sweet the lily grows !
How sweet the breath, beneath the hill,
Of Sharon's dewy rose !

2 Lo ! such the child whose early feet
The paths of peace have trod ;

Whose secret heart, with influence sweet,
Is upward drawn to God.

3 By cool Siloam's shady rill
The lily must decay;

The rose that blooms beneath the hill
Must shortly fade away.

4 And soon, too soon, the wintry hour
Of man's maturer age

Will shake the soul with sorrow's power
And stormy passion's rage.

5 O Thou, whose infant feet were found
Within thy Father's shrine,

Whose years, with changeless virtue
crow lied,
Were all alike divine;

G Dependent on thy bounteous breath,

We seek thy tirace alone,
In childhood, manhood, age, and death,

To keep us still thine own.

REGINALD HEBEK.

The title given to this hymn in the author's
memoirs is: The Sanctified Child.

Bishop lleber, in the second stanza of this excel-
lent hymn, shows bis appreciation of early religious
education and child-piety.

From Ilym m 1 1 rill, » 'and A dapted to the Weekly
Church Service of 'the Year. 1827.

See No. 62.

O/O Children praising Christ. CM.

(^OME, Christian children, come, and raise
J Your voice with one accord ;
Come, sing in joyful songs of praise
The glories of your Lord.

2 Sing of the wonders of his love,
And loudest praises give

To him who left his throne above,
And died that you might live.

3 Sing of the wonders of his truth,
And read in every page

The promise made to earliest youth
Fulfilled to latest age.

4 Sing of the wonders of his power,
Who with his own right arm

Upholds and keeps you hour by hour,
And shields from every harm.

DOROTHY A. TIIIJfPP.(?)

This hymn for children, marked " unknown "
in the Hymnal, is attributed by sume able bym-
nologists t<> the same author as No. 872. The ques-
tion of am horship cannot be regarded as settled.

It is found in Hymns for tht Young, fourth
edition, 1830.

877 c.m.

£lc.inednesi> of instructing the young.

DELIGHTFUL work ! youngsouls to win.
And turn the rising race
From the deceitful paths of sin,
To seek redeeming grace.

2 Children our kind protection claim;
And <b>d will well approve

When infants learn to lis]) his name,
And their Redeemer love.

3 Be ours the bliss, in wisdom's way
To guide untutored youth,

And show the mind which went astray
The Way, the Life, the Truth.

nv.ux STUDIES.

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4 Almighty * i « > > 1 , thine influence shod,

To aid this blest design ;
The honors of thy name l>c spread,
And ;ill the glory thine.

JOSEPH STUAIMIAN, ALT.

Title : Sunday-School.

From Rippon's Selection, 17s7, in which it has
(<ix stanzas. This hymn is composed of verses live,
bar, three and six, Bomewhat altered.

Obiohtax Lines.

Verse one, line two :

•• And turn their rising race."

Verse two, line four:

"And their Creator love."

Verse three, lines three and four:

" And lead the mind that went astray
To virtue and to truth."

These changes were probably made by Dr. James
Floy, one of the editors of the hymn book of 1849.

< if the author 1 have learned nothing, except that
he was born in 1757.

878 Sunday-school anniversary. 7,5.

WILT thou hear the voice of praise,
Which the little children raise,
Thou who art, from endless days,

Glorious God of all?
While the circling year has sped,
Thou hast heavenly blessings shed,
Like the dew, upon each head ;
Still on thee we call.

2 Still thy constant care bestow;
Let us each in wisdom grow,
And in favor while below,

With the God above.
In our hearts the Spirit mild,
Which adorned the Saviour child,
Gently soothe each impulse wild

To the sway of love.

3 Thine example, kept in view,
Jesus, help us to pursue ;

Lead us all our journey through

By thy sjuiding hand:
And when life on earth is o'er.
Where the blest dwell evermore,
May we praise thee and adore,

An unbroken band.

MRS. CAROLINE L. RICE.

Contributed to this Hymnal in 1877. It was
written originally for a Sunday-school celebration.

Caroline Lnura Rice, born in 1819, M the wife, of
the Rev. William Rice, D.D., of Springfield, Mass.

879 Little travelers Zionward. 7.

LITTLE travelers Zionward,
Bach one entering into rest,
In the kingdom of your Lord,

In the mansions of the blest;
There, to welcome, Jesus waits,

(Jives the crowns his followers win;
Lift your head, ye golden gates!
Let the little travelers in!

2 Who are they whose little feet.
Pacing life's dark journey through,

Now have reached that heavenly .seat,
They have ever kept in view?

"I, from Greenland's frozen land;"
" I, from India's sultry plain; "

"I, from Afric's barren sand;"
"I, from islands of the main."

3 "All our earthly journey past,
Every tear and pain gone by,

Here together met at last,

At the portal of the sky ! "
Each the welcome "Come" awaits,

Conquerors over death and sin !
Lift your heads, ye golden gates!

Let the little travelers in!

JAMES EDMESTON.

This hymn, according to the Rev. W. Fleming
Stevenson, Hymns for the Church and Home. 1872,
is unaltered and entire from the author's Infant
Breathings, Being Hymns Jor the Young. Two
editions, 1846 and 18*51.

For sketch of author, see No. 80.

880 That sweet story of old. 11 , 8, 1 2, 9

THINK, when I read that sweet story of

old,

When Jesus was here among men.
How he called little children as lambs to his
fold.
I should like to have been with him then.

2 I wish that his hands had been placed on

my head,
That his arms had been thrown around
me,
That I might have seen his kind look when
he said,
" Let the little ones come unto me."

3 Yet still to his footstool in prayer I may

8°'

And ask for a share in his love;

And if I thus earnestly seek him below,
I shall see him and hear him above.

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HYMN STUDIES.

4 In that beautiful place he has gone to

prepare,
For all who arc washed and forgiven;
And many dear children are gathering there,
'•For of such is the kingdom of heaven."

MRS. JEMIMA LUKE.

Author's title: The Child's Desire.

Mrs. Jemima Thompson Luke, an English lady,
the wife "fun Independent minister, the Rev. Sam-
uel Luke, was born in 1S13. This hymn was writ-
ten in 1841 for a school near which the author
lived. She had no idea that it would be widely
published and deservedly popular. There are two
additional stanzas, in which the writer unconsciously
showed her interest in missionary work :

5 "But thousands and thousands who wander and

fall
Never heard of that heavenly home ;
I should like them to know there is room for them

all,
And that Jesus has bid them to come.

6 " I long for that blessed and glorious time,
The fairest, the brightest, the best,

When the dear little children, of every clime,
Shall crowd to his arms and be blest."

It was first published in the Sunday-School
Teacher's Magazine.

881

A blessing for teachers.

MIGHTY One, before whose face
Wisdom had her glorious seat,
When the orbs that people space
Sprang to birth beneath thy feet;

2 Source of truth, whose beams alone
Light the mighty world of mind;

God of love, who from thy throne
Kindly watchest all mankind!

3 Shed on those who in thy name
Teach the way of truth and right,

Shed that love's undying flame,
Shed that wisdom's guiding light.

WILLIAM c. BRYANT.

Title: The Lord Givelh Wisdom.

Fmm a small volume of nineteen hymns, pub-
lished in 1864. The author wrote the "last line of
the second stanza:

" Watchest over all mankind."

See No. 201.

OOo T7ie children's jubilee. CM.

HOSANNA ! be the children's song,
Tft Christ, the children's King;
His praise, to whom our souls belong,
Let all the children sing.

2 Hosanna! sound from hill to hill,
And spread from plain to plain,

While louder, sweeter, clearer still,
Woods echo to the strain.

3 Hosanna! on the wings of light,
O'er earth and ocean fly,

Till morn to eve, and noon to night,
And heaven to earth, reply.

4 Hosanna! then, our song shall be;
Hosanna to our King!

This is the children's jubilee;
Let all the children sing.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title: Children Si '.ngimg Hosanna to Christ.
Seven stanzas. Verses two, three, and six hftVI
been omitted :

2 " From little ones to Jesus brought,
Hosannas now be heard ;

Let infants at the breast be taught
To lisp that lovely word.

3 " Hosanna here, in joyful bands,
Maidens and youths proclaim,

And bail with voices, hearts, and hands,
The Son of David's name."

6 " The city to the country call ;

Let realm with realm accord ;
And this their watchword otic and all :

Hosanna— praise the Lord."

Unaltered.
1853.
See No. 5.

From the author's Original Ili/mns,

883 The Lord's love to children. 7, 6.

TT/'HEN, his salvation bringing,
W To Zion Jesus came,
The children all stood singing

Hosanna to his name;
Nor did their zeal offend him,

But as he rode along,
He let them still attend him,

And smiled to hear their song.

2 And since the Lord rctaineth

His love to children still,
Though now as King he reigneth

On Zion's heavenly hill.
We'll flock around bis banner,

We'll bow before his throne,
And cry aloud, " Hosanna

To David's royal Son."

11YMX STUDIES.

3-11

o For should we f;iil proclaiming

Our great Redeemer's praise,
The stones, our silence shaming,

Would their hosannas raise.
But shall we only render

The tribute of our words?
No; while our hearts are tender,

They, too, shall be the Lord's.

,K)UN KING.

This hymn is of English origin. The author,
the Bev. John King, wrote the sixth line of the
seoond stanza :

" \\'/<o sits upon the throne."

The original had a ehorus, which has been omit-
ted.

I; Bret appeared in The Psalmist, a Selection of
fta RM and Hymns for Divine Worship, by t.ie
Rev. Henry Gwyther and the Kev. John G-wyther,
London, 1830.

884: Grateful praise. 7,6.

WE bring no glittering treasures,
No gems from earth's deep mine ;
We come, with simple measures,

To chant Thy love divine.
Children, thy favors sharing,

Their voice of thanks would raise ;
Father, accept our offering,
Our song of grateful praise.

2 The dearest gift of Heaven,

Love's written word of truth,
To us is early given,

To guide our steps in youth ;
We hear the wondrous story,

The tale of Calvary ;
We read of homes in glory,

From sin and sorrow free.

:; Redeemer, grant thy blessing!

O teach us how to pray,
That each, thy fear possessing,

May tread life's onward way;
Then, where the pure are dwelling

We hope to meet again,
And, sweeter numbers swelling,

Forever praise thy name.

HARRIET C. PHILLIPS.

Written, by request, for a Sunday-school festival
in New York city, about 1848. It appeared in
for the use of the Methodid Episcopal
Church. 1849.

Miss Harriet Cascelia Phillips was horn in Sharon,
Conn., in 1806. F'>r a number of years she was
an earnest Sunday school worker in New ?ork
city. She wrote five hymns for Family and Social

Melodies, edited by the Kev. W. C. Hoyt. Pub-
lished by Carlton & Phillips, 1858. She also wrote
verses for the The christian Advocate and other
papers, usually under an assumed name. These fugi-
tive pieces have never been collected. In a letter
to the writer the author said: "I usually wrote
to please a friend or to beguile a weary hour, not
thinking they would be read in coming years."
She also expressed this laudable desire: "1 would,
like to be numbered among those whose aim is to
do good in the world."

8 8 O Shepherd of tender youth. 6, 4.

SHEPHERD of tender youth,
Guiding in love and truth
Through devious ways;
Christ our triumphant King,
We come thy name to sing;
Hither our children bring
To shout thy praise.

2 Thou art our holy Lord,
The all-subduing Word,

Healer of strife:
Thou didst thyself abase,
That from sin's deep disgrace
Thou mightest save our race,

And give us life.

3 Thou art the great High Priest;
Thou hast prepared the feast

Of heavenly love;
While in our mortal pain
None calls on thee in vain:
Help thou dost not disdain,

Help from above.

4 Ever be thou our guide,
Our shepherd and our pride,

Our staff and song:
Jesus, thou Christ of God,
By thy perennial word
Lead us where thou hast trod,

Make our faith strong.

5 So now, and till we die,
Sound we thy praises high,

And joyful sing:
Infants, and the glad throng
Who to thy Church belong,
Unite to swell the song

To Christ our King.

CLEMENT OP ALEXANDRIA.

Tit. IiY II. M. DEXTER.

Author's title-: Hymn of the. Saviour Christ.
This is based upon the oldest Christian hymn
extant— A D. 200.

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HYMN STUDIES.

The original Greek is found ut the close of Clem-
ent's 1'icdutjogvs.

Mrs. Charles, in The Voice of Christian Life in
Sotio, rives ;i very literal translation.

The Rev. Henry Martin Dexter, D.D , was born
in 1821, and educated at Yale College and Andover
Theological School. For several years he has heen
editor of The Co-ngregationaMst, in Boston. This
hymn was translated to besung by his choir, when
lie was pastor at Manchester, N. 11., in 1848. Hu
Bays: "I -first translated it literally into prose,
und then transfused as inueh of its language and
spirit as I eould into the hymn."

It was first published in The Congregational ist,
Dec. 21, 1S49. Some slight verbal changes hav,
since been made. Dr. Dexter died Nov. 13, 1890.

Titus Flavins Clemens, the Alexandrian, was a
philosopher, theologian, and author. The exact
date of his birth and of his death is not known.
He lived and wrote his books in the reign of the
Emperor Severus, A.D. 193-211. He was convert-
ed from Paganism, was ordained Presbyter of the
Church at Alexandria, and was the successor of
Pantaenus in the catechetical school of that city.
Among his pupils were Origen and Alexander,
afterward Bishop of Jerusalem.

886 Early piety. 7. 6.

I LOVE to hear the story
Which angel voices tell,
How once the King of glory
Came down on earth to dwell.

1 am both weak and sinful,

But this I surely know,
The Lord came down to save me,
Because he loved me so.

2 I'm glad my blessed Saviour
AVas once a child like me.

To show how pure and holy

His little ones may be;
And if I try to follow

His footsteps here below,
He never will forget me,

Because he loves me so.

3 To sing his love and mercy
My sweetest songs I'll raise;

And though I cannot see him
I know he hears my praise;

For he has kindly promised
That even I may go

To sin<j among his angels,
Because he loves me so.

MKS. K.MILY II. MII.I.KR.

A unique and valuable hymn for the little folks.
It was written for The Little Corporal, a children's
magazine, in 1867.

See No. B62.

bo7 For a blessing on children.

OLY Father, send thy blessing

On thy children gathered here;
Let them all, thy name confessing,

Be to thee forever dear.
Holy Saviour, who in meekness

Didst vouchsafe a child to be;
Guide their steps and help their weakness,

Bless, and make them like to thee.

2 Bear the lambs, when they are weary,

In thine arms and at thy breast;
Through life's desert dark and dreary

Bring them to thy heavenly rest.
Spread thy wings of blessing* o'er them,

Holy Spirit, from above;
Guide, and lead, and go before them.

Give them peace, and joy, and love.

CHKISTOIMIEU WOKDSWOKTH, ALT.

Title : For Schools.

Several verbal changes have been made in this
hymn, and eight lines have been omitted.

It appeared in Additional Hymns for the Holy
}'ear,by Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. London,
1864. Bishop \\ ords worth died March 20, 1885.

See No. 72.

O O O The lambs enfolded. 8, 7.

AVIOUR, who thy Hock art feeding

With the shepherd's kindest care,
All the feeble gently leading,

While the lambs thy bosom share;
Now, these little ones receiving,

Fold them in thy gracious arm;
There, we know, thy word believing,

Only there, secure from harm.

2 Never, from thy pasture roving,

Let them be the lion's prey ;
Let thy tenderness, so loving,

Keep them till life's dangerous way;
Then, within thy fold eternal.

Let them rind a resting-place,
Feed in pastures ever vernal,

Drink the rivers id' thy grace.

WILLIAM A. HUHLENBEBG.

Title : Baptism of Infants.

Written at Blushing, Long Island, in 1820; and
published the same \ ear in the Hymn Book of the
Protestant Episcopal < 'Jvurch.

It has not heen altered.
See No. 388.

//rv.v STUDw.y.

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889 B,r.

' gather the Iambi uith hit arm. Isa. \1, 1 1.

GRACIOUS Saviour, gentle Shepherd,
Little ones are dear to thee;
Gathered with thine arms, and carried

In th\ bosom may we be;
Sweetly, fondly, Bafely tended
From all want and danger free.

2 Tender Shepherd, never leave us
From thy fold to go astray;

By thy look of love directed
.May we walk the narrow way;

Thus direct us, and protect us,
Lest we fall an easy prey.

3 Taught to lisj} the holy praises
Which on earth thy children sing,

Both with lips and hearts unfeigned
May we our thank-offerings bring;

Then with all thy saints in glory
Join to praise our Lord and King.

JANE E. LEESON AND J. WHITTEMORE.

This hymn is a compilation, made up of parts of
two or three pieces from Hymns and Scenes of
Childhood; or, A Sponsor's Gift. London, 1842.

This book is anonymous, but the author is said
to be Jane E. Leeson.

The Rev. Jonathan Whittemore was an English
Baptist, (1802-1860,) and the editor of A Supple-
ment to all Hymn Books, 1860.

890 The evils of intemperance. S. M

MOURN for the thousands slain,
The youthful and the strong;
Mourn for the wine-cup's fearful reign,
And the deluded throng.

2 Mourn for the tarnished gem-
For reason's light divine,

Quenched from the soul's bright diadem,
Where God had bid it shine.

3 Mourn for the ruined soul —
Eternal life and light

Lost by the fiery, maddening bowl,
And turned to hopeless night.

4 Mourn for the lost, — but call,
Call to the strong, the free ;

Rouse them to shun that dreadful fall,
And to the refuge flee.

."» Mourn for the lost, — but pray,

Pray to our God above,
To break the fell destroyer's sway,

And show his saving love.

S. C. BRACE.

Author's title : Tempi r met Hymn.

A. correspondent of The Christian Advocate raised
the question as to the authorship of this hymn.
Not long afterward the editor received the follow-
ing letter:

"TheKev. Dr. Buckley: The hymn Mourn for
the thousands .shun, etc, No. 890 in the Methodist
Hymnal, was written in Is I ■"• for tl c filrish Hymns,
[published in that year in Philadelphia,) l>y S. C.
Brace, whose name may be found in the CoiifP'ega-
tional Ycar-Jiook. It was marked 'original.' at
were all the hymns composed for that collection,
and was signed C, the author choosing to affix his
middle initial. If further information should he
required, it may be obtained from Mr. Henry Per-
kins, No. 1428 Pine Street, Philadelphia, who pub-
lished the Parish Hymns, but who knows nothing
of this communication. S. C. B.

" Philadelphia, June 10, 1882."

The text of the hymn has not been altered.

The Rev. Seth Collins Brace was born in 1811;
was graduated at Yale College, cla" of 1832, and re-
ceived his theological education at the Yale Theo-
logical Seminary. For many years I e was engaged
in teaching and literary work, preaching occasion-
ally, [n 1861 he was installed pastor of a church
at Bethany, Conn. ; subsequently he was com-
pelled by illness to retire from active work in the
ministry.

891 Christian sympathy. S. M.

0 PRAISE our God to-day,
His constant mercy bless,
"Whose love hath helped us on our way,
And granted us success.

2 His arm the strength imparts
Our daily toil to bear:

His grace alone inspires our hearts,
Each other's load to share.

3 O happiest work below,
Earnest of joy above,

To sweeten many a cup of woe,
By deeds of holy love !

4 Lord, may it be our choice
This blessed rule to keep,

"Rejoice with them that do rejoice,
And weep with them that weep."

5 God of the widow, hear.
Our work of mercy bless;

God of the fatherless, be near,
And grant us good success.

SIR IIENRY Wr. BAKER.

Title : Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill
the law of Christ. Gal. vi, 2.

Contributed to Hymns Ancient an J Moth m, 1861,
by the author, who was one of the compilers of
that valuable hymnal.

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HYMN STUDIES.

In the revised edition, 1875, the author lias
changed the last stanza to this form:

" 0 praise our God to-day,
His constant mercy bless,
Whose love hath helped us on our way,

And granted us success. Ameu."

For sketch of author, see No. SI.

892 Ye Jiave done it unto Me. S. M.

WE give thee but thine own,
Whate'er the gift may be:
All that we have is thine alone,
A trust, O Lord, from thee.

2 May we thy bounties thus

As stewards true receive,
And gladly, as thou blessest us,

To thee our first-fruits give.

8 O, hearts are bruised and dead,
And homes are bare and cold,

And lambs for whom the Shepherd bled,
Are straying from the fold !

4 To comfort and to bless,
To find a balm for woe,

To tend the lone and fatherless
Is angels1 work below.

5 The captive to release.
To God the lost to bring,

To teach the way of life and peace, —
It is a Christ-like thing.

6 And we believe thy word,
Though dim our faith may be :

Whate'er for thine we do, O Lord.
We do it unto thee.

WILLIAM w. now.

Title: He that hath pity vpon the poor lendeth
unto the Lord. Prov. xix, 17.

From Psalms and Hymn?. Edited by the Rev.
Thomas B. Morrell and the Rev. William Walsham

H"\v, 1854.
The hymn has not been altered.
See No. 213.

893 A Ct8 of Charity. C. M.

JESUS, my Lord, how rich thy grace,
Thy bounties how complete!
How shall I count the matchless sum?
How pay the mighty debt.

'2 High on a throne of radiant light

Dosl thou exalted shine;
When can my poverty bestow,

When all the worlds are thine?

3 But thou hast brethren here below,
The partners of thy grace.

And wilt confess their humble names
He lore thy Father's face.

4 In them thou mayst be clothed and fed,
And visited and cheered;

And in their accents of distress
My Saviour's voice is heard.

5 Thy face with reverence and with love,
I in thy poor would sec ;

O rather let me beg my bread,
Than hold it back from thee.

PHIMF DODDRIDGE.

Author's title : Believing Christ in His Ikor
'Saints.

" Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the
last of these my brethren, ye have done it unto
me." Matt, xxv, 40.

From Hymns founded on Various Texts of the
JIolii Scriptures, 1756.

Published from the author's manuscript by Job
Orttfn.

It is unaltered and entire.

For biography of author, see No. 78.

894 Sympathy with the afflicted. C. M.

FATHER of mercies, send thy grace,
All-powerful, from above,
To form in our obedient souls
The image of thy love.

2 O may our sympathizing breasts
That generous pleasure know,

Kindly to share in others' joy,
And weep for others' woe.

3 When poor and helpless sons of grief
In dec]) distress are laid.

Soft be our hearts their pains to feel,
And swift our hands to aid.

4 So Jesus looked on dying man,
When, throned above the skies,

And in the Father's bosom blest,
He felt compassion rise.

5 On wings of love the Saviour flew,
To bless a mined race ;

We would. () Lord, thy steps pursue,
Thy bright example trace.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title: The good Samaritaji. Luke x, "0-37.

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345

lines have been ohanged Dr. Doddridge
wrote versa three, lines one and two:

" When fib mod helpless Sons of Grief,
In low Distress are laid."

W-rse four, line three :

•■ And ', ,.' 1st '''• Embraces of Ms God."1

Tene five, lines two, three, an. I lour:

uTo rain usfromthe Ground,
And hestofMs Wood,

A B aid.''

From Hymns Founded <>n Various 'Texts in the
riptures. Edited by Job Orton, from the
author's manuscript, IT"'"'.

See No. 73.

89o Prnjer for the intemperate. CM.

TTUS thine alone, almighty Name,

J_ To raise the dead to life,
The lost inebriate to reclaim
From passion's fearful strife.

2 What ruin hath intemperance wrought !
How widely roll its waves!

How many myriads hath it brought
To fill dishonored graves !

3 And see, O Lord, what numbers still
Aie maddened by the bowl,

Led captive at the tyrant's will
In bondage, heart and soul.

4 Stretch forth thy hand, O God, our King,
And break the galling chain;

Deliverance to the captive bring,
And end the usurper's reign.

5 The cause of temperance is thine own ■
Our plans and efforts bless;

We trust, O Lord, in thee alone
To crown them with success.

EDWLX F. HATFIELD.

Author's title : for a Temperance Meeting.

itn from The Church Hymn Book, 1S72.
A valuable work, carefully edited by the author of
this hymn.

The Bev. Edwin Fran is Hatfield, D.D.,a prom-
inent clergyman of the Presbyterian Church, waa
b"m at EJizabethtown, X. J., in 1807; was crrad-
uated at Middlehury College, and studied theology
at Andover. He was ordained in \^-\-z\ was pastor
at St. Louis three years, at New fork, (Seventh
Church,) twenty-one years, and of North Church,
in the same city, >c\an years. Failing health com-
pelled him to give up the pastorate. He was an
writer and a useful man. He died in Sep-
tember, 1 -

896 Tk* i c. m.

SHE loved her Saviour, and to him
Her costliest present brought;
To crown his head, or grace his name,
No gift too rare she thought.

2 So let the Saviour be adored,
And not the poor despised;

Give to the hungry from your hoard,
But all, give all to Christ.

3 Go, clothe the naked, lead the blind,
Give to the weary rest ;

For sorrow's children comfort find,
And help for all distressed ;

4 But give to Christ alone thy heart,
Thy faith, thy love supreme;

Then for his sake thine alms impart,
And so give all to him.

WILLIAM CUTTER.

Written upon the story of Mary and the alabaster
cruse of precious ointment. Matt. xxvi. 6-13.

It was first published in the Christian Mirror,
Portland, Me., April s;, 1829.

The second aud fourth Btauzaa have been omitted:

2 " And though the prudent worldling frowned,

And thought the poor bereft ;
Christ"s humble friend .^weet comfort found,

For he approved the gift."

4 " The poor are always with us here,

'Tis our great Father's plan,
That mutual wants and mutual care

May bind us, man to man."

William Cutter (1801-1867) was a native of
Maine and a graduate of Bowdoin College, class
of 1821. He afterward lived in Brooklyn,"N. Y.

897 cm.

Ye hate the poor always with yon. Matt, xxvi, 11.

LORD, lead the way the Saviour went,
By lane and cell obscure.
And let love's treasures still be spent,
Like his, upon the poor.

2 Like him, through scenes of deep distress,
Who bore trre world's sad weight,

We, in their crowded loneliness,
Would seek the desolate.

3 For thou hast placed us side by side
In this wide world of ill;

And that thy followers may be tried,
The poor are with us still.

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4 Mean are all offerings we can make;

Yet thou hast taught us, Lord,
If given for the Saviour's sake,

They lose not their reward.

WILLIAM CROSSWELL.

This hymn was written in 1831 for the Howard
Benevolent Society of Boston.

From the author's Pomw; Soared and Secular.
Boston, 1861.

It i* unaltered and entire.

The Rev. William Cross well, D.D., a clergyman
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born in
Hudson, N. Y., in 1804; was edueated at Yale
College and in the General Theological Seminary,
New York. He was ordained in 1828. At the
time of his death, in 1851, he was rector of the
Church of the Advent, Boston.

898 Thy neighbor. CM.

WHO is thy neighbor ? He whom thou
Has power to aid or bless;
Whose aching heart or burning brow
Thy soothing hand may press.

2 Thy neighbor ? 'Tis the fainting poor,
Whose eye with want is dim;

O enter thou his humble door,
With aid and peace for him.

3 Thy neighbor ? He who drinks the cup
When sorrow drowns the brim ;

With words of high, sustaining hope,
Go thou and comfort him.

4 Thy neighbor ? Pass no mourner by ;
Perhaps thou canst redeem

A breaking heart from misery:
Go, share thy lot with him.

WILLIAM CUTTER, ALT.

Title: Who is my Neighbor?

The title is, of course, a quotation from the par-
able of the good Samaritan. In the poem the
author answers the question.

It flint appeared in The Christian, Mirror, Port-
land, Me., .May 30, 1828. It began:

"Thy neighbor? It is lie whom thou
Hast power to aid and bless."

At least half of the lines have been altered,
probably by \V. B. 0. Peabody for the Springfield
Collection. It has been ascribed to him, bul er
roneously. Three stanzas have been omitted. One
of them touches upon slavery. Those who remem-
ber the antislavery days can imagine what hatred
it excited in some, and what joy in others.

"Thy neighbor i fonder toiling slave,

Fetteivd iii thought and limb ;
.Whose hopes are all beyond the grave,

Go thou, and ransom him."

For sketch of author, see No. 896.

899 For the inebriate. CM.

LIFE from the dead, Almighty God,
'Tis thine alone to give;
To lift the poor inebriate up,
And bid the helpless live.

2 Life from the dead! For those we plead
Fast bound in passion's chain,

That, from their iron fetters freed,
They wake to life again.

3 Life from the dead! Quickened by thee
Be all their powers inclined

To temperance, truth, and piety,
And pleasures pure, refined.

4 And may they by thy help abide,
The tempter's power withstand;

By grace restored and purified,
In Christ accepted stand.

UNKNOWN.

The editorial committee took this temperance
hymn from the Baptist Praise Boot, where it is
anonymous; nothing new has been learned con-
cerning it.

900 For mercy on the drunkard. L. M.

WHEN, doomed to death, the apostle lay
At night in Herod's dungeon cell,
A light shone round him like- the day,
And from Ms limbs the fetters felL

2 A messenger from God was there,
To break his chain and bid him rise;

And lo! the saint, as free as air.

Walked forth beneath the open skies.

3 Chains yet more strong and cruel bind
The victims of thai deadly thirst

Which drowns the soul, and from the mind
Blots the bright image stamped at first.

4 O God of love and mercy, deign
To look on those with pitying eye

Who struggle with that fatal chain,
And send them succor from on high!

5 Send down, in its resistless might,
Thy gracious Spirit, we implore,

And lead the captive forth to light,
A rescued soul, a slave no more!

WILLIAM C. LRYANT.

This temperance hymn was written for the
Hymnal in August, 1877, at the request oi Mr.

David Creamer, of Baltimore, who has the original
autograph copy still in his possession. It was

among the last of the compositions of this great

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American p ct In a letter, which accompanied
tiif manuscript, the author wrote: "Thinking "i
thesabject of wbioh you spoke in your letter, it
occurred to me that the deliverance of Peter from
pri.-"ii might furuisn matter on which to hang ;i

temperanoG hymn. 1 have produced what ia writ-
ton above, and it is ;it your service."
For biography, Bee -V>. 201.

901 Tmqperance hymn. L. M.

BONDAGE and death the cup contains ;
Dash to the earth the poisoned bowl!
S> liter than silk are iron chains,

Compared with these that chafe the soul.

2 Bosannas, Lord, to thee we sing,
Whose power the giant Send obey-;

What countless thousands tribute bring,
For happier homes and brighter days!

3 Thou wilt not break the bruised raed,
Nor leave the broken heart unb mud;

The wife regains the husband freed;
The orphan clasps a father found!

4 Spare, Lord, the thoughtless, guide the

bliud.
Till man no more shall deem it just
To live by forging chains to bind
His weaker brother in the dust.

LUCIUS If. SARGENT.

This hymn was written daring the Washingtonian

Tem|ieranee Revival. It is found in Hymns for
Christian Devotion. Boston, 1816.

One word has been changed. The author wrote
the first line :

"Slavery and death the cup contain-."'

Lucius Manlius Sargent (1788-1867) was one of
the ablest advocates of temperance in his day. He

was the author of Temperance Tales, published by
the American Tract Society, and of other works.

903 Deeds of love rewarded. C. M.

HOW blest the children of the Lord,
Who, walking in his sight,
Make all the precepts of his word
Their study and delight!

2 That precious wealth shall be their dower,
Which cannot know decay;

Which moth or rust shall ne'er devour,
Or spoiler take away.

3 For them that heavenly light shall spread.
Whose cheering rays illume

The darkest hours of life, and shed
A halo round the tomb.

4 Their works of piety and love,

Performed through Christ, their Lord,

Forever registered above,
Shall meet a sure reward.

HARRIET ATJBER.

Written upon Ttalm cxii:

"Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that

feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly iu his
commandments," etc.

Two lilies have been altered.

Original.

Verse one, line one :

" Happy the children of the Lord."

Verse two, line four:

•' Nor spoiler take away."

From The Spirit of the Ralms, 1829.
Sue No. 33.

C. M

9Ud Treasures in heaven.

RICH are the joys which cannot die,
With God laid up in store;
Treasures beyond the changing sky,
Brighter than golden ore.

2 The seeds which piety and love
Have scattered here below,

In the fair fertile fields above
To ample harvests grow.

3 All that my willing hands can give
At Jesus' feet I lay:

Grace shall the humble gift receive,
Abounding grace repay.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

The Scripture basis of this hymn is Luke xii, 33 :

" Provide yourselves bazs which wax not old, a
treasure in the heavens that fhileth not."

Reprint of the Original Hymn.

1 " These mortal Joys, how soon they fade !
How swit'r they para away '.

The dying Flow'r reclines it* Head,
The Beauty of a Day !

2 "The Baors are rent, the Treasures lost,
We fondly call'd r>ur own ;

Scarce could we the Possession boast,
And strait we found it .

3 "Rut there are Joys that cannot die,
With God laid up in S

Treasure beyond t » Sky,

Brighter than golden Ore.

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4 " To that my rising Heart aspires,
Secure to find its Rest,

And glories in Buch wide Desires,
Of all their Wish possess' d.

5 " The Seeds, which Piety and Love
Have scatter d here below,

In the fair fertile Fields above,
To ample Harvests grow.

6 "The Mite my willing Hands can give,
At Jesus' Feet I lay ;

Grace shall the humble Gift receive,
And lleav'n at huge repay."

It will be seen that hymn No. 903 is made up of
the third, fiftn, and sixth stanzas of the original,
slightly altered.

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in tht
Houj Scriptures^ IT ~ob.

bee No 76.

904 l.m.

More blessed to give than to receive. Acts \\, 35.

HELP us. O Lord, thy yoke to wear,
Delighting in thy perfect will;
Each other's burdens Learn to bear,
And thus thy law of love fulfill.

2 He that hath pity on the poor
Lendeth his substance to the Lord;

And, lo ! his recompense is sure,
For more than all shall be restored.

3 Teach us, with glad, ungrudging heart.
As thou hast blest our various store,

From our abundance to impart
A liberal portion to the poor.

4 To thee our all devoted be,

In whom we breathe, and move, and live
Freely we have received from thee;
Freely may we rejoice to give.

TFIOMAS COTTEIULL.

Title: For a Charitable Occasion.

These stanzas are not altered. Two stanzas, the

third and sixth, are emitted :

3 " Who sparingly his seed bestows,

He sparingly shall also reap ;
But whoso plentifully sow s.

The plenteous sheaves his hand shall heap."

6 " And while we thus obey thy word,

And every call of want relieve :
Oh ! may we find it, graoious Lord,

More bless'd to give than to receive."

From the author'- Sheffield Hymn Book.

For full title and biographical sketch, Bee No. 2S1.

yUo For a charitabU occasion. L.M.

DEAR ties of mutual succor bind
The children of our feeble race,
a nd if our brethren were not kind,
This earth were but a weary place.

2 We lean on others as we walk

Life's twilight path, with pitfalls strewn^

And 't were an idle boast to talk
Of treading that dim path alone.

3 Amid the snares misfortune lays
Unseen, beneath the steps of all,

blest is the love that seeks to raise,
And stay, and strengthen those who fall;

4 Till, taught by Him who for our sake
Bore every form of life's distress,

With every passing year we make
The sum of human sorrow less.

WILLIAM C. BRYANT.

Title: Mutual Kindness.

This little poem was contributed by the author to
Singers and Hongs of the Liberal Tail/t, edited by
Allied P. Putnam. Boston, 1875.

It was written about fifty years ago, but «as not
published in the author's poems.

See No. 201.

90u The wanderer exhorted. 7.

ROTIIER, hast thou wandered far

From thy Father's happy home,
With thyself and God at war?

Turn thee, brother; homeward come.

2 Hast thou wasted all the powers
God for noble uses gave?

Squandered life's most golden hours?
Turn thee, brother; God can save!

3 Is a mighty famine now

In thy heart and in thy soul?
Discontent upon thy DTOwl

Turn ihee; God will make thee whole.

4 He can heal thy bitterest wound,

He thy gentlest prayer can bear;
Seek him, for lie may be found;
Ctdl upon him; he is near.

JAMES F. CLARKE.

The author's title is To the Prodigal So?}.
It was written for The Disciples //gam Book,
boston. 1844. In this book the last stanza

" Full before him on the ground,

Four thy sorrow in hu <■>,■.
Seek him whilt he may be found.

Call upon him while he's near."

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in ;i Beonnd edition, 1856, Ur. Clarke changed the
last hue to —

■• I !aU upon him — ho ia near."

Tlie other ohangea are not the author's. The
K v. James Freeman Clarke, D.D., wan born in
Hanover, X. II., in 1810: was graduated at Harvard
College in L829, and at Cambridge Divinity Seh<>,,|
in l-;. Except for an interval ol three years, lie
has been pastor of "The Church of the Disciples,"
i Unitarian, i Boston, since 1841. In the mean lame
he has been an editor, a professor of theology, and
hiu written several valuable books. Died 1888.

907 T&« guiding star. CM.

AS shatlows, cast by cloud and sun,
Flit o'er the summer grass,
So, in thy sight, Almighty One,
Earth's generations pass.

'2 And as the years, an endless host,

Come swiftly pressing on,
The brightest names that earth can boast

Just glisten and are gone.

3 Yet doth the star of Bethlehem shed
A luster pure and sweet ;

And still it leads, as once it led,
To the Messiah's feet.

4 O Father, may that holy star
Grow every year more bright,

And send its glorious beams afar
To fill the world with light.

WILLIAM C. BRYANT.

This beautiful little poem was contributed by the
author, from his portfolio, to this ////in rial in 1877.
It is not found in any of his published works. It
was written for the Semi-centennial Celebration of
the Church of the Messiah, Boston, March 19, 1875.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 201.

908 Christ, the Conqueror. C. M.

TESUS, immortal King, arise;
Assert thy rightful sway,
Till earth, subdued, its tribute brings,
.And distant lands obey.

2 Ride forth, victorious Conqueror, ride,
Till all thy foes submit,

And all the powers of hell resign
Their trophies at thy feet.

3 Send forth thy word, and let it fly
The spacious earth around,

Till every soul beneath the sun
Shall hear the joyful sound.

I 0 may the great Redeemer's name
Through every clime be known,

Ami heathen gods, forsaken, fall,
And Jesus reign alone.

5 From sea to sea, from shore to shore,

He thou, O Christ, adored,
And earth, with all lur millions, shout

llosannas to the Lord.

A. C. HOBABT SEYMOUK.

Title : Hymn for tin Spread' of the Gospel'.
From the author's Vital Christianity, 1S10.
Three lines have been altered.
Wise one, line two:

'• Assume, assert Thy sway."

Verse four, lines one and three :

"O may the dear Eedecmer's name."
" And heathen gods, like Dayon, fail."

There are in all seven stanzas ; verses five and
six are omitted :

5 "O hasten, Lord, the happy time,
That long expected day ;

When every kingdom, every tribe
Shall own Thy gentle sway.

6 "When all the untutored tribes
Shall the Redeemer own,

And crowds of willing converts come
To worship at Thy throne."

Aaron Crossly Hobart Seymour was an English
gentleman and i iterator, born in 1789. His giv X
work was The Life and Times of the Countess of
Huntingdon, in two volumes, octavo, 1839.

909 cm.

Returning to Zion vith hymns of joy.

DAUGHTER of Zion, from the dust
Exalt thy fallen head;
Again in thy Redeemer trust;
He calls thee from the dead.

2 Awake, awake, put on thy strength,
Thy beautiful array;

The day of freedom dawns at length,
The Lord's appointed day.

3 Rebuild thy walls, thy bounds enlarge,
And send thy heralds forth ;

Say to the South, " Give up thy charge!''
And, " Keep not back, O North!"

4 They come, they come; thine exiled

bands,
Where'er they rest or roam,
Have heard thy voice in distant lands,
And hasten to their home.

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5 Thus, though the universe shall burn,

And God his works destroy,
With songs thy ransomed shall return,

And everlasting joy.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

The author's title to this fine hymn was: The
Restoration of Israel.

lie is indebted largelj for his imagery and lan-
guage to the poet and prophet Isaiah.

Unaltered. From The Christian Psalmist, 1825.

For biographical sketch, see No. 5.

910 The gospel for all nations. C. M.

GREAT God, the nations of the earth
Are by creation thine;
And in thy works, by all beheld,
Thy radiant glories shine.

2 But, Lord, thy greater love has sent
Thy gospel to mankind,

Unveiling what rich stores of grace
Are treasured in thy mind.

3 Lord, when shall these glad tidings spread
The spacious earth around,

Till every tribe and every soul
Shall hear the joyful sound?

4 Smile, Lord, on each divine attempt
To spread the gospel's rays,

And build on siifs demolished throne
The temples of thy praise.

THOMAS GIBBONS.

Author's title: The Universal Diffusion of the
Gospd Promised by God, and Pleaded by his People.

The original contained forty-six stanzas, and was
divided into seven parts. This hymn is composed
of verses one, three, eight, and twelve. Only one
word has been altered. Instead of "radiant,"
verse one, line four, the author wrote " obvious."

The whole hymn is found in Hymns Adapted to
Pirifie Worship, Partly Collected from, Various
Authors, but Principally Composed by Thomas Gib-
bons, D.D. London, 17fi9.

Dr. Gibbons was an English Independent clergy-
man, born in 1720; was a life-long friend of Dr.
Watts, and wrote his memoirs. In 1743 he ac-
cepted a call to a church in Cheapside, London;
and held this pastorate u)i to his death, in 17s.t.
He published a volume <>\' sermons, and two vol-
umes of hymns ot more than average merit.

y 1 1 The seed of the Church.

FLUNG to the heedless winds,
Or on the waters cast.
The martyrs' ashes, watched,
Shall gathered be at last;

VST ~

•r-

And from that seal tend dust,

Around us and abroad,
Shall spring a plenteous seed

Of witnesses for God.

2 The Father hath received

Their latest living breath;
And vain is Satan's boast

Of victory in their death:
Still, still, though dead, they speak,

And, trumpet-tongued, proclaim,
To many a wakening land,

The one availing name.

MARTIN LUTHER.
TR. BY JOHN A. MESSENGER.

The first martyrdom of the Reformation took
place at Brussels, July 1, l.r>^:;. The victims
were Henry Voes and John Lsch, young Augustine
monks, who had learned the way of solvation by
faith, and had renounced Romanism.

The inquisitors asked: "Do you retract your
assertion that the priest has not the power to* for-
give sin, and that it belongs to God alone ? " " No ;
we will retract nothing," was the reply. "We
will rather die for the faith." Soon after they were
" degraded," that is, deprived ot their priestly rohes,
and delivered over to the secular authorities as
heretics. After the pile was lighted, they earnestly
prayed to God, and solemnly recited the Apostle's
Creed. At length, as they were singing " 2* Deum
Laudanvus" their voices were stilled, and their
souls released. Luther wrote a long lnmn ot
twelve nine-lined stanzas commemorative of this
martyrdom, No. Oil is based upon the tenth
stanza of Luther's hymn, and was written about
1840, for //' Aubigni's History of the Reformation,
by John Alexander Messenger.

Luther's hymn first appeared in the Enchiridion,
Erfurt, l.r>24: It was immediately set to music,
"and soon," says D'Aubigne, "in Germany and
the Netherlands, in city and country, these strains
were heard communicating in every direction an
enthusiasm for the faith of these martyrs."

See No. 166.

912 Zion's glad morning. 11,10.

HAIL to the brightness of Zion's glad
morning!
Joy to the lands that in darkness have
lain !
Hushed be the accents of sorrow and mourn-
ing;
Zion in triumph begins her mild reign.

2 Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad
morning,
Long by the prophets of Israel foretold ;
Hail to the millions from bondage return-
ing;
Gentiles and Jews the blest vision behold.

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'6 Lo, in the desert rich flowers are spring-
ing;
Stream- ever copious are gliding along;
Loud from the mountain-tops echoes are
ringing;
Wastes rise in verdure, and mingle in song.

4 See, from all lands, from the isles of the
ocean,
Praise to Jehovah ascending on high;
Fallen arc the engines of war and commo-
tion ;
Shouts of salvation are rending the sky.
THOMAS HASTINGS.

Author's title : Daunt of the Millennium.
Unaltered. From Spiritual Songs for Social
\p. Edited by Thomas Hastings and Lowell
Mason. New and enlarged edition, 1833.

For a biographical sketch of author, sec No. 177.

913 Let there be light. 6, 4.

FT1HOU, whose almighty word
X Chaos and darkness heard,

And took their flight ;
Hear us, we humbly pray,
And where the gospel day
Sheds not its glorious ray,

"Let there be light."

2 Thou, who didst come to bring
On thy redeeming wing,

Healing and sight,
Health to the sick in mind,
Sight to the inly blind;
O now, to all mankind,

"Let there be light."

3 Spirit of truth and love,
Life-giving, holy Dove,

Speed forth thy flight;
Move o'er the waters' face
By thine almighty grace;
And in earth's darkest place,

11 Let there be light."

4 Blessed and holy Three,
Glorious Trinity,

Wisdom, Love, Might;
Boundless as ocean's tide
Rolling in fullest pride,
O'er the world far and wide,

" Let there be light."

JOHN MARRIOTT.

Slight changes have been made in three lines of
this hymn.

OlilClNAL.

Verse three, line Ave :

" Bearing the lamp of grace."

Verse four, lines one and six :

" Holy and blessed Three."

" Through the earth fur and wide."

Verified by Dr. Raffles's Hymns, 1S52.

It was written about 1818.

The Eev. John Marriott, a clergyman and the
son of a clergyman, was born in England in 1780;
educated at Christ Church, Oxford, and received
orders in 1803. lie lived until 1825.

914 The Morning Star. CM.

LIGHT of the lonely pilgrim's heart,
Star of the coming day,
Arise, and with thy morning beams
Chase all our griefs away !

2 Come, blessed Lord, let every shore
And answering island sing

The praises of thy royal name,
And own thee as their King.

3 Bid the wdiole earth responsive now
To the bright world above,

Break forth in sweetest strains of joy,
In memory of thy love.

4 Jesus, thy fair creation groans,
The air, the earth, the sea,

In unison with all our hearts,
And calls aloud for thee:

5 Thine was the cross, with all its fruits
Of grace and peace divine :

Be thine the crown of glory now,
The palm of victory thine !

SIR EDWARD DENNY.

Title: The Heart Watching for the Morning.

The author, in his book, 1848, made this reason-
able request: " That should any of these poems or
hymns be deemed worthy of a place in any future
collection, they may be left as they are, without
alteration or abridgment.'1'1 That request has not
been respected. Three lines of this hymn have
been altered.

Original Lines.
Verse two, line one :
" Come, blessed Lord ! bid every shore."

Verse three, line three :
" Break forth in rapturous strains of joy."

Verse four, line one :
" Lord, Lord, thy fair creation groans."

X.xS

HYMN STUDIES.

One stanza, the fifth, has been left out:

5 " Come, then, with all thy quickening power,

With one awakening smile,
And bid the serpent's trail do more

Thy beauteous realms defile."

From the author's Millennial Hymns, 1848.
See No. 19G.

915 Bdgn of Christ for, told. C. M.

THE Lord will come, and not be slow;
His footsteps cannot err;
Before him Righteousness shall go,.
His royal harbinger.

2 Mercy and Truth, that long were missed,
Now joyfully arc met ;

Sweet Peace and Righteousness have kissed,
And hand iu hand are set.

3 The nations all whom thou hast made
Shall come, and all shall frame

To bow them low before thee, Lord!
And glorify thy name.

4 Truth from the earth, like to a flower,
Shall bud and blossom then,

And Justice, from her heavenly bower,
Look down on mortal men.

5 Thee will I praise, O Lord, my God!
Thee honor and adore

With my whole heart; and blaze abroad
Thy name for evermore !

JOI1N MILTON.

This hymn is made up of parts of the author's
paraphrase of Psalms lxxxv and lxxxvi.

The five stanzas of the hymn were composed
upon the following passages from the Psalms:

"Righteousness shall go before him; and shall
set us in the way of his steps." Psa. lxxxv, 13.

"Mercy and truth are met together: righteous-
ness and peace have kissed eaeh other." Psa.
lxxxv, 10.

" All nations whom thou hast made shall come
and worship before thee, O Lord ; and shall glorify
thy nam".'- |>>a. lxxxvi, 9.

"Truth shall spring out of the earth; and right-
eousness shall look down from heaven." Psa.
lxxxv, 11.

" I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my
heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore."
Psa. Lxxxvi, 12.

David and Milton, the greatest of inspired, and
the greatest of uninspired, poets, ought to be able
to produce a valuable hymn. The only change of

Milton's text is in the first stanzas, which is differ'
ently arranged and slightly altered :

"Before him righteousness shall go,

His royal harbinger:
Then will he come, and not be slow,

His footsteps cannot err."

916 Tlte earth renewed in righteousness. C. M.

ALMIGHTY Spirit, now behold
A world by sin destroyed:
Creating Spirit, as of old,
Move on the formless void.

2 Give thou the word; that healing sound
Shall quell the deadly strife;

And earth again, like Eden crowned,
Bring forth the tree of life.

3 If sang the morning stars for joy,
When nature rose to view,

What strains will angel-harps employ,
When thou shalt all renew!

4 And if the sons of God rejoice
To hear a Saviour's name,

How will the ransomed raise their voice,
To whom that Saviour came!

5 Lo, every kindred, every tribe,
Assembling round the throne,

The new creation shall ascribe
To sovereign love alone !

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title: The Spirit Creating all Things Hew.

Some slight changes have been made.
The first and third lines of the first stanza were
written:

" Spirit of power and might, behold,
6Vea<o>'-Spirit, as of old."

The first line of the last stanza the author began
with :

" So every," etc.;

and the third line with :

" Thy new creation," etc.

From Montgomery's Christian Psalmist, 1825.
For biography, see No. 5.

917 That glorious anthem. L. M.

SOON may the last glad song arise,
Through all the millions of the skies;
That song ,,f triumph which records
That all the earth is now the Lord's.

IIY.VX STVDTES.

358

I Let thrones, and powers, and kingdoms,

be
Obedient, mighty God, to thee;
Ar.il over land, and stream, and main,
Now wave the scepter of thy reign.

:5 () let that glorious anthem swell;
Let host to bost the triumph tell,
Till not one rebel heart remains,
But over all the Saviour reigns.

UNKNOWN.

In the Bvmnal this is attributed to Mrs. Vbke.
She did write several missionary hymns, hut there
is no evidence that she wrote this. It appeared
ubout 1829.

Examination plainly shows that it is founded
upon Rev. xi, 15:

" The kingdoms of this world are become the
kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he
shall reign for ever and ever."

918 Tlf time to favor Zion. L. M.

SOVEREIGN of worlds! display thy
power ;
Be this thy Zion's favored hour;
O bid the morning star arise,
O point the heathen to the skies.

2 Set up thy throne where Satan reigns,
In western wilds and eastern plains;
Far let the gospel's sound be known;
Make thou the universe thine own.

3 Speak, and the world shall hear thy

voice ;
Speak, and the desert shall rejoice:
Dispel the gloom of heathen night ;
Bid every nation hail the light.

BOURNE H. DKAPER.

This hymn has been erroneously attributed to
Mrs. Yoke. It was written by Rev. Bourne Hall
Draper 1 1775-1S-13) tor a farewell service' given
Dec. 1, 1803, to Baptist missionaries going to India.

The history of this hymn was given by Rev. Dr.
Forj-fth in The Indepetident, Sept. 17, lv^\

It bas seven stanzas. These are the first three
slightly altered. The well known missionary
hymn,

" Yo Christian heroes go, proclaim
Salvation through Inimanuel's name,"

is a part of the same.

919 Christ's all-embracing religion. L. M.

JESUS shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run;
His kingdom spread from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more.
23

2 From north to south the princes meet,
To pay their homage at his feel ;
While western empires own their Lord,
And savage tribes attend his word.

3 To him shall endless prayer be made,
And endless praises crown his head;
His name like sweet perfume shall rise
With every morning sacrifice.

4 People and realms of every tongue
Dwell on his love with sweetest song,
And infant voices shall proclaim
Their early blessings on his name.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: Christ's Kingdom Among the Gentiles.
Founded on the last part of Psalm Ixxii.
The second stanza is made out of the second and
third of Watts's :

2 " Behold the islands with their kings,
And Europe, her best tribute brings ;
From north to south the princes meet
To pay their homage at his feet.

3 " There Persia, glorious to behold,
There India shines in Eastern gold,
And barbarous nations at his word
Submit and bow, and own their Lord."

Watts wrote the first couplet of the third stanza

" For him shall endless prayer be made,
And praises throng to crown his head."

There are three additional stanzas that are too
good to be forgotten :

6 " Blessings abound where'er he reigns ;
The pris'ner leaps to lose his chains,
The weary find eternal rest,

And all the sons of want are blest.

7 " Where he displays his healing pow'r
Death and the curse are known no more ;
In him the tribes of Adam boast

More blessings than their father lost.

8 " Let ev'ry creature rise and bring
Peculiar honors to our King ;
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud Amen."

Published in 1719.

930 Trivmphs of mercy. L. M.

ARM of the Lord, awake, awake !
Put on thy strength, the nations
shake,
And let the world, adoring, see
Triumphs of mercy wrought by thee.

354

HYMN STUDIES.

2 Say to the heathen, from thy throne,
" I am Jehovah, God alone : "

Thy voice their idols shall confound,
And cast their altars to the ground.

3 No more let creature blood be spilt,
Vain sacrifice for human guilt!

But to each conscience be applied
The blood that flowed from Jesus' side.

4 Almighty God, thy grace proclaim,
In every land, of every name ;

Till adverse powers before thee fall,
And crown the Saviour, Lord of all.

WILLIAM SHKUBSOLE, JR.

Title : Missionary Hymn.

Lyra Pritannica, Rogers, claims to give the
original. From this valuable work we copy the
two omitted stanzas, the fourth and fifth :

4 " Arm of the Lord, Thy power extend ;
Let Mahomet's imposture end ;

Break papal superstition's chain,
And the proud scoffers rage restrain.

5 " Let Zion's time of favor come :
Oh bring the tribes of Israel home :
And let our wondering eyes behold
Gentiles and Jews in Jesus' fold."

From Missionary Hymns, 1795.

For biographical sketch of author, see No. 110.

921 The triumph near. L. M.

ETERNAL Father, thou hast said,
That Christ all glory shall obtain ;
That he who once a sufferer bled

Shall o'er the world a conqueror reign.

2 We wait thy triumph, Saviour King;
Long ages have prepared thy way ;

Now all abroad thy banner fling,
Set time's great battle in array.

3 Thv hosts are mustered to the field ;

" The Cross ! the Cross ! " the battle-call ;
The old grim towers of darkness yield,
And soon shall totter to their fall.

4 On mountain tops the watch-fires glow,
Where scattered wide the watchmen

stand ;
Voice echoes voice, and onward flow
The joyous shouts from land to land.

5 () fill thy Church with faith and power,
Bid her long night of weeping cease;

To groaning nations haste the hour
Of life and freedom, light and peace.

G Come, Spirit, make thy wonders known,
Fulfill the Father's high decree;

Then earth, the might of hell o'erthrown,
Shall keep her last great jubilee.

KAY PALMER.

Author's title : I7te Jubilee.

This was written for the fiftieth anniversary of
the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, and was sung at the Jubilee Celebration,
held in Trcmont Temple, Boston, October, 8-5,
1800.

One stanza, the fifth, is omitted :

" Thou hast our humble service blest,
While filly years have rolled their round ;

Weary and worn the fathers rest,
But in their stead the sons are found."

From the author's Poetical Works. New York,
1875.
See No. 714.

922 Missionary meeting. L. M.

ASSEMBLED at thy great command,
Before thy face, dread King, we stand ;
The voice that marshaled every star
Has called thy people from afar.

2 We meet through distant lands to spread
The truth for which the martyrs bled;
Along the line, to either pole,

The anthem of thy praise to roll.

3 Our prayers assist ; accept our praise ;
Our hopes revive ; our courage raise ;
Our counsels aid; to each impart

The single eye, the faithful heart.

4 Forth with thy chosen heralds come;
Recall the wandering spirits home;
From Zion's mount send forth the sound,
To spread the spacious earth around.

WILLIAM B. COLLTER.

Title : A Missionary Hymn, For the Opening of
the Services.

In verse two, line four, the author wrote " thnn-
der,i instead of "anthem;" and in verse three, line
three, "and Oh" instead of "tc each."

The second and fourth stanzas have been omitted :

2 " Constrained by love to him who died,
Thy churches pour th' o'erflowing tide;
Midsl congregated thousands here,
In all thine ancient power appear."

4 " First bow our hearts beneath thy sway,
Then give thy growing empire way ;
O'er wastes of ain, o'er fields of blood,
Till all mankind shall be subdued."

From Hymns Pirtly Collected and Partly Origi-
nal. London, 1812.
See No. 354.

HYMN STUDIES.

858

923 Ut,r-day ,jlory. L. M.

BEHOLD, the heathen waits to know
The joy the gospel will bestow;

The exiled captive, to receive
The freedom Jesus has to give,

ime, let us, with a grateful heart,
In this blest labor share a part;
Our prayers and offerings gladly bring
To aid the triumphs of our King.

3 Our hearts exult in songs of praise
That we have seen these latter clays.
When our Redeemer shall be known
Where Satan long hath held his throne.

4 Where'er his hand hath spread the skies,
Sweet incense to his name shall rise;

And slave and freeman, Greek and Jew,
By sovereign grace be formed anew.

MBS. VOKE.

Title : Prospect of Success.

" Say not ye, There are yet four months, and
then cometh harvest \ behold, I say unto you, lift
up your eves, and look on the fields: for they :>re
white already to harvest. And he that reapeth re-
ceiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal :
that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may
rejoice together." John iv, 35, 36.

The first two stanzas are omitted:

" Behold th' expected time draws near,
The shades disperse, the dawn appear ;
The barren wilderness assume
The beauteous tints of Eden's bloom.

" Events, with prophecies, conspire
To raise our faith, our zeal to fire;
The rip'njng fields, already white,
Present an harvest to our sight"

Four lines have been changed.

Original.

Verse one, lines one and three :

" Tlte untaught heathen waits to know."
" The cxil'd slave waits to receive."

Verse four, lines one and three:

" From cistern to the western skies,"

" And Tyre and Egypt, Greek and Jew."

In Dobell's Selection, IsOO, this hymn and sev-
eral others are marked " Voke."

Some of these had appeared in previous collec-
tions, but without the author's name.

The Rev. W. B. Collyer, in his collection, 1812,
gives seven original hymns by "Mrs Voke."

She manifested a remarkable missionary spirit.
Nearly all of her hymns are Missionary Hymns.

We regret that her personal history is not better
known.

924 For Jews and Gentiles. L. If,

HEAD of the Church, whose Spirit fills
And flows through every faithful soul,
Unites in mystic love, and seals
Them one, and sanctifies the whole ;

2 " Come, Lord," thy glorious Spirit cries,
And souls beneath the altar groan ;

" Come, Lord," the bride.on earth replies,
"And perfect all our souls in one."

3 Pour out the promised gift on all;
Answer the universal " Come! "

The fullness of the Gentiles call,

And take thine ancient people home.

4 To thee let all the nations flow;
Let all obey the gospel word ;

Let all their bleeding Saviour know,
Filled with the glory of the Lord.

5 O for thy truth and mercy's sake
The purchase of thy passion claim ;

Thine heritage, the Gentiles, take,

And cause the world to know thy name.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is the first of a number of Hymns of Inter-
cession.

The original has eight stanzas. The second,
seventh, and eighth are omitted :

2 " Less than the least of Saints, T join
My Littleness of Faith to Theirs ;

O King of All, thine Ear incline,
Accept our much-availing Prayers."

7 " Thee, Lord, let every Tongue confess,
Let every Knee to Jesus how :

0 ! All-redeeming Prince of Peace,
We long to see thy Kingdom now.

8 " Hasten that Kingdom of thy Grace,
And take us to our Heavenly Home,

And let us Now beheld thy Face :
Come, glorious God, to Judgment come ! "

The original has " simplifies " instead of " sane*
tities" in the last line of the first stanza.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

92 D Light for those who sit in darkness. L.M.

THOUGH now the nations sit beneath
The darkness of o'erspreading death,
God will arise with light divine,
On Zion's holy towers to shine.

2 That light shall shine on distant lands,
And wandering tribes, in joyful bauds,
Shall come, thy glory, Lord, to see,
And in thy courts to worship thee.

85G

HYMN STUDIES.

3 O light of Zion, now arise !
Let the glad morning bless our eyes;
Ye nations, catch the kindling ray,
And hail the splendors of the day.

LEONARD BACON.

Contributed by the author to Psalms and Hymns
for Christian Worship, 1845.

Dr. Bacon was one of the. editors of that book,
and contributed several hymns to it.

It is unaltered and entire.

The Rev. Leonard Bacon, D.D., was horn in
Detroit in 1802 ; educated at Yale College and An-
dover Theological Seminary, and in 1825 was
settled as pastor of the Center Congregational
Church in New Haven, lie held this relation un-
til his death, December 24, 1881. He also held a
professorship in tne college.

926 LM-

/'/■/-pare ye the way of the Lord. Matt, iii, 3.

COMFORT, ye ministers of grace,
Comfort the people of your Lord ;
0 lift ye up the fallen race,

And cheer them by the gospel word.

2 Go into every nation, go;

Speak to their trembling hearts, and
cry, —
G4ad tidings unto all we show :
Jerusalem, thy God is nigh.

3 Hark ! in the wilderness a cry,

A voice that loudly calls, — Prepare!
Prepare your hearts, for God is nigh,
And waits to make his entrance there.

4 The Lord your God shall quickly come ;
Sinners, repent, the call obey :

Open your hearts to make him room ;
Ye desert souls, prepare the way.

5 The Lord shall clear his way through all;
Whate'er obstructs, obstructs in vain;

The vale shall rise, the mountain fall,
Crooked be straight, and rugged plain.

6 The glory of the Lord displayed
Shall all mankind together view;

And what his mouth in truth hath said,
His own almighty hand shall do.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, published by
John and Charles Wesley, 1742.

We find a long paraphrase of the fortieth chapter
of Isaiah, fifty-five stanzas, in five parts. This
hymn is composed of versos one, two, five, six,
seven, and ten, of part first. It is interesting to

compare this hymn with the first five verses of
Isaiah xl, on which it is founded.

In the hk-t line of the third stanza, Wesley
wrote :

" And means to make His entrance there ; "

and in the second line of the last stanza:

" Together all mankind shall view."

927 l. m.

Souls perishing for lack of knowledge.

SHEPHERD of souls, with pitying eye
The thousands of our Israel sec;
To thee in their behalf we cry,

Ourselves but newly found in thee.

2 See where o'er desert wastes they err,
And neither food nor feeder have:,

Nor fold, nor place of refuge near,
For no man cares their souls to save.

3 Thy people, Lord, are sold for naught,
Nor know they their Redeemer nigh;

They perish, whom thyself hast bought;
Their souls for lack of knowledge die.

4 The pit its mouth hath opened wide,
To swallow up its careless prey:

Why should they die, when thou hast died,
Hast died to bear their sins away ?

5 Why should the foe thy purchase seize ?
Remember, Lord, thy dying groans:

The meed of all thy sufferings these;
O claim them for thy ransomed ones !

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : For the Outcasts of Israel.

The third, seventh, and eighth stanzas aro

omitted:

3 " Wild as the untaught Indian's brood,

The Christian savages remain,
Strangers and enemies to Cod,

They make Thee spend Thy blood in vain."

7 " Extend to these Thy pardoning grace,
To these be Thy salvation showed,

O add them to Thy chosen race !
O sprinkle all their hearts with blood!

8 " Still let the publicans draw near,
Open the door of faith and heaven,

Ail' I trrant their hearts Thy word to hear,
And witness all their sins forgiven."

The author wrote uJly" instead of "cry" in
verse one, line three.

From Hymns for Those that Seek and Thus*
that Have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ.
London, 1747.

1IYMS STUDIES.

357

928 Thi Saviow^t coming awaited. L. M.

JESUS, thy church, with Longing eyes,
For thine expected coming waits:
When will the promised Light arise,
And glory beam on Ziona gates ?

'2 E'en now, when tempests round us fall,
And wintry clouds o'ercast the sky,

Thy words with pleasure we recall,

And deem that our redemption's nigh.

8 O come, and reign o'er every land;

Let Satan from Ilia throne be hurled,
All nations bow to thy command.

And grace revive a dying world.

4 Teach us, in watchfulness and prayer,
To wait for thine appointed hour;

And fit u.s, by thy grace, to share

The triumphs of thy conquering power.

WILLIAM n. BATIIURST.

Title: Second Coming of Christ,

" He which testifieth these things saith. Surely I
come quickly: Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.7'
Rev. xxii, 20.

In the second line of the first stanza the original
has " thy " instead of " thine ; " and in the second
hue of the lust stanza, "the" for ''thine."

The third and fifth stanzas are omitted:

3 "Come, gracious Lord, our hearts renew,
Our foes repel, our wrongs redress;

Man's rooted enmity subdue,
And crown thy Gospel with success."

5 " Yes, thou wilt speedily appear ;

The smitten earth already reels,
And not far otf we seem to hear

The thunder of thy chariot wheels/'

From Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private
Use. By \V. II. Bathiirst. London, 1831.
For biographical sketch, see No. 61.

929 For home missions. L. M.

LOOK from thy sphere of endless day,
O God of mercy and of might!
In pity look on those who stray,
Benighted, in this land of light.

2 In peopled vale, in lonely glen,

In crowded mart, by stream or sea,
How many of the sons of men

Hear not the message sent from thee !

3 Send forth thy heralds, Lord, to call
The thoughtless young, the hardened old,

A scattered, homeless flock, till all
Be gathered to thy peaceful fold.

■1 Send them thy mighty wonl to speak,
Till faith shall dawn, and doubt depart,

To awe the bold, to stay the weak.
And bind and heal the broken heart.

5 Then all these wastes, a dreary scene,
That makes vis sadden as we gaze,

Shall grow with living waters green.
And lift to heaven the voice of praise.
WILLIAM C. BRYANT.

Written in 1S40 for a missionary society ; and
f'i'imd in the author's small volume of hymns, pub-
lished in 1S64.

Sec No. 201.

930 Missionary hymn. 7, 8.

FROM Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand ;
Where Afric's sunny fountains

Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver

Their land from error's chain.

2 What though the spicy breezes
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;

Though every prospect pleases,

And only man is vile ?
In vain with lavish kindness

The gifts of God are strown;
The heathen in his blindness

Bows down to wood and stone.

3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high,

Shall we to men benighted,

The lamp of life deny ?
Salvation! O salvation!

The joyful sound proclaim,
Till earth's remotest nation

Has learned Messiah's name.

4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story,
And you, ye waters, roll,

Till, like a sea of glory,

It spreads from pole to pole:

Till o'er our ransomed nature
The Lamb for sinners slain,

Redeemer, King, Creator,
In bliss returns to reign.

REGINALD HEBER.

Author's title : Before a Collection made/or the
Society for the Propagation of the Qo*pel.

There are many missionary hymns, but this is
universally known as The Missionary Hymn.

358

HYMN STUDIES.

From the author's Memoirs, edited hv bis widow,
we learn that this bymn was composed in 1819, to
Ik; sung at a missionary meeting in Wrexham,
[labor's father-in-law was to preach, and lie re-
quested the author to write a hymn to be sung on
that occasion. It was the work of a tew moments ;
wits printed on Saturday, and used the next day.
The manuscript, which was sent to the printer, had
but one correction. In the seventh line of the
second stanza lleber first wrote "savage," then he
erased this word and substituted "heathen."

In the author's text the first and third lines of
the third stanza began with " Can we," etc.

From hymns Writtot and Adapted to the Weekly
Church Services of the Year, 1827.

See No. 02.

931 Departing missionaries. 7,0.

ROLL on, thou mighty ocean!
And, as thy billows flow,
bear messengers of mercy

To every land below.
Arise, ye g-ales, and waft them

Safe to the destined shore ;
That man may sit in darkness,

And death's black shade, no more.

2 O thou eternal Rider,

Who boldest in thine arm
The tempests of the ocean,

Protect them from all harm!
Thy presence, Lord, be with them,

Wherever they may be ;
Though far from us who love them,

Still let them be with thee.

JAMES EDMESTON.

f cannot say whether this has been altered or
not. It first appeared in the author's Missionary
Hymns, 1822, a booK that I have never seen.

See No. HO.

«7 O 3 The morning light is breaking.

THE morning light is breaking;
The darkness disappears;
The sons of earth are waking

To penitential tears;
Each breeze that sweeps the ocean

Brings tidings from afar,
Of nations in commotion,
Prepared for Zion's war.

2 See heathen nations bending
before the God we love,

And thousand hearts ascending
In gratitude above;

While sinners now confessing,

The gospel <all obey,

And seek the Saviour's blessing,

A nation in a da v.

7,6.

13 Blest river of salvation,

Pursue thine onward way ;
Flow thou to every nation,

Nor in thy richness stay:
Stay not till all the lowly

Triumphant reach their home:
Stay not till all the holy

Proclaim, "The Lord is come!"

SAMUEL F. SMITH.

Author's title: Success of the Gospel.
The second stanza is omitted :

2 "Rich dews of grace come o'er us,

In many a gentle Bbower,
And brighter scenes before us,

Are opening every hour:
Kach cry to heaven going,

Abundant answers brings,
And heavenly gales are blowing,

With peace upon their wings."

The whole hymn is pleasantly "ptimistie. It was
published by the author in 'ltie Ralmist, 1S43. It
first appeared in Spiritual Sonus. 1833.

See No. 92.

y«3«J Domestic missions. 7, G.

OUR country's voice is pleading,
Ye men of God arise!
His providence is leading,

The land before you lies;
Day-gleams are o'er it brightening,

And promise clothes the soil;
Wide fields, for harvest whitening,
Invite the reaper's toil.

2 Go where the waves are breaking
On California's shore,

Christ's precious gospel taking,
More rich than golden ore;

On Alleghany's mountains,
Through all the western vale,

beside Missouri's fountains.
Rehearse the wondrous tale.

3 The love of Christ unfolding,
Speed on from east to west,

Till all, his cross beholding,

In him are fully blest.
Great Author of salvation,

Haste, haste the glorious day,

When we, a ransomed nation,
Thy scepter shall obey!

MK8. ANDERSON.

Title : Evangelisation of Our Country.
Written in 1546 for The Dap/ ist Harp. Philadel-
phia, 164'J.

IirifX 8TUDIB8.

359

It is unaltered, l>ut the third Btansas— the moat

poetic — is omitted :

3 •' Where pr;iirie flowers are blooming,

Plant Bharon's fairer rose;
The farthest wilds illuming,

With light that ever glows ;
To each lone forest ranger,

The word <>t life unseal ;
To every exile Btranger,

Its saving truths reveal."

karia Frances Anderson was bom in Paris,
France, in 1819. This hymn shows how well she

has become naturalized.

934 The universal anthem. 7,6.

WHEN shall the voice of singing
Flow joyfully along,
When hill and valley, ringing
With one triumphant song,
Proclaim the contest ended,

And Him who once was slain,
Again to earth descended,
In righteousness to reign?

2 Then from the craggy mountains

The sacred shout shall fly;
And shady vales and fountains

Shall echo the reply.
High tower and lowly dwelling

Shall send the chorus round,
All hallelujahs swelling

In one eternal sound !

JAMES EDMESTON, ALT.

The author published Fifty Missionary Hymns in
1822, from which tins is taken. I cannot give
the original text.

See No. 80.

8 Watchman, tell us of the night,

For the morning seems to dawn.
Traveler, darkness takes its flight;

Doubt and terror are withdrawn.
Watchman, let thy wandering cease;

I lie thee to thy quiet home:
Traveler, lo! the Prince of peace,

Lo! the Son of God is come!

Silt JOHN LOWIUNG.

This favorite hymn was written upon Isa. xxi, 11 :

" Watchman, what of the night?"

It is unaltered and entire from Hymns, by John
Bowling. London, 1825.
See No. 150.

935 The icatchman's report. 7.

WATCHMAN", tell us of the night,
What its signs of promise are.
Traveler, o'er yon mountain's height

See that glory-beaming star!
Watchman, does its beauteous ray
Aught of hope or joy foretell?
Traveler, yes: it brings the day,
Promised day of Israel.

2 Watchman, tell us of the night;

Higher yet that star ascends.
Traveler, blessedness and light,

Peace and truth, its course portends
Watchman, will its beams alone

Gild the spot that gave them birth?
Traveler, aires are its own,

See, it bursts o'er all the earth!

936 The word glorified. 7.

SEE how great a flame aspires,
Kindled by a spark of grace!
Jesus' love the nations fires,

Sets the kingdoms on a blaze.
To bring fire on earth he came ;
Kindled in some hearts it is:
() that all might catch the flame,
All partake the glorious bliss !

2 When he first the work begun,
Small and feeble was his day :

Now the word doth swiftly run ;

Now it wins its widening way:
More and more it spreads and grows,

Ever mighty to prevail ;
Sin's strongholds it now o'erthrows,

Shakes the trembling gates of helL

3 Sons of God, your Saviour praise !
He the door liath opened wide ;

He hath given the word of grace;

Jesus' word is glorified.
Jesus, mighty to redeem,

He alone the work hath wrought ;
Worthy is the work of him,

Him who spake a world from naught.

4 Saw ye not the cloud arise,
Little as a human hand '

Now it spreads along the skies,
Hangs o'er all the thirsty land;

Lo! the promise of a shower
Drops already from above;

But the Lord will shortly pour
All the Spirit of his love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is one of four hymns with the following
title: After Preaching to the Newcastle Colliers.
Mr. Jackson, in his Life of Wesley, remarks that,

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perhaps, the imagery of this hymn was BUggested
by the large fires which illuminate the whole part
of that country in the darkest night.

Unaltered and entire.

From Hynm& and Sacred Poems, 17-4'J.

93/ Christ's universal reiffn. 7.

HAS TEN, Lord, the glorious time,
"When, beneath Messiah's sway,
Every nation, every clime,
Shall the gospel call obey.

2 Mightiest kings his power shall own;
Heathen tribes his name adore;

Satan and his host, o'erthrown,

Bound in chains, shall hurt no more,

3 Then shall wars and tumults cease;
Then be banished grief and pain;

Righteousness, and joy, and peace,
Undisturbed, shall ever reign.

4 Bless we, then, our gracious Lord ;
Ever praise his glorious name ;

All his mighty acts record,

All his wondrous love proclaim.

HARRIET AUBER.

Palm Ixxii.

The original contains seven stanzas ; these are
♦he first three, and the last, verbatim.

Omitted Stanzas.

4 " As when soft and gentle showers
Fall upon the thirsty plain,

Springing gross and blooming flowers,
Clothe the wilderness again :

5 " So Thy Spirit shall descend,
SofVning every stony heart,

And its sweetest influence lend
All that's lovely to impart.

6 " Time shall sun and moon obscure,
Seas be dried, and rocks be riven,

But His reign shall still endure,
Endless as the days of Heaven."

From The Spirit of the Psalms, 1829.
See No. 33.

9ob The song of jubilee.

HARK! the song of jubilee;
Loud as mighty thunders mar,
Or the fullness of the sea,

When it breaks upon the shore:
Hallelujah ! lor the Lord

God omnipotent shall reign ;
Hallelujah! let the word

Echo round the earth and main.

2 Hallelujah! — hark! the sound,
From the center to the skies.

Wakes above, beneath, around,

All creation's harmonies:
See Jehovah's banner furled,

Sheathed bis sword : he speaks— 'tis done.
And the kingdoms of this world

Are the kingdoms of his Son.

3 He shall reign from pole to pole
With illimitable sway;

He shall reign, when, like a scroll,
Yonder heavens have passed away:

Then the end; — beneath his rod,
Man's last enemy shall fall ;

Hallelujah! Christ in God,
God in Christ, is all in all.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Author's title : Hallelujah.

This tine hymn is found in the Christian Psalm-
ist, 1825. It first appeared in Cotterill'a Collection
in 1819.

One word has been changed.

Verse two, line two, was originally :

" From the depths unto the skies."
See No. 5.

939 Tfte banner of the cross. 7

GO, ye messengers of God;
Like the beams of morning, fly;
Take the wonder-working rod;
Wave the banner-cross on high.

2 Where the lofty minaret
Gleams along the morning skies,

Wave it till the crescent set.
And the " Star of Jacob" rise.

3 Go to many a tropic isle
In the bosom of the deep,

Where the skies forever smile,
And the oppressed forever weep.

4 O'er the pagan's night of care
Pour the living light of heaven;

Chase away his dark despair,
Bid him hope to be forgiven.

5 Where the golden gates of day
Open on the palmy East,

High the bleeding- cross display)
Spread the gospel's richest feast.

G Bear the tidings round the ball,

Visit every soil and Bea ;
Preach tin- cross of Christ to all,

Christ, whose love is full ami free.

joshi:a ifABSDHF.

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361

This missionary ode has not been adequately ap-
preciated. In poetry, piety, and missionary spirit
r. ba«* never been surpassed, if indeed equaled, bj
unv missionary hvtiin in the EngliBh tongue.

The Rev. Joshua Maraden (1777 188? | was u Wes-
k'\an minister. His early educational advantages
wen- very limited, and he did not, it seems, make
the most of such as ho had. Hewaaawild,thought-
1.--S, and wicked boy. At the age of eighteen he
enlisted in the British navy, and grew more reek-
lva than ever ; but at length, lie suys, "The grace

Of God, that bringeth salvation, turned my feet into

the way of peace." lie became a missionary to
Novu Scotia, and afterward to the Bermuda Islands.
lie was the author of several books; his poems
were entitled The Amusements of a Mission.

From Gloria in Excelsis; >•>•, Hymns of Praise to
God and the Lamb, by W. Williams. Carmarthen,
L772.

i'or biographical sketch, sec No. 171.

940 The conquest <>f the gospel. 8,7,4.

O'ER the gloomj hills of darkness,
Cheered by no celestial ray,
Sun of righteousness, arising,

Bring the bright, the glorious day!

Send the gospel
To the earth's remotest bound.

2 Kingdoms wide that sit in darkness, -
Grant them. Lord, the glorious light:

And, from eastern coast to western.
May the morning chase the night;

And redemption,
Freely purchased, win the day.

3 Fly abroad, thou mighty Gospel!
Win and conquer, never cease;

May thy lasting, wide dominion
Multiply and still increase;

Sway thy scepter,
Saviour, all the world around!

WILLIAM WILLIAMS, ALT.

The original has seven stanzas ; these are one,
three, and six, nib red.

The author wrote the first stanza :

" O'er those gloomy Hills of Darkness
Look, my Soul, be still and gaze,

All the Promises do travel
On a glorious Day of Grace,
Blessi 'I ■Jiibil,

Let thy glorious Morning dawn."

In the next stanza only the second line is
changed:

" Let them have the glorious light."
The last stanza has several changes :

" Fly abroad, c'ernal Gospel,
Win and conquer, never cease;

May thy eternal wide Dominions
Multiply, and still increase ;

May thy Scepter
Sway tIC enlighffned World around."

Q41 The Macedonian cry. 8, 7, 4.

SOULS in heathen darkness lying,
Where no light has broken through,
Souls that Jesus bought by dying,
Whom his soul in travail knew, —

Thousand voici a
Call us, o'er the waters blue.

2 Christians, hearken: none has taught

them
Of his love so deep and dear;
Of the precious price that bought them;
Of the nail, the thorn, the spear;

Ye who know him,
Guide them from their darkness drear.

3 Haste, O haste, and spread the tidings
WTide to earth's remotest strand ;

Let no brother's bitter chidings
Rise against us when we stand

In the judgment,
From some far, forgotten land.

4 Lo! the hills for harvest wdiiten,
All along each distant shore;

Seaward far the islands brighten;
Light of nations, lead us o'er!

When we seek them,
Let thy Spirit go before.

MRS. CECIL P. ALEXANDER, ALT.

Title : Come over and Help Us.

This missionary hymn appeared in the Legend of
the Golden Prayer. London, 1859.

Some stanzas are omitted, and some lines are
altered.

Original Form.

Verse two, lines one, three, and six:

"Christians, say they, none has taught us."
" Of the precious price that bought "■•>■."
"Guide ma- from our darkness drear."

The third stanza the author wrote :

" Haste, O haste, to spread the tidings,

Let no shore be left untrod ;
Let no brother's bi tter chidings

Haunt us from the farthest sod /
Tell tin heathen

All the precious truth of God."

The original has eight stanzas. There is nothing
in it like the last stanza of the hymn. It was prob-
ably added by .some hymn editor.

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HYMN STUDIES.

94J Fields white to the harvest. 8,7,4.

WHO but thou, almighty Spirit,
Can the heathen world reclaim?
Men may preach, but till thou favor
Heathens will be still the same:

Mighty Spirit !
Witness to the Saviour's name.

2 Thou Hast promised by thy prophets
Glorious Light iu latter days:

Come, and bless bewildered nations,
Change our prayers and tears to praise;

Promised Spirit!
Round the world diffuse thy rays.

3 All our hopes, and prayers, and labors
Must be vain without thine aid:

But thou wilt not disappoint us,
All is true that thou hast said:

Faithful Spirit !
O'er the world thine influence shed.

UNKNOWN.

Little is known concerning the origin of this
hymn. In The Service of Song it is marked
"EriphoB," Evangelical Magazine, 1821.

It appeared without name in the famous Village
Hymns, edited by Dr. Nettlcton, in 1824.

94:3 The Light of the world. 8,7.

LIGHT of those whose dreary dwelling
Borders on the shades of death,
Come, and, by thyself revealing,

Dissipate the clouds beneath.
Thou, new heaven and earth's Creator,

In our deepest darkness rise;
Scattering all the night of nature,
Pouring day upon our eyes.

2 Still we wait for thine appearing;
Life and joy thy beams impart,

Chasing all our fears, and cheering

Every poor, benighted heart.
Come, and manifest thy favor

To our ruined, guilty race;
Come, thou universal Saviour:

Come, and bring the gospel grace.

3 Save us in thy great compassion,
O thou mild, pacific Prince;

Give the knowledge of salvation,

Give the pardon of our sins;
By thine all-atoning merit,

Every burdened soul release;
Every weary, wandering spirit,

Guide into thy perfect peace.

CHARLES WESLEY, ALT.

Published without title in Hymn* for the Nativ-
ity of Our Lord. This tract contained eighteen

hymns. It was printed anom inously and without
date. Charles Wesley was the author, and the
date of publication was about 1744.
Several lines have been changed.

Original.

Ver.-e one, lines three, live, and eight:

" Come, and by Thy love's revealing."
" The new heaven and earth's Creator."
" Pouring eyesight on our eyes."

Verse two, lines live and six :

" Come and manifest the favor,
God hath for our ransomed race."

Verse three, line five:

"By Thine all-restoring merit."

These changes were made by the editors of the
Hymn Book in 1849.

944 8,7,

So shall lie sprinkle many nations. Isa. Hi, 16.

SAVIOUR, sprinkle many nations,
Fruitful let thy sorrows be;
By thy pains and consolations,
Draw the Gentiles unto thee:
Of thy cross the wondrous story,

Be it to the nations told ;

Let them see thee in thy glory,

And thy mercy manifold.

2 Far and wide, though all unknowing,
Pants for thee each mortal breast ;

Human tears for thee are flowing,
Human hearts in thee would rest;

Thirsting, as for dews of even.
As the new-mown grass for rain,

Thee they seek, as God of heaven,
Thee, as Man for sinners slain.

3 Saviour, lo! the isles arc waiting,
Stretched the hand, and strained the

sight.
For thy Spirit, new creating

Love's pure flame and wisdom's light;
Give the word, and of the preacher

Speed the foot, and touch the tongue,
Till on earth by every creature

Glory to the Lamb be sung.

A. CLEVELAND COXK.

Author's title : 77„< Desire nf All Nations.

Written in England in 1861, and published the
same year.

It is unaltered and entire.

For sketch of author, see No. 202.

HYMN STUDIES.

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Q45 Renewing the eovmant. CM.

COME, let us use the -race divine,
And all, with one accord,
In a perpetual covenant join
Ourselves to Christ the Lord;

| Give up ourselves, through Jesus' power,
His name to fflorify :

And promise, in this s acred hour,
For God to live and die.

;5 The covenant we this moment make

Be ever kept in mind;
We will no more our God forsake,

Or cast his words behind.

4 We never will throw oil his fear
Who hears our solemn vow-
Ami if thou art well pleased to hear,

Come down, and meet us now.

5 Thee, Father. Son. and Holy Ghost,
Let all our hearts receive;

Present with the celestial host,
The peaceful answer give.

6 To each the covenant blood apply,
Which takes our sin; away;

And register our names on high,
And keep us to that day.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Ilohj
Scriptures, 1762.
This hymn is written upon Jer. 1, 5 :

" Come, and lot us join ourselves to the Lord in
a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten."

946 Praise and tlmnksyicing. CM.

SING to the great Jehovah's praise;
All praise to him belongs;
Who kindly lengthens out our days,
Demands our choicest songs:

2 ! lis providence hath brought us through

Another various year;
We all, with vows and anthems new,

Before our God appear.

'.\ Father, thy mercies past we own,

Thy still continued care;
To thee presenting, through thy Son,

Whate'er we have or are.

4 Our lips and lives Bhall gladly show

The wonders of thy love,
While on in Jesus' steps we go

To seek thy face above.

.-> Our residue of days or hours
Thine, wholly thine, shall be;

And all our consecrated powers
A sacrifice to thee :

6 Till Jesus in the clouds appear

To saints on earth forgiven,
And bring the. grand Sabbatic year,

The jubilee of heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This hymn was originally published without a
tide in a " penny " tract containing seven pieces,
and entitled Hymns of New-Yea^ 8-Day, MDOCL.

This tract, and some others, were published
anonymously. The reason fortius was that the Wcr-
levs 'knew that their names, attached to a publi-
cation, would prejudice some people against reading
it. In doing thus they were only following the ad-
vice of the Master to l>c " wise " and •' harmless."

This hymn is unaltered and entire.

947 A midnight song. C M.

JOIN, all ye ransomed sons of grace,
The holy joy prolong,
And shout to the Redeemer's praise
A solemn midnight song.

2 Blessing, and thanks, and love, and

might,
Be to our Jesus given,
Who turns our darkness into light,
Who turns our hell to heaven.

3 Thither our faithful souls he leads;
Thither he bids us rise,

With crowns of joy upon our heads,
To meet him in the skies.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is one of eleven piece«, published first in a
pamphlet, and entitled Hymns for the H'atchnight,
1744. It has not been altered.

There is one additional stanza :

4 "To seal the universal doom,

The skies He soon shall bow-
But if Thou must at midnight come,
O let us meet Thee now ! "

94:8 Close of the year. CM.

AWAKE, ye saints, and raise your eyes,
And raise your voices high:
Awake, and praise that sovereign love,
That shows salvation nigh.

2 On all the wings of time it flies,

Each moment brings il near;
Then welcome each declining day,

Welcome each closing year.

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3 Not many years their rounds shall run,
Nor many mornings rise,

Ere all its glorious stand revealed
To our admiring eyes.

4 Ye wheels of nature, speed your course!
Ye mortal powers, decay!

Fast as ye bring the night of death,
Ye bring eternal day.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title : The Near Approach of Salvation an En-
gagement to Diligence and Love :

" Now is our salvation nearer than when we be-
lieved." Bom. xiii, 11.

It i* unaltered and complete. The last stanza is
remarkably fine.

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the
Holy Scriptures.

P. Do.ldridge. Edited by Job Orton, 1755.

See No. 78.'

949

Tlte opening year.

CM.

THE year is gone, beyond recall,
With all its hopes and fears.
With all its bright and gladdening smiles,
With all its mourners' tears ;

2 Thy thankful people praise thee. Lord,
For countless gifts received;

And pray for grace to keep the faith
Which saints of old believed.

3 To thee we come, O gracious Lord,
The newborn year to bless;

Defend our land from pestilence;
Give peace and plenteousness;

4 Forgive this nation's many sins;
The growth of vice restrain ;

And help us all with sin to strive,
And crowns of life to gain.

5 From evil deeds that stain the past
We now desire to flee;

And pray that future years may all
Be spent, good Lord, for thee.

6 O Father, let thy watchful eye
Still Look on us in love,

That we may praise thee, year by year,
With angel-hosts above.

FROM THE LATIN.
TR. BY F. POTT, ALT.

Translator's title : The Eve of the Circumcision,
otlierwise called A'ew- Year's- Eve.

The translation was written in long meter, and
was altered by the editors of Hymns Ancient and
Modern, 1861.

The Rev. Francis Pott, M.A., was graduated ut
Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1651; and was or-
dained priest in the Established Church, in 1857.
He has made several valuable translations, and has
edited Hymns Fitted to the Order of Common
Prayer.

SdOKj Beginning a new year. S. II.

kUR few revolving years.
How swift they glide away!
How short the term of life appears
When past — but as a day ! —

2 A dark and cloudy day,
Clouded by grief and sin;

A host of enemies without,
Distressing fears within.

3 Lord, through another year
If thou permit our stay,

"With diligence may we pursue
The true and living way.

BEX.JAMIN BEDDOME.

Title : Ncu< Year.

Three lines altered to change the number.

Original Form.
Verse one, line one :

" My few revolving years."
Verse three, lines two and three :

" If thou permit my stay,
With diligence may 1 pursue."

From Hymns Adapted to Public Worship or
Family Devotion, 1818.
For biographical sketch, sec No. 285.

95 1 -^ living Racrifice. L. M. 0 1.

WISDOM ascribe, and might, and praise.
To (Jod, who lengthens out our days;
Who spares us yet another year,
And makes us see his goodness here:
O may we all the time redeem,
And henceforth live and die to him I

2 How often, when his arm was bared,
Hath he our sinful Israel spared!
"Let me alone!" his mercy cried.
And turned the vengeful holt aside;
Indulged another kind reprieve,
And strangely suffered us to live.

HYMN STUDIES.

865

;{ Merciful God, how shall we raise
O !r hearts to pay thee all thy praise?
Our hearts shall beat h»r thee alone;
Oar lives shall make thy goodness known;
Our souls and bodies shall be thine,
A living sacrifice divine.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

Prom a " penny " pamphlet, entitled Hymns for
A Year'a-Day, HfDCUL.

1 Ho original baa six stanzas; these are versos
or..', two, an I five.

The last two lines of the first stanza the author
wrote :

•• Happy, <in<l wise the time redeem
And lii-e, my friends, and die to Him."

The last stanza is as follows :

ti " 1 and my house will serve the Lord,
Led by the Spirit and the word;
We plight our faith, assembled here,
To serve <mr (.rod the ensuing year ;
And vow when time shall be no m >re,
Through all eternity to adore."

952 -4. solemn vigil. L. M. 6 1.

HOW many pass the guilty night
In reveling and frantic mirth!
Th : creature is their sole delight,

Their happiness the things of earth;
For us suffice the season past ;
We choose the better part at last.

2 We will not close our wakeful eye3,
We will not let our eyelids sleep,

Bu: humbly lift them to the skies,

And all a solemn vigil keep;
So many years on sin bestowed,
Can we not watch one night for God?

3 We can. O Jesus, for thy sake,
Devote our every hour to thee ;

Speak but the word, our souls shall wake,
And sing with cheerful melody :
Thy praise shall our glad tongue i employ,
And every heart shall dance for joy.

4 Blest object of our faith and love,
We listen for thy welcome voice ;

Our persons and our wrorks approve,

And bid us in thy strength rejoice ;
No v let us hoar the mighty cry.
An I shout to ffnd the Bridegroom nigh.

5 Shout in the midst of us, O King
Of saints, and let our joys abound;

Let us rejoice, give thanks, and sing,
And triumph in redemption found:
We ask in faith for every soul;
O let our glorious joy be full.

6 0 may we all triumphant rise;

With joy upon our heads return;
And, far above these nether skies,

By thee on eagle wings upborne,
Through all yon radiant circles move,
And gain the highest heaven of love!

I I1A1U.ES WESLEY.

Author's title : A Midnight Rymn.

from a pamphlet containing eleven pieces, en-
titled Hymns for the Watch-mght

Robert Southey culled the watch night "another
oi Wesley's objectionable institutions. It must be
remembered, however, that Wesley did not origi-
nate this institution, but the converted colliers,
who had been accustomed to spend every Saturday
night at the ale-house.

This hymn was written for the use of these
people. The first stanza, as it was originally pub-
lished, plainly shows this:

" Oft have we passed the guilty night
In reveling and frantic mirth :

The creature was our sole delight,
Our happiness the things of earth ;

But 0! suffice the season past,
We choose the better part at last."

These changes, and n few others, were made
most probably by the editors of the Supplement to
the Wesley an Collection, 1830.

953 The barren fig-tree. H. M.

THE Lord of earth and sky,
The God of ages, praise,
Who reigns enthroned on high
Ancient of endless days;
Who lengthens out our trials here,
And spares us yet another year.

2 Barren and withered trees,

We cumbered long the ground ;
No fruit of holiness

On our dead souls was found;
Yet doth he us in mercy spare,
Another and another year.

3 When justice bared the sword
To cut the fig-tree down,

The pity of the Lord

Cried, "Let it still alone."
The Father mild inclines his ear,
And spares us yet another year.

4 Jesus, thy speaking blood
From God obtained the grace,

Who therefore hath bestowed
On us a longer space ;
Thou didst in our behalf appear,
And, lo, we see another year !

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5 Then dig about the root,

Break up our fallow ground,
And let our gracious fruit
To thy great praise abound;
O let us all thy praise declare,
And fruit unto perfection bear.

CHARLES WESLEY.

For New- Yearns- Day. One of the Hymns for
Believer 8.

The reader will notice the allusions to the para-
able of the barren fig-tree. Luke xiii.

Wesley wrote " tnal" instead of " trials" in the
fifth line of the first verse, using the word in the
sense of probation.

From llymiis and Sacred Poems, 1749.

954

II. M.

Tlie Bridegroom cometh.

YE virgin souls, arise,
With all the dead, awake !
Unto salvation wise,

Oil in your vessels take;
Upstarting at the midnight cry,
"Behold the heavenly Bridegroom nigh!"

2 He comes, he comes to call
The nations to his bar,

And take to glory all
Who meet for glory are ;
Made ready for your full reward,
Go forth with joy to meet your Lord.

3 Go, meet him in the sky,
Your everlasting Friend;

Your Head to glorify.

With all his saints ascend:
Ye pure in heart, obtain the grace
To see, without a veil, his face.

4 The everlasting doors
Shall soon the saints receive,

With seraphs, thrones, and powers,
In glorious joy to live;
Far from a world of grief and sin,
With God eternally shut in.

5 Then lot us wait to hear

The trumpet's welcome sound;
To see our Lord appear,

May we be watching found ;
And when thou dost the heavens bow,
Be found — as, Lord, thou find'st us now.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Published without title in Hi/mnx for the Watch-
nitjht. It is founded upon the parable of the vir-
gins. Matt. XXV,

Wesley wrote the fourth line of the second
stanza :

" Who Jit for glory are."

There are some other changes, which were made
by the editors of the lb4'J edition of the hymn
book.

Two stanzas, the fourth and fifth, are omitted :

4 " Ye that have here received
The unction from above,

And in His Spirit lived
Obedient to His love.
Jesus shall claim you for His bride:
Rejoice with all the sanctified.

5 " Rejoice in glorious hope
Of that great day unknown ;

When all shall lie caught up,
And stand before His throne.
Called to partake the marriage feast
And lean on our ImmanueVs breast."

955 Renewed devotedness. 10, 5, 11.

COME, let us anew our journey pursue,
Roll round with the year,
And never stand still till the Master ap-
pear.
His adorable will let us gladly fulfill,

And our talents improve,
By the patience of hope, and the labor of
love.

2 Our life is a dream ; our time, as a stream,

Glides swiftly aw ay.
And the fugitive moment refuses to stay.
The arrow is flown, — the moment is gone;

The millennial year
Rushes on to our view, and eternity's here.

3 O that each in the day of his coming may

say,

"I have fought my way through;
I have finished the work thou didst give me

to do!"
O that each from his Lord may receive the
glad word.
"Well and faithfully done!
Enter into my joy, and sit down on my
throne!"

CHARLES WESLEY.

Published without title in Hymns for A'etc- Year's-
Dai/, MDCCL.
It contained seven pieces; "price, one penny."
Wesley wrote " miqht " instead of " may " in the
first line of the third stanza. This was a favorite
meter with the Wesleys and the early Method-
ists.

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956 7-

WHILE, with ceaseless course, the sun
Basted through the former year.
Many soul- their race have run,
Never more to meet us here:
Fixed in an eternal state.

They have done with all below;
We a little longer wait,

But how little— none can know.

2 As the wingfid arrow tlies
Speedily the mark to find;

As the lightning from the skies
Darts, and leaves no trace behind;

Swiftly thus our fleeting days
Bear us down life's rapid stream;

Upward, Lord, our spirits raise ;
All below is but a dream.

3 Thanks for mercies past receive ;
Pardon of our sins renew;

Teach us henceforth how to live

With eternity in view:
Bless thy word to young and old;

Fill us with a Saviour's love;
And when life's short tale is told,

May we dwell with him above.

JOHN NEWTON.

Title : Time, How Swift.

One of Newton's New- Year's Hymns, verbatim.
From O'ney Hymns, 1779.
For biography, see No. 23.

Six eight-lined rtanzas. These arc the first half
of the tir-t an.l third, and the whole of the fourth.

Unaltered. From Hymns qf Faith and Hope,

lirst series, 1857. It ia a valuable Christum
1 v lie.
See No. 426.

957 Rearing the end. S. M.

A FEW more years shall roll,
A few more seasons come;
And we shall be with those that rest,
Asleep within the tomb.

2 A few more storms shall beat
On this wild rocky shore ;

And we shall be where tempests cease,
And surges swell no more.

3 A few more struggles here,
A few more partings o'er,

A few more toils, a few more tears,
And we shall weep no more.

4 Then, O my Lord, prepare
My soul for that blest day;

O wash me in thy precious blood,
And take my sins away !

HORATIUS BONAR.
Author's title: A Pilgrim'' $ Song.

958 Our fathers ; ithere are they? S. M.

HOW swift the torrent rolls
That bears us to the sea,
The tide that hurries thoughtless souls
To vast eternity !

2 Our fathers, where are they,
With all they called their own?

Their joys and griefs, and hopes and cares,
And wealth and honor gone.

3 God of our fathers, hear,
Thou everlasting Friend!

While we, as on life's utmost verge,
Our souls to thee commend.

4 Of all the pious dead

May we the footsteps trace,
Till with them, in the land of light,
We dwell before thy face.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title : Practical Reflections on the State of our
Fathers.
" Your fathers, where are they ?" Zech. i, 5.

In the third line of the first stanza the author
wrote :
" The tide that bears our thoughtless souls."

It was an over-sempulousness that changed it.
Two stanza-), the third and fourth, of the original
have been left out :

3 " But Joy or Grief succeeds
Beyond our mortal Thought ;

While the poor Remnant of their Dust
Lies in the Grave forgot."

4 " There where the Fathers lie,
Must all the Children dwell ;

Nor other Heritage possess,
But such a gloomy Cell."

From Hymns on Various Texts in the, Holy Script-
ure, 1755.
See No. 78.

9 O 9 P^ea for /paring mercy. S. M.

LORD, let me know mine end,
My days, how brief their date;
That I may timely comprehend
How frail my best estate.

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2 My life is but a span ;

Mine age is naught with thee;
And, in his highest honor, man
Is dust and vanity.

3 At thy rebuke the bloom
Of earthly beauty flies;

And grief shall like a moth consume
All that delights our eyes.

4 Have pity on my fears ;
Hearken to my request;

Turn not in silence from my tears,
But give the mourner rest.

5 O spare me yet, I pray ;
Awhile my strength restore,

Ere I am summoned hence away,
And seen on earth no more. ,

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Part of the author's version of Psalm xxxix. The
original contains nine stanzas. This hymn is com-
posed of verses one, two, six, seven, and nine.

Montgomery wrote verse two, line three:

"Man, in his highest honor, man."

And verse three, line two :

*• Of man's vain beauty flies."

From Songs of Zion, 1822.

For sketch of Montgomery, see No. 5.

t? 6 0 Eartlhj things vain and transitory. L. M.

HOW vain is all beneath the skies!
How transient every earthly bliss!
How slender all the fondest tics
That bind us to a world like this!

2 The evening cloud, the morning dew,
The withering grass, the fading flower,

Of earthly hopes are emblems true,
The glory of a passing hour.

3 But though earth's fairest blossoms die.
And all beneath the skies is vain.

There is a brighter world on high,
Beyond the reach of care and pain.

4 Then let the hope of joys to come
Dispel our cares, and chase our fears:

If God be ours, we're traveling home,
Though passing through a vale of tears.

DAVID E. FOUD.

Written upon Hebrews xiii, 14 :

" For here have we no continuing city, but we
seek one to come."

The author wrote the third line of the third
stanza :

" There is a land whose confines lie."

Otherwise it is not altered.

It is a .solemn and valuable hymn, much used on
funeral occasions. From the author's J'oems, 182b.
See No. 047.

«^bl A peaceful death besought. L. M.

SHRINKING from the cold handof death,
I soon shall gather up my feet;
Shall soon resign this fleeting breath,
And die, my father's God to meet.

2 Numbered among thy people, I
Expect with joy thy face to see:

Because thou didst for sinners die,
Jesus, in death remember me!

3 O that without a lingering groan
I may the welcome word receive;

My body with my charge lay down,
And cease at once to work and live!

4 Walk with me through the dreadful shade.
And, certified that thou art mine,

My spirit, calm and undismayed,
I shall into thy hands resign.

5 No anxious doubt, no guilty gloom,
Shall damp whom Jesus1 pr< sence cheers:

My Light, my Life, my God is come,
And glory in his face appears.

CHARLES WESLEY.

The fir.-t three stanzas are from Short Hymns cm
Select Passages of tin Holy Scriptures, 17C2.

The first two stanzas are founded upon Gen.
xlix, 33:

"Jacob gathered up his feet into the bed, and
yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto Ids
people."

The third stanza was written upon Num. x.\,28:

"And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments,
and put them upon Eleazar his son ; and Aaron
died there in the top of the mount: and Moses aud
Eleazar came down from the mount."

The first part of the stanza was:

" Happy, forever happy, I,

If called, like him, the mount to ascend ;
Thine all-sufficient grace bui

And bless me, Saviour, with his end."

The third stanza of this hymn was a great favor-
ite with John Wesley, who sim_r it frequently when

making his last visits to his so. i

In 177- waa published Pi'maration for Death, In
Several Hymns. It contained sixty-eight pieces.

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at two stanza-; of No. '.";i are the closing
double stanza of Hymn 84 of this pamphlet The
hymn is made up, therefore, of these fragments.
The first three Btanzas were certainly written l>\
Charles Wesley, and the last two stanzas, though
(bond in on imonymous publication, probably be-
long to the same author.

962 The souPs best portion . L. M.

ALMIGHTY Maker of my frame,
Teach me the measure of my days;
Teach me to know how frail I am,
And spend the remnant to thy praise.

2 My days are shorter than a span ;

A little point my life appears;
How frail, at best, is dying man!

How vain are all his hopes and fears !

o Vain his ambition, noise, and show;

Vain are the cares which rack his mind:
He heaps up treasures mixed with woe,

And dies, and leaves them all behind.

4 O be a nobler portion mine !

My God, I bow before thy throne;
Earth's fleeting treasures I resign,

And fix my hope on thee alone.

ANNE STEELE.

This fine hymn was cut out of the middle of
the author's version of Psa. xxxix. These stanzas
were written on verses four to seven :

" Lord, make me to know mine end, and the
measure of my days, what it is ; that I may know
how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days
as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing
before thee : verily every man at his best state
is altogether vanity. Surely every man walk-
eth in a vain show : surely they are disquieted in
vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who
shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I
f <r? my hope is in thee."

Miss Steele was modest beyond all merit. To her
rendering of the psalms she gave this title: " Some
forts of t lie Book of Psalms Attempted in Verse."

These lines have not been altered.

The author's versification of psalms was pub-
lished in her Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional,
vol. ii. London, 17*50.

For biographical sketch, see No. 63.

963 The way of all tlte earth. L. M.

PASS a few swiftly fleeting years,
And all that now in bodies live
Shall quit, like me, the vale of tears,
Thi it righteous sentence to receive.
■-'I

2 But all, before they hence remove,
May mansions for themselves prepare

In that eternal house above;

And, 0 my God, shall 1 be there?

CIIAltLES WESLEY.

This is one of the Short Hymn* on Select Pas-
sages of the Holy Scriptures, first published in
1702.

The passage on which it is written is in Josh.
xxiii, 14:

" I am going the way of all the earth."
This hymn has not been altered.

964: Man frail— God eternal. CM.

OGOD, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home !

2 Under the shadow of thy throne
Still may we dwell secure;

Sufficient is thine arm alone,
And our defense is sure.

3 Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,

From everlasting thou art God,
To endless years the same.

4 A thousand ages, in thy sight,
Are like an evening gone;

Short as the watch that ends the night,
Before the rising sun.

5 The busy tribes of flesh and blood,
With all their cares and fears,

Are carried downward by the flood,
And lost in following years.

6 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away ;

They fly, forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.

7 O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come;

Be thou our guide while life shall last,
And our perpetual home !

ISAAC "WATTS.

Title : Man frail, and God eternal.
This hymn is founded on the first six verses of
Psa. xc :

"Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all

generations. Before the mountains were brought
forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the

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world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Uiou
art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and
wiyest, Keturn, ye children of men. For a thou-
sand years in thy Bight are but as yesterday when
it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest
them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : in
the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; m
the evening it is cut down, and withereth."

Several verbid changes have been made. Watts
began the first and last verses with " Our God," etc.

The second line of the second stanza was, orig-
inally :

" Tliy saiids have dwelt secure."

Lines two and three of the fifth stanza were :

" With all their lives and cares,

Are carry'd downwards by thy flood."

The third line of the last stanza Watts wrote:
" Be thou our guard while troubles last."

Two stanzas, the fourth and eighth, are omitted :

4 " Thy word commands our flesh to dust,

Eeturn, ye sons of men ;
All nations rose from earth at first,

And turn to earth again.

8 " Like flow'ry fields the nations stand,

Pleas'd with the morning light,
The flow'r beneath the mower's hand,

Lie with'ring ere 'tis night."

Published in 1719.

965 Frailty of life. C. M.

THEE we adore, eternal Name,
And humbly own to thee
How feeble is our mortal frame,
What dying worms are we.

2 Our wasting lives grow shorter still,
As days and months increase ;

And every beating pulse we tell
Leaves but the number less.

3 The year rolls round, and steals away
The breath that first it gave :

Whate'er we do, where'er we be,
We're traveling to the grave.

4 Dangers stand thick through all the ground
To push us to the tomb;

And fierce diseases wait around,
To hurry mortals home.

5 Infinite joy, or endless woe,
Attends on every breath ;

And yet how unconcerned we go,
Upon the brink of death 1

6 Waken, O Lord, our drowsy sense
To walk this dangerous road;

And if our souls are hurried hence,
May they be found with God!

ISAAC WATTS.

Author's full title: Frail Life and Succeeding
Eternity.

Oik- stanza, the fifth, has been left out:

5 " Good God ! on what a slender thread
Hang everlasting things !

The eternal states of all the dead
Upon life's feeble strings."

This is a solemn and valuable hymn.

From Hymns and Spiritual Hongs, book ii, 1707.

966 The brink of fate. C. P. M.

THOU God of glorious majesty,
To thee, against myself, to thee,
A worm of earth, I cry;
A half-awakened child of man,
An heir of endless bliss or pain,
A sinner born to die.

2 Lo! on a narrow neck of land,
'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand,

Secure, insensible:
A point of time, a moment's space,
Removes me to that heavenly place,

Or shuts me up in hell.

3 O God, mine inmost soul convert,
And deeply on my thoughtful heart

Eternal things impress :
Give me to feel their solemn weight,
And tremble on the brink of fate,

And wake to righteousness.

4 Before me place in dread array,
The pomp of that tremendous day,

When thou with clouds shalt come
To judge the nations at thy bar;
And tell me, Lord, shall I be there

To meet a joyful doom !

5 Be this my one great business here,
With serious industry and fear

Eternal bliss to insure;
Thine utmost counsel to fulfill.
And suffer all thy righteous will,

And to the end endure.

0 Then, Saviour, then my soul receive,
Transported from this vale, to live

And reign with thee above,
Where faith is sweetly lost in sight,
And hope in full, supreme delight,

And everlasting love.

CHABLE8 WESLET.

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Author's title: .In- Hymn for Seriousness.
Only two words have been changed. The fourth

line of tlie first stanza began :

" An half-awakened child of man;"

and the second lino of the last stanza had " the
vale" instead of "this vale."

This is certainly one of the grandest, most per-
fect, and most poetical of all Charles Wesley's
hymns. Tradition Bays that the imagery of the
second stanza was suggested by a visit to LamPs
/.'«</, England. This oannot now be verified. All
we can say, with certainty, is that the hymn was
written not long after a visit to that famous spot.
Standing on Land's End, with the broad English
Channel on the one hand, and the wide Atlantic on
the other, may have reminded him of the thought,
which is older than his time, and has been used by
more than one author. Addison says, (Spectator,
Xo. 590:) " Many witty authors compare the present
time to an isthmus, or narrow rude of land, that
rises in the midst of an ocean, immeasurably dif-
fused on either side of it."

From JJyinns and Sacred Ibems, 1749.

967 Death of a friend. C. P. M.

IF death my friend and me divide,
Thou dost not, Lord, my sorrow chide,
Or frown my tears to see;
Restrained from passionate excess,
Thou bidd'st me mourn in calm distress
For them that rest in thee.

2 I feel a strong immortal hope,
Which bears my mournful spirit up,

Beneath its mountain load ;
Redeemed from death, and grief, and pain,
I soon shall find my friend again

Within the arms of God.

3 Pass a few fleeting moments more,
And death the blessing shall restore

"Which death has snatched away ;
For me thou wilt the summons send,
And give me back my parted friend,

In that eternal day.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This beautiful little poem is one of the Short
Hymns on. Select Passages if the Holy Scriptures,
lT'Jii. It was written on these words:

"Sorrow not, even as others which have no
hope." 1 Thess. iv, 13.

The thought is brought out vcrv beautifully, that
while the Christian mourns the death of a friend
his sorrows are mitigated by the hope of a speedy
reunion. The original has " hath''' instead (if
"has" in verse three, line three. Otherwise it is
unchanged.

968 Tht momentous question-. ('. P. M.

AND am I only born to die?
And must I suddenly comply
With nature's stern decree?
What alter death for me remains?
Celestiid joys, or hellish pains,
To all eternity !

2 How then ought I on earth to live,
While God prolongs the kind reprieve,

And props the house of clay?
My sole concern, my single care,
To watch, and tremble, and prepare

Against that fatal day.

3 Xo room for mirth or trifling here,
For worldly hope, or worldly fear,

If life so soon is gone;
If now the Judge is at the door,
And all mankind must stand before

The inexorable throne!

4 No matter which my thoughts employ,
A moment's misery or joy ;

But O ! when both shall end,
Where shall I find my destined place?
Shall I my everlasting days

Wxith fiends, or angels spend?

5 Nothing is worth a thought beneath.
But how I may escape the death

That never, never dies ;
How make mine own election sure;
And, when I fail on earth, secure

A mansion in the skies. •

6 Jesus, vouchsafe a pitying ray;
Be thou my guide, be thou my way

To glorious happiness.
Ah ! write the pardon on my heart,
And whensoe'er I hence depart,

Let me depart in peace.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Published without title in Hymns for Children,
1703.

The only change is that the original has " the"
instead of "that" in the last line of the second
stanza.

His Hymns for Children contained one hundred
pieces. In the preface of the 1790 edition the
author says:

" There are two ways of writing or speaking to
children : the one is, to let ourselves down to theni :
the other, to lift them to us."

The author evidently believed in the second
plan, and wrote those hymns accordingly.

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069 The dying Christian to his soul. P.M.

VITAL spark of heavenly flame,
Quit, 0 quit this mortal frame;
Trembling, hoping, lingering, Hying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.

2 I lark! they whisper: angels say,
" Sister spirit, come away! "
What is this absorbs me quite —
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirit, draws my breath? —
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?

3 The world recedes — it disappears;
Heaven opens on my eyes ; my ears

With sounds seraphic ring!
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
" O Grave, where is thy victory?

O Death, where is thy sting? "

ALEXANDER POPE.

This famous ode is indeed a wonderful produc-
tion. Every line of it contains a beauty of its own.

It is thought that in the composition of this
hymn, the author was indebted to the Latin lines
of the Roman Emperor Adrian, in his Address to
hisSoul when Dying ; and perhaps to the English
lines of F hitman, an old hymn writer. This may
he true ; every author borrows more or less, con-
sciously or unconsciously, but the credit of the
authorship of this poetical gem cannot be taken
from Pope. It was written in 1712.

Alexander Pope lived from 1688 to 1744 — fifty-
six years. He was never well ; he had a giant soul
in a dwarfed and feeble body. Pope was born a
poet, and " lisped in numbers ; " was brought up
on Spenser and Dryden, Ovid and Homer, and be-
gan to write for publications at the age of sixteen,
lie lived and died a Roman Catholic.

970 cm.

We mourn not as those without hope.

WHY do we mourn for dying friends,
Or shake at death's alarms?
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends,
To call them to his arms.

.' Are we not tending upward too,

As fast as time can move?
Nor should we wish the hours more slow,

To keep us from our love.

:; Why should we tremble to convey

Their bodies to the tomb?
There once the flesh of Jesus lay,

And left a lung perfume.

4 The graves of all his saints he blest,
And softened every bed:

Whore should the dying members rest,
But with their dying Head?

5 Thence he arose, ascendiug high,
And showed our feet the way :

Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly,
At the great rising-day.

G Then let the last loud trumpet sound,

And bid our kindred rise:
Awake, ye nations Tinder ground;

Ye saints, ascend the skies !

ISAAC WATTS.

Title:
Watte

The Death and Burial of a Saint.
wrote the first line :

" Why do we mourn departing friends."

This is more scriptural and more poetic than
"dying friends," as found here. The third line of
the third stanza has also been changed. Watts
wrote :

" There the dear flesh of Jesus lay."

This change doubtless had its origin in the pro-
nounced opposition of John Wesley to such terms
of endearment when applied to the Saviour. This
hymn was introduced to our Collection in Th> Sup-
plement to the Methodist Bucket Hymn Book, 1808

From Hymns and Spiritual Somjs, book ii, 1707.

971 To die is gain. C. M.

WHY should our tears in sorrow flow
When God recalls his own,
And bids them leave a world of woe,
For an immortal crown ?

2 Is not e'en death a gain to those
Whose life to God was given?

Gladly to earth their eyes they close,
To open them in heaven.

3 Their toils are past, their work is done.
And they are fully blest ;

They fought the fight, the victory won.
And entered into rest.

4 Then let our sorrows cease to flow ;
God has recalled his own;

But let our hearts, in every woe.
Still say, "Thy will be done."

UNKNOWN.

This fine ode is frequently used on funeral occa-
sion-. It is Bometimea accredited to Bathurst, ana
Bometimea to Pratt; but it belongs to neither.

It was one of several Original hymns contributed
to the Missionary Psalmist, 1826, by 0. P.

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972 A wi:t from the tombs. CM.

HARK : from the tombs a doleful aound ;
\h ears, attend the cry;
'• Y. living men, mine view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.

I •• Princes, this clay must be your bed,

In spite of all your towers;
The tall, the wise, the reverend head,

Must lie as low as ours."

:? Qreat God! is this our certain doom?

Ami arc we -till secure?
Still walking downward to the tomb,

And yet prepared no more?

4 Grant us the power of quickening grace

To fit our souls to fly :
Then, when we drop this dying flesh,

Well rise above the sky.

ISAAC WATTS.

Author's title : .4 Fun- ral Thought.

Watts wrote " our tomb " in the third line of the
third verse, and "powers" in the first line of the
fourth.

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii,
1707.

973 Through death to life. C. M.

THROUGH sorrow's night, and danger's
path.
Amid the deepening gloom.
We, followers of our suffering Lord,
Are marching to the tomb.

2 There, when the turmoil is no more,
And all our powers decay,

Our cold remains in solitude
Shall sleep the years away.

3 Our labors done, securely laid
In this our last retreat,

Unheeded o'er our silent dust,
The storms of earth shall beat.

4 Yet not thus buried, or extinct.
The vital spark shall lie;

For o'er life's wreck that spark shall rise
To seek its kindred sky.

.j These ashes, too, this little dust

Our Father's care shall keep,
Till the last angel rise and break

The long and dreary sleep.

II. KIRKE WHITE.
Title: Hope in, tlie Resurrection.

From William B. Collyer's Hymns, I'utly Col-

*d Rtrtly Original. London, 1812.
A few lines have been changed. The third line
of the tir^t stanza the author wrote:

" We, soldi** of an inured King;"

and the rirst line of the fourth stanza:
M Yet not thus lifeless, thus inane."

There is one additional stanza :

6 " Then love's soft dew o'er every eye

Shall shed its mildest rays,
And the long silent dust shall bur.-t
With shouts of endless praise."

For biographieal sketch of author, see No. 22.

974 Peaceful departure. C. M.

BEHOLD the western evening light !
It melts in deepening gloom:
So calmly Christians sink away,
Descending to the tomb.

2 The winds breathe low, the withering leaf
Scarce whispers from the tree :

So gently flows the parting breath,
When good men cease to be.

3 How beautiful on all the hills
The crimson light is shed !

'Tis like the peace the Christian gives
To mourners round his bed.

4 How mildly on the wandering cloud
The sunset beam is east !

Tis like the memory left behind
When loved ones breathe their last.

5 And now above the dews of night
The rising star appears:

So faith springs in the heart of those
Whose eyes are bathed in tears.

G But soon the morning's happier light

Its glory shall restore;
And eyelids that are sealed in death

Shall wake to close no more.

WILLIAM 15. O. PEABODT.

Title: The Autumn Evening.

This hymn is one of the ten sacred poems that
the author annexed to his Catechism for Children,
published in 1823.

One word has been ehansred. The second line ot
the tilth verse the author wrote :

"The yellow star appears."

The Rev. William Bourn Oliver Peabody, D.D.,

a Unitarian clergyman, was born in Exeter, N. II.,

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in 1799: was graduated at Harvard College in 1817,
and then studied theology at Cambridge Divinity
School. In 1820 he was ordained pastor of a church
in Springfield, Muss., where he remained until the
tunc of his death, in 1847.

9/0 Thou art with me. Psa. xxiii, 4. CM.

THAT solemn hour will come for me,
Winn, though their charms I own,
All human ties resigned must be;
For I must die alone.

2 All earthly pleasures will be o'er,
All earthly labors done,

And I shall tread the eternal shore,
And I must die alone.

3 But O, I will not view with dread
That shadowy vale unknown:

I see a light within it shed ;
I shall not die alone !

4 One will be with me there, whose voice
I long have loved and known ;

To die is now my wish, my choice:
I shall not die alone!

UNKNOWN.

The text of this hymn is tlie same as found in
The Salbath Hymn Book\ 1858, where it is without
name. The author is still unknown.

y / O Christ's presence makes dying easy. L. M.

WHY should we start, and fear to die?
What timorous worms we mortals are?
Death is the gate to endless joy,
And yet we dread to enter there.

2 The pains, the groans, the dying strife,
Fright our approaching souls away:

And we shrink back again to life,
Fond of our prison and our clay.

3 O would my Lord his servant meet,

My soul would stretch her wings in haste,
Fly fearless through death's iron gate,
Nor feel the terrors as she passed.

4 Jesus can make a dying bed

Feel soft as downy pillows are.
While on his breast I lean my head,
And breathe my life out sweetly there.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title: Christ'* Presence Mates Death Easy.
The first part of the third stanza the author wrote :

'■ Oh! if my Lord would eome and meet
My soul ! she'd stretch her wings in haste."

The chancre is an improvement.

The last stanza has been the beautiful and vic-
torious testimony of many a departing Christian.
From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

c/// Sown in dishonor — raised in glory. L. M.

THE morning flowers display their sweets,
And gay their silken leaves unfold,
As careless of the noontide heats,
As fearless of the evening cold.

2 Nipped by the wind's unkindly blast,
Parched by the sun's directer ray,

The momentary glories waste,

The short-lived beauties die away.

3 So blooms the human face divine,
When youth its pride of beauty shows;

Fairer than spring the colors shite,
And sweeter than the virgin rose.

4 Or worn by slowly rolling years,
Or broke by sickness in a day,

The fading glory disappears,

The short-lived beauties die away.

5 Yet these, new rising from the tomb,
With luster brighter far shall shine,

Revive with ever-during bloom,
Safe from diseases and decline.

6 Let sickness blast, let death devour,
If heaven must recompense our pains;

Perish the grass, and fade the flower,
If firm the word of God remains.

SAMUEL WE! LEY, JK.

Original title : Veiws on Isaiah xl, fi, 8.

" All flesh is gra-^s, and all the sroodlincss thereof is
as the flower oi the field : .. . The grass withereth,

the flower fadeth : but the word of our God shall
stand lor ever."

The composition of this hvmn was occasioned by
the death oi a young lady. The subject is a mourn-
ful one; but the author lias woven into it so much
i it li< 'i c and truth and beauty that Death himself is
robbed of his terrore. It was written in 1735, and
is unaltered and entire.

From the author's Poems. London, 1862.

For biographical sketch, see No. 75.

Prov.

978

The memory of the just is blessed.

EARTH'S transitory things decay;
Its pomps, its pleasures, pass away
But the sweet memory of the good
Survives in the vicissitude.

L. M.

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IIYMN STUDIES.

375

| As, 'mill tlif ever-rolling sea,
Tlu' eternal isles established I"1.
'Qainst which the Burgea of the main
Fret, dash, ami break themselves in vain;

:i As, in the heavens, the urns divine

Of golden light forever shine,

Though clouds may darken, storms may

rage,
Th.-v still shine on from age to age;

4 So, through the ocean-tide of years,
The memory of the just appears;
So, through the tempest and the gloom,
The good man's virtues light the tomb.
SIK JOHN BOWRING.

Author's title : The Righteous Shall be in Ever-
lasting Remembrance.

The last and best stanza — and they are all excel-
lent— is omitted :

5 " Happy the righteous 1 come what may,
Though heaven dissolve and earth decay ;
Happy the righteous man! for he
Belongs to immortality."

Unaltered. From Matins and Vespers. London,
1828.

See No. 150.

979

L. M.

Asleep in Jesus.

ASLEEP in Jesus ! blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep !
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Unbroken by the last of foes.

2 Asleep in Jesus ! O how sweet

To be for such a slumber meet !

With holy confidence to sing,

That Death hath lost his venomed sting.

'■> Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest,
Whose waking is supremely blest !
No fear, no woe, shall dim that hour
That manifests the Saviour's power.

4 Asleep in Jesus ! O for me
May such a blissful refuge be!
Securely shall my ashes lie,
Waiting the summons from on high.

•"> Asleep in Jesus ! far from thee
Thy kindred and their graves may be;
But thine is still a blessed sleep,
From which none ever wakes to weep.

MHS. MARGARET MACKAY.

The burden of this soner was suggested to the
writer by an inscription that she saw on a tomb-

stone in the retired burying-ground of Pennycross
Chapel, in Devonshire :

Sleeping in Jesus.
One stanza, the tilth, has been omitted:
;") " Asleep in Jesus! time nor space

Debars this precious " hiding-place;"

On Indian plains or Lapland snows
Believers tind the same repose."

Mrs. Margaret Mackay was horn in Scotland in
L801. This hymn was first published in The
Amethyst, an annual published in Edinburgh, 1S32.

980 The Christian's parting hour. L. M.

HOW sweet the hour of closing day,
When all is peaceful and serene,
And when the sun, with cloudless ray,
Sheds mellow luster o'er the scene !

2 Such is the Christian's parting hour ;
So peacefully he sinks to rest,

When faith, endued from heaven with
power,
Sustains and cheers his languid breast.

3 Mark but that radiance of his eye,
That smile upon his wasted cheek;

They tell us of his glory nigh,

In language that no tongue can speak.

4 A beam from heaven is sent to cheer
The pilgrim on his gloomy road ;

And angels are attending near,

To bear him to their bright abode.

5 Who would not wish to die like those
Whom God's own Spirit deigns to bless?

To sink into that soft repose,
Then wake to perfect happiness?

"WILLIAM H. BATHURST, ALT.

Title: Death of the Chrislian.

The first three stanzas have heen altered consid-
erably. The author wrote the last part of the first
stanza :

" And the broad sun's retiring ray
Sheds a mild luster o'er the scene ; "

and the last part of the second stanza :

" And faith, rekindling all its power,
Lights vp the languor of his breast."

The first part of the third stanza was originally:

" There is a radiance in his eye,

A smile upon his wasted cheek,
That seems to tell of glory nigh," etc.

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HYMN STUDIES.

There id also one additional stanza :

6 "O Lord, that we may thus depart,
Thy joys to share, thy lace to .sec,

Impress thine image on our he-art,
And leaeli us now to walk with thee."

From l\>alms and Hymns fur Public and Private
Use. Loudon, 1881.
For biographical sketch, see No. 61.

981 The vision of faith. L. M.

SHALL mean, O God of light and life,
Forever molder in the grave?
Canst thou forget thy glorious work,
Thy promise, and thy power to save?

2 In those dark, solemn realms of night,
Shall peace and hope no more arise i

No future morning light the tomb,
No day-star gild the darksome skies?

o Cease, cease, ye vain, desponding fears:
When Christ, our Lord, from darkness
sprang,
Death, the last foe, was captive led,

And heaven with praise and wonder
rang.

4 Faith sees the bright, eternal doors
Unfold, to make his children way;

They shall be clothed with endless life.
And shine in everlasting day.

TIMOTHY DWIGTIT.

Title : Death Not the End of our Brina.
Ten stanzas, founded on Psa. ixxxviii, 10-12 :

" "Wilt thou show wonders to the dead ? shall
the dead arise and praise thee? Shall thy lov-
ing-kindness be declared in the grave ? or Un-
faithfulness in destruction? Shall thy wonders be
known in the dark ? and thy righteousness in the
land of forgetful ness ? "

These stanzas are verses one, four, seven, and
nine of the original.

A slight change has been made in the first line
of the second stanza. The author wrote:

" But in those sihnt realms of night."
From Dr. Dwight's edition of Wntts's Psalms,

982 l.m.

Bh used are the dead which die in the Lord.

HOW blest the righteous when he dies!
When sinks a weary soul to rest !
How mildly beam thfl closing eyes.

How gently heaves the expiring breast!

2 So fades a summer cloud away ;

So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;
So gently shuts the eye of day ;
So dies a wave along the shore.

3 A holy quiet reigns around,

A calm which life nor death destroys;
And naught disturbs that peace profound
Which his unfettered soul enjoys.

4 Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears,
Where lights and shades alternate dwell;

How bright the unchanging morn appears!
Farewell, inconstant world, farewell!

.5 Life's labor done, as sinks the clay,
Light from its load the spirit flies,

While heaven and earth combine to say,
" How blest the righteous when he dies ! "

MRS. ANNA L. BARBAULD, ALT.

Title: The Death of the Virtuous.

The author wrote the first two lines thus:

" Sweet is the .»c< n< when Virtue dies !
When sinks a righteous soul to rest."

In place of the third stanza the author wrote :

" Triumphant smiles the victor brow,
Fanned by some angel's purple wing:

Where is, O Grave! thy victory now?
And where, Insidious Death ! thy sting?"

Some other lines have been altered.
Verse tour, lines one and two :

" Farewell, conflicting joy* and fears,
Where light and shade alternate dwell."

Verse five, lines one and four :

"Its duty done — as sinks the clay."
"Sweet is the scene when Virtue dies."

From the author's Works.
See No. 11.

Boston, 1826.

L. M.

983 Disembodied saints.

TnE saints who die of Christ possessed,
Enter into immediate rest ;
For them no further test remains.
Of purging fires and torturing pains.

•2 Who trusting in their Lord depart,
Cleansed from all sin. and pure in heart,
The bliss unmixed, the glorious prize,
They find with Christ in paradise.

3 Yet, glorified by grace alone.
They cast their crowns before the throne,
And fill the echoing courts above
With praises of redeeming love.

CHARLES WESLEY.

HYM.X 8TUDIE8.

377

From Short Hymn* on Select Passcu/ts of the lldy

7"-.
Tnis i» written on Rev xiv, 13:

ire the dead which die in the Lord
from henceforth : Fea, aaiththe Spirit, that they
may rest from their labors; and their works do
foilow them."

It would seein from theBe lines that the hymn

was written to celebrate the death of some inly.

From Miscellaneous Thought* in J',>>.«:d/tJ Verse,
1784

Four lines, following

been omitted:

the second stanza, have

M followed by their works they go,
Their Master's purchased joy to know ;

Tln-ir works enhance the i>li-s prepared
And each hath its distinct reward."

984 / in peace. L. XI-

UN' VEIL thy bosom, faithful tomb;
Take this new treasure to thy trust,
And give these sacred relics room
To slumber in the silent dust.

'.2 N'< >r pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear
Invade thy bounds; no mortal woes

Can reach the peaceful sleeper here,
While angels watch the soft repose.

3 So Jesus slept; God's dying Son
Passed through the grave, and blest the

bed;
Rest here, blest saint, till from his throne
The morning break, and pierce the shade.

4 Break from his throne, illustrious morn !
Attend, O earth, his sovereign word!

Restore thy trust ; a glorious form
Shall then ascend to meet the Lord.

ISAAC WATTS.

Authors title : Death and Heaven, in Five Lyric
Ode*.

This the last of the five, entitled A Funeral Ode
at the Interment of the B-jdg, Supposed to be Sung
by the Mourners.

Some slight changes have been made.

Original Lines.
Veree one, hue four :

" To seek a slumber in the dust."
Verse two, lines three and four:

" Can reach the lovely sleeper here,
And angels watch /tirsoft repose."

Verse three, line three :

" Rest here, /air saint, till from his throne."

Tene four, line four:

" She must ascend to meet her Lord."

985 ■>'[] over death. C. M.

OFOR an overcoming faith,
To choir my dying hours,
'lo triumph o'er approaching Death,
And all his frightful powers!

2 Joyful with all the strength I have,
My quivering lips should sing,

"Where is thy boasted victory. Grave?
And where, O Death, thy sting?"

3 If sin be pardoned, I'm secure;
Death has no sting beside:

The law gives sin its damning power;
But Christ, my ransom, died.

4 Now to the God of victory
Immortal thanks be paid,

"Who makes us conquerors, while we die,
Through Christ, our living Head.

ISAAC WATTS.

As an exception to the rule, this hymn retains
its original title. It is founded on a familiar pas-
sage in 1 Cor. xv, 55-5" :

"0 death, •where is thy sting 1 0 grave, where
is thy victory ? The sting of death is^-iu ; and the
strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God,
which giveth us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ"

Two lines have been changed.
Verse one, line three :

" To triumph o'er the monster Death."

Verse two, line four :

" And where the monster's sting? "

By this last change the personification of the
third line is repeated in the fourth, and the effect
is highly poetical and pleasing. The Christian
triumph "expressed in the second stanza is especial-
ly grand.

From Hymns and Spiritual Son-gs, book i, 1707.

986 Route I to bloom inparadise. C. XL
TT7H0 shall forbid our chastened woe,
\ | Our tears of love to start ?
There's balm in their assuaging flow,
To heal the wounded heart !

2 This lovely child, thus early torn
From our fond breasts away.

With silent grief is gently borne
To its lone bed of clay.

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HYMN STUDIES.

3 Here sleep, thou, till our longer race
And heavier toils shall close;

Then shall we seek thy resting-place,
And share thy long repose.

4 We plant thee here, with tears bedewed,
Bright flower of heavenly dye;

And often shall our griefs renewed,
These flowing founts supply.

5 But thou shalt yet in beauty bloom,
A plant of paradise ;

And gladden with thy sweet perfume
Our mansion in the skies.

WILLIAM HUNTER.

Written in 1843, and published in Select Melo-
dies. It was altered for this collection by the
author.

The Rev. William Hunter, D.D., was born in
Ireland in 1811, and came to this country when a
child. In early life he labored untiringly to secure
an education, and was graduated at Madison College,
in 1833. lie was for some years an editor, and then
Professor of Hebrew and Biblical Literature in Al-
legheny College. Dr. Hunter was an able-preacher,
and a sound and thorough instructor. He was the
author of a lartre number of hymns, which appeared
in his three books of song, viz., Select Melodic,
1838-51 ; Minstrel of Zion, 1845 ; and Songs of De-
votion, 1860.

Dr. Hunter was one of the committee appointed
by the General Conference of 1870 to edit the
Hymnal. He died in 1877.

987 Death of children. C. M.

THY life I read, my gracious Lord,
With transport all divine:
Thine image trace in every word,
Thy love in every line.

2 Methinks I see a thousand charms
Spread o'er thy lovely face.

While infants in thy tender arms
Receive the smiling grace.

3 "I take these little lambs," said he,
" And lav them in my breast;

Protection they shall find in me,
In me be ever blest.

4 "Death may the bands of life unloose,
But can't dissolve my love;

Millions of infant souls compose
The family above."

s WIII'.I. STENNETT.

Title: Children Dying in their Infancy in the
Arms of Jesus,

Scripture basis, Matt, xix, 14 :

" But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and for-
bid them nut, to come unto me; for of such is the
kingdon of heaven."

The author wrote "dearest" instead of "gracious "
in the tirst line.

There are two additional stanzas :

5 " Their feeble frames my power shall raise,
And mould with heavenly skill:

I'll give them tongues to sing my praise,
And hands to do my will.

6 " His words the happy parents hear,
And shout with joys divine,

Dear Saviour, all we have and are
Shall be forever thine."

This was contributed to Rippon's Selection, 17
also found in the author's \i or 1:8. London, 182
See No. 218.

87;
1824.

988 Tlie sharpness of death overcome. CM.

CALM on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit, rest thee now !
E'en while with us thy footsteps trod,
His seal was on thy brow.

2 Dust, to its narrow house beneath !
Soul, to its place on high!

They that have seen thy look in death,
No more may fear to die.

3 Lone are the paths, and sad the bowers,
Whence thy meek smile is gone;

But O, a brighter home titan ours,
In heaven is now thine own.

MRS. FELICIA D. HEMAXS.

Title: A Dxrqe.

From the author's Hymns for Childhood.

The tirst two stanzas constitute Mrs. Hcmans'B
epitaph. She wrote them for another, but they
were appropriately applied to her.

For biographical sketch, see No. 618.

989 Death vanquished C. M.

WHEN the last trumpet's awful voice
This rending earth shall shake;
When opeuing graves shall yield their
charge,
And dust to life awake;

2 Those bodies that corrupted fell

Shall incorrupt arise,
And mortal forms shall spring to life

Immortal iu the skies.

HYMN STUDIES.

379

:; Behold, whal heavenly prophets sung

Is n.)\«. at last fulfilled;
And Death yields up his ancient reign,
Ami, vanquished, quits the Beld.

t Let Faith exalt her joyful voice,

Ami now in triumph Bing:
"0 Grave, where is thy victory?

And where, O Death, thy Bting?"

WILLIAM CAMEHON.

Pari ofa paraphrase of l Cor. jcv, 52-58.
These stanzas are the first half of the hymn aa
t.Hin.l in the Scotch Hiraphrases. Compare them

with 1 Cor. xv, 52-55 :

" In a moment in the twinkling of an eve, at
the last trump : for the trumpet shall sound, and
the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed. For this corruptible must put on in-
eorruption, and this mortal mutt put on immortal-
ity. So when this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the Bay-
ing that is written, Death is swallowed up in
victory. 0 death, where is thy sting? O grave,
9 here is thy victory i"

Four lines have been altered.

Original Form.
Verse two, line two :
" Shall meorrvpted rise."

Verse three, line three:
" That Death should yield his ancient reign."

Verse four, lines two and three :

" And thus begin to sing ;

O Grave ! where is thy triumph now?"

The Rev. William Cameron, a Presbyterian
minister in the Church of Scotland, was born in
17"d, and lived until 1818. He was educated at
Maiischal College, Aberdeen, and ordained in 1785.

4 () for the death of those
Who slumber id the Lord!

() be like theirs my last repose,
Like theirs my last reward.

UNKNOWN.

This hymn has been frequently attributed to

James Montgomery. This mistake occurred, prob-
ably, because the tirst line is the same as the that
line of his Ode to the Volunteers of Britain:

"Oh for the death of those
Who for their country die.''''

The hymn has been traced to Church Fbalmody,

edited by Lowell Mason and David Green, (1831 J
where it appears without name. Some hymn
books attribute this hymn to S. F. Smith. Dr.
Smith writes ine : "'O for the death of those.' is
not one of my hymns." It must bo marked
unknown.

990 s.m.

Lit me die the death of the righteous.

OFOR the death of those
Who slumber in the Lord!
t) be like theirs my last repose,
Like theirs my last reward !

2 Their bodies in the ground,

In silent hope may lie,
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound

Shall call them to the sky.

:! Their ransomed spirits soar,
On wings of faith ami love,

To meet the Saviour they adore,
And reign with him above.

991 The conqueror crowned. S.M.

SERVANT of God, well done!
Thy glorious warfare's past ;
The battle's fought, the race is won,
And thou art crowned at last ;

2 Of all thy heart's desire
Triumphantly possessed ;

Lodged by the ministerial choir
In thy Redeemer's breast.

3 In condescending love,

Thy ceaseless prayer he heard ;
And bade thee suddenly remove
To thy complete reward.

4 With saints enthroned on high,
Thou dost thy Lord proclaim,

And still to God salvation cry,
Salvation to the Lamb \

5 O happy, happy soul!
In ecstasies of praise,

Long as eternal ages roll,

Thou seest thy Saviour's face.

6 Redeemed from earth and pain,
Ah! when shall we ascend,

And all in Jesus' presence reign
With our translated friend?

CIIAKLES WF.SLEY.

An Hymn on the Death of the Rev. George
WhilefiHd.

This valuable hymn has found no place in the
Wesleyan Collection to this day. It came into the
Methodist Episcopal hymn book in 1849. It was
published at the end of John Wesley's funeral ser-
mon on Whitefleld, preached Nov. is, 1770.

Bight lines are omitted.

The whole hymn is found in Wesley's Sermons,
vol. i, p. 480. American edition. It is not alteied.

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HYMN STUDIES.

992 Death of a pastor, S. M.

REST from thy labor, rest,
Soul of the just, set free!
Blest be thy memory, and blest
Thy bright example be!

2 Now, toil and conflict o'er,
Go, take with saints thy place;

But go, as each has gone before,
A sinner saved by grace.

3 Saviour, into thy hands
Our pastor we resign,

And now we wait thine own commands;
We were not his but thine.

4 Thou art thy Church's Head ;
And when the members die,

Thou raisest others in their stead;
To thee we lift our eye.

5 On thee our hopes depend,
We gather round our Rock;

Send whom thou wilt, but condescend
Thyself to feed the flock.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title: On the Death of a Minister.

Slight changes have oeen made in three lines.

Original.
Verse one, line one :

" Eest from thy labors, rest."

Verse three, line one :

" Lord Christ, into thy hands."

Verse five, line four :

" Thyself to feed Thy flock."

Contributed to The Congnyatioual Hymn Boole
London, 1836.

993 R is not death to die. S. M.

IT is not death to die. —
To leave this weary road.
And, 'mid the brotherhood on high,
To be at home with God.

2 It is not death to close

The eve long dimmed by tears,
And wake, in glorious repose

To spend eternal years.

3 Tt is not death to bear

The wrench that Beta US free.
Prom dungeon chain, to breathe the air
Of boundless liberty.

4 It is not death to fling
Aside this sinful dust,

And rise, on strong exulting wing,
To live among the just.

5 Jesus, thou Prince of life,
Thy chosen cannot die!

Like thee, they conquer in the strife,
To reign with thee on high.

II. A. C. MALAN.
TK. BY G. W. BETHUNE.

Verbatim, from Lays oj Love and Faith. Phila-
delphia, ]S47.

This beautiful and triumphant hymn was Bung
at Dr. Bethune's funeral, in accordance with his
special request.

The Rev. Henri Abraham Caesar Halan, D.D.,
was born in Geneva, in 17s7. He was a precocious
child and a man of genius. In 1810 he \\;is conse-
crated to the ministry, and was appointed to preach
in the Cathedral at Geneva, that Calvin had lor-
iiierly occupied. This venerable Presbytery hail he-
come rationalistic and Socinian. Malan vu led to
see its errors: became orthodox in faith and expe-
rience ; and, in 1818, was in consequence dismissed
from the Established Church, lie continued to
preach, write, and labor v> iih great zeal and success
until his deatii in 1864.

For biographical sketch of the translator, see
No. 333.

994: Resting in hope. S. M.

REST for the toiling hand,
Eest for the anxious brow,
Rest for thi' weary, way-sore feet,
Rest from all labor now.

2 Rest for the fevered brain,

Rest for the throbbing eye;
Through these parched lips of thine no more

Shall pass the moan or sigh.

'■) Soon shall the trump of God

Give out the welcome sound,
That shakes thy silent chamber-walls,

And breaks the turf-sealed grouud.

4 Ye dwellers in the dust.

Awake, come forth and sing!
Sharp has your frost of winter been,

But bright shall be your spring.

'Twas sown in weakness here,
'Twill then be raised in power;

That which was sown an earthly seed,
Shall rise a heavenly flower.

iioKATirs BONAR.

These arc the hist five versus <>t' a hymn of thir-
teen stanzas, entitled The Flesh Jutting in Hope.

HYMN STUDIES.

881

The sec >nd lino of the first stanza the author
wrote:

" Rest for the thought-worn brow."

From lli/m n-i f Fttithand //<<//«. tir>t Beries, L857.
For sketch of author, see No. 4-Jo.

995 Ben i* ///'•(, /a shall live also. B, M.

AND must this body die,
This well-WTOUght frame decay?
And musl these active limbs of miue
Lie moldering in the clay?

2 God. my Redeemer, lives,
And ever from the skies

Looks down, and watches all my dust,
Till he shall bid it rise.

3 Arrayed in glorious grace
Shall these vile bodies shine.

And every shape, and every face,
Be heavenly and divine.

4 These lively hopes we owe,
Lord, to thy dying love :

O may we bless thy grace below,
And sing thy grace above !

5 Saviour, accept the praise
Of these our humble songs,

Till tunes of nobler sound we raise
With our immortal tongues.

ISAAC WATTS.

Author's title : Triumph over Death, in Hope of
the Resurrection.

The second stanza has deen left out for good and
sufficient reasons. It read as follows:

" Corruption, earth, and worms,

Shall out refine this liesh,
Till my triumphant spirit comes

To put it on afresh."

Six lines have been changed. The first of them
i> remarkable.

Verse two, line two :

" And often from the skies."
Verse three, line four:

" Look heavenly and divine."
The fourth stanza the author wrote thus :

•' These lively hopes we owe,

T<> Jetuif dyinir love :
We would nd on' his grace below,

And sing his power above."

The first line of the fifth stanza, Watts wrote:

"Dear Lord, accept the praise."
From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

996 Solemn thoughts of the future, S. M.

AN D am I born to die?
To lay this body down ?
And must my trembling spirit fly

Into a world unknown—
A land of deepest shade,

Dnpierced by human thought,
The dreary regions of the dead,
Where all things are forgot?

2 Soon as from earth I go,
What will become of me?

Eternal happiness or woe

Must then my portion be:
Waked by the trumpet's sound,

I from my grave shall rise,
And see the Judge, with glory crowned,

And see the flaming skies!

3 Who can resolve the doubt
That tears my anxious breast?

Shall I be with the damned cast out,
Or numbered with the blest?

I must from God be driven,
Or with my Saviour dwell;

Must come at his command to heaven,
Or else — depart to hell !

4 O thou who wouldst not have
One wretched sinner die;

Who diedst thyself my soul to save

From endless misery ;
Show me the way to shun

Thy dreadful wrath severe,
That when thou contest on thy throne

I may with joy appear.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Published without title in Hymns for Children.
Bristol, 1763.
Two stanzas, the third and last, are omitted:

3 " How shall I leave my tomb ?

With triumph or regret!
A fearful or a joyful doom,

A curse or blessing meet?
Shall angel-bands convey

Their brother to the bar ?
Or devils drag my soul away,

To meet its sentence there s

6 " Thou art Thyself the Way :

Thyself in me reveal,
So shall I pass rav life's short day,

Obedient to Thy will;
So shall I love my God,

Because He first loved mc,
And praise Thee in Thy bright abode,

Through all eternity."

The original has "darkest" instead of " deepest "
in verse one, line five.

382

HYMN STUDIES.

997 For victory in death. S. M.

WHEN on the brink of death
My trembling soul .shall stand,
Waiting to pass that awful flood,
Great God, at thy command, —

2 When every scene of life

Stands ready to depart,
And the last sigh that shakes the frame
Shall rend this bursting heart, —

3 Thou Source of joy supreme,
Whose arm alone can save,

Dispel the darkness that surrounds
The entrance to the grave.

4 Lay thy supporting hand
Beneath my sinking head ;

And with a ray of love divine
Illume my dying bed.

5 Leaning on Jesus' breast,
May I resign my breath;

And in his kind embraces lose
The bitterness of death.

WILLIAM B. COLLYER, ALT.

Title : Surely the bitterness of death is past.
1 Sam. xv, 32.

The second stanzas is omitted, and the rest filtered
to change the meter from common to short.

Original.

1 " When bending o'er the brink of life,
My trembling soul shall stand ;

Waiting to pass death's awful flood,
Great God, at thy command :

2 " When weeping friends surround my bed,
And close my sightless eyes ;

When laden with the weight of years,
This broken body lies :

3 "When every long-loved scene of life,
Stands ready to depart;

When the last sigh that shakes the frame,
Shall rend this bursting heart :

4 " O thou great Souree of joy supreme,
Whose arm alone can save,

Dispel the darkness that surrounds,
The entrance to the grave !

5 " Lay thy supporting, gentle hand,
Beneath my sinking head ;

And let a beam of love divine,
Illume my <lying bed.

6 "Leaning on thy dear, faithful hreast,
May I resign my breath;

And in thy soft embraces lose
' The bitterness of death.' "

From Hymns Partly Collected and Partly Orig-
inal, 1812.
See No. 854.

998 I woxdd not live ahvay . 11.

I WOULD not live alway ; I ask not to stay
Where storm after storm rises dark o'er
the way :
The few lurid mornings that dawn on us heYe
Are enough for life's woes, full enough for
its cheer.

2 I would not live alway; no, welcome the

tomb!
Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its

gloom ;
There sweet be my rest till he bid me arise,
To hail him in triumph descending the skies.

3 Who, who would live alway, away from

his God;
Away from yon heaven, that blissful abode,
Where the rivers of pleasure flow o'er the

bright plains,
And the noontide of glory eternally reigns!

4 Where the saints of all ages in harmony

meet,
Their Saviour and brethren transported to

greet ;
While the anthems of rapture unceasin<_lv

roll,
And the smile of the Lord is the feast of

the soul.

WILLIAM A. MTHLENBEKG.

The original poem, containing twelve stanzas, was
published in the Episcopal Recorder, Philadelphia,
in 1826. This bymn was compiled from that poem
for the Hymn Collection of the Irotestant Wpiscoj <■/
Chvrch, 1826.

The author, who was a member of the editorial
committee, says in his Journal : " ' I would <not live
alway,' was at first rejected by the committee, in
which I — not suspected of being the author — agreed,
knowing it was rather poetry than an earnest Bong
of redemption. It was restored at the urgent re-
quest of Dr. Onderdonk."

The burden of the song is from Job vii, 16 :

"I would not live alway: let me alone; for my
days are vanity."

It was revised and lengthened by the author in
1859.
For biographical sketch, see No. 388.

999 Thou art gone to the grave. 13,11.12.

THOU art gone to the grave; but we will
not deplore thee,
Though sorrows and darkness encompass
the tomb;
Thy Saviour has passed through its portals
before thee.
And the lamp of his love is thy guide
through the gloom.

HYMN STUDIES.

383

2 Thou art gone to the grave; we do longer

behold thee,

Nor tread the rough path of the world by
thy aide:

But the wide arms of mercy arc spread to

enfold thee,

And sinners may die, for the Sinless hath
died.

3 Thou art gone to the grave; and, its man-

sion forsaking,
Perchance thy weak spirit in fear lingered

long;
But the mild rays of paradise beamed on thy

waking,
And the Bound which thou heardst was

the seraphim's song.

4 Thou art gone to the grave; but we will

not deplore thee;

Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian,
and guide :
He gave thee, he took thee, and he will re-
store thee ;

And death has no sting, for the Saviour
has died.

REGINALD HEBER.

Title : At a Funeral.

Bishop Heber wrote this hymn on the death of
his only child, who died in December, 1818. In
the Memoirs, his widow says that the hymn may
be traced to the feelings which this bereavement
occasioned.

Unaltered. From Hymns Written and Adapted
to the Weekly Church Service of the Year, 1827.

See No. 62.

1000 Clothed with immortality. 7.

"QPIRIT, leave thy house of clay;

O Lingering dust, resign thy breath !
Spirit, cast thy chains away;

Dust, be thou dissolved in death! "
Thus the mighty Saviour speaks,

While the faithful Christian die3;
Thus the bonds of life he breaks,

And the ransomed captive rlies.

2 "Prisoner, long detained below,

Prisoner, now with freedom blest,
Welcome from a world of woe ;

Welcome to a land of rest!"
Thus the choir of angels sing,

As they bear the soul on high,
While with hallelujahs ring

All the regions of the sky.

8 Grave, the guardian of our dust,

Grave, the treasury of the skies,
Every atom of thy trust

Rests in hope again to rise:
Hark! the judgment-trumpet calls,

"Soul, rebuild thy house of clay;
Immortality thy walls,

And eternity thy day ! "

JAMES MONTGOMERY, ALT.

Part of a poem of fourteen four-lined stanzas. It
first appeared in The Wanderer in Switzerland, and
Other I\)tms, (1800,) where it has the following
dedication :

" Vi T8et to the memory of the late Joseph Browne,
of Lothersdale, one of the people called Quakers, who
lutd suffered a long confinement in the Cattle of York,
and loss of all his worldly goods, for conscience'
sake.''''

Montgomery was the fellow-prisoner of Browne
for some months in the years 1795 and 1796.

This hymn is made up of verses one, two, three,
four, thirteen, and fourteen of the original poem.
The second and fourth quatrains have been
changed. Montgomery wrote the last part of the
first stanza as follows :

" Thus thy guardian angel spoke,

As he watched thy dying bed;
As the bonds of life he broke,

And the ransomed captive,/?«d."

The fifth and sixth lines of the second stanza
were :

" Thus thy guardian angel sang,
As he lore thy soul on high.'"'

1001 Dying in the Lord. 7.

HARK! a voice divides the sky, —
Happy are the faithful dead !
In the Lord who sweetly die,

They from all their toils arc freed ;
Them the Spirit hath declared

Blest, unutterably blest;
Jesus is their great reward,
Jesus is their endless rest.

2 Followed by their works they go,

Where their Head is gone before ;
Reconciled by grace below,

Grace hath opened mercy's door;
Justified through faith alone,

Here they knew their sins forgiven;
Here they laid their burden down,

Hallowed and made meet for heaven.

384

HYMN STUDIES.

3 Who can now lament the lot
Of a saint in Christ deceased?

Let the world, who know us not,
Call us hopeless and unblest:

When from flesh the spirit freed
1 List ens homeward to return,

Mortals cry, " A man is dead ! "
Angels sing, "A child is born ! "

4 Born into the world above,
They our happy brother greet;

Bear him to the throne of love,
Place him at the Saviour's feet :

Jesus smiles, and says, "Well done!
Good and faithful servant thou!

Enter, and receive thy crown;
Reign with me triumphant now."

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : A Funeral Hymn.

The lust two stanzas are particularly fine. The
author wrote one additional stanza:

5 " Angels catch the approving sound,

Bow, and bless the just award.
Hail the heir with glory crowned,

Now rejoicing with his Lord ;
Fuller joys ordained to know,

Waiting for the general doom,
When the archangel's trump shall blow,

' Rise, ye dead, to judgment come.' "

A few unimportant changes have been made.
From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742.

1002 Bereavement and resignation. 8, 7-

JESUS, while our hearts are bleeding
O'er the spoils that death has won,
We would, at this solemn meeting,
Calmly say, "Thy will be done."

2 Though cast dowui, we're not forsaken ;
Though afflicted, not alone:

Thou didst give, and thou hast taken ;
Blessed Lord, "Thy will be done."

3 Though to-day we're filled with, mourn-

ing,
Mercy still is on the throne;
With thy smiles of love returning,
We can sing, "Thy will be done.''

4 By thy hands the boon was given;
Thou hast taken but thine own:

Lord of earth, and <;<>d of heaven,
Evermore, "Thy will be done."

THOMAS HASTINGS.

Title: Th >/ Will be Done.

The Mother's Hymn Book, compiled by the
author, has this stanza, the third :

" Fill us now with deep contrition,
Take away these hearts of stone ;

While we all with true submission,
Meekly say, ' Thy will be done.' "

In that book the first line of the last stanza was :
" To thine arms the child was given."

See No. 177.

8,7.

1003

Conflict ended — crown limiting.

HAPPY soul, thy days are ended,
All thy mourning days below;
Go, by angel guards attended,

To the sight of Jesus go !
Waiting to receive thy spirit,

Lo! the Saviour stands above;

Shows the purchase of his merit,

Reaches out the crown of love.

2 Struggle through thy latest passion,

To thy great Redeemer's breast,
To his uttermost salvation,

To his everlasting rest.
For the joy he sets before thee,

Bear a momentary pain;
Die, to live a life of glory ;

Suffer, with thy Lord to reign.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Author's title : For One Departing.

One of the characteristics of primitive Chris-
tianity was triumph over death. This is abun-
dantly proven by the testimony of the catacomhs.
The same blessed victory marked the Wesleyan
reformation of the eighteenth century.

Unaltered. From Charles Wesley's Hymns and
Sacred Jbems, 1749.

1004 The dying believer.

DEATHLESS spirit, now arise;
Soar, thou native of the skies!
Pearl of price by Jesus bought,
To his glorious likeness wrought, —

2 Go, to shine before the throne;
Deck the Mediator's crown;

Go, his triumphs to adorn ;
Made for God, to God return.

3 Lo! he beckons from on high;
Fearless to his presence fly:
Thine the merit of his blood,
Thine the righteousness of God.

HYMN STUDIES.

385

4 Angels, joyful to attend,
Hovering round thy pillow, bend;
Wait to catch the signal given,
And convey thee quick to heaven.

."> Shudder doI to pass the stream:
Venture all thy care on him, —
Him, whose dying love and power
Stilled its tossings, hushed its roar.

(i Safe is the expanded wave,
Gentle as a summer's eve;
Not one object of his care
Ever Buffered shipwreck there.

7 See the haven full in view:

Love divine shall bear thee through ;
Trust to that propitious gale;
Weigh thine anchor, spread thy sail.

8 Saints in glory, perfect made.
Wait thy passage through the shade;
Ardent for thy coming o'er,

See, they throng the blissful shore.

AUGUSTUS M. TOPLADY.

Title : The Dying Believer to hu Soul.
Six eight-lined stanzas; the third and last are
omitted :

3 " Is thy earthly House distrest?

Willing to retain her Guest?

'Tis not thou, but she must die ;

Fly, celestial Tenant, fly.

Burst thy Shackles, drop thy Clay,

Sweetly breathe thyself away ;

Singing to thy Crown remove ;

Switt of Wing, and tir'd with Love."

6 '• Mount their Transports to improve :
Join the longing Choi- above ;
Swiftly to their Wish be given ;
Kindle higher Joy in Heaven.
Such the Prospects that arise
To the dying Christian's Eyes ;
Such thetrlorious Vista, Faith
Opens through the Shades of Death."

Toplady wrote the first line :

" Deathless principle arise,"

and the sixth line :

" Deck his Mediatorial Crown."

This hymn Ls found in the author's Works.
For biography, see No. 415.

1 0 0 O Our ttay in death.

LOWLY and solemn be
Thy children's cry to thee,
Father divine!
A hymn of suppliant breath,
Owning that life and death

Alike are thine.
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6,4.

2 O Father, in that hour,
When earth all helping power

Shall disavow ;
When spear, and shield, and crown,
In faintness are east down;

Sustain us, thou!

3 By Him who bowed to take
The death-cup for our sake,

The thorn, the rod ;
From whom the last dismay
Was now to pass away;

Aid us, O God !

4 Tremblers beside the grave,
We call on thee to save,

Father divine!
Hear, hear our suppliant breath,
Keep us in life and death,

Thine, only thine.

MRS. FELICIA D. IIEMANS.

From the author's Miscellaneous Poems.

Five stanzas, following the first, are omitted.

This hymn is found at the end of a poem, en-
titled The Funeral Day of Sir Walter Scott.

The authoress closes her poem, and introduces
the hymn with these lines :

" And now what strain,
Making victorious melody ascend
High above sorrow's dirge, befits the tomb.
Where he that sway'd the nations thus is laid —
The crown'd of men ?

A lowly, lowly song.

" Lowly and solemn be," etc.

For biographical sketch of Mrs. Hemans, see
No. 618.

1006 Death of a child. 7, 61.

WHEREFORE should I make my moan,
Now the darling child is dead?
He to early rest is gone,
He to paradise is fled :

1 shall go to him, but he
Never shall return to me.

2 God forbids his longer stay;
God recalls his precious loan ;

God hath taken him away,

From my bosom to his own :
Surely what he wills is best ;
Happy in his will I rest.

3 Faith cries out, " It is the Lord,
Let him do as seems him good ! "

Be thy holy name adored ;

Take the gift awhile bestowed:
Take the child no longer mine;
Thine he is, forever thine.

CHARLES WESLEY.

386

HYMN STUDIES.

Title : On the Death of a Ch Ud,
It is evident that the author founded the first
stanza on the words of King David concerning his

son :

" But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast I
can I brin^ him back again ! I shall go to him,
but he shall not return to me." 2 Sam, xii, 23.

It is unaltered and entire.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

1007 On the death of a little child. 7,8,7.

TENDER Shepherd, thou has stilled
Now thy little lamb's brief weeping:
Ah, how peaceful, pale, and mild
In its narrow bed 'tis sleeping !
And no sigh of anguish sore
Heaves that little bosom more.

2 In this world of care and pain,

Lord, thou wouldst no longer leave it;
To the sunny heavenly plain

Thou dost now with joy receive it ;
Clothed in robes of spotless white,
Now it dwells with thee in light.

3 Ah, Lord Jesus, grant that we
Where it lives may soon be living,

And the lovely pastures see

That its heavenly food are giving;
Then the gain of death we prove,
Though thou take what most we love.

FROM THE GERMAN. TR. BV

MISS C. WINKWORTII.

Title: The death of a Little Child.
The first couplet of Miss Winkworth's transla-
tion is :

" Gentle Shepherd, Thou hast stilled
Now Thy little lamb's lone/ weeping."

From Lyra Germanica, second series, 1858.

The German author was John William Meinhold,
who lived from 1797 to 1851. He studied theohigj at
Greifswalde, and served as rector at Usedom and
in several other places.

1008 For a chihPs funeral.

GO to thy rest, fair child?
Go to thy dreamless bed,
Gentle, and meek, and mild.

With blessings on thy head.
Fresh roses in thy hand.

Buds on thv pillow laid,
Haste from this blighting land.
Where flowers so quickly fade.

2 Before thy heart could learn
In waywardness to stray ;

Before thy feet could turn

The dark and downward way;

Ere sin could wound thy breast,
Or sorrow wake the tear;

Rise to thy home of rest,
In yon celestial sphere!

3 Because thy smile was fair,
Thy lip and eye so bright,

Because thy cradle care

Was such a fond delight;
Shall love, with weak embrace,

Thy heavenward flight detain?
No, angel ! seek thy place

Amid yon cherub train.

MRS. LYDIA II. SIGOURNEY.

Title : To a Dying Infant.

This hymn is found in a volume of the author's
poems, published at Philadelphia in 1834.
The third line the author wrote :

" Gentle a?id undtfiled."

The rest is a verbatim copv of the original.
See No. 287.

1009 Friends separated, 6, 8, 8.

FRIEND after friend departs :
Who hath not lost a friend?
There is no union here of hearts

That finds not here an end :
Were this frail world our only rest,
Living or dying, none were blest.

2 Beyond the flight of time,
Beyond this vale of death,

There surely is some blessed clime

Where life is not a breath,
Nor life's affection transient fire,
Whose sparks fly upward to expire.

3 There is a world above,
Where parting is unknown;

A whole eternity of love.

Formed for the good alone :
And faith beholds the dying here
Translated to that happier sphere.

4 Thus star by star declines,
Till all are passed away.

As morning high and higher shines,

To pure and perfect day ;
Nor sink those stars in empty night;

They hide themselves in heaven's own

light. JAMES MONTGOMERY.

HYMN STUDIES.

:-.s:

Title: N firth— Reunion in Burm,

This patholio and beautiful Little poem was writ
tin in L824 : and it is unaltered and entire.
Kr 'in the author's Wtcellaneoua Ibms.

B< i No. 5.

1010 Ih * >>t with tht Lord. 7, 6.

rpiIK precious seed of weeping
_l_ To-day we sow once mure,
The form of one now sleeping,

Whose pilgrimage is o'er.
Ah! death but safely lands him

Where we too would attain;
Our Father's voice demands him,

And death to him is gain.

2 He lias what we are wanting,
He sees what we believe;

The sins on earth so haunting
Have there no power to grieve;

Safe in his Saviour's keeping,
Who sent him calm release, —

Tis only we are weeping, —
He dwells in perfect peace.

3 The crown of life he weareth,
He bears the shining palm.

The "Holy, holy," shareth.

And joins the angels' psalm;
But we, poor pilgrims, wander

Still through this land of woe,
Till we shall meet him yonder,

And all his joy shall know.

CARL J. P. SPITTA. Tit. BY

MISS C. WINKWORTH.

Title: The Departure of a Christian.
The translation in Lyra Germanica, second
series, New York, 1858, begins :

" Now weeping at the grave we stand."

It differs from this in all the lines, except four.
Whether these changes were made by the transla-
tor, or by some one else, we cannot say.

The original of this, in German, was sung at the
grave of the author in 1859.
t For biographical sketch of Spitta, see No. 755.

1011 Safe in the harbor.

Wr^EP not for a brother deceased,
Our loss is his infinite gain;
A soul out of prison released,

And freed from its bodily chain;
With songs let us follow his flight,
And mount with his spirit above,
Escaped to the mansions of light,
And lodged in the Eden of love.

2 Our brother the haven hath gained,
Outliving the tempest and wind;

His rest he hath sooner obtained.

And left his companions behind,
Still tossed on a sea of distress,

Hard toiling to make the blest shore,
Where all is assurance and peace.

And sorrow and sin are no more.

3 There all the ship's company meet,
Who sailed with the Saviour beneath;

With shouting each other they greet, .

And triumph o'er sorrow and death:
The voyage of life 's at an end ;

The mortal affliction is past;
The age that in heaven they spend,

Forever and ever shall last.

CHARLES WESLEY.

If ever a hymn ought to be marked "altered."
on account of the change of one word, this should
be so marked. Wesley wrote :

" Rejoice for a brother deceased."

There is a wonderful difference between simply
refraining from weeping for the dead, and rejoicing
for them. One characteristic of the early Method-
ists was their remarkable triumph in and over
death. This change well illustrates the toning
down that has taken place since it was written.

From the author's Funeral Hymns, 1744.

1012 The grave disarmed. 8.

MAN dieth and wasteth away,
And where is he?— Hark ! from the skies,

1 hear a voice answer and say,

" The spirit of man never dies!
II is body, which came from the earth,

Must mingle again with the sod ;
His soul, which in heaven had birth,

Returns to the bosom of God."

2 No terror has death, or the grave,
To those who believe in the Lord,

Who know the Redeemer can save,
And lean on the faith of his word ;

While ashes to ashes, and dust
We give unto dust, in our gloom,

The light of salvation we trust,

Which hangs like a lamp in the tomb.

3 O Lord God Almighty ! to thee
We turn, as our solace above ;

The waters may fail from the sea,
But never thy fountains of love:

O teach us thy will to obey,

And sing with one heart and accord,

11 He gave, and he taketh away,
And praised be the name of the Lord."

GEORGE P. MORRIS.

388

HYMN STUDIES.

Title : Funeral Hymn.

From the author's Poems. New York, 1800.

The original has " Zs hung " instead of " Which
hangs,'' in the last line of the sucon J stanza. Other-
wise the hymn is not altered.

One stanza, the third, has been omitted :

3 " The sky will be burnt as a scroll,

The earth, wrapped in llames, will expire;
But, freed from all shackles, the soul

Will rise in the midst of the tire.
Then, brothers, mourn not for the dead,

Who rest from their labors forgiven ;
Learn this from your Bible instead,

The grave is the gate-way to heaven."

George Perkins Morris (1802-1864) was an
editor, literator, and song-writer. He was the au-
thor of Woodman, (•■pare that true, The Main Truck,
My Mother's Bible, and other popular pieces.

1013 The second advent. 8, 7, 4.

LO! He comes, with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain ;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of his train :

Hallelujah!
God appears on earth to reign.

2 Every eye shall now behold him
Robed in dreadful majesty;

Those who set at naught and sold him,
Pierced and nailed him to the tree,

Deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.

3 All the tokens of his passion
Still his dazzling body bears,

Cause of endless exultation
To his ransomed worshipers;

With what rapture
Gaze we on those glorious scars!

4 Yea, Amen! let all adore thee,
High on thy eternal throne;

Saviour, take the power and glory;
Claim the kingdom for thine own:

Jah ! Jehovah !
Everlasting God, come down !

CHARLES WEBLEY.

Author's title : Thy Kingdom Come.

This grand hymn has been called the English
Diet fras. Its authorship has been ascribed to
various men. Lyra Catholica gives it to Matthew
Bridges, a Roman Catholic hymn writer. M'( Tin
took and Strong credit it to John Cenniek.
But his hymn, " Lo he eometh, countless trum-

Sets," (1752,1 is very different from this. Thomas
ackson ascribes it to Thomas Olivers. The latter
was the author of a long hymn in the same meter,
•nd one of his stanzas began in the same way as

the first line of this hymn. In some collections, a
hymn is found made up of part of this hymn, und
a part of Olivers'. The original is found in Charles
Wesley's Hymns of Intercession for all Mankind,
1758.

A slight change was made, in the first line of the
third stanza, for the hymn book of 1849. It was
before,

" T7te dear tokens of his passion."

It is evidently founded on Revelation i, 7 :

" Behold, he eometh with clouds ; and every eye
shall see him, and they also which pierced him:
and all kindreds of the earth shall v ail because ot
him. Even so, Amen."

1014 8,7,4.

Judgment terrors— judgment raptures.

LIFT your heads, ye friends of Jesus,
Partners in his patience here:
Christ, to all believers precious,
Lord of lords, shall soon appear:

Mark the tokens
Of his heavenly kingdom near.

2 Sun and moon are both confound) d,
Darkened into endless night,

When, with angel-hosts surrounded,
In his Father's glory bright,

Beams the Saviour,
Shines the everlasting light.

3 See the stars from heaven falling;
Hark, on earth the doleful cry.

Men on rocks and mountains calling.
While the frowning Judge draws nigh,

" Hide us, hide us,
Rocks and mountains, from his eye!''

4 With what different exclamation

Shall the saints his banner see!
By the tokens of his passion,

By the marks received for me,
All discern him;
All with shouts cry out, " 'Tis he!"

5 Lo ! 'tis he ! our hearts' desire,
Come for his espoused below;

Come to join us with his choir,
Come to make our joys o'erflow ;

Palms of victory.
Crowns of glory, to bestow.

CHABIiEB WF.SLEY.

This has the same title as the preceding, is writ-
ten in the same meter, on the same subject, and
immediately follows No. 1018 in Bymtuqflnttrcet-
sion for all Mankind.

Tlie original has eight stanzas. These are verses

one, four, five, six, and seven, verbatim.

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The last stanza is as follows :

Q •• Yr-, the prize shall now be given,

We His optio face shall see ;
Love, the earnest of our heaven,

Love cur lull re .\ aid shall be.
Love shall crown us

Kings through all eternity."

1015 .8,7,4.

n\r the distant mountains breaking.

O'ER the distant mountains breaking,
Comes the reddening dawn of day,
Rise, my soul, from sleep awaking,
Rifle, and Bing, and watch, and pray:

Tis thy Saviour,
On his bright returning way.

2 O thou long-expected, weary
Waits my anxious soul for thee;

Life is dark, and earth is dreary
Where thy light I do not see:

O my Saviour,
When wilt thou return to me?

3 Long, too long, in sin and sadness,
Far away from thee I pine;

When, 0 when, shall I the gladness
Of thy Spirit feel in mine?

O my Saviour,
When shall I be wholly thine?

4 Nearer is my soul's salvation,
Spent the night, the day at hand;

Keep me in my lowly station,
Watching for thee, till I stand,

O my Saviour,
In thy bright and promised land.

5 With my lamp well-trimmed and burning,
Swift to hear, and slow to roam,

Watching for thy glad returning
To restore me to my home;

Come, my Saviour,
O my Saviour, quickly come!

JOHN S. B. MONSEI.L.

Title: Surely I come quickly : Amen. Even so,
come, Lord Jesus. Rev. xxii, 20.

This hymn is unaltered and entire from the

author's Hycnns of Love and Praise. London,

1862.

For sketch of author, see No. 232.

1016 Clirist is coming. 8, 7, 4.

CII HI ST is coming! let creation
Bid her groans and travail cease;
Let the glorious proclamation

Hope restore, and faith increase;

Christ is coming!
Come, thou blessed Prince of peace !

2 Earth can now but tell the story
( )i thy bitter cross and pain;

she shall yel behold thy glory

When thou contest back to reign;

Christ is coming!
Let each heart repeat the strain.

3 Long thy exiles have been pining.
Far from rest, and home, and thee ;

But, in heavenly vesture shining,
Soon they shall thy glory see ;

Christ is coming!
Haste the joyous jubilee.

4 With that "blessed hope " before us,
Let no harp remain unstrung;

Let the mighty advent chorus

Onward roll from tongue to tongue;

Christ is coming!
Come, Lord Jesus, quickly come?

JOHN R. MACDUFF.

Author's title : Second Advent.

"Surely I come quickly: Amen. Even so,
come, Lord Jesus." Rev. xxii, 20.

The Rev. John Ross Macduff, D.D., was born in
Sotland in 1818, and educated at the High School
of Edinburgh, and in the University of the same
city. He became a minister of the Church of Scot-
land in 1842. Among his pastorates was one of
fifteen years in the city of Glasgow. In 1871 Dr.
Macduff gave up the pastoral relation. He is the
author of a number of volumes in prose and poetry.
In 1875 he published a small book of original
poetry, entitled The Gates of Praise, from which
this hymn is taken. The original has " Thine''''
instead of "thy " in verse three, line one. Other-
wise it is not altered.

1017 The dreadful day. L. M.

THE day of wrath, that dreadful day,
When heaven and earth shall pass away !
WThat power shall be the sinner's stay?
How shall he meet that dreadful day?

2 When, shriveling like a parched scroll,
The flaming heavens together roll;

And louder yet, and yet more dread,
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead!

3 O, on that day, that wrathful day,
Winn man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away!

SIR WALTER SCOTT.

This is, without doubt, the most familiar of the
many translation* of Ikes Irce. Date oftr., 1805.

The hymn is found in the Lay of the Last Min-
strel, where the holy lathers are represented as

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sinking it at a mass for the dead in Melrose
Abbey.

Three lines are slightly altered.

Verse one, line one :

" That day of wrath, that dreadful day."

Verse two, line three :

" When louder yet and yet more dread."

Verse three, line three :

" Be thou the trembling sinner's stay."
See No. 1G3.

1 0 1 O The Judge «< sere. L. M.

HE comes! lie comes! the Judge severe!
The seventh trumpet speaks him near:
His lightnings flash, his thunders roll;
How welcome to the faithful soul!

2 From heaven angelic voices sound ;
See the almighty Jesus crowned,
Girt with omnipotence and grace!
And glory decks the Saviour's face.

8 Descending on his great white throne,
He claims the kingdoms for his own:
The kingdoms all obey his word,
And hail him their triumphant Lord.

4 Shout, all the people of the sky,
And all the saints of the Most High;
Our Lord, who now his right obtains,
Forever and forever reigns.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : Thy Kingdom Come.

Wesley wrote the first line of the third stanza :

" Descending on His azure throne ;"

and so we find it in the Wesleyan Collection. The
cb'.mge was made for the hymn book of 1849.
From Hymns of Tnterveeeionfor all Mankind,]1! 58.

1 U 1 y Safety amid general dissolution. L. M.

T1IK great archangel's trump shall sound.
While twice ten thousand thunders roar,
Tear up the graves, and cleave the ground,
And make the greedy sea restore.

2 The greedy sea shall yield her dead:
The earth no more her slain conceal;

Sinners shall lift their guilty head.
And shrink to see a yawning hell.

:'. But we, who now our Lord confess,
And faithful to the end endure,

Shall stand in Jesus' righteousness;
Stand, us the Hock of ages, sure.

4 We, while the stars from heaven shall fall,
And mountains are on mountains hurled,

Shall stand unmoved amidst them all,
And smile to see a burning world.

5 The earth and all the works therein
Dissolve, by raging flames destroyed,

While we survey the awful scene,
And mount above the fiery void.

G By faith we now transcend the skies,
And on that ruined world look down:

By love above all height we rise,
And share the everlasting throne.

CUAKLES WESLEY.

Original title: After Deliverance from Death
by the Fall of a House. The hist word, it
Beeras, was a misprint for korse, which the author
corrected in later editions. Part of a hymn of
twelve stanzas.

In his Journal we find this paragraph : " Ties.,
Oct. 25,(1748.) — I rode to Paulton, where my horse
cast me to the ground with such violence as if I
had been shot out of an engine. I lay breathless
for some time. They sat me on the horse, and led
me to Bristol, got a surgeon to dress my urm and
hand, which were much bruised, and my foot
crushed."

This hymn begins with the sixth stanza. The
first part, which relates to the accident, is omitted.
In one of these stanzas he says :

" The adversary cast us down,

The Saviour caught us in His arms."

The difference between " the ungodly " and
"the saints," in the last day, is vividly portrayed
in the second and fourth stanzas.

Unaltered. From Hymns and Sacred Items, 1 7 i i* .

1020 The awful sentenct. CM.

THAT awful day will surely come,
The appointed hour makes haste,
When I must stand before my Judge,
And pass the solemn test.

2 Jesus, thou Source of all my joys,

Thou Ruler of my heart,
How can I bear to hear thy voice

Pronounce the word, " Depart! "

'A The thunder of thai awful word

Would so torment my ear,
'Twould tear my soul asunder, Lord,

With most tormenting fear.

4 What! to be banished from my Lord,

A nd yet forbid to die!
To linger in eternal pain,

And death forever fly!

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5 0 wretched state <>f deep despair,

To Bee my God remo\ a,
And fix my dolefal station whore

I must not taste his love!

BAAO WATTS.

Title: The Everlasting Abtmotqf Qod Intolera-

ble

Some lines have been changed.
Verse two, lines one, two, and three:

" Thou lovely Chief of M my joys,
Thou Sov'n tan of my heart.

How could I bear to hear the voice."

Verse three, flret line :

M The thunder of that dismal word."

Verse tour, first line:

" What? to be banished for my life.''''

There are three additional stanzas :

6 " Jesus ! I throw my arms around
And hang upon thy breast :

Without a gracious smile tVom thee
My spirit cannot rest.

7 " O tell me that my worthless name
Is graven on thy hands,

Show me some promise in thy book
Where my salvation stands !

8 " Give me one kind assuring word
To Milk my fears again,

And cheerfully my soul shall wait
Her threescore years and ten."

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.

1021 The final account. CM.

AND must 1 be to judgment brought,
And answer in that day
For every vain and idle thought,
And every word I say?

2 Yes, every secret of my heart
Shall shortly be made known,

And I receive my just desert
For all that I have done.

3 How careful, then, ought I to live,
With what religious fear!

Who such a strict account must give
For my behavior here.

4 Thou awful Judge of quick and dead,
The watchful power bestow;

So shall I to my ways take heed, —
To all I sneak or do.

.") If now thou standest at the door,

( ) let me fed thee near;
And make my peace with God, before

1 at thy bar appear.

OHABLES WESLEY.

Title: A ThougTit on Judgment.

There are three additional stanzas

6 " My peace Thou hast already made,
While banging on the tree;

My miis He on Thy body laid,
And punished them in Thee.

7 "Ah! might I, Lord, the virtue prove
Of Thine atoning blood,

And know Thou ever livest above,
My Advocate with God ;

8 " Receive the answer of Thy prayer,
The sense of sin forgiven,

And follow Thee with loving care,
And go in peace to heaven."

Unaltered. From Hymns for Children.
1763.

Bristol,

1022 Be pitiful, 0 God. L. M.

0SON of God, in glory crowned,
The Judge ordained of quick and dead!
O Son of man, so pitying found
For all the tears thy people shed !

2 Be with us in this darkened place, —

This weary, restless, dangerous night;
And teach, O teach us, by thy grace,

3 And since, in God's recording book,
Our sins are written every one, —

The crime, the wrath, the wandering look,
The good we knew, and left undone ;

4 Lord, ere the last dread trump be heard,
And ere before thy face we stand,

Look thou on each accusing word,
And blot it with thy bleeding hand.

5 And by the love that brought thee here,
And by the cross, and by the grave,

Give perfect love for conscious fear,
And in the day of judgment save.

MRS. CECIL F. ALEXANDER.

Part of a poem of eight stanzas, -which may be
found in Lyra Anglicama, edited by Geo. T. Rider.
This hymn is composed of verses three to seven,
unaltered.

The first line of the poem is:

" When Jesus came to earth of old."
For sketch of the author, see No. 320.

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1023 Day of wrath. 7.

DAY of wrath, () dreadful day!
When this world shall pass away,
And the heavens together roll,
Shriveling like a parched scroll,
Long foretold by saint and sage,
David's harp, and sibyl's page.

2 Day of terror, day of doom,
When the Judge at last shall come!
Through the deep and silent gloom,
Shrouding every human tomb,
Shall the archangel's trumpet tone
Summon all before the throne.

3 Then the writing shall be read,
Which shall judge the quick and dead;
Then the Lord of all our race

Shall appoint to each his place;
Every wrong shall be set right,
Every secret brought to light.

4 O just Judge, to whom belongs
Vengeance for all earthly wrongs,
Grant forgiveness, Lord, at last,
Ere the dread account be past,

Lo, my sighs, my guilt, my shame!
Spare me for thine own great name.

5 Thou, who bad'st the sinner cease
From her tears and go in peace, —
Thou, who to the dying thief
Spakest pardon and relief, —
Thou, O Lord, to me hast given,
E'en to me, the hope of heaven.

THOMAS OF CELANO.
TR. BY A. P. STANLEY.

Part of a translation of the Dies Jrce, the ac-
knowledged master-piece of sacred Latin poetry,
and the sublimest judgment-hymn of the ages.

The translation contains thirteen stanzas. ' These
arc verses one. two, tour, nine, and ten, unaltered.
From MurMilliiii's Mutinzim, \<M.

Many writers have tried their skill in rendering
the Dut Tree. Among the best translations are
those of Archbishop Trench, Earl Roscommon, Sir
Walter Boot*, Dean Alford, Mrs. Charles, W. J.
Irons, Dr. Wm. R. Williams, General John A.
1 > i x , and Abraham Coles, M.D., of Newark, X. J.,
who prepared no less than thirteen versions; all
g 1. and some of them excellent.

Thomas, a Franciscan monk-, was horn at Celano,
a Neapolitan village, about the beginning oi the
thirteenth century. He is supposed lo have written
the Diet Ira about 1250 A. D., but the Gael of
authorship cannot be fixed with absolute cer-
tainty,

For biographical sketch of the translator, see No.
200.

1 024 The inexorable Judge. S. M.

THOU Judge of quick and dead,
Before whose bar severe,
With holy joy or guilty dread,

We all shall soon appear;
Our cautioned souls prepare
For that tremendous day,
And till us now with watchful care,
And stir us up to pray :

2 To pray, and wait the hour,
That awful hour unknown,

When, robed in majesty and power,
Thou shalt from heaven come down,

The immortal Son of man.
To judge the human race,

With all thy Father's dazzling train,
With all thy glorious grace.

3 O may we all be found
Obedient to thy word,

Attentive to the trumpet's sound,

And looking for our Lord.
O may we thus insure

A lot among the blest ;
And watch a moment to secure

An everlasting rest.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This was the first piece in Hymns for the Watch-
night, 1744.
One stanza, the third, is omitted :

3 " To damp our earthly joys,

To increase our gracious fears,
Forever let the archangel's voice,

Be sounding in our cars,
The solemn midnight cry.

Ye dead, the Judge is" come,
Arise, and meet Hun in the *ky,

And meet your instant doom."

One word has been changed. The author wrote
'■'thus'' instead of "all" in the first line of the
last .-tanza.

1025 77/1- omnipotent dtcret. 7, 6, 8.

STAND the omnipotent decree!
Jehovah's will be done!
Nature's end we wait to see,
And hear her final groan.
Let this earth dissolve, and blend

In death the wicked and the just;

Let those ponderous orbs descend,
And grind us into dust: —

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2 Rests secure the righteous man;
At his Redeemer's beck.

Sure to emerge and rise again,
And mount above the \\ reek ;

Lo! the heavenly spirit towers,

hike Barnes o'er nature's funeral pyre,

Triumphs in immortal powers,
And flaps his wings of lire!

3 Nothing bath the just to lose,
By world- nn worlds destroyed:

Far beneath his feel he views.
With smiles, the flaming void;

- this universe renewed.
The grand millennial reign begun;

Shouts, with all the sons of God,
Around the eternal throne.

CHAULES WESLEY.

This was first published in a pamphlet, entitled
Hymn* forth* Tear 17""', Particularly for the Fast
Day. February 6.

Montgomery calls this hymn "One of the most
daring and victorious flights" of the author. Rob-
ert >. >utbey i in >nounced it the finest lyric in the En-
glish language.

There is one drawback to this high praise. Com-
pare the first stanza with these lines from Dr.
Young's 2rtght Thoughts:

"If so decreed, th' Almighty Will be done.
Let earth dissolve, yon ponderous orbs descend,
And grind us into dust.''

Compare the second stanza with the following lines
from the same source :

" The soul is safe,
The man emerges : mounts above the wreck,
As towering flame from Nature's funeral pyre ;
O'er deva.-tation, as a gainer smiles."

Ik-re are almost, if not quite, whole lines taken
verbatim from Dr. Young. This does not make
Charles Wesley a plagiarist. A plagiarist is one
who means to steal ; but we cannot believe that
Wesley intended to copy. This is probably a ea.-e
of unintentional reproduction.

There is an additional stanza:

4 " Resting in this glorious hope,

To be at last restored,
Yield we now our bodies up.

To earthquake, plague, and sword;
Listening tor the call Divine,

The latest trumpet of the -even,
Soon our soul and dust shall join,

And both fly up to heaven."

On account of the great earthquake, and other
dianwtorp, the people thought that the end of the
world was at hand.

1026 DayoJ H/e. 8,7.

Lo, the day. the day of life!
Day of unimagined light,

Day when death itself shall die.
And there shall be no more night!

2 See the Bang desired for ages,
By the just expected long,

Lohl;- implored, at length he basteth,
Cometh with salvation strong.

3 O how past all utterance happy,
Sweet and joyful it will be

When they who, unseen, have loved him,
Jesus face to face shall see !

4 Blessed then, earth's patient mourners,
Who for Christ have toiled and died,

Driven by the world's rough pressure
In those mansions to abide!

5 What will be the bliss and rapture
None can dream and none can tell,

There to reign among the angels,
In that heavenly home to dwell.

FROM THE LATIN. TR. BY MRS. E. CHARLES.

Title : Dies ilia, Dies vitas.

Part of a poem of some four hundred lines, dating
from the twelfth century, author unknown. For
the original hymn see Sacred Latin, Poetry, by Rich-
ard Chenevix Trench, D.D. London, 1854, p. 288.

The translation, which is quite literal, contains
ten stanzas.

From The Voice of Christian Life in. Song.

See No. 205.

1027 Supplication. C. P. M.

WHEN" thou, my righteous Judge,
shalt come
To take thy ransomed people home,

Shall I among them stand?
Shall such a worthless worm as I,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
Be found at thy right hand?

2 I love to meet thy people now,
Before thy feet with them to bow,

Though vilest of them all;
But, can I bear the piercing thought,
What if my name should be left out,

When thou for them shalt call?

3 O Lord, prevent it by thy grace;
Be thou my only hiding-place,

In this the accepted day;
Thy pardoning voice 0 let me hear,
To -till my unbelieving fear,

Nor let me fall, I pray.

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4 Among thy saints lot me be found.
Whene'er the archangel's trump shall sound,

To see thy smiling face ;
Then loudest of the throng I'll sing,
While heaven's resounding mansions ring

With shouts of sovereign grace.

SELINA, COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON.

In most of the early editions of The Collection of
Hymns, Sung in the Countess of Huntingdon's
Chapels, nothing like this hymn is to be found.
Hut in one edition, without date, ius most of them
are, it is found.

This old book is said by some hymnologists t<i he
the seeond edition, 1772 ; by others to be the third
edition, 1774. I have no doubt that it is earlier
than the revision of that book in 1784, when the
hymn was left out, and did not appear again until
we find it ina Supplem* at. L819, where it is attributed
to Wesley. In still later editions, it is marked
Rippon's Selection. There is some uncertainty about
the authorship. The Countess of Huntingdon prob-
ably wrote it. In the earliest form it begins:

"Oil! when my Righteous Judge shall come,
To fetch his ransom' d People Home."

There are a number of other variations from the
text here given.

Selina. Countess of Huntingdon, was the daughter
of Washington Shirley, second Earl Ferrers. She
was born in 1707. In 1728 she married Theophilus,
Earl of Huntingdon, with whom she lived happily
till his sudden death in 1746. About this time she
made the acquaintance of Whitefiekl and Wesley,
Her religious convictions became more profound,
and to the time of her death, in 1701, she was an
active Christian worker; using her personal influ-
ence, position, and fortune, all for Jesus. George
Whiteheld was one of her many chaplains. She
built chapels, and founded schools, and was con-
sidered the leader of the Calvinistic Methodists.

1028 Tlie end of things created. 8, 7.

GBEAT God ! what do I see and hear !
The end of things created !
The Judge of man I sec appear,

On clouds of glory seated:
The trumpel sounds; the graves restore
The dead which they contained before;
Prepare, my soul, to meei him!

2 The dead in Christ shall first arise.
At the last trumpet's sounding,

Caught up to meet him in the skies,
With joy their Lord surrounding:

No gloomy fears their souls dismay;

1 li^ presence sheds eternal day
On those prepared to meet him.

3 But sinners, filled with guilty fears,
Behold his wrath prevailing;

For they shall rise and rind their tears

And sighs are unavailing:
The day of grace is past and gone,
Trembling they stand before the throne,

All unprepared to meet him.

4 Great God ! what do I see and hear!
The end of things created!

The Judge of man I see appear,

On clouds of glory seated:
Beneath his cross I view the day
When heaven and earth shall pass away,

And thus prepare to meet him.

BAKTHOLOMEW IUNOWALDT
AND W. B. COLLYEH, ALT.

The writer of the first stanza of this hymn is un-
known. It is said, by some hymnologists, to lie a
translation, or an imitation of a stanza by Barthol-
omew Ringwalt, (15S5.)

The Rev. W. B. Collyer is the author of the
rest of the hymn. lie found the first stanza, and
wrote the others to that. It has been altered in
twelve lines by some one since he published it in
1812.

From Hymns Partly Collected and Partly Origi-
nal, 1812.

See No. 354.

1029 Tin judgment-day. 8, 7, 4.

DAY of judgment, day of wonders!
Hark! the trumpet's awful sound,
Louder than a thousand thunders,
Shakes the vast creation round :

How the summons
Will the sinner's heart confound !

2 See the Judge, our nature wearing,
Clothed in majesty divine!

You who long for his appearing,

Then shall say, " This God is mine:"

Glorious Saviour,
Own me in that day of thine!

3 At his call the dead awaken,
Rise to life from earth and sea;

All the powers of nature, shaken
By his voice, prepare to flee:

Careless sinner,
What will then become of thee?

4 But to those who have confessed,
Loved and served the Lord lielow.

He will say, "Come near, ye blessed;
See the kingdom I bestow:

You forever
Shall my love and glory know."

JOHN NEWTON.

HYMN STUDIES.

395

Title: Th, Dm qf Judgment.
One word has been changed.

The "ritual has

" /ci*/« " instead of" voice " in verse three, fourth
One.

Time stanzas, the fourth, tilth, and seventh, are
omitted :

4 •• Horrors past imagination

Will surprise your trembling heart,
Wlieii you hear vmir condemnation,

Hence, aooursed wretch, depart!

Thou with Satan and his angels have til)' part.

- 'an. who now tries to please you
Lest you timely warning take,

When that word is past, will seize you,
Plunge you in the burning lake:
Think, poor sinner, thy eternal all's at stake.

7 " Dnder sorrows and reproaches,

May this thought your courage raise 1
Swiftly God's great day approaches,

S'urhs shall then be changed to praise:

We shall triumph when the world is in a blaze.''

From (>ht,ij Hymns, 1779.
See No 23.

FIRST PART.

C. M.

1030 The fall assurance of hope

HOW happy every child of grace
Who knows bis sins forgiven!
" This earth,'' he cries, "is not my place

I seek my place in heaven, —
A country far from mortal sight ;

Yet 0,'by faith I see
The land of rest, the saint's delight,
The heaven prepared for me."

2 O what a blessed hope is ours !
While here on earth we stay,

We more than taste the heavenly powers,

And antedate that day:
We feel the resurrection near,

Our life in Christ concealed,
Ami with his glorious presence here

Our earthen vessels tilled.

3 < ) would he more of heaven bestow,
And let the vessels break,

And let our ransomed spirits go

To grasp the God we seek ;
In rapturous awe on him to gaze,

Who bought the sight for me;
And shout and wonder at his grace

Through all eternity !

CHABLES WESLEY.

Published without title in Funeral Hymns, second
series. London, 1759. The original has eitrht
stanzas ; these are the first and the last two, ver-
batim.

SECOND PART.

1031 Sndlem blies in proapt at. I '. fit.

ASTRANGEK in the world below,
I calmly sojourn here;
Nor can its happiness or woe

Provoke my hope or tear:
Its evils in a moment end,

Its joys as soon are past;
But 6, the bliss to which I tend

Eternally shall last!

2 To that Jerusalem above,

With singing I repair;
While in the flesh, my hope and love,

My heart and soul, are there.
There my exalted Saviour stands,

My merciful High Priest;
And still extends his wounded hands,

To take me to his breast.

CHABLES WESLEY.

These are stanzas two and three of those omitted
from the above, (No. 1030.)
The other omitted stanzas are as follows :

4 " What is there here to eourt my stay,
To hold me back from home,

While angels beckon me away,

And Jesus bids me come?
Shall I regret my parted friends

Still in the vale confined?
Nay, but whene'er my soul ascends,

They will not stay behind.

5 " The race we all are running now,
And if 1 first attain,

They, too, their willing head shall bow,
They, too, the prize shall gain :

Now on the brink of death we stand,
And if I pass before,

They all shall soon escape to land
And hail me on the shore.

6 " Then let me suddenly remove,
That hidden life to share ;

I shall not lose my friends above

But more enjoy them there.
There we in Jesus' praise shall join,

His boundless love proclaim,
And solemnize in songs Divine

The marriage of the Lamb."

1032 Tlw prasjxct joyovs. CM.

AND let this feeble body fail,
And let it faint or die;
My soul shall quit the mournful vale,

And soar to worlds on hi<_;h ;
Shall join the disembodied saints,

And find its long-sought rest,
That only bliss for which it pants,
In the Redeemer's breast.

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2 In hope of that immortal crown
I now the cross sustain.

And gladly wander up and down,

And smile at toil and pain:
I suffer on my threescore years,

Till my Deliverer come,
And wipe away his servant's tears,

And take his exile home.

3 O what hath Jesus bought forme!
Before my ravished eyes

Rivers of life divine I see,

And trees of paradise :
I see a world of spirits bright,

Who taste the pleasures there;
They all are robed in spotless white,

And conquering palms they bear.

4 O what are all my sufferings here,
If, Lord, thou count me meet

"With that enrap;ured host to appear,

And worship at thy feet!
Give joy or grief, give ease or pain,

Take life or friends away.
But let me find them all again

In that eternal day.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is not connected with the preceding, but is
part of an independent hymn of nine stanzas.

This hymn is made up of verses one, two, the
first half of five, and six, and the last. Several
lints read differently from the original.

Verse one, last line :

" In my Redeemer's breast."

Verse three, sixth line :

" Who reap the pleasures there."

Verse three, seventh line :

" They all are robed in purest white."

Verse four, seventh line :

" I come to find them all again."

I am not able to say who made these changes.
They do not appear in the Wetteyan Collection :
but they are found in the York Pocket Hymn Booh,
tin- >ixth edition of which was published in L786.

From Funeral Hymns, second series. London.
1759.

1033 cm.

Communion with saints in heaven

COME, let us join our friends above
That have obtained the prize ;
And on the eagle wings of love
To joys celestial rise.

Let all the saints terrestrial sing,

With those to glory gone;
For all the servants of our King,

In earth and heaven, are one.

2 One family we dwell in him,
One church above, beneath,

Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream, of death.

One army of the living God,
To his command we bow ;

Part of his host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.

3 Ten thousand to their endless home
This solemn moment fly ;

And we are to the margin come,

And we expect to die.
His militant embodied host,

With wishful looks we stand,
And long to see that happy coast,

And reach the heavenly land.

4 Our old companions in distress
We haste again to see,

And eager long for our release,

And full felicity.
E'en now by faith we join our hands

With those that went before ;
And greet the blood-besprinkled bands

On the eternal shore.

5 Our spirits, too, shall quickly join,
Like theirs with glory crowned.

And shout to see our Captain's sign,

To hear his trumpet sound.
O that we now might grasp our Guide!

O that the word were given!
Come, Lord of hosts, the waves divide.

And land us all in heaven !

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is not the fourth part of any other hymn,
as it is given in the Hymnal.

It is entirely separate and complete in itself.
Only three words ditler from tin' original.
Verse one, fourth line. "Jow" for 'Hoys."
Verse two, last line, '• /•>■" instead of" are."

Verse three, last line, ' That " instead of" the."
From Funeral Hj/mns, second series. London,
1759.

1034

I-'/r, wdl to earth-

('. M.

YE golden Lamps of heaven, farewell.
With all your feeble light;
Farewell, thou ever-changing moon,
Pale empress of the night.

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2 And thou, refulgent orl> of day.

In brighter flames arrayed,
My bouI, that Bpringe beyond tliy sphere,

No more demands thine aid.

:; Y stars are but the shiuiug dust

Of my divine abode,
The pavemenl of those heavenly courts

Where I shall reign with God.

4 The Father of eternal light

Shall there his beams display,
Nor shall our moment's darkness mix

With that unvaried day.

6 Xo more the drops of piercing grief

Shall swell into mine eyes,
Nor the meridian sun decline

Amid those brighter skies.

6 There all the millions of his saints

Shall in one song unite,
And each the bliss of all shall view

With infinite delight.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

Title : God the Everlasting Light of the Saints
Above.
It is founded upon Isa. lx, 19, 20 :

" The sun shall be no more thy light by dav ;
neither for brightness shall the moon give light
unto thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an ever-
lasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun
shall no more go down ; neither shall thv moon
withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thiiie evcr-
! light, and the days of thy mourning shall
be ended."

Some of the stanzas of this hymn, for grandeur
an 1 beauty, remind us of Dr. Watt.-* at his best.
There is no higher praise than that. It is unaltered
and entire.

From Hymns Founded on Various Texts in the
1! / Scriptures. London, 1755.

Sue Xo. 78.

1035 The New Jerusalem. C. M.

LO, what a glorious sight appears
To our believing eyes!
The earth and seas are passed away,
And the old rolling skies.

2 From the third heaven, where God resides,

That holy, happy place,
The Xew Jerusalem comes down,

Adorned with shining grace.

r, Attending angels shout for joy,

And the bright armies sing,
" Mortals, behold the sacred seat

Of your descending King !

4 •' The God of glory down to men
Removes his blest abode ;

Men, the dear objects of his grace,

And he the loving God.

5 " His own soft hand shall wipe the tears
From every weeping eye;

And pains, and groans, and griefs, and fears,
And death itself, shall die."

G How long, dear Saviour, O how long

Shall this bright hour delay?
Fly swifter round, ye wheels of time,

And bring the welcome day !

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : A Vision of the Kingdom of Christ among
Men.
It is founded upon Revelation xxi, 1-i :

" And I saw a new heaven and a new earth : for
the first heaven and the first earth were passe I
away ; and there was no more sea. And I John
saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down
from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband. And 1 heard a great
voice out of heaven sayintr, Behold, the tabernacle
of God is with men, and he will dwell with thorn,
and they shall be his people, and God himself shall
be with them, and be their God. And God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes ; and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain ; for the former
things are passed away."

This grand old hymn is unaltered and complete.
From Hymns and Spiritual So ngs, book i, 1707.

1036 cm.

In the desert — heaven b'fore us.

FORTH to the land of promise bound,
Our desert path we tread ;
God's fiery pillar for our guide,
His Captain at our head.

2 E'en now we faintly trace the hills,
And catch their distant blue :

And the bright city's gleaming spires
Rise dimly on our view.

3 Soon, when the desert shall be crossed,
The flood of death passed o'er,

Our pilgrim hosts shall safely land
On Canaan's peaceful shore.

4 There love shall have its perfect work,
And prayer be lost in praise ;

And all the servants of our God
Their endless anthems raise.

HENRY ALFORD.

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Title : Twentieth Sunday after Trinity.

It is verbatim from The Poetical Works of Henry
Alford. Boston, 1853.

For biographical sketch of the author, see No.
5G4.

1037 The heavenly Canaan. C. M.

T IIP] RE is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.

2 There everlasting spring abides,
And never-withering flowers:

Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.

3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand dressed in living green;

So to the Jews old Canaan stood,
While Jordan rolled between.

4 Could we but climb where Moses stood,
And view the landscape o'er,

Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood,
Should fright us from the shore.

ISAAC WATTS.

Author's title: A Pi-ospect of Heaven makes
Death Easy.
Two stanzas are omitted :

4 " But tim'muK mortals start and shrink
To cross this narrow sea,

And linger shiv'ring on the brink,
And fear to launch away.

5 " Oh ! could we make our doubts remove,
Those gloomy doubts that rise,

And see the Canaan that we love
With unbecloudcd eyes ;"

Tradition says that the view from the author's
window at Southampton of the sea and of the Isle
of Wight,

" Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood,"

suggested some of the poetry of this favorite hymn-
Unaltered. From Hymns and Spiritual Songs,
book ii, 1707.

1038 The promised land. C. M.

ON Jordan's stormy banks I stand,
And cast a wishful eye
To Canaan's fair and happy land,
Where my possessions lie.

2 O the transporting, rapturous scene,

That rises to my Bight !
Sweet fields arrayed in living green,

And rivers of delight.

3 O'er all those wide-extended plains
Shines one eternal day :

There God the Son forever reigns,
And scatters night away.

4 No chilling winds, or poisonous breath,
Can reach that healthful shore ;

Sickness and sorrow, pain and death,
Are felt and feared no more.

5 When shall I reach that happy place,

And be forever blest?
WThen shall I see my Father's face,
And in his bosom rest?

G Filled with delight, my raptured soul

Would here no longer stay :
Though Jordan's waves around me roll,

Fearless I'd launch away.

SAMUEL STENNETT.

This famous hymn retains its original title.
One stanza has been left out, anu evidently for
good reason :

3 " There generous fruits, that never fail,

On trees immortal grow :
There rocks, and hills, and brooks, and vales,

With milk and honey flow."

The third stanza began "All o'er" instead of
" O'er all."

This hymn is evidently modeled on the preced-
ing ; and some thoughts and lines seem to be bor-
rowed from it. Compare the second stanza of this
with the third of the above. This hymn was con-
tributed to Jiippon's Selection, 1787. It is also
found in the author's Works. London, 1824.

See No. 218.

1039 The land of rest. 8, 6.

THERE is an hour of peaceful rest,
To mourning wanderers given;
There is a joy for souls distressed,
A balm for every wounded breast,
'Tis found above, in heaven.

2 There is a home for weary souls
By sin and sorrow driven,

When tossed on life's tempestuous shoals,
Where storms arise and ocean rolls,
And all is drear; 'tis heaven.

3 There faith lifts up the tearless eye,
To brighter prospects given;

And views the tempest passing by,
The evening shadows quickly fly,
And all serene in heaven.

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4 There fragrant flowers immortal bloom,

And joys supreme are given;
There rays divine disperse the gloom:
Beyond the confines of the tomb

Appears the dawn of heaven.

WILLIAM B. T API' AN.

Written at Philadelphia in the summer of 1818
for the Franklin Gatdts. It was published in the
author's first volume of Poems. Phila., 1819.

It was subsequently changed considerably bythu
author, and was published in las Miscellaneous
Jbetns. Boston, 1847 ■

One inferior stanza, the second, has been omitted :

2 " There is a soft, a downy bed,
Far from these shades of even —
A coueh for weary mortals spread,
Where they may rest the aching head
And find repose iu Heaven."

In the last line of the first stanza the original has
" alone " instead of " above."
The first line of the third verse the author wrote :

" There faith lifts up her cheerful eye."

The rest is verbatim. This hymn has been a
great favorite from the beginning.
For biographical sketch, see No. 217.

1040 The redeemed in heaven. L. M.

LO ! round the throne, a glorious band,
The saints in countless myriads stand ;
Of every tongue redeemed to God,
Arrayed in garments washed in blood.

2 Through tribulation great they came ;
They bore the cross, despised the shame ;
But now from all their labors rest,

In God's eternal glory blest.

3 They see the Saviour face to face ;
They sing the triumph of his grace ;
And day and night with ceaseless praise,
To him their loud hosannas raise.

4 O may "we tread the sacred road
That holy saints and martyrs trod;
Wage to the end the glorious strife,
And win, like them, a crown of life!

ROWLAND HILL AND OTHERS.

This fine hymn, which was half a century in
growing into its present shape, is founded on Rev.
vii, 13-15 :

" And one of the elders answered, saying unto
me, What are these which are arrayed in white
robes? and whence came they ? And I said unto
him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These
are they which came out of great tribulation, and
have washed their robes, and made them white in

the Mood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before
the throne of God, and serve them day and night
in his temple : and be that sitteth on the throne
shall dwell among them."

In many books it is attributed to Mrs. Duncan,
but it wus certainly used years before slut was born.
It originated in Rowland Hill's ( 'olfaction of Jbdms
mid Hymns. The fourth edition, 1798, has it; and
probably the first edition, 1783, which 1 have never
seen. It is in the form of a dialogue, and begins :

" Exalted high at God's right hand."

Some of the verses were altered for Thomas
Cotterill's.SAi^'ftW Collection, (eighth edition, 181'J, )
and greatly improved. The last verse appeared
first in I'salms and Jlyouts, edited by the Kev. J.
W. Pearson, 1840, and is said to have been com-
posed by him.

Rowland Hill was born in England in 1744 ; edu-
cated at Oxford, and ordained about 1773. For
some years he labored in an irregular manner as an
evangelist. When some clergymen complained of
his course, he replied: "The field is the world, I
stick to my parish."

In 1783 Surrey Chapel, holding three thousand
people, was built for him in London. Here he
preached the Gospel for half a century. He died
in 1833, and was buried under the pulpit of his
church.

1041 L.M.

TJiey shall behold the land that is very far off.
Isa. xxxiii, 17.

THERE is a land mine eye hath seen
In visions of enraptured thought,
So bright, that all which spreads between
Is with its radiant glories fraught.

2 A land upon whose blissful shore
There rests no shadow, falls no stain;

There those who meet shall part no more,
And those long parted meet again.

3 Its skies are not like earthly skies,
With varying hues of shade and light ;

It hath no need of suns to rise
To dissipate the gloom of night.

4 There sweeps no desolating wind
Across that calm, serene abode ;

The wanderer there a home may find
Within the paradise of God.

GURDON ROBINS.

Written in 1843, and first published, the same)
year, in The Psalmist.

Gurdon Robins was a native of Connecticut; born
at Hartford in 1813, and was a book-seller and
publisher.

On the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion
he entered the service of the United States. At the
close of the war he held a clerkship in the City Hall,

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Hartford. He was, for years, a member of the First
Baptist Church of his native city. His health,
broken in Southern prisons, was never fully re-
stored. He died in 1SS3.

1 042 Perfection in heaven. L. M.

WHAT sinners value I resign;
Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine ;

1 shall behold thy blissful face,
And stand complete in righteousness.

2 This life's a dream, an empty show ;
But the bright world to which I go
Hath joys substantial and sincere ;
When shall I wake, and find me there?

3 O glorious hour ! O blest abode !
I shall be near, and like my God;
And flesh and sin no more control
The sacred pleasures of the soul.

4 My flesh shall slumber in the ground,
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound;
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise,
And in my Saviour's image rise.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : The Sinner's Portion and. the Saint's
Hope f or. The Heaven of Separate Souls, and the
Resurrection.

It is written on Psalm xvii, especially verses
14 and 15:

"From men which arc thy hand, O Lord, from
men of the world, which have their portion in this
life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid
treasure : they arc full of children, and leave the
rest of their substance to their babes. As for me, I
will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be
satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness."

The first two stanzas, which are omitted, are as
follows :

1 "Lord, I am thine; but wilt thou prove
Mv faith, my patience, and my love ;
When men of spite airainst me join,
They are the sword, the hand is thine.

2 " Their hope and portion lies below,
'Tis all the happiness they know,

'Tis all they seek ; they take their shades,
And leave the rest among their heirs."

It was published in 1719.
The author says in a note :

" I confess I have indulged a large exposition
here, but I could not forbear to (jive my tb.oueh.tS a
loose upon this divine description of complete bless-
edness in the 15th verse, this bright abridgment of
heaven."

10-43 The heavenly Zion. L. M.

ARM of the Lord, awake, awake!
Thine own immortal strength put on!
With terror clothed, hell's kingdom shake,
And cast thy foes with fury down.

2 By death and hell pursued in vain.

To thee the ransomed seed shall come;
Shouting, their heavenly Zion gain,
And pass through death triumphant home.

3 The pain of life shall then be o'er,
The anguish and distracting care;

There sighing grief shall weep no more,
And sin shall never enter there.

4 Where pure, essential joy is found,

The Lord's redeemed their heads shall
raise,
With everlasting gladness crowned,
And filled with love, and lost in praise.

CHARLES WESLEY.

These are the first and last three stanzas of a hymn
of ten verses, founded on Isa. li, 9-11 :

" Awake, awake, put on strength, 0 arm of the
Lord; awake, as in the ancient 'lays, in the gen-
erations of old. Artthou not it that hath cut Rahab,
and wounded the dragon ? Art thou not it w hich
hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep ; that
hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ran-
somed to pass over? Therefore the redeemed of the
Lord shall return, and come with sing'mg unto Zion ;
and everlasting joy shall be upon their head : they
shall obtain gladness and joy ; and sorrow and
mourning shall flee away."

It was first published in Hymns and Sacred Po-
ems, 1739. Afterward it was published (1749) as
part second of a paraphrase of the whole chapter.

The third line of the first stanza was changed for
the Collection of 1780. Before this date it was:

" With terror clothed the nations shake."

1 044 The heavenly city. C. M.

JERUSALEM, my happy home!
Name ever dear to me !
When shall my labors have an end,
In joy and peace in thee?

2 When shall these eyes thy heaven-built

walls
And pearly gates behold?
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong,
And Streets of shining gold.'

3 O when, thou city of my God,
Shall I thy courts ascend,

Where congregations ne'er break up,
And Sabbath has no end?

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4 There happier bowers than Eden's bloom,
Nor sin nor sorrow know :

151e.-t -eats! through rough and stormy scenes
I onward press to you.

5 Apostles, martyrs, prophets, there
Around my Saviour stand;

And soon my friends in Christ below '
Will join the glorious baud.

8 Jerusalem, my happy home!

My SOUl Still pants for thee;
Then shall my labors have an end,

When I thy joys shall see.

UNKNOWN.

This favorite hymn has been traced in this form
onlv to 1S01. It greatly resembles A Song madi
by F. B. P. to the tuna Diana, found in manuscript
in the library of the British Museum. The letters
F. B. P. arc supposed to represent Francis Baker,
Priest; and the date placed about 1616. Baker's
hymn was probably founded upon the Latin Urba
beata JJi< rusalem ; which, in turn, was based upon
the description of the "holy city" given in Rev. xxi.

1 045 The saints in glory. C. M.

G^ IVE me the wings of faith, to rise
X Within the veil, and see
The saints above, how great their joys,
How bright their glories be.

2 Once they were mourners here below,
And poured out cries and tears;

They wrestled hard, as we do now,
With sins, and doubts, and fears.

3 I ask them whence their victory came : •
They, with united breath,

Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,
Their triumph to his death.

4 They marked the footsteps that he trod;
His zeal inspired their breast;

And, following their incarnate God,
Possess the promised rest.

5 Our glorious Leader claims our praise
For his own pattern given;

While the long cloud of witnesses
Show the same path to heaven.

ISAAC WATTS.

Title : The Examples of Christ and the Saints.
The first two lines of the second stanza have been
changed for the better. Watts wrote them :

" Once they were mourning here below
And wet their couch with tears."

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book ii, 1707.
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1046 We th nil si, Him as he is. CM.

THE heavenly treasure now we have
In a vile house of clay ;
But Christ will to the utmost save,
And keep us to that day.

2 Our souls are in his mighty hand,
And he shall keep them still;

And you and I shall surely stand
With him on Zion's hill.

3 Him eye to eye we there shall see,
Our face like his shall shine;

O what a glorious company,
When saints and angels join !

4 O what a joyful meeting there !
In robes of white arrayed,

Palms in our hands wTe all shall bear,
And crowns upon our head.

5 Then let us lawfully contend,
And fight our passage through ;

Bear in our faithful minds the end,
And keep the prize in view.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : At Parting of Friends.

Sixteen stanzas ; these are six to ten, inclusive.

Wesley wrote the first stanza thus :

" The heavenly treasure now we have

In a mean house of clay,
Which He shall to the utmost save,
And guard against that day."

This is ambiguous. " Which" may refer to the
"heavenly treasure," or to the "house of clay."
Part of the changes were made by John Wesley for
his Collection, 1780; and part of them by later
hymn editors. Putting "m/e" for "mean" was the
work of John Wesley, but it ought to be restored
to the original. "Vile" and" villain" are more
harsh terms now than in the eighteenth century.

The original also has " will" instead of " shall "
in the second line of the second stanza.

From Hymns for Those that Seek and Those that
Have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ.
London, 1747.

1047 In the conflict. 6, 5.

CHRISTIAN, dost thou see them,
On the holy ground,
How the powers of darkness

Rage thy steps around?
Christian, up and smite them,

Counting gain but loss ;
In the strength that cometh
By the holy cross !

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2 Christian, dost thou feel them,
How they work within,

Striving, tempting, luring,

Goading into sin?
Christian, never tremble;

Never be downcast ;
Gird thee for the battle,

Watch, and pray, and fast!

3 Christian, dost thou hear them,
How they speak thee fair?

"Always fast and vigil?

Always watch and prayer?"
Christian, answer boldly:

" While I breathe I pray ! "
Peace shall follow battle,

Night shall end in day.

4 " Well I know thy trouble,

0 my servant true ;
Thou art very weary,

1 was weary too ;

But that toil shall make thee

Some day all mine own,
And the end of sorrow

Shall be near my throne."

ANDREW OF CRETE.
TR. BY .T. M. NEALE.

Title : Stiehera for the Second Week of the Great
Fast.
Ek'ht lines have been altered.

In verse one, lines three and four, seven and
eight :

" How the troops of MiSian

Prowl and prowl around?"
" Smite them by the merit
Of the Holy Cross ! "

Verse two, lines seven and eight :

Smite them, by the virtue
Of 'the Lenten Ya*t\"

Verse three, fifth line :

" Christian, say but boldly."
Verse four, seventh line :

" P.'it the end of sorrow."

The translator says in a note : " This is, of course,
not intended to be used in church; but, as a song,
it i~ extremely pretty."

From Hymns of the Eastern Chvrch. London,
1862.

Andreas Cretensis, so called because he was
Bmhop of the inland of Crete, was born in Damns-
ens in 635, and died near the close of tin
centurv. He was canonized by the Greek Church.

1048 The pilgrim's home. S. M.

1I1LE through this world we roam,

From infancy to age.
Heaven is the Christian pilgrim's home,
His rest at every stage,

2 Thither his soul ascends,
Eternal joys to share;

There his adoring spirit bends,
While here he kneels in prayer.

3 His freed affections rise,
To fix on things above.

Where all his hope of glory lies,
Where all is perfect love.

4 There we our treasure place ;
There let our hearts be found;

That still, where sin abounded, grace
May more and more abound.

5 Henceforth our converse be
With Christ before the throne ;

Ere long we eye to eve shall see,
And know as we are known.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title: Heaven on Earth.

The meter of this hymn lias been changed from
common to short by the omission of two syllables
from the first line of each stanza. The first lines
as written by the author arc as follows :

" While through th'ischanging world we roam."
"Thither his raptured thought ascends."
" From earth his freed affections rise."
" Oh! there may we our treasure place."
" Henceforth our conversation, be."

This hymn came into the Methodist hymn book
in 1849, and the changes were probably made by
tors of that book.
From the Christian Psalmist, 1825.
See No. 5.

1049 A" nigM in heaven. S. M.

THERE is no nighl in heaven;
In that blest world above
Work never can bring weariness,
For work itself is love.

'2 There is no grief in heaven;

For life is one glad day,
Ami tears are of those former things

Which all have passed away.

3 There is no sin in heaven;

Behold that blessed throng,
All holy in their spotless robes,

All holy in their song.

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4 There is no death in heaven;

For they who gain that shore
Have won their immortality,

And they can die no more.

FRA.MIS M. KNOLLIS.

Title: Tlu One Family.

" The whole family in heaven and earth."
Eph. iii, 15.

This hymn is part of a fine poem of ten stanzas,
contributed to Lays of the Sanctuary, London,
1S59, by the Rev. Francis tfinden Knollis, D.D.,a
Church of England clergyman, who lived from L815

The author wrote, verse two, line two :

" There all is perfect clay."
Verse two, line three :

" There tears are ''mid those former things."

Verse three, line two :

•• Amid that blessed throng." .

The hymn has been erroneously attributed to
Bishop Huntington.

1050 At home in Learen. S. M.

* ' T710REVER with the Lord !"

JJ Amen, so let it be!
Life from the dead is in that word,

'Tis immortality.

2 Here in the body pent,
Absent from him I roam,

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent
A day's march nearer home.

3 "Forever with the Lord!"
Father, if 'tis thy will,

The promise of that faithful word,
E'en here to me fulfill.

4 So when my latest breath
Shall rend the veil in twain,

By death I shall escape from death,

And life eternal gain.

5 Knowing as I am known,
How shall I love that word,

And oft repeat before the throne,
" Forever with the Lord :"

•TAMEs MONTGOMERY.

This hymn retains the author's title, and is
founded on 1 Thess. iv, 17 :

" Then we which are alive and remain shall he
taught op together with them in the clouds, to
jicet the Lord in the air : and so shall we ever be
i-ith the Lord."

The original contains twenty-two stanzas. Tliis
hymn is made up of reraes one, twu, fourteen, six-
teen, and seventeen, verbatim.

From A Putt's Portfolio. London, 1835.

ir'or biograplucal sketch of author, see No. 5.

1051 The goodly land. S. M.

FAR from these scenes of night,
Unbounded glories rise,
And realms of joy and pure delight,
Unknown to mortal eyes.

2 Fair land ! could mortal eyes
But half its charms explore,

How would our spirits long to rise,
And dwell on earth no more !

3 No cloud those regions know,
Realms ever bright and fair ;

For sin, the source of mortal woe,
Can never enter there.

4 O may the prospect fire

Our hearts with ardent love,
Till wings of faith, and strong desire,
Bear every thought above.

5 Prepared, by grace divine,
For thy bright courts on high,

Lord, bid our spirits rise and join
The chorus of the sky.

ASSE STEELE, ALT.

Author's title : The Promised Land.

" Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty:
they shall behold the land that is very far off."
Isa. xxxiii, 17.

The poetry and beauty of this hymn have been
injured by alterations to change the meter.

The following are the lines that have been
changed.

Verse one, lines one and three :

" Far from these narrmo scenes of night."
" And realms of infinite delight."

Verse, two, lines one and two :

" Fair distant land ! — could mortal eyes
But half its joys explore."

Verse three, lines one and two :

" No cloud those blissful regions know
Forever bright and fair !"

Verse four, first line :

" 0 may the heavenly prospect fire."

Verse five, lines one and three :

" Prepare 11s, Lord, by errace divine,"
" Then bid our spirits rise and join."

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HYMN STUDIES.

The original contains eleven stanzas.

This hymn is made up of verses one, two, seven,
ten, and eleven.

From the author's Poems on Subjects Chiefly
Devotional. London, 1700.

For biographical sketch of Miss Steele, see No. 63.

1052 The land of peace. S. M.

COME to the hind of peace ;
From shadows come away ;
Where all the sounds of weeping cease,
And storms no more have sway.

2 Fear hath no dwelling- here;
But pure repose and love

Breathe through the bright, celestial air
The spirit of the dove.

3 Come to the bright and blest,
Gathered from every land :

For here thy soul shall find its rest
Amid the shining band.

4 In this divine abode

Change leaves no saddening trace ;
Come, trusting spirit, to thy God,
Thy holy resting-place.

5 " Come to our peaceful home,"
The saints and angels say,

"Forsake the world, no longer roam ;
O wanderer, come away?"

MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS, ALT.

This was made hy some hymn-mender of un-
common genius from one of Mrs. Felicia Eemaus'a
Miscellaneous Poems.

See No. 618.

E. T. Blackwell, M.D., called attention to the
authorshipof this hymn in The Christian Advocate
of 1881.

The following is the original :

THE ANGEL'S CALL.

" Come to the land of peace !
Come where the tempest hath no longer sway,
Tho shadow passes from the soul away,

The sounds of weeping cease !

" Fear hnth no dwelling there!
Come to the mingling of repose and love,
Breathed by the silent spirit of the dove,

Through the celestial air !

" Come to the bright and blest,
And crowned forever ! — 'midst that shining band
Gathered to heaven's own wreath from every laud,

Thy spirit shall find rest !

" Thou hast been long alone :
Come to thy mother ! — on the Sabbath shore,
The heart that rocked thy childhood, back, once
more

Shall take its wearied one.

" In silence wert thou left :
Come to thy sister ! — joyously again
All the home-voices, blent in one sweet strain,

Shall greet their long bereft!

" Over thine orphan head
The storm hath swept as o'er a willow's bough :
Come to thy father I — it is finished now :

Thy tears have all been shed.

" In thy divine abode
Change finds no pathway, memory no dark trace,
And O, bright victory !— death l>v love no place :

Come spirit to thy God."

It will be seen, by comparison, that the first three
stanzas of the hymn are made from the tir>t three
of the poem. The fourth stanza is made of the last
stanza of the poem ; and the last stanza is parti)
gathered from the omitted verses, and >S partly
now.

10o3 Rearer home. 6. [Irregular.]

ONE sweetly solemn thought
Comes to me o'er and o'er, —

1 am nearer home to-day
Than I ever have been before.

2 Nearer my Father's house.
"Where the many mansions be;

Nearer the great white throne ;
Nearer the crystal sea;

3 Nearer the bound of life,
Where we lay our burdens down ;

Nearer leaving the cross;
Nearer gaining the crown.

4 But lying darkly between,

A\ biding down through the night,
Is the deep and unknown stream,
That leads at last to the light.

5 Father, perfect my trust '.
Strengthen the might of my faith;

Let me feel as I would when I stand .
On the rock of the shore of death :

6 Feel as I would when my feet
Arc slipping over the brink;

For it may be, I'm nearer home —
Nearer now than I think !

PntEBE CABY, ALT.

This is the first, piece in the author's Religion*
Poems and Hymns. It was written in 1852, alter
returning from church.

The first three stanzas are unaltered.

The author wrote, verse four, line three:

" Is the silent unknown stream."

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The closing stanzas of the original anas follows: 1 Q54 Horn ! lumet sweet, sweet home. 11.

5 " Closer and oloser my steps
( Some bo the dread abysm,

Closer death to my lips

Presses tlie awful ehrism.

6 " Oh, if my mortal feet
Have almost gained die brink,

If it be I am nearer home,
Even to-day than 1 think ;

7 " Father, perfect my trust;
Let my spirit feel in death,"

That her feet are firmly set
On the rock of a living faith."

Col. Russell H. Conwcll, of Boston, in one of
his lectures, entitled Lessons of Travel, gives this
incident: An errand took him to a gambling house
in China. Among those present were two Amer-
icans, one a young man, and the other older.

They were betting and drinking in a terrible
way. the elder one giving utterance continually to
the foulest profanity. Two games hud been 'fin-
ished, the young man losing caoh time. The third
game, with fresh bottles of brandy, had just begun,
and the young man sat lazily back in his chair,
while the elder shuffled the cards. The man was a
long time dealing the cards, and the young man,
looking carelessly about the room, began to hum a
tune, and finally to sing— in a low tone and quite
unconsciously — this hymn :

" One sweetly solemn thought

Comes to me o'er and o'er,
I am nearer home to-day

Than 1 have been before."

But while the young man sang, the elder stopped
dealing the cards, staring at the singer a moment,
and throwing the cards on the floor, exclaimed :

" Harry; where did you learn that tune ? "

"What tune!"

" Why, the one you have been singing."

The young man said he did not know what he
had been singing, when the elder repeated the
words, with tears in his eyes, and the man said
he had learned them in a Sunday-school in Amer-
ica.

" Come," said the elder, getting up ; " come,
Harry; here's what I've won from yon; go and
use it for some good purpose. As for me, as God
sees me, 1 have played my last game and drank
my last bottle. I have misled you, Harry, and 1
am sorry. Give me your hand, my boy, and say
that for old America's sake, if for no "other, you
will quit this internal business."

It is said that both of these men were perma-
nently reformed. When Miss Cary heard this
story she wrote: "It makes me happy to think
that any word I could say has done a little good in
the world."

Miss Phoebe Cary was born in Ohio in 1824. In
connection with her sister. Alice, she published her
first small volume of poems in 1849. They snb-e-
quently removed to New York city. Phoebe Cary
dLd in Newport, R. I., in 1871.

'jITID scenes of confusion and creahure
ItX complaints,
How sweet to the soul is communion with

saints !
To find at the banquet of mercy there's

room,
And feel in the presence of Jesus at home.
Home! home! sweet, sweet home!
Prepare me, dear Saviour, for glory,
my home.

2 Sweet bonds that unite all the children

of peace !
And, thrice precious Jesus, whose love

cannot cease,
Though oft from thy presence in sadness I

roam,
I long to behold thee in glory, at home.

3 I sigh from this body of sin to be free,
Which hinders my joy and communion with

thee ;
Though now my temptation like billows

may foam,
All, all will be peace, when I'm with thee

at home.

4 While here in the valley of conflict I

stay,
O give me submission, and strength as my

day;
In all my afflictions to thee would I come,
Rejoicing in hope of my glorious home.

5 Whate'er thou deniest, O give me thy

grace,
The Spirit's sure witness, and smiles of thy

face ;
Endue me with patience to wait at thy

throne,
And find, even now, a sweet foretaste of

home.

6 I lonsr, dearest Lord, in thy beauties to

shine;
No more as an exile in sorrow to pine;
And in thy dear image arise from the

tomb,
With glorified millions to praise thee at

home.

David Denuaji.

Author's title : The Saint's Sweet Home.
Scripture motto, Psa. lxxiii, 24 :

" Afterward receive me to glory."

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HYMN STUDIES.

The last line of the refrain was originally :
" Receive me, dear Saviour, ill glory," etc.

In verse five, line three, the author wrote " ///-
dvlge" instead of "Endue;" and in verse six,
line three, "But in Thy fair image," etc.

The date of this hymn is not given, but it was
in use before 1880.

The Rev. David Denhatn, an English BaptiM
minister who lived from 17'J1 till 1848, was a pious
and useful man. In 1*37 he published a valuable
collection of more than eleven hundred hymns,
entitled The Sainfs Melody. Tiiis book contained
nearly seventy of the hymns of the author, of
which this is probably the best known.

1 0 5 5 Repose in heaven. S. M.

AND is there, Lord, a rest.
For weary souls designed,
"Where not a care shall stir the breast,
Or sorrow entrance find?

2 Is there a blissful home,
Where kindred minds shall meet,

And live and love, nor ever roam
From that serene retreat?

3 Are there bright, happy fields,
AVhere naught that blooms sliall die;

Where each new scene fresh pleasure yields,
And healthful breezes sigh?

4 Are there celestial streams,
Where living waters glide,

With murmurs sweet as angel-dreams,
And flowery banks beside?

5 Forever blessed they,
Whose joyful feet shall stand,

While endless ages waste away,
Amid that glorious land!

(i My soul would thither tend,
While toilsome years are invon;

Then let me, gracious God, ascend
To sweet repose in heaven.

RAY PALMER.

Heavenly Rest. Contributed to Parish Hymns,
1843.

" For the lamb which is in the midst of the
throne Bhall feed them, and sliall lead them unto
living fountains of waters: and God Bhall wipe

away ail tears from their eyes." Eev. vii, 17.

This hymn is found in T7ie Sabbath Hymn /.'<•£,
1858; and also in tin- author's /' tin li" ks.
New York, 1876. It is unaltered and entire.

For biographie.il sketch, see Mo. 714.

1056 s.m.

The lumse not made with hands.

WE know, by faith we know,
If this vile house of clay,
This tabernacle, sink below,
In ruinous decay, —

2 We have a house above,

Not made witli mortal hands;
And firm as our Redeemer's love
That heavenly fabric stands.

3 It stands securely high,
Indissolubly sure :

Our glorious mansion in the sky
Shall evermore endure.

4 Full of immortal hope,
We urge the restless strife,

And hasten to be swallowed up
Of everlasting life.

5 Lord, let us put on thee
In perfect holiness,

And rise prepared thy face to see,
Thy bright, unclouded face.

6 Thy grace with glory crown,
Who hast the earnest given,

And then triumphantly come down,
And take our souls to heaven!

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is part of a hymn of six eightdine stanzas,
and is composed of the first, tie first half of the
second, the last half of the fourth, and the last
verses.

The fifth stanza bejzins with " O " instead of
" Lord " in the original.

The hymn is written evidently on 2 Cor. v, 1 8 :

" For we know that, if our earthly house of this
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of
God," etc.

Good taste and piety both protest against the
expression, " vile house of clay." The Christian
body is the temple of tin- Bolj Ghost ; and though
poor and weak, is not vile.

From Funeral Hymns, 1744.

1057 The mighty change. S.M.

OWITAT a mighty change
Shall Jesus1 sufferers know,
While o'er the happy plains they range,

Incapable of woe !
No [U-requited love

Shall tliere our spirits wound;
No base ingratitude above,
No sin in heaven is found.

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.2 No slightest touch of pain,

Nor sorrow's least alloy,
Can violate our rest, or strain

Our purity of joy:
Iu that eternal day

No clouds of tempests rise;
There gushing tears are wiped away

Forever from our eyes.

CHARLES WESLEY.

These are verses nine and eleven, unaltered, of 11
hvimi oi twelve stanzas, entitled At the Meeting of
friends. It is one of the author's Hymns for
Christian Friends.

It was first published in Hymns and Sacred Po-
MU. 1749.

7. C.

1058 0 sweet and blessed country,

THE world is very evil,
The times are waxing late :
Be sober and keep vigil,

The Judge is at the gate;
The Judge that comes in mercy,

The Judge that comes with might,
To terminate the evil,
To diadem the right.

2 Arise, arise, good Christian,
Let right to wrong succeed ;

Let penitential sorrow

To heavenly gladness lead,

To light that hath no evening.
That knows no moon nor sun,

The light so new and golden,
The light that is but one.

3 O home of fadeless splendor,
Of flowers that fear no thorn,

Where they shall dwell as children
Who here as exiles mourn!

'Midst power that knows no limit,
Where wisdom has no bound,

The beatific vision

Shall glad the saints around.

4 O happy, holy portion,
Refection for the blest,

True vision of true beauty,
Sweet cure of all distressed !

Strive, man, to win that glory;
Toil, man, to gain that light;

Send hope before to grasp it,
Till hope be lost in sight.

5 O sweet and blessed country,
The home of God's elect!

O sweet and blessed country
That eager hearts expect !

Jesus, in mercy bring us

To that dear land of rest;
Who art, with God the Father,

And Spirit, ever blest.

BERNARD OP CLUNY.
TR. BY J. M. NEALE.

This and the three following hymns are parts of
a translation, of four hundred and thirty-six lines,
of Bernard's De Contemptu Mundi, a poem con-
taining about three thousand lines.

Dr. Neale, the translator, (See No. 109,) Bays:

" I have no hesitation in saying that I look on
these verses of Bernard as the most lovely — in the
same way that the Dies Ira is the most sublime,
and the Stabat Mattr the most pathetic — of
mediaeval poems."

Each of these four hymns closes with the same
stanza. It is not Bernard's, therefore, nor Neale's,
but was supplied by the editors of Hymns Ancient
and Modern, 1861.

Bernard was a monk of the twelfth century. His
parents were English, but he was born at Morlaix,
in Bretagne, France. Bernard was an inmate of
the Abbey of Cluny, and dedicated his poem to
Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny from 1122 to
1156. The original measure is very difficult. The
author, in his preface, claimed that he was assisted
in the composition of the poem by the special in-
spiration of the Holy Spirit.

Dr. Neale says :

" I have here deviated from my ordinary rule of
adopting the measure of the original, because our
language, if it could be tortured to any distant re-
semblance of its rhythm, would utterly fail to give
any idea of the majestic sweetness which invests
it in the Latin."

It is written in dactylic hexameter verse, each
line consists of three parts, two of these parts
rhyme with each other, while the lines themselves
are in couplets of double rhyme. A single coup-
let will illustrate the peculiar and difficult con-
struction :

" Hora nov'issima | tempora r>essima | sunt, vigil-

emus,
Ecce mmaciter | iniminet arbiter | ille supremvs."

The translation is found in Mediaeval Hymns and
Sequences, third edition, 1867.

1059 Br i<f sorrow — eternal rest. 7, 6.

BRIEF life is here our portion;
Brief sorrow, short-lived care ;
The life that knows no ending,

The tearless life, is there.
O happy retribution !

Short toil, eternal rest ;
For mortals and for sinners
A mansion with the blest !

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HYMN STUDIES.

2 And now we fight the battle,
But then shall wear the crown

Of full and everlasting

And passionless renown :
But He whom now we trust in

Shall then be seen and known;
And they that know and see him

Shall have him for their own.

3 The morning- shall awaken,
The shadows shall decay,

And each true-hearted servant

Shall shine as doth the day.
There God, our King and Portion,

In fullness of his grace,
Shall we behold forever,

And worship face to face.

4 O sweet and blessed country,
The home of God's elect !

O sweet and blessed country

That eager hearts expect !
Jesus, in mercy bring us

To that dear land of rest ;
"Who art, with God the Father,

And Spirit, ever blest.

BERNARD OF CLUNY.
TR. BY J. M. NEALE.

Part of the same as No. 1058.

A lew slight verbal changes have been made in
these hymns since they were first published, and
probably by the translator.

This hymn and the two following were published
in the tir>t edition of Mediaval Hymns and Se-
quences, 1851.

1060 Paradise of joy. 7,6.

FOR thee, O dear, dear country,
Mine eyes their vigils keep;
For very love, beholding

Thy happy name, they weep.
The mention of thy glory
Is unction to the breast,
And medicine in sickness,
And love, and life, and rest.

2 O one, O only mansion,
O paradise of joy !

Where tears are ever banished,

And smiles have no alloy;
The Lamb is all thy splendor,

The Crucified thy praise;
His laud and benediction

Thy ransomed people raise.

3 With jasper glow thy bulwarks.

Thy streets with emerald blaze;
The sardius and the topaz
Unite in thee their rays ;

Thine ageless walls are bonded

With amethyst unpriced;
Thy saints build up its fabric,

And the corner-stone is Christ.

4 Thou hast no shore, fair ocean;
Thou hast no time, bright day:

Dear fountain of refreshment

To pilgrims far away:
Upon the Rock of ages

They raise thy holy tower;
Thine is the victor's laurel,

And thine the golden dower.

5 O sweet and blessed country,
The home of God's elect !

O sweet and blessed country

That eager hearts expect !
Jesus, in mercy bring us

To that dear land of rest ;
Who art, with God the Father,

And Spirit, ever blest.

BERNARD OF CLI'NY.
TR. BY J. If. NEALE.

Part of the same original poem as No. 1058.'
From some of the lines it is very evident that
Bernard derived inspiration, thought, and language
from the description of the New Jerusalem, given
in the last part of the Book of Revelation.

1061 Th home of God's eUct. 7, 6.

JERUSALEM the golden,
With milk and honey blest,
Beneath thy contemplation

Sink heart and voice oppressed:

1 know not, O I know not

What social joys are there;
What radiancy of glory,

What light beyond compare.

2 They stand, those halls of Zion,
All jubilant with soul;-.

And bright with many an angel,
And all the martyr throng:

The Prince is ever in them,
The daylight is serene;

The pastures of the blessed
Are decked in glorious sheen.

3 There is the throne of David;
And there, from care released,

The song of them that triumph,
The shout of them that feast;

And they who. with their Leader,
Have conquered in the fight,

Forever and forever
Are clad in robes of white.

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•1 o sweet and blessed country,

The home of God's elect !
< > sweet and blessed country

That eager hearts expect:
Jesus, in mercy bring as

To that dear land of rest;
WJio art, with God the Father,

And Spirit, ever blest.
BBKNABD "1 CUNY. Tit. BY J. M. NEALE.

f the same poem as No. i".".s.

Dr. Neale, in the third edition of .)/
Hymn*, says: l,It would be most unthankful, did
I tn >t ezpresa my gratitude to God for the favor he
has given Rome oithe centos made from the poem;
but especially Jerusalem the Golden.

It bad found a place m some twenty hymnals,
and for the last two years it has hardly been pos-
sible to read any newspaper which gives promi-
nence to ecclesiastical news, without seeing its em-
ployment chronicled at some dedication, or other
festival. It is also a great favorite with Dissenters,
and has obtained admission into Roman Catholic I
services. ' And I say this ' — to ouote Bernard's
own preface — ' in no wise arrogantly, but with all
humility and therefore boldly.' "

1062 7,6,8,6.

The arm its of the living God.

TEX thousand times ten thousand,
In sparkling raiment bright,
The armies of the ransomed saints

Throng up the steeps of light:
Tis finished, all is finished,

Their fight with death and sin :
Fling open wide the golden gates,
And let the victors in.

2 What rush of hallelujahs
Fills all the earth and sky!

What ringing of a thousand harps

Bespeaks the triumph nigh!
O day, for which creation

And all its tribes were made !
O joy. for all its former woes

A thousand-fold repaid !

3 O then what raptured greetings
On Canaan's happy shore,

What knitting severed friendships up,
Where partings are no more!

Then eyes with joy shall sparkle,
That brimmed with tears of late,

Orphans no longer fatherless,
Nor widows desolate.

HEXRY ALFORD.

Composed for The Year of Praise. Beiruj IJi/mns
for the Sundays and Holidays of the Year. Lon-
don, 1867.

The hymn has not been altered nor abridged.

For biographical sketch, see No. 564.

1063 The heavenly Jerusalem. 8.

AWAY with our sorrow and fear,
We soon shall recover our home;
The city of saints shall appear,

The day of eternity conic.
From earth we shall quickly remove,

And mount to our native abode,
The house of our Father above,
The palace of angels and God.

2 By faith we already behold
That lovely Jerusalem here:

Her walls are of jasper and gold,
As crystal her buildings are clear;

Immovably founded in grace.

She stands as she ever hath stood,

And brightly her Builder displays,
And flames with the glory of God.

3 Xo need of the sun in that day
Which never is followed by night,

Where Jesus's beauties display
A pure and a permanent light:

The Lamb is their light and their sun,
And lo ! by reflection they shine ;

With Jesus ineffably one,

And bright in effulgence divine.

CHARLES WESLEY.

From the author's Funeral Hymns, 1744.

It has not been altered ; but the following stanzas,
the second and fifth, of the original have been
omitted.

2 " Our mourning Is all at an end,

When raised by the life-giving word,
We >ce the new city descend,

Adorned as a bride for her lord ;
The city so holy and clean,

No sorrow can breathe in the air,
No srloom of affliction or sin,

No shadow of evil is there."

5 " The saints in His presence receive

Their great and eternal reward,
In Jesus, in heaven they live,

They reitm in the smile of their Lord :
The flame of angelical love

Is kindled at Jesus's face.
And all the enjoyment above

Consists in the rapturous gaze."

1064 Desiring to depart. 8.

ILOXG to behold Him arrayed
With glory and light from above;
The Kino; in his beauty displayed,

His beauty of holiest love:
I languish and sigh to be there,

Where Jesus hath fixed his abode;
O when shall we meet in the air,
And fly to the mountain of God I

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HYMN STUDIES.

2 With him I on Zion shall stand,
For Jesus hath spoken the word ;

The breadth of Immanuel's land
Survey by the light of my Lord :

But when, on thy bosom reclined,
Thy face I am strengthened to see,

My fullness of rapture I find,
My heaven of heavens in thee.

3 How happy the people that dwell
Secure in the city above !

No pain the inhabitants feel,

No sickness or sorrow shall prove.

Physician of souls, unto me
Forgiveness and holiness give ;

And then from the body set free,
And then to the city receive.

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is composed of two of the author's Short
Hymns on Sdeot Passages of the Holy Scripture,
1762.

The first two stanzas were written upon Isaiah
xxxiii, 17 :

"Thine eyes shall see the King in his heauty :
they shall behold the land that is very far off."

The last stanza is founded en the 24th verse of
the same chapter :

"And the inhabitant shall not say, T am sick :
the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven
their iniquity."

The author wrote the fifth line of the first stanza :

" I languish and die to be there."

This hyperbole was modified for the Collection
of 1780.

1065 To be with Christ is far better. 8.

OWHEN shall we sweetly remove,
O when shall we enter our rest,
Return to the Zion above,

The mother of spirits distressed !
That city of God the great King,

Where sorrow and death arc no more,
But saints our Immanuel sing,
And cherub and seraph adore.

2 Not all the archangels can tell

The joys of thai holiest place,
Where Jesus is pleased to reveal

The light of his heavenly face;
When, caught in the rapturous flame,

The Bight beatific they prove,
And walk in the lighl of the Lamb.

Enjoying the beams of his love.

3 Thou know'st in the spirit of prayer

We long thy appearing to see,
Resigned to the burden we bear,

But longing to triumph with thee:
'Tis good at thy word to be here ;

'Tis better in thee to be gone,
And see thee in glory appear,

And rise to a share in thy throne.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Part of one of the Funeral Hymns, 1744.

The original, six stanzas, was published without
title. These arc verses one, two, and four.

In the second Btanza, the fifth line of the original
begins with " Where" instead of " When." The
last line begins '• And bask in" instead of" Enjoy-
ing." These changes were made for the Wesleyan
Collection, 1780.

1066 In white array. 7.

WHO are these arrayed in white,
Brighter than the noonday sun,
Foremost of the sons of liyht,
Nearest the eternal throne?
These are they that bore the cross,

Nobly for their Master stood;
Sufferers in his righteous cause,
Followers of the dying God.

2 Out of great distress they came,
Washed their robes by faith below,

In the blood of yonder Lamb,

Blood that washes white as snow ;

Therefore are they next the throne,
Serve their Maker day and night ;

God resides among his own,
God doth in his saints delight.

3 More than conquerors at last,
Here they find their trials o'er;

They have all their sufferings passed,
Hunger now and thirst no more.

He that on the throne doth reign,
Them the Land) shall always feed,

With the tree of life sustain,
To the living foutains lead.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Published without title in Hymns on the Lord's
Supper, 17 i.V

The original begins, " What are these," etc.

Thi6 corresponds with the Scripture on which the
hymn is evidently founded, Eev. vii, 13-17:

"What are these which are arrayed in white robes]
and whence oame they i And I said unto him, Sir,
thou knowest, And he said to me, These are they
which came out of great tribulation, and have washed

their robes, and made them white in the Id 1 of the

Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God,
and serve him day and night in his temple : ai.d he

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th.it Bitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.
They Bhall hunger ao more, aeither thirst any
more ; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any
beat For the Lamb which is in the midst of the
throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto
living fountains of waters: and Cod shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes."

The last part of the third and fourth stanzas has
been omitted :

•■ No excessive heat they feel

From the sun's director ray,
In a milder clime they dwell,
Region of eternal day.

'• lie shall all their 90ITOWS ehasc,
All their wants at once remove,

Wipe the tears from every face,
iill up every soul with love."

1067 Night tort in day. 7.

H[GH in yonder realms of light,
Dwell the raptured saints above;
Far beyond our feeble sight,

Happy in Emmanuel's love :
Pilgrims in this vale of tears,

Once they knew, like us below,
Gloomy doubts, distre3.?ing fears,
Torturing pain, aud heavy woe.

2 But these days of weeping o'er,
Passed this scene of toil and pain,

They shall feel distress no more,

Never, never weep again :
'Mid the chorus of the skies,

'Mid the angelic lyres above,
Hark, their songs melodious rise,

Songs of praise to Jesus' love !

3 All is tranquil and serene,
Calm and undisturbed repose:

There no cloud can intervene,
There no angry tempest blows:

Every tear is wiped away,

Sighs no more shall heave the breast,

Night is lost in endless day,
Sorrow, in eternal rest.

THOMAS RAFFLES.

This hymn was contributed to the Rev. W. B.
Collyer's Collection, 1812.

The tirst stanza of the hymn is made up from
verses one and two of the original, the second stanza
of parts of four and five, and the third stanza is the
same as the sixth of the original.

The title, as given in the above book, is Heaven.

For sketch of author, see No. 45.

1068 Tht h, tt, r poi tion. 7, 6. 7,

RISK, my soul, and stretch thy wings,
Thy better portion trace;
Rise from transitory things

Toward heaven, thy native place:

Sun, and moon, and stars decay ;

Time shall soon this earth remove;
Rise, my soul, and haste away

To seats prepared above.

2 Rivers to the ocean run,
Nor stay in all their course,

Fire ascending seeks the sun :
Both speed them to their source :

So a soul that's born of God,
Pants to view his glorious face;

Upward tends to his abode,
To rest in his embrace.

3 Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn,
Press onward to the prize:

Soon our Saviour will return

Triumphant in the skies:
There we'll join the heavenly train,

Welcomed to partake the bliss;
Fly from sorrow, care, and pain,

To realms of endless peace.

ROBERT SEAGRAVE, ALT.

Title : The Pilgrim's Song.

The third stanza of the original has been omitted :

3 " Fly me Riches, fly me Cares,

Whilst 1 that coast explore ;
Flattering World, with all thy snares,

Solicit me no more :
Pilgrims fix not here their Home;

Strangers tarry but a Night,
When the last dear Morn is come,

They'll rise to joyful Light."

The last four lines have been entirely changed.
The author wrote :

" Yet a Season and you know
Happy Entrance will be given,

All our Sorrows left below,
And earth exchanged for Heaven."

This hymn first appeared in Hymns, for Chris-
tian Worship, Partly Composed and Partly QolUcUd
from Various Authors, by Robert Seagrave. Lon-
don, 1742.

The Rev. Robert Seagrave was an English clergy-
man, who lived from 1 693 to 1764. He was edu-
cated at Cambridge, taking the degree of M.A. in
1718. He fraternized with and defended the Cal-
vimstic Methodists, and wrote and published
pamphlets and sermons designed to reform the
clergy and Church of England.

1069 Saints and angels rou"d the throne. 7.

LIFT your eyes of faith, and see
Saints and angels joined in one:
While a countless company

Stand before yon dazzling throne!
Each before his Saviour stands,
All in whitest robes arrayed;
Palms they carry in their hands,
Crowns of glory on their head.

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2 Saints begin the endless song,

Cry aloud in heavenly lays,
Glory doth to God belong,

God, the glorious Saviour, praise:
All salvation from him came,

Him, who reigns enthroned on high:
Glory to the bleeding Lamb,

Let the morning stars reply.

3 Angel powers the throne surround,
Next the saints in glory they ;

Lulled with the transporting sound,
They their silent homage pay :

Prostrate on their face, before
God and his Messiah fall ;

Then in hymns of praise adore,
Shout the Lamb rhat died for all.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Published without title in Hymns on the Lord's
Supper, 1745.
The author wrote the sixth line :

" All in milk-white robes arrayed."

And the fifth line of verse two :

" All from Him salvation came."

The transposition of this line was made for the
Collection of 1780.

The first change was probably made in 1808 for
the Supplement to the Methodist Pocket Hymn 3<ok,
compiled under the direction of Bishop Asbury.

The last stanza has been omitted :

4 " Be it so! they all reply ;

Him let all our orders praise,
Him that did for sinners die,

Saviour of the favour' d race :
Bender we our God His right,

Glory, wisdom, thanks, and power,
Honor, majesty, and might;

Praise Him, praise Him, evermore.

1070 n,io.

The night is far spin/, the day is at hand. Bom.
xirl, 12.

HARK, hark, my Boul ! angelic songs
are swelling
O'er earth's green fields and ocean's wave-
beat shore:
How sweet the truth those blessed strains
are telling
Of that new life when sin shall be no
more!
Angela of Jesus, angels of light,
Singing to welcome the pilgrims of
the night!

2 Onward we go, for still we hear them
singing,
"Come, weary souls, for Jesus bids you
come ; "
And through the dark, its echoes sweetly
ringing,
The music of the gospel leads us home.

'i Far, far away, like bells at evening peal-
ing,
The voice of Jesus sounds o'er land and
sea.
And laden souls by thousands, meekly
stealing,
Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps
to thee.

4 Rest comes at length, though life be long

and dreary ;
The day must dawn, and darksome night

be past ;
All journeys end in welcome to the weary,
And heaven, the heart's true home, will

come at last.

5 Angels, sing on ! your faithful watches

keeping ;

Sing us sweet fragments of the Bongs
above;
Till morning's joy shall end the night of
weeping,

And life's long shadows break in cloud-
less love.

FREDERICK W. FABFR.

Author's title: The Pilgrims of the Sight.
Two stanzas have been omitted :

2 " Darker than night life's shadows fall around
us,
And like benighted men we miss our mark ;
God hides Himself, and grace hath scarcely found
us,
Ere death finds out his victims in the dark."

6 " Cheer up, my soul ! faith's moonbeams softly
glisten
Upon the breast of life's most troubled sea;
And it will cheer thy droo] ing heart to listen
To those brave songs which angels mean for
thee."

The last two lines have been changed. They

'■ 117///. lot toil on and soothe Ourst Ives with weeping,
Till life's long night shall break in endless love.

From Pater's Oratory fhpnn 7?<>"£, 1854.
For sketch of author, sec No. 125.

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1071 RtradiM. 8, 6, G.

0 PARADISE I 0 paradise!
Who doth not crave for rest?
Who would not seek the happy land
Where they that loved are blest ;
'Where loyal hearts and true

Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through,
In God's most holy sight?

2 0 paradise ! 0 paradise !
The world is growing old;

Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold?

3 O paradise! O paradise!
'Tis weary waiting here;

I long to be where Jesus is,
To feel, to see him near.

4 O paradise ! O paradise !
I want to sin no more,

I want to be as pure on earth
As on thy spotless shore.

5 O paradise! O paradise!
I greatly long to see

The special place my dearest Lord
In love prepares for me.

FREDERICK W. FABER.

Two stanzas, the third and seventh, of the
original have been omitted:

3 " O paradise ! O paradise !

Wherefore doth death delay.
Bright death, that is the welcome dawn

Of our eternal day ; " etc.

7 '" O paradise ! O paradise !

I feel 'twill not be long ;
Patience ! 1 almost think I hear

Famt fragments of thy song;
Where loyal hearts and true,

Stand ever in the light,
All raptured through and through,

In God's most holy sight."

The last line of the fifth stanza the author wrote :

" la destining for me."

From Faber's Hymns. The Oratory Hymn Book.
1854.
For biographical sketch, see No. 125.

1 0 7 & The heavenly home. L. M.

MY heavenly home is bright and fair:
Nor pain nor death can enter there ;
Its glittering towers the sun outshine;
That heavenly mansion shall be mine.
I'm going home, I'm going home,
I'm going home to die no more ;
To die no more, to die no more,
I'm going home to die no more.

2 My Father's house is built on high,
Far, far above the starry sky;
When from this earthly prison free,
That heavenly mansion mine shall be.

:'. While here, a stranger far from home,
Affliction's waves may round me foam;
Although, like Lazarus, sick and poor,
My heavenly mansion is secure.

4 Let others seek a home below,
Which flames devour, or waves o'erflow,
Be mine the happier lot to own

A heavenly mansion near the throne.

5 Then fail the earth, let stars decline,
And sun and moon refuse to shine,
All nature sink and cease to be,

That heavenly mansion stands for me.

WILLIAM HUNTER.

Written for and published in Select Melodies.
Pittsburg, 1838.

It was revised by the author for the Hymnal a
short time before his death.

On January 10, 1860, the Pemberton Mill, a
large cotton factory at Lawrence, Mass., sud-
denly fell in ruins, burying the operatives in the
debris. Some were rescued alive; others would
have been, but a broken lantern set the ruins on
fire, and the rescuers were driven from their work.
As they turned away, it is said that they distinctly
heard some imprisoned girls, who had been
brought up in Sunday-school, singing this hymn :

" I'm going home to die no more."

It is impossible to over-estimate the value of that
religion which enables the Christian thus to tri-
umph over death.

See No. 986.

1073 Rapturous anticipation. 12,9.

COME, let us ascend,
My companion and friend,
To a taste of the banquet above :
If thy heart be as mine,
If for Jesus it pine,
Come up into the chariot of love.

2 Who in Jesus confide,
We are bold to outride

The storms of affliction beneath;

With the prophet we soar

To the heavenly shore,
And outfly all the arrows of death.

3 By faith we are come
To our permanent home ;

By hope we the rapture improve:
By love we still rise,
And look down on the skies,

For the heaven of heavens is love.

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4 "Who on earth can conceive
I low happy we live,

In the palace of God the great King?

What a concert of praise,

AY hen our Jesus's grace
The whole heavenly company sing!

5 What a rapturous song,
When the glorified throng

In the spirit of harmony join*

Join all the glad choirs,

Hearts, voices, and lyres,
And the burden is, "Mercy divine! "

6 "Hallelujah," they cry,
To the King of the sky,

To the great everlasting I AM:
To the Lamb that was slain,
And that liveth again, —

" Hallelujah to God and the Lamb ! "

CHARLES WESLEY.

This is one of the Hymns for Christian Friends.
It was a great favorite with Mr. Fletcher. In his
Works, vol. ii, p. 668, he says: "When the tri-
umphal chariot of perfect love gloriously carries
you to the top of perfection's hiff; when you are
raised far above the common heights; when you are
almost translated into glory, like Elijah, theu you
may sing this hymn."

One word has been changed. In the third line
of the fourth stanza the author wrote "city" in-
stead of " palace." It was changed for the Collec-
tion in 1780.

There are two additional stanzas :

7 " The Lamb on the throne
Lo ! He <l\vclls with His own.

And to rivers of pleasure He leads,
With His merev's full blaze,
With the sight'of His face.

Our beatified spirits He feeds.

8 " Our foreheads proclaim
His ineffable name,

Our bodies His glory display,

A day without night

Wr feast in His sight,
And eternity seems as a day."

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

1 074: Eternity near. 10, 5, 11.

COME, let us anew our journey pursue,
With vigor arise,
And press to our permanent place in the

skies.
Of heavenly birth, though wandering on
earth.

This is not our place,
But strangers and pilgrims ourselves we
confess.

2 At Jesus's call, we gave up our all ;

And still we forego,
For Jesus's sake, our enjoyments below.
No longing we find for the country behind;

But onward we move,
And still we are seeking a country above :

3 A country of joy without any alloy ;

We thither repair ;
Our hearts and our treasure already are there.
We march hand in hand to Immanuel's land ;

No matter what cheer
We meet with on earth, for eternity's near.

4 The rougher our way, the shorter our stay ;

The tempests that rise
Shall gloriously hurry our souls to the skies:
The fiercer the blast, the sooner 'tis past ;

The troubles that come
Shall come to our rescue, and hasten us home.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Author's title: On a Journey.

Wesley wrote quite a number of hymns in thispe-
culiar measure. They were very popular with the
early Methodists, but long since went out of fashii in.

Some lines in the last stanza have been trans-
posed ; otherwise it is unaltered.

From Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749.

FIRST PART.
1075 The God of Abraham. 6, 8, 4.

THE God of Abrah'm praise,
Who reigns enthroned above,
Ancient of everlasting days,

And God of love:
Jehovah, great I AM,

By earth and heaven confessed,

1 bow and bless the sacred name,

Forever blest.

2 The God of Abrah'm praise.
At whose supreme command

From earth I rise, and seek the joys

At his right hand:
I all on earth forsake,

Its wisdom, fame, and power;
And him my only portion make,

My shield and tower.

3 The God of Abrah'm praise,
Whose all-sufficient grace

Shall guide me all my happy days

In all his ways:
He calls a worm his friend,

I le calls himself my God !
And he shall save me to the end,

Through Jesus' blood.

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4 He by himself hath sworn,

1 on his oath depend ;
I shall, on eagle wings upborne,

To heaven ascend:

I shall behold his face,

1 shall his power adore,
An 1 sing the wonders of his grace

For evermore.

THOMAS OLIVERS.

SECOND PART.

10TG Prosing toward the mark. 6,8,4.

T;i<H"<;iI nature's strength decay,
And earth and hell withstand,
To Canaan's bounds I urge my way,

At hi< command ;
The watery deep I pass,

With Jeans in my view ;
And through the howling wilderness
My way pursue.

2 The goodly land I see,
With peace and plenty blest;

A land of sacred liberty,

And endless rest.
There milk and honey flow.

And oil and wine abound;
And trees of life forever grow,

With mercy crowned.

3 There dwells the Lord our King,
The Lord our Righteousness,

Triumphant o'er the world and sin,

The Prince of peace ;
On Zion's sacred height,

His kingdom still maintains;
And, glorious, with his saints in light

Forever reigns.

4 He keeps his own secure;
He guards them by his side ;

Arrays in garments white and pure

I li — spotless bride;
With streams of sacred bliss,

With groves of living joys,
With all the fruits of paradise.

He still supplies.

o Before the great Three One

They all exulting stand.
And tell the wonders he hath clone

Through all their land :
The listening spheres attend.

And swell the growing fame;
And sing, in songs which never end,

The wondrous name.

THOMAS OLIVERS.

THTRD PART.

10 // Joining the heavenly choir. 6, 8, 4.

rpilK God who reigns on high
J_ The great archangels sing,
And, "Holy, holy, holy," cry,

" Almighty King!
Who was and is the same,

And evermore shall be ;
Jehovah, Father, great 1 AM,

We worship thee."

2 Before the Saviour's face
The ransomed nations bow;

O'erwhehned at his almighty grace,

Forever new :
He shows his prints of love, —

They kindle to a flame,
And sound through all the worlds above,

The slaughtered Lamb !

3 The wThole triumphant host
Give thanks to God on high ;

"Hail, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,"

They ever cry :

Hail, Abraham's God, and mine ! —

I join the heavenly lays, —
All might and majesty are thine,

And endless praise.

THOMAS OLIVERS.

" A Hymn to the God of Abraham, in three parts:
Adapted to a celebrated Air, sang by the Priest,
Senior Leoni, etc., at the Jew's Synagogue, in
London." The hymn was published in a tract
without date. The fourth edition appeared in
1772.

This is probably the finest ode in the English
language. The theme is the grandest possible, and
the execution is in keeping with it.

The author begins in a daring strain, and he
never flags; but from line to line, and from stanza
to stanza, he sings and soars, and soars and sing.-,
of God and Heaven like one inspired.

The meter is peculiar, yet the rhythm is excel-
lent, and the language remarkable. Very few
short hymns survive for any length of time without
verbal changes; but here is a lyric of twelve
stanzas which has been in use more than a century,
and not a line, not even a word, has been altered.
James Montgomery said: "The man who wrnte
'The God of Abraham praise' must have had the
finest ear imaginable."

The Rev. Thomas Olivers was born in Tre<roman,
Wales, in 1725. Early in life he was left an
orphan. Distant relatives brought him up in an
indifferent manner. He was sent to school for a
time, and his religious education was not altogether
neglected. As he grew older he became very pro-
fane, and at length ran away from his master, a
shoemaker, to whom he was apprenticed. The
drinking vagabond — for such he was — in his wicked
career, arrived at Bristol, where Whitefield had an
appointment to preach. He went to hear him, and

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HYMN STUDIES.

was converted. " When the sermon began," he
Bays, "I was one of the most abandoned and profli-
gate young men living; before it was ended! was
a new creature."

From that time onward he lived a new life,
joined the Methodists, and in 1753 became one <>t
'Wesley's itinerant preachers. Clear, strong, and
sometimes fiery, he was the man for the time* ; and
for forty-six years made full proof of his ministry.

Most of his prose writings relate to the Calvin-
istic controversies of that day. Wesley said he was
fully a "match" for Toplady.

Olivers wrote only four or rive hymns, but they
are all of high order. He died in 1799.

1078 The pilgrim's lot. C. P. M.

HOW happy is the pilgrim's lot,
How free from every anxious thought,
From worldly hope and fear!
Confined to neither court nor cell,
His soul disdains on earth to dwell,
He only sojourns here.

2 This happiness in part is mine,
Already saved from low design,

From every creature-love ;
Blest with the scorn of finite good,
My soul is lightened of its load,

And seeks the things above.

3 There is my house and portion fair;
My treasure and my heart are there,

And my abiding home ;
For me my elder brethren stay,
And angels beckon me away,

And Jesus bids me come.

4 "I come," thy servant, Lord, replies,
"I come to meet thee in the skies,

And claim my heavenly rest !
Now let the pilgrim's journey end ;
Now, O my Saviour, Brother, Friend,

Receive me to thy breast !"

JOHN WESLEY.

Title: The Pilgrim.

This hymn is autobiographic, without doubt,
and expressed frankly and fully the mind and feel-
ings of the author at the time' of writing. The-e
are the first two and last two verses. The most
remarkable part of the hymn, five stanzas, is
omitted. He says :

3 " The things eternal I pursue,
A happiness beyond the view,

Ot those that basely pnnt
For things by nature felt and seen ;
Their honors, wealth, and pleasures mean,

I neither have, nor want.

4 " I have no sharer of my heart,
To rob my Saviour of a part,

And desecrate the whole :
Only betroth'd to Christ am I,
And wait His coming from the sky,

To wed my happy soul."

Four years after this hymn was first published
Wesley married, (1751.) It would have been better
tbr bis happiness, and more to his credit, not to
have changed his mind.

5 " I have no babes to hold me here,
But children more securely dear

For mine I humbly claim :
Better than daughters, or than sons,
Temples divine of living stones

Inscribed with Jesus' name.

6 " No foot of land do I possess,
No cottage in this wilderness;

A poor wayfaring man,
I lodge awhile in tents below,
Or gladly wander to and fro,

Till I my Canaan gain.

7 " Nothing on earth I call my own,
A stranger, to the world unknown,

I all their goods despise ;
I trample on their whole delight,
And seek a country out of sight,

A country in the skies."

From Hymns for Those that Seek and 77r .- tint
Have Redemption in, the Blood of Jesus Christ.
London, 1747.

6 1.

1079 The debt unknown

WHEN this passing world is dime.
When has sunk yon glaring sun,
When we stand with Christ in glory,
Looking o'er life's finished story;
Then, Lord, shall I fully know,
Not till then, how much I owe.

2 When I stand before the throne,
Dressed in beauty not my own ;
When I see thee as thou art,
Love thee with unsinning heart;
Then, Lord, shall I fully know,
Not till then, how much I owe.

3 When the praise of heaven 1 hear,
Loud as thunders to the ear.

Loud as many waters' noise.
Sweet as harp's melodious voice;
Then, Lord, shall I fully know,
Not till then, how much I owe.

ROBERT M. .mYhEYNE.

Title: Our Indebtedness to Christ.
This hvmn is composed of verses one. three, and
four, verbatim, of a poem of nine stan/as.
The Rev. Robert Murray M'Che\ ne was boiu .n

7TYVX ST CD TES.

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Edinburgh in L818, and entered the Univenuty of
his native oitv in 18*7. 1" 1881, when onh
eighteen years "t age, he began iii> th<
■todies at Divinitv aa 1. undt-r Dr. < halm
was ordained pastor of St. Peter's Church, Dundee.
. and held that position until his curly ami
muoh lameuted death in 1848.

1080 TtieJrvU of tha tetuotu. CM.

LORD, in thy name thy servants plead,
And thou hast sworn to hear;
Thine is the harvest, thine the seed,
The fresh and fading year.

2 Our hope, when autumn winds blew wild.
We trusted, Lord, with thee;

And still, now spring has on us smiled,
We wait on thy decree.

3 The former and the latter rain,
The summer sun and air,

The green ear, and the golden grain,
All thine, are ours by prayer.

4 Thine, too, by right, and ours by grace,
The wondrous growth unseen,

The hopes that soothe, the fears that brace,
The love that shines serene.

JOHN KEB7.E.

Title: Thou visitest the earth, and Uessest it :
thou make*t it very plenteous. Psa. lxv, 9.
The original has one additional stanza, as follows :

" So grant the precious things brought forth

By sun and moon below,
That Thee, in Thy new heaven and earth,

We never may forego ! "

The hymn then closes with a doxology from
Tate and Brady. The text is not altered.

It was first published in Lord Nelson's Salisbury
Hymn Book. 1857.

See No. 102.

1 0 S 1 Bountiful goodness. C. M.

FHJNTAIN of mercy, God of love,
I low rich thy bounties are!
The rolling seasons, as they move,
Proclaim thy constant care.

2 When in the bosom of the earth
The sower hid the grain.

Thy goodness marked its secret birth,
And sent the early rain.

3 The spring's sweet influence, Lord, was

thine ;
The plants in beauty grew;
Thou gav'st refulgent suns to shine,
And the refreshing dew.
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4 These various mercies from above
Matured the swelling grain;

A kindly harvest crowns thy love,
And plenty tills the plain.

5 We own and bless thy gracious sway ;
Thy hand all nature hails:

Seed-time nor harvest, night nor day,
Summer nor winter, fails.

MRS. ALICE FLOWEKDEW.

Title: Harvest Hymn.

From Poems on Moral and Relu/vjus Subjects,
third edition, 1811.

Two lines are altered. The author wrote, verse
three, line lour :

" And mild refreshing dew."

Verse four, line tliree :

" A yellow harvest crowns Thy love."

The last stanza is not a part of the original. In
its place are two others :

5 "Seed-time and harvest, Lord, alone
Thou dost on man bestow ;

Let him not then forget to own
From whom his blessings now.

6 "Fountain of love ! our praise is Thine ;
To Thee our songs we'll raise,

And all created Nature join
In sweet harmonious praise."

Mrs. Flowerdew, an English teacher and author-
ess, lived from 1759 until 1830.

1082 Eternal Source of every joy. L. M.

ETERNAL Source of every joy,
Well may thy praise our lips employ,
While in thy temple we appear,
Whose goodness crowns the circling year.

2 The flowery spring, at thy command,
Embalms the air and paints the land;
The summer rays with vigor shine,
To raise the corn and cheer the vine.

?• Thy hand in autumn richly pours
Through all our coasts redundant stores;
And winters, softened by thy care,
No more a face of horror wear.

4 Seasons, and months, and weeks, and

days,
Demand successive songs of praise;
Still be the cheerful homage paid,
With opening light and evening shade.

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5 Here in thy house shall incense rise,
And circling Sabbaths bless our eyes,
Till to those lofty heights we soar.
Where days and years revolve no more.

PHILIP P/ODDRIDUE.

Title : For Nt »■- Year's Day. The Year Crowned
with the Divine Goodness. lJsa. lxv, 11.
The second stanza has been omitted :

2 " Wide as the Wheels of Nature roll
Thy Hand supports the steady Pole:
The Sun is taught by thee to rise,
Aud Darkness when to veil the Skies."

The hist stanza is made up from the last two of
the author, slightly altered :

6 " Here in thy House shall Incense rise,
As circling Sabbaths bless our K\ es ;
Still would we make thy Mercies known,
Around thy Board and round our own.

7 "0 may our more harmonious Tongues
In Worlds unknown pursue tin- Songs ;
And in those brighter Gowrts adore,
Where Days and Years revolve no more."

From Hymns founded on, Various Texts in the
Holy Scriptures, 17^.">.
For biography of author, see No. 78.

1083 Harvest-home.

tlOME, ye thankful people, come,
J Raise the song of harvest-home :

All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin :
God, our Maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied:
Come to God's own temple, come,
Raise the soug of harvest-home.

2 All the world is God's own field,
Fruit unto his praise to yield ;
Wheat and tares together sown,
Unto joy or sorrow grown;

First the blade, and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear:
Lord of harvest, grant that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be.

3 For the Lord our God shall come,
And shall take his harvest home;
From his field shall in that day

All offenses purge away;
Give bis angels charge at last
In the fire the tares to cast;
But the fruitful ears to store
In his garner evermore.

4 Even so, Lord, quickly come
To thy final harvest-home;
Gather thou thy people in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin ;
There, forever purified,
In thy presence to abide :
Come, with all thine angels, come,
Raise the glorious harvest-home.

HENRY ALFORB-.

This was published in /'-alms and Hymns, Lon-
don, 1844, under the title After Harvest. It v.as
subsequently altered by the author.

This hymn is the same as that published in the
author's Year of Praise, 1867.

See No. 564.

1084 Thanksgiving hymn. 7.

PRAISE to God, immortal praise,
For the love that crowns our days!
Bounteous Source of every joy,
Let thy praise our tongues employ.

2 For the blessings of the field,
For the stores the gardens yield;
For the fruits in full supply,
Ripened 'neath the summer sky.

3 All that spring with bounteous hand
Scatters o'er the smiling land ;

All that liberal autumn pours
From her rich, o'erflowing stores.

4 These to thee, my God, we owe,
Source whence all our blessings flow;
And for these my soul shall raise
Grateful vows and solemn praise.

5 Should thine altered hand restrain
The early and the latter rain;

Blast each opening bud of joy,
And the rising ear destroy;

G Yet to thee my soul should raise
Grateful vows and soiemn praise;
And, when every blessing's ilown,
Love thee for thyself alone.

MRS. ANNA L. BARBAULD, ALT.

This hymn is marked alt., and justly so, althouc
only two' lines have been changed. Instead of th
last half of the second stanza, the author wrote:

" For the vine's exalted juico,
For the generous olive's use."

There ean bo but one opinion concerning this
hymn. It is very fine. The talented authoress
drew inspiration from Dab. iii, 17, 18:

" Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither

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shall fruit be :n the vines; the labor of the "live rthall

and the ri<-ld.- shall yield do meat ; the ri"cK
shall be cut off from the fold, and then shall be no
. in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the Lord, 1
will joy in the Qod Of my salvation. "

Three Stanzas, the third, sixth, and seventh, are
omitted :

3 " Floeks that whiten all the plain,
- if ripened grain :
. U that drop their tatt'ninir down,
Suns that temperate warmth diffuse : "

6 " Yet should rising whirlwinds tear
From its stem the ripening oar:
Should the ti^-trc-e's blasted shoot
Drop her green untimely fruit ;

7 "Should the vine put forth no more,
Xt the olive yield her store ;
Though the 9ick'ning flocks should fall,
And the herds desert the stall."

Ami to the Holy Spirit,

Who doth upon us pour
His blessed dews and sunshine,

Be praise for evermore 1

JOHN 8. B. MOXSEI.L.

He reserteth unto us the appointed weeks of the
fiarvest. Jer. v, ^-i.

Unaltered and entire, from the author's

veaud Praite. First edition. London, 1- 12.
For sketch of author, see No. 232.

Fnm Poems of Anna LatUia Aikin.

1773.

See No. 77.

London,

1085 Praise to the Lord of harvest. 7, 6.

SIXG to the Lord of harvest !
Sing songs of love and praise!
With joyful hearts and voices

Your hallelujahs raise :
By him the rolling seasons

In fruitful order move;

Sin?; to the Lord of harvest

A song of happy love.

2 By him the clouds drop fatness,
The deserts bloom and spring,

The hills leap up in gladness,
The valleys Laugh and sing:

He filleth with his fullness
All things with large increase,

He crowns the year with goodness,
With plenty, and with peace.

3 Heap on his sacred altar
The gifts his goodness gave,

The golden sheaves of harvest,
The souls he died to save:

Your hearts lay down before him
When at his feet ye fall.

And with your lives adore him
Who gave his life for all.

4 To God, the gracious Father,
Who made us " very good,1'

To Christ, who, when we wandered
Restored us with his blood,

1086 God's gifts -in nature. 7, 6.

^ITJE plow the fields and scatter
V V The good seed on the land,
But it is fed and watered

By God's almighty hand ;
He sends the snow in winter,

The warmth to swell the grain,
The breezes and the sunshine,
And soft refreshing rain.

2 He only is the Maker

Of all things near and far;
He paints the wayside flower,

He lights the evening star;
The winds and waves obey him,

By him the birds are fed :
Much more to us, his children,

He gives our daily bread.

3 We thank thee, then, O Father,
For all things bright and good,

The seed-time and the harvest,
Our life, our health, our food ;

Accept the gifts we offer
For all thy love imparts.

And, what thou most desirest,
Our humble, thankful hearts.

FROM THE GERMAN OF MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS.

This fine little poem was written by Matthias
Claudius, a German, born at Eeintield, Holstein,
in 1743. He lived until 1815. It was first pub-
lished in 1782.

The translation was made by Miss Jane Mont-
gomery Campbell, and was first published in the
Garland of Songs, 1861. In this hymn beauty,
simplicity, and faith are happily combined.

1 0 8 7 Praise to the God of harvest.

THE God of harvest praise;
In loud thanksgiving raise
Hand, heart, and voice;
The valleys laugh and sing,
Forests and mountains ring,
The plains their tribute bring,
The streams rejoice.

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2 Yea, bless his holy name,
And joyful thanks proclaim

Through all the earth;
To glory in your lot
Is comely, — but be not
God's benefits forgot,

Amid your mirth.

3 The God of harvest praise;
Hands, hearts, and voices raise

With one accord;
From field to garner throng,
Bearing your sheaves along,
And in your harvest song
Bless ye the Lord.

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Title: Thanksgiving for Harvest.

Part of a hymn of seven stanzas ; these are
verses one, seven, and six.

In the second stanza, lines two, six, and seven
are as follows in the original :

•• And your soul's thanks proclaim."
" His benefits forget

Amidst your mirth."

From Sacred Poems and Hymns for Public and
Private Devotion, 1853.
See No. 5.

1088 The preaching leaves. 7, 6.

THE leaves, around me falling,
Are preaching of decay,
The hollow winds are calling,

"Come, pilgrim, come away!"
The day, in night declining,
Says I must, too, decline ;
The year, its life resigning, —
Its lot foreshadows mine.

2 The light my path surrounding,
The loves, to which I cling,

The hopes within me hounding,
The joys that round me wing, —

All melt, like stars of even.
Before the morning's ray,

Pass upward into heaven,
And chide at my delay.

3 The friends, gone there before me,
Are calling from on high ;

And joyous angels o'er me

Tempt sweetly to the sky:
" Why wait," they say, "and wither

'.Mid scenes of death and sin?
O rise to glory, hither,

And find true life betnn."

4 I hear the invitation,

And fain would rise and come, —
A sinner, to salvation; —

An exile, to his home:
But, while I here must linger,

Thus, thus let all I see
Point on, with faithful finger,

To heaven, O Lord, and thee.

IIKNKY F. LYTE.

The title that the author gave to this beautiful
poem was Autumnal Hymn.

One line has been slightly changed.
Lyte wrote, verse three, line two:

" Are calling me from high."
From Poems Chiefly Juligious, 1833.

1089 National hymn. 6,4

MY country I 'tis of thee.
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers di< d !
Land of the pilgrim's pride!
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring !

2 My native country, thee,
Land of the noble, free.

Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills.
Thy woods and templed hills:
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.

3 Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees

Sweet freedom's song:
Let mortal tongues awake ;
Lei all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,

The sound prolong.

4 Our father's God ! to thee,
Author of liberty.

To thee we sing :
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light;
Protect us by thy might,
Great God, our King!

SAMUEL F. 8MITIT.

The author, in a letter to the editor of this book,

says: " It was written in February, 1882, while I

was a student in Andover Theological Seminary.

... It was first used publicly at a children's

celebration of July 4, in Park Street Church, Bo.~-

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t<>n. in 1888, There was, on my part, no thought

that it would ever become a national hymn."
As long as patriotism lives this hymn will be

bujii:.
For biographical sketch of author, sec No. 92.

1090 Out native land. 6, 4.

GOD lil ess our native land!
Firm may she ever stand,
Through storm and night:
"When the wild tempests rave,
Ruler of wind and wave,
Do thou our country save
By thy great might !

2 For her our prayer shall rise
To God, above the skies;

On him we wait:
Thou who art ever nigh,
Guarding with watchful eye,
To thee aloud we cry,

God save the State !

CHARLES T. BROOKS
AND JOHN S. DWIGHT.

The credit of writing this gem of song does not
belong to Mr. Dwight alone. It was translated
from the German by the Kev. Charles T. Brooks,
while a member of the Divinity School at Cam-
bridge, Mass. Soon after that it was altered in
pome of its lines, especially those of the last
stanza, by the Kev. John Sullivan Dwight, and
came into popular use.

For the above information we are largely in-
debted to Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith.
Rev. Alfred P. Putnam. Boston, 1875.

The Rev. Charles Timothy Brooks was born in
Salem, Mass., in 1813; was graduated at Harvard
C'lkge in 1832, and at the Divinity School in
1885; and was pastor of the Unitarian church in
Newport, R. I., from lSSfitill 1871. He died June
U, 1883.

The Rev. John Sullivan Dwight was born in
Boston in the same year as Mr. Brooks — 1813; and
was graduated at Harvard in the same class, 1832.
After completing his theological studies at Cam-
bridge, he preached about five or six years. Since
that time he has made literature a profession. He
is a son of the Rev. Timothy Dwight.

1091 Pardon for. national sins. 8, 7.

DREAD Jehovah! God of nations!
From thy temple in the skies,
Hear thy people's supplications;
Now for their deliverance rise.

2 Lo! with deep contrition turning,

In thy holy place we bend ;
Hear us, fasting, praying, mourning;

Hear us, spare us, and defend.

3 Though our sins, our hearts confounding,
Long and loud lor vengeance call,

Tliou liast mercy more abounding:
Jesus' blood can cleanse them all.

4 Let that mercy veil transgression;
Let that blood our guilt efface:

Save thy people from oppression;
Save from spoil thy holy place.

UNKNOWN.

This hymn appeared in The Christian Observer,
1804, with the signature C. F.

The original had eight more lines. One line has
been changed.

Verse two, line three, was :

"Fasting, praying, weeping, mourning."

1092 Prayer for peace. 11,10,9.

GOD, the All-Terrible ! thou who ordainest
Thunder thy clarion, and lightning thy
sword ;
Show forth thy pity on high where thou
reignest ;
Give to us peace in our time, O Lord.

2 God, the Omnipotent! mighty Avenger,
Watching invisible, judging unheard;

Saves us in mercy, O save us from danger;
Give to us peace in our time, O Lord.

3 God, the All-Merciful ! earth hath forsaken
Thy ways all holy, and slighted thy word ;

Let not thy wrath in its terror awaken ;
Give to us pardon and peace, O Lord,

4 So will thy people, with thankful devo-

tion,
Praise him who saved them from peril and

sword,
Shouting in chorus, from ocean to ocean,
Peace to the nations, and praise to the

Lord.

HENRY F. CHORLEY.

Title : Prayer for Peace.

I have not seen the author's original writings.

The text of this hymn is the same as is given in
A Library of Religious Fbetrw, edited by Philip
Sehaff, D.D.,'and Arthur Gilman, A.M., New York,
1881 ; and is probably correct.

Henry Fothergill Chorley was born at Blacklcy-
hurst, Lancashire, in 1S08 ;' and was educated at the
Royal Institution, Liverpool. In 1834 ho went to
London to take a place on the staff of \heAthenceum,
and for thirty-five years retained this connection.
!!<• was the author of some novels,' and about one
hundred songs. He died in 1872.

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HYMN STUDIES.

1093 Thanksgiving choral. 1.

SWELL the anthem, raise the song;
Praises to our God belong ;

Saints and angels join to sing
Praises to the heavenly King.

2 Blessings from his liberal hand
Flow around this happy land :
Kept by him, no foes annoy;
Peace and freedom we enjoy.

3 Here, beneath a virtuous sway
May we cheerfully obey ;
Never feel oppression's rod,
Ever own and worship God.

4 Hark ! the voice of nature sings
Praises to the King of kings;
Let us join the choral song,

And the grateful notes prolong.

NATHAN STRONG, ALT.

Title : Thanksgiving Hymn.

This is the lust hymn in the Hartford Selection,
edited in 1799 by l)r. Strong and others. Several
lines have been changed.

Original :
Verse one, line four :

"Praise to heaven's Almighty King."

Verse two, lines two, three, and four :

" Tour around this happy land ;
Let our hearts beneath his sway,
Hail the bright, triumphant day.''''

Verse three, lines two, three, and four:

" Subjects cheerfully obey,
Here we feel no tyrant's rod,
Here we own ana worship God."

Verse four, line four :

"And the heav'nly note* prolong."

The omitted, stanzas are significant :

3 "Lo! the trembling nations ftand,
Smote by thy avenging hand,

O'er the wide extended plains,
Awful desolation reigns.

4 ll Yet to thee our joys ascend,
Thou lias been our noav'nly friend I
Guarded by thy mighty power.
Peace and freedom bless our shore."

The Rev. Nathan Strong, D.D.,n Congregational

minister, was born in Connecticut in K
graduated at Yale College in 17''.'.'; and in 1773
was ordained pastor of the First Church, 1 i.
where he remained until his death, in 1816. Be
wrote several hymns, and was also a prose author.

1094: Mercy implored. CM.

GREAT King of nations, hear our
prayer,
While at thy feet we fall,
And humbly, with united cry,
To thee for mercy call.

2 The guilt is ours, but grace is thine,
O turn us not away ;

But hear us from thy lofty throne,
And help us when we pray.

3 Our fathers' sins were manifold,
And ours no less we own,

Yet wondrously from age to age
Thy goodness hath been shown.

4 When dangers, like a stormy sea,
Beset our country round.

To thee we looked, to thee we cried,
And help in thee was found.

5 With one consent we meekly bow
Beneath thy chastening hand,

And, pouring forth confession meet,
Mourn with our mourning land.

6 With pitying eye behold our need,
As thus we lift our prayer;

Correct us with thy judgments, Lord,
Then let thy mercy spare.

JOHN H. GTTRNEY.

Author's title: Fast Day ; or, Time of Public
Calamity.

It is unaltered and entire, from the author's ( •'-
lection of Hymns for Public Worship, 1888.

For biographical sketch of the Rev. John Hamp-
den Gurney, see No. 590.

1095 For protection in pestilence. CM.

IN grief and fear to thee, O Lord,
We now for succor fly;
Thine awful judgments are abroad,
() shield us, lest we die.

2 The fell disease on every side
Walks forth with tainted breath;

Ami pestilence, wit'i rapid stride,
Bestrews the land with death.

3 O look with pity on the scene
( )f sadness and of dread :

And let thine angel Btftnd between
The living and the (bad.

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4 Willi contrite hearts, to thee, our King,

We turn who oft have strayed;
Accept the sacrifice we bring,

Ami let the plague be stayed,

WILLIAM BULLOCK.

Title: Ttu Church in, Hague vr l\*tihnce.

I is our refuge and strength, u very prea ul
Help Ln trouble." rsa, advi, 1.

The author wrote, verse one, line three:

"And while Thy judgments are abroad;''

and " thy " instead of " thine," in verve three, line
three.

One stanza, the third, is omitted :

3 " Our sins Thy dreadful anger raise,
Oar deeds Thy wrath deserve;

But we repent, and from Thy ways
We never more will swerve."

From Songs of the Church, by the Rev. William
Bullock. Halifax, Nova Scotia, ls5-l.

Dr. Bullock, born in 17lJ>>, was for many years a
missionary, sent out by the Chureh of England,
and was appointed Dean of Nova Scotia, where ho
ilis hymns, he says, "were written
amid the various seems of mi-sionary life, and
were intended for the private and domestic use of
Christians in new countries."

1096 Impending judgments. C. If.

COME, let our souls adore the Lord,
Whose judgments yet delay;
"Who yet suspends the lifted sword,
And gives us time to pray.

2 Great is our guilt, our fears are great,
But let us not despair;

Still open is the mercy-seat
To penitence and prayer.

3 Kind Intercessor, to thy love
This blessed hope we owe :

O let thy merits plead above,
While we implore below.

4 Though justice near thy awful throne
Attends thy dread command,

Lord, hear thy servants, hear thy Son,
And save a guilty land.

ANNE STEELE.

Title : Pleading for Mercy.
Written on the Fast, February 11, 1757.
second and fifth stanzas have been left out :

2 " In armies, fleets, or strong allies,

X ■ more we place our trust ;
On God alone, our hope relies,

Kind, potent, wise, and just.

5 " () gracious Qod, for Jesus' sake,

Attend thy Britain's ery ;
Nor let the kindling vengeance break

Destructive from thine eye."

Tlie author wrote verse one, line four :

" And give us have to pray."

From Poems on Subject* Chafly Devotional, by
Theodosia. Loudon, 1700.
See No. 63.

The

1097 c.

Xational deliverance ascribed to God.

0LORD, our fathers oft have told,
In our attentive ears,
Thy wonders in their days performed,
And in more ancient years.

2 'Twas not their courage, nor their sword,

To them salvation gave;
'Twas not their number, nor their strength,
That did their country save.

3 But thy right hand, thy powerful arm,
Whose succor they implored;

Thy providence protected them,
Who thy great name adored.

4 As thee their God our fathers owned,
So thou art still our King;

O, therefore, as thou didst to them,
To us deliverance bring.

5 To thee the glory we ascribe,
From whom salvation came ;

In God, our shield, we will rejoice,
And ever bless thy name.

TATE AND BRADY, ALT.

A paraphrase of the first eight verses of Psa. xliv :

" "We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers
have told us, what work thou didst in their days,
in the times of old. How thou didst drive out the
heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them ; how
thou didst afflict the people, and ca>t them out. For
they got not the land in possession by their own
sword, neither did their own arm nave them: hut
thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy
countenance, because thou had-t a favor unto thein.
Thou art my King, 0 God : command deliverances
for Jacob. Through thee will we push down our
enemies: through thy name will we tread them
under that rise up against us. For I will not trust
in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. But
thou hast saved us from our enemies, and has put
them to shame that hated us. In God we boast all
the day lontr, and praise thy name forever."

Three stanzas have been omitted, and verbal
changes matlc in eleven lines. Date, L896.

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HYMN STUDIES.

1 0 9 o Trayer for our native land. C. M.

LORD, while for all mankind we pray,
Of every clime and coast,
o hear us for our native land, —

The land we love the most.

2 0 guard our shores from every foe;
With peace our borders bless,

Our cities with prosperity,
Our fields with pleuteousness.

3 Unite us in the sacred love

Of knowledge, truth, and thee;
And let our hills and valleys shout
The songs of liberty.

4 Lord of the nations, thus to thee
Our country we commend ;

Be thou her refuge and her trust,
Her everlasting friend.

JOHN R. WREFORD.

Title: Prayer for Our Country.

This was one of fifty-five hymns which the «a-
\har contributed to a Unitarian Collection, edited
by Dr. J. K. Beard, entitled A Collection of hymns
for Public and Private Worship. 1837.

Verse two, line three, the author wrote:

•' With prosperous times our cities crou'ii."

Two stanzas, the second and fifth, have been
omitted :

2 " Our father's scpulchers are here,

And here our kindred dwell :
Our children too ; — how should we love

Another land so well '.

5 " Here may religion pure and mild

Upon our Sabbaths smile ;
And piety and virtue reij^n,

And bless our native isle.''

It was written in England, and for England, about
the time of the coronation of Queen Victoria : but it
is appropriate for the use of Christian patriots in
other lands. Wreford was a Unitarian minister
(1800-1881).

1099 Strong to heal and save. C. M.

rpiIIXE arm. O Lord, in days of old

JL Was strong to heal and save;
It triumphed o'er disease and death,

O'er darkness and the grave:
To thee they went, the blind the dumb,

The palsied and the lame.
The leper with his tainted life.

The sick with fevered frame

2 And lo, thy touch brought life and health,
Gave speech, and Btrength, and siudit;

And youth renewed and frenzy calmed
Owned thee, the Lord of light :

And now, O Lord, be near to bless,

Almighty as of yore,
In crowded street, by restless couch,

As by Gennesareth's shore.

3 Be thou our great Deliverer still,

Thou Lord of life and death ;
Restore and quicken, soothe and bless

With thine almighty breath.
To hands that work, and eyes that see,

Give wisdom's heavenly lore,
That whole and sick, and weak and strong,

May praise thee evermore.

EDWARD H. RLUMPTRE.

The Rev. Edward Hayes Plumptre, Professor of
Divinity, and Chaplain in King's College, England,

was born in 1821. He lias written several woi be in
prose and poetry. This hymn is not altered, but
one stanza, the third, has been omitted :

" Though Love and Might no longer heal,

By toueh or word or look;
Though they who do Thy work must read

'!l\\v laws in nature's book:
Yet come t<> heal the sick man's soul,

Come, cleanse the leprous taint,
Give joy and peace — where all is strife,

And strength — where all is faint."

It was written in 1865. Prof. Plumptre died in
Jan., 1891.

1100 Rational blessings. L. M.

GREAT God of nations, now to thee
Our hymn of gratitude we raise;
With humble heart, and bending knee,
We offer thee our song of praise.

2 Thy name we bless. Almighty God,
For all the kindness thou hast shown

To this fair land the pilgrims trod, —
This land we fondly call our own.

:! Here freedom spreads her banner wide,
And casts her soft and hallowed ray:

Here thou our father-" steps didsl guide
In safety through their dangerous way.

■1 We praise thee that the gospel's light
Through all our land its radiance sheds;

Dispels the shade- of error's night,

And heavenly blessings round US spreads.

."i Great God, preserve us in thy fear;

In danger still our guardian he;
O spread thy truth's bright precepts here;

Let all the people worship thee.

ALFRED A. WOODHT/LL, ALT.

HYMN STUDIES.

425

This hymn has long been "unknown." Dr.
Edwin F. Hatfield Bays that it was written by
Alfred Alexander Woodhull, M.l>.. and published
in tlie Presbyterian Ptalmaand Hymna, 1628.

Tin- author wrote the first line:

//,.//• to Thee."

Every verse baa been altered, and one stanza, the
fifth, omitted.

•■ When (bee without, and foes within,
With threatening ills our land have pret

Thou hast .mr nation's bulwark been,
And, smiling, .sent us peaoeful rest."

Dr. Woodhull lived from 1810 to 1886, and prac-
ticed medicine for a time at Princeton, N. J.

1101 Thanksgiving for national peace. L. M.

GREAT Ruler of the earth and skies,
A word of thine almighty breath
Can sink the world, or bid it rise:
Thy smile is life, thy frown is death.

2 When angry nations rush to arms,
And rage, and noise, and tumult reign,

And war resounds its dire alarms,

And slaughter dyes the hostile plain, —

3 Thy sovereign eye looks calmly down,
And marks their course, and bounds their

power ;
Thy law the angry nations own,

And noise and war are heard no more.

4 Then peace returns with balmy wing;
Sweet peace, with her what blessings fled !

Glad plenty laughs, the valleys sing,
Reviving commerce lifts her head.

5 To thee we pay our grateful songs;
Thy kind protection still implore :

O may our hearts, and lives, and tongues,
Confess thy goodness, and adore.

ANNE STEELE.
Title : Praise for National Peace.

" He maketh wars to cease unto the end of rhe
earth ; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the sp sar
in sunder; lie burnetii the chariot in the fire."
Psa. xlvi, 9.

The author wrote, verse two, line four:

" And slaughter spreads the hostile plain."

The fifth stanza is omitted. It was probably too
Calvinistic to suit the taste of the editors, who
introduced it into our hymn hook i'i 1849 :

5 " Thou L'ood. and wise, and righteous Lord,

All move subservient to thy will ;
And peace and war await thy word,

And thy sublime decrees fulfill."

From Poems on .- -fly Decotiona' '. by

Theodosia. London, 1760. See No. 63.

1102

■ I Qod.

L. -M.

( SOI) of love. O King Of peace.

.Make wars throughout the world to

reuse ;
The wrath of sinful man restrain;
(Jive peace, O God, give peace again.

2 Remember, Lord, thy works of old,
The wonders that our fathers told;
Remember not our sin's dark stain;
Give peace, O God, give peace again.

3 Whom shall we trust but thee, O Lord?
Where rest but on thy faithful word?
None ever called on thee in vain ;

Give peace, O God, give peace agaiu.

4 Where saints and angels dwell above,
All hearts are knit in holy love;

O bind us in that heavenly chain;
Give peace, O God, give peace again.

SIR HENRY W. BAKER.

Title : The Lord shall give His people the blessing
of [itace.

Contributed to Hymns Ancient and Modern,
1861. The author was one of the editors of that
valuable hymnal.

See No. 91.

1103 God, the nation's guardian. L. M.

GREAT God! beneath whose piercing eye
The earth's extended kingdoms lie ;
AVhose favoring smile upholds them all.
Whose anger smites them, and they fall ;

2 We bow before thy heavenly throne;
Thy power we see. thy greatness own;
Yet, cherished by thy milder voice,
Our bosoms tremble and rejoice.

3 Thy kindness to our fathers shown
Their children's children long shall own ;
To thee, with grateful hearts, shall raise
The tribute of exulting praise.

4 Led on by thine unerring aid.
Secure the paths of life we tread;
And. freely as the vital air,

Thy first and noblest bounties share.

5 Great God, our Guardian, Guide, and

Friend !
O still thy sheltering arm extend;
Preserved by thee for ages past,
For ages let thy kindness Lasl !

WILLIAM ROSCOE, ALT.

426

HYMN STUDIES.

In this form the hymn 1ms been in use at least
sinee 1881. It was written in long particular meter.
Here is the first stanza of the original :

1 " Great God, beneath whose piercing cyo
The world's extended kingdoms lie,

We bow before thy heavenly throne;
Thy favoring smile upholds them all ;
Thine anger smites them and they fall ;

Thy power we see, thy greatness own."

William Koseoe, an English author, was born in
1753. By profession he was a lawyer, but his
favorite pursuit was literature. lie died in 1S.".1.
There is some reason for doubting the alleged
authorship of tliis hymn.

1 1 04 In time of war. L. M.

OW may the God of grace and power

Attend his people's humble cry ;
Defend them in the needful hour,
And send deliverance from on high.

2 In his salvation is our hope ;
And in the name of Israel's God

Our troops shall lift their banners up,
Our navies spread their flags abroad.

3 Some trust in horses trained for war,
And some of chariots make their boasts ;

Our surest expectations are

From thee, the Lord of heavenly hosts.

4 Then, save us, Lord, from slavish fear,
And let our trust be firm and strong,

Till thy salvation shall appear,

And hymns of jieace conclude our song.

ISAAC WATTS, ALT.

Title : Prayer, and Hope of Victory.

It is founded on Psa. xx.

Verses two, three, and six are omitted, and the
fir*t and last stanzas considerably altered. Watts
wrote :

1 " Now may the God of potior and grace
Attend his people's humble cry :

Jthomh "hears when Israel prays,
And brings deliverance from on high."

4 " Now save us. Lord ! from slavish fear,
Now let our hopes be firm and strong,

Till thy salvation shall appear,
And joy and triumph raise the song."

Published in 1719.

1105 7¥ust in our fathers' God. L. M.

TO thee, O God, whose guiding hand
Our fathers led across the sea.
And brought them to this barren shore.
Where they might freely worship thee,

2 To thee, O God, whose arm sustained
Their footsteps in this desert land,

Where sickness lurked and death assailed,
And foes beset on every hand, —

3 To thee, O God, we lift our eyes,
To thee our grateful voices raise,

And, kneeling at thy gracious throne,

Devoutly join in hymns of praise.

4 Our fathers1 God, incline thine ear,
And listen to our heartfelt prayer;

Surround us with thy heavenly grace,
And guard us with thy constant care.

5 Our fathers' God, in thee we'll trust,
Sheltered by thee from every harm;

We'll follow where thy hand shall guide,
And lean on thy sustaining arm.

WILLIAM T. DAVIS.

Title : Our Fathers' God.

This hymn was written for the Two Hundred
and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Landing of tlio
Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dec 21, 1870.

The Hon. William T. Davis, a lawyer by profes-
sion, was born at Plymouth in 1822, and was grad-
uated at Harvard College in 1842.

7, C.

1106 Household love.

0LOVE, divine and tender !
That through our homes doth move,
Veiled in the softened splendor

Of holy household love:
A throne, without thy blessing,

Were labor without rest,
And cottages, possessing
Thy blessedness, are blest.

2 God bless these hands united,

God bless these hearts made one;
Unsevered and unblighted

May they through life go on:
Here, in earth's home, preparing

For the bright home above,
And then, forever sharing

Its joy, where "God is love.'1

JOHN s. b. MONSEI.L.

Author's title : Holy Matrimony.

"Love is strong as death. . . . Many waters cannot
quench love, neither can the floods drown it : it a

man would rive all the Bubstanoe of his house tor

love, it would utterly be contemned." Cant, viii,
6,7.

The original has five stanzas. These arc verses
three and live, unaltered.

From the author's Hymns of Love and Praia*.
London. First edition, 1862.

Bee No. 282.

11Y.VX STUDIES.

427

1107 Altrriig, hymn. L. M.

How welcome was the call,
And sweet tin- festal lav,
When Jesus deigned in ('ana's hall
To bless the marriage day !

2 And happy was the bride.

And glad the bridegroom's heart,
For he who tarried at their side
Bade grief and ill depart.

3 His gracious power divine
The water vessels knew :

And plenteous was the mystic wine
The wondering servants drew.

4 O Lord of life and love,
Come thou again to-day ;

And bring a blessing from above
That ne'er shall pass away.

5 O bless, as erst of old,

The bridegroom and the bride;
Bless with the holier stream that flowed
Forth from thy pierced side.

6 Before thine altar-throne
This mercy we implore ;

As thou dost knit them, Lord, in one,
So bless them evermore.

SIR HENRY W. BAKER.

" Both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the
marriage.'''' John ii, 2.

Contributed to Hymns Ancient and Modern in
1861.
For biographical sketch of the author, see No. 91.

1108 For those in peril on the sea. L. M. 01.

ETERNAL Father! strong to save,
^Vhose arm hath bound the restless
wave,
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
O hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea.

2 O Christ! whose voice the waters heard,
And hushed their raging at thy word,
Who walkedsl on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage did sleep;
0 hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea.

3 O Holy Spirit! who didst brood
1'pon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
O hear us when we cry to thee

For those in peril on the sea.

4 O Trinity of love and power !

Our brethren shield in danger's hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe'er they go;
Thus evermore shall rise to thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.

WILLIAM WHITING, ALT.

Contributed to Hymns Ancient and Modern.

(1861,) but altered considerably by the editors of
that book.

Original.

1 uO Tfiou who bidd'st tlie ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep.
Thou who dost bind the restless wave,
Eternal Father strong to save,
O hear us when we cry to Thee
For all in perU on the sea."

Verse two, lines one, two, four, and six :

" 0 Saviour whose Almighty Word
The winds and weaves submissive heard,"
" And calm amid its rage didst sleep."
" For all in peril on the sea."

Verse three, lines one, three, four, and six :

" 0 sacred Spirit who didst brood."
" Who bad'st its angry tumult cease.
And light diffused, and life and peace."
" For all in peril on the sea."

Verse four, lines three, four, and five :

" From rock and tempest them defend;
To safety's harbor them attend;
And ever let there rise to Thee."

William Whiting, Esq., was born in 1825 ; and
for many years was Head Master of Winchester
School, England. He died 1878.

1109 Safe with Jesus in the ship. 1, 6, 8.

LORD of earth, and air, and sea,
Supreme in power and grace,
Under thy protection we

Our souls and bodies place.
Bold and unknown land to try,

We launch into the foaming deep;
Rocks, and storms, and deaths defy,
With Jesus in the ship.

42S

HYMN STUDIES.

'2 Who the calm can understand,

In a believer's breast '.
In the hollow of His hand

Our souls securely rest :
Winds may rise, and seas may roar;

We on his love our spirits stay;
Him with quiet joy adore

Whom winds and seas obey.

CHAKLES WESLEY.

Title: At Going on Shipboard.

This is one of the many hymns that the author
left in manuscript, and was first published in a Sup-
plement to the Collection qf Hymn* fur the use of
thepeopU called Methodists. London, 1830.

It is unaltered and entire.

1 1 1 0 Hv holdeih 'the waters in, his hand. S.

OTHOU, who hast spread out the skies,
And measured the depth of the sea,
Our incense of praise shall arise

In joyous thanksgiving to thee.
Forever thy presence is near,

Though heaves our bark from the land ;
We ride on the deep without fear ;
The waters are held in thy hand.

2 Eternity comes in the sound

Of billows that never can sleep;
Jehovah encircles us round ;

Omnipotence walks on the deep.
Our Father, we look up to thee,

As on toward the haven we roll;
And faith in our Pilot shall be

An anchor to steady the soul.

HANNAH F. GOULD, ALT.

Author's title : A Hymn at Sea.

Eleven lines out of the sixteen have been changed
more or less, and two four-lined stanzas omitted :
their place is between those of the hymn :

" Though not since the morn when the flood

Poured in, this vast cavern to till,
Has the sea ever motionless stood,

< >r the pulse of its bosom been still.

" Inscribed on its face from that hour

Thy name has indelibly shown.
While man, while he worships thy power,

Can leave not a trace of hi> own."

From the author's /'onus, vol. i. Boston, 1832.
For biographical sketch, see No. 90.

2 If on the morning's wings they fly,
They will not pass beyond thine eye:
The wanderer's prayer thou bend'st to

hear,
And faith exults to know thee near.

:; When tempests rock the groaning bark,
O hide them safe in Jesus' ark;
When in the tempting port they ride,
j O keep them safe at Jesus1 side.

4 If life's wide ocean smile or roar.
Still guide them to the heavenly shore;
And grant their dust in Christ may sleep,
Abroad, at home, or in the deep.

GEORGE BUHGESS, ALT.

Author's title : On Sailing.

In LU66 Bishop Burgess sailed to the West Indies
for his health, and died on the passage home.

This hymn was written for himself, and records
his trust in God.

The first stanza the author wrote:

" Lord in thy namt ice spread the sail.
And ask from Thee the prosperous gale;
And on our heart- where'er we go
Oh, let thy Spirifs wind but blow ! "

The last couplet of the third stanza was :

'■ When in the tempting port we ride,
Oh, keep us safe at JesW side ;"

and the last stanza :

"If life's wide ocean smile or roar,
Still guide vs to the heavenly >hore ;
And grant our dust in Christ to sleep,
Far, or at home, or in the deep ! "

From the author's Fount. Hartford, 1868.
See No. 579.

1111 For mariners. L. M.

WHILE o'er the deep thy servants sail,
Send thou, O Lord, the prosperous

gale;

And on their hearts, where'er they go,

O let thy heavenly breezes blow.

1 1 1 2 His way is in the sea. L. If.

LORD of the wide, extensive main,
Whose power the wind, the sea, con-
trols,
Whose hand doth earth and heaven sus-
tain.
Whose Spirit leads believing souls;

2 'Tis here thine unknows paths we trace.
Which dark to human eves appear;

While through the mighty waves we pass,
Faith only sees that God is here.

3 Throughout the deep thy footsteps shine;
We own thy way is in the sea,

O'erawed by majesty divine.
And lost in thine immensity.

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429

4 Thy wisdom here we learn to adore;

Thine everlasting truth we prove;
Amazing heights of boundless power;

Unfathomable depths of love.

( UAKl.l> WESLEY.

Author's title : To be Sung at $ a.
The hymn oontains ten stanzns ; these are the
first, third, fourth, and tilth.
The original has " Thy " for " thine " in each of

ti:e last tWO skill.

It is probable that this hymn was written about
the time the Wesleya b fled for America. The

. >tanza reads as follows :

2 ■ For Thee we leave our native shore,
We whom Thy love delights to keep,
In other worlds Thy works explor i,
And see Thy wonders in the deep."

From Hymns and Sacred Tbems, 1740.

1113 CM.

God's servants safe by sea or land.

HOW are thy servants blest, O Lord!
How sure is their defense !
Eternal wisdom is their guide,
Their help, Omnipotence.

2 In foreign realms, and lands remote,
Supported by thy care,

Through burning climes they pass unhurt,
And breathe in tainted air.

3 When by the dreadful tempest borne
High on the broken wave

They know thou art not slow to hear,
Nor impotent to save.

4 The storm is laid, the winds retire,
Obedient to thy will ;

The sea, that roars at thy command,
At thy command is still.

5 In midst of dangers, fears, and deaths,
Thy goodness we'll adore ;

We'll praise thee for thy mercies past
And humbly hope for more.

6 Our life, while thou proserv"st that life,
Thy sacrifice shall be;

And death, when death shall be our lot,
Shall join our souls to thee.

JOSEPH ADDISON, ALT.

suggested by a fearful storm on the Mediterranean.
The captain of the vessel gave up all tor lo
Addison resorted to prayer. Two of the omitted
>ta:izaa explain the situation :

•■ I "illusion dwelt in every face,

And lcar in every heart;
When waves on waves, and gulfs on gulfs,

O'ereame the pilot's art.

'■ Yet then from all my_gjiefs, 0 Lord,

Thy mercy set me free,
Whilst in the confidence of prayer

My *oul took hold on thee."

First published in the Spectator, No. 489, 1712.
See £so. 138.

The original has ten stanzas,
two and the last four.

Each stanza, except the first, has been more or
less altered.

^n the year 1700 the author went abroad, and at
Vne conclusion of his travels wrote this ode. It, was

1114 Save, Lord, or we perish. 12.

WHEN through the torn sail the wild
tempest is streaming,
When o'er the dark wave the red lightning

is gleaming,
Nor hope lends a ray, the poor seaman to

cherish,
We fly to our Maker, — " Save, Lord, or we
perish ! "

2 O Jesus, once tossed on the breast of the
billow,

Aroused by the shriek of despair from thy

pillow,
Now seated in glory, the mariner cherish
Who cries, in his anguish, *' Save, Lord, or

we perish ! "

3 And O, when the whirlwind of passion
is raging,

When sin in our hearts its wild warfare is

waging,
Arise in thy strength, thy redeemed to

cherish ;
Rebuke the destroyer, "Save, Lord or we

perish ! "

REGINALD DTEBER, ALT.

The foundntion of this hymn is, of course, the
narrative of Christ Bailing the tempest on the Sea
of Galilee. Matt, viii, 23-26.

Some words have beeu changed. The author
wrote '■■Help, Lord," instead of "save," in each
stanza; in verse two, last line, "danger" instead
of "anguish; " and in the second line of the last
stanza :"

These are the first " When hell in our heart his wild warfare is
watting."

From Hymns Written and Adapted to the Week-
ly Church Strike of the Year, 1827.
" Bee No. G2.

430

UTMN STUDIES.

1115 Embarking. 1.

LORD, whom winds and seas obey,
Guide us through the watery way;
In the hollow of thy hand
Hide, and bring us safe to land.

2 Jesus, let our faithful mind
Rest, on thee alone reclined :
Every anxious thought repress ;
Keep our souls in perfect peace.

3 Keep the souls whom now we leave ;
Bid them to each other cleave ;

Bid them walk on life's rough sea ;
Bid them come by faith to thee.

4 Save, till all these tempests end,
All who on thy love depend;
Waft our happy spirits o'er ;
Land us on the heavenly shore.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Title : At Going on Shipboard.

This is one of the hymns that the author left in
manuscript, and was first published in the Supple-
ment to the Wesleyan Collection, in 1830. It is un-
altered and entire.

1116 The aged disciple's prayer. L. II.

I TOO, forewarned by Jesus' love,
Must shortly lay my body down;
But ere my soul from earth remove,
O let me put thine image on I

2 Saviour! thy meek and lowly mind
Be to thine aged servant given;

And glad I'll drop this tent, to find
My everlasting house in heaven.

CHARLES WESLEY.

Tli is is one of the Short Hymns on Select Passages
of the Holy Scriptures. It is written mi 2 Peter i, 14:

" Shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even
as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me."

1117 Aged and helpless. L. M. 6 1.

IN age and feebleness extreme,
Who shall a helpless worm redeem?
Jesus, my only hope thou art,
Strength of my failing flesh and heart :
O could I catch one smile from thee,
And drop into eternity !

CHARLES WESLEY.

Wesley composed these lines during his last sick-
ness, and only a few days before hie death. They
were dictated" to his wife. They show his humil-
ity, his faith, and his "desire to depart and to be
with Christ."

DOXOLOGIES.

1 L. M.

PRAISE God, from whom all blessings
flow;
Praise him, all creatures here below;
Praise him above, ye heavenly host ;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost I

THOMAS KEN.

This most sublime, as well as most familiar, of
all doxologies was appended by Bishop Ken to each
of his three famous hymns. Morning, Evening, and
Midnight, published in 1697.

2 CM.

TO Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
The God whom we adore,
Be glory, as it was, is now,
And shall be evermore !

TATE AND BRADY.

This is found appended to the New Version of
the Psalms, by those authors, 1696.

3 CM.

THE God of mercy be adored,
Who calls our souls from death,
Who saves by his redeeming word,

And new-creating breath;
To praise the Father, and the Son,

And Spirit all-divine, —
The One in Three, and Three in One, —
Let saints and angels join.

ISAAC WATTS.

Fr< >m the author's Hymns and Spiritual Songs,
book iii.

S. M.

TO God, the Father, Son,
And Spirit, one in three,
Be glory, as it was, is now,
And shall forever be.

JOIIN WESLEY.

This is the closing stanza of A Morning Hymn,
found in A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, pub-
lirVed by John Wesley', in 1741.

^)ot SS0i 111 in this Hymnal.

5 L. M. 6 1

IMMORTAL honor, endless fame,
Attend the almighty Father's name:
The Saviour Son be glorified,
Who for lost man's redemption died;
And equal adoration be,
Eternal Comforter, to thee!

JOHN DKYDEN.

These lines close Dryden's paraphrase of the
Veni, Creator Spiritus. The author wrote " Para-
clete •' instead of " Comforter " in the last line.

John Dryden (1631-1700) was poet-laureate ct
England for thirty years.

6 L. P. M.

NOW to the great and sacred Three,
The Father, Son, and Spirit, be
Eternal praise and glory given,
Through all the worlds where God is

known
By all the angels near the throne,

And all the saints in earth and heaven.

ISAAC WATTS.

This is found among the doxologies appended to
the author's Psalms, 1719.

7 H. M.

TO God the Father's throne
Your highest honors raise;
Glory to God the Son,

To God the Spirit, praise :
With all our powers, eternal King,
Thy everlasting praise we sing.

ISAAC WATTS, ALT.

The original form is :

" To God the Father's throne

Perpetual honors raise,
Glory to God, the Son,

To God, the Spirit, praise*
And' while our Ivps

Their tribute bring,
Ovr faith adores

The name we sing."

From Hymns and Spiritual Songs, book in.

432

HYMN STUD FES.

8 C. P. M.

TO Father, Son, and Holy Gliost,
The God whom heaven's triumphant host
And saints on eartli adore;
Be glory as in ages past,
As now it is, and so shall last,
When time shall be no more!

TATE AND BRADY.

The third and last lines are slightly altered ; the
original is :

" And mffrimg saints on earth adore,
"When time itself must lie no more.''

It is found at the end of the New Version of the
Psalms, 1696.

9 7.

SING we to our God above,
Praise eternal as his love ;
Praise him, all ye heavenly host,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost !

CHARLES WESLEY.

This first appeared in Hymns and Sacred Poems,
1740.

10 7,61.

PRAISE the name of God most high ;
Praise him, all below the sky;
Praise him, all ye heavenly host,
Father, Son. and Holy Gliost!
As through countless ages past,
Evermore his praise shall last.

UNKNOWN.

11 8,7,4.

GREAT Jehovah! we adore thee,
God the Father, God the Son,
God the Spirit, joined in glory
On the same eternal throne :

Endless praises
To Jehovah, Three in One!

WILLIAM GOODE, ALT.

The author wrote the first line :

" Lo Jehovah," etc.

and the last line :

" To 77ie Three in Godhead One"

From An Putin X, >r Version of tht Booh of
Pxnlms, by Rev. William tioode, BI.A. London.
1811. This author, an English clergyman, lived
from 'Y68 until 1816.

12 8,7.

PRAISE the God of our salvation;
Praise the Father's boundless love;
Praise the Lamb, our expiation;
Praise the Spirit from above,
Author of the new creation,

Him by whom our spirits live ;
Undivided adoration

To the one Jehovah give !

JOSIAII CONDER, ALT.

" My month shall speak the praise of tlu Lord."
Psa. exlv, 21.

Three lines have been altered.
Original, lines one, four, and five:

" Praise the God of all creation.'1''

'■'■Priest and King enthroned above,
Praise the Fountain of Salvation.''''

From TJie Congregational Hymn Pool-. London.

13 8.

ALL praise to the Father, the Son,
And Spirit, thrice holy and blest !
The eternal, supreme Three in One,
Was, is, and shall still be confessed.
unknown.

14 7. .;, S.

FATHER. Son, and Holy Ghost,
Thy Godhead we adore.
Join we with the heavenly host,

To praise thee evermore!
Live, by earth and heaven adored,

The Three in One, the One in Three ;
Holy, holy, holy Lord,
All glory be to thee !

( II AliLES WESLEY.

The word " we" has been inserted in the third
line, and the word "The" prefixed to the tuxtii
line.

From Hymns to the Trinity. London, 1740.

6,4.

TO God, the Father, Son,
And Spirit, Three in One,
All praise be given !
Crown him, in every song;
To him your heart- belong:
Let all his praise prolong,
On earth, in heaven !

EDWIN I\ ITATFIELD.

Found in T7ie Church Hymn Hoot, (187S)
Marked E. F. II., 1S43.

DOXOLOGIES.

433

16 7,8,

\[ > Father, Son, and Spirit,

Ascribe we equal glory ;

One Deity, in Persona Three,
Lei all thy works adore thee:

As was from the beginning,
Glory to God be given,

By all who know the name below,
Anil all thy hosts in heaven.

CHAKI.ES WESLEY.

From Hymns to ike Trinity, 17-iG.

17 7,6.

To thee bo praise forever.
Thou glorious King of kings !
Thy wondrous love and favor
Each ransomed spirit sings:
"We'll celebrate thy glory,

"With all thy saints above,
And shout the joyful story
Of thy redeeming love.

THOMAS HAWEIS, ALT.

This doxology is made from the first verse of a
hymn of three stanzas, entitled Be telling of his
salvation from day to day.

It is found in the author's " Carmina Christo"
1792.

Original.

" To thee my God and Saviour,

My heart exulting sings,
Rejoicing in thy favor,

Almighty King of kings.

I'll celebrate thy glory

With all thy BUntti above,
And tell the joyful story
Of thy redeeming love."

18 io.

TO Father, Son, and Spirit, ever blest.
Eternal praise and worship be addressed ;
From age to age, ye saints, his name adore.
And spread his fame, till time shall be no
more.

SIMON BKOWNE.

The Rev. Simon Browne was an English Inde-
pendent minister, who lived from 1680 to 1732.
lie was the author of Hymns and Spiritual Sony*
in Three Books. London, 1720.

This doxology appears at the close of the third
book. The last couplet has been changed from
this form :

" Tliis still was dve in ages heretofore,

Is now, and will when time shall be no more."

19 u.

0 FATHER Almighty, to thee be ad-
dressed,
With Christ and the Spirit, one God, ever

blest,
All glory and worship, from earth and from

heaven,
As was, and is now, and shall ever be given.

UNKNOWN.

INDEX

FIRST LINES OF HYMNS.

IIVMN".

A charge to keep I have 5?4

A few more years shall roll 957 !

A mighty fortress is our God 166

A stranger in the world below 1031

A thousand oracles divine 34

Abba, Father, hear thy child 440

Abide with me! Fast falls the even. . 93

Abraham, when severely tried 471

According to thy gracious word 836

Again as evening's shadow falls 109

Again the Lord of life and light 77

Ah, how shall fallen man 310

Ah ! whither should I go 402

Alas! and did my Saviour bleed 214

All hail the power of Jesus' name. . . . 248

All people that on earth do dwell ... 11

All praise to Him who dwells in 97

All praise to our redeeming Lord 789

All praise to the Lamb ! accepted I am. 454

All things are ready, come 357

Almighty God, thy word is cast 301

Almighty Maker of my frame 962

Almighty Spirit, now behold 916

Always with us, always with us .... 731

Am I a soldier of the cross 503

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound. 427

And am I born to die 096

And am I only born to die 968

And are we yet alive 798

And can I yet delay 401 [

And can it be that I should gain 422

And is there, Lord, a rest 1055 I

And let our bodies part 816 [

And let this feeble body fail 1032 j

And must I be to judgment brought.. 1021 I

And must this body die 995 !

And will the great eternal God 867 !

And will the mighty God 499 '

And wilt Thou yet be found 399 J

Angels, from the realms of glory. ... 189

Are there not in the laborer's day 570

Arise, my soul, arise 438

Arise, my soul, on wings sublime 530

Arise, ye saints, arise 577 i

hTM».

Arm of the Lord, awake, awake! Put. 920

Arm of the Lord, awake, awake!. . . . 1043

As pants the hart for cooling streams. 550

As shadows, cast by cloud and sun. . 907

As with gladness men of old 182

Asleep in Jesus ! blessed sleep 979

Assembled at thy great command. . . . 922

At the Lamb's high feast we sing. . . . 847

Author of faith, eternal Word 445

Author of faith, to thee I cry 377

Author of good, we rest on thee 617

Author of our salvation, thee £-51

Awake, and sing the song 4

Awake, glad soul ! awake ! awake . 232

Awake, Jerusalem, awake 775

Awake, my soul, and with the sun. . . 106

Awake, my soul, stretch every nerve. 594

Awake, my soul, to meet the day. . . . 16

Awake, ye saints, and raise your eyes. 948

Awake, ye saints, awake 73

Away, my needless fears 173

Away, my unbelieving fear 626

Away with our sorrow and fear 1063

Be it my only wisdom here 571

Before Jehovah's awful throne 9

Before thy mercy-seat, O Lord 61

Behold the Christian warrior stand.. . 599

Behold, the heathen waits to know. . 923

Behold the Saviour of mankind 215

Behold the servant of the Lord 475

Behold the sure Foundation-stone. . . . 766

Behold the throne of grace 498

Behold the western evening light 974

Behold us, Lord, a little space 597

Behold what condescending love. . . . 828

Being of beings, God of love 508

Beneath our feet, and o'er our head. . 373

Blest are the pure in heart 501

Blest are the sons of peace 7i 0

Blest be the dear uniting love 782

Blest be the tie that binds 797

Blest Comforter divine 287

Blest hour, when mortal man retires. . 45

433

HYMN STUDIES.

HYMN.

Blest Spirit, one with God above. . . . 129

Blow ye the trumpet, blow 331

Bondasre and death the cup contains. 901

Brethren in Christ, and well beloved. 791

Brief life is here our portion 1059

Bright and joyful is the mora 191

Bright was the guiding star that led.. 300

Brightest and best of the sons of the. ISO

Brother, hast thou wandered far 900

Hut can it be that I should prove ... 541

By Christ redeemed, in Christ restored. 850

By cool Siloam's shady rill 875

By thy birth, and by thy tears 417

Calm on the bosom of thy God 983

Calm on the listening ear of night.. . . 195

Captain of our salvation, take 82")

Chut" of sinners though I be 441

Children, loud hosannas singing 874

Children of the heavenly King 720

Christ, from whom all blessings flow. 800

Christ is coming! let creation 1010

Christ is made the sure Foundation. '. . 856

Christ, of all my hopes the ground. . . 721

Christ, the Lord, is risen again 2.19

Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day 200

Christ, whose glory fills the skies . . . 410

Christian ! dost thou see them 1047

Christians, brethren, ere we part.... 22

Come, and let us sweetly join 80)

Come at the morning hour 750

Come, Christian children, come, and. 870

Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. . 831

Come, Holy Ghost, all-quickening tire. 481

Com.-. Holy Ghost, in love 284

Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire. 279

Come, Holy Spirit, our souls inspire.. 273

Come, Holy Spirit, come 285

Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove.. . . 277

Come, Holy Spirit, raise our songs. . . 275

Come, humble sinner, in who^c 369

Come in, thou blessed of the Lord.. . . 781

Come, let our souls adore the Lord. . . 1090

Come, let us anew our journey pursue. 955

Come, let us anew our journey pursue. 1074

Come, let us ascend 1073

Come, let us join our cheerful songs.. 2

Come, let us join our friends above. . 1033

Come, let us to the Lord our God. ... 551

dome, let us tune our loftiest song. . . 00

Come, let us use the grace divine. . . . 945

Come, let us who in Christ believe. . . 28

Come, my soul, thy suit prepare 718

Come, O my God, the promise seal.. . 522

Gome, O my soul, in saered lays 133

Come, O thou all-victorious Lord. . . . 368

HYMN.

Come, O Thou greater than our heart. 534

Come, <) thou Traveler unknown.... 737

Come, O ye sinners, to the Lord 351

Come on, my partners in distress 657

Come, said Jesus' saered voice 344

Come, Saviour, Jesus, from above.... 457

Come, sinners, to the gospel feast ... 361

Come, sound his praise abroad 3

Come, thou almighty King 0

Come, thou Desire of all thy saints. . . 64

Come, thou everlasting Spirit 854

Come, thou Fount of every blessing.. 726

Come, thou long-expected Jesus .... 334

Come, thou soul-transforming Spirit.. 55

Come to Calvary's holy mountain. . . . 341

Come to the land of peace 1052

Come unto me, when shadows darkly. 652

Come, weary sinners, come 359

Come, ye disconsolate, where'er ye. . . 683

Come, ye saints, look here and wonder. 220

Come, ye sinners, poor and needy.... 340

Come, ye thankful people, come 1083

Come, ye that love the Lord 41

Come, ye that love the Saviour's name. 63

Comfort, ye ministers of grace 926

Commit thou all thy griefs 672

Crown him with many crowns 257

Daughter of Zion, awake from thy. . . 778

Daughter of Zion, from the dust 909

Day of God, thou blessed day 90

Day of judgment, day of wonders. . . . 1029

Day of wrath, O dreadful day 102:'.

Dear ties of mutual succor bind 905

Deathless spirit, now arise 1004

Deem not that they are blest alone. . . 627

Deep are the wounds which sin has. . 306

Deepen the wounds Thy hands have. 538

Delay not, delay not, O sinner, draw. 336

Delightful work! young souls to win. 877

Depth of mercy ! can there be 379

Did Christ o'er sinners weep 405

Draw near, O Son of God, draw near.. 815

Dread Jehovah! God of nations 1091

Earth's transitory things decay 97 I

Enter thy temple, glorious King..... 862

Enthroned is Jesus now 25:!

Enthroned on high, almighty Lord. . . 270

Equip me for the war 586

Ere mountains reared their forms 132

Eternal Beam of light divine 62 '»

Eternal depth of love divine 128

Eternal Father! strong to save 1108

Eternal Father, thou hast said 92t

Eternal God, celestial King 70

rrnsT lines of hymns.

437

HYMN.

Eternal Power, whose high abode.. . . 38

Eternal Source of every joy L082

Eternal Spirit. God of truth 281

Eternal Sua of righteousness 428

Ever fainting with desire 494

Except the Lord conduct the plan. . . . 809

Extended on a cursed tree 212

Fade, fade, each earthly joy 741

Faith of our fathers! lis ing still 008

Ear from my thoughts, vain world... 84

Far from the world, O Lord, I flee. .. 713

Ear from these scenes of night 1051

Eat her. hear the blood of Jesus 258

Father, how wide thy glory shines. . 146

Father, 1 dare believe 503

Father, I know that all my life 675

Father, I stretch my hands to thee... 406

Father, in whom we live 42

Father of all, whose powerful voice. . 139

Father of eternal grace 464

Father of everlasting grace 480

Father of heaven, whose love profound. 35

Father of Jesus Christ, my Lord 432

Father of love, our Guide and Friend. 614

Father of mercies, bow thine ear 819

Father of mercies, in thy word 299

Father of mercies, send thy grace. . . . 894

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost 470

Father, to thee my soul I lift 124

Father, whate'er of earthly bliss 610

Fear not, O little flock, the foe 569

Fluug to the heedless winds 911

For thee. O dear, dear country 1060

Forever here my rest shall be 533

Forever with the Lord 1050

Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go 606

Forth to the land of promise bound. . 1036

Forward ! be our watchword 564

Fountain of life, to all below 431

Fountain of mercy. God of love 1081

Friend after friend departs 1009

From all that dwell below the skies. . 8

From Calvary a cry was heard 209

From every stormy wind that blows. . 684

From Greenland's icy mountains 930

From lips divine, like healing balm. . 671

From the cross uplifted high 338

Full of trembling expectation 645

Gently, Lord, O gently lead us 646

Give me the wings of faith, to rise. . . 1045

Give to the winds thy fears 673

Giver of peace and unity 793

Glad was ray heart to hear 89

Glorious things of thee are spoken. . . 776

II YM V.

Glory be to God above , 802

(dory be to God <>n high 26

Glory to God on high 841

(ilory to God, whose sovereign grace. 451

(dory to thee, my God, this night... 105

Go forward, Christian soldier 568

Go, labor on; spend and be spent. . . . 603

Go not far from me, O my Strength. . 676

Go, preach my gospel, saith the Lord. 820

Go to dark Gethsemane 223

Go to thy rest, fair child 1008

Go, ye messengers of God 939

God bless our native land 1090

Cod calling yet! shall I not hear 352

( rod has said, Forever blessed. ...... 873

God is gone up on high 245

( Jod is in this and every place 303

God is love ; his mercy brightens 150

God is my strong salvation 639

God is our refuge and defense 168

God is the name my soul adores 130

God is the refuge of his saints 773

God moves in a mysterious way 161

God of all power, and truth, and grace. 528

God of almighty love 484

God of eternal truth and grace 523

God of Israel's faithful three 677

God of love, who hearcst prayer 722

God of my life, through all my days. 692

God of my life, to thee I call 625

God of my life, what just return 458

God of my life, whose gracious power. 169

God of my salvation, hear 386

God, the All-Terrible, thou who 109?

God's holy law transgressed '. 314

Grace! 'tis a charming sound 321

Gracious Redeemer, shake 555

Gracious Saviour, gentle Shepherd . 889

Gracious soul, to whom are given. . . . 487

Gracious Spirit, Love divine 262

Grant me within thy courts a place . . 660

Granted is the Saviour's prayer ... . 264

Great God, attend, while Zion sings.. 63

Great God! beneath whose piercing. . 1103

Great God, indulge my humble claim 419

Great God of nations, now to thee. . . 1100

Great God, the nations of the earth. . 910

Great God! what do I see and hear. . IOCS

I {real is the Lord our God 81 I

Great King of glory, come 8G5

Great King of nations, hear our prayer. 1094

Great Ruler of the earth and skies. . . 1101

Great Source of being and of love. . . 774

Great Spirit, by whose mighty power. ~?1

Guide iuc, () thou great Jehovah. ... hi 1

438

HYMN STUDIES.

1IYMN.

Had I the gift of tongues 504

Hail, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.. 131

Hail, sacred truth! whose piercing rays. 298

Hail the day that sees Him rise 261

Hail, thou once despised Jesus 240

Hail to the brightness of Zion's glad. 912

Hail, to the Lord's Anointed 181

I [ail to the Sabbath day 87

Happy soul, thy days are ended .... 1003

Happy the home when God is there. . 101

Happy the man who finds the grace. . 329

Happy the souls to Jesus joined 705

Hark ! a voice divides the sky 1001

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound. 972

1 lark, hark, my soul ! angelic songs are. 1070

Hark, how the watchmen cry 582

Hark, my soul! it is the Lord 552

Hark, tlic glad sound) the Saviour.. 185

Hark! the' herald-angels sing. 190

Hark! the notes of angels, singing.. 58

I lark ! the song of jubilee 938

Hark, the voice of Jesus calling 607

Hark! the voice of love and mercy. . 224

Hark ! what mean those holy voices . . 188

Haste, traveler, haste ! the night comes 354

Hasten, Lord, the glorious time 937

Hasten, sinner, to be wise. 345

He conns! He comes! the Judge 1018

He dies! the Friend of sinners dies. . 234

He leadeth me! O blessed thought. . . 622

He wills that I should holy be 529

Head of the Church triumphant 680

Head of the Church, whose Spirit tills. 924

Hear, O sinner, mercy hails yon .... 343

Hear what God the Lord hath spoken. 777

Hearts of stone, relent, relent 339

Heavenly Father, sovereign Lord .... 20

Help, Lord, to whom for help I fly. . 543

Help us, O Lord, thy yoke to wear. . . 904

Here I can firmly rest 436

H ire on earth, where foessurround us. 727

High in yonder realms of light 1067

High on his everlasting throne 811

ery one that thirsts draw nigh. 362

Holy, and true, and righteous Lord. . 535

Holy as thou, O Lord, is none 131

Holy Father, send thy blessing 887

Holy Ghost, dispel our sadness 265

Holy Ghost, with light divine ...... 267

Holy, holy, holy. Lord God Almighty. 136

Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of hosts. . 144

Holy Lamb, who thee receive 490

Holy Spirit, Fount of blessing 366

Holy Spirit, Truth divine ..." 363

Hosannal be the children's song 882

II isanna to the living Lord 71

HYMN.

low are thy servants blest, O Lord. 1113

low beauteous are their feet 821

low beauteous were the marks divine. 202

low blest the children of the Lord. . 909

low blest the righteous when he dies. 982

low can a sinner know 437

low do Thy mercies close me round. . 170

low lirm a foundation, ye saints of the. 679

low gentle God's commands 176

low great the wisdom, power, and.. 315

low happy every child of grace.... 1030

low happy, gracious Lord, are we. . . 744

low happy is the pilgrim's lot 1078

low helpless nature lies 309

low lovely are thy dwellings, Lord. 769

low many pass the guilty night 952

low ol't this wretched heart 55 1

low precious is the book divine 397

low sad our state by nature is 309

low sweet, how heavenly is the sight . 780

low sweet the hour of closing day. . 980

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds. 316

low sweetly flowed the gospel's sound. 338

low swift the torrent rolls 958

low tedious and tasteless the hours. 747

low tender is thy hand 177

How vain are all things lure below. . 662

low vain is all beneath the skies. . . . 960

low welcome was the call 1107

am baptized into thy name 836

and my house will serve the Lord. . 573

ask the gift of righteousness 585

heard the voice of Jesus say 436

know no life divided 755

know that my Redeemer lives, And. 512

know that my Redeemer lives; What. 212

lay my sins on Jesus 754

long to behold Him arrayed 1 ' v«» 4

love the Lord: he heard my cries. . . 631

love thy kingdom, Lord 770

love to hear the story 886

love to steal awhile away 709

love to tell the Btory 756

need thee every hour 700

thank thee, uncreated Sun 478

the good fight have fought 585

think, when I read that sweel story. 880

thirst, thou wounded Lambof God. 461

too. forwarned by Jesus' love 1116

want a heart to pray 508

want a principle within 51 1

was a wandering sheep 434

worship thee. O Holy Ghost 270

would be thine : O take my heart.. Pit

would not Uveal way; 1 ask not.... 998

FJIi ST LINES OF HYMNS.

439

If death my Mend and me divide... ;•»;?

11 human kindness meets return 839

If, on a <|UH't sea 63(5

I'll praise my Maker while Pre breath. 740

I'm not ashamed to own my Lord. . . . 595

In ige and feebleness extreme 1117

Iu evil long I took delight 423

In grief and fear to thee, 0 Lord.... 1095

In heavenly love abiding 042

In memory of the Saviour's love 838

In mercy, Lord, remember me 114

In that Bad, memorable night 833

In the cross of Christ I glory 204

In the silent midnight watches 370

In thy name, O Lord, assembling. ... 54

Infinite excellence is thine 31

Infinite God, to thee we raise 48

Into thy gracious hands I fall 448

It came upon the midnight clear. .. . 194

It is not death to die 993

It may not be our lot to wield 602

Jehovah. God, thy gracious power. . . 159

Jerusalem, my happy home 1044

Jeru>alem the golden 1061

Jesus, a word, a look from thee 307

Jesus, all-redeeming Lord 848

Jesus, and shall it ever be 604

Jesus, at whose supreme command. . . 835

Jesus, Friend of sinners, hear 559

Jesus, from whom all blessings flow. 795

Jesus, full of love divine 488

Jesus, great Shepherd of the sheep. . . 790

Jesus hath died that I might live 520

Jesus, I live to thee 500

Jesus, I my cross have taken 643

Jesus, immortal King, arise 908

Jesus, in whom the Godhead's rays. . 527

Jesus is our common Lord 719

Jesus, let thy pitying eye 558

Jesus, Lord, we look to thee 804

Jesus, Lover of my soul 656

Jesus, my Advocate above 239

Jesus, my all, to heaven is gone 450

Jesus, my Life, thyself apply 519

Jesus, my Lord, how rich thy grace. . 893

Jesus, my Saviour, Brother, Friend.. 686

Jesus, my Btrength. my hope 505

Jesus, my Truth, my Way 483

Jesus, one word from thee 634

Jesus, Redeemer of mankind 374

Jesus 'hall reign where'er the sun. . . . 91!)

Jesus spreads hi- banner o'er us 853

the Conqueror, reigns 251

Jesus, the Life, the Truth, the Way.. 517

Jesus, the Lord of glory, died 255

Jesus ! the name high over all 822

Jesus, the sinner's Friend, to thee... :;'.)'3

Jesus, the sinner's rest thou art 584

Jesus, the very thought of thee 700

Jesus, the word bestow 289

Jesus, the word of mercy give 824

Jesus, these eyes have never seen. . . . 714

Jesus, thine all-victorious love 518

Jesus, thou all-redeeming Lord 32

Jesus, thou everlasting King 12

Jesus, thou Joy of loving hearts 691

Jesus, thou soul of all our joys 19

Jesus, thou Source divine 313

Jesus, thy blood and righteousness.. 238

Jesus, thy boundless love to me 476

Jesus, thy Church, with longing eyes. 928

Jesus, thy far-extended fame . . . 398

Jesus, to thee I now can fly 430

Jesus, to thee our hearts we lift 650

Jesus, united by thy grace .... 785

Jesus, "we look to thee 7

Jesus wept ! those tears are over 203

Jesus, where'er thy people meet 44

Jesus, while our hearts are bleeding. . 1002

Join all the glorious names 243

Join, all ye ransomed sons of grace. . 947

Joy to the world! the Lord is come. . 183

Just as I am, without one plea 393

King of kings, and wilt thou deign. . 485

Kingdoms and thrones to God belong. 162

Laborers of Christ, arise 578

Laboring and heavy laden 732

Lamb of God, for sinners slain 382

Lamb of God, whose dying love. . . . 383

Late, late, so late ! and dark the night. 375

Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling 682

Leader of faithful souls, and Guide. . 648

Let all on earth their voices raise .... 17

Let all who truly bear 846

Let earth and heaven agree 332

Let every mortal ear attend 326

Let every tongue thy goodness speak. 154

Let Him to whom we now belong. . . 469

Let not the wise their wisdom boast. 452

Let the world their virtue boast. . . . 385

Let us keep steadfast guard 580

Let us, with a gladsome mind 145

Let worldly minds the world pursue. 516

Let Zion's watchmen all awake 823

Life from the dead, Almighty God. . . 899

Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates. . 14

Lift up your hearts to things above. . 786

Lift your eves of faith, and see 1069

Lift your glad voices in triumph on. . 227

440

ETMN STUDIES.

HYMN.

Lift your heads, ye friends of Jesus. . 1014

Light of life, seraphic, fire 489

Light of the lonely pilgrim's heart. . . 914

Light of those whose dreary dwelling. 943

Like Noah's weary dove S88

Little travelers Zionward 879

Lo ! God is here ! let US adore 47

Lo! he comes, with clouds descending. 1013

Lo! I come with joy to do 609

Lo! round the throne, a glorious baud. 1040

Lo, the day, the day of life 1026

Lo, what a glorious sight appears . . . 1035

Look from thy sphere of endless day. 929

Look, ye saints, the sight is glorious. 249

Lord, all I am is known to thee 123

Lord, and is thine anger gone 455

Lord, as to thy dear cross we flee. . . . 590

Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing, Bid 59

Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing, Fill 52

Lord, till me with a humble fear 497

Lord God, the Holy Ghost 286

Lord, how secure and blest are they. . 418

Lord, how shall sinners dare 252

Lord, I am thine, entirely thine 460

Lord, I believe a rest remains 513

Lord, I believe thy every word 668

Lord, I delight in thee 175

Lord, I despair myself to heal 397

Lord, I hear of showers of blessing . . 384

Lord, if at thy command 817

Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear. 98

Lord, in the strength of grace 473

Lord, in thy name thy servants plead. 1080

Lord, it belongs not to my care 669

Lord Jesus Christ, my Life, my Light 694

Lord Jesus, when we stand afar ... 213

Lord, lead the way the Saviour went . 897

Lord, let me know mine end 959

Lord of all being; throned afar 135

Lord of earth, of air, and sea 1109

Lord of hosts ! to thee we raise 858

Lord of mercy and of might 387

Lord of my life, O may thy praise. . . 100

Lord of the harvest, hear 818

Lord of the living harvest 808

Lord of the Sabbath, hear our vows. 78

Lord of the wide, extensive main. . . . 1112

Lord of the worlds above 15

Lord, we arc vile, conceived in sin. . . 30.")

Lord, we come before thee now 21

Lord, when we bend before thy throne. 60

Lord, while for all mankind we pray. 1098

Lord, whom winds and seas obey.... 1115

Love divine, all love excelling 491

Lovers of pleasure more than God. . . 3r>7

Lowly and solemn be 1005

HYMN.

Majestic sweetness sits enthroned ... 241

Make haste, O man, to live 57K

Man dieth and wasteth away 1012

Many centuries have fled 844

May the grace of Christ our Saviour. . 53

'Mid scenes of confusion and creature 1054

Mighty God! while angels bless thee. 148

Mighty One, before whose face 881

Millions within thy courts have met. . 79

More love to thee, O Christ 72."

Mortals, awake, with angels join.... 193

Mourn for the thousands slain 89(1

Must Jesus bear the cross alone 66a

My country ! 'tis of thee 1089

My drowsy powers, why sleep ye so. . 547

My faith looks up to thee 762

My former hopes are fled . . 308

My God, accept my heart this day. . . . 468

My God, how endless is thy love. . . . 104

My God, how wonderful thou art 147

My God, I am thine; what a comfort. 757

My God, I know, I feel thee mine. . . 536

My God, is any hour so sweet 752

My God, my God, to thee I cry 425

My God, my Life, my Love 751

My God, my Portion, and my Love . . 698

My God, the spring of all my joys. . . 704

My gracious Lord, I own thy right. . . 605

My head is low, my heart is sad 548

My heavenly home is bright and fair. 1072

My hope is built on nothing less. . . . 421

My hope, my all, my Saviour thou. . . 624

My Jesus, as thou wilt 654

My Lord, how full of sweet content. . 696

My opening eyes with rapture see. ... 83

My Saviour, my almighty Friend .... 699

My Saviour, on the word of truth. . . . 510

My Shcjmerd's mighty aid 761

My son, know thou the Lord 360

My soul and all its powers 472

My soul, be on thy guard 581

My soul before Thee prostrate lies . . . 394

My soul, repeat Bis praise 172

My soul, weigh not thy life 584

My soul, with humble fervor raise. . . 449

My span of life will soon be done.... 664

My spirit, on thy care 635

My times are in thy hand 637

Nearer, my God, to thee 724

Never further than Thy cross ...... 205

New every morning is the love i<>:;

No gospel like this feast 848

Not heaven's wide range of hallowed. 860

Not here, as to the prophet's eye.... 40

Not to the terrors of the Lord. ". 787

FIRST LINES OF HYMNS.

441

Bl UK.

Now doth the sun ascend the sky.,., iu7

Mow from the altar of our hearts. . . . 99

Mow 1 have found the ground wherein. 420

Mow in parting, Father, bless us 855

Mow is the accepted time 361

Mow let my soul, eternal King 394

Mow may Be who from the dead 23

Mow may the God of grace and power. 1104

O bless the Lord, my soul 749

o Bread to pilgrims given 849

O Christ, our King, Creator, Lord... 240

() Christ, who hast prepared a place.. 49

O come, and dwell in me 502

O come, Creator Spirit blest 2G9

O could I speak the matchless worth. 743

O day of rest and gladness 72

() Friend of souls! how blest the time. 613

O for a closer walk with God 549

O for a faith that will not shrink 667

O for a glance of heavenly day 396

O for a heart to praise my God 521

O for a thousand tongues, to sing 1

O for an overcoming faith 985

O for that flame of living fire 274

O for that tenderness of heart 410

O for the death of those 996

O glorious hope of perfect love 542

0 Cod. by whom the seed is given. . . 62

0 God, most merciful and true 531

(J God, of good the unfathomed sea.. 119

0 Cod of love, O King of peace 1102

O God, our help in ages past 964

O Cod, our strength, to thee our song. 33

O God, thou art my Cod alone 693

0 God, thou bottomless abyss 126

O God, though countless worlds of . . . . 870

O God, thy faithfulness I plead 544

O God, thy power is wonderful 125

O God, to thee we raise our eyes 632

O God, to us show mercy 50

O God, we praise thee, and confess. . . 120

O God, what offering shall I give. . . . 474

O happy band of pilgrims 640

O happy day that fixed my choice 447

O holy, holy holy Lord. Bright 137

O holy, holy, holy Lord ! Thou 10

0 how happy are they 442

0 how the thought of Cod attracts. . . 509

O it is hard to work for God 590

O Jesus, at thy feet we wait 514

0 Jesus, full of grace 557

O Jesus, full of truth and grace 526

G Jesus, King most wonderful 701

O Jesus, thou the beauty art 702

O joyful sound of gospel grace 515

HYMN.

o Lamb of God, for sinners slain.... 378

<> Lord of hosts, whose glory tills. . . . ,s.")9

O Lord, our fathers oft have told. . . . 1097

O Lord, thy heavenly grace impart... 686

0 Lord, thy work revive 771

O Lord, while we confess the worth.. 829

0 hove, divine and tender 1106

O Love divine, how sw< el thou art. . . 646

O hove divine! O matchless grace. . . 837

O Love divine, that stooped to share. 629

0 Love divine, what hast thou done. 220

O Love, thy sovereign aid impart. . . . 462

0 -Master, it is good to be 200

O my God, how thy salvation 729

O Paradise! O Paradise 1071

O praise our God to-day 891

O render thanks to God above 13

O sacred Head, now wounded 222

O Son of God, in glory crowned 1022

O Spirit of the living God 276

O still in accents sweet and strong.. .. 5^8

O Sun of righteousness, arise 411

O tell me no more of this world's vain. 758

() that I could mv Lord receive 407

0 that I could repent ! O that 311

O that I could repent, With 404

O that my load of sin were gone 495

O that Thou wouldst the heavens rend. 413

O Thou eternal Victim, slain 250

O Thou from whom all goodness flows. 6 1 9

O Thou God of my salvation 733

O Thou, in whose presence my soul. . 759

O Thou, our Saviour, Brother, Friend. 46

O Thou pure Light of souls that love. 687

O Thou that hearest prayer 282

O Thou to whom, in ancient time. ... 3G

O Thou, to whose all-searching sight. 496

O Thou who all things canst control. 560

O Thou who earnest from above 562

O Thou who driest the mourner's tear. 61 1

O Thou, who hast at thy command. . 459

O Thou who hast our sorrows borne.. 381

O Thou, who hast spread out the skies. 1110

O Thou, who in the olive shade 618

O Thou, who, when we did complain. 157

O Thou, whom all thy saints adore. . . 37

O Thou, whose filmed and failing eye. 670

O Thou, whose mercy' hears 553

0 Thou, whose own vast temple stands. 869

O 'tis delight without alloy , 703

0 turn ye, 0 turn ye, for why will ye. 335

O what a mighty change 1057

O what amazing words of grace 323

O what delight is this 842

O what, if we are Christ's 638

O what shall I do my Saviour to praise. 453

442

HYMN STUDIES.

0 when shall we sweetly remove 1005

O where are kings and empires now. . 763

() where is now that glowing love.. . . 561

() where shall rest be found 358

O who, in such a world as this 663

O wondrous power of faithful prayer. 735

() wondrous type! O vision fair 1!)!)

<) worship the King all-glorious above. 140

O'er the distant mountains breaking. . 1015

O'er the gloomy hills of darkness. . . . 040

Of Him who did salvation bring 327

Oft I in my heart have said 443

On all the earth thy spirit shower. . . . 268

On Jordan's stormy banks I stand . 1038

On the mountain's top appearing 767

On this day, the first of days 91

On this stone, now laid with prayer. . 857

On thy Church, O Power divine' 779

Onee more, my soul, the rising day. . 95

( )nce more we come before our God . 29

One more day's work for Jesus 572

One sole baptismal sign 800

One sweetly solemn thought 1053

Only waiting, till the shadows 644

Onward, Christian soldiers 563

Our blest Redeemer, ere he breathed . 280

Our country's voice is pleading 933

Our Father, God, who art in heaven. . 716

Our few revolving years 950

Our God is love; and all his saints. . . 783

Our Lord is risen from the dead 237

Our sins on Christ were laid 312

Out of the depths of woe 403

Out of the depths to thee I cry 665

Pass a few swiftly fleeting years 963

Peace, doubting heart ! my God's I am. 651

Peace, troubled soul, thou need'st not. 164

Pilgrim, burdened with thy sin 346

Plunged in a gulf of dark despair . . . 304

Praise, my soul, the King of heaven. 734

Praise the Lord, his glories show. ... 27

Praise the Lord 1 ye heavens adore him. 57

Praise to God, immortal praise 10S4

Praise to the Holiest in the height. . . 207

Praise waits in Zion, Lord, for thee. . 67

Praise ye the Lord, ye immortal choirs. 153

Pray, without ceasing pray 589

Piayer is appointed to convey 689

Prayer is the breath of God in man.. 706

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. . . . 710

Prince of peace, control my will 463

Prisoners of hope, lift up your heads.* 479

Rejoice, the Lord is King 244

Rest for the toiling hand 994

HYMN.

Rest from thy labor, rest 992

Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest 82

Return, O wanderer, return 370

Rich are the joys which cannot die.. 903

Rise, glorious Conqueror, rise 229

Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings. 1068

Rites cannot change the heart 880

Rock of ages, cleft for me 415

Roll on, thou mighty ocean 931

Round the Lord, in glory seated 56

Safely through another week 88

Salvation ! ( ) the joyful sound 324

Saviour, again to thy dear name we. . !)4

Saviour, breathe an evening blessing. 116

Saviour, like a shepherd lead us 872

Saviour of all, to thee we bow 7H4

Saviour of men, thy searching eye. . . 814

Saviour of the sin-sick soul 486

Saviour, on me the grace bestow 545

Saviour, sprinkle many nations 944

Saviour, when, in dust, to thee 723

Saviour, who died for me 742

Saviour, who thy flock art feeding. . . 888

Say, sinner, hath a voice within 353

See how great a flame aspires 930

See how the morning sun. 112

See, Israel's gentle Shepherd stands. . 827

See, Jesus, thy disciples see 30

See the Lord, thy Keeper, stand 746

Servant of God, well done 991

Servants of God, in joyful lavs 68

Shall I, for fear of feeble man 813

Shall man, () God of light and life. . . !>sl

She loved her Saviour, and to him. . . 896

Shepherd Divine, our wants relieve. . 715

Shepherd of souls, with pitying eye.. 927

Shepherd of tender youth 885

Show pity, Lord. O Lord, forgive. . . . 891

Shrinking from the cold hand of death. 961

Silently the shades of evening 115

Since all the varying scenes of time. . 615

Sing to the great Jehovah's praise. . . . 946

Sing to the Lord of harvest 1085

Sine; with all the sons of glory 225

Sinners, obey the gospel word. :'.~><>

Sinners, the voice of God regard 371

Sinners, turn; why will ye die 347

sinners, will you Bcorn the message, . 342

Softly fades the twilight ray '. ... 92

Softly now the lighl of day 117

Soldiers of Christ, arise ">s7

Soldiers of Christ, lay hold 588

Soldiers of the cross, arise 566

Sometimes a lighl surprises ,;n

Son of the carpenter, receive 592

FTIiST LINES OF HYMNS.

443

UY.MN.

Songs of praise the angels Bang 21

Soon may the last glad song arise . . . 017

Souls in heathen darkness lying .... 941

Sovereign oi all the worlds on nigh. . 429

Sovereign of worlds! display thy. . . . 91S

Sovereign Ruler, Lord of all 380

Sow in the morn thy seed 575

Spirit Divine, attend our prayer 278

Spirit, leave thy house of clay 1000

Spirit of faith, come down 435

Stand the omnipotent decree 1025

Stand up, and bless the Lord 5

Stand up, stand up for .Jesus 567

Stay, thou insulted Spirit, stay 390

Still one in life and one in death 796

Still out of the deepest abyss G81

Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear .. 102

Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of.. 088

Sweet is the light of Sabbath eve. ... 80

Sweet is the prayer whose holy stream. 711

Sweet is the work, my God, my King. 81

Sweet the moments, rich in blessing. 780

Sweet was the time, when first I felt. 546

Swell the anthem, raise the song 1093

Take the name of Jesus with you . . . 65:?

Take up thy cross, the Saviour said. . 601

Talk with us. Lord, thyself reveal. . . 712

Ten thousand times ten thousand. . . . 1062

Tender Shepherd, thou hast stilled. . 1007

Thank and praise Jehovah's name. . . . 25

That awful dav will surely come. ... 1020

That doleful night before his death. . 840

That solemn hour will come for me. . . 1)75

The chosen three, on mountain height. 198

The counsels of redeeming grace 295

The day is past and gone 113

The day of resurrection 230

The day of wrath, that dreadful day. 1017

The glorious universe around 788

The God of Abrah'm praise 1075

The God of harvest praise 1087

The God who reigns on high 1077

The great archangel's trump shall. . . 1019

The harvest dawn is near 579

The head that once was crowned with. 256

The heavens declare thy glory, Lord . 292

The heavenly treasure now we have. . 1046

The King of heaven his table spreads. 834

The leaves, around me falling 1088

The Lord descended from above 152

The Lord is King! lift up thy voice. . 134

The Lord is my Shepherd, no want. . . 179

The Lord is risen indeed 235

The Lord Jehovah reigns 142

The Lord my pasture shall prepare. . . 180

HYMN.

The Lord of earth and sky 953

Tin' Lord of Babbath let us praise. ... 75

The Lord our God alone is strong. .. 866

The Lord our God is clot hid with. . . 151

The Lord will come, and not be slow. 915

The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want. 156

The morning flowers display their. .. 977

The morning kindles all the sky 233

The morning light is breaking.* I 32

The perfect world, by Adam trod 863

The. praying spirit breathe 75:j

The precious seed of weeping 1010

The prodigal, with streaming eyes. . . 414

The, royal banner is unfurled 219

The. saints who die of Christ possessed. 983

The Saviour! O what endless charms. 325

The Saviour, when to heaven he rose. 812

The spacious firmament on high 138

The Spirit, in our hearts 355

The starry firmament on high 293

The Sun of righteousness on me 7:>9

The tempter to my soul hath said. . . . 165

The thing my God doth hate 482

The voice of free grace cries, Escape. 330

The world is very evil . . 1058

The year is gone, beyond recall 949

Thee we adore, eternal Name 965

There is a fountain filled with blood. 319

There is a land mine eye hath seen. . . 1041

There is a land of pure delight 1037

There is a safe and secret place 158

There is an eye that never sleeps 707

There is an hour of peaceful rest 1039

There is no night in heaven 1049

There seems a voice in every gale. ... 122

There's a wideness in God's mercy. . . 149

They come, God's messengers of love. 167

They who seek the throne of grace. . . 717

Thine arm, O Lord, in days of old. . . 10!'9

Thine forever! — God of love 465

Thine, Lord, is wisdom, thine alone. 127

This child we dedicate to thee 832

This God is the God we adore 143

This is the day of light 86

This is the day the Lord hath made. . 76

This stone to thee in faith we lay . . . 861

Thou art gone to the grave; but we. . 999

Thou art gone up on high 236

Thou art the Way: — to thee alone. . :!18

Thou dear Redeemer, dying Lamb. . . 697

Thou God of glorious majesty 966

Thou God of power, thou God of love. 18

Thou God of truth and love 801

Thou great mysterious God unknown. 439

Thou hidden love of God, whose . . . 477

Thou hidden Source of calm repose.. 736

414

HYMN STUDIES.

Thou Judge of quick and dead

Thou Lamb of God, thou Prince of. .

Thou Refuge of my soul

Thou seest my feebleness

Thou Shepherd of Israel, and mine. . .
Thou Son of God, whose flaming eyes.

Thou very-present Aid

Thou who like the wind dost come. .

Thou, whose almighty word

Though all the worldmy choice deride.

Thou uli nature's strength decay

Though now the nations sit beneath.
Though troubles assail, and dangers. .
Though waves and storms go o'er in v.
Through sorrow's night, and danger's.
Thus far the Lord hath led me on... .

Thy ceaseless, unexhausted love

Thy gracious presence, O my God. . . .
Thy life I read, my gracious Lord. ...
Thy mercy heard my infant prayer. . .
Thy presence, gracious God, afford. .
Thy presence, Lord, the place shall till.

Thy way is in the sea

Thy way, not mine, O Lord

Thy will be done! I will not fear. . . .

Thy word, almighty Lord

Till He come : O let the words

'Tis finished! so the Saviour cried. . .

'Tis finished ! the Messiah dies

'Tis midnight; and on Olives' brow. .

'Tis thine alone, almighty Name

To Jesus, our exalted Lord

To the haven of thy breast

To the hills I lift mine eyes. ....

To thee, O God, whose guiding hand.

To us a Child of hope is born

Trembling before thine awful throne.
Try us, O God, and search the ground.

Unchangeable, almighty Lord...
Unveil, O Lord, and on us shine.
Unveil thy bosom, faithful tomb.
Upon the Gospel's sacred page...
Urge on your rapid course

Vain are all terrestrial pleasures

Vain, delusive world, adieu

Vain man, thy fond pursuits forbear.
Vital spark of heavenly llanie

Walk in the light ! so shalt thou know
Watchman, tell us of the night.
We all believe in one true God.
Webring no glittering treasures
We give thee hut thine own. . ..
We have no outward righteousness

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HYMN.

We journey through a vale of tears. . 02:)

We know, by faith we know 1056

We lift our hearts to thee Ill

We may not climb the heavenly steeps i'->7

We plow the fields and scatter 1080

We rear not a temple, like Judah's of. 868

We shall see Him, in our nature 247

We sing the praise of Him who died. 208

We sinners. Lord, with earnest 408

Weary souls, that wander wide 337

Weep not for a brother deceased 1011

Welcome, happy morning! age to age. 231

Welcome, sweet day of rest 85

Welcome, thou Victor in the strife. . . 228

Well for him who all things losing... 492

What a Friend we have in Jesus 728

What could your Redeemer do 348

What glory gilds the sacred page. . . . 296

What grace, O Lord, and beauty.... 196

What is our calling's glorious hope. . 539

What majesty and grace 322

What ! never speak one evil word. . . . 532

What shall I do my God to love 433

What shall I render to my God 407

What sinners value I resign 1042

What various hindrances we meet. . . . 690

When all thy mercies, O my God. . . . 100

When, doomed to death, the apostle. < 00

When, gracious Lord, when shall it be. 395

When, his salvation bringing 883

When I can read my title clear 659

When I survey the wondrous cross. . . 211

When Israel, of the Lord beloved.... 103

When languor and disease invade. ... 612

When, marshaled on the nightly plain. 187

When on Sinai's top I see 206

When on the brink of death 991

When Power divine, in mortal form. . 0:50

When quiet in my house I sit 291

When rising from the bed of death. . 412

When shall the voice of singing 934

When shall Thy love constrain 400

When shall we meet again BO?

When, Streaming from the eastern... Ill)

When the blind suppliant in the way. 201

When the last trumpet's awful voice. 989

When this passing world is done 1079

When thou, my righteous Judge. .... 1027

When through the torn sail the wild. 1114

When time seems short and death is. . 333

When to the exiled seer were given. . Sdt

When wounded sure, the stricken.... 820

Wherefore should I make my moan. . 1006
Wherewith, 0 Lord, shall I draw near.

Which <>f the monarchs of the earth. 165

While life prolongs its precious light. 34'J

FIRST LINES OF HTMN8.

445

HYMN.

While o'er the dee]) thy servants sail. 1111

While Bhepherds watched tlifir Socks. 192

While thee I seek, protectiug Power. »Ht>

"While through thi- world we roam.. 1048'

While we walk with God in light. . . . 808

While, with ceaseless course, the sun. 956

Who are these arrayed in white 1066

Who but thou, almighty Spirit.. ... 942

Who in the Lord confide TT-J

Who is thy neighbor? He whom thou.

Who shall forbid our chastened woe. . 986 I

Why do we mourn for dying Mends. 970

Why should our tears in sorrow flow. 971 I

Why should the children of a King. . 404

"Why should we boast of time to come. 366

"Why should we start, and fear to die. 976

Wilt thou hear the voice of praise. . . 878

Wisdom ascribe, and might, and praise. 95 1

Witli glorious clouds encompassed. . . 216

With joy we hail the sacred day 74

With joy we lift our eyes 43

HYMN

With joy we meditate the grace 254

With stately tower- and bulwarks... T ' J 4

With tearful eve- I look around :'»<;:;

Within thy house, 0 Lord our God. . 65

Witness, ye men and angels, now 4G0

Work, for the night i> coming 565

Workman of God! O lose not heart. . 591

Would Jesus have the sinner die 221

Ye faithful souls who Jesus know. . . 600

Ye golden lamps of heaven, farewell. 1034

Ye ransomed sinners, hear 493

Ye servants of God, your Master 51

Ye simple souls that stray 356

Ye virgin souls, arise 954

Yes, I will bless thee, O my God.... 705

Yield to me now, for I am weak. . . . 738

Young men and maidens, raise 10

Your harps, ye trembling saints 633

Zion stands with hills surrounded. . . . 768

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

The figures opposite the names indicate the page where the biographical sketch of the author may be found.

PACK.

ADAMS, MRS. SARAH F 282

Hymn 724.
ADDISON, JOSEPH 58

Hymns 138, 160, 180, 412, 1118.
ALEXANDER, MRS. CECIL F 128

Hymns 330, 941, 1083.
ALEXANDER, REV. JAMES W., D.D 91

Hymn 222.
ALFORD, REV. HENRY, D.D 220

Hymns 564, 1036, 1062, 1083.
ALLEN, REV. JAMES 284

Hymn 730.
ALLEN'S COLLECTION 136

Hymn 342.
AMBROSE OF MILAN 48

Hymns 107, 129, 233.
ANDERSON, MRS. MARIA F 359

Hymn 933.
ANDREW OF CRETE 402

Hymn 1047.
ARNOLD, REV. GOTTFRIED 194

Hymn 492.
AUBER, MISS HARRIET 20

Hymns 33, 74, 76, 138, 280, 300, 764, 779, 902, 937.
AQUINAS, THOMAS, D.D 329

Hymn 849.

BACON, REV, LEONARD, D.D 356

Hymn 925.

BAKER, REV. SIR HENRY WILLIAMS 42

Hymns 91, 638, 891, 1102, 1107.
BAKEWELL, REV. JOHN 101

Hymn 246.

BARBAULD, MRS. ANNA LETITIA 36

Hymns 77, 344, 982, 1084.

BARBER, MARY A. S 184

Hymn 463.

BARING-GOULD, REV. SABINE 220

Hymn 668,

BARTON, BERNARD 199

Hymns 507, 630.

BATHUR8T, REV. WILLIAM H 30

Hymns 61, 274, 687,938, 980.
BAXTER, MRS. LYDIA.. 254

Hymn 653.

BAXTER, REV. RICHARD 260

Hymn 669.

BEDDOME, REV. BENJAMIN. ... 116
Hymns 285, 314, 315, 405, 466, 700, 819, 960.

BEHEMB, REV. MARTIN ... 270

Hymn 694. '

BERNARD OF OLAIRVAUX 1 30

Hymns 222, 327, 408, 691, 700, 701, 702.

PAGE.

BERNARD OF CLUNY 407

Hymns 1058, 1059, 1060, 1061.
BETHUNE, REV. (iEORGE W., D.D 133

Hymns 333, 993.
BICKERSTETH, REV. EDWARD H 327

Hymn 845.
BLACKLOCK, REV. THOMAS, D.D 56

Hymn 138.
BOEHM, ANTHONY W 130

Hymn 327.
BONAR, REV. HORATIUS, D.D 169

Hymns 426, 434, 576, 603, 655, 754, 796, 855, 957,
994.

BONAR, MRS. JANE C 289

Hymn 741.
BORTHWICK, MISS JANE 141

Hymns 352, 654.
BOWLY, MARY 322

Hymn 829.

BOURIGNON, MADAME ANTOINETTE 181

Hymn 457.

BOWRING, SIR JOHN, LL.D 63

Hymns 150, 204, 290, 328, 935, 978.

BRACE, REV. S. C 343

Hymn 890.

BRADY, REV. NICHOLAS (Tate and BRADV). . 13

Hymns 13, 192, 550. 1097.
BRIDGES, MATTHEW 94

Hymns 229, 257, 468.

BROOKS, REV. CHARLES T 42 1

Hymn 1090.

BROWN, MRS. PH03BE H 276

Hymns 709, 771.

BROWNE, SIMON 433

Doxology 18.

BRYANT, WILLIAM C 83

Hymns 201, 627, 869. RSI. 900. 905. 907, 9i9.

BULFINCH, REV. STEPHEN G., D.D 40

Hymn 87.

BULLOCK, REV. WILLIAM, D.D 423

Hymn 1095.

BUNTING. REV. WILLIAM M 322

Hymn 830.

BURDSALL. RICHARD 131

Hymn 880.
BURGESS. BISHOP GEORGE, D.D 226

Hymns 579, nil.

BURLEIGH. WILLIAM H 261

Hymn 671,
BURTON. JOHN 115

Hymn 2*2.

BUTTRESS, JOHN 120

Hymn 298.

INDEX OF AUTIIOli*.

447

p.\<;k.

BY K( >M, JOHN 181

Hymu 457.

CAMERON, WILLIAM 379

Hymn 989.
CAMPBELL, JANE M 419

Hymn 1080.
C A M PBELL, ROBERT 70

Hymns 107, 847.
CARLYLE, REV. JOSEPH DACRE 30

Hymn 60.

CAEY, MISS PHU2BE 405

Hymn 1068.

CASWALL, REV. EDWARD 48

Hymns 107, 209, 087, 700, 701, 702.
CAWOOD, REV. JOHN 78

Hymns 188, 301.
CENNICK, REV. JOHN 179

Hymns 450, 097, 720.
CHANDLER, REV. JOHN 26

H v inns 49, 189, 218.
CH A RLES, MRS. ELIZABETH 85

Hymns 205, 233, 843, 1020.
CHORLEY, HENRY F 421

Hymn 1092.

CLARK, REV. JAMES F., D.D 349

Hymn 900.
CLAUDIUS, MATTHIAS 419

Hymn 1086.

CLAUSNITZER, REV. TOBIAH 51

Hymn 118.

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA 342

Hymn 885.

CODNER, ELIZABETH 1 53

Hymn 384.
COLLYER, REV. WILLIAM B 142

Hymns 354, 370, 922, 997, 1028.
CONDER, JOSIAH 327

Hymns 134, 844.

COOPER, JOHN 21

Hymn 35.
COSIN, BISHOP JOHN Ill

Hymn 273.
COTTERILL, MRS. JANE 182

Hymn 459.
COTTERILL, REV. THOMAS 115

Hymns 281, 749. 7&3, 838, 904.

COWPER, MISS FRANCES M 258

Hymn 664.

COWPER, WILLIAM 24

Hvmns 44, 161, 296. 308. 319, 549, 552. 625, 641,
'690, 696, 713, 777.

COX. CHRISTOPHER C, M.D 50

Hymn 115.
COXE, BISHOP ARTHUR C, D.D 84

Hymns 202, 370, 763. 944.
CRABBE. REV. GEORGE 138

Hymn 346.
CROSSWELL, REV. WILLIAM, D.D 346

Hymn 897.
CUNNINGHAM, REV. JOHN W 86

Hymn 209.
CUTTER, WILLIAM 345

Hymns 896, 898.

DA VIES, REV. SAMUEL 1 83

Hymn 460.

DAVIS, WILLIAM T 426

Hymn 1105.

PAOE.

DENHAM, REV. DAVID 406

Hymn 1064.
DENNY, SIR EDWARD 81

Hymns 196, 91 1.

I ) KSSLER, \V< )LK( i ANG C 178

Hymns 448, 013.

DEXTER. REV. HENRY M., D.D 342

Hymn 885.

DIX, WILLIAM C 76

Hymn 182.

DOANE, BISHOP GEORGE W., D.D 51

Hymns 117, 318.

DOBELL, JOHN 144

Hymn 361.

DOBER. MRS. ANNA S 193

Hymn 490.

DODDRIDGE, REV. PHILIP, D.D 37

Hymns 78, 96, 176, 185, 821,429,447, 594, 605, 092,
774, 812, 823, 827, 834, 867, 898, 894, 903, 948, 958,
1034, 1082.
DR1T>EN, JOHN 43 1

Doxolopy 5.
DUFFIELD, REV. GEORGE, D.D 222

Hymn 567.
DWIGHT, REV. JOHN S 42 1

Hymn 1090.

DWIGHT, REV. TIMOTHY, D.D 140

Hymns 349, 770, 981.
DUNN, REV. ROBINSON P 162

Hymn 408.

EASTBURN, REV. JAMES W 58

Hymn 137.
ECKING, SAMUEL 69

Hymn 164.
EDMESTON, JAMES 38

Hymns 80, 116, 879, 931, 934.
ELA, REV. DAVID H., D.D 82

Hymn 198.
ELLERTON, REV. JOHN 40

Hymns 86, 94, 231, 597.
ELLIOTT, MISS CHARLOTTE 145

Hymns 363, 393, 752.
ESLING, MRS. C. H 253

Hymn 652.
EVANS, REV. JONATHAN 28

Hymns 55, 224.

EVEREST, REV. CHARLES W 234

Hymn 601.

FABER, REV. FREDERICK W., D.D 54

Hymns 125, 147, 149, 509, 591, 596, 608, 1070, 1071.
FABRICIUS, REV. JACOB 222

Hymn 569.
FAWCETT, REV. JOHN, D.D 19

Hymns 31, 39, 174, 297, 312, 371, 797.
FLOWERDEW, MRS. ALICE 417

Hymn 1081.
FORD, REV. DAVID E 251

Hymns 647, 960.

FORTUNATUS VENANTIUS 90

Hymns 219, 231.
FRANCIS, REV. BENJAMIN 334

Hymns 604, 86C.

GAMBOLD, BISHOP JOHN 295

Hymn 758.
GANSE, REV. HERVEY D 115

Hymns 283, 634.

448

HYMN STUDIES.

PA«K.

GERHARDT, REV. PAUL 87

Hymns 812, v.'-,'-.!, 865, 430, 470, 072, 073.
GIBBONS. REV. THOMAS, D.I) 350

Hymns 580, 910.
OILMAN, REV. SaMUEL 323

Hymn 832.
GILMORE, REV. J. H 242

Hymn 023.
GOODE, WILLIAM 432

Dozology ii.
GOUGH, BENJAMIN 192

Hymn 188.
GOULD, MISS HANNAH F 41

Hymns 90, 1110.
GRANT, SIR ROBERT 59

Hymns 140, 293, -117. 658,728.
GREGORY THE GREAT 98

Hymns 240, 209, 273.
GRIGG, REV. JOSEPH 235

Hymn 604.
GURNEY, REV. JOHN H 230

Hymns 590, 1094.
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS 222

Hymn 509.
GUYON, MADAME J. M. B. de la MOTHE 270

Hymn 696.

HAMMOND, REV. WILLIAM 9

Hymus4, 21.
HANKEY, MISS CATHERINE 295

Hymn 756.
HARBAUGH, REV. HENRY 197

Hymn 500.
HART, REV. JOSEPH 19

Hymns 29, 143, 340, 305, 396, 689, 840, 841.

HASTINGS, THOMAS 74

Hymns 177, 330, 040, 912, 1002.
HATFIELD, REV. EDWIN F., D.D 345

Hymn 895.
HAWEIS, REV. THOMAS 110

Hymns 270, 271,33s, 619.

HAWKER, REV. ROBERT 29

Hymn 59.
HAWKS. MRS. ANNIE S 293

Hymn 700.

HEATH. REV. GEORGE 227

Hymn 581.
HEBER, BISHOP REGINALD, D.D 30

Hymns 02, 71, 130, 180, 373, 887, 875, 930. 999,
1114.

HEDGE, REV. FREDERICK H., D.D 70

Hymn 100.
HEfilNBOTHAM, REV. OTTIWELL 119

Hymns 29 1, 705.
HEMANS, MRS. FELICIA D 240

Hymns 618, BBS, 1005, 1058.
HERVEY, REV. JAMES 239

Hymn 615.

HERZOG, JOHN F 50

Hymn 114.
HILL, REV. ROWLAND 399

Hymn 1040.

B7LLHOU8E, AUGUSTUS L 1 76

Hymn 414.
HOLDEN. OLIVER 279

Hymn 717.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, M.D 57

Hymns 185, 629.
HOPKINS, REV. JOHN 26

Hymn 50.

HOPKINS, JOSIAH 133

Hymn 335.
HOW, REV. WILLIAM W 88

Hymns 218,692.

HUNTER, REV. WILLIAM, D.D 378

Hymns 986, 1072.

HUNTINGDi )N, SELINA, COUNTESS OF 394

Hymn 1027.
HUTTON, JAMES 39

Hymn 83.

HYDE, MRS. ABBY BRADLEY 141

Hymn 353.

IRONS, REV. WILLIAM J., D.D 93

Hymns 22."., 014.

JACOBI, JOHN C 50

Hymns 114, 205.
JERVIS, REV. THOMAS 24

Hymn 43.
JOHN OF DAMASCUS 94

Hymn 230.
JONES, REV. EDMUND 147

Hymn 369.
JOSEPH OF THE STUDIUM 248

Hymn oio.
JUDKIN, REV. THOMAS J 104

Hymns 853, 200.
JUDSON. REV. ADONIRAM, D.D 273

Hymn 716.

KEBLE, REV. JOHN 46

Hymns 102, 103, 501, 1080.
KELLY, REV. THOMAS 23

Hymns 54, 58, 208, 223, 235, 249, 250, 561, 577,
707, 70S.
KEN, BISHOP THOMAS 47

Hymns 105, 100.

KEITH. GEORGE 261

Hymn 097.
KETHE, REV. WILLIAM 12

Hymn 11.
KING, JOHN 341

Hymn 883.
KNOLLIS, REV. FRANCIS M., D.D 403

Hymn 1049.
KNOWLES. JAMES D 336

Hymn 870.

LA NGE. REV. ERNEST 54

Hymns 120, 127.

LANGE, REV. JOACHIM, D.D 187

Hymn 474.
LEESON, MISS JANE E 343

Hymn 889.
LF.LAND, REV. JOHN 50

Hymn 113.
I.IvrVGSTONE 178

Hymn 449.
LLOYD, WILLIAM F 247

Hymn 637.
LONGFELLOW. REV. SAMUEL 48

Hymns 109. 868, 59a
LUKE, MRS. JEMIMA 340

Hymn B80.
LUTHER. REV. MARTIN, D.D 69

Hymns 100, 911.
LYTE, REV. HENRY F 18

Hymns 27, 98, 158, 685, 848, 7:j!. 1088.

MTHEVNF. REV. ROBERT M 416

Hymn 1079.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

44!)

PACK.

MToMB. WILLIAM 175 I

Hymn 111.
MACDUFF. REV. JOHN R 389

Hymns 208, 1016.
MACE, MBS. FRANCES L 250

Bymn 844.
MACEAY-MR8. MARGARET 375

Hymn

MA LAN. REV. H. A. ('.. D.D 380

Hymn 90S,
MANT, BISHOP RICHARD 28

Hymn 56.
MARCH, KKV. DANIEL 236

Hymn 607.
MARCY, MRS. ELIZABETH E 250

Hymn 665.
MARRIOTT, REV. JOHN 351

Hymn 913.
MARSDEN, REV. JOSHUA 361

Hymn 939.
MASON, MISS MARY JANE 289

Hymn 742.
MASi t.N, REV. JOHN 45

Hymn 99.
MASSIE, RICHARD 294

Hymn 755.
MAUDE, MRS. MARY F 184

Hymn 405.
MAXWELL. MRS. M. H 337

Hymn 873.
MEDLEY, REV. SAMUEL 80

Hymns 193, 242. 823, 743.
MEINHOLD. JOHN W 386

Hymn 1007.
MERRICK. REV. JAMES 240

Hymn 617.
MESSENGER, JOHN A 350

Hymn Oil.

MIDLANE, ALRERT 143

Hymn 357.

MILLER. MRS. EMILY H 333

Hymns 802, 886.
MILToN. JOHN 61

Hymns 145. 769, 915.

MoNSELL. REV. JOHN S. B 95

Hymns 832, 548, 729, 732, BOS, 1015. 1085, 1106.

MONTGOMERY, JAMES 10

Hvmns 5, 24. 25, 4.'. 68, 79, 89, 165, 168, 179, 181,
189, 191. 206, 223, 276, 286, 288, 341,358,403,
464, 575, 599, 639, 660, 663, 688, 710, 75(1, 781,
788, B86, 558, B61, 882, 909,916, 93^959,992,
1000, 1009, 1048, 1050, 1087.

MOORE, THOMAS 238

Hymns Oil. 683.
MORE. HENRY 110

Hymn
MORRIS. GEORGE P 383

Hymn 1012.
Morrison. BEV. JOHN • 76

Hymns 184, 551.
MOTE, RET. EDWARD 167

Hymn 421.
MUHLENBERG, REV. WILLIAM A.. D.D 154

Hymi. 8,998.

NEALE. REV. JOHN M.. D.D 82

Hymns 199, 230, 640, 856, 859, 1047, 105S, 1059,
1060, 1061.

KEVIN. REV. EDWIN II., D.D 285

Hvnin 731.

PASK.

NEWMAN. REV. JOHN II., D.D 85

Hymns 207, 682,
NEWTON, REV. JOHN 16

Hymns 23, 58, 88, in, 316, 428, 127, 498, 516, 546.
718, 717, 776, 966, 1029.
NOEL, BEV. BAPTIST W 104

Hymns 255,

NOEL, BEV. GERARD THOMAS 325

Hymn S39.

OBEBLIN, REV. JEAN F 207

Hymn 685.

oLIVK.RS.'uF.V. THOMAS 415

Hymns 788, 1075, 1076, 1077.

ONDERDONK, BISHOP HENRY U 142

Hymn 355.

OPIE, MRS. AMELIA 53

Hymn 122.

PALMER. REV. RAY. D.D 273

Hymn:, 240, 2£ I. 691, 7 1 ). 762, 849, 921, 1055.

PARK, REV. ROSWELL 330

Hymn 853.
PEABODY.BEV. WILLIAM B. 0 373

Hymn 974.
PEAO >CK. JOHN 322

Hymn 828.
PERRONET, REV. EDWARD 102

Hymn 248.
PHILLIPS. MISS HARRIET C 341

Hymn 884.

PIERPONT, REV. JOHN 21

Hymns 36, 857.

PLUMPTRE, REV. EDWARD H 424

Hymn 1099.

POPE, ALEXANDER 372

Hymn 969.
POTT, REV. FRANCIS 364

Hymn 949.
PRENTISS, MRS. ELIZABETH P 282

Hymn 725.
PYPER, MARY 101

Hymn 247.

RAFFLES, REV. THOMAS, D.D 25

Hymns 45, 380, 1067.
RAMBACH, J. J 321

Hymn 826.
RAWSON, GEORGE 196

Hymns 499, 850.
REED, REV. ANDREW 109

Hymns 267, 278, 343.
REED, MRS. ELIZABETH H 162

Hymn 409.
RICE. MRS. CAROLINE L 339

Hymn 878.

RICHARDSON, MRS. CHARLOTTE 246

Hymn 682.
RICHTER, REV. CHRISTIAN F., D.D 157

Hymns 394, 631.
RINGWALDT, REV. BARTHOLOMEW 394

Hymn 1028.
ROBERT II., KING OF FRANCE 116

Hyrnn 284.
R< IBEBTB, THOMAS 297

Hyrnn 761.

ROBINS, GURDON 400

Hymn 1041.

ROBINSON. GEORGE 334

Hymns 800, 864.

450

HYMN STUDIES.

PAGE.

R< IBINSON, REV. ROBERT 63

Hymns 148, 736.
Bl »S( !( i E, MISS JANE E 244

Hymu 638.
Ri ISCOE, REV. WILLIAM 426

Hymn 1108.
Rl (THE, REV. JOHANN A 166

Hymns 420, 649.
RYLAND, REV. JOHN, D.D 73

Hymn 175.

SARGENT. LUCIUS M '■■ ■ 347

Hymn 901.
SCHEFFLEB, JOHANN A 52

Hymns 119, 178.
SCHMOLKE, REV. BENJAMIN 94

Hymus 228, 654.
SCOTT, ELIZABETH 35

Hymns 73, 112.
SCOTT, REV. THOMAS 137

Hymn 345.
SCOTT, SIR WALTER 68

Hymns 163, 1017.

SEAGRAVE, REV. ROBERT 411

Hymn 1068.
SEARS, REV. EDMUND II., D.D 80

Hymns 194, 195.
SE YM( )UR, AARON C. H 349

Hymn 908.
SHEPHERD, THOMAS 259

Hymn 666.
SHIRLEY, REV. WALTER 27

Hymns 52, 730.
SHRUBSOLE, WILLIAM, JR 48

Hymus 110, 920.
SIGOURNEY, MRS. LYDIA H 117

Hymns 287, 578, 1008.
SMITH, SIR JAMES E., M.D 32

Hymns 67, 630.
SMITH, REV. SAMUEL F., D.D 42

Hymns 92, 807, 932, 1089.
SPANGENBERG, BISHOP AUGUSTUS G 315

Hymn 811.
SPITTA, REV. CARL J. P 294

Hymns 755, 1010.
STANLEY, REV. ARTHUR P., D.D 83

Hymns 200, 1023.
STEELE, MISS ANNE 31

Hymns 63, 64, loo, 252, 299, 806, 309. 318, 885,
558, 554, 610, 661, 674, 852, 902, 1051, 1096,
1101.
STEELE, MRS. HARRIET BINNEY 333

Hymn 874.
STENNETT, REV. JOSEPH, D.D 38

Hymn 82.
STENNETT, REV. SAMUEL, D.D 90

H vmns 818, 241, 295, 382, 504, 987, 1038.
STERNHOLD, THOMAS 63

Hymn 152.
SToCkER. JOHN 107

Hymn 262.
STOW T.LI,. REV. HUGH 266

Hymn 684.

STRAPHAN, JOSEPH 339

Hymn 877.
STRONG, REV. NATHAN 422

Hymn
SWA IV REV. JOSEPH 296

Hymns 759, 780.

PACK.

SWAIN, REV. LEONARD 223

Hymn 584.

TAPPAN, WILLIAM B 83

Hymns 217, lu39.

TATE, 'NAHUM 52

Hymn 120.
TATE AND BRADY 13

Hymns 18, 198, 550, 1097.
TENNYSON, ALFRED 149

Hymn 375.
TERSTEEGEN, GERHARD 25

Hymns 47, 358, 4;;, 196, ti'Xi.

THOMAS OF 0ELANO 393

Hymu 1023.

THOMPS4 IN, REV. ALEXANDER R 26 1

Hymn 670.

THOMPSON, JOHN, M.D 67

Hymn 159.
THRUPP, MISS DOROTHY A 337

Hymns 872, 876.
TORE, MRS. EMMA 97

Hymn 236.
TOPLADY, REV. AUGUSTUS M 165

Hymns 415, 534, 612, 633, 636, 838, 1004.
TURNEY. REV. EDMUND 325

Hymn 837.
TUTTIETT, REV. LAURENCE 222

Hymn 568.

UNKNOWN HYMNS, 10, 57, 65, 101, 199, 880, H4,

500, 580, 624, 687, 711, 727, 77S, 847, SuO, 899,
917, 942, 971, 975, 990, 1044, 1091.

VICTORINUS SANTOLIUS 26

Hymn 49.
YOKE, MRS 355

Hymn 933.

WALFORD, REV. W. W 268"

Hymn 688.
WALKER, ANNA L 22 1

Hymn 565.
WALKER, REV. JOHN 15

Hymn 18.
WALLACE, REV. JOHN A 275

Hymn 707.
W ARDLA W, REV. RA LPH, D.D 230

Hymn 721.
WARE. REV. HENRY, JR., D.D. 9 3

Hymns 287, 868.
WARING, MISS ANNA L 200

Hymns 510, 648, 675, 676.
WARNER, MISS ANNA 221

Hymn 572.
WARREN. REV. WILLIAM F., D.D Ill

Hymn 878.
WATER BURT, JARED B 221

Hymn 566.
WAITS, ALARM A* 314

Hymn 807.
WATTS, REV. ISAAC. D.D 8

Hvmns2. 8, 8, 9, 12, 15, 17, 38. 41, 69, 81. 84, 85,
95, !»s. 104, 108, 188, 180, 1 18, 1 16, 153, 154, 168,
1 72, 1 S3. 211, 214, ■-'■■ 14, 2 1".. 85 1 , 3; ; . 892, 1 H 8, 804,
805 310,884,380,801, lis. 1 19, 424, 547,598,1
681,659,662,698,699,708,704, ! 10,751, 768, 778,
787 799, 320, 881,871,919, 96 1. 965, 970, 978, 976,
984, 985, 995, 1080, 1085, 1087, 1048, 1046, 1M4.
wf.isse. REV. MICHAEL 1C6

Hymn 859.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

451

I'AUK.

\vi:i»EL, HK.V. GSORG 13

Hymn II.

WESLEY, REV. CHABLB9 7

Hymns !, ti. 7, IB, 19, 36, JS. :;n. -I-.', .Jl. :)7, 12, 46,
48.51,97, 181, 184. 131. 168, 169, 170, 178, 178,
ISO, 810, 816, 880, 881.837, 839, 811, 845, 850, 861,
968, 860, 861, 864, 875, 879, 889, 891, 803, 807, 811,
81 ; . 889, 881, 888, 38 I, 83i , 839, 847,8 is, 850, 351 ,
869, 864, 867, 868, 878, 87 1. 877,378, 879, 881,388,
888, 885, 886, 389, 890, 398, 895, 897, 398, 899, kX),
401, 408, 404, 400, 407,410, 41:5, 410, 422, 485, 488,
430, 481, 488, 433, 435, 4 17, 438, 4:50, 4 10. 1 18. 1 1 I,
445,446, 151, 152,453,454,455, 156, 158, 168, MJ7,
400, 470, 471. 478, 47:5, 475, 470, 480, 181,488, 483,
4s 1, 486, is;. 189, 491,493, 494, 495, 497, 508, 508,
50."), 506, 508, 511,518, 513, 51 1. 515, 517, 518, 510,
620. 581, 838, 583, 58 1. 525, 596, 587, 588, 589, 581,
538, 533, 535, 586, 537,688, 539, 640, 541,548, 54:5,
544, 545. 555, 556, 551 , 568, 559, 508, 57i >, 57 1 , 57:5,
574, 588, 588, 5-5, 686, 58< , 688, 589, 592, 000, 000,
COO, 683, 686, 645, 648, 650, 651,656, 057, 668, 077,
o: 8, . ! 18, 715, 710, 788, 7:55, 7:50, 737,

7:5s, 739, ; 14, i 15. ! Hi. 7 IS. 753, 757, 705, 778, 775.
782,784, 785, 786,78 1, 790, 791, 792, 793,794, 705,
8,808,804,805,808.809,815,816,817,
818, 882, 834, 825, 831, 833, 885, 842, 846, sis. 851,
854, 924, 080. 087, 936, 04:5, 045, 946, 047, 951, 958,
953, 95 -. 955, 961, 963, 966, 007, 968, 988, 991, 9! 6,
1001, 1008, 1006, 1011, 1013, 1014, 1018, 1019,1021,
1084. 1085. 1030, 1081, 1038, 103.5, 11143. 1O40. 1056,
1057. 1003, 1004, 1005. 100.1, 1009, 1073, 1074, 1100,
1112, 1115, 1110, 1117.

WESLEY, REV. JOHN 49

Hymns 47. 111. 119, 126, 127, 128, 139, 212, 238,
350. 302, 304, 411, 480, 448. 401, 474, 470, 477, 478.
490, 406, 560, 631. 640, 678, 073, 811, 813, 814,
1078.

WESLEY. KEY. SAMUEL 89

Hymns 157, 215.

WESLEY, REV. SAMUEL, JR 36

Hymns 75, 9. 1.

WEST, ROBERT A 32

Hymn 66.

PACK.

WHITE, HENRY KIRKE 10

Hymns 23, 1)1, 187, 978.
WHITING, WILLIAM 427

Hymn 1108.

WHITTEMORE, REV. J 343

Hymn 889.
WH ITTIER, JOHN G 82

Hymns 107, 602.

WHITTINGHAM, WILLIAM 6G

ll\ urn 156.

\V1 LKS, M 140

Hymn 300.

WILLIAMS, REV. BENJAMIN 15

Hymn 80.

WILLIAMS, MISS HELEN M 240

Hymn 610.

WILLIAMS, REV. WILLIAM 72

Hymns 171, 940.
WILLIS, NATHANIEL P 333

Hymn 863.
WILSON, MRS. DANIEL 207

Hymn 685.

WINCHESTER, CALEB T 335

Hymn 866.
WINKLER, REV. JOHANN J 316

Hymns 813, 814.
WINKWORTH, MISS CATHARINE 13

Hvmns 14, 118, 228, 859, 436, 498, 509, 694, 886,
1007, 1010.
WOODHULL, ALFRED A 425

Hymn 1100.
WORDSWORTH, BISHOP CHRISTOPHER 34

Hymns 72, 144,887.
WRANGHAM, WILLIAM 33

Hymn 70.
WREFORD, REV. JOHN R 424

Hymn 1098.

ZINZENDORF, NICHOLAUS L 55

Hymns 128, 838, 461.

INDEX OF SCRIPTURE TEXTS

Genesis.

II. Kings.

Ch. Ver.

Hymn.

Ch. Ver.

Hymn.

Ch. Ver.

Hymn.

Ch. Ver. ilvmn.

Ch. Ver. Hymn.

156, 179, 180,

55 17

750, 752

103 1,2

749

1 1, 2 189, 913

7 4 369

622,642,651,

103 8-12

2 7 9

10 15 1073

748,759,761,

57 1

736

L08 19

;.i

3 i:> 822

672. 961, 975

57 8

96, 106

104

140

3 19 965, 972

I. Chronicles.

21 7

237, 261

59 16, 17 ' 100

104 1,2

17, 133,

8 11 266,403

L6 34 13,25

26 8

770

62 5

505

142. 151

8 22 L081

28 9 360

27 1

639

63 1

419,461,693

105 6

24,s

18 27 38,490

27 5

660

65 1

105 39

168

19 17 330

II. Chronicles.

27 7

72:;

65 2

282

106 1

420

22 10 471

6 41 824

27 8

660,712

65 5

1113

L06 2

28 10-19 724

Esther.
4 16 369

27 9

733

65 8

95, 127

107 2,3

•_'.'.

28 12 690

27 14

505, 506

65 11

1081, 1082

107 16

185

28 17 37, 4.", 47

29 2

805

66 1

107 32

31 4-J 1075, 1076,

Job.

29 3

151

108 1

516

L077

1 21 1012

30 5

627, 673

67 1

779, 992

113 3

32 26 440,458,715,

3 10 655

31 18

637

67 4

113 4

737, 738, 789

3 19 972

32 1

418

162

113 7

154

7 6 950

32 6

625

68 18

116 1

621

Exodus.

7 16 998

32 8

255

69 13

160

116 7

400

3 6 1075

11 7 126, 127, 130

33 12

1082

71 9

658

116 12

458

13 21 37, 171

14 4 305

34 1

705

72 4

154, 181, 185

116 13

467

14 15 563, 564

14 10 1012

34 18

410

72 7

118 22

766

15 11 68

16 22 956

35 18

51, 330

72 11

31, 919, 937

118 24

74. 75

20 11 72,78

19 25 242,512

36 5

127

72 15

1,919

118 27

455

20 24 40

21 13 966

36 9

4iis

73 24

?0, 255, 295,

119 296.

•J.", -i-i 44, 61, 684

25 4 305

37 5

672

682, 687

299

32 10 735

26 14 146

37 31

562, 745

73 26

478, 649, 997,

119 54

788

34 6, 7 317

29 3 549

39 4

465, 959, 962,

1117

119 94

460, 757

Leviticus.'

38 7 24, 916

965

77 19

174

119 96

538

19 2 131
25 9 331

38 41 164

39 5

664

78 5,6

1103

119 105

295, 297

40 4 305

39 7

624

78 8

396

119 111

200

42 6 394

40 1,2

131

78 14

163

L19 1 !0

296

Numbers.

40 17

543

78 53

108

119 151

629

in 29 781
23 10 982, 990

Psalms.

41 1-3

9112

81 1

121 1,2

745

1 1,2 291

42 1,2

650

15, 769

121 4

707

2 11 54

42 5

550

84 2

121 5

746

Deuteronomy.

2 12 251

42 7

649, 651

84 6

620

122 1

5 82 685, 686

3 5 112, 165

43 3

298

84 7

589

122 6

A>\

18 15 243

5 3 98

44 1

1097

st L0

122 7

930

5 7 43

45 3

6, 243

84 11

69, 99

124

1099.11(13

32 3 'J>;. 871, !<"'l

8 1 146

77:;

85 6

608

125 2

768, 772

82 81 421, 679

8 3 38

46 1

166, 168, 17s.

86 1

819

L26 5

>75, 579, 602

34 1 .M">. -M2

9 18 625

197, 544, 639,

s6 11

819

127 1

809

10 17 457

773

87 3

776

130

.;.,:,

Joshua.

12 1 971

46 3

87 4

867

130 3

412

?A 15 101,447,578

L6 9 l'»"'

4''. 4

168

87 7

704

180 7

380

I . Sau L'EL.

16 11 661

17 .">

245

89 15

828,82 1

131 1

408

•■! is 1 i

7 12 726

17 8 1".".. 455

17 8

458, .".1 .">

L82 IS

12. 21-. 920

is 152, 17'-.

4s 1

871

90 1, 2

L82, 964

133 1 7

. 788,

is 2

4 s 2

764

15s

797,799

1 1. Samuel.

Is :i 152

Is u

255

91 4

169, 656

136

145

12 28 1006

18 31 628

50 1

91 6

116

136 1

1'.' 1 138

50 1 1

29 1

91 11

97, 15E

187 2

I. I\IVOS.

1'.' .-. 824

.'I 2

891,508

95 6

3,43

L87 6

77(1

8 27 860,861, B65

19 6 919

51 5

805

•.'7 1

142

L89 1-6

121,128,159

18 38 562

19 7 4s-.'

51 10

621

100

L89 2:;

4:<6, 784

18 44 986

21 4 100

:.l 11

890, 649

too 1-4

8, 9, 63

142 4

'.'J7

19 12 287,711

22 1 215

M 17

41d

101 2

521

144 1

686

19 Is 33

22 3 131

55 14

802

102 13

918

144 12

865

r ND B X OF SCRIPT U R B 7 " B X T 8 .

45&

Ch. Ver.

146

14.". 3

14.-. 10

1 16 8

117 14
148

lis 1-13
150

Hymn.

766

126

122

1,692,740

1, 164

1098, llol

16,26, 168

1 23

2 10

3 13

4 18

7 2

8 17

Pbovkrbs.

■"■71

51, 320

824

511,6S6,784

7.47

511

872,873,874,

876

8 30
10 7
U 34
10 1

18 10

19 17
22 11
28 26

87
10

40
42
1100i4o
39, 457 1 43

881

97-

20 3

26
28
80
80
80

.-,.■;

541
904

501,786 44

4ol u

23 32 890,895,900,
901
345, 366
813

27 1
29 2.'

4 12

5 1
5 2
8 8

11 1

11 6

12 14

E< CLESIASTES.

2 647, 662, '.'11
5-7 1068

785
39

365

575, £78, 603

575

1021

Song of Solomon.

8 6,7

1-7

6 3
9 2
9 6

12 1
12 11

719, 747

748

875

794

853

738

1073

700, 701, 702

824

409,540,544

Isaiah.

922

1101

492, 493

776 68

5, 10, 18,38, 63

40,48,56)63

136,137,144164

151 84

184,191,248, 65

631,74:;. B04 66

455 66

985

Wr. Hymn

8 611
178,468, 524,

19 124,686

16 766

17 682

18 317,374

21 655, 686

2 415, 666, ';7-

20 575

17 1030, 1033,
1088, 1064

47 1041

10 4, 648, 720,

909, 947

20 120

1-5 926

8 977

9 19

11 827, 888, 889

12 1113,1115
31 54, 668

3 254
16 1,169
1,2 646,650,651
1 248
3 268

22 370

23 934

19 21
23 248

15 370, 768

16 770

10 161

9 920, 1043

14 923
1,2 775,778,909

3 927
7 767
7-10 451,582,821

11 775

15 944

4 381
6 367, 754

1 326, 362

3 243,342,347,348

4 577,648

6 360, 399

17 750, 752

7 858

15 44, 68, 410

20 371
6 811

16 821
1-3 77-">. 925

18 777
1-3 21,611
3 248
6 B23

10 582
3 631

5 827

10 390

11 274
413, 1088

2 518

17 24

1 868

2 60,404,410,412,

521,558

JXBBMIAB,

Wr. Hymn,

2 12, 442

18 481

4 142,860
22 870,558,554,

557

24 1087

16 858

22 372

28 47.2
6 378

29 311, 36*
31 531
27 413
39 782,790,792

23 636

5 79, 945

Lamentations.

12 215, 220
19
23
24

248

103

462, 698

EZEKIEL.

17 823
19 397, 404, 558
7 821
11 335,347,373,
374
1 227

Daniel.
9 6

26 210

IIOSEA.

6 927

1-4 551

4 439, 447

3 740

Joel.

17 875,1096

18 341, 362

MlCAH.

6-8

Habakkck.
1 505,

■>

Haggai.

7 64, 189,

Zechariah.

12 479,

1 302, 319,

937
389
920
281

190

M.W.ACIII.

17
17
IH

4f'l 19
51b' 19

Wr. Hymn.

7 370

17 795

2 411,704,739

Matthew.
21 1

23 128

2 186, 189, 300,

884, 907

10 182

7 808

9 451
16 451,931

25 744

4 21,671
6 461

8 501, 521, 545
14 809

6 688, 713

9 716

10 268, 470, 517,
537, 627, 628,

654

11 141

13 127

21 902,1048,1078

22 475, 484

26 141

7 21, 718
11 282

24 764

1 744

2 307, 425

8 494

11 796, 807
20 170

27 1109,1115

12 398

36 927

37 818
31 173

5 1, 40, 65

12 583

28 328, 340, 344,
346, 358, 359,
363, 426, 534,

732
30 495, 623, 785,

811
20 254

36 1021

3 289, 817
16 821

19 55, 62

14 491
22-33 634, 636

23 709
27 630
30 543

25 417
18 763,764,766,

776, 795
2 198, 199, 200

20 446, 667

10 34
20 7, 30, 40
12-14 434,558

13 828

14 878, 879, 880

892,

41
11
26
39

41 555,

211

29
36
45

46
51
66
18
19 276,

28 20

Hymn.

413

816

71,77

185, 582

877,919

76, 766

857, 864

12, 277

657
1024

375, 376

955

698,896,

905

1020

897

833, 885

617

952

C89, 715,

753

023

55S

. 246, 256

730

214, 260
215

215. 224
260
245

826, 829,

830, 831

7 11

Mark.

40 307

28 75

28 575

39 623

34 557

37 673

38 595, 604

24 302

16 987
23 522
31 528

14 32

15 820

Luke.

17 877
79 943
8 189
10 183,187,192
13,14 24,26,190,

193,195,841

18 1
12 807,425
21 627
15 29
21 39

25 1114
23 590, 601, 643,

666

6 799

36 898

39 540

40 709
42 609

434

HYMN STUDIES.

Ver. Hymn.

1 43, 710
28 29, 39

32 569

35 647
49 562, 986

8 951, 953

17 364

27 632

2 398

18 898,414,806
20-24 338, 350

5 877

1 589, 689
14 484
42 201

41 405

28 913

19 833, 835, 836,

837, 840

42 587,618,1002
44 217, 221, 234,

340, 645, 836

61 540

6 246

28 234

33 206

34 221,258
42 319, 619

29 93, 102
82 712

34 235, 260

36 7
39 32

John.

4 489

9 416
14 216,526

18 238
29 382, 822
21 475

20 36

35 598, 607

21 636

37 382
48 835
68 277
68 400, 402
37 341
4 565, 572

4 46
16 793
9 570
35 203
41 56
9 533

2 1089
6 313, 318, 483,

13 735

16 264, 26.",, 266,

275, 2Ni, 2S7,

411,424,480,

683

19 242

5 124, 760
13 266
33 680
9 465,468.472,

488

21 798

Ver. Hymn.

2 222

30 218, 224

34 415

22 30, 263, 267,
273

25 30

27 82

28 435
15 552
17 725
20 540

Acts.

2 1-3

37,

268, 270,

277

2 24

227

2 39

832

2 42

789

3 21

261

4 12

313, 332

7 48

7 56

680

9 11

710

9 18

309

12 7

422

14 9

398

14 17

139

14 22

496

14 26

939

16 25,

580, 608

16 31

367

17 24

12,44

17 24-28

135

17 28

42,

124,126,
127

20 35

904

26 18

784

Romans.

4 6
20 38

17 337

5 367

6 418

18 626
20 667

5 378, 508

6 304
8 882

15 321

17 535
20 1048
6 519

1 422

2 482

11 668

16 271,281,424,

438, 439

18 1032

26 239. 706
31 591,596
28 486
15 821
4 33

12 924

27 531
15 891,902
11 1053, 1054

19 Id?"
» 110,600,864

Ch. Ver.
14 11
14 12

14 17

15 13

Hymn.

' 81

574

937

52, 59

I. Corinthians.
2 2 220,456,461,

2 10

3 7
3 9
3 16

6 20

7 35
10 16

10 31

11 33

12 3

13 1
13 12

13 13

14 1

722

435

301

816

499

469, 474

835

484, 597

833, 836

435

504

174

703

793

15 20 231, 232, 233
15 25 245, 251, 908,
919
15 42 984, 995

15 47 207, 259

15 52 970, 989

15 55 234, 260, 623,

985, 989

16 9 936
16 13 566,567,568

II. Corinthians.

1 22 262
3 6 277
3 15 303, 377, 881

3 18 491

4 7 1046

5 1 612, 1056
5 7 620
5 8 1055
5 11 814
5 14 811,814

5 17 502

6 2 349,361

7 5 798
9 6 904

11 2 511

13 11 265,782,793
13 14 53

G.U.ATIANS.

2 9 791

3 13 18, 235, 315

4 6 429, 488, 489,

440, 477
4 15 549, 561

4 18 560

5 6 446,786

6 2 784,797,801,

804, 1068

6 14 204,205,211,

219

Ephesians.
1 6 454

1 13 424

1 14 269

1 18 539

1 22 680

Ver. Hymn.

I 308

8 377, 385, 446,

765

12 303

14 210

20 816, 856, 857,

859
8 356, 822

15 1033

17 502

18 433, 456, 538

19 442, 456, 476

3 67

5 800

8 24,229,230,231,

234,236,237

II 812
30 459
14 372, 555
27 795
10-18 584, 586,

587, 588,
589, 1047

11 543, 587, 588,

599

12 1047

16 588, 659

Philipplans.

6 936

21 669, 696, 721,

99*3

23 396, 1065

5 528,586

7 422

9 822
11 31,248

13 124

7 211, 220

8 213, 708, 758,

1042

14 476,478,557,

680, 1068

4 244, 493

6 728
11 664
13 814

COLOSSIANS.

22 543

I 600

II 316,525,700,
701,702,736,

741,751,988

16 24,61,448
Thessalonians.
3 699

13 967,971

14 990
16, 17 22, 244,

1015, 1016,

1019, L028,

1060

9 353

17 506, 589

24 534

Thessalonians.

7,8 1018,1020,

1025

I. Timothy.

Ver. HymL.

15 385, 441
17 196
6 35, 238

16 216, 422, 540
12 599

II. Timothy.

6 562
9 589

3 505,587,588,
698

12 256, 260, 657

13 453

7 585, 955, 991

8 801 •

Titus.

13 541

14 407
2 582
5 314, 385

Hebrews.

1 3

148, 623

1 6

189

1 14

155, 167, 356

2 17

254

3 10

390

4 9

78, 82, 529

4 12

288, 311

4 13

189

4 14

243

4 15

254

4 16

498, 690, 717

6 6

339, 374

6 17

528

6 18

6 19

420, 526, 663

7 3

25U

7 26

258, 438

8 8

531

9 5

684

9 14

250

9 24

322

9 27

963, 968

L0 4

3< 15

10 16

531

10 20

210

10 29

390

10 35

626

11 5

549

11 13

171,648,1031,

1074,1078

11 14

1058-1061,

1071

11 16

1030, 1067,

1038, 1051

11 17

471

12 1

694

12 2,3

298,966,406,

446,615,769

12 9

447

12 22

787

12 23

648

12 24

238, 258, 425

13 5

161,421,679

13 8

143, 386

13 14

648

13 20

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

455

Ch. V»r. Hymn.

JrDE. ch v*r-

Hvmn. Ch. Ver.

Hyma.

Ch. Vcr. Hvn.n.

1 10 46,802

h™, * 10.

11 247, 848, 14 13

97''.. 1""!.

1 17 184,126

1 19 111,808

1 12

249

1 88

3 10 1034

1 20

784, 789, 802 ° 6

26,73,378,842, 15 3

4 14

3 11,12 576,1022

,1078 15 4

120

3 13 84

Bxvbi

84819 1

I. Peter.

1 5

262 5 12

2,246 19 4

248

1 4

I. JOHK.

1 6

356 5 13

16,681 19 6

134, 938

1 8 714,773,914

1 1 103,437,791

1 7

1013 6 9

912 19 9

12,480

1 19 238

1 5 489

1 10

83 6 14

1017

19 12

256, 257

977

1 7 1,507,514,803

1 12

815 6 17

1017, 1018.

19 18

1 9 479,493

1 14

372

1088, 1029

19 16 243,256.387

9 ■'•

2 1 86,889,251,258

2 4

442,54'.i 7 9

. 1032.
1046, L069

21 1

2 1,2 878,412

2 7

21 1-4

1035

i . I

1046

2 10

1032 7 10

42,324

21 2 648

, 1044,1063

3 3 515,542,1030

2 11

358 7 11

21 5

491

S 3

3 14 437

2 28

704 7 13

1049, 1066,

21 6

341.401

4 3

4 8 150, 208, 783

3 4

719,764,816,

21 10

1058, 1059,

4 5 1024

4 17 238

1069 7 14

430, 490,1045

1060, 1061

4 19 677, 7 '. ■"

4 18 4 7

3 12

521 7 L5

16 22 1,2

774

5 7 164, 17

5 4 583

3 14

453! 7 17

1057 22 4

5 10 401

5 7 6,16,35,121,411

3 17

395 9 20

22 5

1038, 1049

5 10 337, 435

3 20

28,794 11 15

917,938,101s 22 17

323, 341,

II. Petek.

5 11 520

4 8

34, 48, 744 14 2

1052

1 8 288

5 19 916

4 10

315,491 14 4

631122 17-20

355

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

THE FIGURES REFER TO THE HYMNS.

Abba. Father, 429, 436, 438,

440. 477, 643.
Abide with me, 93.
Accepted time, 361 — See

also: P>-<il<<
Activity. Calls to, 503-567,

607.
Adoption :—

Assurance of, 428, 429,

486, 438-440.
Jov of. 426, 429, 826.
Love of, 419, 434.
Prayer of, 426,440,826.
Adoration — See (

God, Holy Spirit,
'1) inity.
Advent— See Christ.
Advocate — See Christ.
Afflictions:—

Blessinirs of. 177, 671,

7t;i.708.
Comfort in. 661. 671,
872, 756,759, 761,767,
777. 798, I""-,'. 1072.
Courage in. 648, 781,
Praver during, 645,671 1,

Refuge in. 665, 670, 674,

089.
Submission in. 687.
Angels:—

Adoring Christ, 246.
At the advent of Christ,

24.188,189,190. 192.195.
At the coronation of

Christ, 58, 226, 2i7.

245, 248, 249.

At the resurrection of
Ctarist£27,234£35, 237 .

Joy oi. 125,194,804,315,
332, 340, 414, 759.

Angels— (Cont in ueti .1
"Ministry of, 52. 97. 134.
144, 155, 153. 167,217,
356, 444, 485. .547. 969,
980, 1001, 1004, 1070,
1083.
Song of. 2. 10. 34. 42. 47.
48,56.5*. 19-1. 195,259,
340, 444. 563, 710. 733,
744,759,916.1000,1070.
Worship of, 1069.
Apostles' creed, 118.
Archangels :—

Trumpet, 1023, 1027.
Voice, 244.

Worship of, 18, 38. 144,
1077.
Ark of God, 388.
Ascension of Christ — See

Christ.
Ashamed of Jesus. 604,
Assurance, 427, 435-438,757.
Atonement :— 26, 325, 327,
304.
Completed. 210.215.2ls.
219, 223, 224, 260,338,
340.
Fullness of. 215, 219,
221, 223, 238,246,381,
341.
Necessary, 210.
Sufficient. 238, 250, 805.
L'liiversalitv of. 2'i. 32.
210,221,288,881, 882.

Baekslidine :— 546-563.
Fear of, 543, .555.
Lamented. 516-550,553,

"7-561.
Return from, 380. 546-
551, 553,554, 557-501.

Baptism : —

Adult, 826. 829-831.
Infant. 825, 827, 828,832.
Of the Holy Spirit. 829,

830,832.
Significance of, 829,831.
Barren fig-tree, 953.
Battle-hymn of the Refor-
mation, 569.
Benediction, Apostolic, 53.
Bereavement, 1002, 1006,

1007.
Bible— See Scriptures.
Blind Bartimeus, 201.
Brevity of life— See Life.
Brotherly love — BeeSa Ints,

Communion of.
Burdens, 1053.

Calvary, 206, 209, 223, 341,

378,381,383, 836, 860.

Canaan, The Heavenly,

1036-1038, 1062, 1076.

Charities and reforms, 890-

907.
Charity :—

Acts of, 891-894, 896-

898, 902, 905.
Institutions of, 1099.
Rewarded, 902-905.
Supreme, 504.
Cherubim and Seraphim,
56, 120, 144, 152. 193,
229, 234, 727, 1065.
Chief of sinners, 385.
Children and youth :— 872-
889.
Advised, 360.
Baptism of, 827, 828.
Consecrated to Christ,
827, 828.

Children— (Continued.)

Hosannas of, 874, 882,
883.

In heaven, 987, 1007.

Piety of, 879, 880, 886.

Praise of, 874, 876. 884-
886.

Praver of, 872, 873,875,
878, 884, 885, 889.

Prayer for, 887, 888.

Training of, 877.
Choosing Christ, 447.
Christ :— 181-261.

Abiding with believers,
14, 93, 102, 679, 701,
702, 738,742, 760, 820.

Adoration of, 31, 35, 64,
66, 181, 188, 190. 245.
246,255,315, 332,409,
680,842,852,908,1013.

Advent, first, 185, 188-
195.

Advent, second, 650,
9.54, 955, 1013-1018,
1023, 1024, 1026.

Advocate, 110,239, 251,
253, 258, 378, 440, 720.

Agony of, 217, 236, 246,
340. 417, 423,618,005,
723, 836, 850.

All in all, 31, 203. 325,
337.397, 431, 441,408,
494. 525, 635, 736, 806.

Ascension of, 14, 229,
236,237,245,261.

Atonement of, 32, 210,
224. 238, 243, 246, 250,
306, 331, 332. 372, 378,
383, 384, 415, 754.
See also : Atone-
ment.

4.36

HYMN 8 TUB IKS.

Christ— (Continued.)

Author of faith, 40(5,

445, 481.
Benevolence of, 261,

306.
Blood of, 388,805, 306,

314,31!), 320,830, 384,

120, 121,486,452, 454,

461, 785, 838.
Bread of heaven, 688,

691,782, 833, 835, 836,

849, 858.
Bridegroom, 346, 375,

540, 603, 952, 954.
Brother, 46, 193, 203,

686,719,720,743,1078.
Calls of, 607, 827, 828,

880, L029.
Captain of salvation,

568,569, 582, 589,825,

1033.
Character of, 202, 743.
Childhood of, 723, 875.

886, SS7.
Comforter, 21, 170, 178,

398, 679.
Communion with, 714 —

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