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 THEIR AUTHORS AND ORIGIN. 395

W. BROWN.

&quot; Welcome, sacred day of rest.&quot; No. 762.

THIS hymn, given anonymously in the &quot; Old&quot; and &quot;New Con gregational,&quot; and in other collections, has the above name given to it in &quot; A Selection of Hymns for Congregational Worship,&quot; &c., by Thomas Russell, A.M., 20th edition, 1843. It is not in the tenth edition of &quot; Russell s Selection, 1826.&quot; Of the author there is no known record.

S. F. SMITH, D J).

&quot; Spirit of holiness, descend.&quot; No. 813.

THIS admirable hymn is by Dr. S. F. Smith, an eminent American Baptist minister. It is given without name in the &quot; New Congregational.&quot; It is No. 384 in an American Hymn Book of which Dr. Smith was one of the editors. The work is entitled &quot; The Psalmist : a New Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Baptist Churches,&quot; by Baron Stow and S. F. Smith, 1843. Dr. Smith was one of a committee appointed by the American Baptist Churches of New York to prepare this work. It is a large and valuable collection, containing 1,180 hymns, by 161 writers. Twenty-six of the hymns were contributed by Dr. Smith, and eight of the hymns in the &quot;American Sabbath Hymn Book&quot; are by him. He was editor, from 1843 to 1849, of &quot; The Christian Review,&quot; an able work, published at Boston, America, and to which he contributed many extended and pow erful articles on the great religious books and questions of the day.

DYER.

&quot; Time is earnest, passing by.&quot; No. 490.

THIS is part of a hymn of eight verses which was inserted by the editor in &quot; The Bible Class Magazine,&quot; 1851, with the sig-

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