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return dedicated to Zinzendorf on his birthday, in 1728, the well- known hymn :

&quot; Now I have found fcho ground wherein.&quot; No. 611. &quot; Ich habe nun den Grund gefunden.&quot;

The original extends to ten stanzas.

This hymn was written just when the count and Kothe were at the height of the happiness and usefulness of their Christian association. It was in the year when the religious system that had worked so well at Herrnhut was extended to Bethelsdorf. Wesley s translation (1740) is here given. Kothe wrote about forty-five hymns, many of which are very beautiful. In the &quot; New Congregational Hymn Book &quot; this hymn is erroneously attributed to Zinzendorf.

In the &quot; Records of Wesleyan Life,&quot; we read of the lines in verse 2

&quot; While Jesus blood, through earth and skies, Mercy, free, boundless mercy, cries ! &quot;

&quot; These were almost the last words of Mr. Fletcher, of Madeley, whose impression in the hour of death of the truths they contain was so strong, that his feeble voice re-echoed the word bound less, boundless, with surprising energy.&quot;

Rothe published, in 1727, a learned work on the Hebrew Bible.

��ALEXANDER POPE.

1688-1744.

THE incidents of Pope s life were few and unimportant. His father was in business in London, and retired during the poet s childhood to Binlield, in Windsor Forest. At the age of thirty, Pope found himself in a position to purchase his celebrated villa at Twickenham, where he resided till his death on the 30th of May, 1744. He had previously spent two years at Chiswick,

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