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3. Thy Providence my life sustain'd,

And all my wants redrest,

When in the silent womb I lay,

And hung upon the breast.

4. To all my weak complaints and cries

Thy mercy lent an ear, Ere yet my feeble thoughts had learnt To form themselves in prayer.

9. Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss

Has made my cup run o er, And in a kind and faithful friend Has doubled all my store.

12. When nature fails, and day and night

Divide Thy works no more, My ever-grateful heart, O Lord, Thy mercy shall adore.

Young borrows his Eternity, too short to speak Thy praise ! (Night Thoughts, iv.) from Addison s ver. 8.

The Rev. Jonathan Crowther, classical tutor at Didsbury, quoted the first verse with peculiar emphasis on his death-bed in January, 1856, just before he lost consciousness.

Hymn 93. God of my life, whose gracious power.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740 j Works, i. 322. Fifteen verses. 'At the approach of temptation.'

Joseph Taylor, Missionary Secretary 1818-20, and President of the Conference in 1834, was sent out as a missionary to the West Indies in 1803 by Dr. Coke, and would often in later life quote verses 3 and 4, Oft hath the sea confessed Thy power, as he referred to the dangers and afflictions of those eventful years.

Zachary Macaulay (see 481) says this hymn scarce ever recurs to my mind without causing it to swell with grateful recollection.

Hymn 94. Call Jehovah thy salvation.

JAMES MONTGOMERY. Psalm xci., from his Songs of Zion, 1822. Two verses omitted.