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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 131

Hymn 141. Jesus, Thee Thy works proclaim.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns on the Four Gospels (left in MS.) ; Works, x. 160. Matt. iv. 23.

The last three lines in the original read

Which pardon and perfection brings, Saves our fallen dying race, And lifts us into kings.

Hymn 142. Jesus, if still Thou art to-day.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740; Works, i. 262. Headed These things were written for our instruction. Twenty-one verses. In ver. 8, Long have I waited in the way is the original.

Hymn 143. O Thou, whom once they nocked to hear.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749; Works, iv. 376. Met), xiii. 8. Ten verses.

In ver. 6 the original is Display T^y justifying power.

Hymn 144. Lord! it is good for us to be. ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY, D.D.

In an article on The Transfiguration, and hymns relating thereto, Macmillarfs Magazine, April, 1870, with this note, I have endeavoured (as in a hymn written some years ago on the Ascension) to combine, as far as possible, the various thoughts connected with the scene.

Master, it is good to be, was changed by Dean Stanley to Lord, it is good for us to be, in his final revision.

Dean Stanley was born at Alderlcy in 1815. His father afterwards became Bishop of Norwich. Stanley was educated under Arnold at Rugby, and his Life of the great schoolmaster has become an English classic. He had a brilliant course at Oxford, and became College tutor. In 1851 he was made Canon of Canterbury, and wrote his Historical Memorials of Canterbury. In 1856 he was appointed Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, and in 1863 Dean of Westminster. He made a singularly happy marriage with

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