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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 139

3. Calvary s mournful mountain view ;

There the Lord of Glory see, Made a sacrifice for you,

Dying on the accursed tree : It is fmish d ! hear Him cry : Trust in Christ, and learn to die.

4, Early to the tomb repair,

Where they laid His breathless clay ; Angels kept their vigils there ;

Who hath taken Him away? Christ is risen ! He seeks the skies ;

Saviour ! teach us so to rise.

In his Original Hymns it is headed Christ our example in suffering. The Rev. James King describes a visit to Geth- semane in his Anglican Hymnology. We sat down on a rock overlooking the garden. The moon was still bright, and the venerable olive-trees were casting dark shadows across the sacred ground. The. silence of night increased the solemnity. No human voice was heard, and the stillness was only broken by the occasional barking of dogs in the city. We read, by the light, passages bearing on the agony, and James .Montgomery s solemn hymn, &quot; Go to dark Gethsemane.&quot;

The 1820 form is the same as that of 1825, except the last line, Learn from Him to watch and pray.

Hymn 137. Saviour, when in dust to Thee.

SIR ROBERT GRANT (4).

In the Christian Observer, 1815, entitled Litany. In Elliott s Psalms and Hymns, 1835.

Hymn 158. Behold the Saviour of mankind.

SAMUEL WESLEY.

Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) was son of the Rev. John Westley, of Winterborn-Whitchurch, who was ejected from the living in 1662. His son studied at a Nonconformist academy in London, but resolved to join the Church of England, and entered as a servitor at Exeter College.

When at Oxford he published a volume of poems, in 1685, with the strange title, Maggots. In 1693 his Heroic Poem on

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