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all his family followed in his footsteps. One of his daughters married Mr. Hatton, of Birmingham.

Hymn 162. O come and mourn with me awhile. F. W. FABER, D.D. (54).

Good Friday in Jesus and Mary, 1849, headed Jesus Crucified. Ten verses of four lines. In Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861.

The original refrain, Jesus, our Love, is crucified, is taken from a hymn by J. Mason, 1683. My Lord, my Love, was crucified was changed to Jesus, our Lord, is crucified, and this has been adopted almost universally. It is St. Ignatius Amor meus crucifixus est, in his Epistle to the Romans, written on his way to martyrdom, which was freely used through the Middle Ages, and of which Charles Wesley made such memorable use in some of his hymns (see 160).

Hymn 163. O Sacred Head once wounded. GERHARDT ; translated by DR. J. WADDELL ALEXANDER.

Dr. Alexander s translation appeared in the Christian Lyre, 1830. Two stanzas were added in 1849.

Gerhardt s O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden is itself a free translation of the Salve caput cruentatum, ascribed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux (no), and entitled A rhythmical prayer to any one of the members of Christ suffering and hanging on the Cross. It is divided into seven parts, addressed to the feet, knees, hands, side, breast, heart, and face of Jesus. This hymn is a translation of that addressed to the face of our Lord. According to the superstition of the time, the image of Christ on the cross bowed itself and embraced Bernard with out stretched arms as a token that his devotion was accepted. He died in 1153, and no MS. of the poem is known earlier than the fourteenth century.

Gerhardt s version, published in 1656, is headed To the suffering face of Christ. Dr. Schaff says, This classical hymn has shown an imperishable vitality in passing from the Latin into the German, and from the German into the English, and proclaiming in three tongues, and in the name of the three Confessions the Catholic, the Lutheran, and the Reformed

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