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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS !$!

Miss Cox, the daughter of Mr. G. V. Cox, M.A., was born at Oxford in 1812, and died in 1897. She was largely indebted to Baron Bunsen s personal suggestions in the selection of the pieces she translated.

Hymn 176. Our Lord is risen from the dead.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Psalms and Hymns, 1743; Works, viii. 48. The second part of Psalm xxiv. Hymn 76 is the first part.

It is one of Charles Wesley s most spirited paraphrases.

Young s Night Thoughts, iv., may be compared with this hymn ; but if Young suggested some phrases, Charles Wesley has gone far beyond him

He rose ! lie rose ! lie burst the bars of death. Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates ! And give the King of Glory to come in. Who is the King of Glory? lie who left His throne of glory, for the pang of death: Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates ! And give the King of Glory to come in. Who is the King of Glory? lie who slew The rav nous foe, that gorg d all human race ! The King of Glory, lie, whose glory fill d Heaven with amazement, at His love to man.

Hymn 177. On wings of living light. WILLIAM WALSHAM How, D.D.

S.P.C.K. Church Hymns, 1871. It was written as an Easter carol, and especially for the tune Darwall s 1481!).

Bishop How, the son of a solicitor, was born at Shrewsbury, 1823; Rector of Whittington, 1851 ; Rector of St. Andrew s Undershaft, London ; Suffragan Bishop of East London, 1879 ; first Bishop of Wakefield, 1888. He died in 1897. His work in the East End was marked by apostolic zeal and tenderness. His unselfish and loving spirit endeared him to all, and when he was growing old he kept his heart young, and would sit down to write a set of nonsense verses to amuse a grandchild with the greatest enthusiasm and earnestness.

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