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 154 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

Hymn 179. Ye faithful souls, who Jesus know.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture, 1762 ; Works, xiii. 86. Col. iii. 1-4.

Hymn 180. The foe behind, the deep before.

JOHN MASON NEALE, D.D. (27).

Written in 1853, and published in his Carols for Easter-tide, 1854. It was set to music by Dr. Joseph Barnby, and was a great favourite with the Eton boys. Six stanzas are omitted.

Hymn 181. Hail the day that sees Him rise. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739; Works, i. 187. Hymn for Ascension Day. Ten verses. Two verses are omitted, but they are both excellent

3. Circled round with angel powers, Their triumphant Lord, and ours, Conqueror over death and sin, Take the King of Glory in !

9. Ever upward let us move, Wafted on the wings of love ; Looking when our Lord shall come, Longing, gasping after home.

Hymn 182. The golden gates are lifted up. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER.

An Ascension hymn, written for S.P.C.K. Hymns, 1852. It appears in Hymns Descriptive and Devotional, 1858.

Mrs. Alexander was the second daughter of Major Hum phreys, of Strabane, who fought in the battle of Copenhagen. She was born in Dublin, 1823, and in 1850 married Rev. W. Alexander, afterwards Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.

Mrs. Alexander may fitly be called the children s hymnist.

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