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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS l6l

Mrs. Crewdson was the daughter of Mr. George Fox, of Perraw, Cornwall, and married Mr. Thomas Crewdson, of Manchester. During a long illness she wrote four volumes, from which nearly a dozen hymns have come into common use. One gem, written a short time before her death, bears the touching heading, During Sickness

O Saviour, I have nought to plead

In earth beneath, or heaven above, But just my own exceeding need

And Thy exceeding love.

The need will soon be past and gone,

Exceeding great but quickly o er ; The love, unbought, is all Thine own,

And lasts for evermore.

Hymn 196. Christ, the true anointed Seer.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns on the Four Gospels (left in MS.); Works, x. 139. Matt. i. 1 6. Who is called Christ. The last verse is omitted.

Hymn 197. O come, O come, Immanuel.

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

This translation gives the substance of five of the seven Greater Latin Antiphons intended for use at Vespers in Advent, beginning on December 17. They were sung before and after the Magnificat, and are known as the O s, because each verse began with O : O Emmanuel, O Sapientia, O Adonai, O Radix Jesse, O Clavis David, O Oriens, O Rex Gentium. Dr. Neale s translation, Draw nigh, draw nigh, Immanuel, appeared in Mediaeval Hymns, 1851, but this was afterwards altered by the compilers of Hymns Ancient and Modern. There is an interesting chapter on this hymn in the Rev. . W. Macdonald s Latin Hymns.

Hymn 198. Come, Thou long-expected Jesus. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns for the Nativity of our Lord, No. 10 ; Works, iv. 116. Two verses of eight lines.

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