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the Ten Virgins. Its metre is unique. It can be sung to the old tune Job, but is now set in the Methodist Tune-Book to Lyndhurst, specially composed for it by Mr. Alcock, organist of the Chapel Royal.

��Hymn 203. Light of the lonely pilgrim s heart. SIR EDWARD DENNY, BART.

For Missions, published in Deck s Psalms and Hymns, 1842. In 1848, Sir Edward included it in Hymns and Poems, headed The heart watching for the morning. Three lines are prefixed from Cowper s Task, by which it seems to have been suggested

Thy saints proclaim Thee King : and in their hearts Thy title is engraven with a pen Dipp d in the fountain of eternal love.

Sir Edward Denny (1796-1889) contributed largely to the hymns of the Plymouth Brethren, to whom he belonged. He published A Selection of Hymns, including many of his own, in 1839.

When Sir Edward was in his ninetieth year he pointed out Father Clement to a friend who visited him at West Brompton as the book to which; under God, he owed his conversion. He seldom took part in any public meeting, but privately proved himself a diligent servant of Christ. In Ireland he was a lenient and much respected landlord.

��Hymn 204. Lord, her watch Thy church is keeping.

HENRY DOWNTON, M.A. (1818-85).

Written for a meeting of the Church Missionary Society, and first published in Barry s Psalms and Hymns, 1867.

Mr. Downton was English chaplain at Geneva, 1857 ; Rector of Hopton, Suffolk, 1873 ; chaplain to Lord Monson.

His collected Hymns and Verses were issued in 1873. 1 Another year, another year ; For Thy mercy and Thy grace (Old and New Year, written in 1841); Harp, awake, tell out the story (New Year, 1848), are his most popular hymns.

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