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Hymn 232. Father of our dying Lord.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742 ; Works, ii. 228. Hymn for the Day of Pentecost.

Hymn 233. Father, if justly still we claim. HENRY MORE, D.D. (223).

From Divine Dialogues -with Divine Hymns, 1688, adapted by John

Wesley.

Hymn 234. Granted is the Saviour s prayer.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739; Works, i. 188. Hymn for Whitsunday. Ten verses. The last four are here omitted.

Hymn 235. Our blest Redeemer, ere He breathed.

HARRIET AUBER.

Miss Auber s second verse is omitted

He came in semblance of a dove, With sheltering wings outspread, The holy balm of peace and love On each to shed.

The doxology (ver. 7) is not in the original.

Miss Auber was born in London, October 4, 1773. Her father was Rector of Tring. She spent the greater part of her life at Broxbourne and Hoddesdon, Herts, where she died, January 20, 1862. This hymn and much of her own poetry, with some hymns by other writers, appeared in her Spirit of the Psalms ; or, A Compressed Version of Select Portions of the Psalms of David, published in 1829. Some useful versions of the Psalms have passed from it into modern hymn-books. About twenty appeared in Mr. Spurgeon s collection, 1866. Her famous hymn for Whitsuntide was written by some one on a pane of glass in her house at Hoddesdon. The Rev. Dawson Campbell afterwards lived in this house, and wished to have the

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