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of the glorious choir of the Universal Church. Dr. A. E. Gregory.

Hymn 250. I want the Spirit of power within. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740; Works, i. 307. Headed Groan ing for the Spirit of Adoption. The first verse begins

Father, if Thou my Father art, Send forth the Spirit of Thy Son.

Sin was changed into sins (ver. 4) in the Large Hymn-book, 1780.

Hymn 251. Spirit of wisdom, turn our eyes. HENRY AUGUSTUS RAWES, M.A.

The last five verses of a hymn on Confirmation. The hymn appeared as No. 172 in the Catholic Hymnal, 1861, compiled by The Rev. Father Rawes, of the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Charles, London. Some of the hymns are by the compiler ; for others he expresses his obligation to Faber, Caswall, and various writers. This hymn is not signed ; but it is not in Caswall s book nor in Faber s, so that it is probably by Father Rawes himself. It begins

Signed with the Cross that Jesus bore, We kneel, and tremblingly adore

Our King upon His throne. The lights upon the altar shine Around His Majesty divine,

Our God and Mary s Son.

Now in that presence dread and sweet, His own dear Spirit we entreat

Who sevenfold gifts hath shed On us, who fall before Him now, Bearing the Cross upon our brow

On which our Master bled.

Ver. 4, line 3, reads, Within our inmost shrine.

Henry Augustus Rawes, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, 1852, was born at Easington, near Durham, in 1826, and educated at Houghton-le-Spring Grammar School under his father, the

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