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 212 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

Hymn 313. O for that tenderness of heart. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture, 1762 ; Works, ix. 199. It is based on the message to King Josiah (2 Kings xxii. 19, 20) : Thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord.

Hymn 314. O that I could repent.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749; Works, iv. 426. For one fallen from grace. Four verses of eight lines each.

The first two verses are here given. John Wesley altered effectual stroke to resistless in the last verse.

Hymn 315. How dread the thought! shall I alone.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns for Children, 1763 ; Works, vi. 428. A thought on hell. The first line of the original, Terrible Thought, has been thus changed in the 1904 revision.

The original hymn is enough to give any child the nightmare.

Hymn 316. With broken heart and contrite sigh. CORNELIUS ELVEN (1797-1873).

Written in January, 1852, for special services in his own congrega tion. Given in Baptist Psalms and Hymns, 1858.

Mr. Elven was born in Bury St. Edmunds, and was pastor of the Baptist Church there for fifty years. Mr. Spurgeon greatly esteemed him, and wrote a memorial sketch of his friend in July, 1873.

When Mr. Spurgeon was pastor at Waterbeach, Mr. Elven was invited to preach at his first anniversary, in 1852. Mr. Spurgeon met him at the station. His bulk was stupendous, and one saw that his heart was as large as his body. He could not go into the river for the baptismal service connected with the anniversary, for he said that if he got wet through, there were no garments nearer than Bury St. Edmunds that would fit him. He exhorted the young pastor to study hard,

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