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visitation of the sick that had possession of her ; now it was the sheltering of the homeless ; now it was the elementary teaching of the densely ignorant ; now it was the raising up of those who had wandered and got trodden underfoot ; now it was the wider employment of her own sex in the general business of life ; now it was all these things at once. Perfectly unselfish, swift to sympathize, and eager to relieve, she wrought at such designs with a flushed earnestness that disregarded season, weather, time of day or night, food, rest. Under such a strain her health gave way, and after fifteen months of suffer ing she found her rest.

Hymn 380. I ve found a Friend ; O such a Friend !

JAMES GRINDLY SMALL (1817-88).

In his Psalms and Sacred Songs, 1866.

The writer was the son of George Small, J.P., Edinburgh ; was educated at the High School and University there, and studied theology under Dr. Chalmers. In 1847 he became Free Church minister at Bervie, near Montrose. He died at Renfrew on the Clyde. He published The Highlands and other Poems, 1843; Songs of the Vineyard, 1846; Hymns for Youthful Voices, 1859.

Hymn 381. Heavenly Father, Sovereign Lord,

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740 ; Works, i. 290. Isa. xxxv. Twenty verses of four lines.

Hymn 382. How happy are they,

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1 749 ; Works, iv. 408. For one fallen from grace. Two parts, sixteen verses. This is the first part. Three verses are omitted, two of which may be quoted 3. Twas an heaven below

My Saviour to know ; The angels could do nothing more Than fall at His feet, And the story repeat, And the Lover of sinners adore.

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