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being taken by the rebels. Next day, Tidings came that General Cope was cut off with all his army.

One who saw much of Bishop Heber in his last months in India writes, On returning from church in the morning I was so ill as to be obliged to go to bed, and, with his usual affectionate consideration, the bishop came and sat the greater part of the afternoon with me. Our conversation turned chiefly on the blessedness of heaven, and the best means of preparing for its enjoyment. He repeated several lines of an old hymn of Charles Wesley, which, he said, in spite of one or two expres sions, he admired as one of the most beautiful in our language for a rich and elevated tone of devotional feeling

Head of Thy church triumphant, We joyfully adore Thee.

Hymn 387. The name we still acknowledge. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Verses I and 2 are from Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scrip ture, 1762 ; Works, x. 75. Hos. ii. 15. The last verse is made up of half the fourth and fifth verses of No. 2 in Hymns for Times of Trouble, 1745 ; Works, iv. 87.

The original of ver. 2 reads, And blasts our fierce pursuers.

Hymn 388. Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

No. I in Hymns to be sung in a Tumult, included in Hymns for Times of Troiible and Perseciition, 1744 ; Works, iv. 51. The third verse is omitted

Men, devils engage, The billows arise, And horribly rage, And threaten the skies : Their fury shall never Our steadfastness shock, The weakest believer Is built on a Rock.

Hymn 389. This, this is the God we adore. JOSEPH HART (280).

This is the last stanza of a hymn of seven stanzas, beginning No prophet, nor dreamer of dreams, based on Deut. xiii. i. It appeared in 1759.

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