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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 251

Martin Madan gave this last stanza in his Psalms and Hymns, 1763, and it found a place in the Supplement to the Wesleyan hymn-book, 1831. The verse begins, This God is the God we adore.

The verse was sung by the orphans at Savannah as they walked back from \Yhitefield s sermon on January 28, 1770.

Hymn 390. Happy soul that free from harms.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749 ; Works, v. 293. Hymns for those that wait for Full Redemption, No. 4. Eight lines of singular pathos are omitted, and the result i-&amp;gt; a triumph of the editor s art. Ver. I reads, safe from harms, and ver. 4, perfect in.

Dr. Benjamin Gregory says, I was brought up in the firmest faith that if I died trusting in Christ, and striving to love and serve Him, I should most surely go to heaven. This faith was much confirmed by the account often given me of the last hours of my little sister Rachel, who died before I was born. When told that she was dying she betrayed no tremor ; but looking up to heaven, she said, in her own infant speech

O that I at last may stand

\Vith th j sheep at Thy right hand,

Take the crown so freely given,

Enter in by Thee to heaven !

Hymn 391. Father, to Thee my soul I lift.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacnd Poems, 1749 ; Works, v. 374. Phil. ii. 13. The original of ver. 5 reads, Or righteous work, is Thine.

Hymn 392. Let not the wise his wisdom bo;iM. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture, 1762 ; IVorks, x. 20. Jer. ix. 23.

Hymn 393. Jesus, to Thee I now can fly.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742 ; Works, ii. 202. After a relapse into sin. Ten verses.

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