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Dr. Pusey described it as Very beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful of all, and as the most deservedly popular hymn, perhaps the very favourite. Mr. Gladstone s Latin version, Jesus, pro me perforatus, shows how the hymn laid hold on our great statesman.

Hymn 402. I bring my sins to Thee.

F. R. HAVERGAL (330). Resting all on Jesus. Printed in Sunday Magazine, June, 1870.

Hymn 403. I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus. F. R. HAVERGAL (330).

Written September, 1874, at Ormont Dessons. Published in Loyal Responses, 1878, headed Trusting Jesus.

This was Miss Havergal s own favourite among her hymns, and was found in her pocket Bible after her death. The spirit she breathed both in life and death is expressed in these verses. One of her last words was Not one thing hath failed ; tell them all round. Trust Jesus : it s simply trusting Jesus. When her sister Ellen repeated the first verse of Jesus, I will trust Thee, trust Thee with my soul, to the surprise of those around her bed, she began to sing it to her own tune, Hermas, which she wrote for Golden harps are sounding. An attack of suffering compelled her to cease, but after a few minutes she again tried to sing a line beginning with He. It was her last word. She gently passed away to Him.

Hymn 404. Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin?

EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH, D.D.

Peace, perfect peace was written in 1875, when the bishop was

Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead ; it was first printed in a tract

of five hymns, Songs in the House of Pilgrimage. It is based on Isa.

. xxvi. 3 : Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed

on Thee : because he trusteth in Thee.

Bishop Bickersteth was born at Islington in 1825 ; he became Bishop of Exeter in 1885. He wrote several volumes

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