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3. My lovely, bleeding Lamb. That I may still enlightened be.

5. On Thee, who never wilt depart.

Hymn 412. O Jesus, I have promised. JOHN ERNEST BODE, M.A. (1816-74).

In 1869 Appendix to Psalms and Hymns, S.P.C.K. It is very

popular as a Confirmation hymn. It was written about 1 866 for the confirmation of his son, the late Rev. C. E. Bode.

The Rev. J. E. Bode was educated at Eton, Charterhouse, and Oxford. Rector of Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, 1860-74 ; Bampton Lecturer, 1855. Published Hymns from the Gospel of the day for each Sunday and Festivals of our Lord, 1860.

Hymn 413. O Thou who art of all that is. FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER.

The Rev. F. L. Hosmer, a Unitarian minister at Berkeley, California, was born at Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1840, and graduated at Harvard in 1862. His ancestor, James Hosmer, of Hawkhtirst, Kent, was one of the first settlers at Concord in 1635.

Hymn 414. Jesu, Thy boundless love to me. GERHARDT (163); translated by J. WESLEY (36).

Living by Christ. From the German. In Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739 ; Works, i. 138. Gerhardt s hymn appeared in Cruger s Praxis, 1653.

Wesley says, in his Plain Account of Christian Perfection, 1 In the beginning of the year 1738, as I was returning from Savannah, the cry of my heart was

O grant that nothing in my soul

May dwell but Thy pure love alone ;

O may Thy love possess me whole, My joy, my treasure, and my crown !

Strange flames far from my heart remove ;

My every act, word, thought, be love.

Thomas Walsh used often in a holy rapture to sing the verses, O Love, how cheering and Give to mine eyes.

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