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Hymn 451. From trials unexempted. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns on the Four Gospels (left in MS.) ; Works, x. 182. Part of a hymn of twenty verses on The Lord s Prayer. The original of ver. 2 reads, Till pain and life are past.

Hymn 452, Lead me not into temptation, CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns on the Four Gospels (left in MS.) ; Works, x. 184. Matt. vi. 13.

Hymn 453. Christian! seek not yet repose. CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT (317).

In her Morning and Evening Hymns for a Week, 1839. It is assigned to Wednesday morning, and is headed Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.

Hymn 454, Oft in danger, oft in woe,

HENRY KIRKE WHITE and FRANCES SARA FULLER-MAITLAND.

Kirke White was born in 1785 at Nottingham, where his father was a butcher. His mother kept a boarding-school. He began to write poetry as a boy. He entered a lawyer s office, but went to Cambridge in 1804 to study for the ministry.

Henry Martyn writes to his friend, John Sargent, from St. John s College, on June 30, 1803 : Dealtry has heard about a religious young man of seventeen, who wants to come to College, but has only ^20 a year. He is very clever, and from the perusal of some poems which he has published, I am much interested in him. His name is H. K. White. William Wilberforce sent White to St. John s, at Simeon s request, and there Martyn showed him much kindness. His diary says, Mr. K. White, of Nottingham, breakfasted with me.

He seemed marked out for high honour, but destroyed his health by over-application to study, and died in 1806 in his twenty-second year. Southey published his Remains. The entire literary young manhood of England and America

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