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what will become of all the world ? After this stormy interview, Charles Wesley says, I joined with Mr. Piers in singing

Shall I for fear of feeble man, Thy Spirit s course in me restrain ?

and in hearty prayer for Mrs. Delamotte.

On March 16, 1740, when Mr. Henry Seward met him at Bengeworth with threats and revilings, Charles Wesley says, I began singing

Shall I for fear of feeble man, Thy Spirit s course in me restrain ?

Whitefield loved this hymn. In writing to Wesley from Philadelphia in 1 764, he says, Fain would I end my life in rambling after those who have rambled away from Jesus Christ.

For this let men despise my name ; I d shun no cross ; I d fear no shame ; All hail reproach !

In 1770 he quotes the lines again after the words, All must give way to gospel-ranging. Divine employ !

��Hymn 460. I m not ashamed to own my Lord,

ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1709.

Few men have been so beloved or so blessed to the young men of Scotland as Professor Henry Drummond, the friend and helper of Mr. Moody, the author of Natural Law in the Spiritual World and of the lovely little prose poem on The Greatest Thing in the World. When he lay dying at Tunbridge Wells, at the age of forty-five, on the last Sunday evening of his life, March 7, 1897, his friend and physician, Dr. Barbour, played hymn-tunes to him, as he usually did. There was no response to Lead, kindly Light, or Peace, perfect peace ; so he tried Martyrdom, an old favourite of Drummond s, and before many bars had been played he was beating time with his fingers on the couch. When Dr. Barbour began to sing the 54th paraphrase, I m not ashamed to own my Lord, 3 his

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