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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 2QI

Hymn 470. Saviour of all, what hast Thou done. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749 ; Works, v. 148. The Trial of Faith, No. 6. Two verses are omitted.

Vcr. 4, Here let me ever, ever stay, is Yet here for ever, ever must I stay.&quot; Pope s Eloisa to Abelard, \. 171.

Hymn 471. Come on, my partners in distress.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749 ; Works, v. 168. For the Brother hood.

Three verses are omitted. Ver. 3 reads, \Vlio suffer for our Master here.

Montgomery says the hymn anticipates the strains of the redeemed, and is written almost in the spirit of the Church triumphant.

The wife of Henry Moore, Wesley s executor and biographer, asked her sister, Mrs. Rutherford, to sing this hymn when she was dying, in 1813. They had been speaking of friends in heaven, and Ann Moore said she should soon see them all. She and her sister, Isabella Young, were converted under Wesley s ministry at Coleraine in June, 1778, and were greatly beloved by the Wesleys. Ann was then about twenty-one. They both married Methodist preachers. Wesley says in his Journal for June 6, 1778, In the evening I saw a pleasing sight. A few days ago a young gentlewoman, without the knowledge of her relations, entered into the Society. She was informed this evening that her sister was speaking to me upon the same account. As soon as we came into the room, she ran to her sister, fell upon her neck, wept over her, and could just say, &quot; O sister, sister ! &quot; before she sunk down upon her knees to praise God. Her sister could hardly bear it ; she was in tears too, and so were all in the room. Such are the first-fruits at Coleraine. May there be a suitable harvest !

Hymn 472. Cast on the fidelity.

CHARLES WESLEY (i). Hymns for the Use of Families, 1767 ; Works, vii. 61.

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