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Hymn 473. Father, in the name I pray.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns for the Use of Families, 1767; Works, vii. 60. It begins, Lord, I magnify Thy power. Two verses are omitted.

This was one of the favourite hymns of Dr. Osborn s father, and he often asked for it to be read to him during the last days of his life at Rochester.

Hymn 474. Eternal Beam of light divine.

CHARLES WESLEY (i). Hymns and Sacred Poem:, 1739; Works, i. 128. In Affliction.

George Eliot makes Dinah Morris sing this hymn as she sweeps and dusts the room in which Adam Bede had been writing the night before. She opened the window and let in the fresh morning air, and the smell of the sweetbriar, and the bright low-slanting rays of the early sun, which made a glory about her pale face and pale auburn hair as she held the long brush, and swept, singing to herself in a very low tone like a sweet summer murmur that you have to listen for very closely one of Charles Wesley s hymns, &quot; Eternal Beam of light divine.&quot; Verses I, 2, 5 are those given in Adam Bede.

Hymn 475. Thovi Lamb of God, Thou Prince of Peace.

C. F. RICHTER ; translated by JOHN WESLEY (36).

Stilles Lamm und Friedefiirst, on the following of Christ the Lamb of God (Rev. xiv. 4), is given in Freylinghausen s Neues geistreiches Gesang-Buch, 1714. In the edition of 1718, it is entitled, On the name Agneta, which may be derived from Agnus, which in German is called a Lamb.

Wesley s translation is in his Charlestown Psalms and Hymns, 1737, and in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739.

Christian Friedrich Richter, born at Sorau, in Brandenburg, 1676, became physician to Francke s institutions in 1699. He and his younger brother made many important chemical experiments, for which Richter prepared himself by special prayer. His Halle Medicines were widely used. Helis one

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