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children to sing &quot; God moves in a mysterious way.&quot; I have made a promise long ago that that hymn should be sung. The hymn was sung, and Spurgeon says, My emotions on that occasion I cannot describe, for the word of the Lord s servant was fulfilled.

Hymn 489. Since all the downward tracks of time.

JAMES HERVF.Y, M.A. (1714-58).

In his Reflections on a Flower Garden^ published in the same volume as the Meditations among ike Tombs. The hymn is appended to the words, Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal : know that God is un erringly wise ; and he assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

Permittas ipsis expendere numinibus, quid Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris. Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt clii : Carior est illis homo, &amp;lt;juam sibi.

Juvenal:

Mr. Hervey was the son of the Rector of Weston Favcll and Collingtree, Northampton, and went to Lincoln College, where John Wesley was his tutor. He was one of the original 4 Methodists, and tells Wesley, You have been both a father and a friend to me. His Meditations among the Tombs, pub lished in 1746, were once very popular. They were suggested by a visit to Kilkhampton Church. His Theron and A spas io is also well known.

He suffered from consumption, and in 1750-2 lived in London to secure the best medical attention. He stayed with his brother in Miles Lane, and one winter in the house of George Whitefield. He succeeded to his father s rectory in 1752.

Hymn 490. Thou knowest, Lord, the weariness and sorrow.

JANE BORTHWICK (1813-97).

Miss Borthwick was born at Edinburgh. She translated, in concert with her sister Sarah (1823-86), wife of the Rev. Eric J. Findlater, Hymns from the Land of Luther (ist Series, 1854; 2nd, 1855; 3rd, 1858; 4th, 1862). Sixty-one translations

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