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 302 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

Hymn 495. Jesus, I my cross have taken. HENRY F. LYTE (7).

Hope, in a volume of Sacred Poetry, issued in 1824, headed Lo ! we have left all, and followed Thee, with the signature G. It appears in Lyte s Poems, 1833.

The third verse is omitted.

Hymn 496. Thou very present Aid.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749 ; Works, v. 341. For Widows. The sixth of a series of twenty-one hymns.

The original is in eight-line verses. Four lines are omitted which follow ver. 5

In deep affliction bless d With Thee I mount above, And sing, triumphantly distress d, Thine all-sufficient love.

It is one of the Charles Wesley hymns now added to the book.

Hymn 497. O Love divine, that stooped to share.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (23).

Trust, dated 1849. In his Professor at the Breakfast Table in the Atlantic Monthly, 1860.

Hymn 498. Drooping soul, shake off thy fears.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742 ; Works, ii. 293. Waiting for the promise.

The two last stanzas are omitted.

Hymn 499. Pray, without ceasing pray.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749; Works, v. 43. The Whole Armour of God. Eph. vi. 13. Sixteen verses.

Hymn 433 gives the first four verses of this poem. This hymn is made up of verses 12, 13, 14, 16.

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