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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR \VRITERS 309

Charles Wesley wrote

Ver. i. The blood I have shed. Ver. 2. The stony remove. Ver. 3. The wonderful flood

Washes off my foul load, And purges my conscience, and brings me to God.

Dr. George Smith (History of Wesleyan Methodism, ii. 612) tells of a girl, called Mary, employed in breaking copper ore at one of the Cornish mines. She was converted at a revival service. Next morning the change in her bearing made her friends say, Mary is converted. No, said one of her friends who knew her love of finery ; she is not converted : look at those fine large earrings in her ears still ! If she had been converted she would not continue to wear them. Without saying a word, the girl laid down her hammer, took out the earrings, and broke them in pieces, singing

Neither passion nor pride Thy cross can abide, But melt in the fountain that streams from Thy side.

When they were broken and swept away, she looked up, saying, Praise the Lord, they are gone.

The effect on those who watched the scene was irresistible. All knew that Mary was converted, and her future life showed that the change was deep and abiding.

Hymn 520. None other Larnb, none other Name. CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI.

None other Lamb was written before 1893, an ^ ^ ls own beauty, with the Rev. F. L. Wiseman s tune, has made it one of the favourites of the book.

Miss Rossetti was born in 183031 Charlotte Street, Portland Place, London. The fame of her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, as painter and poet, is part of the history of English art and literature. Her father was an Italian refugee, who became Professor of Italian at King s College, London, and married the daughter of another Italian resident in London. Mrs. Rossetti and her two daughters kept a small day-school for some time in North London, but it did not answer. In 1854 they went to live with W. M. Rossetti in Albany Street.

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