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Christina broke off her engagement with Mr. Collinson because he had become a Roman Catholic, but he had struck a staggering blow at her peace of mind on the very threshold of womanly life, and a blow from which she did not fully recover for years. At a later stage she declined another offer on religious grounds, though she loved the gentleman deeply and permanently. Religion and affection were the motive powers of her life. One of her friends says, She never obtruded her piety, yet I felt instinctively that I was in the presence of a holy woman.

Goblin Market, published in 1862, won her general recognition as a poet, and her fame grew steadily as years advanced. In 1876 she and her mother went to live at 30, Torrington Square, where she died on December 29, 1894. She was buried in the old part of Highgate Cemetery.

Hymn 521. Jesu, whose glory s streaming rays. DESSLER (491) ; translated by JOHN WESLEY (36).

Ascension hymn, Mein Jesu dem die Seraphinen, founded on Jer. x. 7, with a meditation (see 491) on Christ s kingly and un approachable glory. Wesley s spirited translation appears in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739, headed The Change. From the German. Works, i. 89. This hymn is the first half of Wesley s version ; 524 gives the second half. Ver. 4 has been omitted

Thy golden sceptre from above

Reach forth : see, my whole heart I bow ;

Say to my soul, Thou art My love, My chosen midst ten thousand, thou.

In ver. 5 the original reads, Whose blood so largely flowed.

Hymn 522. O Sun of Righteousness, arise.

CHARLES WESLEY (?).

A Prayer for the Light of Life. In A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (Works, ii. 12), published by John Wesley in 1741.

Mr. C. D. Hardcastle (Proceedings of Wesley Historical Society, ii. 8, p. 199), says this hymn has been attributed to John Wesley on account of the defective rhyme between the first and third and second and fourth lines, all Charles s known hymns being perfect in that respect. One of John s translations has this defect, No. 480, Commit thou all thy griefs.

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