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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 329

Ver. 3

So I may Thy Spirit know, Let Him as He listeth blow

cf. Still as the sea, ere winds were taught to blow, Or moving Spirit bade the waters flow.


 * (Eloisa to Abdard, \. 253-4.)

Some one who knew Wesley s friend, Miss Ritchie, well s.iid that she seemed to embody the last verse of this hymn

Fully in my life express All the -heights of holiness, Sweetly let my spirit prove All the depths of humble love.

Hymn 575. Blest arc the humble souls that see.

ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1709. The Beatitudes. Matt. v. 3-12. Three verses are here omitted. This hymn was omitted in 1875, and restored in 1904.

Hymn 570. Blessed are the pure iu heart.

W. M. BUNTING (249). Based on Matt. v. 8.

No meditation on the Beatitude of the pure in heart is so richly suggestive as this noble unfolding of our Lord s words.

Hymn 577. Happy the heart where graces reign.

ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707. Love to God. Watts s last line, To see our smiling God, is altered into gracious. This hymn was omitted in 1875, and restored in 1904.

Hymn 578. Lord, who hast taught to us ou earth.

R. MASSIE (265).

Lyra Domestica, 2nd Series, 1864: O Lord, who taught to us on earth. Christian Brotherhood, based on I Cor. xiii.

One of the few original hymns and versions of the Psalms which Mr. Massie added to give greater variety to his translations

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