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Hymn 601. How happy, gracious Lord, are we.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749; Works, v. 278. Hymns for the Watchnight, No. 13.

When John Haime was a soldier in the Low Countries, the English army encamped near Brussels in May, 1744. Many tried to incense the field-marshal against Haime, but all efforts to stop his preaching were vain. And so great were my love and joy in believing, that they carried me above all those things which would otherwise have been grievous to flesh and blood ; so that all was pleasant to me

The winter s night and summer s day Fled imperceptibly away.

I frequently walked between twenty and thirty miles a day ; and preached five and thirty times in the space of seven days. Many times I have forgotten to take any refreshment for ten hours together. I had at this time three armies against me : the French army, the wicked English army, and an army of devils. But I feared them not, for my life was hid with Christ in God. Early Methodist Preachers.

Hymn 602. Father, I know that all my life. ANNA L. WARING (409).

In her Hymns and Meditations, 1850, headed My times are in Thy hand.&quot;

Its perfect trust has breathed peace into many troubled lives.

Hymn 603. Behold us, Lord, a little space.

JOHN ELLERTON, M.A.

Written in 1870 for a midday service in a city cburch ; published in Church Hymns, 1871.

Mr. Ellerton was born in London in 1826, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. His first curacy was at Ease- bourne, near Midhurst. In 1853 he became senior curate at St.

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