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Hymn 613. Come, all whoe er have set. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749 ; Works, v. 386. On a journey. In ver. 4 Charles Wesley wrote

The peace and joy of faith

We every moment feel, Redeemed from sin and wrath,

And death, and earth, and hell.

Hymn C14. Come, let us anew Our journey pursue, With vigour arise.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749 ; Works, v. 387. On a journey. Charles Wesley s last line was Shall come to our rescue and hurry us home.

Hymn 015. Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah. WILLIAM WILLIAMS.

William Williams, the Sweet Singer of Wales, was born at Pantycelyn in 1717. He became a deacon in the Established Church, and served as curate for two years, but never took priest s orders. He was a friend of Daniel Rowland, Whitefield, and the Countess of Huntingdon ; travelled as an evangelist over Wales, and was very popular as a preacher. For forty- three years he travelled on an average 2,230 miles a year. Howell Harris challenged the Welsh Calvinistic preachers to write better hymns than those they possessed. This stirred Williams to his work. His first book of hymns, Alleluia, Bristol, 1744, soon ran through three editions ; his Welsh Hymns, of 1762, went through five editions. He also published two small volumes of hymns in English. Mr. Elvet Lewis says, What Paul Gerhardt has been to Germany, what Isaac Watts has been to England, that and more has William Williams, of Pantycelyn, been to Wales. He died at Pantycelyn on January n, 1791.

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