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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 353

soul hereafter ; the enlarged powers which man s future state will inevitably develop; and the prospect of having unfolded to him then so much of what he longs to know, but which at present is shrouded from his view shrouded in impenetrable mystery. Richard Baxter put it well in The Saints Rest : The poorest Christian is presently there, a more perfect divine than any here.

Hymn 637. Great God, this sacred day of Thine.

ANNE STEKLE (255).

In Bristol Baptist Collection, 1769, and her Miscellaneous Poems, 1780.

Hymn 038. Dear is the day which God hath made. W. M. BUNTING (249).

Kxod. xxxi. 13. First published in Dr. Lcifchild s Original Hymns, 1842.

Hymn 639. This is the day of light. JOHN ELLERTON (603).

Written in 1867 ; first appeared in Dean Howson s Selection of Hymns compiled for Use in Chester Cathedral, 1 868.

Hymn 640. O day of rest and gladness.

CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, D.D. (187). The opening hymn of his Holy Year, 1862.

Hymn 641. Sweet is the sunlight after rain. WILLIAM MORLEY PUNSHON, LL.D.

For Sunday morning, from Sabbath Chimes ; or, Afeditations in Verse for the Sundays of a Year, 1867.

Dr. Punshon was born at Doncaster in 1824, and trained in his uncle s office in Hull. He was walking by the dock when he met Samuel Romilly Hall, then a junior Methodist minister.

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