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 356 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

Mr. Garrett Horder says, The assertion of the continuance of worship the failing note of one land being taken up by the opening one of others is exceedingly fine.

��Hymn 646. Our day of praise is done.

JOHN ELLERTON (603).

Written for a choral festival at Nantwich, and rewritten in 1869 for the Supplemental Hymn and Tune Book. In its first form it was a cento from a translation by Mr. Blew, The day is past and gone, 1850, from C. Coffin s Grates, peracto jam die, Paris Breviary, 1736, with additions by Mr. Ellerton. As rewritten it contains nothing of Blew s hymn, except that the line of thought is the same.

Hymn 647. Holy Father, cheer our way.

RICHARD HAYES ROBINSON (1842-92).

Written in 1869 for the congregation of St. Paul s, Upper Norwood, where he was curate, to be sung after the third Collect at Evening Prayer. It appeared in the S.P.C.K. Church Hymns, 1871.

Mr. Robinson was born in London, became incumbent of the Octagon Chapel, Bath, and in 1884 of St. German s, Black- heath. He wrote Sermons on Faith and Duty, The Creed and the Age.

Hymn 648. Lord of the worlds above.

ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Psalms of David, 1719. Psalm Ixxxiv. Longing for the house of God. Wesley gives it in Psalms and Hymns, 1738. Two verses are omitted

2. The sparrow for her young

With pleasure seeks a nest ;

And wand ring swallows long

To find their wonted rest :

My spirit faints

With equal zeal

To rise and dwell

Among the saints.

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