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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 359

Hymn 050. Jesus, Thou soul of all our joys.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Saered Poems i 1749; lVorks t \.&quot;yy). The True Use of Music.

I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. I Cor. xiv. 15. Three verses are omitted.

The conversion of Mrs. Rich (see Hymn 213) in 1745 had given Charles Wesley the entry into the musical world of London. As years passed he became something like a private chaplain to many of the celebrities of the day. Mrs. Rich says of one of his hymns in 1746, I gave a copy of the hymn to Mr. Lampe, who, at the reading, shed some tears, and said he would write to you ; for he loved you as well as if you were his own brother. The Lord increase it, for I hope it is a good sign. As to the sale of the hymns, he could give me no account as yet, not having received any himself, nor have I got my dear little girl s. Charles Wesley knew Garrick well, and probably met Handel at Mrs. Rich s. The growing reputation of his own sons as organists and composers drew these ties still closer between the Methodist clergyman and the musical celebrities of his later life.

Hymn 057. We love the place, O God.

WILLIAM BULLOCK, D.D. (1798-1874) and SIR H. W. BAKER

(72).

In Dean Bullock s SOM^S of the Church, 1854, headed Third Sunday after Epiphany. &quot; Lord, I have loved the habitation of Thy house.&quot; Ps. xxvi. 8.

The first two verses are Dean Bullock s, the last three Sir H. Baker s. Published in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861.

Mr. Bullock was a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for thirty-two years, and Dean of Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his Songs of the Church was published. His hymns were written amid the various scenes of missionary life, and are intended for the private and domestic use of Christians in new countries deprived of all public worship.

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