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 360 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

Hymn 658. Angel voices, ever singing. FRANCIS POTT, M.A.

From second edition (1866) of Hymns fitted to the Order of Common Prayer (1861), with the title, For the Dedication of an Organ or for a Meeting of Choirs.

Mr. Pott was born in 1832, educated at Brasenose, Oxford, and Rector of Norhill, Ely, 1866-91 ; he afterwards retired to Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells. His translations from the Latin and Syriac, and his original hymns, have been very popular. He edited The Free-Rhythm Psalter (Oxford University Press). His Ascension hymn, Lift up your heads, eternal gates is well known.

Hymn 659. O Lord of hosts, whose glory fills.

JOHN MASON NEALE, D.D. (27).

In his Hymns for the Young, 1844, headed Laying the First Stone of a Church. The original reads

Endue the hearts that guide with skill, Preserve the hands that work from ill.

Hymn 660. This stone to Thee in faith we lay.

JAMES MONTGOMERY (94).

Written for laying the foundation-stone of Christ Church, Attercliffe, Sheffield, October 30, 1822, and printed in Montgomery s newspaper, the Sheffield Iris, on November 5, 1822.

Hymn 661. Christ is our corner-stone. Latin ; translated by JOHN CHANDLER, M.A. (1806-76).

In his Hymns of the Primitive Church, 1837, from the Paris Breviary text of a grandly rugged Latin hymn, Urbs beata Hierusalem, dicta pacis visio.

This hymn probably dates from the sixth or seventh century. The fifth verse begins, Angularis fundamentum lapis Christus missus est.

Mr. Chandler was the son of the Vicar of Witley, Surrey,

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