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This foundation once provided, the rest of the hymn was built upon it. This hymn my father liked, as he often told me, as well as any he had ever written ; for though he saw flaws in the poetry, the subject and working out and whole tone of it seemed to him far better than many other of his pieces which had attained greater popularity (Hymns of Horatius Bonar, p. xxii.). It was Bishop Eraser of Manchester s favourite hymn.

��Hymn 667. God of pity, God of grace.

ELIZA FANNY MORRIS (1821-74).

Written September 4, 18^7. Appeared in Litany form in her 77/4- Voice and the Reply (Worcester, 1858), entitled The Prayc-r in the Temple.

Miss Goffe was born in London, and married Josiah Morris, ed tor of the Malvern News, in 1849. A poem of hers on Kindness to Animals gained a prize offered by the Band of Hope Union. She edited a Bible Class Hymn-book, and wrote the words for her husband s School Harmonics. Mrs. Morris says that there is a regular progression of Christian experience running through her volume. Its first part, The Voice, has eighteen pieces ; the Reply, Man s answer to conscience, has eighty-eight pieces.

Hymn 008. God is the refuge of His saints.

ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Psalms of David, 1719. Fs. xlvi. 1-5. The Church s safety and triumph among national desolations.

Watts s last line reads, Built on His truth, and arm d with Pow r.

Hymn 669. Let Zioii in her King rejoice.

ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Psalms of David, 1719. Ps. xlvi. 6-1 1. God fights for His Church.

In ver. I Watts read, Though tyrants rage and kingdoms rise. Ver. 6, sit secure is changed to rest secure.

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