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 364 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

Hymn 670. God, our hope and strength abiding.

JOHN KEBLE, M.A. (85).

A version of Psalm xlvi. from The Psalter or Psalms of David ; in English Verse ; By a Member of the University of Ox/orJ, which Keble issued in 1839.

Hymn 671. O God, the help of all Thy saints.

EDWARD OSLER.

From the Mitre Hymn-book ; version of Psalm x. based on Tate and Brady s.

Mr. Osier was born at Falmouth in 1798, and was house surgeon at Swansea Infirmary, 1819-36. He removed to London, and gave himself to literary work. For some time he was associated as writer and editor with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. In 1841 he went to Truro as editor of the Royal Cornwall Gazette. He died in 1863. A stained-glass window was erected to his memory in Kenwyn Church by the Cornish clergy.

In 1835-6 he helped Prebendary Hall in the preparation of the Mitre Hymn-book^ for which he wrote ten versions of the Psalms, rewrote five more, and composed fifty hymns, a few of them rewritten. The Mitre collection had a large circulation, and had a mitre stamped on its cover.

Hymn 672. Great is our redeeming Lord. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Arminian Magazine, 1797; Works, viii. III. Psalm zlviii. Ten verses ; I, 6, 9, 10 selected from it.

Charles Wesley wrote in ver. I, His Church on earth should praise.

Hymn 673. Glorious things of thee are spoken. JOHN NEWTON (109).

Olney Hymns, 1779. Zion; or the City of God. Isa. xxxiii. 2O-I.

In the original there are two other verses, which it is a gain to omit from this glorious burst of praise.

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