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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 365

Hymn 674. By the holy hills surrounded. C. J. P. SPITTA (265); translated by R. MASSIE (265).

Psalter und Harfe, 2nd Series, 1843. Gottes Stadt steht festge- griindet is based on Psalm Ixxxvii., and entitled The City of God. Spitta wrote it to one of the great German chorales in Mendelssohn s St. Paul.

Hymn 675. All glory to our gracious Lord ! CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Psalms and Hymns, 1743 &amp;gt; Works, viii. 204. Psalm cxviii. Twenty-two verses.

Hymn 676. None is like Jeslmrun s God. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742 ; Worts, ii. 305. Deut. xxxiii. 26-9. The last three verses are omitted. The second half of ver. 2 reads

Sinner, what hast thou to dread ?

Safe from all impending harms, God hath underneath thee spread

His everlasting arms.

Dr. Osborn says the more euphonious reading, &quot; Round thee and beneath are spread,&quot; dates from 1780. The substi tution in ver. 2 of Israel for sinner, by which the sense is so greatly improved, has not been traced beyond 1809.

Hymn 677. Who in the Lord confide. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Psalms and Hymns, 1743 ; Works, viii. 240. Psalm cxxv. Verses 3, 5, 6 are omitted.

Hymn 678. Whom Jesu s blood doth sanctify. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture (left in MS.) ; Works, ix. 112. Deut. xxxiii. 3.

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