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 384 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

Hymn 737. Bread of heaven, on Thee I feed.

JOSIAH CONDER.

In his Star of the East, 1824, with other poems, chiefly religious and domestic, headed For the Eucharist, and with the words from St. John s Gospel, I am the Living Bread which came down from heaven. Whoso eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood, hath eternal life. I am the true Vine. In the MS. the fourth line of ver. 2 reads, From Thy veins I drink and live, which is happily changed, To Thy cross I look and live.

Mr. Conder (1789-1855) was proprietor and editor of the Eclectic Review and the Patriot newspaper ; wrote many works in prose and poetry, edited the Congregational Hymn-book, 1836, and other collections. His own hymns are marked by great beauty of expression and deep spirituality.

Canon Ellerton says Mr. Conder will always be known to Church people by this lovely hymn, which might have been written by Bonaventura ; and is a remarkable instance of the power which deep and true devotion and living faith have to lift a man above the level of his traditional or intellectual belief, and open to his inward eye the mysteries of the kingdom of God.

Hymn 738. Bread of the world, in mercy broken. REGINALD HEBER, D.D. (28).

First published in his Hymns ; 1827, headed Before the Sacra ment.

Hymn 739. By Christ redeemed, in Christ restored. GEORGE RAWSON (45).

Written in 1857 for Baptist Psatms and Hymns, 1858. The Lord s Supper. It is a hymn of unusual tenderness and depth of thought.

Hymn 740. Come, and let us sweetly join.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740; Works, i. 350. The Love-Feast. Five parts, twenty-two eight-line verses.

The first part is given unaltered, but divided into four-line verses.

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