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 39 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

The original reads

Ver. j. See, Lord, with yearning bowels see

Lost sheep that cannot find the fold.

Ver. 5. A world, who all may turn and live

Through faith in Him that died for all.

There is a grandeur in ver. 5 which the revision does not reach.

Hymn 754. How beauteous are their feet. ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707. The Blessedness of Gospel Times. Isa. lii. 7-10; Matt. xiii. 16, 17. Ver. 2 reads, How charming.

Hymn 755. Jesus, Thy servants bless. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns on the Acts of the Apostles (left in MS.) ; Works, xii. 456. Acts xxviii. 31. The closing hymn.

Hymn 750. Lord, if at Thy command.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns on the Acts of the Apostles (left in MS.) ; Works, xii. 260. Acts xi. 21.

Hymn 757. Disposer Supreme, and Judge of the earth.

JEAN BAPTISTS DE SANTEUIL ; translated by ISAAC WILLIAMS.

Supreme quales, Arbiter, for the Festival of an Apostle, in the Cluniac Breviary, 1686, where many of his hymns appeared.

Isaac Williams (1802-65) published the Latin text and his rendering in the British Magazine, June, 1836, and in Hymns translated from the Parisian Breviary, 1839. John Chandler was thus led to write his Hymns of the Primitive Church.

Santeiiil (1630-97) was born in Paris of a good family and became one of the canons regular of St. Victor in Paris. He was distinguished as a writer of Latin poetry under the

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