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Raffles, of Liverpool. He probably obtained it from the printer, Kennedy, who set up the type as a boy, and who was a friend of his. It was sold after his death for forty guineas. Heber first wrote savage in ver. 2, but altered it in his MS. to heathen.

The hymn in his little volume is headed, Before a Collection made for the Propagation of the Gospel. Lowell Mason s tune Missionary was written when he was a bank clerk in Savannah in 1823, at the request of a lady who had received the words from a friend in England, and wished to sing them. In half an hour her messenger returned with the music.

Heber says in his Journal of a Voyage to India, September, 1823, Though we were now too far off Ceylon to catch the odours of the land, yet it is, we are assured, perfectly true that such odours are perceptible to a very considerable distance. In the Straits of Malacca a smell like that of a hawthorn hedge is commonly experienced ; and from Ceylon, at thirty or forty miles, under certain circumstances, a yet more agreeable scent is inhaled. This note is an interesting comment on ver. 2.

��Hymn 771. Jesu, be endless praise to Thee. COUNT VON ZINZENDORF (69) ; translated by J. WESLEY (36).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740; Works, \. 349. The Believer s Triumph. From the German.

The last four verses of Hymn 370, Christ! Blut und Gerechtigkeit. Wesley s translation has twenty-four verses.

Ver. 2 reads

Ah, give me now, all-gracious Lord, With power to speak Thy quickening word ; That all who to Thy wounds will flee May find eternal life in Thee.

��Hymn 772. Head of Tliy Church, whose Spirit fills.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749; Works, v. 228. Hymns of Intercession, No. I. Verses 2, 7, 8 omitted.

In ver. i the original reading is, and simplifies the whole.

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