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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 403

Hymn 790. See, Jcsu, Thy disciples see. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Peons, 1749; Works t v. 469. The last two verses are omitted.

Hymn 791. Blest be the dear uniting love.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Ifymns anil SacnJ Peons, 1742; Works, ii. 221. At Parting. Two verses omitted.

In vcr. 2 the original reads, And do His work below.

John B. Gough gives an account in his Autobiography of his leaving home as a boy for America in June, 1839. The ship was becalmed off Sandgate, and his father came on board. When the visitors left for the shore they formed their boats in a half-circle. They stood up, and their blended voices floated over the calm waters as they sang

Blest be the dear uniting love.

Dr. Benjamin Gregory (Side-Lights, p. 431) says that at the close of the Conference of 1848 Dr. Newton was strongly moved, as by some heavenly afflatus. I never heard that noblest of all human voices roll out such tones of majesty as he gave out the parting hymn

Llest be the dear, uniting love.

No one thought that th; next Conference would bring the crash.

Hymn 792. And let our bodies part. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Ifymns and Sacred Poems, 1749 ; Works, v. 462. c For Christian Friends. At Parting. Part I. Sixteen lines are omitted. In ver. 2 the original is

Did first our souls unite,

And still lie holds, and keeps us one.

In ver. 6 toils is substituted fur griefs.

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