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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 425

Hymn 830. Glory be to God on high.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns for those that seek and those that have Redemption in the Blood of Jesus Christ, 1747 ; Works, iv. 221. A Funeral Hymn.

Hymn 831. Rejoice for a brother deceased.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Funeral Hymns, 1749 ; Works, vi. 189.

The Rev. Henry Moore says that the poet in his old age rode a little horse, grey with age, which was brought every morning from the Foundery to his house in Chesterfield Street, Marylebone. He would jot down any thoughts that struck him, in shorthand, on a card which he had in his pocket. Not unfrequently he has come to our house in the City Road, and, having left the pony in the garden in front, he would enter, crying out, &quot; Pen and ink ! pen and ink ! &quot; These being supplied, he wrote the hymn he had been composing. When this was done, he would look round on those present, and salute them with much kindness, ask after their health, give out a short hymn, and thus put all in mind of eternity. He was fond upon these occasions of giving out the lines &quot; There all the ship s company meet.&quot;

Hymn 832. Happy soul, thy days are ended.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns ami Sacred Poems, 1749; Works, v. 2 1 6. For one departing. It is the twelfth of a series of seventeen hymns, headed Desiring Death.

When John Wesley died at City Road, his friends standing round the bed sang this hymn.

Hymn 833. God of the living, in whose eyes. JOHN ELLERTON (603).

One of four of his pieces which appeared in Hymns for Schools and Bible Classes, 1859. He compiled this when senior curate at St. Nicholas, Brighton. The hymn was rewritten and considerably enlarged and improved in Hymns Original and Translated, July 6, 1867. It was sung at bis own funeral.

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