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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 437

Hymn 848. Away with our sorrow and fear! CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Funeral Hymns (1746?), No. 8 ; Works&amp;gt; vi. 197. Vcr. 5, The saints in His presence receive, is omitted.

Hymn 849. Lift your eyes of faith, and sec.

CHARLES WESLEY (i). Ifymns on the Lord s Supper, 1745 ; Works, iii. 293.

Jfijnm 850. There is a land of pure delight. ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1/07. A prospect of heaven makes death easy.

This is one of Dr. Watts s earliest hymns, and is said to have caught its inspiration from the lovely Southampton Water, which had been so familiar to him from his infancy.

When John Pawson was dying in 1806, he sang the following verse from one of his favourite hymns

O could we make our doubts remove, Those gloomy doubts that rise.

Doubts, gloomy doubts ! Where are they ? I know nothing of gloomy doubts ; I have none. Where are they gone ? He was President of the Conference in 1793 and 1801. Adam Clarke says in 1793, Pawson is the best President we have had. He preached last evening a sermon which seemed just to have dropped out of heaven.

Hymn 851. Brief life is here our portion.

BERNARD OF MORLAIX (or Cluny) ; translated by DR. NEALE (27).

Bernard was the son of English parents, and was born at Morlaix, in Brittany, early in the twelfth century. He entered the Abbey of Cluny, then at the height of its fame under Peter

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