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Hymn 855. Jerusalem on high.

SAMUEL GROSSMAN, B.D. (854). The second part of his poem on Heaven, 1664.

Hymn 856. For ever with the Lord. JAMES MONTGOMERY (94).

First published in an annual, The Amethyst, 1835, and in the Poefs Portfolio, 1835, headed At home in Heaven. I Thess. iv. 17. It was in two parts, with nine and thirteen verses, from which this is a selection.

The hymn remained unsung and unnoticed for a quarter of a century, when a tune helped it to lay hold of the public ear. In the winter of 1849, Montgomery said he had received more indications of approval for this hymn than for anything he ever wrote except the lines on prayer. It was a favourite hymn of Earl Cairns, the great Christian Lord Chancellor of England, and was sung at his funeral, April 7, 1885.

Hymn 857. O what hath Jesus bought for me !

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Funeral Hymns, 1749, No. 3; Works, vi. 218. And let this feeble Ixxly fail. 1 Verses 5, 6, 9 are here given.

When Gideon Ouselcy was dying in May, 1839, ^ e would cry amid his pain, My Father, my Father, support Thy suffering child. Thy will be done ; my Father God. 1 He often repeated this hymn, but most of all the last stanza

O, what are all my sufferings here,

If, Ixjrd, Thou count me meet With that enraptured host to appear,

And worship at Thy feet !

Hymn 858. When the day of toil is done. JOHN ELLERTON (603).

Eternal Rest ; written January, 1870, and published in Rev. R. Brown -Borthwick s Sixtan Hymns u ith Tunes, iS/o.

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