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 446 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

Hymn 867. I love to hear the story. EMILY MILLER.

Mrs. Miller, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Huntingdon, D.D., was born at Brooklyn, Connecticut, October 22, 1833, and married Professor Miller. She was joint-editor of The Little Corporal, published at Chicago, for which she furnished each month a poem to be set to music. She says, I had had a very serious illness in 1867, and was slowly recovering ; and, though too weak to do much literary work, the fact that The Little Corporal would be published without my usual contribu tion was something of a worry to me. I determined, if possible, that this should not happen ; so one afternoon, when I felt a little stronger, I took pen and paper and began to write &quot; I love to hear the story.&quot; In less than fifteen minutes the hymn was written and sent away without any corrections.

Hymn 868. Jesus is our Shepherd.

HUGH STOWELL, M.A. (702).

Written for Sunday-school anniversary services at Christ Church, Salford, 1849, and published in his Psalms and Hymns, 1864.

Hymn 869. There is a green hill far away. CECIL F. ALEXANDER (182).

Hymns for Little Children, 1848. Based on the Apostles Creed, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried.

This hymn was written at the bedside of a sick child. She recovered, and always claimed the hymn as her own. Gounod regarded it as the most perfect hymn in the English language, and his setting has added to its popularity. Mrs. Alexander greatly prized the autograph copy of Gounod s music which he sent her. In speaking of her hymns shortly before his death, Gounod said that many of them set themselves to music. This is the most popular of Mrs. Alexander s hymns.

Hymn 870. Jesus, high in glory.

It has been traced to the Sunday School Harmonist, 1847, of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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