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 454 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED

Hymn 890. Father of all, Thy care we bless. PHILIP DODDRIDGE (95).

Published I755&amp;gt; headed God s gracious approbation of a religious care of our families. Doddridge s MS. reads

Father of men, Thy care we trace, That crowns with love our infant race ; From Thee they sprung, and by Thy power Are still maintain d through every hour.

Hymn 891. Mercy and judgment will I sing.

ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Psalm ci. : A Psalm for a Master of a Family, from The Psalms of David, 1719.

The verses have been rewritten by some later hand.

Hymn 892. Day by day we magnify Thee.

JOHN ELLERTON (603).

A Morning Hymn for School Children, written in 1855. One of four pieces of his own in Ifytnns for Schools and Bible Classes, which he compiled when senior curate at St. Nicholas, Brighton.

Hymn 893. Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, To whom we for our children cry.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns for Children, 1763 ; Works, vi. 407. At the opening of a School in Kingswood. Two verses are omitted.

Hymn 894. Captain of our salvation, take.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns for Children, 1763 ; Works, vi. 408. It follows Hymn 893. In ver. I Charles Wesley wrote, And then transplant them to the skies.

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