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arm ; yet it is never violent, and seldom lasts many minutes at a time. Whether or not this is sent to give me a warning, that I am shortly to quit this tabernacle, I do not know ; but be it one way or the other, I have only to say

My remnant of days

I spend to His praise, Who died the whole world to redeem :

Be they many or few,

My days are His due, And they all are devoted to Him !

Wesley says in his letter to Thomas Maxfield (Works, xi. 481), I was constrained to cry out (and you yourself used the same words to God on my behalf)

O the fathomless love.

Hymn 897. Thou gracious God, whose mercy lends. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (23).

Written for an annual meeting of his college class. The first line began, Thou gracious Power. Dr. Holmes allowed the alteration to God in The Home and School Hymnal.

Hymn 898. Lord of power, Lord of might. GODFREY THRING, D.D. (129).

On the Collect for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity. Written in 1862, and published in Chope s Hymnal ih&l year.

Hymn 899. O happy home, where Thou art loved

the dearest. C. J. P. SPITTA (265).

Psalter und Harfe, 1833 ; translated by MRS. FINDLATER (490) in Hymns from the Land of Luther, 3rd Series, 1858.

O Selig Haus, wo man dich aufgenommen is a picture of a Christian home, headed Salvation is come to this house. Luke xix. 9.

.fly ntn 900. Awake, my soul, and with the sun. THOMAS KEN, D.D.

Ken was born at Berkhampstead in 1637. His parents died when he was a child, and he was brought up under the care of

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