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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 469

reading my Bible more than busy superintendents can do ; seeing the virtues and defects of the great Bible characters ; thinking day and night about the deep things of God. He died on April 26, 1902, in his ninety-fifth year.

Hymn 914. O Lord, who by Thy presence hast made light.

C. J. P. SPITTA (265).

Psalter und Jfarfe, 1833 ; translated by R. MASSIE (265), Lyra Domes tica, 1860.

Herr, cles Tages Miihen und Beschwerden is one of the finest German evening hymns.

Hymn 915. The day is past and over. ST. ANATOLIUS ; translated by Dr. NEALE (27). First published in The Ecclesiastic and Theologian, 1853.

Dr. Neale says that this hymn is a great favourite in the Greek Isles. Its peculiar style and evident antiquity may well lead to the belief that it is the work of St. Anatolius. It is, to the scattered hamlets of Chios and Mitylene, what Bishop Ken s Evening Hymn is to the villages of our own land ; and its melody is singularly plaintive and soothing (Hymns of the Eastern Church, 1862). It is taken from the Great After-Supper Service. Dr. Neale attributes the hymn to St. Anatolius, who died in 458, but as the Anatolius of the Greek Service- Books wrote hymns in commemoration of martyrs in the seventh century, his date is much later. He is said to have been a pupil of Theodore of the Studium (759-826).

Hymn 910. At even, ere the sun was set. HENRY TWELLS, M.A.

This hymn was written at the request of his friend Sir Henry Baker, who said they wanted a new Evening hymn for the Appendix to Ifymns Ancient and Modern, 1868. One stanza was omitted at the suggestion of Sir II. Baker

And some are pressed with worldly care, And some are tried with sinful doubt ; And some such grievous passions tear, That only Thou canst cast them out.

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