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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 475

Hymn 933. Eternal Source of every joy. PHILIP DODDRIDGE (95).

Dated January I, 1736, headed God crowning the year with His goodness ; published 1755. Doddridge s second verse is omitted.

Hymn 934. The old year s long campaign is o er.

SAMUEL JOHN STONE, M.A. (356).

The New Year. Written at Windsor in 1868, and issued in a penny collection of temperance hymns ; published in his Knight of Intercession, 1872, headed Battle-Hymn for the New Year. For Children.&quot;

Hymn 935. How many pass the guilty night.

CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1742; Works, ii. 193. A Midnight Hymn. Six verses.

Oft have we pass d the guilty night was altered in the Supple ment of 1831. The original reads

Ver. I : The creature was our sole delight. Ver. 2 : So many nights on sin bestowed. Ver. 3 : We can, dear Jesu, for Thy sake.

Hymn 936. Join, all ye ransomed sons of grace. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns for the Watchnight (1746?), No. n ; Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749; Works, v. 280. Ver. 4 is omitted

To seal the universal doom,

The skies He soon shall bow But if Thou must at midnight come, O let us meet Thee now.

Hymn 937. Across the sky the shades of night. JAMES HAMILTON, M.A.

For New Year s Eve ; written to the old chorale which Mendelssohn introduced into St. Paul, To God on high be thanks and praise. It

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