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 THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 48$

very often employ their pencils upon sea-pieces : I could wish you would follow their example. If this small sketch may deserve a place among your works, I shall accompany it with a divine ode, made by a gentleman upon the conclusion of his travels.&quot;

Macaulay says that in December, 1700, when sailing from Marseilles along the Ligurian coast, Addison s ship encountered one of the black storms of the Mediterranean. The captain gave up all for lost, and confessed himself to a capuchin who happened to be on board. The English heretic, in the meantime, fortified himself against the storms of death with devotions of a very different kind. How strong an impression this perilous voyage made on him appears from the ode &quot; How are Thy servants blest, O Lord ! &quot; which was long after published in the Spectator?

Dr. Kirk, of Boston (Mass.), and his companions, who travelled in Syria during the sickly season of 1857, made this Traveller s Hymn a regular part of their devotions.

Hymn 964. Father, who art alone.

EDITH J. Written for the Home Hymn-book, 1885.

The writer, Miss J., lives in South Norwood, but prefers to have her name unknown.

Hymn 965. Thou, Lord, hast blessed my going out. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

Hymns and Sacred Poems ; 1740; Works, i. 305. After a Journey. A little set of pilgrim hymns is given at this part of the volume. Two headed Before a Journey ; one, On a Journey ; and this, After a Journey.

In ver. 2 the original reads, And guard my naked head.

Hymn 966. Lord, whom winds and seas obey. CHARLES WESLEY (i).

At Going on Shipboard, Works, xiii. 263. From a MS. in the Library of Richmond College.

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