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 HISTORY OF MENDELSSOHN'S "ELIJAH.

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And afterwards if * and turn from their sin ' seems preferable to you, a note might be added to keep the words as in the Bible. In the following sentence it sounds to me more scriptural to leave the words as in 2 Chronicles vi., 27 : —

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��Go up a- gain, and still look towards the sea.

Then also * the earth is as iron.' And then would you like this : —

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��If possible I should wish to have omitted * I implore Thee,' which does not sound as scriptural to me. If I am wrong, pray leave it; but if not, the words * to my prayer ' might be repeated instead of them. The following is Psalm xxviii., i : —

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��be not si • lent to me.

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