From A Poet's Portfolio, London, 1835. for Charles Wesley was most happily mar- zas. This hymn is made up of verses one, ried in 1749, and John Wesley that same year two, fourteen, sixteen, and seventeen, verbecame deeply attached to Grace Murray, and batim. planned to marry her. But Charles Wesley and George Whitefield, thinking his choice unwise, managed to break up the marriage, very much to his sorrow. After his unfortunate good to be forgotten. marriage to Mrs. Vazeille, in 1751, they re-third to the sixth, inclusive. They would gretted having interfered to prevent his marriage to Grace Murray. We think the hymn is properly credited in the text above, but we know of no reason for affirming, as some have suggested, that it had its origin in a disappointment with regard to matrimony. make a good hymn. 626 I My Father's house on high, Home of my soul how near, Ah! then my spirit faints To reach the land I love, Yet clouds will intervene, And all my prospect flies; The winds and waters cease, While sweetly o'er my gladdened heart 7, 6, 8, 6. D. SAW the holy city, The New Jerusalem, Come down from heaven a bride adorned With jeweled diadem: The flood of crystal waters Flowed down the golden street; And nations brought their honors there, 2 And there no sun was needed, The Lamb himself, the light; And, life's long battle o'er, Enthroned with him, their Saviour, King 3 O great and glorious vision! O wondrous sight for man to see! To drink the living waters And stand upon the shore, 4 O Lamb of God who reignest, Thou bright and morning Star, Whose glory lightens that new earth Which now we see from far; 5 Beyond the frost chain and the fever, I shall be soon; Beyond the rock waste and the river, Horatius Bonar. Title: "A Little While." It is from Bonar's Hymns of Faith and Hope, First Series, 1857. The fourth stanza of the original is as follows: Beyond the gathering and the strowing I shall be soon; Beyond the ebbing and the flowing, Beyond the coming and the going I shall be soon. Dr. Bonar was a premillenarian, and, like all who hold that belief, his daily prayer was: "Lord, tarry not, but come." This hymn was printed in the Quarterly Journal of Prophecy in April, 1849. 628 As serried ranks returning home In triumph from a war; I heard the saints upraising The myriad hosts among, In praise of Him who died, and lives, Their one glad triumph-song. BEYON P. M. EYOND the smiling and the weeping, I shall be soon; Beyond the waking and the sleeping, Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon. Refrain. Love, rest, and home! Sweet, sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come! 2 Beyond the blooming and the fading, I shall be soon; Beyond the shining and the shading, Beyond the hoping and the dreading, I shall be soon. 3 Beyond the rising and the setting, I shall be soon; Beyond the calming and the fretting, Beyond remembering and forgetting, I shall be soon. 4 Beyond the parting and the meeting, I shall be soon; Beyond the farewell and the greeting, L. M. I'm going home, I'm going home, 2 My Father's house is built on high, 4 Let others seek a home below, 5 Then fail the earth, let stars decline, This hymn was first published in Select Melodies, Pittsburg, 1838. It was revised by the author a short time before his death. 629 SPECIAL SUBJECTS AND OCCASIONS 6, 6, 4, 6, 6, 6, 4. 2 Thou who didst come to bring Healing and sight, Health to the sick in mind, 3 Spirit of truth and love, 4 Holy and blessed Three, Wisdom, Love, Might; Through the world far and wide, Watts wrote the first couplet of the third stanza: For him shall endless prayer be made, And praises throng to crown his head. There are two other stanzas that are too good to be forgotten: 6 Blessings abound where'er he reigns; The pris'ner leaps to lose his chains, The weary find eternal rest, And all the sons of want are blest. 7 Where he displays his healing power It is probable that this is the most widely used missionary hymn in the Hymnal. From the author's Psalms, etc., The kingdom is coming, O tell ye the story, ESUS, immortal King, arise! Assert thy rightful sway, Till earth, subdued, its tribute brings, 2 Ride forth, victorious Conqueror, ride, 3 Send forth thy word and let it fly 4 O may the great Redeemer's name 5 From sea to sea, from shore to shore, God's banner exalted shall be! The earth shall be full of his knowledge and That the mighty King of glory is the King helped to inspire within the heart of the of Peace; Tell it out with jubilation, let the song ne'er cease; Tell it out! Tell it out! Tell it out! Tell it out! sick poet this hymn, which is so full of inspiration to others. It seems to peal forth its gospel message like bells that would ring out and tell to all the world 2 Tell it out among the heathen that the Sav- that Christ is King. It is one of the most iour reigns; successful and inspiring of modern misTell it out among the nations, bid them sionary hymns. It is well suited to the break their chains; Tell it out! Tell it out! Tell it out among the weeping ones that Jesus lives, needs of the great missionary gatherings that are now so frequently held in all parts of the Church. When sung with Tell it out among the weary ones what rest feeling by a vast audience, it gives triumphant expression to the enthusiasm he gives, Tell it out among the sinners that he still and optimism that characterize the faith receives; Tell it out! Tell it out! This hymn was written on April 19, 1872, and was first published in Evening Hours, 1872. It is based on Psalm xcvi. 10: "Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth." In the Memorials of the author by her sister the following account is given of the origin of this hymn: Written at Winterdyne when unable to go to church one snowy Sunday morning. She asked for her prayer book (in bed), always liking to follow the services of the day. On Mr. Shaw's return from church he heard her touch on the piano. "Why, Frances, I thought you were upstairs!" "Yes; but I had my prayer book, and in the Psalms for to-day I read: "Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord is King.' I thought: 'What a splendid first line!' And then words and music came rushing in to me. There, it's all written out!" The sound of church bells, as well as the words of the Psalmist, it is said, of those who have caught the vision of Christ's kingship among the nations. 4 Christ for the world we sing; The newborn souls, whose days Samuel Wolcott. The author gives the following account of the writing of this lyric: The Young Men's Christian Associations of Ohio met in one of our churches with their motto in evergreen letters over the pulpit: |