conducted one of the largest young women's Bible classes in this country for a long period. She has produced three or four volumes of poems, from one of which we extract the following, entitled "Waiting and Watching for Me." Perhaps one of the best known of these volumes is that one entitled "Lays and Lyrics of the Blessed Life." "When my final farewell to the world I have said, When softly the watchers shall say 'He is dead,' And when, with my glorified vision, at last Will any one then, at the beautiful gate, "There are little ones glancing about in my path, There are dear little eyes looking up into mine, But Jesus may beckon the children away In the midst of their grief and their glee; "There are old and forsaken who linger awhile But the reaper is near to the long standing corn, The weary will soon be set free; Will any of them, at the beautiful gate, Be waiting and watching for me? Oh, should I be brought there by the bountiful grace Of Him who delights to forgive, Though I bless not the weary about in my path, Pray only for self while I live, Methinks I should mourn o'er my sinful neglect, Should no one I love, at the beautiful gate, VI.-EMMA JANE WORBOISE. EMMA JANE WORBOISE was the literary nom de plume of Mrs. Etherington-Guyton, a lady well known to the reading public as a successful and popular Christian novelist. She was born in Birmingham in 1825, and afterwards removed with her parents to Bristol. They subsequently, however, returned to Birmingham; so that it came to pass that her early life was spent in the village of Erdington, a suburb of the midland. metropolis. She received an exceedingly good education; and her great love for learning developed itself in a variety of ways, especially in the acquisition of the French and Italian languages, both of which she could speak with ease. Probably she would never have made such a mark in the world of literature had not adverse fortune come upon her father, for she commenced using her pen for her own support and that of her widowed mother while in her teens, and succeeded in making her name famous before many years had passed. She was married at a somewhat early age to Mr. Etherington-Guyton, a young gentleman of great promise, and nearly related to a noble family. These bright prospects were, however, soon clouded over; for within three years she was widowed and childless, her husband dying of consumption. After this she devoted herself anew to the labours of the pen, and doubtless found in hard literary work a kind of solace for her bereaved spirit. From personal correspondence we know that through all her widowed life, and amid the success which crowned her work, she was faithful to the remembrance of her early love. She passed away to rejoin him on August 25th, 1887, aged sixtytwo, and was buried in Clevedon Cemetery. Beside writing a very excellent Life of Dr. Arnold, she produced about forty volumes of tales, among which, perhaps, the palm may be given to " Overdale," Thornycroft Hall," and "Nobly Born." She also possessed considerable poetic power, as was evidenced in a volume entitled "Hymns, Songs, and Poems," now out of print. We quote from this volume part of a hymn which ought to be better known, entitled "Do this in Remembrance of Me." "Be with us, Saviour, in this hour, Than ever we have done before. "Give us the grace to bear thy cross "For where thou art we too would be, We through the grave would follow thee; "Then round thy throne we all shall meet— "Then will the soul unfettered soar, CHAPTER XII. Writers of Children's Hymns. EFORE the days of Isaac Watts the children were wholly forgotten by hymn writers. He, on going to visit at the house of Sir Thomas Abney,where, by the way, he was so highly esteemed as a visitor that the heads of the family would never consent to his departing,-wrote a collection of “Divine and Moral Songs," which, according to some authorities, were composed at the request of a friend accustomed to catechise children, but which really appears to have had its birth in his desire to instruct and amuse the children of Sir Thomas Abney, as much as for anything else. They contained much doggerel-it could not be otherwise; and more stern theology— which was natural to the age. Dr. Watts was never a father, and he wrote from the standpoint of the sterner seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; therefore we miss the genial, loving tone and the hopeful theology of later hymnists for children. Women-and especially women who were mothers have excelled in the art of writing hymns for children. Somehow |