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is in Thring s Collection, 1882. The original reading of the third line is, We deck Thine altar, Lord with light.

Mr. Hamilton (1819-96) was born at Glendollar, Scotland; incumbent of St. Barnabas , Bristol, 1866; Vicar of Doulting, 1867.

Hymn 938. Praise, O praise our God and King! SIR H. W. BAKER (72).

Based on Milton s version of Psalm cxxxvi., Let us with a gladsome mind (see 21). It appeared in Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861.

Hymn 939. Summer suns are glowing.

WILLIAM WALSHAM How, D.D. (177). From S.P.C.K. Hymns, 1871.

Hymn 940. O Thou God who hearest prayer. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, D.D. (428).

Dr. Kennedy s ten-stanza version of Psalm Ixv. in his Psalter, 1860, began Thine, O Lord, our quiet trust. From it he compiled a hymn, Thou who hearest human prayer, for his Hymnologia Christiana, 1863.

The Wesleyan hymn-book, 1875, borrowed a first line for Dr. Kennedy s hymn from Josiah Conder s hymn written on September 20, 1820, whilst he was suffering from a severe accident through a fall from his horse.

Hymn 941. We plough the fields, and scatter. Im Anfang war s auf Erden.

MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS (1740-1815); translated by JANE MONTGOMERY CAMPBELL.

Miss Campbell was the daughter of Rev. A. M. Campbell; born in London in 1817, died at Bovey Tracey in 1878. This translation appeared in Rev. C. S. Bere s Garland of Songs, 1861.

Claudius was the son of a Lutheran pastor; he became an

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