A Dictionary of Hymnology/Supplement/Y

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Yet there is room, p. 1899, i. The Rev. H. N. Bonar in his Hys. by Horatius Bonar, Selected and Arranged by his son, H. N. Bonar, says, p. xxv.:—

About that time [1877] hymns again begin to appear in the note-books [of Dr. Bonar], several being specially written for Mr. Sankey, the American evangelist. The story of one hymn which has become generally known may be of interest. Dr. Sankey wished to use as a solo Tennyson's sad and beautiful poem from "Guinevere": "Late, late, so late and dark the night and chill." He composed a tune for it, but copyright difficulties arose and hindered his including the words in his hymn book. So being left with a tune without words, he asked my father to write a hymn to it, keeping, if possible, to the same Scriptural theme. This was done, and "Yet there is room," was the result (p. xxv.); "Rejoice and be glad" (p. 955, i.); and "Watch, brethren, watch"," were also written about this time."

This hymn is said on p. 162, i. 82, to have been published in Dr. Bonar's Song of the New Creation, 1874. This is an error. It appeared in his Hys. of the Nativity, 1879. In a copy of Mr. Sankey's Sac. Songs, &c., of thirty-one hymns, received at the Brit. Museum, May 7, 1874, this hymn is the last. [J. J.]

Yonge, Charlotte M., p. 1299, i. She d. at Otterbourne, March 24, 1901.