176 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED
Among the nations and the isles,
As Judge supreme, He ll sit : And vested with unbounded pow r,
Will punish or acquit.
No strife shall rage, nor angry feuds,
Disturb these peaceful years ; To plow-shares then they ll beat their swords,
To pruning-hooks their spears.
Then nation shan t gainst nation rise,
And slaughter d hosts deplore : They ll lay the useless trumpet by,
And study war no more.
O come ye, then, of Jacob s house,
Our hearts now let us join : And, walking in the light of God,
With holy beauties shine.
Hymn 222. Jesus, the word bestow. CHARLES WESLEY (i).
Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scriptures (left in MS.) ; Works, xiii. 22. It is given as the last on the Epistle to the Romans, but is based on Acts xix. 20.
Hymn 223. On all the earth Thy Spirit shower. HENRY MORE, D.D.
From Divine Dialogues with Divine Hymns, 1 688. Wesley included this and Hymn 233 in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739, in fifteen stanzas, beginning When Christ had left His flock below, and headed On the descent of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost. Altered from Dr. H. More. He inserted them in the Large Hymn-book, 1780.
Henry More was born at Grantham in 1614, and became Fellow of Christ s College, Cambridge, 1639. He renounced the Calvinism in which he had been trained, declined offers of promotion, and spent his life in private tuition. Professor Palgrave calls him the most interesting figure among our poetical mystics. He died in 1687.
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