THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 307
In Wesley s Psalms and Hymns, 1741. Ver. 3 begins, With heart, and eyes, and lifted hands. Ver. 4 is altered from
My life itself without Thy love, No taste of pleasure could afford ;
Twould but a tiresome burden prove, If I were banished from the Lord.
Watts s last line, And spend the remnant of my days, is trans formed into And fill the circle of my days."
Hymn 512. O God, my hope, my heavenly rest. CHARLES WESLEY (i).
Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749 ; Works, v. 92. For a Preacher of the Gospel. Moses wish in nine hymns. Exod. xxxiii. 12 xxxiv. 9.
Hymn 513. The voice that speaks Jehovah near.
CHARLES WESLEY (i).
Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture, 1762; Works, \\. 1 80. i Kings xix. 13.
The original is: ver. I, l T!:nt voice ; line 3, the Lord.
Hymn 514. Out of the depths I cry to Thee.
MARTIN LUTHER (173) ; translated by Miss WINKWORTH (19). In her Chorale Book for England, 1863.
Aus tiefer Noth schrei ich zu dir is a version of Psalm cxxx., which Luther called a Pauline Psalm, and greatly loved. He took special pains with his version. It was sung on May 9, 1525, at the funeral of Friedrich the Wise, in the Court Church at Wittenberg. The people of Halle sang it with tears in their eyes as the great Reformer s coffin passed through their city on the way to the grave at Wittenberg. It is woven into the religious life of Germany.
In 1530, during the Diet of Augsburg, Luther s heart was often sore troubled, but he would say, Come, let us defy the devil and praise God by singing a hymn. Then he would begin, Out of the depths I cry to Thee. It was sung at his funeral.
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