35 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED
made useful for anniversaries and special occasions. This is the omitted verse
Father, all Thy gifts are precious,
But we thank Thee most for this, That so many years of toiling
Have been soothed by wedded bliss ; Since our hearts were first united,
Life has not been free from care, But our burdens were the lighter
When each bore an equal share.
Hymn 630. Author of faith, appear !
CHARLES WESLEY (i).
Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1740 ; Works, i. 337. Isa. xlv. 2. Ten verses, commencing
Sinners, your Saviour see ! O, . ook ye unto Me ! Verses 6, 7, 8 are chosen to form this hymn.
Hymn 681. I the good fight have fought.
CHARLES WESLEY (i).
Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture, 1762, Nos. 3,247, 3,249 ; Works, xiii. no-ll. 2 Tim. iv. 7.
Hymn 632. I m but a stranger here. THOMAS RAWSON TAYLOR.
The Rev. T. R. Taylor was the son of a Congregational minister, and was born at Ossett, near Wakefield, in 1807. He was trained at Airedale College, and became pastor for six months at Howard Street, Sheffield. For a short time he was classical tutor at Airedale, but his health compelled him to resign, and he died in 1835. His Memoirs and Select Remains were published in 1836. This hymn was written in his last illness, and published in the Memoirs, headed Heaven is my home. Air " Robin Adair." In 1853 it was included in the Leeds Hymn-book.
Yes, there are little ones in heaven, for a Sunday-school anniversary, also appeared in his Memoirs, and other pieces not so well known. Revised and rewritten by George Rawson, it appeared in the Methodist Sunday School Hymn-Book, 1879.
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