358 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED
Three verses are omitted. One may be quoted
When navies, tall and proud, Attempt to spoil our peace, He sends His tempests roaring loud, And sinks them in the seas.
Hymn 653. Lo! God is here! let us adore.
TERSTEEGEN (22) ; translated by JOHN WESLEY (36).
In Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739, headed Public Worship. From the German (Works, i. 167). A somewhat free translation of Gott ist gegenwartig (see 22).
Wesley s fifth verse is omitted
In Thee we move. All things of Thee Are full, Thou Source and Life of all !
Thou vast, unfathomable Sea !
Fall prostrate, lost in wonder, fall,
Ye sons of men ; for God is man !
All may we lose, so Thee we gain !
When Benjamin Clough, who accompanied Dr. Coke to India, was with him in London, Coke said, My dear brother, I am dead to all but India. Mr. Clough thought of the words about the first disciples, They left all and followed Him. He began to sing, Gladly the toys of earth we leave, and Coke joined him in that verse of self-surrender. In the following May, when their vessel was in the Indian Ocean, Mr. Clough knocked at his friend s cabin, and found him lying lifeless on the floor. He had left the toys of earth for ever.
Hymn 654. On Thee, O God of purity. CHARLES WESLEY (i).
Psalms and Hymns, 1743 ; Works, viii. 9. Psalm v. Seven verses of eight lines, beginning O Lord, incline Thy gracious ear.
Hymn 655. Glad was my heart to hear.
JAMES MONTGOMERY (94).
[Psalm cxxii. in Songs of Zion, 1822.
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