THE STORY OF THE HYMNS AND THEIR WRITERS 399
Hymn 780. Lord, Thy ransomed church is waking. SARAH GERALDINA STOCK (1838-98).
Home Missions. For the London February Mission, 1874, and published in the Church Sunday School Magazine, February, 1874.
Miss Stock was the sister of Mr. Eugene Stock, Editorial Secretary of the Church Missionary Society. She published Lessons on Israel in Egypf, The Child s Life of our Lord, and other volumes. Her last work was to prepare a hymn-book for the Church Missionary Society. She died just before it was published.
Hymn 781. Christ for the world ! we sing. SAMUEL WOLCOTT, D.D.
Missions.
Dr. Wolcott was born at South Windsor, Connecticut, in 1813 ; educated at Yale and Andovcr. He was a missionary in Syria, 1840-2; then a Congregational minister in the United States. For some time he was Secretary of the Ohio Home Missionary Society. He began to write hymns late in life, but \vTOte more than two hundred. He was asked by a friend to help in preparing a selection of hymns, and whilst thus engaged the question arose in his mind, Can I not write a hymn ? He was in his fifty-sixth year, and had never put two rhymes together, but he got to work and mapped out a hymn, Father ! I own Thy voice, which he found to his surprise could actually be sung. It was inserted in his friend s Songs for the Nciu Life (Chicago, 1869). He died in 1886.
This hymn was written on February 7, 1869. Dr. \Yolcott said, The Young Men s Christian Association of Ohio met in one of our churches, with their motto in evergreen letters over the pulpit, " Christ for the World, and the World for Christ." This suggested the hymn. It was composed on his way home from that service.
Hymn 782. Tell it out among the heathen that the Lord is King.
F. R. HAVERCAL (330).
Written at Winterdyne, April 19, 1872; first publiohcd in Evening /fours, 1872.
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