Your prayer was answered. I couldn’t fire after that. And there was no attack made upon your camp that night. I felt sure, when I heard you singing this evening, that you were the man whose life I was spared from taking.” The singer grasped the hand of the Southerner and said: “I remember the night very well, and the feeling of depression with which I went forth to my duty. I knew the post was one of great danger. I paced my lonely beat, thinking of home and friends and all that life holds dear. Then the thought of God’s care came to me with peculiar force, and I sang the prayer of my heart and ceased to feel alone. How the prayer was answered I never knew until this evening.” For comments on Wesley see Hymn 6. _MUSIC._ MARTYN. The composer of this tune, Simeon B. Marsh, 1798-1875, spent many years teaching singing classes in and near Albany, N. Y., travelling constantly on horseback from town to town through Albany Presbytery. It was while enroute on his weekly circuit, one day during the autumn of 1834, that the melody took form. He alighted from his horse and wrote the music which he set to a hymn by John Newton, “Mary to her Saviour’s tomb.” Thomas Hastings later set the tune to “Jesus, Lover of my soul,” a combination now deeply imbedded in the affections of the American Church. _MUSIC._ HOLLINGSIDE (159) is the tune composed by John B. Dykes, 1823-76, especially for this hymn. The tune has more of musical interest than the better known “Martyn,” and many hymnals give it first place for use with this hymn. Dykes was always particular about the naming of his tunes, often some incident in his life supplying the name. “Hollingside” was the name of the cottage he lived in, while precentor at Durham, when he wrote this. Regarding its composition, one of his sisters wrote: Some scenes during that visit will live forever in my memory. As, for instance, one calm Sunday evening, when I sat in the verandah in the deepening twilight and heard, through the open window, my brother composing and playing over the tune “Hollingside,” to the words “Jesu, Lover of my soul.” For comments on Dykes see Hymn 1. GUIDANCE AND PROTECTION 160. Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah _William Williams_, 1717-91 A superb hymn of guidance in which the analogies of the history of Israel in the wilderness appear in every stanza and almost in every line. It was written in Welsh in 1745 and translated into English in 1771 by Rev. Peter Williams, friend of the author and fellow-worker. Some think stanzas 2 and 3 were translated by the author himself or by his son, the Rev. John Williams. The hymn in Welsh, with its unpronounceable words, is as follows: Arglwydd, arwain trwy’r anialwch Fi bererin gwael ei wedd, Nad oes ynof nerth na bywyd, Fel yn gorwedd yn y bedd: Hollalluog Ydyw’r un a’m cwyd i’r lan.