Soon after this incident occurred, Dr. North was preaching a sermon from the text in St. Matthew 22:9: “Go ye therefore into the highways,” etc. During his preparation for this sermon, he was again especially impressed by the rendering of the Greek text in the Revised Version, which reads “Go ye therefore into the partings of the highways.” Dr. North thought of and described in his sermon the appealing challenge made by great crowds of people thronging the crossroads of the city—places like Madison Square and Union Square in the New York of 1903. Dr. North knew New York City very thoroughly, and his heart yearned over the sick, the lonely, the destitute, the troubled. So, while he preached, the first line of this great hymn came to him—“Where cross the crowded ways of life.” It did not take him long to compose the words which followed, and after the publication of the hymn in _The Christian City_, it was at once accepted for the new Methodist hymnal of 1905. The hymn is widely used in Canada and throughout Great Britain, and has been translated into several foreign languages, including some of the Far East ones. _MUSIC._ GERMANY is a fine long-meter tune found in a book, _Sacred Melodies_, in which the compiler, William Gardiner, 1770-1853, an English stocking manufacturer interested in music, collected compositions by the best foreign composers, adapting them to English words. The tune is also known by the name “Walton,” especially in England. As to its origin, Gardiner says in his book, _Music and Friends_, that it “is somewhere in the works of Beethoven, but where I cannot now point out.” This may be a mistake, for no one else has ever found it in a Beethoven collection. 223. O Master, let me walk with Thee _Washington Gladden_, 1836-1918 A greatly loved service hymn which the author entitled, “Walking with God.” In a note dated June 15, 1907, Gladden says: This hymn was written in 1879 for a magazine, _Sunday Afternoon_, which I was then editing. There were three eight-line stanzas. Dr. Charles H. Richards found the poem, which was not intended for a hymn, and made a hymn of it by omitting the second stanza, which was not suitable for devotional purposes. The omitted stanza reads as follows: O Master, let me walk with Thee Before the taunting Pharisee; Help me to bear the sting of spite, The hate of men who hide thy light, The sore distrust of souls sincere Who cannot read thy judgments clear, The dullness of the multitude Who dimly guess that thou art good.