A popular missionary hymn based on Luke 10:2: “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.” No information has been found concerning the author, J. O. Thompson, or the composer of the tune, J. B. O. Clemm. The song appeared in _The Epworth Hymnal_, edited by John H. Vincent, afterward a Bishop, and published by Phillips and Hunt, Methodist Publishers, New York, in 1885. It was copyrighted by them as of that year. 326. Father, whose will is life and good _Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley_, 1851-1920 A prayer for the sick, and for physicians engaged in medical missionary work. The hymn first appeared in _A Missionary Hymn Book_, 1922, published by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, in London. The author, Rev. Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, was an influential minister and educator in the Church of England. He spent much of his life in the Lake District in northern England, and, being a man of public spirit and a lover of nature, he championed the rights of the people in securing for public use in perpetuity many beautiful tracts of the Lake District and other parts of the country. His friends remembered him as one “who, greatly loving the fair things of nature and of art, set all his love to the service of God and man.” _MUSIC._ “TALLIS,” says William H. Havergal in _Notes on Certain Tunes_, is “simplicity itself. A child may sing the tune, while manly genius will admire it.” For comments on the composer, Thomas Tallis, see Hymn 33. 327. Christ for the world we sing _Samuel Wolcott_, 1813-86 The author of this hymn, Samuel Wolcott, born at South Windsor, Conn., graduated from Yale at 20, spent two years in Syria as a missionary, and then, on account of failing health, returned to the United States where he served as pastor in various Congregational churches. The hymn was suggested to him by a motto, “Christ for the World and the World for Christ,” made from branches of evergreen, in a Cleveland church where a Y.M.C.A. convention was held. One night, walking home from the convention to which he was a delegate, the words of the hymn took form. Yankton College, South Dakota, has adopted it as the opening hymn for each term of school. _MUSIC._ MALVERN. For comments on this tune and its composer, John Roberts, see Hymn 131. 328. O Zion, haste, thy mission high fulfilling _Mary A. Thomson_, 1834-1923 One of the strongest and most useful missionary hymns in the English language.