Rushing to the bedside, the child gazed at the bright, beloved face of her mother. She was smiling. Her lips began to move. Beatrice Plumb, who once told this story about her mother and herself, said that even before she put her ear close to her mother, she knew that the latter was singing their eventide hymn. Opening her eyes, the mother faintly whispered, “Sing, Kitten!” Once more, the last time together, mother and little daughter were singing their old sunset song: “Forever with the Lord! Amen so let it be; Life from the dead is in that word, ’Tis immortality.” Carved on the mother’s tombstone, and cherished in the daughter’s memory, were the words: “Forever with the Lord!” BIBLIOGRAPHY While the writer consulted many books, the following list includes those to which reference was most frequently made. The name of the author appears in the text, and the quotations may mostly be found by referring to the author’s discussion of that particular hymn. An extensive bibliography of the subject may be found in the work of McCutchan. Boyd, Charles Arthur, _Stories of Hymns for Creative Living_, The Judson Press. Covert, William Chalmers, and Laufer, Calvin Weiss, _Handbook to the Hymnal_, Presbyterian Board of Christian Education. Gillman, Frederick John, _The Evolution of the English Hymn_, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. Lorenz, Edmund S., _Practical Hymn Studies_, Fleming H. Revell. McCutchan, Robert Guy, _Our Hymnody_, The Methodist Book Concern. Moffatt, James, _Handbook to the Church Hymnary_, Oxford University Press. Nutter, Charles S., _Hymn Studies_, Phillips & Hunt. Nutter, Charles S., and Tillett, Wilbur F., _The Hymns and Hymn Writers of the Church_, The Methodist Book Concern. Pratt, John Barnes, _Present Day Hymns and Why They Were Written_, A. S. Barnes and Company. Robinson, Charles Seymour, _Annotations Upon Popular Hymns_, Hunt and Eaton. Sankey, Ira D., _My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns_, Harper & Brothers. Sheppard, W. J. L., _Great Hymns and Their Stories_, The Religious Tract Society, London. Smith, H. Augustine, _Lyric Religion_, The Century Co. Stead, W. T., _Hymns That Have Helped_, Doubleday and McClure Co. Stevenson, G. J., _The Methodist Hymn Book Illustrated_, S. W. Partridge & Co., London. Telford, John, _The New Methodist Hymn Book Illustrated_, Epworth Press, London. Washburn, Charles C., _Hymn Interpretations_, Cokesbury Press. Wiseman, F. Luke, _Charles Wesley_, The Abingdon Press. INDEX OF HYMNS