W We give Thee but Thine own _Walsham How_ We plough the fields and scatter _Matthias Claudius_ We saw Thee not when Thou didst come _Gurney_ Weary of earth and laden with my sin _Stone_ When God of old came down from heaven _Keble_ When I survey the wondrous cross _Watts_ *When morning gilds the skies _Tr. E. Caswall_ †When the weary, seeking rest _Bonar_ FOOTNOTES [1]James Martineau, vol. ii. p. 99. [2]_Christian Year_ (Fifth Sunday in Lent). [3]Ibid. (Preface). [4]‘The general Church histories mostly neglect or ignore hymnology, which is the best reflection of Christian life and worship.’—Schaff: _Mediaeval Christianity_, ii. 403. See also Lilly’s _Christianity and Modern Civilization_, ch. v., ‘The Age of Faith.’ [5]_Church Hymns_ (revised edition, 1903). A new edition of _Hymns Ancient and Modern_ is being prepared. [6]Ordained. [7]John Ellerton: _Principles of Hymn-book Construction_, p. 228. [8]Keble’s _Occasional Papers and Reviews_, 1877, p. 92. This essay, a review of Josiah Conder’s _Star in the East_, was published in the _Quarterly Review_, 1825. The quotation from Burns will remind many readers of Keble’s own lines (Third Sunday in Lent)— There’s not a strain to Memory dear, Nor flower in classic grove, There’s not a sweet note warbled here, But minds us of Thy love. [9]The words rendered ‘meditation’ in these verses are not the same. The one perhaps suggests the devout meditation which is murmured half aloud, the other silent converse or communing with oneself. [10]Lightfoot’s _Colossians_. [11]Trench’s _Synonyms of New Testament_. [12]Εἰς τὸ τέλος ἐν ὕµνοις, ψαλµὸς τῷ ’Ασάφ, ᾠδὴ πρὸς τὸν ’Ασσύριον. [13]Neh. ix. 5. [14]Ps. xxii. 3 (R.V.), margin. [15]Isa. lx. 18. [16]Cf. Jer. xlix. 25. [17]Cf. Eph. v. 20: εὐχαριστοῦντες πάντοτε. [18]Heb. xiii. 15. [19]C. G. Rossetti. [20]C. Wesley. [21]_The Holy Year_, pp. xxxii., xxxiii. [22]_The Hymn Lover_, p. 146. [23]_Hymns of the Christian Church and Home_ (Preface). [24]Longfellow’s _The Singers_. [25]Herbert’s _A True Hymn_. [26]Cary’s _Dante_, Par. xiv. [27]There is an article in the _Journal of Sacred Literature_ for July 1864, on ‘Eccentricities of Hymnology: Early Moravian Hymn-books,’ which gives abundant illustrations to justify Southey’s statement that ‘the most characteristic parts of the Moravian hymns are too shocking to be inserted here’ (_Life of Wesley_). [28]‘Viatrix,’ in an article on ‘The Tramp Ward,’ in the _Contemporary_ for May 1904, says, ‘I have discovered that this (“Lead, kindly Light”) and “Abide with me,” with “Jesu, Lover of my soul:” are tramps’ favourites.’