[167]Julian, p. 971. The three-verse cento, dear to Methodists, is slightly varied from that of Thomas Cotterill, of Sheffield. [168]In early hymn-books there is often confusion between Wesley and Toplady. At the end of his reprint of Toplady’s _Poetical Remains_, Sedgwick gives a list of seventeen hymns of Charles Wesley’s, attributed to Toplady. [169]Elvet Lewis’s _Sweet Singers of Wales_, p. 29. [170]Lewis’s _Sweet Singers_, ch. iii. There are other Welsh singers included in this little book who deserve to be more widely known, but my limited space does not allow further quotation. [171]Smith’s _Heber_, p. 84. [172]It is curious how widespread the fear of Methodism was. Crabbe added to his beautiful and touching lines, beginning Pilgrim, burthened with thy sin, Come the way to Zion’s gate, a note explaining that it had been suggested to him that ‘this change from restlessness to repose in the mind of Sir Eustace is wrought by a Methodistic call.’ He protests, however, that ‘though evidently enthusiastic in respect to language,’ they ‘are not meant to convey any impropriety of sentiment.’ [173]Advent Sunday. [174]This was written in 1825, two years before the publication of Heber’s _Hymns_ and of the _Christian Year_. [175]Barry’s _Newman_, pp. 51, 52. [176]John Ellerton, p. 185. [177]Lyte wrote some verses, ‘The Dying Christian to his Soul,’ which are in a much more triumphant strain, but they are not equal to Toplady’s poem. [178]_Holy Year_, xi. Dr. Wordsworth was then (1862) Canon of Westminster. [179]‘Conversation of an hour and a half with Anstice on practical religion, particularly as regards our own situation. I bless and praise God for his presence here.’—Morley’s _Gladstone_, vol. i. pp. 55, 56. [180]It is omitted from the _Methodist Hymn-book_. It was No. 990 in the former book, and is in the Presbyterian (469) and Baptist (641). [181]This hymn is not in _Hymns Ancient and Modern_, but it is in _Church Hymns_, Presbyterian, Baptist, Congregational, Horder’s, Primitive Methodist, and many other hymn-books. [182]_Westminster Abbey Hymn-book_, 288; _Young People’s Hymnal_, 161. [183]Michael Bruce’s ‘Ode to the Cuckoo.’ [184]Preface to _Poems_, p. xviii. [185]The hymn has seven verses, _Poems_, p. 59. [186]_Methodist Hymn-book_, 520. [187]_Congregational Hymnal_, 127; _Baptist Hymnal_, 128. [188]The last lines differ from the usual version. The change was made by Professor Palgrave himself, and, at his wish, the verse was given in this form in the _Young People’s Hymnal_. [189]_The Household of Faith_, p. 8. [190]‘The Church, Dissent, and Nation,’ _National Review_, July 1903. [191]This lecture was delivered in Sheffield. [192]Cf. _Church Hymnary_ (Presbyterian), _Church Hymns_ (S.P.C.K.), _Westminster Abbey Hymn-book_.