The music was composed by Charles Crozat Converse, LL.D., musician, lawyer, and writer. He was born in Warren, Mass., 1832; a descendant of Edward Converse, the friend of Gov. Winthrop and founder of Woburn, Mass. He pursued musical and other studies in Leipsic and Berlin. His compositions are numerous including concert overtures, symphonies and many sacred and secular pieces. Residence at Highwood, Bergen Co., N.J. The hymn is one of the most helpful of the Gospel Collections, and the words and music have strengthened many a weak and failing soul to "try again." Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged: Take it to the Lord in prayer. "I HEAR THE SAVIOUR SAY." This is classed with the _Gospel Hymns_, but it was a much-used and much-loved revival hymn--especially in the Methodist churches--several years before Mr. Moody's great evangelical movement. It was written by Mrs. Elvina M. Hall (since Mrs. Myers) who was born in Alexandria, Va., in 1818. She composed it in the spring of 1865, while sitting in the choir of the M.E. Church, Baltimore, and the first draft was pencilled on a fly-leaf of a singing book, _The New Lute of Zion_. I hear the Saviour say, Thy strength indeed is small; Child of weakness, watch and pray, Find in me thine all in all. The music of the chorus helped to fix its words in the common mind, and some idea of the Atonement acceptable, apparently, to both Arminians and Calvinists; for Sunday-school children in the families of both, hummed the tune or sang the refrain when alone-- Jesus paid it all, All to Him I owe, Sin had left a crimson stain; He washed it white as snow. _THE TUNE._ John Thomas Grape, who wrote the music, was born in Baltimore, Md., May 6, 1833. His modest estimate of his work appears in his remark that he "dabbled" in music for his own amusement. Few composers have amused themselves with better results. "TELL ME THE OLD, OLD STORY." Miss Kate Hankey, born about 1846, the daughter of an English banker, is the author of this very devout and tender Christian poem, written apparently in the eighteen-sixties. At least it is said that her little volume, _Heart to Heart_, was published in 1865 or 1866, and this volume contains "Tell me the Old, Old Story," and its answer. We have been told that Miss Hankey was recovering from a serious illness, and employed her days of convalescence in composing this song of devotion, beginning it in January and finishing it in the following November. The poem is very long--a thesaurus of evangelical thoughts, attitudes, and moods of faith--and also a magazine of hymns. Four quatrains of it, or two eight-line stanzas, are the usual length of a hymnal selection, and editors can pick and choose anywhere among its expressive verses. Tell me the old, old story Of unseen things above, Of Jesus and His glory, Of Jesus and His love.