"There is seldom any quarrelling or coarse joking among them now," said the superintendent with a smile. Dr. S.F. Smith's hymn of much the same tone and tenor-- Softly fades the twilight ray Of the holy Sabbath day, --is commonly sung to the tune of "Holley." George Hews, an American composer and piano-maker, was born in Massachusetts 1800, and died July 6, 1873. No intelligence of him or his work or former locality is at hand, beyond this brief note in Baptie, "He is believed to have followed his trade in Boston, and written music for some of Mason's earlier books." _DEDICATION._ "CHRIST IS OUR CORNER-STONE." This reproduces in Chandler's translation a song-service in an ancient Latin liturgy (_angulare fundamentum_). Christ is our Corner-Stone; On Him alone we build, With His true saints alone The courts of heaven are filled, On His great love Our hopes we place Of present grace And joys above. O then with hymns of praise These hallowed courts shall ring; Our voices we will raise The Three-in-One to sing. And thus proclaim In joyful song But loud and long That glorious Name. The Rev. John Chandler was born at Witley, Surrey, Eng. June 16, 1806. He took his A.M. degree at Oxford, and entered the ministry of the Church of England, was Vicar of Witley many years, and became well-known for his translations of hymns of the primitive church. Died at Putney, July 1, 1876. _THE TUNE._ Sebastian Wesley's "Harewood" is plainer and of less compass, but Zundel's "Brooklyn" is more than its rival, both in melody and vivacity. "OH LORD OF HOSTS WHOSE GLORY FILLS THE BOUNDS OF THE ETERNAL HILLS." A hymn of Dr. John Mason Neale-- Endue the creatures with Thy grace That shall adorn Thy dwelling-place The beauty of the oak and pine, The gold and silver, make them Thine. The heads that guide endue with skill, The hands that work preserve from ill, That we who these foundations lay May raise the top-stone in its day. _THE TUNE._ "Welton," by Rev. Caesar Malan--author of "Hendon," once familiar to American singers. Henri Abraham Caesar Malan was born at Geneva, Switzerland, 1787, and educated at Geneva College. Ordained to the ministry of the State church, (Reformed,) he was dismissed for preaching against its formalism and spiritual apathy; but he built a chapel of his own, and became a leader with D'Aubigne, Monod, and others in reviving the purity of the Evangelical faith and laboring for the conversion of souls. Malan wrote many hymns, and published a large collection, the "_Chants de Sion_," for the Evangelical Society and the French Reformed Church. He composed the music of his own hymns. Died at Vandosurre, 1864. "DAUGHTER OF ZION, FROM THE DUST." Cases may occur where an _exhortation_ hymn earns a place with dedication hymns.