Come, we that love the Lord, And let our joys be known; Join in a song with sweet accord, And thus surround the throne. There shall we see His face, And never, never sin; There, from the rivers of His grace, Drink endless pleasures in. Children of grace have found Glory begun below: Celestial fruits on earthly ground From faith and hope may grow. Mortality and immortality blend their charms in the next stanza. The unfailing beauty of the vision will be dwelt upon with delight so long as Christians sing on earth. The hill of Sion yields A thousand sacred sweets, Before we reach the heavenly fields, Or walk the golden streets. _THE TUNE._ "St. Thomas" has often been the interpreter of the hymn, and still clings to the words in the memory of thousands. The Italian tune of "Ain" has more music. It is a fugue piece (simplified in some tune-books), and the joyful traverse of its notes along the staff in four-four time, with the momentum of a good choir, is exhilarating in the extreme. Corelli, the composer, was a master violinist, the greatest of his day, and wrote a great deal of violin music; and the thought of his glad instrument may have influenced his work when harmonizing the four voices of "Ain." Arcangelo Corelli was born at Fusignano, in 1653. He was a sensitive artist, and although faultless in Italian music, he was not sure of himself in playing French scores, and once while performing with Handel (who resented the slightest error), and once again with Scarlatti, leading an orchestra in Naples when the king was present, he made a mortifying mistake. He took the humiliation so much to heart that he brooded over it till he died, in Rome, Jan. 18, 1717. For revival meetings the modern tune set to "Come we that love the Lord," by Robert Lowry, should be mentioned. A shouting chorus is appended to it, but it has melody and plenty of stimulating motion. The Rev. Robert Lowry was born in Philadelphia, March 12, 1826, and educated at Lewisburg, Pa. From his 28th year till his death, 1899, he was a faithful and successful minister of Christ, but is more widely known as a composer of sacred music. "BE THOU EXALTED, O MY GOD." In this hymn the thought of Watts touches the eternal summits. Taken from the 57th and 108th Psalms-- Be Thou exalted, O my God, Above the heavens where angels dwell; Thy power on earth be known abroad And land to land Thy wonders tell. * * * * * High o'er the earth His mercy reigns, And reaches to the utmost sky; His truth to endless years remains When lower worlds dissolve and die. _THE TUNE._ Haydn furnished it out of his chorus of morning stars, and it was christened "Creation," after the name of his great oratorio. It is a march of trumpets. "BEFORE JEHOVAH'S AWFUL THRONE."