The word "Rhine" (in some collections--in others "Emmons") names a revival tune once so linked with this hymn and so well known that few religious people now past middle life could enjoy singing it to any other. With a compass one note beyond an octave and a third, it utters every line with a clear, bold gladness sure to infect a meeting with its own spiritual fervor. Thou dear Redeemer, dying Lamb, I love to hear of Thee; No music like Thy charming name, Nor half so sweet can be. The composer of the bright legato melody just described was Frederick Burgmueller, a young German musician, born in 1804. He was a remarkable genius, both in composition and execution, but his health was frail, and he did not live to fulfil the rich possibilities that lay within him. He died in 1824--only twenty years old. The tune "Rhine" ("Emmons") is from one of his marches. "WHILE THEE I SEEK, PROTECTING POWER." Helen Maria Williams wrote this sweet hymn, probably about the year 1800. She was a brilliant woman, better known in literary society for her political verses and essays than by her hymns; but the hymn here noted bears sufficient witness to her deep religious feeling: While Thee I seek, Protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled, And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled. Thy love the power of thought bestowed; To Thee my thoughts would soar, Thy mercy o'er my life has flowed, That mercy I adore. Miss Williams was born in the north of England, Nov. 30, 1762, but spent much of her life in London, and in Paris, where she died, Dec. 14, 1827. _THE TUNE._ Wedded so many years to the gentle, flowing music of Pleyel's "Brattle Street," few lovers of the hymn recall its words without the melody of that emotional choral. The plain psalm-tune, "Simpson," by Louis Spohr, divides the stanzas into quatrains. "JESUS MY ALL TO HEAVEN IS GONE." This hymn, by Cennick, was familiarized to the public more than two generations ago by its revival tune, sometimes called "Duane Street," long-metre double. It is staffed in various keys, but its movement is full of life and emphasis, and its melody is contagious. The piece was composed by Rev. George Coles, in 1835. The fact that this hymn of Cennick with Coles's tune appears in the _New Methodist Hymnal_ indicates the survival of both in modern favor. [Illustration: Augustus Montague Toplady] Jesus my all to heaven is gone, He whom I fixed my hopes upon; His track I see, and I'll pursue The narrow way till Him I view. The way the holy prophets went, The road that leads from banishment, The King's highway of holiness I'll go for all Thy paths are peace. The memory has not passed away of the hearty unison with which prayer-meeting and camp-meeting assemblies used to "crescendo" the last stanza--