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WHEN De Doddridge, during his useful ministry, had find he preparation of a pul, it discourse that strong! im, he was a custome, while his huert wing with the sentiment that had inspired to pu. the princioal thoughts into metre, and . the hymar thus written at the conclusion of the proschng of the sermon. At the close of a discourse preveled in Jar. 2, 1736, fom the text, "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God," be read the beautiful hymn containing the following almost unequalled stan

Thine earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love,
But there's a nobler rest above;

To that our laboring sou's aspire,
With ardent hope and strong desire.

No more fatigue, no more distress,
Nor Si or hell small reach the place;
No siges shai' mingle with the songs
Which warbie from inmortal tongues.

re alarms of raging foes;
rates to break the long repose;
luleht seade, no clouded su ́,
ib, cternal noon.

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O long-expected day, begin;

Dawn on these realms of woe and sin:
Fain would we leave this weary road,

And sleep in death, to rest with God.

Dr. Doddridge, in his last years, seemed to have a spiritual foretaste of the heavenly joy and rest. Embarking for Lisbon, in the hope of benefit from warmer air, he was able to say to his wife in his cabin, when conscious that his life was almost ended, these cheerful and triumphant words: "I cannot express to you what a morning I have had. Such delightful and transporting views of the heavenly world as my Father is now indulging me with, no words can express." He died at Lisbon of consumption, at the age of fifty. He anticipated to the last the glorious rest he sings in his hymn.

“COME, YE SINNERS, POOR AND NEEDY.”

FEW hymns for the last hundred years have been more frequently sung, at times of special spiritual refreshing, than that beginning,

"Come, ye sinners, poor and needy."

It was written under the inspiration of a somewhat remarkable religious experience. Joseph Hart, its author, was born in London in 1712. He was liberally educated, and commenced life as a teacher. At times, in early manhood, he was deeply interested in the subject of religion, and led a restrained and prayerful life. But he fell a victim to temptation, engaged in many evil practices, and gained an unenviable notoriety for his dis

regard of decency and religious truth. "I was," he said, "in an abominable state, a loose backslider, and an audacious apostate." He published heathen translations of a pernicious tendency, and a skeptical work, entitled, "The Unreasonableness of Religion."

His conscious errors and lapses were followed by terrible compunctions of conscience, and these inward tortures, which gave him no peace, led at last to his reformation. He now began in earnest to seek the Saviour. After a period of great mental distress, he met with a change of heart, and experienced an abiding sense of the pardoning love of God. This happy change was wrought by his receiving a profound impression of the sufferings of Christ. He says, "The week before Easter, 1757, I had such an amazing view of the agony of Christ in the garden as I know not how well to describe. I was lost in wonder and adoration, and the impression was too deep, I believe, ever to be obliterated. I believe that no one can know anything of the sufferings of Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost." Under the influence of this experience he composed the first part of the hymn beginning,

"Come, all ye chosen saints of God."

This experience he has very vividly impressed upon his well-known hymn, “Come, ye sinners, poor and needy."

ORIGINAL.

Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched,

Weak and wounded, sick and sore;

Jesus ready stands to save you,
Full of pity joined with power;
He is able,

He is willing; doubt no more.

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