281 OUR HYMNS :
" Behold the expected time draw near." No. 909.
This is No. 428 in the same collection, where it has two additional verses. Dr. Collyer, in his " Collection, 1812," gives seven of Mrs. Yoke s pleasing hymns, six of which are, like the above, missionary hymns. The conversion of the world was the sublime object that moved her Christian muse. One of her hymns is headed " The Taheite Mission." She seems to have watched with the deepest interest each anxious and difficult step of the early progress of that mission, and in that hymn the words occur
" When Jesus on the cross was lifted high, 0, was -there no Taheitean in His eye? "
JOHN BUETON.
" Holy Bible, book Divine." No. 464.
THERE is an author now living at Stratford, Essex, whose hymns have been published by the Religious Tract Society, and who has often been supposed to have written this hymn. But he has informed the author of this work that he can lay no claim to this hymn, as it was written, it is believed, in 1800, three years before his own birth. "The Youths Monitor," by John Burton, 1799, is by the author of the hymn.
KIBKHAM.
" How firm- a foundation, ye saints of the Lord." No. 664.
THIS is part of a hymn that appeared in " Rippon s Selection, 1787," with seven verses. Mr. Kirkham is said to have been one of the early Methodists, but there is no reference to him in Charles Wesley s Diary. This hymn is not in " Thomas Kirkham 8 Collection, 1788." Rippon gives to it and to some others in his "Collection," the letter " K," but there is no proof that they are Kirkham s. Dr. Alexander Fletcher, in his
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