THEIR AUTHORS AND ORIGIN. 395
W. BROWN.
" Welcome, sacred day of rest." No. 762.
THIS hymn, given anonymously in the " Old" and "New Con gregational," and in other collections, has the above name given to it in " A Selection of Hymns for Congregational Worship," &c., by Thomas Russell, A.M., 20th edition, 1843. It is not in the tenth edition of " Russell s Selection, 1826." Of the author there is no known record.
S. F. SMITH, D J).
" Spirit of holiness, descend." No. 813.
THIS admirable hymn is by Dr. S. F. Smith, an eminent American Baptist minister. It is given without name in the " New Congregational." It is No. 384 in an American Hymn Book of which Dr. Smith was one of the editors. The work is entitled " The Psalmist : a New Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Baptist Churches," by Baron Stow and S. F. Smith, 1843. Dr. Smith was one of a committee appointed by the American Baptist Churches of New York to prepare this work. It is a large and valuable collection, containing 1,180 hymns, by 161 writers. Twenty-six of the hymns were contributed by Dr. Smith, and eight of the hymns in the "American Sabbath Hymn Book" are by him. He was editor, from 1843 to 1849, of " The Christian Review," an able work, published at Boston, America, and to which he contributed many extended and pow erful articles on the great religious books and questions of the day.
DYER.
" Time is earnest, passing by." No. 490.
THIS is part of a hymn of eight verses which was inserted by the editor in " The Bible Class Magazine," 1851, with the sig-
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