supplied a copy to the "Gospel Magazine," and to have given the name and age of the author. The hymn appears in the "Gospel Magazine" for April, 1774, with the title "Shame of Jesus conquered by Love, by a child of ten years." Five verses are given, but there is no author's name mentioned. Two verses of slightly inferior merit are omitted here, the other verses are not materially altered.
WILLIAM HAMMOND, B.A.
Died 1783.
William Hammond was of St. John's College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A., and in 1744 he published "Medulla Ecclesiæ: the doctrines of original sin, &c., stated and demonstrated from the homilies of the Church of England." This reached a second edition, and was reprinted in America. He is said to have afterwards been one of the early Calvinistic Methodist preachers, and, subsequently, with his friend Cennick, he joined the Moravian Brethren. He was interred in their burying-ground at Chelsea, London. He also published some discourses, and left in manuscript an autobiography, written in Greek. His "Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, and Discourses," were published in 1745.
We are indebted to him for the vigorous heart-stirring hymn—
"Awake, and sing the song."—No. 339.
The original is found at page 84 of the work of 1745 just referred to. In the original the hymn consists of 14 stanzas, and is headed, "Before singing of hymns, by way of introduction."
"Lord, we come before Thee now." No. 785.
This is part of a piece of eight stanzas of eight lines given at page 82 of the same work. Hammond's hymns are full of Scripture truth, and of the experience of the Christian. He says in the preface, "In the following pages are a number of hymns suited to the various states and capacities of the children of God."
