892 DUE HYMNS :
This hymn so happily combining variety with unity, so simple and striking in form, and so thoroughly evangelical in doctrine, deserves a place in the collection of the denomination to which the author belongs.
Mr. Gunn is the author of " History of Nonconformity in Warminster ; including an Account of the Oldest Chapel in Eng land," 1853 ; " Congregational Psalmody," a Tract published by the Congregational Union in I860 ; " A Memorial of the Non- conforming Clergy of Wilts and East Somerset in 1662," pub lished by request of the Wilts and East Somerset Union, in 1862 ; "Church Efficiency," published by request of a conference of ministers, &c., held at Bristol in 1863 ; " Church Principles," 1863, and of some sermons published separately.
G. N. ALLEN.
" Must Jesus bear the cross alone ? " No. 652.
IN the American " Plymouth Collection," 1855, by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, this hymn is divided into two parts after verse three, the name is inserted there, and the numbering of the verses begins afresh. Inquiries on both sides of the Atlantic have up to this time failed to elicit any information cone erning the author of this pleasing and impassioned hymn.
ANNE BRONTE.
18201849.
" Oppressed with sin and woe." No. 525.
THIS simple and expressive Christian hymn is found at page 494 of " Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, by Ellis and Acton Bell. A new edition revised, with a biographical notice of the authors, a selection from their literary remains, and a preface by Currer Bell, 1850." It is now well known that these names were pseudonymes for Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Bronte, the
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