284 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED
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Ashamed of Jesus ! of that Friend On whom for heaven my hopes depend ! It must not be ! be this my shame, That I no more revere His name.
Ashamed of Jesus ! yes, I may, When I ve no crimes to wash away j No tear to wipe, no joy to crave, No fears to quell, no soul to save.
Till then (nor is the boasting vain), Till then I boast a Saviour slain : And oh, may this my portion be, That Saviour not ashamed of me !
Joseph Grigg, born somewhere between 1720-8, was the son of poor parents. In 1743 he became assistant minister at Silver Street Presbyterian Church, London. He retired from this post in 1747, on his marriage to a lady of property, the widow of Colonel Drew, and lived at St. Albans. He died at Walthamstow, October 29, 1768. Behold a Stranger at the door, and Jesus ! and shall it ever be, are the hymns by which he is chiefly known. His published works number more than forty.
Benjamin Francis (1734-99), born in Wales, studied at Bristol Baptist College, became Baptist minister at Sodbury. In 1757 he removed to Horsley (afterwards called Shortwood), in Gloucestershire, where he had a successful ministry of forty- two years. His Welsh hymns have been very popular.
��Hymn 462. Stand up ! stand up for Jesus. GEORGE DUFFIELD, D.D.
Dr. Duffield was the son of a Presbyterian minister, born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1818. He became Presbyterian pastor in 1840. He died in 1888. In Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868, p. 298, he says of this hymn, I caught its inspiration from the dying words of that noble young clergyman, Rev. Dudley Atkins Tyng, Rector of the Epiphany Church, Phila delphia. His last words were a message to the Young Men s Christian Association and the ministers associated with it in the noonday prayer-meeting during the great revival of 1858, usually known as "The Work of God in Philadelphia" : "Tell them to stand up for Jesus : now let us sing a hymn." As he had been
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