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for Dobyr, gave him a handsome reward, and next year built him a nesv house and filled its cattle-sheds from his own estates. Over the door was an iron tablet, bearing the representation of a raven with a ring in its bill, and the verse
Thou everywhere hast sway, And all things serve Thy might ; Thy every act pure blessing is, Thy path unsullied light.
��Hymn 481. Give to the winds thy fears. GERHARDT (163) ; translated by JOHN WESLEY (36). The second part of 480. Worts, i. 127.
When Whitefield was on board ship in September, 1769, ready to sail on his last voyage to America, he wrote to Wesley: Duty is ours. Future things belong to Him, who always did, and always will, order all things well.
Leave to His sovereign sway, &c.
On February 9, 1796, Zachary Macaulay sent some books to Miss Mills, whom he afterwards married. He says, The small hymn-book was my companion in hunger and nakedness and distress. We must no doubt make many allowances for the peculiarities of Methodism ; but, on the whole, as the frequent marks of approbation will show you, it pleases me much. One of them beginning, "Give to the winds thy fears," has often cheered my mind as I viewed the desolation caused by the French visit. This refers to the invasion at Sierra Leone, of which he was then governor.
William Dawson died on July 4, 1841, at Colne, in Lanca shire, where he had gone to preach. The night before he had chosen the hymns to be used in the service, but in the early morning he was found struggling for breath. He was helped to a chair, and leaning back in it, he feebly grasped his staff and spoke a few farewell words to the loving friends who hung over him in distress precious words, that showed how calm, clear, and bright burnt the rlame of his spirit s life, of his Christian hope.
Let us in life, in death, Thy steadfast truth declare,
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