348 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED
Dr. William Barry says, This most tender of pilgrim songs may be termed the March of the Tractarian Movement. It is pure melody, austere yet hopeful. Cardinal Newman, p. 51.
��Hymn 625. Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us. JAMES EDMESTON (1791-1867).
Written for the children of the London Orphan Asylum, to the air Lewes, and published in his Sacred Lyrics, 1821.
Mr. Edmeston was an architect and surveyor, with whom Sir G. Gilbert Scott was pupil. He joined the Church of England, and was for many years churchwarden at St. Bar nabas, Homerton. He wrote nearly two thousand hymns.
Mr. Edmeston was a constant visitor to the London Orphan Asylum, for which he wrote this hymn.
Hymn 626. I dared not hope that Thou wouldst deign to come.
EDWIN HATCH, D.D. (244). In Towards Fields of Light, 1890.
Hymn 627. Light of the world, faint were our weary feet.
LAURA ORMISTON CHANT.
Born at Chepstow, 1848 ; daughter of F. W. Dibdin, C.E. She was a nurse in the London Hospital, and is a lecturer on literary and social subjects.
Hymn 628. Through the night of doubt and sorrow.
BERNHARDT SEVERIN INGEMANN ; translated by S. BARING-GOULD (455).
This hymn, Unity and Progress, was written in 1825, and published in Copenhagen, 1859. Mr. Baring-Gould s translation appeared in
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