49 THE METHODIST HYMN-BOOK ILLUSTRATED
Mr. Crippen was born in London, 1841, and is descended from a Huguenot family settled at Canterbury. He is a Congregational minister. He published a volume of transla tions of ancient hymns and poems in 1868.
Hymn 978. To Thee our God we fly.
WILLIAM WALSHAM How, D.D. (177). A National Hymn, from S.P.C.K. Church Hymns, 1871.
Hymn 979. All glory to God in the sky.
CHARLES WESLEY (i).
Hymns for the Nativity of our Lord ; Works, iv. 125. The eighteenth and last of the set.
Ver. 5, No horrid alarum of war, is omitted.
Wesley (Works, xii. 122) regarded this as the very best in his brother s pamphlet of Nativity Hymns, but that collection did not^nclude Hark, how all the welkin rings. He was hugely displeased that R. Sheen omitted All glory to God in the sky in reprinting those hymns. On Tuesday, March i, the day before he died, after a very restless night he began to sing, All glory to God in the sky, and sang verses i and 3. Then he wished to write. He was not strong enough to do so ; but when Miss Ritchie asked what he would say, he answered, Nothing, but that God is with us.
Hymn 980. These things shall be! a loftier race. JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS.
Mr. Symonds was born at 7, Berkeley Square, Bristol, in 1840, and gained the English Essay Prize at Oxford in 1863 by his essay on The Renaissance. To that subject the larger part of his life was devoted. He was Fellow of Magdalen, but was compelled to reside abroad because of his health. He published a History of the Italian Renaissance, and many other works of great value and interest. His volume of poems, Many Moods, appeared in 1878, and Animi Figura, 1882. He died in Rome on April 19, 1893, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery. His daughter says, His own faith was so large, so broad. He had thirsted for knowledge and space.
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