THE TUNE.
No single melody has attached itself to this hymn, the scope of selection being as large as the 132 / 102 supply of appropriate common-metre tunes. Barnby's “Holy Trinity,” Wade's “Holy Cross” and Griggs' tune (of his own name) are all good, but many, on the giving out of the hymn, would associate it at once with the more familiar “Heber” by George Kingsley and expect to hear it sung. It has the uplift and unction of John Newton's—
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In the believer's ear.