Our least service shall be glorious—
All our tribute God shall take.
I have already referred to Mr. Gill’s national hymn
Lift thy song among the nations,
England of the Lord beloved,
which is based on the text, ‘He hath not dealt so with any nation. Praise ye the Lord.’[197]
A few other hymns by English Nonconformist writers may be found, some, e.g. Thomas Binney’s ‘Eternal Light,’ being of a very high order. Mr. Spurgeon wrote a good many hymns and psalm-versions, but they are not likely to be widely used. One, intended as a paraphrase of Ps. xli., might, perhaps, find a place among hymns of Philanthropy, where our hymnals are still weak.
Jesus, poorest of the poor,
Man of sorrows, Child of grief!
Happy they whose bounteous store