I heard the voice of Jesus say,
Come unto Me and rest.
We teach our children to sing the same songs in school and in the family.
Even more impressive is the fact that in the Holy Communion the same hymns are sung in the great cathedral, where men kneel before the high altar, and in the homely village chapel, where simple folk sit down at the Lord’s Table. Charles Wesley the poet of Methodism, Doddridge the Nonconformist pastor, Montgomery the Moravian bookseller, Rawson the Congregational lawyer, Bonar the Scotch Presbyterian, Bickersteth the Anglican bishop, are the writers whose hymns are common to all Englishmen as they break the bread and drink the wine in memory of their Redeemer’s death.
We know no distinction of creed or Church when we sing—
Come, let us join our friends above,
That have obtained the prize;
and we are all one as we entrust our dead to the Lord of Life—
Father, in Thy gracious keeping,
Leave we now Thy servant sleeping.