[173]Advent Sunday.
[174]This was written in 1825, two years before the publication of Heber’s Hymns and of the Christian Year.
[175]Barry’s Newman, pp. 51, 52.
[176]John Ellerton, p. 185.
[177]Lyte wrote some verses, ‘The Dying Christian to his Soul,’ which are in a much more triumphant strain, but they are not equal to Toplady’s poem.
[178]Holy Year, xi. Dr. Wordsworth was then (1862) Canon of Westminster.
[179]‘Conversation of an hour and a half with Anstice on practical religion, particularly as regards our own situation. I bless and praise God for his presence here.’—Morley’s Gladstone, vol. i. pp. 55, 56.
[180]It is omitted from the Methodist Hymn-book. It was No. 990 in the former book, and is in the Presbyterian (469) and Baptist (641).
[181]This hymn is not in Hymns Ancient and Modern, but it is in Church Hymns, Presbyterian, Baptist, Congregational, Horder’s, Primitive Methodist, and many other hymn-books.
[182]Westminster Abbey Hymn-book, 288; Young People’s Hymnal, 161.