How he has made the Long Meter measure sound like the great Open Diapason of the pipe organ in the following lines!
“Before Jehovah’s awful throne,
Ye nations bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone,
He can create, and he destroy.”
What if John Wesley does add a majestic note or two in the foregoing hymn; the singer of the whole hymn is the noble spirit of little Dr. Watts.
Had David himself returned with an English tongue, he could not have reproduced the spirit of the seventy-second Psalm more nobly:
“Jesus shall reign where’er the sun
Doth his successive journeys run;
His Kingdom spread from shore to shore,