* Montgomery's poem, “The Stranger,” has seven stanzas. The full dramatic effect of their connection could only be produced by a set piece.

James Montgomery

“WHEN FOR ETERNAL WORLDS I STEER.”

It was no solitary experience for hearers in a house of prayer where the famous Elder Swan held the pulpit, to feel a climactic thrill at the sudden breaking out of the eccentric orator with this song in the very middle of his sermon—

When for eternal worlds I steer,

And seas are calm and skies are clear,

And faith in lively exercise,

And distant hills of Canaan rise,

My soul for joy then claps her wings,

And loud her lovely sonnet sings,