—is answered by—
The lily must decay,
—but, owing to the sweetness of the favorite melody, it was never a saddening hymn for children.
THE TUNE.
Though George Kingsley's “Heber” has in some books done service for the Bishop's lines, “Siloam,” 369 / 319 easy-flowing and finely harmonized, is knit to the words as no other tune can be. It was composed by Isaac Baker Woodbury on shipboard during a storm at sea. A stronger illustration of tranquil thought in terrible tumult was never drawn.
“O Galilee, Sweet Galilee,” whose history has been given at the [end of chapter six], was not only often sung in Sunday-schools, but chimed (in the cities) on steeple-bells—nor is it by any means forgotten today—on the Sabbath and in social singing assemblies. Like “Precious Jewels,” it has been, in many places, taken up by street boys with a relish, and often displaced the play-house ditties in the lips of little newsboys and bootblacks during a leisure hour or a happy mood.
“I AM SO GLAD”
This lively little melody is still a welcome choice to many a lady teacher of fluttering five-year-olds, when both vocal indulgence and good gospel are needed for the prattlers in her class. It has been as widely sung in Scotland as in America. Mr. Philip P. Bliss, hearing one day the words of the familiar chorus—
O, how I love Jesus,
—suddenly thought to himself,—