Dr. S.F. Smith's hymn of much the same tone and tenor—
Softly fades the twilight ray
Of the holy Sabbath day,
—is commonly sung to the tune of “Holley.”
George Hews, an American composer and piano-maker, was born in Massachusetts 1800, and died July 6, 1873. No intelligence of him or his work or former locality is at hand, beyond this brief note in Baptie, “He is believed to have followed his trade in Boston, and written music for some of Mason's earlier books.”
DEDICATION.
“CHRIST IS OUR CORNER-STONE.”
This reproduces in Chandler's translation a song-service in an ancient Latin liturgy (angulare fundamentum).