Charles Wesley, 1707-88
A favorite and appropriate hymn for use at religious reunions and conference gatherings. Wesley entitled it, “At meeting of Friends.”
For comments on Charles Wesley see [Hymn 6].
MUSIC. ARMENIA was composed by Sylvanus Billings Pond, 1792-1871, Albany, N. Y., a piano manufacturer. Billings wrote many fine tunes and in 1841 issued the United States Psalmody, in which this tune appeared.
323. How sweet, how heavenly is the sight
Joseph Swain, 1761-96
A beautiful hymn of Christian love, suggesting lines by Alice Carey:
He who loves best his fellowman
Is loving God the holiest way he can.
It appeared in the author’s Walworth Hymns, 1792, entitled, “The Grace of Christian Love.”