PREFACE

CONTENTS

HYMNS.

I. THE WILLING SACRIFICE.

II. THE RESURRECTION.

III. HYMN FOR THE COMMUNION.

IV. THE BEACON.

V. THE BLOSSOMING ROD.

VI. HYMN FOR THE PENITENT CONVICT.

VII. HYMN FOR THE BLIND.

VIII. THE HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS.

IX. SEXTON'S HYMN.

X. THE SECOND ADVENT.

XI. HOPES THAT ABIDE.

XII. SOLDIER'S HYMN.

XIII. HYMN FOR NIGHT.

XIV. SONG OF JOY.

XV. THE RETROSPECT.

XVI. THE SUPPLICANT.

XVII. WEAVER'S HYMN.

XVIII. EMIGRANT'S HYMN.

XIX. FISHERMEN'S HYMN.

XX. TEACHER'S HYMN.

XXI. WORKMAN'S HYMN.

XXII. SEMPSTRESS'S HYMN.

XXIII. RAGGED BOY'S HYMN.

XXIV. RAGGED GIRL'S HYMN.

XXV. POLICEMAN'S HYMN.

XXVI. PAUPER'S HYMN.

XXVII. POSTMAN'S HYMN.

XXVIII. SERVANT'S HYMN.

XXIX. MINER'S HYMN.

XXX. GARDENER'S HYMN.

XXXI. LABOURER'S HYMN.

XXXII. WIFE'S HYMN.

XXXIII. HYMN OF INDUSTRY.

XXXIV. SOCIAL HYMN.

XXXV. NATIONAL HYMN.

XXXVI. SOLDIER'S HYMN.

XXXVII. THE WISE MEN FROM THE EAST.

XXXVIII. SONG OF HOPE.

XXXIX. THE FEARFUL HEART.

XL. CONVICTION OF SIN.

XLI. THE SACRED GUEST.

XLII. THE MOURNER.

XLIII. THE CHRISTIAN BOND.

XLIV. THE CURE AT GETHSEMANE.

XLV. HYMN FOR THE COMMUNION.

XLVI. HYMN FOR THE DYING.

XLVIL DEATH IS NOT DREADFUL.

XLVIII. NEVER FORSAKEN.

XLIX. THY FATHER'S FRIEND.

L. FEAR OF GOD AND FEAR OF MAN.

LI. THE SINNERS' PORTION.

LII. DEATH-BED HYMN.

LIII. SAVE ONE!

LIV. NEW YEAR'S HYMN, WRITTEN AT THE TIME OF THE INDIAN MUTINY, 1857.

POEMS.

1 THE INDIAN MAID.

II. BLANCHE.

III. PRIDE.

IV. A DREAM OF THE SECOND ADVENT.

Footnotes

Index to First Lines.

C. Nelson and Sons' Publications. HISTORY AND TRAVEL.

Transcriber's Notes

By
A. L. O. E.,

Author of “The Triumph over Midian,” “Rescued from Egypt,” “The Shepherd of Bethlehem,” &c., &c.

LONDON:
T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW;
EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.
1868.