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ISE, my soul, and stretch Thy wings,
Thy better portion trace;

Rise from transitory things,

Towards heaven, thy native place :
Sun, and moon, and stars decay :
Time shall soon this earth remove;
Rise, my soul, and haste away
To seats prepared above.

Rivers to the ocean run,

Nor stay in all their course;
Fire ascending seeks the sun :
Both speed them to their source;
So my soul, derived from God,
Pants to view His glorious face,
Upward tends to His abode,
To rest in His embrace.

343.-The Head of the Church. REVELATION XV. 3.

ROM Hymns for Times of Trouble and
Persecution, by John and Charles

Wesley, Bristol, 1745. It is the last

Hymn in the little collection. The

writers, having expressed their loyalty and uttered their prayers for the deliverance of the realm from the threatening rebellion, break forth into this glowing anthem to the KING OF KINGS.

HEAD

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EAD of Thy Church triumphant,
We joyfully adore Thee;
Till Thou appear, Thy members here

Shall sing like those in glory.
We lift our hearts and voices
With blest anticipation,
And cry aloud, and give to God
The praise of our salvation.

While in affliction's furnace,

And passing through the fire,

Thy love we praise, which knows our days,

And ever brings us nigher.

We clap our hands exulting

In Thine almighty favour:

The love Divine which made us Thine Shall keep us Thine for ever.

Gird thy heavenly armour on, Wear it every night and day; Ambushed lies the evil one;

Watch and pray.

Hear the victors who o'ercame ; Still they mark each warrior's way; All with one sweet voice exclaim,

Watch and pray.

Hear, above all, hear thy Lord,
Him thou lovest to obey;
Hide within thy heart His word,

Watch and pray.

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NEHEMIAH ix. 19.

IN the collected edition of Dr. Newman's poems, Verses on Various Occasions, 1868, this Hymn is signed "At sea, June 16, 1833."

Dr. Newman writes in his Apologia, in reference to the time when he was hoping and longing to restore "Catholicity" to the English Establishment: "I was aching to get home (from Sicily), yet for want of a vessel I was kept at Palermo for three weeks. I began to visit the churches, and they calmed my impatience, though I did not attend any services. I knew nothing of the Presence of the Blessed Sacrament there. At last I got off in an orange boat bound for Marseilles. We were becalmed a whole week in the Straits of Bonifacio. Then it was that I wrote the lines Lead, kindly Light,' which have since