The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-02

beginning, For thee, oh dear, dear cOuntry:r
and bad as the other mutllatIons are. those of
this hymn exceed belief. In 'The Celestial
Country" are two passages which, in their proLer
place, are so spiritual, so eXquisitely beautiful
that no reader ever passed them unnoticed. To
illustrate this, we quote the Two stanzas pre-.
cIsely as they are printed in the 'Seven Great
Hymns:-
"'Jesus the Gem of Beauty,
True God ana Man. they sing
The never.failing Garden,
]he over-golden Ring;
The Door, the Pledge, the Husband,
The Guardian of his Court.
The Day-star OF salvation,
The Porter and the POrt!
"Thou hast no shore fair ocean,
Thou hast no tIme bright day!
Dear Fountain of ReIreshment
10 pilgrims far awayl
Upon the rock of ages
they raise Thy hoy tower;
Thine Is the victOr's laurel,
And thine the 90 den dover"
From these stanZas the compilers have eX-
tacted the finest tigure-have hitched it to pas
sage with which 1t has no connection in thought,
or style, or contigulty, and have reduced il to
mere rhyme and bad grammar, IN the following
stanZa:-
"Oh one, oh only mansion,
oh paradise OF jOY,
Where tears are ever banished,
And smHes hare no GHOy;
Thou hast no Shores fair ocean,
Thou haet no tme bright day,
Dear fountain of re Iresnment
10 pilgrims far away"
DuI even JulS Is uOJ all. Inc t0lTJy-IOurJ0
stanza OF The Celestial Country 1--WE cite from
the ''Seven Great Hymns" in winch alone 1t is
divided INTO numbered stanZas) contains these
Jerusalem the glorious,
The glory of the eject,
Oear ana future vision
That eager hearts eTDect."
The forty.second stanza contains these:--
80 SaOeet and blessed country,
Shall ever see thy tace?
o Sl1eet and blessed country,
Shall ever win thy graceY
Will il be believed that such remote and dis
connected lines have been extracted and brought
together thus p
"Oh SUeet and blessed country,
The home OF Gods elect!
on, SI1eeE and blessed country
That eager hearts eTpect.
Jesus in mercy bring us
TO that dear land OF rest;
VINO art with q cd the Father
And Spirit ever blest."
the last four lines, it is to be observed, are not
part OF 1.-THE Celestial Country but are the
work of some other author. Does any other
hymnal in the English language possess another
such specimen OF conglomerate as this unhappy
stanZa?
The Leading and intelligent minds of the Epis-
copal Church will not accept these mutilated
and injured hymns. They will form subject
of controversy lust so long as they remain in
the Prayer-Book. The originals are too well
known to suffer these spurious copies to be
accepted or forgotten. And by the younger
members Of the Church the battle will be re.
newed if a defeat be suffered now. Within the
last two years there has sprung up wonderful
| interest in these old lyrics OF the medieval
Church. AS that study increases, this subject
| will be reConsidered. The student who comes
back 10 his Pray er-Book to find that it is false to
| the authors who enrich Its pages, will seek to
purify it. The Clergyman who knows the Ori-
ginal hymn will never infict on his congrega-
| ton the spurious copy. Time will right the
| error, IT the Church be not wise enough TO right
1t now.
| M. Michel Chevalier. the distinguished
| French economist, has written an article in tie
"Revue des DeuX Mondes," warning the Eu-
ropern peolpe against war, partly because war
| does not pay, and partly because nothing is
worth lighting ioI. He advises the formation
| of kind OF loose confederation of Europeaa
| States, in order, among other things, to be
ready for a cOtnbintd resistance to the armed
| interference In European affairs of which the
| United States will probably be guilty as soon as
| they can boast l00,000 900 inhabitants.
-Messrs. Ward, Lock & Tyler (London) have
| already sold, it is said, nearly $4,000 copies OF
the first volume sf the cheap issue OF Miss Brad
| dOns novels, which contains ''Lady Audley's
| Secret" Notwithstanding the large number ol
copies of the work alreadyEdisposed of in other
| foIms.
-Apropos of Congresses, there has Just ap
| peared in Paris, in tour large octave volumes
| t2200 pp.) "Le Congress de ViGnne ct les Traitet
| de 1916" BY Oomte DAngeberg. PrehXed IS an
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