Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-04-05

3 sinners whose love can neer forget
The worm wood and the gall,
And crown him-Lord of ali.
a. Let every kindred, every tribe,
on this terrestrial BALL
10 sns n,m csl,rn al majesty h,y sscribe' snd .u
s. oh, that with yonder sacred throng,
We at his feet may fall
Wen join the everlasting song,
And crown him-Lord of all.
And yet it Is seen that the line which
proved a stumbling block to Brother Stall is
really In the original and 1t was the "mon.
gers" who made the book in use in his
church that "tinkered" it. Likewise in the
second stanza OF their version, and fourth of
the original they have changed "your God
to tour God," and "stems'' to ''stem.'
How the revisers can justify the change
from Ye seed of Israel's chosen race " to
Ye chosen seed of Israeps race" we would
like to know. But in the Presbyterian so.
cial Hymn and Tune Book (ls65) "1srael's"
is altered to " Adams" and instead of the
9th stanza OF the original its Sd is taken for
the I'd of the version"
SOME MORE rINKERINe."
Had We the time and space, almost
innumerable illustrations might he given of
radical, often meaningless and sometimes
absurd changes in familiar hymns. Watts
wrote
Sweet fields beyond the swelling lood
etanu uresSeu IN WING RTttn
And as Stennet came after him, SteDnet
must be supposed to have plagiarized when
he wrote
"sweet fields arrayed in living green
And rivers of delight"
The original OF Mrs. Phoebe III. Browns
al love to steal awhile away" was entitled
An apology for my twilight rambles, ad-
dressed to a lady who had criticised her
apparent neglect of her family. 1t began
with this stanzs:
Eyes when the toilsome day is gone,
steals silently the glade along,
In twilight soft array
Another of the omitted verses Of her hymn
reads:
eel love TO mediate on death,
when will Its summons come,
With gentle power to steal my breath,
And waft an exile homen
Cowper's "There is Fountain filled with
blood" is nearly always cut down to five
stanzas, though seven were written In the
original. These are the other two:
"Lord believe thou hast prepared
Unworthy though be,
For me a b ood bought free reward
golden harp for me.
'"Tis strung and tuned for endless years,
And formed by power divine,
To sound in God the Fathers ears,
No other name but Thine"
Joseph Grigg, ten year old boy--who in
later years wrote the hymn "Behold a
Stranger at the Door'-was the author Of
Jesus, and shall It ever be-
mortal man ashamed of Thee
Ashamed of Thee, whom angels praise,
Whose glory shines through endless days "
But the hymn tinkerers deliberately
changed the last two lines to what DR.. Belch.
er calls this miserable bathos:
.scorned be the thought by rich and poor,
oh may scorn 1t more ana more"
Rev. Edmund Jones wrote come humble
sinner in whose breast but the tinkerers
have changed it to the " trembling sinner -
the first line Of the last stanzs, q l cannot
perish If l CO. is an alteration from " can
bit perish If CO."
Very few of the hymnals which include
Rev. DIR. Muhlenberg's famous " would
not live alway" have these concl nd ing
verses of it
That heavenly music bark sweet in the air,
The notes OF the harpers, how clear ringing
And see, soft unfolding. those portals OF gold,
The king all arrayed in his beauty behold
oh give me. oh give me the wings of a dove
To adore him, he near him, enwrapt with his
I but wait for the summons list for tho Wort,
Allelujah amen, evermore with the Lord"
Nearly every line of " Rock OF Ages" has
been altered. In the Presbyterian hymnal
we have three lines:
From thy riven side which flowed
Be of sin the double cure
Cleanse me from Its guilt and power"
Methodist version OF these same verses,
runs thus
From thy wounded side which fiowed,
BE of sin a double cure
save from wrath and make me pure"
There are various other versions. The
original Is like the Presbyterian in these
lines but i'll another part the text is
changed. But Toplady changed Watts
hymns remorselessly.
,Rev. Edward NJ. Longs illustrated History
OF Hymns and Their Authors.