The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-22

Its imagery embraces the associations of one of the most sublime and interest ing religious experiences recorded in the at Luz. And he lighted upon a certain place." says the Scripture of Jacobs wanderings. and tarried there all night because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows. and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and be- hold ladder set up on the earth, and the top of 1t reached to heaven; and be- hold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
 A Reproduction.
 The hymn alomst literally reproduces this delightful passage:
 Though, like a wanderer,
 The sun gone down,
 Darkness be over me,
 My rest a stone,
 Yet in my dreams I'd be
 Nearer my God, to Thee,
 Nearer to Thee,
 The Scriptural account of the awaken ing of Jacob on the morning after the vision is as vividly brought to mind in the figures in the fourth stanza:
 Then with my waking thoughts
 Bright with Thy praise;
 Out of my stony grief
 Bethel I'll raise;,
 So by my woes to be
 Nearer, my God, to Thee,
 Nearer to Thee,
 Mrs. Sarah Flowers Adams author of the hymn. was a daughter of Benjamin Flower. an English writer and editor. She was born in 1895 Her mother, wo- man of culture, died early in life. There were two daughters. Sarah and Eliza. The strongest attachment existed be- tween them. Both possessed the fine fseiin1s of their mother and were fond of books, music. poetry and art.
 The Two Sisters. Their aesthetic tastes ruled even in childhood, and girlhood to them was glowing season Of aspiration ana ex- music and musieal composition. and her sister to religious poetry. They were Unitarian in their church relations. but feeling and high religious. attachments. rather than by denominational require ments of sectarian views. "E,IIza Flower says critic, attained a bjybar rank in musical -c<tH position than before her time had been Sched by sn2l of her sex" Sarah Fl0wef made the Composition of poetry her cupation while her sister pursued hes music musical al | I5stSses Adams. an eminent engineer and a contrihutor to the best periodical ltera- ture,
 Her First Poem. s,4. | In ,sl she published dramatic poem ,D Eve acts. entitled "Vivia Perpetua," [" in which she portrays the religious life. s1,rserings sm strong faith and endurance of 'iT TTte ea hymn. Nearer, My God, to Thee, ' mas a record of her own religious expe- rtancs and was written as a memorial nS answered prayer, probably without or onv deXnectatlon that it would be of pub nnnS nn seTvice 1t was furnished with thir- tnan other hymns to Charles Fox's col LeeH !eetioU of "Hvmns and Anthems" pub | itShnd in London in 1S41.
 iisree rhe cares of married life in nowise ahated inc gifted sister. Regarding "Vi- aTa s,ts parnetua' as the fruit of their joint ssn,rstipns ssa and studies. she dedicates 1t ase se phar sister in lines in which occur the soI,oWing tender sentiment:
 Tn Thy content win wreath more Than Or,srt nsarths wide garden ever could An 7uPPiff' me! think me still how poor a AD1 rsfnr HT fnr refuge to Thy love again. anu ny Sister and Invalid. | ry.. sister,s health. beginning to de- oIins and evidences of pulmonary con- Sumntion Sl on appearing. Mrs. Adams devoted