's Gate Hill," while walking to and from
church.

Another four-line doxology, adopted probably from Dr. Hatfield
(1807-1883), is almost entirely superseded by Ken's stanza, being of
even more pronounced credal character.

To God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, Three in One.
Be honor, praise and glory given
By all on earth and all in heaven.

The _Methodist Hymnal_ prints a collection of ten doxologies, two by
Watts, one by Charles Wesley, one by John Wesley, one by William Goode,
one by Edwin F. Hatfield, one attributed to "Tate and Brady," one by
Robert Hawkes, and the one by Ken above noted. These are all technically
and intentionally doxologies. To give a history of doxologies in the
general sense of the word would carry one through every Christian age
and language and end with a concordance of the Book of Psalms.

[Illustration: Oliver Holden]

_THE TUNE._

Few would think of any music more appropriate to a standard doxology
than "Old Hundred." This grand Gregorian harmony has been claimed to be
Luther's production, while some have believed that Louis Bourgeois,
editor of the French _Genevan Psalter_, composed the tune, but the
weight of evidence seems to indicate that it was the work of Guillaume
le Franc, (William Franck or William the Frenchman,) of Rouen, in
France, who founded a music school in Geneva, 1541. He was Chapel Master
there, but removed to Lausanne, where he played in the Catholic choir
and wrote the tunes for an Edition of Marot's and Beza's Psalms. Died in
Lausanne, 1570.

"THE LORD DESCENDED FROM ABOVE."

A flash of genuine inspiration was vouchsafed to Thomas Sternhold when
engaged with Rev. John Hopkins in versifying the Eighteenth Psalm. The
ridicule heaped upon Sternhold and Hopkins's psalmbook has always
stopped, and sobered into admiration and even reverence at the two
stanzas beginning with this leading line--

The Lord descended from above
And bowed the heavens most high,
And underneath His feet He cast
The darkness of the sky.

On cherub and on cherubim
Full royally He rode,
And on the wings of mighty winds
Came flying all abroad.

Thomas Sternhold was born in Gloucestershire, Eng. He was Groom of the
Robes to Henry VIII, and Edward VI., but is only remembered for his
_Psalter_ published in 1562, thirteen years after his death in 1549.

_THE TUNE._

"Nottingham" (now sometimes entitled "St. Ma