artling at first, but the adoption is quite in keeping with the
policy of Luther and Wesley.

"St. Kevin" written to it forty years ago by John Henry Cornell,
organist of St. Paul's, New York City, is sweet and sympathetic.

The newest church collection (1905) gives the beautiful air and harmony
of "Athens" to the hymn, and notes the music as a "Greek Melody."

But the nameless English tune, of uncertain authorship[31] that
accompanies the words in the smaller old manuals, and which delighted
Sunday-schools for a generation, is still the favorite in the memory of
thousands, and may be the very music first written.

[Footnote 31: Harmonized by Hubert P. Main.]

"WE SPEAK OF THE REALMS OF THE BLEST."

Mrs. Elizabeth Mills, wife of the Hon. Thomas Mills, M.P., was born at
Stoke Newington, Eng., 1805. She was one of the brief voices that sing
one song and die. This hymn was the only note of her minstrelsy, and it
has outlived her by more than three-quarters of a century. She wrote it
about three weeks before her decease in Finsbury Place, London, April
21, 1839, at the age of twenty-four.

We speak of the land of the blest,
A country so bright and so fair,
And oft are its glories confest,
But what must it be to be there!

* * * * *

We speak of its freedom from sin,
From sorrow, temptation and care,
From trials without and within,
But what must it be to be there!

_THE TUNE._

The hymn, like several of the Gospel hymns besides, was carried into the
Sunday-schools by its music. Mr. Stebbins' popular duet-and-chorus is
fluent and easily learned and rendered by rote; and while it captures
the ear and compels the voice of the youngest, it expresses both the
pathos and the exaltation of the words.

George Coles Stebbins was born in East Carleton, Orleans Co., N.Y., Feb.
26, 1846. Educated at common school, and an academy in Albany, he turned
his attention to music and studied in Rochester, Chicago, and Boston. It
was in Chicago that his musical career began, while chorister at the
First Baptist Church; and while holding the same position at Clarendon
St. Church, Boston, (1874-6), he entered on a course of evangelistic
work with D.L. Moody as gospel singer and composer. He was co-editor
with Sankey and McGranahan of _Gospel Hymns_.

"ONLY REMEMBERED."

This hymn, beginning originally with the lines,--

Up and away like the dew of