ix days' work is done,
Another Sabbath is begun.

All were Baptist ministers. Samuel was born in 1727, at Exeter, Eng.,
and at the age of twenty-one became his father's assistant, and
subsequently his successor over the church in Little Wild Street,
Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.

Majestic sweetness sits enthroned
Upon the Saviour's brow;
His head with radiant glories crowned,
His lips with grace o'erflow.

* * * * *

To Him I owe my life and breath
And all the joys I have;
He makes me triumph over death,
He saves me from the grave.

* * * * *

Since from His bounty I receive
Such proofs of love divine,
Had I a thousand hearts to give,
Lord, they should all be Thine.

Samuel Stennett was one of the most respected and influential ministers
of the Dissenting persuasion, and a confidant of many of the most
distinguished statesmen of his time. The celebrated John Howard was his
parishoner and intimate friend. His degree of Doctor of Divinity was
bestowed upon him by Aberdeen University. Besides his theological
writings he composed and published thirty-eight hymns, among them--

On Jordan's stormy banks I stand,

When two or three with sweet accord,

Here at Thy table, Lord, we meet,

and--

"'Tis finished," so the Saviour cried.

"Majestic Sweetness" began the third stanza of his longer hymn--

To Christ the Lord let every tongue.

Dr. Stennett died in London, Aug. 24, 1795.

_THE TUNE._

For fifty or sixty years "Ortonville" has been linked with this devout
hymn, and still maintains its fitting fellowship. The tune, composed in
1830, was the work of Thomas Hastings, and is almost as well-known and
as often sung as his immortal "Toplady." (See chap. 3, "Rock of Ages.")

"ALL HAIL THE POWER OF JESUS' NAME."

This inspiring lyric of praise appears to have been written about the
middle of the eighteenth century. Its author, the Rev. Edward Perronet,
son of Rev. Vincent Perronet, Vicar of Shoreham, Eng., was a man of
great faith and humility but zealous in his convictions, sometimes to
his serious expense. He was born in 1721, and, though eighteen years
younger than Charles Wesley, the two became bosom friends, and it was
under the direction of the Wesleys that Perronet became a preacher in
the evangelical movement. Lady Huntingdon later became his patr