is chief
collection is dated 1746.]

"AND WILL THE JUDGE DESCEND?"

Is one of Doddridge's monitory hymns, once sung to J.C. Woodman's tune
of "State St." with the voice of both the Old and New Testaments in the
last verse:

Ye sinners, seek His grace
Whose wrath ye cannot bear;
Fly to the shelter of His Cross,
And find Salvation there.

Jonathan Call Woodman was born in Newburyport, Mass., July 12, 1813,
and was a teacher, composer, and compiler. Was organist of St. George's
Chapel, in Flushing, L.I., and in 1858 published _The Musical Casket_.
Died January, 1894. He wrote "State St." for William B. Bradbury, in
August, 1844.

"HASTEN SINNER, TO BE WISE"

Is one of the few unforgotten hymns of Thomas Scott, every second line
repeating the solemn caution,--

Stay not for tomorrow's sun,

--and every line enforcing its exhortation with a new word, "To be
wise," "to implore," "to return," and "to be blest" were natural
cumulatives that summoned and wooed the sinner careless and astray. It
is a finished piece of work, but it owes its longevity less to its
structural form than to its spirit. For generations it has been sung to
"Pleyel's Hymn."

The Rev. Thomas Scott (not Rev. Thomas Scott the Commentator) was born
in Norwich, Eng., in 1705, and died at Hupton, in Norfolk, 1776. He was
a Dissenting minister, pastor for twenty-one years--until disabled by
feeble health--at Lowestoft in Suffolk. He was the author of--

Angels roll the rock away.

"MUST JESUS BEAR THE CROSS ALONE?"

This emotional and appealing hymn still holds its own in the hearts of
millions, though probably two hundred years old. It was written by a
clergyman of the Church of England, the Rev. Thomas Shepherd, Vicar of
Tilbrook, born in 1665. Joining the Nonconformists in 1694, he settled
first in Castle Hill, Nottingham, and afterward in Bocking, Essex, where
he remained until his death, January, 1739. He published a selection of
his sermons, and _Penitential Cries_, a book of sacred lyrics, some of
which still appear in collections.

The startling question in the above line is answered with emphasis in
the third of the stanza,--

_No_! There's a cross for every one,
And there's a cross for _me_,

--and this is followed by the song of resolve and triumph,--

The consecrated cross I'll bear,
Till death shall set me free.
And then go home my crown to wear,
For there's a c