nsecrate his life and fortune to the service of Christ. He died in
Canada, Oct. 10, 1886, (Sankey's _Story of the Gospel Hymns_, pp.
245-6.)

_THE TUNE._

The music was composed by Charles Crozat Converse, LL.D., musician,
lawyer, and writer. He was born in Warren, Mass., 1832; a descendant of
Edward Converse, the friend of Gov. Winthrop and founder of Woburn,
Mass. He pursued musical and other studies in Leipsic and Berlin. His
compositions are numerous including concert overtures, symphonies and
many sacred and secular pieces. Residence at Highwood, Bergen Co., N.J.

The hymn is one of the most helpful of the Gospel Collections, and the
words and music have strengthened many a weak and failing soul to "try
again."

Have we trials and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged:
Take it to the Lord in prayer.

"I HEAR THE SAVIOUR SAY."

This is classed with the _Gospel Hymns_, but it was a much-used and
much-loved revival hymn--especially in the Methodist churches--several
years before Mr. Moody's great evangelical movement. It was written by
Mrs. Elvina M. Hall (since Mrs. Myers) who was born in Alexandria, Va.,
in 1818. She composed it in the spring of 1865, while sitting in the
choir of the M.E. Church, Baltimore, and the first draft was pencilled
on a fly-leaf of a singing book, _The New Lute of Zion_.

I hear the Saviour say,
Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in me thine all in all.

The music of the chorus helped to fix its words in the common mind, and
some idea of the Atonement acceptable, apparently, to both Arminians and
Calvinists; for Sunday-school children in the families of both, hummed
the tune or sang the refrain when alone--

Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe,
Sin had left a crimson stain;
He washed it white as snow.

_THE TUNE._

John Thomas Grape, who wrote the music, was born in Baltimore, Md., May
6, 1833. His modest estimate of his work appears in his remark that he
"dabbled" in music for his own amusement. Few composers have amused
themselves with better results.

"TELL ME THE OLD, OLD STORY."

Miss Kate Hankey, born about 1846, the daughter of an English banker,
is the author of this very devout and tender Christian poem, written
apparently in the eighteen-sixties. At least it is said that her little
volume, _Heart to Heart_, was published i