_Brethren's Hymn-book_, 1801--

There shall each heart and tongue
His endless praise proclaim,
And sweeter voices join the song
Of Moses and the Lamb.

The Rev. William Hammond was born Jan. 6, 1719, at Battle, Sussex, Eng.,
and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. Early in his ministerial
life he was a Calvinistic Methodist, but ultimately joined the
Moravians. Died in London, Aug. 19, 1793. His collection of _Psalms and
Hymns and Spiritual Songs_ was published in 1745.

The Rev. Martin Madan, son of Col. Madan, was born 1726. He founded Lock
Hospital, Hyde Park, and long officiated as its chaplain. As a preacher
he was popular, and his reputation as a composer of music was
considerable. There is no proof that he wrote any original hymns, but he
amended, pieced and expanded the work of others. Died in 1770.

_THE TUNE._

The hymn has had a variety of musical interpretations. The more modern
piece is "St. Philip," by Edward John Hopkins, Doctor of Music, born at
Westminster, London, June 30, 1818. From a member of the Chapel Royal
boy choir he became organist of the Michtam Church, Surrey, and
afterwards of the Temple Church, London. Received his Doctor's degree
from the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1882.

[Illustration: Joseph Haydn]

"CROWN HIS HEAD WITH ENDLESS BLESSING."

The writer of this hymn was William Goode, who helped to found the
English Church Missionary Society, and was for twenty years the
Secretary of the "Society for the Relief of Poor Pious Clergymen." For
celebrating the praise of the Saviour, he seems to have been of like
spirit and genius with Perronet. He was born in Buckingham, Eng., April
2, 1762; studied for the ministry and became a curate, successor of
William Romaine. His spiritual maturity was early, and his habits of
thought were formed amid associations such as the young Wesleys and
Whitefield sought. Like them, even in his student days he proved his
aspiration for purer religious life by an evangelical zeal that cost him
the ridicule of many of his school-fellows, but the meetings for
conference and prayer which he organized among them were not unattended,
and were lasting and salutary in their effect.

Jesus was the theme of his life and song, and was his last word. He died
in 1816.

Crown His head with endless blessing
Who in God the Father's name
With compassion never ceasing
Comes salvation to proclaim.
Hail, ye sain