n Baptist Publication Society as manager of one of its branches.
He has written several Sunday-school songs set to music by W.H. Doane.

_THE TUNE_,

By Horatio R. Palmer is exactly what the hymn demands. The range
scarcely exceeds an octave, but with the words "From on high," the
stroke of the soprano on upper D carries the feeling to unseen summits,
and verifies the title of the song. From that note, through melody and
chorus the "Triumph by and by" rings clear.

"NOT HALF HAS EVER BEEN TOLD"

This is emotional, but every word and note is uplifting, and creates the
mood for religious impressions. The writer, Rev. John Bush Atchison, was
born at Wilson, N.Y., Feb. 18, 1840, and died July 15, 1882.

I have read of a beautiful city
Far away in the kingdom of God,
I have read how its walls are of jasper,
How its streets are all golden and broad;
In the midst of the street is Life's River
Clear as crystal and pure to behold,
But not half of that city's bright glory
To mortals has ever been told.

The chorus (twice sung)--

Not half has been told,

--concludes with repeat of the two last lines of this first stanza.

Mr. Atchison was a Methodist clergyman who composed several good hymns.
"Behold the Stone is Rolled Away," "O Crown of Rejoicing," and "Fully
Persuaded," indicate samples of his work more or less well-known. "Not
Half Has Ever Been Told" was written in 1875.

_THE TUNE._

Dr. Otis F. Presbry, the composer, was a young farmer of York,
Livingston Co., N.Y., born there the 20th of December, 1820. Choice of a
professional life led him to Berkshire Medical College, where he
graduated in 1847. In after years his natural love of musical studies
induced him to give his time to compiling and publishing religious
tunes, with hymns more especially for Sunday-schools.

He became a composer and wrote the melody to Atchison's words in 1877,
which was arranged by a blind musician of Washington, D.C., J.W.
Bischoff by name, with whom he had formed a partnership. The solo is
long--would better, perhaps, have been four-line instead of eight--but
well sung, it is a flight of melody that holds an assembly, and touches
hearts.

Dr. Presbry's best known book was _Gospel Bells_ (1883), the joint
production of himself, Bischoff, and Rev. J.E. Rankin. He died Aug. 20,
1901.

"COME."

One of the most characteristic (both words and music) of the _Gospel
Hymns_--"Mr