ed his eyes as he sang, expecting every moment to be
pierced through with the threatening spears. When he reached the stanza,
"Let every kindred, every tribe," he opened his eyes. What was his
surprise to see every spear lowered, and many of the savages moved to
tears!

He remained for two years and a half, preaching the story of redemption
and leading many of the natives to Jesus. When he was about to return to
America on furlough, they pleaded, "O missionary, come back to us again!"
He did so, and finally passed away in the midst of these people who had
learned to love the man who had brought them the gospel of Christ.

It is interesting to know that, while the people of both England and
America prize this hymn very highly, they sing it to different melodies.
The tune used in America is called "Coronation" and was composed by a
carpenter of Charlestown, Mass., by the name of Oliver Holden. This man
was very fond of music and spent his spare time in playing a little organ
on which he composed his tunes. The organ may still be seen in Boston.

Thus an English minister and an American carpenter have united in giving
the world an immortal hymn.

Perronet died January 2, 1792. His last words were:

"Glory to God in the height of His divinity!
Glory to God in the depth of His humanity!
Glory to God in His all-sufficiency!
Into His hands I commend my spirit."

Two other hymn-writers who, like Perronet, were associated with the
Wesleyan movement may be mentioned in this connection. They were John
Cennick and William Williams. Like Perronet, too, each was the author of
one great hymn, and through that hymn their names have been preserved to
posterity.

Cennick, who was of Bohemian ancestry, first met John Wesley in 1739. Of
that meeting Wesley has the following notation in his diary: "On Friday,
March 1739, I came to Reading, where I found a young man who had in some
measure known the powers of the world to come. I spent the evening with
him and a few of his serious friends, and it pleased God much to
strengthen and comfort them."

For a while Cennick assisted Wesley as a lay preacher, but in 1741 he
forsook the Methodist movement on account of Wesley's "free grace"
doctrines and organized a society of his own along Calvinistic lines.
Later he joined himself to John Whitefield as an evangelist, but finally
he went over to the Moravians, in which communion he labored abundantly
until his death in 1755