whose missionary hymn,
"Thou, whose almighty word," is ranked among the finest in the English
language. Marriott was born in 1780, three years before Heber's birth,
and he died in 1825, a year before the death of the famous missionary
bishop.

A Hymn That Wins Souls

Just as I am, without one plea
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bidd'st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come!

Just as I am, and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot,
To Thee whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come!

Just as I am, though tossed about
With many a conflict, many a doubt,
Fightings and fears, within, without,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come!

Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind;
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need, in Thee I find,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come!

Just as I am, Thou wilt receive,
Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve,
Because Thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come!

Just as I am; Thy love unknown
Hath broken every barrier down;
Now to be Thine, yea, Thine alone,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come!

Charlotte Elliott, 1836.

AN INVALID WHO BLESSED THE WORLD

"Just as I am" will doubtlessly be sung to the end of time, and as often
as Christians sing it they will praise God and bless the memory of the
woman who wrote it--Charlotte Elliott.

This hymn will have a greater value, too, when we know something of the
pain and effort that it cost the writer to produce it. Miss Elliott was
one of those afflicted souls who scarcely know what surcease from
suffering is. Though she lived to be eighty-two years old, she was never
well, and often endured seasons of great physical distress. She could
well understand the sacrifice made by one who

Strikes the strings
With fingers that ache and bleed.

Of her own afflictions she once wrote: "He knows, and He alone, what it
is, day after day, hour after hour, to fight against bodily feelings of
almost overpowering weakness, languor and exhaustion, to resolve not to
yield to slothfulness, depression and instability, such as the body
causes me to long to indulge, but to rise every morning determined to
take for my motto: 'If a man will come after Me, let him deny himself,
take up his cross daily, and follow