rs is expressed in these simple, appealing
words:

There was no other good enough
To pay the price of sin,
He only could unlock the gate
Of heaven, and let us in.

Archbishop Alexander mentioned two hymns by which his wife's name, and
incidentally his own, would be remembered. He might have added several
others, such as the challenging hymn, "Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult,"
or the two beautiful children's hymns, "Once in royal David's city" and
"All things bright and beautiful." And among her splendid poems he might
have mentioned the sublime verses entitled "The Burial of Moses." Her own
spirit of confiding trust in God is reflected in the lines:

O lonely tomb in Moab's land!
O dark Beth-peor's hill!
Speak to these curious hearts of ours,
And teach them to be still;

God has His mysteries of grace,
Ways that we cannot tell;
He hides them deep, like the secret sleep
Of him He loved so well.

Mrs. Alexander died in 1895 at the age of seventy-two years. She was
buried in Londonderry, Ireland. At Archbishop Alexander's funeral sixteen
years later "The roseate hues of early dawn" was sung in Londonderry
cathedral, and when the body was lowered into the grave the mourners
sang, "There is a green hill far away."

During the years when Mrs. Alexander was penning her beautiful lyrics,
three other women were giving hymns to the English people in another way.
They were Catherine Winkworth and the sisters Jane Borthwick and Sarah
Borthwick Findlater, all three of whom had conceived a deep love for the
wonderful hymns of Germany and were translating them into their native
tongue.

Miss Winkworth, who is the foremost translator of German hymns, was born
in London, September 13, 1829. Her "Lyra Germanica," published in 1855,
met with such favorable reception that a second series was issued in
1858. Her "Christian Singers of Germany" was published in 1869.

Miss Winkworth possessed a marvelous ability of preserving the spirit of
the great German hymns while she clothed them in another language. It was
she who gave us in English dress such magnificent hymns as Rinkart's "Now
thank we all our God," Luther's "Out of the depths I cry to Thee,"
Decius' "All glory be to God on high," Neander's "Praise to the Lord, the
Almighty, the King of creation," Schmolck's "Open now thy gates of
beauty," and Gerhardt's "All my heart this night rejoices." Miss
Winkworth, more t