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Show HOW "JUST AS I AM" CAME TO BE WBITTEN. T 1 In the March Delineator. Allan Sutherland Suther-land gives an Interesting account of the origin of "Just as I Am," Charlotte Elliott's El-liott's famous hymn. After. telling bow the hymn came to be Inspired through a remark "of Dr. Caesar Malan to the Invalid-composer, when she had told blm that she did not know how to find Christ "Come to Him Just as yon ; are," said Dr. Malan It is reported that the hymn first appeared anonymously In the Yearly Re-nmtrHr.ce. Dr. C. S. Robinson, a noted clergyman, states: "Beginning thus Its public history In the cojumns of an unpretending magazine, the lKtle anonymous anony-mous hymn, with Its sweet counsel to troubled minds, found its way, into scrap-books, scrap-books, then Into religious circles and chapel assemblies, and finally, into the hvmnals." ,That the hymn has had a deep Influence foe good humanity may be seen Xrom the testimonies of ministers given In this article, and from the fact that after the death of Miss Elliott, above a thousand letters were found among her papers thanking her personally for the great blessings which had come to the lives of the writers through f the Instrumentality Instru-mentality of "Just as I Am." |