Show i 1 il 1 ANSWERS TO QUERIES QUERIES QUERIES- I i I I I 1 I I I I t I I j I 1 I i i I j J I 1 I I I I I I I I Filitor Womans Page C o publish h the tho old h hymn nm L beginning begun begin I tasteless th the ning lIin- How tedIous and s I hours and t toll tell ll J about till this author Answer Thc The hymn was wa by hy bythe hyI the time Rev He John Jphn HP lie was hornIn hornIn horn norn In London in 1 went to sea ta w pen cn a aboy aboy t boy lof ami auth It led ll a 3 reckless e adventurous I life For several years yearn bo Imo commanded a a. slave Ia ship hip Later he h professed ed re religion rr re 1 1 ligion and ho Ito and the poet Cowper became be lie- came warm wann friends and Joined in writIng writIng writ writ- Ing 11 hymns mn which wore ro published hl in a I. I volume entitled Olney Hymns This book bool ha mad had a great real circulation arul was WiS wasu u used U ed In itt Protestant churche throughout through through- lout loul out tho the world After an life of open vice John Newton ewton h became carne 1 very pious an and an nn efficient religious worker Of or 34 hymns in the old Ollie Olney collection collection collection tion rot c I it and XI Newton New X ton 8 Newton wrote the known as tl Safely Through h Another Week ck One On Thin ThIng I Is A Lon A All Allf AllI 11 f r Others TiM a Point 1 I LOUR loI to lo Know and Glorious Timings of or Thee Are Spoken Few Pew hymns hymn ha have hae e been I more moore widely in Protestant nt than the thc one la-jt la named K rt ItI be begins ln Glorious tIdings things of or thee are lr spoken Zion OV city of or our OUI God He lie who whose e word ord ca can n not b be broken Formed ormed thee for tor his bis own abode r rOn I On the time rock of oC ages ases founded What can shake th thy sure repose I With salvations salvation's walls surrounded i Thou smile at all th thy r foes e I Olney Hymns was published In iii 1779 In Itt that year Nc Newton became rector rec rec- ton tor tonof of or a a. church In London an and died there December SI a I 1807 His epitaph written bv hy himself reads as follows John Newton once an nn infidel anti and I libertine a servant of ot slaves r In Africa wn was b by the time rich mercy of our OUI Lord and Savior Ra Je Jesus u i Christ Christo restored Pardoned pardoned par pal and appointed d to preach the faith alth ho lie hal bad long loner labored to de destroy near 1 31 sixteen n years Cars at and many manyI I years 1315 In this church Following Is IR the lite hymn you ask tor or IIo How tedious and amid tasteless the time hours 1 1 f When Jestis no ito longer I see ec Sweet pro prospects sweet bird and sweet lowers flowers I Have r lost all their sweetness me The midsummer sun Run unities but dim Time The field strive f In vain aln to look gay a But Dut when 1 I am happy in mini him Decembers December's as pleat pleasant as May 18 HI His Hl name yield lel time the richest perfume And Ild sweeter than mu music lc his voice olce I His li presence disperses s my gloom Anti And all an within mo mc rejoice I should hould were he h. always so 10 nigh Have nothing to lo I wish h or to fear tear No o mortal so JoIO happy happ as I f My Ir summer 1 would st la-st all the year Content wl h beholding beholding- hi his face faco I May all to his imis e fe le resigned No Xo changes chang of or season tr place Would make any chan change e In m my mind While hil t l with a venue solute t of his love lo A palace a n. to toy would appear And prisons would palaces prove piove i If It Jesus Jenus would ouid dwell with 01 me rue there Dear Deat Lord It if In indeed I 1 an am aim thine If Jr thou art m my sun stun and my son song I Say a why do I 1 languish and pine pinc And Amid why are lit my winters i so 80 o lon lonu Oh Ob drive e the thee e dark clouds from torn my sky Iv PI Thy rimy soul cheering r restore Or take me ml to theo thee up lip on high I Where winter and clou clouds are aro i to mo o am more moie n i-c. i I |