Show i UI S AUTHOU Ot th the of or the time hymn Softly the tho dawn nIna Elder I Martin 8 S writes to 10 your SOUI editorial notice a an if at atA n A statement In the tho current number of Cit It the thu Improvement Era regarding the tho II II of or the hymn beginning Softly boama the Ihl sacred dawning It affords me very cr great to 10 In Inform form forni your our renders that upon one oc Ot oci a It number or of IU before the th death of or the tho Ite Ute Eider John JaqueL I him If It h ha were the thu author of tin the Ih tinh h hlIn mn In itt question HU Ills reply was They rhey say 5 I X am um which by lenson of at his himi ex es extreme triune modesty meant J I am moro more Elder was tans R familiar morl or less with wIlh evi evers ry hymn In lii our Hymn HymnBook Book ook and had he lit not 1101 been lIeen the author of Slav hymn at l I him hlin tiP IIA 10 i havo tl ot t the mueLLer matter i r light at i tl the e very veri opportunity I closely as associated n with tiiu 1 S for many years ears and 1111 I 1 think I am ani safe miff In III saying that I found In him the thu highest type ot or noble nollie honorable IIII manhood but his hie I overshadowing woo wet mod modell ealy eaty ell Tho Jho hymn referred to IH Is truly tr I a 1 masterpiece of or literature hut but ho lie has hall left IcU behind him other of or prose am ampo and po Otry try usually equally meritorious Like other gifted men man his true trims worth was not nol known or 01 appreciated outside llIe of the circle in which lIe ho moved until he hp passed to lo the other Id of or the vail voll 1 I think that was wa n ft misfortune not particularly l lurly to himself Irit mt to 10 the Saints whom h he loved lov so Ita well Had fled he helm been leKs modest and und more ambItious to have his imle emblazoned on an the tha I pages or history we wo would today have moro literary genie gems of If thought and tind truth like the hymn referred 1 to and 0 O Osay say what Is truth from toni his facile pen Permit mo to 10 Lu add that were iere the tho facts known knOll there thara im many prIceless prod products ot of his hIli brain unit hand In today that do tin not bear hear his hll signature |