| Show II HE f W WROTE C CHILDS ILOS l O O HYMN Albert AI ert Who Composed Tares Th a it Friend for Little Children II HALE OLD DID MAN OF CF FOUR SCORE Song fins lIeen Translated Into Every Tongue and Is Sung Sting Over All the World Simple Happy Life lire Special lal orres March 16 Translated L Into halo every tongue and surer sura the tho over Christianity I a tinn I ty Inn hax pelt Theres Therell n tl fr I Mill published vcr ver to toL 0 L A years yearn ago OliO still mill remains tho Iho favorite hymn of or tho time young younA It Its IlK author Albert u It hale Imle benign hedge sunny old man win who celebrated nod his hili eightieth l birthday Ir Y a II a tow few fa weeks ago ao liven at nt Newport Isle Islo of at Wight where ho he lute hns dwelt and la labored 11 bored nil all isle Ills days He Ife hUH hue written for far meva mc verse of ot the famous hymn fac facsimile simile of ot which is hero here reproduced reproduce anti has hns given me some Hamil details of ot his hula life He which will VIII bo be rend with Interest In n America where though every Sun Hun day school Is familiar with the lime song lit little 11 tle Is known about the singer NI mY Y COST HIS IUS JIFF He Ife II woe was X Ii when ho It and the tho occasion cAllon O was 11 a 0 memorable one tor for It nearly cast him his hla life lite All 11 day the tho words had been haunting him as he labored at tit his trade that of at a worker but It watt was not until late after aftel the household had retired for tor the night that t ho found ton mid to them down Iown Ho wren Willi wa not then In n good he heAlth Ills his work had been beell particularly hard hUlt that day da and physically he was com corn completely exhausted when ho he set about hla hie hl tank In his liln weakened J state II de the tha th nor nero nervous ous strain of composition taxed him severely but the hymn had taken such suchA A II grip upon him that he felt tell he commit not stop until li he had bed Imminent It out mat and given It II permanent form torm on pa par paper parner per ner As All he the tie last lut words wonIs he 1 ie collapsed e utterly t m rl He lie found to and b by Y his hll wife II hits his hi head renting nn mt the feebly written Igl Efforts to tor revive r him proved n l futile for tor ao r rt n 1 time limo and emil r It war 1111 f red 1 that he wan flan beyond MyonA wall recall all but le Ie rallied at length and gradually his hi strength wits was restored He lied nn no Idea tlell that the Ih song which had been boen produced In rich Jd tre tro veil Mill was tats a masterpiece laIt of ot Its hs It kind It was fret first published In a 11 I local OCR I Sunday school paper Cloud 1004 N w for tr th the Lit Lt Little tle Ile tl Ones One There It attracted the at t of lit a U London publisher who ob obtained tIt tn to t Inri ud It In a col rol collection lection of ot hymns he ht was Issuing It Will wee set net to mush by Its It popularity wpm was II Instantaneous anti hoe hM proved ll D TO l AT IT long years afterward n a when Mr mfr rr was Wall nn min n old men man he hll chanced to attend a 1 service at the tho City Temple an whose whOle pulpit was waa Ill AIle I by hy h the lilt late Rev Rev Dr nr Darker Parker then tb n the tho most eloquent preacher in the tit me metropolis m A member mom r of th the choir choll SAng M as n a 1 solo 1011 Theres a t for rattle Children with such touching that she ho was wai tn t 1111 Ire entreated l lID to ID repeat It The huge WI wu rats unaware that it its wan nas ill present After Alter the clo clos i tit f the Mr I a It nit nII which an all allten attendant ten took look tu to lr Dr 1 1 I and a ameet I meet meeting Ins thorn them followed I would rather b be the Ihl author nf of that hymn said NW the famous divine than bit be the preacher of lit the most moat eloquent sermon My ly sermon lermon would simply pen the hearts brt of nr a II few f but hut your hymn no goes oel all ull OVIT twee the lilt world work HAS All N D DIt It la It l only one elms on of something like hike soo lit Ile hors ban written many man of ut which are lUll still general favorites favorite Most Mon t of them are for the tIle Ills III personality reveals his tilH In tn writing them thom At t four fourscore scorn score his hie hi heed heart Is II still that of ot a 11 little child No Xo doubts have hue ever er disturbed III Jill hll faith Modern and antl tint limn higher criticism Lave have never shaken lila his Implicit lt belief In the tha simple creed of o the Quaker lie He Is J a 1 placid contented 1 I j Ii rry serenely H happy old man finding a n 1 nt t great Brent rent Joy In living and looking forward to death d which now be fur far oft off without ft n l of ot tear Of what are MO MOa accounted a hardships li he hud had his lie share In his hili lil younger days but Jilt they havo loft left j no upon him HE lIE WAS WAH BOnN HOHN Ill uta father died linea ihren before ha he wan waD w aa horn leaving lilt his hl mother I to 10 fight Bras lifes with n large family dependent upon her He i remembers member hearing henring her say iy to him when he C 11 still too loo young to 10 thi moaning meaning of nC her lar words They The told toil nt m me ehon your our dear teor father died that you yol would be hI Ih Lords Imis gift to cheer cheH nod Gild comfort m me in Int my widowhood That h ho he fulfilled thin that t prediction it la the Ihl achievement of ot his hili l lito fo of ot which he la 18 most moat proud When Yuen n 4 child chilli of oC live five he ho began the tho II Friends l chapel at ut Newport und and trio ton young to comprehend the sermon u used el elto to solace himself by rending tho hymn hymnbook hymnbook book hook He lIe was waa nR only a IL few years year old older i when ho begin writing hymns hymn IC e of oC his hit mother poverty he re received r received but ft n 1 scanty nearly education mil and when n a 1 mere mero boy loy hn ho hud had to turn bread bren l winner n Inner elf Apart from th the tho poetry constituted l his hla favorite reading and tho Sunday nt nl which he vi via n II teacher In hi ids hili teens strengthened his hiM binl l heat bent ent for far devotional compositions Ho Ito was wan only 13 19 when his hla fret first hymn was Willi published To his s mothers nother Influence he lie ascribes nil 11 the good that lint ho hUll haw and all nil the happiness H that Hull has hI hi him hIli long life lite No man over revered a n 1 nother more mON He lie to talk of her ller still and deeply l touching ire are thu Ihu old mans mens tributes to her memory Ewy Evry very mother ha ho possesses po M e ethe the lod Instinct t to protect and cherish but only n godly mother ban has spiritual Intelligence to lend In what M la I holy bolY eared rel and ond divine times It was W I my great grief to are seo my moth moths mother er seemingly on tho the verco vergo of oC eternity A palpitation of oC the heart to 10 which oho was vau t was BO so acute acuto that death Imminent And her heri i I departure near Mar Hut But death she nho dreaded not In Is It tenth death who she would wo aay fin ns nil calmly t ns na her agitated frame would al 11 I IH H NJ W Wow Cow bow ow Is its It d death nth Im not afraid At such each seasons I could only repeat to lier Cher Ier her favorite and oft quoted d lines lineal Yet a little and we wo Un knew w Happy entrance will be bo given glen All our left I Ct below And exchanger for tor heaven Despite these seizures she else lived long longyear Ion year yeara beyond tho the allotted span att 1 on fI each recurring birthday Mr used to present her with a 1 copy COP of ot con can congratulatory congratulatory gratulatory verses This la III a tho the description tion ho he gave me of oC her end Tho The sun pun setting and tho the shades of oC evening gathering Natures rest reat was las also increasing upon her herand herand and tho the strength which for tor nearly 90 SO years had been BO an vigorous was WM dally daily waning fast yet the soul was WS peaceful N I Iso so 10 peaceful I Interpreted her to rest reat on my lilY arm and gently I Ire re removed removed moved her languid head train from her JIll pil pillow low and nestled It calmly there thero And Andoh Andoh oh that Intensely loving un gaze Kille which met mine It spoke IU lis aol 1101 ol emu message O Brokenly I commenced to repent repeat the triumphant language of at tho the Thanks be to Clod who Mho us the tho victory when whon with her last laal feeble effort she endeavored to Ut Utter Utter It Itter ter the tho closing clo words Through our Lord Jesus and all nil was over overrun Tim run happy had flown down Thirty long years have hava hn Vo sped aped since nines then he added but they have not dimmed the vividness of oC that scene or Ot OtI beclouded the luster lueter of ot her memory I |
