Propagation of the Gospel.

Can we, whose souls are lighted With Wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted The lamp of light deny? Salvation! oh, Salvation!

The joyful sound proclaim, Till each remotest nation

Has learn'd Messiah's name!

Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till like a sea of glory

It spreads from pole to pole! Till o'er our ransom'd nature, The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator,

In bliss returns to reign!

composed the first three verses, read them over." There, there, that will do very well,' said the Dean;' No, no, the sense is nct complete,' replied Heber; accordingly he added the fourth verse, and the Dean being inexorable to his repeated request of' Let me add another, oh! let me add another,' thus completed the Hymn of which the annexed is a fac- simile, and which has since become so celebrated. It was sung the next morning in Wrexham Church for the first time.-E."

A critic referring to the original autograph, writes:­

" Ceylon, in the second stanza, the disputed point, is the right and original reading. The whole hymn has but one correction: in the second stanza, savage has been written down first, and has then been softened down into heathen; in fact, the whole seems to have been what is commonly called an inspiration, and has been written down by its gentle author wie aus einem Guss,' as the Germans have it. The handwriting is small, reminding one somewhat of that of Leigh Hunt, though less delicate; and the last verse is written with a trembling hand, as if the writer had been deeply touched or affected by his subject."

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