Several of the sonnets, and many of the hymns and occasional verses, have appeared in the Sunday Magazine,' 'Good Words,' and other periodicals.

Having mentioned the honoured name of Lord Selborne, I would take this occasion of rendering to him a public acknowledgment of the kindness which has turned for me circumstances of trial, too notorious to require further allusion to them, into a subject of congratulation.

If in the retirement of a village Rectory I shall find heart and leisure to attempt something further in the way of hymn-writing, I shall owe, in great measure, to that distinguished hymnologist, under God, both the time and the encouragement.

GENEVA: February 17, 1873.

H. D.

HYMNS AND VERSES.

MISSIONARY HYMNS.

I.

LORD, her watch thy Church is keeping;
When shall earth thy rule obey?
When shall end the night of weeping?
When shall break the promised day ?
See the whitening harvest languish,
Waiting still the labourers' toil;
Was it vain-thy Son's deep anguish ?
Shall the strong retain the spoil?

Tidings sent to every creature

Millions yet have never heard : Can they hear without a preacher ? Lord Almighty, give the word!

Give the word; in every nation

Let the Gospel trumpet sound, Witnessing a world's salvation

To the earth's remotest bound.

Then the end thy Church completed, All thy chosen gathered in,

With their King in glory seated,

Satan bound, and banished sin : Gone for ever parting, weeping,

Hunger, sorrow, death, and pain :— Lo! her watch thy Church is keeping, Come, Lord Jesus, come to reign