Only a few more wrongs, Then an eternal stay, Then an eternal throng; Then an eternal glorious day, Then an eternal song. CHAPTER XIV. INCIDENTS SUGGESTING SOME OF MR. BLISS' HYMNS-" WHOSOEVER WILL "JESUS LOVES ME"-" BLESSED ARE THEY THAT DO"-"FREE FROM THE LAW -"ONLY AN ARMOR-BEARER "-"PULL FOR THE SHORE "I KNOW NOT THE HOUR "-" DOWN LIFE'S DARK VALE WE WANDER " THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD IS JESUS"-" THE HOLY SPIRIT"-" WISHING, HOPING, KNOWING"-"ALMOST PERSUADED "-" HALLELUJAH, 'TIS DONE"-" GOOD NEWS"-" WILL YOU MEET ME AT THE FOUNTAIN?"-"" HALLELUJAH! HE IS RISEN"-"SEEKING TO SAVE"-" AT THE FEET OF JESUS"—" THE HALF WAS NEVER TOLD." "W HOSOEVER Will may Come," was written during the winter of 1869 and '70, after hearing Henry Moorhouse, of England, preach from the text, "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life," John iii, 16. Mr Moorhouse preached every night for a week from this same text, and the new views of the freeness and fullness of the invitation of the Gospel to sinners that many Christians in Chicago at that time received, are well expressed in Mr. Bliss' hymn : "Whosoever will," the promise secure; I think it was in June, 1870, that "Jesus Loves Me" was written. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss were at the time members of my family, at 43 South May street, Chicago. One morning, Mrs. Bliss came down to breakfast and said, as she entered the room: "Last evening, Mr. Bliss had a tune given him that I think is going to live and be one of the most used that he has written. I have been singing it all the morning to myself and cannot get it out of my mind." She then sang over to us the notes of "Jesus Loves Me." The idea of Mr. Bliss in writing it was that the peace and comfort of a Christian were not founded upon his loving Christ, but upon Christ's love to him, and that to occupy the mind with Christ's love, would produce love and consecration in keeping with Romans v, 5: "The love of God (to us) is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given to us." This view of Gospel truth was at this time being very preciously brought to the souls of believers in Chicago by the preaching of Moorhouse and Mr. Moody and by the Dublin tracts and English Commentaries upon Gospel Truth, which, through Mr. Moody, began to be circulated among Christians. How much God has used this little song to lead sinners and fearful timid Christians to "look away to Jesus" eternity alone can tell. JESUS LOVES ME. I am so glad that Our Father in Heaven Wonderful things in the Bible I see, This is the dearest, that Jesus loves me. CHORUS.-I am so glad that Jesus loves me, I am so glad that Jesus loves me, Though I forget Him and wander away, |