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Oft shall glowing hope expire,
Oft shall wearied love retire,
Oft shall death and sorrow reign
Ere we all shall meet again.

Though in distant lands we sigh,
Parched beneath a burning sky,
Though the deep between us rolls,
Friendship shall unite our souls;
And in fancy's wide domain,
There we all shall meet again.

When these burnished locks are gray,
Thinned by many a toil-spent day,
When around this youthful pine
Moss shall creep and ivy twine,
(Long may this loved bower remain!)
Here may we all meet again.

When the dreams of life are fled,

When its wasted lamps are dead,

When in cold oblivion's shade

Beauty, health, and strength are laid,

Where immortal spirits reign,

There we all shall meet again.

This parting piece was sung in religious meetings as a hymn, like the other once so common, but later,

"When shall we meet again,
Meet ne'er to sever?"

-to a tune in B flat minor, excessively plaintive, and likely to sadden an emoional singer or hearer to tears. The full harmony is found in the American Vocalist, and the air is reprinted in the Revivalist (1868). The fact that minor music is the natural

Indian tone in song makes it probable that the melody is as ancient as the hymn-though no date is given for either.

Tradition says that nearly fifty years later the same three Indians were providentially drawn to the spot where they parted, and met again, and while they were together composed and sang another ode. Truth to tell, however, it had only one note of gladness, and that was in the first stanza: Parted many a toil-spent year, Pledged in youth to memory dear,

Still to friendship's magnet true,
We our social joys renew;

Bound by love's unsevered chain,

Here on earth we meet again.

The remaining three stanzas dwell principally on the ravages time has made. The reunion ode of those stoical college classmates of a stoical race could have been sung in the same B flat minor.

“AWAKED BY SINAI'S AWFUL SOUND."

The name of the Indian, Samson Occum, who wrote this hymn (variously spelt Ockom, Ockum, Occam, Occom) is not borne by any public institution, but New England owes the foundation of Dartmouth College to his hard work. Dartmouth College was originally "Moore's Indian Charity School," organized (1750) in Lebanon, Ct., by Rev. Eleazer Wheelock and endowed (1755) by Joshua Moore (or More). Good men and women who

had at heart the spiritual welfare of a fading race contributed to the school's support and young Indians resorted to it from both New England and the Middle States, but funds were insufficient, and it was foreseen that the charity must inevitably outgrow its missionary purpose and if continued at all must depend on a wider and more liberal patronage.

Samson Occum was born in Mohegan, New London Co., Ct., probably in the year 1722. Converted from paganism in 1740 (possibly under the preaching of Whitefield, who was in this country at that time) he desired to become a missionary to his people, and entered Eleazer Wheelock's school. After four years study, then a young man of twentytwo, he began to teach and preach among the Montauk Indians, and in 1759 the Presbytery of Suffolk Co., L. I., ordained him to the ministry. A benevolent society in Scotland, hearing of his ability and seal, gave him an appointment, under its auspices, among the Oneidas in 1761, where he labored four years. The interests of the school at Lebanon, where he had been educated, were dear to him, and he was tireless in its cause, procuring pupils for it, and working eloquently as its advocate with voice and pen. In 1765 he crossed the Atlantic to soheit funds for the Indian school, and remained four years in England and Scotland, lecturing in its behalf, and preaching nearly four hundred sermons. As a result he raised ten thousand pounds. The donation was put in charge of a Board of

Trustees of which Lord Dartmouth was chairman. When it was decided to remove the school from Lebanon, Ct., the efforts of Governor Wentworth, of New Hampshire, secured its location at Hanover in that state. It was christened after Lord Dartmouth -and the names of Occum, Moore and Wheelock retired into the encyclopedias.

The Rev. Samson Occum died in 1779, while laboring among the Stockbridge (N. Y.) Indians.

Several hymns were written by this remarkable man, and also "An Account of the Customs and Manners of the Montauks." The hymn, "Awaked by Sinai's Awful Sound," set to the stentorian tune of "Ganges," was a tremendous sermon in itself to old-time congregations, and is probably as indicative of the doctrines which converted its writer as of the cotemporary belief prominent in choir and pulpit.

Awaked by Sinai's awful sound,

My soul in bonds of guilt I found,
And knew not where to go.
Eternal truth did loud proclaim
"The sinner must be born again,
Or sink in endless woe."

When to the law I trembling fled,
It poured its curses on my head:
I no relief could find.

This fearful truth increased my pain,
"The sinner must be born again,

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And whelmed my troubled mind.

But while I thus in anguish lay,
Jesus of Nazareth passed that way;
I felt His pity move.

The sinner, once by justice slain,

Now by His grace is born again,
And sings eternal Love!

The rugged original has been so often and so variously altered and "toned down,” that only a few unusually accurate aged memories can recall it. The hymn began going out of use fifty years ago, and is now seldom seen.

The name "S. Chandler," attached to "Ganges," leaves the identity of the composer in shadow. It is supposed he was born in 1760. The tune appeared about 1790.

"WHERE NOW ARE THE HEBREW CHILDREN?”

This quaint old unison, repeating the above three times, followed by the answer (thrice repeated) and climaxed with

Safely in the Promised Land,

-was a favorite at ancient camp-meetings, and a good leader could keep it going in a congregation or a happy group of vocalists, improvising a new start-line after every stop until his memory or invention gave out.

They went up from the fiery furnace,
They went up from the fiery furnace,
They went up from the fiery furnace
Safely to the Promised Land.

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