"WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BE?” Very popular in England. Mr. Sankey in his Story of the Gospel Hymns relates at length the experience of Rev. W. O. Lattimore, pastor of a large church in Evanston, Ill., who was saved to Christian manhood and usefulness by this hymn. It has suffered some alterations, but its original composition was Mrs. Emily Oakey's work. The Parables of the Sower and of the Tares may have been in her mind when she wrote the lines in 1850, but more probably it was the text in Gal. 6:7— Sowing the seed by the daylight fair, Lattimore, the man whose history was so strangely linked with this hymn, entered the army in 1861, a youth of eighteen with no vices, but when promoted to first lieutenant he learned to drink in the officers' mess. The habit so contracted grew upon him till when the war was over, though he married and tried to lead a sober life, he fell a victim to his appetite, and became a physical wreck. One day in the winter of 1876 he found himself in a halfdrunken condition, in the gallery of Moody's Tabernacle, Chicago. Discovering presently that he had made a mistake, he rose to go out, but Mr. Sankey's voice chained him. He sat down and heard the whole of the thrilling hymn from beginning to end. the 2 wademy, and iced N? numerous, but she is best known by her remarkable hymn. Her death occurred on the 11th of May, 1883. THE TUNE, By P. P. Bliss, is one of that composer's tonal successes. The march of the verses with their recurrent words is so automatic that it would inevitably suggest to him the solo and its organchords; and the chorus with its sustained soprano note dominating the running concert adds the last emphasis to the solemn repetition. The song with its warning cry owes no little of its power to this choral appendix Gathered in time or eternity, Sure, ah sure will the harvest be. “O THINK OF THE HOME OVER THERE." A hymn of Rev. D. W. C. Huntington, suggested by Ps. 55:0. It was a favorite from the first. Rev. DeWitt Clinton Huntington was born at Townshend, Vt. Apr., 27,1830. He graduated at the Syracuse University, and received the degrees of D.D. and II.D. from Genesee College. Preachet, instructor and author-Removed to Lincoln, Nebraska. O parade home over there, My ode mne at the mer of Sec O think of the friends over there, Who before us the journey have trod, THE TUNE. The melody was composed by Tullius Clinton O'Kane, born in Delaware, O., March 10, 1830, a hymnist and musician. It is a flowing tune, with sweet chords, and something of the fugue feature in the chorus as an accessory. The voices of a multitude in full concord make a building tremble with it. "WHEN JESUS COMES." Down life's dark vale we wander We watch and wait and wonder Both words and music are by Mr. Bliss. A relative of his family, J. S. Ellsworth, says the song was written in Peoria, Illinois, in 1872, and was suggested by a conversation on the second coming of Christ, a subject very near his heart. The thought lingered in his mind, and as he came down from his room, soon after, the verses and notes came to him simultaneous on the stairs. Singing them over, he seized pencil and paper, and in a few minutes fixed hymn and tune in the familiar harmony so well known. No more heart-pangs nor sadness All peace and joy and gladness The choral abounds in repetition, and is half refrain, but among all Gospel Hymns remarkable for their tone-delivery this is unsurpassed in the swing of its rhythm. All joy his loved ones bringing When Jesus comes. All praise thro' heaven ringing All beauty bright and vernal All glory grand, eternal "TO THE WORK, TO THE WORK." One of Fanny Crosby's most animating hymnswith Dr. W. H. Doane's full part harmony to reenforce its musical accent. Mr. Sankey says, "I sang it for the first time in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Cornell at Long Branch. The servants gathered from all parts of the house while I was singing, and looked into the parlor where I was seated. When I was through one of them said, 'That is the finest hymn I have heard for a long time.' I felt that this was a test case, and if the hymn had such power over those servants it would be useful in reaching other people as well; so I published it in the Gospel Hymns in 1875, where it became one of |