the morning,
Soaring from earth to its home in the sun,

--has been repeatedly altered since it left Dr. Bonar's hands. Besides
the change of metaphors, the first personal pronoun singular is changed
to the plural. There was strength, and a natural vivacity in--

So let _me_ steal away gently and lovingly,
Only remembered for what _I_ have done.

As at present sung the first stanza reads--,

Fading away like the stars of the morning
Losing their light in the glorious sun,
Thus would _we_ pass from the earth and its toiling
Only remembered for what _we_ have done.

The idea voiced in the refrain is true and beautiful, and the very
euphony of its words helps to enforce its meaning and make the song
pleasant and suggestive for young and old. It has passed into popular
quotation, and become almost a proverb.

_THE TUNE._

The tune (in _Gospel Hymns No. 6_) is Mr. Sankey's.

Ira David Sankey was born in Edinburgh, Lawrence Co., Pa., Aug. 28,
1840. He united with the Methodist Church at the age of fifteen, and
became choir leader, Sunday-school superintendent and president of the
Y.M.C.A., all in his native town. Hearing Philip Phillips sing impressed
him deeply, when a young man, with the power of a gifted solo vocalist
over assembled multitudes, but he did not fully realize his own
capability till Dwight L. Moody heard his remarkable voice and
convinced him of his divine mission to be a gospel singer.

The success of his revival tours with Mr. Moody in America and England
is history.

Mr. Sankey has compiled at least five singing books, and has written the
_Story of the Gospel Hymns_. Until overtaken by blindness, in his later
years he frequently appeared as a lecturer on sacred music. The
manuscript of his story of the _Gospel Hymns_ was destroyed by accident,
but, undismayed by the ruin of his work, and the loss of his eye-sight,
like Sir Isaac Newton and Thomas Carlyle, he began his task again. With
the help of an amanuensis the book was restored and, in 1905, given to
the public. (See page 258.)

"SAVIOUR, LIKE A SHEPHERD LEAD US."

Mrs. Dorothy Ann Thrupp, of Paddington Green, London, the author of this
hymn, was born June 20, 1799, and died, in London, Dec. 14, 1847. Her
hymns first appeared in Mrs. Herbert Mayo's _Selection of Poetry and
Hymns for the Use of Infant and Juvenile Schools_, (1838).

We are Thine, do Thou befriend us,
Be the Guardian of our