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 NEW YORK: 
 
 THE LOVELL COMPANY, 
 23 DUANE STREET. 
 
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 TWO COPIES RECEIVE. 
 
 t ji>rary of GOBg^iftl^ 
 
 m 9 - 1900 
 
 Beautifully printed on fine paper, price 25 cents. 
 
 Uniform with this Number. 
 
 Lead, Kindly Light John Henry Newman, D. D. 
 
 Home, Sweet Home John Howard Payne 
 
 Rock of Ages Rev. A. M. Toplady 
 
 AuLD Lang Syne Robert Burns 
 
 Nearer, My God, to Thee Sarah F. Adams 
 
 Psalm of Life H. W. Longfellow 
 
 Art thou weary St. Stephen 
 
 He giveth His beloved Sleep T. C. Tildesley 
 
 One Sweetly Solemn Thought Phoebe Gary 
 
 Thou Everywhere Gharles J. Sprague 
 
 Abide with Me Rev. Henry F. Lyte 
 
 Night Song Richard Storrs Willis 
 
 Copyright, 1900, by Moses King. 
 
 079 '76 
 
 SECOND coev. 
 
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 flDne ^tneetl^ Solemn ci^ougl^t* 
 
 HCEBE GARY and her sister Alice were both 
 Universalists, but their hymns have been ac- 
 cepted by all denominations. Of the many 
 written by them none has had the popularity 
 and universal adoption of " Nearer Home," 
 written by Phoebe when she was not yet eighteen years old. 
 It has been translated into all languages, and it is said that 
 the mere humming of the tune to which it is sung, in a gam- 
 bling den in China, was sufficient to save one of the gam- 
 blers by recaUing home associations. Phoebe died (in 187 1) 
 at the age of 47, of grief at the death of her sister. 
 
One ^eetlp solemn t{)0U8{)t 
 €ome^ to me o'er anb o'er : 
 31 am nearer Ijome to^bap 
 
 €ljan Si'be eber Been Before^ 
 
 ^^^ earer mp f atljer'^ gou^e, 
 A^ ^ l©l)ere tlje manp manie^ion^ fie ; 
 fearer tlje great tDljite tljrone, 
 l^earer ti)e trp^a^tal ^ea* 
 
V% carer tfje Bounb^ of life, 
 
 A^ ^ naijcrr toe lap our fiurbenis? botoit; 
 
 J^earer babing tijc cro^^, 
 
 l^earer gaming tlje croton. 
 
 %^ut Iping tiarMp fettoeen, 
 
 *VJI J©inDing aboton tJjro' ti^t nigfjt, 
 
 3[^ tfte silent unfenoton stream, 
 
 €l|at kab^ at \m to tgc ligftt 
 
Batljcr, Be neat tDljcn mp feet 
 Slice flipping o'er tJje 6rinfe, 
 ipor it map fie 3! ^^^ neater Ijome, 
 l^earer notD tljan SI t|)mft. 
 
^ne ^tneetlt Solemn Cl^oug^t 
 
 One sweetly sol-euiir fthought, Cornea to me o'cr^ond o'er. 
 
 I nm near-er home to day, Than iVe ev . er been 'l»e fore. 
 
Near>er niyFa-thers hoase, Hlterethe man • y mansions lie, 
 
 Near-ertheboondsof life. Where we lay our burdens down. 
 
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 Fa-thepbenearwhenniy feet, Are- slip-ping o'er the lirink. For it 
 
 may liC I aui near - er home Near-ep now than I think. 
 
Nn 9A THE LOTUS series. 
 
 INUi ^ti Issued Weekly. 
 
 Annual Subscription, $12.00. Feb. 9, 1900. 
 
 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 
 
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