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A Charge To Keep Words by Charles Wesley Music by Lowell Mason
Wesley was inspired to write this hymn one day while reading Mat thew Henry’s Commentary. In refer ring to Leviticus 8:35, Matthew Henry had written, “We shall every one of us have a charge to keep, an eternal God to glorify, an immortal soul to provide for,—our generation to serve.” The last line of the text is reflected in the last stanza of Wes ley’s hymn, “Assured, if my trust betray, I shall forever die.” The song reflects the sturdy and staunch character of the early Meth odist. John Wesley said, “Our people die well.” There were often shouts of joy at early Methodists’ funeral services. A physician once said to Charles Wesley, “Most people die for fear of dying; but I never met with such people as yours. They are none of them afraid of death, but calm and patient and resigned to the last.” The hymn-poem was first published in 1762 in Wesley’s Short Hymns on Select Passages of Scripture. The tune to which it was first sung is not now known, the present musical setting having been provided by Lowell Mason nearly three-quarters of a cen tury later. A Child Of The King Words by Harriet E. Buell Music by J. B. Sumner One Sunday morning in 1878 Mrs. Buell was attending a church service at Thousand Island Park, New York. During the sermon she felt inspired to write a poem on the joys of being “a child of the King.” A few months later she was attend ing a Sunday night service in the Methodist Church in Manlius, New York, and was profoundly surprised when the soloist sang “A Child Of The King.” John B. Sumner had noticed the poem in the Northern Christian Advocate and had composed the musical setting without the au thor’s knowledge. Too many singers carelessly sing, “I’m the child of a King,” instead of the correct phrase, “a child of the King.” There’s quite a difference!
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