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cal rather than logical. Moreover, the traditions of worship have been responsible for the iteration of a great deal of bathos, since the convenience of public worship has made the hymnal far more of an instrument than the song book in conserving words and music that ought to have gone to oblivion. Yet though the fields of secular and religious song are very different, the outstanding types and the drift of development are quite comparable. Three hymns of Timothy Dwight, Ray Palmer, and Oliver Wendell Holmes are broadly representative of tendencies up to 1860. Dwight's contribution, I love Thy kingdom, Lord, belongs to the period of Hail Columbia (which is sometimes wrongly ascribed to him), and is involved in the theology of Jonathan Edwards, Dwight's grandfather. After the confusion of the second stanza, Her walls before Thee stand, Dear as the apple of Thine eye, And graven on Thy hand, and after the Calvinistic prospect of death in the third, it rises to a tone of solem