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;How firm a foundation, ye saints of
the Lord,'
Is laid for your faith in :Elis excellent
word!
What more cell He say than to you
lie hath 'said,
You who ,unto Jesura for refuge Bath
fled?
In every condition, in sickness and
health,
In Poverty's vale or abounding in
wealth,
At home and abroad, on the land on
the sea,
As thy days shall demand, shall thy
strength ever be.
Fear not, I am with thee; 0 be not
dismayed 1
I; I am thy God, and will still give
thee aid;
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and
cause thee to stand,
Upheld by My righteous omnipotent
hand.
When through the deep waters I call
thee to go,
Tlie rivers of woe shall not thee ov-
erflow;
For I will be with thee, thy troubles
to bless,
And.sanctify to thee thy deepest dis-
tress,
When through fiery, trials thy path-
way shall lie,
My grace, all -sufficient, shall be thy
supply;
Tire flames shall not burt thee; I on-
' ly design
Thy dross to consume and thy gold
to refine.
Even down to old age, all My people
shall prove
My sovereign, eternal, 'unchangeable
love;
And when hoary hairs shall their
temples adorn,
Like lambs 'they shall still in My bos-
om be borne.
The soul that on Jesus hath leaned
for •repose
I will not—I 'will not desert to His
foes. •
That soul, though all hell should en-
deavor to shake,
VII never—no, never—no never for-
sake!
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WIl'dt"BAM ADVANCRTT'IMIES
We are indebted for the preserva-
tion and popularity of this rousing
hymn to the Rev, ,johln Rippon, M.A.,
a noted Baptist - Minister of London,
Eng,, who in 1787 published a hymn-
book with the title: "A Selection of
Hymns from the Best Authors, in-
tended to be an Appendix. to Dr.
Watts' Psalms and Hymns," It was
an excellent collection, 'and for many
years was well-known on both sides
of the Atlantic.In 1792 it was pub-
lished also in New York. The hymn
"How firm a foundation," soon leap-
ed into an enthusiastic popularity in
the States, probably because it was
there sung to the tune Adeste Fidelis,
and is today one of the best-known
in that country.
In Great Britain as'•in.,Carada, it
never carne into very common use,
The Congregationalists included it
in their hymnal but Church of En-
land, Presbyterian and Methodist
Books seldom employed it. The
Christmas ` tune, written probably by
Dr. Reading, organist at Winchester
'Cathedral, for "0, come all ye faith-
ful," was not sung to it there; in fact,
there would have seemed something
like dese ation in transferring it to
any other hyniit. And the lack of
any other especially suitable tune has
no doubt held it back from the pop-
ularity it has won among our neigh-
bors.
Three of the hymns in Dr. Rippon's.
book are ascribed to the authorship
of K—, the one printed herewith
being one of them, and the puzzle of
this dash has never been quite clear-
ed, up. The authorities are now ag-
reed that at any rate our hymn was
not written by, Dr. •Rippon himself,
and that the lengthening of the K—
to Kirkham in an edition of the "Se-
lection". published after his death,
was unauthorized and incorrect. So,
also, it is considered, is the ascrip-
tion to George Keith, in Spurgeon's
hymn book, which has misled many,
having resulted from a conjecture by
Mr. Sedgwick, a London second-hand
d
bookseller, who made so great a hob-
by of hymnology that he came to be
recognized as• an authority upon the
subject.
The ,author who escaped an immor-
tality of praise among English-speak-
ing Christians by modestly refusing.
to appear in Rippon's book was most
likely R. Keene, at one time said to
have been a precentor or leader of
the singing in his church, who, it ap-
pears, wrotethe tune "Geard," to
which . it was set in Dr. Rippon's
"Tune Book," edited by Thomas
Walker,
This Thomas Walker- assisted in
the compilation of a Baptist "Coll-
ection of Hymns," published in 1822,
which included `'How firm a founda-
tion," ascribing it to R. 'Keene. Mr.
Walker had himself been associated
with the singing in Dr. Rippon's
church, and must have known where-
wasrit'en butwe owe it to Dr.
written,
Keene the credit for writing this
hymn.
We know really nothing of the eir-
eumstances under which the hymn
was wirtteii, but we owe it to Dr.
"
' n and to be
Rippon's ons Selectro have
pp ,
thankful that he has thus enriched
our hymn books. There are seven
verses . in the original, but as a, rule
only five are sung in congregational
use. There must be many among old-
er readers who know, or knew, "The
Family Expositor; or a Paraphrase
and Version of the New Testament,
with Critical Notes and Practical Im-
provements," by the learned Dr. Dod-
dridge, who lived from 1702 to 1751.
To him we arc indebted for some
of our most highly -valued hymns, as
"0 God of Bethel," "Hark the glad
sounds," "My God and is Thy table
spread," for instance. His Expositor,
first"published in 1733,was remark-
ably well know, for more than a hun-
dred years afterwards, and is still
valued by Biblical students, The par-
aphrase and comment upon Hebrew
XIII, 5, runs, in part, "He who hath
all the stores of nature at his coni
stand, and who owns the relation of
a Father to us, hath graciously said
(Joshua 1, 5), "I will not, I will not
leave thee"," It will be noticed how
felicitously the writer of the hymn
employs all Di•. Docldridge's five neg-
atives in his culminating last verse.
So has one hymn writer inspired oth-
ers ever since the poet -king David,
under divine inspiration, compiled the
first edition of the jewish hymnal we
know as The Psalms of, David.
General Robert Lee, the gallant
leader of the Southern troops in the
U. S. Civil Warwas very fond of
this hymn, possibly because of the
grandly martial ring of the Christmas;
tulle it was commonly sung 'to. It
was sung :at his funeral. Another U.
S. soldier of a previous datte, General
Jackson, who died in the eighteen -
thirties, to avisitinr friend said,:.
"There is a beautiful hymn on the
subject of the great and ,precious pro-
mise of God to His people. It was
a favorite hymn of my dear wife, till
the day of her death, It commences
in this way: 'How firtu a foundation,
ye saints of the Lord.' I wish you
would shtg it tow." And the frail,
aged soldier, and the visiting clergy,
man sang it through together,
The metre of the hymn, Elevens as
musicians call it, is majestic, and sim-
ilar to that of Dr. Muhlenburg's "I
would not live alway-1 ask not to.
stay," .and the words are almost en-
tirely scriptural, Each line has its
own striking hit and so nearly sings
itself that it is rather ,curious no mus-
ician has succeeded in evolving a
tete to stat it without cramping it
into the strains of the '`Adeste Fid-
elis," which can never be made to
suit it without repeating one or other
of its lines, In spite of the dictum of
Dr. Horder, a learned Congregation-
alist authority on hymns, that it is:
"A hymn of no great merit," general
opinion agrees that it is a grand, a
noble composition, thoroughly wor-
thy of its great popularity in the U.
S:
Doing Valuable Work
The work done at the Ridgetown.
Experimental Farm in selecting and
propagating a variety of beans that
is freer from disease and gives a
much greater yield than varieties for-
merly .grown, has alone justified the
establishmentof this farm. This is
only one branch of work undertaken
there which is of sub:tantial benefit
to individual farmers of Southwest-
ern Ontario and to the province as a
whole. Valuable work has been done
with tobacco, canning factory crops,'
cereal grains and hogs. Besides this,
W. R. Reek, the superintendent and
his staff have been instrumental 1 in
helping along the good work done at
the Agricultural Vocational school in
R
idgetown.
It is interesting to note that the
farm has established at a time when
the bean growers were discouraged
and disease was taking a heavy toll.
As little or no work had been done
in selection, the seed had become run
-out, resulting in a poor yield. • Beans
have long been an important cash
crop in Kent and Essex. 'Mr. Reek
was able to get some selected bean
seed from Michigan, which he propa-
gated the first year and placed in
small lots on neighboring farms the
second ,year.
The variety is 'known as Robust,
and it is in general use at the pres-
ent time, being resistent to disease
and a heavier yielder. There are 30
acres sown to beans on the farm this
year and this will. go out - for seed.
On, the plots special work is done in
selection to further improve the
chain.
Aid to Fruit Growers
As an aid to the overseas market-
ing of Ontario's surplus fruit crop,
the Ontario Government has decided
to come to the aid of the Fruit Grow-
ers' Association insofar as guaran-
teeing sufficient monies to the banks 4,169,136 boxes, is the only province'
to allow proper financing of the reporting an increase over last year
shippers. This step has been taken Nova Scotia expects a crop of slight
to allow absolute independence in ly over half that of the bumper crol:
in 1929, while Ontario, Quebec and
New Brunswick report decreases
ranging from 12.5 per cent. to 38.9'
per cent. Indications are that fruit
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tor of the fruit branch and secretary pected yields are considerably larger
of the association. 1 -le will keep con- than last year.
stantly in touch with the shippers in Brant County Dairy Show
advising of market conditions and The annual Brant County Dairy
acting as liaison officer between the Show will be held in co-operation
shippers and Mr. Fulton. Further, with the Paris Agricultural Society
a series of experiments will be un- on September 20th. Classes are pro-
dertaken at once with a view to con- 'vide(' for four breeds of dairy cattle
trolling the "apple scald" disease with a prize list of over $1,000 off
which annually causes tremendous ered. In 1929 at this show there were
loss to Ontario shippers. 220 cattle shown from some of the
outstanding herds in Western On
Apple Yield Lower tario.
The Canadian commercial apple Valuable Meadow Results
crop prospect, reported on August 1,
indicates a yield of 2;990,109 barrels, Good ordinary meadow mixtures of
as compared witha yield of 3;939,915 clover and timothy can be increased
Barrels in 1929, or' 75.8 per .;ae 9of
, as high as 49 per cent, green weight
last year, of 93.9 of the five-year sby'proper fertilization. This is the
erage of 3,182, 195 barrels. British average result of ten carefully con-
Colmnbf with an estimated crop of ducted tests throughout the province
last summer by the Department of
Chemistry. In these tests, one-half
acre blocks 'of meadows were measur-
ed off during early spring and fer-
tilizer of various mixtures was ap-
plied. In most cases the fertilizer
was sown with the drill.
The average gain for the entire ,
test was a little over a ton per acre
green weight. This showed a nice
return on the money invested in fer-
tilizers.
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tiliz rs. Theaddition made "the
e n to f
meadows in these tests averaged a -
marketing and will mean that with
the association in a position to fin-
ance export shipments, a large num-
ber of shippers who have been barred
in the past will now be able to take will be of fair to good size, and in
advantage of the services of Mr. An- general color prospects are favorable.
drew Fulton, the'association's repre-extremelyThe
dr
weather which has
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rfur, prevailed throughout most sections s of
sentahvc in Great Britain Asa
ther step in organizing the province's Ontario and British Columbia has re -
fruit trade, the appointment is an- stilted in a slight reduction in the es- . bout 300 pounds per acre, or repres"-
Trounced of Kenneth Crews of Tien- titrates for plums and prunes, peaches ented an investment of five to six
ton to assist P. W. H:odgetts, direc- and grapes, although in all cases ex- dollars per acre.
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George S. Lyon, Canada's Grand
Old Man of Golf, split the fair
way with the first ball driven from
No. i tee of the Royal York Golf
course recently when this new
chanipionship course, built by the
Canadian Pacific Railway for the
benefit of guests of Canada's
premier hotel, was formally opened
ern the presence of Their la�cel
lencies Lord and Lady Willingdon..
This 18 -hole course, claimed by players to be
one of the best on the continent, has a par of
72 with. a length of 6,510 yards, - ,A.11 Toronto golf
clubs were represented at ;the opening and prowl -
nett golfers of the Dominion came together here for
the "occasion. This course Etas been selected as the
Beene of the annual interprovincial team match on
August 2, and many tecitnatnents in connection with
conventions, including the Monster our* of the Shrill -
ors, will be staged thea. Lay -out shows the $100,008
Club -house of the course with ra view of the Royal
'ork.1otet