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The Carillon of the Victory Tower
l fere they are. The great bells form.
ing the ma$or part of the S3 bells of
the Carillon installed in the Victory
Tower of the Parliament Buildings at
Ottawa from which will sound the paean
of the 60th anniversary of . Canadian
Confederation. They are shown loaded
on to a steel flat ear .and just taken from
the hold of the Canadi n acific freighter
Balfour which brought them across the
Atlantic, The other illustration shows
the Great Bourdon of ten tons, the
largest bell on this continent and the
second largest in the world being only
exceeded by the Bourdon at Moscow
Cathedral, The third picture shows the
S.S. Balfour in which they arrived safely
at Montreal.
The upper rim of the Great Bourdon
is encircled with maple leaves andem-
bossed upon it is the inscription in Eng-
lish and French: "This Carillon was in-
stalled by authority of Parliament to
commemorate the Peace of 1918, and to
keep in remembrance the service and
sacrifice of Canada in the Great War.
Anno Domini MCMXXVI." Entirely.
encircling the low er rim is the text:"Glory
to God in the Highest, and on earth
peacrr goodwill towards men. St. Luke's
Gospel, Chapter 2, Verse 14."
On Dominion Day, July 1, the Federal
Government will "have the air" and the
noble peals of the Carillon will be broad-
cast over the length and breadth of
Canada. Further, the Carillon will be
relayed so that its call will be heard in
all parts of the British Empire and there-
fore around the world.
4VORIjE.M)'MNS
D HEIR WRITERS
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood
From Thy .riven side which :flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
Not the labors of my hands
Can fulfil 'Thy laws demands;
Could my zeal no respite know,
Could my tears forever flow;
'All for, sin' could not atone,
Thou must save, and Thou alone.
Nothing in my hand I bring,
Simply to Thy cross I cling;
Naked come to Theefor dress,
Helpless look to Thee for grace;
Foul I to the fountain fly,
Wash me, Saviour, or I die.
Whilst 'I draw this fleeting breath,
When my eye -strings break in death;
When I soar through tracts unknown,
See Thee on the judgment throne;
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee.
' * ,,..
Only the beautiful hymn "Abide
with Me" disputes with "Rock of
Ages" for the first place in the af-
fections of English-speaking hymn -
lover s.
It is somewhat strange that it was
born of a bitter controversy between
the Church of England Vicar of
Broad Hembury in Devonshire, Eng-
land, and the leaders of the import-
ant movement that resulted in Meth-
odism.
Yet so it was! "Rock of Ages"
was no instantaneous production
written on a playing card in the cleft
of rock in Berrington Combe, while
Mr, Toplady was sheltering himself
from a thunder storm, as some news-
papers have stated.
The first appearance of his work-
ing upon the idea of the hymn was
in the "Gospel . Magazine," of which
TopIady was editor, in the October
number x775, an article by him con-
taining these words: "If you fall, be
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humbled, but do not despair . Pray
afresh to God who is able to raise
youuP, and to set, you on your feet
again. Look to the blood of the cov-
enant; and say to the Lord, from the
depth of your Heart,
"Rock of Ages, cleft 'for ine, let me
hide myself in Thee,
Foul, I to the, fountain fly; wash me,
Saviour, or I die."
The Rev. John Wesley had declar-
ed: "Mr. Augustus Toplady T know
well, but T do not fight with chim-
ney' sweeps, He is too dirty a writer
for me to meddle with." But that .did
not prevent'him, and one of his lay
preachers, Mr, ' Thomas Olivers,
(author of that glorious hymn "The
God of Abraham 'Praise") from as-
sailing Mr. Toplady with intense ac-
rimony.
In the Gospel Magazine for March,
1776, Mr: Toplady determined to
show plainly how faulty was the doc-
trine he ascribed ,perhaps not very
fairly, to the early Wesleyans of ab-
solute perfection after conversion. He
wrote an article upon England's Na-
tional Debt, showing there was not
enough money in the country to pay
the principal of it. From this it was
an easy transition to the impossibility
of mans paying bis debt to'Alniighty
God, but that reliance upon Jesus
Christ's merits for forgiveness of
daily 'sins and failures, will always be
necessary for His. followers. He pro-
ceeds from this to quote what he
calls "A Living and Dying Prayer for
the Holiest Believer in the World."
That was the first appearance of the
perfected hymn "Rock of Ages," in
four six -line verses.
It was intended as an opposition
to the notion of salvation by good
works and of spiritual perfection in
this mortal life, Mr. Toplady repub-
lished the hynm in his volume of
"Psalms and Hymns," which catne
out later in the same year.
use, and was often sung to J.. B.
It soon came into rather popular
Cramer's "Rousseau's' Dream," but it
naturally enough, perhaps, found no
place •in Wesley's "Collection of
Hymns" (1779), In an edition of that
book published in 1832, after Wes-
ley's death, .among some "additional
hymns" a greatly mangled version of
it appeared in three verses, altering
the last line of the first verse to "Save
from wrath and make me pure." The
first two lines of the second verse,
and the last four of the third were
omitted, showing that the fires of old
disputes had not quite subsided, This
is practically the form still found in
many Methodist hymn books.
Augustus Toplydy, writer .of sever-
al precious hymns, was the son of
a major in the British army, who was
killed at Cartagena in the year after
his son's birth. ' The lad, was educat-
ed at the famous Westminster Ab-
bey School where so many of our
hymn writers were trained,and at
sixteen; was greatly stirred by a ser-
mon preached by a lay evangelist in
a barn at Cadymain, Ireland, on the
text: "Ye who sometimes were far
off are made nigh by the blood of
Christ." •
"Strange," he writes, "that I, who
had so long sat under the means of
grace in England, should be brought_
nigh unto God in an obscure part of
Ireland, amidst a handful of God's
people met together in a barn, and
under the ministry of one who could
hardly spell his naine. Surely it is
the Lord's doing, and it is .marvel:
louts. The excellency ofsuch power
must be of God, and cannot be of
man."
After graduating at Trinity Col
lege, Dublin, he was ord3.ined in 1762,
and in 1766 became Vicar of Broad
Hembury, wherehe remained until
his death in 1778, at the early age of
thirty-seven. By that thne he had,
however, become a greatly learned
theologian, and produced many works
of merit:
He is described as of an "etherial
countenance and light, immortal
frame. His voice was music. His vi-
vacity would have caught the listen-
er's eye." He was one of the brilliant
voices of his age, but early wore him-
self out by his ceaseless studies and
labors. In his hymn, however, he will
live in the hearts and in the voices
of God's people so long as our. lang-
uage endures.
The old controversies died down
long ago, and not only English but
Christians of many languages now
unite to sing his plaintive,' trustful
hymn.
Many tunes • have been composed
for this famous hymn, the best known
of thetn by a welt known English
organist called after himself, "Red-
head." This is found in most of the
church hymnals, The tune Toplady
printed was written by Thomas Has-
tings who was born in 1784, in New
Yolk; son of a veterinary practition-
er, but brought up after 1796 on a
farm its Clinton, N.Y. He got hold
of a little elementary music book at
an early age, studied it and at eight -
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