JUBILEE HYMN.

Sung at the celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the ordination of Dr. Lowell, January, 1856. The hymn may be found in the record of the proceedings of that occasion as published in the "West Church and its Ministers."

O

ISRAEL! at the trumpet turn;

From toil set every household free;
While priests with people meet, and burn
To share the long-hoped jubilee.

Let royal psalms all ranks rejoice,
Each alien take his ancient ground,
The loosened bondmen lift their voice,
The lowliest Hebrew head be crowned!

Through fifty over-arching years,
Their sorrows are a fleeting shade;
Fall now like far-off rain their tears;
In mercy's light their miseries fade.

A Christian jubilee we sing:

Guided in gloom, in grief consoled,
Through half a century's crowded ring
Our countless flock yet seeks one fold.

The church and shepherd, joined by God,
A golden wedding celebrate;
With joy that flowers upon his rod,
And peace out-blooming earthly date.

Fast by your heritage still stand,

Ye children! for the past give praise;
Our younger with the elder band

Breathe vows of love to endless days.

The two hymns which immediately follow are from a small volume of prayers and hymns for the children of the church, entitled "Children's Praise," which was published in 1858, and which we believe was specially designed for Dr. Bartol's own Sunday School.

MORNING AND EVENING PRAISE.

"It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High. To shew forth thy loving-kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night."

GOD of the morning and the night,

Morning and night thy mercies bring;
Our mornings, of thy face the light,
Our evenings, shadows of thy wing.

Life's morn and eve, thy light and shade;
Our being wakes to sleep at death,

Till dawn of endless day be made

For us to draw immortal breath.

THE CHILDREN IN THE TEMPLE.

"Children crying in the Temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David."

HOSANNA unto David's Son!
The Hebrew offspring cry;

Hosanna to the lowly One!
The Gentile youth reply.

Hosanna for his blessings given !

Sang such as felt his hand;
Hosanna, touched by Him from heaven,

Sings our still blessed band.

Bright with the face of God, he shows
Our angels' guardian ranks;
Hosanna! as to them he goes,

We greet him with our thanks.

From East to West, in shrines of praise,
As in the courts above,

We children our hosannas raise,

He breathed for us such love!

Kingdom, of which he said we are,
Below or in the skies,

Come shine in glory thence afar,
Until our spirits rise!

ON VISITING MY HOME AFTER FORTY YEARS.

From "Old and New," April, 1870.

ENTRANCED among the rocks and trees,

I wander to and fro,

In sweet oblivion with the breeze

And forty years ago.

My birth-place works the charm of power:
Boyhood alone I know ;

My life is crowded to an hour,
'Tis forty years ago.

I have not bought, I have not sold;
Yet breathes, with whisper low,
Wonder new-born from stories told
Me forty years ago.

No weight I feel of care or sin;
My sorrows off I throw :
Remorse has fled, doubt has not been ;-
'Tis forty years ago.

I am no husband, father, priest,
No rival see, or foe;

I sit the smallest at the feast;
'Tis forty years ago.

The timid thrush sings where I tread ;
Roses fresh welcome blow,

And swing their censers o'er my head,
As forty years ago.

The sea and sand, the brook, the shore,
Hill-top and meadow low,

I find no atom less or more

Than forty years ago.

O'er Alpine pass, through halls of art,
No more can memory flow,
While present glory fills my heart,
From forty years ago.

O maze of joy! from mates at play,
Or learning in a row,
War's distant thunder rolls away,

With forty years ago.

Will He, that shines through all life's gloom,
And heightens all its glow,

In dateless heaven not find some room
For forty years ago?

CHARLES T. BROOKS.

(1813.)

REV CHARLES T. BROOKS was born in Salem, Mass., June 20, 1813. He graduated at Harvard College in 1832, and spent the next three years at the Divinity School, Cambridge. He began to preach at Nahant in the summer of 1835, and subsequently officiated at Bangor and Augusta, Me., Windsor, Vt., and various other places, until 1837, when he was ordained pastor of the Unitarian Church at Newport, R.I., receiving the charge from Dr. Channing. In the following October, he was also married by Dr. Channing to Harriet L., second daughter of Benjamin Hazard, lawyer and legislator in that State. In the autumn of 1871, he resigned the charge of the Newport pulpit in consequence of failure of sight and health, having continued his labors in the ministry for over thirty-six years. His home is still at Newport.

Mr. Brooks's extensive literary work has consisted largely of studies and translations of the German, to which he was introduced, while he was in college, by Dr. Follen. He has also contributed a large number of serious or humorous original poems to the magazines or papers; written many hymns or odes for public, religious, patriotic, or festive occasions; and furnished, from time to time, a variety of articles in prose to the periodicals. He published a translation of Schiller's "William Tell," anonymously, at Providence, 1838; a volume of miscellaneous poems, from the German, in Mr. George Ripley's "Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature," 1842; a Poem before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cam

bridge, 1845; a Translation of Schiller's "Homage of the Arts," with Miscellaneous Pieces from Rückert, Freiligrath, and other German poets, 1847; "Aquidneck, and other Poems," 1848; a pamphlet, “The Controversy touching the Old Stone-Mill in the Town of Newport, R.I., with Remarks Introductory and Conclusive," 1851; a volume of "German Lyrics," selected from a mass of translations previously published in the "Literary World," or existing only in manuscript, 1853; an admirable translation of Goethe's Faust, 1855; "Songs of the Field and Flood; " a volume of sermons, "Simplicity of Christ's Teaching," 1859; "Titan," 1862; "Hesperus," 1865; a translation of the "Layman's Breviary,” 1867, and one also of the "World's Priest," 1873, both from Schefer.

In 1853 Mr. Brooks took a voyage to India for his health, and wrote an extended account of his tour, parts of which appeared in "Harper's Magazine" in 1855. He has numerous other interesting papers or works in manuscript which wait to be published. Among the articles he contributed to the "Christian Examiner" are one on Poetry, 1845; one on German Hymnology, 1860; and another on the Apocalypse. He wrote also one on Rénan, for the "North American Review." Of his pamphlet sermons, The Man of God," delivered before the graduating class of the Cambridge Divinity School, 1861, deserves special mention.

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It is to be regretted that no Collection has been made of the large number of choice and beautiful original hymns and poems which this gentle and greatly beloved singer has written, and which are scattered so freely through the papers, magazines, and books to which they have been sent, or into which they have otherwise found their way. It is equally surprising that so few of them have gained a place in our Church Collections. We shall be justified in giving large room to our gleanings. A few translations are appended to the original poems.

THE POOR.

For the "Tea Bell," published in behalf of a Fair for Soldiers' Families.

"THE poor ye always have with you,'

He said, through whom the Father spake,

When on his followers, sad and few,

That last farewell was soon to break.

"The poor ye always have with you,”.
Age after age has passed away,
And still that word of his stands true,

The poor we have with us to-day.