331. The Firm Foundation. HEBREWS xiii. 5.

HIS old-fashioned, favourite, but unequal Hymn is remarkable for the aptitude with which it combines a great number of the choicest Scripture promises. The search for "references" to its successive lines would itself be a delightful and profitable Biblical study. The remarkable succession of five negatives in the original Greek of the motto-text (from Joshua i. 5) is reproduced very effectively in the last line of the Hymn. "I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee" (Revised Version).