A Hymn Quoted from a New York Public School

The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1879

A Hymn Quoted from a New York Public School

The religion of the following hymn, which the Jewish Times quotes as sung in one of the public schools of New York, is a queer mixture:

“Thou dear Redeemer, dying Lamb! We love to hear of thee, No music’s like thy charming name, Nor half so sweet can be. “O Mary, we ever hear thy voice In mercy to us speak; And in our priest will we rejoice, Thou great Melchisedec.”

The hymn is altered from one in familiar use, and seems to have been reconstructed to adapt it to the requirements of several sects; the first verse being intended for the Protestants, and the second being apparently divided between Catholics and Jews.—Independent.