God is present everywhere.

Sacred music, however, was the good man's passion to the last. He died
in 1844.

"Such beautiful themes!" he whispered on his death bed, "Such beautiful
themes! But I can write no more."

The enthusiasm always and everywhere aroused by the singing of
"Coronation," dates from the time it first went abroad in America in
its new wedlock of music and words. "This tune," says an accompanying
note over the score in the old _Carmina Sacra_, "was a great favorite
with the late Dr. Dwight of Yale College (1798). It was often sung by
the college choir, while he, catching, as it were, the music of the
heavenly world, would join them, and lead with the most ardent
devotion."


"AWAKE AND SING THE SONG."

This hymn of six stanzas is abridged from a longer one indited by the
Rev. William Hammond, and published in _Lady Huntingdon's Hymn-book_. It
was much in use in early Methodist revivals. It appears now as it was
slightly altered by Rev. Martin Madan--

Awake and sing the song
Of Moses and the Lamb;
Join every heart and every tongue
To praise the Savior's name.