Omnipresent God, Whose aid. C. Wesley. [Evening.] Published in Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1749, vol. i., in 8 stanzas of 8 lines (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. v. p. 8). In the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780, stanzas i., iv.-vi. were given as No. 278, and in the revised edition, 1875, stanzas vii., viii. were added thereto. In addition to these forms of the hymn the following centos are also in common use:—- (1) "Holiest Whose present might," stanzas i. and vi., altered in the American Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, and others; and (2) "O Thou Holy God, come down," stanzas iv. and vi., in the American Unitarian Hymns of the Church of Christ, 1853; Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, and others.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >
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