POEMS BY PASTOR KARL GEROK

IT may seem superfluous to call attention to the beauties of the religious poetry of the Germans, since both songs and hymns are part of the inheritance where-unto we are born, if our lot falls happily within the gates of Zion. For the organlike music of that language which was the source of our own, the Wesleys compressed some of its best treasures of experimental prayer and praise into our mother tongue, employing the pure, chaste phrasings their muse delighted in.