editorial department of this journal that it attained to a phenomenal circulation. The publication office was lost in the great conflagration of 1871, and four years later the magazine was merged in St. Nicholas. After the death of Mr. Miller in 1882, Mrs. Miller engaged in general literary work. She has written some twenty volumes of stories and two volumes of poems. For seven years she delighted the readers of "The Christian Union" (now "The Outlook") with her charming "Home Talks"; and for our "Young Folks," a first-class magazine published by Ticknor & Fields, Boston, she wrote the series of Songs of the Months." The poems were so highly prized by the publishers that they employed Theodore Thomas to set them to music for the magazine.

Since 1891 Mrs. Miller has been dean of the woman's department and associate professor of English literature in the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois.

Mrs. Miller's contributions to hymnology are not numerous, but good. A hymn which is perfect in structure and

admirable in its worshipful spirit, was written in 1861 for the dedication of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Akron, Ohio :

Enter Thy temple, glorious King!

And write Thy name upon its shrine,
Thy peace to shed, Thy joy to bring,
And seal its courts forever Thine.

Abide with us, O Lord, we pray,

Our strength, our comfort, and our light; Sun of our joy's unclouded day!

Star of our sorrow's troubled night !

If from Thy paths our souls should stray,
Yet turn to seek Thy pardoning grace,
Cast not our contrite prayer away,

But hear from heaven, Thy dwelling-place.

Grant us to walk in peace and love,

And find, at last, some humble place

In that great temple built above,

Where dwell Thy saints before Thy face.

But of all the hymns Mrs. Miller has written, the one entitled "Because He Loves me So," is the most popular. It is a beautiful and unique children's hymn, and was first published in "The Little

Corporal." Its melody of expression makes it very singable. It was honored with a place in the famous "Hymns, Ancient and Modern," in 1875, and Dr. Horder, of London, uses it in his "Congregational Hymns." The text is as follows:

I love to hear the story
Which angel voices tell,
How once the King of glory

Came down on earth to dwell.
I am both weak and sinful,
But this I surely know,

The Lord came down to save me,
Because He loved me so.

I'm glad my blessed Saviour

Was once a child like me,
To show how pure and holy
His little ones may be;
And if I try to follow

His footsteps here below,
He never will forget me,
Because He loves me so.

To sing His love and mercy
My sweetest songs I'll raise;
And though I cannot see Him
I know He hears my praise;

For He has kindly promised
That even I may go
To sing among His angels,

Because He loves me so.

Kingdom of Light" is the title of another good hymn by Mrs. Miller. It was written for the Missionary Congress held at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893; and since that time it has been given prominence in a hymnal, and is frequently used in missionary and social meetings: Kingdom of Light! whose morning star To Bethlehem's manger led the way, Not yet upon our longing eyes

Shines the full splendor of thy day. Yet still across the centuries falls,

Solemn and sweet, our Lord's command;
And still with steadfast faith we cry,
"Lo, the glad kingdom is at hand!"

Kingdom of Heaven! whose dawn began
With love's divine, incarnate breath,

Our hearts are slow to understand

The lessons of that life and death.
Yet, though with stammering tongues we tell
Redemption's story, strange and sweet,

The world's Redeemer lifted up,

Shall draw the nations to His feet.

Kingdom of Peace! whose music clear Swept through Judea's starlit skies, Still the harsh sounds of human strife

Break on thy heavenly harmonies. Yet shall thy song of triumph ring

In full accord, from land to land, And men with angels learn to sing, "Behold, the kingdom is at hand!"