Awake, Jerusalem, awake. C. Wesley. [Exhortation.] A paraphrase of Isaiah lii., which appeared in the Wesley Psalms and Hymns, 1741, in 28 stanzas of 4 lines, C.M. divided into three parts. Two centos from this are in common use in America. (1) The American Methodist Episcopal Collection, N. Y., 1849, composed of stanzas i., iii. and iv. of Pt. i, and stanza ii. of Pt. iii. (2) Hymn Book of the Evangelical Association, Cleveland, O., 1882; the same stanzas with the addition of stanza iv., Pt. iii. The poem as given in the Poetical Works of J. and C. Wesley, 1868-72, vol. ii. pp. 168-173, has 4 stanzas in L.M. added to Pt. ii. These stanzas were first published in the First series of Hymns on God's Everlasting Love, 1741. Being a part of the same chapter in Isaiah they were omitted from the reprint of the Hymns, &c, and incorporated with this poem, in the Poetical Works, vol. ii., 1860.
-- 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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