Olney Hymns · Chapter
Endnotes explained
This chapter contains the endnotes for Book III, providing cross-references to hymns in Books I and II, as well as notes on specific hymns and their contexts.
What happens
This chapter contains the endnotes for Book III, providing cross-references to hymns in Books I and II, as well as notes on specific hymns and their contexts.
Free preview opens on this chapter — companions, themes, and character notes appear beside the text.
Narrative arc
Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Resolution.
- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
The emotional peak occurs in stanza V, where the speaker’s hope is violently extinguished as Satan obscures ev…
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Follow the arc while readingKey passages
“Wherever a separation is threatened between a minister and people who dearly love each other, this hymn may be as seasonable as it was once at Olney.”
This hymn is appropriate whenever a minister and congregation who love each other face the possibility of parting, just as it was fitting at Olney.
The note explains the applicability of a hymn in times of pastoral separation.
