The highest and the holiest place. H. Alford. St. Matthias.] First published in his Psalms & Hymns, &c, 1844, No. 81, in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, and again in his Year of Praise, 1867, No. 252. It is also in Kennedy, 1863, and other collections.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)