O comfort to the dreary. J. Conder. [Christ the Comforter.] Given as No. 428 in the Congregational Hymn Book, 1836, in 5 stanzas of 8 lines, again in his Choir and Oratory, 1837, p. 45; and again, with the omission of stanza v. in his Hymns of Praise, Prayer, &c, 1856. It is usually given with the omission of stanza iii.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)