Topics: Afflictions Blessings of; Afflictions Comfort in; Afflictions Courage in; Christ Leader; Christ Protector; Christ Shepherd; God Guide; God Shepherd Author of "Exultant trust" in Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church Roberts, Thomas. Concerning this writer and his hymn, “My Shepherd's mighty aid" (Ps. xxiii.). Nutter says in his Hymn Studies, 1881, p. 297, that the hymn "came into our hymn-book (Methodist Episcopal Hymns) in 1849. I have not been able to learn anything more concerning it, or its author."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Thomas Roberts