In This Wide, Weary World of Care

In this wide, weary world of care

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 In this wide, weary world of care,
How kindly God to man has given,
A Sabbath-day, a house of prayer,
Fair emblems of approaching heaven!

2 Here pilgrims view their future home;
Here find refreshment by the way;
And here we to Thy footstool come,
And seek Thy favor, LORD, today!

3 Arise, O LORD, Thy Church to bless;
Shower down Thy graces from above.
O clothe Thy priests in righteousness!
O Crown Thy saints with light and love!

4 Thy chosen flock, bless'd Savior, lead;
In every heart set up Thy shrine:
The naked clothe, the hunger feed,
And make us all forever Thine.

Source: Psalms of Grace #132c

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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First Line:	In this wide, weary world of care
Title:	In This Wide, Weary World of Care
Author:	Henry Francis Lyte
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain