It is no untried way

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It is no untried way

Author: Robert M. Offord
Tune: ABER
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 It is no untried way
That takes us home to God;
The road that leads to realms of day
By Christ himself was trod.

2 The Lord of Love has borne
The burdens of this life,
The Man of Sorrows oft was worn,
With earth's incessant strike.

3 See from his throne of light
He now in grace looks down,
He holds within faith's piercing sight,
And bids us win--the crown.

4 Our hearts can never faint
With such a goal in view;
But doubts dismissed, hushed each complaint,
We will the way pursue.

Source: Laudes Domini: a selection of spiritual songs ancient and modern #903

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Author: Robert M. Offord

Offord, Robert M., son of an English "open-communion" Baptist, was born at St. Austell, Cornwall, Sept. 17, 1846. In 1870 he removed to America, where he was associated for some time with the Methodists, but subsequently joined the Reformed Dutch Church in 1878. He is editor of the New York Observer. To that paper he contributed:— 1. Jesus, heed me, lost and dying. Lent. 2. It is no untried way. Christ's Burden. No. 1 appeared on Jan. 25th, and No. 2 on Feb. 1st, 1883. They were revised for Laudes Domini, N. Y., 1884 (Duffield's English Hymns, N. Y., 1886). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) Go to person page >

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