Return, O Wanderer, Return

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Return, O wanderer! now return! And seek thine injured Father's face

Author: William Bengo Collyer (1812)
Published in 494 hymnals

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	When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

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	The Cross (A Hymn Medley for Orchestra)

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	The Wondrous Cross – 3 octave version

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1 Return, O wanderer, return,
And seek an injured Father's face;
Those warm desires that in thee burn
Were kindled by reclaiming grace.

2 Return, O wanderer, return
And seek a Father's melting heart;
His pitying eyes thy grief discern,
His hand can heal thy inward smart.

3 Return, O wanderer, return;
Thy Savior bids thy spirit live.
Go to His bleeding feet and learn
How freely Jesus can forgive.

4 Return, O wanderer, return
And wipe away the falling tear;
'Tis God who says, "No longer mourn;"
'Tis Mercy's voice invites thee near.

Amen.

Source: The Lutheran Hymnal #280

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Author: William Bengo Collyer

William Bengo Collyer was born at Blackheath Hill, in 1782, and studied at Homerton College. Before completing his twentieth year he became pastor of a Congregational society at Peckham, continuing in that position through his life. He died in 1854. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1808. For many years he was one of the most popular Dissenting ministers in London. He published many hymns and some works on theology. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Return, O wanderer! now return! And seek thine injured Father's face
Title:	Return, O Wanderer, Return
Author:	William Bengo Collyer (1812)
Meter:	8.8.8.8
Source:	Hymns (London: 1812)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Notes

Return, O wanderer, return . W. B. Collyer. [Call to Repentance .] Appeared in the Evangelical Magazine , May 1806, and in his Hymns, &c, 1812, No. 928, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines, and headed "The Backslider." It is in use in its original form; as "Return, my wandering soul, return And seek an injured," &c, in the Philadelphia Baptist Hymn & Tune Book, 1871; and as "Wanderer from God, return, return," in a few of the American collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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