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Hymn: Lord lead the way the Savior went (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal

Date: 1871

Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee

Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall

First Line: Lord lead the way the Savior went

Topic: The New Life/Sympathies and Activities

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: CM

Tune: Coventry

Hymn Number: 681

Page Number: 250, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Lord, lead the way the Sav-ior went,

By land and cell ob-scure,

And let our treas-ures still be spent,

Like his, up-on the poor.



Like him, through scenes of deep distress,

Who bore the world's sad weight,

We, in their gloomy loneliness,

Would seek the desolate.



For thou hast placed us side by side

In this wide world of ill;

And, that thy followers may be tried,

The poor are with us still.



Small are the offerings we can make;

Yet though hast taught us, Lord,

If given for the Savior's sake,

They lose not their reward,