Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Blest is the man whose softening heart
Topic: Christian/Brotherly Kindness
Writer: <no first name given> Barbauld
Composer: Thomas Hastings
Meter: CM
Tune: Ortonville
Hymn Number: 316
Page Number: 105, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsBLEST is the man whose softening heart
Feels all another's pain,
To whom the supplicating eye
Was never raised in vain;
Whose breast expands with generous warmth,
A stranger's woes to feel;
And bleeds in pity o'er the wound
He wants the power to heal.
He spreads his kind supporting arms
To every child of grief;
His sacred bounty largely flows,
And brings unasked relief.
To gentle offices of love
His feet are never slow;
He views, through mercy's melting eye,
A brother in a foe.
Peace from the bosom of his God
The Saviour's grace shall give;
And when he kneels before the throne,
His trembling soul shall live.