Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: O how kindly has thou led me
Topic: Christian/Chastisement
Writer: <no first name given> Grinfield
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 7s double
Tune: Middletown
Hymn Number: 515
Page Number: 176, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsO HOW kindly hast thou led me,
Heavenly Father, day by day;
Found my dwelling, clothed and fed me,
Furnished friends to cheer my way!
Didst thou bless me, didst thou chasten,
With thy smile or with thy rod,
'Twas that still my step might hasten
Homeward, heavenward, to my God.
O how slowly have I often
Followed where thy hand would draw!
How thy kindness failed to soften!
How thy chastening failed to awe!
Make me for thy rest more ready,
As thy path is longer trod;
Keep me in thy friendship steady,
Till thou call me home, my God.