Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: My God my Father while I stray
Topic: The New Life/Submission and Deliverance
Writer: Charlotte Elliott
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 4
Tune:
Hymn Number: 900
Page Number: 534, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsMy God, my Father, while I stray,
Far from my home, on life's rough way,
O, teach me from my heart to say,
"Thy will be done!"
What though in lonely grief I sigh
For friends beloved no longer nigh;
Submissive still would I reply,
"Thy will be done!"
If thou shouldst call me to resign
What most I prize,-it ne'er was mine;
I only yield thee what was thine;
"Thy will be done!"
If but my fainting heart be blest
With thy sweet Spirit for its guest,
My God, to thee I leave the rest:
"Thy will be done!"