Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: O how kindly hast thou led me
Topic: The New Life/Submission and Deliverance
Writer: <no first name given> Grinfield
Composer:
Meter: 8s and 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 922
Page Number: 548, 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,
'T was 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!