Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book
Date: 1865
Compiler: Alexander Campbell
Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern
First Line: Blest is the man whose softening heart
Topic: The New Life/Sympathies and Activities
Writer: <no first name given> Barbauld
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 953
Page Number: 567, 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 secret bounty largely flows,
And brings masked 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.