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Hymn: Saviour though my rebellious will (FL)

Hymnal: The Christian Hymn Book

Date: 1865

Compiler: Alexander Campbell

Publisher/Printer: Central Book Concern

First Line: Saviour though my rebellious will

Topic: The New Life/Afflictions

Writer: Charlse Elliott

Composer:

Meter: LM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 998

Page Number: 592, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

Saviour!  though my rebellious will

Has been, by thy blest power, renewed;

Yet in its secret workings still

How much remains to be subdued!



Oft I recall with grief and shame,

How many years their course had run

Ere grace my murmuring heart o'ercame,

Ere I could say, "Thy will be done!"



At length thy patient, wondrous love,

Unchanging, tender, pitying, strong,

Availed that stony heart to move,

Which had rebelled, alas!  so long.



Then was I taught by thee to say,

"Do with me what to thee seems best;

Give take, whate'er thou wilt away,

Health, comfort, usefulness, or rest.



"Be my whole life in suffering spent,

But let me be in suffering thine;

Still, O my Lord, I am content,

Thou now hast made thy pleasure mine."