Hymnal: The Christian Psalmist
Date: 1850
Compiler: Silas W Leonard and A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: S W Leonard
First Line: People of the living God
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> Montgomery
Composer:
Meter: 7s
Tune:
Hymn Number: 17
Page Number: 299, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsPEOPLE of the living God,
I have sought the world around,
Paths of sin and sorrow trod,
Peace and comfort nowhere found.
Now to you my spirit turns-
Turns, a fugitive unblest;
Brethren, where your altar burns,
O! receive me into rest.
Lonely, I no longer roam,
Like the cloud, the wind, the wave,
Where you dwell shall be my home
Where you die, shall be my grave;
Mine the God whom you adore,
Your Redeemer shall be mine;
Earth can fill my soul no more,
Every idol I resign.
Tell me not of gain or loss,
Ease, enjoyment, pomp, or power;
Welcome poverty and cross,
Shame, reproach, affliction's hour;
"Follow me;" I know thy voice;
Jesus, Lord, thy steps I see;
Now I take thy yoke by choice;
Light thy burden now to me.