One in Christ Jesus and With Each Other

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

Father, at Thy footstool see. C. Wesley. [For Unity.] In his Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1749, vol. ii., this is No. 3 of 55 hymns "For Christian Friends," in 6 stanzas of 4 lines. (Poetical Works, 1868-1872, vol. v. p. 408). When given in the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780, No. 500, stanzas v., vi. were omitted. This is repeated in the revised edition, 1875, and several collections in Great Britain and America. The hymn in Dr. Martineau's Hymns of 1840, and of 1873, beginning with the same first line, is a cento, a few lines of which are from this hymn, but the rest we have been unable to trace.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)