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Help me, Lord, to look to Thee

Author: Jessie Brown Pounds
Tune: [Help me, Lord, to look to Thee]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Help me, Lord, to look to Thee,
Not to those who run with me,
Lest one swifter in the race
Shame my own poor stumbling pace,
Or a laggard spur my pride--
Let me look to neither side;
Help me, Lord, to look to Thee,
Not to those who run with me.

2 Help me, Lord, to look to Thee,
Not to things behind for me,
Lest sins, once besetting, lure
From rewards that shall endure;
Lest the past should hold me back
From the runner's narrow track,
Help me, Lord, to look to Thee,
Not to things behind for me.

3 Help me, Lord, to look to Thee,
Author of the faith in me;
Throned and waiting at the goal,
Let Thy love speed on my soul!
Let Thy strong desire fulfill
All Thy longing, all Thy will;
Help me, Lord, to look to Thee,
Finish now Thy work in me.

Source: Christian Hymns: for every purpose in worship #328

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Author: Jessie Brown Pounds

Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorab… Go to person page >

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