Stranger and a Pilgrim

Stranger and a pilgrim here below

Author: Henry Francis Lyte
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Stranger and a pilgrim here below,
I turn for refuge, LORD, to Thee.
You know my every want and woe;
O smite my foes, and rescue me!

2 Your name is Love – for that name's sake,
Sustain and cheer my sinking soul.
You see me low, and poor, and weak:
O speak the Word, and make me whole.

3 Help, LORD! Let all my foes perceive,
'Tis Thine to comfort or condemn.
With Thee to bless me and relieve,
I little heed reproach from them.

4 Arise, then, on my soul arise!
Thy sheltering wings around me cast!
And all that now afflicts or tries,
Shall work my peace, O LORD, at last.

Source: Psalms of Grace #109a

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Author: Henry Francis Lyte

Lyte, Henry Francis, M.A., son of Captain Thomas Lyte, was born at Ednam, near Kelso, June 1, 1793, and educated at Portora (the Royal School of Enniskillen), and at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he was a Scholar, and where he graduated in 1814. During his University course he distinguished himself by gaining the English prize poem on three occasions. At one time he had intended studying Medicine; but this he abandoned for Theology, and took Holy Orders in 1815, his first curacy being in the neighbourhood of Wexford. In 1817, he removed to Marazion, in Cornwall. There, in 1818, he underwent a great spiritual change, which shaped and influenced the whole of his after life, the immediate cause being the illness and death of a brother cler… Go to person page >

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