1. When God's own people stand in need,
His goodness will provide supplies;
Thus when Elijah faints for bread,
A raven to his comfort flies.
2. At God's command, with speedy wings,
The hungry bird resigns it prey,
And to the rev'rend prophet brings
The needful portion day by day.
3. This method may be counted strange,
But happy was Elijah's lot,
For nature's course shall sooner change
Than God's dear children be forgot.
4. This wonder has been oft renewed,
And saints by sweet experience find
Their evils overruled for good,
Their foes to friendly deeds inclined.
Source: Hymns and Devotions for Daily Worship #260
An orphan at the age of twelve, John Fawcett (b. Lidget Green, Yorkshire, England, 1740; d. Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, 1817) became apprenticed to a tailor and was largely self-educated. He was converted by the preaching of George Whitefield at the age of sixteen and began preaching soon thereafter. In 1765 Fawcett was called to a small, poor, Baptist country church in Wainsgate, Yorkshire. Seven years later he received a call from the large and influential Carter's Lane Church in London, England. Fawcett accepted the call and preached his farewell sermon. The day of departure came, and his family's belongings were loaded on carts, but the distraught congregation begged him to stay. In Singers and Songs of the Church (1869), Josiah Miller te… Go to person page >
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