Hymn: Feeble, helpless, how shall I

  • Title:
  • First Line: Feeble, helpless, how shall I
  • Hymnal: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)
  • Denomination: Unitarians and Universalists
  • Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
  • Publication Date: 1866

Author(s)

  • Author Name: William Henry Furness
  • Born: 1802
  • Died: 1896
  • Gender: M

Full Text

Feeble, helpless, how shall I Learn to live and learn to die? Who, O God, my guide shall be? Who shall lead thy child to Thee? Blessed Father, gracious One, Thou hast sent thy holy Son; He will give the light I need, He my trembling steps will lead. Through this world, uncertain, dim, Let me ever learn of him; From his precepts wisdom draw, Make his life my solemn law. Thus in deed, and thought, and word, Led by Jesus Christ the Lord, In my weakness, thus shall I Learn to live and learn to die; Learn to live in peace and love, Like the perfect ones above;— Learn to die without a fear, Feeling Thee, my Father, near.

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