Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel i,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.
O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clothed then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.
About the writer: Robert Robinson, a Baptist minister, was born in Norfolk, England in 1735. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a London hairdresser. He was converted among the Methodists at the age of 20 and became a lay preacher. In less than a year, however, he became pastor of the Baptist Church at Cambridge. He died in 1790. He was a very popular preacher and wrote a number of well-known hymns.
Key Verse: Samuel then took a large stone and placed it between the towns of Mizpah and Jeshanah. He named it Ebenezer–”the stone of help”–for he said, “Up to this point the LORD has helped us!” –1 Samuel 7:12