Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28
Words: Helen R. Young, in Gospel Hymns No. 4, edited by Ira Sankey, James McGranahan & George C. Stebbins (Chicago, Illinois & Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Biglow & Main and John Church, 1881), number 43. Some hymnals give the author as Allie Starbright, Young’s pseudonym.
Music: Matagorda Ira D. Sankey (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Young (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Sad and weary, lone and dreary,
Lord, I would Thy call obey;
Thee believing, Christ receiving,
I would come to Thee today.
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I am coming, I am coming,
Coming, Savior, to be blessed;
I am coming, I am coming,
Coming, Lord, to Thee for rest.
Thou, the holy, meek and lowly,
Jesus, unto Thee I come;
Keep me ever, let me never
From Thy blessèd keeping roam.
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Here abiding, in Thee hiding,
Seeks my weary soul to rest;
Till the dawning of the morning,
When I wake amongst the blessed.
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Be Thou near me, keep and cheer me,
Thro’ life’s dark and stormy way;
Turn my sadness into gladness,
Turn my darkness into day.
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