Scripture Verse

Christ…suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps. 1 Peter 2:21

Introduction

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Samuel Wesley (1810–1876)

Words: Eli­za­beth Straf­ford, in Hymns for the Col­lects Through­out the Year, 1857.

Music: Ar­ran Sam­uel S. Wes­ley, in A Se­lect­ion of Psalms and Hymns, by Charles Kem­ble (Lon­don: John F. Shaw, 1864), num­ber 120 (🔊 pdf nwc)

If you know where to get a good pic­ture of Straf­ford (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

Once to our world there came
A lit­tle ho­ly child;
Gentle and good and mild,
And Je­sus was His name.

He suf­fered want and pain,
Was slight­ed, scorned, and poor;
All this He did en­dure,
That we in Hea­ven might reign.

He ne­ver dis­ob­eyed
His Fa­ther’s sac­red laws;
We on­ly were the cause
Why grief on Him was laid.

O! that in­deed we could
Our naugh­ty ways for­sake
And for our pat­tern take
The Sav­ior kind and good.

The path that Je­sus trod,
O may we al­so tread!
Jesus, our liv­ing head,
Lead Thou us up to God.