The Christian — Comfort and Encouragement

As oft, with worn and weary feet,

No. 706
Metre L. M. 6l.
Tune YOAKLEY.
Words James Edmeston.
Music William Yoakley.
Key E major
Singing key D major
Time 3/4
4 stanzas

Words

As oft, with worn and weary feet,We tread earth's rugged valley o'er,The thought, how comforting and sweet,Christ trod this very path before!Our wants and weaknesses he knowsFrom life's first dawning till its close.

Do sickness, feebleness, or pain,Or sorrow in our path appear?The recollection will remain,—More deeply did he suffer here:His life, how truly sad and brief,Filled up with suffering and with grief!

If Satan tempts our hearts to stray,And whispers evil things within,So did he, in the desert way,Assail our Lord with thoughts of sin,When worn, and in a feeble hour,The tempter came with all his power.

Just such as I, this earth he trod,With every human ill but sin;And, though indeed the Son of God,As I am now, so he has been:My God, my Saviour! look on meWith pity, love, and sympathy.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE CHRISTIAN—COMFORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT.»; hymn number «706» (large), tune name «YOAKLEY. L. M. 6L.» centred over the music (condensed capitals; the «L» after the 6 is a small capital), «WILLIAM YOAKLEY.» at the right (capitals and small capitals). Stanza 1 is interlinear: its first four lines stand under system 1 as two lines in braces after «1.» («{ As oft, with worn and wea-ry feet, We tread earth's rugged val-ley o'er, / The thought, how comfort-ing and sweet, Christ trod this ver-y path be-fore! }»), sung on the first and the second time through system 1, which ends with a repeat sign; lines 5–6 stand under system 2. Stanzas 2–4 are printed as text in two columns below the music, under the reference line «234, 683, 320.» in italics (= may also be sung to the tunes of hymns 234, 683 or 320); «James Edmeston.» in italics after stanza 4. Lines 2 and 4 of each text stanza are indented in the print. The print sets a thin space before «!», «?», «;» and «:» («be-fore !», «appear ?», «here :», «sin ;», «been :», «Saviour !»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly apostrophe is written straight («earth's», «o'er», «life's»). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's.