The Christian — Trust and Resignation

My Saviour, as thou wilt!

No. 740
Metre 6s. D.
Tune STEELE.
Words Benjamin Schmolke.
Music F. E. Belden.
Key D-flat major
Singing key D♭ major
Time 3/4
3 stanzas

Words

My Saviour, as thou wilt!O may thy will be mine!Into thy hand of loveI would my all resign;Through sorrow, or through joy,Conduct me as thine own,And help me still to say,"My Lord, thy will be done!"

My Saviour, as thou wilt!Though seen through many a tear,Let not my star of hopeGrow dim or disappear:Since thou on earth hast wept,And sorrowed oft alone,If I must weep with thee,My Lord, thy will be done!

My Saviour, as thou wilt!All shall be well for me;Each changing future sceneI gladly trust with thee:Straight to my home aboveI calmly travel on,And sing, in life or death,"My Lord, thy will be done!"

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «THE CHRISTIAN—TRUST AND RESIGNATION.»; hymn number «740» (large, left), tune name «STEELE. 6s. D.» centred over the music («D.» in a smaller size), «F. E. BELDEN.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); in the right margin, printed vertically, «Copyrighted 1886» beside system 2 and «by F. E. Belden.» beside system 3 (= «Copyrighted 1886 by F. E. Belden.»; the last figure of the year read from the native pixels, see `uncertainties.md`). Stanza 1 is set between the staves, one text line per system, with «1.» before «My»; «Sav - iour», «In - to», «sor-row», «Con-duct» are printed in syllables and joined here; «resign;» is printed as one word under its two notes. Stanzas 2–3 are printed as text in the left column below the music, with no reference line; «Benjamin Schmolke.» in italics after stanza 3. The stanza numbers of the text stanzas are printed without a full stop («2 My»); they are numbered «2.» here like stanza 1. Lines 2, 4, 6 and 8 of each text stanza are indented in the print. The printer's thin space before «!», «;» and «:» («wilt !», «resign ;», «disappear :», «me ;», «thee :», «done ! ») is closed up here; the curly quotation marks of stanzas 1 and 3 are written straight. «Saviour», «sorrowed» and the punctuation are the print's.