The Christian — Guidance and Protection

Thou hidden Source of calm repose

No. 753
Words Charles Wesley.
Singing key E♭ major
3 stanzas

Sung to NASHVILLE (hymn 234)

Words

Thou hidden Source of calm repose,Thou all-sufficient love divine,My help and refuge from my foes,Secure I am if thou art mine!And, lo! from sin and grief and shameI hide me, Jesus, in thy name.

Jesus, my all in all thou art,My rest in toil, my ease in pain,The healing of my broken heart;In strife my peace, in loss my gain,My smile beneath the tyrant's frown,In shame my glory and my crown.

In want my plentiful supply,In weakness my almighty power,In bonds my perfect liberty,My light in Satan's darkest hour;No trouble can my soul appall:Thou art my life, my heaven, my all.

About this hymn

As printed Words only. As printed: hymn number «753» (large) at the top of the right column of p. 245, under the music of hymn 751, with the reference line «234, 320.» in bold italics beside it (= sing to the tune of hymn 234 or 320, both L. M. 6l.); three numbered stanzas of six lines, the whole hymn in the right column; «Charles Wesley.» in italics at the end. The first word is set «THOU», the «T» as a full capital and «HOU» in small capitals; written in ordinary type here. The stanza numbers are printed without a full stop («1» … «3»); written «1.» … here as in the other deliveries of this book. Lines 2 and 4 of each stanza are indented in the print; lines 5 and 6 are flush with line 1. The print sets a thin space before «!», «;» and «:» («mine !», «lo !», «heart ;», «hour ;», «appall :»); it is closed up here. The printer's curly apostrophes are written straight («tyrant's», «Satan's»). No meter is printed (the text is L. M. 6l., 8.8.8.8.8.8, like the tunes of the reference line). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's («all-sufficient», «Source» with a capital S, «appall»).