249. Father, to Thee we look in all our sorrow
Frederick L. Hosmer, 1840-1929
A hymn of comfort written in 1881 on the death of a member of the author’s congregation. The hymn was published in Hosmer’s Thought of God, 1st series, 1885. The last lines are particularly striking:
“Yet shalt thou praise Him when these darkened furrows,
Where now He ploweth, wave with golden grain.”
MUSIC. STRENGTH AND STAY. For comments on J. B. Dykes, the composer of this tune, see [Hymn 1].
250. My Jesus, as Thou wilt
Benjamin Schmolck, 1672-1737
Tr. Jane Borthwick, 1813-97
Based on Mark 14:36: “Abba, Father, all things are possible unto Thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.” The hymn was originally published in eleven stanzas in his Heilige Flammen, 1704. We give here five stanzas of the original, our hymn being the usual selection of 1, 3, and 5.