And to feel His blood flow,
’Tis life everlasting, ’tis heaven below.”
His Song and Experience in a Coal Mine
“The greatest English poet of his age,” said Dr. James Moffatt when speaking of William Cowper. But this same writer gave us some of our most cherished hymns. They are greatly beloved in our American churches as well as in his native land. Among those richly cherished and frequently used in worship is the one which deals with Divine Providence:
“God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform.”
This hymn “has helped multitudes to bear up under the blows of apparently adverse fortune,” we are told by W. T. Stead. Referring to the verse which reads:
“Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break