That washes white as snow.’
She knows tonight, my mother knows,
Up there, her prayers are heard;
For Jesus gives the wanderer rest,
I’m ‘trusting in His Word.’”
Dr. W. J. Dawson, in his reminiscences entitled The Autobiography of a Mind,[8] thus refers to
The Note of Assurance in the Old Hymns
“I came the other day upon a Methodist hymnal bearing the date of 1877, and in it I found the hymns which my mother loved to quote, and I was struck with their depth of emotion, their genuine spiritual quality. They have a note of profound assurance which I miss in the modern hymns.
‘Leader of faithful souls, and guide
Of all who travel to the sky,