Christ, from whom all blessings flow

Christ, from whom all blessings flow. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), as the final part of a four-part hymn entitled ‘The Communion of Saints’ and consisting of thirteen 8-line stanzas. In John Wesley*’s A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780) parts three and four of the original were divided into 4-line stanzas. Part IV therefore had ten stanzas (all five 8-line stanzas of the 1740 text are reproduced in Frank Baker’s Representative Verse of Charles Wesley, 1962, pp. 28-9). These were included in ‘Wesley’s Hymns’ (1876). The Wesleyan Methodist Hymn Book (1904) shortened the hymn to seven stanzas; MHB and the...

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