Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life. George Herbert* (1593-1633). From Herbert’s collection The Temple (Cambridge, 1633), published just after his death. This poem was first used as a hymn in an altered form in Select Hymns Taken out of Mr Herbert’s Temple and Turned into Common Metre (1697). A much altered version beginning ‘Come, O my Way, my Truth, my Life!’ was also in  John* and Charles Wesley*’s Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739), together with other poems by Herbert. In the USA it appeared in the Adventist Millennial Muaings (Boston, 1841), then added to Millennial Harp: or, Second Advent Hymns (Boston, 1842) (information from Chris Fenner). It has remained in use since that time in the USA...