Help us to help each other, Lord

Help us to help each other, Lord. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). These are stanzas from a hymn first published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742), where it began ‘Try us, O God, and search the Ground’. It was entitled ‘A Prayer for Persons join’d in Fellowship’, and had four parts. The text beginning ‘Help us...’, which is the normal selection, was from Part I, beginning Try us, O God, and search the Ground Of Every Sinful Heart, Whate’er of Sin in Us is found O bid it All depart. When to the Right or Left we stray Leave us not Comfortless, But guide our Feet into the Way Of Everlasting Peace. Help us to help each other, Lord,   Each other’s Cross to bear,Let Each...