Jesus, my Saviour, look on me

Jesus, my Saviour, look on me. Charlotte Elliott* (1789-1871). JJ, p. 328, gives this hymn as coming from Elliott’s Thoughts in Verse on Sacred Subjects (1869), but it is certainly earlier than this. In the Orthodox Presbyterian Church’s Trinity Hymnal (Philadelphia, 1961) it is dated 1848, and the page scans of Hymnary.org print it from A Collection of Hymns dated 1859. It had seven stanzas: Jesus, my Saviour, look on me, For I am weary and oppressed; I come to cast myself on Thee ;             Thou art my Rest. Look down on me, for I am weak, I feel the toilsome journey’s length; Thine aid omnipotent I seek;             Thou art my Strength. I am bewildered on my way; Dark and...