Jesus, to Thy table led

Jesus, to Thy table led. Robert Hall Baynes* (1831-1895). This hymn for Holy Communion was first published in Baynes’ The Canterbury Hymnal. A Book of Common Praise adapted to the Services in the Book of Common Prayer (1863), where it was entitled ‘To know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge’ (Ephesians 3: 19). It was in seven 3-line stanzas, beginning with an affecting simplicity: Jesus, to Thy table led,Now let every heart be fedWith the true and living Bread. It was found in RCH, which omits stanza 2: While in penitence we kneel,Thy sweet presence let us feel,All thy wondrous love reveal. It was included in MHB, CP and BHB, and is still in HP (in the ‘you’ form, three  stanzas...