Let me be with Thee where Thou art
Let me be with Thee where Thou art. Charlotte Elliott* (1789-1871).
According to JJ, correcting some errors (p. 672), this hymn appeared in the 1839 edition of Charlotte Elliott’s brother Henry Venn Elliott’s Psalms and Hymns for Public, Private and Social Worship. It was later published in her Hymns for a Week (1842), and in later editions of The Invalid’s Hymn Book. In common with other hymns by Charlotte Elliott, the texts in these books differ from one another, although the central theme remains. In The Invalid’s Hymn Book (Dublin and London, 1854) the text was preceded by a quotation from Philippians 1: 23: ‘Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better.’ In...
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