O Thou who didst with love untold

O Thou who didst with love untold. Emma Toke* (1812-1878). This hymn for St Thomas’s Day was published in the SPCK Hymns for Public Worship (1852), where all hymns appeared without an author; and, with the author’s name in the index, in its successor, Church Hymns (1871; Church Hymns with Tunes, 1874). The original text of 1852 was as follows: O Thou, who didst with love untold  Thy doubting servant cheer,And bade the eye of sense behold  What faith should have made clear,  Grant us, like him, with heartfelt awe,  To own Thee God and Lord,And from his hour of darkness draw  A fuller faith’s reward! And while that wondrous record now  Of unbelief we hear,Oh! let us only lowlier bow  In...