Saviour, blessed Saviour

Saviour, blessed Saviour. Godfrey Thring* (1823-1903). Written in 1862 and first published in Thring’s Hymns Congregational and Others (1866), with the title ‘Praise’, in eight stanzas. When it was included in the Appendix (1868) to the First Edition of A&M several alterations were made by the author and the compilers, including a rewriting of the first four lines of the last stanza; and it was accompanied by the tune EDINA, written for it by H.S. Oakeley*. A later version appeared in Church Hymns (1871) with an additional second stanza beginning ‘Farther, ever farther’, bringing the total number of stanzas to nine. A variant in four stanzas, beginning ‘Saviour, holy Saviour’ appears in...