Saviour, teach me day by day

Saviour, teach me day by day. Jane Eliza Leeson* (1807/8- 1881). First published in Leeson’s Hymns and Scenes of Childhood (1842). It had four 8-line stanzas, based on 1 John 4: 19: ‘We love him, because he first loved us.’ In modern British books the hymn has normally been shortened to four 4-line stanzas, as in SofP, using 1a, 2a, 3b and 4a: Saviour, teach me, day by day,Love’s sweet lesson to obey;Sweeter lesson cannot be,Loving him who first loved me. With a child’s glad heart of loveAt thy bidding may I move,Prompt to serve and follow thee,Loving him who first loved me. Teach me thus thy steps to trace,Strong to follow in thy grace,Learning how to love from thee,Loving him who so loved...