Standing forth on life’s rough way

Standing forth on life's rough way. William Bryant* (1850-1937). Dated 23 June 1874, this was first published in the New York Daily Witness. This information comes from Bryant himself as told to Louis F. Benson*, and printed in Brownlie (1899, pp. 310-11). It was written when Bryant was living at Elizabeth, New Jersey, having immigrated from England three years earlier. It is a hymn that is sometimes used for Baptism, but it is more appropriate as a prayer for guidance to those going out into the world. In the Scottish Church Hymnary (1898) it was included in the section on Special Occasions, ‘For Travellers’. It was found in editions of Worship-Song, edited by William Garrett Horder*...