We have not known Thee as we ought

We have not known Thee as we ought. Thomas Benson Pollock* (1836-1896). First published in The Gospeller, a periodical edited by Pollock and his brother James Samuel (1834-1895), in October 1875. It was entitled ‘Lord, Help Me’, and was in the first person singular, ‘I have not loved Thee as I ought’. In the plural form it was included in the Supplement (1889) to the Second Edition of A&M, and it remained in A&M books until omitted by A&MR in 1950. It is a fine confessional hymn in five stanzas: We have not known Thee as we ought,  Nor learn’d Thy wisdom, grace, and power;The things of earth have fill’d our thought,  And trifles of the passing hour.    Lord, give us light Thy...