Your words to me are life and health
Your words to me are life and health. George Currie Martin* (1865-1937).
First published in four stanzas, in The Fellowship Hymn Book Supplement (1920), with the title ‘The Words of Jesus’. It appeared in the ‘thy’ form in CP, but more recent books, beginning with WOV, have modernized to the ‘you’ form, and this seems to be an example of the ‘you’ form as an improvement. WOV made other changes to stanzas 1 and 2, which have been used, with further minor variations, in other books (HP, RS):
Fellowship HBWOV
Thy words to me are life and health; Give strength unto my soul! Enable, guide, and teach my heart To reach its perfect goal! Thy words to me are light and truth; From day to day I...
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