We kindly share a mourner’s woe
Stript of the friend a while bestow’d;
No pity for a soul we show
Who long by sin has lost its God:
No comfort can that soul receive
But with the hope of Jesus’ grace,
Who helps poor sinners to believe,
And still delights the dead to raise.
We kindly share a mourner’s woe
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Many came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.’—[John 11,] v. 19." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/573, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 472.
Publishing: Public Domain