Where’er our Lord is pleased to send

Verse 1
Where’er our Lord is pleas’d to send,
He doth his messengers defend,
The faithful God and true,
He leads us oft into distress,
But present with his witnesses,
He always brings us thro’.

Verse 2
To Jews and Gentiles sent, we feel
The fury of self-righteous zeal,
And violent wickedness;
But feeling our Deliverer nigh,
Our souls, till all the storms pass by,
Are kept in perfect peace.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee.’—[Acts 26,] v. 17." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 427.
Publishing: Public Domain