Amidst the worldly noise
And hurrying strife below,
How few the comfortable voice
Of their Creator know!
But all his voice may hear
Who still his Son imparts,
And sends the heavenly Comforter
To teach within our hearts.
Amidst the worldly noise
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The people that stood by, and heard it, said, that it thundred: others said, An angel spake to him.’—[John 12,] v. 29." 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 492.
Publishing: Public Domain