Happy he whose utmost patience

Happy he, whose utmost patience
Is by daily troubles tried!
Forc’d at first thro’ sore temptations
With his suffering Lord t’ abide,
Soon he chuses his condition,
Loves the cross of Jesus’ pains,
Bears it with intire submission,
Thus the promis’d crown obtains.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They compel one Simon to bear his cross.’—[Mark 15,] v. 21.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, 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 86.
Publishing: Public Domain