Happy thy faithful followers, Lord,
Who slight the body’s need,
And tasting the true heavenly word
Forget their daily bread:
Thou wilt from thence occasion take
To teach them truths unknown,
And every thing subservient make
For perfecting thine own.
Happy Thy faithful followers, Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The disciples had forgotten to take bread.’—[Mark 8,] v. 14.” 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 13.
Publishing: Public Domain