In every child of misery

Verse 1
In every child of misery,
Jesus, I would my neighbour see
With pity from above,
Indear’d by grace and nature’s ties
Would see the sinner with thy eyes,
And in thy bowels love.

Verse 2
Mercy constrains me to relieve
Who needs, and will my help receive
By more than blood allied,
Stranger, or foe, he claims my aid,
A soul whom my Creator made,
For whom my Saviour died.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Go, and do thou likewise.’—[Luke 10,] v. 37.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 196.
Publishing: Public Domain