In the lonely desart place
God doth oft to man appear,
Shews the counsels of his grace
To his chosen minister:
Christ, that Angel of the Lord
Still instructs us from the sky;
Then we preach the gospel-word,
Joyful news of Jesus nigh.
In the lonely desert place
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There appeared to him in the wilderness the Angel of the Lord.’—[Acts 7,] v. 30.” 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 210.
Publishing: Public Domain