Stranger to pride and stateliness,
A man of true humility
May yet his own example press,
“Thus far—be followers of me!”
Conscious his way of life is right,
He bids us after him go on,
While least of all in his own sight
Glory he gives to Christ alone.
Stranger to pride and stateliness
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.’—[Acts 20,] v. 19." 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 371.
Publishing: Public Domain