The Lord hath to his servants shewn
The tree on which our Saviour died,
Its virtue in our souls made known,
Its bleeding balm, by faith applied,
Converts our nature’s bitterness
To sweetest streams of heavenly grace.
The Lord hath to His servants shewn
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet.”—[Exod.] xv. 25. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 47.
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