The world is one great wilderness,
Which nothing doth contain
To fill, in his extreme distress,
The hungry soul of man:
Yet shall we not thro’ hunger die,
If in his steps we tread
Who gives himself to satisfy
Our souls with living bread.
The world is one great wilderness
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?’—[Matt. 15,] v. 33.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” 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 1977/577, 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 295.
Publishing: Public Domain