Weaken’d when our faith we find,
Faint our hope thro’ long delay,
Let us call his death to mind,
Talk of Jesus by the way:
Thus our faith and hope revive,
Thus his Spirit its power exerts,
Jesus shows himself alive,
Love rekindles in our hearts.
Weakened when our faith we find
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They talked together of all these things which had happened.'—[Luke 24,] v. 14.” 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 306.
Publishing: Public Domain