When Jesus’ prosperous messenger

When Jesus’ prosperous messenger
Thinks not himself of danger near,
More anxious for their guide,
The flock should send him far away,
Till Christ his sovereign power display,
And turn the storm aside.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Which when the brethren knew, they brought him to Cesarea.’—[Acts 9,] 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 331.
Publishing: Public Domain