Who can tell the consolation,
When the suffering sons of grace
Heirs and partners of salvation
In their Saviour’s name embrace?
Peace of Jesus’s bestowing,
Joy that swells to be exprest,
Love from the pure Fountain flowing
Streams thro’ every faithful breast.
Who can tell the consolation
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘We came the next day to Puteoli, where we found brethren.’—[Acts 28,] v. 13, 14." 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 449.
Publishing: Public Domain