Ye followers of the Lord,
Who serve with heart sincere,
And humbly tremble at his word,
While sin and death are near;
Without that heavenly light
Alas, what can ye do,
Who dare not in the shades of night
Your doubtful course pursue?
Your stedfast anchor cast,
And languish for the morn;
The heavy night will soon be past,
The joyful day return:
And lo, to end your fears
And all your sins remove,
The Sun of righteousness appears,
Th’ Almighty God of love.
Ye followers of the Lord
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Fearing lest they should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.’—[Acts 27,] v. 29." 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 429-30.
Publishing: Public Domain