 | Harrow School - Hymns - 1866 - 296 pages
...What pain, what labour to secure My soul from endless death ! 3 Author of faith, to Thee I lift 289 COME, O Thou Traveller unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see. My company before is gone, And 1 am left alone with Thee : With Thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day.... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 434 pages
...And wait till all thou art is mine! HSP, 1740 Wrestling Jacoh 14 (136) [339] 1 Come, O thou Traveler unknown/ Whom still I hold, but cannot see! My company...I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day. 2 I need not tell thee who I am, My misery or sin declare; Thyself hast called me by my name, Look... | |
 | George Every, Richard Harries, Bishop Kallistos Ware - Devotional calendars - 1984 - 276 pages
...gifted and indefatigable hymn-writer that England has known. W resiling Jacob Come, O thou Traveler unknown Whom still I hold, but cannot see! My company...I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day. I need not tell thee who I am, My misery or sin declare, Thyself hast called me by my name, Look on... | |
 | John Mack Faragher - History - 1986 - 306 pages
...bottomless pit, and, after wearing down all resistance, offered sinners the redemptive power of salvation. Come, O' thou traveller unknown, Whom still I hold...night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day.i4 Participants often responded to the preachers' harangues with uncontrolled, highly physical... | |
 | Charles Wesley - Literary Collections - 1989 - 529 pages
...first published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742) and later appeared in the standard 1780 hymnal.25 1 Come, O Thou Traveller unknown, Whom still I hold,...cannot see, My company before is gone, And I am left with Thee; With Thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day. 2 I need not tell... | |
 | Canterbury Press - Religion - 1989 - 540 pages
...the sacred name Of him that sits upon the throne, And to adore the Lamb. Isaac Watts 1 674-1 748t 350 Come, O thou Traveller unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see; My company before is gone, 2 I need not tell thee who I am, My misery and sin declare; Thyself hast called me by my name, Look... | |
 | Charles H. H. Scobie, John Webster Grant - History - 1992 - 302 pages
...read or sing it? First, and most important, the patriarch Jacob is replaced by the "I" of the hymn: Come, O Thou Traveller unknown, Whom still I hold,...Company before is gone, And I am left alone with Thee. (11. 1-4) George Herbert's concept of the Christian priest-poet as intermediary between man and God... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Religion - 1993 - 198 pages
...thou Most High, You have brought me to this place as You brought Jacob to the Jabbok, and with You all night I mean to stay and wrestle till the break of day. I cannot and will not let You go unless You bless me." No prayer is at all likely to bring down an... | |
 | Music - 1994 - 270 pages
...all thy foes. _ PP VEILVON L. M Come, O! thou traveller unknown, Whom still I hold but cannot sec, My company before is gone, And I am left alone with...I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day. avT— rr¿— -i-! -r= — , i 'ii .-«- s<-- r ' EVENING SHADE. 8. M. The day is pass'd and gone,... | |
 | Hughes Oliphant Old - Religion - 1995 - 392 pages
...masterpieces is a meditation on the story of Jacob wrestling with the angel: Come, O thou traveler unknown whom still I hold but cannot see; my company...I mean to stay and wrestle till the break of day. I need not tell thee who I am, my misery and sin declare; thyself hast called me by my name, look on... | |
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Come, O thou Traveller unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see ; My company before is gone, And I am left alone with Thee ; With Thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day. 
