Happy man whom God doth aid

Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Happy man whom God doth aid
Author: Charles Wesley
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Notes

Happy man [child] whom God doth aid. C. Wesley. [Praise to God for care over Children.] First published in his Hymns for Children, 1763, No. 38, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines. (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. vi. p. 387.) In the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 61, it is changed to "Happy child whom God doth aid," as being more suitable for children,

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Tune

ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR (Elvey)

George J. Elvey (PHH 48) composed ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR as a setting for James Montgomery's text "Hark! The Song of Jubilee," with which it was published in Edward H. Thorne's Selection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1858). The tune has been associated with Alford's text since publication of the hymn in th…

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