Oh Thou Who Art My Light, My Hope

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Oh Thou who art my light, my hope

Author: Benjamin Beddome
Tune: MARTYRDOM (Wilson)
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1 Oh Thou who art my light, my hope,
My Savior and my all,
I feel Thy truth within my heart,
I hear Thy gracious call.

2 Thy word like precious ointment spreads
Sweet fragrance through my mind,
In all my frame, so cold before,
A sacred warmth I find.

3 Though foes beset on every side,
And earthly friends forsake,
Here I can find a resting place,
Of solid peace partake.

4 Let Europe’s sons to India’s shores,
This sacred volume send;
Spread far abroad its genial rays,
Till time its course shall end.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15823

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Author: Benjamin Beddome

Benjamin Beddome was born at Henley-in Arden, Warwickshire, January 23, 1717. His father was a Baptist minister. He studied at various places, and began preaching in 1740. He was pastor of a Baptist society at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, until his death in 1795. In 1770, he received the degree of M.A. from the Baptist College in Providence, Rhode Island. He published several discourses and hymns. "His hymns, to the number of 830, were published in 1818, with a recommendation from Robert Hall." Montgomery speaks of him as a "writer worthy of honour both for the quantity and the quality of his hymns." --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Oh Thou who art my light, my hope
Title:	Oh Thou Who Art My Light, My Hope
Author:	Benjamin Beddome
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Source:	Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (London: Burton & Briggs, 1818)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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MARTYRDOM (Wilson)

MARTYRDOM was originally an eighteenth-century Scottish folk melody used for the ballad "Helen of Kirkconnel." Hugh Wilson (b. Fenwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, c. 1766; d. Duntocher, Scotland, 1824) adapted MARTYRDOM into a hymn tune in duple meter around 1800. A triple-meter version of the tune was fir…

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