Christ My Song - 982
Ever patient, gentle, meek - The Perfect Example
(Charlotte Elliott/Johannes Thomas Rüegg)
The Perfect Example.
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 2,5)
1. Ever patient, gentle, meek,
holy Saviour! was thy mind;
vainly in myself I seek
likeness to my Lord to find;
yet that mind which was in thee,
may be, must be formed in me. PDF - Midi
2. Days of toil, 'mid throngs of men,
vexed not, ruffled not thy soul;
still collected, calm, serene,
thou each feeling couldst control:
Lord, that mind which was in thee
may be, must be formed in me.
3. Though such griefs were thine to bear,
for each sufferer thou couldst feel;
every mourner's burden share,
every wounded spirit heal;
Saviour! let thy grace in me
form that mind which was in thee.
4. When my pain is most intense,
let thy cross my lesson prove:
let me hear thee, e'en from thence,
breathing words of peace and love:
Saviour! let thy grace in me
form that mind which was in thee.
Charlotte Elliott, Selections from the Poems of Charlotte Elliott, 212-213.