Away with our sorrow and fear. C. Wesley. [Burial.] No. viii. of his Funeral Hymns, 1746, in 5 stanzas of 8 lines, and again in the Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1780, No. 71, and edition 1875, No. 73. It is found in the hymnals of the various branches of the Methodist body in most English-speaking countries, and sometimes in other collections. In the Cooke & Denton Hymnal, 1853, No. 324, the first line reads, “Away with all sorrow and fear." Original text in Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. vi. p. 197.
The hymn, with the same first stanza, in A. M. Toplady's Psalms and Hymns, 1776, No. 68, and later, editions, together with others which have copied therefrom, is a cento, of which the first stanza is stanza i. of this hymn; stanza iii. from Wesley's "Give glory to Jesus, our Head" (Hymns & Sacred Poems, 1749); and ii., iv., and v. from No. vii. of the above Funeral Hymns. It is very little used, if at all, at the present time.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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 >
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