“Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” issued from the consecrated
genius of Robert Robinson, a native of Norfolk, England, who was
converted under Whitefield’s powerful preaching, and himself
became a minister of the gospel.
It was while on a stage journey once, in company with an unknown
lady passenger, that he heard her begin singing the above lyric
to divert her attention, when he said to her: “Madam, I am the
unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago; and I would
give a thousand worlds if I had them, if I could feel as I felt
then.” (Text.)
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=Spiritual Development=--See MOODS OF THE SPIRIT.