Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Backgrounder: Robert Robinson
(1735-1790) had always been
prone to wander. Apprenticed to
a barber at 14, he spent more time
playing with frnds than cutting hair.
Then as a wild youth that came to
repentance listening to a George
Whitefield sermon. He became a
pastor and wrote a couple of hymns
Come Thou Fount was written in
1757, inspired possibly by 1Sam 7.
Later in life he wandered from the
Lord and felt he could not return.
But he met a lady in a coach who
shared the hymn Come Thou Fount
to him. He replied: I’m the unhappy
man who wrote the hymn years ago
and I would give a thousand worlds
to enjoy the feelings I had then.”
She responded by telling him:
“Sir, the ‘streams of mercy’ are
still flowing.” And he repented.
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